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We all know that romancing on-screen for actors and actresses is merely their profession. However, one cannot help but wonder how their spouses or their partner feel about watching their better halves romance and get intimate with their co-stars.
Whether it is Akshay Kumar-Twinkle Khanna, Aishwarya-Abhishek or Shahrukh Khan-Gauri, it's interesting to see how the actors keep a balance between their personal and professional life. Listed below are few top stars who were presumably insecure about their star spouses working with other actors.
Shahrukh Khan-Gauri
While Shahrukh Khan has done many romantic scenes with top actresses, his wife Gauri Khan has been extremely supportive and understanding. However, it's being said that Gauri isn't very happy with Shahrukh Khan's growing fondness for Priyanka Chopra and has asked him to avoid working with her.
Akshay Kumar-Twinkle Khanna
Considering that Twinkle Khanna herself was an actress and hailed from a film family (both her parents were actors of high repute), it wasn't difficult for her to see her husband Akshay Kumar romance with 'hot' actresses on-screen. Rumours are abuzz that Twinkle wasn't very happy with Akshay's closeness with Priyanka Chopra during the shooting of Aitraaz. However, both Akshay and Priyanka went on record to say that there was nothing personal between them.
Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor
Though Saif and Kareena are two of the most successful stars today, both do not like seeing their partner romance other actors on-screen. While Kareena Kapoor has many a time stated that she hates to see Saif get cosy with other heroines in his films, Saif Ali Khan too has made it clear in his interviews that he gets very jealous when Kareena gets intimate with other actors in her movies.
Ajay Devgn-Kajol
Shahrukh Khan, who is known as the eternal love guru of Bollywood cinema has done ample films with Kajol. Their on-screen and off-screen chemistry was the talk of the town for a long time. While Shahrukh Khan was already married to Gauri when he entered Bollywood, Kajol got hitched to Ajay Devgn later. The buzz is that Ajay Devgn was quite insecure about his wife's friendship with Shahrukh Khan and discouraged her acting with the baadshah.


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After the Monday night (May 23) finale, the actress who was once known as Chelsea Staub shares that unlike her, her competitors, Kirstie Alley and Hines Ward, have each won something before.
Chelsea Kane is looking forward to collect her first ever trophy from "Dancing with the Stars". The actress who portrayed Stella Malone on "Jonas L.A." is tied on the leaderboard with NFL star Hines Ward following her performances during the season 12 finale on Monday night, May 23.
After the show, the 22-year-old said winning the mirror ball trophy would mean more to her because Hines and Kirstie Alley have won something before. To reporters, she shared, "This would be the first thing I've ever won. Kirstie and Hines have won Emmys and Super Bowls. This will be my first trophy if I take it home! I'll dedicate it to the whole room."
The actress, who was previously known as Chelsea Staub, has since been campaigning for votes on Twitter. "Rock the vote. Make it happen," she first wrote, before tweeting, "Your vote is your voice. If you don't use it, Team Kanenball will lose it." She later added, "This has been an absurd, sidesplitting, passionate, strenuous, exhilirating, blissful adventure and I would gladly do it all over again."
Chelsea has got support from boyfriend Stephen Colletti as well as former co-star Joe Jonas. Stephen wrote on his Twitter, "#DWTS fans, watch @ChelseaKane light up your favorite dance floor tonight. Literally. Now call in & give your deserving votes 800-868-3401." Meanwhile, Joe told his followers, "Just watched @ChelseaKane crush it! She is a true talent. Vote for Chels! #win4chelsea."

