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Bilateral investment treaty arbitration must be made more transparent.
Following the White Industries decision in 2011, the first ever bilateral investment treaty (BIT) award against India, BITs have been in the news. BITs entered between two countries allow investors of one country to initiate investment treaty arbitration (ITA) against the other (host) state if the latter's measures are not consistent with the investor rights granted under the BIT. Foreign investors who had hitherto ignored India's BIT obligations have become aware of their rights, and reports indicate that legal notices have been served on the state by various foreign investors threatening ITA.
UNCTAD reports that there are (at least) 12 known ITA claims against India, making it 11th in the list of countries against whom ITA claims have been raised. Late last year, Deutsche Telekom, a German investor in Devas Multimedia, sought damages of over $1.6 billion for the cancelled satellite project between Antrix, ISRO's marketing arm, and Devas. Clear details are however not available, and the government has not made any disclosures about the case.
This complete lack of transparency relating to ITAs is worrying. The number of claims, the potential liability in issue, the status of the hearings, the results of the awards are all matters where information is available (if at all) only through "reports" in the media. Even the White Industries award, which was delivered in November 2011, was available in the public domain only around February 2012 after being published by a foreign publisher. Similarly, recently a leading financial daily indicated on the basis of "reports" that 17 (and not 12) ITA notices have been served on the government.
The Indian government maintains silence relating to ITAs against it, citing the "confidentiality" of arbitral proceedings. This understanding is misplaced. Confidentiality is no doubt critical for private parties choosing to resolve their purely private disputes through arbitration. However, ITAs implicate different concerns.
First, the conduct and outcome of an ITA is an essentially public activity since it involves the state as a necessary party. Second, ITAs often involve large claims against the state. An average ITA claim is around $350 million, and a state normally wins and loses ITAs in equal measure. To put this in the Indian context, take the number of existing claims against India as 12, and assume that India might lose roughly half. The state's potential liability would be over $4 billion. That's enough to sustain a programme to employ 2,00,000 additional primary school teachers for the next 10 years. Third, an ITA award creates liability in international law against the state, and can be used as a precedent against that state by other …continued »


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When we first heard there was a big death coming on "Nashville," we weren't too impressed. We assumed it was going to be some peripheral character that no one really cared about or didn't affect the story in any big way.
We. Were. Wrong.
After watching the fall finale, "Tomorrow Never Comes," early, our jaws were left on the ground. "Nashville" is really going there, y'all. We're impressed, we're shocked, we're horrified, and we can't wait to see how all the characters attempt to pick up the pieces when "Nashville" returns in early 2014.
To tide you over until you get a chance to watch the game-changing episode, here are 10 teases about the big death and everything else that goes down in "Tomorrow Never Comes" , which airs at 10 p.m. ET Wednesday (Dec. 11):
10. There will actually be not one, but two lives hanging in the balance by the end of the episode.
9. Both of those lives will be put in danger in the last act, so keep watching until the very end.
8. One will be quite obvious when it's coming (and it's rather soap-opera-y in its execution), but the other will take you by complete and utter surprise.
7. Both characters are major characters. One, we will be extremely heartbroken over if he or she does in fact die, due to the circumstances surrounding the death and the way it happens. The other we will be shocked about, because we can't believe the show would actually go there with this character, but none too heartbroken about.
6. It's time for the Music City Music Festival, and it affects all our favorite characters.
5. Though Teddy took Deacon's name off of the roster of performers, Deacon's not giving up on his first solo performance.
4. Scarlett deals with Gunnar and Zoey in the exact way you'd expect her to: like a child.
3. Juliette comes to a realization about her romantic life, and it changes more than a few lives around her drastically.
2. Rayna comes to a realization about her professional life, and it changes more than a few lives around her drastically.
1. Will comes to a realization about his romantic and professional life, and it changes more than a few lives around him drastically.
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Uh oh. It looks like trouble in paradise for Grey's Anatomy alum turned romcom goddess, Katherine Heigl, and her husband, musician, Josh Kelley. Apparently, Heigl's relationship with her mom, Nancy, isn't just mother-daughter; Mom is also her BFF/nanny/producing partner/manager. All that partnership results in a lot of time spent together, and very little time spent with Josh. And, according to sources, it's starting to drive a wedge between the couple.
"Nancy lives around the corner from Katherine and Josh in her own place, but she spends so much time at their home that she may as well move in. She often stays overnight and knocks on their door pretty much every day she's in town," an insider revealed to the National Enquirer.
Yeesh. It looks like mom might be a little too supportive of Katherine. Having a baby-sitter at your disposal for date night whenever you want is great, but nothing kills the mood like a hovering in-law. She even vacations with the couple.
"It's all too much for Josh," the source dishes. "He's become increasingly irritated by Nancy's influence. Josh feels as if he's married two women — Katherine and her mom."
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Sports injuries are common, especially for pros. So common, in fact, that some athletes insure the body parts that helped propel them to fame — like soccer player David Beckham's legs. One Australian cricket star even insured his iconic bushy moustache!
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:::shakes head::: Now the world has gone TO the birds….. this is ridiculous. Why "ensure" something that you know is going to wear out? Seriously? It's called getting old! :::smh:::
Uh Go-Girl you realize that happens to cars too?
Oh come on guys! You don't need insurance for your body parts! You already get paid a zillion times more than us normal folks!
understandable….thats their lively hood at stake.
I think its a great idea. Thats how they make their $$$$. We would hate for our car to be involved in an accident and not be insured same with their body parts. Kind of like having health insurance to help with paying for your diabetes meds or cancer treatments.
Uh Go-Girl you realize that happens to cars too?
