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 A peer-reviewed journal that aims to strengthen the research voice of local government in the Commonwealth by providing a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in local government ideas and practices. Its overall focus is upon improving local governance and supporting local government as an agent of development. The journal is auspiced by the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (UK), edited by Cardiff University (UK), and published by the UTS Centre for Local Government. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4059 Editorial 2015-05-20T07:53:25+10:00 Roberta Ryan email@example.com Su Fei Tan email@example.com The Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance is now co-edited and has a new look. Under the continued editorship of Prof. Alison Brown, the Centre for Local Government at the University of Technology, Sydney is pleased to partner with Cardiff University and the Commonwealth Local Government Forum (CLGF) to produce the journal. This new partnership will ensure the continued development of the journal as an important platform for local government researchers and practitioners to share knowledge and experience. 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4060 Does local government have capacity for enabling local economic development? Lessons from Jamaica 2015-05-20T07:57:00+10:00 Eris D Schoburgh firstname.lastname@example.com
Implementation of the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project (CARILED)1began in 2012 in seven countries for a duration of six years, to support sustainable economic growth in the region. CARILED has introduced the idea of local economic development (LED) to the 'development' debate in the region but has also brought the organisational capacity of local government, and local government's role as 'facilitator' of LED,to the fore. This paper assesses organizational behaviour and capability in local government in Jamaica to determine the state of readiness for a developmental role. The paper draws on two sets of research data to aid its analysis–a capacity audit (CAPAUD) conducted in 2010 and an organisational analysis (OA)commissioned by the Ministry of Local Government in 2010, both of which targeted a sample of local authorities in Jamaica.

The study found that when assessed against established criteria for an LED organisation, ie: research and information provision; marketing and coordination; learning and innovation; and leadership - local government's institutional and organisational capacity for development is unevenly distributed. For instance, local leaders understood organisational purpose but efforts to give effect to this appeared undeveloped, sporadic and uni-directional. It was also evident that participatory strategies are used to gain information from communities but these were often devoid of systematic research methodologies rendering formal community impact on local planning negligent. Finally there is strong potential for the kind of administrative leadership required by a developmental local government to evolve,indicated by the quality of training, quantum of managerial/supervisory staff, and stability of staff establishment. However, this potential is threatened by the deficiencies in the non-traditional functional areas that are strategic to the organisation's effectiveness as a 'facilitator' of LED, ie:alignment of community engagement/interface with LED priorities, diffusion of information technology in organisational processes, and utilisation of policy analysis and development. These findings contribute important policy relevant information to the discourses in the region about the construction of alternative solutions to institutional and organisational problems in response to the economic crises of small island developing states (SIDS).
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Public libraries (often operated by or on behalf of local governments) potentially play a pivotal role for local governments in positioning communities within the global digital network. Fourteen qualitative interviews with library experts informed the study which investigates how the relationship between digital technology and the physical library space can potentially support the community to develop innovative, collaborative environments for transitioning to a digital future. The study found that libraries can capitalise on their position as community hubs for two purposes: first, to build vibrant community networks and forge economic links across urban localities; and second, to cross the digital divide and act as places of innovation and lifelong learning. Libraries provide a specific combination of community and technology spaces and have significant tangible connection points in the digital age. 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It has two aims: first, to discover the extent to which the work programmes announced in the British government's Rural White Paper (RWP 2000) (DETR-MAFF 2000) are recognised by town clerks, and second, to find out what town councils are doing, either on their own, or with others, and to gauge the potential and desire that they have for a greater degree of autonomy. In both cases the data was gathered from an online questionnaire sent to town clerks. 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4064 Local democracy and public accountability in Uganda: The need for organisational learning 2015-05-20T08:04:40+10:00 Stella Kyohairwe firstname.lastname@example.com The paper examines the impact of public accountability mechanisms in the Uganda's decentralisation local governments. 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The conclusions of the paper points to inefficiencies are the universal applicability of the concept of local democracy leading to a suggestion of new mechanisms of public accountability that emerge from organisational learning. 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4065 Impoverishment assessment of slum dwellers after off-site and on-site resettlement: a case of Indore 2015-05-20T08:09:53+10:00 Sejal Patel firstname.lastname@example.com Ritika Mandhyan email@example.com This paper is an attempt to assess the impacts of off-site and on-site resettlement projects in Indore by comparing slum dwellers lives before and after the implementation of the projects, complimenting and corroborating a sister paper based on fieldwork in Ahmedabad (Patel, Sliuzas, Mathur, & Miscione, fortcoming). The impact analysis is based on the indicators of impoverishment risks due to displacement and resettlement formulated by Cernea (2000a) in his Impoverishment Risks and Reconstruction (IRR) model. The findings indicates the presence of the following forms of impoverishment which Cernea proposed for the displacees: significant loss in household assets, increased joblessness or unemployment, loss of access to common services, increased health risks, marginalisation and social disarticulation, all of which have compounded their vulnerability and chances of falling deeper into poverty. The paper also argues that compared to off-site and on-site resettlement displacees were less affected by negative consequences and impoverishment risks. The paper concludes with recommendations for slum resettlement policies of local government so that impoverishment risks can be reasonably averted. 