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Kirby posted...

This isnt a random shooting. The suspect saw cops, he shot cops.

They were called on a possible domestic violence incident; he didn't shoot them sitting in their patrol car like that guy in NYC.
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Kirby posted...

Well 2 Officers being murdered is pretty high profile so its not that surprising.

This story doesn't suggest that they were targeted, which I agree would be a big deal. As sad as this story is, I'm not sure it's national news.
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I remember really enjoying my first playthrough with one of the expansions (Brave New World, I think?) as Brazil, but individual moments don't stick out in my memory.
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One of the local news stations here led with this story on the 6:00 last night, which would have been fine and all if it were local, but it struck me as an odd choice given that it's an out of state story.
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WilliamPorygon posted...

Sanic the Hodgehog

Oh man that's a good pick.
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http://www.cnn.com/2018/02/11/health/aetna-california-investigation/index.html

California's insurance commissioner has launched an investigation into Aetna after learning a former medical director for the insurer admitted under oath he never looked at patients' records when deciding whether to approve or deny care.

California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones expressed outrage after CNN showed him a transcript of the testimony and said his office is looking into how widespread the practice is within Aetna.

"If the health insurer is making decisions to deny coverage without a physician actually ever reviewing medical records, that's of significant concern to me as insurance commissioner in California -- and potentially a violation of law," he said.

Aetna, the nation's third-largest insurance provider with 23.1 million customers, told CNN it looked forward to "explaining our clinical review process" to the commissioner.

The California probe centers on a deposition by Dr. Jay Ken Iinuma, who served as medical director for Aetna for Southern California from March 2012 to February 2015, according to the insurer.

During the deposition, the doctor said he was following Aetna's training, in which nurses reviewed records and made recommendations to him.

Jones said his expectation would be "that physicians would be reviewing treatment authorization requests," and that it's troubling that "during the entire course of time he was employed at Aetna, he never once looked at patients' medical records himself."

"It's hard to imagine that in that entire course in time, there weren't any cases in which a decision about the denial of coverage ought to have been made by someone trained as a physician, as opposed to some other licensed professional," Jones told CNN. "That's why we've contacted Aetna and asked that they provide us information about how they are making these claims decisions and why we've opened this investigation."

The insurance commissioner said Californians who believe they may have been adversely affected by Aetna's decisions should contact his office.

Members of the medical community expressed similar shock, saying Iinuma's deposition leads to questions about Aetna's practices across the country.

"Oh my God. Are you serious? That is incredible," said Dr. Anne-Marie Irani when told of the medical director's testimony. Irani is a professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU and a former member of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology's board of directors.

"This is potentially a huge, huge story and quite frankly may reshape how insurance functions," said Dr. Andrew Murphy, who, like Irani, is a renowned fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. He recently served on the academy's board of directors.

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Which one do you think you could guide best? Which would you most want to take over?

I want to take Need For Speed out of EA's hands so badly and make it good again.
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You got me, TC. I was ready to rumble into this topic all mad-like.
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That's what I call AlphaCuck
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I read them regularly, but there's not much there that I feel an urge to share. A lot of their content is aggregated from other sources; occasionally they have a good original piece.
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Photo mode.

Also any sort of option to create and share your own mission/challenge/thing. I'm thinking here of the ability to create contracts in Hitman, or the blueprint bucket lists in Forza Horizon 3
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Vanilla Coke is best Coke
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Solidarity, TC
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As the article in the OP notes: "subsidizing single motherhood" does not increase its prevalence, nor does "punishing it" as we do reduce it.

So if it's single motherhood that is "destroying healthy masculinity," government programs that make it easier for single parents to afford their needs aren't going to worsen that problem.
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beserk is not at all how I remember it. Mostly I remember people clowning on him on Twitter because, come on, the tan suit was funny.
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http://www.weatherforddemocrat.com/news/local_news/weatherford-teacher-dies-from-flu-effects/article_fc4f5dd6-d1d9-5bbc-9663-2d2c52a22998.html

A second grade teacher at Ikard Elementary School, 38-year-old Heather Holland, died Sunday due to complications of the flu.

