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21-01-04, 16:41 #1Chris (Kenny) LawsonGuest
I have just had the head teacher of a school phone me and explain they have a problem with Naughty Kids" and want a business to sponsor a monthly prize as an incentive to the kids to top mis-behaving.So now we are to reward kids for behaving properly as opposed to punishing them for doing wrong.I absolutley despair."
21-01-04, 16:43 #2Ste : )Guest
WTF, indeed!naughty kids should be punished, it's as simple as that
21-01-04, 16:44 #3Ste : )Guest
and i don't necessarily mean physically.but kids should not think they can get away with the way they behave these days. when i was a kid, i would never speak to an adult the way i hear kids doing
21-01-04, 16:45 #4Numpty! (Kut)Guest
WTF, the sky is falling!The Oceans are expanding and I've no lipstick!Sorry, reward those kids with baseball bats to the back of the knees.
21-01-04, 17:03 #5Anne BrownGuest
erm isn't it a good thing to encourage good behaviour?and any way the bad kids'll just mug the good ones for their prizes on the way home.
21-01-04, 17:04 #6Numpty! (Kut)Guest
Not if they can't walk.
21-01-04, 17:07 #7
Actually the best way to make people or animals to behave the way you want them to is by postive reinforcement. You ignore the bad behaviour and reward the good. B.F. Skinner showed that with his Skinner boxes when he made rats press a button by rewarding them for doing so.
21-01-04, 17:10 #8Chris (Kenny) LawsonGuest
But they aren't rewarding good behaviour, the idea is if a kid doesn't misbehave they get rewarded (how many kids read books nowadays anyway?)
21-01-04, 17:13 #9
give the prize in crates of beer, then it will be fairer as they would be unlikely to win the following month.
21-01-04, 17:24 #10Diane *Chocolate Loving Slacker*Guest
My sister's a teacher and used to keep a box of sweets in the desk to reward the kids for good behaviour. It's amazing how far kids will go for chocolate...Send them a box of Roses Chris.: D
21-01-04, 17:27 #11mountainbike mattyGuest
kids that are shit bags genrally have tossers as parents, give the youth a break not with a bat save that for shit parents. give them a prize the free advertising that youll get from local papers will be worth it
21-01-04, 19:58 #12David FrenchGuest
Brink back the cane and the wooden ruler and stuff (I don't care...I'm a good boy despite bieng told off for skateboarding in the corridor today).
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I do think, the naughiest Kid deserves a nice present, for making the rest of the kids look so good
22-01-04, 09:34 #14Padowan S (Mincing seafaring hobbit)Guest
At the risk of souinding like an old g1t:Kids were better behaved in my day."Or were they (bearing in mind I'm only 26!)? A couple of us had a discussion about this (admittedly, in the pub after *several* pints) a little while ago. We all went to different schools but they all had Sixth Forms, and we all agreed that when we were in the first year we wouldn't dare speak to anyone in the Sixth Form, but when we got to the Sixth the first years were right gobby little shytes with no respect. Can the attitude of a generation really change in 6 years?"
22-01-04, 09:36 #15SloBoy - Happiness is a warm crumpetGuest
But that doesn't mean that the gobby-shites in your year weren't talking to the sixth - coild be the same situtaion viewed through different ends of the telescope.
22-01-04, 09:53 #16Padowan S (Mincing seafaring hobbit)Guest
Very true. But to my knowledge none of us wandered around the Sixth Form centre treating it as our own. Again, at the risk of sounding like a moany old g1t, I think the changing attitude to discipline by the teachers has had a lot to do with it. When we were in the Sixth Form we weren't allowed to give any cheeky little scroats a good shoeing - indeed, if any of the lower classes started taking the p1ss and we took matters into our own hands" WE would have been in stryfe for reacting to them. Six years earlier, if we'd done the same thing as first years the Sixth Formers would have dragged us feet first onto the rugby pitch, given us a kicking, and left us dangling from the rugby post crossbar by the arms of our blazers - and the Sixth Formers would often have been aided and abetted by the PE staff.But I'm not bitter ;-)"
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Has anybody seen the film Battle Royale"?Now there's the solution!!"
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Padowan, I know the feeling have had a similar discussion with mates at uni bit younger than you though (19) I did find it quite funny though when a couple of year 11s asked for a hand with one gobby shyte who when I came over threatened to break my fingers. I was 3 times his size, strangely though when I told him to try it he ran away!?!?!
22-01-04, 15:11 #19
My sister's a teacher and used to keep a box of sweets in the desk to reward the kids for good behaviour. It's amazing how far kids will go for chocolate..."and a pretty young teacher........"
22-01-04, 15:19 #20
I remember the first time I got a detention I was sent out to cut the grass on the rugby pitch with a pair of nail scissors........now there's an incentive not to bugger about!
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Syria Says It Has Chemical Weapons
Syria's government acknowledged for the first time Monday that it had weapons of mass destruction, saying it has the capability to use its chemical and biological weapons in case of a foreign attack.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said Damascus wouldn't use unconventional arms against its citizens. "Any stocks of WMD or any unconventional weapons that the Syrian Arab Republic possesses will never be used against civilians or against the Syrian people during this crisis in any circumstance, no matter how the crisis should evolve," he said.
In confirming the existence of such weapons, Damascus also issued a challenge to foreign governments that it has accused of meddling in its crisis.
"All of the stocks of these weapons that the Syrian Arab Republic posses are monitored and guarded by the Syrian army," Mr. Makdissi said. "These weapons are meant to be used only and strictly in the event of external aggression against the Syrian Arab Republic."
U.S. officials believe Syria has perhaps the largest stockpile of chemical weapons in the Middle East, including mustard gas and nerve agents. Damascus is one of only eight nations not to sign the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention, the arms-control agreement that outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of such weapons. Washington believes Syria has placed some of these agents on Scud missiles and artillery shells.
U.S. officials warned this month that they believed Syria had started moving parts of its stockpiles out of storage, with some expressing fear that Damascus was preparing to use the weapons against rebels or civilians. Other officials speculated that President Bashar al-Assad's regime was trying to safeguard the materials from its opponents.
