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Review of the 2009-2013 Rwanda Country Assistance Strategy Completion Report (CASCR) and the CAS Progress Report (CASPR)
This review examines the implementation of the FY2009-FY2013 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), and the CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of FY2011. The CAS was jointly implemented by IDA, IFC and MIGA, and this review covers the joint program of the three institutions. The original CAS period was... Full Description »
This review examines the implementation of the FY2009-FY2013 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS), and the CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of FY2011. The CAS was jointly implemented by IDA, IFC and MIGA, and this review covers the joint program of the three institutions. The original CAS period was extended to FY2009 to align with the one-year extension of government's Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS). The CAS sought primarily to contribute to the EDPRS objective of significantly raising growth and creating jobs. A secondary objective was to consolidate specific elements of Rwanda's recent social progress by tackling selected aspects of social vulnerability. To this end the CAS was framed around two strategic themes and five CAS objectives. Strategic Theme 1 aimed to support sustained growth by focusing on four key objectives, (i) agricultural production sustainably raised; (ii) improved access to and quality of key infrastructure services; (iii) improved environment for sound private sector development; and (iv) capacity to manage public resources strengthened at central and local levels. Strategic Theme 2 aimed (i) to attain child and maternal mortality goals; and (ii) to promote peace and social cohesion through demobilization and reintegration. IEG rates the overall outcome of WBG support as Satisfactory. Under Pillar 1, production of food crops increased, including an increase in the production of rice in targeted areas by 113 percent. Access to and quality of key infrastructure services improved, including for paved roads and electric power. The environment for private sector development improved, including in the financial sector. The primary school pupil to qualified teacher ratio was reduced, and the transition from basic education to upper secondary education was raised. The capacity to manage public resources at the central and local levels was also strengthened. Under Pillar 2, significant health and social risks to vulnerable groups and to social cohesion in Rwanda were mitigated, including with increases in assisted births in accredited health facilities, and reinsertion and/or reintegration support for former armed group members. The review agrees with the findings, conclusions, and lessons provided in the CASCR, including (i) a highly selective program helped to focus the design of the CAS in key strategic areas where the WBG would add value; (ii) use of general budget support was effective in a number of ways but is vulnerable to donor sentiments; (iii) the importance of capacity building for program design and implementation; (iv) a number of products were delivered as one WBG, and this helped create synergy within the institution and yielded benefits for the client; (v) much of project implementation support was decentralized and this could ensure a constant implementation pace; (vi) the CAS had a results framework focusing on key indicators; and (vii) stakeholder engagement is essential to enhance results and outcomes. In addition, this review would emphasize that (i) overall, Rwanda's development experience during this and the previous CAS periods, has been impressive, including rapid economic growth, improving social indicators, and declining economic inequality. IDA has made positive and constructive contributions to this substantial progress; (ii) high aid dependence as for Rwanda can represent a risk for a country's development program, and, thus, also for the success of the related Bank programs; (iii) even strong improvements in investment climate indicators may not lead to early results in terms of an investment response; and (iv) Bank program selectivity is easier when the country has clear ideas of the areas in which it wants the Bank to concentrate its support.
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May 21, 2014
Rwanda: Country Assistance Evaluation
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) examines IDA assistance to Rwanda between 1989 and 2001. The CAE is a countrywide evaluation that concentrates on the relevance, efficiency, efficacy, sustainability, and institutional development impact of the Bank's program of assistance, and includes... Full Description »
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) examines IDA assistance to Rwanda between 1989 and 2001. The CAE is a countrywide evaluation that concentrates on the relevance, efficiency, efficacy, sustainability, and institutional development impact of the Bank's program of assistance, and includes an assessment of the outcomes of IDA's assistance strategies. It is similar to project evaluations which review the relevance of the project objectives, the degree to which they were achieved (efficacy), and the cost effectiveness of the resources used (efficiency), but takes the country as the unit of account.
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Fired co-worker wont leave me alone, WWYD?
Stop taking her calls?
"I choose to laugh but that's to hide my pain and incredulity." - Ms. Miyagi
tell her you would love to help her but if she keeps acting so unprofessional you will not write any more lettters of recommendation for her. if that doesnt work screen her calls.
I'm bad with confrontation so I might think about just not taking her calls but ultimately I would feel a little immature doing that. I would probably send her an email and say something like "I'm really sorry that things are difficult for you right now and I feel for you. However, I am not the person for you to turn to for support anymore. I am happy to provide you with work references or letters of recommendation, but beyond that I really cannot be your support system. I'm sorry. Good luck to you."
Personally, I don't think I'd feel comfortable writing a letter of recommendation for an employee who was fired for performing poorly.
