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Clackamas Kennel Club
June 20-21, 2009 – Canby, Oregon
The Clackamas Kennel Club held two days of all-breed dog shows at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby, Oregon.
Best in Show: Saturday
Breed: Belgian Tervuren
Name: Ch. Sky Acres Spy Plane
Best in Show: Sunday
Breed: Alaskan Malamute
Name: Ch. Rogue's Jonny Walker Black Label
For more information on the club, please go to clackamaskennelclub.com.
See other shows covered this year.

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Friday, April 02, 2010, 10:00 pm PT (01:00 am ET)
Amazon Kindle iPad app approved, Netflix working on iPhone appApple's mobile devices are cross-pollinating: Amazon's Kindle ebook reader was just approved for iPad, while Netflix' iPad app for viewing Instant Streaming videos is being ported to the iPhone and iPod touch.
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Isn't there a privacy act to protect people from having their pictures taken by strangers? I know one can get into trouble taking pictures of children in the public and worse still if the pictures are published. Should talk or write to the management of the rink to ensure rules are enforced to ensure safety and privacy of others using the rink.
One time I showed up to skate a public session right after Jojo Starbuck performed. An older man asked for her autograph. Then (bless his heart) he saw me wearing my attire and asked if I was a skater. I said yes and he asked for my autograph too. I said, "Sure, but I'm not famous." He said oh, and walked away.
Recently (at a regular indoor rink) a mom flagged me down while I was working on my Moves and offered me money to teach her daughter. I told her that I couldn't because I was trying to practice. Why did she think I was there, to just hang out? Also, I could get in trouble for taking money and not being a licensed coach. It was awkward.
I got paid $100 once from a guy who wanted me to help his kids for an hour. I had been doing kids parties and the rink would get skaters (whether coaches or more experienced skaters) to assist with them. However when I realised he was just after a baby sitting service so he didn't have to watch the kids, the next time he turned up I tried to avoid him. When he did speak to me I told him I couldn't do it because I had to practise. He then got someone else to do it. She did it for 15 minutes and told him the same thing.
When you are up to your arse in alligators it is difficult to remember you were only meant to be draining the swamp.
Shoot, I'd take $100 to babysit someone's kids on the ice for an hour. You won't get in trouble for acting as a coach if you are babysitting. Some parents don't like to offend their kids by using the B word, so they ask people to "help" their kids with things (this applies to all situations, not just skating).
I think there is a difference between "helping" someone skate and teaching someone to skate. I and other people I know of work with people who have disabilities who we take to activities including skating. So when we go skating with them, we are indeed getting paid to help those clients skate, and by necessity that usually requires some amount of instruction, but it does not count as professional coaching, does not involve the formalities of professional coaching, and does not avail us to the privileges that professional coaches have. (FYI, I was an instructor about 25+ years ago when I could still skate).
We can do practically anything in public sessions if there is enough space. The center ice is coned off for freestyle skating. There will be people doing freestyle in the center and in the corners in public sessions. There are also always private freestyle lessons going on in basically every public session.
I've seen safety signs that read skaters were not allowed to hold anything in their hands while on the ice, and the list of forbidden things to hold included cameras, cell phones and children. I imagine the idea is that people should have their hands free when they fall.
My general assessment of poor safety standards at many rinks is that guards are usually teenagers or early twenty-something guys who can't conceptualize that a 200 lb clown crashing into some kid or senior citizen on ice could (and does) result in very serious injuries. Most guards, I would say, are very immature and/or not very bright, and one has to ask could they find any other kind of job.
As for the management structure of most rinks, the owner or owner's usually have sunk a couple million dollars into the place, but it doesn't generate enough revenue for them to spend much time there. So management finds some older guy who is willing to work for $15-$20/hour to run the place. What kind of story comes with someone in their 40s or 50s who is willing to work for that kind of money? You may not want to ask. Change will only come when the insurance companies realize they're loosing too much money.
Me: *walks into rink for 4pm practice*
*spots birthday party of about 20-30 shrieking squealing 11-12 year old girls*
*puts skates in for sharpening and walks back out*
I need to work on my new Artistic program. But that would have been a waste of time. I hate birthday parties on the afternoon practices.
I think it's great how you stood up to those idiots. I'm very impressed with how you were able to get that guy to delete what he had on you. Please keep up the good work on behalf of all of us. Same goes for everyone else here. We have just as much right as the rules will allow.
I don't like public skate very much but sometimes it's all I've got. For crowded sessions I use the technique of 'little-tiny-jumps'. See how many loop, double loops you can string in a row. Or backspin loop, backspin. It's fun and it's good for technique.
There's a group of 'mature' ice-dancers here that think they own the ice sometimes. They claim the line anytime us freeskaters try to line up a jump or spread out for a good long, stretchy forward change backward spiral. I don't mind sharing 50-50 and I've told them so, but it's like they have memory problems. Then they stand around in a little group about half-way between center ice and the boards, and critque one another. That's were most of us want to place our jumps and spins. It's like they know it. One of them keeps bugging me to be a partner. Says I should get back to dancing now, because some day I'll be too old to learn. Hah! I'll ice-dance after my knees blow out.
Any ideas on how to handle them?
Other times it's the hockey bo-bos that cause trouble. If one of them asks me to show them something, I usually show them a two-foot spin. "Sweep the table." It's amaizing how that can keep small minds entertained for hours.
Skate on brave ones!


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Why Zardari needs no enemies–>Ansar Abbasi article in The News
Source: http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25831
Saturday, November 28, 2009
By Ansar Abbasi
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari does not need adversaries as he is his own worst enemy. He shouldn't be worried about the conspiracies, if any, of his political foes, the establishment or his perceived opponent — Geo and a few journalists associated with the Jang Group — because he himself is in a self-destructive mode.
Perhaps not many would be bothered as to what he does to himself but the big worry is about his style of governance which is marred by inaction and indifference at a time when there is a need to do a lot and seriously.
His strange and incomprehensible attitude is damaging Pakistan and threatening the whole system. To be precise and candid, if I am allowed to express my personal view, there is no greater threat to democracy and the system than the president himself. Others have the right to differ.
Getting to the Presidency or the chief executive's office through democratic means, does not mean anything if the promises made are disregarded, election manifesto is overlooked, institutions are ruined, constitutional distortions are subtly protected to thrust and sustain a one man rule that could be described as civilian dictatorship, and parliament is ignored and cabinet is turned into a non-entity. All of this is happening under Zardariís rule.
Although the president has pointed his finger at Geo and Jang Group as his sole enemy, he conveniently ignored what the whole world says about his style of government, his growing unpopularity, mounting corruption of his regime and his men.
Read the foreign newspapers and magazines, look what is coming from Paris about the submarine deal, go through the international surveys about the record-breaking corruption to adjudge the reputation of Zardari-led political dispensation. You will find that Pakistan is hurting.
Ask the political parties, get the pulse of the military establishment, talk to the members of the civil bureaucracy and even have a heart to heart discussion with the PPP leaders including those holding public office, there is a consensus that the president is doing just contrary to what the situation demands. Pakistan is confronted with Himalaya like challenges but its president appears non-serious to face them and get them resolved. No matter what he said in his last public speech made from the Presidency, now generally termed his bunker, he knows how he is seen by all the stakeholders and how much he is trusted.
