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The overall purpose of the evaluation was learning from the support to business advocacy in Ghana in order to draw lessons for future support there and for similar programmes in other countries. It is expected that the findings of the evaluation will provide an input to the preparation of the next phase of Danish support to private sector development in Ghana.
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The overall objective of the B2B Programme was to contribute to poverty reduction by promoting economic growth and social development in developing countries.The Evaluation of the B2B Programme has the dual purpose of assessing and documenting the B2B Programme as well as providing lessons for future implementation of Danida Business Partnerships.
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In 2013, Danida decided to carry out an evaluation of Denmark's Strategy for the Promotion of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights(SRHR). The Strategy provides the framework for Danish support to SRHR. The decision to undertake an evaluation was based on the continued priority of place given to SRHR in Danish development assistance and the expectation that the Strategy will continue to guide engagement in the area.
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The study summarises the available evidence on what budget support as an aid modality has been able to achieve and provides lessons for the design of future budget support operations.
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This evaluation of the international support to the peace process in Nepal focuses on the contributions made by Denmark, Switzerland and Finland in the period from 2006 to 2012. The contributions by these focal development partners are viewed in the context of support from other development partner countries, especially where provided through joint funds.
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This document reports on an evaluation of the joint support provided by Denmark,Ireland and United States Agency for International Development to the Ugandan response to HIV & AIDS from 2007 until 2012. The overall purpose of the evaluation is to analyse the past practices of government, donors and civil society in the Uganda AIDS response to determine what has been successful, what has not, and why?
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The Evaluation was implemented to assess document and explain the relevance, effectiveness and efficiency and where possible sustainability and impact of Danish support to development research within the thematic areas of agriculture and natural resource management and to provide lessons learned and recommendations on how to improve support to development research.
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This report presents the main findings and recommendations of an evaluation of the Media Cooperation Programme (MCP) of the Danish Arab Partnership Programme (DAPP) for the period 2005 to 2012 which was launched in 2003 to support existing local reform processes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and establishing a basis for improved dialogue, and cooperation between Denmark and the MENA region.
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As this is an issue of increasing importance, this evaluation of experiences with civil society engagement in policy dialogue in Bangladesh, Mozambique and Uganda was launched in 2011. The three countries were chosen for study based on the scope of CSO support from the commissioning donors, their differing contexts and the locations of previous CSO evaluations.
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Danida Fellowship Centre manages and implements the Danida supported Fellowship Programme, which supports Capacity Development in developing countries by organizing and/or implementing courses, studies, research, study tours, seminars, etc. in Denmark as well as in developing countries.


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Single-again Ruffa G: Men, stay away for now
Ruffa Gutierrez is officially single. Her marriage to Yilmaz Bektas is finally annulled. How does she feel? "Emotional," she says. "As I close a chapter in my life and open a new one, I wish to thank my family, friends and fans for being so supportive during this bittersweet journey."
Has she told her daughters, Venice and Lorin? "I had an intimate, quiet and personal moment with them as we were locked in an embrace watching the Boracay sunset," she relates. "We were in tears. Whatever it is we shared, I would like to keep it to ourselves."
Is she ready to fall in love again? "I'm on a love sabbatical," she declares. "I pray I won't get distracted this year. So men, stay away. But I still believe in love. One day my life partner will find me."
What's her message for Yilmaz? "I wish him all the best. May we continue to be at peace with each other."
Love truly owes Ruffa a happy-ever-after; she has always given love her all.
Proud mama
Liezl Martinez is proud that her daughter, my inaanak Alyanna, has found her niche as stylist to many celebs.
"She has moved out and into her own condo," says Liezl. "At first, Albert and I were worried, but we realized that it is for her own good—so she will learn to stand on her own. Albert is tempted to buy her an air-con because she needs one. But I told him not to, so Alyanna will really feel what it's like to live within her means."
Liezl and Albert have given Alyanna strong roots; it's time to give her wings. As my fave line in "The Descendants" goes: "We should give our children just enough so they will do something, but not too much that they will do nothing."
Sarah live
Sarah Geronimo shines anew in "Sarah G Live," airing Sundays at 8 to 9 p.m. on ABS-CBN. She describes herself as a "modern Filipina" who's between the "manang" type and the liberated ladies.
Although she has made it big in the biz, Sarah admits that she still has a lot to learn. For her, becoming a "modern-day Filipina" entails being independent.
With her much publicized heartbreak over Rayver Cruz, Sarah wants to become wiser when it comes to love. "Kilala ko po kasi ang sarili ko. Sobra akong malambot. Kailangan kong maging matalino pagdating sa matters of the heart."
Sarah also admitted that it's still Mommy Divine who handles her finances. "Ipinagkakatiwala ko muna po kay mommy ang lahat. Pero soon, aayusin ko rin talaga para maging hands-on din ako sa savings ko, sa sarili kong kinikita." With her new show, Sarah will surely be singing all the way to the bank.
Lucky charm
ABS-CBN 2's hit game show "Kapamilya Deal or No Deal" is back on Saturdays, 6 p.m. after "TV Patrol Weekend." It has a new host, Luis Manzano, plus a new banker and new briefcase 24K girls. A whopping jackpot prize of P2 million is at stake. Televiewers also have the chance to win prizes.
What did Luis buy when he made his first million? "I bought myself a car—a Honda CR-V," he reveals. Isn't he wary of being compared to the game show's former host, Kris Aquino? "I know I will be but I'm not trying to be the Kris of 'Deal,'" he explains. "I'm going to be myself."
Gone are the days when his mommy Vi would say "I love you, Lucky" on TV. But Luis will serve as the game show contestants' lucky charm.
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The wickedly talented, Tony winning Idina Menzel performed "Let It Go" from Frozen with Jimmy Fallon and the Roots last night. She's the bright light on Broadway who's name was so badly butchered by John Travolta at the Oscars it's amazing it didn't throw off her performance Sunday night.


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Is Google+ censored in China? Not so fast
- By Edmund DownieEdmund Downie and Sophia Jones are editorial researchers at Foreign Policy.
