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As fall benefits enrollment approaches, employers will need to prepare for what one expert calls "the biggest change to occur in employee benefits since managed care": the introduction of public and privately run health insurance exchanges.
Some 44 percent of employers believe that private exchanges, or online marketplaces, will be the preferred way to provide health care benefits in the next three to five years, according to a 2012 survey by Lincolnshire, Illinois-based consultancy Aon Hewitt.
Between the growing number of companies expected to introduce a private exchange later this year and the state-run exchanges that open for business on Jan. 1, 2014, employee communication will be critical in the coming months, benefits experts say.
Recently released federal guidelines require employers to notify their workers of eligibility requirements for their state exchange by Oct. 1, 2013. To the relief of many, the U.S. Labor Department also provided model notices that employers can give to their workers, which eliminates the need to develop their own notifications.
"It's a huge paradigm shift," says Alan Cohen, chief strategy officer at Liazon Corp., a private benefits exchange firm based in New York. "Five years ago people thought this idea of an insurance marketplace was outlandish, but now it's on the tip of everyone's tongue. On the negative side, this represents a big change, but there's such big upside as well, and employers need to communicate that."
He says that the first four months of 2013 have been the company's busiest. Liazon, which was founded in 2007, caters to small and midsize employers that use the company's Bright Choices Exchange to offer a variety of different products including health, dental, vision, life and disability products from a number of national and regional providers. The company has about 2,300 clients, Cohen says.
Liazon, along with Bloom Health in Minneapolis, eHealthInsurance, in Mountain View, California, and Aon Hewitt are among the first to jump into the private exchange market. But a number of competitors, including Buck Consultants, Mercer and Towers Watson & Co. have also launched exchanges in recent years.
Eric Grossman, a senior partner at Mercer, which launched the Mercer Marketplace in January, says that employers introducing a private health exchange must tell employees not only how their benefits are changing but also how they are not changing.
"Just because their benefits will be delivered through an insurance exchange, their employer is still sponsoring that plan and providing them with coverage and not washing their hands of benefits," Grossman says. "One way to reinforce that is to put the company's name on the exchange. When an employer goes into the Mercer Marketplace portal they will see their employer's name front and center."
Decision support tools, like online health plan comparisons and cost estimators, will be key in smoothing the transition to a private exchange model, says Ken Sperling, Aon Hewitt's national health exchange strategy leader.
"We have invested significantly in decision-support tools," he says. "Employees are getting more choice than they are typically used to seeing, so it's very important. People can come online, and just like Amazon and Zappos, they can filter those plans however they want."
Employees can sort options by price, carrier and/or plan type, Sperling says.
Aon Hewitt, which launched its Corporate Health Exchange last year, enrolled more than 100,000 participants in the fall, including employees at Darden Restaurants Inc. and Sears Holding Corp. According to a post-enrollment analysis, 42 percent bought less coverage, 26 percent bought more and 32 percent chose a plan similar to their current coverage. Sperling points out that two-thirds said they had a good understanding of how the exchange works.
But perhaps the greatest communication challenge lies ahead as employees whose companies are moving to an exchange also start sifting through information on the public exchanges, which expect to enroll between 20 million and 30 million people.
Under the Affordable Care Act, employers will be required to offer health care benefits to employees who work at least 30 hours a week starting in January 2014. Employee contributions are capped at 9.5 percent of their income, which means that some employees may find a better package of benefits on the public exchanges if their employer's plan is considered unaffordable.
Families with income between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level (between $23,550 and $94,200 for a family of four under 2013 guidelines) who purchase health insurance on the public exchanges are eligible for a premium tax subsidy to reduce the cost of coverage. Families offered coverage through their employer are not eligible for a subsidy unless the company plan does meet the minimum actuarial value of 60 percent or unless the family must pay more than 9.5 percent for the premium.
Explaining who is eligible for what won't be easy, Mercer's Grossman says.
"The real conundrum for employers, especially for those with large segments at or below two times the federal poverty limit, will be finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of preventing employees from getting a federal subsidy to purchase insurance on the public exchanges. It will require lots of communication requirements and lots of personal counseling and coaching. The problem is that the vast majority of employees will be eligible for an affordable plan, which prevents them from getting a subsidy. It won't be easy for employees either."
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The new design is lighter, comfortable and I guess they lowered the heel slightly although I can't tell. The trade off is less cushioning and support. You know that feeling when you put on new running shoes after wearing out the old ones? Lots more cushioning and support, right? Not so much with the new Omnis. They didn't feel much different than my last year Omnis.
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FAIRFAX, VA (WUSA)--Metro Transit Police say one of their officers fired a shot at a suspect driving a stolen car as he dragged the officer while fleeing the scene.
Police say the incident started at approximately 7:10 a.m. Saturday at Addison Road Station where the suspect stole a vehicle.
Metro Police authorities say they were able to track the vehicle to the parking lot of a shopping center on Van Dorn Street in Alexandria by tracking an I-Phone left inside the vehicle.
A Metro spokesperson confirms that when an officer approached the suspect in the vehicle, the man fled the scene and dragged the officer a short distance. The officer fired a shot but it is unclear whether he hit the man.
According to the Metro spokesperson, the suspect abandoned the vehilce on a ramp leading to the Capital Beltway from Van Dorn Street and continued to flee on foot. Metro Transit Police, Alexandria Police, Fairfax County Police and Virginia State Police are tracking the suspect.
The suspect is described as a black male, mid-to-late 40s, 5'5", 170 lbs, bald head, facial hair, glasses, black jeans, black t-shirt, possibly wearing a canvas jacket. The suspect also has a "growth" on the side of his neck similar to an Adam's apple.
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I have zimbra 6 open source edition.
I enabled ldaps using the following commands
su - zimbra
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_master_url=ldaps://mymaster.somewhere.com:636
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_url=ldaps://myreplica.somewhere.com:636
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_starttls_supported=0
zmlocalconfig -e ldap_port=636
zmcontrol stop
zmcontrol start
from the link
How to enable ldaps - Zimbra :: Wiki
After ldaps is enabled, the addressbook is not accessible by the mail client.
It reports that the server is not accessible.
I can do the following
telnet mail.server.com 636 from anywhere in the interner.
But the ldap tools like jxplorer, thunderbird are not connecting to ldaps.
Addressbook is working from the web UI of the zimbra server.
What may the reason?
How to make it accessible for all?


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) - Metrorail will stay open for an extra hour on Sunday, December 30 to accommodate people attending the Redskins Sunday Night game at FedEx Field.
The game, which has been rescheduled by the NFL to kickoff at 8:20 p.m., will determine the winner of the NFC East.
According to Metro, the last Blue Line train will leave Morgan Boulevard for Franconia-Springfield at 12:25 a.m.. The last Blue Line train to Largo Town Center will leave at 1:33 a.m..
Customers will be able to make connections to other lines as follows:
• Orange Line - transfer at Stadium-Armory
• Green or Yellow line - transfer at L'Enfant Plaza
• Red Line - transfer at Metro Center
The entrances at every other Metro station will close at normal times. Customers will be able to exit all stations during additional service hours.
The extended Metrorail service is funded by an agreement with the Washington Redskins.


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I setup an Ubuntu guest on a CentOS KVM host with initially 6GB of disk space. How do I go about increasing the Ubuntu guest's disk space from the command line?
EDIT #1: I'm using a disk image file (qemu).
I setup an Ubuntu guest on a CentOS KVM host with initially 6GB of disk space. How do I go about increasing the Ubuntu guest's disk space from the command line?
EDIT #1: I'm using a disk image file (qemu).
These serverfault questions are similar but more specific, KVM online disk resize? & Centos Xen resizing DomU partition and volume group. The 1st asks the question of how to increase a KVM guest while it's online, while the 2nd is XEN specific using LVM. I'm asking how to accomplish this while the KVM is offline.
NOTE: This link was useful for METHOD #1, and shows how to accomplish increasing a KVM's disk space (ext3 based), HOWTO: Resize a KVM Virtual Machine Image.
