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We were vacationing in NYC for Spring Break and we wanted to eat before we saw the musical Chicago. The Roxy seemed appealing, but we found it to be far from that. I understand it is going to be expensive, but we did not get our money's worth. We expected a dinner we normally wouldn't treat ourselves to, something extra special. However, the food was just average if not less. And we went there because we were in a rush, so we got food that should be prepared quickly. It took long for our salads and the waiter never came during the meal to see if we wanted refills. He basically took our order, brought food, and then the check. And the place wasn't busy, so there was no need for that. He didn't become welcoming until it was time for his tip. We will never go back there again.
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The Port St. Joe Jr./Sr. High School track team competed at the Ram Relays in Springfield last Saturday with the girls finishing third and the boys ninth.
In the field events, Nicole Enders won the pole vault for the Lady Tiger Sharks with Celeste Chiles taking fourth. Maya Robbins took first in the long jump and Dantasia Welch was second in the triple jump. Michell Pryor took third in the shot put and fourth in the discus.
On the track, Robbins, Welch, Maliyiah McNair and Jamrion Larry took second in the 4 by 200 relay and finished third in the 4 by 100 relay.
Port St. Joe finished behind Fort Walton Beach and Niceville, but ahead of Rutherford, Bay, South Walton, Arnold, Mosley, Graceville and Bozeman.
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Campus strategizes over impending budget cuts
Northern Arizona University and President John Haeger are preparing to battle a formidable opponent, and they don't even know who it is yet.
With a decrease to the institution's current budget looming large, the campus is facing a variety of scenarios that may arise when the state Legislature announces the university's budget cut, which could be anywhere up to 10 percent or more—and that's from the current budget.
"We don't want to make cuts that imperil the future," Haeger said during a campus-wide forum Monday in the High Country Conference Center.
Addressing a crowd of more than 400 people as well as an online audience, Haeger said the university's goal is to make decisions on budget reductions that reflect NAU's mission, strategic plan and priorities.
"University priorities take precedence over all other priorities, since they benefit the whole," he said.
To address the upcoming budget decrease, the president announced six immediate steps:
He also has set targeted cuts to each vice presidential area, including the Office of the Provost, whose budget is about 54 percent of NAU's fluid funds, 92 percent of which is salaries and employee-related expenses, or ERE. Salaries and ERE account for 75 percent of NAU's total budget.
These steps are in addition to actions already taken, which include delayed searches for several administrative positions, more than 20 tenure-track positions and 15 to 20 staff positions.
The university's budget cuts are the result of an anticipated shortfall in state revenue of about $1.2 billion in FY09 and a projected shortfall of $2.2 billion to $3 billion in FY10, which begins July 1. The Legislature may meet in a special session this month to address the budget.
The president presented a scenario for a 6 percent budget cut for FY09. If the cut approaches 10 percent or more, Haeger said, "A very different approach would be required."
At 10 percent—around $16 million—the university would have to consider layoffs, cuts in academic programs, decreases in service and "substantial" increases in tuition and fees.
"Some universities have even come back with midyear tuition increases," he pointed out.
The Arizona university system also will work with a new political structure in Arizona with Jan Brewer assuming the governor's role for Gov. Janet Napolitano, who has been nominated by President-elect Barack Obama for homeland security secretary. Brewer most likely will take office around February. The state Legislature also has a host of new leaders in the House and Senate.
"Gov. Napolitano will settle the '09 budget, but the FY10 budget will be from a new Legislature," Haeger said.
The president also shared some of the discussion that arose Nov. 15 at a scheduled Leadership Day.
Some of the suggestions included:
Answering a member of the audience, Haeger said that the university has made no plans to cut employee benefits, including heath care and tuition discounts.
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Fan dies after fall from upper deck at Atlanta's Turner Field
Mother: Son was a life-long Braves fan
ATLANTA - Authorities have identified a fan who died after falling more than 60 feet from an upper-level platform at Atlanta's Turner Field as a 29-year-old man.