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4066 The state of HIV sector local governance in Malawi and Zambia: Evidence from five districts 2015-05-20T08:12:30+10:00 Justin Steyn email@example.com This paper encapsulates the outputs of a Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC) funded project that aimed to improve the levels of HIV governance at the district level in Malawi and Zambia by encouraging public participation in an effort to more effective use of local resources. The methodology for this project, developed by the Institute for Democracy in Africa (Idasa) and SDC, included a barometer which assessed perceptions of district HIV governance among key stakeholders. Perceptions were gathered on governance principles of effectiveness, efficiency, rule of law, accountability, participation and equity. The stakeholders ranged from administrators, political representatives, community-based organisations and the private sector on the supply side and citizens on the demand or beneficiary side. The findings of the research indicate specific sector governance issues that may be generalised to governance. Communication and transparency appear to be major issues underpinning the bottlenecks and shortcomings in the HIV sector governance at the district level. Information gaps have given rise to accountability deficits and coordination deficiencies. Addressing these matters would make more effective use of resources and lessen dependence on external funding sources. 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4067 Community-based participatory irrigation management at local government level in Ghana 2015-05-20T08:15:44+10:00 I Braimah firstname.lastname@example.com R S King email@example.com D M Sulemana firstname.lastname@example.com Ghana has attempted to decentralise the management of irrigation schemes to communities at local government level. This study examines the existing local participatory management structures and the principles of the Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) strategy designed to promote sustainable management of irrigation schemes in Ghana. Two community-based irrigation projects, Bontanga and Golinga in the Northern Region of Ghana were selected for the research. The study demonstrated that farmers' participation was minimal and limited to the discussion of irrigation service charges at the expense of other issues related to the sustainability of the projects/schemes. The study also established that there was less participation of women, and more than half of all the crop farmers on the two irrigation projects were reluctant to assume additional responsibilities without remuneration. The study therefore concluded that the sustainability of the PIM strategy depends on the adoption of an integrated management approach involving all stakeholders including local government, with appropriate incentives. 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4068 Going somewhere slowly? An assessment of the pace of local government HIV/AIDs multisectoral responses in African cities 2015-05-20T08:17:25+10:00 Francis Kintu firstname.lastname@example.com Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have the highest rates of HIV prevalence in the world accounting for an estimated 71% of all new infections (UNAIDS 2010). HIV prevalence is greatest in urban informal areas, caused largely by the proliferation of a variety of risk environments that facilitate the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS. As a strategic response to the complex nature of the HIV/AIDs epidemic in urban areas, decentralised multisectoral HIV/AIDs responses at the local government level have been adopted. These are seen as a sustainable way of dealing with the spread of HIV/AIDs in a number of African cities, in line with internationally accepted recommendations. 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Local government is working hard to ensure that the post-2015 global development agenda reflects the important role of local government in implementing the new targets. It is a unique opportunity for local government to make its voice heard, to promote the importance of localisation of the new targets, and to position local government as a key partner in the implementation of the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4070 Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World: GOLD III 2015-05-20T08:20:59+10:00 Claire Frost email@example.com Basic Services for All in an Urbanizing World is the third instalment in United Cities and Local Government's (UCLG) flagship series of global reports on local democracy and decentralisation (GOLD III). In the context of rapid urbanisation, climate change and economic uncertainty the report is an impressive attempt to analyse local government's role in the provision of basic services, the challenges they are facing, and make recommendations to improve local government's ability to ensure access for all. Published in 2014, the report is well positioned to feed into the current debate on what will follow the UN Millennium Development Goals, and examines the role of local government in the provision of basic services across the world regions. 2014-07-23T00:00:00+10:00 http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/cjlg/article/view/4071 New Century Local Government: Commonwealth Perspectives 2015-05-20T08:22:14+10:00 Gareth Wall email@example.com This ambitious and highly informative volume is premised on both the seismic shift in the perceived developmental role of local government across the globe, and the challenges that local governments will face as their key role in achieving the post-2015 sustainable development goals is increasingly being recognised within the global policy fora. New Century Local Government brings together an impressively wide geographic spread of country case studies from across the four regions of the Commonwealth, and pulls together work by leading scholars of local government who are all members of the Commonwealth Local Government Research Advisory Group (CLGF-RAG). It provides a plethora of detailed country case studies arranged around three themes: decentralisation in the Caribbean, Pakistan and England, local government finance and local economic development in India, South Africa and Tanzania, and new approaches to governance in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Not only do the papers provide detailed accounts of the changes in policy and practice within their focus country cases – but many of them, notably the papers by Brown, Reid, McKinlay and Sansom include a comparative perspective with developments from Commonwealth countries in other regions, which is one of the key strengths of the volume. 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The owner of a Florida hot dog stand said the 1982 black Cadillac hearse he parks by the stand during its open hours is an effective attention-getting device.
Jim Belcher, 50, who grew up in a Boston-area funeral home, said curious customers come to see the hearse parked next to his Hallacious Hot Dogs stand in Lakeland but they stay for the wieners, The (Lakeland) Ledger reported Wednesday.
People see this, and they want to know what's going on over here. It's unreal how it works, but it works, he said.
I'm pretty popular. It's not because of the hearse, it's the food.
Belcher said he initially purchased the Cadillac from his family's funeral home three years ago with the intent to use it for a cadaver transport business, but the plan fell through and he used the vehicle as storage when he opened his hot dog stand in 2008.
It's a head-turner, Belcher said.
I use it for storage. It's the best kind of car you can have. But that's as far as I go. I don't cut meat in there.

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9 October 2014
9 October 2014
—The European Commission has taken an important step towards ending the micromanagement of EU fisheries through key changes to Advisory Councils to give them a stronger voice and more balanced representation in fisheries policy.