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|From: Anthony Cowley (acowley at seas.upenn.edu)
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A very helpful explanation... On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Stevie Strickland <sstrickl at ccs.neu.edu> wrote: ... > Initially, dotted pre-types could only appear as the last part of the domain > of a function (since they often describe rest arguments). However, they are > now allowed to appear in some other useful type constructors such as Values. > Unfortunately, we have not yet handled List, and so there's no way for you > to write an appropriately generic type for the listf function you provided. > This work is something we hope to do in the future. > > Another source of information is a recently-published paper: > > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/#esop09-sthf > > Please let me know if this is unclear in any way, or if you have any further > questions. (Note: I haven't read the paper yet, but I will do so shortly.) I am now having problems with the union type constructor: (U A ... A) is this also not currently supported? For my own help in writing the typed list helpers I ginned up a quick testing infrastructure. This includes a function that runs down a list of tests, and I struggled a bit with its type signature before settling on one that is more general than it should be. A test is generated by a macro that builds each test as a list of a thunked expression, a value, and a string. This triple of (actual, expected, message) is not important, but the polymorphism of the checking function is somewhat interesting. This type is too general, but works if I apply check-all to an appropriate list as in (check-all list-of-tests): (: check-all ((Listof (List (-> Any) Any String)) -> Void)) This type almost works, but not quite if I (apply check-all list-of-tests): (: check-all (All (A ...) ((List (-> A) A String) ... A -> Void))) Yet, if I write out (check-all (car lot) (cadr lot)) then it's fine (lot = list-of-tests). This might make some sense if type checking is purely syntactic, but since we do know the type of list-of-tests, I was hoping that the apply function could sort things out. Instead, I get an error message such as the following: typecheck: Bad arguments to polymorphic function in apply: Domain: (List (-> A) A String) ... A Arguments: (List (List (-> (Listof Integer)) (Listof Integer) String) (List (-> (Listof Integer)) (Listof Integer) String)) * Is there a way to convince the type checker that these can be unified? Anthony
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Nissan's Mardenborough Joins The Motorsport Elite
The winner of the 2011 Nissan PlayStation GT Academy competition, Jann Mardenborough, is now a member of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), arguably the most exclusive club in motorsport. This achievement is another nod from the motorsport 'establishment' to Nissan's innovative driver discovery and development programme.
Three years ago Jann had just won GT Academy and he has just, in record time completed enough top-level, successful racing to meet the strict entry criteria for the BRDC. The gamer-turned-racer now joins an impressive list of members that includes Sir Stirling Moss, Sir Jackie Stewart, Damon Hill, Johnny Herbert, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Dario Franchitti, Allan McNish and Derek Bell to name but a few.
The BRDC was one of a select few to spot Jann's talent early and awarded him Rising Star status after just one season of racing in the British GT Championship. Since then Jann has gone on to race in Formula 3, the Le Mans 24 Hours and most recently in GP3 where he took his first win at Hockenheim a month ago from right under the noses of racers who have entered the top level of the sport via the traditional route of karting.
Derek Warwick, President of the BRDC, said: "I have watched Jann from the very start of his racing career, because I was curious and at first very skeptical. However, it was obvious right from the start that Jann was much more than a PR stunt, he was quick and has become a real racing driver. Jann has that steel in his eyes that tells you that he has the will to succeed. Sure he made a few mistakes at the start but he learnt very fast and has now become one of Britain's brightest stars and with this has surprised a lot of people and has now earned the respect of his fellow drivers. We at the BRDC saw this, that is why we made him a BRDC Rising Star almost straightaway and he has now become a Full Member in his own right. We are very proud to have Jann as a Member of the British Racing Drivers' Club."
With entry criteria that insists on a driver achieving success at the highest levels of the sport, BRDC membership is recognition of Jann's astounding progression since winning GT Academy in 2011.
"I'm really happy to have been accepted as a full BRDC member," said Mardenborough. "When I first got Rising Star status that was unexpected so to now be a member of the BRDC, one of the most exclusive clubs in the world, is something that I never thought would happen. A lot of the members are my heroes so it's pretty cool to be a part of the same club. Being a full time member gives me a lot of confidence that what Nissan is doing and what I'm doing is correct. We're doing things well and it is getting recognised. We're on the right path to showing the world that there is another route into motorsport."
When Jann won GT Academy his mentor was ex-F1 star Johnny Herbert, who saw the raw talent in Jann on day one.
