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We've made a few of the new items ourselves, including his quilt and a bolster pillow, and have plans in place to make some things that will hang on his walls. Watching his excitement as he anticipates each new thing being started and finished has been a lot of fun for me and it's made my efforts feel very appreciated. Something I didn't anticipate is how spreading the entire project out over a couple of months, rather than taking a trip to a store and buying everything in one stop, has been a blessing in more than one way. I get to see his excitement stretched out over a long period of time and he is experiencing the necessary life lesson of having patience!
After finishing his quilt, he wanted to go purchase new sheets to go with it. We came home with navy blue sheets and pillowcases and he, being 8 and filled with excitement, wanted to get it all on the bed immediately. I, being a crafter, wanted something more than just plain pillowcases. As we skimmed over magazines and through books looking for ideas on a theme for his bedroom, I discovered housewife pillowcases. If you're not familiar with them, while the open end of a bag-style pillowcase leaves the actual pillow exposed, a housewife pillowcase has an extra flap sewn in the open end which creates a pocket that hides the pillow.
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I also wanted to make the pillowcases more decorative, yet I wanted to keep them more functional than typical pillow shams. I find the excess fabric around the perimeter of a pillowsham to be bothersome when I'm sleeping. I decided a set of pillows with a patchwork front and a set with the band near the opening replaced was what I needed. I went to work cutting off the top of the band of a pillowcase, adding some fabric that coordinates with the new quilt in place of the old band, and adding the interior flap to make the end more attractive.
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Using a 1/4 inch seam allowance, I stitched the panels together by sewing each top row square to a bottom row square and then sewing each double-square panel together, including the long narrow strip.
I could have purchased an extra flat sheet to cut the remaining panels for my pillowcases but I wanted this to be a quick project so I just used a set of plain, inexpensive purchased pillowcases. It needed a bit of alteration done to it to make it work so I started by using the rotary cutter and acrylic ruler to trim off the very edges of the seams. Removing the seams was easy by quickly pulling out the seam thread from here. Doing this was much faster than trying to sit and rip all that serged stitching with a seam ripper.
Next, keeping the pillowcase folded as if the seam I just ripped out was still in place, I ironed a crease down the opposite side of the pillowcase. Opening the pillowcase out into one flat panel, I used the crease I just made as my cutting line to cut the panel into 2 equal panels.
I cut one panel down to 29.5 inches long. From the other panel, I cut a 10 inch long panel. Both panels remained at the 20.5 inch width they started at.
I hemmed one end of each panel by folding it over 1/2 inch, folding it 1/2 inch again, and stitching the fold in place.
To finish the assembly, I laid the patchwork panel right-side facing up and the longer of the navy blue panels face down on top of that, matching the raw edges.
Next I laid the short navy blue panel on top of that, wrong side up, matching the raw edge with the raw edge of the patchwork panel. This will hide the hemmed edge of the other navy blue panel. After pinning the panels all together, I stitched around the entire perimeter.
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The final step was to turn the pillow right-side out. Before doing this, I took the pocket created by the short navy blue panel and turned it right-side out, as seen here. From there, I turned the entire pillowcase right-side out.
And it was ready to use!
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Pioneer's girls golf team had the best showing among area teams at the annual season-opening Caston Invitational at Pond View Golf Course Wednesday.
The Panthers shot a 435 to place fourth in the 11-team field. Cass had a 492 to finish sixth, Winamac posted a 524 to place seventh and Caston shot a 538 to place ninth.
Wabash won with a 389, and Wabash's Katie Smith was the medalist with an 83.
Pioneer was led by Mati DeWitt, who shot a 94 which was good enough for sixth among all individuals. She was followed by Randi Miller (111), Jamie Musselman (115), Nicole Shroder (115) and Mikayla Greiner (119).
With several starters back from last year's Midwest Conference championship team, Pioneer coach Dale Samuels was hoping to see some lower scores from his squad.
"We were 35 strokes higher than we were at conference, so we've got some work to do and a short time to do it," he said.
The Panthers had four juniors in their lineup and just one senior, and Samuels is expecting to see improvement from his squad.
"In the area we should be competitive," he said. "We've never had a dual winning record, and last year we were just two away.
"This should be our best season we've had since I've been the coach."
Cass was led by Bailey Oakley's round of 112, followed by Macie Thomas (113), Megan Hildebrandt (131) and Jena Hughes (136).
"It was a bit of a struggle for just about everybody there, all the teams," Cass coach Charlie Jones said. "Everyone was nervous and you could tell many of the girls hadn't played much. It was a pretty long day."
The Kings have four golfers out for the team, all seniors, and Jones expects the scores to go down.
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Recitation of Quran word by word in slow speed. Very good for children and evenly for elders. There are several options on the left side of the web page. On the top of the page click button to start recitation. Click here to visit website.
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Police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead in the Third Ward on Saturday.
New Orleans police said the shooting occurred about 8:30 p.m. at the intersection of Eden and South Gayoso streets.