You could steer her toward some employment agencies that offer temp assignments. Sometimes those lead to full time work.
It is the debate team after all, not the pat you on the head team.~bobbylite doitright
Wanna chat it up with DT members? There's a group for that!
Just become unavailable. You are not obligated to answer her calls or texts. You've already gone above and beyond.
Nothing in this world is owed to you, you must go out and seek your own opportunities.
You wrote her a letter of recommendation? So now you are doing to her next employer what her previous employers did to you. Nice.
I agree with Junquegirl, quit taking her calls.
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
There's a shrimp sale at the crab crib.
Sometimes I think Dana isn't listening to me.
I also wouldn't feel comfortable recommendng someone who got fired but the OP already said she did that so I thought that might soften the blow of telling her the "relationship" is over. I might write a recommendation for someone based only on their positive traits. Other employers would read between the lines anyway if it didn't say anything else.

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Investigators say the children, who weren't enrolled in school, had dog feces "caked" to the bottom of their bare feet.
Investigators say the children, who weren't enrolled in school, had dog feces "caked" to the bottom of their bare feet.
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Juniors struggle to score any runs
The Gothenburg Juniors faced tough pitching in their 19-1 loss against Cozad last week.
The Melons were coming off a tough loss to Lexington June 9 and the struggles at the plate continued.
A one run first inning looked positive defensively for the Melons before they surrendered 12 runs in the second inning.
Three Gothenburg pitchers gave up five more runs in the third inning.
Offensively the Juniors continued to struggle as they were no-hit for the second straight game. Gothenburg's only run came after Skyler Schwanz and Dominic Long earned back to back walks.
A double steal put Melon runners in scoring position, before Schwanz stole home to score the only run of the game for Gothenburg.
Riley Ostendorf started on the mound for the Melons, Braeden Brundage and Long threw in relief.
The Gothenburg Juniors will take a break until Wednesday, June 26, when they travel to Overton.
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Complaint Review: Strax
Strax4300 N University Dr Ste A202 Sunrise, Florida United States of America
Strax Dr.Jeffery Hamm Strax sounds like a good deal for cosmetic surgery? But they forgot to connect my vessels leaving me to almost bleed to death Sunrise , Florida
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just a medical mishap NOT a procedure that was NOT done right They need to pay the costs and pay for the suffering they do. Imagine they forgot to seal me??
Let my blood roll out of me> I am lucky to be alive And I lost time wages money and health. So now I cannot pay over 100 thousand dollars to the hospital and doctors that saved my life I am now losing my home due to the loss of work for 4 months. They should pay they did the job wrong.This cost taxpayers also for hospital bills not only me but LOTS of others.
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Chastity, Virginity, and Redemption
Redemption applies to the birds and bees too. For the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm John Stonestreet with The Point.
Blogger Sarah Bessey recently recalled a church event she attended as a teen who had had premarital sex. As the pastor made his case about the damage pre-marital sex can do, Sarah heard one message: your value is tied to your virginity. "If true love waits, I heard, then I have been disqualified for true love," she wrote.
Churches and parents need to emphasize the importance of waiting for marriage to have sex. Not as an arbitrary rule, but because we are sexual beings, designed by God for monogamy. Chastity protects both men and women, and it helps society at large.
But while doing this we should never give the impression to those who have made mistakes that love and forgiveness is now out of reach. While chastity is crucially important, Christ's death and resurrection are big enough to cover sexual sins, which in our culture are many. Christ can and does make whole the sexually, and otherwise, broken.
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My R Shoulder Button is Not responding! How sucky is that>>!!??!?!?? Sorry for the "inappropriate" language guys...i'm just mad that Nintendo places cheap buttons on an expensive handheld system...I still love ya, Nintendo! <3
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Umm, posted that by accident...REPLIES!Posted: May 10, 2010 12:00AM PST by addictconsole
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Your iPod, on shuffle mode and hooked up to speakers, plays a particularly embarrassing song.
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iPod owner, "My faux pod."
"Wow, I didn't know anybody actually had 'The Christmas Shoes' on their player."
iPod owner, "My faux pod."
"Wow, I didn't know anybody actually had 'The Christmas Shoes' on their player."
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Any of a number of MP3 players that are not an I-pod, and thusly of lower quality/less socially acceptable.
synonym: I-wish
synonym: I-wish
Nice faux-pod, bro...
লিখেছেন- Anon 16 de এপ্রিল de 2005
An MP3 player, which looks like the Apple Brand iPOD, that is of similar size and description of an iPOD.
Pronounced: fo-pod or pho-pod
Pronounced: fo-pod or pho-pod
"Your fauxpod is really cool."