In addition to a classroom of second graders, Holland left behind husband Frank Holland, a 10-year-old daughter, and a 7-year-old son.

Holland fell ill about a week ago and planned to pick up flu medication but felt the $116 copay was too high, her husband said.

Frank Holland bought the prescription himself when he found out, but things worsened.

Friday night, things escalated and she ended up in the ICU, Holland said. "The doctors got the blood cultures back and they had to put her on dialysis early Saturday.

Heather Holland died Sunday morning.

I have to be strong for the kids but its still surreal, it hasnt all set in, Holland said. Weve been together a long time, over half my life. Shes my best friend, my soulmate, my everything.

It hasnt set in with them yet either, Holland said of his children.

Her husband described her as a passionate teacher.

Holland had been with Weatherford ISD for four years and had nearly completed her master's degree.

She loved helping people, helping the kids, and the kids loved her," Holland said.

"We have been learning a lot," Heather Holland wrote on an Ikard Elementary website page. "I am really enjoying my kiddos. We are working hard on reading, writing and learning to quickly compose and decompose numbers.
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The Texas Department of State Health Services Friday reported that as of late January the number of people who were reported to have died of pneumonia or influenza in Texas since Oct. 1 was 2,897.

The majority 2,720 were over the age of 50, according to the state.

Typically those over 65 years old have the highest rate of hospitalization followed by children between the ages of 0-4 years but adults between the age of 50 and 64 have have a higher hospitalization rate this year, according to the Centers for District Control and Prevention.

The U.S. is on track to have the worst flu outbreak in a decade, according to the CDC.

This year's dominant strain of flu, H3N2, is known for more hospitalizations and complications.

It's unclear when the flu season will begin to slow down, either.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/theater/hunchback-of-notre-dame-ithaca-high-school.html
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https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2018/02/09/risk-ny-groundbreaking-program-allowing-customers-select-electric-gas-suppliers/302146002/

Twenty years after New York allowed residential customers to begin shopping for electricity and natural gas, the groundbreaking program appears on the verge of being scrapped or broadly overhauled.

Rather than save consumers money, those who signed up under the state Public Service Commissions program paid nearly $820 million more for electricity and gas than if they had stayed with their local company, according to a PSC analysis of the 30 months ended in June 2016.

Since the deregulation program began, the consumer loss could be in the billions, based on study estimates.

These stunning admissions come in reams of documents and testimony surfacing in months of hearings before a PSC administrative law judge.

The program lauded in 1996 when New York was one of the first states to deregulate the utility industry now is under review by the PSC. The commission already has halted marketing free choice to senior citizen and low-income customers.

"Allowing customers to select alternative energy providers should not come at the expense of exposing customers to higher energy prices when that is not what the customer has bargained for or had been led to believe will occur," New York's AARP and the Albany-based Public Utility Law Project said in a submission to New York regulators.

Electricity and natural gas marketers seized on the publics confusion to sell overpriced supply. Deals offered by so-called energy supply companys ESCOs for short were rife with abuses.

Despite efforts to realign the retail market, customer abuses and overcharging persist, the Public Service Commission said in initiating a study of the retail market . If ESCOs were truly living up to the promise of their function as innovators, it is expected that there would be much greater variety and transparency.

Indeed, the PSC acknowledged deregulation of the commodity markets in New York lacked the openness necessary to allow retail customers to make wise decisions on their energy choice.

High-pressure sales tactics and misrepresentations by door-to-door salespersons and telemarketers were common as competition rolled out. Promised savings never materialized as marketers used teaser rates to lure in customers, only to raise the price a few months into the contract.

Many opting for an independent supply ended up paying more than if they had remained with their full-service utility.

Independent supplier overcharges over the 30-month period ended June 2016 for New York State Electric & Gas Corp. customers were estimated at $86 million and $46 million at Rochester Gas & Electric , more than 15 percent higher than they would have paid by remaining with the resident utility.

"There is little evidence that retail choice has yielded any significant benefits," concluded a 2016 study of electric deregulation impacts nationwide prepared for the Electric Markets Research Foundation by Christensen Associates Energy Consulting of Madison, Wisconsin.

