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A no-nonsense guide to making inclusive national consultations with few resources
By Alexandru Oprunenco, UNDP in Moldova
Chisinau, 4 February 2013-- National discussions on a new global development agenda are in full swing in our region – and beyond.
With this in mind, I thought it would be helpful to share our experience in Moldova in the hope it might provide useful insights to other practitioners who are asking themselves (just like we did at the beginning!) – oh my God, how do I do this!
The post-2015 national consultations provide a space to involve citizens in defining the future they want for their country. So far, so good. However, to ask and to get meaningful and representative answers from people in these days of information overload is not an easy task. In other words, before you can make the voice of people heard you need to make these people hear you!
And then you have to ensure that you capture as many voices as possible, especially people from marginalized and vulnerable groups, who are often left out from decision making. We also decided to use the Small Area Deprivation Index to identify and reach out to the most deprived communities.
In Moldova we used a wide range of tools to make the consultation process both inclusive and meaningful and designed our outreach campaign in two overlapping stages:
A project of this scale required an awful lot of coordination and ingenuity. Let's face it… this is a time of budget constraints and only by tapping into the collective efforts of United Nations agencies, and a wide variety of partners (individuals, media companies, private sector, CSOs, and more) were we able to make our dollars go further and achieve the scale we needed to make the process meaningful.
So how did we go about it? Here's a checklist
1. Helping citizens learn about the consultation
Luckily we could rely on great mobile partners (Orange Moldova, Moldcell and Moldtelecom), so here's what we came up with: "Your future depends on you. Log on to www.un.md/2015 and tell us what is important for you!"
We also clearly indicated the ID of the sender so that the message was not perceived as commercial spam, and we sent out the survey in two waves.
In Moldova the results of SMS campaign have beaten all expectations: in the wake of the second wave, the web-site was effectively stormed (no, it didn't shut us down!) and stats showed 5,000 unique visitors per key day of the campaign to the dedicated web space (not bad for a country like Moldova). It really paid off – having such involvement at the push of a button!
2. Listening to citizens' voices
As sponsors of the consultations, we feel a tremendous responsibility. We are the first to hear the voices of citizens who devote their time to engage in the consultation process.
It is only if we are attentive and open that their opinion will be adequately represented in the post 2015 national and global development agenda. Therefore we need to employ as many instruments as possible.
"Face-to-face" tools, such as focus-groups and national opinion polls have undisputable advantages: they allow either for in-depth discussion and better focus on the most vulnerable groups or can offer nationally representative results.
But they also have drawbacks as well: they are time-consuming, limited in outreach, and relatively costly.
Online tools such as surveys and social media help us offset these limitations. They are open to everyone, allow for discussions and feedback loops, are relatively cheap, and most importantly, allow for continuous follow-up even after the consultation process per se has been finalized.
The combination of both offline and online tools allowed us also to ensure that national consultations are held in an inclusive manner (Internet penetration rate hovers around 43 percent in Moldova).
Our focus groups helped us reach reach approximately 180 people in communities identified as the most deprived and vulnerable. . (More on the Small Area Deprivation Index)
In addition, with around one-third of the Moldovan labour force working abroad, we felt it was necessary to include the extend the Moldovan diaspora in the consultations. A United Nations migration project served as vehicle to hear the voice of the "other Moldova".
An important issue we tackled was also how to ask our questions. In Moldova, we decided not go with a pre cooked menu of themes to submit to citizens.
On the contrary, we left them full freedom in identifying and putting forward the issues of the highest importance for their future.
The consultations are still ongoing so we won't celebrate success just yet. But we feel that we ventured into new territory (for example, through an SMS campaign) and the gamble so far paid off. We proved that we can reach out to citizens in new, cost-effective ways and that we can bring together different partners around a common purpose.
Now of course, the biggest challenge is ahead of us: making sure that the great input we received is properly heard and accounted for, and that we continue to provide feedback to those citizens who decided to get engaged. Watch this space for updates!


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Students who have taken the course elsewhere will be able to use those credits as Free Electives that will count toward graduation.
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Four years ago when Vogue's Anna Wintour created Fashion's Night Out in New York City, retailers celebrated with shoppers hitting the racks to pick up clothes on that special night. Soon the FNO bug spread throughout the world and, of course, Dallas.
Thursday it created major challenges in the parking lots of area retailing centers and high-density traffic in the common areas of those centers. Why, one gray-haired gentleman in a mega BMW was prohibited from entering Highland Park Village by a policeman because there was no parking available. "But I have reservations at Cafe Pacific!" Still no luck. He was advised to find parking on one of the neighborhood side streets.
Luckily, some nonprofits managed to be part of various venues. Simply Summer. . . Fashionable Fall's co-chairs Leigh Bailey, Emily Eisenhauer and Kim Lewis-Gleason decided to take advantage of the fashion big event and arranged to commandeer Neiman Marcus NorthPark's NM Cafe on the third level for their Turtle Creek Recovery Center fundraising efforts. (In the past, SS…FF has taken place in late August on its own.) One poor soul, who is relatively new to NM NP, thought the entire upper level of the store was dedicated to SS…FF, as he got off the escalator to a mass of people with drinks in hand. Interesting sight, but more about that later.