Remember Go-Girl, normal wear and tear are not covered. haha
Return Of Premium is a bad deal. Ask for a rate comparison of the podurct without ROP versus with ROP. Then, take the difference and invest it yourself instead of with the company. ROP is a fancy gimmick to make life insurance seem like a good deal. If your agent is PUSHING this idea, find a new agent fast!At age 28, your odds of dying within the next 30 years is very slim. Therefore, every premium dollar you give the company is pure profit. Your ROP premium is added profit.Life insurance is only necessary to protect your spouse or children should you die prematurely. Your children do not need insurance protection once they graduate from college, unless they are disabled. 30 years is too long. Think about getting a 10 to 20-year policy.


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Some 14 million Ghanaian voters will be expected to queue up in a couple of hours at 26,000 polling stations to cast their vote in the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. The polls which will open at 7am will be expected to close at 5pm followed immediately by the counting of the ballots.
Turnout is expected to be high and already there are reports of voters hanging around polling stations 12 clear hours before polls open, with some planting objects such as stones and blocks in queues to get them the opportunity to vote early.
The race to the presidency has been described as too close to call as the two frontrunners, the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) are both determined to win the elections and form the next government for a four-year term.
There are eight men including an independent candidate seeking to become the next president. Also at stake is the contest for 275 seats in parliament by 1,332 candidates from 14 of the 23 registered political parties. Out of the number, 133 are female contestants.
This will be the sixth time that Ghanaians will be going to the polls to elect a President and Members of Parliament after the country returned to civilian rule in 1992, following 3 previous democratic regimes that were truncated and interspersed by 5 different military interventions since the country gained independence in 1957 from the British.
Why the stakes are high?
Less than 1% of total votes cast separated the NDC and NPP in the last elections held four years ago which traveled three rounds of voting after none of the parties obtained the mandatory 50% and 1 vote required to form a government. The run-off could neither determine a winner, as elections were cancelled in one constituency - Tain which had more number of voters on the register than the 23,055 vote difference between the NDC and the NPP.
The situation made Tain, a hitherto relatively unknown and small constituency in the upper middle belt region of Brong Ahafo very popular, transformed into instant 'kingmakers' of the last election. Considering the closeness of the previous election, the opposition NPP finds it plausible to overturn the results after four years of the NDC rule.
The stakes are also high because of the protagonists involved in the contest. The leader of the NPP Nana Akufo-Addo, is a known political activist whose activism spans a period of four decades. He is the son of a former Head of State in the 2nd Republic, though ceremonial. At his current age of 68, it is believed that it is the last time he could possibly run for the top job. The NDC on the other hand would not want to be the first government to be kicked out of office only after a four-year stint in office.
The oil and gas factor
The newly found natural resource has also contributed to the level of competition for the top job. It is highly anticipated that the winner of the elections will benefit immensely from the oil and gas resources, which can be used to significantly transform the economy- the kind of transformation that may endear the next government to the people such that it would be more difficult to unseat it in the 2016 polls.
This notion together with the possible personal benefits that may accrue to the political elite in the government is also a factor for the very competitive nature of this year's general elections. Although the oil revenue hovers around 340 million dollars which is less than 1% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), new discoveries are made every now and then, giving indications that the real oil economy is about to begin. Current production levels range between 80,000 and 85,000 barrels per day, below the projected levels of 120,000 barrels per day, with projections by the oil companies that production levels will go up significantly in the coming years.
Internal party wrangling
The ruling NDC is going into the elections battling with the issue of internal unity. Although this is not the first time a splinter group has come out of the party, the defection is being led by a former first lady and wife of the charismatic and enigmatic founder Jerry John Rawlings who has for the first time not openly campaigned for the party. Former President Rawlings and wife Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings have previously campaigned vigorously for the NDC.
But the couple developed cold feet for the late former President Atta Mills who was Vice President to Mr. Rawlings and later became the "chosen one" to succeed him in a failed bid in the 2000 elections. The disaffection for the once "chosen one" so deepened that Mr. Rawlings backed his wife to contest against the then incumbent President Mills at the party's primaries middle of last year but the former first lady could only garner a disappointing 3.1% votes and subsequently broke ranks to join another party, the National Democratic Party, which she is speculated to have formed. After failing to contest for the general elections as flagbearer of her NDP due to her disqualification resulting from the submission of uncompleted nomination forms, the former first lady has gone public to campaign against the party her husband founded.
However the NDC could win some sympathy votes after its original flagbearer, President John Mills passed in July this year. The then Vice President John Mahama who was sworn in as President in line with the constitution of the country, subsequently became the party's candidate through a no contest election. His election is believed to have increased the chances of the ruling party as he appears to enjoy some tacit support of the founder who publicly said "the emergence of John Mahama has also added a spark to the governing party and has brought about the possibility of the ruling party also winning the election".
What's new?
Each succeeding election has seen some additions to the process intended to improve on it. The first elections of 1992 had non transparent ballot boxes and voter identity cards without photographers. Subsequent elections saw the introduction of photographs, transparent ballot boxes, and regular review of the voters register to rid it of multiple registration and other malpractices. In this year's elections, the registration was done with the capturing of biometric data. Voting will be done with the verification of the biometric information of each voter. This introduction is expected to greatly enhance the credibility of the register.
However the several breakdowns of machines during the biometric registration exercise generated a lot of anxiety ahead of the polls. The fears appear to have subsided following a successful early voting exercise done last Wednesday for security personnel and officials of the Electoral Commission.
The new registration also came with a new Constitutional Instrument and new rules intended to sanitize the process. The Chairman of the Electoral Commission Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan at a media interaction on Wednesday stressed that the political parties had agreed at a meeting that "No Verification, No Voting,' implying that every voter would have to be verified biometrically before he or she is allowed to vote.
In the past there had been instances where votes cast in a few polling stations outnumbered the number of people on the register for those stations. But Dr. Afari-Gyan in reference to the meeting of political parties said "We have agreed in principle that where the vote found in the ballot box outnumber the number of people verified to vote the results of that polling station will be cancelled and we will re-run the elections if the result will make a difference to the winner".