When officers arrived at the scene, they found a man on the sidewalk and suffering from a gunshot wound to his face. Paramedics attempted to resuscitate the victim, but were unsuccessful. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
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MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG) Set to Announce Earnings on Wednesday
MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE:MTG) is scheduled to post its Q214 quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July 16th. Analysts expect MGIC Investment Corp. to post earnings of $0.14 per share and revenue of $237.13 million for the quarter. Parties interested in listening to the company's conference call can do so using this link.
MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE:MTG) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, April 22nd. The company reported $0.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.11 by $0.04. The company had revenue of $235.10 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $242.35 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted ($0.31) earnings per share. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 12.7% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts expect MGIC Investment Corp. to post $0.52 EPS for the current fiscal year and $0.78 EPS for the next fiscal year.
Shares of MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE:MTG) opened at 8.38 on Tuesday. MGIC Investment Corp. has a one year low of $5.94 and a one year high of $9.50. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $9.04 and a 200-day moving average of $8.7. The company has a market cap of $2.837 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 34.98. MGIC Investment Corp. also saw a significant decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totalling 41,790,807 shares, a decrease of 10.6% from the June 13th total of 46,764,089 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 4,388,419 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 9.5 days. Currently, 12.6% of the company's stock are short sold.
A number of analysts have recently weighed in on MTG shares. Analysts at Goldman Sachs downgraded shares of MGIC Investment Corp. from a "conviction-buy" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday. On the ratings front, analysts at Zacks reiterated a "neutral" rating on shares of MGIC Investment Corp. in a research note on Wednesday, May 21st. They now have a $8.75 price target on the stock. Finally, analysts at Credit Suisse raised their price target on shares of MGIC Investment Corp. from $6.00 to $7.00 in a research note on Monday, May 19th. They now have an "underperform" rating on the stock. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, two have assigned a hold rating and seven have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. The company presently has an average rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $10.03.
MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE:MTG) is a holding company and through wholly owned subsidiaries is a private mortgage insurer in the United States.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina endured a devastating war from 1992-1995. In the aftermath, the country not only underwent post-war reconstruction, but also launched the transition from a Socialist system to a system of democratic governance. As local governments work to overcome the challenges posed by reconstruction, democracy-building, and the global economic downturn, the Governance Accountability Project, Phase II, has been working with 72 municipalities across Bosnia – comprising nearly 60 percent of the country's population – to improve the quality of life for members of their communities.
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Advancing the Dignity Agenda
One year ago, Administrator Rajiv Shah spoke about expanding human welfare at USAID's Democracy, Human Rights and Governance 2.0 Forum, recounting the defining story of Mohammed Bouazizi, the young Tunisian fruit seller who set himself on fire, and the inspiring stories of other Tunisians who unwittingly sparked the Arab Spring.
Since that speech in June 2011, the trajectory of the Arab Spring has been filled with bright spots, such as in October 2011 when millions of Tunisians voted in their first-ever free election, but also with uncertainty, as genuine democratic transition in Egypt remains tenuous and violence continues in Syria. Elsewhere in the world, historical achievements in advancing human dignity and self-determination took place in Africa, where South Sudan became the world's newest country in July 2011, and in Asia, where Aung San Suu Kyi won a seat in Myanmar's Parliament in April 2012 after spending nearly 20 years under house arrest.
In this momentous year, we at USAID have responded to Administrator Shah's call to elevate the importance of self-determination and human dignity in our Agency's development approach. We helped bring together over 60 Tunisian organizations to form the country's first civil society network, assisted the referendum on Southern Sudan's independence, and launched the Agency's new Counter-Trafficking in Persons Policy, among other highlights. In February 2012, USAID launched the Center of Excellence in Democracy, Human Rights and Governance to become a global resource for evidence-based research, aspiring to closely measure and evaluate what works best in democracy, human rights and governance.
We continue to be inspired by those at the frontlines in the fight for human dignity, such as Tawakkol Karman who became the international public face of the 2011 uprising in Yemen. She won the Nobel Peace Prize that year in recognition of her work in nonviolent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work, becoming the first Arab woman and youngest Nobel Peace Laureate to date. We are delighted to have her give the keynote speech at this year's Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG) Forum from June 21-22.
I hope you will share in USAID's renewed commitment to advancing the dignity agenda by viewing and participating virtually in our DRG Forum. The event will bring together government officials, international experts and innovative thinkers and will focus on innovative approaches to promoting human dignity in the wake of the Arab Spring. The Obama administration and USAID have been at the forefront of this change, by expanding political participation of women and girls, making governments more transparent, and promoting civil society, among other initiatives.
View a livestream of the event at www.usaid.gov/drg.
Drop in on the conversation and ask our panelists questions by following #DRGForum on Twitter.
Building Learning Communities at USAID
John David Smith of Learning Alliances and Nancy White of Full Circle are experts in institutionalizing learning at organizations and authors of Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities.