"Hey, check out my new fauxpod!"
"Hey, check out my new fauxpod!"
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mp3 player other than an iPod
1) I have to get new batteries for my fauxPod - I can't live without my Jamiroquai!
2) Derek was too cheap to get the iPod, so he opted for a fauxPod
2) Derek was too cheap to get the iPod, so he opted for a fauxPod
লিখেছেন- DJ Oneiromancer 5 de অগাস্ট de 2008
A cheap knockoff MP3 player
My boyfriend is too cheap to get me an ipod so he got me this faux pod instead. It holds 13 songs.
লিখেছেন- Champ J. 28 de অক্টোবার de 2008
A personal MP3 player (usually cheaper)that is not an Apple brand Ipod.
I bought this Faux-pod, because the Ipod Touch was too expensive.
লিখেছেন- G-lish 24 de ফেব্রুয়ারি de 2008
Any MP3 player other than an Apple IPod.
I got a 20GB FauxPod at..(insert favorite Electronics Store) for $19.99.
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I received an unsolicited email , stating how great My Job Hunter.com is, that they make it easy for you to search for Jobs. They automatically search all the Job sites and post your resumes everyday to multi various Job sites for Jobs that meet your search criteria.
I thought it is good service, so I decided to give it a try.
I paid $39.95 on my credit card, and it says , they will charge 9.95 every month until I decide to stop.
Once I got into the website, I realized it was a scam, the only Jobs listed are from Craigslist, and I in-puted into my search criteria , that I only wanted to see Jobs that had to do with sales and consumer electronics . It did not do that, it started to spit out all kinds of Jobs that did not meet my criteria.
I wrote to the customer service asking for refund, I have not heard back from them.
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The Meridian Community College Eagles opened the 2014 Rush Invitational Saturday afternoon at Scaggs Field by notching its first wins of the 2014 season. The Eagles defeated Kaskaskia College (IL) in the opening game of the tournament by a final tally of 3-1 and completed the sweep later in the evening with a 6-3 victory over Jefferson College (MO).
MCC improved to 2-2 overall for the 2014 season with the sweep over the two squads from the Midwest. The other game in the opening day of the Rush Invitational Tournament saw Jefferson College defeat Kaskaskia by a final score of 10-3.
Meridian will complete play in the two-day tournament by playing Jefferson College Sunday morning at 11 and complete the weekend by taking on Kaskaskia later in the day at 5 p.m. Jefferson College and Kaskaskia are also scheduled to play Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m.
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Freshman Goose Yates collected his first collegiate pitching victory and the Eagles collected some timely hits to earn the two-run victory over the Blue Devils in the first game of the Rush Invitational Tournament. Yates worked five innings in the start for MCC and finished the game with eight strikeouts, while freshman Bryant Johnston earned his first collegiate save by working the final two innings in relief.
The Eagles scored the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning to take a quick 2-0 lead over Kaskaskia. Paul Angel led the inning off by reaching a fielding error in the outfield by the Blue Devils and later scored on an RBI single by Scott Votaw to give MCC the 1-0 edge. The Eagles scored its second run of the inning on a throwing error by Kaskaskia that gave the home team a two-run cushion.
MCC scored its final run of the game in the bottom of the fifth to make the score 3-0 in favor of the green and white. Angel reached on a one-out double and later crossed the plate on a two-out double by Votaw to give the Eagles some more breathing room heading into the final two innings. The Blue Devils scored its lone run in the final inning on an RBI single by Cameron Cummins. Kaskaskia had runners at first and second in the final inning with two outs, but Johnston was able to strikeout the final batter to secure the win for Meridian.
MCC finished the game with six total hits and Kaskaskia with three hits in the game. Ben Gann, Grant Hill, and Brooks Balisterri each had one hit in the victory for the Eagles.
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The Eagles completed the sweep in its final game of the day with a three-run decision over the Vikings. MCC used four home runs to score all six of its runs to pace the offense in contest.
MCC jumped out to a 1-0 lead after one inning all due in part to a home run. Sophomore second baseman Ben Gann connected on a towering solo home run to left field to give the Eagles the early lead. Jefferson College bounced back with a pair of runs in the top of the second inning to make the score 2-1. Trent Liemkuehler drove in one run for the Vikings on an RBI single, while the second run came across to score on a wild pitch with the bases loaded.
Jefferson College stretched its lead to 3-1 in the third inning on an RBI double by Nolan Sponsler, but MCC would start to flex its muscles later in the game. Gann would tie the game at 3-3 in the bottom of the third inning with a two-run homer to left to give him his second long shot of the game. MCC would snatch the lead away from the Vikings moments later as catcher Garrett Larosa smashed his first home run of the season to give the Eagles a 4-3 lead.
