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Cambios en el Panorama de Control Migratorio Interno Durante la Administración Trump

Experts on this Spanish language webinar examine the operation of today’s interior immigration enforcement system and how state and local governments, civil society, and consulates are responding.    




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Cambios en el Panorama de Control Migratorio Interno Durante la Administración Trump

A Spanish language webinar examining the operation of today’s interior enforcement system and how state and local governments, civil society, and consulates are responding.    




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Prenatal drug exposure : kinetics and dynamics / editors, C. Nora Chiang, Charles C. Lee.

Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1985.




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Urine testing for drugs of abuse / Richard L. Hawks, C. Nora Chiang.

Rockville, Maryland : National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1986.




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Semiparametric Optimal Estimation With Nonignorable Nonresponse Data. (arXiv:1612.09207v3 [stat.ME] UPDATED)

When the response mechanism is believed to be not missing at random (NMAR), a valid analysis requires stronger assumptions on the response mechanism than standard statistical methods would otherwise require. Semiparametric estimators have been developed under the model assumptions on the response mechanism. In this paper, a new statistical test is proposed to guarantee model identifiability without using any instrumental variable. Furthermore, we develop optimal semiparametric estimation for parameters such as the population mean. Specifically, we propose two semiparametric optimal estimators that do not require any model assumptions other than the response mechanism. Asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators are discussed. An extensive simulation study is presented to compare with some existing methods. We present an application of our method using Korean Labor and Income Panel Survey data.




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Bayesian Quantile Regression with Mixed Discrete and Nonignorable Missing Covariates

Zhi-Qiang Wang, Nian-Sheng Tang.

Source: Bayesian Analysis, Volume 15, Number 2, 579--604.

Abstract:
Bayesian inference on quantile regression (QR) model with mixed discrete and non-ignorable missing covariates is conducted by reformulating QR model as a hierarchical structure model. A probit regression model is adopted to specify missing covariate mechanism. A hybrid algorithm combining the Gibbs sampler and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is developed to simultaneously produce Bayesian estimates of unknown parameters and latent variables as well as their corresponding standard errors. Bayesian variable selection method is proposed to recognize significant covariates. A Bayesian local influence procedure is presented to assess the effect of minor perturbations to the data, priors and sampling distributions on posterior quantities of interest. Several simulation studies and an example are presented to illustrate the proposed methodologies.




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(7/18/05) Ignorance is Bliss




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Kenora OPP identify 18-year-old struck, killed by train Wednesday

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have identified the person struck and killed by a train in Kenora on Wednesday as 18-year-old Tyrease Payash, of Kenora.



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Straight Up Conversation: Panorama CEO on Measuring College, Career, and Life Readiness

Rick talks with the CEO of Panorama Education, an ed-tech company whose college- and career-readiness tools are currently used each year in 11,500 schools.




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Maharajas Express all set to run its first Indian Panorama journey of the season

Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation’s premier luxury train, the Maharajas Express, is all set to run its first Indian Panorama journey of the 2012-13 season tomorrow. The train will depart from the Safdarjung Railway Station tomorrow at 2200 hours. All guests have been...



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NASA records highest resolution pictures of Mars! Check out 360-degree panorama captured by Curiosity rover

Curiosity's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ashwin Vasavada said that it is the first time that NASA has dedicated its operations to capture a 360-degree panorama.




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Northern Arizona University Recognizes Microchip CEO With Honorary Doctorate Degree

Northern Arizona University Recognizes Microchip CEO With Honorary Doctorate Degree




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Shop for rent in Panorama, Phu My Hung, Tan Phong, Dist.7, HCMC: 230m2, 2 floors, 2500 USD

Shop for rent in Panorama in the center Phu My Hung, near the Crescent Mall. Suitable for office, business, coffee, restaurant. Ground floor: 110m2 Second floor: 120M2 Price: 2500 USD/month. Negotiable ---------------------------------------------------- Please contact Ms.Mary: 0...




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Leasing Shophouse at Panorama, Phu My Hung, Tan Phong Ward, District 7 - 169 sqm,l $2100/Month

Leasing Shophouse at Panorama, Phu My Hung, Tan Phong Ward, District 7 - Area: 169 sqm - Including a ground floor, a floor - This shop is right Phu my Hung City Center, it is suitable for every business - Rental : $2100/Month equivalent to VND 48,573,000/ Month Please contact Mr...