The issues
Education has been the dominant issue in this year's election following the promise of the NPP to implement a free secondary education dubbed Free Senior High School (SHS), which features prominently at every communication of the party. This proposal was originally made by other parties such as the Convention People's Party (CPP) and the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), an offshoot of the CPP. But the NPP made the policy the top campaign issue. The NPP proposal is countered by the NDC which argues that such a policy will compromise the quality of education and was also not sustainable. The NDC is proposing expanding infrastructure as a way of addressing quality and progressively making education free.
Other issues that have come up include health care, a strong economy and job creation as well as other social interventions.
Potential flashpoints
Ghana has had five consecutive free and fair elections without major conflicts. However each election period has been greeted with some amount of tension and anxiety, with the 2008 elections witnessing the most tensed political period.
This year's election has been described as the least tensed ahead of the polling day itself as the electioneering campaigns have been more issues based with less personal verbal attacks on political opponents. Nonetheless the security agencies led by the Police Service are leaving nothing to chance and have come out with 1,000 identified potential flashpoints which will be given special attention to ensure that the voting process is incident free.
Opinion polls
A number of opinion polls often with conflicting outcomes have been published over the past four months. Six of the 11 of the most publicized polls have given the lead to the NPP while 5 said the ruling NDC will be retained. Most of these polls are predicting an outright winner with votes in excess of 52%. The credibility of these polls have however been questioned by either of the two major parties. The methods, sample sizes, and time frame of these survey-based polls also vary greatly.
Declaration of results
The outcome of the elections will bring to a close all the speculations based on the opinion polls. Counting of ballots begins immediately the polls end at 5pm on Friday but final results are expected after 48 hours. However the Chairman of the Electoral Commission has said that the nation should have a fair idea of who is winning within 48 hours.
Three of the previously held elections have been won by the NDC in 1992, 1996 and 2008, while the NPP won in 2000 and 2004.


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have a great weekend. john
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Do you guys think this will lead to a TV appearance / match from Sting?
Do you guys think this will lead to a TV appearance / match from Sting?
didnt sting sign with the WWE around WM this year?
Got a lot of soul searching to do. Sorry to everyone I've let down
He's been in talks with WWE for months.. He supposedly signed a Legends deal, but that's not confirmed. His deal for WWE 2K15 is directly with Take Two, not WWE.
I am pretty signed Sting has been rumoured for wrestlemania the last five years.
"If a man with no arms and a man with no legs started learning karate, the same light bulb would appear over every head in Japan. Thats right: Glue them together and see if it can kill a panda."
He's there so Vince can milk the old merchandise cow and I bet little else. If they ever really wanted him, they'd have made a harder play than they have over the years, but Sting was content to sit back and bilk the money mark.
IMO, Sting is good for one or two big pops on big shows, but he's devalued himself through overexposure on TNA but at the same time, overpriced himself out of the WWE for years. I'm really not a fan of his, he never did the WWE schedule and had a breeze during the Turner days work-wise, making bank and drawing very little(outside of with Flair) and when the time for the Hogan payoff in late 97, he was totally out of shape for the "biggest match of his career".
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BEIRUT: Former Lebanese Information Minister Michel Samaha, who is close to President Bashar Assad, was detained Thursday after authorities uncovered plans to carry out several bomb attacks across Lebanon.
Samaha was detained at dawn Thursday for interrogation over an undisclosed but "sensitive" security-related issue, Acting Prosecutor General Samir Hammoud told The Daily Star. His secretary, driver and two bodyguards were also detained.
A senior security source said investigation by policemen from the Internal Security Forces Information Branch has led to Samaha's arrest.
The source, speaking to The Daily Star on condition of anonymity, said 20 "highly effective" bombs ready to explode by remote were found in several areas of Lebanon.
The source would not elaborate.
He said explosives experts defused the bombs before they were taken to Beirut.
Hammoud, the prosecutor general, said Samaha "has been taken in for questioning over a sensitive judicial matter."
"We are now at the interrogation stage, the outcome of which will determine whether he will be arrested or let go," he added.
Prime Minister Najib Mikati confirmed that Samaha's detention was security-related and has nothing to do with collaboration with Israel or a U.N.-backed court probing the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
"Samaha was arrested ... for questioning over mere security issues," Mikati told a delegation of the Editors' Association. "We are waiting for the outcome of the investigation."
Security sources told The Daily Star that authorities raided Samaha's residences in Ashrafieh, Beirut, and Khanshara, Metn, early Thursday upon orders from Hammoud.
Samaha, 64, was taken from his Khanshara home at 2 a.m., the sources added.
"He was in his pajamas," his wife said.
Police from the ISF Information Branch cordoned off both residences, preventing news reporters and photographers from approaching. They also searched his office in Sodeco.
The sources said police filled several large black bags with confiscated documents, a computer set, video tapes and cellular phones from the Khanshara residence.
"One of the bags was extremely heavy. It took four policemen to carry it to the car," one source said.
Five cars, including Sahama's Mercedes-Benz, were also seized.
The search was called off shortly after midday and journalists were allowed in.
"My husband was arrested for political reasons," Samaha's wife Gladys told reporters in Khanshara.
She said Samaha was part of a political camp in Lebanon and that she was "waiting for that political team to make a move" in his defense.
A resident and close friend of Samaha said Khanshara residents condemned the raid.
"They resent the way in which Samaha was detained," the resident said. "They broke into the house in the middle of [the Samahas'] sleep instead of knocking at the door."
Speculation was rife over the reasons for Samaha's detention, with local media outlets providing different accounts of the affair.
MTV said Samaha was detained over his alleged involvement in an "assassination attempt" against Akkar MP Khaled Daher, a member of Saad Hariri's Future bloc. Daher said he was surprised to hear the news.
