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With the deadline to adopt a budget looming, the county currently has a 5.25-cent property tax hike on the table after more cuts were made during a Monday Board of Commissioners work session packed with county department heads and employees.
Approximately $700,000 was shifted around in the budget, mostly cuts and some adjustments to revenue projections, to add to the $741,000 that was previously eliminated from the recommended 2014-15 budget, which initially proposed a 9 cent tax hike.
"It's not like we don't feel your pain — we do," board chairman Jefferson Strickland said to a full house of county employees. "But we represent Sampson County and its citizens and we have to realize that and do what we think is best for the county."
Among Monday's cuts, the biggest was $330,000 being transferred out of the Department of Social Services budget, whose recommended county budget amount of roughly $5.06 million was reduced to $4.73 million. Additionally, monies from the water district for line sizing, recreation funds for a vehicle and some equipment, as well as three Sheriff's Office replacement vehicles and some legal fees were axed from the proposed plan.
When all was done Monday evening, the previous budget cuts of 2 cents off the initially proposed 9 cent hike had been nearly doubled to 3.75 cents — a total of about $1.5 million in cuts to the manager's recommended budget — bringing the proposed property tax increase to 5.25 cents. That would boost the rate from its current 78.5 cents to 83.75 cents per $100 valuation.
"The services will have to be provided at Social Services regardless," finance officer David Clack said. "Foster care and adoption assistance accounts for the biggest part of (DSS director Sarah Bradshaw's) budget. If the kids are there and they're doing the foster care, we're going to have to pay the bill. Hopefully we won't have all the cost, but if we do, we'll have to come back before the board and appropriate fund balance or take it out of contingency."
Clack noted that the tax rate could only be set once, noting some revenue projections will not be met for the current year, compounding matters going forward. Commissioner Billy Lockamy said if the county had to have a tax increase, he didn't want to follow it up with another.
"The recommended increase in the county contribution represented almost 2 cents on the tax rate," Strickland noted of the DSS budget. "I felt like something had to be done based on that increase, that we had to look at some adjustments. I'm not saying the need is not there."
Lockamy made a motion to accept the cuts, which Commissioner Jarvis McLamb quickly seconded.
DSS hit
Bradshaw reiterated to the board the immense needs of her already-stressed department and implored commissioners not to carry through with the cuts.
"Tonight is the first time I've seen this figure at all and today is my first knowledge of any discussion of a cut from our agency of this magnitude," Bradshaw remarked. "The $330,000 county cut is on top of over $145,000 in cuts already made from what we projected (to county administrative staff)."
The DSS director said resources have been exhausted and the additional county contribution was needed just to make ends meet.
"We have staff over there tired of overtime. They've been doing it for two years now. They've done over 6,000 hours of overtime," Bradshaw stated. "There are 23 temp staff hired right now. If we could afford such cuts, we would not have temps hired. I don't think this is possible to last through the year. We cannot cut staff. There's absolutely no way."
Clack noted that cuts of $330,000 in county contribution would ultimately result in total cuts of about $660,000 to $990,000 as state and federal funding is dependent on those county figures.
Strickland said the cuts were not to any part of the existing budget, rather to the requested increase for 2014-15. Bradshaw said she understood that, but with DSS already cut for 2013-14, they were behind and struggling, the reason the requested increase was made in the first place.
"We are going to need over $200,000 more just to pay foster care board payments," the DSS director noted. "You can't even compare what our budget was last year. We had already far exceeded what was budgeted for our department anyway. That is just the trend."
There are more calls, reports of abuse and neglect increased and the number of children in foster care has reached an all-time high. It is getting worse and worse, said Bradshaw, and with the constant stresses that puts on staff, the situation is reaching a boiling point.
"We have had social workers leaving left and right since I talked with (commissioners) in April — two supervisors, one because of stress," Bradshaw attested. "It's mandated services, there is no fluff in the budget. No matter what you budget, we have to keep on. We are a stressed department providing core services. I do not believe that type of agency is where you need to be cutting."
The most important thing to remember is the children, adults and families who need to be served. Bradshaw said no cuts could be made to DSS staff, so resources would have to be reduced or most likely paid for later, negating any county cut by the end of the fiscal year.
"I don't believe this is a wise decision because of what may happen before you can finish the budget year out," Bradshaw remarked.
The vote ultimately came 4-1 with Commissioner Harry Parker casting the dissenting vote. Commissioner Albert Kirby did not vote, meaning his was an affirmative vote. A separate motion was made to cut the amount of replacement sheriff's vehicles from 18 to 15, passing 3-2. Parker and Kirby dissented.