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Panorama Apartment for rent in Phu My Hung- Tan Phong Ward - District 7 - 158 sqm - $1600/Month

Panorama Apartment for rent in Phu My Hung- Tan Phong Ward - District 7 - Area: 158 sqm - Rental : $1600 / Month equivalent to VND 37,000,000/Month - 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms -The house is repaired newly, fully furnished. - Near many supermarkets, Crescent Mall, Dinh Thien Ly Scho...




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Panorama Hill Hòa Bình

Panorama Hill Hòa Bình là dự án nghỉ dưỡng sinh thái được triển khai tại Tân Vinh, Lương Sơn, Hòa Bình với quy mô 158 căn biệt thự song lập và đơn lập có diện tích đa dạng từ 150-1000m2.




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Captain Tom Moore made honorary Colonel to mark 100th birthday as his NHS fundraiser nears £30m

Captain Tom Moore has been appointed as an honorary colonel to mark his 100th birthday after raising almost £30 million for the NHS by walking laps of his garden.




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Centros de documentación de diarios en el siglo XXI. Panorama después del tsunami

Guallar, Javier and Cornet, Anna Centros de documentación de diarios en el siglo XXI. Panorama después del tsunami. BiD, 2020, n. 44. [Journal article (Unpaginated)]




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The Honorable Ted Strickland


Strickland says this is the time for bold, new thinking and adds that strengthening Ohio''s cities is a required step in reclaiming the state''s prosperity.

     
 
 




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The Honorable Michael Coleman


Mayor Coleman says Ohio''s metropolitan areas are the incubators of success and the anchors of prosperity for entire state.

     
 
 




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The stunning ignorance of Trump's health care plan


One cannot help feeling a bit silly taking seriously the policy proposals of a person who seems not to take policy seriously himself. Donald Trump's policy positions have evolved faster over the years than a teenager's moods. He was for a woman's right to choose; now he is against it. He was for a wealth tax to pay off the national debt before proposing a tax plan that would enrich the wealthy and balloon the national debt. He was for universal health care but opposed to any practical way to achieve it.

Based on his previous flexibility, Trump's here-today proposals may well be gone tomorrow. As a sometime-Democrat, sometime-Republican, sometime-independent, who is now the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump has just issued his latest pronouncements on health care policy. So, what the hell, let's give them more respect than he has given his own past policy statements.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, those earlier pronouncements are notable for their detachment from fact and lack of internal logic. The one-time supporter of universal health care now joins other candidates in his newly-embraced party in calling for repeal of the only serious legislative attempt in American history to move toward universal coverage, the Affordable Care Act. Among his stated reasons for repeal, he alleges that the act has "resulted in runaway costs," promoted health care rationing, reduced competition and narrowed choice.

Each of these statements is clearly and demonstrably false. Health care spending per person has grown less rapidly in the six years since the Affordable Care Act was enacted than in any corresponding period in the last four decades. There is now less health care rationing than at any time in living memory, if the term rationing includes denial of care because it is unaffordable. Rationing because of unaffordability is certainly down for the more than 20 million people who are newly insured because of the Affordable Care Act. Hospital re-admissions, a standard indicator of low quality, are down, and the health care exchanges that Trump now says he would abolish, but that resemble the "health marts" he once espoused, have brought more choice to individual shoppers than private employers now offer or ever offered their workers.

Trump's proposed alternative to the Affordable Care Act is even worse than his criticism of it. He would retain the highly popular provision in the act that bars insurance companies from denying people coverage because of preexisting conditions, a practice all too common in the years before the health care law. But he would do away with two other provisions of the Affordable Care Act that are essential to make that reform sustainable: the mandate that people carry insurance and the financial assistance to make that requirement feasible for people of modest means.

Without those last two provisions, barring insurers from using preexisting conditions to jack up premiums or deny coverage would destroy the insurance market. Why? Because without the mandate and the financial aid, people would have powerful financial incentives to wait until they were seriously ill to buy insurance. They could safely do so, confident that some insurer would have to sell them coverage as soon as they became ill. Insurers that set affordable prices would go broke. If insurers set prices high enough to cover costs, few customers could afford them.

In simple terms, Trump's promise to bar insurers from using preexisting conditions to screen customers but simultaneously to scrap the companion provisions that make the bar feasible is either the fraudulent offer of a huckster who takes voters for fools, or clear evidence of stunning ignorance about how insurance works. Take your pick.

Unfortunately, none of the other Republican candidates offers a plan demonstrably superior to Trump's. All begin by calling for repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But none has yet advanced a well-crafted replacement.

