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Decision-Making Void of Democratic Qualities? An Evaluation of the EU's Foreign and Security Policy
The EU's foreign and security policy is often criticised for being undemocratic. The article addresses this contention from the perspective of deliberative democracy. The focus is on the procedural qualities of the second pillar decision-making processes as it is not only the quality of the outcomes that determine the democratic legitimacy of policy-making, but also the way decisions have come about. Against five criteria, the EU's second pillar procedure is assessed for its putative lack of democratic qualities. The evaluation shows that decision-making is dominated by secrecy and unelected officials who act extensively on behalf of national ministers without proper accountability mechanisms available. Whereas there are conditions conducive to deliberation, they are basically found outside the formal settings and among unelected officials. There are no institutionalised rules where the responsible politicians are obligated to justify policy choices in front of the citizens. Hence the second pillar is only likely to enhance elite deliberation.
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a.The Legislative Branch is divided into two bodies of law-makers, the House and the Senate
b.The President has the authority to veto laws created by the Legislative Branch.
c.No governmental body has the right to make laws that infringe upon the Constitutional freedoms established by the government.
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Five-player co-op? Not exactly.
I can see how it could be fun even if it's not that creative.
I mean, you can maybe even make it into a drinking game if you want. The guy with the gamepad has to try to kill the other four people before they make it to the end. If the gamepad guy kills a person, the person killed has to drink. If someone makes it to the end, the gamepad guy has to drink(once only per map). Then you rotate controllers...
I really wish Nintendo would have made the "5th wheel" options similar to the character in Rayman Legends.
That being said, the "5th wheel" is bound to impress more people than it will irritate. Nintendo has done well with local multiplayer in the past, and are just trying to keep it fresh.
well if theres a child that really wants to play but cant comprehend the controls, put him on the tablet so he can interact in some way.. i guess.. i know theres no way in hell im letting no kid touch my tablet or no way im playing by just making blocks either
I can't wait to help my 4 year old nephew with this. he will feel like he is doing all the work when for me it will be a game just keeping him alive so that Will be a blast for us both.


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With the dropping of of Ryan Gallant's and Tony Tave's new pro model kicks, C1RCA took over Hensley's Pub in Carlsbad on Tuesday night for the official shoe release party. Check the party flicks and for a closer look of both new shoes, go HERE.
Ryan Gallant, his lady, and their bun in the oven.
The Gallant.
Lee DuPont and Lenny Rivas.
Lovely ladies.
DJ Richie Belton.
Mark Brandstetter from Nocturnal, the homey, and Pete Eldridge.
C1RCA's Raul Ries and Abdias Rivera.
Even Ryan Sheckler made it out!
Matt Mumford, Frecks, and the Rhoades bros.
C1RCA's Ken Lewis, Tave, and Ryan Bobier.
The TT2.
Anthony Schultz and Mario.
Two Hollys are always better than one.
Tave says goodnight!


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Virtuals are merely packages that are in the category of
virtual. They
use their dependency string to specify the providers for the virtual and should
not install any files. Since they are regular ebuilds, there can be several
versions of a virtual (which can be helpful when a package may be provided by
another in some versions, and not others
see the perl virtuals for an
example of this). One other difference (besides not installing any files) is
that a virtual does not define
HOMEPAGE and
LICENSE variables.
Since it installs no files, it really does not have a license.
Before adding a new virtual, it should be discussed on
An example of a virtual:
DESCRIPTION="Virtual for C++ tr1 <type_traits>"
KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~s390 sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
RDEPEND="|| ( >=sys-devel/gcc-4.1 dev-libs/boost )"
Looks familar...right? It should since its going to look just like a regular
PROVIDE type virtuals have been banned
from the Gentoo repository.


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Many home buyers dismiss older houses because the rooms tend to be smaller and the houses often lack the hallmarks of 21st-century living: a large eat-in kitchen with an island and a master suite with a dual-sink bathroom and big walk-in closets.
But buyers who set aside their prejudices to give an older house a careful look may find it to be surprisingly adaptable to contemporary lifestyles, as I did when I recently saw the house where I grew up for the first time since my parents sold it in 1987.
The house is in Belle Haven, a subdivision just south of Alexandria; the majority of the houses, including ours, were built before World War II. The house is now for sale and I toured it with a real estate agent.
With a level of detachment and objectivity that is only possible if you wait 26 years before visiting your childhood home, I belatedly realized that I grew up in a late-1930s version of a "Not So Big House," a highly efficient, 10-room, 2,650-square-foot floor plan above grade with a finished, walkout basement of about 800 additional square feet.
Moreover, the house has many of the features that buyers are looking for today, including four generously sized bedrooms spread out over three floors plus a fifth and smaller one in the finished basement, large closets (including one bona fide walk-in), well-proportioned spaces that are relatively easy to furnish and some unusual details including a pair of lead glass windows on each side of the living room fireplace that were hidden behind plaster the entire 45 years that my parents owned the house.
Our somewhat odd-duck floor plan (in the entire subdivision of more than 400 houses, only three have it) was originally built for a brother and sister, not a typical family of that era. Nonetheless, it proved to be easily adaptable to a growing household (our family grew from four to six, and some years later, my grandfather moved in) and the floor plan would suit many households today, including those with multiple generations, stepfamilies and families with teenagers.
The bedroom and bath over the garage have enough separation from the hubbub of the main living area to be an in-law suite or a room for a teenager who wants to be at some remove from his or her parents. The second floor has two bedrooms, each roughly 12 by 22 feet (larger than most master bedrooms in brand-new, comparably sized houses) and a single bathroom.
The two rooms can be combined as a master suite with an adjoining sitting room (as it is currently furnished) or treated as two separate bedrooms, one for the parents and one for younger children who still need to sleep near Mom and Dad.
The single bedroom and bath plus a sitting room on the third floor afford maximum privacy for a nimble granny who could climb two flights of stairs several times a day, an au pair or a teenager who doesn't want to share a bathroom with a stepsibling of the opposite sex (a common issue with stepfamilies). The fifth bedroom and bath in the walk-out basement has a separate entrance that offers both privacy and independence for an adult child temporarily living with his or her parents.
The main living level of our old house has a "closed-loop" circulation pattern. All the rooms, including the living room, den, dining room and kitchen open onto each other, eliminating underutilized "dead-end space." The galley kitchen, to my astonishment, still has the original cabinets, the stainless-steel counter that my parents added in 1950 and the wooden butcher-block counter that came with the house.
There is one modern update: In 1978, my parents remodeled the old screened porch that ran across the back of the house into a year-round space that is ringed with large windows and flooded with natural light (the current owners use it as a family room).
If an informal, country kitchen with a large island is a must-have, it easily could be created without major surgery by removing the wall between the dining room and kitchen.
Observers may sense the adaptability and finer points of my childhood home, but they would miss another central fact about our house and all the others in the neighborhood: the quality of the construction materials used in these pre-World War II tract-built houses. The old-growth timber that was used for the framing cannot be duplicated at any price level, said Martin Jarvis of Jarvis Builders in Lorton, who has remodeled more than 100 houses in Belle Haven over the past 30 years.
Other standard materials that would be difficult and costly to replicate, Jarvis said, include the solid fir used for the paneled doors, wall bases and trim around the doors and windows (in most new construction today these would be soft pine or medium-density fiberboard), the No. 1 select white oak flooring (most oak flooring today has mineral streaks), the solid brass door hardware and the plastered interior walls (plaster is stronger and more soundproof than the drywall routinely used now).
The unusual level of craftsmanship and quality of construction and materials of the older Belle Haven houses can be attributed, in part, to that old real estate saw, "location, location, location."
In the mid-1920s when plans were drawn up for developing the subdivision, the 200-acre tract was on the far edge of the Washington suburbs and an arduous 11-mile trek from downtown as the George Washington Parkway and the other commuting highways and interstates had not yet been built. To successfully entice potential buyers to pass up houses closer in and come all the way from the District, the developers knew they had to offer something extraordinary.
Ken Ringle, a retired Washington Post staffer who interviewed Clarence Robinson, one of the original developers, recalled that Robinson emphasized the developers' need to offer unusually well-built houses with a level of quality that would be obvious from the street. To this end, standard materials included slate roofing and copper gutters. To get just the right look for the houses that were clad in fieldstone, he brought in a crew of Italian stone cutters from Philadelphia. And in keeping with the lifestyle of a typical upper-middle-class family of that era, every house had a maid's room with full bath and private entrance in the basement.
The house is currently offered by McEnearney Associates in Alexandria. The listing agent is Janet Price. The current asking price is $1.335 million. When my parents bought it in 1942, they paid $18,000.
Katherine Salant has an architecture degree from Harvard. A native Washingtonian, she grew up in Fairfax County and now lives in Ann Arbor, Mich. If you have questions or column ideas, she can be contacted at email@example.com or www.katherinesalant.com.