One thing to be aware of with KVM guests is that the partitions they're using inside can effect which method you can use to increase their disk space.
METHOD #1: Partitions are ext2/ext3/ext4 based
The nuts of this method are as follows:
Now with the larger mykvm.img file in hand, boot gparted and extend the existing partition into the newly added disk space. This last step basically extends the OS partition so that it can make use of the extra space.
METHOD #2: Partitions are LVM based
Here are the steps that I roughly followed to resize a KVM guest that used LVM internally.
The above is my example, but I followed the steps on this website
Online Method (using qemu, libvirt, and virtio-block)
Perform the following from the KVM hypervisor.
Then log into the VM. Running
If you are using LVM within the VM the simplest way to do this woudl be to add a new virtual disk to the VM and expand the volume group and logical volumes onto that.
To check if you are using LVM run
if the VM's OS is using LVM. In the above example the VM has a 30Gbyte vdisk, configured using LVM with one volume group called vgWWW containing two logical volumes, one for swap and one for everything else.
If LV is in use in the VM:
Note: the above assumes the vg/lv names are the same as my example which is unlikely, change as appropriate, also if the VM already had a virtual drive called
Note: as you are resizing a live filesystem
An othere way to do it
truncate -s +2G vm1.img
go in the make a disk rescan and after you can do your lvm resize
There is a possibility to increase the size of your VM's disk without rebooting the VM if you're using virtio drive and LVM.
You're done.
If you have LVM in your VM then this is crazy easy and fast.
I found the GUI quite intuitive, but follow next steps if you have problems.
Note! At least on CentOS 6 LVM GUI is not installed by default, but you can install it with


text: By Tim LinscottManaging Editor Brian Erickson loves his career. The new music instructor at Perkins County Schools lives by the adage 'love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life.' It wasn't always that way, however, for the Golden, Colo., native. After high school Erickson went into the restaurant management field and would later pursue a career in residential construction. "In seventh grade I wanted to be a music teacher. I just wasn't serious enough after high school, and later in life I learned how to be serious," Erickson said. After receiving his teaching degree from Dana College in 2003 he was a teacher in Titonka, Iowa, and was a substitute teacher in Omaha and Denver. Erickson spent the six years prior to coming to Perkins County teaching music at Gibbon. So far Erickson said he's been very impressed by the district and the students. He hopes his love of music and willingness to learn anything and everything about music rubs off on his students. "This is a chance for me to learn more about music each and every day. The best part, of course, is passing it on," Erickson said. In his free time Erickson, who lives in Ogallala, is a self-proclaimed 'car guy.' He owns and maintains a 1957 Hollywood Hornet, a 1963 Rambler station wagon and a 1979 Z-28 Camaro (T-tops, four speed). The Hornet has been in his family for over 35 years. He also enjoys singing in choirs. Divorced, Erickson has two grown sons and daughters-in-law, Scott and Anjezza and Logan and Jessica. He has two grandchildren and owns two Pug dogs, Xena and Phoebe.


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January 13, 2011
In a report by MPI's Labor Markets Initiative, noted economist and Georgetown University Public Policy Institute Professor Harry J. Holzer examines the economic reasoning and research on these questions and looks at the policy options that shape the impact of less-skilled immigration on the economy. The discussion is on what policy reform would best serve native-born American workers, consumers, and employers, as well as the overall U.S. economy.
November 30, 2010
Over the past year, MPI has partnered with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to examine how diasporas contribute to – or detract from - development efforts in their countries of origin. MPI and USAID have published an edited volume of the research. Please join us for the release of the book where speakers will discuss new thinking on the role of diaspora engagement in U.S. foreign and development policy.
Video, Audio
October 14, 2010
Commissioner Bersin details his agenda for his agency and discusses illegal immigration, border enforcement, the impact to the economy on migration flows, the future of the Secure Border Initiative, drug trafficking, and other topics in this wide-ranging conversation with MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner and the audience.
Video, Audio
September 20, 2010
This important MPI report challenges the conventional wisdom about the immigrant workforce, using a sophisticated new method of analysis that permits deeper examination of how workers – immigrant and native-born – fare by economic sector, the skill level of their jobs, and educational attainment.
Video, Audio
July 16, 2010
This discussion is an overview of a report undertaken by a team at the Columbia University School of International Public Affairs which examines the U.S. refugee resettlement Program and offers a strong set of recommendations and observations about the program.
August 3, 2011
Proactive Engagement: Two Strategies for Providing Language Access in Workforce Development Services
This interactive language access webinar, one in a series offered by the Migration Policy Institute's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, examines how New York and Illinois have broken down some of these barriers to proactively engage LEP communities to obtain workforce services.
July 14, 2011
This Migration Policy Institute webinar discusses labor enforcement laws during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations and chronicles gaps in labor protection.
June 13, 2011
This Migration Policy Institute event was held to discuss the release of MPI'sbook, Migration and the Great Recession: The Transatlantic Experience, which reviews how the financial and economic crisis of the late 2000s marked a sudden and dramatic interruption in international migration trends.
March 23, 2011
Please join us for this discussion on the situation of Colombian refugees in Panama and Ecuador; their living situations; legal status; their access to employment, health care, or education; and the treatment of groups of particular concern, like Afro-Colombian refugees, unaccompanied Colombian minors, and refugee women.
Video, Audio
March 14, 2011
This discussion focuses on the MPI report, "Executive Action on Immigration: Six Ways to Make the System Work Better," which outlines administrative actions that can be implemented to improve the immigration system.
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October 31, 2013
The 10th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference featured keynotes by U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, as well as panel discussions covering a range of key immigration topics.


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Las Cruces, NM (Sports Network) - Cody Hoffman caught five of James Lark's six
touchdown passes as the BYU Cougars coasted to a 50-14 victory over the New
Mexico State Aggies in non-conference action.
After coming in with just 24 passing attempts under his belt on the season,
Lark led BYU (7-5) by completing 34-of-50 attempts for 384 yards in his first
career start. Hoffman's total of five touchdown receptions tied a school
record as he made 12 catches for a career-high 182 yards. J.D. Falslev also
had a productive day with nine receptions, which he turned into 68 yards and a
Andrew Manley paced NMSU (1-10) by throwing for 158 yards and two touchdowns
on 13-of-24 passing. Kemonte Bateman made four grabs for 93 yards and a score
while Davis Cazares and Bryan Bonilla recorded 10 total stops and one tackle
for loss each on the defensive side of the ball.
After a scoreless opening quarter, New Mexico State finished off a 12-play,
78-yard drive with an eight-yard touchdown pass from Manley to Perris Scoggins
to go ahead 7-0.
The Cougars responded with a 73-yard drive which was punctuated by a five-yard
touchdown pass from Lark to Hoffman. However, Justin Sorensen missed the
ensuing extra point attempt which allowed the Aggies to cling on to a one-
point lead.
NMSU's advantage would not last as Lark struck again at the 2:44 mark of the
second quarter with a four-yard touchdown pass to Falslev. The Cougars'
defensive unit forced the Aggies off the field in less than a minute to return
the ball to the offense with 1:47 remaining.
Lark began the drive off with three straight completions before receiving a
little help from a defensive pass interference call. BYU continued to charge
forward until Lark completed a two-yard touchdown pass to Hoffman to give the
Cougars a 20-7 advantage at the intermission.
Sorensen added three to the Cougars' lead less than four minutes into the
second half with a 31-yard field goal. The Aggies answered quickly with 67-
yard touchdown pass from Manley to Kemonte Bateman, which made it a nine-point
game. However, NMSU was held scoreless the rest of the way.
BYU then closed the game out on a 27-0 run, thanks in large part to the
dynamic duo of Lark and Hoffman. With 3:52 remaining in the third quarter,
Lark completed a 31-yard touchdown pass to Hoffman. Lark found Hoffman for a
six-yard touchdown pass with 12:35 left to play before the two connected on a
64-yard scoring pass just over three minutes later.