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Lockamy asked Clack or county manager Ed Causey whether they could recommend areas for further cuts.
"We've sort of made our proposal," Causey said. "We're just receptive to the changes the board wants to make."
Lockamy inquired as to what the long-term implications for the budget might be with a 5-plus cent tax increase, cutting nearly 4 cents from the recommended plan.
"To cut to the chase, you've made some changes but at the end of the day what did you really reduce as opposed to defer? You can defer expenses and there's nothing wrong with that. The ultimate question is, if those things have to be purchased at some point in time, then we're rolling it down the hill," Causey stated.
That means more pressure is going to be placed on the county's General Fund for next year, he said.
"It just tells you we have some challenges for a good long time," Causey stated. "In essence I am concerned about the solvency of the county and the ability to meet all of our objectives in the future."
Strickland asked if there was board support for a 5.25-cent tax hike. No one said anything, other than Lockamy pondering what public support would be for such a plan. McLamb said he had "some things he was working on," but did not have materials with him.
"We're running out of time," Strickland pointed out.
"We still have a few more days," McLamb answered.
Following a half-hour sandwich break, during which the board recessed and the conference room remained packed, the board came back into session and voted unanimously to reconvene to this Thursday, June 26, at 5 p.m. to further consider the budget. Causey was instructed to prepare an interim budget "just in case" a consensus was not reached at that time.
Chris Berendt can be reached at 910-592-8137 ext. 121. Follow us on twitter @SampsonInd.


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The Texas Rangers and the Oakland Athletics will meet on the field at O.co Coliseum on Saturday in a battle of division rivals.
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OAKLAND MOST RECENTLY:When playing on Saturday are 7-3
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After playing Texas are 5-5
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By Will Allen Dromgoole
An old man going a lone highway,
Came, at the evening cold and gray,
To a chasm vast and deep and wide.
Through which was flowing a sullen tide
The old man crossed in the twilight dim,
The sullen stream had no fear for him;
But he turned when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near,
"You are wasting your strength with building here;
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You've crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head;
"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,
"There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
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Belur Krishnamachar Sundaraja Iyengar, 'rockstar of yoga', passed away at 3.15am on Wednesday in Pune. He was 95. He was admitted last Tuesday to a hospital after complaining of breathlessness.
His students included J Krishnamurthi, Jay Prakash Narayan, Achyut Patwardhan, Acharya Atre, Aldous Huxley and Yehudi Menuhin. Iyengar also helped queen mother of Belgium, Elizabeth, master Shirsasana while she was 83.
The why-and-wherefore of 180 yoga centres worldwide—even as 500 certified instructors teach what is respected as 'Iyengar school of yoga'—resisted efforts by his family to shift him to a hospital earlier. Daughter Geeta Iyengar (70), who with brother Prashant is an internationally acclaimed yoga teacher and author of books, recounted: "He invoked his 'superhuman' guru Krishnamacharya who used pranayama to reportedly stop and control his heartbeat, non-surgically mend a fractured hip when 96 and lived to be 108 refusing to go to hospital for nearly three weeks."
Stalwart vocalist of Gwalior gharana, Neela Bhagwat, said: "He will live on in the breath of every sadhaka. Do you know, Iyengar Yoga is an entry in Oxford dictionary? What an honour for India!"
"At 71 when people praise me for holding a note for a long time, I credit it to guruji's teachings," she added.
Miami-based yoga teacher Kino MacGregor, whose own guru K Pattabhi Jois and BKS were contemporaries training under Krishnamacharya, said: "BKS went about re-discovering all missing links in the 8.4 million yoga asanas. He condensed these to around 200."
American instructors Patricia Walden and Manouso Manos called him "a saviour whose work touched the lives of whoever he came in contact with." Others like TV journalist Noako Yagyu of Japan credited him "with supplanting the cosmetic Oki yoga of Japan with going beyond the self."
Mumbai-based yoga instructor Shameem Akhtar calls him the boldest yoga-guru. "Unlike others, he wouldn't shy of prescribing the most difficult asanas and being absolutely strict about executing them perfectly," she told dna.
Akhtar recalled him telling her in Dec 1998 on his 80th birthday: "I'm the proudest man on earth for carrying yoga to millions the globe over."
The once 'puny-chested-child' was born during the 1918 influenza epidemic in Karnataka's Belur village and was battered by malaria, tuberculosis and typhoid in his childhood. "I looked sickly, with thin limbs, a protruding stomach and a heavy head. I felt like committing suicide, never played, had no books to read. My body was stiff since I had been bed-ridden," he told Akhtar.