Earlier this year, Administrator Shah launched USAID's new Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance within the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance. The Center is designed to become a global resource for evidence-based research, closely measuring and evaluating what works best in advancing democracy, human rights and governance and sharing best practices with the international development community. This learning agenda will be a focus of USAID's upcoming Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Forum (June 21-22) and Workshop (June 25-27).
Institutionalizing learning in its activities means that USAID is making learning an everyday activity that permeates the organization. It is a way for the Agency to respond to change and learn quickly, leveraging staff and their knowledge. More mobile and more distributed staff using new technologies give us strikingly new opportunities to gather, interact and learn from each other in novel ways. Traditional organizational structures need to be augmented by more informal and fluid structures, which is why USAID's Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance is focusing on building a learning agenda. A critical component of this agenda includes building "communities of practice" and leveraging technology in our work.
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Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Forum
This week, USAID will be holding our third annual Democracy, Human Rights and Governance Forum at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. The two-day event, June 21-22, will bring together government officials and international experts in the field of democracy, human rights and governance.
The theme of this year's forum is Advancing the Dignity Agenda: New Approaches to Protecting Human Rights and Expanding Democratic Participation.
Discussion will focus on the innovative approaches to promoting human dignity advanced by the Obama administration and USAID in the wake of the Arab Spring. Issues will include expanding the political participation of women and girls, making governments more transparent, and promoting civil society.
The forum will be livestreamed on our event page. We encourage you join the conversation and submit your questions to our panelists by adding your comments below or using the hashtag #DRGForum on Twitter.
Also, be sure to visit our newly redesigned website for more information about our work in the field of Democracy, Human Rights and Governance.
Democracy and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia, and Carol Lancaster, Dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Affairs spoke today at USAID's Frontiers in Development Forum. Below is an excerpt from their contribution to the Frontiers in Development essays.
Twenty-five years ago, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) was a region of despair. Outside of Botswana and Mauritius, democracy was but a distant dream. Unelected and unaccountable governments held power across the subcontinent. Dictators treated their countries as personal fiefdoms, ruling by force and intimidation, taking what they wanted, doling out riches to a favored few, and sprinkling a handful of crumbs to the rest. The terrible scar of apartheid made a mockery of justice and plunged the entire southern region into conflict and crisis. And the politics of the Cold War made a bad situation worse, as East and West propped up unsavory rulers for their own purposes with little regard for the effect on Africans themselves.
The leadership crisis translated into an economic crisis that left the region effectively bankrupt. Authoritarian leaders used the state to try to control the economic commanding heights, in part to finance their patronage systems. In the end, their control only destroyed economic assets and personal livelihoods. For 20 years starting in the mid-1970s, nearly all of the countries of SSA saw zero or negative economic growth in per capita incomes. Promising businesses were ruined, and new investment virtually stopped, except for the grab for natural resources. Unemployment soared, and working men and women could no longer provide for their families. Schools and health facilities deteriorated badly. The only things that seemed to thrive were poverty, graft, and conflict.
But that was then. Today, all of that has begun to change—not across all of SSA, but across much of the region. Dictators are being replaced by democracy. Authoritarianism is giving way to accountability. Economic stagnation is turning to resurgence, with SSA today one of the fastest-growing regions in the world. Poverty rates are falling. Investors who never would have considered Africa a decade ago are lining up to look at new opportunities. Political conflict has subsided, and governments are strengthening the protection of civil liberties and political freedoms.
About half of the countries in the region have embraced democracy, fragile and imperfect, to be sure, but a far cry from the dictatorships of old. And most important, despair is being replaced by hope—hope that people can live in peace with their neighbors, that parents can provide for their families, that children can go to school and receive decent health care, and that people can speak their minds without fear.
What happened in SSA? How did authoritarianism begin to give way to democracy? How has the economic resurgence affected the move toward democracy, and how has democracy affected the economic turnaround? How is democracy likely to evolve in the future in SSA?
Read the full article on page 32 of USAID's Frontiers in Development publication.
If Development Were Soccer
Rakesh Rajani spoke at the Frontiers in Development Forum. Below is his contribution to the Frontiers in Development essays.
If there were a prize for global organizations most tainted with corruption, FIFA, the International Federation of Football (Soccer) Associations, would be a strong contender.
For years, its board members are said to have demanded, received, and dished out bribes for purposes such as vote buying and selling rights to host the World Cup. The "crony culture" inside FIFA has reportedly caused huge losses—about $100 million in one instance alone when an exclusive deal with a marketing company went belly-up. These acts have spawned investigations, books, and blogs seeking to expose the organization, but FIFA appears to have warded off serious reform. Its current boss has been in charge for 14 years and part of FIFA for 38. He ran unopposed in the last election, in part because his two rivals were disqualified for foul play. His predecessor had been at the helm for 24 years.
