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Notes: Callaspo earning time on field
Notes: Callaspo earning time on field
Callaspo is a middle infielder by trade, but has also played some third. On Saturday, Melvin started him in left field for the first time this year during a morning B game against the White Sox.
"You'll see him out there a couple of more times, too," Melvin said. "He's a great athlete, could probably play anywhere on the field. And the way he swings the bat, he just gives us another option. With having all right-handed hitting outfielders right now, he just gives another option if we want to get him out there and get another left-handed bat in there."
The switch-hitting Callaspo leads the D-backs in hitting with a .438 mark this spring. This comes on the heels of a 2006 season in which led the Triple-A Pacific Coast League in hits despite spending a few weeks in the big leagues.
The D-backs acquired Callaspo last spring from the Angels in exchange for pitcher Jason Bulger, and while overshadowed by young players like Carlos Quentin, Chris Young, Conor Jackson and Stephen Drew, Callaspo continues to push for his share of attention.
"I've often said this camp that when we talk about the Quentin and Jacksons and Drews and Youngs, this guy kind of gets left out," Melvin said. "And he shouldn't. He's a heck of a player. That's a heck of a trade we made last year."
Playing Callaspo in the outfield is one way to get him extra at-bats during the season and it might also make sense to start him at third in place of Chad Tracy against some left-handers.
Nippert gets work in: Dustin Nippert followed Randy Johnson to the mound in the B game and gave up three hits, but did not allow a run in two innings of work.
"Good breaking ball, downhill plane on his fastball," Melvin said of the right-hander.
Johnson's next outing: Melvin originally planned to throw Johnson on Thursday in Mesa against the Cubs, but instead will have the Big Unit start the Thursday night game against the Padres at Chase Field.
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Familiar face: Robby Hammock, who is battling for one of the final roster spots, caught Johnson on Saturday.
Hammock was also behind the plate on May 18, 2004, in Atlanta, when Johnson tossed a perfect game, and the two have always worked well together.
"To have Robby back there the first time it was nice because we talk a lot in the clubhouse, and it's nice when you can talk out there and [he] can kind of guide you through," Johnson said. "He's always done a pretty good job with me behind home plate."
Getting better: Doug Davis pitched well in his next-to-last start of the spring as he held the White Sox to three runs over five innings.
Davis has struggled a bit this spring and came into Saturday's game with an 11.25 ERA. Though he feels like he's pitched better than that number would have indicated, it was still important for him to have a good showing Saturday, especially since he was working on incorporating a couple of mechanical tweaks.
"Better today," he said. "Everything felt good and I felt like I was throwing strikes and getting ahead."
Up next: The D-backs travel across town to take on the Rockies at Hi Corbett Field at 1:05 p.m. MT on Sunday with Edgar Gonzalez starting against Rodrigo Lopez.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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But there is a dramatic drawback to labels and symbols. While "labeling" does provide us with a quick and proficient way of understanding things on the fly, it also makes us far too simple-minded in our overall perspective of life. Labeling makes us jump to premature conclusions by enforcing simplistic reasoning. By its very nature, labeling abhors critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills, both of which require more time and effort to employ effectively.
This isn't to say that labeling doesn't have it's place. For thousands of years, Homo Sapiens have needed to quickly classify the different experiences and stimuli of life as threats, dangers, friend, foe, etc. It is an important skill that we have mastered well. But in the 21st century world, labeling is more nuanced than it was for our ancestors. For us, labeling causes us to make hasty and impulsive judgments of one another. To illustrate my point, see what conclusions your mind will jump to when you hear these labels:
- "He/she is a Muslim."All of these labels (and the countless others that we employ) have the capacity to form our base opinions and understanding of others, even when we have no additional information on the subject. For example, I bet your mind didn't picture these people in relation to the labels above:
- "He/She is a member of the NRA."
- "He/She is an ardent supporter of the ACLU."
- "He/She is a recovering alcoholic."
- "He/She is a registered Democrat."
- The NBA's all-time leader in scoring is a Muslim named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.As you can see, labels are a confusing cognitive tool that we humans need to be careful with. In our modern world, labels rarely if ever tell the entire story.
- Michael Moore and Whoopi Goldberg are members of the NRA.
- Helen Keller helped to found the ACLU in 1920.
- Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, is a recovering alcoholic.
- Country stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are registered Democrats.
With this in mind, I want to take the concept of "labeling" and apply it to my faith. As an unorthodox Mormon (yes, that self-appointed label doesn't capture my entire story either), I have seen how different members of my religion, each with different opinions and outlooks on life, have been arbitrarily assigned different labels to better explain their views. For example, Mormons who rarely attend and violate certain codes of conduct (i.e. drink coffee, alcohol, etc.) are often called "Jack Mormons," while a Mormon who devoutly walks the line, adheres to all commandments and rarely misses a Sunday is called a "True Blue Mormon." Mormons who may questions basic points of doctrine and history are sometimes referred to as "New Age Mormons," while those who try to "make it work" but cannot embrace every tenant of Mormonism are called "Cafeteria Mormons."
Admittedly, each of these labels, and my corresponding explanations, are far too simplistic to tell the entire story, but THAT'S MY ENTIRE POINT!!! Electing to arbitrarily assign labels to people based on their behavior, beliefs/lack of belief, etc. is about as effective and intelligent as trying to clean a loaded gun.
Humans are complex creatures, even if Lynyrd Skynyrd insists on calling us "Simple Men." A person who may appear to be a "Jack Mormon" may, in reality, have a far greater understanding of Mormon theology and history than any "True Blue Mormon" on the planet (I would actually argue that this is more true than people want to admit). A "Cafeteria Mormon," who struggles with some aspects of the faith, may have a greater testimony and devotion to the religion than any "Molly Mormon." In short, choosing to label flies in the face of what Jesus himself ardently preached at the Sermon on the Mount:
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye (Matt. 7: 1-5).But this advise also goes for the struggling and/or departed Mormon who has elected to either distance and/or remove himself/herself from the faith. Your newly "enlightened" path does not grant you the right to ridicule those who stay. You may have problems with the doctrine, history and culture of the Mormon church, but those aren't golden tickets of retribution.
The danger of labeling is not self-evident. It is hidden within layers of arrogance and pride. As President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 2nd Counselor of the Mormon faith, states:
This sin has many faces. It leads some to revel in their own perceived self-worth, accomplishments, talents, wealth, or position. They count these blessings as evidence of being "chosen," "superior," or "more righteous" than others. This is the sin of "Thank God I am more special than you." At its core is the desire to be admired or envied. It is the sin of self-glorification.
For others, pride turns to envy: they look bitterly at those who have better positions, more talents, or greater possessions than they do. They seek to hurt, diminish, and tear down others in a misguided and unworthy attempt at self-elevation. When those they envy stumble or suffer, they secretly cheer.
Brethren, unfortunately we see today too often the same kind of attitude and behavior spill over into the public discourse of politics, ethnicity, and religion.The old adage, "Don't judge a book by its cover" certainly comes to mind when we consider the appropriate way to wield the sword of labeling. And though we will never completely eradicate labeling from our cognitive tray of resources (and I don't think we should to begin with), hopefully humanity will evolve to the point where we can master the practice of labeling effectively...
...before labeling masters us.

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Mich. Gov., Detroit Emergency Manager Discuss Bankruptcy
Detroit's Mayor Dave Bing and emergency financial manager Kevin Orr announced they were going forward with the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history, with the city facing up to $20 billion in long-term debt. Ray Suarez talks with Orr and Michigan Gov. Rick Synder about the path forward for Detroit.
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This series is an abridged and revised version of a 5-part series originally published on GoodGeneration.org between Jan 15-23 , 2012.