The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office early Tuesday identified the man as Ronald Homer of Conyers and said an autopsy is planned for Tuesday.
Homer's mother says her son was a life-long Braves fan.
Connie Homer of Conyers, Ga., tells The Associated Press her only son, 30-year-old Ronald Lee Homer Jr., told her in a cellphone call from the Monday night game that rain was starting to let up and he was preparing to go back in the stadium. She says he ended the call in his typical way, telling his mother he loved her.
She says her son did landscape work outside Atlanta.
Homer fell during Monday night's game between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies. Atlanta police spokesman John Chafee says there's no indication of foul play, and the fall appears to have been an accident.
Heavy rains had led to a nearly two-hour delay of the game, which was scheduled to start at 7:10 p.m.


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The secret of advertising
While he was still alive, my dear old Dad was regularly convinced that he had discovered "the secret of golf".
Although after he died, his interest somewhat tailed off.
He died many years ago, I should explain. But he'd been a single figure handicap player, and he was obsessed with minute adjustments to his grip or stance or swing.
I wasn't the least bit interested in the game, so his observations meant nothing to me. For all I know he may have hit upon the actual secret just before he died, but if that's the case, nobody will ever know.
And golfers around the world will just carry on hacking, cursing and stomping their way through some of the loveliest landscapes in the world.
In a similar way I find myself obsessed with finding the "secret of advertising", a process that I am convinced can guarantee outstanding creative work while also producing disproportionate results in the real world.
(Picking up the average creative award has less to do with this ambition than ordering a wet raspberry latte in a shoe shop.)
In the last week I've had lots of meetings about Decoded, tea with my old HHCL partner Rupert Howell, given a talk to 100 people with CMW, had coffee with an anthropology student who wants to break into advertising, got into a very interesting debate with Tim Lindsay, had lunch with Glyn Britton of Albion, had a drink with Alex Wipperfurth who runs a lovely agency in SFC, had coffee with Zoe Osmond of Nabs and lunch with Zoe Bell of Grace Blue, helped an agency who wanted to get onto the Adidas shortlist, had tea with Rufus Olins, had lunch with a documentary film-maker and oh I don't know a few other things as well.
And I think I've finally cracked it.
The answer came in a process described by Glyn Britton, as we ate pie and mash in a converted shipping crate. (You've got to be down with the kids in Shoreditch and that's where everybody is eating these days. Restaurants per se are rather last decade in Silicon T-junction.)
The actual process is described fully in Glyn's blog on the Albion web-site but I'll try to summarise it here.
You create several bits of work that break the rules ("light lots of fires", as Mark Earls has succinctly put it), then test them out online by creating Minimum Viable Products (which you can put on Facebook or Youtube or wherever you like, really), then use the very advanced metrics now available to fast-track the ideas which have real energy.
It may sound obvious, but how does it compare to the process your agency is currently using ?
It does away with waste-of-time-and-money research, it encourages stand-out work, and it delivers metrics so that the process can be inclusive in a company rather than the shielded-behind-the-hands procedure of working with a lone maverick.
Using this process, Glyn and a team at Albion produced the outstanding film of Keith Harris and Orville doing a hommage to Eminem for giffgaff.
There were various breakthrough bits of thinking along the way – including using the plight of a battery hen as an analogy for being trapped in a phone contract – and I was lucky enough to be in various appropriate rooms as this project evolved. But the final masterstroke of using a stuffed duck to illustrate the plight of the battery hen, sadly wasn't mine.
(Although, to the casual observer, I'm the only person linked to the agency who's remotely old enough to remember Keith Harris in his prime.)
If the idea sounds complicated, then maybe that's how you would have killed it if you'd been in a meeting discussing it – indeed, I'm convinced that in a more "normal" process, it would have been killed exactly like that at some stage or another . But fortunately this process rides roughshod over such sliding tackles, like Lionel Messi carving his way through a couple of half-arsed retreating Albanian half-backs.