Precise numbers are difficult to establish, but soccer has well over a billion supporters worldwide. Many of these tune in every week on radio, TV, and, increasingly, the Internet. More than 700 million are estimated to have watched the final games of the World Cup in 2006 and 2010, across all six continents. It is easily the world's biggest sport.
While growing up in Mwanza, Tanzania, listening to commentary of English league games on a crackly BBC shortwave transmission was the highlight of my week. Today, walk through East Africa's bustling neighborhoods or rural communities on weekends, and you will likely see animated men and (increasingly) women listening to a duel between national rivals or watching Chelsea play Arsenal or Barcelona take on Real Madrid. You will see much of the same across large parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia. In many cases, these are communities that have no electricity and low incomes, but some entrepreneur will have rigged up a generator and an improvised satellite dish, and be turning a tidy profit charging entrance fees.
It's not only about relaxing in front of the TV. Soccer is among the most common topics on social media, radio call-in shows, and street corners. Crotchety pundits, hip pre-teens, and nerdy economists alike pore over team statistics to discern patterns, debate choices, and predict outcomes. It is public engagement interspersed with politics, business, and local drama, but soccer remains at the core. And soccer evokes great emotion. When there is a crucial goal or save, observe the poetry of celebration rituals or the slow-motion implosions of defeat among both players
and fans. It's quite an experience.
Why does soccer work? Why, unlike so many badly governed public agencies, NGOs, and projects, is soccer so powerful, lively, and engaging? Could it be that soccer has got something so right, that it doesn't much matter that its state of supra governance is somewhat shambolic? And if that is indeed the case, might it provide useful insights for how we think about development in countries where the intractable problems of supra governance will not be sorted out soon?
Soccer and development, while very different, have several features in common. I'll highlight four. Both have purposes or goals to score. Both have rules and conventions of how things are to be done. Both have someone deciding whether conduct is right, imposing sanctions for foul behavior, and judging the final outcome. And both have actors who need to be motivated and focused to deliver. But each handles these features very differently.
In Soccer, Success Is Clear and Simple
Soccer isn't called the "beautiful game" for nothing. Players display enormous skill when dribbling, passing, and making daring dives and gravity-defying turns. Fans love these moves, and TV screens replay some of the best ones over and over, so that viewers can study the skill and savor the moment. Papers speak of the teams that play the most entertaining football. But all this skill is aligned toward a very simple and very clear purpose: to score more goals than the other team. Sure, a lot of other statistics are collected, such as the number of passes, number of fouls, percentage of possession, ages of the players, and so forth. The artistry is fun and appreciated, but what matters is how it contributes toward the purpose. What counts is the final score.
The incentives are well aligned too, in the short and long term. You win the game, you celebrate, your team gets three points. Everyone involved—the players, the managers, the owners, the spectators—understand this. In the long term, those points and goals add up, and you move up the league table or on to the next round of the competition, until you win the cup. The better you perform, the more likely you are to earn a better salary.
Read the complete essay on page 18 of USAID's Frontiers in Development publication.
Building Peaceful States Against All Odds: The g7+ Leads the Way
Emilia Pires, Finance Minister of Timor-Leste, Chair of g7+, and Co-Chair of the International Dialogue on Peacebuilding will speak this afternoon at the Frontiers in Development Forum. Below is her contribution to the Frontiers in Development essays.
Every morning I am greeted by the local gardener, Guilherme, who busily tends half-broken trees and overgrown bushes, planting seeds in the modicum of soil available in the suburbs of Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, in hopes of springing new life to a city that had been almost wholly destroyed in 1999, devastated by war and cyclical instability. Salutations are brief. Guilherme considers himself my de facto advisor.
Each day he offers a brief but new insight into the health, well-being, and livelihood of the collective "we" that is his village—one of 442 sucos in TimorLeste. In early 2008, Guilherme said, "Minister, we are not producing; bellies will not be full come rainy season." Guilherme knew what I knew: Food security and peace go hand in hand.
As I entered the office, I asked my chief economist to look up the price of rice. He returned ashen-faced bearing the bad news: The price of rice had risen 218%. With a reduction in domestic production and rice imports rising, our budget was now in shambles. This is what the international community calls an "external shock." As Minister of Finance, I call it "being in shock," a state I have become well versed to since coming into ofice on August 8, 2007.
On day one of my mandate as Minister, I walked into the Ministry of Finance with no handover, no functioning computers that could spit out the kind of standard information ministers of other nations would expect, and a highly politicized public service that was deeply loyal to the previous ruling party. I admit I was never trained in how to "rule"; I am a technocrat with a background in public service. We were a government formed to serve. A major mentality shift was about to be introduced.
The final crisis of 2006 resulted in 150,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs)—almost 15% of our population—and adding to our burden, we had more than 700 rebels in the mountains threat ening stability. Economic growth was negative 5%; consumption had declined 26%. If the engine room of any government is a well-oiled public finance management system, my engine relected that of a 1967 Chevy that had never been serviced.