6 October 2014
Sustainability and regionalisation prioritised as Commission proposes multiannual fisheries management for the Baltic Sea
6 October 2014
—In order to increase predictability for fishermen and to ensure high, stable and sustainable catches, the European Commission has, for the first time under the new Common Fisheries Policy, proposed a multiannual fisheries management plan for the Baltic Sea that applies to cod, herring and sprat stocks.
3 October 2014
Commission decreases deep-sea fishing opportunities for 2015-2016 in the North-East Atlantic to protect vulnerable species
3 October 2014
—Deep sea ecosystems and fish stocks are particularly vulnerable to human activities. In line with scientific advice, the Commission proposed an increase of total allowable catches (TACs) for 4 stocks in the North-East Atlantic, a decrease for 9 stocks, and a status quo for 5 stocks as compared to 2014.
29 September 2014
EU welcomes North Atlantic Fisheries Organisation's commitment to sustainability, science, and control
29 September 2014
—The European Commission has welcomed the outcomes of the 36th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO) held in Vigo, Spain from 22 to 26 September 2014.
17 September 2014
17 September 2014
—The setting of Total Allowable Catch for NAFO fish stocks will take centre stage at the 36th Annual Meeting to be held in Vigo, Galicia from 22-26 September 2014.
16 September 2014
Seminar on the state of European stocks and the economics of the fishing fleets: few seats still available
16 September 2014
—On 26 September, the European Commission organises a seminar where scientists and experts will discuss the state of European fish stocks and the economics of fishing fleets around the EU.
15 September 2014
Call for Applications - Membership of the Scientific, Technical and Economic Committee for Fisheries (STECF)
15 September 2014
—Interested candidates are invited to send an application to the Commission by 15 December 2014.
15 September 2014
Commissioner Damanaki welcomes protection of shark and ray species threatened by unsustainable trade
15 September 2014
—Since 14 September 2014, eight shark and ray species have received extra protection from unsustainable trade. They have been listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and now have to be accompanied by export or import permits issued by EU countries when they enter or leave the EU market.


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In U-Turn, Beinart Slams Israel, AIPAC
Warns Zionism is increasingly for the Orthodox
This is what we'll be talking about all week. Prominent liberal journalist Peter Beinart has predicted that Zionism among young American Jews is increasingly the exclusive reserve of the insensitive, illiberal Orthodox. Moreover, he blames this trend on AIPAC, the Anti-Defamation League, and the rest of the establishment. These organizations, by insisting on all-but-unquestioned support for Israel and its governments' policies, have served, he argues, as "intellectual bodyguards for Israeli leaders who threaten the very liberal values they profess to admire."
Here is the essay's crux: "For several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism's door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism instead."
Beinart is one-time editor of the staunchly pro-Israel New Republic. He prominently supported the Iraq invasion and specifically chastised fellow Democrats who didn't. He has since repudiated that support, but even so, it is not a little surprising to see a one-time genuine hawk calling Israeli "new historian" Tom Segev "fearless." (Under his leadership TNR endorsed Joe Lieberman in the 2004 Democratic primaries. Joe Lieberman!)
And even that is not as jarring as Beinart's choice of venue. The New York Review of Books is the premier outlet for essays that are critical of Zionism; it famously published Tony Judt's repudiation of Zionism in 2003. Tellingly, this is Beinart's first contribution to the journal. Among other things, Beinart's decision is designed to reassure you that, no, you're not misreading it, and, yes, his piece really does represent a genuine shift for him. It also means Beinart chose to trade a certain amount of credibility with those who disagree with his conclusions in exchange for solidarity with those who do. Not to be overly cynical, but Beinart's new book is out in two weeks.
Beinart's essay may not garner quite the controversy that Judt's did, but older American Jewish liberals won't enjoy being told that their strong support for Israel is illiberal. They will make some immediate counterpunches, and will also take issue with Beinart's handling of the relevant research, which may not suggest a permanent generation gap on the question of Israel (more on this in a bit).
The left will applaud Beinart, although he remains a Zionist—there are no better prizes for them than once-hawkish Jewish apostates. Meanwhile, J Street may be a little afraid to embrace him, even though his critical, liberal Zionism seems like a good match. (Beinart conspicuously does not mention the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" group.)
The Orthodox? Well, they won't be too happy, and few will blame them. (Beinart attends an Orthodox synagogue. Awkward!)
Quick prediction: The sentence that will attract the most ire is, "Not only does the organized American Jewish community mostly avoid public criticism of the Israeli government, it tries to prevent others from leveling such criticism as well." It will be very easy for critics to mention Walt and Mearsheimer as an inspiration.
After the jump: A couple key paragraphs and the anticipated counter-arguments. I'll round-up the responses in the afternoon, assuming any writers or bloggers decide to respond to Beinart's essay. (That was a joke.)
Here are what we in the journalism business call the nut grafs:
Among American Jews today, there are a great many Zionists, especially in the Orthodox world, people deeply devoted to the State of Israel. And there are a great many liberals, especially in the secular Jewish world, people deeply devoted to human rights for all people, Palestinians included. But the two groups are increasingly distinct. Particularly in the younger generations, fewer and fewer American Jewish liberals are Zionists; fewer and fewer American Jewish Zionists are liberal. One reason is that the leading institutions of American Jewry have refused to foster—indeed, have actively opposed—a Zionism that challenges Israel's behavior in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and toward its own Arab citizens. For several decades, the Jewish establishment has asked American Jews to check their liberalism at Zionism's door, and now, to their horror, they are finding that many young Jews have checked their Zionism instead.
