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Police Release 911 Tapes From New River Community College Shooting
Christiansburg, VA - The 911 calls from the day of the shootings at New River Community College's mall campus in Christiansburg have been released.
They reveal call after call to 911 came in on the afternoon of April 12th; some from students, others from shoppers and employees at the mall.
And all of them had the same message.
Dispatcher: "Christiansburg 911, what's your emergency?"
Caller: "Hi, someone just ran into the New River Community College with a shotgun, told everyone to run."
Dispatcher: "New River Community College with a shotgun?"
Dispatcher: "Christiansburg 911, what's your emergency?"
Caller: "Yo there's a guy, there's a guy shooting at the New River Mall right now, shooting a shotgun at the mall right now!"
Dispatcher: "Montgomery County 911"
Caller: "Hi, I'm at the Christiansburg mall, I'm an employee at the store Justice. There was just a shooting in the mall."
Hours of police tapes, now piece together the puzzle that left two women wounded at the New River Community College in Christiansburg.
Dispatcher: "All units in route to the community college. Additional reports of shots having been fired. A male subject with a shotgun inside the community college."
Police later identified the shooter as 18-year-old Neil Allen MacInnis of Christiansburg. A student at the community college, authorities say MacInnis parked his car, took a shotgun he'd recently purchased, and opened fire.
Dispatcher: "911..."
Caller: "Someone's shooting at the mall right now at the New River Valley Mall, they're doing it again."
Dispatcher: "We've got help on the way."
Caller: "Somebody's been shot."
One student and one employee of the college were wounded.
Dispatcher: "Did you see the shooter?"
Caller: "We did not. We've seen a girl that's come by our work, she's holding her hip, she's been shot."
"I thought that I had heard probably five shots, it turned out to be nine" said Kate Truxel, a NRCC student.
Truxel was in class when the shots rang out. She said time for her stood still.
"As we were all sitting in the back there, huddled, completely silent, it felt like a half an hour had passed. The police report told us that it was only a matter of five minutes that it happened. And the whole experience was just a very kind of quiet scared. Everyone was scared" she said.
Police say an off-duty security guard subdued MacInnis. MacInnis is facing four separate charges, including two counts of malicious wounding.
Police say there's no definitive motive, however during questioning, MacInnis told authorities prior to the shooting, he was "having a bad week."


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Rep. Jerry Weller, dogged by ethics questions surrounding his Nicaraguan investments and his wife's finances, is set to announce his retirement in the near future, Republican sources said Wednesday.
* Reports: Weller ready to quit
Weller's campaign manager, Steven Shearer, insisted that Weller intends to run again next year.
* Weller faces criticism, subpoena
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Cook County is slicing millions off the top of state grants meant to help catch deadbeat dads or argue death penalty cases and using that money to run the government.
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Illinois high school reading scores took their biggest tumble in at least five years, while elementary reading scores moved solidly upward, 2007 statewide test results showed Wednesday.
Math scores showed a similar — but not as extreme –split, with math up in third through eighth grade but down a bit in 11th grade.
* State test scores sink to new low
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Cicero has for years been a lucrative cash cow for legal work, attracting the likes of powerbroker Ed Vrdolyak, who reaped millions off the embattled town.
Now records show a new law firm — brought in by a professed reformer promising to reduce legal costs — has made nearly $3 million in two years and double in one year what Vrdolyak earned.
Giglio & Del Galdo, which also represents Melrose Park, Morton College and two school districts, earned $2 million in fiscal year 2006 and $907,000 in 2005 — prompting criticism of Cicero President Larry Dominick. A town spokesman contends the law firm inherited a heavy workload.
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Thursday, Sep 20, 07 @ 8:25 am
I see education is going downhill while the gov fights over health benefits. so our kids have great health insurance…but can not read or write.
Comment by Ghost Thursday, Sep 20, 07 @ 8:32 am
Is the law firm of Odelson and Sterk involved in any of the Cicero litigation?
Comment by Blue Book Thursday, Sep 20, 07 @ 9:19 am
Good riddance to Weller. From what little I know about him , he appears to have been and absentee congressman the last few terms.
I do congratulate him on his financially successful marriage - I could use a "sugarmommy" too - it would help me pay back my graduate school loans. But since i'm a liberal, I'd have to marry the daughter of a wealthy revolutionary, instead of a dictator's daughter
Comment by Captain America Thursday, Sep 20, 07 @ 9:31 am
How about a wealthy revolutionary dictator's daughter? Her dad is reportedly worth around $600 million, but unfortunately she also seems to be on the outs with Dad.
Comment by Six Degrees of Separation Thursday, Sep 20, 07 @ 9:41 am
Wonder if Odelson and Sterk is angling to add Cicero's legal business to its book. Not to defend Cicero's megabillers (that's for sure), but when you're looking for critical comment on someone's billing practices, I don't see why you would go to one of their rabid competitors.
Comment by Snidely Whiplash Thursday, Sep 20, 07 @ 9:43 am
Did the governor actually do anything with the 7% bill?
Or did he just bluff Daley and Houlihan good.
Comment by Anonish Thursday, Sep 20, 07 @ 9:53 am
So how does the National Healthcare program that Hillery is touting match up against the Gov's proposal. If the Feds are going to take care of us…why do we in Illinois need our version of it? Hum?
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I did not particularly like Fox's The Following, Fox's new drama, which stars Kevin Bacon as an alcoholic former FBI agent who comes out of retirement to hunt down James Purefoy, the pretentious, Edgar Allen Poe-quoting serial killer, who has escaped from prison and trained a whole bunch of other serial killers to fulfill their own dark fantasies and enhance his own legend. The whole thing struck me as a slick but empty excuse to put extraordinarily grotesque violence on television in an attempt to compete with cable, as if violence itself, rather than the things that lead up to violence, were what make cable dramas sophisticated. Over at Vulture, however, Matt Zoller Seitz has a theory about what the show's really about:
Once you become attuned to the show's anti-logic, the mix of gnawing dread and random mayhem might trigger the gloomy adrenaline rush of the 2001–2004 period. Hijackings, collapsing skyscrapers, subway explosions, shoe bombers, anthrax attacks, terror alerts, weapons of mass destruction: The Following evokes an alternate-world version of that horrendous time. Watch the skies. Sleep with the lights on. Trust no one. Those co-workers or next-door neighbors or smiling security guards that you deal with each day could be in cahoots with an ice-veined genius-madman. Portions of the first few episodes reminded me less of The Silence of the Lambs or Se7en than a zombie or body-snatchers picture, one in which every character but the lead could secretly be, or potentially become, a monster. Parts of The Following feel like 24 with serial killers instead of terrorists. It's an apocalypse story as long-form nightmare. The whole world is losing its mind.