Zed Mendenhall added a one-yard touchdown run to conclude the contest's
scoring, with BYU ahead by 36 points.
The Cougars amassed 520 yards of total offense in the rout while NMSU finished
with just 187 yards.
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May 31, 2016
Another person has announced a run for Meridian's City Council.
Democrat Terry Stennis announced his plans to seek the Ward 2 council person's spot currently held by Mary Perry. Stennis is a local business man who also serves as chief financial officer for the Noxubee County Schools.
"When you're looking at a city of Meridian, that you've got 25-30% of the people who are living below the poverty level and 40% of those people are 18 and younger," Stennis says. "We're not making an excuse for anyone, but then we're going to see an escalation in crime, and of course, that's what we're seeing in Meridian."
Nathaniel Pringle and Martin Jack are running against Perry and Stennis in Ward 2.
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3 Great Rainy Day Bike Rides Around SF
Just because it's raining doesn't mean you have to hang up your bike and wait for the next ray of sunlight. Biking in the rain can actually be pretty great.
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Bike theft is a serious problem in San Francisco. A report earlier this year revealed that more than 4,000 bikes are stolen every year, with an average of 11 bikes per day getting cut, clipped, and stripped for parts. In San Francisco, bike theft outnumbers iPhone theft 3 to 1.
Four Local Athletes to Watch in the Olympics
California sent more athletes to Sochi than any other state, and there are a fair number of Northern Cali Olympians to keep your eyes on. Southern California native Shaun White may have bombed in the half-pipe snowboard competition and bowed out of slopestyle, but Tahoe snowboarder Jamie Anderson is bringing home the gold medal in the high-flying event. Here are four other local athletes to watch:
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Lovelorn bachelors and bachelorettes, this is your week to find love. And the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition is going to help you. On Wednesday, February 5, the SFBC is hosting its annual dating game for bike-enthusiasts. If you've been having trouble meeting the sexy girls in the bike lanes, this may be your shot.
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The Revisions project introduces a novel programming model for concurrent, parallel, and distributed applications. It provides programmers with a simple, yet powerful and efficient mechanism (based on mutable snapshots and deterministic conflict resolution) to execute various application tasks in parallel even if those tasks access the same data and may exhibit read-write or write-write conflicts.
To find out more about how it works:
- Read our OOPSLA 2010 paper (links for all publications are below)
- Read the Samples on the RiSE4fun webpage and run them instantly from your browser!
- Watch the Channel 9 interview
- Check out these powerpoint slides
- Read our semantics paper (the ESOP 11 paper, or better the extended version which is available as a 2010 TechReport below)
Building applications that are responsive and can exploit parallel hardware poses an important challenge. In particular, enabling applications to execute various tasks in parallel can be difficult if those tasks exhibit read and write conflicts. To simplify this problem, we introduce a novel programming construct called "revisions", which is inspired by revision control systems commonly used by development teams. Revisions are forked and joined much like asynchronous tasks. However, rather than accessing global shared data directly (and thereby risking data races or atomicity violations), all revisions execute on a (conceptual) copy of the shared state, a "global mutable snapshot" so to speak. Any changes performed in a revision apply to that snapshot only, until the revision is joined at which the changes become globally effective.
This project was originally targeted at game applications and used to be called "ORCS". We have now renamed it to reflect the wider range of applications that can benefit from this technique, in particular reactive and interactive applications.
For Microsoft internal users we have a C# library and several sample applications available for download at http://codebox/orcs (internal link only). We are currently considering a binary public release, but it is not available yet.
- Sebastian Burckhardt, Alexey Gotsman, and Hongseok Yang, Understanding Eventual Consistency, no. MSR-TR-2013-39, March 2013.
- Sebastian Burckhardt, Manuel Fahndrich, Daan Leijen, and Benjamin P. Wood, Cloud Types for Eventual Consistency, in Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP), Springer, 15 June 2012.
- Sebastian Burckhardt, Manuel Fahndrich, Daan Leijen, and Mooly Sagiv, Eventually Consistent Transactions, in Proceedings of the 22n European Symposium on Programming (ESOP), Springer, 24 March 2012.
- Sebastian Burckhardt, Daan Leijen, Caitlin Sadowski, Jaeheon Yi, and Thomas Ball, Two for the Price of One: A Model for Parallel and Incremental Computation, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'11), ACM SIGPLAN, Portland, Oregon, 22 October 2011.
- Sebastian Burckhardt, Manuel Fahndrich, Daan Leijen, and Mooly Sagiv, Eventually Consistent Transactions (full version), no. MSR-TR-2011-117, October 2011.
- Daan Leijen, Sebastian Burckhardt, and Manuel Fahndrich, Prettier Concurrency: Purely Functional Concurrent Revisions, in Haskell Symposium 2011 (Haskell'11), ACM SIGPLAN, Tokyo, Japan, 7 July 2011.
- Sebastian Burckhardt, Daan Leijen, and Manuel Fahndrich, Roll Forward, Not Back: A Case for Deterministic Conflict Resolution, in The 2nd Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel Programming (WODET'11), Newbeach, California, March 2011.
- Sebastian Burckhardt and Daan Leijen, Semantics of Concurrent Revisions, in European Symposium on Programming (ESOP'11), Springer Verlag, Saarbrucken, Germany, March 2011.
- Sebastian Burckhardt, Alexandro Baldassion, and Daan Leijen, Concurrent Programming with Revisions and Isolation Types, in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Object Oriented Programming Systems Languages and Applications (OOPSLA'10), ACM SIGPLAN, Reno, NV, October 2010.
- Sebastian Burckhardt and Daan Leijen, Semantics of Concurrent Revisions, no. MSR-TR-2010-94, 15 July 2010.


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Montgomery, Alabama Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey is seeking re-election to a second term, but she did not report raising any campaign funds in the first month that candidates could receive donations.
State law allowed candidates for the 2014 elections to start raising money in early June. Those that did had to publicly report their contributions this week, but Ivey reported none.
Campaign spokesman Will Sellers said Ivey spent June focused on launching her re-election bid June 27. He said she has not started soliciting or receiving donations. But he said she expects to raise enough to have a robust campaign.
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Open door policy
President Barack Obama in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress said, "If you come to me with a serious set of proposals, I will be there to listen. My door is always open." Advocates of innovative, patient-centered Christian healthcare groups may test that.
Representing about 34,000 families but growing, healthcare sharing ministries (HCSM), in which a pool of believers share their insurance costs, are pouring limited resources into lobbying efforts to ensure they are not left out of a final healthcare overhaul. But they face a long road.
Samaritan Ministries International, Christian Care Medi-Share, and Christian Health Care Ministries are not recognized by the federal government as official health insurance providers. That's bad news if Congress passes a bill that includes mandates requiring individuals to purchase federally approved insurance plans. Such mandates are gaining wider bipartisan acceptance and are expected to be a part of any changes.
"We are looking at complete obliteration of the ministries as they exist," warned James Lansberry, president of the Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries.
The groups did not succeed in getting language protecting such organizations into the 1,000-page House healthcare bill that has already passed committee.
But Martin Hoyt, a lobbyist for the groups, said he is more hopeful about prospects in the Senate. They have submitted protection language to the Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan "Gang of 6" currently trying to hammer out a consensus. But such protection provisions were missing in Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' preliminary outline.
These groups should be worried: Mandates would grant broad new enforcement powers to the Treasury Department, which would task the IRS with collecting the penalties for individuals and employers who forgo government-approved insurance. "The mandate is going to be a bigger problem than people think," worries Lansberry. "It's a backdoor reduction in our freedom to make individu l healthcare choices." - Edward Lee Pitts
Closed case
A New Orleans physician in charge of critically ill patients during Hurricane Katrina has admitted that he "hastened" the death of 79-year-old Jannie Burgess-a woman with advanced uterine cancer and liver failure-by increasing her morphine dose. "I gave her medicine so I could get rid of her faster," said Dr. Ewing Cook, who was working at Memorial Medical Center during a lengthy evacuation during the autumn 2005 disaster. "To me, it was a no-brainer, and to this day I don't feel bad about what I did."