In Part 1 of this "Impact Investing Career Checklist" series, we talked about about how to scan today's landscape and figure out the available opportunities, as well as identifying a role for you to act within this world.
The next two items of Part 2 today deal first with understanding what type of people (or strange birds occasionally) you may encounter at your prospective future employer and how their personalities may affect you.
Second, I want to argue that we need to figure out if your impact investing organization really knows what it is talking about in terms of what type of target companies it seeks to fund and support. The answer may not always be straight forward, but what matters is the firm's attitude towards this uncertainty.
To review the original "checklist" one more time:
Impact Investing Career Checklist
- Identify the opportunities (Part 1)
- Assess your potential role (Part 1)
- Understand who runs the show (Part 2)
- Define target organizations they fund (Part 2)
- Clarify their return expectations (Part 3)
- Know yourself (Part 3)
3) Understand who runs the show
Try to understand the "personalities" behind the impact investor
In their eagerness to find impact investing opportunities, I think a lot of wananbe do-gooders underestimate the degree to which their experience will be shaped by the type of people who founded and run the various organizations they apply for. Instead of getting hooked on the website and great stories of the social entrepreneurs funded, ask yourself some specific questions about the people behind this, the founders and leaders themselves.
- What are their backgrounds? What are their motivations? Where have they been before doing this? What is the lens through which they see the world? What view do they have on career development and compensation of employees?
- You can tell they care about social entrepreneurship. And about the poor, of course. But how much do they seem to care about you?
All such questions should be asked as they completely affect impact investor organizations' operating principles and, ultimately, your life as an employee. Let me try to give some fair warning about potential cultural expectations to have depending on the companies you join to minimize frustration and allow you to find the right fit. Note that in the following discussion and examples, I will refer mostly to VC/PE-like funds to be able to be more specific and because I am more familiar with them.
A Personality Spectrum
Recognize that the impact investing field came together as a merger of two worlds. On the one end of the spectrum you have what I would call the "soft, socially-driven people,†who mostly worked for nonprofits or as social entrepreneurs for most of their lives. On the opposite end of the spectrum, you have what I would call the "hard-nosed, profit-driven people,†who mostly worked for corporations, financial institutions, and consultancies for most of their lives. I will pull no punches to point out that both sides have different agendas in coming together to shape the impact investment sector, and that those agendas may not be the same as yours.
Clearly both ends of the spectrum are extreme and, by definition, exaggerated personalities. They exist nonetheless. Understanding where on the spectrum your future employer fits might help gauge their capabilities towards the following areas that matter to employees:
- Capacity for empathy (with YOU, not with the poor!)
- Demand for analytical/technical rigor and accountability of work
- Passion for the mission vs. skills as main performance evaluation criteria
- Attitude towards compensation (fair vs. low-ball offers)
- Grasp on the concept of career development
Depending on if you are dealing with people towards the soft or the hard end of this personality spectrum, you may be surprised at the variances in how they "rank" according to the above and other criteria that should be important to you as a prospective team member. More elaboration on this in the original post here.
The takeaway from this is to of course know yourself and what type of people you enjoy working with. Some of you interested in this field may tried to escape your former jobs to be around "nicer" or "more purposeful" people. Others are sick of the pure "do-good with no substance" types and seek that more rigor and disciplined approach. Whatever "does it" for you, just make sure the grass truly IS greener before you make the jump.
4) Define target organizations they fund
Let's be honest: how many of you know exactly what type of company qualifies as a target for an impact investor? Yes, some sort of "socially good" company. Or environmental. But HOW social? Are we talking about a business that produces some socially beneficial outcome beyond employment? Are we talking about a social innovator that happens to make some revenue on the side besides asking for grants all the time? Do we include nonprofits that make no revenue at all?
These are the types of questions that many people, including impact investors, have difficulty putting into a coherent framework that explains whom to invest in and whom not to invest in.
So your litmus test for your future employer should be two things:
- Question 1: How well have they defined their target universe of firms to invest in?
- Question 2: If they haven't quite figured it out yet, do they have the honesty and humility to tell you they don't know for sure but are working on it as the field evolves and expectations of investors can also differ, making this a tough job overall?
Question 1 gives you a sense whether you'll be doing mostly philanthropic grants ("venture philanthropy") or socially responsible business ("SRI") investing, or something in between. That affects how you do your work and also what type of funders you will have to deal with in terms of their expectations (think "soft-types" looking for impacts more than "hard-nosed" types looking for competitive financial returns.
Question 2 is even more important. It tells you how open your prospective employer is to accepting the "nature of the moving target" that is impact investing today. Anyone who has an attitude of having it all figured out, in my opinion, may just be too cock-sure for goodness' sake.
For more elaboration, read here.
In summary, if the target organization definition is not clearly articulated, you may spend a lot of time screening deals that get turned down, usually for inconsistent reasons. If the definition is too narrow, you main run out of pipeline and do no more than 1-2 deals a year. If the definition is too broad, your fund risks allocating money in areas where you have no particular value-add or control over the investment.
Next time, in the last Part 3 of this series, we'll consider what role return expectations play and also how well you should know yourself.


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Soil Problems In Arizona Approximate Earthquake Damage
"Cracks are etched along the walls, creeping from the corners of the windows and the baseboards. Holes have been cut in various spots on the kitchen linoleum. There's also a series of holes in the backyard -- five feet deep."
"Worst of all: the crack running the entire length of the house, from the easternmost edge of the living room floor to the westernmost edge of the kitchen."
"This is a 45-foot gash bisecting the house's foundation, as if an earthquake struck Surprise [Arizona]."
"Some of the hottest areas for development in the Valley -- including parts of Anthem, Gilbert, and Surprise -- suffer from problematic soil."
"'You see the land with poorer soils, 10 years ago, the only thing you'd find there is a farm house,' [Jack Holden, chair of Arizona Building Officials] says. 'But then the building boom hit, and you had these mass builders come in, and now you've got hundreds of houses there.'"


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Senior Health (cont.)
Siamak N. Nabili, MD, MPH
Dr. Nabili received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), majoring in chemistry and biochemistry. He then completed his graduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His graduate training included a specialized fellowship in public health where his research focused on environmental health and health-care delivery and management.
Charles Patrick Davis, MD, PhD
Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
In this Article
- What are some common facts about health in seniors?
- What changes occur in the body as we age?
- What are the most common diseases and conditions seniors face as they age?
- How can social issues affect the life and health of seniors?
- What are lifestyle changes seniors can make to lead a healthy life as they age?
- What role does diet play in senior health?
- Is exercise important in health of the elderly?
- What are some of the routine medical tests for seniors?
- What are important safety measures for the elderly?
- What are some concerns regarding hospitalization of the elderly?
- What is a hospitalist, and where is my regular doctor?
How can social issues affect the life and health of seniors?
Social issues can have a significant impact on life and both physical and mental health of seniors. Some of the major contributors to social and psychological problems for seniors are as follows:
- Loneliness from losing a spouse and friends
- Inability to independently manage regular activities of living
- Difficulty coping and accepting physical changes of aging
- Frustration with ongoing medical problems and increasing number of medications
- Social isolation as adult children are engaged in their own lives
- Feeling inadequate from inability to continue to work
- Boredom from retirement and lack of routine activities
- Financial stresses from the loss of regular income
These factors can have a negative impact on overall health of an older individual. Addressing these psychosocial problems is an integral component of seniors' complex medical care.
What are lifestyle changes seniors can make to lead a healthy life as they age?
A balanced diet and participation in regular exercise are paramount in maintaining a healthy life for people of all ages. Routine exercise and healthy diet in seniors can have an even more noticeable impact in their general well-being.
