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"Africa Must Make Tough Choices to Build Democracy"
Op-Ed, Business Daily
January 7, 2011
Author: Calestous Juma, Professor of the Practice of International Development; Director, Science, Technology, and Globalization Project; Principal Investigator, Agricultural Innovation in Africa
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Lawrence Haddad started the year with provocative predictions.
Below are my comments, knowing that in the end we will get most of it wrong anyway. The future always has the last laugh.
Governance: Contrary to Mr Haddad's views, I do not think governance went away. It was just done badly, at least in Africa where it was equated with elections and personalised scrutiny of individual leaders.
Little was done to build democratic institutions such as political party structures so we have returned to ethnic politics and shambolic elections.
Many of these have been no more than medieval mob football where the referees and riot police show up after the game and ask everyone to work together.
In some cases like Ivory Coast those with opposing armies went to the polls with expected results.
In world that is serious about governance, the ultimate outcome for places like Ivory Coast is eventually dismantle the military.
Ivory Coast could re-invent the saved resources in education, health and infrastructure which would in turn reinforce democracy.
It was done in Costa Rica with remarkable results and Africa could learn from their example.
I have no illusions that this would be easy but anyone who is serious about democracy ought to be prepared for tough choices and actions with unpredictable consequences.
Half-hearted approaches are likely to see the spread of blatant political marauders.
Democracy and technocracy are often contrasted. It was never a contrast with technocratic rule. In fact, I would like to see more expertise being brought into governance.
For example, creating think tanks to help political parties craft platforms on which to complete would do more for African democracy than all the governance consultants put together.
The latter have sprinkled a few good ideas here and there but they have not had the expected effect because of the lack of institutions to translate them into political programmes.
Governance was hardly served well by ideas. In the absence of such competence-building, the common practice of ranking leaders becomes no more than hollow self-righteousness.
BRICS: There will be growth in emerging economies. In fact, there are already quite a few de facto BRICS. But I would also watch regional integration bodies especially in Africa. They will not come in as BRICs but as "economic networks".
They are laying the foundations for alternative forms of economic governance and are quite different from the EU model despite the seeming appearances.
Africa: We are going to see stronger growth in Africa in the coming year. A large part of this will come from the benefits of communications technologies in a wide range of fields.
South Sudan is a place to watch because it will want to be part of the EAC and cannot do that while it is at war.
And when it does, I suspect that northern Sudan might want to join as well. Even far-flung countries such as Central African Republic will be looking to be part of East Africa. And with Ethiopia continuing to grow its internal economy I suspect the region could be a surprise.
This could spill over into Somalia as well which might start to feel war fatigue especially as the northern regions continue to prosper and improve.
Nigeria will continue to grow. I can confirm the existence of strong will in a new generation of leaders to take their place as a regional economic force. This is a formative year for the country.
Innovation, creativity and pragmatism: We are entering age of innovation in earnest and the influence of ideology is waning (thankfully).
Innovation will continue to drive all economies around the world. It is the crucible around which the BRICs are resting and will play an even greater role in poorer countries.
The major areas to watch include the spread of broadband technology. This could do for Africa what railroads did for western economies but with greater economic synergies.
This is where I would predict that if foreign assistance (the little that is still left) continues on its current ideological path, it will become largely irrelevant to the aspirations of even the poorest of nations.
Also related to this will be a moment when African countries will start to pay more attention to the differences between "research and development" and "innovation".
There will be more interest in funding activities that use existing knowledge to create wealth and less in funding basic research with the hope that it will one day lead to economic benefits.
These trends pose new challenges for academic institutions.
For example, educational programmes that assume that the poor need traditional relief may become new sources of unemployed graduates.
They will need to be replaced with new approaches that stress local competence and problem-solving.
The age of pragmatism will have less use for self-appointed spokespeople for Africa but much influence will come from men and women working quietly to transfer skills and share knowledge.
Engineering sciences and law will become more important in international cooperation and will challenge the dominance economics and politics.
I have hinted at this in my new book, "The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa" but will explain in more detail in a future book under preparation.
Juma is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. This article by was written in response to a posting by Lawrence Haddad. See: http://www.developmenthorizons.com/2011/01/my-favourite-prediction-is-from-ex.html.
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There's no question that the economy affects buying behavior. Even so, you can't afford to wait for sales until after your customers are done hunkering down. Here are 10 ways to make certain you're still selling, even when things look grim:
- Cultivate your inner sales guru.You may be worried about the economy, but you can't let worries rule your thoughts and actions. Rather than focusing on the economy, act as if you're starting a new sales job that presents some interesting challenges to overcome. Remember: Even during the worst of times, some people end up winning. Make sure it's you.
- Reaffirm your firm's viability. Take a good, hard, realistic look at your firm. Is it still in good shape? Are its offerings worthwhile? Do you add value to your customers? Would YOU want to do business with your firm? If the answer is no, find a job somewhere else. But if your firm is basically sound, there's no reason for you not to go out there and sell with confidence.
- Recraft your corporate message. Figure out how you're going to communicate the value of your firm in a
- Retune your solution message. What works during times of uncertainty are messages of low risk (protection, security, stability, and cost savings). However, you needn't be glum. People want some positive messages, too, so add those into the mix. Show how your offering helps position the customer for future growth.
- Expand your pricing options. Work with your CFO or other financial gurus on alternative financing plans, delayed payments, subscription fees, discounts, whatever. You want to walk into EVERY sales situation with a bag of tricks that will allow the prospect to buy from you.
- Prioritize your opportunities. Run though your entire list of leads and opportunities and, based upon what you know and can learn with some research, prioritize your opportunities. Lower the priority of long-term "strategic" opportunities and raise the priority on the customers who are most likely to buy, regardless of what happens to the economy.