Cook told ProPublica that medical personnel gave morphine and midazolam to critically ill patients who they thought couldn't be evacuated or survive the ordeal. Three Memorial staff members were arrested in 2006 on euthanasia allegations but were never indicted, even though forensic experts determined several of the 45 patient bodies recovered from the hospital had received lethal injections of sedatives. Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell says he will not reopen the Memorial euthanasia investigation.
Nearly two months after at least seven Pakistani Christians died in Muslim attacks over alleged blasphemy against Islam, an Afghan journalist escaped a similar fate: A court in northern Afghanistan released Perwiz Kambakhsh, a reporter for an Afghan daily newspaper, nearly two years after sentencing him to death for criticizing Islam. Officials arrested Kambakhsh in late 2007 for downloading and distributing an article that said the Prophet Muhammad ignored women's rights. A court sentenced Kambakhsh, 24, to death, but later reduced his sentence to 20 years in jail following pressure from the Afghan media and Western critics.
The court released Kambakhsh in early September and the journalist relocated to an undisclosed country, according to Reporters Without Borders.
Arm in arms
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez arrived in Moscow Sept. 10 ready to buy tanks and other weaponry sufficient to double his armored vehicle arsenal. Chavez has previously amassed tanks at the Colombian border and has renewed tension over Colombia's plan to allow U.S. troops to use Colombian bases for anti-narcotics operations.
The Moscow stop was part of a world tour that included six countries. In Iran, Chavez emphasized the "axis of unity" between the two countries and announced plans for a "nuclear village" in Venezuela with Iranian assistance, "so that the Venezuelan people can count in the future with this marvelous resource for peaceful uses." The two oil-rich states plan to trade uranium yet to be mined in Venezuela for nuclear energy produced in Iran, which has earned Tehran UN Security Council sanctions.
Improvement indicators
The Federal Reserve's latest Beige Book report, an anecdotal measure of economic conditions by district, said five out of 12 Fed regional banks saw signs of economic conditions improving, while six reported stability. Don't want to take the Fed's word for it? The Institute for Supply Management's survey of factories and industry turned positive for the first time since spring, rising to 52.9, from 48.9 in July. A reading above 50 indicates expansion and growth; a number below 50 means economic contraction.
Being blunt
At a recent UNFPA-sponsored forum on sexual and reproductive health, activists stripped away euphemisms and were plain about goals: more funding and more access to abortion. The Berlin "Global Partners in Action" conference trained 400 NGO representatives, many from abortion-rights groups, to lobby their countries for more reproductive health funding. Purnima Mane, deputy executive director of the UN Population Fund, urged activists to "enlarge the pot" of $11.1 billion given to population-related programs in 2008. The conference promoted "safe abortions" (i.e., legal) but one group passed out stickers telling women how to perform do-it-yourself abortions by lying to pharmacists. Another group distributed pamphlets that said, "I need an abortion" in six different languages, directing women in countries without "safe abortion" to doctors who can provide them. A final document was especially startling in its bluntness, said Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America: "The world is facing a global economic crisis but their response is essentially, we need more money."
Time served
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford once considered the daytime "a ceremonial waste of time," according to former spokesman Will Folks, who says his boss found evenings more conducive to working the phones, pounding out emails, and managing state policy. Embracing the daytime may be Sanford's only hope after confessing to adultery and lying about a trip to visit his Argentine mistress in June. Sanford has spent the summer on a forgiveness tour: The conservative-once considered a 2012 presidential contender-has been hitting diners, civic clubs, and political luncheons to ask South Carolinians for another chance. But his famously frugal image suffered with reports that Sanford purchased expensive, business class tickets for travel. Now, 61 of 72 South Carolina House Republicans have asked Sanford to quit, and state lawmakers are mulling whether to move to impeach him when they reconvene in January.
More than two weeks and over 2,000 firefighters later, fire officials said they were containing over half-62 percent-of a blaze that had burned more than 250 square miles and destroyed 78 homes.
Two Los Angeles County firefighters were killed Aug. 30 in the fire and about a dozen have been injured. Authorities believe the blaze was started intentionally and local officials set rewards for information leading to who was behind it.
"We're changing the pace and treating this as a marathon," said U.S. Forest Service commander Mike Dietrich on Sept. 5 as firefighters battled high winds and high temperatures. "If it were a 26-mile race, we'd only be at mile 6."
Historical tweets
One might call John Quincy Adams the founding father of micro-blogging. A perspicacious graduate student noticed that Adams' journal entries were no longer than a maximum tweet on the micro-blogging site Twitter-140 characters. So the Massachusetts Historical Society ran with the idea to tweet Adams' concise diary entries each day, beginning exactly 200 years after he embarked on a boat across the Atlantic Ocean as an envoy to Russia. One entry (Aug. 31) points out that Adams "read ten or fifteen chapters in the bible" each morning. Other entries leave much tantalizingly untold, like this one from Aug. 15, 1809: "This afternoon I found the Caboose on fire."
Working backward, as Twitter does:
9/1/1809: Friday. My wife unwell. Calm and light winds. Lat: 59-40. Long: 15-54. Nicias and Crassus. Cards.
8/28/1809: Total calm all day. Lat: 58-19. Long: 22-10. Philiopoemen and Flaminius. Saw a Whale. Cards in the Eve.
8/18/1809: Charles two years old. Fair wind and thick fogs. No obs: Lat: 46-32. Long: 48-50. Pericles & Mrs. Grant's Letters.
Space to remember
A 16,000-square-foot 9/11 memorial quilt is hidden in a tractor-trailer in Atlanta, Ga., because New York City says it doesn't have room. When Corey Gammel, founder of United in Memory, asked for quilt squares in memory of each 9/11 victim, over 3,000 people sent in squares from across the world. Until recently the quilt traveled to cities across the United States. But efforts to display the quilt in Manhattan have met a dead end, said Dennis McKeon, executive director of Where to Turn. While it's difficult to find 10,000 feet of open floor space in Manhattan, McKeon thinks the memory of 9/11 has faded: "We want the people who died to be remembered. People forget that 3,000 human beings were killed that day, and you know, they need to be remembered."
Big families, big headache
North Carolina's Department of Revenue is making a special demand of families reporting five or more children: Prove it. The agency sent letters to some 6,700 families that claimed five or more exemptions on their state tax returns, requesting multi-tiered documentation for each child or dependent. If families don't comply, they won't get their refund. Some large families say they feel unfairly targeted, but agency officials say they are trying to root out fraud. The agency has saved $2.6 million from taxpayers who improperly claim exemptions, Linda Millsaps, the department's chief operating officer, told the News and Observer in Raleigh.
But the agency's demands are causing headaches for families in compliance: They must send copies of each child's birth certificate and Social Security card, plus provide a letter explaining each child's relationship to the filer. Cynthia Leugers of Indian Trail, N.C., told the Raleigh newspaper it took her 10 weeks to order copies of her children's birth certificates from Oklahoma and North Carolina. Leugers had plenty to do without the request: She and her husband have nine children.
To court
Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California beauty queen who took a stand against gay marriage last spring, is suing California pageant executive director Keith Lewis and former co-director Shanna Moakler for libel, slander, and religious discrimination. Although pageant officials dethroned Prejean, 22, in June for reportedly missing scheduled appearances, Prejean's lawyer says he has found no proof that she missed events or violated her contract. The suit also alleges that Lewis and Moakler instructed Prejean to stop mentioning God.
He her who what?
A British court ruled to allow a transsexual prisoner serving life for manslaughter and attempted rape to be transferred to a women's prison. The biological man, convicted of murdering his boyfriend and attempting to rape a woman, began sex change treatments while in prison on the 2001 manslaughter conviction. The judge ruled in favor of the transfer (although the man has yet to have surgery to remove his male sex organs), after the prisoner's attorney argued that keeping him/her in a male prison "bars her ability to qualify for surgery, which interferes with her personal autonomy in a manner which goes beyond that which imprisonment is intended to do." Tell that to the female cellmates.