Once inside the NM Cafe, the usual tables and chairs were nowhere to be seen. Rather, a few high-tops and chairs were scattered around the room because this was not a sit-and-chat type party. It was a stand-chat-drink-and-head-to-the NP fashion extravaganza in the center court. Naturally there was a lineup at the bar for the usual drinks and some tasty summery concoctions that included a juicy slice of watermelon.
To ensure the tempo was upbeat, DJs Jennifer Miller and Paul Paredes kept the music going non-stop with the type of energy and personality they're known for.
Before the co-chairs could even be assembled for a group photo, a gentleman announced that guests were to follow a gal costumed as a leopard to the fashion show. Like three-week-old kittens, guests started following the catwoman as she weaved in and out of the hoards filling the NP hallways. Alas, some of the kittens couldn't keep up with the rest of the litter and found themselves among the masses on the wrong side of the roped-off "reserved seating area." No one could see where the entry to the area was. What's a lost kitten to do?
Co-chair Emily to the rescue. The little blonde squeezed between a group of non-reserved types, unlatched the velvet rope and let the lost kittens enter the world of seats and elevated staging.
As the lost kitties tried to find their seats, men brought in NM gift bags on poles long enough to hook Moby Dick. Held high over head, the poles reminded you of the pole vaults of the past Olympics. But what treasures were in the silver NM bags? Still another gift bag from Kiehl with a coupon for an eye treatment and a couple of samples of Abyssine Cream and more coupons for NM Beauty VIP on September 8, Uptown Popcorn, Tart Bakery, Tiff's Treats, Fizziwig's Candy Factory and Trailer Cakes. No one was going to starve in the days ahead.
As the crowds grew, familiar faces were seen in the seats. Celebrity Waiters Luncheon Co-chair Maggie Cooke Kipp was reviewing Friday's Celebrity Waiters Luncheon with Celeb Waiter/jeweler Shona Gilbert. NP Social Media Mastermind/British cutie James Shackelford maneuvered through the crowd of well-dressed types snapping photos on his iPhone. NP General Manager Billy Hines moseyed through making sure all things were buttoned up, as the crowds grew and grew and grew.
Then NP's fashion arbitrator Victoria Snee in a Roberto Cavalli and WFAA's Ron Corning introduced the first of the evening's three shows. Unlike the earlier day's Crystal Charity Ball Fashion Show that showcased one specific designer for more than 15 minutes, this show seemed to hardly start before it was over. Ah, but it provided a smattering of what hidden delights lay on the NM racks.
After the show, some of the SS guests headed back to the NM Cafe for refreshments, but they discovered that many non-SS were going to NM, too. Not to NM Cafe. Just to NM. Why, the NM cosmetic department took on the look of a bar with hands holding bottles and glasses of refreshments.
And that's where the earlier, above-mentioned "interesting sight" comes in. It was interesting to note the number of people filling NP on a weekday night. Think the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Only problem? Not that many folks had shopping bags. In fact, shopping bags almost appeared to be an endangered species on this most special of fashion nights. Retailers are always happiest when they see shopping bags hanging on customers' arms.
But, hey, the purpose of FNO is to get folks revved up about the fall season and clothes. Hopefully, they'll return when things aren't quite as congested. Or perhaps FNO has become more of an entertainment venue as opposed to a shopper's delight. Interestingly, that was the Huffington Post's review of New York City's FNO. Perhaps Dallas has more in common with the Big Apple than folks realize.


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In the last hours of the 12th annual conference on "Computers, Freedom and Privacy," held at a San Francisco hotel mid-April, Frank Hausmann of CenterSpan Communications delivered a pitch for his company's solution to the legal puzzle of Internet music sharing: a "distributed network" called C-StarOne, with content to rival Napster's finest hour on a platform that will also allow users to pay for what they download. Hausmann, underscoring the need for such a service, described how horrified he was when he came home to find his 9-year-old daughter on the family computer downloading her favorite songs using KaZaA, a client for sharing files on the FastTrack network servers. He sat her down and explained to her that file sharing was stealing, and reminded her it was wrong to steal. Seated to his left on the "Peer to Peer and copyright" panel, however, was Verizon Vice President Sarah Deutsch, who had earlier briefed the audience on the ways in which her company handles "notice and takedown" requests to suspend subscribers for copyright infringement. Deutsch countered that the kids she knew had been taught the virtues of sharing, "and it's hard to explain why that's illegal over the Internet."