Mr. Assad's regime will be held accountable if it uses chemical weapons in its fight against opposition forces, President Barack Obama warned Monday.
"Given the regime's stockpiles of chemical weapons, we will continue to make it clear to Assad and those around him that the world is watching and that they will be held accountable by the international community and the United States should they make the tragic mistake of using those weapons," Mr. Obama told the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their annual convention in Nevada.
Damascus sought to accuse Western powers of seeking to use the Syrian regime's possession of a stockpile of chemical weapons as a pretext for military intervention. A decade ago in Iraq, the regime's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, which later turned out to be based on faulty intelligence, was one of the main arguments for the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
Syria's defiance comes after a week in which opposition fighters took battles to Syria's biggest two cities, Damascus and Aleppo, and launched an attack last week that killed several members of Mr. Assad's inner circle.
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Fighting subsided in Damascus on Monday, according to residents, with cleanup efforts starting in several neighborhoods that bore the brunt of the past week's fighting.
A dense patch of cactus trees in Damascus's Mezze neighborhood, which had been used by rebels as a hideout, was leveled by government tractors on Sunday. But clashes continued in the Salahuddin and al-Sakhour neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria's most-populous city in the north. Opposition groups claimed control of most of the countryside in the north, but this could not be independently verified.
International efforts to tighten pressure on Syria also intensified Monday, with the European Union placing new sanctions on Damascus while foreign ministers predicted Mr. Assad was starting to lose his grip on power.
The EU confirmed it was placing an asset freeze and travel ban on 26 people—mainly army, security and intelligence officials. The EU also tightened its arms embargo and targeted three companies including Syria's flagship airline. All three companies are "closely linked to the Assad family," U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
The EU "strongly condemns the ever-increasing use of force by the regime, including use of heavy artillery and shelling against populated areas in blatant violation of its obligations" under the United Nations-backed cease-fire plan, foreign ministers said in a statement about the 17-month-old conflict.
The ministers lamented Russia and China's decision last week to block a fresh resolution on Syria at the U.N. Security Council. They warned that sanctions could be further tightened in the future and stressed their concern "about the potential use of chemical weapons in Syria."
The EU spelled out the details of the new inspections regime on Syria-bound planes and vessels. Member states will be obliged to carry out searches at their airports, ports and in their territorial waters if they suspect "the cargo contains arms or equipment for internal repression."
"Items that may not be exported to Syria under EU law must be seized" and ships or planes heading to Syria will have to give additional pre-arrival detail on their cargo, ministers said in a statement.
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That initiative could irk Russia, which provides assistance to Mr. Assad's regime. Last month, U.K. authorities said a ship carrying Russian-refurbished attack helicopters to Syria turned back after its insurance cover was stripped.
The EU has already launched 16 rounds of sanctions on Syria as the death toll has surged in the violence there, including a ban on Syrian oil exports and an asset freeze and travel ban on many top officials, including Mr. Assad and some family members.
The 27-nation bloc also said Monday it was stepping up humanitarian assistance to Syria. The EU will give an additional €20 million ($24.3 million) to be targeted in part at helping Syria's neighbors, like Jordan and Lebanon, cope with a refugee influx.
The Syrian government also dismissed a fresh call on Sunday by Arab League foreign ministers on Mr. Assad to step down and for the country to enter a new transitional phase.
"The Syrian people are the masters of their own fate," Mr. Makdissi said, calling the position "hypocritical" and "interference in the domestic affairs of a sovereign state."
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CAIRO — The streets seethe with protests and government ministers are on the run or in jail, but since the military ousted President Mohammed Morsi, life has somehow gotten better for many people across Egypt: Gas lines have disappeared, power cuts have stopped and the police have returned to the street.
The seemingly miraculous end to the crippling energy shortages, and the re-emergence of the police, seems to show that the legions of personnel left in place after former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in 2011 played a significant role — intentionally or not — in undermining the overall quality of life under the Islamist administration of Morsi.
And as the interim government struggles to unite a divided nation, the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi's supporters say the sudden turnaround proves that their opponents conspired to make Morsi fail. Not only did police officers seem to disappear, but the state agencies responsible for providing electricity and ensuring gas supplies failed so fundamentally that gas lines and rolling blackouts fed widespread anger and frustration.
"This was preparing for the coup," said Naser el-Farash, who served as the spokesman for the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade under Morsi. "Different circles in the state, from the storage facilities to the cars that transport petrol products to the gas stations, all participated in creating the crisis."
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Working behind the scenes, members of the old establishment, some of them close to Mubarak and the country's top generals, also helped finance, advise and organize those determined to topple the Islamist leadership, including Naguib Sawiris, a billionaire and an outspoken foe of the Brotherhood; Tahani El-Gebali, a former judge on the Supreme Constitutional Court who is close to the ruling generals; and Shawki al-Sayed, a legal adviser to Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak's last prime minister who lost the presidential race to Morsi.
But it is the police returning to the streets that offers the most blatant sign that the institutions once loyal to Mubarak held back while Morsi was in power. Throughout his one-year tenure, Morsi struggled to appease the police, even alienating his own supporters rather than trying to overhaul the Interior Ministry. But as crime increased and traffic clogged roads — undermining not only the quality of life, but the economy — the police refused to deploy fully.
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White-clad officers have returned to Cairo's streets, and security forces — widely despised before and after the revolution — intervened with tear gas and shotguns against Islamists during widespread street clashes last week, leading anti-Morsi rioters to laud them as heroes. Posters have gone up around town showing a police officer surrounded by smiling children over the words, "Your security is our mission, your safety our goal."
"You had officers and individuals who were working under a specific policy that was against Islamic extremists and Islamists in general," said Ihab Youssef, a retired police officer who runs a professional association for the security forces. "Then all of a sudden the regime flips and there is an Islamic regime ruling. They could never psychologically accept that."
When Mubarak was removed after nearly 30 years in office in 2011, the bureaucracy he built stayed largely in place. Many business leaders, also a pillar of the old government, retained their wealth and influence.