Media has always served as an easy prey for every government. What President Zardari also did on last Wednesday was no different from the past? We know the Jang Group has committed ìsinî by unearthing corruption scandals, one after the other, and by consistently highlighting tales of murder of merit, favouritism, bad governance. We are also ìresponsibleî for reminding the president and his government of promises, commitments and pledges that remained unfulfilled. President Zardari may not like it but we would continue doing so because it is our fundamental responsibility and this is what the media has been doing in the past.
We have nothing personal against anyone. We donít seek any personal favour, plots, foreign trips and lucrative positions. We neither conspire nor claim to be the kingmakers. We are just messengers and opinion makers. We may be accused of running campaigns or getting biased but all such campaigns or biases, if any, would be directed for institution building, rule of law, justice and fair play. The deserted ousted dictator General (retd) Musharraf also thought that we were biased against him. To an extent he was right that we were biased. But our bias was not against him but to achieve the goal of independence of judiciary in Pakistan. We achieved the goal for which the whole nation takes pride today.
Our criticism against the president and his regime is based on similar biases, which should not be misinterpreted in any other manner. Needless to say that we are biased against corruption, we are biased against nepotism and violation of merit, we are biased against misrule, we are biased against undemocratic postures of the democrats, we are biased against weakening of the institutions, we are biased against military rule as well as civilian dictatorship and certainly we are biased against anything that in any manner harms our homeland.
Mediaís criticism is nowhere seen as a ìconspiracyî to make or break governments. Instead, it is taken by the matured minds and civilised societies as a chance to improve governance, better service delivery, address injustices and serve the public interest.
President Zardari may not like it but he needs to change himself if he wants to secure his presidency. It may also not sound music to his ears but he also needs to change his company by getting rid of the tainted sycophants, dirtied courtiers, corrupt to the core souls and some ìknownî agents of MI6 and CIA, surrounding him. He has to act without any further delay to undo the 17th Amendment, implement the Charter of Democracy and check corruption. Otherwise, he would continue getting weaker and weaker with every passing day. But for his own follies and failings, there is no reason to blame others, particularly the media, which is the mirror, whom the politician always support and admire when out of power intoxication.
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Finally, dreaded NRO list is out and official–>The News
In a country where people are not able to find sugar and other daily usage items and where electricity has become a real luxury , the elite political , military ,corrupt business and bureaucratic classes consider themselves above every law of the land and don't think of themselves answerable to any system of justice.
Below is the list of NRO beneficiaries which include list of accused criminals who got their selves cleaned with this draconian law introduced by the dictator Musharraf.
Finally, dreaded NRO list is out and official
The News
By Ansar Abbasi
Source : http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25672
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) presented to the government on Thursday a list of 248 politicians and bureaucrats, who were alleged to have plundered hundreds of billions of rupees but were cleared by the NAB under the NRO.
Sources in the Law Ministry while sharing with The News the "complete list" of NAB's NRO beneficiaries, explained that thousands other cases of NRO beneficiaries did not belong to the NAB but with the provincial governments because they were criminal cases and were not covered by the NAB law.
On top of the list is the name of President Asif Ali Zardari while his several close associates, both political and bureaucratic, including Rehman Malik, Salman Farooqi and his brother Usman Farooqi, Hussain Haqqani and Siraj Shamsuddin are also reflected.
The list, which also reflects a brief introduction of the cases dropped against each name under the NRO, also includes the name of serving and former ministers, federal and provincial secretaries, ex-chief secretaries, existing or former members of the national and provincial assemblies and others.
According to the list, Asif Ali Zardari remained the beneficiary No 1 of the NRO as at least eight of his NAB cases of corruption and misuse of authorities were dropped. These cases included the alleged kickbacks from SGS PSI Company, grant of licence to ARY Gold causing huge loss to government, corruption in purchase of Ursus tractors under the Awami Tractor Scheme, illegal award of contract to Cotecna for pre-shipment, assets beyond means, received kickbacks from Sajjad Ahmad (late) ex-chairman Pakistan Steel Mills, illegal construction of Polo ground at PM House and the money laundering SGS Swiss case.
Others amongst politicians include Nawaz Yousaf Talpur, ex-MNA and former minister, who was co-accused in URSUS tractors case; Ms Nusrat Bhutto, assets case; ex-MNA and the PPP Secretary General Jehangir Badr, assets case and corruption in Sui Southern Gas Company; ex-minister for commerce and presently Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar, misuse of authority in issuing sugar export permit to non-entitled persons in 1994; ex-MNA Malik Mushtaq Ahmed Awan, embezzlement in Octroi contracts; ex-MNA Rana Nazir Ahmed, assets case and misuse of authority; ex-MPA Mian M Rashid, assets case and illegal appointments; ex-MPA Tariq Anees, assets beyond means; ex-MPA Mian Tariq Mehmood Dina, assets beyond means; ex-minister of education Sindh Agha Sirajuddin and others, misuse of authority; ex-chief minister and former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, misuse of authority, illegal allotment of plots and assets case; ex-provincial minister Ghani-ur-Rehman, assets beyond means; ex-senator Haji Gulsher, misuse of authority and acquisition of land; ex-provincial minister Habibullah Khan Kundi, misuse of authority and acquisition of land; ex-MNA Mir Baz Muhammad Khan Khethran, misappropriation of government funds allocated for people's works programme; ex-federal minister Anwar Saifullah Khan, misuse of authority in allocation of LPG and illegal appointments; ex-provincial minister Sardar Mansoor Laghari, corruption in Utility Stores Corporation; ex-Mayor Sargodha Ch Abdul Hameed, assets beyond means; ex-chairman Zila Council Lahore Ch Shoukat Ali, ex-MNA Haji Kabir and ex-chairman Zila Council Lahore Ch Zulfikar Ali in Zila Council fraud case.