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A single regex to match anything with ".aac" or ".mp3" at the end ?
Tried ".*/.[\baac\b\bmp3\b]$" but no go. Tried many variations of this?
Any ideas?
Depends on what you're using.
For egrep it is easy so piping into egrep might be the way to go:
<whatever> |egrep "aac$|mp3$"
The $ tells it to look for it at the end of the line.
Needs to be a posix regexp
I won't bore you with the details, but my solution has to use "find -regex".
Thanks for the tip though...didn't know grep could do that.
By the way, where do you want to use regex?
You can use extended regular expressions:
ls|egrep "^.*\.(aac|mp3)$"
ls |grep "^.*\.[acmp3]\{3\}$"
find . -name "*[am][ap][c3]"
This looks for any file that ends with a or m in 3rd from last character, a or p in 2nd from last and c or 3 in last. It will match the files you want but might match other oddities if they are there (e.g. aa3, mpc, apc...)
Why not simply...?
find . -name \*.mp3 -o -name \*.aac
My regex is in a php script, so while the other solution is very cool and creative "[am][ap][c3]", I need to be able to insert new file extensions by variable into my regex string. In other words, I need to be able to insert "avi" into this regex pattern string, and then use it in my find command to look for new file types. I'm pretty sure this is possible, and for various reasons I must use find and regexes.
Thanks for the response so far, btw.
An answer: but why the need to escape so many chars?
The following is a fairly concise and easy to change solution. But why do I have to escape the so-called "round-brackets"?
me@localhost:/AV/Sea Change$ find -regex ".*\.\(aac\|mp3\)"
It very nicely ignores, for example, ./testaac or mp3song.txt.
Because different tools (including the shell) interpret the characters seen. The shell treats parentheses as "grouping" of commands and the vertical bar as a "pipe". It would therefore think you were attempting to pipe command aac into command mp3 and would attempt to do that BEFORE the rest of the line due to the grouping. Escaping and quoting is one of the most maddening things you'll deal with in scripting.
There is a command line I've used that actually quotes escapes and escapes quotes to work correctly. It seems to be nonsensical to do that but on a command line where you're in a shell and piping things into awk and/or grep it sometimes is necessary to do things like this to be sure one thing treats it literally and passes it on that way to something else that you want to interpret it.
There is a regex tutorial, you might want to read it: http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Regular.html.
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The Danger Of Big Data
A couple of months ago, I spoke at a conference in Las Vegas. Immediately before my talk, two advertising execs, one a professed quant geek and the other a "creative," spoke about how their agencies rely less on hunches these days and more on quantitative data to drive emotional relevance between their clients and consumers. "We can identify human emotions in massive rivers of data," the ad men said. When I pressed them for an example during the Q&A session, they described how they had recently mined millions of click streams, search queries, video views, website clicks, and the like for a major mortgage lender. All in, the technology investment behind their analysis must have stacked well into six figures. And their big emotional insight? When people start shopping around for a mortgage, that's all they can focus on until they've gotten it all sorted out.
I could hardly believe my ears! Any skilled ethnographer could have discovered that same insight - and then some - through a day of in-home customer visits and $150 in taxi receipts.
Customer experience professionals can now glean customer insights from social media, financial systems, emails, surveys, call centers, and digital and analog sensors. It's amazing and wonderful, yes. But here's the danger: Companies that become mesmerized by Big Data put themselves at risk of spending enormous amounts of time and money amassing new data sources -- and, in the process, forgetting that research methods like observation and one-on-one interviews even exist. This has the potential to create a large, and exceedingly expensive, blind spot.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not a Big Data hater. However, to create a complete picture of your customers and what they really need, you need a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Here are two effective ways to do it. As I alluded to a moment ago, you can gauge home buyers' attitudes, emotions, and behaviors through qualitative research with just a handful of subjects - and then validate the statistical significance of those findings through quantitative analysis. Or, moving in the opposite direction, you can identify a problem or opportunity area in the home-buying experience through quantitative research - and then uncover the underlying reasons for the problem (or the specific characteristics of the desired solution) through qualitative studies.
To see how this can play out in a little more detail, consider Allegiance's Spotlight data mining tool. It churns through reams of customer feedback and operational data to identify which aspects of the customer experience correlate with key metrics like "likelihood to recommend." For example, it could tell a retailer that customers who give scores of 9 or higher for store appearance and associate knowledge are 75 percent more likely to be promoters. Essentially, it shows the retailer where it should focus its efforts. Once that's been determined, the retailer still needs to figure out what exactly it should change in order to improve those two drivers. To improve perceptions of store appearance, should the company work on cleanliness, lighting, signage, or something else entirely? And what are the most effective ways for associates to share their product knowledge? The answers to these types of questions can't be found in any survey or database. Instead, the retailer would need to observe shopper and associate behavior in stores and intercept shoppers for post-purchase interviews.
The reason we've developed so many different types of research tools over the years is that they all have different strengths and weaknesses. By learning about and, more importantly, using qualitative research methods, you can ensure that Big Data doesn't become a danger to your company.
About the Author: Kerry Bodine is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research serving Customer Experience professionals. She blogs at http://blogs.forrester.com/kerry_bodine and tweets at @kerrybodine


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Paula Abdul is suing a Los Angeles tanning salon after she says she was terribly burned during a treatment she received.
UVASun West Inc. is accused of applying the treatment recklessly, causing burns over various parts of her body, including a second or third-degree burn on her thigh. The treatment, called the SlimStar infrared body wrap, boasts weight control advantages and is described as using "infrared heat that penetrates twice as deep as other heat sources to target toxins and cellulite trapped in pockets below the surface of the skin."
According to the lawsuit, Abdul suffered "great mental, physical and nervous strain, pain and suffering, and loss of earnings potential" and is asking for damages in excess of $25,000.
Last year the 51-year old choreographer traveled to Israel for a late-in-life Bat Mitzvah in order to get in touch with her Jewish heritage.
"Beyond being Jewish, I've always found myself to be very much in tune with spirituality," she said. "I feel very grateful coming to Israel now, where as a woman I know who I am a lot more than even 10 years ago."
Abdul said the trip was "magical and emotional", saying, "I've traveled the world touring and things like that but I don't get the chance to see much of wherever I'm at."
Image via Wikimedia Commons


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Posted by Vinnie rinaldi on October 28, 2000
In Reply to: Three on a match posted by Bob on October 22, 2000
Exactly... if you light a cigarette in the dark (trench)- then pass it to the left or right, a sniper will then know which way the match is going.. and....aim and fire...not good, in battle!
: : Does anyone know where the phrase "three on a match came from"?
: Trench warfare. If you give a sniper enough time (say, for instance, enough time to light three cigarettes on a single match) he can focus in, take aim, and kill you. Hence, the third on the match will have seriously Bad Luck.


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RANDOLPH COUNTY � A man wanted for questioning in the case of a missing Carroll County, Va., woman has been arrested in connection with a bank robbery in Ramseur, according to a report by WXII-TV.
Matthew Steven Jones, 34, was taken into custody Thursday morning following an April 29 incident at Fidelity Bank at 6856 Jordan Road. He was chaged with common law robbery, said Randolph County deputies, who are assisting Ramseur police.
Randolph County officials notified Carroll County officials of Jones� arrest since he is a person of interest in connection with the disappearance of Desia Rae George, 33. George hasn�t been seen since April 15.


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Has everything been said about the Super Bowl yet?
As a veteran of the last Super Bowl to be played in New Orleans, I'll start this with a couple of thoughts.
This Super Bowl seems a bit like Super Bowl XXXVI in a number of ways.
For starters, the AFC team won both times.
In Super Bowl XXXVI, the St. Louis Rams rallied late to tie the game before New England won late.
While San Francisco never caught up, they did make a strong run in the second half.
St. Louis outgained New England by a considerable margin (427-267, 160 yards), a bit more than Baltimore outgained San Francisco (468-367, 101 yards).
In each of the Super Bowls, the MVP was an unknown or underrated quarterback from the winning team. Tom Brady had taken the starting position after Drew Bledsoe suffered a season-ending injury early in the season.
Has Joe Flacco ever been considered a top NFL quarterback? At least he has a Super Bowl ring, something most of the big-time pass slingers never have come close to getting.
It's nice to see the Super Bowl back in New Orleans. That's a town that was made for hosting something like the Super Bowl. It's not taking place during hurricane season (although there always are plenty of places on Bourbon Street to find hurricanes). And Super Bowl celebrations always lead into Mardi Gras.
Of course, there will have to be things to be handled. The blackout situation wasn't great. You can't blame that one on President George W. Bush! (nor can you blame that one on Borgia, Marty Tiefenbrunn!) but those are things which can be fixed and improved before the Super Bowl makes its next return to the Big Easy.
On a more local front, we've got district wrestling coming up with the first three rounds of each district taking place Friday.
We've got a lot of candidates to do well not only at the district meets, but also in Columbia next week. This could be the year we have another team actually challenge for a trophy.
Washington, Pacific and Union are solid, but they're all in the same district along with some other very solid programs, so it's going to be a challenge just to make it past Farmington.
I think we've got some solid contenders to potentially be wrestling on Saturday night in the state title bouts as long as they keep working. There are a lot of good, solid, technically sound wrestlers out there, so the wrestlers need to remember that they're only as good as their last move.
And while it might not have anyone heading to state and only has a few wrestlers remaining this season, any rumors of Borgia ending its wrestling experiment are just that.
My sources at the regional high school have told me that the school intends to continue trying to build the team in the future..
As far as our other winter sport goes, basketball, we're through all of the in-season tournaments now and headed toward the completion of conference play and the homestretch to the district tournaments.
Remember that Classes 1-3 will be heading to the playoffs first this season, a reversal of recent years. I don't know if MSHSAA did the best job of getting that word out because a lot of larger schools already had schedules completed by the time the changes were announced, so that last week will be pretty barren for some.
There seem to be some pretty good district showdowns setting up.
In Class 3 District 9, the top three boys seeds have a combined record of 58-4.
Fatima (19-1) is the top seed. Fatima's loss was to Hickman, 78-48.
The St. James boys are 20-1 and are second. St. James lost to Cuba (19-2, the third seed), 68-66.
It's shaping up so that any of the top three seeds could win this one.
The Class 4 District 9 girls basketball tournament might even be deeper than that. Any of the six seeds have a good shot at winning the tournament and five have impressive recent victories. Of course, most "experts" have already awarded the state trophy to Incarnate Word Academy, but the district tournament certainly will be entertaining stuff.
Yes, it should be an exciting postseason!