Many diseases in seniors may be prevented or at least slowed down as a result of a healthy lifestyle. Osteoporosis, arthritis, heart disease, high blood pressures, diabetes, high cholesterol, dementia, depression, and certain cancers are some of the common conditions that can be positively modified in seniors through diet, exercise, and other simple lifestyle changes.
In addition to diet and exercise, other important life style modifications to lead a healthier life in seniors include:
- Limiting alcohol intake to one drink daily
- Smoking cessation
- Using skin moisturizers and sun protection
- Brushing and flossing teeth once or twice a day
- Staying proactive in own healthcare and participating in decision making
- Going to the primary care doctor routinely
- Reviewing list of medications with their doctor(s) often
- Following recommended instructions for health screening, preventive tests, and vaccinations
- Visiting a dentist annually or biannually
- Following up with eye doctor and foot doctor, especially for people with diabetes
- Being aware of potential medication side effects anddrug interactions including over-the-counter drugs, herbals, and alternative medicine
- Adhering to routine sleep schedule and using good sleep hygiene
- Engaging in routine and scheduled social activities
- Taking vacations
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The Baldwin County Highway Department wants the city to partner with it to construct roundabouts at two congested intersections along HWY 13 east of town -- at Fairhope Ave. and Gayfer Rd.
Gayfer currently has a 4 way stop and Fairhope a 2 way.
80% of the cost is to be funded by a state ATRIP grant and the remaining 20% shared by the county/city -- if the grant is approved.
Each intersection currently handles about 15,000 cars a day, according to county engineer Cal Market. Market noted the continuous flow and lack of delays provided by roundabouts -- vs. the alternatives: traffic signals or stop signs.
The Fairhope Ave. intersection is partly (1/2) within city limits; Gayfer Rd. is outside.
In a similar arrangement, the county is currently partnering with the city of Daphne to install one on Hwy 13 -- at the Hwy 64 (Daphne Rd.) intersection.
Daphne previously installed a roundabout (in 2010) at the Pollard /Whispering Pines Rd. intersection (click); and Mobile County the same year at the Dawes/Grelot Rd intersection (click).
In an unrelated project, the on-again, off-again roundabout for the N. Section St. / Hwy 104 intersection that was approved in conjunction with the Village North PUD project back in 2001 appears to be back on track -- in conjunction with other improvements planned for that area.
Although they may cost more to install initially than traffic signals, roundabouts are touted as a superior way to keep traffic flowing -- and prevent deadly 'T-bone' wrecks.
Some citizens prefer the more traditional methods, worrying roundabouts are something new -- and may be confusing for inexperienced and older drivers to learn how to use.
Other citizens complain about the ever-growing wait times at traffic signals around town, particularly Greeno Rd. and its side streets.
The city council must decide to partner applying for the grant -- and then to proceed if the grant is eventually awarded.


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Owned since new?
Owned for how long?
4 year(s)
Buy this make again?
Price and equipment10.0/10
Has all the bells and whistles most people will need. Tyre pressure sensors are a much needed bonus.
Under the bonnet10.0/10
Very torquey 2.8 CRD isn't thirsty but can easily tow an almost 4t trailer.
How it drives7.0/10
It's not the sportiest drive in the world but it's very stable on the road and much more capable than people think off the road.
Comfort and practicality10.0/10
extremely comfortable on long trips and can easily handle a trip the the local hardware store.
Servicing and running costs6.0/10
Unfortunately Dodge servicing charges like a wounded Bull. Average $500 for a minor service and around $1000 for a major. However once the warranty is up those prices half at your local mechanic.
Aesthetics and styling8.0/10
It's love or hate with the Nitro. Its that simple.
Safety and security10.0/10
Its like crashing a marshmellow. It's been involved in an accident where a 08 model Commodore pulled out in front of it at 70kmh and only ended up with $1500 damage. The Commodore was written off due to a side impact...
Quality and reliability9.0/10
Nearly 40000km's down and no issues yet. The only thing that has changed is the fuel economy which is getting better and better.


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DANNY Heale says he hopes his attacking full-backs can help inspire his team to a more free-flowing style of football this season.
Both Tambeson Eyong and Ashley Dumas have caught the eye in the first week of the season, for their attacking play down both flanks.
Eyong only joined the club in the summer from AFC Hornchurch, but he has been a revelation since signing, winning plaudits in the stands for his all-action displays down the right.
And Heale says, despite losing at East Thurrock United on Tuesday, his full-backs impact on the team cannot be underestimated.
"We want to encourage our full-backs to play as attacking a game as they possibly can," said Heale. "They are a big part of our team and have fantastic fitness levels.
"Saying that it is all about finding a balance. When they bomb forward we need a holding player to sit and cover them when they make progress down the wing.
"Harrison Chatting does that well for us but we know as the weeks go on we will be able to cause more teams problems down the flanks and in other areas."
The Gulls' defeat at Rookery Hill on Tuesday was the fourth time in four years they had lost at the ground and was their fourth successive defeat to the Rocks.
Heale said he didn't think it was so much a psychological hurdle for his team to overcome, as many members of the team were new additions.
He said: "I don't think it is a problem for the team, but it is becoming a bit of a headache for me!
"We are already looking forward to Saturday now and need to forget about this loss."


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China is experiencing unusual chills this winter with its national average temperature hitting the lowest in 28 years, and snow and ice have closed highways, canceled flights, stranded tourists and knocked out power in several provinces.
China Meteorological Administration on Friday said the national average was -3.8 degrees Celsius (25 degrees Fahrenheit) since late November, the coldest in nearly three decades.
More than 100 people have died of exposure as northern India deals with historically cold temperatures.
Police spokesman Surendra Srivastava said Thursday that at least 114 people have died from the recent cold in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Many were poor people whose bodies were found on sidewalks or in parks.
The weather department said temperatures were 7 to 18 degrees F below average in the state.
Four temperature records were registered Thursday morning by Bulgaria's national weather service, as a cold wave gripped the country.
The coldest location and one of the temperature records is the western city of Kyustendil with -19 degrees Centigrate, said the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology.
The other three records were registered at the central town of Kazanlak (-14.8 C), south-western city of Blagoevgrad (-13.5 C), and north-western city of Montana (-11.8 C).
The coldest ever December has rolled through Russia causing the evacuation of hundreds of people in Siberia, where temperature hit below -50C, and plunging Moscow into its coldest night in the season. Will Christmas lift the frosty spell?
The cold weather that has Russia in its icy embrace has been causing all kinds of havoc. Flights and buses delayed and cancelled, many schools have been closed, and there have been power outages just when power is most needed.


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ACParadise Network: American Cosplay Paradise American Cosplay Experience American Cosplay Snapshots
Cosplayer evilium > Costume of Sasha Braus (Attack on Titan)
- Most Recent Photo
- 04-23-2014
- Series
- Attack on Titan
- Character
- Sasha Braus
- Year Completed:
- 2014
- Construction Difficulty:
- Normal
About this Costume
- Personal Thoughts:
- I made and finished this jacket for only $6 summer 2013 but only got to actually having the full costume put together at the very last minute before the con. I made the jacket and harness with my own patterns and hand-painted the scouting legion logos on the jacket. I thought that I did a sloppy job in making this cosplay so I didn't wear it too long mostly because the straps kept sliding down >A< It was fun making the jacket though lol. Worn at Kawaii kon 2014.
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A lane of Interstate 20 in Columbia County will be closed through Saturday evening for installation of new scales.
An eastbound lane of I-20 just west of the weight station will be closed beginning at 9 p.m. Friday through 5 p.m. Saturday, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation. The area is from mile marker 186.5 to 188 approaching the weight station between the Grovetown and Harlem exits.
Two men in prison face potential parole and murder charges in South Carolina for the kidnapping and a assault of an Evans man found burned in the trunk of his car more than a decade ago.