His brother-in-law and guru Yogacharya T Krishnamacharya bulldozed him into teaching a clutch of mocking collegians when he weighed just 32kg. He shoved 16-year-old onto the stage having taught him advanced asanas in just three days. Once on stage, Iyengar contorted himself through the complex Hanumana-sana and Vrschikasana by merely following guruji's instructions. On one such mission he tore his hamstrings and was laid up for two years.
His daughter Geeta observes how the guru-shishya tie was stronger than the family one. She recalls how it was strained briefly due to J Krishnamurthi attempting to create a rift. "Even when 60, he'd do every little thing for his guru, like a young boy."
But that did little to stop the man who once earned six annas for a posing session. While the US has named a star in northern hemisphere after him, Cambridge's International Biographical Centre stars him in their constellation of 20th century's 2,000 outstanding persons and the French govt honoured him at a special ceremony by pouring Ganga jal in France's Garonne river. His jaw-dropping-contortions in the biographical documentary, Samadhi, still evoke wonder. The sickly 'back-bencher' has shot to the forefront as 'the oldest living practitioner,' imbibing early on Mahaguru Patanjali's lesson that of the 13 blights on a human, only two were physical.
"The mind-body synchronicity," Iyengar often said, "can stem all physical rot—from asthma, ulcer, spondilytis, even drug addiction to AIDS."
Even as he's feted the world over with many like the San Francisco University creating a four-year syllabus on Iyengar yoga, he often rued how Indians still took yoga for granted. Most of his discourses included the line, "Live happily and die majestically." And Iyengar did just that, at 95.


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WALLA WALLA - The Walla Walla Sweets have hired Tristan Hobbes, a graduate student in broadcast journalism at Boston University, to be the play-by-play radio broadcaster for the 2011 season of West Coast League baseball.
Hobbes, who is pursuing a concentration in sports reporting, received his B.S. in communication from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2009.
He'll graduate from BU this May with a Masters degree in broadcast journalism.
Hobbes comes to the Sweets with a wealth of broadcasting and media relations experience.
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The Una River (Bahia) is a river of Bahia state in eastern Brazil. It is a small river that starts in Serra Geral and flows near Iramaia (in the Centro Sul Baiano mesoregion) before discharging into the Paraguaçu River.
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In the first part of this article series on the topic of how to prepare for cross examination of the defense expert witness, I discussed why an attorney would cross-examine a defense expert, and the advantages that expert has in influencing a jury. In the second part of the article series, I reviewed the four primary advantages that a trial attorney has against an expert witness in his own professional territory.
In this third part of the series, I'll discuss the four stages of general preparation for the cross-examination of the defense expert. I have found throughout my career that each stage is crucial to enabling me to deliver the most effective cross-examination possible.
General preparation for cross-examination of a defense expert involves four stages:
1) Learn the expert's subject;
2) Scout the expert;
3) Use your own expert;
4) Establish realistic goals.
Learn the expert's subject
With help, time and perseverance, you can learn all you need to know about the usually very narrow part of the subject involved as it applies to your client's situation.
Find a teacher, perhaps a professor at a local college, to conduct a one-on-one directed reading course. For about one-fourth your hourly rate he will review the literature in the area, recommend several general articles to familiarize you with the field, select articles to familiarize you with the field, select specific materials focused on the narrow aspect of the science involved, and then answer questions the readings raise relevant to your fact situation. You would be surprised how hard a college professor will work for $100 an hour – if he hasn't already learned he can make more money as an expert witness.
It's a great learning opportunity. You can develop some tremendous friendships. If you do it right the first time, you can develop your own expertise in the subject for use in other cases. And sometimes you can even develop your teacher into an expert witness for your own side as he becomes interested in the forensic aspects of the subject matter.
Robert L. Habush's Art of Advocacy: Cross-Examination of Non-Medical Experts, by Matthew-Bender at Section 1.18(2) lists the more common sources for gathering technical data for use in cross-examining non-medical experts. Harry Philo's Lawyers Desk Reference can also be an invaluable resource.
If you are going to litigate in a technical area, you have an obligation to learn that field of expertise. A lawyer should no more file a malpractice action against an accountant without understanding the basic principles of accounting, than he would file a contract action without understanding the basic principles of contract law.
If you do not have the time to learn a subject thoroughly enough to face an expert witness, associate someone who does, then practice in another area of the law. But if you do accept the challenge of learning a new field, the experience can be tremendously rewarding.
Scout the Expert
If you face an expert who has published in his field of expertise, then it is worth your while to obtain and review everything the expert has published. Your teacher or your own expert can trace the articles through the appropriate professional index. Index the publications:
(a) for contradictory statements for use in impeachment,
(b) for general principles supportive of your theory, and
(c) for embarrassing quotations about the limits of the expert's knowledge.