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If rhythm is your thing, a whole lot of shakin' will be going on at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor's 13th annual percussion festival, which takes place tonight.
If you go, a pair of earplugs, discreetly wielded, may prove prudent given the not-so-big venue: Hughes Recital Hall, which is itself nestled into the recesses of Presser Hall. It's hard to know which will be higher: the students' unbridled, adrenaline-charged performances, or the decibel level.
The clever, unorthodox pairing of bassoonist Scott Pool with a percussion ensemble, while outre, will showcase the little heard solo capabilities of the daddy of the double-reed instruments.
Guest artist Michael Varner, an associate professor of percussion at the University of Texas at Arlington, is a published composer, performer and clinician, and will take the stage as the headliner of the festival.
UMHB has designated the festival as a "Fine Arts Experience," and each student is required to attend one "Fine Arts" event each semester, which can sometimes make concerts crowded. An early arrival time is recommended to get good (or sometimes, any) seats.
On Tuesday, in the third-story band hall, UMHB music ed major Ashley Wallace, a freshman from Harlingen, worked out on the trap set. A member of the school's drum line as well as a pianist, she smiled when asked about the percussion festival. "It should be fun, and we'll learn a lot, too."
If today's festival doesn't satiate your drumming appetite, there's Saturday's master class, also conducted in Hughes Recital Hall. With tympani, marimbas, wind machines, glockenspiels, snares, toms and everything else, your education in syncopation will be complete.


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solved by move Garmin folder to sdcard0 (internal storage).and use apk from 1.
solved by move Garmin folder to sdcard0 (internal storage).and use apk from 1.
I've been trying to get this to work on LG Exceed 2 running 4.4.2 KitKat with 800x480. I've used the path changer to make version 2.37 to
1. storage_sdcard0_Garmin
2. storage_external_SD_Garmin
I'm using the Garmin data for KitKat and I know it's reading the data correctly when starting up because I can see "Language" has a value to pick from. But under "Voice" I see nothing. And after satellites acquired I don't see any streets. Under mymaps show nothing. Anyone knows what the problem? It's odd that for both internal and external installations same problem.
Very odd problem indeed.
Do you have on root of internal or external SD folder Garmin or you add in folder Android/data/....
If you have in folder Android/.... then try turn off/on your device and see if then all work.
I have one time problem when i uninstall SP over phone and if i look over phone no SP folder visible but when i connect device to Pc i see that folder is still there.
So i manualy delete all folder of SP and turn device off/on, add folder Garmin on device and install apk, turn device off/on and then run SP and all work.
On some device folder Map or only .img is set ass read only after you copy from Pc to device, don't know why.
It's under /storage/external_SD/Garmin or /storage/sdcard0/Garmin (I've tried both cases) because that is what I told path changer to use. I know that location is correct because if I moved it to somewhere else, I will not see any choice for "Language" in set up screen and I have to kill Street Pilot to get out. I will try to uninstalled and make sure the Garmin directory is removed and reinstalled later and see if it help.
I have installed "Streetpilot 2.37 (res 960 by 540 and higher with usb charging fix)" on GALAXY S6 edge+ , the installation went fine but when starting the application get this error "Unfortunately Streetpilot has stopped"
any suggestion ,tips on how to get this application to work on GALAXY S6 edge+ is higly appreciated
device information
Android :5.1.1
Model : SM-G928C
Screen Resolution :1440x2560
processor :Samsung Exynos Octa 7420 2.1GHz
GPU Vendor : ARM
GPU Renderer : Mali-T760
thank you


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Matthew B. Mandel, MD (retired) will be the recipient of the 2013 Jack B. McConnell, MD, Award for Excellence in Volunteerism, presented by the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation, in association with Pfizer, Inc. This award recognizes the work of senior physicians who provide treatment to U.S. patients who lack access to health care. Dr. Mandel will be honored at the association's Excellence in Medicine Awards dinner to be held on February 11th in Washington, DC.
In announcing the award, the foundation said, "These awards honor physicians who represent the highest values of altruism, compassion and dedication to patient care. The caliber of our nominees was awe-inspiring, and Dr. Mandel's selection from such an impressive group speaks volumes in recognizing his dedication to the profession of medicine." He is being recognized for his work in helping to establish and recruit volunteers for the Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) Berkshires free clinic in Great Barrington, which will receive a $2500 grant in conjunction with the award.
Dr. Mandel, who also was recently recognized by the Massachusetts Medical Society as its 2012 Senior Volunteer Physician of the Year, said, "I'm completely overwhelmed. I love the work I've been doing with VIM just as I did my years in active practice. It seems very strange to get awards just for doing what you love to do."
Founded in 2004, Volunteers in Medicine Berkshires provides access to free health care services for income-qualified, uninsured and underinsured residents of the Berkshire region. For more information, go to www.vimberkshires.org.


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Jaci Burton has written in almost every genre imaginable—from contemporary to romantic suspense to erotic romance to paranormal, futuristic, and fantasy. But what makes her so great in any genre is an easy-to-read style and a true gift for chemistry, connection, and heat between her couples, the mark of a really successful romance writer. Burton stands out because no matter what I've read since, no matter how many books she's written, I still remember perfectly specific scenes in each of her books, elements of her love stories that resonated so strongly they're unforgettable.
My favorite work by Jaci Burton, hands down, is her Wild Riders series, about an undercover government agency that takes reckless trouble-making, motorcycle riders and turns them into honorable men who still have a wild streak. Each book features a bad boy agent finally succumbing to his last challenge: finding love. And along the way is fantastic mystery and suspense, as each story contains a stand-alone undercover case that becomes the catalyst for the couple to be together. The best book in the series is Riding Temptation with tough guy Diaz and the only the female agent of the group Jessie. Jessie is tough, well-trained, but young, and all the guys, especially Diaz feel the need to shelter her. When they're put together on a case in which they have to infiltrate a criminal biker group running illegal weapons, all hell breaks loose.
"Get out of here, Jess."
"Because you're playing with fire, little girl."
Her eyes went smoky. "I'm not a little girl. And I like a little heat, Diaz."
She teases him; he fights it. The set-up is so good, the characters' history with each other carefully crafted, that when Jessie and Diaz finally give in, it's delicious. And Burton has the love scenes to back it up.
Beyond the great romance, what's so special here is that Burton takes what she knows, which is the bike club society, and weaves really fascinating stories around it. It's clear that she's passionate about her subject, and that helps her books shine. Riding on Instinct has a Department of Justice agent posing as a stripper and pairs her with a Wild Rider to investigate a corrupt DEA agent. Set in steamy New Orleans, Shadoe and Spence have to pose as lovers, trust each other, and still watch their backs. In the midst of it all, it's the snappy dialogue and sizzling heat that have us rooting for them.
Teasing her was easier and way more fun than thinking about how hot she was. Less trouble that way, too. "You want me. Face it. I'm irresistible."
"You're full of yourself. Let's go."
"Kiss me first."
She rolled her eyes. "How about I knee you in the groin instead?"
"Will you kiss it after?"
Burton uses tropes such as reunited love to forbidden best friend/younger sister to permanent ménage. This series is a career highlight for Burton, and this is the place to start for new readers.
What's remarkable is her novellas are as solid as her full-length novels; to be able to tell a significant story and capture magic between the hero and heroine in a much shorter and tighter number of pages is real talent. But time and again, whether it's Blair and Rand from "Wicked" in the Wild, Wicked & Wanton anthology or Jolene and Walker from Bound, Branded & Brazen, Burton picks the perfect pairs and executes romances that are memorable and loving. In these novellas, both couples are fighting many years of attraction, which provides a nice build-up and gives enough background that their journey is well on its way immediately and only gets better throughout the story. With Blair and Rand, just as great as the attraction they've been denying is the banter they exchange in the effort.
"When you're ready to turn over control, Blair, you know where to find me."
"When they announce the next Winter Olympics in hell, I'll do that."
She hated him. Absolutely hated him.
And she'd never wanted a man more than she wanted Rand McKay.
She always had.
The other noticeable element to Burton's writing is her steady, even pace, a flow to her stories that make them feel familiar and smooth to read. Her stories are well-plotted and instantly feel like comfort reads, as if the reader is a part of the story. Her characters are people you would want to know, even the sports heroes in her current, popular Play-by-Play series. In this series, as well as her ongoing Kent Brothers series for Carina Press, she has family at the heart of the stories, making us all feel like we have a place, that the heroines could be friends of ours and the heroes could be attainable for any of us. Her romances are special, yet believable, as she's struck this perfect balance between familiar and one-of-a-kind, which is why she's been on my autobuy author list for years.
Tiffany Tyer is a writer and editor who loves reading and analyzing all things romance. She also works as a vocalist, a tutor, and a non-profit ministry assistant, and she loves it that way. Her book reviews can be found at Happy Endings Reviews, a blog she co-founded.


