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2012 Trafficking in Persons Report - Kenya
|United States Department of State
|Publication Date
|19 June 2012
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|United States Department of State, 2012 Trafficking in Persons Report - Kenya, 19 June 2012, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4fe30cbbc.html [accessed 30 May 2016]
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KENYA (Tier 2 Watch List)
Kenya is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Traffickers, who gain poor families' trust through familial, ethnic, or religious ties, falsely offer to raise and educate children in towns or to place adults in lucrative employment. Within the country, Kenyan children are forced to labor in domestic service, agriculture, fishing, cattle herding, street vending, begging, and the sale of illicit brews. Children are also exploited in prostitution throughout Kenya, including in the coastal sex tourism industry, in the eastern khat cultivation areas, and near Nyanza's gold mines. Children are lured into brothels by promises of jobs as domestic workers in cities, while others are introduced by their families to the sex trade. Brothel-based child prostitution is reportedly increasing in Migori, Homa Bay, and Kisii counties, particularly around markets along the border with Tanzania. Vehicles transporting khat to Somalia return carrying Somali girls and women who often end up in brothels in Nairobi or Mombasa. Both women and "beach boys" as young as 14 pimp children in coastal areas and receive commissions as high as the equivalent of $240 from tourists for each girl secured. Some Kenyan tenant rice farmers work in situations of debt bondage to farm owners or supervisors, often to repay funds that were provided as an advance – for school fees, food, or medical needs – by their employers. Kenyan men, women, and children voluntarily migrate to other East African nations, South Sudan, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East – particularly Saudi Arabia, but also Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Lebanon, and Oman – in search of employment, where they are at times exploited in domestic servitude, massage parlors and brothels, or forced manual labor, including in the construction industry. Officials at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Nairobi allegedly collude with unlicensed recruitment agents to place Kenyans into situations of forced labor in Saudi Arabia. Recruitment of women for overseas domestic work reportedly increased during the year in Mombasa, Nairobi's Eastleigh area, and major towns in Central Province. In 2011, gay and bisexual Kenyan men recounted being lured from universities with promises of overseas jobs, only to be forced into prostitution in Qatar. Children from Burundi, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda are subjected to forced labor and prostitution in Kenya.
The Government of Kenya does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so. During the reporting period, the government's children's officers continued admirable efforts to identify and protect child trafficking victims throughout the country. The government failed, however, to fully enact its anti-trafficking law's implementing regulations, finalize its national plan of action, take tangible action against trafficking complicity among law enforcement officials, provide shelter and other protective services for adult victims, take concrete action against alleged incidences of child sex tourism, monitor the work of overseas labor recruitment agencies, or provide adequate anti-trafficking training to its officials, including diplomats, police, labor inspectors, and children's officers. The government held few trafficking offenders accountable for their crimes in comparison to the significant number of child trafficking victims identified. Therefore, Kenya is placed on Tier 2 Watch List as it did not show evidence of increasing efforts to combat human trafficking. The government's efforts remained uncoordinated and lacked strong oversight, creating an environment conducive to trafficking.
Recommendations for Kenya: Finalize necessary regulations and put in place appropriate structures to fully implement the anti-trafficking statute; use the anti-trafficking law to prosecute trafficking offenses and convict and punish trafficking offenders, including government officials suspected of complicity in human trafficking; use the anti-trafficking law or Section 14 of the Sexual Offenses Act to prosecute and punish child sex tourists; provide additional training to all levels of the government, particularly law enforcement officials and diplomats, on identifying and responding to trafficking crimes; establish an official process for law enforcement officials to refer trafficking victims for assistance; continue to increase oversight of and accountability for overseas recruitment agencies; increase protective services available to adult trafficking victims, particularly those identified in and returned from the Middle East; and approve and implement the national action plan.
The government maintained its anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts during the reporting period, though corruption, the absence of an implemented anti-trafficking law, and lack of understanding of human trafficking among police and other public officials continued to prevent most traffickers from being brought to justice. Section 1 of the Counter-Trafficking in Persons Act (Act 8 of 2010) prohibits all forms of trafficking and Section 3(5) prescribes a sufficiently stringent minimum punishment of 15 years' imprisonment, which is commensurate with those for other serious crimes, such as rape. Section 3(6) prescribes a minimum punishment of 30 years' imprisonment for the aggravated offenses of controlling or financing the commission of human trafficking crimes. In 2011, however, the government did not take the final necessary steps, such as publishing this act in the Kenya Gazette, or enacting necessary implementing regulations, to bring the law into effect. As a result, no trafficking cases have been prosecuted under this law. Sections 14, 15, and 17 of the Sexual Offenses Act of 2006 prohibit the facilitation of child sex tourism (prescribed punishment of at least 10 years' imprisonment), child prostitution (prescribed punishment of at least 10 years' imprisonment), and forced prostitution (prescribed punishment of at least five years' imprisonment). However, prosecutors do not widely use these sections.
The Kenyan Police Service's anti-trafficking unit did not provide information on efforts to investigate trafficking crimes during the reporting period. The government reported initiating 15 human trafficking prosecutions in Mombasa, Kwale, Kajiado, Nairobi, and Kisumu in 2011, but provided no additional information to substantiate that they involved human trafficking offenses rather than smuggling or other types of crimes.
Many trafficking cases did not result in judgments due to weak preparation for prosecution or court officials' receipt of bribes to alter records of testimony. Though the government increased the Ministry of Gender's budget by 43 percent in 2011, funding remained insufficient to provide the transportation necessary for children's officers to carry out quarterly child labor inspections, especially in remote areas. The Ministry of Labor's 30 inspectors did not conduct any child labor inspections and lacked training to identify and address situations of forced labor.
Corruption among law enforcement authorities and other public officials continued to hamper efforts to bring traffickers to justice; in certain regions, corrupt police (including members of the Tourist Police Unit), immigration, or labor officials were reportedly complicit in, received bribes to overlook or confer lesser charges for, or obstructed investigations of human trafficking crimes. Local observers indicated that some suspected traffickers apprehended in police operations were quickly released under dubious circumstances. The government made no efforts to investigate or prosecute officials suspected of involvement in or facilitation of human trafficking during the reporting period. It did not provide anti-trafficking training to law enforcement and other public officials; inadequate understanding of human trafficking by police resulted in, at times, suspects being improperly charged under Kenyan law.
The government's efforts to identify and protect child trafficking victims continued during the year, but commensurate protection was unavailable for adults, including the increasing number of victims in the overseas migrant worker population. As guidelines for implementing the victim protection provisions of the anti-trafficking statute have yet to be developed, the government continued to lack a formal mechanism for identifying victims of trafficking among vulnerable populations. Nevertheless, government officials identified 99 child trafficking victims (23 of whom were in prostitution) in 2011 and provided protective services to all of these victims. The Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Development's children's officers coordinated local Children's Advisory Committees that, as part of their protective mission, monitored service providers and advanced awareness of human trafficking at the local level. During the reporting period, children's officers rescued child trafficking victims, provided them with counseling and referrals to service providers, and participated in investigations. The Ministry of Gender and a local NGO continued to jointly operate a national 24-hour toll-free hotline for reporting cases of child trafficking, labor, and abuse, which received more than 40,000 calls each month. The hotline is located in a government-owned building in Nairobi and staffed, in part, by three children's officers who facilitated rescues and made referrals to appropriate district officials, as well as to health and legal aid organizations, in other provinces. During the reporting period, the hotline received 46 reports of child trafficking, 19 concerning child prostitution, and 497 related to child labor. The hotline's call center in Eldoret connected children with locally-available services in western Kenya. The Ministry of Gender's Children's Department also operated four drop-in referral centers in Mombasa, Malindi, Eldoret, and Garissa that provided counseling and guidance services, as well as referrals to other centers for victimized children that could not be returned home. This department also funded and operated rescue centers in Garissa, Malindi, Thika, and Machakos where child victims of violence could stay for three months before returning home or being referred to NGO facilities. The government did not provide data on how many trafficking victims were afforded such services during the year.