It's an idea that that actually makes me like The Following even less.We've done an enormous number of terrible and inconvenient things to ourselves in the decade since the September 11 attacks, from destroying our moral credibility by torturing suspected terrorists to making it a trial to get through airports, all on the grounds that there are extraordinarily wide-spread and competent terrorist operations out there planning to get us. And that turns out not to be true. The people who want to attack us have tried, unsuccessfully, to smuggle bombs on planes in their underwear and shoes. They've failed to detonate explosives in Times Square — that plot was foiled by the attentiveness of a Senegalese immigrant, in a nice reminder of how broad our team is, and how narrow the reach of our enemies, despite the damage we've done to ourselves and our international reputation. In a Newburgh, New York case, a terror attack appears to have been dreamed up by a federal informant, who convinced co-conspirators to join him. If there's anything we should have learned in the last decade, it's that our enemies are frustrating precisely because of how few of them there are, how easily they can hide out among millions of other people, and how much they've been able to convince us to change our own society with relatively few resources at their disposal.
The Following, Williamson suggested at the Television Critics Association press tour, makes the opposite point. "The FBI is constantly sort of chasing their tail a little bit because they don't realize how insidious and how large and how wide the story is," he says of his serial killer's plot. "And so that's kind of the fun of the show is as they start to learn it." But there's something grotesque about the idea that — even though serial killers do, of course, exist — there are so many people out there who are just waiting for someone to teach them how to kill and to unleash them into the world with terrible purpose. In real life, we've learned that the number of people who are excited to become mass killers in the name of blinkered ideology is mercifully small. It's scary that they're out there in any number, but it's also frightening what we've done to ourselves to thwart them. We need to wake up to that fact, rather than, as Williamson suggests, to double down in hunting through the shadows.


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Battery meter issue
I have attempted to use the GNOME battery applet, and also a battery gdesklet; and neither will display the battery charge. I have ACPI and APM compiled into the kernel, and the acpid daemon is running. I am running Slackware 10.0 with the 2.6.7 kernel on a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop. I am truly stumped, any help/suggestions would be greatly appeciated.
I may be wrong in this but I am pretty sure ACPI and APM were mutually exclusive. My understanding is APM is the older API and is being replaced by ACPI. If you compile both into the kernel only one will be used, I have no idea which though.
My guess is APM is being used incorrectly therefore the acpid won't have anything to work with.
Try recompiling without APM or try APM=off as a boot option.
EDIT: Took a peek at the 2.6.7 kernel docs. APM and ACPI are mutually exclusive. If both are available whichever is loaded first will be used. try disabling APM and see if that works.
Kill APM and Use ACPI
Use ACPI just like Mephisto said. To see if it is working examine your dmesg output for ACPI messages like this "dmesg | grep 'ACPI' " you should be able to see a message about ACPI able to pick up battery information. After that look in /proc/acpi and search for battery status information, I forget the exact name of the file but it is in there some where. Good luck.
Re: Kill APM and Use ACPI
alias battery="cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state"
to get detailed info on the battery, for a desktop load meter I use gkrellm.
I have ACPI messages in my dmesg, but nothing battery related in /proc/acpi. I am just about to kill APM, and I will let you know how I make out. Thanks again.
Alright, I removed APM from the kernel, battery meter(s) still not working. Still have the ACPI messages in dmesg (shown below), and still nothing battery related in /proc/acpi.
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
I'm going to ask the obvious because I can't think of anything else. Under ACPI for your 2.6 kernel did you include "battery"? If so as a module or built in to the kernel?
Yes, pretty much everything is included under ACPI, except debugging.
ACPI is built-in, and everything else is loaded as a module.
Well I did a google for "Dell Inspiron 5100 Linux" And get quite a few pages discussing the battery problem for the 2.4 kernel. In 2.4.x the answer was to patch the kernel with a DSDT, I don't know if the same procedure applies to 2.6.x however.
I acutally had no issues with the 2.4.x kernel and the battery meter. After recompiling ACPI into the 2.4.x kernel it worked perfectly. However, apparently not the same applies to 2.6.x. I'll have a look at that site.
I figured it out. For some reason necessary modules weren't loading. I modprobe'd for 'battery', 'ac' and 'button', restarted the battery gdesklet and it now works fine. Thanks for all your help guys. :)
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'It is a shock:' 2 bodies found in orchard near Othello
ADAMS COUNTY, Wash. -- Adams County Sheriff's units are investigating a double homicide that happened just outside of Othello. Two men were found shot to death in a pickup truck in an orchard.
Ray Gilbert has managed the orchard for almost a year. He never thought he would wake up to this.
"I was just called out this morning. Says there was a shooting and an accident so I came right out and this is what I found," Gilbert said.
Adams County Sheriff's units were on scene early Wednesday morning after workers found two bodies in a blue pick-up.
"It is a shock and a heck of thing to have to wake up to in the morning, but I have to live with it," Gilbert said.
39 year old Juan Rizo-Torres and 29 year old Ruben Gonzalez-Navarrete were found shot to death and left in a pick-up.
Doug Barger, the Adams County Sheriff, is heading up the investigation, but has employed help from surrounding agencies.
"For us right now, just like many agencies, we're really short handed, so it's all bodies on board absolutely," said Barger.
While they don't have any suspects, they say they have several leads.
"I would hope in the next couple days we'll have a little clearer picture of whether we have a suspect developed. We'll just have to wait and see," said Barger.
But there will still be an empty space for Ray who says the two men were very hard workers.
"They took very good care of this orchard and so, there'll be some big shoes that will have to be filled," said Gilbert.
The Columbia Basin Investigation Team along with the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab assisted in the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Adams County Sheriff's Office at 509-488-2061 or 509-659-1122.