Despite the increasingly weird slogans of the Recording Industry Association of America (the new one: "As Old as the Barbary Coast -- New as the Internet"), and Elvis Costello's recent statement to The New York Times that there's no ambiguity about file sharing -- "If somebody makes something and you take it, that's stealing" -- there still exists no agreed-upon moral absolute about sharing digital content with an ever-expanding network of sometimes anonymous "friends." An estimated 40 million people living in the United States use various peer-to-peer networks to share files, presumably to get instant access to copyrighted work as well as the other kind. KaZaA alone reports 1.4 million users logged in at any one time, according to Redshift Research. Among those people are responsible parents and teachers, law-enforcement personnel and people in the record industry, many of whom object on the face of things to peer-to-peer yet realize they'd be idiots not to exploit it.
Because peer-to-peer file sharing has proved to be a lawsuit-resistant Hydra -- hobble one network and two more rise up to replace it -- and because the record companies' collaborative stabs at delivering music online, such as Pressplay and MusicNet, miss the point of the whole exercise (that people sometimes like to share music with each other, as opposed to having taste dictated to them by A&R men) and because there are obvious problems with an industry dependent on the public's fickle affection branding its most enthusiastic consumers criminals, major labels and movie studios have begun to get anxious for a solution to their peer-to-peer woes, which the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry recently blamed for a 6 percent drop in CD sales in 2001. So have longtime defenders of digital freedom: In the audience of "Peer-to-Peer and Copyright" at CFP were Jessica Litman, one of the country's premier experts in copyright law; Mike Godwin, longtime legal counsel for the indefatigable Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Phil Zimmerman, creator of the cryptography program Pretty Good Privacy. Perhaps because peer-to-peer remains the only frontier still not completely drawn and quartered by media conglomerates, passions to protect or control it run high.
One solution comes from Senate Commerce Chairman "Fritz" Hollings, a Democrat out of South Carolina as beholden to the movie industry as Bush and Cheney were to Enron before the fall. Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, also known as the unpronounceable CBDTPA, would mandate hardware solutions to prevent unauthorized copying of content protected with Digital Rights Management technology ("DRM-wrapped"). The CBDTPA would spell economic doom for hardware manufacturers, who would have to invent machines that do less than the ones on the market now. As Philips and Intel have ponied up for their own legislators in Washington, the bill seems unlikely to pass. Another solution comes from Sharman Networks Inc., the Australian firm that acquired KaZaA last winter, which proposes an "Intellectual Property Use Fee" -- an across-the-board, flat-fee royalty paid out to content owners by the entire web of parties implicated in peer-to-peer networks, from computer makers to Internet service providers. ("It's ridiculous," opined RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen.) Another idea might be a wide-open content-swapping network that will allow users to compensate artists or, if they must, the record companies themselves. What the RIAA forgets when it accuses peer-to-peer users of a "why pay for it when it's free" mentality is that some people actually like to pay for things, and even those people use LimeWire and KaZaA and WinMX to download music, because file-sharing -- illegal, immoral or not -- is the only way they can get what they want in an instant. No one -- not John and Sean Fanning of Napster fame, not Sharman Networks, not the sprawling community of software developers who manage Gnutella -- has yet invented such a beast, and for one simple reason: The record labels haven't figured out how and to whom they should license their music. And you can't pay someone for something you don't have permission to possess.


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Wade and Zoe had a great chemestry!! Sorry for George but looks forced. The relationship betwen wade and zoe looks natural and real
This crap of a love triangle is going to be the END of this show. The show needs to cast a new (long time) love interest for one of those guys instead of Zoe. I think both sides are getting sick/tried of her. At this point, I find her ANNOYING. Bilson is NOT the worlds greatest actress I am confused as to way she was casted as the center of show. Her charms is wearing off.
Bethel/Bilson's chemistry is organic and unmatched. I love love watching them. I didn't care for the episode but I loved the way W made her laugh at the end. Cindylou -I too hate what the writers are doing to Z, but, I think alot has to do with getting you to accept the idea of Z/G. The more the writers try and help that character (G) they throw the other characters off balance. Last season was the prefect example. At this point it it what it is and if the writers would just accept this I think the show would be alot popluar then what it is.
I might be theeee only one, but I have wanted Zoe and George together since the pilot! And they had amaaaaazing chemistry in this episode!
I love Lavone and Wade (my favs.) Honesty, I was NOT a fan of Zoey in this episode, but, I was PROUD of Wade. Go Wade! Zoey is the one who needs to spend time ALONE.
The writing this season is making Zoe look really bad. What exactly is she doing with Wade if she still wants George? I am honestly perplexed with this show right now I don't know what to think.
I am not a fan of George & Zoe together. I like them both, well I'm liking Zoe less & less each week but I like George just not with her.
I wonder if when she leaves Wade for George (its inevitable) will she then find out about Wade making the gumbo for her.
I'm hoping that when (not if) she leaves Wade & sleeps w/George that she discovers he isnot all that & I'm hoping he is not "awesome" in bed. I want her to want Wade like she wants him.
I also hope Wade opens up his bar & be a success without her.
But I still want Zade in the end.
Just watched this week's episode. I think the thing I really love about this show is that Zoe is great with both George AND Wade. She has great, different chemistry with both of them which makes you kind of root for both of them! It is fun to see her with Wade now but I think it will also be fun to see her with George in the future!