You just have to trust metrics, more than the usual uninformed and over-cautious subjectivity which passes for creative judgement in this industry.
And this leaves just one question begging.
Should one keep the left shoulder perfectly still through the back-swing ?
Glyn, I feel, might know the answer.


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Taking a cue from their new design language first seen in the Octavia a couple of months ago, the new Superb is sharper and has a more chiselled visage. But the changes are not head turners. The headlamps are broader, and LED daylight running lights have appeared. The redesigned grille has the new Skoda logo, and the front and rear bumpers are new as well. Overall dimensions are the same.
The rear has more striking changes. The tail lamps have become a wraparound inverted cluster that looks similar to the Audi A4. Interestingly, Skoda's head of design Jozef Kaban was in charge of exterior design for Audi in his previous assignment. Any similarity, therefore, is accidental. Or may be just a force of habit.
Barring a new steering wheel that has three spokes for the automatic version instead of the regulation four, there are no changes inside. It has the same European dashboard layout and retains the high quality and ergonomics. Considering the dynamics of the segment there was little scope for a designer here anyway. The seats are comfortable, not too hard nor too soft, good for long drives.
The new Superb comes with 1.8-litre petrol and 2-litre diesel engine options. The petrol variant is offered with a 6-speed manual or a 7-speed automatic transmissions, while the diesel has 6-speed automatic. That the manual gearbox is available only in petrol, indicates which is a better car to drive. With petrol engines getting direct injection and turbochargers, the advantage of diesel engines has been negated, for now.
The automatic petrol is the pick as the turbo kicks in much earlier than the diesel, and is also more refined. The manual, with the same output, gives the driver a feeling of being in command. For a heavy car, acceleration is very good and power comes in a linear curve that tops out near 6,000 rpm.
The diesel suffers from pronounced turbo la g. Below 2,000 rpm, there is little on offer. When it does come alive, it is in a rush, as though making up for lost time. Since city driving mostly happens in the 1,500-2,500 rpm band, it makes the diesel engine a little irritating.
The Superb retains its classleading ride and handling, and is happy to be challenged at corners, though not as much as the lighter Octavia.
Compared to its peers, there is no disputing the Superb is a winner. It has more technology than an Accord or a Camry, and is a toss-up with cousin VW Passat. The minor changes do their bit to freshen things up.
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July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Thailand's baht and Indonesia's rupiah led gains among Asian currencies as Europe's progress on solving its debt crisis revitalized demand for regional stocks.
Overseas investors bought more equities than they sold in Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand on June 29 after European officials relaxed conditions on bailout loans for Spain and said banks can be recapitalized directly. The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index of shares added to last week's biggest rally since January. China's manufacturing expanded in June, while analysts had forecast a contraction, according to data issued yesterday.
"The market has reacted positively to the good news out of the European summit, but the concern over growth remains," Nizam Idris, head of Asian fixed income and currencies at Macquarie Bank Ltd. in Singapore, said in an e-mail. "To some extent, one can say the Chinese Purchasing Manager's Index numbers were better than feared, but the general direction of travel in terms of global growth remains on the downside."
The baht rose 0.5 percent to 31.58 per dollar as of 3:47 p.m. in Bangkok, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The rupiah rose 0.5 percent to 9,386 and the peso appreciated 0.3 percent to 42.018. Most Asian currencies fell last quarter as the financial crisis in Europe cut demand for regional exports and raised concern global economic growth is slowing.
Indonesia's overseas shipments fell for a second month, shrinking 8.5 percent in May from a year earlier, figures showed today. India's rupee slid 0.1 percent to 55.7150 as data showed exports dropped 4.2 percent.
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The yuan advanced 0.08 percent to 6.3490 per dollar and earlier touched 6.3461, its strongest level since May 29. It slid 0.88 percent last quarter, its worst performance since a peg to the U.S. currency ended in 2005.