While efforts to assist and care for child trafficking victims remained strong, the government provided relatively few services – including shelter, medical care, or psycho-social counseling – to trafficked adults identified within the country or abroad. Most of Kenya's overseas diplomatic missions failed to provide any assistance to trafficked Kenyan nationals. The Kenyan embassy in Riyadh, however, provided limited repatriation assistance by issuing new travel documents to 460 victims of domestic servitude during the reporting period; other victims, however, complained that the embassy was slow to intervene in their cases, did not expeditiously process travel documents and did not provide material support. The Ministry of Immigration spent the equivalent of $26,500 to return 60 abused migrant workers from Saudi Arabia in 2011. While the government reports it encouraged Kenyan victims' assistance in the investigation and prosecution of trafficking crimes during the reporting period, it did not provide information on such instances. There were no reports that the government inappropriately incarcerated or otherwise penalized Kenyan victims for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being trafficked. Police, however, arrested foreign women for engaging in prostitution or being in Kenya without valid identity documents, but did not screen them for trafficking victimization; in most cases, the women pled guilty to immigration violations and were quickly deported. Under the 2010 anti-trafficking law, the Minister of Gender may grant permission for foreign trafficking victims to remain indefinitely in Kenya if it is believed they would face hardship or retribution upon repatriation; the government did not use this provision during the year.
The government made some progress in preventing human trafficking. The National Steering Committee to Combat Human Trafficking, chaired by the Minister of Gender, met three times during the reporting period. The five-year National Action Plan on Human Trafficking, drafted in previous reporting periods, remained without Cabinet approval, as the Counter-Trafficking Act's implementing regulations have not been finalized. District child labor committees, which exist in 30 out of 180 districts, together with children's advisory committees, raised awareness of child trafficking and labor among local populations. Many of these committees, however, existed only nominally, did not meet regularly, and were largely ineffective.
In June 2011, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) issued a directive requiring foreign companies or employment agencies to submit to Kenyan recruitment agencies information regarding the jobs offered, the perspective employers, the terms of service, and remuneration before hiring Kenyans to work abroad. Recruitment agencies' sending of domestic workers for jobs in Saudi Arabia and the UAE received increased attention with parliamentary hearings in July, October, and November 2011. In September 2011, MFA's Department of Host Country and Consular Division, with the Kenya Association of Employment Agents and the Ministry of Youth, provided an awareness session to 1,500 workers migrating to the Middle East, many to be private security guards. In November 2011, the Ministries of Youth, Foreign Affairs, and Labor conducted a sensitization session to provide an unknown number of labor migrants departing for the Middle East with information about their country of destination, their legal rights and employment benefits, and the skills necessary for successful adaptation to the society of their destination. The Ministry of Labor, which is required by law to monitor the operations of labor recruitment agencies and attest to employment contracts, verified 133 contracts in 2011; migrant workers, however, often left Kenya before their contracts had been approved. The ministry's vetting procedures were inconsistently applied and efforts, in conjunction with the MFA, to monitor labor recruitment agencies to prevent fraudulent job offers and other illegal practices were poorly coordinated. The government neither made efforts to close down unlicensed agencies nor to punish agencies utilizing illegal recruitment methods. Bribery of government officials by recruitment agencies reportedly hindered efforts to stop fraudulent recruitment. In late 2011, the Ministry of Labor ceased without explanation its yearly renewal of these agencies' accreditation certificates, resulting in all members of the Kenya Association of Private Employment Agencies operating without valid licenses in early 2012. This also resulted in these agencies' sending workers overseas without governmental attestation and vetting of workers' foreign contracts, which left migrant workers increasingly vulnerable to trafficking.
The government reported that it prosecuted and extradited two foreign pedophiles for child sexual abuse in the Coast region in 2011, but provided no details to confirm whether these cases involved child sex tourism. Police provided no information regarding the investigations of four suspected child sex tourism cases pending at the close of 2010. In October 2011, local organizations and media outlets decried Kisauni police for releasing a German tourist alleged to have sexually exploited a prostituted child; the German was not charged due to lack of evidence. Out of court settlements, however, were common, with tourists paying girls' families to avoid legal action. The government made efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts. In February 2011, the city of Nairobi formed a taskforce to recommend measures to address the growing sex trade. The Kenyan government's provision of training to troops deploying on international peacekeeping missions included a module on human rights that addressed human trafficking.


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But it is totally idiocy to show done tasks at the same place as undone tasks. Done tasks should be visible at the bottom of all others. Also it should be possible to assign an task to an calender item and tasks with maturity dates should be visible below the date in the calender like in outlook.
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Binational Assembly of the Binational Manager Group of the Shared Honduras-El Salvador Goascorán River Basin
19 November 2012 | News story
Key local-to-national stakeholders in the Binational Goascorán River Basin meet to advance strengthening of transboundary institutionality
El Salvador (2012). A binational assembly was held August 13-14 in La Unión, El Salvador, to review the situation of the Binational Manager Group of the Goascorán River Basin. Partipants included ministries, secretariats, associated municipalities, local economic development orgnizations, NGOs and cooperation agencies in Honduras and El Salvador.
During the meeting, Luis Maier of IUCN's BRIDGE project talked about the current situation of the Manager Group, the need for structuring and progress achieved thus far thanks to the inclusion and interest of key stakeholders.
Participants also discussed the international legal framework, principles of international law on shared watersheds, codes of conduct and background on agreed good practices concerning watershed management.
A group analysis was conducted on the possibility of implementing a binational good practices mechanism and on work priorities in the Goascorán watershed. Commission members also decided on the make-up of national and binational groups to follow up on planning a binational work strategy.
This binational assembly was organized in the frame of Project BRIDGE: Building River Dialogue and Governance, financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and executed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Fundación Vida.
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WASHINGTON – Soaring temperatures will coax many people onto the roads this weekend. Luckily, a light work zone docket will keep most weekenders moving speedily on routes around town.
With the reprieve from winter-like temperatures likely bringing some residents out of hibernation, Metro cautions for delays on portions of the Red, Blue and Green lines.
Preparations for the Presidential Inauguration will be underway this weekend near the National Mall. Be prepared for street closures and parking restrictions between the Capitol and Federal Triangle Sunday morning for the Inaugural Parade dress rehearsal.
Early Sunday afternoon, participants of The No Pants Subway Ride 2013 will be riding the Metrorail system pants free, traveling between Metro Center, Chinatown, and L'Enfant Metro Stations.
Track work will affect riders on the Red, Blue and Green lines this weekend. There is no work scheduled for the Orange and Yellow lines.
Blue Line tracks will be out-of-service between Pentagon and Rosslyn. The Arlington Cemetery station will be closed. A free shuttle bus will ferry customers between Pentagon and Rosslyn, with an intermediate stop at Arlington Cemetery. The detour will require about 20 minutes of additional travel time. Passengers traveling between Virginia and Washington who are not headed to Arlington Cemetery should consider using the Yellow Line between L'Enfant Plaza and the Pentagon.