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Feeling my age tonite, I know that they were just kidding, but being sensitive I wonder. Having lived with my daughter and her family off and on for the last 18 years, I feel like I'm part of the family but not. That's the only way I can think to express how I feel. My daughter forgot the tell me about a birthday dinner on Sunday. We realized this tonite when one of the kids said something. Now I don't know if I'm wanted or not.
I can't live on my own and I now have a limited income. I feel alone in life except for my faith. Jesus will show me the way; it's just sometimes I feel very impatient. Just putting my thoughts in word so I can sleep. Nite all.


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I know this is kind of a silly question, but I've perused all the toy sites and cannot find anything, so I thought I'd throw it out to the mamas here. My daughter really adores playing with the weeble wobble village thing at my parents' house, but we have tried to phase all plastics possible out of our home. She doesn't have a single plastic toy. Plus, she goes to my parents' enough (they live 10 minutes away) that it makes sense to leave it there, because it really helps keep her out of trouble in their very unbabyproofed home.
So I was wondering if there was something comparable made of wood? I've seen the click-clack ball roller thing that is outrageously priced, but I think she likes all the little doors and doohickeys to flip open and shut, and the slides and chutes for the weeble wobbles. Plus she loves that it plays music, but I know I won't find anything that plays music.
Any suggestions?
this is very expensive, but would something like this work?
Thanks! I've had my eye on those ball track things - haba makes a few and there's one by Wonderworld. So far, they are the closest things I can find. I've been a big fan of the finewoodentoys website for some time now! Love their stuff!
thanks again
We have the Haba ball track and kids love it. The nice thing is that if you keep the box, you can resell easily on craigslist or give it as a very nice baby shower gift. No visible wear after two years of use. . At 2, she prefer this one http://www.eurotoyshop.com/Toys/SE-1580/Selecta-Spielzeug/Variola-ball-and-track-system.html so you might consider something somiliar And now we have their biggest version too. I'd rather buy less and better and then sell it or give it away and have it still delighting a child in a few years.
Also, here is a small inexpensive one: http://www.amazon.com/EverEarth-30942-Maxim-Everearth-Junior/dp/B00279IZP4/ref=sr_1_9?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1321470599&sr=1-9
I avoid plastic too but I make an exception for legos which are safe, made in Europe, and high qualtiy. You might get some duplo blocks with a few tunnels and doors. You can pick up lots on ebay easily.
thank you so much! That selecta one is amazing! So much more exciting then the other ball track ones - I like that you can do it in different variations! I think I might suck up the price and get it for her! It's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!
We have the cheap race car one and my DD totally loves it! The cars are REALLY small though.
yeah that was my concern about the cars - maybe we'll wait a little longer on that one
sadly, Selecta hasn't been sold in the US since 2008, so I can't find the ball track anywhere :(
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Durban - Well-to-do parents are exploiting a "flaw" in a government policy intended to help financially disadvantaged and stressed households, to have school fees partly or completely written off, school governing body associations have warned.
While increasing numbers of hard-up parents are applying for fee exemptions because of tough economic times, some wealthier families are using the legislation to gain access to top public schools and skimp on cost.
This is because the formula by which exemptions are calculated has translated into a situation in which the higher the school fees the higher the income of those claiming exemptions can be.
In practice this means that, using the formula, parents with an income of R500 000 a year, who pay R35 000 in schools fees for one child, qualify for a 79 percent discount.
Exemptions are determined by calculating the school fees as a proportion of parent income.
However, the intention of the exemption policy was never to make it easy for middle-class earners to wriggle out of their responsibilities, but rather to help the poor afford a good education.
For example, parents whose annual income is R20 000, and who have one child enrolled at a school where the cost is R3 000 a year, can get a full exemption.
The Governing Body Foundation, a national association of school governing bodies, has now proposed that the income threshold that qualifies parents for exemption be capped.
Tim Gordon, of the foundation, said part of schools' strategy was to persuade parents that, although they qualified for a fee exemption, they should, on a moral basis, not apply for it.
"What should happen, we believe, is… legal powers should be put in place as part of the regulations – rather than forcing schools to rely on the persuasive powers of the principal, governors or the fees administrator," he said.
The foundation's members granted exemptions worth more than R1 million last year.
As of last year, the government began reimbursing schools for these lost fees. But Gordon said that in provinces where this compensation was paid out, it amounted to less than 4 percent of the value of exemptions granted.
He recalled an instance in which parents with a gross income of R467 000 applied for an exemption when school fees for their one child totalled R20 000.
He suggested the policy could be amended to read: "Parents whose gross annual income level exceeds the following limits shall not qualify for fee exemptions, regardless of the fees charged: R250 000 per annum where the family has one child attending a fee-paying school, R275 000 per annum where there are two such children, R300 000 per annum where there are three such children, etc."
Gordon said: "Despite this, there are parents who take their moral obligation to pay very seriously. There are a great number of people who are not applying for exemptions, who could."
Another association, the Federation of Governing Bodies of SA Schools, has warned that the "flaw in the existing system" could lead to a vicious cycle which would see schools continually raising fees to compensate for shrinking budgets. Paul Colditz, the head of the federation, said the law stipulated that the only criterion for exemption was the financial ability of parents to afford the fees – not whether the child was academically deserving or where the family lived.
"Parents who would not have qualified for an exemption at schools with lower fees are qualifying for partial or full exemptions at more expensive schools. Our advice to schools is to keep their fees as low as possible. It becomes a vicious cycle. It is the risk that schools run. Capping the income level threshold could be a solution," Colditz said. - The Mercury


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Due to the current globalization and the competition involved, companies are looking for being even more competitive and successful. In such a context, projects take on a particular and crucial importance in corporate strategy. Organizational culture is decisive as it influences the way people behave within the organization, their beliefs and values. It provides the general rules and norms as well as the interaction patterns: some cultures can be more performance-oriented while others can harm the project proceedings. In addition, it matters that employees know and understand their organizational culture. From then on, project leaders assume greater significance as they are in charge of conveying these patterns to their team members. Communication is thus a crucial element: they have to communicate regularly on the project progress, ask for feedback in order to implement corrective actions as soon as possible. A good communication ensures team members understand what they have to do, when and why they need to do it. They also should reward and recognize the work being done by their teams. By doing so, the leader makes sure the working environment is favorable to cooperation and enhances team performance and effectiveness. They hence need to build and strengthen trustful relationships, by first clarifying the conditions of the project defining rules of conduct and the mutual objectives of such cooperation by fostering collaboration between team members to make them gain experience. Therefore, organizational culture influences leadership style and vice-versa which will impact on project outcomes. Both leaders' attributes and personality as well as corporate culture are decisive in running a successful project.