Whoa, Nellie. Some international press outlets appear to have mistakenly reported that Google+, Google's new social networking site released yesterday, has already been blocked in China. But a handful of major blog websites in China have since debunked that story. According to their reports, it seems that Google+ is being not blocked, but "throttled." In other words, you can access it, but it's painfully slow. The Chinese have used this strategy before, and to great effect, says tech website Penn Olson's Steven Millward:
Web throttling is a tactic new to China's Great Firewall, and has been seriously slowing pretty much all overseas internet speeds all year. Gmail particularly has been horribly throttled, to the point were it can take five or ten minutes or more to go from the login page to your inbox. It's a very underhanded tactic by Net Nanny: being seen not to block the service, whilst actually rendering it nearly useless to its users.
Shanghaiist isn't impressed with the research techniques behind the mistaken reports:
Washington Post, and others, are only citing GFW [Great Firewall, the nickname for China's internet censorship firewall] check-up sites like Great Firewall of China and Ping. To give you an idea of how unreliable those tests are, we just tried Google+ again on both, and got an "OKAY" from Ping and a "fail" from Great Firewall.
Sadly, when it comes to censorship, Western news outlets have something of a track record with overzealous reporting. This spring, the lede of a New York Times piece purported to expose Chinese propaganda agents cutting off phone calls at the mention of the word "protest." Shanghai-based journalist (and FP contributor) Adam Minter tested the Times' claims and found them overblown, as did Shanghaiist's Kenneth Tan. Later that day, Times researcher Jonathan Ansfield, who was involved with the piece, left a damning comment on Minter's post:
for the record, the contributing reporter's own tests comport with yours. regrettably his input on the story made little difference.
The next day, the Times published a correction saying that the recipients of the calls cited in the article, who were left anonymous in the article, were both Times reporters in the Beijing bureau, adding:
Because scrutiny of press communications could easily be higher than for those of the public at large, the calls could not be assumed to represent a broader trend; therefore, those examples should not have been given such prominence in the article.
A lesson learned, we hope.
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Reviews of the series were generally mixed, and it was cancelled after a relatively short period of time. The series' demise may have been played in part due to complaints concerning the violence in the series, which was featured in many other syndicated shows at the time such as War of the Worlds and Friday the 13th: The Series, both of which, like Freddy's Nightmares, were cancelled in 1990.
The series was produced by New Line Television, producers of the film series. It was originally distributed by Lorimar Television. However, Warner Bros. Television would assume syndication rights after acquiring Lorimar (New Line and Warner Bros. are now part of Time Warner).
Each week Freddy's Nightmares told a different story, or stories, of a dark rooted and/or grim nature that took place in the fictitious town of Springwood, Ohio (and in particular, Elm Street)—the same setting as the A Nightmare on Elm Street films. Though the Freddy Krueger character would occasionally play a part in the plot, most of the stories did not involve him (it was, however, often hinted that Krueger indirectly influenced the desolate nature of the plotlines).
Krueger's primary function was to host the series. He was featured in regular bumper segments, where he would offer an ominous or slapstick reaction to the happenings of the episode—culminating in him giving a quick, and usually eerie, epilogue at the end.
One element that makes the series unique is its two-tier story approach. Most of the episodes feature two different stories. However, every second story usually built on a character who played a minor (or supporting) role in first. For instance, in one episode a woman plays in a game show hosted by the devil. In the second part she meets an old woman, who is actually her future self, who tells her she is going to kill her husband.
Some of the featured actors who went on to later become notable were:
In 1991, Braveworld Ltd. released The Nightmare Begins Again, a direct-to-video movie comprised of two episodes edited together. The film was used to launch Braveworld's collection of Freddy's Nightmares episodes, usually consisting of two episodes per tape. The episodes in the feature were "No More Mr. Nice Guy" (directed by horror legend Tobe Hooper) and "Killer Instinct" (directed by Masters of Horror creator Mick Garris).
In 2003, Volume 1 (the first 3 episodes) was released on Region 2 DVD in Ireland and the UK, by Warner Home Video.. Volume 2 (and presumably the rest of the series) was also planned for release later that year, however, sales were so poor, that Warner canceled the release of Volume 2.
There are currently no plans to release Freddy's Nightmares on DVD in the United States.
As of April 2008, NBC Universal's horror-themed cable channel Chiller aired episodes of Freddy's Nightmares.


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Saint Shakira Calls Libido the "Engine of the World"
I'm impossibly arrogant to suggest that Shakira's announcement that libido is the engine of the world was intended to provide critical backup for my post this morning on feminism and morality.
Let's just say that two Smart Sensuality women are on the same train track.
It's true that Shakira's blend of sexuality and philanthropy launched my own re-entry into activism this summer. Shakira, the burqa debate and Lubna Hussein's defiant standup to the morality police in Sudan cleared out the cobwebs in my head.
Euan Ferguson interviews Shakira for The Observer, getting wise to the fact that there's a serious brainiac with curves in the room, a woman who inspires you to think about "far deeper things than one might expect, especially if one was coming to Shakira on the music and looks alone."
What a bloody patroning remark.
If you're a Smart Sensuality woman with an activist conscience, you totally understand that Shakira's music is about far-more than gyrating hips (which are lovely) and slithering around in a cage, also inspiring (Read: Controlling Women's Bodies Is a Fight to the Finish)
Saint Shakira is the patron saint of Smart Sensuality, calling libido "the engine of the world." That's my girl!
Let me give you her quote precisely, since I'm on quick sand already today with the Catholic Church and the governments of Sudan and Zambia: "Of course, yes. I do think libido is the engine of the world. Forward or backwards. For good or ill. Sometimes when we repress our libido we regress. When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
That paragraph, my dearest, darling Shakira woman, is the understatement of the 21st century.
"Until the renaissance, when people could start to… breathe, a little more. Ideas started, or rather resumed. And if this nun I mentioned, the 80-year-old who saw my video, if she was compelled to say something like that, then the rest of us are in a much better place today, right?"
I'm not so sure, dear Shakira, although that's one cool nun your mother ran into. In America, ours are under investigation for being too … too, modern in their thinking.