A police report had said a percussion grenade was hurled at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday into an empty lot that belongs to Daher's father in the Nejmeh neighborhood of Bibnine, in the northern Akkar region. No casualties were reported.
Other media outlets said Samaha may have been arrested for collaboration with Israel.
Samaha was elected MP in 1992, in the first parliamentary elections after the Taif Agreement. He also served as information minister in 1992 and 2003.
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Should Congress get involved in the collective bargaining agreement talks between the National Football League owners and the National Football League Players Association? The answer is yes because Congress and two Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson actually created the conditions which made today's NFL a financial behemoth with the Sports Broadcast Act of 1961 and the 1966 AFL-NFL merger. The two pieces of legislation gave the National Football League vast antitrust exemptions. Two other bills signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1984, which changed cable TV rules and the 1986 reform of the tax code also paid dividends for NFL owners.
The NFL seems to rake in more than $9 billion annually although the league refuses to open both team and league financial records. The publicly-owned, non-profit Green Bay Packers franchise announced a $9.8 million profit for the calendar year ending on March 31, 2010. But that is down significantly from 2007 when the franchise announced a profit of $34.2 million. Revenues are up but so are salaries since then.
Still, the NFL's smallest market is making a nice profit.
Additionally, there are a good number of former NFL players who are on government assistance whether it is living on social security disability insurance or Medicare. The "discarded" players have pre-existing conditions from football injuries and are uninsurable. Like it or not, these players are living on the government dole because the National Football League Players Association leadership never thought much about the players futures once they left the game.
The Super Bowl is designated as a "National Special Security Event" which activates involvement from the United States Secret Service (the group in charge of the event security), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (which handles law enforcement) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
But Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), the chair of House Judiciary Committee, said Congress should stay out of the NFL's CBA negotiations. "That is a business dispute. The owners and players are both literally and figuratively big boys and do not need Congress to referee every dispute for them."
Congressman Smith is wrong.
In 2005, Congress decided to look into Major League Baseball's drug testing policy for steroids and other banned performance enhancement drugs after the International Olympic Committee put pressure on elected officials because baseball would not send big name players to the IOC's biannual sports event. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform swung into action after the release of Jose Canseco's book when he accused some of baseball's biggest names of using steroids.
In 2007, the NFL Network was scheduled to show the New York Giants-New England Patriots game on the final Saturday night of the season. New England was 15-0 and was bidding for a perfect season. The NFL Network was struggling to gain carriage agreements with big multiple system operators in the cable TV world. The game would be available on the NFL Network and a few over the air TV stations in Boston and New York by the lack of NFL Network cable penetration meant most of the country would not see the contest.
The United States Senate, led by Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter and Vermont's Patrick Leahy stepped in and threatened to look at remedies if the NFL did not make the game available beyond the NFL Network and local stations in New York and Boston. The remedies started with the Senate Judicial Committee examining the various NFL antitrust exemptions which could have included the Sports Broadcast Act of 1961 and the various additions tacked onto that legislation over the years.
Not surprisingly, the NFL opposition to make the game widely available to protect the NFL Network or force cable operators to take the NFL Network folded and the NFL allowed the game to put the game on CBS and NBC.
Here is a suggestion for Congressman Smith. Have lunch with fellow Republican Congressman Jon Runyan from New Jersey and a former offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles and ask him about the business of the NFL. How Congress gave the league the tools for big TV deals, the 1966 merger, legislation that allowed owners to play city against city to get sweetheart stadium leases in the late 1980s and beyond. Congressman Runyan also must have first hand knowledge of the sad football stories that continue to surface such as this which was e-mailed to this reporter.
"My husband (name protected) played in the mid 70's to 80. We just saw results of neck MRI yesterday. — Not good, but helps explain severe headaches.
He remembers the game the injury took place and he could not move his legs and arms the next day. The teams reassuring remark to him was, get better because you have to play the next week!
"Five years ago he was diagnosed with brain damage. Trying to get NFL to agree there's physical, long term injuries in past NFL players is nearly impossible. They just keep appointing another committee to look into matter."
Congressman Runyan was once a member of the National Football League Players Association.
Here is what Congress did to build the National Football League. Before the 1961 Sports Broadcast Act, the Mara's New York Giants, George Halas' Chicago Bears and Daniel Reeves's Los Angeles Rams were getting the lion share of the television money which was available in those days. Green Bay, which was the league's smallest market, was struggling to get some money for the team's TV rights. Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Cellar got the Sports Broadcast Act through the House in almost record time, while Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver got the Senate to agree with the House quickly and President Kennedy signed the bill almost immediately.
The NFL, which was 14 separate businesses, became one entity for TV purposes which was clearly a violation of antitrust laws.
NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle was able to get William Paley's CBS and David Sarnoff's NBC to bid on the 14-team league's games. CBS won the bid. In 1964, CBS extended the NFL deal with Rozelle. Sarnoff was livid and called the American Football League's New York Jets owner Sonny Werblin, who was working with MCA-TV and supplying some to NBC, and wanted to even the score. NBC gave the AFL a huge TV deal which gave the league the wherewithal to sign big time college stars. Werblin's Jets signed Joe Namath.
Both NFL and AFL owners began to complain that a bidding war was ruining their business and decided a merger was necessary to halt rising salaries. By the summer of 1966, Rozelle was summoned to do what commissioners do.
Lobby Congress.
Initially neither Louisiana Senator Russell Long nor Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs were too interested in supporting the proposed merger. New Orleans was not getting either an NFL or AFL franchise and they didn't see the need to merge. Rozelle got Long and Boggs to sign on for the merger by promising New Orleans a team in 1967. There were a few other details that needed to be cleaned up. One of the NFL-AFL proposals was to realign franchises so that New York and the San Francisco Bay Area would remain one franchise markets. The merged leagues agreed to move the Jets from Queens to Los Angeles, Reeves would take his Rams to San Diego. Barron Hilton's Chargers would leave San Diego and relocate to New Orleans and Oakland would lose the Raiders with that franchise ending up in the Pacific Northwest in either Seattle or Portland, Oregon.