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Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering, and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again. He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."--Mark 8:31-33
Get behind me, Satan. Whoa! I don't know about any of you, but as a child I always thought Satan was that red devil guy with the pitchfork. But as I got older and began seriously looking at the Scriptures, I learned that when the Bible, and especially Jesus, refer to "Satan" it is a word for "The Tempter." And the tempter could be anybody or anything that pulls away from God and living in Love. So when I looked at this passage for tomorrow's gospel, I looked not only at the "Get behind me, Satan!" but the follow up line of "For you are setting your mind not on divine things but human things."
Because this is Mark's gospel, we don't know what Peter said to get Jesus riled up. But given that Peter is always at-the-ready for Jesus, he might have been telling him, "Hey, you can't die! You're my hero!!" And Jesus, knowing he is a man with a specific mission and not an easy mission at that, may have been torn. He knows he is going up against a buzz saw of Roman might and will be provoking the Jewish leaders who were happy with the status quo. The Mark version of Jesus is the most human portrayal of him. The Mark Jesus gets an earful from the Syrophoenician woman when he calls her a dog. The Mark Jesus goes off to pray and asks God to "remove this cup from me" as he senses the coming trouble. So, my sense of what this Markian version of Jesus is saying to Peter is, "Don't get attached to me the man!"
This same idea appears in John's gospel in the reading often done on Easter Day. Mary Magdalene, upon finally understanding that the man standing with her is not the gardener but the resurrected Christ, is ecstatic that he is alive. But before she can wrap her arms around him in a triumphant and joyous hug, Jesus tells her, "Do not hold on to me because I have not ascended to the Father." Again, when I read that line, I think he is trying to convey that the flesh and blood body is not it. The sum of who he is, and what he is all about, is larger than that.
It's easy to become attached to what we know, or what we think we know. I think this is true of the people in our lives. We think we know someone. Perhaps, like what I imagine was in Peter's mind about Jesus, we have put someone on a pedestal as a hero. When I was in radio, there were people who assumed so much about me based on the sound of my voice. They knew how I dressed, how I styled my hair, my marital status. Trust me, I shocked a lot of folks when they discovered that their middle-aged, Cokie Roberts look-alike was in fact a buzz cut, twenty-something lesbian!
In a recent exchange with my mentor, we recounted our impressions of each other at our first meeting in my dad's assisted living facility. She was wary of me because she had heard that I was the daughter who was angry at the church. I was suspicious of her because she was a priest from "that church." She turned out to be an approachable and trustworthy friend. And I now navigate a path of being not only out as a lesbian but also out as a Christian, a combination that often times mystifies people. But, as I have noted several times on this blog, "Nobody Said It Was Easy."
As we continue this Lenten walk, think about the people in your life. How are you perceiving them? Do you see just what you want to see in them, or can you see them more deeply and completely?


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W. Bowman Cutter Selected to Chair RFF Board of Directors
W. Bowman Cutter Selected to Chair RFF Board of Directors
For Immediate Release: February 22, 2010
Contact: RFF Office of Communications, 202-328-5026
WASHINGTON – W. Bowman (Bo) Cutter, a key economic adviser to two presidents and a leader in international development issues, has been elected chair of the Resources for the Future Board of Directors. He will succeed Larry Linden, who has chaired the Board since 2006.
Cutter, who has been an RFF Director since 2002, was approved unanimously by the RFF Board in February. He will begin his term as chair in October. Steven W. Percy will remain in his current post as vice-chair.
"My admiration for the legacy and the ongoing work of Resources for the Future makes me particularly gratified to be chosen to lead such a policy-relevant and vital institution," Cutter said. "RFF provides the rigorous and solid analysis that our current policy challenges demand."
RFF President Phil Sharp noted that Cutter's tenure will extend work instigated by Linden, who oversaw an extensive strategic review of RFF's research mission and operations over the past five years. "Bo Cutter's long association with RFF and his close involvement with our ongoing strategic transition will give us the experienced leadership that we will need as we continue to refocus RFF's goals and potential impact in the years ahead," Sharp said.
Between 1996 until 2009, Cutter was a managing director of Warburg Pincus, a major global private equity firm headquartered in New York City. He served as both the firm's chief economist and as a leader of its international business sector, particularly in Asia. In these roles, Cutter evaluated the financial and business conditions of key nations and regions; assessed capital markets; and advised on specific investments within these markets. From 1981-1993, he was vice chairman and managing partner at Coopers & Lybrand, the global accounting and consulting firm that subsequently merged with Price Waterhouse.
In 2009, he became director of the Economic Policy Initiative at the Roosevelt Institute in New York, which was founded in 1987 to inform new generations about the ideals and achievements of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Cutter moved to Warburg Pincus directly from a senior economic policy role in the Administration of President William Clinton – one of two Democratic presidencies he served. He was at the National Economic Council from 1992 to 1996, during the Clinton Presidency – as director of the National Economic Council and Deputy Assistant to the President – and also at the Office of Management and Budget from 1976 to 1981, during the Carter Presidency, as Executive Director for Budget.
He is a board member of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission Steering Committee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a member of The Atlantic Council and the New York Council on Foreign Relations.
Cutter has long held an active interest in international development strategies. He has worked extensively with the World Bank and is currently the chairman of the board of CARE, the global development organization, where he has been a member of the board for 13 years. He also is a founder and current chairman of MicroVest, a leading global microfinance fund with assets under management now in excess of $100 million.
In addition, Cutter is a member of the Governing Council of the IFMR Trust, in India, focusing upon market based solutions to the problems of severe poverty in India. He is a member of the executive committee and immediate past co-chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and a board member of the Russell Sage Foundation.
Cutter holds degrees from Harvard University, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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The Web is in its infancy, especially where advertising is concerned. But it's growing up fast.