It is amazing how experts writing for each other in technical journals constantly remark about how little they know and how much research there is to do, yet faced with a jury of laymen they can appear so sure of a conclusion adverse to your client – until cited to their own comments about the limitations of knowledge in their field of expertise.
Even if the writings are not exactly on point, they will often give you a flavor of the expert's reasoning process, style and personality. And if you are reading articles by an expert, be sure to read the criticisms of those articles by other experts.
Where the expert has not published extensively but has previously testified, trial transcripts and depositions can be obtained from friendly trial lawyers. Start with Jury Verdicts Northwest, a service which compiles all verdicts rendered in Washington State with annotations including the names of the attorneys and the experts called by both sides. Go to the reports, call the opposing attorney and get a copy of the expert's deposition, listen to a few war stories on how to approach him at trial, obtain the lawyer's assessment of the expert's strengths and weaknesses, and if the case was appealed, get a transcript of the trial testimony.
Do all of this before your own deposition of the expert witness. Read the material you obtain. Every expert has his own little tricks to avoid a question he does not want to answer, just like the rest of us. I know I use the same tricks over and over again, and I assume experts do too. And if you have seen a technique before, be waiting with a response.
The heart of preparing for cross-examination of the expert witness is a thorough deposition fully exploring the expert's qualifications, and conclusions, then assumptions, data, and reasoning used to reach those conclusions.
Use Your Own Expert
Use your own expert to help you learn the subject matter, to scout the adverse expert, and to prepare your cross-examination.
Since anything that can possibly go wrong with the cross-examination of an expert usually does, try out each line of questioning on your own expert to find the defects in your comprehension of the field which may make particular approaches unworkable.
If the upcoming trial is really a battle of experts who disagree, do not let your expert take the position that he is correct based on his superior skill, knowledge, and training. Make the expert explain to you, in simple lay terms, precisely where the adverse expert agrees on common ground, where he accepts different assumptions or "factual" data, where his approaches and reasoning processes differ, and where in each instance the opposing expert is in error.
Attacking the opposing expert as unqualified and biased is not enough, and at times it is even counter-productive, when a jury will more easily believe the expert has simply made a mistake and come to the wrong conclusion, particularly when you can point to exactly where the error was made. Make it an obligation of your expert to explain to you why the defense expert is wrong, so you can explain it to the jury.
Establish Realistic Goals
From the moment the client first walks in the door, everything a good trial lawyer does is focused on one moment – the opportunity he has to stand before the jury in final argument and explain the client's plight.
Every action the personal injury trial lawyer takes is designed either to prepare for that final argument or to convince an insurance company to pay money so that final argument is never delivered.
Cross-examination is no different. It is merely another opportunity to gather ammunition for final argument. Every cross-examination, every line of questioning, every question is subject to one scrutiny – "How will this help me in my closing argument to the jury?"
The general goal of cross-examination is to advance the "theme" of a case by securing the ammunition needed for final argument.
The conceptual error made by too many lawyers is to analyze the cross, independent of the entire trial, and thereby to set an unrealistic goal – usually the goal of "destroying the witness." Because of the witness' combination of expertise, stature, intelligence, and experience, it is unrealistic to expect to "destroy" each expert. Set an achievable goal. Wigmore said that the goal of cross-examination should be to "soften the impact of the witness by confrontation." With an effective expert, the goal may be no more than to prevent the expert from winning the case for the other side. Don't expect to win your case in cross-examination of your opponent's experts, you will be doing better than most if you break even and avoid a disastrous loss.
In Part 4 of this article series, I will discuss the specific preparation of gathering ammunition for use in final argument.