Reading on in The Observer interview, I forgive writer Ferguson for his early-on slip of the tongue. He gives Shakira the nicest editorial ride since the NY Times article that launched my relationship with this global philanthropy superstar: Shakira, a Smart Sensuality Activist, Takes Me Back to Colombia, where My life Journey Really Began.
These activism/philanthropy facts of the worth-the-read story are well known in our Shakira Smart Pants channel.
My mission today is feminism, sexuality and the patriarchy/most world religions. Somehow along the way, legislating female sexuality became a major patriarchal preocupation, and women pay the price all over the world even today.
Make no mistake. The renewed focus on keeping women in line is in full swing globally. For every activist like us working to help women, there's a counterforce trying to get her back under her burqa or in her cage. (My remark is not intended for western Muslim women who choose to wear burqas because they want to. My focus is women who wear burqas because they have no choice.) This is why Shakira dances around in a cage, wanting women to unleash their inner-she-wolves.
There are many thoughtful, educated people in the world — women and men in every country including many Islamic ones — who believe that the world would be far better off with a new set of female-centric principles, rather than patriarchal ones that have caused such misery and endless suffering for thousands of years.
I know that Shakira will back me up on that statement, and I will be making it often. Anne
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Drawing a Line in Lubna's Sand, Saying 'No More' to the Growing, Global Erosion of Women's Rights in the Name of Any Man's Religion
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Former Suns owner Jerry Colangelo: Dan Majerle is 'a lunch bucket guy'
On the night Dan Majerle was inducted into the Phoenix Suns "Ring of Honor" back in March 2003, then-owner and chairman Jerry Colangelo beamed as he talked about one of his favorite former players.
"When you think of Dan Majerle, you think of a guy who gave maximum effort in every game, every practice, in everything he did," Colangelo said.
Those intangibles not only made Majerle an asset on the court, but also as an assistant coach with the organization for five-plus seasons.
It's the reason many were surprised in January that Majerle was passed over by the Suns in favor of Lindsey Hunter for the interim head coaching position.
While Thunder Dan's number wasn't called in Phoenix, his former boss was more than happy to give a glowing review of the former All-Star on Arizona Sports 620's Doug & Wolf Monday.
"Dan Majerle is a working class guy from Michigan," Colangelo said. "He's a lunch-bucket guy, that's who he really is. The doctors (before the draft) told us to stay away from him because of his bad back and the pins in his ankles.
"What they didn't tell us is about his heart. He overcame all of those obstacles through hard work, commitment, toughness, all of the intangibles you look for in athletes. That's who Majerle is."
While there are very few remnants left from Colangelo's days (1968-2004) with the organization, the founding father of the Suns said he hopes the team's rebuilding process is a rather short one.
"I'm hoping for the best for them," said Colangelo, now chairman of USA Basketball. "I gave birth to the franchise. I love the franchise. I hate to see them lose any games. I hate to see any of the negativity that's taken place.
"I'm hoping this ends quickly and that they can turn this thing around."
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The latest MMAWeekly.com World MMA Rankings were released on Wednesday, December 15, with Jim Miller working his way up the lightweight ranks.
Dan Miller knows he's on the bubble with back-to-back losses in the UFC, but he's expecting and prepared for anything that Mike Bisping brings to
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Welterweights Mark Miller and Deray Davis are expected to meet on the undercard of Strikeforce on CBS Nov. 7 in suburban Chicago...
The changes for the UFC Fight Night 19 card in Oklahoma City continue to roll in as MMAWeekly.com has confirmed with sources close to the
Mike Brown makes the first-ever defense of his WEC featherweight championship when he faces Leonard Garcia at WEC 39 on Sunday in Corpus Christi. MMAWeekly
Mike Wessel stepped up on short notice and will face Antoni Hardonk next week at UFC 92. MMAWeekly.com spoke with Wessel the day after he
The upcoming UFC "Fight for the Troops" show has undergone a last minute change as lightweight competitor Frankie Edgar has been forced off the card
Welterweight prospect Mike Stumpf has signed a three-fight deal with EliteXC. The XFO veteran is coming off of an impressive win...
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The further dismantling of the International Fight League's roster of fighters continues as current IFL middleweight champion, Dan Miller, and his brother, Jim Miller, a
Cole Miller will be looking to rebound from his first loss in the Ultimate Fighting Championship on Saturday night when he takes on Jorge Gurgel
Roy Nelson and Ryan Schultz defended, while Dan Miller became a new champion at the IFL's event Friday night at the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut
Jim Miller is emerging as one of the top lightweight talents from the Northeastern United States, as he submitted Chris Liguori Friday night in a
Mike "Quick" Swick is off of the UFC Fight Night 11 card scheduled for Sept. 19 at the Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
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By becoming two of the biggest brands in the business, these companies are both synonymous with high quality. But, when faced with a decision between purchasing INNO or Thule racks, it's best to weigh your cargo-carrying needs before you purchase.
No matter the adventure you have planned, Thule and Yakima racks make it easy to transfer your gear from point A to point B, freeing up cabin space for you and your passengers.
You're in luck, because the aftermarket is stacked to the racks with bicycle racks designed to get it there in one piece. But, with so many brands and varieties, a lot of people are left to wonder how to install a bike rack.
When it's time to load your two-wheeled steeds and make way for the trailhead, a high-quality bike rack is a must.
Adam Donahue, Marketing Manager for Thule, chatted with us at the 2012 SEMA Show about the brand's latest cargo boxes-and bike racks.
So, your ready to hit the pavement for a long road trip, but you need to make some elbow room for passengers. Well, look no further than a quality luggage rack. And, though many road trippers have their opinion on who makes the best roof racks, most agree that Thule makes racks of unsurpassed design.


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BEAVERTON The City of Beaverton wants its residents to stop flushing money down the toilet.
In a new effort between the city and the Regional Water Providers Consortium, officials are working to increase toilet efficiency awareness.
It may seem like a no-brainer, but leaky or running toilets can waste huge amounts of money over time. While many people may let the yellow mellow to save on water usage, the Environmental Protection Agency said addressing easy-to-fix leaks may save homeowners more than 10 percent on water bills.
So, how do you know if your bowl is wasting water? City leaders urge to use the four Rs.