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According to Kotaku, EA Sports does not to plan release Tiger Woods PGA Tour, its annual golf sim, in 2014 on any platform. Their sources said the initial plan was to outsource the game, giving the in-house team two years to come out strong on next-gen systems. The, CEO John Riccitiello resigned and a round of layoffs hit the company.
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 includes legendary players such as Arnold Palmer. That certainly gives it a historic feel, but those likenesses no doubt raised the cost of making the game. It has garnered mostly favorable reviews, although EA has not released sales numbers. If they are seriously shelving the game for a year, sales can't be great. You wouldn't see Madden NFL or FIFA Soccer taking a year off.
Fans of team sports are happy to plunk down $60 for the newest installments of games. Taking things like the NFL draft and free agency into account, even a current roster becomes a huge selling point. A Denver Broncos fan can't wait to see how Wes Welker plugs into the team's offense. Sports like golf are driven by individual players. With only a few exceptions, the top players on the PGA Tour next year will be the same ones this year, meaning no big roster changes in Tiger Woods PGA Tour games.
It's the same problem THQ ran into with the UFC franchise. There aren't huge changes in the landscape annually. For solo sports, putting out a game every two years may make more sense. THQ ended up having to sell the UFC license to EA. Before doing so, they had already announced a cycle that would release games every other year as opposed to annually.
Coming out on next gen systems, perhaps exclusively by that point, could garner a new golf installment some buzz. The question consumers naturally ask before buying a sports title is what's different from last year. Shiny new hardware is a built-in answer.
There is also the matter of Tiger Woods. EA was one of the few corporate sponsors to stick with him after a sex scandal tarnished his image. Tiger simply hasn't been the same player since his personal life fell apart. Everybody is trying to cut costs in this economy. It's a good time to ask if a tarnished brand is worth what EA is paying for it.
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An Ethiopian Epiphany: The Festival of Timket
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There is no better way to experience the spirit of Ethiopia than to dive head first into one of the country's most colorful festivals. Timket is a vibrant three-day celebration of the Baptism of Christ and is best witnessed from the historically rich city of Gondar, appropriately nicknamed the 'Camelot of Africa.' From the festive Gondar, continue on to the monasteries of Lake Tana, the famous rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, and the ancient walled city of Harar before returning to Addis to conclude your exciting adventure.
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The most important event of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church's annual calendar is the festival of Timket, a celebration of the baptism of Christ. There is no better place to experience the commemoration of this holy event than the city of Gondar, set in the foothills of the Simien Mountains. Start with a night in Addis Ababa before flying to Gondar for two nights, arriving on Timket Eve. On this night, priests bring out the sacred tabots in preparation for their ritual immersion on Timket Day. After the celebrations in Gondar, drive to Bahir Dar, set on the banks of Lake Tana in the cultural heart of the Christian Amharic people. Spend a night here and visit the churches and monasteries on the lake. Next, travel to Lalibela for two days exploring the famed rock-hewn churches. Axum, Ethiopia's oldest city, is the next stop on the itinerary. After a night in Axum, fly to Addis for one night before continuing on to Dire Dawa, from where you will drive to the ancient walled city of Harar, one of Islam's most sacred cities. Spend a night in Harar before returning to Addis for your onward flight.


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MEDICAL experts believe South Tynesiders could hold the key to tackling a condition which affects 80,000 women nationwide.
The borough has the lowest surgery rates in the region for heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB).
The annual rate of surgery in England was 152 per 100,000 between April 2006 and December 2009. South Tyneside's rate was almost half, at 80 per 100,000.
Stephen Orife, consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician with South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, said: "HMB is a very common condition which causes many women significant inconvenience and social disruption.
"Yet, despite affecting tens of thousands of women each year, there is very little information about how women feel about their condition and how they are treated, so we are delighted to be taking part in the national audit which should help to improve patient care.
"There have been substantial changes in the management of HMB over the last 10 years."
The trust is taking part in a four-year national HMB audit, which began in 2010 to assess women's experience of care in NHS outpatient clinics.
Mr Orife said: "Already, the audit has shown that there is a variation in surgical rates throughout the country, which indicates that the guidelines for treatment are not being consistently followed.
"However, the most recent figures show that the surgical rates in the borough are significantly lower than expected on the basis of the national average, which demonstrates the commitment of the gynaecologists at South Tyneside District Hospital to work to best-practice and evidence-based guidelines."
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Changeslive.com was recommended to me in a magazine and like most i was enticed by the offer of £5 off my first order. At first I was wary, after visiting many sites i have come to realise that nothing is for free and often the product or customer service pays the price, yet there's no harm in looking. The first thing that i noticed was the main page layout, so well laid-out - clear and clean, It was almost like being in a real beauty shop! This was encouraging because the site looked professional which gave me some reassurance. Everything was easy to find and thanks to a useful search facility I could find whatever i was looking for quickly. At changeslive.com i really felt as though they cared! Although they're an online shop, the main focus wasn't just to sell you things. I could try a virtual makeover to see what products would look like or get top tips from experts in live videos such as "glamour curls". If you're ever bored then try this site out, i had hours of fun making over a picture of my boyfriend! There are plenty of top brands to choose from and all my favourite make up was there at the same price or cheaper than my local shops. You could even look at things in category of brand or occasion. If you're still not convinced, here's my own personal experience. At the time of my first visit, Mothers day was near and as usual my mom had a strange request for anything that smelt like sandalwood. Realising i would probably have to look everywhere I half-heartedly ran a search for "sandalwood" and within seconds a product had been found. Following the link i found a great photo of the product and was delighted to see that each product also had a detailed description. Noticing the product was by "Cariad" i started to get a bit worried about the price... after all, don't top beauty shops charge bucketloads for this stuff? Once i scrolled down i noticed the beauti
ful price of £5.95!! I couldn't belive it, with my discount that would make it 95p! Adding the product to my basket i decided to purchase it - my first ever online purchase. After filling in a few details my purchase was made and i couldn't help feeling a mixture of anxiety and excitement! I was sent a confirmation email and told that the cream would be with me shortly. This was worrying incase it didnt get here in time but later that day i received another email telling me the exact time and date of my parcel delivery! knowing it was in the post i was delighted at how fast and informative their services has been. For 95p plus £2.95 post and packaging i received my cream in 2 days wrapped in bubble wrap and placed in a changeslive bag. On mothers day mum opened her present and was delighted. No faults, no rashes and something she had been searching for, for ages! I'd strongly recommend changeslive.com to anyone, even if you have had a bad experience in the past or you wont purchase anything, the site is still worth a visit! Now.. where's that picture of my nan, she'd look great with green hair..
Wow like any sane human being i was inticed to this site by the £5 gift voucher. The site is really good, well laid out and easy to navigate. It has useful beauty tips and the prices are really reasonable. I ordered my £5 worth and it arrived within 2 days which i think is very quick. I paid the extra postage and packaging but with my free voucher i got an aromertherapy ball (which is like a roll on deodarant which you rub over your temples and wrists, smells devine!) for stress relieving and the most wonderful facial brush which has brought my skin up great. Anyway if nothing else register for the £5 voucher and the great beauty tips.
What attracted me to Changeslive.com was the fact that they had brands that weren't avalible (at the time) in the mainstream stores, brands like Bloom, Pupa and Tigi. Nowadays most of there brands can be found in Boots and the like, which makes it slightly more pointless buying off the website. All new customers also get £5 off their first order, which is good, although delivery costs £2.95 anyway. One of the worst things about this web page though is that the colours aren't clear at all, which is daft, as it is trying to sell cosmetics, and the colour has to be clearly shown to the customer. I found this when ordering a lipgloss, in some cases the colour couldn't be shown at all, so I went for one which "sounded" like one I would be right (turned out to be silver!). Also I wouldn't say the products are any cheaper that on the highstreet. I bought Tigi Bedhead Creative Sculpt for 13.00, and i could've got it for 8.00 at a local salon. Another thing is that a LOT of the products are out of stock, particurly the Tigi and Bloom range. One more thing - I have had problems with the customer service, as polite as the members of staff are, I refunded two items seperately (because the came a week apart) in November, and I am still trying to get a refund for my second item, worth about £14 now, and I keep getting different members of staff to deal with the matter. They have definatly got the item back too because they sent me a e-mail confirming it, but they can't seem to bear to hand the cash back over. My advice? Order from Changeslive if you must, but really most of the brands here can be found in your local chemist. Or try a different page, such as HQhair.com for hair products and allbeautyproducts.com but honestly just go to the chemist yourself, you'll get some excerise.