- Tighten your lead qualification. Each time you get in contact with a prospect, confirm that they're a real opportunity early in the sales cycle. Then use the flexibility of your financial options to determine the payment plan or method that will make it easy for them to say "YES!" Do this religiously and, as a bonus, you'll spend far less time following up on dead leads.
- Focus on the right numbers. Set up an ambitious schedule of working through the steps of your sales process. And then follow it. A sales process forces you to focus on the mechanics of selling rather than your concerns about closing business. The regularity of selling is a great way to get a sense of accomplishment, even if your hit rate is lower than it used to be.
- Become a thought leader. It might be a bit harder to make the deals than it was when times were good. So what? If you're doing everything I've listed, you'll be outselling the competition. There's a saying that true leadership consists of being able to remain calm no matter what. This is a good time for YOU to remain calm and make the best of the situation.
- Enjoy yourself. When things are difficult, you need to give yourself credit and lots of it, simply for plugging away. Your challenge is to enjoy yourself and your job, even though times are tough. So DECIDE to feel good. If you've got the emotional moxie to stay calm when everyone else is freaking out, this could be the most successful year in your career.
Geoffrey James writes a daily column on selling for Inc. magazine's website and is the author of How to Say It: Business to Business Selling: Power Words and Strategies from the World's Top Sales Experts (Prentice Hall, 2011).
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- A 'limit attitude': Foucault, autonomy, critique
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- On Foucault's own telling, his distinctive approach to critique is to be characterized as a 'limit attitude'. Definitive of this limit attitude is a problematizing, transgressive style of thinking oriented toward challenging existing ways of being and doing, with a view to liberating new possibilities for advancing 'the undefined work of freedom'. From the outset, however, the efficacy of this problematizing approach to critique has been beset by doubts about the adequacy of its normative resources. In the present article, it is argued that progress can be made toward a productive resolution of this contested issue if adequate account is taken of both the Nietzschean and the Kantian dimensions of Foucault's thought. Specifically, it is argued that the balance between these potentially conflictual elements must be appropriately (re)negotiated, if the normative efficacy of Foucauldian critique is to be ensured, while its distinctive problematizing thrust is preserved. In defending this view, the Foucauldian concept of autonomy is seen to have a pivotal role to play both in advancing the task of problematization and, in its relation to intersubjectivity, in securing its normative efficacy. In thus vindicating the integrity of Foucault's distinctive approach to critique, new light is shed on the structure, dynamics and logic of a contemporary mode of inquiry committed to the problematizing exercise of critical reason.
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Highborn Cay Shipwreck, Bahamas (c. 1520)
History of the wreck
The identity of this ship is unknown. It dates from the first half of the 16th century. It was found in 1965 by sports divers in the Exuma Islands of the Bahamas, and salvaged in 1966 by Mendel Peterson and Teddy Tucker1. The INA/EDRT promoted a survey on this site in 1983 and excavations started in 1986.
Description of the site
The site consisted in a 20 x 8m area where a ballast mound covered the remains of a hull of which keel, Keel, keelson, maststep, buttresses, floors, futtocks, planking, ceiling and wales were fairly well preserved. Only the ends were exposed, together with a trench excavated amidships.
Keel, keelson and maststep
The keel was not preserved in its full extension, but a trough worn in the bottom2. It was estimated in 12.6m and its section was 15-16.5cm sided and 21cm molded. The keel was joined to the stempost by a flat vertical scarf with a 30cm table. The curve of the stem was tangent to the keel. The keelson was notched over the floors, 16-21cm sided and 17cm molded. The maststep consisted of an enlarged portion of the keelson along 2.25m, 40cm sided and 25cm molded. It had a mortise 65 x 17 x 15cm with a spacer inserted on the forward side 30cm long and 15cm wide. The maststep was held in place by pairs of 3 buttresses, which lye over the floors and were embedded in notches on the maststep and on the foot wales. The buttresses were 13.5cm sided and 21.9cm molded on the maststep side, and 11.8cm sided and 16cm molded on the foot wale side. These buttresses were not fastened. Two semicircular holes and a small mortise on the mast step indicated the pumps and pump well's locations.
The (only) master frame was located under the maststep, just forward of the mortise. It had futtocks on both sides although only the forward futtocks had dovetail joints. The three center frames were spaced 30cm center to center, less than the average room-and-space, which was 30cm. The floors were in average 16.5cm sided and 17.5cm molded. From an estimated total of 30 or 31 frames, it is not known how many were pre-assembled. The futtocks were joined to the frames with dovetail joints. No fasteners were noted, although recesses at the ends of the floors and futtocks may have been cut to ease the nailing. The mortise was on the floor and the wider side of the trapezoid down. Forward of the master frame the futtocks were joined to the forward face of the floors and aft of this frame they were joined to the aft face of the floors.
The planking was 6cm thick. The strakes' sided dimension was 8-25cm. Ceiling, thick stuff and wales The ceiling was 3cm thick. The strakes' sided dimension was 12-31cm. A foot wale ran along the turn of the bilge, over the floor/futtock connection. There were three strakes of ceiling between the keelson and the wale. The first ceiling strake after the wale was notched to receive the fillers. Small planks were placed between the buttresses, resting on rabbets in its upper edges.
One of the four bolts fastening the keel to the keelson passes in the space between two floors.
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The ballast mound covered an area of 16 x 4m. There is no estimated total weight. There were stones larger than 50cm. Samples were taken for analysis.
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Of a set of fifteen samples taken from several timbers on the wreck all but two showed to be oak (Quercus sp.). The two exceptions were planks from the pump well which were from the Salicaceae family (which includes willows) and the Cupressaceae family (which includes cedars).