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Doubles Hand Signals
I am wondering what people on these boards use for hand signals. I am generally quite passive and let my partner decide what hand signals to use, and because of that I've used almost every possible combination there is.
Keep it simple. Open means "Im going no matter what".
Open or closed.
Of course the standard signals are open, closed, or one finger (an appropriate one). To clarify I'm asking which signal you like to associate with which motion.
Closed - staying (place the serve where you want to)
Open - poaching (serve up the middle if at all possible)
Finger - faking (serve where you want to, works best if you go out wide)
My usual dubs partner and I don't call poaches, rather the net man signals serve location (closed for up the middle, single finger for out wide). Just knowing the location allows us to be more aggressive at the net.
Open or closed.
I prefer to talk though. Sometimes I get so wrapped in concentrating on my serve that I forget to look for the signal.
If we use signals, there are always two. Serve location with finger and poach (open hand) or no poach (fist).
The server makes the calls with yep, yep. or no, yep, yep
Recently I played with a guy that called poaches with the fist, saying that an open hand was the signal for stop. I was confused all day.
I used to use open, closed, 1 finger or 2 fingers... and a signal for service location. As long as I signal whether I go or not my partner didn't need to know if I was going to incorporate a fake as well.
I've used all the signals mentioned in this thread at one time or another, but for the last couple of seasons have stuck with just stay (fist) / poach (open hand).
Signaling a fake did not add much value, at least for me - as the server, I was not doing anything different to what I would do for stay, so why bother.
Signaling serve location has maybe a small benefit but not enough to warrant the additional complexity and possible confusion. As the server, I already have a pretty good idea of where I want to serve based on stay / poach, and so should my net player.
On a poach, I will serve down the T maybe 70% of the time, and hard to the body maybe 20%. The net player would play them both the same way anyway, so no real need to communicate it. And maybe 10% on a poach I will serve wide, but I go for a little extra on my serve on these occasions.
Keeping it simple helps when you play with multiple partners.
Just started using hand signals with my doublespartner a few matches ago. It took some getting used to and our results have plundered. I don't want to blame the hand signals as I like the communication and knowledge of where the serve is going to go; but for whatever benefits it has brought to the table we no longer play as loose and I find out anticipation has not been as good.
Its almost like because we know where the serve is going to go (most of the time) there is very little inventiveness in how we play. We seem surprised by shots and styles of play that we weren't before we incorporated the hand signals.
Does this make the least bit of sense to anyone? :oops:
This is all fine. I know the pros and cons of hand signals. I pretty much just wanted to confirm what I was thinking to myself. That a fist for stay and open hand for poach is the most common pair of signals.
Since no one else does it that way, I've had to adapt. Now I just remember that an open hand is an appeal directly to God to help me on this poach.
Oh, and I don't like signaling serve location, as server or net player. Few servers at my level have that kind of pinpoint control over where their serve goes. If I signal poach, hit a serve that will make life easy for me, 'kay?
I also dislike when my partner insists that I not signal for second serve (either because I will always stay or because the signal applies for first and second0. Why give the opponent a free pass on a second serve? Also, I feel like if I started to poach but the first serve was out, the receiver may have noticed my poach and will be ready for it on second serve. I'd like the option to change the call.
Fist (no fingers) = I'm holding my position on both serves.
1 finger = I'm poaching on your first serve (only).
2 fingers = I'm poaching on your second serve (only).
3 fingers = I'm poaching on both your first and second serve (my favorite).
With this, the netman is free to fake as much as he likes. The netman, even if holding, is free to take anything he thinks he can get to. The other thing I like is that these signals work just as well in both the regular or Ausie formations, and continue to work even if the netman lines up in different formations on different serves. It doesn't work as well for the I formation, and when doing that the netman will just point which way he's going.
In high school my doubles partner and I would yell out a meal.
If it started with a meat or protein, we were going.
If it started with the side dish, we were staying.
You'd think you'd figure this out, BUT if we thought the other doubles team was catching on, we would say "TO GO" at the end, and it meant the opposite.
For example, before serving, the net person would say "chicken cordon bleu with asparagus and rice." And that meant GO.
Eventually our coach told us it was distracting and getting everyone hungry listening to our menus day after day.
I would stick with
Open - going agressive, but not crossing
Closed - staying
Scissor fingers - Agressive cross, cover my line.
Maybe use hand signals to get an edge on a tie-breaker, but all match long! Sounds like it would slow it down too much and there's already too many slow players.
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Ducks to rock Rocketts Aug. 11
If you're still reeling from the region's crazy weather extremes of the last month, better brace yourself for next week's forecast.
On Aug. 11, Rocketts Landing will be raining ducks.
As many as 20,000 rubber ducks, in fact, will splash into the James River at the 23rd Annual Big Brothers Big Sisters Duck Race, courtesy of thousands of citizen and corporate donors who support the mentoring work of BBBS.
The owner of the lucky duck – the swift swimmer who leads the flock from the old Annabelle Lee dock starting gate to The Boathouse finish line – will take home a new Nissan Versa donated by Priority Nissan.
Among other prizes will be the chance to play Honorary Squirrel for a Day with the Richmond Flying Squirrels; outings to Busch Gardens, Dave & Busters, and Richmond International Raceway; a kayak donated by Dick's Sporting Goods; and a burrito a week for a year at Qdoba.
Proceeds from duck sales, as always, will support BBBS programs pairing children with adult mentors in their community, which includes not only Richmond and its suburban counties but also Colonial Heights and the Tri-Cities area.
As Mark Bowen, manager of marketing and corporate relations for BBBS, pointed out recently, "We offer our [matching and mentoring services] free to the family; it doesn't cost them a cent. But it's not a free service to supply."
Receiving only limited funding from government sources – such as a federal grant that helps with mentoring of military families at Ft. Lee – the growing organization relies heavily on the Duck Race, the largest of its four annual fundraisers.
Bowen, who has been making the rounds of local grocery stores and businesses to sell ducks, noted that the one-on-one relationships fostered by BBBS have been shown to lower the chances of truancy and drug use by almost half among participating children.
"So we are always looking for numbers, for more matches; but we also want quality over quantity," Bowen said, emphasizing that long-term stability in a mentoring relationship is the ideal. "We try to keep matches together as long as we can; that makes the bigger difference in a child's life and the bigger difference in the community overall."