"To be a racing driver and be accepted into the BRDC gives you a lot of prestige," explained Herbert. "It's an acceptance that you've done a very good job in your racing career – for Jann it's a very short racing career so that makes it even more special. It took me about five years to get there but Jann has done it in three! To be accepted into the BRDC is something that doesn't happen every day. I think the race win (in GP3) rattled a couple of cages. They've seen that a driver who came from the gaming world is able to beat them in a proper international race. Yes, he was a gamer but he's not anymore. He's a racing driver."
The success of Jann Mardenborough has brought the GT Academy story to a wider global audience. In June, Nissan's Darren Cox, along with Jann, was invited to speak at the 2nd FIA Sport Conference to share the story of the programme's success. In the last month Forbes.com* suggested that Disney may wish to follow Nissan's lead with a driver discovery programme, highlighting the success of Jann.
"Years ago when we started GT Academy the motorsport establishment thought that we were crazy – but now our innovation is seen as the norm as we gain acceptance from the likes of the BRDC, the FIA and of course the motorsport industry as a whole - so to have Jann become a BRDC member, which is the establishment of British motorsport but also of world motorsport, is incredible," said Darren Cox, Global Head of Brand, Marketing & Sales, NISMO. "This is about proving that GT Academy works. Jann is winning and taking podiums in GP3, probably the most competitive single-make championship in the world and this is another rubber stamp for the whole Nissan PlayStation GT Academy programme."
The last time Jann competed in British GT at Brands Hatch provided one of the most thrilling finishes in the history of the championship when he beat the Beechdean Aston Martin over the finish line by just two-hundredths of a second!
Sir Chris Hoy and Wolfgang Reip took a fantastic second place podium finish last time out at Spa so Hoy will tackle the next race with a new confidence now that he knows the big results are there for the taking. With Wolfie on Super GT duty in Japan this weekend – competing in the Suzuka 1000kms alongside Lucas Ordonez and Kazuki Hoshino – it is Jann's turn to be team-mate to Britain's most successful Olympian.
"It was fantastic to get on the podium at Spa and we'll look to try to continue that momentum," said Hoy. "From what I've seen on the simulator and from what I've heard, the Brands Hatch GP circuit should suit us. You need luck on your side, as always so hopefully with a bit more confidence and a bit more experience we'll be able to push for the podium."
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A senior Iranian military commander on Wednesday said the global US empire was "coming to an end," as its footholds around the globe were growing weaker.
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander Hossein Salami said leaders throughout the Muslim world were no longer "stretching a red carpet" for American officials, indicating that Washington's influence in these areas was growing weaker, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
"Any enemy plot will entail an unexpected ending for him and this is due to the Iranian nation's reliance on religious and Islamic beliefs," the commander said.
"The [Islamic] revolution has changed the balance of power to such an extent that no security and political equation in the Muslim world is possible without winning Iran's satisfaction."


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TORONTO -- The Ontario Securities Commission has ordered a hearing into allegations of shortcomings by accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP in the audit of a disgraced Chinese footwear manufacturer.
The commission announced Monday it will hold a hearing July 15 into claims made by OSC staff the auditors failed to sufficiently heed "multiple red flags" about the revenue and earnings of Zungui Haixi Corp.
The allegations against Ernst & Young go back several years when the accounting giant audited Zungui's financial statements in preparation for an initial public offering in which the Chinese concern raised $39.8 million and had its shares listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
The OSC staff allege the accounting firm "failed to conduct the IPO audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS), relying on certain audit results that raised more questions than they answered."
Specifically, they alleged the auditors:
-- Identified a risk Zungui could use fictitious distributors to fraudulently inflate its revenue but then disregarded evidence suggesting the company had grossly exaggerated its sales to purported distributors.
-- Noted Zungui's management had an incentive to manipulate the company's financial results to attract investors for the IPO "but then failed to treat multiple red flags about the company's revenue and earnings with appropriate skepticism."
-- Failed to conduct a sufficient review of the audit evidence, "leaving the review of key evidence in the hands of a staff member with limited experience."
"E&Y also conducted an audit of Zungui's financial statements for its 2010 fiscal year and issued an auditor's report stating it had performed the audit in accordance with GAAS. E&Y, however, had also failed to conduct the 2010 audit in accordance with GAAS, as it contained several of the same deficiencies as the IPO audit," the OSC said.