1. Smith, Roger & Keith, Donald & Lakey, Denise "The Highborn Cay Wreck: Further exploration of a 16th century Bahaman shipwreck" IJNA (1985) 14.1: 63-72. See also: Peterson, Mendel "Buried treasure beneath the Spanish main" Unesco Courrier, (1972) May: 23-27: 23-24, and "Les sites d'épaves des Amériques" in L'archéologie subaquatique, une discipline naissante, Unesco, Paris, 1973: 83-92: 95.
2. Oertling, Thomas J. "The Highborn Cay Wreck: the 1986 field season" IJNA (1989) 18.3: 244-253.
Oertling, Thomas J. "The Highborn Cay Wreck: the 1986 field season" IJNA (1989) 18.3: 244-253.
Peterson, Mendel "Buried treasure beneath the Spanish main" Unesco Courrier, (1972) May: 23-27.
Peterson, Mendel "Les sites d'épaves des Amériques" in L'archéologie subaquatique, une discipline naissante, Unesco, Paris, 1973: 83-92.
Smith, Roger & Keith, Donald & Lakey, Denise "The Highborn Cay Wreck: Further exploration of a 16th century Bahaman shipwreck" IJNA (1985) 14.1: 63-72.


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Nah they will not make any difference
Revive itachi to 1 shot obito and madara
the 4 hokages will butt rape madara and obito for sure
this is thier powerlevel chart
Originally Posted by ~Supreme Itachi~
Madara is just playing until now and his boy Obito is not going all out too like what he did to the mist ninja's
what i'm trying to say is the 4 hokages will not beat madara,obito or the 10 tails
Madara can just use 15 bansho tensei 20 CT and 30 meteors while Obito and the 10 tails are intagible
the only way i think to stop him is revive itachi again
so do you think if oro uses this 4 hokages will even make a difference?
I Think Madra told That only Hashirama can beat him http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/589/2
Itachi wuld Fall as easy as Ten ten.
And yes Hokages will make Difference.
Last edited by garas56; 02-01-2013 at 05:34 PM.
Originally Posted by Uchiha Josephus
4 Hokages with unlimited chakra?
I think they'd be able to dish out some pain
And Minato can FTG the Juubi all night long. Dance, baby, dance!
Originally Posted by BloodSeed
this is thier powerlevel chart
You're telling me Base Naruto > Gyuuki?
10000% Trooooolllll.
Lol Im a uchiha fanboy....but seriously bro what the hell are you talking about......As stated by Madara himself Harishima is the only one who can own him lol and now he has unlimited chakra and madara doesnt even have his presious Kyubi.....Minato owned Obito once...why cant he do it again now that he has unlimited chakra and his son is a top class ninja maybe the mos powerful....the third mmmm i dont know but he might do something he wasnt weak at all he is just old......the sencond c'mon bro his Harishima's brother he will be the best support for harishima plus he knows time-space ninjutsu and how to break edo tensei and he can perform it too.....plus there is only mandara and obito and the juubi....On the other side: Naruto full powered with kurama, 4 previous homages, 4 other kages, a whole army with a few really strong ninjas, another biju.....Why in the world do you think Madara and Obito might have chance???? plus with Sasuke and oro get involve forget it Madara is soooo fu.. up
Originally Posted by BlacLord
You're telling me Base Naruto > Gyuuki?
10000% Trooooolllll.
oh i forgot to edit 8tails. thanks for pointing out
oh and new power ups for minato
at the belly of the shinigami minato and kurama fought 13years not stop minato gains 13years of experience fighting kurama :rofl:
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make a difference? this thread is a troll
the 4 hokages against madara and obito? overkill. madara said that the only person that could beat him is Mr Hashirama.. hashirama + 3 other hokage? overkill.
If before they died hashirama was better than madara what makes you think edo hashirama won't defeat edo madara
You spoke ma mind
ur just a fanboy when u say the 4 hokage won't make a difference how the hell will itachi do it cos all the hokage > itachi
This thread is a sad excuse for fanboying and peenis riding Madara's wood.
Originally Posted by Itachi Rane
Here's the thing!! TAJUU MOKUTON BUNSHIN NO JUTSU......hundreds of madara eadh with ems or rinnegan and susanoo activated......who can beat that! Even if hashi does multiple wood clone tech he lacks susanoo or or the eye techs.....
he cant to that much at once more like 25 :D Hes no naruto
You said the four hokage can't make any different but itachi can? You must not be in your right sense or maybe you are just a blind fanboy. Itachi is nothing compare to anyone of the four kages. So stop making annoying senseless thread
Originally Posted by Yugaro Uzamaki
remember back during the 9 tails attack how Minato used his S/T tech to teleport Kurama's bijudama away from the village? You keep saying Madara alone could summon 50 meteors but then a Minato with unlimited chakra can just used the jutsu I mentioned above to teleport each and every one of those beloved meteors of yours away with little trouble. Stop using that as an excuse.
This raped the thread. To Yugaro's comment all that is left to explain why 4 hokages rape Madara and Obito plus juubi is the following:
The same wood clones madara is using so can Hashirama. So you'll get for each Madara a Hashirama. With no chakra limit Hiruzen and Minato can spam their shadow clones as well. As for Obito using his st techs, there are 2 not 1 but 2! Space time edo users amoung the hokages. The only thing that could work would be the "can't touch me" intangibility mode. But as we all know the "can't touch me" mode will only last for 5 minutes after that Obito would be fooderized.
I didn't read the entire thread. But in the first pages your biggest argument is meteors then sucked up by obito. But it is very possible that they could escape that demension using ST jutsu. Which both the 2nd and 4th hace
Originally Posted by ~Supreme Itachi~
Madara is just playing until now and his boy Obito is not going all out too like what he did to the mist ninja's
what i'm trying to say is the 4 hokages will not beat madara,obito or the 10 tails
Madara can just use 15 bansho tensei 20 CT and 30 meteors while Obito and the 10 tails are intagible
the only way i think to stop him is revive itachi again
so do you think if oro uses this 4 hokages will even make a difference?