The Red Line will single track in two segments: between Friendship Heights and Van Ness and between Rhode Island Avenue and Fort Totten. Trains on the Red Line will operate every 24 minutes but Metro will run supplemental trains through the city during the daytime hours, boosting service to an average of 12-minute- intervals between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
The train testing continues on the Green Line between College Park and Greenbelt.
Instead of battling the inaugural crowds next week, some parade-goers will gravitate to the practice run Sunday morning. Do not expect to be able to park in close proximity to the rehearsal. Street closures and parking restrictions will go into effect on and near the parade route as early as 5:00 a.m. The activity is expected to last until 1:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
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Howard University will host the centennial celebration of Delta Sigma Theta. An estimated 12,000 Deltas are expected to flock to Howard University. Although there are no street closures associated with the various planned activities, traffic on Georgia and Florida avenues may be heavier than usual at times throughout the weekend.
Late Sunday night, all lanes on the outer loop of the Capital Beltway are scheduled to be blocked in Virginia at Route 50/Arlington Boulevard for repair work. Traffic south of I-66 will be directed onto the Route 50 service road to bypass the work zone.
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The death toll from the mysterious illness known as SARS has climbed to 100 worldwide. While most of the deaths are in China, the disease is moving to the U.S. and Illinois causing concern for health officials here in the Stateline.
It originated in Asia and is slowing moving across the world landing in 29 U.S. states and even in Illinois. SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has killed 100 people and infected thousands.
"Certainly it's something that we're watching very closely because we have great hope that we can prevent an outbreak. But if we just sit back and do nothing than it certainly would be easy to have a large outbreak," said Dr. Mike Thomas, Winnebago County Health Dept.
Illinois has reported at least eight cases of SARA, mostly in the Chicago area. Symptoms of the illness include fever, cough and difficulty breathing, very similar to the common cold and creating some panic among area residents.
"Especially with the recent change in weather. So people who come in here with a cough or a cold don't have SARA. They just have every other cold virus circulating in the community," said Scott Homann, Swedish American Hospital.
"Almost everyone that we've identified in the United States had traveled to Asia in the past 10 days," Dr Thomas said.
Doctors are working to stop the spread of the virus and find a cure. The Asia factor is helping health experts stop the spread by approaching travelers early on.
"I'm aware of three people who've come planes (from Asia) in Rockford in the past three weeks and none of the three have symptoms," Homann said.
China has come under fire for being slow to release information about severe acute respiratory syndrome. Health officials here in the Stateline say they're goal is to make sure that doesn't happen here.
Quarantines are being used in China and Canada to try and battle the virus and many countries are tightening their borders, rejecting people who have recently been in Asia. It's important to remember that only four percent of SARS cases have been fatal.
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Doyle, Hagy, Hahn, Kim, Mina, Stalter, Tomasulo, Weaver and Wi looking to get into U.S. Open.
Future is bright for both players from golden era and Cal golf program they helped build.
Michael Weaver, Keelan Kilpatrick and Joël Stalter also honored.
Both earn first-team All-American honors for the first time in final collegiate season.
Golden Bears five strokes shy of reaching match play for third straight season.
Golden Bears seven strokes out of a top-eight spot with half of field left to finish.
Golden Bears get nearly halfway thru third round Sunday before weather and darkness halt play.
Golden Bears to begin third round five shots out of coveted top eight.
Monday's scheduled Round 4 has been cancelled with the hope of getting all teams and players through 54 holes.
Golden Bears tied for 21st after 36 holes but half of field has yet to start second round.
Golden Bears battling several teams near coveted eighth-place position.
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Hidden Treasures of San Mateo County: Pulgas Water Temple
Fifth in the series of hidden treasures and found right here in San Mateo County is the Pulgas Water Temple. While it is in San Mateo County, it was actually built by the City of San Francisco as a monument to the Hetch Hetchy Water Project that brought "a plentiful supply of high quality drinking water" from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Bay Area.
Amazingly, it took 24 years to build "through the Great Depression at a cost of $102 million!" The opening was celebrated on October 28, 1934. The monument is an amazingly beautiful architectural design featuring "fluted columns and Corinthian capitals to reflect the architecture of ancient Greeks and Romans" with a frieze above the columns that reads "I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people."
Where Can You Find It
The Temple is located about one-half mile south of the Canada Road trailhead. Truly this is a treasure you won't want to miss. Take the kids, or your sweetheart, or go by yourself for some restorative time alone. The grounds are beautiful, and the temple itself will transport you to another place.
For more information you can go to the SFPUC website at where you will also find information about the nearby Open Space Attractions that make the temple a popular destination.
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To read a bit more about the site and other interesting locations, check out Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern Californias Kitsch Monuments by Dana Frank.
To relive the creation of Hetch Hetchy, read Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam And The Birth Of Modern Environmentalism by Robert W. Righter.
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Arnold, MO (KSDK) - The Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has increased the severity of charges against a local man accused of abusing a toddler who later died.
The Arnold Police Department had asked prosecutors to amend the charges against Jamell Johnson to murder after claiming Johnson confessed to squeezing, spanking and shaking the 18-month-old child.
Instead, the Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Jamell Johnson with first-degree child abuse (abuse resulting in death) and first-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Johnson was initially facing a lesser abuse charge.
Prosecutors said the abuse took place on September 2 after the child was left in Johnson's care. Prosecutors allege Johnson caused retinal hemorrhages to the child's eyes, as well severe head injuries and multiple bruises. The child survived for just over a day on a ventilator at Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center before dying.
Neighbors said they're heartbroken after witnessing emergency crews carrying out a young girl from an apartment. Now there's a growing memorial at the complex.
"I saw the baby being carried out by the fire-truck people and the ambulance and one dude like had it in the arm. The baby was unconscious like its head was hanging back and everything like it looked like it was out cold and there was a big old bruise on its cheek. It was upsetting, "said Dakota Gore, a Crosswinds apartment resident.
If convicted on the more serious child abuse charge, Jamell Johnson faces between 10 years in prison up to a life sentence.
NewsChannel 5 contacted the Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney's Office to ask about the decision against filing murder charges. Prosecutors said after looking at the evidence at hand, they determined these were the most appropriate charges.


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Kingsley Shooting Victim Identified
(Kingsley) -- Plymouth County authorities have released the name of the 17 year old shooting victim from Friday. The victim has been identified as Kyle Badgerow of rural Kingsley. Late Friday afternoon, Plymouth County Sheriff's deputies were called to a rural Kingsley residence to investigate a shooting. Badgerow had a gun shot wound to the chest. He was transported via Life-Net helicopter to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. Badgerow was pronounced dead at Mercy Medical Center. The Woodbury and Plymouth County Medical Examiners were notified and autopsy is being done to assist in determing the manner and cause of death. Authorities say the gun shot wound was not self-inflicted. There were others present at the residence at the time of the shooting. The Plymouth County Sheriff's Office and the Medical Examiners Office are continuing their investigation. At this point, no charges have been filed or arrests made.
(Sioux City) -- Sioux City Police Department are cracking down on underage minors entering taverns and consuming alcohol. On Saturday evening, police entered six different establishments on Historic 4th Street in Sioux City. At the Tom Foolery's Bar, officers located and arrested five underage minors including a 17 year old female. Some had been consuming alcohol, and one minor had possession of a fradulent indentification. The investigation is continuing. The five other locations were found to be compliant with state and local laws. Sioux City Police will be conducting additional random safety checks of local bars in the near future. The Sioux City Police remind bar owners and bartenders that its their responsibility to verify the age of all persons being served alcohol.