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Gazit-Globe, Ltd. reported unaudited consolidated earnings results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2014. For the quarter, the company's rental income decreased by 1% to ILS 1,259 million compared to ILS 1,269 million in the same quarter last year. The decrease mainly results from asset sales during 2014 in the amount of ILS 2.7 billion. The decrease was offset by income from properties whose development has been completed, income from the operation of additional assets acquired during 2014 and an increase of income from existing assets. NOI for the quarter decreased by 2% to ILS 840 million compared to ILS 855 million in the same quarter last year. The decrease is mainly a result of asset sales during 2014. FFO for the quarter decreased by 8% to ILS 135 million, or ILS 0.76 per share, compared to ILS 147 million, or ILS 0.84 per share, in same quarter last year. Loss attributable to the company's shareholders totaled ILS 217 million or ILS 1.25 per share, compared to net income of ILS 224 million, or ILS 1.27 per share, in the same quarter last year. The loss mainly derives from an accounting loss resulting from marking-to-market financial derivatives in the amount of ILS 338 million compared to a net income of ILS 142 million in the same quarter last year. Cash flow from operating activities totaled ILS 304 million, compared to ILS 639 million in the fourth quarter 2013. The decrease in cash flow is derived from timing differences between the periods as well as the termination of currency transaction SWAPs in the fourth quarter of 2013. For the year, the company reported rental income of ILS 4,913 million against ILS 5,146 million a year ago. Net operating rental income was ILS 3,329 million against ILS 3,457 million a year ago. Operating income was ILS 3,446 million against ILS 4,086 million a year ago. Income before taxes on income was ILS 1,488 million against ILS 2,450 million a year ago. Net income attributable to equity holders of the company was ILS 73 million or ILS 0.39 per diluted share against ILS 927 million or ILS 5.35 per diluted share a year ago. Rental income decreased by 5% compared to NIS 5,146 million in 2013. The decrease is mainly a result of the decrease in average exchange rates of the US Dollar, Canadian Dollar and Euro against the ILS as well as asset sales during the year 2013 and 2014 in the amount of ILS 5.4 billion. The decrease was offset by income from properties whose development has been completed, income from the operation of additional assets acquired during 2013 and 2014 and an increase of income from existing assets. Excluding the effect of changes in exchange rates, rental income decreased by 1% compared to 2013. NOI for the year decreased by 4% to ILS 3,329 million compared to ILS 3,457 million in 2013. Excluding the effect of changes in exchange rates, NOI remained stable compared to 2013. FFO for the year increased by 2% to ILS 598 million, or ILS 3.39 per share, compared to ILS 585 million or ILS 3.41 per share, in 2013. The number of shares grew by 3% between the periods. Excluding the effect of changes in exchange rates, FFO increased by 8% and FFO per share increased by 5% compared to 2013. Cash flow from operating activities totaled ILS 1,026 million, compared to ILS 1,189 million in 2013. The decrease in cash flow from operating activities is primarily due to higher negative cash flow in its construction activity in 2014. The company declared a quarterly cash dividend of ILS 0.46 per share payable on April 14, 2015 to shareholders of record as of April 7, 2015, which represents an annualized dividend per share of ILS 1.84. The dividend policy for 2015 is a minimum quarterly dividend payment of ILS 0.46 per share, representing an increase of 2.2% over the 2014 dividend.
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Head coach Bobby Petrino knows that he hasn't seen the best out of his Hogs quite yet. That's awfully scary for a team that ranks tenth in the nation in total offense (509.0 YPG) and fourth in defense (187.5 YPG). Victories of 44-3 over Tennessee Tech and 31-7 over Louisiana Monroe really could have been better, and with four very tough games in a row, Petrino is hoping to see the best of his veteran team. QB Ryan Mallett is going to be the key cog in the lineup to watch. He is completing 73.1 percent of his passes this year for 701 yards and six scores against a pair of picks. Mallett is averaging 10.5 yards every time he drops back to throw the football. The rushing game just isn't there at this point, but RB Knile Davis, RB Dennis Johnson, and RB Broderick Green are working hard to help Mallett out. If they can each pick up 40-50 yards on the ground every game, the Razorbacks are going to be incredibly dangerous. Look for WR Greg Childs to get a lot of calls in this game. He already has 16 catches in just two games for 172 yards and a pair of scores.
Georgia is still really missing WR AJ Green, and it showed last week in the loss at the South Carolina Gamecocks. Scoring just six points in any game, particularly in the SEC on the road, is a recipe for a disaster. The Bulldogs only accounted for 253 yards of offense. QB Aaron Murray just wasn't given time to make throws down the field, and especially with his best target missing due to suspension, this isn't a good thing. Murray went 14-of-21 for 192 yards last week in a very blasé performance. The Dawgs are playing great defense this year, and that's going to be the key, because an average of 315.0 yards per game offensively isn't going to cut it. UGA is averaging holding opponents to just 241.0 yards of offense this year, which is good enough to rank 16th in the nation. The Bulldogs rank in the Top 40 in the nation in every major statistical category on defense. Still, without the offense's help, the 'D' will not be able to carry this team through this very tough schedule in the weeks to come.
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The Bruins are awaiting further word on the health of top-line center David Krejci after his head collided with the far center boards on a check by St. Louis center T.J. Oshie with 4:15 left in overtime on Saturday night at TD Garden. He was on the ice for a minute before getting to his knees and then his feet. He was helped off the ice by Zdeno Chara and Andrew Ference and then headed directly to the dressing room and did not return.