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So, what happens when you buy something online and you realize it's not what your ordered? You call the company discuss it and make arrangements to send it back...right? Well one "so-called business man" disagreed and actually threatened victims who dared to complain!
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Rodriguez eventually found a website where many of Borker's dissatisfied customers voiced their complaints. She said that when he saw she had complained online, he contacted her. She said he said, "He was watching me if I continued to complain online about 'Décor my Eyes', I was going to show up on the news. He told me he lived one bridge over from me and he would come to my home and he would rape me."
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Please try uninstalling the trial of Muse and reinstalling through the Adobe Application Manager
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I have tried that and get the same message. I tried removing with creative suite cleaner tool and windows uninstall . Have removed and installed several times with no luck. Talked to help on phone and changed name of caps folder in program files , but still get same message.They were to get back to me , but haven't heard anything yet.
You should try the troubleshooting steps posted in this thread,
"An unexpected error occur processing your request." when launching Muse.
- http://forums.adobe.com/thread/987242?start=36
Refer to the Zak's post # 36.
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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder jokes with photographers before testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill June 12, 2012 in Washington, DC. Holder faced questions from senators about the ongoing Operation Fast and Furious investigation, his decision to ordered two federal prosecutors to begin criminal investigations into a series of national security leaks to the news media and other subjects.
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The structure boasts of 2 outdoor swimming pools; an indoor swimming pool; 2 Jacuzzis overlooking the lake; children�s playroom with toys and ping-pong tables; football pitch close to the hotel. Guests who want to experience total rest and relaxation, can spend long afternoons strolling in the beautiful gardens or getting pampered with a massage, followed by a sauna and Turkish bath in the hotel�s Health Club. Alternatively, lovers of art can enjoy the periodic exhibitions housed at the Hotel Simplon�s art gallery, attached to the hotel. After an eventful day, unwind with an aperitif at one of the 2 bars before enjoying a meal at one of the restaurants overlooking the lake. |
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Standard: These double bedrooms boast a mountain view and are equipped with wooden floors, air-conditioning (mid June � mid September), satellite TV, minibar, telephone and WI-FI internet connection. The bathrooms are embellished with ceramic and are equipped with hairdryer, telephone, shower or bathtub. A balcony may be available in some of the rooms.
Superior: These double bedrooms boast a mountain view and include wooden floors and mosaic work in bathrooms or showers. All are equipped with air-conditioning (mid June � mid September), satellite TV, minibar, telephones and WI-FI internet connection. The bathrooms are fitted with hairdryer, telephone, shower or bathtub. A balcony may be available in some of the rooms. Junior Suite: The Junor Suite contains an elegant drawing-room furnished with comfortable sofas, some of them are with four poster bed, Caucasian carpets and pictures that characterizes this particular type of the room. The bathroom is fitted with marble and mosaic work, spa bath and separate shower. A wonderful balcony allows you a panoramic view over the lake Maggiore.. Suite: The suite consists of a large room with separate living room, containing sumptuously decorated, double draped curtains in emerald green, ruby red or golden yellow. The bathroom, covered with marbles and mosaic work, has a Jacuzzi tub and a separate shower. A private balcony allows you a panoramic view over Borromean Islands. |
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Directly overlooking Lake Maggiore. |
Areas served: Baveno, Lake Maggiore |
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From Milan: highway A8 Laghi continue to A26 direction Gravellona Toce, exit Baveno - Stresa. From Locarno: direction Italy then Stresa. From Turin: highway A4 direction Milan, continue to A26 direction Gravellona Toce, exit Baveno - Stresa. |
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Panorama Restaurant The incomparable view of the lake Maggiore is the natural background of this restaurant where you can savour the more refined dishes of the Italian cuisine. |


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The first of the "Dr. Mabuse" films not directed by Fritz Lang, the French/German/Italian Return of Dr. Mabuse stars Wolfgang Preiss in the title role. Supposedly dead and buried, Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, once more using hypnotized flunkeys to carry out his dirty work. While the doc's longtime foe Inspector Lohmann (Gert Froebe) probes and prods in his usual methodical fashion, hotshot American detective Lex Barker and dauntless girl reporter Daliah Lavi take the more direct approach to weed out Mabuse. This time around, the diabolical doctor wants to sabotage a nuclear reactor, then take over the world (he never does anything by halves). Return of Dr. Mabuse was released in Europe as Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse, Le Retour Du Docteur Mabuse and FBI Contro Dr. Mabuse; in some American cities, it was shipped out as Phantom Fiend. Hal Erickson, Rovi
Though director Fritz Lang, who started the "Dr. Mabuse" ball rolling back in 1922, had washed his hands of the series in the early 1960s, the Mabuse films kept popping up throughout the decade. This one stars Lex Barker as a New York detective investigating the criminal activities of the supposedly deceased evil genius Mabuse (Wolfgang Preiss). The bad doctor wants to get his paws on "Operation X", a serum that makes people invisible. Karin Dor, playing the daughter of the facially disfigured inventor of Operation X, is kidnaped by Mabuse and becomes a human bargaining chip. The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (original German title: Die Unsichtbaren Krallen des Dr. Mabuse) was released in some markets as The Invisible Horror. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Nazis to convert Argentina to the New Order the bulk of the public and press is pro-Ally,
" In 1942 Argentina and Chile were the only two countries who did not subscribe wholly to the resolutions of the Rio de Janeiro Conference. Chile has since terminated relations with the Axis Powers. One of the resolutions called for the complete severance of all Wireless communication between Latin America and Axis controlled countries. Argentina accepted this, hut has consistently failed to abide by its provisions. She still permits unlimited communication in ordinary language and one hundred coded words each day to be radiated by the Axis diplomatic missions.