Morally, American Zionism is in a downward spiral. If the leaders of groups like AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations do not change course, they will wake up one day to find a younger, Orthodox-dominated, Zionist leadership whose naked hostility to Arabs and Palestinians scares even them, and a mass of secular American Jews who range from apathetic to appalled. Saving liberal Zionism in the United States—so that American Jews can help save liberal Zionism in Israel—is the great American Jewish challenge of our age. And it starts where Luntz's students wanted it to start: by talking frankly about Israel's current government, by no longer averting our eyes.
So what will the rebuttals say?
• At the center of the essay is the contention that young American Jews feel less of an affinity to Israel than their elders, which is based on a couple cited reports. The essay's critics will accuse Beinart of ignoring subsequent research that called those reports into question, and of abusing the reports' conclusions. They will point to reports from past decades that suggest that young American Jews always feel less of an affinity for Israel—they grow into it.
• Beinart attacks those who undermine human rights organizations' work uncovering alleged Israeli abuses. His caveat: "Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are not infallible." Many will find that quite the understatement.
• Beinart's allegation of Israeli illiberalism ignores the historical and geopolitical contexts in which Israel operates, his critics will say. The liberalism of the bien pensant American Jewish intellectual is a little easier to come by than the liberalism of the embattled Israeli prime minister. Of course, this is part of why the victimhood narrative is important.
• This technically has no bearing on the substance of the piece, but … Beinart has a new book coming out. It's his first since 2006's The Good Fight, which argued for muscular liberalism. I have not read his new book, but something called The Icarus Syndrome could only offer fuller regret for his one-time hawkishness. An essay such as this is just the sort of thing to both get attention generally and endear him to the left specifically.
• The choice of venue makes it all too easy for the right to pounce. So easy, in fact, that one must conclude that Beinart isn't addressing this to the right: It is aimed primarily to energize the left and, in addition, to put the notion in the heads of those who espouse a critical Zionism that they may be running out of time.
• Many, many other things that I'm missing right now, but which I don't doubt I'll be reminded of as the day goes on.
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J.C. Sherritt Captures Buck Buchanan Award
FRISCO, Texas, Jan. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A year after finishing runner-up in the Buck Buchanan Award voting, Eastern Washington's J.C. Sherritt reeled it in.
The voting was tight, but on Thursday night, Sherritt was named the 2010 winner of the defensive player of the year award in the Football Championship Subdivision. The Sports Network presents and Fathead.com sponsors the 16th annual Buchanan Award.
Sherritt, second last year to James Madison defensive end Arthur Moats (now a linebacker with the Buffalo Bills), captured 24 of the 130 first-place votes and 253 points. Wofford junior defensive end Ameet Pall and Western Illinois senior linebacker Kyle Glazier tied for second place with 234 points.
The 5-foot-10, 220-pound Sherritt finished the regular season ranked 10th in the FCS with 11.36 tackles per game. He had at least 10 tackles in nine straight games, totaled 10 tackles for loss, including 2.5 sacks, intercepted three passes, broke up four, forced two fumbles, recovered one and had two quarterback hurries. Behind its captain, Eastern Washington (12-2) was co-champion of the Big Sky Conference and advanced to the FCS playoffs for a second straight year. Friday, the Eagles will meet Delaware in the FCS Championship Game.
"It's been an awesome year," said Sherritt, who plays strong-side inside linebacker.
"If I get in the 40, I'm not the fastest guy. And I can't jump the highest. On a football field, I can usually react pretty well to the ball and get to the ball pretty quickly. I don't know if it's something you're born with. I know my coaches help me a lot with my reads. To have a great front four in front of you really helps."
The Buchanan Award was voted on by a national panel of sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries.
Joining Sherritt, Pall, Glazier, Evans and Holmes as Buchanan Award finalists were defensive tackles Kenrick Ellis of Hampton and Martin Parker of Richmond; nose tackle Brent Russell of Georgia Southern; defensive ends Jabari Fletcher of Appalachian State and Mario Kurn of San Diego; linebackers Eric McBride of Richmond, Bryce Smith of Samford, D.J. Smith of Appalachian State, Antoine Wilkinson of Missouri State and Jabara Williams of Stephen F. Austin; cornerbacks Korey Lindsey of Southern Illinois and Trumaine Johnson of Montana; and safeties Mark LeGree of Appalachian State, Eugene Clifford of Tennessee State and James Vercammen of Dayton. The ballot had two players who gained write-in votes, UT Martin linebacker Josh Bey and South Carolina State linebacker David Erby.
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It is only in the case of a brain death that transplant of vital organs like heart, kidneys, lungs can happen.Wednesday, 19 December 2012 - 4:18am
They have called themselves the people's parliament, the 'Jan Sansad'. And on Wednesday, this group of various people's movements at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, rejected the government's 'game-changer' cash transfer scheme.Thursday, 29 November 2012 - 10:00am
Take time out from your research work to mug up facts — something that university education taught you to unlearn. This sums up what the new format of the UGC-NET, the eligibility test for lectureship, means to students.Friday, 16 November 2012 - 9:30am
"Which river did Akbar drink water from?". This is the kind of questions research scholars are expected to answer in order to be eligible to teach in universities and colleges in India.Wednesday, 14 November 2012 - 8:29pm
The gap between policy and practice and how practice with its detailed knowledge of implementation can enrich policy was discussed at the 60th meeting of the CABE held in New Delhi.Saturday, 10 November 2012 - 10:15am
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Both women in Aiyyaa and English Vinglish have a similar struggle: Each wants to be her own person in a world that has other plans for them.Sunday, 4 November 2012 - 10:45am
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I think the Romulan players should have the ability to purchase Tier 2, Tier 3 and Tier 4 KDF or Fed Starships with their Free Ship Token also, so it can give lower level Romulans players more flexibility depending on their profession class and/or if they wanna try something different. cause i don't think Veteran players would be willing to put alot of dilithium to buy lower tier KDF/Fed ships and Newbie players would not be able to have the dilithium to afford them and if they can, they would most likely save it up for tier 5 items or C-store stuff.