The NFL's old best friend in Congress, Emanuel Cellar said no to that idea. Werblin's Jets paid $10 million to the Mara Giants for the right to share the New York territory while Raiders owners gave $8 million to the San Francisco 49ers ownership because the team "invaded" the 49ers territory. New Orleans got an expansion team and Cincinnati ended up with an AFL expansion team although NFL owners collected the AFL expansion fee.
Those two acts of Congress propelled the NFL into the sports stratosphere in the United States and created the Super Bowl, or the AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
There is more than a century's worth of history of monitoring football in Washington. President Theodore Roosevelt is credited with saving football from extinction in 1905.
If Representative Smith or Representative Runyon wants a brief history of Roosevelt's involvement in the game, they should go to the Theodore Roosevelt Association website and read up on Roosevelt's involvement with the sport although the website version is slightly whitewashed. In 1905, 18 players died as a result of injuries suffered during college football games, many others were badly injured but Roosevelt wanted the game to continue.
"Strange as it may seem, high school football, college football, and even the Super Bowl might not exist today if President Theodore Roosevelt had not taken a hand in preserving the game. As originally played on college campuses, the game was extremely rough, including slugging, gang tackling and unsportsmanlike behavior. Quite a number of players died (18 in just the year 1905 alone, with 20 times fewer players than there are today). Interest in becoming a football player was declining!," blurts out the website.
"But Roosevelt saw merit in the game. It built bodies and could build character, a sense of team and never giving up. Ten of the Rough Riders, the soldiers who fought with him in Cuba, gave their occupations as football players when they enlisted in 1898.
"So in 1905, President Roosevelt summoned representatives of the Big Three (Harvard, Yale and Princeton, the universities who first played the game and who also set the rules of play) to the White House. In his best table-thumping style, Theodore Roosevelt convinced them that the rules needed to be changed to eliminate the foul play and brutality.


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Luss Primary School, on the shores of Loch Lomond, has taken a highly prestigious award in the British Animal Honours, to be shown on primetime STV tonight.
This is in recognition of the school's successful participation in the trail-blazing 'Powan in the Classroom' project, run by the Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust (LLFT). Powan are one of the rarest fish in the UK, with the population in Loch Lomond in serious long term decline.
The British Animal Honours 2013 awards show, hosted by comedian Paul O'Grady, has a BAFTA-type format. Five of the Luss P7 children, two teachers and Dr Andy Burrows of the Loch Lomond Fisheries Trust [LLFT] were invited to London for the recording of the show at Elstree last week. It is broadcast on STV at 8.00pm tonight, Thursday 18 April.
Andy Burrows, Senior Biologist of the LLFT, says: 'Powan are extremely difficult to rear in artificial conditions and this was the first time ever that they have been successfully reared in this way by anyone. The Luss children deserve the highest plaudits for doing so. Powan are an aquatic equivalent of the red squirrel, threatened in Loch Lomond by an alien invader – the ruffe fish.
'Our 'Powan in the Classroom' project provides a hands-on learning experience involving children in local schools rearing powan eggs by incubating them in a small classroom hatchery for about six weeks – during which time they learn about the ecology of the fish, the threats it faces and the biodiversity of Loch Lomond. The highlight is at the end of the project when the children release the young fish back into the wild.
'One of the most important elements of this project is that the children learn firsthand about the damaging impact of non-native species and the importance of not introducing them. It is also special because the children feel they are contributing directly towards a real world conservation programme and making a difference.'
Francis Antonelli, class teacher at Luss Primary School, says: 'This was a true learning experience for the class. Watching the powan hatch gave the children a real sense of achievement. They felt they had become part of saving an endangered species.'
This charismatic project first attracted media coverage in 2010. In 2011 Luss Primary School's 'Powan in the Classroom' project was a winner in the prestigious National Green School Awards – described as 'an inspirational environmental education project.'
The chairman of Total's Green Education programme (a worldwide programme) nominated Luss Primary School for the British Animal Honours 2013, which they have now won. The judging panel included Chris Packham from the BBC's Springwatch and Autumnwatch programmes and Virginia McKenna.
Callum Sinclair, Director of the Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland (RAFTS), says: 'This represents a great achievement for the children of Luss Primary School.
'LLFT and it is an excellent example of the innovative and important education work undertaken by rivers and fisheries trusts in Scotland to support and protect our native species and iconic fish and fisheries.'
The achievement in successfully rearing the powan and the national recognition of their work at this level could not demonstrate more vividly the insanity of Argyll and Bute Council's determination, only a couple of years ago, to close this exemplary rural primary school and transport its children to a very large school in Argyll's largest town of Helensburgh, over nine miles away.


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Cupertino, Calif. --June 15, 1998-- Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced the availability of Visual Page release 2.0 for Windows, a major new revision of their award-winning, critically acclaimed Web-page design and deployment product. Visual Page, which helps users build industry-standard Web pages within a flexible environment, features:
"Our customers have told us they want to create cutting-edge Web sites with an impressive, state-of-the-art look," said Mansour Safai, vice president of Symantec's Internet Tools division. "Visual Page lets them take advantage of the latest technology without having to worry about the coding details. As a result, they're able to build exciting Web solutions in less time."
"Cascading style sheets make it easy for me to use a consistent style across my Web site while using different styles within independent sections of my Web site," noted Gert Lems, a Web-site developer for ServIT Information Services. "Until now I had to painstakingly create CSS files by hand and carefully apply them so the correct styles were used in each Web site section. Visual Page allows me to create CSS files and to apply styles effortlessly. As a result, I can concentrate on making my site look incredible while Visual Page takes care of the coding details."