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Watsonville event honors Japanese-American World War II vets
WATSONVILLE — Veterans Day is a time of reflection for Lawson Sakai. It is a day to pause and pay tribute to his fallen brothers from the 442nd Infantry Regiment.
Sakai was 18 and attending college in Los Angeles when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Sakai tried to enlist in the U.S. military and fight for his country but was rejected because of his Japanese ancestry.
He and his family were faced with anti-Japanese sentiment and sent to an internment camp in Colorado, one of many camps the government put nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans after the Pearl Harbor attack.
In March 1943, Sakai and other Japanese Americans were given an opportunity to serve in a segregated unit known as the 442nd Regimental Combat Team — an Army unit made up almost entirely of American soldiers of Japanese descent.
To Sakai and the 14,000 men who joined the 442nd Regiment, there was no hesitation to serve even while their families were still incarcerated.
Sakai, 89, a resident of Morgan Hill, shared his story at a Veterans Day celebration held Saturday by the Japanese American Citizens League in Watsonville.
A ceremony took place at Pajaro Valley Memorial Park to re-dedicate a plaque in honor of Japanese American soldiers who died in World War II.
The ceremony was followed by a gathering at the Tokushige Kizuka Hall on Blackburn Street, where Sakai spoke and a documentary called "Valor with Honor" was shown with firsthand accounts of the war from Japanese American soldiers.
"I was dying to get into the service," Sakai said. "I wanted to prove I was an American."
Sakai spoke to the crowd of nearly 100, telling of the time he was shot by a German teenager while on a mission in Germany on his 21st birthday.
"Somehow he missed me even though I was right in front of him," Sakai said. "It was either kill or be killed."
Mas Hashimoto, a Watsonville resident who also served in the Army, said it's important to salute the seven Japanese American soldiers of Watsonville who were killed in World War II.
He shared stories of Japanese Americans climbing the ranks of the U.S. military and winning great military honors.
"We should remember our veterans who served in many different wars," Hashimoto said. "They helped save countless lives and helped rebuild Japan into our most trusted ally in Asia."
Special honors were paid to Henry Sadao Izumizaki, a Watsonville native who died during the Battle of the Lost Battalion in November 1944.
Watsonville resident Victor Kimura, 67, who attended Saturday's celebration, said he has "great respect" for the Japanese Americans who gave their lives at such a difficult time for the country.
"They did so voluntarily," Kimura said. "If they hadn't given their lives, there's no way we'd be considered equal."
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Buses and trains took us from the nuclear power plant outside of Hamburg to our hostel in Husum, where Hans Fedderson and Wolfgang Paulsen greeted us for a lively discussion about wind energy. In the 1970's Hans and Wolfgang were involved in anti-nuclear protests and decided that they were tired of being against something and would rather work towards a positive solution. Hans and Wolfgang have worked on community wind projects in recent years and led us in a discussion of the history of wind in Germany, the future of wind, viability of renewable energy and the benefits of community wind projects.
Energy Independence in Germany has received more attention in recent years as the country is confronted with
- Climate issues
- Resource depletion
- Increasing desire for energy independence.
Energy is an interesting issue because it affects us all. We all use lights and heat our living spaces. Hans and Wolfgang presented the three options that we have in the face of the current climate situation and said that a sustainable solution will need to be a combination of all three.
- Behavior change (least expensive)
- Energy efficiency (2nd least expensive)
- Alternative energy (most expensive)
Feed-in Tariffs
Germany is ahead of many countries in the area of wind technology as they started producing wind power in the late 80's/early 90's. In 2000 a law was passed that said that if an individual produced energy he/she would get a fixed feed-in tariff for 20 years. Other European countries and Canada have recently adopted a similar law. Germany is happy to have shared this innovative piece of legislature with other countries and hope that more governments will be interested in the near future. This feed-in tariff allows people to more easily get a loan from the bank for large projects, like installing a wind turbine, since their 20-year income is more or less determined by the tariff. The United States does not have a feed-in tariff law, which makes it difficult for people in lower income brackets to secure loans and invest in wind projects.