Nazi Backdoor " With two neighbours, Brazil and Bolivia, at war with the Axis and another neighbour, Uruguay, likely to come in at any minute, the danger of this Nazi backdoor into the southern hemisphere is obvious. Continental security is impetilled, and recently Argentina had to relax her strict interpretation of neutrality to permit a delegation from the Hemisphere Political Defence Committee to visit Buenos Aires. This delegation informed Argentina in plain terms that she was not keeping her pledged word regarding the tele-communication resolution of the Rio Conference.
"Argentina has participated in many Pan-American Conferences and has given her support to the Good Neighbour policy, yet all the time she seems to be afraid of what she terms Yankee Imperialism, and the fact that the United States is now included in the Allied belligerent nations does not apparently add to her peace of mind. Quite rightly the United States is concerned about the east coast of Argentina with its magnificent harbours. The Caribbean Republics, Venezuela and Uruguay. are all friendly, and if Argen• tine threw in her lot with the Allied Nations there would be an unbroken line of coast hostile to the Nazis stretching from the Arctic to Cape Horn. This anti-North American feeling is one of the barriers that has been played upon unceasingly by Nazi propagandists.
" From a perusal of the Argentine mess and from the utterances of wellinformed people, however, it is evident that the public in Argentina is getting restive about her sitting-on-the-fence policy and it may be that before long the Government will be forced to bow to the growing desire of the people."


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Shabazz (30-1), which is seeking its fifth T of C crown and first since 2008, got a bye, along with second-seeded St. Rose (29-1), into Thursday night's semifinal round, also at Pine Belt Arena. Manasquan (30-2) is the third seed, followed by fourth-seeded Gill St. Bernard's (27-5), fifth-seeded Jackson (27-5) and sixth-seeded Cedar Creek (26-4).
Play opens on at 6 p.m. on Tuesday with Jackson versus Gill St. Bernard's with Cedar Creek and Manasquan scheduled to tip off at 8.
Shabazz will face the winner of Jackson-Gill St. Bernard's on Thursday at 6 with St. Rose playing the survivor of Cedar Creek-Manasquan at 8 o'clock.
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By Jake Donovan
Former welterweight titlist Luis Collazo scored a surprisingly wide unanimous decision over Alan Sanchez in what appeared to be a relatively closely contested main event Monday evening in San Antonio.
Scores were 97-93, 98-92 and 99-91, the latter two cards almost as shameful as Fox Sports 1 ringside commentator Castle Chalise referring to Sanchez as "Alan Hernandez" for much of fight.
Neither fighter managed to fly out of the gate, making for slow action in the early going. Sanchez, who hadn't fought in nine months prior to Monday, failed to capitalize on his older and faded opponent's lack of activity, instead performing like the B-side fighter he was assigned to play for the evening.
The pace picked up in the middle rounds, though neither fighter ever truly managed to take the lead. Collazo offered enough to convince the judges that he was in control, but Sanchez was never truly out of the fight in a physical sense.
Action remained close all the way to the end, even if the three judges believed otherwise. The far-too-wide scorecards granted Collazo his third straight win as the New York southpaw advances to 33-6-1 (17KO). Sanchez falls to 12-3-1 (6KO), as the 22-year old Californian sees a seven-fight win streak come to an end.
Three-time U.S. Olympic boxer Rau'Shee Warren scored five knockdowns in six rounds, but was forced to settle for a unanimous decision over Omar Gonzalez. Scores were 60-49 (twice) and 59-51 in the televised swing bout.
Warren appeared well on his way to an early night's work in sending the local fighter in the canvas twice in the opening round.
In the televised opener, faded former title challenger Raul Martinez managed to momentarily stop the bleeding in his fleeting career with a 4th round stoppage over clubfighter Daniel Quevedo.
The fight was relatively even, with Martinez rocked towards the end of the fourth round. A second straight disastrous homecoming was averted, however, when Quevedo opted to remain on his stool prior to the start of round five. A shoulder injury was cited as the reason for his being unable to continue.
Martinez' record moves to 30-3 (18KO). The win is his first within the U.S. borders since Nov. '10, when he edged out Rodrigo Guerrero to earn a mandatory title shot. His opportunity would come in a rematch with Guerrero for the vacant title, losing via technical decision and watching his career since spiral downward.