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Project Manager: Once a Web site has been created or imported, Visual Page's project manager provides four distinct views:
Automatic Link Checking: A Web site's links are automatically checked in the background while the site is built. Invalid and missing links are highlighted in both the link and status views. Fixing broken links is as easy as selecting the broken link and browsing to the file that should be linked to. Once fixed, all files that contain the same broken link are also automatically fixed.
Automatic Link Updating: Once a project file is created, all of its links are automatically maintained as Web sites are built and modified. Changing a file name results in all links to that file automatically being updated to the new name. Changing an email link in any of the project manager views results in an update of all Web pages that contain the email link.
Site-Wide Search-and-Replace: Updating content across an entire Web site is easily achieved using Visual Page's site-wide search-and-replace, eliminating worry about files with content that should have been changed. Site-Wide Spell Checking: Visual Page's site-wide spell checking prevents embarrassing spelling mistakes that take away from a site's professional image.
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StyleStudio: Cascading style sheets help build a uniform look and feel across an entire Web site. A visual cascading style sheets (CSS) editor makes it easy to create, apply, and preview styles. When a CSS file is assigned to a project, the entire Web site is automatically updated with a new and uniform look. Different style sheets can be applied to specific Web pages to build a distinct look for subsections of a Web site.
EZLayer: Absolute pixel positioning is easily achieved for ultimate control over the layout of Web pages. Web page objects are easily converted to layers to take advantage of grid tools for quickly positioning layers in a professional manner. Layers can be created within layers to blend word-processing and desktop-publishing layout metaphors for ultimate control of a Web page's look and feel.
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Visual Page has been lauded as a sophisticated, easy-to-use Web-page creation and management tool that helps everyone from beginners to seasoned Web designers quickly create professional-looking Web pages in an intuitive, WYSIWYG environment. Updating existing Web sites, keeping links current, creating a site-wide style, and incorporating new Web technologies is easily accomplished using familiar drag-and-drop methods. And Visual Page 2.0 generates clean, well-formatted, industry-standard HTML that works with all industry-standard Web servers and browsers.
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Visual Page release 2.0 will be available in late June of 1998 at an estimated retail price of $99.95. Symantec will offer a special bundle of Visual Page release 2.0 with Creating Commercial Web Sites by Kim and Brad Hampton and a special introductory $20.00 mail-in rebate offer. Current Visual Page customers will be able to upgrade for $49.95. For more information on Visual Page, please visit the Symantec Web site at http://cafe.symantec.com.
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The Symantec Internet Tools Division pioneered the Java development tools market by delivering the first development product for Java in March 1996. Since then, the division has continued to develop, market and support a complete line of Java development tools, including Visual Page, Visual Café for Java Web Development Edition, Visual Café for Java Professional Development Edition, and Visual Café for Java Database Development Edition, available for Windows 95/NT and Macintosh. Visual Page is integrated in all Visual Café for Java products. Symantec Visual Café has won virtually every award and honor available for Java development tools and more than any other Java development tool on the market.
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Symantec is the worldwide leader in utility software for business and personal computing. Our products and solutions help make users productive and keep their computers safe and reliable anywhere and anytime. Symantec offers a broad range of solutions and is acclaimed as a leader in both customer satisfaction and product brand recognition. Symantec is traded on Nasdaq under the symbol SYMC. More information on the company and its products can be obtained at www.symantec.com. A report on the meeting with financial analysts in New York will be available from June 10 on Symantec's investor relations web page at >www.symantec.com/invest/index.html.
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This press release contains some forward looking statements. There are certain important factors that could cause Symantec's future development efforts to differ materially from those anticipated by some of the statements made above. Among these are the anticipation of the growth of certain market segments, the positioning of Symantec's products in those segments, the competitive environment in the software industry, dependence on other products, changes to operating systems and product strategy by vendors of operating systems, and the importance of new Symantec products. Additional information concerning those and other factors is contained in the "Risk Factors" section of the company's annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended April 3, 1998.


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my sister uses this, it somehow help in managing her oily face
it's quite affordable. i don't use sunblock daily. maybe I should start :)
nice kasi its a moisturizer and sun block in one, not for summer though, pang everday or at home lang.
Hey, I've been using this too and it is such a great find! I was looking for daily sunblock and was supposed to get another brand but it was like P600. I saw this and opted to try it. I am super happy with it. Works well as a make-up primer too and the price is a winner. Just make sure the area where you put on make-up is cool because this has a tendency to make your face sweat or feel warm.
so its not matte at all. and a low protection for uv rays? hmm. .its worth to try but ill still prefer snoe sunblock :))
A summer must-have it is! :)
Weheheh lowbperformance lang pala against uv rays. Im using snoe bb cream may spf n dn un and matte finish pa . Oj n ko don
i got this...and i must say it really goes well with my skin type.^_^
I've been using this for a while now. Its consistency is matte once you apply but after about an hour, it tends to get oily on the skin. I have an oily skin and I thought this would work on me, but I still use it on a daily basis though. I just have to reapply my powder so the shine would not peek through. What more can I ask for a cheap sunblock plus moisturizer in one. And the benefit it gives.
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I was about to buy it but I have decided to read reviews first :) I am applying bb cream with spf however i have read somewhere that if I'm going out in the sun, my sunblock should be at least spf 30 :) will try this next time :)
By the way, i really love your blog :) i'm an aspiring blogger too :) thanks for the inspiration ;)
I never try this product. I am afraid that my acne get worst. Any moisturizer with spf you can recommend for an oily and acne-prone skin?
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After you change your logon password from a Macintosh client, you may be unable log on to a Windows 2000 Server-based computer that is running Services for Macintosh from a different Macintosh client.
However, you can log on successfully from a Windows-based client by using the new password. Additionally, if you change your password from a Windows-based client, you can log on successfully from the Macintosh client.
This problem may occur if you change your password from a Macintosh client that uses the Apple User Authentication Module (UAM), and then you try log on to the Windows 2000 Server-based computer from a Macintosh client that uses the Microsoft UAM.