Shannon Devon Patton, 31, and Daniel Joseph Newton Jr., 29, pled guilty to kidnapping, burglary, aggravated assault, robbery and vehicle theft. They received life sentences for their part in the November 2002 death of Jack Abbott Murray.
A New York man wanted for allegedly stabbing his stepdaughter was arrested near Harlem early Thursday.
Walter Emilio Carpio-Galicia, 32, of Spring Valley, is being held in the Columbia County Detention Center awaiting extradition by New York authorities, according to sheriff's Capt. Andy Shedd.
Columbia County authorities responded at about 7:15 a.m. to a two-vehicle wreck on Appling-Harlem Road at Interstate 20.
An Evans High School drama teacher was recently indicted after being accused in November of having a sexual relationship with a student.
A Columbia County grand jury indicted Matthew David Curley, 34, of Augusta, on one count of sexual assault by a person with supervisory authority on Jan. 27, according to court records.
A Camak, Ga., man was fatally stabbed Tuesday and Grovetown man is charged with his murder.
Tyler Burhans, 35, of North Street in Camak, died from a stab wound to the neck, according to Columbia County Deputy Coroner Harriett Garrison.
Grovetown authorities arrested Cassidy James Barrett, 23, of 7507 Senator's Ridge Drive, with murder and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime. He's being held in the Columbia County Detention Center without bond, according to jail records.
A Camak, Ga., man was stabbed to death Tuesday, and a Grovetown man is charged with murder.
Tyler Burhans, 35, of North Street, died from a stab wound to the neck, according to Columbia County Deputy Coroner Harriett Garrison.
Grovetown authorities charged Cassidy James Barrett, 23, of 7507 Senator's Ridge Drive, with murder and possession of a knife during the commission of a crime. He is being held in the Columbia County Detention Center without bond, according to jail records.
Book club
Discussing Why the Religious Right Is Wrong About Separation of Church and State, by Robert Boston; 6:30 p.m. today at The Book Tavern, second floor, 936 Broad St.; copies available; (706) 826-1940, amunitedcsra.org/bookclub
Time out Luncheon
Derek Poole held the ball of soft fur in his practiced hands, carefully examining its every aspect – length and consistency of the coat, the shape of the body and the broad head and the length and symmetry of the long ears – before making a pronouncement.
"This is my No. 1. That's an excellent rabbit," said Poole, referring to the white American fuzzy lops rabbit in one of several cages lining the judge's table before him.
Organizers behind what would be Columbia County's first charter school announced changes Monday as they plan their third attempt to seek state approval.
The Columbia County School for the Arts announced it will be submitting its petition to the State Charter Schools Commission this spring under a new name: SAIL (School for Arts-Infused Learning).
The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff's Office incident reports:
Man's ID stolen on Facebook
A Grovetown man told deputies Friday that a man interested in buying a firearm stole his personal information through Facebook.
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McCain's New Hampshire Glimmer
Winner of 2000 Primary Regains Strength Amid Opponents' Troubles
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Campaign volunteer and retired physicist Bill Machell says he sees a change from a few months ago when he began telephoning voters on behalf of John McCain: Fewer people are hanging up on him. Could the Arizona Republican senator, at 71 years old, be this election's comeback kid?
- The Comeback: Republican presidential candidate John McCain is regaining support in New Hampshire, where he won the 2000 primary.
- The Roadblock: His immigration votes remain a problem for him.
- The Long Haul: Most New Hampshire voters still haven't chosen their candidate, and even a victory there may not translate into success in the next primary, in South Carolina.
With one month to go before the Jan. 8 primary here, polls show the presidential hopeful regaining some of the ground he lost during the summer because of his support of an immigration bill and his campaign's collapse amid disorganization and poor fund-raising.
Now, Mr. McCain's chief rivals are running into turbulence. Mitt Romney has been overtaken in the polls in Iowa by Mike Huckabee, raising broader concerns about Mr. Romney's viability among the evangelical base. (Please see related article on Page A6.) Rudy Giuliani faces new questions about his ethics as mayor. Fred Thompson continues to be dogged by doubts about his energy for the fight.
All of that may be prompting Republicans to give Mr. McCain a second look -- particularly in New Hampshire. He recently won the endorsement of the state's largest newspaper. And on a weeklong campaign swing this week, he is drawing capacity crowds at the diners and townhall meetings where much of state's campaigning takes place.
"Welcome home," Vietnam veteran Chris Lussier shouted to big applause at the Union Street Grill in Milford. The reference, he said, was to the senator's years as a war prisoner. But it could also have been about Mr. McCain's return to the state where his victory in the 2000 primary briefly stalled George W. Bush's drive to the nomination and positioned Mr. McCain as the national front-runner at the outset of the 2008 campaign.
The Arizona senator's message isn't much different than it was eight years ago -- strong national defense and fiscal conservatism, which have earned him a reliable core following. But coupled with his dramatic personal story, that message seems to be getting some new attention as voter disenchantment with Washington grows.
Odds Look Tough
Mr. McCain faces tough odds even in New Hampshire, the early-primary state that most reflects his fiscally conservative, socially moderate viewpoint. He concedes he may be blown out in the Iowa caucuses, five days earlier. And the next big vote that follows New Hampshire -- the Jan. 19 primary in South Carolina -- favors candidates from the party's social-conservative wing.
New Hampshire voters typically make their decisions in the month before the vote, which leaves time for Mr. McCain to unseat Mr. Romney, a former governor of neighboring Massachusetts, who current leads in the University of New Hampshire's Granite State poll.
In the November poll, 33% of likely Republican primary voters said they supported Mr. Romney, who has spent $2.4 million on statewide television ads since February. Mr. McCain, who has spent $500,000 on TV so far, came second, with 18% of the vote. In the same poll, just 14% of voters said they had "definitely decided" on a candidate, but this week's reports about Mr. Romney's use of a landscaping company that employed illegal workers could unsettle some of those voters, too. Mr. Romney said he fired the company.
New Hampshire's undecideds began their big swing toward Mr. McCain just 10 days before the 2000 primary. When they did, the state's huge block of independents -- who are free to vote in either party's primary here -- provided the senator his margin of victory.
'A Competitive Position'
That combination of late deciders and independents leaves New Hampshire up for grabs among the Republicans. "We're in a competitive position," Mr. McCain said in an interview. "Can we continue to move forward? I don't know."
The senator's biggest challenge will be convincing New Hampshire voters that he can once more ignite enough excitement to win the nomination. New Hampshire Democrats won both the statehouse and the governor's mansion in 2006, and Republicans aren't in a mood this year to "try to send a message" by voting for someone who isn't electable, said Fergus Cullen, the state's Republican Party chairman.
Mr. McCain's vote on a bill that would have legalized millions of illegal immigrants remains a sore point here, even though Hispanics, who account for the majority of illegal immigrants, are just 2% of the population. "There are a lot of [voters] that treat me very harshly" over immigration, he said in the interview.
At a town hall meeting in Hooksett a few hours later, Irene Darrah was one of them. Ms. Darrah, who is 80 years old and says she voted for the senator in 2000, told him she worries that illegal immigrants are "going to change the whole character of the country."
Mr. McCain answered that he "will secure the border" before considering legalization again. But that didn't satisfy Ms. Darrah, who said later that she will switch to Mr. Romney, despite his personal immigration troubles, because she thinks he will be tougher at enforcing immigration laws.
Mr. McCain's strong support of a large troop presence in Iraq also gives him headaches here, despite the recent security gains in Iraq. Veterans make up a healthy share of his audiences, and Mr. McCain began all of his campaign appearances here by reminding voters of his support for the troop surge. Troop "morale is good. They know they're succeeding," he told the Milford coffee-shop crowd.
