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Two New York teams are among the finalists (Long Island, NY) Alliance for Green Heat and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced that seven pellet stoves have been chosen as finalists in the Pellet Stove Design Challenge. This international competition, administered by the Alliance for Green Heat, identifies innovative low emissions and high efficiency..


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A defense attorney for the man accused of sexually assaulting Kayleah Wilson before she disappeared last spring said the Wilson family is using the sexual assault case to hold him responsible for the girl's death.
In a third day of hearings on pre-trial motions, attorneys on Tuesday argued what evidence should be admitted in the upcoming trial of Robert Montoya, who is charged with two counts of sexual assault against Kayleah Wilson. One charge involves a pattern of abuse.
It's a case in which prosecutors are relying heavily on a grieving family's recollections of incidents involving Montoya and Kayleah, which have been somewhat inconsistent as the case has worn on. The family has struggled with remembering time periods of specific instances involving Montoya, who had lived at the Wilson home for a few months in 2009. April Wilson learned of the sexual contact between the then 17-year-old Montoya and her daughter, and threw him out of the house.
"They had every motive then to cast blame, as they do now, as witnesses in this trial to be casting blame to Mr. Montoya," defense attorney Kevin Strobel said Tuesday before Judge Marcelo Kopcow. "They're not reliable historians, and they certainly have motive and bias to testify against him."
April Wilson did not attend the hearing, and she could not be reached for comment.
The 12-year-old girl's body was found May 19 in a drainage ditch in southwest Greeley.
From the time Kayleah was reported missing on March 28 until her body was found, police focused on Montoya, now 19, as a person of interest. But they have never named him as a suspect in her death.
In all, police questioned Montoya 12 times about Kayleah's disappearance; he was arrested after the 13th line of questioning, the only time in which he signed off on his Miranda rights, which inform him about his right to remain silent, and that any statements he made could be used against him in court.
Strobel has sought to throw out Montoya's statements to police, stating they were the result of intimidation and coercion. A FBI agent repeatedly promised him he would not be prosecuted for having sex with the girl, said Strobel, reading off various statements by the agent in the recorded interviews.
"It's clear, when we get to May 19, when Montoya is interviewed (the last time)... it's clear Montoya has relied on these prior statements," Strobel said. "He states ... 'You said I wouldn't be in trouble for sex with a minor.' "
Prosecutors are trying to introduce evidence from April Wilson, and her elder son, Mackenzie Jamison, 17, about incidents leading up to Kayleah's disappearance. They also hope to introduce a diary entry from Kayleah in which she talks about her love for Montoya.
Attorneys spent much of the day arguing over whether evidence can be submitted. Kopcow said he would issue written rulings prior to a pre-trial readiness conference on March 14. The trial is set for five days beginning March 21.


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On July 1, 2013, interest rates on federal subsidized Stafford student loans, which are provided to low- and middle-income students, are scheduled to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Congress acted to prevent an identical rate hike from going into effect on July 1, 2012, and is preparing to act to keep rates low again this year. There are key differences, however, between the various proposals to do so and unfortunately some of the proposals are worse than the status quo.
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JERUSALEM, Israel - The U.S. State Department issued a stinging criticism of a Israeli policy concerning visitors to the Palestinian Authority (PA).
The criticism followed complaints by Arab Americans regarding travel restrictions to the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and the Gaza Strip.
"We have let the government of Israel know that these restrictions unfairly impact Palestinian and Arab American travelers and are not acceptable," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters on Wednesday.
"We have repeatedly told the government of Israel that the United States expects all American citizens to be treated equally, regardless of their national origin or other citizenship," he said.
Under the policy, visitors listing PA-controlled areas as their destination may have their passports stamped with a "Palestinian Authority territory bound" stamp, which prevents them from entering Israel.
The Israeli Interior Ministry prefers that visitors heading to PA-controlled areas enter via the Allenby Bridge, which connects Israel with Jordan through the West Bank, where the entry stamp reads "Palestinian Authority territory bound," instead of through Israel's international airport near Tel Aviv.
The U.S. Consulate posted a statement on its Web site regarding the entry policy.
"Since the spring of 2009, Israeli border officials at both the Allenby border crossing (with Jordan) and Ben Gurion Airport have begun using a new entry visa stamp that permits travel only in Palestinian Authority-controlled areas.
"Anyone indicating that they either have connections to the West bank or are planning to travel to the West Bank, may get this stamp, which does not permit them to enter into (or in the case of Ben Gurion, return to) Green-line Israel. The Consulate can do nothing to assist in getting this visa status changed; only Israeli liaison offices in the West Bank can assist - but they rarely will," the Web site read.
Meanwhile, a State Department travel advisory cautions American citizens from visiting the Gaza Strip.
"The State Department strongly urges American citizens refrain from all travel to the Gaza Strip. This recommendation has been in effect since the deadly roadside bombing of a U.S. Embassy convoy in Gaza in October 2003. It applies to all Americans, including journalists and aid workers," a travel advisory reads.
A separate State Department policy prohibits U.S. government employees from visiting the Old City of Jerusalem after dark on weekdays and between 11 a.m. And 2 p.m. on Fridays when Muslims pray on the Temple Mount.
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Two days after beating Kennedy Catholic 6-1 in the opening game of the CHSAA seeding round, St. Joseph by-the-Sea is still waiting to see who it will play for the top seed in the Intersectionals.
The second-seeded Vikings were supposed to be playing the winner of No. 1 Archbishop Molloy and No. 4 Fordham Prep on Friday afternoon. But Molloy and Fordham moved that game from its originally scheduled date of Wednesday to Thursday and then were rained out there. The Stanners and Rams finally took the field Friday afternoon, but were stopped by rain in the third inning with Molloy leading 6-0.
Sea will play the winner on Sunday at 1 p.m. with the higher seeded team hosting. So if Molloy wins the Vikings are headed to Queens. If Fordham comes back they'll be home in Huguenot.
It all leaves the Vikings with three days in between games when there should have been one.
"They want to play," said Sea coach Gordon Rugg. "They want to get out there and play."
Rugg had his team out hitting on Friday afternoon around the heavy rains and plans to do the same on Saturday.
Looking ahead, the delay could impact the Vikings going into the double-elimination CHSAA Intersectionals. After Angelo Navetta dominated Kennedy in a 12-strikeout, one-hit performance, Michael Russell is slated for the eventual Molloy/Fordham winner.
But with that game now pushed back to Sunday, that would leave Russell with only three days rest before pitching on the second day of the Intersectionals on Thursday.
"We might have to hold him," said Rugg of Russell's status for Thursday.
Or Russell could come out early on Sunday. The Vikings are already guaranteed a berth in the Intersectionals. Sunday's game would only determine the top seed and a loss would leave Sea No. 2. But if they were to drop their Intersectional opener on Wednesday, Thursday could be an elimination game.