You my good sir are a GENI.....TOOL!!!! Even with the rinnegan Madara still hypes hashirama to be of par with him so imagine hashi and the creaters of the FTG and S/T justus and the 3rd fighting madara and Obito. If Madara sees Hashi he would go insane with emotion and same for obito if he sees the forth. Minato alone could take all three of the if you ask me. And for the Itachi trolls out there stop it...!!! Itachi is a good ninja but its seems as though the only reason people acknowledge him is because of his analyzing skills stop it Minato is a far better analyst( Not even mentioning that he is the chosen one) with far more chakra,strengh, speed and stamina Thread OVER
why wont it make a difference?
guys guys...
all Itachi needs to do is to drive the totska blade into the ground and he'd solo everyone
OT: all you need is Hashirama and Minato to take on Madara and Obito...
Tobirama to break them from the seal
Hiruzen to do nothing
Lol plot armour I like that one, this is a troll thread OP sounds sarcastic, but if its not this good because everyone wants to know of has hi is that strong, I feel that hiruzen was always underrated, minato also gets to prove himself, and tobirama is also underrated and needs to prove himself.
I'm a tobirama fanboy so yea this is good, and watch minato teach naruto ftg, watch remember I said it
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ARM Holdings, a developer of low-power microprocessor architectures, blamed the lack of Adobe Flash support by ARM processors for postpones of smartbook computers. In addition, a vice president of ARM indicated that unexpected popularity of slate-type systems also caught potential smartbook makers unprepared and forced them to either delay smartbooks or reconsider their plans in general.
One of the biggest issues of ARM processors – besides natural incompatibility with software written for x86 microprocessors in general – is the lack of support of Adobe Flash, which powers the vast majority of multimedia available on the Internet. Since smartbooks are supposed to be always connected, Flash support is crucial for their success, no surprise that few companies want to reveal ARM-based devices that do not feature this important technology. An exception is Apple, which launched its iPad tablet without Flash, multi-tasking and other vital technologies, but still managed to sell a million of its slates. However, companies who actually care about their clients are waiting for Adobe to implement Flash on ARM-powered systems.
"We thought [smartbooks] would be launched by now, but they're not. I think one reason is to do with software maturity. We have seen things like Adobe slip – we had originally scheduled for something like 2009. Our target is mostly internet machines — it becomes sort of a requirement that they run the internet," Drew said. "[The delay in optimising] Flash has stalled it," said Ian Drew, vice president of marketing at ARM, in an interview with ZDNet UK.
ARM and Adobe signed a pact in late 2008 that was intended to see Flash Player 10 and Air optimized for ARM-based systems. However, so far the world has not seen any results of this partnership.
There are other factors that also caused postpones for smartbooks. According to the vice president of ARM, the sudden explosion of interest in the tablet form-factor had "confused" some manufacturers that had been considering ARM-based smartbooks, which tend to resemble laptops, thus further delaying smartbooks' advent.
Interestingly, Nvidia Corp., which recently released its second-generation Tegra, which performance is suitable for both smartbooks and tablets, claims that there are more Tegra-based slates than smartbooks in development. Some other market realities, including poor perception of Linux operating system and high price of Lenovo Skylight, indicate that smartbooks are indeed an "unmissed link" between smartphones, tablets and notebooks/netbooks. However, ARM hopes that smartbooks will see the bring future.
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There are between 3,000 and 6,000 Kalash left in the world. They live in a valley region in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan. The land of the Kalash is known as Kafiristan (literally "land of the infidel"). The valleys which they inhabit are known for their beauty.
The culture of the Kalash is unique. The Kalash are polytheists who share similarities to the Olympian gods of Greece. Sexes intermix and the only hint at sexism is that women are isolated during their periods and are then required to purify. While there are cases of arranged marriages, men and women are free to purpose their own intentions.
Kalash live as subsistence farmers. There way of life has been practically unchanged for hundreds of years. They practice ancient traditions which are just now being documented.
Some Kalash have modernized and converted to Islam. While these people wish to stay near their relations (family being a major aspect of Kalash life) they are considered persona non grata.
The origins of the Kalash is highly controversial. They are a white race with many of their members having blond hair. Legends claim they are descendants from Greek and Macedonian soldiers who fought for Alexander. Some DNA testing backs up this claim. Other testing disputes this but still shows evidence of locals intermixing with Greeks.
For most of their history the Kalash have lived on good terms with their neighbors. In the 1700s they came under the rule of the Mehtars, rulers of northern now day Pakistan, who were tolerant of the Kalash as long as they paid taxes. Time seemed a foreign concept as rulers came and went. The Kalash stayed out of the affairs of others and others stayed out of the affairs of the Kalash.
Things started to change towards the end of the nineteenth century. The Nuristani, possible relations to the Kalash, were forced to convert to Islam in 1895. The Nuristanti quickly became radicalized (so radical in fact that they were the first to wage Jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan).
As the twentieth century continued increase pressure was mounted against the Kalash. Higher taxes were imposed and services like loans and support were denied. Many converted to Islam for economic betterment. When the Afghan-Soviet war broke out the lands nearby became home to Jihadis on their way to Afghanistan. Seeing an oppurtunity, many Muslims organizations funded mosques and madrasah built on seized Kalash lands. When the Islamists' desired result of total conversion was not achieved tactics of ethnic cleansing were used.
The Afghanistan problem is repeating itself in the opening years of the twenty-first century. Sporadic violence breaks out against the Kalash even today. It does not help that the province they live in is known as the most radical Islamic one in Pakistan. Taliban, al Qaeda, and others know to harbor hate and their political allies keep the flames of bigotry alive.