Independents Largely Oppose War
New Hampshire Republicans still support the Iraq war, as do Mr. McCain's Republican rivals. But independents are largely opposed, and 370,000 voters have registered as independents this year -- 125,000 more than have registered as Republicans.
Even if Mr. McCain does win New Hampshire, he may not be able to translate that into success down the line. South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson labels his state's primary a "brawl" with no clear favorite. He says Mr. McCain remains viable, with a strong staff, a volunteer network and a recent fund-raiser.
Mr. McCain, who has spent 32 days campaigning in South Carolina this year, predicted that the state's large veteran population and his support among national-security hawks will help his prospects there. But perhaps even more than in New Hampshire, the immigration debate is "very harmful to me" in South Carolina, he said.
The senator says he'll now "ricochet" among South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire, starting with a Southern swing next week. A victory in any of the three is "all in the expectations: Who exceeded them, who didn't," he said. For the moment, he added, "the expectation is that we're coming up."
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The Larry Munson Souvenir Cups Collectors' Series will include seven different cups, each featuring one of Munson's game calls accompanied by a photo from that call. The cups will also feature the "Larry Munson Hunker Down One More Time" logo.
According to the university, the calls that will be featured in the series are: Appleby to Washington vs. Florida, 1975; Rex Robinson's game-winning field goal vs. Kentucky, 1978; Herschel runs over Bill Bates vs. Tennessee, 1980; Belue to Scott vs. Florida, 1980; Sugar falling from the sky vs. Auburn, 1982; Butler's 60-yard field goal to beat Clemson, 1984; Hobnail boot vs. Tennessee, 2001.
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COUNTER-POINT: Investors do not have sufficient financial data to derive cash flows. They commonly use earnings as a base, and if earnings are distorted, so will be their estimates of cash flows. If they underestimate cash flows because of how exchange rates affected the reported earnings, they may underestimate the value of the MNC. Even if the value is corrected in the future once the market realizes how the earnings were distorted, some investors may have sold their stock by the time the correction occurs. Investors should be concerned about an MNC's translation exposure. They should recognize that the earnings of MNCs with large translation exposure may be more distorted than the earnings of MNCs with low translation exposure.
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DWTS Cheryl Burke: 'Oh my God, are we going to be able to do this type thing???'
Cheryl Burke has written a new blog at Access Hollywood. She writes about last week Switch up dances and then she sets us up for tonight's dance. It's been a hard week. Read on to see why and more at the link. I hope they will be ok. I love these two….
He's a little bit stressed because the quickstep is a fast dance, a longer dance this week because there's only a few more couples left – there's like nine or eight couples left and so he's just got lots of steps to learn and poor guy, he's just exhausted, so it's really hard for him to retain information right now, but it is one of his favorite movies and songs that we're dancing to for Disney Week. I know he'll be great for Monday, but right now, we're just still trying to figure everything out and on Thursday night we took his jet over to Palm Beach and then we only each got like two or three hours of sleep. On Friday, as soon as we finished rehearsal, he had to do two shows that night and two shows Saturday night, stand up.
For me, I'm just used to this schedule. I just go with the flow this week. It's not even my schedule, it's his schedule. I don't even know how he's doing it. He's the hardest working man in show business and I just hope that – he came from such a strong week last week so I'm pushing him extra hard. I definitely upped the choreography and I'm challenging him.
I just wish we didn't have quickstep this week because of his schedule, but he is mentally and physically exhausted and normally, we're at the halfway point and everyone just naturally gets that way, but on top of his travelling schedule and shooting "The Price is Right," he's feeling it, he's feeling really tired. I'm trying to stay as positive as possible. I know we'll get through it. I know he will, he's a performer, but right now, we're going through the, 'Oh my God, are we going to be able to do this type thing???'


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Seven Jennie-O workers in Willmar are taken to hospital after ammonia leak
WILLMAR -- Seven workers at the Jennie-O Turkey Store plant #5 were taken by ambulance to Rice Memorial Hospital after an ammonia leak around 3:40 a.m. Tuesday.
According to officials at Rice Memorial, all seven people were treated and released.
The leak promoted the evacuation of employees at the Willmar Avenue plant, according to a statement from Pat Solheid, vice president of human resources and administration at Jennie-O Store.
According to Willmar Fire Chief Marv Calvin, the department, along with the county hazardous materials team, was called at 3:41 a.m. The chemical team from the St. Cloud Fire Department was also called to the scene.
About 300 gallons of liquid ammonia had been released onto the floor, Calvin said. The chemical was dissipated and was contained on the Jennie-O property.
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Sunday, April 1, 2007
Happy April Fool's Day
I am not going to fool you, but I thought you might get a few chuckles out of the top 100 hoaxes of all time
I particularly like the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest and the Taco Liberty Bell.. as well as Alabama changing the value of Pi. Those were really good ones.
There are many places on the Internet to find information about April Fool's Day and all of them seem to agree that the origin of the "holiday" is disputed and pretty much unknown.
Museum of Hoaxes is good site
and Wikipedia also has some interesting information
and still another on Info Please
The prevailing notion is that it had to do with the change from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, as well as tossing in the timing of the vernal equinox.
You might see fish as a symbol of April Fool's day - here's why:
In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril. This has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. A far more natural explanation would seem to be that the April fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught. The French traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing a dead fish on the back of friends. Today the fish is substituted by a paper cut-out.
Whatever the reason.. people are fair game to be fooled and hoaxed. As kids I recall having placed realistic fake mice around the house for my mother to see and send her shrieking, as well as the fake plastic vomit that made the rounds in my house. Then there was substituting salt in the sugar bowl and vice versa which got my dad really annoyed when he made his coffee or eggs in the morning. Yeah, I was one of THOSE kids, but I usually got paid back in spades... so I eventually learned my lessons.
Whatever you do today - have fun and be careful not to become the April Fool.


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A giant iron sits at the end of a typical town, now and then releasing steam in great jets. A frightened young boy looks into the face of a giant machine, a wounded girl lying in a hospital bed beside him. A would-be she-prince draws an enchanted sword from a subservient girl, and prepares to enter a ritualistic dual.
Why do I enjoy anime? That is a question I have found myself asking. With animation taking a new foothold in the U.S., why am I turning overseas for entertainment? God knows the media would rather I watch cable. After all, the have done vast research to find what shows will keep me there to watch the advertisements they sell the. Instead, I find myself again and again looking to the stylized pictures drawn around the globe, and sent into my computer via the information superhighway.
In Futurama, Fry once said Clever things make people feel dumb, and new things scare them. This tongue in cheek line lands home, for who hasn't predicted the ending to damn near every show network television has to offer. However, when I receive that packet of bliss from across the sea, I never know what I am about to behold. Maybe, the cute girl is really a wind up robot on a test run, or maybe the will of the universe is about to ensure our heroine lives to see another episode. Even if I end up hating an anime series, finding out that I hate it is more fun than watching the same rehashed trash on cable.
But there is something more. Every once in a while, I will start a series, and be completely absorbed by it. Perhaps, like Serial Experiments Lain, it challenges my ideas of existence and sentience. Perhaps, like Eva, it forces me to recognize that we are all anti-heroes at heart. Perhaps, like Kare Kano, it reasserts in me the beauty of human relationships. Whatever the appeal, these series share a common theme- they transcend whatever formula or genre they appear and, and step by step deliver entertainment on a level that network television can rarely even approach.
Animation, much like comics, is a medium that depends greatly on the imagination of the viewer. It takes a subconscious leap to accept that those characters are people- but once you make that leap, the characters are more personal because there is an aspect of you inside them. The personal investment reaps personal rewards, as you can empathize with the characters at a deeper level because you share part of their experience now, and are not just a passive bystander. I'll admit it- I cried at the end of Fushigi Yuugi and Angelic Layer, because I had invested part of my self in those characters. I have heard it expressed as a sense of loss when a great series ends- the same reasons apply.