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FLINT, MI -- Susan Berg of Absolute! Building Maintenance has been promoted to the director of operations position within the company. Berg has been employed with the firm since 2005, originally as an area supervisor for Bay, Saginaw and Midland counties and more recently as the firm's client concierge.
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In order to be able to explore PB Valley and surrounding attractions i.e. the Khao Yai National Park amongst others you need your own car; alternatively a rented car or limousine service from your hotel.
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- Hourly Mini Van Service departing from the Victory Monument Bangkok to Muak Lek; you have to disembark at the Muak Lek Market
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JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM ) stock closed the trading week up 1.8% -- a surprisingly weak performance considering the bank's strong second-quarter results, but maybe not so surprising considering what else went down in the banking sector over the past five days. Regardless, investors don't realize how good they have it.
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First, the good news, or what should be taken as good news. JPMorgan reported second-quarter total net revenue of $25.2 billion and net income of $6.5 billion, versus $22.2 billion and $5.0 billion for the second quarter of 2012, respectively. Earnings per share were $1.60, versus $1.21 for the same period last year.
And now the bad news, or what is in all actuality good news.
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation proposed new rules for America's financial system: All banks would be required to double their capital reserves, and the eight-biggest bank-holding companies would be required to have leverage ratios of 5%.
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Not only is net income up year over year for JPMorgan -- by a big 31% -- but more importantly, revenue is up, by 14%. Bottom-line growth is all well and good, and it's ultimately why companies exist and why investors invest, but income growth without revenue growth is unsustainable.
And if that's what you're seeing, it's probably coming from cost-cutting, but you can only cut so much fat; at some point you start cutting into muscle. For the first quarter of 2013, JPMorgan grew its total revenue by only 1.2% year over year but squeezed similar income growth out of that. Fourteen percent is a good number to see.
So why the glum week, and the 0.3% share-price drop on Friday, after these strong numbers were announced? Investors are worried about how rising interest rates will affect balance sheets of all the big banks, and how they will affect their mortgage businesses as well. CEO Jamie Dimon himself warned of a "'dramatic reduction' in future mortgage profits."
But even at 4.5%, more or less the going rate for a fixed-rate 30-year loan, mortgages are a bargain. And the threat of rising rates might push some people off the fence. Expect to see more of a drop off in JPMorgan's home-loan business in Q3, but it might not be as drastic a drop as some are expecting.
As for the proposed new banking rules, yes, JPMorgan will have to boost its capital levels to make the grade. But is has until 2018 to do so, and is projecting it can actually do it by 2015. In the end, safer banks are better for everyone, even investors. Yes, big profits backed by the implicit too-big-to-fail guarantee of the federal government may seem like a good thing, but shareholders can still be essentially crushed even if the government bails their banks out.
Along with a new Senate bill proposing to put a new version of Glass-Steagall into place -- which until 1999 separate investment banking from less risky forms of banking -- we might be at the beginning of the return to boring banks. But JPMorgan investors should ultimately rejoice in this, along with the bank's great second-quarter performance.
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COLUMBUS - About 20 meters into the Division I girls 100-meter dash, the fate of the Warren G. Harding girls track and field team altered.
At that time, WGH sophomore sprinter Justice Richardson grimaced in pain, gutted through the following 80 meters and finished ninth out of nine runners in an unlikely time of 13.04 seconds.
Raiders coach Charles Penny said he didn't have time to shuffle things around because the 100 and following 4x200 relay were back-to-back races.
"We didn't know what was going on," Penny said. "We knew something happened in the 100, obviously. We didn't know if it was a cramp or if it was twisted ankle at some part of the race. People think it's a straight-ahead race and it's pretty easy. There's a lot of mechanics that are involved in that. We were unsure. After the race, she's walking across the grass and looked OK. She was kind of playing with her foot a little bit. At that point, we didn't know anything major was going on. She took her spot in the relay and everything seemed OK. Talking to her, she was not competing at the level we know she can be. That's when we knew something more was involved.
"We tried to talk to her, but they are back-to-back races. For the amount of time to evaluate her and to see what was going on and make a decision there, they already had our girls going out to their posts for their relay."
She ran the anchor leg of the 4x200 and took the final handoff in second place. The injury was more visible in the 4x200 as she struggled to finish and WGH ran a 1:43.40 - which secured a second-place finish.
The nature of the injury was either the leg or the foot. It wasn't known at the time, Penny said.
"Her family (took) her back to Warren to get some X-rays. We'll find out more from there," Penny said.
Richardson was then lifted from the 4x100 and junior Nautica Hill took her place.
"She worked on handoffs 15 minutes before she went into the race," Penny said. "She literally went in there blind. We went in there and came out with second place."
Hill said she was ready to be the anchor leg.
"I was running the fastest I could, getting the biggest lead possible since I knew she was hurt," said Hill, whose team finished second in a time of 47.80.
It worked for Harding in the end.
"Even though things didn't work out in the 4x200 because we had the injury," Hill said. "Things like that happen. I'm glad we were able to overcome some adversity and come out as runners-up."
But the expectations never change for WGH.
"We always go into it expecting to win everything. That's what our coaches expect us to do, to win and take first," Emily Stevens said.
To overcome Saturday's adversity was something else for WGH. Though they had hopes of being in the running for a state title, the Raiders finished in 25th.
"For what they did as a group was phenomenal," Penny said.
JUMP INTO THIRD: East's Terrell McClain took third in the Division I boys long jump with a distance of 22 feet, 10 inches.
He fouled on his last jump, but the board wiggled on McClain, who was the Division I regional champion in Austintown with a jump of 23-3.75.
"The board moved and they had to fix it. They fouled me. It didn't count," he said.
However, it was a good day for the East Panthers.
"It feels good to come down here and represent. I think I did a good job," McClain said.
FLYING HIGH: Canfield's Andrew Hallof placed seventh in the Division I boys discus with a throw of 161-0.
FALCONS NEST: The Austintown Fitch boys 4x200 and 4x400 relays of Gary Gibson, Nathan Bowlen, Darrin Hall and Joe Harrington took second and eighth, respectively, in times of 1:26.75 and 3:22.89. . The girls team of Brittany Floyd, Ebony Davis, Jayme Ritchie, Makaila Barbel took seventh (1:42.88).
GOING THE DISTANCE: Boardman senior Mark Hadley took third in the boys 3,200 run in a time of 9:06.33. Chardon's Nick Elswick won the race in a time of 9:02.41.


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Another exciting week of Indian baseball has come to a close and Joe and Mike are here to tell you all about it. Since we last left you, the Indians have played a ton of innings, had some injuries and there have been heroes on both sides. In addition to what has already happened, we predict the future with 100% accuracy, so this one is a must listen.