Amongst government servants and others, who had benefited from NRO and got themselves cleared from NAB cases include ex-additional director general FIA and presently Interior Minister Rehman Malik, embezzlement of funds on account of un-authorized released of imported yellow cab cars, illegal detention of complainant and illegal gratification; ex-secretary information and presently Pakistan's ambassador in the US Husain Haqqani, co-accused in Ms BB case of TV channels; ex-federal secretary and presently principal secretary to the president Suleman Farooqi, illegal allotment of textile quota, forgery and fraud, obtained illegal benefits in connivance with exporters; ex-chairman Pakistan Steels Mill, caused loss to Pak Steels through illegal disposal of 15.93 MT of end cuts, procurement of Ferro Silicon at higher rates; ex-joint secretary PM Secretariat, former principal secretary to the PM Gilani and presently Executive Director ADB Siraj Shamsuddin, illegal appointment; ex-NBP president and presently Pakistan's ambassador M B Abbasi, corruption and corrupt practices and loan default; ex-secretary Sindh Rasool Baksh Rahoo, KPT land cases; Mashook Ahmed Usmani, Aurangzeb, Moin ul Arfeen, Akhtar H Askari and Kher M Kalochi of Pakistan Steels Mills (PSM) in the case of purchases on exorbitant prices for PSM; ex-DG textile quota Nayyar Bari and ex-DD Export Promotion Board Anees Alam, illegal allotment of textile quota, forgery/fraud, obtained illegal benefits in connivance with exporters; ex- secretary commerce Brig (R) Aslam Hayat Qureshi, co-accused in ARY Gold case; ex-advisor to Prime Minister A R Siddiqi, co-accused in AAZ and BB cases; ex-principal secretary to the PM Saeed Mehdi, co-accused in polo ground case; ex-principal secretary to the PM Ahmed Sadiq, assets beyond means; ex-chief secretary Punjab Javed Qureshi, fraud in Zila Council Lahore contracts; ex president HBL, willful default, ex DG Intelligence Bureau Brig Imtiaz, assets beyond means; ex-MD Printing Corporation of Pakistan Pir Mukarram, corruption and corrupt practices; ex-DG Textile Quota Akhtar Alam in textile quota case; ex-secretary Petroleum Capt (R) Naseer Ahmad, misuse of authority in awarding contracts for OGDC; ex-Director Textile Quota Syed Arfeen, textile quota case; customs officials Khalid Aziz, Muhammad Nawaz Butt and Mumtaz Ali Changezi in illegal evasion of tax duties case and wrong refund of customs rebate case; Pak Steel employees Syed Iqtedar Rasool, Qaiser Raza, Irfanuddin, Hisamuddin and Qurban Ali Jatoi in import of PIG iron for PSM case; General Manager Port Qasim Authority Abdul Sattar Dero, corruption in PSM; businessman/transporter Pir Deedar Hussain Shah, yellow cab scam; ex-FIA Assistant Director Sajjad Haider, ex-Inspector Muhammad Sharif Qureshi and inspector Moeen Ashraf, all three co-accused of Rehman Malik in embezzlement of funds on account of unauthorized release of imported yellow cab cars case; Assistant Director FIA Agha Ishrat Ali, assets beyond means; ex-Deputy Director FIA Ch Muhammad Sharif, assets beyond means; ex-Additional Commissioner Income Tax Javed Iqbal Mirza, assets beyond means; ex Managing Director Karachi Water and Sewerage Board Aftab Ahmed, misuse of authority in awarding contracts; Project Director Karachi Water and Sewerage Board Fareed Ahmed, misuse of authority in awarding contracts; ex-Regional Commissioner of Income Tax Sindh Abrar Ahmed, assets beyond known resources.
The names of other beneficiaries are Collector Customs Imtaiz Ali Taj; ex-Secretary Javed Burki, DG Port Qasim Authority Irshad Ahmed Sheikh; AD FIA Noor Muhammad Kaka; Maj (R) Rashid Khan; Additional Director FIA Ali Qaswar Bokhari; ex-DG Peshawar Development Authority Syed Zahir Shah; Suptd Customs Check Post Mand Muhammad Younas Butt; Customs officials Sherdad Khan, Sajad Hussain, Muhammad Sarwar and Abdul Hameed Siddiqi; Senior Store Manager Muhammad Iqbal; District Engineer Water Supply Quetta Zamarak Khan; Revenue Officer Pashin Rehman Ali; Assistant Revenue Office Pashin Hafiz Matiullah; Superintendent Revenue Officer Pishin Muhammad Iqbal; Junior Auditor Ibrar Hussain; ex-SP Railways Inamur Rehman Sehri; ex-DC CDA Ch Muhammad Aslam; ex-Secretary CDA Abdul Ghafoor Dogar; ex-AD CDA Mushtaq Ahmed Baloch; ex-Sub Engineer CDA Muhammad Ismail; ex-DC CDA Ahmed Khan; ex-Account Officer Attaullah Khan; ex Patwari Muhammad Farooq; ex-Patwari CDA Muzamil Hussain; Clerk CDA Dawood Khan; ex-Deputy Director Planning CDA Muhammad Iqbal; ex-DC CDA Muhammad Amin; ex-DC CDA Shoukat Ali; Supervisor PTCL Sheikh Liaqat Ali; Assistant Manager GHQ Habibullah Tasnim; Assistant Store Keeper Muhammad Saeed; ex-DG Services CDA Mohiuddin Jameeli; ex DD CDA Muhammad Ashfaq; ex-Asstt Estate Manager CDA Din Muhammad; EGDC official Raheel J Qureshi; GPO Rawalpindi officials Muhammad Farooq, Salim Raza, Muhammad Anwar, Muhammad Akhtar and Arshad Mehmood; ex-Tehsildar Raja Zahid Hussain; Dy DG Military Land and Cantonment Department Abdul Naeem Khan; ex-SSD MEO Rwp Sh Muhammad Amin; Assistant Director Military Land and Cantonment Abdul Hayee Qamar; ex-DG Military Land and Cantonment Qazi Naeem Ahmed; Abdul Ghafoor Khan, Muhammad Ali; ex-Chairman SLI Zaheer; ex-DG NHA Iqbal Ahmad; ex-Chief Engineer CAA Raees M Irshad; CAA officials Ghulam Qadir Lakhan, Shafique Siddiqi, Ahmed Hussain, Iqbal Bangash, Khurshid Anwar, M Akbar, A D Abbasi, Kh Farooq Ahmad and Rafique Shad; OGDC officials Jaffar Mohammad, Khalid Subhani, Capt (R) Nazir Ahmed; Najmul Hassan, M Ishaq, Muzaffar Hussain, Shahid Ahmed, Qamar Hussain Shah, M Israel Khan and Bashir Ahmad Bhatti; PWD officials Mureed Ahmed Baloch, Sadaqat Ali, Khalid Mehmood Nasir, Akram Rao, Rashid Mujib Siddiqi, Aslam Shahid, Zahid ullah Khan and Shabbair Husain; Wapda officials Anwar Hussain, Wapda Line Superintendents Saifullah, Muhammad Arshad, Syed Ehsan Ali Shah, Mirza Saeed Ahmed, Akbar Ali and Allah Wasaya; Nadra officials Hakim Din, Sardari Ali and Nadir Khan; Zakim Khan Masood, Sadiq Ali Khan, Sardar Mansoor Leghari, Din Muhammad, Sikandar Ali Abbasi, Ahmad Yar Gondal, Amin Jan, Sharif Alam Padri, Usman Ghani Khatri, Adnan Khawaja, Nadeem Imtiaz; ex-official Abdul Hakeem, proprietor M/s Techno Int Pir Bux Solangi; private person Abdul Sattar Mandokhel; official S M Attaur Rehman; Sahib Dad Mengal; Hamza Khan Gabol; Riaz ul Hassan Rizvi; Shamsuddin, Ayaz Ahmed, Mukhtiar Ahmad, Muhammad Ali, Abdul Aziz, Rasheed Muhammad Qureshi, Mumtaz Ahmed Bhutto, Maqsood Ahmed, ex-UDC MEO Sialkot Naeem uddin, ex Asst Audit Officer Muhammad Hanif Rahi; ex-cameraman Abu Zar Jaffari; Auditor General officials Muneeruddin Ch, Abdul Razaak Bhatti, Mehr Sajjad Ahmed, Mirza Sajjad Ahmed, Mirza Muhammad Ayub, Muhammad Iqbal Shah, Mukhtar Ahmed, Malik Shahmat Ali, Mian Abdul Rehman, Muhammad Shafique, Syed Javed Hassan, Syed Muzaffar H Shah, Muhammad Sarwar Safi, Muhammad Shabbir and Tariq Mehmood; Food Department officials Ch Nazir Ahmed, Safiullah Awan and Muhammad Usman; Wapda's Liaqat Ali, Customs Ali Muhammad Sheikh; PTCL's Munawar Hussain, Muhammad Ashfaq Naz and Muhammad Shahid; Lahore Wapda's Shahid Iqbal Ghauri, Manzoor H Chohan, Muhammad Javed, Abdul Rehman, Iftikhar Ali and M Qasim; Amjad Hussain Sandhal, Syed Zahir Hussain, Ghulam Mustafa, M Hanif; Sadiq Muhammad, Sameer Amjad, Ch M Siddiqi, Rasheed Ahmed Patwari, Mirza Sher Muhammad; businessmen Seth Nisar Ahmed and Zahid Mehmood; official Murid Ahmed Baloch, Qazi Afzal Hussain, Shaukat Hussain Shah, Maqbool Ahmed, Noor Jamal, Sardar Muhammad Nasim, Mirza Sher Muhammad, Rashid Ahmed Patwari, Muhammad Usman, Arshad Mehmood, Muhammad Akhtar and Waheedur Rehman.