The OSC stopped trading in Zungui Haixi Corp.'s shares in September 2011 after E&Y suspended an audit and advised the company's audit committee an independent investigation was warranted.
Subsequently, the company's chairman, Fengyi Cai, and the chief executive, Yanda Cai, were permanently barred from trading securities in Ontario, with the OSC saying they had "demonstrated from their conduct that they are fundamentally ungovernable."
The OSC also permanently prohibited both from becoming or acting as directors or officers of any publicly traded company in the province.
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Corruption - Can It Ever Be Controlled?
Bribery has become a $1 trillion industry. Corruption has been shown to hold back developing countries, keeping the poorest people in poverty, and a major 'tax' on enterprise growth. Can it ever be controlled? World Bank Institute Governance director Daniel Kaufmann participated in a live online discussion at 10am (Washington DC time) on April 13.
Abdurashid Solijonov:
The governments of developed countries facilitate and support corruption in developing countries for political reasons and to make operations of their MNCs in these countries much easier. As the developed countries have real power in global political arena, who can control corruption except them. Here is the dilemmain order stop corruption we need powerful actors, who are able to control it. But the only powerful actors in global arena are themselves the main source of corruption. What do you think about this problem?
Daniel Kaufmann:
Powerful firms and conglomerates have an extremely important role and responsibility in combating corruption, and one can find behavior in both sides of the spent rum, at the negative extreme, pervasive problem of the state by some conglomerates, very powerful conglomerates which can purchase essentially the legislation, the rules of the game U the laws, regulations, and policies of the state, and that has happened, and does happen. Unfortunately, that's not universal. Increasingly, multinational corporations understanding that even for their bottom line it may help to have a conduct full of integrity, and that is further being abetted by the power of civil society and of transparency tools which are exposing the rogue firms who engage in bribery and state capture. The press, international press and domestic press, is playing a very important role there. So, increasingly, we find a tendency of groups of very important powerful firms, multinationals but also domestic elites who understand that a better investment climate without corruption is in their long-term interests, and the issue is to ally one's self with those multinationals as well as with the associations of small and medium scale enterprises, of exporters who have an intrinsic incentive also to have a much more competitive arena. Now, it is important to recognize not to lose site that is not only--we shouldn't only focus on multinationals but also on the domestic elite and the firms. Second, how level political corruption, we should note, often involves also high level politicians or even some political leaders. It takes--let's remember. It takes two to tangle, so it's mutual responsibility in this area. And last, at times, there is also extortion of firms, not of the most powerful firms, by politicians or high level public officials. Again, this is a mutual responsibility here. The collective responsibility, which is very important. With the responsibility also shared by the invest or by the multinationals, by our organizations, as well as the local domestic political and executive leadership.
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Daniel Kaufmann:
Let me preface by saying that we some place we got so diverse questions, over a hundred or so, we cannot do justice to all, maybe at some point by E-mail we will be able to continue. Many of the questions were on the issues of culture and corruption, which this one does touch upon. When there is an endemic issue of corruption as the questioner suggests, it is not easy, of course, and nothing will happen dramatically over night. But, we have found, and the evidence is very clear, that the problem of corruption, however much culture may play a role, is never cast in stone. And not only that, but it is not just one solution or one aspect of the solution. I suggested when we started this discussion to the first question. But in particular here, it is very important in the context of the question to have different strategies for two groups. One is for the use where the whole issue of education, the whole issue of curricula in school is absolutely crucial. We have seen a major revolution in some countries, in Europe, in the U.S., as to awareness on environmental sustainability because the children have been telling us when they come back to school how to recycle their trash, for instance, and many other such issues, on smoking, for instance. That there education is crucial, but beyond a certain age, for adults, more important than attempting to train or instill issues of integrity by courses, much more important is to change incentives, to have systemic reforms that can combine indicates carrots, carrots and sticks, where exposure is absolutely key, where one rewards anticorruption and we support efforts, for instance, and where there is much more meritocratic approaches within the civil service instead of pait naj patronage, as we suggested earlier. So, essentially, when incentives change, culture can change quite rapidly. I will never forget when I was a teenager, and I was interviewed for a scholarship by some foreigners, that they told me that we Chileans were known to be bicultural, extremely lazy and not working hard, and therefore there was not much prospects for development, what did I think about that, and in a rambling way, I suggested that these incentive change or reforms took place, things could change quite rapidly, and I think the country has demonstrated there. There are many other such examples, including South Korea, others in Asia, in Latin America, in Africa, and so on.