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The cardiothoracic surgeons of Emory University Hospital Midtown are recognized worldwide as leaders in the field. Our surgeons are responsible for some of today's most advanced procedures and innovations. Surgeons from our team have pioneered revolutionary procedures such as complex coronary revascularization, repair of thoracic aortic aneurysms and off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery. We also perform heart valve repair and endoscopic techniques for cardiac bypass surgery.
We work with The Carlyle Fraser Heart Center, a nationally known research facility at Emory University Hospital Midtown, which coordinates clinical and laboratory research activities. The research team has made major contributions to the current practice of cardiac surgery by devising methods of protecting the heart during open heart surgery and refining and testing a method for prevention of calcification of bio-prosthetic heart valves.
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As Hurricane Sandy approached Staten Island on Oct. 29, this couple monitored increasingly ominous weather reports and decided to evacuate a few hours before the storm surge tore through their property, knocking out walls on the first floor, upending and destroying appliances and furniture, smashing a large deck to pieces, and washing away family heirlooms and Mrs. Marshall's jewelry.
The 27- by 30-foot deck "snapped like a toothpick," Marshall reported. "It was made with 8,300 pounds of wood."
"Everything we owned was gone," including a prized collection of heirloom Irish crystal glassware, said Mrs. Marshall, describing the devastation on the first-floor living quarters.
After the water receded in their yard, "38 people showed up on Saturday morning," said Marshall. "It took them five-and-a-half hours to remove the debris from the yard and garage. Guys [from Knights of Columbus Manresa Council, where he is a long-time member] cut up our deck and removed it in two-and-a-half hours."
Other help came from United Methodist Church volunteers, noted a grateful Mrs. Marshall. "Crews from all over the South came and helped us at least four times. They were phenomenal!"
Married for 45 years, the Marshalls remain displaced, living in a sparsely furnished rental apartment in Grant City, where a few salvaged personal possessions, including a Virgin Mary statue with broken hands, are displayed in a corner curio cabinet.
"We still don't know the amount of money that we will receive to help us recover," Marshall said. "It's been a nightmare, and it continues to be a nightmare."
"Once I see something being done (in the Neutral Avenue home), I can feel better," interjected Mrs. Marshall.
The first floor of the Marshall's home sustained over 50 percent in damage, "completely destroyed," they reported.
This represented a huge financial blow because, over the past five years, they spent over $80,000 in renovation, upgrading the kitchen and bathroom, and installing a new driveway, deck and landscaping.
The couple cannot bear to wait any longer.
"We need to make decisions, but no one can tell us a thing. We don't have definitive guidelines" about how to go about elevating and rebuilding the home, said a frustrated Marshall, who is savvy about dealing with U.S. federal government bureaucracies from his long years as an international-cargo professional.
"We just hired a surveyor and a soil sampler," he said, explaining the need to know "where we are at, the sea-level point at ground level."
In the middle of a bureaucratic mess until now, the Marshalls remain stupefied. "We did the right thing all these years. We are the prudent people," said Marshall, explaining that he and his wife carried homeowners insurance for decades, and, for the past 12 years, National Flood Insurance, for an additional $1,200 annually.
Prior to Sandy, they had no complaints with the company that carried their homeowners policy. "It was a good partner for all our issues," said Marshall, "and handled our claims quickly and well.
The federal insurance check came "one week ago, via regular mail," said Marshall, covering only a tiny amount for loss of contents and structural damage, which he and his wife are challenging.
"It will not cover half of what we need to do," commented an exasperated Mrs. Marshall.
"I go down to the house and see it and get upset," she said, choking back tears. "It's very depressing. All I want to do is go home."
"Some people on Staten Island have it 10 times worse than us," said Marshall. "But it's still very real for us, and it's not gonna go away any time soon. We're hoping that maybe, maybe, we can be back in the house before the holidays (in December)."
"It's important for everyone to realize that a lot of people are still struggling," he said, "It's still happening for us. We need to keep this reality in everyone's face."
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Director Shortlist for 'Tales From the Gangster Squad' Reportedly Includes Francis Lawrence, Paul Greengrass and More
Posted on Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 by Russ Fischer
I can't tell if Tales From the Gangster Squad, based on a series of LA Times articles and intended as an ensemble 'actor's piece,' is as much of a priority at Warner Bros. as news would make it seem, or if the film is just an easy headline. The script details an LAPD squad's efforts to oppose the incursion of organized crime into the city of LA, and is said to be fantastic.
In the last couple weeks, perhaps motivated by the reception for The Town, the film was offered to Ben Affleck, and yesterday word came down that Warner Bros. lobbed it at Darren Aronofsky. But with Affleck passing and Aronofsky looking likely to take Wolverine 2 (what a strange world) WB reportedly has five more names on a list of possible directors. Read More »


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Jul 04, 2011 Microfinance Africa Latest News, News 0
From Joy Online
The microfinance fever is catching on very fast in Ghana. There are Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) on major streets in Accra. It is now common to see offices that have inscriptions which presuppose that these enterprises are into the provision of microfinance services. These firms mainly provide loans or and mobile banking which is commonly know as susu.
The increasing number of MFIs whether a registered susu agent or an on-lending MFI is an encouraging phenomenon for the Ghanaian microfinance industry. At least the increasing number of these MFIs will provide the end users (low income earners and the poor) alternative services and products to choose from when it comes to their financial needs. The increasing number of MFIs will also break the cycle of monopoly and contribute to a more competitive industry that will provide products and services that will meet the financial and non-financial needs of the poor and the low income earners. The growth in terms of numbers (setting up on new MFIs) is expected to improve the accessibility of financial services to the large non-banked population in Ghana and, thereby, lead to an improvement in the services and products being offered to the informal sector or market.
The increase in the number of MFIs in Ghana can be attributed to the successes that have been recorded by some MFIs in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda as well as the world wide acknowledgement and recognition that has been given to microfinance by international donors and governments. In addition the proven fact that the low income earners and the productive poor can improve their livelihood through the provision of credit is influencing many more entrepreneurs' to invest in microfinance. For others, it is purely for commercial purposes and for others; it is a mixture of the two. This is to say that incentives and rewards play a vital role in attracting financial and non financial service providers to consider serving the poor and the low income earners.