Wind energy in Germany
The country has plans to build 20,000 more megawatts in the next few years and Hans and Wolfgang shared with us that the north of Germany could easily produce all of its own electricity through wind.
Big nuclear power plants, like the one we visited in Brokdorf, bring in $1,000,000 of profits in a single day. Hans and Wolfgang's opinion is that nuclear power plants are money machines and are not something that Germany needs.
Instead, Germany needs to build new grids that will have the capacity to take more renewables. This is something that large coal and nuclear companies don't want and it's tough to get legislation to change the current grid because the government has already made promises to nuclear and coal companies.
Husum alone has 4000 turbines and it's only a town of 21,000 people. Wind is the least expensive form of renewable energy in Northern Germany, but in other countries it's different (ie Hydro is cheaper in Norway and solar makes the most sense in Spain).
Community Wind Projects
Hans and Wolfgang told us about a $6 million dollar project that took place just outside of Husum. Community members only needed to pay $1000 to become a member of the project and they would see returns on their investment, as well as have a say in how the project was carried out. An advantage of involving people in the process is that the owners of the project are the same people who will also need to look at the turbine every day since it will be nearly in their backyard. They learn to respect and accept the sight of wind turbines in a way that people who aren't connected to the project aren't able to do. Project members see the lights and hear the noise, but they receive the profits and green energy, so they understand the benefits.
Benefits of Community Wind Projects:
- Financed through local banks
- Community members are engaged in the process
- Everyone has a chance to participate and to see financial benefits
- No protests and no enemies come from the process.
- Lots of money stays in the region, which makes the local economy stronger.
The Story of Butendiek
Hans and Wolfgang had been working on a project called Butendiek, which is an offshore wind project. Off-shore wind farms have a few benefits, namely that larger turbines are installed that product more energy and that wind blows faster and more often, making the energy source more reliable. They had found 8400 investors for a project that had a price tag of $500 million dollars, but the price of the project recently jumped to $1 billion dollars, making the project no longer affordable.
The project ended up being sold to a large company, which Hans and Wolfgang said this is a growing trend. The large coal and nuclear companies see that their business model is no longer going to be viable so they are investing in offshore wind projects. However, big companies make offshore wind very expensive because of their profit-based nature.
Employees in the energy industry
Though nuclear produces a larger chunk of Germany's energy, the renewable energy industry actually employs more people. Here is a breakdown of employees by energy sector:
- Nuclear: 30,000 people
- Wind: 100,000 people
- Solar: 150,000 people
- Biogas: 50,000 people
It seems as though in the face of a struggling economy, renewable energy may be worth the investment.


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I had an interesting conversation with a woman this morning. She said that she "married" herself a few years ago. The purpose is to continually remind her of her commitment to doing for herself what she would do for a spouse. Love, time, and respect. Only after having this type of relationship with herself could she begin to have a similar relationship with a man.
Over three years ago she bought herself a "wedding band". She wears the ring on her left ring finger, the one traditionally saved for wedding bands and engagement rings. Her ring is silver with a huge blue stone, and it is a great visual reminder of what she's doing. "It's just so bold and blue, and a huge stone. It's something different than I would normally get. I love it." And from time to time she will buy some wine and toast vows to herself. "For better or worse to unconditionally love myself".
After she started doing this, she discovered that Queen Latifah has done something similar. And this is an interesting concept for those who want to live goal-free. One of the secrets of Goal-Free Living is to "Want What You Have." Too often the reason we have goals is that we feel something is missing and therefore we strive for more. But if we take the time to appreciate what we already have, the stranglehold of goals begins to loosen. When you take stock of the great things already in your life, your longing for more subsides. So take a moment to take stock of what you already have. And take time to appreciate yourself. Treat yourself with the dignity and respect you so deserve.