"Not yet," Julien said when asked if he had any word on Krejci's condition. "Obviously, he got his bell rung there We don't know what the severity is yet. I didn't see the replay. He's here and he's being evaluated."
Krejci, who was knocked out of Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinals against the Flyers last spring with a dislocated wrist, leads the team in assists (8) through 11 games and is tied for second with Milan Lucic in points (10), one behind Nathan Horton.
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While the players were walking back to the dressing room in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, Shehzad was caught on camera telling Dilshan that if one is a non-Muslim and he turns Muslim, no matter whatever one does in his life, he goes straight to heaven. Dilshan's reply was not audible, and Shehzad went on to say that then he should be ready for the fire, The Dawn reported.
PCB general manager media Agha Akbar revealed that Shehzad was summoned to the board's headquarters in Lahore on Wednesday and asked about his comments. He added that Shehzad has informed the PCB that it was his personal chat with Dilshan, and there was nothing more to it. Akbar said that what they understand is that no Sri Lanka Cricket official or their own manager lodged any complaint. However, he also said that the PCB was still investigating the matter.
Dilshan was born to a Muslim father and a Buddhist mother and was known as Tuwan Mohamed Dilshan. He shed his Muslim name shortly after his international debut in 1999 and took up the name Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan with an ethnic Sinhalese-Buddhist identity. His childhood coach Ranjan Paranavitana said even though Dilshan carried a Muslim name, he and his brothers and sisters followed their mother's religion from their childhood.


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Proud father, actor Anil Kapoor is so impressed with his daughter Sonam Kapoor's performance in "Raanjhanaa" that he threw a party for the movie's team at his residence.
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"He is so happy with the grand opening that the film has made that he threw an impromptu party at his residence on Saturday and Sunday night for the entire team," the source added.
Anil has been receiving several calls congratulating him for Sonam's performance in the film. Her character goes through a transformation in the second half of the movie, and she has been praised for carrying the complex role with ease.
"Anil loved 'Raanjhanaa' himself. He was impressed by Sonam's growth as an actor. He is indeed a proud daddy," the source added.
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text: Insights from the AHRQ Peer Review Process (Text Version) Slide presentation from the AHRQ 2011 conference. On September 20, 2011, Denise Tate made this presentation at the 2011 Annual Conference. Select to access the PowerPoint® presentation (80 KB). Plugin Software Help.Slide 1 AHRQ 2011 Annual Conference: Insights from the AHRQ Peer Review ProcessTraining Grant Review PerspectiveDenise G. Tate Ph.D., Professor,Chair HCRT Study SectionUniversity of Michigan Medical SchoolTuesday, September 20, 2011Slide 2 Planning Your ApplicationGet to know yourself well—your career pathway, interests, qualifications, experience and resources: Talk to others, mentors, advisers about your interests and career options.Write a brief 2 page research training statement.Research your options using the AHRQ Web site.Talk to AHRQ experts about the right mechanism for you.Allow sufficient time for planning, organize and write your research training applications.Slide 3 Planning Your ApplicationTake a look at the funding opportunity mechanisms (AHRQ priorities, Special Emphasis notices)and align these with your application.Examine the AHRQ's scientific mission and goals and carefully consider whether your application fits within the AHRQ's mission.Contact a program official by phone or E-mail to clarify any questions.Develop a strategy: Determine what type of application will work best to fit your needs.Review what you plan to achieve and by when?Plan based on potential resources (i.e. mentors, environment, budget).Slide 4 Writing your ApplicationDetermine all requirements to write your application (i.e., forms, bios, Institutional Review Board [IRB]).Consider your team of mentors and get commitment up front in terms of support, time and effort, access to laboratories, databases. Assemble your team early.Letters of support—these need to clearly indicate mentors support and commitment as well familiarity with your goals and achievements.Describe opportunities for collaboration and becoming an independent investigator.Slide 5 Writing Your ApplicationReview the grant application instructions carefully.Discuss your career development pathway and goals with mentors and colleagues.Propose carefully related coursework to achieve goals.Solicit feedback about your research idea.In some cases, preliminary data is desirable.Provide a succinct but focused review of literature.The timeline should be realistic for both training and competing the research project.Slide 6 Writing Your ApplicationIs the proposed training relevant to the field? Will it promote a successful research career?Does the project addresses an important problem? Is it innovative? How will the clinical practice be improved?Is the proposed methodology sound?Is your CV strong enough?Slide 7 Special EmphasisAlign your career development plan to your professional goals: Justify the need for training (it will be a vital step toward your ultimate career goal and move you toward scientific independence).Specify