When New York in 1996 became one of the first states in the nation to deregulate the utility industry, the transmission of electricity and natural gas remained with traditional utilities such as New York State Electric & Gas Corp and Rochester Gas & Electric, both now subsidiaries of Iberdrola based in Spain.

New York's utilities were encouraged to sell their generation plants, which NYSEG did at the time, collecting $1.8 billion for the assets. And customers were freed to shop for their energy suppliers.

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Man, I just got a box of post #2

they own
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Try and stop me
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Scaramanga posted...

he didn't understand why MLK day meant so much to them. He said "It's not like you were related to him or anything".

I don't even know what to do with that
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He doesn't really do self-awareness
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COVxy posted...

Yeah, but justifying the coverage does seem to imply that there's something important about this story that needs to be discussed, does it not?

I think the original local coverage of this was worthwhile; there's a legitimate divide and tension being illustrated here, and it's definitely a story of local interest. I'm not sure Fox's version gets those same points across, and it's more aimed at fomenting a sense of "those darn liberals stifling research/science/differences of opinion!"
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No, that would be dumb
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TheVipaGTS posted...

how did i know Admiral would run in here and defend the science project......

He didn't, though? His one post in this topic was #7, which was justifying coverage of the story and not the project itself.

Now, having read the original source here, I think Fox's story omits some relevant details that help to form opinions on this kid's project.
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Oh_Boy_ posted...

I see Fox edited the original article and left out the student had a history of making racist statements.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article199440204.html

Some of those outraged by the racially charged project say it points to a larger problem: the lack of ethnic diversity in the schools elite HISP program.

The project that started the controversy was titled Race and IQ. It raised the hypothesis: If the average IQs of blacks, Southeast Asians, and Hispanics are lower than the average IQs of non-Hispanic whites and Northeast Asians, then the racial disproportionality in (HISP) is justified.
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The controversial project also included a bibliography and quotes from five books, one a text from 1904 called The Essential Kafir that argued South African blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. The term kaffir has since evolved into a racial slur in South Africa, where it is sometimes referred to as the k-word.

I think that a lot of people, especially of color, are really hurt and upset by this, said Chrysanthe Vidal, a senior in the HISP program.

She said the student who prepared the report has a history of making racist remarks in class. He is described by peers as a boy of Asian descent and a participant in the accelerated Humanities and International Studies program, or HISP. The Sacramento Bee did not speak to the student and is not identifying the minor.

The HISP program is designed to promote cultural awareness and sensitivity. Often, it includes alternative viewpoints on history. For example, one HISP student said that while learning about Christopher Columbus, students also learned about the Indian genocide and the perspective of Native Americans on white settlers.

The program currently has 508 students enrolled, including 12 African American students, 80 Hispanic students and 104 who are Asian, according to data provided by the district.

Weve clearly not progressed as much as the students want to think we have, said one freshman in HISP. Its just kind of shocking to think someone could enter into that program knowing that is what we are learning about and being so closed-minded.

The idea of race being tied to intelligence has a long and controversial history and is considered fringe. It is associated with other ideas including eugenics often euphemistically referred to as human biodiversity in recent years that attempt to tie racial superiority to science.

Nothing says rigorous science like citing a book from 1905.
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DoubleDare posted...

I'm not republican or democratic, so no girl shares opposite views as me :D

This is hugely incorrect; "partisan" is not the same as "political"
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Biathlon
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Nah, I'm not about that life.
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Itachi157 posted...

I think they are going to be surprised when they end up having to fight wizards with powerful magical abilities

Don't think those guns are going to help too much

lol'd
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/single-mothers-poverty.html

When the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution formed a bipartisan panel of prominent poverty scholars to write a Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty in 2015, its first recommendation was to promote a new cultural norm surrounding parenthood and marriage.

The reality, however, is that single motherhood is not the reason we have unusually high poverty in the United States, compared with other rich democracies. In fact, we recently published a study in The American Journal of Sociology, using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, which demonstrates that reducing single motherhood here would not substantially reduce poverty.
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Because fewer people are in single-mother families than youd think, even large reductions in single motherhood would not substantially reduce poverty. We can illustrate this in two ways. First, what would the poverty rate be if single motherhood in the United States was as common as it is in the typical rich democracy? Second, what would poverty in America be if single motherhood returned to the rate it was in 1970?
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What really differentiates rich democracies is the penalty attached to single motherhood. Countries make political choices about how well social policies support single mothers. Our political choices result in families headed by single mothers being 14.3 percent more likely to be poor than other families.