If the Romulans and KDF/Feds are allies, i don't think the KDF and Feds would mind giving their technically inferior obsolete lower tier ships to their Romulan allies for a Free Ship Token under their own version of ''Lend-Lease'' to the Romulan Republic.
As for my Rommie char, i will still stick with the Romulan Warbirds since my Rommie gonna be a Xenophobe when it comes to Starships, but can't say the same about space sets and weapons at tier 5...
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The world's collective birthday wish that Selena Gomez would not get back with Justin Bieber this year unfortunately did not come true.
At another one of her 21st birthday parties in Malibu this weekend (girl is 21 now and wants everyone to know it), Justin showed up unannounced at the Revolve Clothing beach house, bringing with him a single red rose as a gift for the singer-actress.
That's nice and all, but rose schmose, what she really should've been flattered by was Justin taking time off from his tour to see her on the special occasion, because while a lone flower costs about $2, for someone like Bieber, time is money and he's worth like a gazillion.
"Justin flew in specifically for the party on a day off from his tour," a source told Us Weekly. "He wasn't dressed in costume [the party was gypsy-themed], but carried a single red rose in his hand."
Jaden Smith, who was also at the party, helped Justin and Selena exit the gathering incognito; he helped cover them with a blanket and umbrella, the source added. They were supposedly holding hands as they made their getaway. To where? That's uncertain, but we're sure it won't be the last time.


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Jamie Lucas McClanahan of Paris Crossing and Michael "Todd" Durham of Deputy plan to marry at 4 p.m. Sept. 27 at United Christian Church, Paris Crossing. A reception will follow at Marion Township Community Center.
She is the daughter of Garnett Lucas, Seymour, and the late James W. Lucas. He is the son of Robert and Barb Durham, Ponchatula, Louisiana.
The bride-to-be is a 1990 graduate of Seymour High School and is employed with Seymour Moose Lodge 418 as a bartender.
The future groom is a 1989 graduate of Silver Creek High School, Sellersburg, and is employed with Valeo Lighting Systems.


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When Austin Holland was being considered for his job as the sole seismologist at the Oklahoma Geological Survey in 2009, his interviewer posed a wry question: "Are you going to be able to entertain yourself as a seismologist in Oklahoma?"
Back then, the state had a 30-year average of only two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or higher per year. As it turns out, though, boredom has been the least of Holland's concerns. Over the last five years, the state has had thousands of earthquakes — an unprecedented increase that has made it the second-most seismically active state in the continental United States, behind California.
The state had 109 temblors measuring 3.0 or greater in 2013 — more than 5,000% above normal. There have already been more than 200 earthquakes this year, Holland said.
Scientists have never observed such a dramatic swarm of earthquakes "in what's considered a stable continental interior," Holland said. "Whatever we're looking at, it's completely unprecedented."
Oklahoma has always had the potential for earthquakes; it has a complex underlying fault system. But until recently, the most powerful quake of the modern era was a 5.5-magnitude temblor in 1952 that left a 15-meter crack in the state Capitol.
Scientists say the more likely cause of the recent increase is underground injection wells drilled by the oil and gas industry. About 80% of the state is within nine miles of an injection well, according to the Oklahoma Geological Survey.
Oklahoma has seen a boom in oil and gas production, including the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — the process of shooting water, sand and chemicals deep into the earth at high pressure to extract oil and natural gas. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and several universities suggest there is a link between the quakes and disposal wells, where wastewater from fracking is forced into deep geological formations for storage.
Industry officials are not ready to definitively accept responsibility but support additional studies of a possible link. "It warrants more research, but a rush to judgment is going to provide no clear understanding of the causes," said Cody Bannister, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Assn.
All the shaking has worried residents and prompted one Oklahoma City newspaper to explain earthquake measures. (Magnitude 4 to 4.3: "Vibrations like heavy trucks passing ... glasses clink." Magnitude 5.5 to 6.1: "Difficult to stand ... furniture breaks.")
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake in 2011 damaged homes and buckled a highway here in Prague, about 45 miles east of Oklahoma City. Now, "As soon as people walk in, the first thing out of their mouths is 'earthquake insurance,'" said Jennica Haddox, an insurance policy saleswoman at the local Farm Bureau.
Nerves have been on edge. When the Oklahoma City area was rattled Monday morning by several new earthquakes, one of them as large as a magnitude 4.3, it startled on-air broadcasters. "Earthquake!" KWTV Channel 9 meteorologist Lacey Swope yelled, her eyes wide as the studio lights shook. "I've never felt one that big!"
The Oklahoma Geological Survey, trying to keep up with all the work, hired a second seismologist this year and has added new seismic stations across the state.