There is some hope however. Their numbers are slightly rebounding with a high fertility rate among those who defend their culture the most. The national Pakistani government has begun a more tolerant relation with the Kalash and international aid and attention helps with some cultural preservation.
Tourism is now a major issue to the Kalash. Some see it as a savior, a source of massive funding the likes of which have never been seen before in the valleys. With money they can afford security and betterment. Some see negative affects however. After resisting outside forces for over 2,000 years will they succumb to globalized tourism? Will their cultural meanings, their every essences, be lost to hotels and Disneyland-style presentations of themselves? Time will tell.
The gorgeous valleys have protected the Kalash for thousands of years. Outside forces, ranging from hostile to good intentioned, seek to modify the Kalash way of life. Unlike the Roma there seems to be no middle ground to stand upon and thrive. Time will tell if the small population of Kalash can continue or fade away into the fog of history.
Additional Resources
Kalash article from Picturesque Pakistan - Everything you ever wanted to know about the Kalash
KalashaPeople.org - A multilingual blog by the Kalash
Kalash Valleys - Beautiful pictures of the Kalash and their valleys
Kalash of Cultures - Transcript of a Foriegn Correspondent episode about the Kalash


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ISBE financial profiles show more schools in top financial condition, school districts show continued financial improvement
Governor's proposed budget will further strengthen local district finances
Springfield, Ill. – The Illinois State Board of Education released its annual look at the financial status of the states' school districts, which shows their financial health continuing to make improvements. The results show nearly 60% of the states' districts are in the highest category, receiving financial recognition, while only 6% are on the financial watch list.
"It is clear that the additional funding Governor Blagojevich and the General Assembly are making available to our schools, along with efficiency measures being implemented at the local level, are strengthening the financial condition of our schools," said State Board of Education Chairman Jesse H. Ruiz. "The additional $1.5 billion Governor Blagojevich is proposing in his fiscal year 2008 budget will go a long way in helping districts improve financially even more."
The School District Financial Profile was designed to better illustrate information on school district finances and to establish financial designation lists for all school districts. The Financial Profile is based on the State Board's analysis of school districts' June 30, 2006 Annual Financial Reports.
Each district in the state receives a designation in one of the following four categories (highest to lowest): Financial Recognition; Financial Review; Financial Early Warning; and Financial Watch.
For the 2007 Financial Profile, there are:
- 513 Financial Recognition school districts, up from 488 in 2006
- 193 Financial Review school districts, compared to 225 in 2006
- 115 Financial Early Warning school districts, compared to 109 in 2006
- 53 Financial Watch school districts, down from 59 in 2006
In addition to making gains over the FY06 Financial Profile (based on FY05 data), Illinois districts have made significant improvements since the 2004 Financial Profile (based on FY03 data).
- 59% in 2007 get financial recognition, up from 40% in 2004
- 22% on financial review, compared to 27% in 2004
- 13% on financial early warning compared to 16% in 2004
- 6% on financial watch compared to 17% in 2004
"In the last five years, many school districts have been faced with financial problems and tough decisions that had to be made," said Interim State Superintendent Christopher A. Koch. "Seeing our schools becoming more financially solvent is a good sign, however we must continue to work together to get additional resources for our students."
The Financial Profile designation is just one piece of information that school districts and communities should use to judge the financial management and condition of their school district.
The list is created by using five indicators of financial performance:
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The school District Financial Profile was reviewed by the Illinois State Board of Education during its regularly scheduled meeting today.


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Odis and Doris Newman lived in the Portales area for more than 40 years. (Courtesy photo)
By Tony Parra: Freedom newspapers
Portales went five years without a homicide, from 1999 through 2003. Then two unrelated slayings took place in 2004. Last week, Roosevelt County experienced its first multiple homicide in what officials said is at least two decades with the deaths of longtime residents Odis and Doris Newman.
"It's a crazy thing," said Elouisa Vega, who has lived in Portales for 20 years.
"This is the first incident this year, but there were other incidents last year. … I don't feel safe at all."
Vega was shopping Tuesday at a store near the stretch of North Main where police shot a man they suspect was involved in the Newmans' slayings.
Vega said she does not live in the area, but often visits family members that do.
"We used to cruise around in the north part of Portales when I was younger," Vega said. "Now my teenage sons cruise around and I worry about them. I'm scared they might get hurt."
Vega said she has seen an increase in police patrol in the north part of town in recent months, especially since two homicides occurred in the area last year.
She is not the city's only resident concerned with the violent trend.
Maria Valenzuela owns a meat market on North Main and Fir streets, about half a block from where yellow police tape blocked off the area where Tuesday's shooting took place.
"It scares me a lot," Valenzuela said. "Sometimes I work alone and it scares me to know this happened so close."
Valenzuela said she and her husband, Sergio, have owned the store for three years. She said they moved from California to Portales eight years ago to get away from violence.
"This whole incident makes me nervous," Valenzuela said.
But Charlene Carter still believes Portales is safer than many communities.
"We have a few bad apples, but for the most part people in this community are good," Carter said. "I think this incident will make our community stronger."
Carter said she was close to the Newmans.
"I knew them very well," she said. "They took me under their wings when my mother died in 2002. They were wonderful people. They were the greatest parents, grandparents and great grandparents.
"It has shocked the whole community."
Neighboring Curry County has seen 28 homicides since 1998.
Before Amber Robinson, 20, was slain last April 26, Portales had not seen a homicide since '98. Police and sheriff officials said they could not recall a multiple homicide in the county over the past 25 years.
In mid-June a Clovis man was stabbed to death at the corner of Date Street and North Avenue K in Portales.
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None of those attacks come close to what Patrick unleashed today. DewFeed, which the paid-fur-by-Texans for Dan Patrick banner and the link to his campaign donation website suggests is legit, is brutal. It's the "night that will live in Texas political infamy, as told by cats."