Sawiris, one of Egypt's richest men and a titan of the old establishment, said Wednesday that he had supported an upstart group called "tamarrod," Arabic for "rebellion," that led a petition drive seeking Morsi's ouster. He donated use of the nationwide offices and infrastructure of the political party he built, the Free Egyptians. He provided publicity through his popular television network and his major interest in Egypt's largest private newspaper. He even commissioned the production of a popular music video that played heavily on his network.
"Tamarrod did not even know it was me," he said. "I am not ashamed of it."
He said he had publicly predicted that ousting Morsi would bolster Egypt's sputtering economy because it would bring in billions of dollars in aid from oil-rich monarchies afraid that the Islamist movement might spread to their shores. By Wednesday, a total of $12 billion had flowed in from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. "That will take us for 12 months with no problem," Sawiris said.
Gebali, the former judge, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that she and other legal experts helped tamarrod create their strategy to appeal directly to the military to oust Morsi and pass the interim presidency to Hazem el-Beblawi, a former chief of the constitutional court.
"We saw that there was movement and popular creativity, so we wanted to see if it would have an effect and a constitutional basis," Gebali said.
Farash, the trade-ministry spokesman under Morsi, attributed the fuel shortages to black marketers linked to Mubarak who diverted shipments of state-subsidized fuel to sell for a profit abroad. Corrupt officials torpedoed Morsi's introduction of a smart-card system to track fuel shipments by refusing to use the devices, he said.
But not everyone agreed with that interpretation, as supporters of the interim government said the improvements were a reflection of Morsi's incompetence, not a conspiracy. State news media said energy shortages occurred because consumers bought extra fuel out of fear, which appeared to evaporate after Morsi's fall. On Wednesday, Al Ahram, the flagship newspaper, said the energy grid had a surplus in the past week for the first time in months, thanks to "energy-saving measures by the public."
On Wednesday the government accused Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood of a campaign to incite violence against their foes before and after his ouster as president, offering a new explanation for the week-old takeover and hinting that the group might be banned once again.
The new explanation appeared aimed at adding to the justification for a broadening crackdown, including new arrest warrants issued Wednesday for the Brotherhood's spiritual leader, Mohamed Badie, and eight other well-known allies.
The government prosecutors accused all nine of inciting Morsi supporters into a lopsided clash with soldiers and the police Monday morning that led to the death of one soldier and two police officers; the security forces killed 51 of Morsi's civilian supporters and wounded more than 400, almost all with gunfire.
Witnesses said the forces had fired with little or no provocation, but government spokesmen charged Wednesday that the Islamists had deliberately sought to instigate the deadly retaliation for propaganda purposes. "To mark this as, 'the army is trying to kill civilians,'" one said.
Security forces are still holding about 200 of about 650 protesters they chased down in the streets during the fighting, as well as many prominent Islamists. Morsi is being held in an undisclosed location.
"For his safety, for the safety of the country," said Badr Abdelatty, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry.
The crackdown appeared to meet little international resistance Wednesday. The Pentagon put out a statement saying that, "given the events of last week, the president has directed relevant departments and agencies to review our assistance to the government of Egypt." For now, however, plans to continue with the delivery of four F-16 warplanes would not be halted, officials said.
Outlawed for six decades under Egypt's military-backed autocracy, the Brotherhood was legalized after the ouster of Mubarak in 2011, becoming a legitimate religious and charitable group, an accepted part of the social fabric, and the sponsor of the political party that won the presidency and led the Parliament.
In the past two years, Brotherhood leaders have routinely met with ambassadors, foreign ministers, U.S. congressional delegations, and one even met President
Obama in the Oval Office. Brotherhood spokesmen said the new government was concocting charges to justify repression.


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Bird details: A fresh look
You don't need me to tell you that birds are a dominant trend in weddings right now – they're all over the place, from lovebird cake toppers to bird's nest ring holders, not to mention the ever-present bird cages. And it's no wonder – birds (like butterflies, so popular a few years ago) are a pretty, whimsical motif for any style of wedding, from modern to shabby chic to vintage. I never get sick of seeing them, and anyway, since it's your wedding, you get to include whatever you like (trendy or not). But if you feel like too many couples have been there, done that (as one of my engaged friends recently commented), here are five ways you might rework the bird trend a little to make it your own.
1. Concentrate on subtle details…
The classiest weddings don't get too themey, but choose a select few details to tie their concept together. I love little touches like these feather boutonnieres and bird matchboxes.
Matches via Luna and Chloe Weddings; boutonniere photo by Jonda Spurbeck via Postcards and Pretties
Remember Ankia & Philip's gorgeous wedding? One of my favourite details was their feather 'confetti' – so romantic!
And don't you love this adorably classy escort card table (also featured in our vintage birds inspiration board)?
Photos by Henry Shoots via Style Me Pretty
2. …Or take it to extremes.
You could find these bird cages in any pet shop, but strung up with lights they really make a statement. Love it!
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Nothing subtle about these cakes either, but aren't they wonderful?
Guinea fowl cake by Duet Weddings via Once Wed; bird pattern cake by Jo Tyler via Santa Barbara Chic
3. Sick of bird cages? Try bird houses.
I just love how bird houses were used as part of the table décor at this beautiful wedding, and how many other uses brides are finding for them. Go on the hunt for some of your own (or get your guy to finally put his school woodwork classes to use!) and they're sure to be a pretty feature that you can also use in your garden afterwards.
Photos: top left and right by Caroline Ghetes via Style Me Pretty; bottom left by Millie Holloman Photography via Style Me Pretty; bottom right by Morgan Gallo Events, Jade McCully Photography and Emma J Designs via Elizabeth Anne Designs
4. Focus on a specific type of bird.
This couple used owls as part of their wedding style – aren't they just too cute? There are lots of other birds that would make great motifs – peacocks are already popular, but with South Africa's abundant bird life, you could really get creative with this one!