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Day Three of the Plymouth County Fair
(Le Mars) -- It's Day Three of the Best Five Days of the Summer...the Plymouth County Fair. Today's highlights include the 4-H Market Beef and Breeding Beef Show which starts at 8:30 a.m. The 4-H and FFA Dog Show also begins at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Plymouth County has three head of dairy cattle entered this year and they will be judged at 5:00 p.m. The Antique Tractor Parade will get started at 6:00 p.m. in front of the Grandstand, and following that event will be the Tractor and Mini Rod Pull. Century Hall will serve as the site for the cooking school which will start at 7:00 p.m.
Cooler Temperatures Help Fair Attendance
(Le Mars) -- Fair officials are reporting that Thursday's gate attendance was higher than last year's. This year, the attendance for the second day was listed at 17,000. A year ago, the attendance level was at 16,250. Fair board Director Rich Benson says the cooler temperatures on Thursday made a difference
in fair goers attendance and attitude.
Le Mars and Merrill Fire Departments Fight Grass Fire
(Le Mars) -- Fire crews from Le Mars and Merrill were on the scene of a grass fire located on Highway 3 and Iris Avenue, about a mile west of Brunsville. The fire was reported at about 3:50 p.m. A baler had caught fire and was fully engulfed when fire officials arrived on the scene. The baler ignited the grass fire. Fire crews were on the scene for nearly an hour and a half.
Secondary Road Crews To Replace Bridge With Culvert
(Le Mars) -- The Plymouth County Secondary Roads Department has announced that Pioneer Avenue from County Road C-60 to 280th Street will be closed starting Monday and continuing through August 17th. Road crews are replacing a wooden bridge with a culvert. speaking about County Road C-60, it is scheduled to have a paving project begin within the next few days.
Fair Attendees Can Name New Park
(Le Mars) -- Attendees of the Plymouth County Fair have the opportunity to name a new lake and park near Akron. The Plymouth County Conservation Board is asking fair attendees to vote for their favorite name. Dennis Sohl, Plymouth County Conservation Executive Director says the new park is from a land swap deal the county had with Higman Sand and Gravel Company of Akron.
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Sohl says once the lake and park is completed it will cover 20 acres of surface area. At the Plymouth County Conservation booth, people have the choice of three possible names as narrowed down from a larger list of submissions.
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Sohl says monetary donations from fair attendees will determine the final name selection.
Drought Affected Horticulture Exhibits
(Le Mars) -- We know the drought has affected area crops, but what about the flower and vegetable gardens? Mary Konopasek serves as a Plymouth County Fair superintendent for the Open Class Horticulture Division. She says the number of entries are down this year, and she believes it is because of the dry conditions.
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In addition to being a superintendent, Konopasek likes to enter floral projects, but she says the dry conditions affected her choice of flower entries.
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Konopasek says there are several container plant entries, and even hanging flowers. The horticulture superintendent says the vegetable entries consisted of onions, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatos and herbs. She says with the heat wave, there is another reason to visit the horticulture building...
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Kiddie Barn Has New Location
(Le Mars) -- If you have had the chance to visit the Plymouth County Fair, you may have noticed the Kiddie Barn has a new location. The traditonal area designated as an educational area for small children introducing them to various types of animals is now located in the barn to the east, sharing space with the draft horses. The Kiddie Barn is supervised by the Le Mars FFA. J.D. Steen, a Le Mars FFA member explains the benefits of the move.
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Daniel Ahlers, another Le Mars FFA members talks about some of the animal exhibits found in the new kiddie barn.
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Steen explains the reason for the move.
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Ahlers says fair goers seem to enjoy the new facility, and he says it is safer.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - Notre Dame knew what was coming. Stanford doesn't get cute inches from the goal line.
And after three years of getting pushed around by the Cardinal, the Fighting Irish pushed back, winning the most important shoving match they've had all season.
Or did they?
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Notre Dame receiver TJ Jones (7) celebrates with teammates after catching a touchdown pass during overtime Saturday.
A wall of Notre Dame defenders stopped Stepfan Taylor inches from the goal line on fourth down in overtime and the seventh-ranked Irish remained unbeaten with a 20-13 victory against the No. 17 Cardinal on a soggy Saturday in South Bend.
Taylor kept reaching and turning with bodies underneath him, and his knee never did hit the ground before reaching the ball across the goal line. But the officials ruled it was too late. The whistle had blown, and that meant the play was stopped.
Taylor finished with 102 yards on 28 carries. He needed 103.
The celebration had to wait for a replay review. The call stood. Irish fans who weren't already on the field spilled out of the stands, and Notre Dame's national title hopes remained alive. The Irish are 6-0 for the first time since 2002.
"Physically, we controlled the line of scrimmage," Irish coach Brian Kelly said of the last play. "Classic. Classic goal line stand."
Stanford coach David Shaw wasn't so sure.
"I didn't get a view of the last play," Shaw said. "Stepfan swore to me that he got it. That he got over the goal line on the second effort. The officials looked at it and said he didn't get in, so he didn't get in."
TJ Jones made a reaching 7-yard touchdown catch from Tommy Rees on the first overtime possession to give the Fighting Irish (6-0) a seven-point lead.
Stanford (4-2) responded by driving to a first-and-goal at the 4.
Behind its big strong offensive line, Taylor ran for 1 on first, 2 on second and inches on third down. That left one play from inside the 1 and the Notre Dame defense, led by Carlos Calabrese, held up Taylor and moved him backward.


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Papa Roach To Play Rockstar Energy Uproar Festival!
The third annual Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival returns this August and September for more than 30 shows throughout North America. The main stage features multiplatinum rock bands Shinedown, Godsmack, Staind and Papa Roach, along with breaking bandAdelitas Way. In addition, the Ernie Ball Stage and Jägermeister Stage in the festival area will include performances from multiplatinum headliners P.O.D., as well as up-and-coming artists Deuce, Fozzy, Redlight King, Mindset Evolution (winner of the 2011 Best Buy Music Gear Battle Of The Bands Powered By Ernie Ball), In This Moment, Thousand Foot Krutch, Candlelight Red and a local battle of the bands winner.
Visit http://bit.ly/UPROARTV2012 to see a video with some of this year's Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival bands talking about the tour. Look for tour dates, venues and ticket on-sale information to be announced in the coming weeks.
"This is our first year on the UPROAR Festival, and we are honored to be sharing the stage with all the bands...Trust me this is one tour you do not want to miss," says Brent Smith of Shinedown.
Godsmack's Shannon Larkin proclaims, "Nothing makes us feel more at home than playing the best festival in the U.S. with the baddest-ass line-up of the year! You better hold on to your hats America, 'cause this fall we're coming at you hard 'n loud with the power hour Smackdown!"
The touring music and lifestyle festival continues to grow. Despite encountering hurricanes, floods and other inclement weather in 2011, the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival packed houses, with over 324,800 in total attendance. UPROAR expands in 2012 by adding a third stage and more bands to the lineup.
Live Nation is the national tour promoter for the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival.
"We're really excited about this year's awesome lineup," say tour producers John Oakes and John Reese. "It's incredible to have so many of the biggest bands in rock together with some newer bands that are blowing up. By adding a second stage to the festival area and including even more great talent, we're stepping things up a notch for the UPROAR fans."
To kick off the 2012 tour, the Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival will be giving away a trip for two to any show on the 2012 trek. The grand prize winner will receive roundtrip airfare for two from a U.S. city to the UPROAR show of their choice, hotel accommodations, airport transfers, $500 spending cash, and VIP treatment at the show. Go to http://bit.ly/uproarflyaway to enter for a chance to win.
The Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival will entertain fans for a full afternoon and evening, with performances from the hottest rock bands, along with a concourse midway featuring band autograph signings, vendors and other activities. The festival is produced by John Reese, John Oakes and CAA in conjunction with Live Nation. Look for tour dates, cities and venues to be announced in the coming weeks and go to www.RockstarUproar.com and www.LiveNation.com for the most up-to-date information on the tour. The Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival is made possible through the support of sponsors including Rockstar Energy Drink, Airforce Reserve, Air National Guard, Army, Imagen Records, Lunarpages, Matador Beef Jerky, Schecter Guitars, Slurpee, Truth, and Zippo Lighters.