Several new ventures aim to bring the $1 billion Web advertising market to the next level by offering advertisers and Web site managers reliable information about who and how many people are setting eyes on what.
Circulation analysis is one of the invisible underpinnings of successful mass media, television, radio and print included. Knowing how many people are listening or watching is especially important for TV and radio, which depend on advertising for their revenues. And advertisers feel comfortable enough with the demographic and circulation figures they get to lavish big bucks on major broadcast campaigns.
The Web, on the other hand, has no universally agreed-upon way of letting advertisers know who they're reaching when they buy banners and other marketing gizmos. The industry is quick to point out that things are about where they should be, given that the Web is such a new medium. But recent developments may foreshadow the shape of the Web when it's fully-grown.
A new entry into the Web traffic market, Atplan, uses the resources of the Gallup Organization to provide wide-ranging data on who looks at what sites. Gallup pollsters conduct phone surveys of 40,000 Internet users, asking where they spend time online and comparing the data against 100 leading Web sites.
Ted West, an old-timer in the interactive ad game, and executive vice president at Softbank Interactive Marketing, thinks the new service has great possibilities. Softbank is the parent company of ZDNet News publisher Ziff-Davis.
"We'll be able to ask for professional households with incomes of $200,000 or more living in the Pacific Northwest and interested in golf, and they'll be able to rank-order the Web sites in their sample," West said. "It's killer. This is where the medium is going."
Atplan uses a less automated approach than the current leader of the pack, NPG Group's Media Metrix division (formerly PC Meter). Media Metrix installs audit hardware in home PCs to track how often people go online and where they visit -- not unlike Nielsen's TV ratings system. The results are more precise than Atplan's, but have their own limitations: Media Metrix doesn't measure Web use in the office, which West and others claim gives a distorted picture of what's popular. Media Metrix recently announced it was adding office computers to its tallies.
Speaking of Nielsen, that company is coming up with its own initiatives in the traffic analysis area. For about a year, Nielsen Media Research has been quietly testing methods for collecting data about not just the ways people explore the Internet, but also how they use hardware and software.
"We're in the process of rolling [the system] out now, on a very slow, methodical basis, to test what works and what doesn't work, in terms of collecting samples and processing the information," said Nielsen's Jack Loftus. "We're taking it slow. We're not running out there ballyhooing, 'We have 100,000 homes and such-and-such data.'"
When its system is unveiled, probably early next year, it will at first focus on the home. Possibilities include installing audit hardware on the computer systems, which could be collected on a floppy disk and mailed back to Nielsen, or transmitted over the Internet.
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Giridhar Gopal in Bhubaneswar | July 07, 2004 17:12 IST
A 35-year-old man and his three children in Orissa are struggling for survival in a hospital in Bhubaneswar after consuming poison, police said.
Jagabandhu Rout of Pingal village in Kendrapada district, about 100km from Bhubaneswar, consumed poison along with his two sons Bikram (6) and Santosh (9), and daughter Tikili (3) on Tuesday evening.
Rout had been unemployed for the past few days. Frustrated with his poor living conditions, he had quarreled with his wife and later decided to commit suicide along with his children, sources in the village said.
Other villagers rushed them to the district hospital where they are undergoing treatment, district Superintendent of Police Dayal Gangwar told rediff.com on Wednesday.
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Around this time three years ago, the Tigers found common ground with their ace, Justin Verlander, on a five-year, $80 million extension that bought out his first two years of free agency. In 2012, Verlander found a partner in crime in Max Scherzer, who delivered a 3.8 WARP effort to help fuel Detroit's run to the World Series. Both of the flame-throwing northpaws are under the Tigers' control through at least the 2014 season, and the latter hopes to stay much longer than that.
Scherzer seeks a long-term extension from Tigers
We'll have to take Scherzer at his word when it comes to his desire to stay with the Tigers, but in general, his eagerness to sit down at the negotiating table is understandable. He is, after all, coming off of a breakout year in which he led all qualifying starting pitchers in strikeout rate (29.4 percent) and compiled a career-best 3.22 FIP. Those credentials impressed our "Arbitration Showdown" panel, and, had Scherzer held firm to his $7.4 million demand for the coming season, all three our arbitrators and almost four out of every five readers would have supported his case.
From the Tigers' perspective, though, there are a couple of reasons to tread with caution. The first is the likelihood that the team would be buying high on a pitcher who produced consecutive 2.5-win campaigns in 2009-2010, but struggled in 2011, before his more recent emergence as an excellent wingman for Verlander. The second is Scherzer's history of nagging shoulder trouble. As Beck wrote in the afore-linked article, both Scherzer and manager Jim Leyland insist that all of the ill effects from his late-season fatigue have subsided, but he has dealt with similar symptoms dating back to his days as a standout collegian at the University of Missouri.
Indeed, when Scherzer was a top prospect in the Diamondbacks system, many evaluators thought that his shoulder issues were the result of a rough delivery that would eventually force him to the bullpen. Kevin Goldstein ranked Scherzer as the third-best crop on Arizona's farm before the 2008 season, but listed "Big-league closer" as his Perfect World Projection, and wrote that a shift to relief work "seem[ed] inevitable." Since the start of the 2009 campaign, Scherzer has made 133 major-league appearances, and all of them have come as a starter. He remains a fastball-driven pitcher with high-effort mechanics, but neither of those drawbacks has brought about the expected fate.
At this point, barring more serious shoulder issues, Scherzer almost certainly will be a starter for the vast majority of his career. Nonetheless, the Tigers must assess the injury risk against the ace-level upside that he flashed last year, and determine whether the latter is tantalizing enough to overlook the former. Scherzer is represented by Scott Boras, who—unlike with free agent Kyle Lohse—is in prime position to milk every last penny from owner Mike Ilitch. And while Dombrowski has worked with Boras before, the agent has typically gotten the upper hand in their dealings, most notably with the nine-year, $214 million contract that he secured for Prince Fielder a year ago.
The Scherzer negotiations, if or when they get started, could have considerable implications for the free-agent class of 2014-2015. Felix Hernandez, who was due to hit the market for the first time that winter, inked a seven-year, $175 million extension with the Mariners last week. Clayton Kershaw is likely to prolong his stay in Los Angeles long before his service-time clock hits six years. And since Roy Halladay, who will be 37 at that point, showed chinks in his armor last year, the once incredibly loaded group could soon be down to only Verlander and Yovani Gallardo.