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Celebrating Media's Impact on Development on World Press Freedom Day
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day – a day established by the UN General Assembly in 1993 to celebrate the principles of press freedom and bring attention to the threats to media independence around the world.
USAID celebrates World Press Freedom Day and welcomes the opportunity to salute the professionalism and bravery of media personnel everywhere. Journalists and other media professionals play amazing 24/7 roles as news reporters, talk show hosts, photographers, watchdogs, editors, managers, facilitators of interactive multi-media platforms, and much more.
Media play vital interconnecting roles among virtually all societal actors, facilitating a daily flow of information among citizens, elites, businesses, citizen associations, political parties, and governments. Journalism based on verified facts and diverse perspectives can help societies find constructive solutions to development challenges, while unprofessional or censored media tend to engender corruption and other obstacles to development. A growing body of scholarly research demonstrates strong correlations between media independence and an impressive array of democracy and good governance indicators.
Moreover, the explosive growth of new social and other electronic media platforms are enabling professional journalists to interact with citizen reporters, bloggers, and other new media activists, expanding the democracy-supporting roles of modern mass media like never before.
As a result, USAID works together with many local and international partners to strengthen the professionalism, independence, and new technology integration by the media in well over 40 countries throughout the world. In Liberia, for example, USAID partnered with IREX, a U.S.-based NGO that works on media development, to support a comprehensive media initiative with the Liberia Media Center, a local media NGO, in the run-up to the Presidential elections in the fall of 2011 – only Liberia's second since its emergence from years of civil war and one marked by tensions and threats of violence. With tensions rising and violence a real possibility, IREX worked with its Liberian partners to convene an emergency meeting to address the issue of conflict-sensitive reporting, while also supporting a media monitoring effort that called out inflammatory reporting.
Working with the Liberia Media Center, the project also supported an elections results reporting effort that placed reporters at more than 60% of Liberia's 4,000 polling stations where they sent elections results in via text messaging to conduct a parallel vote count. The website that published the parallel vote count received over 3 million hits in the days following the elections, and since its results matched those of the election commission, it contributed to reducing tensions surrounding the elections.
Each USAID country program is tailored to local conditions, responding to a variety of media development challenges. When possible, USAID missions advocates for a comprehensive approach to media assistance, recognizing that fuller media freedoms result from many enabling factors operating together: such as journalistic professionalism, the media's economic self-sustainability, legal and regulatory enabling environments, and incorporation of new technologies. Through these approaches, USAID aims to strengthen journalists and the media as a professional and independent Fourth Estate to better serve their respective audiences.
Conditions of Confinement
Today I was pleased to meet with the delegation of the Russian human rights activists who traveled to Washington, DC as a part of USAID Conditions of Confinement project. Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and Deputy Administrator Don Steinberg met with this group as well.
These are individuals who have chosen to devote their professional careers and talents to strengthening human rights protections for ordinary people in Russia. What is particularly impressive about this group is that they work on protecting the most fundamental human rights of a particularly vulnerable and often overlooked group, the inmate population. They do it because of their deeply held belief that even those who have committed crimes and are incarcerated should have their human rights and dignity protected. I would like to applaud these advocates for their efforts in this important humanitarian work.
The conditions in Russian prisons drew international scrutiny after the death of Sergey Magnitsky several years ago. Sergey Magnitsky, a 37year-old Russian attorney who was arrested after alleging wide-scale tax fraud against police and tax authorities,was denied medical treatment for a severe illness that he developed while spending almost a year in a pre-trial detention facility in Moscow. Magnitsky died just days before the one year limit that he could be held without trial would expire, serving a total of 358 days in prison. This tragedy galvanized the attention of the human rights community in both Russia and abroad. However, there are likely many more individuals facing similar mistreatment and abuse who need help. Human rights advocates like the ones I met today work tirelessly with the Government of Russia to prevent similar tragedies from happening again and help people in need.
At USAID, we believe that our assistance is most effective when and where the need is most pressing, where the political will is present and determined individuals are in place who will work hard to make real changes. The Conditions of Confinement project is a good example of a well-targeted activity, poised to yield positive results.
Accountability and Action: USAID's Counter-Trafficking Policy
Sarah Mendelson is USAID's deputy assistant administrator of the Bureau of Democracy, Conflict & Humanitarian Assistance. This item was originally posted at FTS Blog.
Last week, the White House hosted the annual Presidential Inter-Agency Task Force (PITF) on counter-trafficking in persons (C-TIP). This high-level meeting, chaired by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is an opportunity for leadership throughout the Administration to reaffirm our commitment to combatting trafficking in persons, outline steps taken, and those to come.
This was my second time attending the PITF, and this year I was especially proud when USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah announced the Agency's new policy on Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) (pdf), delivering on a promise he made to Secretary Clinton a year ago.
This policy draws on the best practices from the last decade and input from experts around the world. It places a premium on learning and evaluation so we can make sure we're pursuing the most effective approaches; focuses on innovation and technology, using the same tools traffickers use to, in this case, raise awareness of the dangers of TIP, provide trainings, and support victims; and champions the need to create exciting and effective partnerships because no one person, organization, or agency can tackle this issue alone.