So I've been a hard core rocker all my life and first saw Papa Roach perform at Freakers Ball in 2010. Their performance was incredible. Jacoby has a way of connecting with the crowd to make them feel like their sharing the experience with him and the rest of the crew. I know this is a longshot, but i have to try. I, too, have had battles with addiction and it took me going back to prison four times before I finally decided to stay clean. While incarcerated, my daughter was stuck with her dad and she was mistreated in so many ways its unimaginable. When I was released, my daughter came running home to me and is now in love with Papa Roach. I would love to make her dreams come true by meeting you and the band. She believes in your music and her dream is to actually sit and talk with Jacoby. I realize this is probably a long shot; but its worth trying anyway.


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You can archery hunt a good Utah unit with 10 points, hunt AZ late season every 5 years, and hunt WY GEN every year.
Regarding landowner tags.. I've not reseached costs for LO tags in CO, but take New Mexico for example.. You can pick up a LO tag in some of the mediocre units for about $1,500, plus the cost of the tag.. So, for a tad over $2k, you can hunt a unit every year with similar quality as several OTC CO or ID units. A LO tag with good elk quality will most likely cost you $3k (if I remember correctly from last year) plus the tag.
My total out of pocket expenses, after getting fees back, is approximately $425 this year, for 18 hunts. With about half of those hunts being hunts I will draw within 10 years. The other half are long shot elk odds, or impossible to draw sheep/goat hunts, that cost an additional $7.5-$10 to apply.
$425 to not hunt is a bunch of money, but when you spread it out over as many hunt possibilities, its not as bad. $1500+ for a LO tag buys a bunch of points, for quality that can probably be found OTC in several states, or be drawn every year on the special WY tag.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
You can archery hunt a good Utah unit with 10 points, hunt AZ late season every 5 years, and hunt WY GEN every year.
Utah has just opened a new OTC area I believe this year... Montana, Idaho, WY offer yearly options for OTC or GEN Hunts which can be good if you meet the right people, do your homework, go to the right areas, and work your butt off. I apply NM every year because if you draw (which is getting to be nearly impossible) you'll probably get a chance to harvest a big bull, and it doesn't cost but a few bucks if you're unsuccessful.
This is likely to be my modus operandi for the foreseeable future
I like to hunt so I apply a to mainly Wyoming and Colorado for areas that require only two or three points so I can go every year. I have a friend the max points in Wyoming for almost everthing including sheep and about seven points for deer and elk in Colorado. He sits at home every year holding out for that special tag, while I am out there every year having a great time with memories. So if I die tomorrow I will have lived and if he dies, he just has a bunch of dreams unfilled.
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
I have been lucky enough to hunt on the Jicarrilla Apache Reservation. There is more game there than any place I have been. $8000. and less will get you a good elk hunt with a chance at a huge elk. Land owner tags I have priced for deer have been $6500. A deer license on the Jicarrilla is 15,000.00 Just over the border in Co the cost is $354.
Since a lot of my hunting is about shooting, I can shoot a lot of paper and use my camera to hunt in the best units. I doubt I try for more points. I have had some awesome back country experiences and was able to be hunting in the old days.
I can tell you this, I've been lucky enough to hunt it some of the best units available anywhere, where you trip over elk walking out of camp, and even called a few nice bulls within bow range of the campfire. One night I'm pretty sure a loco bull tried to breed a couple of our horses in the middle of the night and I thought I was going to get trampled in my tent. I've also hunted some leftover OTC hunts that were supposedly Decent, where I hunted an entire week sun-up to sun-down, glassing for hours and hours, covering miles and miles and saw 1 cow with a calf and a crapload of moose. It's a tough call.... It's a lot of time and money! I think I just need to move west and increase my odds!
I will not donate money to any state for 20 years maybe to draw 1 tag! I would rather spend my money in states I can actually hunt in. I look for good areas I can draw with 3-6 points and hunt 2nd choice or OTC in between.
There isn't a good cheap way for non-residents to hunt anywhere in the west. If you are serious, pick up a bow, it opens a lot of land and seasons rifle only guys don't have access to, and draw odds are much better. I do both, and have some decent OTC archery back up hunts I can do every year that are a ton of fun and cheap. So I put in for the premium tags and see if I get lucky, if not, I go on my back ups, but I can go every year on 2-3 different week long out of state hunts.
It takes a few years and some research to find these opportunities and areas, but that's what I'd suggest. Spend time in CO or MT and get some good back up areas that you can go every year and still have an enjoyable hunt, but still put in for premium tags where you can afford it.
You are only going to get so many seasons and so many tags in your lifetime. Its not going to get any cheaper at any point than it is right now unless you get residency in a particular state. I used to struggle with the cost, then I took a step back. Its what I like doing, it helps keep me in shape year round, it provides good groceries, and the trophies and memories are what I'm going to look back on when I'm too old to get around the mountains any more. You can't put a price on living a full life.
That said, put your family first, like don't spend JR's college fund on some res hunts- but after that, who cares. Some guys drive nice cars, some guys go to vegas a lot, some guys play golf, I hunt and make no apologies or justifications, its who I am.


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Boise, ID (Sports Network) - Anthony Drmic scored 22 points to lead the Boise
State Broncos to a 77-72 victory over the UNLV Runnin' Rebels in a Mountain
West Conference battle at Taco Bell Arena.
Derrick Marks added 17 points as the Broncos (15-6, 3-4 MWC), while Ryan
Watkins finished with 12 points and Jeff Elorriaga chipped in with 11 points.
Anthony Bennett scored 25 points and Anthony Marshall added 18 points and
matched a career-high with 12 assists for the Runnin' Rebels (17-5, 4-3).
Boise State started the game on an 11-2 run as it took a 42-35 lead at the
break. The Broncos connected on 53.8 percent from the field and 4-of-8
from 3-point range. The Runnin' Rebels hit on 52.2 percent of their field
goal tries and 6-of-13 from beyond the 3-point arc.
After the break Boise State made 44.8 percent of their field goal attempts,
including 4-of-11 from 3-point range. UNLV converted 48.4 percent from the
field, but only 2-of-11 from beyond the 3-point arc in the second half.
Boise State had the edge in rebounding, 30-28, and points in the paint, 32-28,
UNLV forward Mike Moser was ejected with just over four minutes remaining in
the first half after being assessed a flagrant 2 foul for his shot to the head
of Drmic on a breakaway.
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Albania's 2013 Parliamentary Elections:
Political Prospects and Democratic Challenges
Dr. Elez Biberaj*
Eurasia Division
Voice of America
Presentation at the U.S. Helsinki Commission
May 6, 2013
Mr. Chairman and Members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission! Thank you very much for the invitation to testify before your Commission. It is an honor for me to appear before you and to offer my personal views on Albania's political prospects and democratic challenges.
The June 2013 parliamentary elections will mark a milestone in Albania's political development. They will be a test of the country's democratic maturity and of its bid to join the European Union. How the Albanians conduct these elections will be important not only for the country's democratic progress and future direction but also for regional political and economic stability.
Albania's record of contested elections and post-election disputes have set the tiny Balkan country apart from most other young, East European democracies, and tarnished the remarkable progress that Albania has made over the last two decades. Once again, the continuing confrontational nature of Albanian politics and some developments during the pre-election period, particularly the dispute over the composition of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), have raised concerns regarding Albania's ability to hold free and fair elections in accordance with international standards.
The upcoming elections offer both challenges and opportunities for Albania. The inability to hold smooth elections is politically risky given Albania's polarization and domestic political context, characterized as it is with a dysfunctional relationship between the country's two main political actors, that have alternated political power since the demise of Communism – the ruling Democratic Party and the opposition Socialist Party. A negative assessment will hamper Albania's political stability, signal deterioration in democratic practices, and complicate Tirana's relationship with the United States and the European Union.