The new venue for the race and family festival, which in past years took place at Brown's Island, represents just one of several changes that have come about as BBBS marks its 50th anniversary year in Richmond.
The start time of the festival, which used to be 11 a.m., has been moved back until 2 p.m. (with a duck drop time of 5 p.m.) to take advantage of cooler temperatures. The Duck Race's social media presence has also been stepped up, with Facebook ads allowing fans to "like" the race, and Twitter updates regarding duck sales issued several times a day.
What's more, said Bowen, BBBS is offering online duck sales for the first time ever -- and web purchases are increasing daily.
"You can go directly from the Facebook page [or BBBS home page] to buy ducks," said Bowen, indicating that not only do online sales represent a convenience for duck buyers, but also a time saver for the staff.
With any luck, said Bowen, the internet will one day replace "retail" sites as the primary source of duck sales -- freeing staff from fundraising tasks to focus on their matching and mentoring mission.
But until then, Bowen can be found roaming the Richmond region, working up to six corporate duck sales a day. Among the Henrico businesses that have hosted sales in recent weeks are Snagajob, Richmond International Raceway, Markel, Dominion Power in Innsbrook and Quaker Steak and Lube, he said.
One of the Henrico trips Bowen relishes most, however, is set to take place August 3 at Genworth Financial – where he says he can always count on a duck-buying frenzy.
"At Genworth," Bowen said confidently, "we'll sell five- to six-hundred ducks in two hours."
The 2012 Duck Race festival will take place Aug. 11 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Rocketts Landing, with the duck drop taking place at 5 p.m. To purchase ducks, or to volunteer at the Duck Race, visit http://tinyurl.com/cfkutx7 or call 261-4940.
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New Johnny Cash Album; Free Eric Church Download; Doc Watson Statue Unveiled
- Proving that he might be the only artist to have more posthumous recordings than Tupac, Johnny Cash has another new album forthcoming with unheard music on it. (Not that I'm complaining one bit.) From the press release: "Johnny Cash Bootleg III: LIVE Around the World is a collection of rare and unreleased live recordings it is a travelogue from his earliest days on the road at the Big D Jamboree in Dallas Texas in the 1950s – through to his becoming an International Superstar and a great statesman ambassador at the White House in Washington, D.C. in the 1970s." Bootleg III comes out on September 27th.
- Five years after his last release, Lee Greenwood has new music available. The singer/songwriter known best for "God Bless the USA" has released a new seven song EP, I Want To Be In Your World.
- What do Jim Reeves, a Baptist minister, a carnival, Bill Clinton, 114 cats and a pack of wild dogs all have in common?
- Just in case you weren't one of the few to snatch up the self-released Zac Brown Band album Home Grown back in 2005, you can now check out an early version of "Chicken Fried" as well the rest of the songs on the album.
- Zach and Josh Carter, known as The Carter Twins, have released the new Acoustic EP and are offering it free to fans here.
- The first round of nominations for the 17th Annual Inspirational Country Music Awards Show (to be held on Friday, October 28, 2011) were announced.
- Lily Allen is talking again about putting out a country album.
- Luke Bryan covered Metallica at the Ryman. Yikes.
- Dream River Films is unveiling Courage, a short film in a trilogy of Texas Westerns called The Armadillo Tales. The films feature singers, songwriters and actors from the Texas. Courage stars recording artists Guy Forsyth, Stephanie Urbina Jones, guitarist John Inmon, Bob Fanucchi and Zach Young. It will premier in Dallas, Texas on Monday, August 15 at the historic Texas Theater. Check out the trailer here.
- Doc Watson has been immortalized in bronze in Boone, North Carolina.
- Randy Houser got engaged to former American Idol contestant Jessa Lee Yantz last week.
- Check out the trailer for the upcoming movie Dirty Girl starring Tim McGraw and Dwight Yoakam. It comes out in theaters on August 5th.
- Eric Church is offering a free bonus track to Chief called "Lovin' Me Anyway" on his website.
- The Texas Music Awards were recently announced. Winners include Christen Sawyer, Bob Cheevers, Jeremiah Houston Band, Jeremy Parsons and Michael Martin Murphey.
- You should go buy Ashton Shepherd's new album and help a girl out. She still lives in a single-wide trailer in Alabama and sells vegetables out of the back of her pickup truck when she's not on tour. At least that's what NPR says.
- A couple of cool Jamey Johnson performances popped up across the web last week. Nashville Gab had Johnson and LeAnn Rimes covering some Waylon Jennings together and Farce the Music has him doing a George Jones cover.
- Johnny Reid, Dean Brody and Terri Clark lead the Canadian Country Music Association Award nominations. The winners will be announced on 9/12.
- It's been available since July 1, but don't miss out on your chance to download the free Eli Young Band exclusive track "Room Goes Dark."
- Singer, songwriter and culinary enthusiast Brandon James has a brand new EP available and combines music and recipes at his website appropriately called Country Rock Recipes.
- To promote his new album Country Again, Ronnie Milsap did an interview with Nashville.com and reminisced about the days of playing with Charley Pride and in Roger Miller's hotel.
- New music videos (or in a couple cases, new to you):
Emerson Drive — "Sleep It Off"
Gord Bamford — "Hank Williams Lonesome"
Donny and Marie –- "The Good Life"
Darren Warren — "Cowboy Up and Party Down"
Shelley Rann –- "I'm All Over That"
David Bradley — "Hard Time Movin' On"
Kira Isabella — "Love Me Like That"
Brett Eldredge — "Signs"
Jason Jones — "Ferris Wheel"
The Heartbroken — "Seventeen"
Victoria Banks — "I'm Gone"
Chad Brownlee — "Carried Away"
Jason McCoy — "I'd Still Have Everything"
Vanessa Carlton — Mumford & Sons' "The Cave" (live cover for Billboard)
Tiffany — "Feel The Music" (live performance for ABC)
- And last but not least, below is the EPK for The Bankesters' self-titled album:
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With all these new Johnny Cash albums coming out, I'm almost starting to wonder if he faked his death ;)
It's just a matter of time before we get an album of Cash and Elvis duets.