US judge rejects Aafia's objections to her defence attorneys
That's a real shameful way of providing so called chance to defend in front of the court. You cannot have your own lawyers, body search cannot be relaxed for a feeble ,90 lbs lady who was shot and tortured by USA security forces.
We protest on the injustice being done with Dr. Aafia by USA courts.
US judge rejects Aafia's objections to her
defence attorneys
by The Nation
Source : http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/04-Nov-2009/US-judge-rejects-Aafias-objections-to-her-defence-attorneys
A federal judge, setting aide Aafia Siddiqui's objections over her legal defence team at a pre-trial session, has ruled that she would have to be represented by the lawyers who have already been approved by the US District Court.Ms. Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist is scheduled to stand trial on January 19 for the attempted murder of U.S. interrogators in Afghanistan last year, after Judge Richard Berman declared her mentally fit to face court proceedings.The neroscientist argued before Judge Berman on Tuesday that she does not need the three lawyers retained by the Pakistan government to defend her, saying she wanted to make peace and knew how to do it. She made that plea at what is called "Status Conference" which is held to clear the decks for a trial. The session involved Judge Berman, Ms. Siddiqui, her defence team and the prosecutors. The lawyers, retained by the government of Pakistan, are: Ms. Linda Moreno, Ms. Elaine Sharp and Charles Swift. They were cleared by the court on September 2. The judge briefed the conference on his discussions with Ms. Siddiqui at a 1-1/2-hour closed-door session in which her lawyers were also present. He also said Ms. Siddiqui expressed her outrage at the humiliating strip search she has to undergo before coming to the court. Reacting to her protest, the judge said he had ordered the prison authorities to find a way so that she does not have to go through the tough procedure. While the judge said it was necessary for her to be in the court, she could participate through video-conference if the body search requirement could not be relaxed.
March for Change–>Babar Sattar(The News)
Legal eye
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Babar Sattar
The writer is a lawyer based in Islamabad. He is a Rhodes scholar and has an LL.M from Harvard Law School
The second long march in support of the rule of law movement has begun. The march is scheduled to culminate in a sit-in on the Constitutional Avenue in Islamabad, and is to continue until the judges deposed on Nov 3 are restituted to their constitutional offices. Has an overwhelming majority of our nation been rallying behind the movement merely to seek the reemployment of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry? Is the rule of law movement now a partisan movement seeking the replacement of the Zardari-led PPP government with one dominated by PML-N? Should the long march be denounced because the apprehension of disorder must override any concern for rule of law? Can democracy thrive under a depraved governance structure that engenders a dichotomy between the twin concepts of law and order – that go hand in hand in all civilized societies – and the excuse of instilling order is actually used to thwart the law?
The long march is not about the person of Iftikhar Chaudhry or Nawaz Sharif. It is a march against the status quo and must succeed in order to usher in the much-needed change in the constitutional structure, political culture and social ethos of this country, without which Pakistan will be unable to sustain a moderate society or prosper as a democratic polity. The defiance of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry on March 9, 2007, only ignited fires of resentment against the ruling elite for sustaining a justice system that denies the ordinary citizen access to justice. He might not have had an irreproachable past, but his perseverance and his dogged resolve to fight an illegal and unconstitutional act has given this country an opportunity to rally behind a cause that promises a better collective future for all of us. Likewise, Nawaz Sharif might be culpable for meting out highhanded treatment to the judiciary during his last stint in power. But how does that equate the PML-N with the PPP at this time, when the former is standing on the right side of principle seeking to change a fundamental cause of our misfortunes, while the latter has emerged as the intractable obstacle to such change?
This change being sought by the rule of law movement is imperative for five fundamental reasons. One, the Constitution of Pakistan needs to be reverted to its original sustainable form. General Musharraf vandalized the Constitution for a second time on Nov 3, 2007. On that fateful day the General had bestowed on himself the power to single-handedly inscribe changes into our fundamental law, and in exercise of such self-proclaimed power, disbanded the judicature, set-up a new High Court in Islamabad, validated all his illegal actions and gave himself immunity against charges of treason etc. The new Dogar Court that he constituted 'validated' his unconstitutional actions in the Tikka Iqbal Mohammed Khan case. While the general's illegal acts outraged this nation and triggered a chain of events that led to his regime's demise, this country continues to function under the presumption that his actions of Nov 3 were legal and the changes introduced by him are a valid part of our Constitution. The Constitution thus needs to be cleansed of the general's adulterous acts, which cannot happen so long as we continue to live with a Dogar Court complicit in the general's treacherous scheme.
Two, the constitutional structure of separation of powers and checks and balances needs to be given effect. The fundamental rights and liberties guaranteed to the citizens are never self-implementing. An independent judiciary is the enforcement arm of the Constitution. So long as the judiciary remains subservient to the executive and continues to function as an extension of the ruling elite, one can scribble in all kinds of sensible provisions in the Constitution but they will amount to naught. Without a judiciary that has the ability, resolve and reputation of being a neutral arbiter of justice and conscientiously adjudicates the relationship between the institutions of the state on the one hand and between the citizens and the state on the other in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, rule of law will not amount to anything more than the rule of the powerful. If we allow the Zardari-led PPP to stuff courts with perfidious quacks – as obvious from the recent judicial appointments made with the consent and collusion of the Dogar Court – overtime the gap between the law produced by our courts and demands of justice will become so wide that the notion of rule of law in Pakistan will itself become farcical.
Three, we need a constitutional and legal structure that sustains a level-playing field in the political realm. The leaders of the PPP and the PML-N both have tainted pasts, and this nation has not been vying for a return to the kind of corrupt and ineffectual representative governance that these parties punished the country with in the 1990s. The charter of democracy had brought along the hope that our mainstream parties had learnt from their past mistakes, agreed to let bygones be bygones, compete fairly within the political arena, and move forward with a clean slate. The NRO, however, was the first infraction. The PPP leadership got into bed with Musharraf who wiped clean its past sins through an unscrupulous and shameful edict. This left the Sharif's out in a lurch, with the swords of Damocles hanging over their heads.