SUSU demystifying banking in Ghana
A study conducted by CGAP indicated that half of the people who are not banked and not extremely poor in Zambia do not open an account because the nearest bank branch is too far. Other studies have also supported the fact that physical distance is often cited in household surveys as a reason for not opening a bank account. The situation is not so different from what is happening in Ghana. The susu saving scheme ("mobile banking") have provided a bridge by taking banking to the doorsteps of its clients. It is evident that susu operations in Ghana has contributed to the mobilization of excess monies from the informal sector into the main banking stream. Through the susu operations, it has been demonstrated that most Ghanaians can improve on their savings culture if access to "deposit centers" were not a problem. This is supported by the number of people who consistently save with trusted susu operators within their localities. The success of this system has influenced some traditional banks to adopt the susu banking scheme's to improve on their deposit mobilizations activities. Another interesting development in the susu industry is that , the profile of most of their clients which in time past were mainly made of traders, farmers, hair dressers, mechanics (fitters) etc, is gradually changing to include some clients in the formal sectors of the economy . These developments tend to suggest the wider acceptance of the susu system among many Ghanaians irrespective of the presence of some charlatans in the business. The acceptance of the susu schemes has motivated several individuals and entities to set up their own susu firms. The achievement of the susu schemes tend to supports the fact that given a convenient means (accessibility) most Ghanaians can cultivate the habit of savings. This conclusion can be deduced from the increasing number of people who are signing onto susu products that even do not offer any interest rates on the amount saved.
The informal market and their need for financial services
Clients in the informal sector have developed confidence for MFIs aiming to provide financial service to the people in the informal sector of the economy either by making loans or deposits products available. This is a demonstration of the potential desire of the under-banked and non-banked population to have access to funds and other financial services to improve their livelihood by investing in economic opportunities. This desire for financial services has even resulted in instances where self styled MFIs abscond with the savings of the clients. It is interesting to note that although trust in a financial system is a precondition for individuals to give their money to banks or MFIs, the demand for financial services is increasing even in situation where some MFIs have absconded with clients' savings. The trust demonstrated by clients even for clients who have had their savings lost through the activities of fake MFIs is still soaring high and quite a number of these clients still maintain some relationship with an MFI. This scenario is different for some countries. For example in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and other Eastern European countries, it took years before people returned to banks after losing their life's savings to high inflation and bank collapses in the 1990s (CGAP 2009). However, the larger part of the informal market in Ghana do not take a long time for them to renew their trust for new MFIs after a negative experience with another MFI.
The peculiar characteristics of the informal market and their increasing desire for financial services and products are an indication that there is a huge market for microfinance in Ghana. But to serve this market on a sustainable basis, and grow entrepreneurs behind MFIs should endeavor to know that microfinance goes beyond the granting of loans and the collection of daily savings. These MFIs must start thinking about sustainability. They must begin to identify the main challenges that will hinder their operations and, thereby, affect their sustainability.
Like any other business, doing microfinance business successfully requires paying attention to certain key issues which may be peculiar to the industry. These important factors may include:
• Understanding the profile of the low income earner
• Gender sensitivity
• Staff hiring
• Building volumes (number of clients, number of borrowers)
• Keeping loan repayment rates high
• Retaining customers (active savers and active borrowers)
• Minimizing scope for fraud in branches
Understanding the profile of the low income earner
Microfinance is a not just a social program. It is a business that should be learned if it is to function sustainably. A lot of the people behind most of the pro- poor "banks" or MFIs do not think doing microfinance business requires any specialized skill and that the conservative banking techniques will work when dealing in microfinance. MFIs providing financial services to the poor should consider the complex nature involved in offering services to the poor in order to ensure a better return on their investments and to achieve some level of impact for their contribution to eradicating poverty. Doing microfinance can be costly because of the small size of loans and deposits. This, therefore, calls for appropriate methodologies and strategies that can minimize the operational cost as well as strategies to increase staff productivity or efficiency in order to be sustainable.
It is important that MFIs acquire adequate knowledge of the market they are serving. This will assist them in designing efficient strategy to serve their client better. For instance the market of the micro clients are principally characterized by low literacy levels, low financial literacy levels, short term economic activities (buying and selling, crop farming, etc),high social capital (trust) and low or absence of adequate collateral amongst others. The usual type of collateral required by traditional banks does not exit. In the absence of the traditional collateral, there is the need to device new risk management strategies to keep clients committed to paying off all the loans granted them. This background contributed to the group loan methodologies which have been used by several MFIs across the world. However, the chosen credit methodology should be adopted to fit the operational area of the MFI.
Gender Issues
Purely microfinance concepts have over the years targeted women and this formed the heart of the microfinance system. Statistical evidences indicate that the majority of the customers of MFIs are women. Some MFIs, like Crecer in Bolivia and Kashf in Pakistan, lend exclusively to women. Several research works indicate that women have better repayment behaviour compared to their male counterparts. These findings arose through a process of experimentation in the late 1970s at what became the Grameen Bank, as the institution discovered that women were easier to work with than men in rural Bangladesh.
From this background MFIs doing business in Ghana cannot reinvent the wheels and will have to acknowledge that women clients can be a booster for the growth of their enterprises. MFIs should, therefore, make an effort to understand how poor women earn, save and invest money in order to guide them to design products and services that can meet the needs of the women client.
Minimizing scope for fraud
For MFIs that operates small branches which are physically linked by weak transportation and communications infrastructure or susu operators that have several field staff, monitoring branch activities or filed officers activities to prevent internal fraud is a major challenge. This challenge has resulted in several fraud cases where field officers under record the actual deposits or repayments of their clients. MFIs with such challenges should not gloss over them. At least supervisors and managers of such MFIs should undertake random visits with their field officers to interact with some of its clients and to verify their deposits in the case of susu clients and the repayment of loans. These challenges can also be reduced if the MFI practice good booking practice which has been identified as one of the major weakness in most MFIs.
Staff hiring
Most MFIs have been conscious of reducing their staff cost to ensure that they become profitable. This has resulted in MFIs having to deal with high staff turnovers as a result of low paid salaries. Staff packages in place at most MFIs have resulted in the industries inability to attract highly qualified staff and ,therefore , most of the MFIs have settled for staff with average qualifications. It is, however, important for MFIs to ensure that any calibers of staff employed are provided with adequate training. This will not only help them serve their special clients better but they will become efficient individual lenders as they improve on their turn around time.
One key thing to keep in mind when recruiting MFI staff is that they we will be required to make independent judgment especially on the part of loan officers. These workers would assess the quality of the information given by the client, which cannot be taken at face value even when supported by financial statements which in most cases are absent. Good individual loan officers will also be required to develop indirect techniques for getting at the truth, such as asking borrowers about both the value and volume of their sales in order to see whether the implied price is realistic. They should be able to deduce a lot of information about a retailer's business by scanning the merchandise on the shelves: Are the shelves empty or full, the products new or old? All these require a habit of critical thinking which can be found in staff with appreciable level of educational qualification. The MF industry should therefore, develop an attractive incentive package systems to enable it to attract well qualified staff to support its sustainability strategy.
The presence of MFIs in Ghana would not be felt; that is their contribution to raising the income levels of the low income and the productive poor through the provision of loans and other services will not be felt if the basic requirements needed to grow the microfinance business are not employed.