Scott Rolen will not be back with Reds
Jocketty thanked Rolen for his contributions to the Reds, and Rolen said that he is not "closing any doors." Unfortunately, a mounting list of injuries and replacement-level performance in 157 games over the past two years may have closed them for him. With the Dodgers and Reds out of the picture, Rolen almost assuredly will be forced to settle for a minor-league pact, and then earn his way onto an Opening Day roster. He has made 2,026 major-league appearances, all of them at third base, and likely would need to show additional versatility to prove his worth on the field.
At this point, unless Rolen is willing to endure a roster battle next month, he seems likely to hang up his cleats. Assuming that reports over the course of the winter are accurate, no teams besides Cincinnati and Los Angeles have shown interest in the ACES client to date.
Daniel Rathman is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @danielrathman
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Closing Bell: Suspended Service for G Train to LIC This Summer
Man, can LIC subway riders catch a break? On top of the 7 train weekend suspensions, the MTA will shut down G Train service between Long Island City and Nassau Avenue for five straight weeks this summer. The shutdown dates span between July 6th to September 1st. LIC Post reports, "The MTA said that it needs to shut down service in order to repair damage caused by Superstorm Sandy. The tunnel that connects Long Island City with Greenpoint was flooded with 3 million gallons of salt water at the height of the storm, according to the MTA." The MTA plans to provide shuttle service during the five-week period.
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Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.READ more
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While the movie's point is clear enough from frame one, it's so blatant and comes at such a high price that you feel mostly battered by its end.READ more
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Alaska seems to have taken over for New Jersey as the state with the most new reality TV series being filmed there. Sportsman Channel adds another show to the mix with its docuseries Dropped: Project Alaska, which airs Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT.
The Keefer brothers, Chris, 32, and Casey, 28, hosts of the network's Back Country Quest TV, were dropped on a river in a remote part of Alaska in September, where, during a month, they crossed over 110 river miles living solely off the land. They began their adventure with no provisions, where their 100 pounds of gear was primarily for catching, trapping or killing their food and then preparing it.
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While shooting the next season of his series Back Country Quest TV, Chris took some time to talk about his experiences in Alaska and the challenges the new show presented.
When you were dropped, what was your first priority and did you have it all planned out?
Chris Keefer: We did. The first priority was to set camp. Second priority was get food and the third priority was to spot game. It was just like that. That plane flew away and you realize just how tiny you really are in such a vast, vast area. You can see for miles and miles and miles. We gathered wood, found shelter, got a fire going, put our tent up in a good area. I went and started collecting berries. Casey went to the river right away and snagged some fish so we were good to go. We spent about five days in each camp.
Your gear was limited to 100 pounds, so what was essential?
The No. 1 things were… The tent. We had an Arctic Oven — it was made by Alaska Tent & Tarp. It saved our life. It saved our life more than once. Just because of the rain, and the way the tent was built. Just the ability to pop that tent when we needed to and keep us out of the rain, because it did rain just about every day at least once. When we ended up taking one of the animals, we had a four-mile hike back to camp in the pouring rain, and when we got back at 11 o'clock at night it was dark, it's drenched and there's nothing better than being able to shed your gear and get in that tent. Alaska Tent & Tarp actually makes a packable 8-pound sheet metal wood stove and we had that with us and so to be able to get a fire and heat — that was huge. The other thing would be the rafts, the rafts that carry the weight of our gear. It wasn't just our hunting gear, it was the weight of our production gear, all the stuff the camera guys have. It was incredible to see those rafts drift through 3 or 4 feet of water with a thousand pounds of stuff on it. The tent and the rafts were a major part. The optics was another one. Nikon optics. Having the right optics to spot game and determine where we were going to be at, we were using the EDG series. It just can't fail you. If you don't spot the game — you can't see — you don't know where you are going, so to have the spotting scope from the camp and sit and be able to glass was incredible. All of the equipment we took was very essential and there was a reason we took it. There were some live-or-die [essentials] and that would be those ones.
You didn't bring any food along, so how did you survive?
It was basically on us. We lived off of grayling and blueberries. It was blueberry season when we got dropped off, so the first four days we were in there was nothing but berry collection and then we had fly rods with us, so we caught grayling and did the fish thing for the first three or four days. And of course, you're still running on calories and energy from being dropped off. Then it started to get, "Wow, I'm starting to get hungry." Fish is good but it can only provide so much meat, and the berries are more of a breakfast thing or snack throughout the day. Now, we did bring coffee. We sat and we would just drink coffee that would kind of trick us and keep us going. After the first four or five days, we got an animal; we got a caribou down and we lived off that for 14 days. We kept the meat the way it needed to be kept and we ate every stitch of meat off of it. The first night we had a really good meal and then we rationed it from that point forward because you don't know if you're going to get something else. Having 20-some days left, you ration it into bite-size pieces — a couple for everybody and you're good. After day 14 we ran out and we did not have any food; I believe we went 36 hours without anything — just back to grayling and foraging for stuff. We got into moose and once we got the moose down, life was good.
Were you also responsible for feeding the camera crew?
Yes. [The camera crew consisted of a producer and just one cameraman.] They finished off their snacks and then they were on our regimen and stayed with it. Casey, [producer] Jason and myself all lost over 25 pounds. I believe [our cameraman] Trent lost 15. We lost quite a bit of weight — it was rigorous rowing, trapping, hiking and, on top of that, straight protein, just eating meat. We were very hydrated with water — it was just pristine water conditions with the glacier runoff.
Was there any point where you were actually scared?
No, I wouldn't say scared. I was concerned, but not scared. We were drifting through the middle of Alaska, and when people think Alaska they think a plethora of wildlife and game and it's so pristine, which it is, but we went through the middle of Alaska for 14 days without seeing a killable animal. It starts to wear on everybody. We took what was dealt to us and adjusted.
What surprised you most as being the most challenging?
I think the most surprising is no matter the amount of research you do, the hardest thing to deal with is you don't know what's around the next bend. You think you have a great campsite but right up there might be a great site so "Let's go another mile." That ends up being four, and then you get stuck in rapids and it takes you another three. Next thing you know you're eight miles, nine miles and you don't know. And then you pull off and go, "OK did I just miss 10 miles of great land?" There's no going back, no rowing upstream, so it's just — what's around the next bend is the biggest surprise. That was the hardest thing to deal with.