Mbuyi S. Tuambilangana:
What relationship does have the World Bank or your Institute with anti-corruption institutions from most corrupted regimes of developping countries? Why the World Bank does not get directly involve in developing countries national institutions set up to deal with corruption issues by providing supervision, advises, training and monitoring their progress instead of leaving its management in hands of corrupted officials as conditionality to some loans access? What relations do you establish between low salaries in developing countries and corruption?
Daniel Kaufmann:
First point is that anybody should be entitled to at least a living wage and then some. Obviously, otherwise, one is not going to get productivity or a lack of moonlighting or other such phenomenon. Once thees did a living wage in place, the evidence does suggest that it's not crucial to obtain in the public sector exactly the same scale as in the private sector, so parity is not absolutely criewcialg which in many cases would be counter macroeconomic stability, and that is a good example in chail Chile, also countries in Europe and so on. Typically, the salaries in the public sector are below the private sector, but living wage and then some is crucial. But, once this is in place and there is a salary scale that rewards performance and skills, simply raising salaries across the board may not help much in controlling corruption. Instead, it has to be seen within an overall civil service reform package which includes decompression of the salary scale, monetization of in kind benefits, merit crattic hiring and promotion. Meritocracies crucial in this process. Training and professionalism of the civil service. We seen this, and there was another question, codes of conduct is one small piece, but is just one small component within a much larger framework of civil service reform package when some cases what's needed is a refreshing or renewal, replacement, allowing the younger cadre to come in in a meritocratic fashion.
Eduardo Martinez:
Are developing countries more corrupt than developed countries? Are actions such as those from Halliburton in Irak wors than corrupt actions in Africa, Asia or Latin America?
Daniel Kaufmann:
The first point to make is that it's a fallacy to say that corruption is the same everywhere in the world. Instead, there are enormous differences in the extent manifestations and corruption across countries in the world. On average, the industrialized world or rich world has left less corruption than the emerging economies. But let me stress on average, there are countries again, as I suggested before, like Chile, like Botswana, like Slovenia, that have ratings better on corruption than some OECD countries, so one has to be careful about making generalizations. At the same time, it's important to recognize that one manifestation or another of corruption exists everywhere, even in the countries with most integrity in the world and best governance, according to the indicators, like most of the Nordic countries. There are scandals that one can read in the papers and others, even in those places. And when a large scale standard takes place by a firm or multinational, that can have significant consequences, and particularly in some cases for developing countries. The key test is whether that corruption is, indeed, ricial used or individualized are ear systemic instead. If it's individualized and the country has strong institutions and strong and honest leadership to be able to deal with that, that's a test of a country. In my own country in Chile, there was a corruption scandal about a year and a half ago. It dealt with it very transparently, and clearly, and some very important reforms took place as a result. In some other countries, where those have taken place, and some actions have been taken, others have not. So, the real test is what happens, and what actions are taken when the corruption scandal, which can take place any place in the world.
Alpha Diedhiou:
Aren't firms and executive surveys a bias methodology in corruption measurement? Isn't time to develop a methodology that captures the broad nature of corruption? these two questions are posed in the light of the current approach to development that promotes greater interpenetration between state, market, and society.Political-economy corruption (state capture)affects the bureacracy, as well as ordinary people.