As more and more MFI springs up in Ghana, regulatory bodies concern should act to support the activities of these firms and also to protect the clients dealing with these institutions so that in the wake of the "microfinance revolution" authorities and the poor will not be caught on aware.
By Roderick Okoampah Ayeh
Microfinance Technical Officer
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Steve Jobs D8 interview, the full monty
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Previously, the Fairer Platform published snippets of Steve Jobs interview at D8 and that was nice. Yes, we've all seen the clips and chewed over the soundbites, but the full-length, unedited interview is now available from All Things D and here it is for your viewing pleasure.
And, yes, Walt and Kara's D8 Steve Jobs interview is viewable — it's beautiful — on the iPad.


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Erie weight-loss competition starts Sunday
A new, countywide weight-loss contest will offer prizes to the man and woman who can shed the most weight over the next three months.
Weigh-In Erie starts Sunday with initial weigh-ins at Best Fitness, 2147 W. 12th St. Best Fitness, the Erie Times-News and GoErie.com are the contest's organizers. You can register by visiting GoErie.com/weighinerie.
"This contest is open to anyone," said Bryan Tyler, Best Fitness' operations manager. "They don't have to be a member of Best Fitness. You can work out here, or at your own gym, or at home if you want."
Participants will weigh in once every two weeks at Best Fitness, which will offer free weekly classes for participants and allow them to track their progress on its online site. A final weigh-in will be held April 7 at Best Fitness.
Winners will be the male and female who lose the highest percentage of total body weight.
"We didn't want it to just be total weight lost, because that would give some people an advantage," Tyler said.
Best Fitness will also measure participants' body mass index. BMI is a number calculated from a person's height and weight.
Each winner will receive a lifetime membership to Best Fitness, a $250 gift card to Erie Sport Store, free registration and T-shirt for the Barber Beast on the Bay event, and year of free food from Taco Bell's low-fat Fresco menu.
In case of a tie, those participants will take part in a "hell week" to determine a winner.
"Anyone who is tied will take a class together with a personal trainer every day that week," Tyler said. "It will be a high-intensity workout, every day. Then we will weigh them again."
Erie Mayor Joseph Sinnott won't participate in the contest but attended its kickoff event Monday morning at Best Fitness.
Sinnott has lost about 20 pounds since he started exercising regularly and eating healthier in October following surgery on both of his Achilles tendons.
"I feel more energetic, and I have more stamina and strength," said Sinnott, who has a paid membership to Best Fitness. "I'm not out of breath after I exercise. I feel good."
Weigh-In Erie isn't the first time Best Fitness has been interested in promoting a healthy community. The fitness center gave free 30-day memberships in October to any Erie County resident who wanted one.
"Our goal is to make Erie a better, healthier community," Tyler said.
DAVID BRUCE can be reached at 870-1736 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNbruce.


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Hints from Heloise: Add veggies to customize basic cream soup recipe
Dear Heloise: Years and years ago, my dad found a recipe in your mom's column for cream of mushroom soup. He made a huge pot of soup and in the morning filled his thermos with it to take hunting with him. I remember how delicious that soup was, and I would love that recipe if you can share it with me. -- Lisa D., Elmira, N.Y.
Dear Lisa: I would love to share the recipe for Heloise's Generic Cream Soup. Add to this base whatever main ingredient you want: mushrooms, broccoli or potatoes, to name a few. Collect the following ingredients:
- 1 cup nonfat dried milk powder
- 1 tablespoon dried onion flakes
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons chicken bouillon powder
- 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Mix all the ingredients together and store in an airtight container until ready to use. For a soup base, add 2 cups of cold water to mixture and heat, over medium heat, in large saucepan. Stir constantly until the soup thickens. Then add your main ingredient for a soup that makes 4 to 6 cups. Need to thicken your soup? Add instant mashed potatoes. -- Heloise
Dear Readers: Avocados are a delicious fruit that can be enjoyed year-round. Here are some hints about them:
You cannot tell, by the color of an avocado, if it's ripe. When selecting, give the fruit a slight squeeze. The fruit should feel firm, but give slightly when pressed.
To peel an avocado, hold it in the palm of your hand while taking a knife to slice it lengthwise up to the seed. Twist the cut avocado halves while pulling them apart. Remove the seed and scoop out the meat.
When you find avocados on sale, buy extra, because they can be frozen for up to six months. Once the fruit is peeled, pur�e it with a tablespoon of lemon juice for every couple of avocados you are freezing. Store the pur�ed fruit in an airtight, freezer-safe container or bag. -- Heloise
Dear Heloise: Often I have items that I cannot put down the garbage disposal. I keep an empty, plastic cottage-cheese container on the counter with a lid. I use it for any small food items that need to go into the wastebasket. -- Joan D., Mansfield, Ohio
Send a great hint to: Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, TX 78279-5000. Fax: (210) 435-6473. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Bronx, NY
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Name of Organization, Institution, Company, or School:
Bronx community College
Focus of Study/axe de l'étude/foco de estudio
Media Technology
What languages do you speak?
English and Spanish
What do you like to document about your world? or city?
Not sure yet, but I want to film nature, people, food traffic and the city


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Amaro Averna
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amaro Averna is an Italian liqueur in the Amaro category produced in Caltanissetta, Sicily. It is named after its inventor, Salvatore Averna, who invented the recipe in 1868. This drink is produced on the Island of Sicily and is considered a traditional drink.
The herbs, roots and citrus rinds are allowed to soak in the base liquor before caramel is added. Averna is sweet, thick and has a gentle herbal bitterness. It is 29% alc/volume (formerly 32%) and distilled and bottled in Italy.
Averna is a classic digestif, often served on the rocks or neat. It also is an ingredient in some cocktails.
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FAME is a major financial database covering major British companies. You can use FAME to find information on a particular company, for example Tesco. Typically you would be able to find the past five years profit and loss accounts and balance sheets. When searching for a company name you will usually be looking for the PLC ( eg Tesco PLC ) Any others which appear in a list are likely to be companies owned by the PLC (eg Tesco Mobile)
It is also possible to compare the company which you have found with others in the same market. These results can then be displayed as a pie chart to demonstrate the overall state of the market.
Osiris is supplied by the same company as FAME, therefore looks the same but contains information on listed, and major unlisted/delisted, companies around the world. The information is very detailed and includes a lot more than financial reports. Different templates are used to show accounts in the correct formats for their company type and location.
Business Source Premier is an extremely large database containing a variety of full-text journal articles on management, economics, finance & accountancy and banking. If you were looking for articles on a particular topic, ticking the full-text box and carrying out a search on this database is likely to give you many results.
It might be wiser, having browsed your results, to limit the search. This can be done in a number of ways. For instance, using the 'Advanced Search' facility it would be possible to look for a word like 'Merger' in the title of an article. You could then combine this search with another term like 'theory' within the article itself.