I am an Anime Fanboy, and damn proud of it. I have chosen for myself an entertainment medium that can make me think, as opposed to a medium that leaves me devoid of thought. My entertainment allows me to be introspective, instead of escapist. I allow myself to be entertained intellectually, and that sets me and those like me in a class apart.
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The indoor part of the Land and Wildlife Expo is bustling.
Hundreds of gear companies, like Hunter Specialties, many outfitters, like Whitetail Properties, state agencies, like the Tennessee Wildlife Agency, and retailers, like Bass Pro, have pretty much covered up every corner of the 113,000-square-foot room inside the Opryland Convention Center.
And if there isn't a vendor making a footprint, there are hundred if not thousands of attendees walking from booth to booth with heavy swag bags nearly dragging on the floor.
These folks are land owners, hunters, land managers and just folks who want to make their property better.
One of these find people is Bill Campbell who came from Rockvale, Tenn., with his wife and three kids. They own a few acres, and they wanted to get ideas to attract more wildlife. The kids were loving the National Wild Turkey Federation display where they got to shoot Daisy airguns.
"This is a very good event," said Bill of the Expo. "We'll be back next year and every year."
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A handmaiden of the Trojan prophetess Cassandra, Katarina helped the wounded Steven Taylor back to the TARDIS, at the height of the siege of Troy. Convinced that the Doctor was the embodiment of Zeus, she believes his "temple" is taking her on a journey to the afterlife.
Unsure of the world of time-travel and spaceships, Katarina is swept up in the Doctor's attempts to stop the Daleks' Master Plan. Taken hostage in a ship's airlock in an attempt to force the Doctor into a Dalek ambush, Katarina jettisoned herself and her attacker into the vacuum of space. She was the first of the Doctor's companions to die while travelling with him.
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Newspoll: Abbott still unpopular post-budget1:31
Martin O'Shannessy says there's been little change in voter support for Tony Abbott since the budget, with the Coalition's primary vote on 36 per cent.
TONY Abbott has admitted to colleagues the government is facing testing times amid a budget backlash as the latest Newspoll sees them languishing at a four-year low.
But Mr Abbott argued the government was always going to be in a tough spot.
The Coalition was elected with a job to do, to fix Labor's mess, he told them during today's joint party room meeting.
Mr Abbott said the government has to be "indefatigable, relentless, decent, sympathetic, compassionate but unapologetic".
He claimed this tough budget is needed now so there can be more generous ones in the future.
Despite this two of his colleagues did raise concerns about the decision to abolish the Seniors Supplement, expressing how unpopular the measure will be in their electorates.
The Newspoll survey, taken on the weekend and published in The Australian, shows the Coalition's primary vote sitting on 36 per cent while Labor is on 37 per cent, down one point in the fortnight.
The Greens vote has increased one point to 12 per cent, with support for the independents and minor parties, including the Palmer United Party, remaining steady on 15 per cent.
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After holding a 10 point lead in the previous poll, Labor is ahead of the government on a two-party preferred basis 54 per cent to 46 per cent.
Bill Shorten continues to be 10 points ahead of Tony Abbott as preferred Prime Minister, with both picking up a point.
One in five voters did not prefer either of them.
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The Opposition Leader this morning told his colleagues they need to continue getting out and explaining the government's "rotten" budget to Australians.
"In fact, if it wasn't so serious, if it wasn't causing so much harm and fear and insecurity to so many Australians, this budget and this Government, the way they've handled it, would be a joke," Mr Shorten said to Caucus.
"This Government is rapidly becoming in the last three weeks, and their budget is only three week old, they are turning this budget into a circus of mistakes."
If Tony Abbott won't "tell the story of this budget", Labor must, he argued.
"This is our challenge both in the Parliament and more importantly outside the Parliament and all the suburbs and streets of Australia, we need to explain to Australians and tell the story of this budget."
Mr Shorten again insisted the Opposition will "not vote for vast parts of this budget".
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Illegally download copyright music from the Internet once, or even twice, and you get a warning. Do it a third time, and your computer gets destroyed.
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Masada Resource Group has teamed with RJ Zapata and Associates, to develop and operate commercial-scale waste-to-ethanol and electricity production facilities in the country. The two companies signed a long-term joint-venture agreement last month to build facilities in the Dominican Republic that will produce fuel-grade ethanol and electricity from ordinary household garbage.
Rafael Zapata, President of RJ Zapata and a leading businessman in the country, brokered the Zapata-Masada deal. "This is a historic moment for the Dominican Republic," said Zapata. "This partnership allows us to dispose of the City of Santo Domingo East's municipal solid waste and create up to 30 million gallons of fuel-grade ethanol annually and substantial electrical power in the process. This is a win-win situation for everybody involved".
"We are excited to have RJ Zapata as our team leader in the Dominican Republic," said Donald V. Watkins, Masada's chief executive officer. "They run a world-class waste hauling operation and have a clear vision of how to turn the Dominican Republic's waste streams into clean, renewable fuels. We are extremely proud of this partnership."
Masada has been the global leader of waste-to-ethanol technology for more than twelve years. Working with the U.S. Government's Department of Energy and Tennessee Valley Authority over the past decade, Masada developed and patented the innovative CES OxyNol process that converts household garbage into ethanol and other beneficial byproducts. Masada's pilot plant operations were located at the Tennessee Valley site. The company's first U.S. commercial waste-to- ethanol facility is slated for construction in Orange County, New York, and will handle 800 tons a day of garbage.
Masada is licensing its technology and process globally.
Masada recently teamed with Auburn University, one of America's leading research institutions in renewable energy from biomass, to advance the company's development of a commercially viable biofuel alternative for jet aviation fuels. The company is also pioneering with Auburn in pulp mill sludge-to-ethanol technology.
RJ Zapata will be Masada's exclusive waste-to-ethanol partner for the Dominican Republic under the 20-year agreement. The ethanol and other byproducts created at the Zapata-Masada waste-to-ethanol facilities can be sold locally or exported to other markets.
Masada is expanding its waste-to-ethanol business operations by teaming with existing waste management companies in Central America, the Caribbean and South America. The company has applied for and/or secured international patents in nearly three dozen countries.
Announcement of the Zapata-Masada deal comes at a time when the national government of the Dominican Republic is addressing the country's energy production needs through strong laws that support this initiative.
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Resource Booms, Inequality, And Poverty: The Case Of Gas In Bolivia
This paper addresses the question of whether the Bolivian gas boom of the 1990s has bypassed large parts of the poor population, thereby leading to increasing inequalities in an already unequal society. Using a Computable General Equilibrium model that is sequentially linked to a microsimulation model, we examine the transmission channels through which the large resource inflows related to the gas boom, both initial foreign investment in the sector and the subsequent export earnings, as well as large public transfer programs affect the distribution of income. Our focus is on labor market impacts, in particular on shifts between formal and informal employment and changes in relative factor prices. Our simulation results suggest that the gas boom induces a combination of unequalizing and equalizing forces, which tend to offset each other. As net distributional change is limited, growth generated by the boom reduces poverty despite increasing informality. Copyright 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation 2008 International Association for Research in Income and Wealth Published.
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ISLAMABAD, Dec 9: The acting chairman of the National Accountability Bureau, Saeed Ahmed Sargana, said on Monday that NAB had saved Rs300 billion of the exchequer by scrutinising 552 projects worth Rs1,692bn from June 2012 to November this year.
Addressing a seminar on 'Zero Corruption – 100 per cent Development', he said another Rs50bn was recovered through enforcement during the same period.
He said the bureau while focusing on its 'awareness and prevention' programme established 4,000 character-building societies at universities, colleges and schools across the country.