Conversely, credible elections, whose results are certified by domestic and international observers and accepted by the major players, will open new opportunities. Albania will be able to build on the significant political and economic progress it has achieved in recent years, strengthen its role as a constructive regional actor, and significantly improve its EU accession prospects.
Albania has the capacity to hold fully credible elections as is expected from a NATO member and an aspiring member of the European Union. Prime Minister Sali Berisha and opposition leader Edi Rama have committed themselves to do their utmost to ensure smooth elections. The United States and the European Union have strongly urged both sides to abide by democratic rules.
Background and Political Context
Albania has made remarkable progress in terms of its economic and political development and efforts to join Euro-Atlantic institutions. Once the most reclusive and isolated state in Europe, Albania has become a responsible member of NATO. It has also emerged as a strong proponent of regional cooperation and reconciliation, and has developed a strategic partnership with the United States. Albania seems to have weathered the global economic crisis relatively well, although economic growth rates have declined. Real GDP growth in 2012 was 1.6 percent, down from 3.0 percent in 2011 and 3.5 percent in 2010. Prime Minister Berisha's government has made significant efforts in improving governance, reducing poverty and unemployment, improving the country's business climate, and launching a huge public infrastructure program.
But while prosperity has expanded, Albania remains stricken with poverty and high unemployment. The economic crisis in Greece and Italy, Albania's most important economic partners, has had a significant impact, leading to a drop in capital and remittance inflows. Although the government has taken measures to reduce the costs of doing business in Albania, attracting foreign investment has been a challenge because of investors' skepticism, perceived corruption, and ineffective bureaucracy.
The Albanian political landscape is fundamentally different today than it was twenty years ago. Yet, Albanian politics remain deadlocked and deeply dysfunctional. Some of the difficulties that Albania has encountered on its road to a consolidated democracy can be ascribed to the country's lack of a democratic culture, the Communist legacy, and economic underdevelopment. However, the current high level of politicization and fragmentation is the direct result of the two major parties refusing to engage in the give-and-take that is normally associated with a democratic order. Their overriding objective has been to gain and keep power. To this end, they have often engaged in questionable democratic practices.
The failure to embrace the rule of law, rampant corruption, and political stagnation has left the country bereft of durable, democratic and civic institutions. Public goods have largely been distributed on a preferential basis. Political elites have amassed huge personal wealth, while many ordinary Albanians lack access to basic goods and services. Basic institutions of governance and civil society groups are weak and under constant political pressure. Transfer of power from one political party to another has invariably been associated with efforts to subvert what in theory should be non-partisan functioning institutions, without much respect for fundamental democratic principles.
Power holders have also not shied away from institutional displacement and from attempts to rewrite the rules from one election to another. Electoral systems and electoral laws have undergone significant changes almost during every election cycle since the first multi-party elections in 1991. The 2009 election code, which was revised in 2012, changed the electoral system from mixed to a regional proportional system. It established a 3 percent threshold for political parties and a 5 percent threshold for pre-election coalitions.
In most cases, these changes were viewed as positive and a step in the right direction; after all, they were the result of an agreement between the country's main political forces and addressed recommendations by international organizations, particularly the OSCE/ODHIR. The CEC, which has the responsibility to conduct the elections, has been subject to constant and intense political interference. This has prevented it from developing into an empowered and truly non-partisan, administrative body. According to a formula agreed to in 2012, the ruling coalition proposes four of the CEC's seven members, and the opposition the other three. Following the decision of the junior partner, the Socialist Movement for Integration (SMI), to leave the government in early April 2013, Democratic Party deputies, with the support of three Socialist deputies, voted to replace the member of the CEC that had been proposed by the SMI. This was followed by the resignation of the three members nominated by the opposition, rendering the CEC incapable of effectively administering the elections. Thus far the two sides have shown lack of political will to compromise and reconstitute the CEC. As this dispute demonstrates, the lack of a stable electoral infrastructure has undermined confidence in the election process and the administration of the elections.
Political Gridlock
Since the 2009 elections, which the Democratic Party won by a narrow vote, Albania has experienced a serious crisis of institutionalization and relations between the government and the opposition have been marked by constant tensions. The OSCE/ODIHR report said the elections met most OSCE commitments, but added that they "did not fully realize Albania's potential to adhere to the highest standards for democratic elections." The Socialists contested the results, boycotted the parliament, and resorted to threats, ultimatums, and disruptive actions in pursuit of their demands. They shunned government calls for cooperation and stymied efforts to pass important legislation. The Democrats maintained an uncompromising attitude and refused to take any meaningful measures to reach out to the opposition.
Berisha's Democratic Party formed a coalition with Ilir Meta's Socialist Movement for Integration and launched an ambitious agenda of promoting economic development, reducing poverty, developing the infrastructure, creating jobs, and combatting corruption. Meta, a former senior Socialist Party leader who had served as prime minister, had split with the Socialists and formed the SMI in 2004. The improbable coalition between the two rivals-turned-allies worked relatively well. However, Meta's trial on corruption charges – based on a video, released by his former deputy Dritan Prifti, which purported to show Meta discussing bribe taking – eroded the coalition's popularity. His case became a source of acute embarrassment and cast an unflattering light not only on Meta and his party but also on Berisha's government. The Socialists made Meta the focus of their corruption criticism, and the violence that erupted in January 2011, in which four opposition supporters were killed in clashes with police forces, was sparked by popular anger at Meta. The Socialists vehemently criticized Meta's acquittal in early 2012, insisting that it send the message that the courts were corrupt and top politicians immune from prosecution.
The dispute over the elections led to a long political impasse, diverted attention from pressing economic and social challenges, stalled progress on key reforms, and tarnished Albania's image and democratic credentials. While there is a wide consensus on the importance and potential benefits of Albania's integration into the European Union, Albanian leaders permitted short-term political considerations to trump the country's EU integration. In December 2012, the European Commission refused, for the third year in a row, to grant Albania candidate status.
Albania has received wide praise for its constructive regional role. The foreign policies of the two major parties have not diverged significantly. However, Kosova's declaration of independence in 2008 has led to an increased expression of pan-Albanian sentiments throughout the Balkans. The celebration of Albania's 100th anniversary of independence in November 2012 was associated with a sudden and surprising increase in nationalistic rhetoric. Berisha and other top Albanian leaders invoked the historical Albanian narrative, and raised the specter of the unification of all Albanians into one state. While the nationalistic rhetoric was seen by many as an attempt by the prime minister to neutralize the newly formed Red and Black Alliance, which advocates the unification of Albania and Kosova, Berisha's comments triggered a harsh international response. In the wake of international criticism that the nationalistic rhetoric threatened U.S. and EU security objectives of regional cooperation promotion, Berisha and other senior officials tempered their nationalist rhetoric.
Kosova's independence, Albania's membership in NATO and the increased empowerment of Albanians in Macedonia, Montenegro, and southern Serbia have given Albanians throughout the region a new sense of confidence and unprecedented security. But despite the revival of Albanian nationalism and patriotism, the idea of Albanian national unification has not become a dominant theme in Albania's public discourse nor is it a salient issue in these elections. Mainstream Albanian leaders in Tirana and Prishtina have developed a new narrative that conveys the opportunities of EU integration and emphasizes the benefits of regional cooperation.
The June 2013 Elections: A New Opportunity
The development of party politics in Albania is in many ways similar to that in other emerging democracies. Political parties are dominated by their leaders, who enjoy unchallenged authority to select candidates for elections. The established elite remains firmly entrenched and politics highly informal and personal. In general, political parties are not well defined, and they are composed of fractious coalitions that converge on some core issues but differ on others. There are also deep divisions between and among political parties. With the passage of time, it has become difficult to distinguish between party platforms since they tend to shun ideology in favor of pragmatism and are characterized by a lack of specifics. Despite some variation, most pretend to address the same issues: unemployment, combating corruption, improving services, attracting foreign investments, and implementing institutional reforms. The ideological gap between the right and the left may not have disappeared, but it has definitely narrowed significantly. Decisions on coalitions are driven more by crude power considerations than by ideology or political programs. The best example of shifting political alliances and the coalescence of disparate political forces lacking a deep political alignment was the Democratic Party's coalition in 2009 with the SMI.