Another useful feature of Business Source Premier is that after carrying out a search a list of options is generated on the left hand side of the screen enabling you to narrow down your search by subject. A search for 'Whistle blowing' will thus indicate related topics such as 'business ethics' and 'public interest'
Business Source Premier is the sort of database which will provide you with academic theory about a topic. You can limit your search to a key journal such as Harvard Business Review, which is included in full-text back to 1922.
An EU directive made it obligatory for listed companies to use International GAAP with effect from 2005. This database provides a searchable full-text version of the current international accounting standards. It includes illustrative financial statements, and international companies reports and accounts.
Credo is a collection of e-books of the kind which you may expect to find in our Quick Reference section. There are several business dictionaries and encyclopaedias included which cover words and phrases which are used in accounting. For instance there is a good definition of 'whistle blower' from the Collins Dictionary of Business. References from Credo will look good in your reference list as they are from recognised academic sources.
Biz Ed Premier is a collection of both case studies and e-books relevant to business and accountancy students. Registration is a simple process, and once completed you will be able to search the contents of each text very easily for keywords or phrases.
The advantage of electronic books over print versions is the fact that you can instantly locate a keyword or phrase within a book. Gale Virtual Reference Library includes the books Corporate Finance Handbook, How to prepare a business plan and Strategic Business Planning.
Students of finance and accountancy doing the Applied Management Project should find some material here on the balanced scorecard as a way of way of measuring company performance.
Although this is predominantly a database of marketing information Keynote does include some useful information on the state of accountancy, explaining how the market is highly concentrated and dominated by the Big Five firms : Pricewaterhouse Coopers, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young and Andersen. If you are doing an assignment on the state of the industry, or mergers and acquisitions affecting accountancy firms this may be worth having a look.
A 'Quick Search' for 'Accountancy' may be your best option when using this database. Results are displayed by relevancy.
The Marketline database contains many lengthy company profiles, including SWOT analyses, and details of major competitors. The companies included are commonly studied at undergraduate level ( Easyjet, McDonalds Corporation ). Industry profiles like 'Accountancy in the United Kingdom' (2005) will give you an overview of increased regulation following the WorldCom and Enron scandals, and some details of mergers and acquisitions taking place in accountancy at present.
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Abstact: This paper proposes a possible role for software metrics in the context of fault tolernt software development. In particular, interest is focused on those metrics which can be collected during the specification phase of the software project. These metrics can be used to identify several problems before product completio. The paper first introduces three groups of metrics found in the literature and then discusses their applicability as a management tool during the development of diverse software. Finally, an example is given of how specification metrics can provide estimates of parameters of reliability models. Though the described technique is not fully satisfactory, it can be used, in the absence of more sophisticated ones, to obtain reliability predictions from the models.


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if he'd eaten a whole watermelon instead of just half for breakfast he'd have been fine
Interested to see the fruitarian comments build on these posts. No real details provided on what Kushton's diet consisted of or for how long he'd been eating that way, which is a shame. Typical crap "journalism".
Ashton Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs landed him in the hospital - TUAW
Steve Jobs' Fruitarian Diet Lands Ashton Kutcher in the Hospital | TIME.com
All fruit diet lands Ashton Kutcher in the hospital – The Marquee Blog - CNN.com Blogs
Trying to find how fructose affects the pancreas I came across the following:
Fructose induces transketolase flux to - PubMed Mobile
Tasting fructose with the pancreas
UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center : In the News : Pancreatic Cancers Use Fructose, Common in a Western Diet, to Fuel Growth
Pancreas has ability to taste fructose, suggests new report
If you're interested in my (very) occasional updates on how I'm working out and what I'm eating click here.
if he'd eaten a whole watermelon instead of just half for breakfast he'd have been fine
yeah you are
lolBaby if you time travel back far enough you can avoid that work because the dust won't be there. You're too pretty to be working that hard.
Doubtful that it was fruit that put him in the hospital.
Also you wont find any studies done using fruit as the only source of fructose so there is no real connection.
That guy is such a....... I believe the word is....... douche.
This is mean, but:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA *breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
Dumb ol' Ashton Kutcher. Couldn't have happened to a bigger d-bag.
On a more analytical note, why do we think it put him in the hospital? Lack of nutrients/protein? Too much fructose (that seems unlikely... I mean, it's bad for you, but it's not THAT bad)?
Without bothering to present any links as evidence, vitamin B12 deficiency is what happens to people that go on the fruitarian diet. Without constant supplementation B12 injections may be required from what I understand. Go to 30BAD if you really want to know about the fruit people.
Sounds like a publicity stunt. I don't think fruitarian diets are smart long term, but it takes quite a while to deplete your b12 levels.
So much info missing from this story. People go on all fruit or juice diets all the time but there isn't a lot of incidences of pancreatic problems THAT quickly, to the best of my knowledge. Perhaps it was psychosomatic or induced subconsciously while trying to become a character. Shrug. This is just weird. We're omnivores, so all fruit diets are not adequate, but yeah... Something is fishy.
Of course the Paleo community will use this as a reason to shun fruit completely, lol. J/k sorta...
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Trevor Eve
Born Jul 1, 1951
Trevor John Eve is a British film and television actor. In 1979 he gained fame as the eponymous lead in the detective series Shoestring and is also known for his role as Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd in BBC television drama Waking the Dead.
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1951 Birth Born on July 1, 1951.
1974 23 Years Old One of his early stage successes was portraying Paul McCartney in Willy Russell's play John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End in 1974. … Read More
1979 28 Years Old In 1979 and 1980 he became famous throughout the UK for playing the role of the private investigator Eddie Shoestring in Shoestring.
1980 29 Years Old … In 1980, they married and now have three children, Alice Sophia born 6 February 1982 who is also an actress, Jack (born 1985) and George (born 1994). … Read More
1987 36 Years Old He co-starred with Natasha Richardson and Stephen Rea in the 1987 London stage production of Cole Porter's High Society. … Read More
1998 47 Years Old He played Superintendent Albert Tyburn in the 1998 Carlton Television/WGBH Boston television series Heat of the Sun, which was filmed in Zimbabwe.
2000 49 Years Old In September 2000 Eve starred in the pilot episode of the award-winning BBC drama series Waking the Dead. … Read More
2004 53 Years Old In 2004 he played the role of Velior in Troy, with Brad Pitt.
2006 55 Years Old Following this he played Dr Patrick Stowe, a fertility expert in The Family Man in 2006. … Read More
2008 57 Years Old In April 2008 Eve starred as game show host and TV personality Hughie Green in the BBC Four biographical film Hughie Green, Most Sincerely.
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2011 60 Years Old In January 2011, he starred in the three-part ITV drama Kidnap and Ransom, filmed on location in South Africa.