training and courses and how these will help you to reach your objectives.Stress your commitment to a career in health services research.Slide 8 Special EmphasisDesign Your Research Plan Carefully: Reviewers will look closely at your plan.2 part plan: aims and strategy.Is it related to your experience and will it enable you to achieve your objectives?Provide a realistic time frame.Document training on responsible conduct of research.Slide 9 Special Emphasis: Independence for K02s, K99, K24It is important to provide reviewers evidence that you are independent and are prepared to be able to lead your project.Consider whether your career stage, expertise, and proposed training are appropriate to the size and scope of your project.You want to reveal your independence through your publications.Slide 10 Areas of Special FocusInstitutional Support—letters of reference and commitment.Collaborators/Consultants—letters of commitment.Protection of Human Subjects.Recruitment and Inclusion of Women, Minorities, Children and Persons with Disabilities.Have a plan for inclusion of AHRQ priority populations.Data and Safety Monitoring Plan.Access to required resources: databases, patients, laboratories, equipment, etc.Budget and budget justification related to years of training proposed.Slide 11 AHRQ Training Program OfficersFor K awards: Dr. Kay Anderson (email@example.com).For R36s or Dissertation awards: Ms. Brenda Harding (firstname.lastname@example.com).Slide 12 Summary of Major PitfallsA training application is not an R01—applicant needs to achieve a balance between the career plan, didactics and project proposed.Research project should relate to training, be methodologically sound (clear aims) and reasonable within budget, resources and time frame.Make sure your mentors have the required expertise, have read your application and fully on board with you. 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EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern senior Aaron Jones has been named the Big Ten Wrestler of the Week following his impressive 6-1 upset win over Purdue's seventh-ranked A.J. Kissel Friday night. Jones' victory helped NU down the 24th-ranked Boilermakers, 32-6, as NU improved to 4-2 in Big Ten dual action.
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With NU in control on the scoreboard, Jones began the first period by staving off several solid shot attempts by Kissel and finished it by scoring an impressive single-leg lift and takedown with just two seconds to go before the buzzer. His hand control in the second continued to stymie Kissel, and he replicated his takedown two minutes later, just prior to the second-period whistle, as he brought a 4-1 lead into the third.
Jones fought for his one-point escape at the outset of the third and continued to just wear down the highly ranked Kissel, earning a penalty point to go ahead by the final margin of 6-1. It was only Kissel's fourth loss of the year against 19 victories.
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The other seven members of the group had already suspended preparations for a G-8 summit that Russia is scheduled to host in June in Sochi.
France's Laurent Fabius went further on Tuesday, saying on Europe-1 radio that "concerning the G-8 ... we decided to suspend Russia's participation, and it is envisaged that all the other countries, the seven leading countries, will unite without Russia."
Mr. Fabius did not give further details.
The U.S. and European Union on Tuesday announced new sanctions against Russia over its actions in the Crimean Peninsula.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Verizon Wireless, the country's largest cellphone carrier, on Thursday said it's joining AT&T and T-Mobile in providing an installment plan for its phones, aiming to satisfy customers who want to upgrade their devices faster or avoid paying the upfront cost of their phones.
The plan, dubbed Edge, will be introduced Aug. 25, and allows the buyer to spread the full retail price of the phone, without subsidies, over 24 months. A buyer who has paid off 50 percent of the cost of the phone can upgrade to a new phone after six months.
"We have a lot of customers in the technology edge that want to upgrade sooner than they would under our historical, legacy, subsidy model, if you will. And we have other customers who don't want to pay upfront for the large cost of the phone," Verizon Communications Inc.'s chief financial officer, Fran Shammo, told analysts on a conference call Thursday.
Now that nearly every adult American has a cellphone, easy growth in the wireless industry has ended, and carriers are looking to other avenues for growth. One way to do that is to boost phone sales, but most phones are sold at a big loss, so any gains in phone sales under the traditional model are counterproductive. The phone companies subsidize the cost of, for example, an iPhone, by hundreds of dollars to get retail price down to $200.
With Edge, Verizon isn't paying a subsidy, and the buyer shoulders the entire cost the phone. That means frequent upgrades help Verizon rather than hurt it. For customers, Edge makes financial sense only if they are unwilling to deal with the hassle of selling their old phones when they want to upgrade to a new device; for those buyers, the trade-in option is convenient.
Rumors about Verizon Edge had surfaced on several blogs earlier this week.
Competitor T-Mobile US Inc. stopped signing up customers for two-year service contracts in March, in favor of selling phones on installment plans. To further cater to frequent upgraders, it introduced an option called "Jump" last week It provides device insurance and more frequent upgrades for $10 a month.