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Because I was the one who originally suggested paying attention to the plays the Bulls run out of timeouts, I'll elaborate a bit on why I believe some of VDN's basic limitations are exposed by these plays.
Out of timeouts, offensive plays provide crystallized glimpses into the quality and creativity of coaching strategies. It's true that teams execute practiced plays throughout the course of games, but plays out of timeouts are essentially the equivalent of NFL plays out of timeouts. Yes, the players must execute, but the quality and creativity of the plays themselves are the overarching factors in their success or failure.
Good NBA coaches are often creative enough to come up with plays that result in the right players getting good shots out of timeouts. Unfortunately for Bulls fans, VDN is not a good coach, and this rarely happens.
Remember last year when the predictable VDN move was to get the ball to Ben Gordon late in close games? Well, on a basic level, one can hardly fault him for wanting to get the ball into Gordon's hands. But far too often BG had to come hard to the ball, and then create his own shot over or around one or more defenders.
While that might seem to be a reasonable strategy with Kobe, Carmelo or LeBron, it obviously isn't the best way to create good, efficient scoring opportunities, especially for teams without transcendent superstars. (As an aside, even in Cleveland's case, that kind of limited strategy has been exposed as being insufficient when employed against elite opponents. And if they are to win a championship, it will be due in part to their coaches having figured that out, and made the adjustment.)
In order to provide some context to the discussion, consider the following example.
The OKC Thunder, as you might expect, badly wants to get the ball to Kevin Durant, and especially in the latter stages of close games. Of course every opposing team knows this, and so it isn't easy to get the ball to KD out of a timeout when he is in a good position to shoot a high-percentage shot. So, with that in mind, take a look at this recent Thunder play, broken down nicely at the NBA Playbook site.
Now, obviously this is one isolated example, and I am not suggesting that the Thunder coach is brilliant, nor that this is typical of their plays out of timeouts (I wouldn't know). I also recognize that players like Durant are exceptional. However, I would suggest that if one were to review all of the plays out of timeouts devised by VDN over the past two seasons, one would be hard-pressed to find a single play of such creative and effective design.
Bear in mind that even with Tyrus Thomas gone, the Bulls still have athletic big men who could be dangerous scorers around the basket if their numbers were called through well-designed pick-and-rolls, etc. And given that most teams key on Rose, Hinrich or Deng out of timeouts, VDN would be well-advised to develop some plays that utilize them as decoys. If he were to do that effectively, then opposing teams would be forced to reduce some of their pressure on the obvious players, which in turn would open up the court, and create fresh opportunities.
Finally, as Matt noted recently, someone suggested that his running timeout tally should be parsed out further. That's a reasonable suggestion, though I predict that it will lead to the same, unfortunate conclusion: VDN is well below average at deploying creative plays out of timeouts which result in good shots taken by the right players.
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Tony C. grew up in Evanston, and cut his teeth on the exciting, early '70's Walker-Love-Sloan-Van Lier Bulls. As a pick-up player, he admits to having stuck too long with low-top shoes (Puma Baskets, for the detail oriented), but did belatedly make the switch when the sprained ankles became tedious. Tony's professional life revolves mainly around buying, selling and managing Thoroughbred racehorses. While he now resides outside of Chicago, he remains an interested, enthusiastic, and at times critical Bulls fan.


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"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law (Galatians 5:22)"
"Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]"
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you (Matthew 7:12)."
"The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. (Psalms 18:2)"
"And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God (Micah 6:8)."
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me"
"Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Romans 5:3-4)."
"So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you"


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In 1977, Kent Hollingsworth, then editor of The Blood-Horse, began a commentary on racing's drug regulation as follows, "About the only people capable of doing anything with the medication problem are the Marx brothers. It is their kind of zany material...We suspect Harpo wrote some of the permissive medication rules...The first time (a drug overage) happens, Harpo honks his horn; the second time, he whistles to bring in Groucho and Chico, so that...all the Marx brothers can set about flailing (the trainer and vet) with baseball bats."The biggest change in the last 28 years is that drug regulation has regressed from a slapstick comedy to a silent movie, one with a flickering picture that often goes dark. At a hearing July 8, a Kentucky legislative subcommittee requested records which reportedly show that in 2002 and 2003 the Kentucky Racing Commission (KRC) failed to take action in response to approximately 20 drug positives, including those for methadone, scopolamine, and lidocaine. Jim Gallagher, executive director of the Kentucky Horse Racing Authority (KHRA), the successor agency to the KRC, said he uncovered the missed positives after he began working for the KHRA in September 2004. He contacted the testing laboratory at Iowa State University, which told him it had telephoned the information to the KRC, but that the regulators failed to file a written report. The KHRA is now requesting the state inspector general conduct an investigation. Meanwhile, a pending lawsuit in California seeks disclosure of records which might show how the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) settled infractions in private with no public notification. On a related matter, Dr. Rick Arthur described in The Blood-Horse of March 19, 2005, how the California tracks and horsemen dealt with overages for total carbon dioxide (evidence of illegal milkshaking) in the absence of CHRB regulations. The cases were handled behind closed doors and without penalties, according to Arthur, "because our goal has been to eliminate the problem rather than to discipline anyone." Racing officials profess concern about public confidence in the integrity of the game, while admitting they have ignored some violations and treated others sub rosa. When concerned individuals complain the sport may be tolerating cheating, some attack the critics for lacking proof. Of course, regulatory outsiders don't have the power to conduct searches and seizures, take testimony, prosecute cases, or even obtain access to closely held data such as laboratory test results. Yet everyone is expected to trust the appointees to do a thorough job, even when they openly confess to ignoring drug positives or engaging in a catch-and-release program. Earlier this year, trainer Jeff Mullins received a lot of grief for calling bettors "idiots," but some regulators treat the entire racing community as dim-witted children who don't need to know what mommy and daddy are doing. If regulators had the backbone to stand behind their decisions, the process would be out in the open. The almost obsessive secrecy of most racing boards suggests that ignored drug positives, privately cut deals, slaps on the wrist, and undocumented warnings would not withstand scrutiny, and might reveal a far deeper problem than officials acknowledge. In Matthew Simmons' recent book, Twilight in the Desert, the author describes the effect of Saudi Arabia obscuring the amount of its oil reserves: "History has frequently shown that once secrecy envelops the culture of either a company or a country, those most surprised when the truth comes out are often the insiders who created the secrets in the first place."
Racing has developed a murky way of doing business. Concealing troubling information does not protect the sport--it allows the problem to grow. Nor is keeping the process hidden going to silence the growing number of people who have had enough. As New Orleans musician Dr. John put it, "If ignorance is bliss, why ain't more people happy?"