(LeMars) -- The LeMars Community School Board is scheduled to meet this evening. The Board will hear from the LeMars Education Association as they will present their initial bargaining proposal for the 2012-2013 master contract. The Board will also act on the application for modified allowable growth for at-risk programming for the 2012-2013 school year. The School Board will consider approval of an agreement outlining the partnership with Gehlen Catholic Schools allowing access to state funding through the Universal Pre-school program for the 2012-2013 school year.
EMMETSBURG, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa man wanted for attempted murder and other charges has turned himself in to authorities.
Emmetsburg police say that 32-year-old James Pietrarosso was on the run for almost a month before turning himself in. He's being held Sunday in the Clay County jail on $100,000 bail.
Pietrarosso faces charges of attempted murder, sexual assault, burglary, and violation of a protective order.
MOORHEAD, Iowa (AP) - An Illinois man has suffered injuries to his lips and teeth in a hunting accident in Monona County.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says 30-year-old Seth Johnson, of Plainfield, Illinois was hunting Sunday afternoon near Moorhead with a group of about 10 others when he was hit by a slug
fired by another in his party. The slug travelled 167 yards and passed between his lips, injuring them and some of his teeth.
Conservation Officer Gary Sisco says the hunters were firing at a running deer when the accident happened. He says Johnson was lucky because the slug could have easily hit him in the face or
Johnson is being treated at an Onawa hospital for injuries not believed to be life threatening.
ST. LOUIS (AP) - It's been a good year to be a farmer.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says farm profits are expected to spike by 28 percent this year to $100.9 billion.
Most farmers say they're using the extra cash to pay off debt and put some money aside. But, they're also investing in new tractors, combines and land.
Dale Hadden has a 4,000-acre farm with his brother and parents in Illinois. He estimates his corn and soybeans were worth 10 percent to 15 percent more than in previous years, which amounts to
tens of thousands of dollars. Hadden spent a chunk of that on an advance full-year payment on a seven-year loan on one of his tractors. He says it was a successful year, but it might not always
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Editor's Summary
For the third year, students attending the ASIS&T Annual Meeting were invited to compete in a design challenge, this time focusing on truthiness. The task was to devise a user opinion site that would distinguish fake reviews from valid and trustworthy ones. Students settled into four teams, based partly on the similarity of their shoes, and chose topics for their sites. Over two days, grabbing time between conference sessions, the teams gathered to plot out aspects of their site including system architecture, input and output features and user interaction. Teams then described the hypothetical sites to a panel of four judges, who considered creativity, impact on the problem, feasibility, contribution to humanity and quality of the presentation. As members of the winning team of Pratt + S. Carolina + Mizzou, Matt Miller, Jeff Mixer, Ben Richardson, Dinara Saparova, Andy Steinitz and Yao Zhang will receive free registration for the 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Montreal.
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2012 Annual Meeting Coverage
Third ASIS&T Student Design Competition: The Truthiness Challenge
by Candy Schwartz
Despite any number of difficulties imposed by the arrival of hurricane Sandy, the annual Student Design Competition (co-chaired by Stephanie Haas, Candy Schwartz and Katie Shilton) enjoyed its third successful year at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
At the opening session, held on Sunday evening, the design topic was introduced. It was characterized as the Truthiness challenge:
Assessing veracity and trustworthiness, whether of people, organizations or documents, are difficult challenges in technologically mediated settings. Fake online product reviews, book reviews, restaurant and vacation reviews, Twitter followers, etc., are a growing problem [1]. The gaming of reputation has consequences for a range of online interactions, including commerce, social networks, political discussion and debate, and crisis management. How do we separate the wheat from the chaff? Develop a preliminary design for a review site or crowd sourced information aggregator for the setting of your choice that makes trustworthiness and reputation primary design criteria.
The designs were slated for presentation to a distinguished panel of judges only two days later. Between Sunday and Tuesday students had to develop their ideas to solve the design challenge (considering system architecture, input/output and interaction) and prepare a presentation for the panel. Students were also strongly encouraged to participate in the rest of the conference and not spend all of their time working on the challenge.
The last step on Sunday night was to form groups. The rules require that no group contain more than two people from the same program. To get to know each other, students formed groups first by a numbered count-off and then by shoe similarity (which led to some amusement). The ice having been broken, they then formed final groups and started exchanging contact information and picking a team name. Following some late arrivals and early departures, four teams emerged: iTruth (Jase Alston, Sean Burns, April Earle and Hassan Zamir), Multiple Choice (Sara Chizari, Houda El Mimouni, Glen Farrelly, Christopher Harris and Mike Zarro), Pratt + S. Carolina + Mizzou (Matt Miller, Jeff Mixter, Ben Richardson, Dinara Saparova, Andy Steinitz and Yao Zhang), and Transformers (Tricia Bradshaw, Elliott Hauser, Kathryne Hawthorne, Naureen Nizam and Ngozi Okono).
Throughout the next two days, small clumps of competitors could be seen huddled in corners in hallways and bars, working on the challenge. On Tuesday morning they gathered together to present their design to the panel of judges: Nick Belkin, Rutgers; Pnina Fichman, Indiana; Ken Fleischmann, Texas; and Soo Young Rieh, Michigan. Teams were allowed seven minutes for their presentations and five minutes for questions from judges. Points were allocated for creativity of design (30), impact on solving the problem (20), feasibility of solution (20), contribution to humanity (20) and quality of presentation, including answering judges questions (10). All the entries were creative and thought-provoking, and the winning spot was closely contested as judges scribbled and erased notes on their score sheets and asked tough questions. Finally a winner emerged: Pratt + S. Carolina + Mizzou. Each member of the team receives free registration for the 2013 ASIS&T Annual Meeting in Montreal.
Having proven that nothing can stop the Student Design Competition, the organizers are already looking forward to the 2013 competition, and who knows what the challenge will be? Stay tuned!
[1] Masum, H., & Tovey, M. (2012).
The reputation society: How online opinions are reshaping the offline world (The Information Society Series). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
The winning student team in the ASIS&T Student Design Competition at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Pratt + S. Carolina + Mizzou includes from left to right, Emma Zhang from the University of South Carolina; Dinara Sparaova, University of Missouri; Andy Steinitz, Pratt Institute; Ben Richardson, University of Missouri; and Matt Miller, Pratt Institute.
Candy Schwartz is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. She can be reached at candy.schwartz<at>simmons.edu.
Articles in this Issue
Third ASIS&T Student Design Competition: The "Truthiness Challenge"
ASIS&T Online Education Initiatives: Driving the Future
James Cretsos Leadership Award: What ASIS&T Means to Me
SIG/SI 8th Annual Research Symposium a Success!
The 23rd Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop: A Report
The History of ASIS&T and Information Science and Technology
Evolving and Emerging Research Methods: 2012 ASIS&T SIG/USE Symposium
From Vision to Reality: The Emerging Information Professional
Edward Chang: Mobile Opportunities
Award of Merit Acceptance Speech
A Career in Information Retrieval Research
IA: Slip-Sliding Away: Real World Challenges Await Us
RDAP Review: Looking Out For the Little Guy: Small Data Curation


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Awesome - I can't wait to see more!
Makes me think we should have a water color challenge or something.
Well, I don't have much yet, just a border and a compass rose, but it's getting to be late enough in the challenge that if I don't commit with a thread I'll wimp out
So here's my entry so far. I'll scan it in once there's some actual map to show, but in the meantime I have a nice little shot of the drawing/painting table, and a close-up of the compass rose.
So far this is all dip pen and calligraphy ink, on watercolor paper; I'll be coloring in watercolors once I get the majority of the ink done.
Awesome - I can't wait to see more!
Makes me think we should have a water color challenge or something.