A hometown tune-up was offered on the undercard of Saul Alvarez' title unification win over Austin Trout this past April. However, Martinez' night was nowhere nearly as enjoyable, dropping a four-round split decision to a sub .500 fighter and fellow San Antonio native, Omar Gonzalez, who parlayed the upset win into a televised opportunity versus Rau'Shee Warren in a televised swing bout on this very broadcast.
Quevedo dips back below .500, falling to 13-14-3 (8KO). The Southern California journeyman is winless in his last four contests.
Local newcomer Jairo Casteneda remained perfect in his young career with a four-round decision over Warren Stewart (0-2, 0KO). Scores were 40-36 across the board for Casteneda (3-0, 1KO), who has seen all three of his pro fights take place in San Antonio.
'Golden Boy Live' sees its Monday night series return on September 30 in Brooklyn. Local prospect Sadam Ali, a member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic boxing squad who recently signed with Golden Boy, headlines the show, which will take place in a downsized-portion of the Barclays Center, which is hoped to eventually serve as the series' primary location.
Ali takes on Jay Krupp in a scheduled 10-round bout.
Also on the show, Michael Perez takes on Carlos Molina in a terrific matchup of struggling prospects in need of a win to prove their relevance among the always loaded 140 lb. division.
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US charges Iranians for plotting to kill Saudi ambassador
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Top officials in Revolutionary Guard were connected to plot, US attorney-general says; Tehran rejects charges as "prefabricated scenario."
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - US authorities broke up a plot by two men linked to the Iranian government to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in the United States, US officials said on Tuesday, escalating tensions between Tehran and Washington.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said one of two men charged in the plot, both originally from Iran, had been arrested and had confessed.
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The other man, who was still at large, was described in the criminal complaint as being a member of the elite Quds Force, which is part of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
"High-up (Iranian) officials in those agencies ... were responsible for this plot," Holder told a news conference. "I think one has to be concerned about the chilling nature of what the Iranian government attempted to do here," he said.
The two men were charged in a US court. Gholam Shakuri was described in the criminal complaint as a member of the Quds Force and is believed to be in Iran.
The arrested suspected was Manssor Arbabsiar, 56, who is a naturalized US citizen and holds an Iranian passport. He was detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sept. 29.
Arbabsiar made a brief appearance in a Manhattan courtroom where he was ordered detained and assigned a public defender. He appeared in blue jeans and a dress shirt. He had thinning gray hair and a scar on the left side of his face.
Iran swiftly rejected the allegation. "The Islamic Republic of Iran has rejected US accusations of the country plotting to assassinate the Saudi envoy to Washington as a prefabricated scenario," state English language Press TV said, without elaborating or giving a source.
US officials said there had also been initial discussions about other alleged plots, including attacking the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, however no charges for that were revealed on Tuesday.
The United States slapped economic sanctions on five Iranians including four senior members of the Quds.
The target of the plot was Saudi ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir, according to the criminal complaint. US allied Saudi Arabia and Iran, both major oil exporting countries, are historic regional rivals that have struggled for dominance in the Gulf.
Relations were already sour between between the Tehran and Washington, which accuses the Islamic republic of backing terrorism and pursuing nuclear arms, a charge Iran has denied.
Last month hopes were raised of improved ties when Iran released two US hikers accused of spying when they were arrested on the Iran-Iraq border in 2009. Holder said there was no link between the hikers's case and the alleged plot.
'Saudi Ambassador was never in danger'
Officials said that the Saudi ambassador, Adel Al-Jubeir, was never in danger. US President Barack Obama was briefed in June about the alleged plot and through a spokesman expressed gratitude for it being disrupted.
The assassination plot began to unfold in May 2011 when Arbabsiar approached an individual in Mexico to help, but that individual turned out to be an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration.
The confidential source, who was not identified, immediately tipped law enforcement agents, according to the criminal complaint. Arbabsiar paid $100,000 to the informant in July and August for the plot, a down payment on the $1.5 million requested.
Shakuri approved the plan to kill the ambassador during telephone conversations with Arbabsiar, the complaint said.
After Arbabsiar was arrested in New York, he allegedly confessed and provided US authorities with more details about the Iranian government's alleged involvement, Holder said.
The men are charged with one count of conspiracy to murder a foreign official, two counts of foreign travel and use of interstate and foreign commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire and one count each of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism.
Authorities said no explosives were acquired for the plot and the weapon of mass destruction charge can range from a simple improvised device to a more significant weapon. They face up to life in prison if convicted.
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Just got back from a 5 day break in Strathpeffer. We had stayed there a few years ago. And we were not disappointed. The food was excellent as was the cleanliness of the Hotel. The staff went out of their way to cater for my special needs. (Thank You). The entertainment was good, despite there only being a few people they tried their best to create a happy atmosphere. The waiting on staff were friendly and efficient. Well what can I say about the drivers Gary and Wayne? They were very entertaining with their stories, and very knowledgeable about the area, pointing out all the places of interest. We will be coming back.