Photos by Whitney Lee via Southern Weddings
5. Try something different.
We all know that if birds do it, bees do it (although educated fleas may be a bridge too far), and so it's no surprise that bee motifs are starting to appear. Just look at this stunning inspiration board from Postcards & Pretties. Or you could go for something equally pretty and summery, like dragonflies or ladybirds. Moving away from nature, summer emblems like bicycles and hot air balloons are other ideas. Or why not go back to the originals but mix it up a little? A few small touches of birds, bees and butterflies would add up to a lovely summery garden feel – but as always, less is more, so don't overdo it!
21 July, 2010 2:54 pm
"If you're a bird, I'm a bird" – for some reason these little animals are so cute and romantic. I'm loving all the "love birds" cake toppers I've been seeing lately! And of course, I'm a huge fan of feathers
21 July, 2010 3:30 pm
We incorporated birds into our wedding last year and loved them. I'm glad to see this trend maturing rather than getting too played out. This is a fantastic round up coupled with great ideas and advice.
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The Detroit Free Press ranks Jessica Schroll -- as a junior -- as the 45th best basketball player in the state of Michigan per the following article: GIRLS BASKETBALL: MICK McCABE'S TOP 100 PLAYERS: Injuries don't stop Watson, Solomon .
The MichLadyBallers.com website has Jessica as the 25th best junior in the state per this ranking: 2009
Considering that she has severly injured her knee, I doubt she improves her rankings this year unless she gets back to full strength for the AAU season.
Will will win!
And here I thought you were going to tell me that she is ranked 45th in the nation... She sounds like she has potential but may end up being a project until she can fully recover. It also sounded like she has work left to do in order to improve her game to the point where she and everyone else wants it at. I trust Fennelly enough to trust that he has made the right decision in her recruitment, however.
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CG. No one knows what you're talking about.
Originally Posted by cowgirl836
She may not have a high ranking, though I'm still excited about this signing since she was also getting recruited by DePaul (consistently strong team) and Michigan (Borseth is one of the best coaches out there, IMO).
We need some athletes so hopefully she can foot that bill.
she is now ranked 9th on the michigan lady ballers website fyi
Good for her. I hope she keeps doing well and can help us out.
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she is now ranked 9th on the michigan lady ballers website fyi
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In the pre-Smash era, the Tony Awards were probably one of two network television celebrations of Broadway greatness. The Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade is the other. Now, thanks to NBC, Broadway gets a nod each Monday night. But that still doesnt lessen my excitement for the Tony Awards, which, in addition to handing out awards, also gives us a nice sampling of whats happening on some of the many stages in New York City. June isnt that far off, and now it looks like CBS is once again tapping into their own well of talent for this years host.
TV Line posted the news, stating that How I Met Your Mothers Neil Patrick Harris will return to the Tonys Awards to host the event for the third time. Harris, who has proven to be as musically gifted as he is dramatically and comedically, hosted the Tonys in 2009 and again last year.
Just in case you didnt watch, or your memorys rusty, heres Harris funny, musical opening number for the 65th Tony Awards.
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Fine-tuning the nuances
The difference between the church gathered and the church dispersed
My pastor was about to announce a prayer vigil at the local abortion clinic the next Saturday morning, and to invite us to join him during that hour of sidewalk protest. But before saying a word, he pointedly left his pulpit, walked across the platform, and stepped down to where we were all sitting.
I'm sure some folks there that January morning didn't even notice the subtle symbolism. Some who did notice might have said it was much ado about nothing. But in the continuing debate over whether the evangelical church in America is being overly politicized, nuances do make a difference.
There weren't many nuances a couple of weeks ago when two spokesmen for opposite sides of that argument squared off for a semi-public debate of the issue. Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas picked up where he left off in his 1999 book Blinded by Might, where with co-author Ed Dobson he argued that the religious right is asking for nothing but trouble when it pretends it can change the soul of America through the political process. But from the other side, Focus on the Family vice president Tom Minnery shot back: "Try telling that to blacks in America. Maybe all racist hearts haven't been changed by the civil rights laws-but at least injustice has been reduced."
The vigorous debate was arranged by the Ethics and Public Policy Center of Washington, D.C., whose vice president Michael Cromartie credited a WORLD column last February with sparking the idea for such an exchange.
The discussion is important. Mr. Thomas has properly sounded two thoughtful warnings: The first is that evangelical Christians ought to be more skeptical about either the efficacy or the integrity of the political process. "We are so gullible," Mr. Thomas says repeatedly, "when we act as though the election of the right person as president, the winning of a majority in Congress, or the appointment of just one more conservative to the Supreme Court will bring in the kingdom of God."
Mr. Thomas's second warning is that local churches need to be more careful not to become precinct offices for the Republican Party. I totally agree that there is great danger in allowing anyone to confuse the biblical gospel with partisan politics. But here, as I said in this space last Feb. 23, Mr. Thomas is fuzzy in failing to distinguish between the institutional church (or what we might call the "church gathered" for worship on Sunday morning) and the people of that church (or what we might call the "church dispersed" for their salt-like activity in society through the rest of the week). If he limited his critique to some churches' tendency to focus on Sunday mornings more on conservative social issues than on teaching the broad scope of the Bible's teachings, his point would be sharper.
To my ears, Mr. Minnery effectively challenged Mr. Thomas on the first of the two points. Mr. Thomas is still chafing, Mr. Minnery suggested, at the embarrassments of his earlier identification in the 1980s with Moral Majority and groups like the Christian Coalition. But Focus on the Family and its current cohorts, Mr. Minnery asserted, are today neither beguiled by power in high places nor seeking to substitute political process for the work of God's Spirit. Mr. Minnery pointed out that Focus on the Family's president, James Dobson, is quite willing to be an outcast of the Republican establishment and that the group spends only 5 percent of its annual budget on political action.
Much more ambiguous is the debate over using pulpits to discuss issues that might easily be interpreted as either moral and ethical, on the one hand, or political, on the other. A number of Michigan pastors were offended several years ago, for example, when a mailing from Focus on the Family urged them to preach sermons against gambling during a campaign to approve state-operated casinos. Even more offensive to some was what they interpreted as public criticism from Focus on the Family when they didn't preach such sermons.