When its over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best that you were capable of? If so, the score does not matter. But if you find that you did your best you were capable of, you will find it to your liking. -John Wooden
* Rivengard * My Finished Maps * My Challenge Maps * My deviantArt
Ooh, this looks promising! This is proving to be a great contest so far.
Go Gidde!!!!!
My Battlemaps Gallery http://www.cartographersguild.com/al...p?albumid=3407
Thanks for the encouragement, guys!
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So, this doesn't count for the challenge at all, but I thought I'd post it to share the process. It's a value study for the swiss-style shading I'm hoping to pull off with the watercolors, done with the airbrush and smudge tools in gimp (because it's SOOO much faster than pencil for shading). Took about 2 hours, the first hour of which was just figuring out what I was doing.
It sort of confuses my brain into thinking it's mountain ranges, yet rivers also.... - but very smooth shading there Gidde.
Nice. I've been playing around with the shaded relief style myself. This looks pretty good though, especially for only 2 hours of work! That would have taken me substantially longer to achieve.
Thanks guys! And, it actually is rivers and mountains (although I'm pretty sure that's not what you meant)
After tonight's work, I have a scalebar, and a coastline, and penciled in rivers to do that shading by. Nowhere near this many rivers will get inked; they're just for me to be able to tell where the hills and valleys are. Unfortunately, I screwed up the "W" on my compass rose, but I don't think it's enough to start the whole thing over for ... I think I'm going to have to add an island up there so that it visually makes sense that the rose is so scrunched
On a happy note, after struggling all day yesterday with a pen that wouldn't release its ink onto the paper, I realized today that my ink was just too thick and today's inking went much smoother!
I'll properly scan this in tomorrow, but for now we have another iphone pic of the thing (and I finally have enough to give it the latest wip treatment):
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Glouster Trimble 61, Beallsville 0
GLOUSTER, Ohio - No. 1-seeded and undefeated Glouster Trimble (11-0) racked up 386 yards of total offense and intercepted a pair of Beallsville (6-4) quarterbacks three times each in advancing to the regional semifinals.
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Thanks to an anonymous DtL reader and april for tipping me off to this truly unfortunate news concerning Mario Ancic.
The Croat, who showed us all how excited he was to be back in action in Stockholm this week, has withdrawn from the tourney with acute bronchitis with fever.
What the hell is going on with his health? This is a pretty serious issue for him, obviously, and very frustrating for the Croat. Super Mario needs to get to the bottom of these health problems because we're not just talking about a common cold or the flu even, but mono and now acute bronchitis.
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Super Mario suffers another setback, withdraws from Stockholm with illness
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That's pretty rough to see, particularly after reading the story you linked to in yesterday's Netcords. In that, it seemed like he was resigned to the fact he was going to be especially vulnerable to getting sick, but was willing to do the work to bounce back. I wish him the best of luck.ReplyDelete
I suppose all he can do is stay positive and when he recovers get to the bottom of these troubling illnesses.ReplyDelete
Like I mentioned, it's not just a cold or a bad flu. Plus, other ballers have had bouts of mono and recovered at least physically if not their games completely (Nikki V.) I'm no doctor but there seems to be some real, underlying issues going on here.
I wonder if this has anything to do with him playing with, um, upright yellow balls for so long. I know I'm always out of breath when I do. ;)ReplyDelete
Get well, Mario.
what would we do without your zingers natch? my day is complete!ReplyDelete
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On the farm: Padres position rankings
We all know what the Padres' farm system produces will have a lot do with the franchise's direction. Here's a look at how the Padres' minor leaguers stack up at each position grouping:
Padres general manager Josh Byrnes isn't dishing out hyperbole when he says the organization's depth in starting pitching is now a strength. The projected ace (Andrew Cashner) is just 27 years old, the next up-and-comer (Tyson Ross) might have just as much upside, Ian Kennedy is just three seasons removed from a 21-win season and more talent is on the way. Some of that talent is coming off the disabled list (Cory Luebke and Joe Wieland, cross your fingers) and some is about to burst onto the scene.
- Opening Day Age: 21
- How acquired: Seventh round (233), 2011
- 2013 teams: High-A Lake Elsinore, AA San Antonio
- Key stats: 10-6, 2.78 ERA, 131 K, 33 BB, 136 IP, 1.03 WHIP, .217 avg. against
- Lowdown: With a fastball that reaches the upper 90s, a big curveball and a deceptive changeup, the 6-foot-3 Wisler took the biggest step forward among all of the Padres' pitching prospects. He needed just six starts to get out of the California League, dominated the Texas League and is ticketed to start the 2014 season in Triple-A – if the Padres don't find room for him in their rotation to start the year. The Padres' brass doesn't believe that's unthinkable either. Although the Padres could trade some pitching prospects for help around the diamond, Wisler might have entered untouchable territory with his breakout 2013 campaign.
- Opening Day Age: 20
- How acquired: First round (7th), 2012
- 2013 teams: Low-A Fort Wayne
- Key stats: 6-7, 3.49 ERA, 100 K, 56 BB, 118.2 IP, 1.37 WHIP, .249 avg. against
- Lowdown: Although the 6-foot-4 Fried didn't match Matt Wisler's success in his first full year of pro ball, some in the organization would still slot Fried ahead of him based on projection alone. The left-hander pitches at 90-91 mph and shows both a plus curve and a plus changeup. His only real downfall so far has been a tendency to nibble over trusting his stuff. Look for him in Lake Elsinore next April.
- Opening Day Age: 23
- How acquired: 14th round (443), 2011
- 2013 teams: AA San Antonio, AAA Tucson, Padres
- Minor stats: 6-3, 2.63 ERA, 102 K, 23 BB, 92.1 IP, 1.04 WHIP, .216 avg. against
- MLB stats: 1-3, 6.44 ERA, 46 K, 21 BB, 36.1 IP, 1.65 WHIP, .269 avg. against
- Lowdown: Stellar in the minors, Smith ran hot and cold during his brief time with the Padres. A high-90s fastball helped him average 11.4 strikeouts per nine innings, but he pitched six innings or more just twice in seven starts, largely because he battled his command. He'll be in the mix for a rotation spot next spring.
- Opening Day Age: 23
- How acquired: Fourth round (114), 2009
- 2013 teams: AA San Antonio, AAA Tucson
- Key stats: 12-7, 3.57 ERA, 135 K, 62 BB, 141.1 IP, 1.27 WHIP, .229 avg. against
- Lowdown: Despite posting a 7.11 ERA in nine starts in the Pacific Coast League after dominating Double-A San Antonio, the Padres are believers in Sampson. He'll be protected on the 40-man roster this offseason and could eventually move his 95-mph fastball/changeup combo to the bullpen, where he pitched in the Arizona Fall League.
- Opening Day Age: 20
- How acquired: First round (25), 2011
- 2013 teams: Low-A Fort Wayne
- Key stats: 5-8, 3.75 ERA, 79 K, 40 BB, 122.1 IP, 1.34 WHIP, .267 avg. against
- Lowdown: Tyson Ross' little brother stands at 6-foot-3 and 185 pounds and boasts both a mid-90s fastball, a power breaking ball and changeup – all of which could be above average.


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Finding My Village
"Are you crazy?" asked my father. "After all we sacrificed to put you through college, you're going to Africa to work for nothing?"
It was 1965 and I had just told my family that I was quitting my job as a social studies teacher in New Orleans to become a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Somali Republic. I assured my father that my college loan would be deferred and now he could get that new truck for his electrical business. When I completed two years, the Peace Corps would give me a readjustment allowance to pave my way into graduate school and jobs.