That article about the disputed wills of Jim Reeves' deceased widow was quite a hoot! What a mess…
Ashton Shepherd's story reminds me a bit of Bonnie Owens in Bakersfield back in the late 1950's. Bonnie had married Buck when they were still in their teens and after a couple of kids came along they got divorced in the early 1950's. Bonnie pursued a solo singing career after the divorce and when she wasn't out on the road (usually as an opening act) she worked as a waitress in the Blackboard honky tonk that launched Buck's career. I would guess the Blackboard is where Bonnie first met Merle Haggard but I haven't checked to verify if that's true.
Just when I didn't think Luke Bryan could do something to make me dislike him more, he goes and does this. Yeeeeeeeeeech. I really enjoy Metallica…and I enjoy Country music. Not a fan, when one butchers the other.
…a country record by lily allen? i've always enjoyed the country vibe in "not fair", therefore i can see some beauty in such a project. if it takes a north-london accent to lead country music from the muddy glory of the backroads back in a new and more interesting direction again, i'll be totally ok with that.
…new outfit same ol' problem – there's never enough time to follow every interesting lead here.
glad, i clicked on that "bankesters" clip – beautiful music.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on Wednesday a writ petition filed by the Archbishop of Cuttack for a CBI probe into the killings of Christians and damage caused to churches and other institutions in Kandhamal district of Orissa.
A three-judge Bench of Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan, Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice J.M. Panchal took the decision when senior counsel Colin Gonsalves sought early listing.
When the CJI asked Archbishop Raphael Cheenath to approach the Orissa High Court, Mr. Gonsalves said he could not go to the High Court as he faced a threat to his life. He submitted that the situation in the area was tense and it was difficult for him to freely move in the State as he had received threatening letters.
The Archbishop said after VHP leader Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, head of a local math in Orissa, was killed on August 23, "his supporters are saying that since you [missionaries] have killed our head we will kill your head." Counsel said the State was not properly deploying Central forces.
Additional Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam, who intervened, assured the court that the Centre would fulfil its responsibilities and take necessary steps for deployment of adequate forces in the area. He said he would take up the matter with the Home Secretary and inform the court on Wednesday on the steps taken.
The Archbishop said the petition was being filed in the public interest, challenging the failure of the State government to maintain law and order in Kandhamal district and protect innocent people whose human rights were being violated after the killing of Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and others by some Maoists.
The petitioner alleged that inadequate compensation was being provided and said an arbitrary and irrational methodology was employed in choosing recipients for financial assistance. There was a deliberate attempt to exclude churches and institutions run by the church and direct victims for any financial assistance and relief.
He said that in the communal violence following the Swami's killing, hundreds of homes were burnt down, and many churches and institutions were completely destroyed. Thousands were rendered homeless.
The sequence of events would indicate that the attacks were not isolated incidents but part of a well-orchestrated conspiracy which had the full support of the State government, he submitted.


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More interesting than Williams's attempts to replicate the slick pattern are his lapses from it. The villainous warden who drives the men to revolt and then tortures them is given a gaze of hypnotic power, in the Gothic-monster tradition. (Some of Williams's earliest stories appeared in Weird Tales.) An overtly effeminate prisoner, called The Queen, is written to be played for pathos instead of comedy, a notion that would have sat no better with Broadway-goers of the time than with the keepers of Hollywood's Production Code. In quick-flash scenes that might still raise questions about authorial motive and ethics, Williams shows the agony to which the rebellious prisoners are subjected, locked in a windowless room at 150-degree heat. And he has his proletarian hero, Butch O'Fallon even the name sounds tailor-made for Wallace Beery bounce back from the torture to exact an equally brutal revenge, without even a letup in his tough-guy speechmaking; the last few scenes evoke Monogram Pictures rather than reality.
At its worst, Nightingales confirms skeptics like Mary McCarthy, whose famously captious review found tourist-trap images of lowlife even in A Streetcar Named Desire. That there's another side to the argument is indicated here by a device that virtually invites the audience to join Williams in tourist class: The play opens and closes with a voice-over from the deck of a tour boat passing the prison island a boat which, at the end, unknown to its guide, may be carrying the better-spoken of the play's two heroes to freedom. Canary Jim, the warden's pet trusty and resident snitch, has been playing for the convicts' side all along. "I was your friend," the warden pleads with him at their final confrontation, to which Jim replies, in one of the script's few truly great moments, "I wasn't yours." The man who could build a factitious, cliché-ridden script to that exchange would surely go on to write something extraordinary.
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1080p@60FPS will take time.
One of the biggest pieces of news recently is that BF4 on the PS4 (and most likely on the XB1) runs at 720p@60fps. The final resolution hasn´t been optimized, but even if it still runs at 720p when it launches on consoles, my question is, does it really matter?
One thing that you have to remember with BF4 and all of these launch games especially, is that they´re launch games. Games with a very narrow deadline, some cross gen projects and that they´re the first games that open the doors of the next generation. They´re not going to utilize the full power of these consoles. It´ll take at least 1 year and a half to start delving into the real (not full) power of these systems. Even the XB1 will offer some games with kickass graphics. You need to think forward about these sort of things.
Another thing you need to think about is this: This game is running at 720p@60fps, it´s unoptimized, it has good graphics, features building destruction and an online 64 player mode. That sounds pretty damn good to me, especially if you´re a console only person.
We can´t just think about the launch of these consoles and judge the entire gen off that. These are rushed games, through and through.
Look at games like KH3, for all we know that game could run at 1080p 60fps, as it´s being developed for a while. Games that have a good development period turn out better. Launch games are not the way to do that. I like games with about a 2 year development period, after the announcement at least. Maybe it´s because I´m used to waiting for a while for JRPGs. That´s just me though.
You guys remember the Dark Sorcerer tech demo right? That was running at 1080p and jumping between 30 and 90 fps and the frame rate wasn´t even optimized. It was using 4GB of GDDR5 RAM and running on an incomplete PS4 dev kit. Heck even the Warzone mode in KZF runs at 1080p 60fps.