That disagreement focuses on the distinction between the "church gathered" and the "church dispersed." Just a short generation ago, conservative evangelicals tended to be on the other side of the argument. "It's OK for Christians to talk about racism and the war," they said then-"but don't preempt our pulpits for those discussions." Now that the issues are abortion, homosexuality, prayer in the schools, and support for Israel, some churches hear little else-even on Sunday mornings.
So I was thankful when my pastor left the platform for his announcement. It was an important symbol. And Mike Cromartie says the Ethics and Public Policy Center will sponsor still further discussions to help the rest of us fine-tune such important nuances.


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Diabetic retinopathy begins with mild deterioration of the tiny blood vessels that nourish the retina. Portions of the vessels may develop bulges (microaneurysms) that leak blood (hemorrhages), fluid (edema) or lipids (exudates) into the surrounding tissue. Generally, vision remains stable during these early, or nonproliferative, changes unless swelling in the macula (the central, most sensitive portion of the retina) develops.
Later, some individuals may develop the more serious stage of diabetic retinopathy, called proliferative retinopathy, in which abnormal blood vessels grow from the retina and into or onto the back surface of the vitreous humor. These fragile vessels are prone to rupture and can bleed into the vitreous, causing blurred vision or temporary blindness. Scar tissue may form, pulling the retina away from the back of the eye -- a condition known as retinal detachment, which may require treatment to minimize vision loss.
The type of visual impairment caused by diabetic retinopathy is highly variable, depending on the location of retinal damage. Possible effects include blurring, distortion and blind spots. In either stage of the disease, a vision-threatening complication called macular edema -- in which fluid accumulates in the macula -- may develop.
Our advice. Because even advanced retinopathy may not cause symptoms, it is essential for people with diabetes to have regular check ups by an ophthalmologist and to report any vision changes immediately. If detected early enough, the most frequent causes of vision loss -- new blood vessel growth, retinal detachmentand macular edema -- can be, in many cases, minimized with medications injected into the eye, laser treatment or surgery.
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Sunday's season capper of the Prohibition-era drama "Boardwalk Empire" draws 2.7 million viewers versus last year's 3 million
HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" wrapped its third season down slightly from last year's Season 2 capper, but made up for it with repeated airings of the episode on Sunday night.
This year's finale drew in 2.7 million total viewers with its initial 9 p.m. airing — off a bit from last season's finale, which pulled in 3 million total viewers with its initial airing.
Also read: "Boardwalk Empire" Creator on Legalizing Drugs and Making Nucky Likeable Again
Overall, the series — which stars Steve Buscemi as corrupt Atlantic City political figure Enoch "Nucky" Thompson — drew in 4.3 million total viewers over three airings Sunday night.
Sunday night's finale was also the season's most-watched episode since the season premiere, which drew 2.9 million total viewers.


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1) How many heart rate zones can you track and record?
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3) I read the cadence functions were not graphable...but can you get your average and max at the end of the ride?
4) Would you say the HR monitor is accurate as compared to a good Polar unit?
5) What specific problems have you had with this unit?
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People from all over the region came to Grant on Saturday, Feb. 15 to help a longtime friend, Mona Lierley, a staple at Hatch's Super Foods. The fairgrounds building was packed with friends and family enjoying a barbecue with live and silent auctions. The benefit was to help Lierley with medical expenses and organizers called the event 'very, very successful.' Over 550 people were served at the free will offering meal and many stayed for the auction that featured vacation trips, blankets, tools and everything in between. A line stretched from the back of the fairgrounds building out the door at one point with people parking near the courthouse to get inside. Donations can still be sent to Hatch's Super Foods, care of Barbara or to Valley Pro, care of Sue. "Everything fell into place. It was a great day with the volunteers and help from the community and surrounding towns," said Kevin Hatch, owner of Hatch's Super Foods. (Photo by Tim Linscott)


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I just finished watching the House Intelligence Committee hearing on the NSA programs revealed by Edward Snowden. I'll have a lot more to say about the content of the revelations in the next few days. But first, a general observation.
Since the initial Snowden revelations, the Intelligence Community and other Administration surrogates have been trying to minimize our understanding of the scope of their surveillance and use traditional fearmongering to justify the programs by focusing on the importance of the Section 702 collection to stopping terrorism. While James Clapper's office has made it clear that Section 702 goes beyond counterterrorism by revealing that its successes include counterproliferation and cybersecurity successes, as well as counterterrorism ones, the focus has nevertheless been on TERROR TERROR TERROR.
Today's hearing was really the culmination of that process, when Keith Alexander boasted up upwards of 50 terrorist plots — about 40 of which were overseas — that Section 702 has prevented.
Of the four plots the government has revealed — David Headley, Najibullah Zazi, as well as these two today…
Mr. Joyce described a plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange by a Kansas City man, whom the agency was able to identify because he was in contact with "an extremist" in Yemen who was under surveillance. Mr. Joyce also talked about a San Diego man who planned to send financial support to a terrorist group in Somalia, and who was identified because the N.S.A. flagged his phone number as suspicious through its database of all domestic phone call logs, which was brought to light by Mr. Snowden's disclosures.
… the government has either overblown the importance of these programs and their success or are fairly minor plots.
None of the four may be as uniquely worthwhile as the cyberattack described by Clapper's office a week ago, which it has not, however, fleshed out.
Communications collected under Section 702 have provided significant and unique intelligence regarding potential cyber threats to the United States, including specific potential network computer attacks. This insight has led to successful efforts to mitigate these threats.
That is, the government might–might!–be able to make a far better case for the value of these programs in discussing their role in preventing cyberattacks rather than preventing terrorist plots.
And yet it hasn't done so, even as it pushes one after another attempt to legislate internet access in the name of protecting Intellectual Property and critical infrastructure.
Given the increasing focus on cybersecurity — and the already dishonest claims people like Mike Rogers have made about the means to accomplish that focus — this is the discussion we need to be having, rather than digging up terror plots first developed in 2004 that never happened. But in the same way the government shied away from conducting an honest discussion with us in 2001 and again in 2006 about these programs, it is refusing to conduct an honest discussion about cybersecurity today.
And, ironically, that refusal is preventing them from describing the value of a program that surely contributes more to countering cyberattacks than terror attacks at this point.