Sure enough, the list that follows tails the tail of Davis' filibuster through a series of nine cat GIFs.
I resent the fact that my image is used in clip #3, "Democrats saw an opportunity to pounce on the lack of leadership." I did not sign a waiver for my image to be used by the Patrick campaign.
In addition, it appears that in clip #4, Dubious', Thorin's and LW's images were used in the segment, "A liberal mob descended upon Dewhurst and he couldn't keep control of the gallery." I spoke with LW and was assured that once again a waiver was not signed for use by the Patrick campaign.
Finally in clip #9, it appears that Feelark's was also appropriated in the segment, "Support Dan Patrick, candidate for Texas Lt. Governor, he'll never back down from a fight."
Taking into consideration that the Patrick inappropriately used our images for hiss own benefit in hiss political campaign, I suggest that we coordinate our efforts with a cattorney and file a cat action lawsuit against Dan Patrick for this travesty.
Adapted and embellished from http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/08/lietenant_governor_candidate_d.php . The complete series of cat gifs and comments made by Dan Patrick are at http://www.dewfeed.com/ .


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I went in today and got my blood drawn. They called me with the results. My HCG is fine but my progesterone is low.
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Home List of Titles A data dependency based strategy for intermediate data storage in scientific cloud workflow systems
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- A data dependency based strategy for intermediate data storage in scientific cloud workflow systems
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- Yuan, Dong; Yang, Yun; Liu, Xiao; Zhang, Gaofeng; Chen, Jinjun
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- Many scientific workflows are data intensive where large volumes of intermediate data are generated during their execution. Some valuable intermediate data need to be stored for sharing or reuse. Traditionally, they are selectively stored according to the system storage capacity, determined manually. As doing science in the cloud has become popular nowadays, more intermediate data can be stored in scientific cloud workflows based on a pay-for-use model. In this paper, we build an intermediate data dependency graph (IDG) from the data provenance in scientific workflows. With the IDG, deleted intermediate data can be regenerated, and as such we develop a novel intermediate data storage strategy that can reduce the cost of scientific cloud workflow systems by automatically storing appropriate intermediate data sets with one cloud service provider. The strategy has significant research merits, i.e. it achieves a cost-effective trade-off of computation cost and storage cost and is not strongly impacted by the forecasting inaccuracy of data sets' usages. Meanwhile, the strategy also takes the users' tolerance of data accessing delay into consideration. We utilize Amazon's cost model and apply the strategy to general random as well as specific astrophysics pulsar searching scientific workflows for evaluation. The results show that our strategy can reduce the overall cost of scientific cloud workflow execution significantly.
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- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 24, no. 9 (Jun 2012), pp. 956-976
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- 2012
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- 0805 Distributed Computing
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- Cloud computing; Data sets storage; Scientific workflow
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- John Wiley & Sons
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Demolishing Denver The narrative of the 2011 NFL season looked a lot like this: Tim Tebow, Tim Tebow, Tim Tebow, Tim Tebow. Once the playoffs began in January 2012, though, it looked a lot more like this: Tom Brady. The Patriots' quarterback threw six touchdowns in the divisional round, Tebow threw zero, and the Patriots routed Denver 45-10. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
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Avery Bradley Emerges The second-year guard emerged to help Boston both on defense and offense when he was inserted into the starting lineup for the injured Ray Allen. Bradley changed the dynamic of the team, giving them a defensive minded two guard and Rajon Rondo another running mate. He is expected to return from a pair of shoulder surgeries when the calendar changes to 2013, so we'll see if he has the same impact again. (Photo by Brian Babineau/NBAE via Getty Images)
Welcome To The NFL If there's one criticism of Bill Belichick that persists in New England it is the coach's habit of trading down in the draft for "value." He bucked that trend in a big way in 2012 though, moving up to draft Chandler Jones and Don't'a Hightower in the first round. The move already paid off in their rookie years, with both players proving they were NFL-ready upon entering the league. (Photo by Frederick Breedon/Getty Images)
Sniper Shawn Shawn Thornton is one of the toughest players in the league, known more for his work with his fists than the puck. However he showed off some Grade A skills in January against the Jets, putting the moves on goaltender Ondrej Pavelec and scoring on a penalty shot at the Garden. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
Middlebrooks Takes Over When a team isn't doing so great, fans often turn to a star in the making. In 2012 that was Will Middlebrooks, who took over third base a year ahead of schedule. Middlebrooks stepped in for an injured Kevin Youkilis and earned his stay in the Majors with an impressive month of May, batting .316 with six homers and 21 RBIs. He put together a solid rookie campaign with 15 home runs and 54 RBIs while batting .288 over 75 games until a broken wrist ended his season in early August. (Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images)
Locking Up The Tight Ends Rob Gronkowski is perhaps the most dangerous tight end in the NFL, and Aaron Hernandez is one of the most dynamic weapons in the league. Both players entered 2012 on the final year of their rookie contracts, but the Patriots signed both of them to six-year deals, ensuring they'll both be around for a while. (Photo by Rich Schultz/Getty Images)
Garnett Moves To Center, Re-Signs With Celtics Kevin Garnett's move to the center position sparked the Celtics to a vastly improved defense and a 24-11 record down the stretch in 2012. That trend continued in the playoffs when he averaged 19.2 points and 10.3 rebounds as the C's came one game away from heading to the NBA Finals. When the season was over it wasn't clear if Garnett would return or retire, but KG re-uped with Boston with a three-year deal. (Photo by Drew Hallowell/Getty Images)