I know some people are thinking: 'What about Killer Instict, that runs at 1080p 60fps' Well yes, but it has a lower texture resolution, two charcter models and a 2d plain. There are some fighting games that run on 1080p 60fps on current gen consoles.
Then we go onto the PC fanboys. Listen, we get it. The PC has the best specs. But what game requires the the full specs of a high end PC (let alone the highest end PC on the market) to get maxed out? Exactly. Not a single one. We get that you love the PC more than consoles. We get that you love Steam (which could go out any day of week). We get all of it. But these consoles aren´t really weak piles of dookie.
As this amazing blog says, these consoles will be able to produce almost equally to high end PC results (they are not high end PCs but like I said, no game uses the full specs of a high end PC), as the gen goes on. 1080p@60FPS out pf the gate is a bit much to ask for on consoles, especially with a game like BF4.
I know that somewhere down the line, 1080p@60FPS will be almost a standard for these two consoles, but launch day is not that time.
Also you guys should lsiten to music while on N4G: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
so if the vast majority of ps4/xbox1 games are say 900p at launch, in 3 years most games will be 800p
and near the end of the console cycle, 720p will be the best you can hope for
Oh wait...
Listen man, I know that you love the PC Like it´s your girlfriend, but quit being such an elitist.
Not all devs are trying to keep up with the PC buisness. To be honest I see a lot of devs quiting this whole Steam thing (not too many western devs), as games are costing more and more to make. No matter how you slice and dice it, PCs are not the ultimate platforms.
I´ll be very curious to see your reaction to when Steam shuts down (It´ definitely not going away anytime soon). Like me you´re pretty new here, so I really don´t want to get off the wrong foot.
Show us the list then?
Back up your statements with proof... which you have neglected to do a few times you've mentioned this.
Also, stop trying to play good cop bad cop with your comments putting retraction statements in brackets, to try and negate your lies.
why wouldn't it? back in 2006 sony promoted true hd. with bluray overtaking dvd and enthusiasts now drooling over 4k tv's your trying to apologize for 720p on new hardware?
"Listen man, I know that you love the PC Like it´s your girlfriend, but quit being such an elitist."
that sounds very mature. why did you write this blog if you aren't willing to respect other peoples opinions? i looked into your post history and this is your very first comment,
"Oh sure. If their specs were better (which would never happen), they would be like 'our specs are amazing yeah and that's final."
the topic, ironically, was about specs for the ps4 and xbone.
you know what i notice here, console fanboys who live in glass houses. where they are very quick to point out how the ps4 is more powerful than the xbone but hate it when the pc is brought up. its why the console wars are what they are and it seems like sony fanboys are the ones who on average act more like elitists than any other group and are the most defensive about the pc being superior.
Also, PlayStation fans really soukdt accuse anyone of loving their AME machine of choice like it is a person, t the irony/hypocrisy overwhelms.
And btw last gen the games only looked better and better as time went on. Look at the games that released in 2006 compared to this year on the same console, there is an astonishing difference.
Why have such a negative view if there is literally no evidence or reason to think that way? Probably because you are "PCMASTERRACE" which is a shame. The better the next gen consoles are, the better ports PC gamers get, so be happy.
Ubisoft's "The Division" wouldnt look half as good as it does on PC when it releases if there werent new consoles with better specs.
Happens every gen, compare launch games to end of gen games and the difference is amazing graphically. I expect the same this gen. We all know consoles will never reach PC graphically but to say its only downhill from here defies the basic logic of how closed system architecture works, longer period of time spent with it, the more you can learn to get out of it. You are mentioning numbers left and right with absolutely no idea what you are talking about. I see Killzone Shadow Fall running at 1080p 60fps looking that good and i have only the highest of hopes for PS4.
Dice will reveal the specs soon enough and THEN you can or you can wait until it's out and THEN talk about it's downfalls or great tech. It seriously annoys me to see people grasping for negativity on an unfinished product.
The thing about consoles is not that they're weak, it's that they are static. This has its advantages, such as games being highly optimized, but also has some disadvantages. One disadvantage is that developers have to decide whether they should have more eyecandy/other feature, or a higher frame-rate.
Usually, they opt for the former.
Given what has happened in this and the past generation, it is unlikely that 60fps will ever be the standard because visuals are valued more over frame-rate ( see http://www.insomniacgames.c... )
The standard next-gen will likely be 30fps, and as developers understand the hardware better, they'll optimize the game so that it looks better while running at the same frame-rate.
AAA shooters usually drop resolution to keep game play and speed intact.
Oh look, it runs at 1080p native 60fps, and its a AAA shooter.
Bet you feel pretty dumb now huh?
There you go, none of that "slowdown" you talk of. This is what you get when a first part Sony dev works on a PS4 exclusive for a long period of time. And you used all your bubbles, that was silly of you.
Be sure to watch in 1080p! And be sure to message me with a smart-ass reply i know you so desperately want to make.
It's Microsoft and Sony's fault that the Xbox One/PS4 are weak, because they bought weak AMD chips.
Not because they said, "Hey Nvidia, go ahead and make the titan, it's cool with us, we'll let you do it"
Wow dude, honestly just wow.
Uhhh, that would NEVER happen. They can "wish" all they want. Fact is, PC is constantly evolving hardware wise. Once a console ships, that's it. No upgraded spec wise until they release a new one. Considering the Xbone and PS4 are the same architecture as current PC's, it's kinda pathetic 1080p isn't a standard.
Now, over time as games evolve it would make sense the hardware in the PS4/Xbone can't maintain 1080p, but at launch? Come on now. It's not like the PS3/360 that were completely different to develop for than a PC. Now, next-gen is basically a medium ranged PC but doesn't have all the extras and RAM hog software a PC does.
Microsoft and Sony can do nothing about this. They merely buy low end cheap components.
Intel and Nvidia will continue to make stuff that destroys the consoles regardless. I don't know why you can't understand this, it's a fairly basic concept.....
But the downside will be the bottleneck of it.. Like others said already, after 3-5 years most you will be dismayed if the future titles will be run on sub 720p on PS4 and XB1 due to more demanding cpu+gu resources for high end games. Even 8gigs of RAM will not help to enhance graphics. Just like PCs, even if you install 32GB of RAM on your PC you won't see any differences on performance if you have crap CPU and GPU.