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Monday, October 25, 1999 Published at 23:16 GMT 00:16 UK
Smoking 'killing young women'
Smoking is causing unnecessary death among young women
Heart attacks prompted by smoking are killing more than 100 women under the age of 45 every year, researchers have found.
The Drug Safety Research Unit in Southampton found that another 300 young women are suffering non-fatal heart attacks that are linked to smoking.
The researchers say that all the heart attacks could have been prevented if the women had given up smoking.
Heart disease is not usually a problem among pre-menopausal women.
The researchers, led by Dr Nick Dunn, analysed 448 cases of heart attacks occurring in British women aged 16 to 44 between October 1993 and October 1995.
The data, collected for a study called the British MICA (Myocardial Infarction Causality), was compared with that of 1,728 women of the same age who had not suffered a heart attack.
The researchers found:
Other underlying conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes or high levels of cholesterol, further increased the chances of having a heart attack.
Smokers of between one and 19 cigarettes a day, with one other clinical condition, were eight times more likely to have a heart attack than a non-smoker with the same clinical condition.
Writing in the journal Heart, the researchers concluded that 400 women a year would avoid heart attacks if they stopped smoking - and 112 lives would be saved.
They said heavy smokers with other risk factors such as high blood pressure and diabetes were particularly at risk.
The study found no evidence that the contraceptive pill increased a smoker's heart attack risk.
This was thought to be because modern oral contraceptives contain relatively low levels of the hormone oestrogen.
Truly shocking findings
Amanda Sandford, research manager at Action against Smoking and Health (ASH) said the death toll was "truly shocking".
She said: "There is a common misconception among young people that smoking causes disease only in old people. This research demolishes that myth.
"It also shows that even light smokers are conning themselves if they think they are not at risk."
She said the findings underlined the need for services to help people quit smoking, targeting those at greatest risk from the dangers of tobacco.
"Smokers who stop before the age of 35 can dramatically reduce their risk of contracting smoking-induced diseases," she added.
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A student who is smoking on the Augusta Technical College campus or a trespasser wandering the hallways now has a bigger police force to answer to.
In the past, the campus was patrolled by three off-duty Richmond County sheriff's deputies working special assignment for the school.
But in July the school established its first-ever Augusta Technical College Police Department with one chief and one full-time officer, who will still work with the three special duty deputies. The two officers were sworn in earlier this month by Augusta Judicial Circuit Superior Court Judge Daniel Craig and now have full arresting power.
"We're not here to be an oppressive force," Officer Jerri Jennings-Joly said. "We're here to facilitate a safe and secure environment for the students to learn."
Chief Mike Anchor said he saw a need for the college's own department because the deputies sometimes had to be called off campus for a city-related call and the campus was left without security. Between Anchor and Jennings-Joly, and the three deputies, there is now an officer with arresting authority on campus at all times.
Jennings-Joly and Anchor were Richmond County road patrol deputies before coming to Augusta Tech. Anchor left the sheriff's office in 2008 to become Augusta Tech's director of security, safety and environmental. Jennings-Joly joined the school full time in July.
Augusta Tech is the 13th of Georgia's 25 technical colleges to establish its own police department, according to Mike Light, a spokesman for Technical College System of Georgia.
He said a recent boost in technical college enrollment in Georgia spurred a need for more security. Between 2008 and 2011, enrollment increased 30 percent to 195,000 students in state technical schools.
Since 2011, enrollment has dropped by about 20,000 students, but Light said about five colleges still established their own police forces in the past few years.
"It's definitely a sign of growth that we're getting these police departments on campus," Light said. "With more students walking around, there is more need for security."
Although they are now prepared, Anchor said Augusta Tech is lucky to have few crimes. Last year, there were about six misdemeanor thefts, one stolen vehicle and no arrests.
Most incidents the officers deal with are violations of the school policy and student code of conduct. The officers spend a lot of time patrolling the campus and catching students who are violating the no-smoking policy or nonstudents who sneak on campus to use the computer labs.
When they do find violators, Anchor said, his goal is more than punishment. He wants to connect with students to help them understand the rules.
Anchor said he learns their names, asks why they were acting out and explains why rules are in place.
"I get to actually be in the role of an educator by talking to young people," Anchor said. "I get to be the role of mentor and talk to people who don't really know what they want to do with their lives."
Jennings-Joly said the switch from road patrol to campus cop was a welcome change. The two said dealing with domestic disputes and violent crimes can be draining.
"Here you're working with the same kids on a daily basis, so it's not just handle the call and be gone," Anchor said.
At the end of her eight-hour shift, Jennings-Joly patrols the parking lot outside the cosmetology building to make sure students get safely to their cars.
She said her main priority is student safety, but there is a sense of pride that comes with being the founding officer in the college's first police department.
"I'm just happy to be here and be a part of the building of the police department," she said.


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The Yumao Hotel (Henan Yumao Binguan) is located in bustling downtown area on Wenhua Road close to a park hypermarket and shopping plaza. On-site dining outlets include variously sized banquet halls and eight private dining rooms. For commercial travelers there are three modernly designed meeting center all equipped with projectors stereo systems and computers.


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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (UPI) -- The Secret Service asked Virginia to close key HOV lanes during rush hour to get U.S. President George Bush to a political fundraiser -- and was turned down.
The Washington Post reported even the leader of the Free World can't buck Washington's gridlock.
The Secret Service asked state officials to close the center HOV lanes of I-395 from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday, which would have created a traffic jam for the average driver that would not have been cleared until 10 p.m., the Post said.
Bush was headed for a fundraiser for U.S. Sen. George Allen, R-Va., who is running for re-election.
The Post said unnamed Virginia officials were stunned by the request: If they had granted it, commuter buses normally using the high-speed lanes would have to be rerouted or canceled and the thousands of multi-passenger cars normally in the HOV lanes would be added to the already crowded lanes of I-95.
"It would give a new meaning to political gridlock in D.C.," John Townsend, a spokesman for AAA Mid-Atlantic, told the newspaper. "You have to wonder, What were they thinking?"


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Several fliers outlining discontent with Kansas University residence halls were distributed in living halls and placed on vehicles Sunday night or early Monday by an unknown number of disgruntled students, KU officials said today.
According to a KU police report, fliers were distributed in hallways and under doors in Ellsworth and other residence halls, and in a parking lot in the Daisy Hill area of campus. Other halls in the area include McCollum, Lewis, Hashinger and Templin, but police do not know if fliers were placed in all of those buildings. The number of fliers distributed also was not known, police said.
The fliers state that student rights are being violated because students are receiving "condescending treatment by hall staff, arbitrarily enforced rules, boring lifestyles, petty power trips of resident assistants, disgusting living conditions, food which is worse than jail food, overpriced and undersized rooms, denial of a decent living and a general police state set up by resident advisers."
The fliers call for a meeting at 6:30 p.m. today in the fifth floor of Ellsworth Hall for students who are disgruntled.
Deb Miller, resident hall director at Ellsworth, said today that she believed more than one student had distributed the fliers because the complaints use the term "we."
Miller told police that "some of her residents were upset over the strict enforcement of rules against marijuana and alcohol," according to the police report.
Police Lt. John Mullens said police believe the fliers may have been distributed by a disgruntled student who has friends in Ellsworth but who lives in another hall and has problems gaining access to Ellsworth.
He also said students may be disgruntled because officials in Ellsworth uphold university rules.
Miller said she believed the students responsible for the flier live in both Ellsworth and other halls.
Mullens said a police report was filed on the matter because posting bills on vehicles is a violation of a city ordinance.
Fliers may be posted in designated areas in KU residence halls, he said.
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Pitbull is #1 this week with "Get Lucky," while Lupe Fiasco's "Battle Scars" comes in #2, and "Can't Hold Us" from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis claims #3.
But Justin Timberlake has not one but two songs in the top 10, with "Mirrors" cruising in at #4. And rounding out the top 5 is P!nk featuring Nate Ruess with "Give Me a Reason."
Will Pitbull be able to hold on to #1? Find out next week!
10. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell – Get Lucky
9. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch -Sweet Nothing
8. Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
7. Justin Timberlake – Suit and Tie
6. Rihanna feat. Mikky Echo – Stay
5. P!nk feat. Nate Ruess – Just Give Me A Reason
4. Justin Timberlake – Mirrors
3. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – Can't Hold Us
2. Lupe Fiasco – Battle Scars
1. Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera – Feel This Moment
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Charles F.posted an image about Arc'teryx Stingray Jacket - Men's on November 7, 2009
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Snowboarder at heart, hike, Mt. Bike, wake-board, surf, backpack.....Trail run and enjoy working-out in the outdoors.
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Nice material pants are designed great. Keeps you warm without overheating.
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First of all I don't usually like long sleeve shirts. I tend to overheat, but this shirt is thin and breathes well. Fit is good XL 5'10 210lbs. Made in Thailand.
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Feel good to wear, nice and comfortable.
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Shows early signs of wear and have only wore in town. Its not warm and the wind goes right through it. I have XL and fits on the baggy side; 5'10 210lbs
This jacket was made in Canada; I like the soft shell Gore-tex, armpit zips work well for backcountry hiking. I mainly snowboard, snowmobile and sled with my kids with this jacket. It blocks wind and keeps the chill out. I wear XL; 5'10" 210 lbs and have room for layering. Stay dry even in wet, slushy conditions.
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I received this jacket as a gift. I am 5'10 210 lbs I have a XL and the fit is good nice a loose, I don't like them too tight. I use it for trail running and it blocks wind good and is warm enough for me to just wear a t-shirt under it while running in 25-50 degrees. Also a nice every day jacket. The only problem is that the stitching is coming out on the sleeves; not surprised since it was made in CHINA. Arc'teryx should stick with Cananda made. I own a lot of Arc'terxy gear all of it is good except the stuff made in China. I have stuff made in Cananda, Thailand, USA and its all good.
Nice material, pants are designed great. I like how stretchy they are and block wind well. Except for the stitching that is coming out. Arc'teryx should think twice about doing business with China. They are a good company and are starting to sell out for less quality. Arc'teryx has alway's been high quality, just all the Arc'teryx clothing I have that was made in China is crap and will be returning.
Has anyone used this in wet snowy stormy AK conditions? Hunting?
Is there or does anyone have a picture of the sole of these? I would one like to see how the sole is shaped/curved. Two the tread on it. I can't find a picture of it anywhere.
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This jacket fits great! I am 5'10" 210 lbs; athletic. It may be on the shorter side if you are taller, but fits me good and not to tight. I normally like an XL, but this fits nice for warmer weather. I had the Pack-lite jacket, but found the pro shell gore-tex to be much more sturdy and packs just as small.
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Great pack! Waterproof! I first took it on a overnight trip in the White Mt. National Park in NH. We hiked up the Huntington ravine trail no sweat! Pack stayed tight to body, even on sketchy climbs. (You can lube the suspension if it squeaks) The size is great, you can roll it down for smaller loads or over stuff it to a large load. I fill the bottom with my sleeping bag without a stuff sack. The one problem I had was although it is watertight all my Sh** got wet on my first trip. You see the bag has a thoughtful water bladder holder inside with a removable hole to route your camelback line. With the lid on the open hole stay's dry from most weather. My problem was my bladder leaked and all my stuff was wet! The bag did not leak, until I dumped out all my water it was holding. So it holds water just as well as it keeps it out! So if you need it to carry water for some reason it would work well. Thank God my sleeping bag is a Mt. Hardware Spectra with the waterproof conduit shell, otherwise it would have been a really cold night on the side of MT. Washington.
Bottom line great pack!
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Why are these $300? I just bought a pair for $ 200.00! All other retailers are selling them for $199!
Anyone like this jacket? Anyone have this jacket?
I wore this jacket on ONE HIKE 12 miles, and when I returned it was ripped on the back! Nice material, but made for delicate people! Won't hold up to a beating! I like how light and small it is, but I'm going for the gortex pro.