Daniel Kaufmann:
I'll be brief for the sake of time, but suggest that these are excellent methodological questions about data, and there are a few others, and we have a major set of materials in the Web on this methodological issues on indicators, measurement, data, and diagnostics that you can access very easily, and it's very web interactive, by going to the hope page of the bank, on issues of corruption, one can easily get issue to WB I/governance home page, and there is access to these methodological issues. Let me suggest and agree with the questioner that it is crucial to unbundle or to unpackage corruption to its different manifestations, and that is a move in the direction of capturing the broad nature of corruption, and also in order to pinpoint which types of link linkages, actual corruption and linkages between them is most important in the country. Is it corrupt procurement, is it embezzlement of state actions? Bribery for bureaucratic or is it capture of the state by a demogague or by other few firms from outside. In different settings one would find different priorities, so diagnostics and data and its analysis is absolutely crucial. There is no one recipe that applies to all countries. Each country has to do its own serious rigorous homework based on rigorous empirical work.
is it possible to combat corruption where the country is subject to military rule frequently or controlling behind the scene.
Daniel Kaufmann:
The evidence is quite clear from around the world that the more a country allows for democratic voice and accountability to their citizenry, and the less the extent of capture by vested interests of the elite or behind the scenes, the better the chance the country has in combating corruption. So obviously it is important to strive towards more accountable sustainability, less autocratic military rule, and lessening of behind the scenes or not behind the scenes capture of the state by a few very powerfully let interests. And that's where the issues of transparency, competition, and collective action, the elements we provided in the first--in answer to the first questions, do come in.
Afreen Alam:
What are some specific steps taken by democratic governments in highly corruption- prone countries that have proven to be successful in combating corruption?
Daniel Kaufmann:
Let me start with giving a bit more comprehensive answer in this particular case because there have been so many excellent questions on that same issue. About what to do about it, which is an absolutely crucial question. Let me summarize, in brief, by pointing to five key elements where lessons from experience and our evidence suggests that hold a lot of promise when they can coalesce together. And they are the following: Collective action, competition in the political and economic arena, prevention, focus on prevention, leadership, and transparency. Let me say a few words about each one. Collective action basically suggests that this is not just the responsibility. We think the executive or one particular body within the government like an anticorruption body, but, instead, it has to be a broad coalition, suggesting a diversity of players and significant checks and balances and responsibilities by many. Civil society, activism is crucial, women groups need to be involved, NGOs, and others, with significant democratic voice. The legislative, the parliament is crucial in this, judiciary with its intreght, the private sector has a major responsibility, not only domestically, but also the multinational corporations, and also our responsibility is very important leer, the international financial organization. The voice of the democratic accountability in this context is very, very critical. Let us keep in mind that associations of many individuals and more players request equal at the end of the day a very large player, for instance, associations of parents, of school children, of associations of small and medium sized enterprises. They together can be a powerful fours against monopolistic tend eves by monopolists or corruption politicians that exist in some places, so, this is crucial. Second, competition, political accountability and economic competition are absolutely key elements and also in this context to counteract monopolistic tendency both in terms of power, the politics, and in terms of the economics and the private sector. Third, the focus on prevention, it's very important to adopt more deeply what already has been learned in public health, 15, 20 years ago, that prevention is much more effective than curative approaches which come too late and are extremely expensive. The same applies in this context of anticorruption. For prevention it crucial to change incentives within organizations and for individuals by making organizations, firms, and individuals more accountable, more transparent, more merit crattic, rewarding good work, et cetera. Fourth, is leadership, the example of leadership is absolutely key. Political leadership of a country is central as well as leaders of political parties, but also in the private sector and leadership and civil society. The example of leaders in particular key institutions is also crucial, not only the leader of the nation, but, for instance, the leader of the central bank, the Minister of finance, the head of electoral commission, of the Supreme Court U of the police, and customs. So, that's absolutely crucial. Now, these are four levels, but none of those four would be doing completely the job without the key fifth element for which many questions to have come into, and that is transparency. The expression says that sunshine is the best disinfectant. Public procurement in the Web, for instance, town hall meetings, discussing openly the budget of the city, and large procurement projects, discussing the rules of the game for such procurement, and leaders are full of information, full accession to information is critical for transparency. For instance, how does your parliamentarian vote for what type of legislation, and other such examples is crucial. In this context, the Internet revolution can play an extremely important role. Last in that context within transparency, and within voice and accountability, but certainly not least is freedom of the press. Reporting on all these issues, new information, on data, on surveys, and other type of initiatives where data is colored about vulnerable institutions, about corruption, is an enormously important check and balance in this context.