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UN negotiations and other international fora
The European Union, all EU Member States and virtually every other country in the world are Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the main international treaty for fighting climate change. Agreed in 1992, the Convention sets the goal of preventing dangerous man-made interference with the global climate system. The international community has agreed that global warming should be held below 2°C compared to the temperature in pre-industrial times.
Kyoto Protocol is a first step
In 1997 Parties to the UNFCCC took the next step by agreeing the Kyoto Protocol, the world's only legally binding instrument for cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Kyoto has established international emissions trading and other market-based mechanisms to help reduce the cost of reducing emissions.
Under Kyoto's first commitment period, industrialised nations agreed to cut their emissions of six greenhouse gases by an average of 5% below 1990 levels over the period 2008-2012. The 15 countries that were EU Member States at the time Kyoto was agreed committed to an 8% cut and are on track to achieve this by a comfortable margin.
Kyoto's impact is limited, however, because it requires emissions action only from developed countries. Moreover, it was never ratified by the United States, and Canada pulled out in 2012.
Voluntary pledges for 2020 inadequate
Emissions from the developing world now exceed those from developed countries, and this share will continue to rise. By 2020 nearly two-thirds of global emissions will come from developing countries, it is projected. To be effective, action to combat climate change needs to become global.
UN negotiations aimed at drawing up a global climate agreement by 2009 which would replace the Kyoto Protocol at the end of its first commitment period failed. Instead, under the voluntary Copenhagen Accord, countries were invited to make pledges to limit or reduce their emissions by 2020.
More than 100 countries in the developed and developing worlds alike – accounting for over 80% of global emissions – have done so. Developed countries also committed to provide nearly US $30 billion in 'fast start' finance for developing countries over 2010-2012 – a pledge the EU has fulfilled for its share – and to mobilise US$100 billion a year by 2020 from public, private and alternative sources in the context of meaningful and transparent action by developing countries to reduce their emissions.
Collectively, however, these voluntary emission pledges fall well short of reducing global emissions in 2020 by the amount necessary to keep the warming below 2°C.
Towards a new global climate agreement
At the initiative of the EU and the developing countries most vulnerable to climate change, agreement was reached at the Durban climate change conference in December 2011 to launch UN negotiations on a new global climate regime covering all countries. The new agreement is to be adopted by 2015 and to enter into force in 2020.
The EU wants the new regime to take the form of an ambitious and legally binding protocol. Developed countries must continue to take the lead but the major emerging economies in the developing world will also have to reduce their emissions.
Second Kyoto period as transition to global regime
To bridge the gap between the end of the first Kyoto period in 2012 and the start of the new global agreement in 2020, 38 developed country Parties including the EU and its Member States have agreed to participate in a second Kyoto period running from 2013 to 2020. The necessary amendments to the Kyoto Protocol were adopted at the Doha climate change conference in December 2012.
The commitments amount to a reduction in the Parties' emissions of at least 18% from 1990 levels, according to the UNFCCC. The EU and its Member States have committed to reduce their collective emissions in the second Kyoto period to 20% below their levels in 1990 or other chosen base years. This target will be fulfilled jointly with Iceland.
The European Commission has tabled the legislation necessary for the EU, as a Party to the Kyoto Protocol in its own right, to ratify the Doha Amendment (see Documentation tab above). The proposal also sets out the terms according to which the EU, its Member States and Iceland will fulfil their joint reduction commitment.
The measures needed for the EU and its Member States to deliver on the reduction commitment have already been put in place through the 'climate and energy package' of legislation adopted in 2009.
All parties taking part in the second period are required to revisit their emissions target by 2014 with a view to considering making it more ambitious.
In its formal submission in response to this requirement, the EU has shown that it is making a major contribution to increasing global ambition by over-achieving its emission targets for both the first and second commitment periods. The total over-achievement by the EU and Iceland jointly is potentially 5.5 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent by 2020 – well over one year's worth of emissions. The EU has also left the door open to stepping up its reduction to 30% if the conditions are right.
Having a second period safeguards Kyoto's rules-based regime for use as an important building block of the new global agreement for 2020. But the fact that only developed countries must take action, and that the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan and New Zealand are not participating, means that Kyoto now applies to only around 14% of the world's emissions.
This underscores the urgent need for a global agreement requiring action by all countries.
Raising the ambition of global action for this decade
Recognising that countries' collective emission pledges for 2020 are insufficient, the Durban conference also launched work to enhance emission reductions by the end of this decade by identifying further actions that can close the 'ambition gap' between what is currently planned and what is needed to stay below 2°C.
The Doha conference in 2012 agreed a detailed plan to take this work forward and the Warsaw conference in 2013 laid the basis for tangible progress in 2014. The EU has set out several ways in which global ambition can be raised.
EU participation in other international fora
As well as the global climate negotiations held under the UNFCCC, the EU and its Member States also participate actively in international policy and research fora whose decisions or recommendations feed directly or indirectly into the UN climate change process.
These include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the G8 and G20, the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Energy Agency (IEA).


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Changes in standards support Department of Health and Human Services' "Four Cornerstones" for health care improvement
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today URAC called for comments on major revisions to its Core Accreditation standards. The Core standards are the foundation of URAC accreditation, addressing key organizational functions within health care organization such as staff qualifications, oversight of delegated activities, quality management and consumer protection.
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URAC is seeking input from any interested parties, including purchasers, policy makers, consumers, health care management organizations and health plans. The deadline for public comment is April 14, 2008.
URAC's Health Standards Committee reviewed and revised the standards now open for public comment. Changes to Core Version 2.1 accreditation standards include assigning weights to each standard element according to refined weight categories, a reorganization of the standards designed to clarify which standards apply to various types of applicants, and a focus on protecting and empowering the consumer through a new standard emphasizing health care literacy.
New policy concepts are introduced in the Core standards to address key issues in health care including two of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services "Four Cornerstones" for health care improvement. Quality standards require the use of national quality measures, where they exist, as benchmarks for their quality improvement projects. Interoperable health information technology is introduced as well to promote greater efficiency in the health care system.
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