My mother worried about my health and safety, and I assured my mother that the Peace Corps was not sending Volunteers where it wasn't safe. My assurances didn't soothe my Catholic grandmother. She feared for my salvation in a far-off Muslim country. "Will you promise me you will go to Mass every Sunday?"
"Yes," I lied, sinning to relieve her anxiety.
I probably wouldn't have persisted if I hadn't seen how much my cousin, Ron Ferrier, had gained from serving two years in Ethiopia. He had become one of "Kennedy's kids" in 1962, before the year-old Peace Corps had proved it could accomplish its three-part mission: providing trained Americans to help developing countries, promoting a better understanding of Americans in those countries, and giving Americans a better understanding of other people.
Besides, at twenty-five, I was restless. I longed to see the people and places I had read about in mission magazines as a child. I was in turmoil over the civil rights movement's conflicting methods, which ranged from the Rev. Martin Luther King's advocacy of non-violence to the Black Panthers' urban activism. I wanted distance to gain perspective.
And I did. My two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer helped me find my focus and led me to an exciting, satisfying career as a Foreign Service officer, an ambassador, and—completing the circle—the Deputy Director of the Peace Corps.
Nowadays when I urge African Americans to contribute two years of their energy and abilities, I tell them from first-hand knowledge that they will receive more than they give. Hundreds of the 148,000 Americans who have joined the Peace Corps since 1961 have told me this. They say it no matter where they served, or whether they volunteered in the idealistic 1960s, the cynical 1970s, the materialistic 1980s, or the rejuvenated 1990s.
My own life illustrates the point. My two-year assignment was to teach English and social studies at a boys' school in Erygavo, a village in northern Somalia. The British had built the school during their seventy-five-year colonial rule, and English was the language of instruction.
Soon after I arrived, a Somali asked me why I had come. "I am an African American and I came to find my village," I told him, proud of my profundity.
He laughed. "You're a fool. You have come all this way to find a village that doesn't exist. After 300 years, you are a different people than we are. There's a village for you some place. Find that place of peace in your heart and soul. There you will find your village."
I was devastated. I knew he was right. I had to turn within to find my village. His insight accelerated my search.
Teaching with few materials and living with no conveniences left little time for introspection. I shared half of a metal-roofed cement duplex with two other Volunteers, John Schecter from Wisconsin and Rozier Martin from Maine. They taught science and math, and the three of us ran the school. We had little in common except that we had all attended Catholic schools, but we became close friends.
They helped me ease my grandmother's fears. When we made the two-day trek to the nearest town, we found a priest but no Catholic church. He posed with me by a mosque that, at the right camera angle, looked like a church. I mailed the photos to my grandmother. Later, on leave in Kenya, I posed for photos with a man in dark robes in front of an Indian temple.
I knew those photos would comfort her more than hearing that the Somalis were ascetic, devout Sufi Muslims whose spirituality I admired.
Their diet of camel's milk, goat meat and rice, however, soon sent me to the cookbook in the bootlocker provided for each Volunteer household. I learned to cook goat meatloaf and lasagna outdoors on our charcoal brazier.
We missed vegetables. Forewarned by my cousin, I had brought a trunk stuffed with things I might need, including garden seeds. The Peace Corps tradition demands that you do more than your job, so growing vegetables became a special project. All went well until we left home for a few days. We returned to find goats had destroyed our sprouts. We suspected sabotage.
Another special project was stocking a library with books from discarded Peace Corps book lockers. When I went on vacation, the books disappeared. Students claimed ignorance. Still another effort was providing recreation. My trunk held rope for making a volleyball net. We three Volunteers spent many hours figuring out the proper pattern and wove the net. The next time we were gone, the volleyball net vanished. Students said nomads had taken it.
When I completed my two years, I questioned whether I had really helped my students. In fact, until 1991, my Peace Corps experience seemed incomplete because all my special projects had failed. Yet I felt good about having managed a school and having been creative in solving problems. I came back feeling I could do anything.
Two weeks after I arrived in the United States, I was a program officer for VISTA, the domestic version of the Peace Corps. The Director was R. Sargent Shriver, the irrepressibly optimistic brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, who had chosen him to be the first Director of the Peace Corps.
In 1968, I started looking for a job in international development. President Lyndon Johnson urged the State Department to recruit minorities as career Foreign Service officers. Thanks to recommendations from embassy staff I had met in Somalia and from the Peace Corps, I became part of the first minority group to train for the Foreign Service under the President's Executive Order. My first assignment was the U.S. embassy in Paris. I've also served in Hong Kong, Beirut, Cape Town, Djibouti, and Washington, D.C. My assignments included a year at Syracuse University, where I earned a Master's degree, and a year in the Foreign Service Senior Seminar.
As Consul General in Cape Town from 1988 to 1991, I witnessed the end of apartheid in South Africa and the beginning of its constitutional process. I met the newly-released Nelson Mandela and many other remarkable people. I also saw the great contrasts between the cities and the countryside. I would not have hesitated, for example, to have open-heart surgery in Cape Town, but in rural areas I feared a cut.
Just when I thought my career couldn't be more fulfilling, President George Bush appointed me ambassador to Djibouti, a tiny former French colony in East Africa just northwest of my Peace Corps country. I felt I was going home. But this time, tribal warfare, drought, and famine plagued the area.
Word that a returned Peace Corps Volunteer had come back as ambassador spread quickly. Northern Somalis lined up outside my office, expecting "their" ambassador to perform miracles. The elders invited me back to Erygavo to assist with a peace and reconciliation conference of five tribes. The participants included some of my former students.
"We knew you of all people would be able to bring this reconciliation effort off," one said, and then he told me how he and other students had destroyed my garden, my library, and my volleyball net to see my reaction and what else I would pull from my trunk. I realized that even though my projects had not been successful, my work had left a lasting impression on my students. They realized as students that I had been there to help. They understood as adults that my efforts had brought them some measure of hope. At last, I thought, I had been a successful Volunteer after all.
But my connection to the Peace Corps would continue even after my time as ambassador to Djibouti. After he was elected in 1993, President Clinton nominated me to become Deputy Director of the Peace Corps. I hadn't sought the appointment, but I accepted immediately and with great enthusiasm. Since January 1994, in addition to representing the Peace Corps publicly, I spend much of my time recruiting the next generation of Volunteers from America's minority communities. I believe that the Peace Corps can fulfill its mission completely only if our Volunteers reflect the rich diversity of our nation. Today, about thirteen percent of Peace Corps Volunteers are minorities, and we hope to encourage more African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native American and members of other minority communities to become a part of the Peace Corps experience.
I have also been fortunate to help establish the first Peace Corps project in South Africa. I led an assessment team that worked with eleven South African ministries and the president's office to create a program that would help meet the country's development needs. In February 1997, the first group of thirty-two Volunteers, ranging in age from twenty-two to sixty, arrived to begin training to address one of South Africa's greatest needs: primary education. Some rural schools don't own one book, and their pupils bring chairs from home or sit on the floor.
The Volunteers—sixty percent of whom are African, Asian, or Hispanic Americans—are working with teachers to develop teaching materials. After school, they help their communities build their capacity to provide such critical elements as clean water and basic health care. Combining education and community development is tough, and we chose those first Volunteers carefully.
One is Norma Harley, aged sixty, who had just returned from teaching as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nepal. She rejected her daughter's suggestion of settling down in Sacramento and baby-sitting her grandchild. Norma told a reporter, "I've been optimistic in a lot of things that have happened in our country, coming through Martin Luther King's era and Malcolm X, and then let down in so many ways. And I really hope, in South Africa that they don't have to go through the disappointments."