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Issue No. 03 - Fall (1995 vol. 12)
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This article presents an efficient method for multiple fault diagnosis of combinational circuits by sensitizing input-pairs. The diagnostic process uses five deduction rules and a progressive deduction procedure to deduce suspected multiple faults in a circuit without probing internal lines, based on the responses observed at primary outputs by sensitizing input-pairs. The authors present a detailed example to demonstrate their method and experimental results to show the efficiency of the method.
fault diagnosis, multiple stuck-at faults, sensitizing input-pairs, progressive deduction, combinational circuits
Hiroshi Takahashi, Yuzo Takamatsu, Nobuhiro Yanagida, "Multiple Fault Diagnosis by Sensitizing Input Pairs", IEEE Design & Test of Computers, vol. 12, no. , pp. 44-52, Fall 1995, doi:10.1109/MDT.1995.466375


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Karel Abraham quits Qatar race due to brake failure
Abraham, riding in 11th place between Hector Barbera and Valentino Rossi, suddenly left the track when his brakes stopped working. Later he returned to the race, but the problem kept coming back and he rode into the pits at the end of the next lap before withdrawing from the race.
Karel Abraham
"I feel really gutted about this - to lose a point because of technical failure is a real shame. We still don't know what caused it, but basically my front brakes just stopped working. At the start it wasn't too bad: the start itself certainly wasn't the best ever, but I still managed to stay in touch with the group containing Rossi and Hayden. It was on the second lap that the brake problem first appeared – they just 'went soft'. On the next lap, I pulled the lever back as far as it would go, but wasn't getting maximum bite. For a while, I was hoping that 'pumping' the brakes might restore pressure, these sorts of problems do occur once in a blue moon. But the same thing happened again three times in five laps, once when I was going very fast – which forced me off the track – and I'm glad that things didn't end a lot worse. I tried to change the brake settings to make them a bit stiffer, but this just gave me the opposite problem – they stiffened up completely. At that moment, it was better to pull out rather than risk taking a fall."
Marco Grana, Chief Mechanic
"What happened today was a serious problem. What makes it really difficult is that we still can't say what actually happened, because now everything works the way it should. The problem only came to light during race conditions. We know for a fact, however, that the problem does exist: it's there in the telemetry data. The whole brake has now gone to back to the manufacturers – Brembo, and we'll wait and see what they say. Frankly, at the moment I'm at a loss to know what it could've been. It's a really unusual failure that you don't come across very often. It's a great pity, because if everything had been working, we would've been fighting for sixth place."


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Raiders Fire Off. Coord. Knapp
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Tennessee Titans Keep Coach Mike Munchak, Fire COO
Tennessee Titans owner Bud Adams was expected to take some time meeting with his coaches and front-office personnel before making any final decisions this week. He didn't wait long...
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Bears star kick returner Devin Hester was visibly upset that the Bears fired Lovie Smith. Not long after Smith informed the team of his departure, Hester cleaned out his locker at ...
Smith, Turner Will Not Return in '13
San Diego Chargers President Dean Spanos announced today that General Manager A.J. Smith and Head Coach Norv Turner will not return in 2013...
Garnett: 'This Is Where All the Plastic People Melt'
Kevin Garnett would love it if the Boston Celtics had one of the best records in the NBA right now, steamrolling over foes like they did back during the C's 2008 championship run...
Cowboys Eye Play-Calling OC to Help Jason Garrett
After failing to make the playoffs for a second straight season under coach Jason Garrett, the Dallas Cowboys are planning to make changes...
Joe Philbin: Free Agency on the Table
There is a false narrative in the Dolfan community that because coach Joe Philbin came from the Green Bay Packers , he wants the Dolphins run like the Green Bay Packers, particularly when it comes to building the team...
Mark Sanchez: "I Know We're Destined for Great Stuff Here"
A miserable season hasn't dampened Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez 's confidence. Sanchez told reporters today that after talking to head coach Rex Ryan , he's ...
Bears Ask for Permission to Interview MikeMcCoy
Reports: Bears Fire Lovie Smith
Jets Postpone Rex Presser, Trigger Collective "Hmmmmmm"
If you take it at face value, the fact Rex Ryan isn't talking today might mean nothing. But with the Jets , seldom does anything mean nothing...
Potential GM Candidates
Now that Mike Tannenbaum is out as the Jets ' general manager, let's take a look at names likely on the team's radar. Woody Johnson announced that Rex Ryan will remain as coach, so a candidate who has ties to Ryan might help...
Greg Schiano: 'Nothing Is Untouchable'
Tampa Bay coach Greg Schiano just did his season wrap-up meeting with the media and it sure sounds like his second offseaon with the Buccaneers will be much like his first...
Rutgers CB Ryan Will Opt for Draft, Source Says
Browns Fire Coach Pat Shurmur, GM Tom Heckert
"We felt that these moves were in the best interests of the Cleveland Browns and our future," Haslam said in a statement...
Eagles Announce End of Reid's Tenure
The 14-year head coaching tenure of Andy Reid has ended, the Philadelphia Eagles announced on Monday morning...
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Everton are set to be without Darron Gibson for a month after the midfielder was sidelined by a thigh strain...
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Wolf Pack's Stefphon Jefferson to Forgo Senior Season, Head to NFL
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We hate TV, but we have a favorite show…we hate electronic eavesdropping, but we love it when it is used to capture a fiendish criminal. We love to hate it. We hate to love it.
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Income Inequality Driven By Slashes to Capital Gains Tax Rate
The Congressional Research Service declined a vacation in favor of whipping up a report on the major causes of inequality, which Jared Bernstein summarizes here. The report does find that income inequality is in part a function of the Bush tax cuts, and I'm unsure how it accounts for the higher salaries granted to executives with a lower tax burden as part of that whole equation. However, it turns out that the more important cause happens to be dividends and capital gains:
The largest single contributor to the growth of inequality, 1996-2006, was dividends and capital gains. Adding in business income, like profits from a hedge fund, comes to 0.061, more than explaining the 0.057 point increase in the Gini index.
It may surprise you that income from earnings reduced inequality's growth over these years. It's not because the distribution of earnings became more equal—to the contrary. It's because earnings are a) less skewed than cap gains, dividends, and business income, and b) comprised a significantly smaller share of income in 2006 than in 1996.
In other words, a more equal type of income (earnings) was a smaller share of total income at the end of the period, and visa versa: a more skewed income source comprised a larger share.
Over the past several decades, the capital gains rate has taken a beating. Every Republican Presidential candidate except for Romney and Santorum has vowed to eliminate the capital gains tax. It gets demonized as "double taxation," and wild claims are made about a lowered or cashiered capital gains tax leading to increased investment and higher growth. The truth is that our unequal society is made far more unequal when the rich can shift themselves almost entirely into a 15% tax rate through capital gains. Among the top 1%, 38% of income now comes from dividends and capital gains, triple the percentage rate of all tax filers. According to Bernstein's precis of the report, "if capital and business income shares hadn't grown—i.e., if one assigns the growth in their shares to the wage share—inequality would have grown slightly more than half as fast as it did."
It's important to nail this down, because it hasn't really been part of the conversation in the progressive community. The reduction in the capital gains tax from 20% to 15% exactly was part of the 2003 Bush tax cuts, and has been extended twice since then, most recently with the rest of the Bush tax cuts in 2010 (starting in 2008, the long-term capital gains rate for individuals in the lowest two income brackets actually reduced to 0, but if you're in those brackets, you are highly unlikely to benefit from a lot of capital gains). This is not only a giveaway mainly to the rich, it distorts income inequality, and as a result the political economy of the country.
Reagan increased the capital gains tax from 20% to 28% in the 1986 tax reform, reversing a cut from 1981. But there's almost nobody clamoring for this today. Occupy Wall Street has raised the issue of income inequality, but not really this specific cause. In fact, they have started to veer into other avenues like protesting the NDAA. That's perfectly noble, but if we're going to change the conversation nationally around the dangers of income inequality, we should at least pinpoint the cause.


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You Think You Know Taylor Swift?
Of course you know Taylor Swift's hit songs. And you probably know her movie roles and songs inspired by famous boyfriends ... But do you know what her first job was? Or which family member gave her the gift of song? And did you know she once recorded a song about a country singer not named Tim McGraw?