The Zadari-led PPP went back to the dirty political games of the 1990s once it decided to abuse the instrument of the law to cut the Sharifs to size by getting them declared ineligible for public office. If the Sharifs have a blemished past, so does Zardari – and one that is much murkier. Probably all our politicos will be rendered ineligible to hold elected public office if we strictly enforce the qualification requirements for such office enshrined in our Constitution. Our nation has thus been willing to give politicians with tainted past another chance, frankly, for want of options (as there is no short-cut to democracy) but with the hope that they will be willing to reform themselves and their sordid ways. Thus, if democracy is to have a chance in this country, we cannot allow one political party to establish a stranglehold over our skewed legal and judicial structures to entrench itself in power and outlaw the opposition.
Four, we need to reform our democracy and system of governance to ensure that the policies and actions of elected representatives reflect popular public opinion. Khaki saviours still have a controlling role in Pakistan in this day and age because there isn't much distinction between the style and system of governance that subsists under military dictatorships as opposed to that practiced by civilian autocracies voted in during democratic times. The rule of law movement has sustained itself for two gruelling years and the ideal of constitutionalism that it is struggling for resonates with ordinary people. All opinion polls conducted in Pakistan since Nov 3, 2007, establish that an overwhelming majority of Pakistanis supports the restitution of the Nov 3 judiciary. And yet we have a popularly elected party in government that has willingly inherited the abhorrent policies and tactics of the dictator it replaced and refuses to give effect to the unmistakable will of the nation it claims to represent. If the growing gap between the popular will of the nation and the narrow self-promotional policies of our ruling elite is not bridged, the continuation of civilian autocracy in democratic garb will end up discrediting the desire for democracy itself in this country.
And five, we need to re-instil morality and ethics in public life. Over the last year we have witnessed a free fall in the standards of morality exhibited by holders of public office. To err is human, but to gloat over deliberate wrongdoing and use deceit as a favoured political tactic cannot be acceptable. A representative government that introduces a code of conduct for public life that celebrates and rewards indiscretions, corruption and malice cannot be a harbinger of hope for the future of democracy or rule of law in this country. If we accept Mr Zardari's broken promises, his refusal to honour binding commitments, and his choice of lackeys smeared in scandal for elevation to revered public offices, it will not be too long before all sensible distinctions between right and wrong in public life get wiped away.
Now we are essentially being told that our perverted 'ground realities' have become so entrenched that in order to preserve order and peace in the society we should compromise the principle underlying the rule of law movement instead of changing the ugly reality. This must not happen. If we sacrifice principle on the altar of expediency at this critical juncture, we might not get another opportunity to redeem the soul and spirit of this nation through a peaceful mass movement led by the educated middle class of this country.
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28 August, Sit-in to support the cause of judiciary all over Pakistan
Supreme Court Bar Association President, Aitzaz Ahsan has called for Sit-in (Dharna) for the restoration of judiciary on 28th August .
All the people are requested to support this nobel cause and be there (keep your selves updated for the dharna location in your city).
Timings: 12:00 -2:00 pm
Date: 28th August
Cause: To restore independent judiciary of Pakistan
Also he announced that there will be a dharna at constitution avenue, Islamabad.
(Regional Times)
Lawyers to stage countrywide sit-ins on Aug 28: Aitzaz
ISLAMABAD: National Coordination Council of lawyers Saturday decided to stage countrywide sit-ins on August 28 Thursday; these sit-ins would be two-hour long and would be held at every bar including High Court Bars and district bar association across the country.
Addressing a press conference after the lawyers meeting here, Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan announced this decision. He said an executive committee has been constituted to conduct consultations on implementation of the decisions of lawyers coordination council. This committee would have Aitzaz Ahsan as chairman and Sardar Asmatulla as its Secretary General and Hafiz Abdur Rahman as Information Secretary. SCBA president said the representative lawyers including the office-bearers of all the bar councils of country would stage sit-in on September 4 at the Constitution Avenue. Ahsan said every bar of the country would conduct a general body meeting on August 25 (Monday) and will pass condemnation resolution against Pakistan Bar Council and the black flags would again be hoisted on all bar council buildings throughout Pakistan. He said PBC has deviated from the cause of lawyers, adding the lawyers meeting has unanimously passed resolution in condemnation of PBC.—Agencies


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By Bob Hertzel
For the Times West Virginian
At halftime of Saturday's Big 12 matchup in the Coliseum West Virginia found itself locked in a tight battle, trailing No. 14 Oklahoma State, 35-33.
True, they had gotten off to a good start and seen a 7-point lead turn into an 8-point deficit at one point, but they had battled back and looked as though they might be able to put the home court advantage to use and maybe, finally, beat a team that was ahead of them in conference play.
By the time they got through making a fool of themselves through the second half, the Cowboys had marched off with a 73-57 victory before 10,038 fans who had more to cheer during a tight-wire act at halftime than they had to cheer once intermission was over.
Once again, the Mountaineers came unglued in the second half. They were outscored, 38-24, making only six field goals in the final 20 minutes.
In fact considering that they started the game making five of their first nine shots, for the rest of the game they hit but 11 of 44, which 25 percent, leaving them shooting just 30.2 percent for the game.
You see that in rec leagues.
"It carried over from the first half. We couldn't handle the pressure, whatever they were throwing at us, the 1-3-1, 2-2-1 sometimes," said Kevin Noreen, who finished with nine points and eight rebounds in another solid, workmanlike performance that went for naught.
"That wasn't because of them. It was because of us not keeping our heads in it. It wasn't even a pressure type of press, not meant to turn the ball over. It was meant to slow you down. The way we turned the ball over was not acceptable."
"It's doesn't seem like we compete as hard," coach Bob Huggins would say. "What makes this is a hard game is you have to do the right thing all the time. When you are told a thousand times not to overrun the ball and you overrun the ball and they make another pass and you overrun the ball again, they end up 5 on 3 with a layup, it beats you.
"They have been told, I put them on the treadmill and they continue to do the same thing. There is going to come a time when you figure out that is not the right thing to do."
That time has not yet come and now only four games remain in the regular season and they will be underdogs in each, which probably means that they will finish with a sub-.500 record for the regular season and probably the year.
They currently are 13-14 and 6-8 in the Big 12 and seem to be getting worse, not better.
"The thing we should be doing is getting hungrier from these losses. That should be motivation to play harder and practice harder," Noreen said.
"Huggs always tells us about his team in Cincinnati, how you wouldn't want to be the team that would play them after a loss. I don't think he ever lost three games in a row there."
West Virginia has already lost three in a row this season and now has lost two straight with the next game on Wednesday against Baylor.
Noreen understands that this has been a team that has shot poorly, passed poorly and hasn't rebounded as well as many WVU teams do.
He says that isn't really what's killing them.
"Huggs has had teams in the past that can't shoot, can't score, but that's when they run offense. My first year here was like that with Joe and Cam. We ran offense and wore the other team down," he said.
This team, however, doesn't know the offense and therefore can't run it.
More important, though, it isn't hammering away at games from start to finish.
"The truth is, we got beat to loose balls, we got beat to balls going out of bounds and we have gotten beat to everything. We have a whole bunch of guys standing around and watching," Huggins said.