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Our March 2010 Designer Challenge is hosted by Donna Thomas {autisticwonder}
Our March 2010 Designer Challenge is hosted by Donna Thomas {autisticwonder}
Be good to your favorite designer (I used to be one!) by LETTING THEM KNOW how much you appreciate their work!
YEE HAW!! REady for some more SHARING TIME?
THis Month's CHALLENGE THEME is Campaign 2010!!!
Want you to do a layout to CAMPAIGN for your favorite someone for a certain position in YOUR government in life..
For example: King of Kissers...Vote goes to my HUSBAND ..yada yada yada..
President of my FAN CLUB ....My indorcement goes to so and so..LOL..list of qualifications..
Luckiest Person in the WORLD....my vote goes to "someone"..etc..
March has St. Patrick's Day, Eyes of March, End of Winter, etc... So you can use this CAMPAIGN theme anyway you wish..
PRIZE DRAWING for all those that participate in this CHALLENGE...To add more chances to win...donate some of your clever artwork, templates, etc..
PRIZE is a $20 gift award from paypal..You can use it on whatever you wish..Most places, including Max, use paypal to make purchases..all I will need is
your email with paypal . That is only necessary for the winner of the random drawing.
To increase your chances to win:
1) Submit a picture of your layout = 1 chance added to drawing
2) Submit a shareable smt template = 5 chances added to drawing
3) Submit an embellishment, papers, etc. = 1 chance added for each embellishment, paper, tile, etc.
4) Participate with comments = 1 chance per comment
So let's have fun..see what your campaign looks like!!
Due to the nature of the CHALLENGE..I have no goodie pack to offer for you..You all will do the art work this time.
Use whatever freebies have been given already in forums..and be sure to give credits as needed.. You get credit for YOUR work
and noone else's freebies. But working them up into a layout becomes YOUR work..
Oh man this one looks hard!! hmmm, need some thinking time!!
K, here's my shot at this challenge!!
Kristine Bents and Jessica Safty are the designers of this great kit which you can snag for free (see link in Gallery)
Because I can't post other program stuff, but have posted the link where you can get the stuff for free does that count as sharing tee hee
OMG...this looks like an awesome challenge GF!!!! I am going to have to do one for this...
KSD...what a wonderful layout!!!!!! Love them colors...and how you arranged the photo's...Very classy!
Designer challenge March 2010. I nominate Jalen April for the Best Big Sister. She has two younger sisters, and she is the perfect big sister, she loves them both, plays with them, sings songs and reads to them, she mothers both Dominique and Paxton. She has so much patience it is unbelievable, particularly with Dominique who is a real live wire. mask was from Fiona Storey. All the rest my papers and embies, which I will post separately. Thanks for the challenge Donna
Dowload Template from 4shared link just double click on the journaling, photos or caption and replace with your own.
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August 24, 2008 - Bill Harding, Outdoor Writer
Outdoor magazines carry many articles about catching bass, trout and walleyes, but what about bluegills? Every so often I see an article about these fun, little fish, but not often....
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On Nov 2, 10:57 am, "news.rd.francetelecom.fr"
> Hello,
> I am looking for the reel IO time for a batch.
Why? What problem are you really trying to solve?
I find it much more fruitful to find out what the IOs are and do
something about it then to know how long they take. The fastest IO is
one never done, and better still... one never even considered.
> It's seem at the end of the batch report, there is information like :
> Charged CPU time: 0 00:10:21.34 Elapsed time: 0 00:25:18.93
> i know that the IO time = ELapsed - CPU Time.
That's often good enough to know whether there is something to be
Of course you'd also want to know the direct and buffered io count.
> But , if the batch wait the processor (COMputable state) during the
> executing, the IO time was wrong. (i think)
It's not IO time, it is waiting time.
Could be waiting for resources, events, synchronization, data,
For batch jobs,(Disk) IO is often a large component,
but a disproportionally large IO delay coudl come from a few, slow,
network IOs.
Maybe the batch job triggers heavy Oracle queries?
You correctly identify the scheduling state COM but not CUR as looking
like IO time.
But there is also waiting for implicit (RMS bucket / XQP ) Locks
around IOs..
Furthermore, IF you batch jobs go COM, then the system is overloaded
If you are thinking of speeding up the IO, then the same job is likely
to simply spend more time in COM state versus LEF state. On the other
hand, if you could avoid doing the IO, it is a win-win for all
That could be as simple as pre-extending output file and using larger
> how can i find the reel "IO TIME" ou COMputable TIME for the batch process.
There is no fool proof way that I can quickly think of.
If you are very curious, and have nothing better to do, then you could
consider sampling the process states for a while, maybe 10 times per
second and just count CUR, COM, LEF and HIBER to get a distribution
Also note that some of the COM/CUR time can be hiding active IOs,
notably when work with RMS options like Deferred Write, Write-Behind
and Read-Ahead.
And also note that some (most READ) IOs could easily be resolve from
cache while the process is CUR.
> or i am wrong in my reasoning ?
Focus on the real problem, on the real activities, use the numbers
just as indicator, helpers, not the goal itself.
Hope this helps some,
Hein van den Heuvel ( at gmail dot com )
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It's been a whirlwind summer for Kevin Zegers, who tied the knot last weekend between press commitments for his upcoming film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. Perhaps that's why he hasn't gotten used to married life quite yet.
"I read in an email that [my wife] called me her husband yesterday, and I was wondering who she was talking about," Zegers joked to PEOPLE during a Friday junket for his movie, which opens Aug. 21.
That's not to say his new title comes as any sort of surprise to the actor, 28, who has been in a relationship with his now-wife Jaime Feld for almost seven years.
"We've been together a long time, so it wasn't an un-thought-out decision," says Zegers. "We've been engaged for a year so we were both ready. We just had a party and we were glad that people were there to celebrate with us."
Among the wedding guests were two of Zegers's Mortal Instruments costars, Lily Collins and Jamie Campbell Bower.
"Lily and my wife are very close since we finished, and Jamie and I hit it off from the time we met," he explains. "They're like my family."
As for honeymoon plans, those will have to wait until the end of Zegers's intense press tour schedule.
"We're actually doing the European tour and then we go to Mexico City. Then my wife and I are going to go on our honeymoon before we start shooting the second movie," he says.
By that time, Zegers will be ready to relax on the beach. He adds, "We're going to Turks and Caicos!"