Ross, Red Sox Walk-Off In July The "cheerful" Cody Ross was one of the lone bright spots of the Red Sox in 2012, clubbing 22 home runs and driving in 80 runs. His biggest swing came in July, with the Red Sox trailing the Chicago White Sox 1-0 in the bottom of the ninth. With one out, Ross clubbed a three-run, walk off homer to give Boston their fourth win in five games and improve to 48-45 on the season. Unfortunately, after that swing the Red Sox dropped six of their next seven and 13 of 20. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
BC Wins Another Hockey Title With a 4-1 win over Ferris State, the BC Eagles won their fifth NCAA hockey title and third in the last five seasons. The Eagles closed out their season with 19 straight wins. (Photo by J. Meric/Getty Images)
Salary Dump To LA It was addition by subtraction when the Red Sox sent Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett and their massive contracts (along with Nick Punto) to the Los Angeles Dodgers in August. The deal let Boston shave $250 million in salary through 2018, and got rid of a couple of the headaches that played into the 2011 collapse and 2012 season-long debacle. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
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Ciriaco Dominates Yankees The Red Sox went just 5-13 against the Yankees in 2012, but Pedro Ciriaco became a bit of a cult hero thanks to his efforts against New York. It all started the day after he was first called up on July 7, when he went 4-for-5 in Boston's 9-5 win – earning them a split of a double-header. Ciriaco gave Boston the lead with a 3-run double in the sixth, and continued to put up good numbers against the Yankees for the rest of the season. Ciriaco hit .415 with 7 RBIs in 14 games against New York with two 4-hit games. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
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Tek, Wakefield Honored Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield both retired following 2011, and were given grand send-offs at Fenway Park during 2012. In addition to throwing out the first pitch before the home opener, both had nights for fans to thank them one final time – and take their mind off what was happening on the field. (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)


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LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY — The calm before the storm: such was the confidence exuded by the rabid Sullivan West Bulldogs, who had sent an early message to rival Liberty with a 13-0 first quarter lead in their most important football game of the year. Looking to keep their playoff hopes alive in a season on the brink, the rabid Dawgs had pushed Liberty up and down the field looking imposing in the process. Behind last week's 51-14 league loss to Millbrook, this game was a do-or-die matter, as a Westie defeat would bar them from the playoffs, something Sullivan West did to Liberty two years prior with a 21-20 OT win on this same field of battle.
Liberty looked shaky at the outset, dropping a key pass, failing to recover a Dawgs fumble and unable to stop the Bulldogs' advancing vanguard. A 27-yard Andrew Stabbert TD and a Michael Sedlack PAT with 5:34 remaining in the first quarter staked SW to a 7-0 lead. Then, a Liberty fumble recovered by SW senior Cody Franskevicz initiated a 51-yard, nine-play drive that ended with a two-yard TD dive by quarterback Richard Shevak. The PAT failed, but the Dawgs were barking up a virtual storm. Then a real storm actually descended with an ominous bolt of lightning that sent players scurrying to their locker rooms and fans to their cars or the gym for the requisite 30-minute hiatus. Mother Nature washed out last year's non-league game between the rivals won by the Westies. But this game mattered far more. More lightning, more waiting. In the Dawgs' locker room there was an air of confidence, while Liberty's was more reflective. More than one hour later the teams resumed play. Liberty scored on a 60-yard gallop by senior quarterback Quinn Jackson with 1:50 remaining in the half. The two-point conversion failed, and they now trailed 13-6. The Bulldogs answered with a sustained drive that ended with a short TD pass to Franskevicz with 8.8 seconds remaining in the half for the 19-6 lead. Confusion on the PAT play nixed the chance to add to the lead. A revitalized Liberty received to start the second half.
In what was to be a dramatic reversal of fortune, now it was the Indians that were controlling the line of scrimmage, moving the ball effectively and marshaling a defense that would lead to 21 unanswered points and the cathartic 27-19 come-from-behind win. The first blow was a 17-yard run by Fallsburg transfer Shakree Gibson. The PAT made it 19-13. The Westies took to the air and moved the chains, but Liberty sacked Shevak on a fourth and 16 at the Liberty 24. The Tribe exuded confidence, while the Bulldogs scrambled to regain their moxie. A four-yard TD run by Jackson with 11:48 to go in the fourth quarter tied the game and Grant Harman's PAT gave the Indians the lead they would never relinquish. Liberty led 20-19 and those two missed Westie PAT's now loomed large. The feisty Bulldogs marshaled an impressive drive, but with a fourth and one yard to go at the Liberty 31, Liberty stuffed a Shevak run and got the ball back on downs with 7:18 to go. The Westies moved the ball but could not sustain drives, and on a late punt attempt, the ball was fumbled and Liberty capitalized on the turnover with the dagger, a TD run by Stephen Johnson for the 26-19 edge. The PAT made it 27-19. Sullivan West had one final chance to even the score as they looked to traverse the field and add a two-point conversion to thrust the game into OT, but it was not to be. In the resumed downpour, Liberty now 2-2 (1-0 Class C Division II) evinced a muted celebration, while the dejected Bulldogs 1-3 (0-2 Class C Division II) were left to ponder their eviscerated playoff hopes. Sullivan West will travel to Highland for a non-league game, while Liberty hosts unbeaten Millbrook. Liberty could garner the one-seed with a win over Millbrook. A loss would render them as the likely two-seed. In other football action, all of the other locals fell. Tri-Valley (0-5) lost to Rondout Valley 69-14, Eldred (1-4) lost 28-21 to the Hackley School, Monticello 0-5 (0-3 Class A) fell to Wallkill 35-24 and dominant Chester pounded Roscoe/LM/Downsville 2-3 (1-1 Cass D) 64-0.