Several residents described their shock at feeling their first quake. One man thought a truck had hit his house. Another ran to check his washing machine, thinking it had gone off balance.
"The only thing I'd ever felt that was like an earthquake was the bombing in Oklahoma City in 1995," said Charles Justice, 47, who lives in a mobile home in the town of Guthrie, about 30 miles north of the capital. After an early-morning quake a few months ago, he said, his "first thought was that ... the blocks under the house had fallen."
Oklahoma has about 4,500 active disposal wells, said Matt Skinner, a spokesman for the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which regulates drilling. With the increase in seismic activity, the commission has asked the state Legislature to approve rules that would increase monitoring and testing requirements for many of the wells.
In September, the commission ordered a wastewater well operator in southern Oklahoma to "drastically reduce his injection pressure and volume" after a swarm of earthquakes nearby. There are no rules requiring seismic studies before wells begin operations, Skinner said.
The focus on drilling has been sensitive in Oklahoma, where 1 in 6 jobs is tied to the industry.
In the town of Marshall, farmers and oil field workers filled the tables at lunchtime on a recent afternoon at Earnheart Oil & Propane, where three wells were visible from the parking lot.
Inside, Dillon Davis, 63, a farmer and oil field worker, recalled a recent swarm of earthquakes that seemed to come every half-hour, cracking a wall in his house and throwing a door off balance. Davis has lived in Marshall, about 50 miles north of Oklahoma City, since 1972. Until the last three years, he had never felt an earthquake.
"Some folks say it's the oil field, but it's just speculation," Davis said.


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Here, we take a stroll down memory lane to chart the evolution of the mobile phone, from its humble beginnings with the Motorola DynaTAC in 1983 to the Apple iPhone 3GS in 2009!
Google mobile: T-Mobile G1 (2008)
It had been a long time coming, but the first Google Android-powered phone to be released was the T-Mobile G1.
The G1 had a full-slide out QWERTY keyboard, a touch-screen interface, a trackball and a touch-based operating system that focused on user personalisation.
The resurrection: Palm Pre (2009)
First announced in January 2009, Palm's Pre was launched in the US in June, and is due to hit the UK next week.
Considered by many as the closest challenger to the iPhone, Palm's much-anticipated WebOS operating system has drawn many plaudits, but it remains to be seen whether this is the game breaking handset Palm needs to claw its way back into the mobile phone world.
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- We look at just how the mobile phone has evolved
- Nokia's Mobira Cityman 900 and the first GSM phone
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- Nokia's 9000 and 5110
- Snap happy
- The Palm Treo 600 and the Nokia N-Gage
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Ground-level ozone may be falling even faster than popular prediction models have been reporting, according to new research conducted by environmental experts at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
Japanese and U.S. physicists are offering new details this week in the journal Nature regarding intriguing similarities between the quirky electronic properties of a new iron-based high-temperature superconductor (HTS) and its copper-based cousins.
Astronomers have combined two decades of Hubble observations to make unprecedented movies revealing never-before-seen details of the birth pangs of new stars.
An international team of computing experts from the United States, Switzerland and Singapore has created a breakthrough technique for doubling the efficiency of computer chips simply by trimming away the portions that are rarely used.
U.S., German and Austrian physicists studying the perplexing class of materials that includes high-temperature superconductors are reporting this week the unexpected discovery of a simple "scaling" behavior in the electronic excitations measured in a related material.
Single-molecule tests help scientists address long-standing questions.
When the nose encounters two different scents simultaneously, the brain processes them separately through each nostril in an alternating fashion.
Spanish and US physicists studying nanoelectronics have found that size really does matter when it comes to predicting the behavior of electrical contacts that are just one atom wide.
This week undergraduate and graduate students in an advanced computer security course at Rice University in Houston are learning hands-on just how easy it is to wreak havoc on computer software used in today's voting machines.
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TROY - A Thursday morning fire left heavy damage to a mobile home in Troy, the town's fire chief said, and a fund has been set up at a local bank to help the displaced family.
Firefighters were called to 515 Market St. after Mary Wedding called to report the fire in the home rented by her daughter, Dayna (Bateman) Clifton. Fire Chief Pudder Linne said the blaze began in the kitchen's oven and gutted that room.
There was smoke damage to the rest of the residence.
A fund to help Clifton and her two sons, ages 16 and 18, has been established at First State Bank.
TELL CITY - Cash and a car seized during a drug bust have been forfeited and will go into a fund that will benefit the Tell City Police Department, Chief Greg Hendershot said last month.
The $8,747 in cash will go into a law-enforcement fund, he told the city's board of public works and safety, while the car will be kept by the department.
TELL CITY - Police officers in Tell City want the public's help in finding those responsible for breaking vehicle windshields in several areas of the city last week.
Tell City Police Sgt. Lynn Wooldridge said approximately a dozen calls were received about cracked or broken windshields and rear windows. He said the damage was caused by someone throwing rocks and occurred late Nov. 25 or early Nov. 26.
Anyone with information is asked to call the department at 547-7068 or the department's anonymous tip line at 547-9563.
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It is unfortunate when The News reports the failure of the referendum on the Tell City-Troy Township School bond issue. There is no doubt that the school corporation needs to catch up with four decades of neglect.
There should not be any surprise from current policy boards or current management. Build it and let it fall down from neglect is not what the voters expect from their elected and appointed officials.
LEOPOLD—The frontline was the main strength of Perry Central's boys basketball team last year, but Coach Matt Carter thinks it could be perimeter play this year.