Especially in the second half when things begin to go badly.
And that's what hurts the most, for you can overlook a lack of ability if you are playing your hardest, but that just hasn't been the case.
While Oklahoma State put five players in double figures, led by Le'Bryan Nash and Markel Brown with 16 points each, WVU managed to get 11 points from Aaric Murray and 10 from Humphrey as their leading scorers.
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Relationship to Other Distributions
The geometric distribution is discrete, existing only on the nonnegative integers. It models the number of successes before one failure in an independent succession of tests where each test results in success or failure.
The geometric distribution uses the following parameter.
|Probability of success
The geometric distribution is a special case of the negative binomial distribution, with r = 1.
This example shows how to compute the probability of a particular series of outcomes when the event follows a geometric distribution.
Suppose the probability of a five-year-old battery failing in cold weather is 0.03. What is the probability of starting 25 consecutive days during a long cold snap?
1 - geocdf(25,0.03)
ans = 0.4530
The plot shows the cdf for this scenario.
x = 0:25; y = geocdf(x,0.03); stairs(x,y)


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Gloucester Daily Times
---- — To the editor:
Like most people who live here, I love this town and I wake up every day feeling very blessed to be here.
I am concerned however, that in the heat of the political moment, people are saying and writing things out of anger, fear or even spite, that are actually counter-productive and sometimes even destructive of the beautiful community we have all created here.
I have made a personal decision to vote for Carolyn Kirk again, because I have seen so many improvements and innovations happen under her watch, and because I know from personal experience that she is a good, honest woman with a big heart.
Having said that, I did attend Mac Bell's launch party, not as a spy, but because I want to learn as much as I can in this election, and to make sure I am making the right decisions. Also, in case my candidate doesn't win, I want to be able to know about the other and hopefully to support them after the election is over.
I had never even met Mac Bell before this election, but since his kick-off event, I have now run into him several times in different events, both social and political (for other candidates). I find Mac to be a very nice person, competent and like Carolyn, with the best intentions and a love of our fair city.
It therefore makes me cringe and even makes me sad to see the awful character assassinations and extremely disrespectful tone of some letters in the Gloucester Times from supporters and opponents of both sides and I wish it would stop.
Tearing down either candidate is tearing down our community, even ourselves. It is like public bullying and by the way, I encourage everyone to go see Henry Allen's "Tragabigsanda," a trilogy of plays that includes one brilliant and moving piece on the subject.
I would like to make a suggestion that we focus on differences on policy and issues in the mayoral race, and stop with the mudslinging.
For example, instead of describing the confrontation at The Gloucester House as one of an "insecure mayor" versus an "arrogant, disrespectful mayoral candidate," how about if we laugh that off as just an example of the strong and colorful personalities we have here in Gloucester, thank God?
I hope everyone who reads this will speak out against mean-spirited campaigning and stand up for respectful though spirited debate of the issues.
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oh i completely understand that feeling man. that is the reason for my horns and my sirens. I think that the air hose that i have is 3/8". They use to satisfy my needs but i think i'm about to run a 3/4" or a 1" hose to them just to push a little more air through them.
i saw you said it was your birthday? so happy birthday
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hey man i have the horns mounted where the extra battery spot is under my hood. I have a 5 gallon air tank in my tool box and the compressor is a viar compressor. I wanna say its a 400 series maybe.. its rated for 200 psi max and its a 100% duty compressor. The compressor is in a pressure relay that is connected to the tank. I think it cuts on at 120 psi and cuts off at 180 psi. Its a great set up to run the horns themselves but if you plan on running any kind of power tools id reccomend running 2 compressors. It will keep up with my horn with no problem but when airing up large tires i have to wait for it to refill most of the time after filling 2. let me know if you need anything else man
thanks I appreciate it. you have a real good looking truck yourself
i think they are 8 foot, they're the silver lake sand dunes in michigan.
I will let you know tomorrow I will check on the way to work I believe it is pretty high though
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I actually don't get on here much, mainly because I have no computer now. I traded a guy my IMAC for an IPAD, I loved it until it got stolen at work and I still haven't found out who stole it! I re did my S-10 this summer, I don't know if you saw the thread or not under readers rides on here. I can't get the finished pictures loaded up though, which sucks because It is really something else to see. Tonight I actually finished putting on 2 LED undebody kits, and 2 LED wheel well kits on it, and It is awesome looking! I have the rollbar off of it right now, because I am having it acid dipped and rechromed this winter. I am also taking all of KC lights completely apart, and I bought DDM TUNING 55 watt 3000K for them which I am retrofitting to have all HID off road lights on the rollbar. Glad to hear from you scooter, keep me posted about your truck as well.......................AMY
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Well damn boy! Your truck is looking bad a$$, you know you get two thumbs up from me! I do still have all of my lights and halo's, and I am actually going to put all of them on my new Silverado this summer. Otherwise I would sell them to you for your rollbar, If I wasn't going through a minor life crisis right now I would make you some halo's for whatever lights you would buy. I'll keep you in mind though, good to hear from ya!.................AMY
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SEATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks used big plays to bury the visiting Denver Broncos, 40-10, in the team's home exhibition opener at CenturyLink Field on Saturday night.
The victory was Seattle's seventh straight preseason win, and second lopsided triumph during exhibition play, after disposing of San Diego 31-10 last week.
Lakes High grad and University of Washington product Jermaine Kearse knifed through Denver's kickoff coverage for a 107-yard touchdown.
And cornerback Brandon Browner added a 106-yard fumble return for a score.
But along with the big plays, Seattle's first-unit offense finally moved the ball.
Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson played the entire first half, finishing 8-of-12 for 127 yards, including a 12-yard touchdown pass to Kearse, and a 3-yard touchdown toss to tight end Sean McGrath.
Wilson was sacked once, and finished with a 141.3 passer rating against Denver.
Wilson led Seattle's offense to scores on four of his five drives in the first half, including the two touchdowns.
Seattle's first-unit offense failed to cross midfield on two drives against San Diego in the team's first exhibition game.
"I felt like we were doing things like we like to do it," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "Russell missed a couple, but he threw a couple touchdown passes, too, in the first half. So I think it all worked great."
Seattle scored on the team's opening drive, a 10-play, 65-yard march that culminated with Wilson finding an open Kearse in the corner of the end zone on an out route.
Seattle overcame three penalties to still get into the end zone
The Seahawks pushed their lead to 10-0 on a 42-yard Steven Hauschka field goal.
But Denver answered with a 9-play, 80-yard drive, punctuated by an 11-yard, Peyton Manning touchdown pass to Wes Welker, cutting Seattle's lead to 10-7.
Seattle scored 23 unanswered points from there.
The Seahawks have been looking for a kick returner to replace Percy Harvin, who's out for an extended period of time after recent hip surgery.
And Kearse vaulted up the depth chart after his long return for a score, his first chance at returning a kick in his short, NFL career.
"It was nice," Kearse said. "I haven't returned a kickoff return since high school. They came up to me this week and asked if I wanted to return, and I definitely wasn't going to turn it down."
Manning methodically led Denver down the field, and the Broncos were in position to answer again, but running back Ronnie Hillman had the ball knocked loose by Seattle linebacker Heath Farwell as he crossed the goal line.