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Global warming and the role of insuranceCan insurance protect the world from financial losses due to destructive climate change? What is possible and what isn't.
Walter Stahel is the head of risk management research at the Geneva Association, an insurance think tank.
Allianz Knowledge: The Geneva Association represents leading insurance companies. Why are you concerned about climate change?
Walter Stahel: Climate change has been on our agenda for 20 years, but we called it resource efficiency and sustainable development. If we want to achieve the objective of a low-carbon society, we first need to shift to a low-resource society.
The industrialized countries still consume far too many resources of all kinds, and these are the countries with a high insurance coverage. If we really want to reduce CO emissions, we have to radically change our way of life. And that will have radical repercussions for the insurance sector as well.
How will Climate change affect insurance?
There are three effects of climate change that are virtually undisputed. We have a problem of rising CO2 levels in the atmosphere, of rising air, water and land temperatures, and of rising average sea levels.
The rising CO2 emissions and temperatures will probably have a major impact on health and agriculture. How this will impact insurance is not really clear, but it will have an impact on insured losses.
The sea level rise is the most drastic impact. Aside from all ports and harbours, a large majority of oil refineries and nuclear power stations are within one meter of present sea levels.
These installations have a lifespan of at least 30 or 40 years. Moving these installations is going to cost a lot of money, closing them down means stranded investments. This might affect the investment side of insurance.
Fighting climate change will cost a lot of money. Is it worth the effort?
There are costs, but I can also see big opportunities, for example in the energy efficiency of buildings. The major of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, has recently announced plans to make all new buildings autonomous with regard to energy.
His argument wasn't necessarily about climate change, but public safety. Every time there is a blackout in New York City, the emergency systems are overwhelmed. People are trapped in elevators. Security systems no longer work. In an energy-autonomous building you would have none of these problems.
There are many advantages that go beyond the CO2 question. More intelligent use of energy in buildings will positively impact society and insurance. Things just become safer.
We have to start talking about these second and third degree impacts. If we can show that fighting climate change has additional societal benefits it would be much easier to find the political and public support to implement mitigation and adaptation measures.
Has climate change already had negative impacts on insurance companies?
The most problematic events are always floods and storms. But here you have problems of negligence and moral hazard as much as a problem of climate change.
Losses from floods and storms are often caused by a lack of maintenance of existing installations, such as sewers and pumps, dams and dykes, rather than by radical changes in climatic conditions.
And people increasingly want to live in beautiful but hazardous areas like Florida. During the last 100 years there has been a constant trend in the USA of moving from the central, rural areas of North America to the coastal areas. And that immediately makes insured values more vulnerable to extreme weather events.
Urban areas don't just grow vertically, but also underground. New underground roads and railways, parking garages, and bank vaults are all vulnerable to flooding and flash floods.
And there is a steady influx of relatively poor people that want to live in their own house, or at least under their own roof. They have to move to cheap areas, and those are very often floodplains or otherwise hazardous areas.
All these factors have increased the risk for insurance claims in recent years. But insurance can only contribute to loss prevention if Governments are willing and able to cooperate. This can be done by banning people from moving back into hazardous areas after a natural catastrophe, or by imposing the application of existing building standards with regard to windstorms and floods—without neglecting 'old' hazards such as earthquakes.
What other big global changes do you see for the insurance industry?
One challenge is how we can help in the development of emerging economies through insurance and microinsurance.
Water scarcity is a really difficult problem, because you cannot just invent water. A lack of clean drinking water is possibly the biggest health hazard world-wide. You can get water from desalination, but that is very costly and very energy intensive.
The third challenge is that some regions will be losers, but others will profit from climate change: Siberia, the Inuit regions, the whole North of Canada, Greenland.