Hindsight is always wonderful, so what — if anything — would you change if you could?
If anything, I honestly wouldn't have rushed the beginning part. We didn't take a caribou in the beginning because moose season opened up and we were in caribou country. But again it goes back to not knowing. We drift down a couple of miles, we'll be in both moose and caribou country and by the time we could find a spot to camp, we were out of caribou country and so I would have slowed down. Looking forward to a next Dropped project.


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Someone asked me how to implement a "panel-like" system using Expression / WPF. This led me to do a small take on Expression Interactive Designer itselfJ. Though the panel system presented here is only 1/100th as complex as our real Palette management infrastructure (and is my own code), it serves as a good example to get you started. Source for this example can be downloaded / re-used / re-implemented at will from here.
I wanted to highlight a few concepts in this example: a) How to implement a naive dragging system, b) How to create and raise your own events, c) How to do simple hit-testing in WPF so you can figure out what is under the mouse and drop into it. I also wanted to highlight the clear distinction in roles between a developer and designer (my design skills are found severely wanting at times!).
The Panels are all custom controls that extend HeaderedContentControl because we want the panels to be draggable only when clicking on the Header part and we also want the designer to be able to specify Header and Content for every Panel. It is expected (call it a contract if you will) that the designer will name one element in the template of the control to be "PART_Header". As long as this contract is maintained, the control should work as expected; else the drag functionality simply won't be there.
Next step is to pull out Interactive Designer (the real one!) and create the look for an individual Panel and layout the various Panels. All the Panels share the same "chrome" (consisting of the border and the close button) and this is done by applying the same template to each. Also, each Panel' template has two ContentPresenter elements – one to render the Header (which is a string in our case), and one to render Content (which are simple images). These various panels are then added to two ItemsControl (for the left and right containers). Also, grid splitters have been used for resizing the panel columns – neat, ah?
Back to the developer role using and using VS. At this point, we have the capability to drag panels around. Now, we want to be able to drop them into other containers. Whenever a panel is dragged, it raises a custom event called "DragPanel". Also, when the user lets go of the mouse, another event called "DropPanel" is raised. These events then bubble up to the parent Window which then performs required logic for changing containers around. One advantage of using eventing in this fashion is that I can then reuse my custom Panel class in other scenarios where I don't really care about drop-drop and parents and such. Also, you will see the use of some simple hit-testing code to determine the ItemsControl into which a container is dropped. Personally, I don't prefer writing low-level hit-testing code (as I have shown in the example) and I would rather use data-binding and custom controls for this purpose – this is just there for the purpose of showing the power of the platform.
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Universities share $20 million in performance funding
State universities are finding out today how much they will receive in performance funding. This is the first time in recent history the state has attempted to reward schools based on how they perform on measurable categories instead of tying money to enrollment or specific project requests.
The funding is based on a point system for three categories. A school received two points for meeting the system-wide average, one point for falling slighty short of the average and zero points if they are way behind. There was an opportunity to receive three points for going far above average, but no schools met that threshold for any of the categories.
Two schools earned six points and will share the biggest portion of the funding. University of South Florida and University of Central Florida will each receive $2.6 million.
Earning $2.2 million for five points: Florida International University, Florida State University, Florida Gulf Coast University and University of North Florida.
University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University will receive $1.7 million for four points. University of West Florida will receive $1.3 million for three points.
Florida A&M University will receive $869,565 for earning two points and New College of Florida will receive $434,783 after receiving one point.
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Superman + Wonder Woman = <3 In 'Justice League' #12 [Kissy Kissy]
DC Comics has announced via its sister company Entertainment Weekly that a future issue of Justice League will see Superman and Wonder Woman begin a super romance. The move is in contrast to how the heroes have traditionally been portrayed, with Superman paired with Terran female Lois Lane and Wonder Woman with puny humans Batman or Steve Trevor, but of course those and numerous other pieces of DC lore were thrown out when the line rebooted almost a year ago. Writer Geoff Johns told EW that the development is not intended as merely a temporary attention-grabber but rather a substantive change to the ongoing characterization of the popular heroes, with artist Jim Lee adding, "Hopefully this will raise a lot of eyebrows. We welcome the watercooler chatter."A romantic relationship between Wonder Woman and Superman is not without precedent. The couple notably got it super-on in Kingdom Come and The Dark Knight Strikes Again, but both of those stories are considered non-canonical in spite of the fact that they've been read by vastly more people than the overwhelming majority of every canonical Superman Wonder Woman story ever published.
But August's Justice League #12 is part of DC's New 52 initiative, which last year voided official Superman and Wonder Woman continuity and with it both characters' long established relationships with their previous partners. This is a fact seemingly lost to a number of DC readers, who've already begun tearing their virtual hair out over this announcement on Twitter and elsewhere in response to Johns' remark, "This is the new status quo."
EW's Jeff Jensen described the relationship as being borne out of some traumatic event, and that the coupling will have a "seismic impact on all the heroes and villains in the DC universe." That sounds like the cosmic equivalent of your neighbors f***ing too loudly in the upstairs apartment, and perhaps a compelling reason to read Justice League. That and the handsome cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair, reportedly inspired by Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" and Alfred Eisenstaedt's classic "V-J Day in Times Square" photograph, which strikes us as incredibly cute:
It's lovely imagery that Lee's invoked to similar effect before, specifically this memorable make-out page of Superman and former wife Lois Lane from his and Brian Azzarello's 2005 graphic novel, Superman: For Tomorrow:
Also on sale this month is Wonder Woman #12, featuring a Cliff Chiang cover in which the Amazon princess is locking lips with Apollo, another all powerful bro and, if they're both children of Zeus, her actual half-bro.
That DC's Amazon princess is making out with two different godlike men on two different covers in the same month may cause some of our more conservative readers to object, but the ComicsAlliance staff are anything but player haters. This is all good news to us.
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On May 9th 2016, FIRAMUNICH S.L. representing Messe München, in cooperation with AFYDAD (Spanish Association of Manufacturers and Distributors of Sporting Goods) and BMC (Barcelona Fashion Centre), will invite all sports business professionals to ISPO ACADEMY Barcelona.