While Albania has a very vibrant and free media, most media outlets have aligned themselves with either the Democrats or the Socialists. Both sides have used the media to buttress popular perception of their own leadership, while questioning the ability of their foe to effectively lead the country. Instead of focusing on providing accurate and balanced reporting, most media have made a mockery of journalistic objectivity.
The various political forces have made increased use of social media to publicize their political programs and engage potential voters. Both Berisha and Rama are active social media users and have a significant following. Berisha regularly posts messages on Facebook, while Rama is an avid and engaging user of Twitter. They have shied away from a debate, relying on face to face interactions with voters, town hall meetings, and news conferences. Both have engaged in a campaign aimed at delegitimizing each other.
Despite the controversy surrounding the composition of the CEC, the election campaign thus far has been conducted in a much calmer and dynamic environment than in past elections. While there are dozens of political parties, the Democrats and the Socialists continue to dominate Albanian politics. Other, smaller parties have limited popular support, and most of them are led by politicians who split off from the Democratic or Socialist party over disagreements with their top leaderships. With the exception of two new forces that are contesting the elections on their own – former President Bamir Topi's New Democratic Spirit and the Red and Black Alliance –other parties have coalesced with the two major parties' coalitions. The Democratic Party-led Alliance for Employment, Wellbeing, and Integration, will have some 25 parties in its coalition, including the Republican Party, the Movement for National Development, and the Party for Justice Integration and Unity. In addition to the SMI, the Socialist-led Alliance for a European Albania groups together more than 35 parties, including the Social Democratic Party, the Union for Human Rights, and other parties spanning the country's political spectrum.
The Democratic Party The Democrats have been in power since 2005 and, under their leadership, Albania has made significant progress on many fronts. But after eight years in power, the ruling party appears vulnerable and concerned about an erosion of its popularity. Some blame the government for the post-2009 election gridlock and slow progress toward EU integration. In addition, growing economic hardships, inability to decisively address the corruption issue, and increased social discontent make the Democrats susceptible to a public backlash. Berisha hopes to meet the challenge by a resurgent Socialist opposition by touting his government's economic and social record, and by casting Rama as the main obstacle to Albania's integration.
The Socialist Party The Socialists view the 2013 elections as their best chance of returning to power and hope to benefit from a possible anti-incumbent backlash. The Socialists have made very ambitious election pledges, focusing their campaign on accusations of poor governance, mismanagement, corruption, and the Democratic stronghold on institutional power. These elections are also a serious test of Edi Rama's leadership. Rama had pursued a self-defeating boycott strategy, engaging in an uncompromising battle with the Democrats. Many Socialists blamed Rama personally for the loss of the 2009 election and the 2011 mayoral elections in Tirana. He had made a serious miscalculation by declining Meta's calls to join forces in 2009 against the Democrats. The two leftist parties combined had won more votes than the Democratic Party. Most analysts believe that political bickering among the Socialists and Rama's failure to form a pre-election coalition with Meta secured Berisha's second term. Evidently recognizing that his confrontational approach had backfired and under increased pressure from party rank and file, Rama changed his strategy following his loss of the mayoral elections in 2011. He focused on counteracting the perception as a polarizing figure and improving his relations with the international community. He made concerted efforts to mend fences with internal opponents, and reached out to his former arch rival, Ilir Meta. By creating a coalition with Meta, Rama hopes to increase his chances of unseating the Democrats.
Meta's coalition with the Democrats was a marriage of convenience. Following his forced resignation as deputy prime minister and foreign minister as a result of corruption charges, his position was severely weakened. But following his acquittal, he gradually muted his criticism of Rama. While he had implied that he was open to an alliance with either the Democrats or the Socialists, he made it clear he would seek to exact the highest price. He views himself as the king-maker and if the Democrats win the largest number of votes, he could renew his coalition with Berisha.
New Political Parties In the last two years, two new forces have appeared on Albania's political scene: the Red and Black Alliance and the New Democratic Spirit. Both are contesting the election on their own. The Alliance was formed by Kreshnik Spahiu, who had served as deputy Chairman of the Council of Justice under President Topi. The Alliance's platform incorporates a strong dose of nationalist sloganeering and pledges to fight corruption, but lacks substance on other issues. Its nationalistic rhetoric and calls for the unification of Albania and Kosova have resonated with many Albanians disenchanted with established political parties. But Spahiu's credibility as a corruption fighter has been undermined by allegations that he had engaged in corruptive practices as deputy chairman of the Council of Justice. Many blame him and Topi for the highly politicized and corrupt justice system. The Alliance has been organized more as a street movement than as a real political party, mobilizing its supporters through protests and actions. Most media, particularly those close to the Socialists, were openly supportive of the Alliance but recently they have adopted a more skeptical stance. Initially, the Alliance displayed an ability to stage massive protests. However, in recent months much-hyped rallies failed to draw a significant turnout, a sign of its declining influence. The Alliance expressed willingness to join the Socialist-led coalition, but Rama rejected what the Socialists termed as the Alliance's excessive demands. The Alliance suffered a major blow in late April, when leading officials resigned en masse because of a lack of confidence in Spahiu's leadership.
Following the end of his tenure as president in July 2012, Bamir Topi, who had a falling out with Berisha, formed his own party, the New Democratic Spirit. The former president pledged to introduce a new "spirit" in Albanian politics, free from corruption and political nepotism. Splinter parties in Albania, however, have not had much success and the New Democratic Spirit has not been able to expand its core leadership beyond its composition of disgruntled Democratic Party officials. While pledges for an uncompromising fight against corruption resonate widely, Topi has thus far been unable to mobilize a serious political following or recruit well-known and electable politicians. Nevertheless, the party leaders hope to attract right-wing voters, former political prisoners, and property owners who have yet to be compensated for assets confiscated by the Communist regime.
Albania is a country at a critical crossroads, torn between a potentially destabilizing political confrontation and the aspiration for national prosperity, democratic consolidation, and European integration. The country cannot afford another contested election that would likely trigger a destabilizing conflict and adversely impact Tirana's relations with Washington and Brussels. The elections offer Albanian political actors an opportunity to move beyond the usual zero-sum game approach to elections, demonstrate their commitment to democratic consolidation, and re-institutionalize democratic politics. The end of the political deadlock and brinkmanship, which have characterized the last four years, would unleash the great potential that the Albanians have, and pave the way for Albania's membership in the European Union.
Elections alone, however, even if they are held in full accordance with the highest international standards, are not a salve for Albania's democratization. The new government that will emerge from these elections will be faced with formidable challenges and can ill afford to be distracted by prolonged post-election disputes. Although conditions have not been conducive for the emergence of a new generation of leaders, Albania has a dynamic, highly educated, young generation that tends to think in a Western, democratic context and is poised to move into influential positions. Ordinary Albanians have shown a deep commitment to EU integration and view democracy as their preferred form of government. Albania has the capacity to reinvigorate democratic reforms, and restore the public's confidence in the political process. But to re-energize democracy and advance their nation's democratic aspirations, Albanian political elites must do much more to establish the rule of law, empower non-partisan institutions, reduce corruption, and dispel the widespread perception that politicians are enriching themselves at the expense of average citizens.
The role of the international community will remain critical. The United States and the European Union have been forthright in their support of democracy as well as in their criticism of democratic failings. While domestic political polarization and gridlock have led to "Albania fatigue," it is important that Washington and Brussels continue to engage Albania, using their significant leverage to foster democratic progress as well as to address democratic transgressions. A stable, democratic, and prosperous Albania, firmly anchored in the Euro-Atlantic community, is in the national interest of the United States.
Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear before you today.
* The views expressed in this testimony do not represent the views of the Voice of America.


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