Kevin Zegers Is Adjusting to Newlywed Life
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|Coalition to Save Our Military Shopping Benefits
Speaker Patrick Nixon, President
April 2012
The ALA along with the leadership of The Coalition to Save Our Military Shopping Benefits is developing a template for a marketing/media strategy with the objective to educate, engage, and excite the military patron. The ultimate outcome is to increase awareness, usage and support for these important programs.
|Legislative Update
Eric Dell, Chief of Staff for Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC);
Steve Rossetti, Director, ALA Government Affairs
April 2012
Mr. Dell has been instrumental in providing critical advice and counsel to Congressman Joe Wilson who serves as Chairman of the Military Personnel Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee. In this webcast, he provides an update on the key issue facing Congress. Mr. Rossetti follows Mr. Dell with an overview of DoD's new strategy for the future of force structure and deployment. Based on a declining budget and a shift in global focus, force levels are programmed to drop and there are talks of new rounds of BRAC. The pressure on the budget is projected to last for the next decade and military resale will continually be challenged. Mr. Rossett discusses these developments and the ALA's efforts to enhance and protect these important and valued programs.


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BOISE, Idaho � Regional energy planners for four Western states are asking Congress for help building a stronger line of defense against what some officials call an unfolding environmental disaster � an invasive mussel that is clogging Colorado River reservoirs such as Lake Mead outside Las Vegas after ravaging the Great Lakes region.
The Northwest Power and Conservation Council guides power and environmental policy in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, all of which are frustrated because boats continue to leave Lake Mead in Nevada and Arizona contaminated with quagga mussels.
It is seeking $2 million in federal aid to add watercraft inspection and decontamination stations to intercept boats carrying these rapidly multiplying, thumb-sized mollusks that could wreak havoc on Columbia River hydroelectric dams, farmers� irrigation systems and lakes prized for recreation. The water district in Los Angeles already estimates up to $15 million in annual expenses tackling quagga infestations that have damaged its aqueduct and reservoir system extending from the Colorado River.
�A second line of defense is not as good perhaps as stopping them at Lake Mead, but it�s something we absolutely need to do when we can�t depend on interdiction efforts,� Phil Rockefeller, Washington�s appointee on the council, said Tuesday at a meeting in Boise.
In 2012, a $1 million appropriation pushed by U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, was directed to support �mandatory operational inspection and decontamination stations� at sites including Lake Mead.
But only about half the money has gone toward inspection and decontamination work, according to the council, prompting Rockefeller to complain that federal agencies including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service aren�t sufficiently invested in fighting the scourge.
The quagga mussel continues to be a concern in the Four Corners as well:
All towed-in boats must be inspected at Vallecito and Navajo reservoirs. An inspector from Colorado Parks and Wildlife is at the Vallecito marina from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. Inspections are mandatory, but they are free and take about five minutes.
Navajo State Park has been inspecting boats for mussels for several years. Inspection hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday.
In April, city of Farmington official banned all boats from the city�s reservoir because of concerns it may become infested with the invasive mussels.
Managers at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on Lake Powell in Arizona and Utah believe a mandatory inspection program has helped keep their waters mussel-free. Boaters who fail to abide by inspection rules face a mandatory court appearance, six months in jail and a $5,000 fine.
Although the quagga mussel is not yet a big Four Corners crisis, it certainly is at Lake Mead.
Researchers don�t know exactly how the mussels arrived at Lake Mead, where their numbers have increased tenfold to 1.5 trillion since their 2007 discovery. Some speculate they hitchhiked aboard a boat from the Great Lakes region, where the mussels have been proliferating for more than 20 years after arriving in the ballast of ocean-going ships from Eastern Europe. Mussels have damaged ecological systems and done hundreds of millions in damage in the Great Lakes region.
Given the mussels� rapid proliferation on the Colorado River, Idaho state Rep. Eric Anderson said stopping contaminated boats before they go elsewhere is the best way to combat the mussels� spread.
This year alone, nearly 80 infested boats have been stopped on the borders of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington, most coming from Lake Mead.
�The fire is Lake Mead,� said Anderson, a Republican who has become Idaho�s leading legislative champion of fighting mussels. �We can�t allow any more boats to come out of Lake Mead that aren�t decontaminated.�
Earlier this year, Anderson left 500 Idaho license plates underwater at a Lake Mead marina. After they�ve been encrusted with the mussels, he�ll distribute them to Idaho outlets that sell boat tags � as visual examples of the mussels� potential toll. Revenue from these tags funds Idaho�s $850,000 annual effort to keep mussels out of Idaho, including border inspections that began in 2009.
Amy Ferriter, invasive species coordinator at the Idaho Department of Agriculture, fears Lake Mead managers aren�t doing enough. There are still no mandatory inspections, and Ferriter said she observed idled decontamination stations on a recent visit.
She also complains National Park Service officials have largely balked at requests to ask departing boaters for their destinations, then share the information across state lines, to better monitor such traffic.
Communication is so poor, the Northwest power council is considering filing a Freedom of Information Act request to force Lake Mead officials to divulge boater details.
�Given the high percentage of fouled boats coming from Lake Mead, this seems like a high-risk pathway,� Ferriter said Tuesday.
Park Service managers at Lake Mead contend they�ve done more than anybody to try to keep mussels from leaving, but cite privacy laws governing boaters� personal information they say prevent them from passing along details from boaters to states.
Randy Lavasseur, assistant chief ranger at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, said the vastness of the 248-square-mile reservoir, where water behind the Hoover Dam is diverted through pipelines and aqueducts for use in California, Arizona and Nevada, presents a challenge to federal managers in making sure every boat that leaves is mollusk-free. More than 8 million people visit every year.
Other states also are casting a wary glance at Lake Mead.
At sparkling Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border, two infested boats were intercepted before the July 4 holiday.
Both came from Lake Mead, said Ted Thayer, who manages the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency�s aquatic invasive species program. His group estimates damage from a mussel-infested Lake Tahoe would result in $22 million in annual costs to the water supply, recreation and property values.
�We�re concerned they are still showing up here,� Thayer said from his offices in Stateline, Nev. �One really infested boat would be enough to infest� Lake Tahoe.


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15 of the biggest summer movie letdowns of all-time
Find out which blockbusters disappointed us the most
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997)
The first "Speed" was one of the biggest surprises in the summer of 1994. Overnight it transformed Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock from recognizable supporting actors to household names. Reeves declined to return for this waterlogged sequel, which sees Sandra Bullock and Reeves stand-in Jason Patric become trapped on an enormous, lumbering cruise ship that's headed for a fateful collision with an oil tanker (courtesy of a scenery-chewing terrorist played by Willem Dafoe). While many saw this concept and title as eyebrow raising, there was hope that with director Jan de Bont returning (he'd shot the blockbuster "Twister" inbetween the two installments) audiences might get something close to the genuinely-thrilling first film. Instead, it became one of Bullocks' biggest blunders and almost destroyed Patric's career. That said, "Cruise Control"'s sheer awfulness actually redeems it somewhat; if nothing else, it's the perfect vehicle for a spirited game of "Spot the Continuity Errors."
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