Browner picked up the loose ball in the end zone, and raced the length of the field for the score, putting Seattle up 24-7 with 8:54 left in the half.
"When I looked up, I saw nothing but green grass and saw offensive linemen," Browner said. "I'm going to take my chances against offensive linemen."
Hauschka added a 41-yard field goal, and McGrath completed the scoring in the first half when Wilson found him in the back of the end zone with 1:14 left in the second quarter.
Hauschka's extra point attempt pounced off the left cross bar and was no good, and Seattle led 33-7 at the half.
While the offense found a rhythm, Seattle's defense struggled with Manning's up-tempo, no-huddle attack. Manning finished 11 of 16 for 163 yards and a touchdown, before giving way to backup Brock Osweiler midway through the second quarter.
Tight end Julius Thomas led the Broncos with four catches for 70 yards.
Golden Tate led Seattle with two catches for 42 yards, and also had a nifty, 33-yard punt return.
Stephen Williams scored his second touchdown of the preseason, this one a 39-yarder from Tarvaris Jackson in the third quarter.
Matt Prater added a 33-yard field goal for Denver, set up by Trindon Holliday's 73-yard punt return.
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Kate Middleton might break with tradition yet again: She's reportedly planning to ask her mother to be the royal nanny.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, may want to move her mother, Carole, 57, into Kensington Palace rather than have a professional take care of her child with Prince Williiam.
"Kate and William are both pretty terrified about the rest of the pregnancy after the hyperemesis," said Middleton's old schoolmate Jessica Hay, according to the UK's Mirror.
(Prince William's wife, 31, was hospitalized last December with severe morning sickness, which is how the palace made the official baby announcement in the first place. The royal tot is due in July.)
"Carole may even move in with them when the baby's born so they don't have to rely on a nanny."
Seems like a scandal fit for "Downton Abbey"!
"But all in all Catherine's very happy. With so much family around her and William, they're starting to enjoy the pregnancy after such a traumatic start," Hay said.
Middleton's mother, a former British Airways flight attendant, launched her own party-planning business from their home in Bucklebury, Berkshire.
Olga Powell, nanny to princes William and Harry, died in September at age 82.


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Emily Hamlin was honored as the 2013-14 Gatorade Idaho Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year on Thursday.
The junior won three individual titles at the 5A state meet, each in record time. Hamlin swept the 800 meters (2:13.23), 1,600 (4:55.06) and 3,200 (10:47.02), leading the Braves to a third-place finish as a team.
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By Dani Palmer
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ANDERSON, Ind. —
The online portion of the ISTEP seems to finally be working with minimal interruptions, but because of problems Monday and Tuesday, the test window has been extended.
The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) has extended the testing window from May 10 to May 17.
And in order to minimize interruptions, the IDOE is asking schools to reduce their daily testing load by about 50 percent.
"I hope all the wrinkles are ironed out by (Friday) and we sail on as usual," said Pam McWithey-Delaplane, Anderson Community Schools test coordinator.
Unlike Monday and Tuesday when there were numerous disruptions — computer screens freezing and kids being kicked out of the test - Wednesday had just a few glitches, she said.
Thursday went even smoother. But, Delaplane said, schools have had to adjust their schedules and allow fewer students to take the test at one time.
It's been tough on the students and teachers, she said, who've worked hard to prepare for the big test.
"I've seen students in tears and teachers almost in tears," she said, adding the younger kids thought it was something they'd done.
And the fact the IDOE grades schools partially on test scores has just been another stressor.
Leora Lashure, who has a third and sixth grader in Elwood Community Schools, said there's been some "stress and chaos" with the test glitches, causing some concern about the possible effect on student achievement.
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz said the state would conduct an investigation to determine the cause of the disruptions and that the IDOE is willing to work with schools "so that they have the time they need to administer a fair test for all Hoosier students."
The glitches have been a statewide issue on test administrator CTB McGraw-Hill LLC.'s end. Oklahoma was running into the same problems with CTB McGraw-Hill's online testing system.
In total, Ritz said, over one million testing sessions have been completed in Indiana this week, roughly 41 percent of the total expected sessions for ISTEP.
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NEWS of a £1billion deal to build new helicopters for the Norwegian government in Yeovil has been welcomed across the district and beyond.
The Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable, Liberal Democrat MP and secretary of state for business, innovation and skills headed to South Somerset to visit AgustaWestland, where 3,000 jobs are to be safeguarded as a result.
The deal will not only benefit the town's major employer, but will have a positive knock-on effect on independent businesses across the district which work in support of AgustaWestland.
AgustaWestland will supply 16 AW101 search and rescue helicopters to the Norwegian government and will include up to 15 years of support and training.
Cllr Ric Pallister, leader of South Somerset District Council, said: "This is a hugely significant order to AugustaWestland and to the people of South Somerset and yet again signifies the international importance of the company.
"I am immensely proud of what AugustaWestland has achieved and is continuing to achieve in a very competitive market, but it is not just the company, it is also about the many small and medium sized businesses that are in the support orbit around AgustaWestland.
"75-80% of the business goes into the supply chain and much of that is local to South Somerset so this is extremely good news for the economy of the district.
"It was also excellent to see the Minister recognise our broader contribution to the UK economy with his visit to Chard and another local company – Numatic International – which goes from strength to strength.
"Numatic may not be a household name but 'Henry' and his smiling face on the front of vacuum cleaners certainly is. Numatic is just one of a range of businesses in the district who are major exporters.
"With a 40% stake in manufacturing, South Somerset has been recognised as the engine room of the Somerset economy and the latest order for AugustaWestland confirms that we remain at the very leading edge of the aerospace industry."
David Laws MP added: "I am delighted at the news that AgustaWestland has won the contract to supply the Norwegian government with 16 search and rescue helicopters. They have once again fought off competition from strong international competitors and shown that we can be really proud of the manufacturing quality in our area.
"I want to congratulate all those at AgustaWestland who have helped to win this contract, this success represents a boost for the local economy and will secure hundreds of jobs in Yeovil."
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I've created a folder 'Scripts' in wp-content to not make things in mess. Something tells me that there needs to be a file that is a script which I'll place in 'Scripts' folder. After that probably I'll have to ignit that script on that particular page in html view or raw-find the file of that page and edit it to inject the proper reference (for script ignition).
Probably also I need to mark a part of the page with an element that has an id. It can be a 'div' for example with and id="scroll". Then under script's raw code I'll have to refer to that particular place on page. Like that each view of the page will result in ignition of the script which again will give a result of auto-scroll to that particular div.
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Video: Marko Ahtisaari Unveils Nokia Lumia 620
Nokia's Executive vice president and one of its lead designers Marko Ahtisaari went on stage at LeWeb Paris and unveiled the Lumia 620. Marko starts off with advancement of technology and internet on the go, and how it affects a phones design.
This isn't your everyday quick announcement but an actual in depth look at the engineering and design process behinds the phone, including a closer look at the Lumia 920 as well (which has a WP 7 button in the slides).
"It's not interesting to do something different, but more importantly to do something better"
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Mr. Ahtisaari is very convincing speaker. Next time when Nokia unveils something very significant such as tablet hopefully Mr. Ahtisaari will be doing that. He has already shown his great skill when Nokia introduced N9 phone. You can still watch that video on youtube.