"I think our perimeter play's pretty good," he said. "We're pretty deep at the guard position. I think ball-handling will be a strength."
The Commodores return two frontline players from last year's 9-13 team. But one of them, Alex Rogier, has played every position from center to guard so Carter included him among the depth at guard.
CANNELTON—After leading by one point at halftime, Cannelton's shooting went cold in the second half and the Bulldogs lost to Wood Memorial 54-40 in boys basketball Wednesday.
The Bulldogs hit 6 of 18 three-point shots in the first half, including a 30-footer by Ethan Patton at the buzzer to put them ahead 26-25.
But they made only 1 of 10 from beyond the arc in the second half. And that one came with 2:54 left in the game, after the Trojans had already built a 51-35 lead.
EVANSVILLE—McKenzie Hayes scored 38 points and grabbed at least 22 rebounds but Tell City lost to Reitz 81-60 in girls basketball Tuesday.
Coach John Lyons was getting the rebounding statistics off Tell City's videotape of the game, but there were about three minutes missing on it.
He planned to get Reitz's tape to see how many rebounds Hayes had in the missing minutes.
TELL CITY—Boonville won six of the 11 matches actually wrestled and also took advantage of three Tell City forfeits to beat the Marksmen 54-24 in wrestling Tuesday.
"We knew it was going to be tough, giving up 18 points," said Tell City Coach Joe Litherland.
The Marksmen also used a reserve in one weight class because their starter had missed a practice the previous week.
"You could tell it was our first match—we've got some things to work on," said Litherland. "It was their sixth match."
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Sharroky Hollie, executive director of the Center for Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning, and Robert Marzano, co-founder and CEO of Marzano Research Laboratory, recently led a professional-development session for St. Cloud, Minn., teachers in which they focused in part on cultural responsiveness and overcoming obstacles to teaching and learning. The experts also asked teachers to consider identifying and setting aside their biases and prejudices.
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A teen motorist faces his first driving under the influence (DUI) charge after a New Year's Day injury crash.
The bloodalcohol content level of Christian A. Fox, 18, of Attica, tested at .142 percent, according to the report by Trooper Evan Stevens, of the state Highway Patrol. The legal limit for drivers in Ohio is .08 percent.
At 3:15 a.m. Jan. 1, Fox was northbound on Section Line Road 30 south of Bismark Road. Stevens reported the driver went off the right side of the road and hit a ditch.
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Editorial Staff • West End • 21 Feb 2005
In truth Northern Broadsides' production style has evolved over the past 15 years. The trademark oil-drum percussion has given way in this production to a neat little group playing Conrad Nelson's jazzy film score music, with several skilled actor-musicians among the new and new-ish company members. Accents can be played down or varied: here we have Scouse Dromios and a Scottish Courtesan, both admittedly Northern accents, but traditionally Broadsides seldom strayed further west than Accrington or further north than Redcar.
The production style, hinting at caricature with its cartoon-character entrances and musical tags, has the subtlety and pace to prime the comedy – once the slow exposition is over. A prisoner in Ephesus, Egeon explains at length the separation in a ship-wreck of himself, one twin-son and one twin-servant from his wife and the other twins. Barrie Rutter's staging perhaps relies over-much on his sonorous delivery as Egeon to hold the interest here and, though the confusions of identity start on the arrival of son Antipholus and servant Dromio from Syracuse, the comedy ticks over fairly gently in a very short first half. The sublime inanities based around two sets of twins, identical in appearance, dress and (inexplicably) name, have to wait for the longer second half.
For once both sets of twins are alike enough to justify the confusion of friends, family and creditors: even the Liverpool accents, mildly irritating at first, are a useful identifier for the Dromios. Andrew Cryer, as Antipholus of Syracuse, adds the ability to generate fury from a standing start to his Bilko-like swagger and precise sense of absurd gesture. His Dromio (Conrad Nelson) brings a particular relish to the set-piece comparison of his spherical "kitchen wench" and the globe. The Ephesus pairing (Conor Ryan and Simon Holland Roberts) take their lead from the boys from Syracuse in less striking, but complementary, performances, and Adriana, wife to Antipholus of Ephesus, hits heights of comic intensity in a fine performance by Zoe Lambert (who also plays a mean accordion).
Design (by Giuseppe Belli and Emma Barrington-Binns) necessarily involves a fairly minimal set: at some venues in-house features can be exploited, like the Viaduct's iron pillars, made for climbing. A central octagonal space hints at a promenade or bandstand and bright updated costumes complete the holiday mood.
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PLAYING in the shadows of their more popular and experienced elders, three San Beda age-group basketball teams get their chance to grab the spotlight by playing in goodwill games in Guam.
"This is part of the school's sports development program to enable the young ones to hone their skills in the dash-and-dribble sport," said a team member. "For sure, the lessons learned from this friendly tour will serve as a valuable experience which they could later apply in their adult life."
The Guam-bound cagers in the 18-and-under, 14-and-under and 12-and-below categories will be under head coaches Britt Reroma, Manu Iñigo, Troy Umaly, Ninoy Africa and VI Sandalo. Also in the team as assistant coaches are Mark Jomalesa, Andy Mejos and Nono Almeyda.
Ato Badolato, the longtime Red Cubs head coach and San Beda athletic moderator, is head of delegation while Arnie Avellaneda is the team manager.
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The San Beda Red Cubs recently won their fourth straight NCAA title by humbling the San Sebastian Staglets, 69-51.