On Tuesday, AT&T announced its own frequent-upgrade option, called "Next," which is very similar to Verizon's Edge. Starting July 26, customers will be able to buy their phones on installment plans, with the option to trade in the devices after a year.
Shammo made his comments while discussing the company's second-quarter results on a conference call with analysts.
Verizon Wireless added 941,000 devices to its contract-based plans in the April to June period, exceeding analyst estimates and continuing a strong run. It boosted service revenues by 8.3 percent from a year ago. Its closest rival, AT&T, is seeing revenue increases of around 4 percent.
Almost all of the gains on the wireless side were due to customers upgrading to higher-priced plans or adding more devices to their plans, as opposed to an influx of new customers.
Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year. Because the company subsidizes each new smartphone by hundreds of dollars, frequent upgrades are costly.
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Visiting Boca, any tips?
So I just got done booking a spring break tennis trip to Boca. My 10 year old is doing a camp at Macci and some privates. I'd love for our girls to hit around together.
I am also wondering is it possible to tour the USTA training center and Bollettieri? I basically want to see how they train at both places and bring home ideas and incorporate them in my daughter's training.
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Sorry, missed your post. USTA Boca is pretty easy to tour. You can literally drive right in and park at Evert's Academy. The office is open most business hours. You should have no problem checking things out. Macci's is close to Evert's.
IMG is on the west coast of Florida, not near Evert's. They have a check in procedure for tours so call ahead there.
When in March will you be down?
I would go to the U.S.T.A center its connected to Everts.It takes about 5 min to get from Boca lago to the USTA center.If you wanna be really impressed next year go to IMG.Its the tennis Mecca!!!
So many other places near Boca to check out too. Saviano isn't too far from there. Dean Goldfine is building up a reputable program over in Ft Lauderdale (not far from Boca).
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Thanks! We'll check them both out :)
Not sure if time allows but an hour south is Crandon Park tennis center. All 4 slam surfaces, open to the public when tournaments are not there, and for a nominal fee you can play on stadium court where the Sony Ericson finals are played! A nice experience for tennis kids and also motivational.
Playing at Crandon a must do and I've taken my jr son and daughter to play on the stadium court every time we get down to Miami. But of you are going to be there March 19 - 23 you can forget Crandon as the Sony Ericsson Open starts 3/19......as for visiting IMG it's about a 5 hr drive from Boca to Bradenton at least, also the area around IMG kinda crappy.
When in Boca it's fun to stop by Stuarts of Boca about 3 min away from Evert's - the place has been there forever and a cool mom and pop tennis shop.
Another must do is to play at Hollywood Park Tennis Ctr in Lauderdale - The Jimmy Evert Tennis Ctr a classic - the area around the park has changed dramatically since I was a Jr playing there in the 70's but still a goto stop for tennis.
5 hours from Boca to IMG? Nah. I have done it in 3, mapquest says 3.5. Most of the trip is clear sailing, you can fly across the Everglades on Rt. 75. A few slow spots as you head up the coast and get towards Ft.Myers and then Sarasota.
But with the wife and kids every time we did the drive from the gold coast to IMG with stops (being from Texas we HAD to stop at Trulucks for lunch in Naples when it was the only location outside Houston a few yrs ago) it always took 4 to 5 hrs.
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Writing in today's NY Times (subscription required), Scott Atran, a research scientist at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, says that Israel and the U.S. should deal with Hamas.
Although Hamas is sworn to the destruction of Israel, Atran writes:
Hamas's top elected official, Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, now accepts that to stop his people's suffering, his government must forsake its all-or-nothing call for Israel's destruction. "We have no problem with a sovereign Palestinian state over all our lands within the 1967 borders, living in calm," Mr. Haniya told me in his Gaza City office in late June, shortly before an Israeli missile destroyed it. "But we need the West as a partner to help us through."
First, a return to the 1967 borders would include Israel giving up Jerusalem, which is a complete non-starter and Haniya knows it. Second, Haniya has already said publically that he would accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, but only as a staging area for the eventual destruction of Israel. Leading up to the January Palestinian elections, Haniya was quoted by the AFP:
"Hamas supports the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital in the territories occupied [by Israel] in 1967 - as an interim solution. However, Hamas will continue to maintain its views regarding the boundaries of historical Palestine, and [in terms of] refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the occupation."
Clearly, Haniya hasn't changed his tune, just his tactics. But another Hamas official was a little more honest:
"Israel freeing some of our prisoners will help us to stop others from attacking it," said the Hamas government spokesman, Ghazi Hamad. "But Israel must apologize for our tragedy in 1948 [i.e. the establishment of Israel] before we can talk about negotiating over our right of return to historic Palestine [i.e. all of Israel]."
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