MCC put the finishing touches on the victory with a two-run home run by freshman Dalton Thomas in the sixth inning that would be more than enough to claim a 6-3 victory over Jefferson College.
Sophomore Kellon Hibbard picked up the pitching win for the Eagles in relief, while freshman Baylor Obert picked up the save.


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BOSTON — Merceano G. "Merc" Canha, 51, of South Dartmouth, passed away peacefully, Thursday, July 10, 2014 at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Merceano was born in Camara de Lobos, Madeira Island, Portugal, coming to this country in 1972 at the age of 9. He was the son of Merceano B. and Maria I. (Goncalves) Canha. Merc was the beloved husband for 29 years of Maria Manuela (Teves) Canha.
Mr. Canha was employed as a senior custodian for the New Bedford Public School System for 27 years. He was proud of his children, and had great passion for life, laughter and music. He selflessly devoted his life to his family and friends and was dearly loved by all. He enjoyed motorcycle rides especially to Horseneck Beach and was passionate about his music. Merceano was a faithful Christian elder of the New Bedford congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Merc volunteered much of his time to assist his family and friends physically, emotionally and spiritually. Merc was a respected and deeply loved man by everyone around him and will be greatly missed.
Survivors include his parents: Merceano B. and Maria I. (Goncalves) Canha; wife: Maria M. (Teves) Canha; 1 daughter: Jessica Amado and her husband Ryan; 1 son: Jason Canha and his wife Dahlia; his siblings: Rita Goncalves and her husband Jose; Joao Canha and his wife Lucy; Helio Canha and his wife Teresa; Agatha Manning; Craig Canha and his wife Alda; Fatima DaCosta and her husband Daniel; sister-in-law Lee Canha Sousa. He was the brother of the late Joseph A. Canha; 16 nieces and nephews, 7 great-nieces and great-nephews as well as many dear friends.
Visiting hours in the funeral home Sunday evening from 4:00-7:00. A memorial will be conducted Monday morning at Kingdom Hall, 742 County Street, New Bedford, at 9:30. Flowers are accepted or donations may be made in Merceano's memory to help advance the research of his rare condition. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Aubertine-Lopes Funeral Home, 129 Allen Street. Ample lighted parking area with handicap accessible entrance to rear of funeral home. For online guestbook, directions and additional information, please visit www.aubertine-lopes.com.
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The group will perform punk and folk versions of Vosika's original songs, along with covers of music by Richie Havens, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tom Petty and others.
Vosika was winner of the second round of South Stage Cellars' and Britt Festivals' Rising Stars music competition.
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On September 20th 2010 in the morning I paid the money by bank transfer.
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I started as a 12 year old learning to crochet and knit from a little old lady named Aunt Mary. I am a breast cancer survivor/warrior! I love yarn, patterns and keeping my fingers busy with knitting ...
I started as a 12 year old learning to crochet and knit from a little old lady named Aunt Mary. I am a breast cancer survivor/warrior! I love yarn, patterns and keeping my fingers busy with knitting and crocheting as much as possible, As well as keeping a cat cuddled while I knit! I am a 54 year old wife and mother of two cats! Besides finding me here on Craftsy, you can find me on a great forum for knitters at--http://www.knittingparadise.com/ --
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Please remember all sales are final because of the nature of the product--a PDF that you download.
To anyone from the state of MAINE who purchases a pattern from me--please PM me if you buy one of my patterns from CRAFTSY and let me know you are from Maine so that I can pay the sales tax this state requires. I will not be charging you for the sales tax, but will pay it myself. I just need to know for tax record purposes only. Thank you for your help in this and for buying my patterns!
This lovely diamond patterned lace scarf is dedicated to my dear friend Muriel, who is a faithful and loving mom, and grandparent. She is a hardworking lady who always has a smile and friendly conversations!
The scarf features a fancy diamond lace stitch design that runs up the body of the scarf and is bordered with a delicate little lace stitch to frame the center pattern. The scarf is knitted, with fingering weight yarn, in halves beginning with the border, and then worked up to the center where it is joined with the Kitchener Stitch for a balanced look. There are colored charts as well as written directions to work this gracious scarf!
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Paying respect to ALL owners of this land
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (3:05pm)
How sweet - little lessons on how to divide people by race:
VICTORIAN schools are being encouraged to begin assemblies with Welcome to Country ceremonies acknowledging traditional Aboriginal owners of the land.
Wasn't the great gift of humanism the principle that we judge people as individuals, not as members of a race, tribe, clan or even family tree? Which would make all Australians owners of this land, of course.