Mr Sargana urged the government to include a new cadre of 'procurement' in official cadres so that corruption which happened during award of contracts could be stopped. The right person should be assigned the right job to improve good governance, he added.
Adil Gilani, adviser to Transparency International Pakistan, said an improvement had been noticed towards efforts for eradication of corruption in the country, but still many reforms were required to get rid of the menace.
He said TIP in collaboration with international organisations had pinpointed deficiencies and suggested measures for improving the system, ensuring rule of law and implementing regulations.
"We have to cover a long distance before reaching a level of satisfaction for eradication of corruption," he said.
Cesar Guedes, Country Representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes, said corruption was an issue that continued to have deleterious impact on everyone, especially the poor and the most vulnerable.
He said corruption diverted funds intended for essential public services, eroded public confidence in the government and discouraged investment by the private sector.
The seminar was jointly organised by NAB and UNODC.


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Friday, February 26, 2010
You flunk fridge!
Don't you know how hard the refrigerator people are working to help you? They invented a shelf with so many indentations it can soak up a can of soda or at least keep it from sloshing over the side.
Anali Athavaley wrote about this in the Feb 24, 2010, WSJ.
We are bad at cleaning the fridge out, let's face it. The average person does it once a year. I can't even remember when, though I did wash all those weird-shaped dividers and stuff at least once. You can put them in the dishwasher.
One approach has been to put in more lights—as many as 10. I guess if you can see the mess better, you will get going.
First to save money and keep from eating spoiled food, you should organize how to jam things in.
Don't put meat and soda into crispers! Are you nuts? Wrong temp!
Don't put milk in the door shelves. Ditto. Too warm.
No one "gets" that cheese cubby. We put the butter in and close the trap door.
Sub-Zero created a video explaining all this.
Do not pack everything in tightly—air needs to circulate.
Clean one shelf at a time so you don't burn out.
Be esp careful of raw meat goo—can be toxic.
Some manufacturers are putting in positive and negative ion doohickeys to kill bacteria. I am not sure I want some big war going on in there.
I do see through the empty bins that there is some…substance…on the bottom. Oh, why did I ever read this? By the way, if the door is the hottest part—why do my eggs freeze in there and no place else?
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Test prep became test pep Friday as yearlong efforts to prepare for state testing gave way to rallies designed to reassure students they'll be fine if they relax, get good sleep and eat a good breakfast Monday.
May is testing month in New Jersey public and charter schools. Seventh- and eighth-graders, already veterans of five years of testing, took their state ASK (Assessment of Skills and Knowledge) exams this week in language arts, math and eighth-grade science. Fifth- and sixth-graders will start Monday and third- and fourth-graders the week of May 13.
"We want to send them off on a high note," said Robin Moore, principal of the Roland Rogers School in Galloway Township, which ended school Friday with a pep rally featuring teachers performing popular songs rewritten with testing themes, and a student-made video of "How the Grinch Stole the ASK Test."
At the Joyanne Miller School in Egg Harbor Township, students divided into teams of testing superheroes to compete in relays involving hula-hoops and beach balls.
"The goal is to motivate the kids to want to be here," said Miller School fifth-grade teacher Kim Pettit, who coordinated the event as part of the school's Renaissance program. "This is a stress reliever for everyone."
The stakes are also about to go up. Starting in 2014-15, New Jersey will begin using new online tests based on the National Common Core Standards. Opposition to using the tests to rank students, teachers and schools is growing.
A national survey released Friday by the American Federation of Teachers found while 75 percent of teachers supported the standards, an equal amount worry that students, teachers and schools will be judged on those standards without enough time to fully implement them in their schools. More than 80 percent supported a moratorium on using the test results for evaluations until the standards are fully implemented. This year teachers in a Seattle high school refused to give the state's standardized test, saying it did not accurately reflect what students learned.
In New Jersey, the state Board of Education has been grappling with just how much weight to give student test results on teacher evaluations. The current proposal is that 30 percent of a teacher's evaluation would be based on the test results. Published reports show a handful of parents in the state are refusing to have their children take state tests. In April, the Bloomfield Board of Education in Essex County approved a resolution asking state legislators to consider methods beyond just standardized tests to determine school accountability.
As pressure to perform has grown, so has cheating. The National Center for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest, issued a report in March showing that documented cases of cheating or test manipulation have been found in 37 states, including New Jersey. FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer called the cheating "inevitable consequences of the politically mandated overuse and misuse of high-stakes exams."
But as the debate goes on, so do the tests, and local teachers said they just do their best to make sure students are ready and not too nervous.
"There are so many regulations that we have to follow, and so they have to follow," Pettit said. "It is very regimented, and the students pick up on that."
Galloway's Moore said that since they do not give a standardized tests in early grades, the state test is the first time third-graders there will take that type of test. This week, the cozy groupings of desks were moved back into regimented rows.
"That does send a message," Moore said. "They get anxious, so we try to just tell them that it's just what they've been learning all year."
That message got the best student response when sung by fifth-grade teachers Sean McCarthy and Brian Dunn, who turned the chorus of Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" into: "It's just a test, so don't get crazy: Here's the story, you know you're ready."
Taylor Swift's breakup song took a new, positive tone with, "We are gonna, gonna, gonna succeed together."
Teacher Jose Diaz led dancing third- and fourth-grade teachers in urging the students to "Do It Roland Style." And the rally ended with a rousing chorus of the "Roland Shake" as students danced their way back to class.
At the Miller School, principal Marge Fopeano also sent students off on a positive note.
"Go have a relaxing weekend," she told them.
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Maria Michaela, 33, has been sentenced to nine years behind bars at Harrow Crown Court. She was found guilty of a £13 million mortgage fraud on some of Britain's poshest houses.
So how did she do it?
The fraudMichaela used a number of different false identities to commit fraud on eight different properties. She posed as Joanne Pier, a wealthy South African heiress, and bribed a chartered surveyor to inflate home valuations - sometimes even doubling them, in order to enable her to borrow more against them. She conned HBOS out of loans of £10.5 million in 2007 and 2008, and RBS out of £2.5 million.
It was when she approached RBS for a second loan that things went wrong for her. She had changed her alias from Joanne Pier to Zoe Fletcher, and she ran into a member of staff who had been involved when she took out the HBOS loans. They alerted the bank to the fact she was using an assumed name, and they called the police. By then she realised she was in trouble, defaulted on the loans, took the money, and ran.
She went on the run with the money, and was out of the clutches of the authorities for three years before eventually they caught up with her. By then she was working as a mortgage broker in London. Millions of pounds that she stole are still thought to be hidden in overseas bank accounts
Most prolificShe pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nine years in jail. Detective Inspector Andy Fyfe, of the City of London Police said:"Maria Michaela created a web of deception that duped banks into handing over vast sums of money, and then perpetuated her crimes by assuming a new alias to try and secure more loans."
"False identities and a corrupt property surveyor were the tools she used to make millions, turning herself into one of the, if not the, most prolific female fraudster the UK has ever seen."
"That she is now finally behind bars is a result of the City of London Police's refusal to give up the search, and proves once again that fraudsters can run, they can hide, but ultimately they will face their day of reckoning."
Before Michaela's crime spree, the holder of the title of 'biggest female fraudster in Britain' was held by Joyti De-Laurey, a former secretary at Goldman Sachs who stole £4.3 million from her bosses between 1998 and 2002. She spent the money on luxury goods and a villa in Cyprus, saying at the time "I've got an illness only diamonds can cure."


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Trump Jr sounds like a real doorknob with that tweet. Obviously not what the mayor said. I wonder though if the mayor will blame this attack on Trump. [although in fairness the identity of the attacker hasn't been confirmed]
Yup, he got it right, saying bad things about a religion makes bad things happen by the adherents of the religion. Look at the continually roasted Jehovah Witnesses, the mayhem they create in the streets.......... Don't forget Mormons and their drive to turn the world into Utah.