The focus of the fourth edition of ISPO ACADEMY in Spain will be SMART RETAIL and will feature lectures by four renowned speakers, providing attendees with new tools and ideas to adapt their business in the current, highly competitive economic environment.
"Put your company on the podium e-commerce" presented by Adam Sedó, Communications Director of Amazon Spain and Hernando Moncaleano, Head of Sports for Amazon.es and amazon.it.
"Introduction to proximity marketing" by Maria Fernanda Gonzalez, CEO of MOCA Platform.
"Evolution of the digital paradigm" presented by Genis Roca, president of RocaSalvatella.
ISPO: The world's leading business platform of sport. Christoph Rapp, International Sales and Retail Manager at ISPO, will talk about how the holistic approach to trade and services can help optimize market success.
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Thomas Toys Recalled Because of Lead in Paint
Lead is a huge danger for children. Ingestion is common in high-risk areas, and even the most aware parent can be taken by surprise. Consider the Thomas train toys–my kids have played with those at Barnes & Noble. It's really hard to stay up on it.
It takes just the smallest particle of lead to permanently alter the course of your child's life–the effects of lead poisoning are irreversible!
To see how common recalls due to lead issues really are, hop on over to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's website. Pick a month. Count how many of the recalls are related to lead issues. It's staggering.
I am working on a whole series about lead poisoning. It's overdue; I know too much, and so many parents know so little. We all need to be more aware of this poison.
For starters, here's a list of the places mostly likely to harbor lead or lead paint:
- Outdoor house paint – even brick houses often have painted windows
- Window and trim paint indoors (lead paint wasn't banned until 1978, remember)
- Dirt and soil around the perimeter of old houses and near busy roadways (leaded fuel wasn't banned until the 80s, and remains a concern in diesel fuel)
- Water (even if your house is new, the pipes from city water systems may be lead pipes)
- Toys–especially plastic, and especially the cheaper, dollar store variety
- Children's jewelry–this is a huge offender! Not just dollar store and vending machine jewelry (though that's where a bulk of it is sold), but also chain stores like Claire's
- Older playground equipment, especially painted surfaces
Things you can do today to reduce your child's risk:
- Wash your child's hands thoroughly (we sing through the ABC song) before every single meal.
- When out and about, where you might not know where the risks are, carry disposable baby wipes to wipe little hands down frequently. This is one of the only disposable products I use.
- Wet dust and wet mop your older home frequently. See here for how.
- Read up on lead safety and be aware of hazards. You'd be surprised at what you don't know.
- Filter your drinking water. Even a Brita will filter out large percentages of lead. The gold standard for lead removal is reverse osmosis. (If you can't do a filter, be sure to flush your faucets every morning by running water for at least 30 seconds to remove overnight sediment.)
- Have your baby's lead levels tested at six months or younger if you have an older home, worship at an older church, work/attend day care at an older facility, or live near recent demolitions or renovations. Repeat every six months if you continue to be around high-risk areas. They will tell you that less than 10 is a "safe" level, but even government and health officials are admitting that permanent brain damage is noted at levels well below that. I wouldn't feel comfortable with a level higher than 3.
Above all, we can't live in fear. We live in a broken world, full of hazardous things. Pray, guard your little ones well, and become knowledgeable. Fear won't help your child, but your education will.


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CO-OPERATIVE Group has said it is trying to claw back tens of thousands of pounds it paid to its former bank chairman Paul Flowers.
Edinburgh-born group chief executive Euan Sutherland indicated Mr Flowers, who departed from Co-op Bank in June 2013 following the discovery of a major financial black hole, was contracted to receive £90,000 on leaving his post.
However, Mr Flowers, an ordained Methodist minister who was the subject of drug taking allegations last year, was contracted to meet certain conditions, such as not bringing the bank into disrepute.
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Mr Sutherland said: "As soon as the [drugs] story appeared, we stopped the payments and we are going after him for the first £30,000 we had already paid."
Separately, Co-op has received more than 80,000 responses from members of the public following the launch of a campaign to get customers to have a say in its future direction.
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Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), April 10, (ANI): Elephant conservationists and Tamil Nadu Forest officials discussed initiatives undertaken and future activities for conservation of Asian elephants in the state during a two -day workshop at Coimbatore.
The workshop on 'Elephant Corridor Securement and Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation," which was inaugurated on Friday, brought together experts working on various aspects of elephant conservation to present their initiatives.
Participants also discussed issues that are affecting elephants in Tamil Nadu.
The workshop is a follow-up on recommendations of the national elephant corridor workshop held in Bangalore in December 2007.
The Tamil Nadu Forest Department, the Project Elephant, the Wildlife Trust of India (WTI), the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), the Elephant Family and the World Land Trust (WLT) jointly organized this workshop.
Inaugurating the workshop, Tamil Nadu Chief Wildlife Warden R Sundararaju said habitat degradation and fragmentation are among major causes of human-elephant conflicts.
Sundararaju called upon participants to formulate viable recommendations to reduce conflicts and help conserve elephants.
He also urged people to support forest department to conserve forests and elephants for our own survival.
"Help us conserve the elephant and forests for our own survival," Sundararaju said.
Highlighting the significance of corridors in elephant conservation, Project Elephant Director A N Prasad said corridor connectivity is always a necessity for elephant's survival.
"Elephants are wide-ranging and are continuously on the move, so connectivity is always a necessity for elephant's survival. If the connectivity is broken, elephants either remain trapped in small areas or they migrate to other unchartered territories leading to conflicts," Prasad said.
The WTI Executive Director Vivek Menon expressed concern that elephant species is in danger in India despite being revered as a God.
"Despite elephants being found in large numbers in India, and despite them being revered as a God, the species is in danger. It is important to make people understand the elephant and its needs to facilitate its conservation," Menon said.
"Science is undoubtedly a valuable tool in conservation, but we must also make use of the ethics, morals and beliefs of our people to ensure a safe home for elephants," he added.
The workshop discussed the WTI work the 'Right of Passage' that documents 88 elephant corridors across India.
The workshop also discussed the issues related to human-elephant conflict scenario, status of corridors, as well as mitigation of elephant deaths due to train hits in various forest divisions in amil Nadu. (ANI)