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Bomb dodged
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (11:27am)
Fascinating CIA video briefing on the Syrian reactor destroyed by Israel last year. Conclusion: the reactor was unsuited to prodcuing power, and seemed configured instead to produce plutonium, used for weapons. North Korea is implicated in the construction of the reaction - and then cleaning up of the site.
(Thanks to reader Steven.)
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It tells us nothing but that evil exists
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (9:58am)
I've resisted commenting on the case of the Austrian man who locked his daughter in his cellar for 24 years and had seven children with her. It's too horrific - fathomlessly horrific.
Others have tried to fit this evil into some picture - to rationalise it and thus somehow make it less hopelessly frightening. Apha Mummy, for instance, asks:
What does the scandal in Austria tell us?
And she points to some of the more popular attempts to make this a story about Austria, for instance, or incurious neighbors. But it seems to me such horror as this is embedded deep in the individual rather than the community, and could have happened anywhere. Belgium has had its Marc Dutroux, for instance. It's just evil - beyond rationalisation, beyond explanation, beyond any comfort or reassurance.
This evil thing happened, and there is little more to say.
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China declares war on Vegemite
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (6:38am)
Bigger than Tibet:
FORGET about Tibet and human rights - 2008 may become known as the year of the Vegemite riots following China's ban on Australia taking its own food to the Olympics.
In another example of the iron-clad control Beijing is trying to exert on foreigners, Games organisers have told Australia it must source all food from within China. It is understood the Chinese have introduced the ban to maximise revenue for local food producers…
Our team is planning a second shipment closer to the August Games, which includes Vegemite.
It seems, then, that Vegemite is the only Western product that Chinese manufacturers refuse to copy.
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It's not yet illegal to be Liberal
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (6:22am)
From the start, I condemned the several Liberals who handed out fake leaflets purporting to be a radical Islamic group praising Labor. Foul stuff. But magistrate Pat O'Shane has no business preaching this kind of hiss-boo damn-Howard politics from the bench, or demanding a Liberal go with the new political flow:
Ms O'Shane said the material arose in a political climate of divisiveness and disharmony "which had been generated for a number of years".
"It is now recognised that it was an ugly chapter in this country's history.
"But this country has moved on, we are trying to rebuild an inclusive civil society and you need to be part of it," she told Craig.
Who is "we", kimo sabe? And speaking of disharmony…
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Farrelly freaks
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (6:06am)
Elizabeth Farrelly, the Sydney Morning Herald's chief green, has a bad case of apocalyptis:
The dilemma is clear. It's this. Our future wealth, so gleefully proclaimed, depends on selling fossil fuels - oil, gas, coal - to as many people as possible as hard and as long as possible. But our future survival depends on reducing global use of these same fuels, as much as possible, immediately… Burning coal is burning coal; it puts carbon in the air, and that may stop the Gulf Stream, dead, within the decade.
It's fascinating to see how unhinged from facts is Farrelly's gleeful embrace of the doom to come. That dead Gulf Stream scenario, for a start, is something Farrelly seems to have picked up from a movie, The Day After Tomorrow, but not from the scientists:
No climate models project a complete shutdown of the Gulf Stream, which feeds warm water up the east coast of North America and across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe.
"It's one of the good news things in the climate story," said Andrew Weaver, a Canadian researcher and lead author of a chapter dealing with ocean currents in the IPCC report. "To be perfectly honest, it's difficult to fathom a mechanism that could cause its collapse."
(Scientist Bogi) Hansen said his latest measurements on the underwater Greenland-Scotland ridge show no weakening in the North Atlantic Drift, the crucial northward branch of the Gulf Stream.
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Column - All hail our superwoman
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (5:47am)
I KNOW exactly when Queen Elizabeth mysteriously became our new head of state. It was when she left her four-day-old baby to give a florid speech at Kevin Rudd's summit, praising artists . . . like herself.
How that crowd of our "best and brightest" cheered. And cheered again when she said she heard her baby cry in the corridor. Such hearing!
In fact, such was her hold on the audience that she looked less like Elizabeth for a moment and more like the magical Galadriel she'd also been, once more entrancing hobbits.
Then she sat with the self-possession she'd shown as Charlotte Grey, another of her heroic incarnations.
What a triumph it all was for the hardly more real character also known as Cate Blanchett, now cast as the country's most admired woman.
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Column - Booze blast a bit rich
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (5:46am)
I WOULD be the first to sign up to fight our booze culture, so I must ask the Health Minister: have you been slurping a few too many alcopops?