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'The Daily Show' (Weeknights, 11PM ET on Comedy Central) returned from a one-week hiatus just in time for Jon Stewart to comment on the military action the U.S. and its allies have embarked on in Libya. Stewart came out critical of "Operation Odyssey Dawn." "I don't want to be a pain in the ass, but don't we already have two wars?" Stewart pointed out. "You know wars aren't kids, where you don't have to pay attention to the youngest one because the older two will take care of it." And that wasn't even the only family-relations based metaphor Stewart had crafted for America's latest military front: //www.tvsquad.com/2011/03/22/jon-stewart-wonders-why-the-u-s-is-involved-in-a-third-war-vid/


text: Midway through Keith Richards's largely genial Life, he uncorks a sudden barrage of invective against the film director Donald Cammell: "He was the most destructive little turd I've ever met. Also a Svengali, utterly predatory, a very successful manipulator of women. . . . Putting people down was almost an addiction for him." Only the narcs and his frenemy Mick Jagger (mocked for his now infamous "tiny todger") come in for comparable slagging off. Why Richards should harbor such animus against this relatively obscure figure will puzzle anyone unfamiliar with the seedier precincts of late-1960s cinema, specifically the sexed-up, drugged-out background behind the notoriously lurid freak-out film Performance. [More...]


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Lyn Hughes is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Wanderlust Magazine.
The bar-owner looked baffled. It was the only restaurant open in a small village in Andalucia and the small menu mostly involved bits of pig. I had tried saying that my friend and I were vegetarian, no carne, no jamon, and this flummoxed him. He shook his head.
We decided that if we were not going to eat then we should at least splash out on a decent wine so ordered his best bottle of Rioja. To our surprise, he not only brought the wine over, but some plates and cutlery. A few minutes later a large plate of shredded lettuce was plonked on the table, followed by a plate of green beans. Best of all was a large bowl of peas. We thanked him profusely and tucked into the greenest meal I've ever had.
I can't pretend that I've always been vegetarian, but I've been an animal lover since I was born, and so avoided eating meat. My first trip to Thailand and Malaysia did have me sampling snake and grasshoppers out of curiosity, but I then stuck to vegetables the rest of the time.
But eventually I had to face up to the fact that I was uncomfortable eating flesh, even when out of politeness. So, I draw the line at anything I wouldn't kill myself, which leave me eating seafood sometimes, but no meat.
It's led to some rather strange meals sometimes. In Mongolia I lived off carrots and cabbage; a memorable meal at an "upmarket" lodge consisted of carrot soup, followed by carrot salad, followed by pancakes stuffed with… you've guessed it, followed by, err, carrot cake. In South America I've had pizza with tinned carrots, pizza with tinned peas, and pizza with beetroot. The Azores a hotel I was staying at had wonderful tomatoes in its salad, so I asked if I could have spaghetti with some of the tomatoes chopped in it. Disappointingly, the chef ignored these instructions and poured a tube of strong tomato puree on top instead.
For all the not so good meals there have been many excellent ones too. I still remember a lunch in a simple hut in Venezuela' mountains. It was eggs that had just been laid, greens that had just been picked, sautéed potatoes, and fresh berry juice. In Sicily I was taken to an unmarked restuarant in a mountain village that had no menu. Just course after course of fresh, local produce. Only the last course was meat. In Lebanon I ate wonderful mezze feasts that make my mouth water just thinking of them.
My next trip is Sudan, and I haven't really researched the food situation yet. I'd been warned that soup made of cow or sheep hooves is a staple. Hmmm, a quick google has just thrown up falafels, beans and yoghurt as being common. Something tells me I'll manage fine yet again.
Top Tips for vegetarians. In many countries people won't understand what vegetarianism is. Furthermore, even if they've come across people who call themselves veggie, they could be anything from a strict vegan through to someone who eats fish or even chicken. So, learn how to say that you don't eat meat in the local lingo. Research what you can eat that is readily available, and be prepared to make suggestions. France can be one of the toughest countries. Tell them you are on a regime – and again what you will eat.
Top spots for vegetarians:
– India
– Sri Lanka
– Lebanon
– Jordan
– Italy
– The UK
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BPM-909 Standard File System
Revised September 1, 1994
Standard File System
A "straight line" filing system is the standard file folder and guide arrangement system recommended for all departments using conventional drawer files. The "straight line" filing system will:
- Improve records filing and retrieval.
- Facilitate and simplify filing personnel training.
- Achieve savings in file folder purchasing.
Colored labels can also be used in several different configurations to aid file identification.
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Like most countries around the world, India entered 2009 worried about the impact of the global economic downturn on its own growth prospects. Anxiety about the economy was compounded by renewed concern about terrorism in the region, sparked by the vicious terrorist attacks in Mumbai (Bombay) in late November 2008. Despite these problems, the ruling coalition, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), succeeded in returning to power in the general elections of May 2009, improving its seat tally in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament. (See Sidebar.) Paradoxically, a stronger ruling coalition might find itself under less pressure to perform, or at any rate to undertake difficult government and economic reforms. Although government reform was not a key issue in the elections, government failures lay at the root of many of India's problems with law and order, civil strife, and insurgency.
The Economy
After an unprecedented five-year run of a nearly 9% average annual rate of growth, the Indian economy slowed to a growth rate of 7.1% in 2008–09 and was expected to record an even lower rate of 6.3–6.5% in 2009–10. This slowdown was only partly caused by the global downturn. An equally important factor was the poor monsoon rains in 2009, the weakest in more than 35 years, which had a negative impact on agricultural output.
The Indian banking and financial system had virtually no direct exposure to American subprime-mortgage assets or to the financial institutions in the U.S. that were at the heart of the crisis. The Indian central bank took care to ensure that Indian banks had limited "off-balance-sheet" activities and securitized assets and had adhered to the so-called Basel norms, standards set by the Bank for International Settlements for managing financial risk. The early prudent and risk-averse regulation of the financial system helped to limit the impact of the trans-Atlantic financial crisis on the Indian financial sector.
The economy was negatively affected, however, by various other channels. First, the downturn in global trade reduced export growth. Second, Indian corporations' access to foreign commercial loans was curtailed, and this resulted in the cost of credit going up, since interest rates were higher in India. Finally, reduced portfolio investment in Indian equities by international institutional investors pushed Indian stock market indexes down.
To counter the impact of the slowdown, the government unveiled fiscal stimulus packages in late 2008 and in the first quarter of 2009. This additional public spending contributed to an increase in the government's fiscal and budgetary deficits. A liberal fiscal policy along with insufficient monsoon rains and an expected downturn in agricultural production contributed to inflationary pressures. By the end of 2009, inflation had emerged as a major policy concern.
Foreign Policy
Managing relations with Pakistan in the aftermath of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai emerged as a major foreign-policy challenge in 2009. Equal attention had to be paid to India's relations with the United States, where a new administration took charge, and with China. India officially accused Pakistan's chief spy agency of having conspired to stage the terror attacks in Mumbai. The Indian government provided information to Pakistan showing links between the terrorists who attacked Mumbai and militants based in Pakistan, claiming the latter were "clients and creations" of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency. Pakistan denied the charge, initially refusing to accept any link to the Mumbai attacks and later conceding that some "nonstate actors" based in Pakistan might have been involved in planning them. The action taken against those identified by India and the United States as coconspirators also became a contentious issue.
Partly to stem this deterioration in the bilateral relationship and partly to pick up the threads of an earlier dialogue with then president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met in July 2009 with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani on the sidelines of the Nonaligned Movement summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The joint statement issued after the meeting was criticized in India both by opposition political parties and by sections of the Congress Party (the leader of the ruling coalition) for being too soft on Pakistan and for bringing up, for the first time ever in such a joint statement, the issue of insurgency in Pakistan's Balochistan province. Pakistan had charged India with having aided Baloch rebels, while India maintained that the Baloch nationalist movement was an entirely homegrown resistance movement.
Even as Pakistan dominated the headlines, renewed differences between India and China on the border issue, especially regarding the status of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, caused some friction between the Asian giants. China continued to claim Arunachal Pradesh as its territory. India consistently rejected this claim, having held regular elections to the provincial government, including in October 2009. India's plans to step up infrastructure development in the state met with strong Chinese disapproval on the board of the Asian Development Bank, which India had approached for a loan to fund this investment. Although China tried to block the loan, it was ultimately approved. India-China trade and business relations continued to flourish nonetheless; China emerged as India's biggest trade partner, despite Indian allegations of dumping and nontransparent pricing of Chinese goods. India and China continued to work together in international forums, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the IMF, and tried to coordinate their positions in the negotiations on climate change.
The summit of the Group of 20, of which India was a member, emerged as a major global decision-making body in 2009; this was a high point of Indian diplomacy during the year. India remained concerned, however, about the slowing of the pace of its interaction with the United States under the administration of Pres. Barack Obama. While Prime Minister Singh enjoyed a cordial meeting with Obama during Singh's state visit to the U.S. in late November, Obama's preoccupations with domestic economic issues and U.S. relations with China and the Muslim world reduced India's salience in U.S. foreign policy, compared with what it had been under his immediate predecessor, Pres. George W. Bush. India also concluded free-trade agreements with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and South Korea.
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