The North-East Passage along the Siberian coast will open up new ways for Siberia to exploit and export its resources. All this is completely virgin territory with regards to insurance underwriting and investments.
And finally floodplains, such as Bangladesh, are among the world's most fertile and populous regions, and will be among the losers. I don't know what adaptation is possible if any. Building sea walls is possible, but extremely expensive—see the Dutch experience.
Can microinsurance help poor people adapt to climate change?
Microinsurance works like any other form of insurance. You have a pool of similar risks where each covers others losses, which means the insurance cannot work if everyone loses.
Therefore, microinsurance schemes in the Bangladesh delta or similar regions will not work, if the capital donors and the insured are based in the same region. Similarly, if there is a catastrophic cyclone hitting an island, everyone loses and the insured may not get their losses covered if they rely on purely local mechanisms.
So the biggest challenge may be to develop new and specifically adapted reinsurance schemes. But in the case of sea level rise, reinsurance may not solve the problem. Sea levels will rise everywhere on Earth and so even the reinsurance scheme cannot work, because everybody will be hit. Maybe insurance diversification in time and alternative risk transfer mechanism can help to cover such risks in the future.
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BEIRUT: Rocket-propelled grenades struck the headquarters of Syria's ruling party, bringing the violence that has engulfed much of the country to the heart of its capital for the first time, activists said.
The attack Sunday on the building in Syria's capital of Damascus apparently caused no damage or casualties. But if true, it would mark a significant shift in the eight-month uprising against President Bashar Assad. Until now, the capital has remained relatively untouched.
The pre-dawn attack awoke many Syrians who reported hearing two loud blasts, but details could not be confirmed. The foreign minister denied an attack had taken place, and Syrian television broadcast footage of the building looking undamaged.
The Free Syrian Army, a group of military defectors, claimed responsibility, highlighting the growing militarization of the revolt following months of largely peaceful protests.
"This is an escalation that would signal a new phase in the Syrian uprising," said Thabet Salem, a Damascus-based analyst. "It gives a new dimension to the whole situation, which had been so far restricted to (government) action, and reaction from the opposition," he said.
Syria has placed severe restrictions on the work of journalists, making it extremely difficult to confirm events.
The country's embattled but defiant president vowed to pursue his bloody crackdown on dissent, saying it was his "duty" as president to crush the militants he blames for the unrest.
Syria's uprising against Assad, although largely peaceful, has grown more violent in recent weeks as frustrated protesters realize the limits of peaceful action. Army dissidents who sided with the protests have also grown bolder, fighting back against regime forces and even attacking military bases and raising fears of a civil war.
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem dismissed the idea of civil war, saying such talk was "wishful thinking" by the West.
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unknown gunmen on motorcycles threw first a stun grenade and then fired RPGs at the Baath party headquarters, hitting the outside wall of the building. Two other grenades missed the target, it said.
Omar Idilbi, spokesman of the Local Coordination Committees' activist network, also said the perpetrators were masked men on motorcycles. But he cast doubt on the claim of responsibility by the Free Syrian Army, saying the target was suspicious.
"The Baath party headquarters is not a military or security base to be attacked by the FSA," he said.
The foreign minister said reports of an attack were "absolutely baseless." But at a news conference, he thanked a Syrian journalist for clarifying that the explosions heard in the area were the result of a stun grenade, indirectly acknowledging that some kind of attack had taken place.
In Cairo, the Arab League rejected amendments proposed by Syria to a peace plan to end the crisis, saying the changes alter the plan's "essence." The rejection is a further blow to Syria, a country that prides itself on being a bastion of Arab nationalism.
Last week the body reaffirmed its suspension of Syria and gave it three days to comply with the plan, which calls for the withdrawal of government tanks from the streets, the release of political prisoners and a halt to attacks on civilians.
The 22-member organization did not give details of Syria's proposed amendments. It said in a statement Sunday that Damascus' proposals were unacceptable because they introduce "drastic changes" to the mandate of a proposed league mission to ensure the plan is implemented.