A bit too low energy in my opinion for product announcements.. but certainly smooth, relaxed, great English etc.
Well, I think Nokia could use its own delivery pace for product announcements as long as they touch base with all the necessary details like the pricing, availability, etc.
It will be a cold day in hell if/when Nokia does the whole Apple schtick of 'one more thing'.
I like Marko's way a lot. Throw in some Nokia Music as background and its a hit. I like kekes comment about a Nokia Win8 tablet which would be very warm, blending in with the world around us and very human. Not a metal slab but a warm glowing beautiful experience that only Nokia can bring. A Nokia Sailfish Tablet too? A Nokia Music/Drive Zune like device also?
I for one like my phones made of metal (Al/Ti). Sure it feels cold to the touch but it's reassuring that engineered to take more than a few hits.
Warm/beautiful, whatever. I call that marketing and honestly polymers are terribly more vulnerable to environmental degradation, especially over time. But of course, whatever makes the public happy. I'm probably one of the rare few remaining. Haha.
A nod in the use of Zirconia in their wear-prone parts though.
Too quiet and sensible to be an out and out front man; and his pauses give the impression, accurate or not, that he's wondering how to phrase the next sentence rather than a pause for effect. From what I've seen he's more effective one-to-one or before a smaller group.
If the even was held by Nokia Marko would've felt a lot better , but seeing how it's almost like it's imposing on Le Web it couldn't be done better.
hahaha. nope, Jo will definitely be the one to unveil everything.
Where have you been Marko ? They destroyed the announcement of 920/820.
Why you didn't come to save the moment then ?
I thought Kevin Shields' presentation was good, aside from some stuttering in places and a technical glitch, but I agree that Jo Harlow isn't good, though. Wished they could have replaced her with Ahtisaari.
A phone announcement with price and availability information? Wow.
I am glad they have not left anything unanswered this time. This is how everyone expects a announcement to make.
I can bet Lumia 620 with it's $249 price tag is going to be the best selling phone Nokia ever produced. Now they must discontinue 510/610/710 to save manufacturing cost as they are simply obsolete in front of 620.
Lumia 620 is here and it will be available very soon.
Certainly Nokia is in a recovery path. Bring more devices and save yourself. Best Wishes.
Its good to see Marko talking about swipe ui and open os not about shitty windows phone wich is totaly failed.
I think as long as windows phone is here at nokia, nokia will go down down down down.
Its time to change
He made this phone announcement feel exciting, which is more than I can say of all the product announcements between Marko's N9 announcement and the Lumia 620.
And truth be told, the L620 is the low end phone that doesn't have the specs to be boasted about. He managed to concisely make it feel interesting with the thought process in design, a focus on its colours, refreshing all the great things associated with Nokia, and he didn't even break a sweat doing that.
Kudos, and I hope he handles the CES/MWC announcements that will hopefully take the roof off. Even if he isn't the tech and specs guy, he needs some time to showcase the next step in the Fabula design language for Nokia's range of polycarbonate phones.
He uses the same shtick about "couples romantically pinching and zooming" every time lol. He's terrific though.
Is it just me or was he quite awkward interacting with Loic?
As much as I like Mr Ahtisaari, most of his comments are a rip off from Peter Skillman , the "other" design guru at Nokia. Peter joined Nokia from Palm and I heard an interview of his a long time back :
It is amazing listening to this again now , keeping the N9 and Lumia in mind. Go ahead, give it a listen.
Ahtisaari is no designer, he's the public face and manager. Most of the public speeches and texts are written by others. Would be nice to know, what kind of training and by whom they get it.
forgot: Still I like his performance a lot more than anyone else from Nokia.
Marc Dillon has true rock star aura with him. He should have been given the stage for N9
he is with Jolla now
1300 mah battery … a rather strange decision. Otherwise the phone looks good and the price is right.
Nokia android phone will be the best to get more people to buy their products. Nokia should obey their customers.
If Nokia wants to obey their customer they should've continue with MeeGo and their Qt project. Enough with androids and their crazy specs race.
Also meego proper could have ended up with a sort of spec race, when more manufacturers would have adopted it.
Sorry all Nokia products need to make way for MS. The arrival of the 620 marks the removal of Symbian products from the Nokia.
Good presentation. But it's funny in sad way that all the talk about special design from Finish Nokia boils down to shell colours in the 620 reality, because the OS, UI and HW is dictated by MS and same for everyone and the shell shape isn't particularly smartphone-revolutionary.
That was always going to be the case.. we've discussed the problems around differentiation in great detail here.. Not much to play with really, especially at the lower end.
"we've discussed the problems around differentiation in great detail here"
Certainly I'm not claiming the greatest discovery of this month, it's just that here the situation is nicely demonstrated, with Ahtisaari seemingly unaware of the absurdity.
On a side note, it's interesting that Ahtisaari said they don't work on creating some new ground-breaking things, but rather perfecting and polishing already existing, widely used things. I wonder what that tells us about what innovative products we could expect from Nokia…
Well from the UI/UX none that's microsofts area now NOKIA is just a OEM that does no change what so ever to it.
In the hardware they try and some of the lumias featured some not so bad innovations, its just a pity that this quality terminals are stuck in a 2%-3% market share pool.
Lumia 620 can't match a 701, it's not really a balanced & feature packed phone like a 701, and I doubt if the RAM will be enough for wp8.
Not that I agree, but I always felt that the 710 was deeply under promoted, it feels good holding it, not cheep at all.
Marko's presentation skills are highly praised in Finland and people seem to admire his work. Finland is the home of Nokia and lots of people in Finland seem to think he is the genius designing the great designs Nokia is offering. Some people even think that the company would fall without him.
He really is a true showman because he can pronounce English.
Well not really. Most people just think he's a son of ex-president who got the job because of his connections. That's all. He seems to be doing good job at running Nokia design. I have to admit that his talks are getting bit annoying because he just repeats himself. "Cars had tillers" and "romantically pinching and zooming".
He truly was the grand designer of the N9 and the Lumia series. Both are highly praised by him and all of those products are truly awesome if you believe him. The N9 was something great and now WP is the best you can have. He will tell you all about that.
His presentation skills are highly praised just because he is able to pronounce some words. That's why finns just loved Elop when he took over Nokia. He was fluent with English. Elop was really loved in Finland back in 2010. It's easy to remember that because people hated me because I wasn't sure if he was really any good for Nokia.
That's really all that matters. You have to speak fluent English with a good story and they will praise you.
Marko Ahtisaari just walked in to the Finnish Independence Day reception wearing a tie with what looked like the Lumia Live Tiles color blocks.
For those unaware, Finnish Independence Day celebrations at the presidential castle are one of the most watched television programs here.


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Talk about creepy!!
Last night's episode of "Pretty Little Liars" definitely added to the drama of the current season. We finally got to meet Maggie, Ezra's high school girlfriend, we got more insight into just how creepy Paige is, and if you watched the final scene, then you know the A team is still at work, and yes, we said TEAM.
MuchMusic has released a brand new promo from next week's mid-season finale and HOLY COW is really all we can say.
Who do you think will be the one revealed as the betrayer?