It is not that the Affordable Care Act is perfect legislation. It isn't. But, as the old saying goes, you can't beat something with nothing. And so far as health care reform is concerned, nothing is what the Republican candidates now have on offer.


Editor's note: This piece originally appeared in U.S. News and World Report.

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Publication: U.S. News and World Report
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Hungary Destroys All GM Maize Fields - Farmers Claim Ignorance Over Banned Seeds

Hungary already has a ban on genetically modified crops, so this is a bit more complicated than it may seem at first. As PlanetSave reports Hungary has destroyed approximately 1000 acres of maize fields found to




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Huangling Village Launches Helicopter and Virtual Reality Tours as Rapeseed Flowers Reach Full Bloom - A Panoramic View of Huangling Village

Praised as the most beautiful countryside in China, the unique view of shaiqiu can only be found in Huangling village where baskets of colorful harvest bask in the sunshine.




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Huangling Village Launches Helicopter and Virtual Reality Tours as Rapeseed Flowers Reach Full Bloom - A Panoramic View of Huangling Village

Praised as the most beautiful countryside in China, the unique view of shaiqiu can only be found in Huangling village where baskets of colorful harvest bask in the sunshine.




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Today on Toothpaste For Dinner: ignorance shirt




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Watch video: Nora Fatehi has a hilarious conversation with the dishes

Amid lockdown due to the outbreak of coronavirus in the country, Bollywood celebrities are seen doing their own chores at home. Dancer-actress Nora Fatehi seems to be now done as she says she wants the "dishes to leave me alone" in a hilarious post. 

Nora, who is lauded for her flawless dancing skills, took to her Instagram Stories, where she shared a video of herself talking to the pile of dishes kept in the sink. In the TikTok video, Nora seems to have a funny conversation with the dishes in the sink, she is heard saying: "What? You are always looking at me dude! Shut the .... up because I always catch you staring... I swear, ask anybody you are always staring at me."

She captioned the clip: The dishes are always waiting for me... These dishes need to leave me alone #quarantinelife."

Recently, a video of Nora's enviable moves went viral, in which she pulled off a fusion of Afro, Urban and Dancehall styles of dancing.

Nora's most popular on-screen performances include "Manohari" ("Baahubali: The Beginning"), "Dilbar" ("Satyamev Jayate"), "O saki saki" ("Batla House") and "Ek toh kam zindagani" ("Marjaavaan"), besides her recent hit "Garmi" in "Street Dancer 3D". On the acting front, Nora will next be seen in the Ajay Devgn-starrer "Bhuj: The Pride Of India".

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Mumbai: Monorail stalls due to technical glitch, services affected

In a yet another technical snag, the commuters travelling in Monorail had to face problem on Saturday evening after Monorail services were affected due to issue related to brakes. The technical snag developed between Bharat Petroleum and Mysore Colony stations.

Informing the glitch, on its official Twitter account, Mumbai Monorail said, "We are facing technical difficulties. Dear Mumbaikars, we apologize for the inconvenience. Our technical teams have reached the site and are working to restore the services at the earliest".

Following the incident, the monorail was taken to Mysore colony monorail station where passengers were evacuated safely. The authorities plan to take the train to the depot using another train. 

According to authorities, the technical glitches has been attended and full services are expected to be restored in some time.

More details are awaited.

This is the second incident Monorail has faced within a week. On Wednesday, Monorail was stuck mid-way towards Wadala depot affecting its services. After the passengers were evacuated, the monorail was being transported to the depot but it ceased to move mid-way. Another train was then used to push the monorail further. Since other trains could not use the same alignment, services were shut for about an hour.

The second phase of the Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle monorail was flagged off in March 2019.

Also Read: Mumbai: Garland wire glitch delays new Chembur-Wadala-Jacob Circle Monorail services

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Panorama de la salud 2019: ¿Cómo se compara México?

México es uno de los pocos países de la OCDE donde las ganancias en la esperanza de vida no se han desacelerado en los últimos años. El gasto sanitario representa el 5,5% del PIB, que se encuentra entre los más bajos de los países OCDE. La cobertura de un conjunto básico de servicios de salud en México es la más baja en la OCDE con 89,3%.




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Letter from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría for the attention of The Honorable Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, United States

Letter from OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría for the attention of The Honorable Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury, United States




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Hugh Bonneville looks delighted as he receives an honorary doctorate from Winchester University

Hugh Bonneville received an honorary doctorate from Winchester University for services to dramatic arts on Wednesday.




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Nora Ephron, I Remembering Nothing: Don't you just detest your hair?