In this scenario, the NT hash is not updated correctly in the Security Account Manager (SAM) database when you change your password from a Macintosh client that uses the Apple UAM.
Service Pack InformationTo resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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How much junk could a woman chuck if a woman could chuck junk? I'm about to find out.
I've been on a mission this week to create more open spaces in my home and my life. Supposedly, you can change your life by throwing away 50 things that have been living rent free in your closets and junk drawers.
Frankly, I could probably throw away 50 things for the next 50 days and still have junk to spare. And junk drawers? I have a junk room. It contains things that I plan to use someday, if I live long enough. Â
There's a dried up gallon of orange paint and instruction manuals to things I don't remember owning. Is that my 1998 day timer? (You never know when you might want to remind yourself of what you were doing on July 23, 1998.)
There's that itchy sweater that I wouldn't wear to an ugly sweater party, and a seven year old bottle of raspberry vinaigrette that probably has botulism. Whoever gave it to me most likely had it for another seven years. There's a bag of old bank statements waiting to be shredded, but I don't have a shredder. There's a diaper bag, and my children are grown men.
It's time to let go. I chucked 10 items and felt such a rush, I chucked 10 more. Suddenly I was on a runner's high without having to do any real form of exercise. I collected every diet book I've ever owned and carried them to the library. (It took two trips.) Â
Out went my bright red tee shirt advertising the orthopedic clinic and the brown suede boots that gave me foot cramps. They can pinch someone else's feet from now on. Ditto for the lamp which makes a funny popping sound when I turn it on, and a really, really ugly wreath featuring plastic roses for which I paid good money during a weak moment.
It took almost four hours, but I unloaded 152 items — if you count that box of rubber bands. Along with them went all the mental clutter than trips me up from time to time: the regrets, the guilt, and the fear of a nuclear melt down. Mental clutter is just as limiting as physical clutter and you can scratch them from your list of recyclables.Â
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|Akatsuki KIMURA, D. Sc., Associate Professor,
Cell Architecture Laboratory,
Center for Frontier Research,
National Institute of Genetics/ SOKENDAI.
|Ritsuya NIWAYAMA, Ph.D Student,
Department of Genetics, SOKENDAI.
(Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Mr. Niwayama, what led you to research into intracellular flows?
One major reason is that I find dynamic flows inside the cells, which you can observe using a microscope, extremely fascinating. As an undergraduate at the University of Tokyo, I studied Physics and Mathematics until my third year and in the fourth year took up Molecular Biology for my graduation project. Through my undergraduate courses, I learned of Dr. Kimura, who had graduated from the same high school as me, Sapporo Minami, in Hokkaido. I arrived at the NIG to do postgraduate studies at SOKENDAI in April 2007, hoping to acquire a solid ability to conduct research.
I spent the first three months at the NIG defining my research theme. I decided to analyze intra-cellular transport. Generally, active transport of cargos along the cytoskeleton driven by motor proteins was then attracting the research community's attention. Instead, I had come up with the idea of viewing intra-cellular transport as an overall cytoplasmic flow.
In the cells, there are proteins and RNAs that must be at their designated places to function properly, and they are transported by motor proteins and firmly fixed by specific proteins. There are also many other proteins and RNAs that drift inside the cells, and they are believed to be somewhat influenced by intra-cellular flows. It was vaguely believed that Hydrodynamics could explain the movements of the latter group of materials, but no scientifically solid analysis or explanation had not been done.
Could you explain the "overall cytoplasmic flow" a little more specifically?
It is like a gently flowing liquid. We conducted our research with Caenorhabditis elegans several minutes after fertilization. At this stage, the motor protein called myosin, which exists only along the cortex (surface) of the cell, causes a mono-directional flow near the cortex, whereas in the inner part a flow in the opposite direction is witnessed. It was believed that this was explained by the same principle as that of bath water flows, that is, a flow in one direction occurring near the edge of the bathtub results in another flow in the opposite direction in the inner part. We wanted to verify this. It was not very clear if the simple principle of Hydrodynamics could be applicable to cells, which are quite densely packed with proteins and other molecules, as well as various fibrous substances. So we wanted to examine actual flows and clarify.
Why would the "overall cytoplasmic flow" be necessary in the cell of C. elegans immediately after fertilization?
We believe that it is necessary for asymmetrical cell division. Multicellular organisms start from a single cell, a fertilized egg, which undergoes repeated divisions and differentiations. For this process to occur, a cell must divide into two cells each with different properties. This is asymmetrical cell division, which is found in bone marrow stem cells, for example. Asymmetrical cell division requires polarity, that is, uneven distribution of materials, meaning specific proteins or RNA being at or around specific locations in the cells. If all materials were evenly distributed in the cells, the division of a cell could only result in two completely identical cells.
There are several mechanisms in which cytoplasmic polarity occurs, and we believe that the "overall cytoplasmic flow" is one of them. Since asymmetrical division and differentiation begin in C. elegans immediately after fertilization, we believe that the overall cytoplasmic flow is used for polarization for the initial asymmetrical division.
What experimentation and analysis did you carry out?
First of all, we made microscopic observations of intra-cellular flows immediately after fertilization and analyzed the data in detail using the particle image velocimetry (PIV) program in collaboration with Dr. Kyosuke Shinohara of Osaka University. We were able to obtain accurate numerical data that confirm that a cortical flow occurs in one direction and the opposite flow in the inner part and that the inner flow, which is slow at first, accelerates as it approaches the center of the cell. Next, we computer-simulated one-directional cortical flows to observe resultant inner flows, using the moving particle semi-implicit (MPS) method, which enables us to analyze flows inside pliant structures such as cells and blood vessels. As a result, we obtained almost exactly the same flows as we did in the experiment.