Want to know why Alexander was probably lying this morning? This sums it up well:
How much easier to expand intrusive cyber searches in looking for minutia to justify an increasing budget than institute better firewalls, malware and virus protection for the DoD. It's much more sexy and easier sale, though more expensive and less effective, for more programs and surveillance. Screaming Terror, Terror, terror get the needed results for the intel industry
And yet, Anonymous lives and reigns.
David Headley's plot against the Danish newspaper was stopped by the NSA. Oops, do the Spymasters really want to use Headley as an example of NSA stopping a plot? They have been using him for twelve years. Sean Joyce of the FBI becomes the latest to spread the myths about Headley. Maybe he does not know that Mumbai was an ISI operation. Or maybe it was an ISI/NSA operation. The NSA perhaps monitored the VOIP used by ISI to command the Mumbai terror.
They did not stop Mumbai. The FBI was investigating Headley before Mumbai. And guess who refutes Joyce? Philip Mudd "retired" Spymaster. Headley was busted because of Mumbai according to Mudd.
First, the case of David Coleman Headley, a Pakistani-American, reveals an "A-level" plotter who operated in the United States. Headley was involved with plotting attacks for Lashkar-i-Tayyiba (LT, or LeT), a South Asian terrorist group that has at least some ties to al-Qa`ida. Headley, who was born in Washington, D.C. and most recently lived in Chicago, was arrested in October 2009 in the United States for involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and for plotting against employees of a newspaper in Copenhagen, Denmark.[4]
Second, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who studied at a university in London, attempted to detonate explosives on a Northwest Airlines commercial aircraft just outside Detroit on December 25, 2009
And Undie #1 did not attempt to detonate the explosive Undie Bomb. It was detonated.
About what they say they can use section 702 for, here's what Obama said on Charlie Rose:
It can only be narrowly related to counter-terrorism, weapons proliferation, cyber hacking or attacks
Hey 1% PTB touting that your spying prevented Wall Street from being blown up is NOT a selling point.
The Kansas City man is likely Khalid Ouazzani. He was convicted of wiring money to a terrorist organization in Morroco in support of operations in Afghanistan, Somalia, etc.
@Garrett: So it can only be narrowly used for more than it was originally intended for and more than its authors thought it was about? Interesting. I don't feel better at all.
With all the phone call data collecting going on and with the dead Boston bombing suspect having been flagged a year or so ago by Russian authorities, why weren't the US intelligent agencies able to stop the Boston Marathon bombing?
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@bsbafflesbrains: My thought all so;)
@PeasantParty: And this other reason is why they are all lying to America:
Your tax dollars at work against YOU!
@PeasantParty: Stuxnet virus, anyone?
I don't want to hear about how terrorists were stopped using the program – that's what the program is for. It should be doing that. I want to hear if the program is being abused, if people are looking where they should not be looking, or doing things that are prohibited by statute. Either by individuals (bad) or institutionally by design (egregious). It seems like Snowden says they are going beyond the limits, yet there is no hard evidence beyond anecdotes like "I know people who looked where they should not have, laughed about it, and told their friends".
We – the USA – need to have the conversation we never had around "do we want to do this, and what is it that we want to do, in detail?" – BushCo decided this for us in secret. But we also need to know if we've been duped so far by the mechanism that's in place and running for the last 10+ years.
Obama says program is transparent because of the FISA Court. And apparently Charlie Rose didn't know enough to laugh out loud.
others are thinking / asking same
Prism: how can this level of state surveillance be legal?
It's hard to see how any system that captures data from millions of law-abiding citizens satisfies our right to privacy
@dustbunny44: Inching ever closer to asking the right questions, which relate to whether the way these "laws" are being interpreted and applied by the agencies is, in fact, consistent with the Constitution. That's a much different question from whether the laws enacted by a fear-frozen Congress are constitutional, or whether the actions of the executive branch "pursuant" to these laws are "legal." You're right, dustbunny.
Michael Tomasky today has written what he considers to be a very intelligent post in which he "breaks his silence" to reassure us that Obama is "different" from Bush because Bush operated without "legal authority" while Obama has operated "pursuant" to laws passed in the wake of 9/11 and in response to Bush oversteps of those laws. True, but hardly reassuring. Same for the very capable job of deconstructing and debunking the facial disingenuity of most of the carefully-caveated yet bombastic "affirmations" of how these programs have met the threat of, oh, TERRA! TERRA! TERRA! in commentaries made to frighten those oversightly-challenged weaklings in Congress into worrying more about whether they'll be blamed if a truck explodes on a highway and "it might have been stopped if only…" — that line of analysis does not pose or answer the question of how we can assess what is actually happening in a fashion that might actually result in directing our security apparatus into a constitutionally-legitimate structure and a constitution-respecting bureaucracy.
Snowden's disclosures have set in motion some reactions that actually present the possibility of considering these pragmatic-and-philosophical concepts, and for the very first potentially meaningful time. The problem now is how to do that. Should this be a purely "congressional" exercise? I hope not, for that is what the bureaucrats are angling for — just spout uncheckable soundbites in front of panels of congresscritters whose very last goal in all this would be to be considered "responsible" for what's going on….. Final proof of that was provided when only 47 of 100 Senators showed up for a "briefing" dog/pony opp last Thursday. But, if Congress won't/can/t be counted on, does this mean we just put the shoulder braids on the generals and let Clapper lie to us some more? And treat that as "confirmation" of the "legitimacy" of what's going on?
Obama is making "I'm a responsible constitutional officer, let's disclose some stuff to validate my claim" kinds of noises. These could prove useful — but on the assumption Marcy won't be asked to evaluate and decide the ultimate outcome, how will we move toward that as a country?
In the past two weeks, there has been debate and discussion in this country far more informed than in the past decade — and there is a chance that enough information may actually be disclosed to permit a reasoned evaluation of these policies and their interpretation/implementation/effects to actually hope to align these issues to the actual constitutional framework that pretty much everyone would like to believe governs this country. Who should head up that task, how can it be accomplished in an environment like this?