In cross-country, the Sullivan West girls posted a first-ever harrier win against Tri-Valley in Grahamsville. The last time the Lady Bulldogs beat T-V in a dual meet was in 2005, the last year Sullivan West won the Section IX crown. Courtney Meyerer (22:32), Kelsey Dutton (22:49) and Corinne VanWagner (23:10) evinced the one-two-three sweep that netted SW a 29-30 win over the Lady Bears. T-V's Ian Kurzrock won the boys race against harriers from Sullivan West, Tri-Valley, Kingston and Mount Academy. Read the historically compelling story entitled "Won by One," on www.sportsinsightsny.com [1]
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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, gets a reaction from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, after jokingly covering up his microphone as they attend the opening plenary session at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Mar. 27, 2012.
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"Open Mike Picks Up Good Signal"
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March 29, 2012
Author: Juliette Kayyem, Belfer Lecturer in Inernational Security, Harvard Kennedy School
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: International Security
THE FRENZY of indignation surrounding President Obama's open-mike chat with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has yet to subside, as his political opponents think they finally have a sliver of evidence that he is, indeed, the Manchurian president. The Republican National Committee already has a fundraising ad: "What Obama tells world leaders when he thinks you aren't listening." From what we could hear when the leaders met privately at a nuclear safety summit in Seoul this week, Obama asked for "space" and "flexibility" in resolving dramatic differences over missile defense systems. The reason for his request, if it wasn't obvious, was because we are in the midst of an election.
The more surprising line in the public tete-a-tete was actually what came after. For those who view a continuing détente between Russia and the United States as a relatively helpful goal for world order, Medvedev's response to Obama (a WikiLeaks moment without the wiki or the leak) was heartening.
"I understand," Medvedev told Obama, who had asked if his microphone was still on, but didn't wait for the answer. "I will transmit this information to Vladimir."
Vladimir, of course, is the once and future President Vladimir Putin. Medvedev is both a lame duck and Putin's puppet: a lame puppet. Obama's statements were not intended for Medvedev but explicitly for Putin, who spent most of the year rallying support in Russia's presidential election by berating the United States and Western imperialism.
The issue at the center of Putin's anti-American platform is a missile defense system that could protect Europe from attacks by countries such as Iran. To the Russians, the so-called "shield" which would fire guided missiles at incoming missiles is anything but a defensive measure, as they fear it could be used to fire missiles at them. The Russians are not paranoid. It's reasonable to be distrustful of a missile system near their border. We would have the same objections; indeed, we did when they were heading toward Cuba.
Medvedev's "I will transmit" statement is, admittedly, a little odd for a head of state. Medvedev is the president, after all, but even he knows he's just there to deliver messages to Putin. The Russians are now having fun with their president, as the Twitter @Vladimiru is trending there. It means "to Vladimir." Putin takes office, again, in May.
More notably, Medvedev did not contradict or counter Obama, understanding that with the Russian election over, a middle ground might be emerging. Medvedev, who is clearly speaking for "Vladimir," is uncharacteristically supportive of the United States in this little flare up. In retort to Mitt Romney, who used the moment to declare that Russia is the pre-eminent national security threat of our times, Medvedev reminded the presidential candidate that the Cold War is over.
For the last year, the administration had been repeatedly assured by Russian diplomats that Putin's heavy-handed election language was not indicative of his policies towards the United States. The cornerstone of Putin's anti-America stance was his criticism of the missile system. But Putin will soon have a country to run, and so compromise is in the air.
The potential flexibility that Obama is promising may amount to sharing classified information with the Russians to show how the shield system would not be a threat to Russia's intercontinental ballistic missiles. A compromise may also require limiting some of our commitments to the defense system. Now that Russia's election is over, the parties are only one election away from figuring it out.
Whatever the resolution that is being envisioned by the parties is, for now, lost in the sideshow over Obama's failure to heed the cardinal rule for political leaders: The microphone is always on. As we now know, the important message that both countries may be willing to compromise was transmitted quite publicly, so publicly that the any progress on missile systems is getting lost in the political drama.
This is exactly what Obama said would happen. But we weren't supposed to hear it.
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Bail is set at $1 million for a Wisconsin man charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of his half-brother last summer.
Jeffrey Vogelsberg, 28, appeared in Dane County court on Wednesday. After trying to fight extradition from Washington state after his arrest in November, Vogelsberg was returned to Madison and booked into jail last Friday.
The criminal complaint alleges that Vogelsberg tortured and beat his half-brother, 27-year-old Matthew Graville, on June 30 at a home in Mazomanie where they were living.
Graville had Asperger's syndrome, an autism-spectrum disorder. Detectives found Graville's body buried in the woods months after he disappeared.
Vogelsberg has also been ordered not to have contact with his co-defendants, Robert McCumber, the landlord who is accused of helping to hide Graville's corpse, and Vogelsberg's mother, Laura Robar, who is facing identity theft charges.
Robar is accused of spending Graville's public assistance after he died.
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Hi all, I have put off writing a post for some time. I now feel is the time to with with my experience of living with Kyphosis/ Scheuermann's disease.
I have graduated from University (lived the whole student life to the full), bought a house, got engaged, got a good job and best of all have a lovely baby daughter. From the outside I have the perfect life. It is inside that I am a different person. Psychologically I feel a bit of a mess, every part of my everyday life is controlled by my back and body. I am very self conscious, making sure I go places where I don't have to show my back off for too long. It is a constant daily battle that I don't think any others around me understand. I am in near constant pain with the disease but it has been that long living with it now I have got used to it. I have adapted my life to living with it, standing up straight as much as possible. So far I have 'winged it' as such.
I visited my local GP a couple of months ago who referred me for physio, I attended 1 session after an x-ray which confirmed my spine had fused. As such I was told they did not want to touch my back as anything physical may damage it.
So here we are to today, I have a physio follow up appointment with my GP next week. I had a call off him on Tuesday where he basically said don't get my hopes up, there is not much the hospital will be able to do, do I want a big scar from surgery, the NHS has had budget cuts, etc..I was n total shock!
I have attached pictures, all help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!