In nailing the school's 20th junior basketball crown, Arvin Tolentino and Joshua Caracut combined for 37 big points while 6-foot-2 Javee Mocon shone in defense and helped San Beda limit San Sebastian to just 21 points in the second half.
Mocon contributed 15 points and hauled down 17 rebounds in what coach Reroma said was as "a game-changing performance."
The other members of the winning team were Axel Iñigo, Nico Abatayo, Lance Abude, Radge Tongco, Rev Rev Diputado, Evan Funaque, Benjie De Villeres, Carlitos Romeo, JR Gumatang, Franz Abuda and Popoy Macapayag.
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American veteran internationalist Shane Van Boening spoiled the Filipinos' campaign in the 37th US Open when he beat former No. 1-ranked billiards player Dennis Orcollo, 13-7, in Norfolk, Virginia, to win the prestigious tournament.
I earlier picked former World 8-ball and 9-ball champion Ronnie Alcano to win the event since he has the talent to take over from the veteran Efren "Bata" Reyes and Francisco "Django" Bustamante.
Reyes, who is now 58 years old and Bustamante, 48, cannot be on top forever.
"We must realize this and be prepared," once said Aristeo "Putch" Puyat of Puyat Sports, the country's longtime billiards benefactor together with elder brother, former Assemblyman Jose "Popit" Puyat.
Orcollo made the finals against Boening by first beating countrymen Bata Reyes and then Alex Pagulayan in the losers' bracket.
Van Boening earlier gained the first title slot at the expense of Pagulayan in their semifinal match in the winners' bracket. Boening won $25,000 while Orcollo pocketed the runner-up purse of $15,000.
Alcano, the 40-year-old "toothless tiger" from Calamba, Laguna, became the third Filipino to win the US Open title after Reyes won in 1994 and Pagulayan in 2005.
Why is Alcano so good? The 5-foot-11 ace has got what it takes to succeed: uncanny skills with the cue stick, a vast international experience, coolness under pressure, not to mention his youth and limitless patience. And like Reyes, Alcano was also born poor. He grew up sleeping on pool tables and failed to finish high school.
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Wendi C. Thomas: Merger could be fresh start for schools
Begin with quality pre-K instruction for every child.
Start bilingual education early.
Decrease the emphasis on standardized testing.
Increase the exposure to art, music and hands-on science instruction.
It sounds like a fantasy school system -- except now, it's not.
If the Shelby County and Memphis City schools districts are merged, we could create a new school district that is all we could ever want for the 151,000 children who attend public schools in Shelby County.
Last month, the Memphis City Schools board took a step toward that dream by voting to surrender its charter.
If the MCS charter surrender is approved by city voters and there are no successful maneuvers from opponents, the city and county schools would become one.
The merger will require a legion of administrators and the teaching corps of both districts -- any fewer employees and the instruction of students would invariably suffer.
The unknowns are plenty, but the possibilities? They're endless.
I asked my Facebook friends to share their wish lists for a new public school system, and the ideas came pouring in.
Etiquette classes starting in elementary school.
Instruction in basic life skills.
Mandatory financial literacy.
Smaller class sizes.
The latest in educational technology.
What about longer school days? A longer school year? Mandatory parental involvement?
Yes, yes and yes -- if that's what we want.
And perhaps that's the problem -- what is it that we want? Aside from the rhetoric and the fear-mongering and infighting -- what do we want for our children?
Do we want a district that propels all students to excellence, including those born into privilege and those born into poverty?
Are we willing to weather the uncertainties to forge a united educational front?
Or will we abandon our dreams, choosing instead to be immobilized by the unknowns?
SCS board chairman David Pickler and others comfortable with the status quo want voters to focus on what will certainly be a trying transition if the merger proceeds.
Pickler's list of merger issues to be resolved is long.
There's the two districts' different textbooks, curriculums, dress codes and transportation systems.
What about the $90 million awarded to MCS by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation? (If the seven-year grant were spread out over those years, it would equal less than 2 percent of MCS' nearly $900 million annual budget.)
The chorus of concerns is enough to make you dizzy -- and that's just what merger opponents want.
Yes, the transition will be tough. But others have gone this way before and survived. Nashville and Davidson County, Knoxville and Knox County, Chattanooga and Hamilton County -- all of these communities have combined the city and county school districts.
And as Shelby County Mayor Mark Lutrell has pointed out, state law already articulates how to proceed with the creation of a true countywide school district.
A new superintendent would be hired by a newly elected school board.
And now that most people are actually paying attention, the qualifications of school board candidates would be highly scrutinized, possibly for the first time ever.
I like how that sounds -- for the first time ever.
Who wouldn't want to be on the brink of the unbelievable -- the chance to reinvent public education?
Amazing transformation is always preceded by equally trying times. Think of the Civil War and the civil rights movement -- examples of worthwhile change highly protested at the time, but later accepted by all but the most ardent bigots as central to America's success.
If the challenge facing the schools is too large to grasp, consider change on a smaller scale.
Imagine that you were counseling a single parent struggling to return to college, earn a degree and get a better job. Would you encourage her to give up on her goal to spare herself a few years of hard work and sacrifice? Of course not. You'd insist that the parent keep her eye on the prize.
You'd do whatever you could to smooth the way, because the end result would be worth it.
And the same could be said of this latest opportunity -- and the key here is "could." We can do this, we are capable.
If we can set aside our fears and focus on the possibilities, we can build a more perfect public education system.
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