Another is C.D. Glin, aged twenty-five, who put a Foreign Service opportunity on hold in order to become a Peace Corps Volunteer. He wrote anti-apartheid rap songs as a youngster and shook President Mandela's hand while attending Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was a leader of groups such as Concerned Black Men, a mentoring organization. He also tutored immigrants in English.
South Africa is a country that is rich in both natural and human resources. As always, the Peace Corps strives to work itself out of a job, which it has done now in more than thirty countries. If all goes well, the country will require Peace Corps assistance for no more than ten years. Another program I am especially interested in is Haiti. My father's family came from Haiti to Louisiana in 1809, and my mother's family just before 1900. Haiti was the slave ships' last stop before the United States, and the place and people have the look of Africa. They are warm, hospitable, and hard working, and many of them are incredibly poor.
The Peace Corps program in Haiti was suspended in 1991 because of a military coup. But in 1996—after U.S. forces had helped restore democracy—Peace Corps Volunteers returned. In December, I went to Haiti to swear in a new group of Volunteers and visit the first group. Most are working with farm cooperatives to improve mango, avocado and papaya trees so that Haitians can raise commercially acceptable varieties to market abroad. Like modern Johnny Appleseeds, the Volunteers are grafting imported varieties onto the disease-resistant local trees. For example, Haitian-born Solange Lee, aged fifty-eight, holds a Master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from Hunter College and was the supervisor of a shelter for the homeless in Brooklyn. Christine Steinmann, a veterinarian in Arizona, had worked in Kenya. She is developing an animal husbandry program.
In each of these Volunteers and hundreds of others whom I have visited around the world since my return to the Peace Corps, I see the same sense of adventure, interest in other cultures and desire to do something meaningful that I felt when I served as Volunteer in the 1960s. This is the great genius of the Peace Corps—Americans serving our country by making a difference in the lives of other people. And just as I did when I found my village in Somalia, the men and women who are serving in the Peace Corps are laying the foundations for their future lives by finding their own inner villages now.
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About the Show
Jamie Oliver shows how you don't need a massive budget to make great, delicious food
Thrift Curry and Posh Beans on Toast
Jamie makes a thrifty curry with chicken drumsticks and frugal but posh beans on toast.
Amazing Paella and Cajun Fishcakes
Jamie Oliver makes a frugal but amazing paella with chicken thighs, spicy chorizo and prawns from the freezer. There's also crisp Cajun fishcakes with a classic chopped salad.
Piri Piri Pork Belly and Celeriac Roast
Jamie Oliver cooks piri piri pork belly with crispy crackling. There's also a meat-free roast using celeriac, creamy mushroom sauce and cheap-as-chips pearl barley.
Cheese and Beans and Lamb Biryani
Jamie Oliver offers a clever spin on the much-loved cheese and beans combo with Jamie's spicy, smoky BBQ baked beans with sweet potatoes
Aubergine Dahl and Beef Noodle Soup
Jamie shows how having a couple of meat-free meals each week is an easy way to slash costs in the kitchen with his show-stopping aubergine dahl, with Indian rice and homemade chapatis
Jamie's Fried Chicken: Extra Portions
Jamie Oliver makes Jamie's Fried Chicken, or JFC - a hearty chicken-in-a-bucket feast. He also cooks up a frugal noodle dish and a sweet and spicy beef tagine.
Spiced Sausage Bake and Chicken Chowder: Extra Portions
Jamie Oliver creates a gorgeous spiced sausage bake, complete with his own mouth-watering twist on garlic bread and makes a delicious chicken chowder for just 82p per portion
Luxurious Chilli con Carne: Extra Portions
Jamie Oliver turns a thrifty cut of beef into a luxurious chille con carne feast
Fish Tikka Curry: Extra Portions
Jamie Oliver proves that frozen fish can be just as good as fresh with his stunning fish tikka curry. He also makes Mexican pork tacos and uses roast chicken scraps in an elegant 'Frenchie' salad.
Meatballs and Chicken Wrap: Extra Portions
Jamie makes Sicilian-inspired meatballs and tomato 'Norma' sauce, quick chicken wrap and a silky carbonara of mackerel
Thrifty Chicken Curry and Snake in the Hole
Jamie Oliver makes a thrifty chicken curry with drumsticks and a Mexican omelette, a giant veg rosti with poached eggs and Jamie's snake in the hole
Spiced Sausage Bake, Salmon and JFC
Jamie serves his spin on a fast food favourite with Jamie's Fried Chicken (JFC). He also makes spiced sausage bake, garlic bread, a meat-free roast, and two very different recipes for leftover salmon.
Fish Tikka Curry, Chicken Wrap and Tagine
Jamie Oliver makes fish tikka curry, spicy cheese and beans, quick chicken wrap, hoi sin chicken tortilla and a sweet and spicy Moroccan-inspired tagine.
Mexican Chilli, Chapatis and Mackerel Carbonara
Jamie cooks a Mexican chilli featuring shin of beef, reveals the secrets of his homemade chapatis, shares ideas for using up leftover roast chicken, and cooks a frugal twist on a favourite pasta dish
Paella, Tacos and Meatballs
Jamie rustles up a paella with prawns from the freezer. He also makes crispy Mexican tacos from pork leftovers, Sicilian meatballs, and posh but cheap beans on toast with broad beans.
Piri Piri Pork Belly and Hangover Noodles
Jamie makes a piri piri pork belly with crispy crackling. There's also frugal hangover noodles, a scrumptious lamb biryani and a healthy, punchy, crunchy noodle salad.
Ham - Extra Portions
Jamie cooks up a pot roasted ham hock with parsley sauce and at the same time uses his oven to roast a butternut squash, which he then turns into a rotolo with spinach
Lamb - Extra Portions
Jamie cooks a shoulder of lamb with all the trimmings, and then turns the leftovers into Moroccan-style crispy pastillas
Roast Chicken - Extra Portions
Jamie cooks a lovely roast chicken with all the trimmings and turns his leftover meat into a chicken stew with dumplings. He also knocks up a cauliflower and broccoli cheese using frozen veg.
Salmon: Extra Portions
Jamie cooks up a roast side of salmon with all the trimmings and then turns his leftovers into a filo pie. He also knocks up some chicken wings 'Gangnam style'.
Roast Pork: Extra Portions
Jamie cooks up a roasted half shoulder of pork with all the trimmings and then turns the leftover meat into little dim sum buns. He also shows a takeaway lover how to make a veggie korma.
Beef: Extra Portions
Jamie cooks up a glorious roast brisket of beef, with all the trimmings and then turns his leftovers into an incredible Korean stir-fried rice
Roast Ham Hocks
Jamie cooks up glorious pot roasted ham hocks with parsley sauce, and uses his oven at the same time to roast a butternut squash which he turns into a stunning squash and spinach rotolo
Roast Lamb
Jamie roasts a shoulder of lamb and turns the leftovers into Moroccan-style pastillas. He also uses up old veg and makes a panzanella salad out of bread past its best.
Roast Chicken
Jamie cooks a 'mothership' roast chicken with all the trimmings and turns the leftovers into chicken stew with dumplings. And he helps a food waster use the fruit she normally chucks away.
Jamie cooks up a roast side of salmon with all the trimmings, and then turns his leftover fish into an incredible salmon filo pie. Plus he knocks up some chicken wings, gangnam-style.
Roast Shoulder of Pork
Jamie roasts half a shoulder of pork, with all the trimmings, and turns the leftovers into dim sum buns and meatloaf with spaghetti, with a great tomato and chilli sauce
Brisket of Beef
In the first episode, he makes a brisket of beef and stir fry rice - all for under £1.80 per portion


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JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. - Jacksonville Mayor Elect Charlie Latham won by a narrow margin of only 63 votes, and Monday, he will be officially sworn in at a Jacksonville Beach City Council meeting.