Perhaps most critical, it elevates the Agency's focus on C-TIP in conflict and post-conflict contexts. As someone who has worked in this arena for over a decade, research shows that TIP is significantly higher in and around conflict and crisis-affected regions—whether during war, peacekeeping operations, stabilization efforts, or following a natural disaster.
Widespread sex trafficking of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings is an unfortunate and prevalent reality. There is also an increased danger for children, separated from parents and caretakers during conflict or crisis, to be forced into child labor. The good news is that countries recovering from crisis or conflict often have greater political space for tackling challenges and instituting change. USAID will target this particularly acute period of need and moment of opportunity with specialized and enhanced interventions.
USAID is serious about these issues. Last December, the Agency worked with the White House, Department of State, Department of Defense, and civil society groups at home and abroad to launch the first U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace, and Security. The United States now joins 34 countries around the world with plans in place. This is only the beginning. USAID is hard at work on an implementation plan, and we look forward to collaborating and elevating our efforts to combat TIP.


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St. Peters Health Department regularly inspects food service establishments throughout the city including restaurants, caterers, schools, food stands, day cares, bakeries, and frozen treat stands.Unannounced inspections include an evaluation of how food is received and stores, temperatures used to cook, hold and reheat foods, according to the department's web page. The establishments begin with a score of 100 and points are deducted based on the severity of problems observed.
A follow up inspection is conducted within 10 days to verify that critical violations have been corrected.
Below, see the second part of the inspection scores for restaurants in the St. Peters area in the second quarter of 2013.
123 Kids Quest, 7336 Mexico Road, 100
Go Pasta, 1211 Jungermann Ste., 100
7-Eleven Store, 6680 Mexico Road, 100
7-Eleven Store, 610 Jungermann Road, 100
94th Convenience, 4500 South St. Peters Parkway, 98
Aldi, 343 Mid Rivers Mall Drive, 100
All Stars Sports Pub and Grill, 1042 Venture Drive Ste., 98
AmVets Memorial Post 106, 360 Brown Road, 100
Anthony's Produce, 701 Jungermann Rd, 100
Ariake Japanese Steakhouse, 258-262 Mid Rivers Center, 98
Aro-Mart, 3755 Highway 94 S, 100
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Small spaces just don't lend themselves to tons of technology, right? Tell that to the owner of this New York City condo.
Gregory Han at Unplggd found this model home, which is a model example of how smaller homeowners shouldn't have to suffer—at least when it comes to technology. The 37-foot living/dining space features a Vivitek VIH1080FD 1080p projector, a JVC TH-BA1 soundbar, and a wireless subwoofer. Some of the technology is hidden inside a nearby media closet.
However, the theater isn't the only tech tucked inside this compact living space. Other features include access and video monitoring via the Virtual Doorman, Sharp's Microwave Drawer, and a built-in floor VacPan crumb vent.
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VELPEN — Mary Ann Vaughn, 82, passed away at 7 a.m. Sunday in the emergency room of Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center in Jasper.
Born Jan. 29, 1932, in Velpen, she was the daughter of Ralph and Ruth (King) Henning.
Mary was a retired Otwell Elementary School teacher. She was a member of the Winslow Order of the Eastern Star and enjoyed crocheting, sewing and scrapbooking.
She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Mike and Janet Vaughn of Velpen; two daughters, Kathy Vaughn of Marietta, Georgia, and Linda Vaughn of Velpen; one stepdaughter, Carol Cherry of Lakeland, Florida; one sister, Imogene Russell of Winslow; four grandchildren, Darla Sullivan of Lynnville, Kurt Vaughn of Petersburg, Melissa Vaughn of Evansville, and Katie Vaughn of Velpen; two stepgrandchildren, Delorah Eileen Miller and Harold Frederick "Rick" Miller, both of Florida; and eight great-grandchildren.
Her husband, Chester H. Vaughn, whom she married Dec. 6, 1950, in Otwell, died March 19, 2014.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Nass and Son Funeral Home in Huntingburg. Burial will be in Walnut Grove Cemetery in Velpen.
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BOJ can simply absorb the government bonds in the market. Then the government would be paying interest to BOJ (government itself).
The problem is that banks have too much government bonds and BOJ too litlle (even IMF says).
Japan is not screwed. There are many ways.
Japan spends 50% of its revenues on debt service at 0% rates. Any sort of shift in their interest rates means they will spend more than their revenues on debt service alone. Inflation is not a solution to their problem because inflation will shift their interest rates. In the end, they will be forced to devalue their currency massively and the end will be hyperinflation.
Note: Remember that revenues move linearly with inflation/NGDP while expenses move exponentially when your debt is 20-25 times the revenue you take in. Therefore, any sort of shift in interest rates and you are screwed.