I ask because her sneak tax rise of 70 per cent on pre-mixed drinks sounds like the kind of great idea you have the happy night before the morning after.
According to Nicola Roxon, the weekend hike, to raise the price of drinks such as a Vodka Cruiser or Tequila Slamma by at least $1 a bottle, is all about looking after the kids.
These satanically sweet alcopops were luring young girls in particular to binge drink, Roxon declared. Making temptation more expensive might now stop the swill: "We think that this measure will have a health impact. That's why we've introduced it."
And at that, all opposition melts away. Well, if it's for the kids . . .
Except this announcement is a few glugs short of a glass.
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Column - Two standards on rights
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (5:44am)
OUR top human rights body is so savage on Australia that it claims we're guilty of "genocide". But when it comes to China, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission can't grovel enough.
China, it claimed last week, has actually "contributed" to human rights and should not be so criticised by the West and nasty Tibetan protesters. It's doing its best.
You think I exaggerate HREOC's double standards? Then check the astonishing interview HREOC president John von Doussa gave on Chinese state television last week.
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Abbott predicts
Andrew Bolt –, Wednesday, April, 30, 2008, (5:38am)
Tony Abbott says Kevin Rudd has nothing of substance to say:
Establishing a process is not the same as making a decision and someone as success-oriented as Rudd will want to retire in time before the difference becomes obvious. If the Government wins a second term, expect a 2012 handover to Julia Gillard, who will then have to decide which inquiry recommendations to implement.
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The Plumbing and Fuel Gas Board of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission is in search of Consumer Representatives to serve for a three-year-term. The Board is responsible for reviewing and recommending Code requirements for plumbing, fuel gas, site utility installations, fats, oil and grease regulations and industrial discharge requirements.
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Essay, Poster, Video Contest for Students Announced
In conjunction with its annual Human Rights Day Celebration. the Montgomery County Office of Human Rights (OHR) is sponsoring essay, poster and video contests for students -- with the theme "The Faces of Human Rights, Then and Now." Students who attend Montgomery County Public Schools, as well as private and parochial schools in the County, children who are home-schooled and students living in the County and attending school elsewhere may apply.
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Area drivers are reminded that using a hand-held cell phone while operating a motor vehicle on a street or highway in Maryland is now prohibited. Phone calls placed to 911, ambulance, hospital, fire or law-enforcement agencies are permitted, as are calls made by emergency and law-enforcement personnel.
Drivers under the age of 18 already are prohibited from using cell phones while driving.
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The figures are in and it's official…the NBC4 Safe & Secure Community Shred event hosted by Montgomery County's Division of Solid Waste Services (Department of Environmental Protection/DEP) and Montgomery College last month was a huge success, with more than 1,700 persons taking advantage of the opportunity to shred and recycle personal papers and bring in cardboard for recycling.
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The innovative pedestrian protection improvements installed recently at Rock Creek Elementary School have successfully been used by the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) in other locations and have proven to be effective in reducing motorist speeds, calming traffic and enhancing safety. The school is located across Grubb Road from the Rock Creek Shopping Center, which is a popular destination for students and residents.
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Recap: The Ackman, Valeant Press Conference on Allergan Bid
William Ackman and Valeant Pharmaceuticals hosted a press conference Tuesday in New York to detail their unusual and ambitious plan to buy Botox maker Allergan
The odd pairing of the activist investor and the pharmaceutical giant is offering about $46 billion in cash and stock and held the press conference to explain why it will work.
MoneyBeat was there to live blog the event.
Valeant Chairman and CEO Michael Pearson starts the press conference with a little joke: I assure you Valeant still cares about every penny. Bill Ackman paid for this. This is what it's like to be a big pharma company. I can assure you this won't happen again.
Cost Savings
Valeant's Pearson says the $2.7 billion in cost savings are a reason for buying Allergan, and that the company expects to be able to get about 80% of those savings in short order.
Social issues
Pearson touches on often problematic issue in deals, especially hostile ones: "We will be flexible with all and any social issues." That means who is running what, and executives etc. He adds all he cares about is shareholder value.
Pearson says some consumer products Valeant can grow faster. Says the revenue synergies are a big deal here.
Still dealing
Pearson says that he will still look to do deals in wake of this, but they'll be "tuck in" and that means $1 billion to $2 billion size.
Better than average
Pearson says the combined company will have 6 different units and that if any are "average" he'll be big enough to be above average.
Auditorium here for the live conference is about 3/4 full, your MoneyBeat blogger would estimate. Probably a hundred plus people watching right now. It's online too.