Google's request to the FISA court to allow it to publish national security requests it receives from the US government: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/716099-foreign-intelligence-surveillance-court-motion.html
The NSA's new talking points on Section 215: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/press_releases/section_215_protections.pdf
The NSA's new talking points on Section 702: http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/press_releases/section_702_protections.pdf
From CNN, a transcript of today's House Intelligence Committee Hearing on NSA Surveillance: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1306/18/cnr.03.html
@Snoopdido: That CNN transcript only covers the very first part of that hearing. Bits and pieces of the hearing are in other CNN transcripts, but apparently no single source for the entire hearing as of yet. Sorry about that.
So far, it appears that all four examples given were invalid. Headley and Zazi were flagged by foreign intelligence. Their contact information was not ascertained through an electronic dragnet. The last two were only involved in financial transactions.
From the Los Angeles Times piece – NSA surveillance helped foil more than 50 attacks, officials say – http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-nsa-surveillance-disrupt-terrorist-attacks-20130618,0,4220555.story:
"The officials said the NSA archive of domestic telephone calling records is used only for terrorism investigations and espionage cases. Only 22 analysts in the agency's vast workforce are authorized to access the database, and they conducted about 300 queries last year."
Only 22 analysts? Really? The NSA only has 22 analysts checking the database of all American domestic phone call records for terrorism investigations and espionage cases? And they only made 300 queries last year?
Are there other agencies who are allowed to access the database? If so, who and how many people?
i have edited and reiterate here a comment i made earlier today at rayne's post.
the point i want to emphasize is that i consider the fisa court as a kind of dummy variable – a stand-in for responsible, effective oversight of nsa's massive spying on americans' communications, but not itself responsible or effective in protecting the privacy of individual american citizens:
orionATL on June 18, 2013 at 12:47 pm said:
some things, some very important things, are becoming crystal clear:
– the fisa court is completely incompetent/impotent to protect the privacy of an american citizen.
– the fisa court is useful to politicians as a means to provide our president and congresscritters with political cover and avoidance of responsibility for their repeatedly authorizing and funding the vast spying bureaucracy of today
the fisa court is useful to security bureaucrats because it provides those in the nsa/fbi/cia cover to continuously expand their spy operations and avoid outside evaluation and criticim of their operations.
– it is way past time to insist our political leaders stop chanting the "fisa court mantra" as a way of ducking and evading their responsibility and accountability for failing to adequately monitor the vast domestic spying apparatus they have birthed and nurtured over the last 15 years.
– See more at: http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/06/18/the-truth-the-nsa-has-been-working-on-domestic-spying-for-ten-plus-years/#comments
@Snoopdido: From the NSA's new talking points on Section 215:
"• This program concerns the collection only of telephone metadata. Under this program, the government does not acquire the content of any communication, the identity of any party to the communication, or any cell-site locational information."
Does this statement mean what it appears to say? That under THIS program, the government does not acquire content, the identity or cell-site locational information, but that stuff is acquired by other government programs?
"• This metadata may be queried only when there is a reasonable suspicion, based on specific and articulated facts, that the identifier that will be used as the basis for the query is associated with specific foreign terrorist organizations.
• The basis for these queries must be documented in writing in advance."
Do these 2 bullet items mean what they appear to say? That NSA analysts can indeed query the US domestic phone call record metadata database without a warrant as we've suspected? The answer according to the NSA seems to be yes.
"• Metadata collected under this program that has not been reviewed and minimized must be destroyed within 5 years."
Does this statement mean what it appears to say? That US domestic phone call record metadata that has been reviewed and/or minimized is NOT destroyed after 5 years?
Snowden said it himself; "Policy is like a ratchet that only loosens"
@Snoopdido: From the NSA's new talking points on Section 702:
"• These certifications define the categories of foreign actors that may be appropriately targeted, and by law, must include specific targeting and minimization procedures adopted by the Attorney General in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and approved by the Court as consistent with the law and 4th Amendment to the Constitution."
Does this statement mean what it appears to say? The certifications ONLY define categories? Such as the category Terrorist? Or the category Criminal? Or the category Drug Dealer? Or the category Money Launderer? Or the category Obnoxious Journalist/Blogger?
"• There must be a valid, documented foreign intelligence purpose, such as counterterrorism, for each use of this authority. All targeting decisions must be documented in advance."
Does this statement mean what it appears to say? That "such as counterterrorism" was only a single example of many possible purposes? That targeting decisions are documented in advance by whom and for whom?
"• Any inadvertently acquired communication of or concerning a U.S. person must be promptly destroyed if it is neither relevant to the authorized purpose nor evidence of a crime."
Does this statement mean what it appears to say? That acquired communications concerning U.S. persons are not destroyed if there is evidence of a crime? Doesn't this destroy the 4th Amendment's insistence for a warrant based on probable cause?
"• The dissemination of any information about U.S. persons is expressly prohibited unless it is necessary to understand foreign intelligence or assess its importance; is evidence of a crime; or indicates a threat of death or serious bodily harm."
Does this statement mean what it appears to say? That acquired communications concerning U.S. persons are can be disseminated if there is evidence of a crime? Doesn't this again destroy the 4th Amendment's insistence for a warrant based on probable cause?
@PeasantParty: For more on big money influence, David Sirota has this to say over at Salon.
For a taste of what that kind of institutionalized corruption looks like, take a look at the amount of money Booz Allen Hamilton and its parent company The Carlyle Group spend on campaign contributions and lobbying.
The success of that pressure is exemplified by the title of today's congressional hearing with the head of the NSA, Gen. Keith Alexander. The hearing doesn't ask why Alexander lied to Congress or whether the NSA has engaged in illegal acts. No, a Congress bankrolled by firms like Booz Allen predictably calls the hearing "How Disclosed NSA Programs Protect Americans and Why Disclosure Aids Our Adversaries," the two preconceived assumptions being that 1) the NSA's surveillance programs, which generate huge profits for companies like Booz, are beneficial to Americans' security and 2) critics of those programs hurt the country.
Who would've thought?
Industry Insiders already pushing Congress to go against DiFi's bill to curb contracting secrecy:
Most people are having a hard time with those answers – they're saying that the answers were lies.