Such a severe penalty is unusual. In a majority of rich democracies, single mothers are not more likely to be poor. Denmark, for example, has chosen to provide universal cash benefits and tax credits for children, publicly subsidized child care and health care, and paid parental leave. Because of these generous social policies, single mothers and their children have a similar level of economic security as other families.

A common knee-jerk reaction against generous social policies for single mothers is that they pose a moral hazard and encourage more single motherhood. The problem with this argument is that it is overwhelmingly contradicted by social science. Did the 1996 welfare reform, which made social policies less generous for single mothers, cause a large reduction in single motherhood? No. Do rich democracies with more generous policies for single mothers have more single mothers? No. Do rich democracies with higher penalties for single motherhood have fewer single mothers? No.

Single motherhood is one of four major risks of poverty, which also include unemployment, low levels of education and forming households at young ages. Our research demonstrates a broader point about the risks of poverty. Poverty in America is not unusually high because more people have more of these risk factors. They are actually less common here than they are in the typical rich democracy, and fewer Americans carry these risks today than they did in 1970 or 1980. Even if one infers that risk factors result from bad choices and behaviors, Americans apparently make fewer such choices and engage in fewer such behaviors than people in other rich democracies or than Americans in the past.

The reality is we have unusually high poverty because we have unusually high penalties for all four of these risk factors. For example, if you lack a high school degree in the United States, it increases the probability of your being in poverty by 16.4 percent. In the 28 other rich democracies, a lack of education increases the probability of poverty by less than 5 percent on average. No other country penalizes the less educated nearly as much as we do.

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I think Orlando has the potential to be really good this year with Kljestan, Meram, and Dwyer up front. If they don't make the playoffs with their roster, Kreis has to go.
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Bloodychess posted...

When did the left become so bitter towards moderates?

Because as the GOP has moved further right, so has the definition of moderate. The modern GOP denies climate change as a problem, it says even an expansion of background checks is an unconscionable infringement on the second amendment, and at a time of record inequality it has sought to slash taxes on the rich and programs for the poor. There's no virtue in hearing out both sides when one of the sides is wrong.

Now, this criticism of Republicans is not to praise Democrats, who largely suck. But it's ludicrous to pretend they suck equally.
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voldothegr8 posted...

Topic should be marked for trolling, there was no study lmao

There was:
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/polarization-partisanship-and-junk-news-consumption-over-social-media-in-the-us/
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NINExATExSEVEN posted...

As long as the research is being used for beneficial purposes it's fine. It shouldn't be used for racist purposes.

How research gets used is out of the hands of researchers once they make it public.
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I'm a Red Bulls fan. I'm just glad the interminable USSF election is over.
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Yeah, the whole opening ceremony was weird. Mostly about Asian things, but also stuff like how they said ice skating is a common form of transportation in the Netherlands, which is why they're so good at it.
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"Disturbing" is a bit much. Trump's a 70 year old who has spent the past decade watching cable news. He's every grandpa.
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

We know property triggers you

When you're right, you're right
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Is this about farting
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You can just say title.
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Sativa_Rose posted...

"cultural marxists"

oh man he's one of those dipshits
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Popeye's
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chill02 posted...

where is Maple Valley

lol
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What? No.
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The Greatest racing game of all time
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Nomadic View posted...

Maybe he would maybe he wouldnt. Thats speculative and unknowable.

How is it unknowable? Several women accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct, and not only was his career not ruined, he became president.
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What did JFK do to merit inclusion on that list?
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Nomadic View posted...

Why?

Because if mere accusations were indeed enough to ruin lives and careers, Donald Trump would not be the President of the United States.
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Y2JosHBK_yum posted...

JFK was so bad he literally got assassinated. It takes a lot to provoke an assassination

How do you reconcile this thought with Reagan surviving an assassination attempt?
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