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All these GOP fools care about is "how do I look on TV when I blast Obama and his plans?"
They LOVED Hagel years ago...just like they LOVED their version of the ACA before Obama presented it. They ALWAYS confirmed appointments before Obama presented them. They passed dozens of budgets and increased the levels when Repub presidents asked for them, no questions asked. They act like it's the end of the world as we know it when Obama wants it.
They hate NONWHITES, WOMEN, GAYS, BIRTH CONTROL, the ENVIRONMENT, EDUCATION...but LOVE their MILITARY., even though we spend at least 10 times more than China and Russia together.
They have ALWAYS hated SS and Medicare and Medicaid: nowhere in THEIR bible does it say "help those in need."
Corker and the likes of him make me ill.......
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As he saw it, you can take the boy out of Canada, but you can't take the Canada out of the boy. I had failed to appreciate that Americans were not Euro-Canadians, and would not go gently into the statist night. But, as I note in my book, "a determined state can change the character of a people in the space of a generation or two."
Last Tuesday's results demonstrate that, as a whole, the American electorate is trending very Euro-Canadian. True, you still have butch T-shirts — "Don't Tread On Me," "These Colors Don't Run." In my own state, where the Democrats ran the board on election night, the "Live Free Or Die" license plates look very nice when you see them all lined up in the parking lot of the Social Security office.
But in their view of the state and its largesse, there's nothing very exceptional about Americans, except that they're the last to get with the program. Barack Obama ran well to the left of Bill Clinton and John Kerry, and has been rewarded for it both by his party's victory and by the reflex urgings of the usual GOP experts that the Republican Party needs to "moderate" its brand.
I have no interest in the traditional straw-clutching: Oh, it was the weak candidate ... hard to knock off an incumbent ... next time we'll have a better GOTV operation in Colorado.
I'm always struck, if one chances to be with a GOP insider when a new poll rolls off the wire, that their first reaction is to query whether it's of "likely" voters or merely "registered" voters. As the consultant class knows, registered voters skew more Democrat than likely voters, and polls of "all adults" skew more Democrat still.
Hence the preoccupation with turnout models. In other words, if America had compulsory voting as Australia does, the Republicans would lose every time. In Oz, there's no turnout model, because everyone turns out.
The turnout-model obsession is an implicit acknowledgment of an awkward truth — that, outside the voting booth, the default setting of American society is ever more liberal and statist.
The short version of electoral cycles is as follows: the low-turnout midterms are fought in political terms, and thus Republicans do well and sometimes spectacularly well (1994, 2010); the higher-turnout presidential elections are fought in broader cultural terms, and Republicans do poorly, because they've ceded most of the cultural space to the other side.


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The Sergeant's Eloquence
The sergeant is exhausted and wounded, yet manages to describe the battle scene with precision and concision. Six points regarding S's eloquence or method in these lines are as follows:
1. He describes the fight as between the dual forces of: (1) the kerns/gallowglasses and Fortune against (2) the intrepid Macbeth. The former are part of the multiplying "villainies" of nature (but see my previous essay) and Fortune is that unpredictable force known by Greeks and Romans to be fickle in her support of any man. This is the background for Fortune's action in the present fight. She "Show'd like a rebel's whore" (1.2.15), meaning that that she was, only temporarily, 'joining with' Macdonwald in the fight. But just as Evangelical Christians are wont to say that God alone on one's side makes a "majority," so Macbeth alone, because of his determination, becomes the force to overwhelm Fortune and the kerns and Macdonwald.
2. S skillfully uses phrases to show the turn of the battle toward Macbeth's favor. At first things were "doubtful" (1.2.7). Then, the opposing forces are described (1.2.8-15). Then another brief phrase appears: "But all's too weak" (1.2.15). This is meant to signal the transition to Macbeth's strength. Macbeth's power is then described in 1.2.16-19, before we come to another crux: "Till he faced the slave" (1.2.20). A face to face encounter with the two principals results. Then, the passage concludes with Macbeth's triumph over Macdonwald (1.2.21-23).
3. When S finally describes Macbeth's valor, he does so by stretching out the imagery, using participles, similes and subordinate clauses to "string out" the story of Macbeth's strength. Though the other side might be supplied with kerns and gallowglasses and be armed with Fortune, Macbeth disdains Fortune and is armed with his "brandish'd steel." Then follows a subordinate clause telling us more about the "steel"--"which smok'd with bloody execution" (1.2.18). In other words, Macbeth's sword was already sizzling because of the opponents' hot blood that was dripping from it. The sword, as it were, seeks one more victim--Macdonwald. But still we are not done. Line 19 then gives us a simile which is meant to counter Macdonwald's reliance on the "whore" Fortune. Macbeth will be "valor's minion," i.e., the darling of courage. Valor, however, is more faithful to its lovers than is quirky and fickle Fortune. Valor will stay with Macbeth for the duration. Thus, it is when he is "valor's minion" that he carved out his path to meet Macdonwald.