We also confirmed using RNAi that both cortical and inner flows cease when myosin expression is restrained. In other words, we pursued our research while directly verifying that intra-cellular streams are driven by myosin movements.
You succeeded in explaining the "overall cytoplasmic flow" with hydrodynamics, then?
Yes, you can say that. Our hydrodynamic simulation was the first to clearly explain intra-cellular flows, to which the principle of fluid dynamics used to be applied vaguely, with so solid scientific grounds. Our experiment using C. elegans can serve as the theoretical basis for research about intra-cellular flows in other organisms, as well as research about flows in blood vessels and lymph vessels.
What does the future hold now?
I would like to do research combining Experimental Biology and IT techniques. At present, I am trying to further refine the methodology used in the intra-cellular transport research project so that it may be used to analyze cell flows in blood streams and organisms in the embryonic stage. I am also interested in research that leads to generating some useful substances, such as bio-ethanol, in specified cells by integrating Biology with Engineering.
My last question is addressed to Dr. Kimura. How do you view Mr. Niwayama's research?
In my laboratory, all the students carry out research according to their interest. This is how I have conducted my research. Mr. Niwayama has come to the NIG (SOKENDAI) to do research that combines Biology with Physics or Mathematics; I hope to support him as much as I can so that he can do what interests him most.
In the research project that we have discussed today, focus was placed on measurements and simulations, without consideration to how intra-cellular flows immediately following fertilization contribute to asymmetrical division and cell differentiation. While there are already quite a few Physics-inspired studies in Biology, Mr. Niwayama's research is novel and unique in that the MPS method was applied to cells, and I believe that this is one of the reasons the research is highly appreciated. Moreover, by demonstrating that Hydrodynamics is applicable to research into intra-cellular flows, he laid the foundations for a range of future research themes. I think there will be various ripple effects from this research. I expect Mr. Niwayama to do his best so that he can realize his dreams.
The hydrodynamic property of the cytoplasm is sufficient to mediate cytoplasmic streaming in the Caenorhabiditis elegans embryo.
Ritsuya Niwayama, Kyosuke Shinohara, Akatsuki Kimura.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 108 (27), 2011. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101853108


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"I smell smoke... Otero County Fire Escape"
Cloudcroft, a heavily forested area with isolation from other towns and limited exits, is in constant fear of fire in their forest in times of drought. What does the town have planned in the case a fire does appear? What does the Public Safety Departments (hereafter PSD) do to prepare the town for forest fires? And lastly, what do the citizens of Cloudcroft do to protect themselves? These are all questions we will attempt to answer and put to the test in our model this year.
In order to answer the above questions, we will ask the PSD their plans for these scenarios, to date, how often they must put their plans to work, and how the results are. We will then talk to citizens, chosen at random, about their personal preparation for forest fires. Knowing that Cloudcroft is also an area of fickle weather and surprise rain storms, it will be necessary to incorporate these factors into our model.
In the modeling phase, we will use an agent-based approach with heterogeneous agents. The agent behaviors will reflect our research into real- world behavior of people in emergency situations. In dealing with the actual fire within the model itself, we will apply stochastic cellular automata to our model. Utilizing this, we will make our representation of a Cloudcroft forest fire more like an actual forest fire.
We plan to implement our model in the modeling program NetLogo. Our model last year also used NetLogo, and we are incorporating certain aspects of that model into this year's, such as the basic rules restricting agents from moving through invalid regions. (E.g. Structures, etc.)
In order to validate our model, we'll present the output of the basic scenarios to the representatives of the PSD to see how close it matches what they would expect from a real world fire.
After that we will conduct numerous experiments using repeated simulations of our scenarios in order to verify our model, tweaking the code of our model as needed. We will then begin analyzing our results to find the most likely outcomes.
Creating a forest fire model and an evacuation model is no small task. We have gathered a sizable amount of research regarding the fractal distribution of fire spread and the likely causes of fire, as well as the set of existing fire models that are capable of simulating fires. In addition, we have read a few articles about other fire model makers who have found a real world application. One such model particularly interested us.
In Ithaca, New York, a team of geologists and computer scientists created a model simulating matches and trees. The model, centered in Yellowstone National Park, showed one of the reasons for the large Yellowstone Fire of 1988: the accumulation of dead trees from previously suppressed fires. The researchers discovered that the frequency and distribution of small and medium fires can be used to assess the risk of larger fires, much in the same way as small tremors are used to assess the risk of larger earthquakes. courtesy of www.fire.forestencyclopedia.net
Several models have been developed over the years to simulate fire growth and spread as it relates to the ecosystem. BEHAVE Plus Fire Modeling System is the one most frequently used to assess and predict fire behavior in wild land fuels, such as forests. The most recent version is more user-friendly and has many graphic interfaces, including tree density and weather situations, which will be germane to our model.
It was discovered in our research that humans have very little to do with the spread of fires. Humans are only responsible for starting fires and stopping them. In addition, fires are affected by fuel, weather, and topography- recall that fires tend to burn upwards. The potential for the beginning of a blaze in an area such as Cloudcroft could bring devastating consequences if ignored.
The tactics applied in last year's model will be put to good use in this model. Because of the various challenges, such as the lack of exits, the higher risk for fire, and the lack of territory knowledge, the model will need to be implemented much more often, and it will serve as an instrument on the panel of the PSD. A trip to Cloudcroft to interview citizens and the PSD will be underway by the beginning of 2013. Lastly, we will develop potential cases and scenarios for future implementation.
Computer Simulation of Matches and Trees Can Be Used to Predict and Prevent Large Forest Fires, Cornell Geologists Say. Courtesy of www.fire.forestencyclopedia.net
Behave Plus fire modeling System, version 5.0. Patricia L. Andrews. September 2009. PDF.
How to Generate and Interpret Fire Characteristics Charts for Surface and Crown Fire Behavior. Patricia L. Andrews. USDA March 2011. PDF.
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