UpdatedU.K. attacker ID'd as Khalid Masood, British-born man once investigated for 'violent extremism'Attacker had not been convicted of terrorism-related offenceshttp://www.cbc.ca/news/world/britain-westminster-attack-investigation-thurs-1.4037373
THIS man sparked fury on Twitter when he was seen using a 'selfie stick' near victims of the Westminster terror attack.
A screenshot from France 24 Arabic's live video feed shows Muslim viewers reacting to the rampage with smiley faces and thumbs up.
Paramedics who tried to save the London terrorist criticized by some members of the public for helping him.http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/leave-him-youre-no-better-10083751
Ah, the "judge the whole group by the actions of a few f***ckers" paradigm -- well done, InfoWars*! I guess Alex was too busy to pick up on what some other Muslims have been up to ..."UK Muslim leaders condemn 'cowardly' London attack""London attack: British Muslim council condemns 'cowardly and depraved' Westminster terror incident""British Muslims condemn London attack""#Notinmyname: Hundreds of Muslims condemn terror attack""London attack: Muslim raises over $30,000 for victims"Remember, when you judge one group by the worst examples, you better be prepared for other groups to be judged by the worst examples - and not complain saying, "hey, it's just a few bad apples - you can't paint with a broad brush."* -- The same folks who brought you this: "9/11: CIA Likely Built Remote-Controlled Commercial Jets in Aircraft Boneyard -- This would explain how 9/11 hijackers were able to "fly" commercial jets with little experience"
There were a half dozen or more other websites with the same story, I just grabbed the first one. Just more examples of humans being dicks.
Words and websites. It's easy to condemn them to the press. Words. It's easy to condemn them to the media. Words, mostly anonymous.
And, from the usual suspects @ globalresearch.ca ...
A virtual state of emergency exists in central London, plans to extend it city-wide, perhaps to be followed in other European cities beyond repressive measures already in place.
Her [PM May] hyperbole sounded pre-scripted.
Unknown so far is whether Wednesday's incident was terrorism as claimed, street violence unrelated to terrorism, or a state-sponsored false flag.
inconceivable !
Sorry, words fail me.
*Sicilian accent *
Given this guys birth name, I tend to lean towards the idea that he was a nut that was taken in by radical Islamic extremists. I'm not really sure what can be done to stop this kind of thing.
What I read, was that he was converted while in prison. A fact often reported in American press reflecting on the numbers of converts being found in American prisons as well. This would indicate that many prison systems around the world are the breeding grounds for the recruiting of converts to Islam.


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There are plenty of breakout stars from the 2014 Winter Olympics but at the top of the most-talked about list are Meryl Davis and Charlie White. The ice-dancing duo won gold and also won the internet in the process—in large part because they are so cute together everyone wants to see them date. We're just as enamored by the pair so we decided to get to know them a little better with a fun round of Q&A at the P&G Family Home in Sochi. See what they had to share about packing for the games, souvenirs and good luck charms—their answers might surprise you!
Do you have a lucky piece of jewelry or a lucky item?
Meryl: I have a ring that has been on my finger since I was sixteen so I guess that's how close I can get to a lucky item!
Charlie: The only lucky item I have now is this Olympic gold medal!
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How much lip balm do you go through a season?
Meryl: I am not so big on the not lip balm but Charlie is a big ChapStick user.
Charlie: Yeah, quite a bit! I always try to keep lip balm around because of the wind and cold which is pretty necessary!
If you could only pack 5 things, what would those 5 things be?
Meryl: I would pack my box of Puffs tissues and my AirWave Mattress travels with me everywhere so I can sleep soundly whether I am home or traveling! I would pack my cell phone so I can watch TV and talk to friends at home. I would bring my sweatpants because I like being cozy and my Olympic medal!
Charlie: I will start with my Olympic medal, which is coming with me because it is my lucky item! I would bring Puffs tissue because as a figure skater it makes the most sense, my computer, my cell phone and probably another gadget to keep me entertained.
Describe your fashion style when you are not competing.
Meryl: I like to mix it up! Every once in a while I can be a little eclectic!
Charlie: Very simple, classic and preppy!
So if the story of Charlie and Meryl were made into a movie, who would you want the leads playing the two of you?
Meryl: I really don't know!
Charlie: A lot of people say I look like a young Colin Firth so I would say a young Colin Firth!
So if you did have a 15 minute break, what would you do?
Meryl: I usually spend it on my phone, texting with my friends to be honest!
Charlie: Take a 15 minute nap!
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Meryl: TV, I am a big TV watcher!
Charlie: Video games!
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What is your warm up jam of the moment?
Meryl: I am pretty into Lupe Fiasco Superstar still—even though it's not new!
Charlie: I haven't listened too much lately. We have just been listening to our program. If I had to choose I would say Shahrazad and dare anyone else in the world to come up with that answer!
What are you missing from home?
Meryl: My family dog!
Charlie: My dog for sure!
What did you forget to pack?
Meryl: Slippers!
Charlie: I forget my tie, which is kind of a big deal!
What souvenirs have you bought?
Meryl: We have a lot of great team apparel that we were given for free!
Charlie: It's tough in the village we are so busy competing and the media so we haven't really had a chance to look at any souvenirs, but I am definitely going to try to pick something up!
Other than your own event, what has been your favorite moment at the games so far?
Meryl: I think taking part in the figure skating team event was a really cool experience for us because it was the first time it happened in the Olympics and so it gave us a really good feeling of national pride and kicking off the Olympics!
Charlie: I would agree, it was such a different thing and being able to experience the team aspect with figure skaters who are so used to worrying about themselves was awesome!


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BMX legend & MTV presenter Dave Mirra dies in apparent suicide aged 41
BMX icon Dave Mirra, who once held the record for the most X-Games medals ever held, has died in an apparent suicide.
Mirra was renowned for his extreme sport skills
He was also known as a skilled Subaru rally driver and featured in his self-titled Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX video game series.
An official statement from the local police department revealed that the extreme sports star had been visiting friends in North Carolina at the time of his visit.
The statement added: "Considered an icon in the pro-BMX world, Mirra was instrumental in bringing the sport to the City of Greenville, which now is home to more than 20 professional BMX riders.
The BMX icon also starred in his self-titled Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX video game series.
"The record-holding athlete is survived by his wife and two children."
Fellow BMX legend T.J. Alvin expressed his grief over the tragic star's death, saying: "I just wish he would have called me.
"I would have jumped on a plane in a second. There's always another way. If anyone needs help, just please get it.
"I feel sick about this."
The extreme sports star was found in his car in an "apparent suicide"
Meanwhile City of Greenville Mayor Allen Thomas said he was "taken too soon".
He said: "We mourn the loss today of a great friend and wonderful human being who touched the lives of so many around the world with his gift
"He called Greenville, North Carolina home and was as humble a guy talking with kids on a street corner about bikes as he was in his element on the world stage.
"A young life with so much to offer was taken too soon."
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The Institute of Quarrying Australia's Young Member Network (YMN) has been established to provide our young members and those that are new to the quarry industry with guidance, support and an opportunity to develop a successful career with in the industry. Our national network has been established for like-minded young people to get to know their peers, share ideas and experiences, build key industry contacts and perhaps develop new friendships. The YMN is an active group with co-ordinators in each state that provides important services targeted at young members.
The IQA's Young Member Network is open to any IQA member 35 years old or younger.
Young Member Network Coordinators:
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(b) Queensland - Carl Morandy (0404 778 394)
(c) North Queensland - Luke Payne (0458 550 052)
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What will the YMN provide for its young members?