As for the waste, well they are still plugging away with that reprocessing plant up at Rokkasho, no?
Probably want to restart the plants (after careful inspection), plan for which ones may need retiring, and which ones may benefit from lessons learned from the Tsunami, and at least use nuclear to deal with baseload electrical requirements in the near to medium term, say until things are sorted out about natural gas.
Otherwise, any possibility Japan would try to develop a thorium-based demonstration plant for electrical generation?
Yes. You keep on doing this until government tax revenues overtake the debt (balancing the budget). The point is that government needs to spend in order to stimulate the economy. This is what you do when you are in deflation.
This is what the macroeconomic simulations show. At least ...
What places did you have in mind? I actually like out of the way, backwater places in Japan, particularly up in the mountains.
And are such localities more of a case of towns getting marred by abandoned houses, but the nearby, major roads are in good shape, etc.?
That is purely speculative because what you describe is a model that makes a bunch of false assumptions that don't exist in reality: honesty, transparency, and rationality.
"Mr Feldman notes that in Mr Abe's campaign documents there was no mention of debt."
Too much focus on debt is what has been preventing Japan's growth. What is important is the debt/GDP which is around 2. If this ratio is getting smaller, there is nothing wrong.
Increasing the debt by X (tax breaks, public projects, or whatever) will also increase GDP by X. Government spending is one of the components of GDP.
Let's to a simple math ...
(debt + X)/(GDP + X) < debt/GDP
So, it heads in the right direction at least.
"I thought the LDP was pretty open about restarting the nuclear plants, and has a mandate of sorts to proceed with such a program following the election? "
Well, the December election was a choice between borderline insane Right and completely insane Left, as far as Nuclear Policy was concerned. Neither side even mentioned the elephant in the living room: Permanent disposal of nuclear waste from Fukushima.
I would be VERY uncomfortable in putting all the eggs in nuclear basket regarding energy supply this Summer.
Micheal Dunne,
If you go to really backwater places where average age of the local population is above 60, you can see all the dilapidation in the form of totally abandoned hamlets.
How about
a) higher post Lehman growth than the US, the EU
b) besides being a country with very high gdp per capita it is still ethnic homogenous. Which is in my eyes a bigger asset than any vibrant diversity in the west (which means mass immigration from subsaharan and muslim countries) can ever be
A simple excise tax would have been much more efficient in impacting said behavior. As an aside, short term demand fluctuations are mitigated by the fungible nature of the commodity (foreign nations equally share the benefit) and the fact that the market supply can easily adjust in the medium term to the new pricing environment (reducing supply until an equilibrium is reached near the non-distorted long term equilibrium).
Shale Gas is recent "discovery",it is not explained in petrology literature,minor earthquakes ensued when extracting Gas,as reported in the media.
Can you enlighten me or others (with reading deficits) as to how it is done with potential costs and benefits?
Well the way the post is written, the Plaza accord is referenced in a seemingly negative tone, especially when accompanied by vague statements like "Caesar may take" and "us had rightfully taken back a good chunk"
I understand inertia, but six years is a heck of a long time.
Have fun trying to past blame on one policy after six years had past and a number of different dynamics came into play around an enormous, internal asset bubble. And Japan's economy as a whole was still relatively closed.
If the west (and US in particular) should get dinged for anything, it was pushing for/cheerleading deregulation of the financial markets, without helping ensure markets don't become unbalanced means of speculation.
But the US stock market, (and other parts of the financial sector like S&Ls), as well as stock markets and real estate markets in various European countries also took on speculative animal spirits at the time. Seems that was part of the zeitgeist of the 1980s.
All that's been announced is that Japan is buying up ESM bonds:
Japan is also growing it's foreign reserves - that may or may not involve buying up Italian, Spanish & French bonds (which, to be fair, are probably a better bet than the more than $1 trillion in US treasury bonds).
A euro now buys 120 yen and rising fast - this seems like a big intervention:
And this movement certainly does seem to line up with the biggest recent falls in bond yields in Italy/ Spain:
Of course, this could be somewhat coincidental. But Japan is totally flooding markets right now and overwhelming institutional investors on the euro/ yen - the question then becomes: what assets are being bought (beyond US treasuries)? And who are these assets being bought from (they'll be displaced into buying other stuff)?
I happen to believe that a decline in Italian-German yields spreads is a safe bet anyway, since the Italian deficit has gone, inflation adjusted debt levels will fall in 2013 and recapitalised banks & more confident businesses will generally want to hold higher yielding sources of liquidity.
Fair enough = you're right.
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There are some mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters who prefer to take the slow path to the top, then there's Conor McGregor.
The never-shy Irishman wants to go straight to the pinnacle of the fight game as soon as possible, despite having competed only twice (both wins) under the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) banner.
Looking to inch himself closer to a title fight with a win over new opponent Diego Brandao at UFC Fight Night 46 on July 19, 2014 in Dublin, Ireland, "Notorious" is confused as to why his colleagues don't aim for title shots, as well.