Al-Moallem told reporters the proposed observers' mission included "impossible conditions" and gave excessive authority to the observers in a way that violated Syria's sovereignty. He denied Damascus sought to restrict the observers' movement within the country but said Syria wanted to be informed of the groups' travels in order to offer security protection.
"The observers, if they come, will have freedom of movement," he said. "We have nothing to hide. They should see the killings, the massacres and the crimes being carried out against our people and security forces."
An Arab League official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters, said the Syrian government was required to implement the peace plan in its entirety.
In an interview with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper, Assad vowed to crush "militants" who he says are massacring Syrians.
"The role of the government is to fight those militants in order to restore stability and to protect civilians," he said, repeating warnings that foreign military intervention in Syria would "shake the entire Middle East."
On Sunday, activist groups said at least nine people were killed by security forces, including five in the flashpoint central city of Homs and four in northern Syria.
The U.N. says more than 3,500 people in Syria have been killed in the crackdown since the start of the uprising in mid-March. The LCC network on Sunday said at least 280 children had been killed in the crackdown.
Assad, in the interview, said more than 800 Syrian officers and security forces had been killed.
In the interview, Assad said he feels "pain and sorrow" for the bloodshed but insisted the solution was to eliminate the militants he blamed for much of the violence. The Assad regime maintains the militants are following a foreign agenda to isolate and weaken Syria.
Assad, who took over from his late father, Hafez, in 2000, said there would be parliamentary elections in February or March, after which there would be a new government and new constitution.
"That constitution will set the basis of how to elect a president. ... The ballot box should decide who should be president."
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House Bill 959 lays the groundwork to prevent state and local governments from entering contracts worth $1 million or more with businesses operating in Cuba and Syria.
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Describing his home as a place 'full of old people', the pensioner fled the home in the middle of the night, making his great escape in his trusty electric wheelchair.
He was found two hours later trying to drive the contraption down a busy motorway.
When police rescued the man, he told officers he was bored with life in the care home, in Montemarciano, Italy.
Mr Paniucci, was unharmed by the experience, waited until the early hours of the morning to make his escape as it was quieter, and there were not many staff on duty in the hope that no one would notice he was gone.
He said: 'It's full of old people. I could not stand it any more.
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Obama Calls Immigration Reform a 'Moral Imperative' at National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast
President Obama continued his call for immigration reform at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast this morning, a similar call he made two years ago at the same breakfast.
Obama highlighted the work of faith leaders, including the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), on immigration.
That sense of connection, that sense of empathy, that moral compass, that conviction of what is right is what led the National Association of Evangelicals to shoot short films to help people grasp the challenges facing immigrants. It's what led the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to launch a Justice for Immigrants campaign, and the Interfaith Immigration Coalition to advocate across religious lines. It's what led all the Latino pastors at the Hispanic Prayer Breakfast to come together around reform.
Obama was likely referring to undocumented.tv, videos produced by World Relief, the relief and humanitarian arm of the NAE. He argued that immigration is not only an economic or security imperative.
It's a moral imperative when kids are being denied the chance to go to college or serve their military because of the actions of their parents. It's a moral imperative when millions of people live in the shadows and are made vulnerable to unscrupulous businesses or with nowhere to turn if they are wronged. It's a moral imperative when simply enforcing the law may mean inflicting pain on families who are just trying to do the right thing by their children.
So, yes, immigration reform is a moral imperative, and so it's worth seeking greater understanding from our faith. As it is written in the Book of Deuteronomy, "Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." To me, that verse is a call to show empathy to our brothers and our sisters; to try and recognize ourselves in one another.
The Rev. Luis Cortes, Jr., president of Esperanza, the organization sponsoring the event, gave him a Bible before Obama's speech.
"I was told this will help improve my Spanish," Obama said to laughter. "And I said, 'I'll pray on it.'"


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