In the final part of our series celebrating the wit and wisdom of the Hollywood screenwriter, who died last week, she turns her attention to the daily battles women wage in a bid to stay looking youthful …




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Corbyn supporters told to go online during Panorama anti-Semitism documentary

The party's 'outriders' and 'socialist social media activists' were urged to take to Facebook and Twitter to defend Mr Corbyn and his general secretary Jennie Formby.




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Missing British 15-year-old Nora Quoirin was NOT kidnapped from hotel room in Malaysia, say police

London schoolgirl Nora Quoirin, who has learning difficulties, has been missing since yesterday night, when her parents found her hotel room in Malaysia empty with the window open.




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Nora Quoirin's parents insist she WAS most likely abducted from Malaysian hotel

The 15-year-old London schoolgirl, who has learning difficulties, has been missing since last night, when her parents found her hotel room at the Dusun Resort empty with the window open.




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Nora Quoirin: Malaysian search teams bring in 'cadaver dogs' in hunt for missing teen

As hopes of finding the missing 15-year-old (pictured) fades, cadaver dogs roamed the dense jungle with their handlers.




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Nora Quoirin: Parents of teen missing in Malaysia offer £10k reward

Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin offered a £10,000 reward for information on missing Nora as they made an emotional plea at a press conference in Malaysia (pictured).




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Nora Quoirin: Body found in hunt for missing British teen in Malaysia

The discovery was made by a member of the public on the tenth day of an intensive search of the area surrounding the eco-resort where she was on holiday.




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Nora Quoirin: Body found in Malaysian jungle is missing British teen

The discovery was made by a volunteer hiker on the tenth day of an intensive search of the area surrounding the eco-resort where she was on holiday.




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Nora Quoirin was found near a waterfall on SECOND search of area

The unsuccessful first search for Nora Quoirin (pictured) will inevitably raise questions about why the British teen's naked body was not found sooner.




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Nora Quoirin: Heartbroken parents say she 'touched the world'

The grief-stricken family of Nora Quoirin have revealed their heartbreak this morning after the teenager was yesterday found in the Malaysian jungle.




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Nora Quoirin: Hiker tells how she was lying in plain sight in Malaysian jungle

Sean Yeap, a volunteer taking part in the search for 15-year-old Nora Quoirin in Malaysia, described how two members of his party broke down in tears as they discovered her body.




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Nora Quoirin: Parents' anguish as cause of death is still unknown

Medics in Malaysia say the results of a post-mortem exam on tragic teenager Nora Quoirin will be revealed Thursday at the earliest, after eight hours of tests failed to establish how she had died.




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Family faces agonising wait after eight-hour post-mortem fails to reveal how Nora Quoirin's died

Police in Malaysia said Nora Quoirin's family would have to wait until at least today for the results of tests that may unravel the mystery of her death. Her body was found in the jungle on Tuesday.




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Nora Quoirin: Teen was alive in Malaysian jungle for a week before starving

Tragic teenager Nora Quiorin died from intestinal damage caused by prolonged hunger and stress, police in Malaysia have revealed, after carrying out a post-mortem on her remains.




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Nora Quoirin: British police did their OWN investigation at resort where she vanished

A British officer from the National Crime Agency stayed at the Malaysian resort where Nora Quoirin vanished in order to test whether an intruder would have been able to snatch the teen undetected.




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Police chiefs took Nora Quoirin's parents to meet four MEDIUMS after 'running out of ideas'

A 'prayer session' was conducted on Monday in Malaysia last week less than 24 hours before the body of the teenager, who had suffered physical and mental disabilities since birth, was found.




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Man faces two years in jail 'for tweeting that Nora Quoirin had been raped by tribesmen

Muhammad Zikri Ibrahim, 29, denied committing intentional insult at a Kuala Lumpur court. He allegedly claimed local indigenous villagers from the Orang Asli tribe raped Nora, 15.




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Tragic schoolgirl Nora Quoirin's mother pays tribute to the 'gruffest angel ever made'

The devastated mother of Nora Quoirin read an emotion tribute poem for her daughter today, as friends and family gathered at the service in Belfast.




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Nora Quoirin's family 'still think she was abducted from Malaysian resort'

Charles Morell, lawyer for Nora Quoirin's family, says her parents still 'cannot understand how she could leave by herself' and wander into the Malaysian jungle where she was found dead Tuesday.




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Paddy McGuinness slams 'ignorant' man after disabled parking bay row

Paddy McGuinness was involved in a war of words on Sunday after a man questioned why he had parked in a disabled bay.