I'm getting the same inferences that you are.
why did convressman and chair mike rogers (R-mi) lie to the american people about snowden's acces and the accuracy of his description of the extent of nsa spying?
why did congressman dutch ruppersberger (verystupid D-ny) affirm that lie?
why did generals clapper and alexander lie to the media and hence to american citizens about the extent of nsa's spying domestically on u.s. citizens?
why did president obama lie to the american people by saying that the nsa does notlisten in on citizen's conversations at the time they are being made
without also revealing the conversations are recorded and available for any nsa analyst to listen to later – without a warrant?
one answer to these questions can be inferred from reading this article:
>>It's hard to see how any system that captures data from millions of law-abiding citizens satisfies our right to privacy
Agreed. Would Jefferson and peers consider it an invasion of privacy if someone were followed constantly, noting their location, purchases, who they talked with, what information they gathered and served up, 24-7? I think so. And they're vacuuming up all this data, along with our phone calls (to be listened to later upon approval by the FISA court) because it's relatively easy to do.
But I'm suprised that people apparently didn't know this was going on – read James Bamford (The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, etc.) and you know that all the data carriers from Western Union to Iridium have routinely made their trunk lines available to the US government. And software companies like Apple and Microsoft and now all these others have routinely given back-doors to their products to the government. Cost of doing business, it seems (or perhaps the government has some leverage we don't know about). It was months ago that the Utah data center was announced where they will store the contents of all phone communication forever, presumably to listen to it only after a FISA authorization – what do people think that means? It means they record everything.
So the first question, now that everyone's talking about it, is do we really want us to do that.
The bigger question, in my mind, is if and how they have overstepped those pretty wide boundaries, and if so can we have some hard evidence.
Re Khalid Ouazzani, if anyone is interested, here is his plea agreement:
What is interesting about it is that it nowhere mentions any plan to blow up the New York Stock Exchange. The one terrorism related count, that of assisting a terrorist organization involved donating $23,000 to al Qaida, swearing allegiance to al Qaida, and "Some of defendant's conversations with others also involved plans for them to participate in various types of actions to support Al-Qaida, including fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Somalia." And the likely way he came under scrutiny was through an initial $6,500 wire transfer to the UAE.
@Hugh: One has to wonder whether there was a US agent on the other end feeding him ideas for plots as in the case with Quazi Mohammad Reswanul Ahsan Nafis, who had to be driven to the New York Federal Reserve by the undercover FBI informant because he couldn't drive.


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I've been wanting to go back to a boxing gym to lose some weight and get back some fitness. From 16 up until about 19 I trained and sparred at a decent gym. I got into it and was close to going amateur though with University upcoming I panicked and decided not to continue my training.
I'm now 21, with a better handle on things, though through socializing, working 9 to 5 last year and what have you, I have put on weight, so today I went to a local "cross-combat gym". It does boxing as well as wrestling and other things, so thought I'd give it a try.
It ended up being a mat, barefoot, no padwork or bagwork. We warmed up and then we were paired up for light sparring, working certain combinations before turning the heat up towards the end. Some people did not wear headgear, gumshields, hand-wraps and the glove quality was dire. Basically an hour of sparring one to one.
I have always been able to take a punch, but going up against several beginners one after the other, in what was pretty much an open space, I feel like I didn't do myself justice. I was happy to take a few early on (stupid I know), simply because I knew the guys I was up against were newbies, but then two of them in particular just started to take a few liberties.
I don't know if it was the **** organization (I felt like this barely qualified for a boxing gym), the lack of a genuine ring and adequate safety (headgear, gumshields etc) or just the fact I'm slightly older and never really had much head movement anyway, but basically, do you guys have any opinions on my shoddy performance from the above?
Should I go to another gym? Give up the ghost altogether? I love the sport but felt a bit let down by my experience at this gym today. Any questions or opinions are welcome.
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Yep cheers SRR, Kenwinn.
They are my honest thoughts too. It's the only truly local gym to me, others I could get are a good while away, but I'd rather not go if I'm not going to do any fitness work or get any real critique on my technique.
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Sounds like a gym run by clowns. I might give it one more day to get a better impression. If someone knowledgeable and responsible doesn't show up, then the place is destined to have nothing but clowns running it, and training there.
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- Each list contains a finite number of contacts
- Each contact is represented as a HashMap
- Each list is linked to a provider
- The same contact may be present in multiple providers (and hence multiple lists).
- I need a 'master' list that contains all the unique entries in the other lists
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Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday told a UN envoy that Bangladesh`s polls could be deferred to accommodate the demands of the main opposition BNP, which has decided not to participate in the January 5 General Election.
Hasina`s media adviser Iqbal Sobhan Chowdhury said the premier told UN Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco that the independent Election Commission could defer the poll schedule to accommodate the BNP.
The UN envoy, on a mission to end political turmoil triggered by a standoff between the Awami League and the BNP over the general election, sought revision of the poll schedule for negotiations.
"But whatever the Election Commission does, they must do it within the constitutional framework," Hasina was quoted as saying by Chowdhury.
When Fernandez-Taranco referred to opposition concerns about "a level playing field", the premier told him the Election Commission was constituted in consultation with the BNP and had conducted several hundred local government body polls that were "never questioned by the opposition".
The envoy told Hasina that the UN wants continued democratic process through peaceful polls joined by all major parties. "In response, the Prime Minister said institutionalisation of democracy is the aim of her government through which transition of power could take place through constitutional means, shunning confrontation and violence," Chowdhury told PTI.
Fernandez-Taranco arrived here last night with UN chief Ban Ki-moon`s message for an urgent dialogue between the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to reach an acceptable formula for holding an "inclusive, non-violent and credible election".
Officials said the envoy would also hold talks with Hasina`s arch-rival Khaleda Zia, head of the BNP.
The UN envoy`s mission began as the BNP and its fundamentalist ally Jamaat-e-Islami launched a fresh 72-hour nationwide blockade to push for the postponement of polls.
The Awami League formed a multi-party interim government to oversee the polls but the BNP refused to join it and demanded the setting up a non-party caretaker set-up.
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