Pearson tells an interesting story: He says when he joined Valeant the company actually marketed Allergan's Botox product in Poland, until it got too big and Allergan took marketing back. He uses it to say Valeant is really good with selling branded drugs, so should do wonders for Allergan portfolio. Botox is among the best-known drug brands in the world.
While we've been getting going, Allergan has put out a statement about the offer Valeant made this morning, with the help of Ackman.
"The Allergan Board of Directors, in consultation with its financial and legal advisors, will carefully review and consider the Proposal and pursue the course of action that it believes is in the best interests of the Company's stockholders. The Company's stockholders do not need to take any action at this time."
Those advisers are Goldman Sachs, BofA-Merrill and Latham & Watkins.
New Speaker
Valeant Executive VP Dr. Ari Kellen is now taking audience through Valeant's own pipeline of drugs and treatments. Says there are 19 upcoming US launches.
He puts some figures on that sales force:
Aesthetics in US now has 340 reps up from 49 in 2012.
Dental has 150 in 2014 up from 100 a year ago.
And abroad he lists Russia, Poland and Philippines as showing growth too.
Valeant CFO Howard Schiller is the one talking now about sales force.
On savings
Schiller breaks down the $2.7 billion in synergies: $1.8 billion is cost savings, $900 million is in revenue.
He several times compares the transaction to Valeant's recent purchase of Bausch & Lomb, the giant in eye-care it bought from private equity. Among the steps to cut costs are cutting back on Allergan's HQ and "de-centralizing" the business, while also using the sales force he focused on to sell Allergan's products.
Anti-trust divestments
Schiller says Valeant is already in active talks about selling a few assets to assuage any anti-trust issues, including a plan to shed Valeant's Dysport, which is a competitor to Allergan's Botox.
A message to Allergan holders
Schiller is urging Allergan shareholders to reach out and talk. Says 43% ownership in combined company will provide a diversified company with less exposure to blockbuster drugs while also still growing rapidly.
Another Pershing Squarerecord
Ackman takes the stage with what he says is a "record for Pershing Square" 6 pages of disclosures. Allergan is his biggest investment ever at around $4 billion
First pharma
Ackman says he's never done a pharma investment because the patents are constantly coming and going, there's high risk, and companies tend to be bad at deals.
The penny counting
Ackman confirms he is paying for the conference and also that when they were having a meeting, Ackman asked if he could get a Chipotle burrito instead of the salad being served. Someone got him it, but Pearson, the CEO, walked in and asked him for $20 to cover it.
"The Outsiders"
Ackman is talking about what drew him to Valeant and Pearson as a leader and says he fits well with "The Outsiders" a book Ackman calls possibly the most important book he ever read. One can read here about that book, which has become the buzz of the Activist world. Essentially, it theorizes that CEOs who are the best investors and run lean companies are best for shareholders. "The only problem with the book is it left Mike [Pearson] out of the book," Ackman says. He's bought copies for people here.
A Veleant investment
Ackman says he is looking at this investment as an investment in Valeant, not just Allergan. Ackman's Harvard Business School classmate Bill Doyle, a former colleague of Pearson, introduced them and got this all started. Ackman says he did extensive due diligence on Valeant.
An Herbalife mention
Ackman with a bit of humor about his due diligence: "There are some shorts in the stock. We have tremendous respect for short sellers. Want to make sure we aren't long the next Herbalife…I had to mention it," he says with a laugh. (For those under a rock: Ackman is heavily short Herbalife against several other big investors.)
The idea man
Ackman hands over to Bill Doyle, a relatively new Pershing Square employee who has worked with Pearson at McKinsey and who was a former Johnson & Johnson executive.
Why Valeant
Doyle is explaining why Valeant is less risky: It's largely about patents being less important to the company and because it is growing fast.
Why Valeant II
Doyle says Valeant has recognized R&D and Acquisitions are two sides of the same coin and is avoiding the difficult, risky, R&D.
Doyle continuing to praise Valeant's M&A ability. So far, there has actually been little talk from Pershing Square employees about Allergan, the stock it owns 9.7% of and wants Valeant to buy. Shows how interesting of a structure they have here.
Ackman back
Ackman is coming back on stage. We are over an hour here so far. Ackman says he'll talk valuation for the rest of this.
Another Ackman Portfolio name drop
Ackman says if Valeant didn't do another deal, it would start to look like Procter & Gamble, where he's also invested. He meant that as a compliment, it has good brands etc. But he says it will keep doing more deals, and therefore keep growing even faster.
They pay well
Ackman is now praising the compensation structure of Valeant for driving incentive for good deals. Compares Valeant to private-equity firm 3G, which bought Burger King and Heinz.