4. Then there is the use of the little verb "carve" in line 19 to describe how it was that Macbeth managed to work his way to Macdonwald. We use the word carve metaphorically--"he carved through the mountain of work on his desk and was ready to go home by 5." But S uses it here to enliven the battle scene. Macbeth will "carve" his way through all obstacles to meet Macdonwald, but he does so by "carving up" his opponents with his smoking steel. We see, in the mind's eye, a determined and inveterate man slicing through the hordes of opponents until he reaches the desired target.
5. Then, once he has reached his target (Macdonwald), S gives us a half line only (1.2.20): "Till he fac'd the slave." In other words, rather than a 10 count line, we only have five counts. Where are the other five? In our minds. We are supposed to imagine the intrepid Macbeth slicing through the opponents and finally reaching Macdonwald. They come face to face with each other. And then the action stops temporarily. They take the measure of each other, and the whole world freezes for just a second while they do so. How do you picture that scene? Are the rest of the soldiers gathered around, as if to provide a sort of "ring" for the contest? Or, is it as if Macbeth has broken into a clearing and faces the opposing commander without a soul looking on? In any case, the world and action halts for a moment, as the dire foes prepare for the final thrust against each other. The scene reminds me of the opening of the seven seals in the Book of Revelation. When the seventh, and most dramatic, seal was opened by the Lamb, there was not immediate action--rather there was silence in heaven for about half an hour (Rev. 7:1--I wonder who was keeping time). More prosaically, it reminds me of that slight pause on a roller coaster, after the cars have arrived at the apex of the run and just before the cars descend in deafening speed. There is a pause for a moment, until the action resumes. So, here too we have a pause, as pregnant as a pause can be.
6. And then the action resumes. Macbeth makes short work of Macdonwald. The foes don't even shake hands, such as basketball players at center court, or "touch gloves," like two prize fighters before the opening bell. They just go for it. And Macbeth wins. But the picture in I.2.22-23 is revealing. There is a vertical movement followed by a horizontal movement of the smoking steel. The vertical movement is the evisceration of Macdonwald ("from the nave to th' chops") while the horizontal movement is the beheading and dishonoring of Macdonwald (placing the head upon the battlements). Thus, in a strange sort of way, Macbeth is making the sign of the cross as he slices up Macdonwald--first vertical and then horizontal, and victory is won.
The action is fast and furious, and once the advantage has shifted to Macbeth, who is sort of a killing machine, it is only a matter of time before he has gone right to the heart of the opposition and killed Macdonwald. All we can say is "Hall to thee, Macbeth," which, in fact, are the words with which he will be greeted in I.3. by the witches, the weird sisters.


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Trettin, Jürgen and Haubner, Monika and Buschinger, Alfred and Heinze, Jürgen (2011) Queen dominance and worker policing control reproduction in a threatened ant. BMC ecology 11 (1), p. 21.
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BACKGROUND: Efficient division of reproductive labor is a crucial characteristic of social insects and underlies their ecological and evolutionary success. Despite of the harmonious appearance of insect societies, nestmates may have different interests concerning the partitioning of reproduction among group members. This may lead to conflict about reproductive rights. As yet, few studies have investigated the allocation of reproduction among queens in multi - queen societies ("reproductive skew"). In the ant Leptothorax acervorum, reproductive skew varies considerably among populations. While reproduction is quite equally shared among nestmate queens in most populations from boreal Eurasia (low skew), colonies from populations at the edge of the species' range are characterized by "functional monogyny," i.e., high skew. The proximate mechanisms underlying high skew, in particular how workers influence which queen lays eggs, are not well understood. We investigated the behavior of queens and workers in functionally monogynous colonies of L. acervorum from two mountain ranges in central Spain. RESULTS: We provide evidence for both queen and worker influence on the outcome of conflict over reproduction in colonies of L. acervorum from Spain. The patterns of queen - queen aggression and worker - queen grooming and feeding after hibernation allowed predicting, which queen later began to lay eggs. In contrast, worker aggression towards queens was not clearly associated with a queen's future reproductive success. Queen - queen and worker - queen aggression differed in quality: queens typically engaged in ritualized dominance behavior, such as antennal boxing, while workers also attacked queens by biting and prolonged pulling on their legs and antennae. In several cases, overt worker aggression led to the expulsion of queens from the nest or their death. CONCLUSION: We conclude that queens of L. acervorum from Spain establish rank orders by ritualized dominance interactions, such as antennal boxing. Workers may reinforce these hierarchies by preferentially feeding and grooming high ranking queens and attacking lower ranking queens. Aggressive worker policing may thus stabilize functional monogyny. Optimal skew models predict that high skew in ants is associated with high dispersal costs. In central Spain, L. acervorum is restricted to small patches at higher elevations, which presumably makes dispersal and colony founding difficult. Because of the ecological requirements of L. acervorum and the predicted large impact of global change on central Spain, the functionally monogynous populations of this ant must be considered as threatened.
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