The close race triggered a recount and some anxious moments between Latham and competitor Penny Christian.
Channel 4 spoke with Latham about the tight race and the new mayor's plan for Jacksonville Beach.
Latham said he was the underdog going into the election, but the underdog turned winner, has big plans for the city of Jacksonville Beach.
"My goals are to work arm and arm with the cities of Atlantic Beach and Neptune Beach to strengthen our economy, our local economy," Latham said. "To help businesses prosper. To keep crime and vagrancy down and create a better environment for our visitors and for our residents."
Latham said his campaign worked tirelessly to reach out to voters until the day of the election, admitting the recount process was very stressful.
Some more of the new mayor's goals are to make his beach city as family-friendly as possible.
He also said the crime rate in Jacksonville Beach has recently increased, so he wants to work closely with the Jacksonville Beach Police Department to get the crime rate back down.
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Published Jan. 18, 2013
South Carolina's unemployment rate ticked slightly upward in December, reaching 8.4% compared with 8.3% for the previous month, the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce reported today.
The decline reflected seasonal trends in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, and government sectors, according to the agency's executive director Abraham J. Turner.
"Nonetheless, I am encouraged as the state's overall job growth trend throughout 2012 was at a pace similar to historical levels before the recent recession," Turner said. "This is welcomed news as we move forward in 2013, when DEW will continue partnering closely with businesses and jobseekers to put South Carolinians back to work."
The jobless rate in December 2011 was 9.6%, the agency reported.
South Carolina's nonagricultural employment fell by 5,800 jobs in December reaching 1,874,300. This was the first decline since July.
Over the month, the number of employed improved by 5,325 to 1,969,560, the agency said. The number of unemployed increased in December by 3,211 to 180,032. Meanwhile, the labor force expanded by 8,536 to 2,149,592.
Sectors that saw job growth included: trade, transportation and utilities, 2,400; education and health services, 1,100; construction, 700; financial activities, 300; and information, 100.
Leisure and hospitality fell by 5,900 jobs due to a drop in demand for arts, entertainment and recreation, as well as accommodation and food services, the agency said. Other sectors with job losses were government, 2,300; and professional and business services, 1,700.
Around the state, only three counties — Bamberg, Orangeburg and Calhoun — reported drops in the jobless rate, and 24 counties had double-digit unemployment rates.
Marion County's jobless rate of 17.2% was the highest in the state, followed by Allendale, 15.6%, and Marlboro, 15.4%. Lexington County had the lowest rate at 6.6%, followed by Greenville at 6.7% and Charleston, 6.8%.
Among the state's metro areas, Charleston and Greenville each reported a jobless rate of 7.1% in December followed by Columbia, 7.6%, and Florence, 9.5%.
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Mr. Garcia was born Oct. 31, 1917, in Mexico to Francisco and Cecilia Medina Garcia.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Hortencia Garcia; and daughter, Anita Garcia.
Survivors include her children; Jose (Gracie) Villarreal, Marcelo Garcia, Robert Garcia, Lupe (Ostolia) Garcia, George Garcia and Esther (Fred) Farias, all of Mathis, Juanita (Tom) Cahill of San Antonio, David (Sandra) Garcia of Corpus Christi, Adan Garcia, Luis Garcia, Esequiel (Jackie) Garcia, and Dalia (Mark) Villarreal, all of Mathis.
Visitation was held Tuesday, July 1, at 5 p.m. at Primera Iglesia Bautista in Mathis with a prayer service at 7 o'clock.
The funeral service was conducted Wednesday, July 2, at 2 p.m. with Pastor Moses Gonzalez officiating. Burial followed at Descanso Eterno #2 in Mathis.
Pallbearers were Steve Villarreal, Angel Garcia, Tim Farias, Andrew Cahill, Joshua Garcia and James Garcia.
Honorary pallbearers were Marcelo Garcia Jr., Freddrick Farias, Lupe Garcia Jr., Adrian Garcia and John Garcia.
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OK, now Im sorry for beating this horse again but...
Had a talk w/ former football player/alumni/donor who usually been spot on (i think he knows someone?) and there are rumbling that CPR could be a candidate for Penn St job and that he is now in the national spotlight?
Regardless of who wants him (we want him the MOST!!), hypothetically what will it take to retain CPR since he is having success and starting to build a name!
Will 2-3 million keep him? Will we be able to donate/ make up the difference with the new TV deal?
Or is he truly HOME and will stay for a couple of mill and the satisfaction of building his team to be a powerhouse?
I know college football is a fickle thing but man Im stress'in over this just as things are going good.
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How about a 6-8 yr. extension?
If and when it comes to an issue of money and how successful CPR actually becomes, you have to believe that JP is going to do everything he can to keep Rhoads. I believe the CPR wants to stay here, I really think he loves being here, and it would kill him to leave this school, these fans, and his players.
No way. I really think CPR is here for the long run. He'd be a backstabber if he left.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
I believe PR has more character than to ditch ISU after year two, regardless of who is calling and the price tag. I want to make money as much as the next guy, but sometimes, you find a place to work that has more value than just the dollars you bring in.
ISU Grad 1997.
ISU Fan for Life.
Not in CO anymore but I'm not changing my name :)
how many years are left in his contract? there has been statements about he will work out his contract.
How much money does one really need? I hope he wants to stay for more than just money. Don't get me wrong I agree his pay should go up when goals are met but our budget is not the most sexy thing to look at either.
Sorry but I don't believe CPR would be a serious candidate at Penn State. And if he was and somehow got the offer...he would be crazy not to accept it! Don't mean to rain on the parade guys...but it is the truth!
I think Rhoads is satisfied with trying to build up the ISU football program. I also believe that Penn State might have a hard time in finding someone to replace Paterno. How do you replace a legend that is the face of the program for forty years? Besides Rhoads has hardly any pressure here at Iowa State. If he was to leave, people at the new program would be thinking he should be able to do more with better resources and win sooner rather than later.
I love what your saying and agree with most of it except the extension bit.. extension are meant as payouts to be bought off by more money. Another angle is (and not to insult CPR or Gil Turner) but some success and then switch schools and fall flat.
I also get the feeling he wants to stay but money is money and with all the coach talk that everyone speaks I dont know what is true anymore.
What does anyone think in figures or what could IA State support?
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I believe PR has more character than to ditch ISU after year two, regardless of who is calling and the price tag. I want to make money as much as the next guy, but sometimes, you find a place to work that has more value than just the dollars you bring in.
Ive also taken this route in life.
I don't think CPR would leave this soon for a couple reasons:
1. His parents are here. Most people know that is mother is sick and he has a very tight bond with his Dad.
2. He knows that if he left, it would completely devastate the program and school. I don't know him, but he does not seem like that type of guy.
Now, we can't expect to hold on to him forever because of that and we all need to do whatever we can (financially) to make sure he stays around. I think he would take less to stay here, but he would be foolish to not flirt around when his stock is high.
If you really want to keep a coach, you pay him as much as you can and then you support him in any way possible. After that, it's up to his own free will. JP will not let him go for lack of trying.
When CPR says he's leaving, I'll worry about it. Until then, CPR, like me, is a Cyclone.
If CPR left ISU....
I really would have to seriously reconsider my faith in humanity... I mean that would be just... WOW.... no words would be able to describe my anger. I would more than likely be the guy leading the riots on welch hours after the news
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