GAAP v Cash flow
Ackman says GAAP earnings of Valeant may look like it's headed to "bankruptcy" but that its cash net income is soaring, and that's what he cares about. (The company isn't really going bankrupt, he was using hyperbole.)
Ackman's buying
Ackman gets very detailed on his buying, says he made up more than 30% of Allergan stock volume in past ten days, when his stake went from 5% threshold to 9.7% stake that was announced last Monday.
Meet Val-gan
Ackman has dubbed this planned creation "Val-gan" which is not the greatest name. But he says he thinks this can trade at high values.
Acquisition platform
Ackman is essentially setting up Val-gan as an acquisition platform, compares it to Jarden, a serial acquirer of consumer products. Same in Anheuser-Busch InBev. And he adds, it's like Platform Specialty Products, a specialty acquisition vehicle that Pershing Square owns a big chunk of and is run by former CEO of Jarden, an Ackman friend.
No fan of stock issuances
Ackman says Valeant and CEO Pearson "hate" issuing stock, only do it when really excited. It's doing it here.
Cost-savings wizards
Ackman is touting cost savings Valeant has achieved in past deals for Biovail, Medicis and Bausch & Lomb, each time exceeding the goals. "They really have a perfect track record of achieving synergies."
Expect more of this
Ackman says he and Mike Pearson have already talked about the "next deal" the two can do together.
More color on cost savings
We are onto Q&A:
Pearson sheds a bit more color on cost-savings ability: "Allergan is not owned by PE so let's assume their starting point is they are a little fatter. … I think we'll treat their products very well."
"When we went through and analyzed the cuts, these are not people touching the customers these are people sitting in offices, we don't need people sitting in offices."
More on employees
Valeant's executives are talking about how their employees are running their day to day job. Pearson said there was a 7am conference call with the operating committee today of Valeant to tell them about the deal. They were told to focus on their own performance.
CFO Schiller added many top executives have come from acquisitions, so that there is a history of acquired employees doing well.
Why Ackman?
Pearson says that Valeant chose to work with Ackman because "we like Bill… He has real credibility as a smart investor" and that he helps explain the case to shareholders.
Ackman on Allergan likely responses
Ackman responds to a question about Why Allergan would go along with this: "We don't think that Allergan management would be at all ok with cutting their R&D by 90%, that's the opportunity." (To be clear: The question itself, used 90% as a suggestion, Ackman was responding to it and wasn't saying he wants 90% is doable or the target.)
He says there are plenty of "talented people" at Allergan who will find jobs in a combined company and that his job is to persuade a company to do what's right for shareholders. He says this is the best option.
Pershing Square's role
Pershing Square is contractually committed to take the deal unless there is a better one on the table. In terms of forcing it to happen, Ackman says he has several options including calling a special meeting.
Let's talk
Valeant's CEO Pearson says he is "happy to sit down and discuss" with Allergan and get the deal done and he "won't say no to anything." Though quickly adds: "We won't do all cash."
Why not just buy Valeant shares?
Ackman is asked why not just buy Valeant shares, since he seems to like it so much. He responds that because he was getting insider information on Valeant he couldn't just buy and company wasn't interested in offering him equity at this time. He adds he looks forward to owning Valeant, which would happen in this deal.
No pit stops
To be fair on our past coverage of a Bill Ackman led presentation: We are now at 2.5 hours. Mr. Ackman has made no comment about a bathroom, so far.
May be a new record for him. See this for background.
How this started
Ackman says he had "no assurances" that Valeant would make an offer for Allergan at first. Instead they gave him a list of 10 potential candidates and Ackman did his homework and said Allergan was best. Company said that it was the one it was most interested in.
Rest easy, Allergan sales reps
One spot Pearson doesn't expect to make cuts is in Allergan's sales force: "I'm sure a fair amount of the Allergan sales force around the world will be part of the new company."
It's easy!
Valeant CFO says this would be an easy deal to close. Could get done by 3rd quarter.
What about those old "failures"
A question about Valeant's previous attempts to go hostile, which didn't lead to a consummated deal. Ackman steals the question and says this is different because those were all-cash offers and got beat. He says he sees no all-cash offer coming, but also would rather hold the stock in the company and participate in future.
Pearson responds differently: "I don't think we failed." Success, to him is creating value for shareholders, and not overpaying. He says he wouldn't overpay, and wouldn't overpay for Allergan either. So while he didn't get the asset, doesn't think that's failure.
"We aren't going to just increase our price just to declare victory," he says.
The bathroom returns
Update: He didn't make it. About 2 hours and 50 minutes before Ackman comments that it has been nearly three hours and he hasn't gone to the bathroom.
All done
And that's it from here. The conference is over.


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