In his view, if you aren't lobbying for the shot at the champion's belt, then you have no business in the fight game.
But winning a title isn't enough for McGregor, who told The Great MMA Debate podcast (via MMA Fighting) that he aims to go down as the greatest of all time.
His words:
"I want that target on my back. I want every one of them. I don't understand how so many of these guys are signed to the UFC and have had so many fights in the UFC and have no aspirations whatsoever of the belt. Have never once mentioned the champion. Have never once put themselves out there to get that. I don't understand that. From the day I signed last year my eyes are on the gold. I don't understand people that don't. Anyone that's in my way is in the firing line. The way I'm doing it, I'm doing it the right way. I just don't understand those guys and there's so many of them. So many of them that are in the UFC that have no aspirations to win the belt. They shouldn't be there. I'm out here working to become the greatest. That's my goal. I'm looking to go down as the greatest of all time. Hall of fame. History maker."
While Conor has yet to earn himself a title shot, he has garnered a loyal fan base as well as the MMA media's attention. Something some longtime MMA veterans have yet to do.
That's because the brash featherweight isn't one to keep his mouth shut and is always willing to give his opinion or call out any fighter, regardless of weight class.
Some may view it as unnecessary trash-talking and disrespect, while Conor sees it as putting himself out there as a way of trying to get that target on his back.
Something that seems to be working.


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Michael Dyer, whose play was key for Auburn as they won the 2011 BCS National Championship Game, hopes he can make his return to football this upcoming year, but it doesn't look like he'll be able to do it at a BCS squad as previously hoped.
The last we heard of Dyer, he was interested in playing at TCU, and there were also reports that he was interested in playing for Arkansas as a walk-on. However, those opportunities, as well as an opportunity at Louisville have apparently fallen through, with all those teams rescinding prior interest: ESPN's Joe Schad reports that the running back has heard from Sun Belt squads Western Kentucky and Troy, as well as FCS Illinois State, and that he'd like to be enrolled at one of the schools within two weeks. A grain of salt is required: previous reports of Dyer's interest at various schools have also come from Schad with Dyer's uncle as the primary source, and that's the same situation we have here.
Dyer's twisting, turning college career has already had three stops. First was Auburn, where the high school All-American broke Bo Jackson's record for rushing yards by a freshman, including a 143-yard effort in the national title game that earned him offensive MVP honors. But before the team's 2011 bowl game, Dyer was suspended by Auburn, and eventually he opted to transfer. He chose to go to Arkansas State to play with his Auburn offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, but would never suit up for the Red Wolves after a run-in with the law featuring a gun and marijuana. Charges against him were later dropped, but it was enough to cost him his spot on the team. Recently, he was alleged by former teammate Mike McNeil to have been academically ineligible for the 2011 title game.
Dyer claims he hasn't smoked marijuana, real or synthetic, in over six months, and says he no longer carries a gun. He didn't play football while attaining an associate's degree at Arkansas Baptist, but wants to get back on the field with hopes of getting a full college degree or perhaps making the NFL. He still has two years of eligibility remaining, and should have the talent to do serious damage at a mid-major if no big school is interested.
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Taxation as a social choice problem : The scope of the Laffer argument
AbstractThis paper studies the form of the tax equilibrium set in simple Diamond-Mirrlees models and characterizes the corresponding Laffer curves. The curves need not ever slope downward and can have multiple local maxima. Local information about them is thus not sufficient to place restrictions on optimal choice among tax systems. In this simple framework, the problem of choice among tax systems is shown to have no more structure than an abstract social choice problem
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Let's take a long, hard look at who's leading us
With all the things that are not going on in our government these days, I would like to see a poll of how many people watch the State of the Union Address last night. With a president that has a approval rating of 49 percent and a Congress that has a 13 percent rating, I think that it is very hard for people these days to be very interested in much of anything that is going on in our nation's capital.
What really struck me was how they were all looking like rich and happy people that they must be. All the women had beautiful outfits and perfect hair. All the men had expensive suits and fresh haircuts. Everyone was smiling, greeting each other and patting each other on the back. I got the impression that these were a group of people that worked together and really enjoyed each other's company. I think that anyone who is following what is not happening in Washington knows that this is not the case.
I want to confess as I continue, I voted twice for this president and I support most of his agenda. For him to be blamed that nothing is being done to get our country back on its feet is ridiculous. This Congress and Senate cannot get together and agree on one thing that could be sent to the president for his approval or disapproval. It is said that the second term of a president is a lame duck session. I would have to say that his five years in office have been a lame duck session. I think that his only really big accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, will be the only one thing that he will be remembered for. Oh, did I mention that Congress has voted 40 times to try and repeal that. The president said if the Congress couldn't get anything done, he would resort to signing what is called an executive order to move anything forward. Well Congress doesn't like that. Now he doesn't want to work with them. What are these guys and gals, a bunch of fourth-graders!