Jens Luneburg:
Since 1986 I am involved in procurement and contract management and am aware of bribery and corruption, particularly in the field of civil engineering, but $ 1 Trillion is a surprise for me. Can it be defeated? To a certain extent, yes, but donors have a dilemma. The success of their staff, particularly with nultilateral donors, is measured against the size and speed of disbursement. Why can this be changed more in favour of transparency and accountability? Why are donors so reluctant to take on more the role of a policeman?
Daniel Kaufmann:
. First, on the 1 trillion-dollar figure, which is an annual estimate, let me note, it's a very rough estimate, and it does include bribery and corruption actions that would take place anywhere. It's not for a particular part of the world, so that includes industrialized countries and multinationals, and so on. Second, on the core of the question of Mr. Local \{en^}\{^en} burg, the role of the policemen, this is a very tough question. The issue is one of balance. For us, first and paramount are issues of sovereignty of the country, issues of leadership and ownership of any program being taken by the country itself, and also the objective is crucial for us of capacity building or capacity enhancement at the country level. That's on the one hand. On the other hand, we have to recognize that fiduciary responsibilities with respect to our funds, how they are used, and also the use of responsibility vis-a-vis the country regarding how they get indebted and whether that debt that they incur is being put to good use. Therefore, it is important to ensure that mechanisms are in place to minimize corruption, so we do get involved in up stream work to improve overall procurement in the country, helping countries reform their procurement, as we said, helping them with capacity enhancement, capacity building, helping with transparent international competitive bidding, and supervisions, spot audits, investigations, and so on. And we some the much more systemic reforms of the public sector. But we cannot be full time policemen. That is not our role, given the importance of country sovereignty, and given that is not basically the way we are set up to be, or our skills. Much more important is that the assistance and mechanisms are in place in the country instead, which may not happen over night, but we need to keep working with the countries for that purpose.
Ziad Al Basir:
Transparent is the main weapon against corruption. How much the WB procedures are pushing to apply it? And why sometimes in some WB project had been not applied?
Daniel Kaufmann:
Very important question, and let me provide the frank answer. Until not long ago, the mid nineties, we were not in the World Bank as transparent on these issues as we could have been. In fact, we couldn't in official documents we were discouraging effect from the use of the free world and fully spelling if out, C dot dot. There has been a major sea change ever since James Wolfensohn came in 96, and the major speech given at the Annual Meetings of the miff and world IMF and World Bank on corruption, and the development of that things have change, and World Bank procedures changed alongside. Let me give a few elements on that very quickly in terms of how we were striving for maximum transparency nowadays, and minimizing corruption in projects. We have much different standards for basically selection of projects, international competitive bidding, which is transparent, and full access to information on those projects. We have a hotline, and that's 1-800 831-0463. That's in the U.S. you can also access to the Web page in the home page of the World Bank. One can go to the hotline to inform or to provide information on any possible malfeasance, and that will be investigated. Now, very tough audit, and cases where any firm or enterprise has been investigated and found to have been engaged in corruption in World Bank funded projects by the country, that firm is delisted or sanctioned or otherwise called black listed, and that's also very transparent. One can go also to the government page of the bank or the main home page, and they find the full list of the delisted firms of these almost 100, which is part of that process of essentially minimizing corruption in any action by the World Bank. These are extremely tough zero tolerance policy for staff integrity in terms of avoiding corruption. That does not mean that on location those things do happen. We are dealing with hundreds and hundreds of projects every year, very large, and they do happen. However, it's a much tougher, a much more transparent framework to date, and every day we are trying to improve, and with the citizen involvement, letting us know if there is any malfeasance, we could continue to improve.
Jean-Marie Eklou:
1- What is the best strategy to prevent or to limit corruption in African countries? 2- What role ICT can play in a governance of countries?
Daniel Kaufmann:
Excellent question. Again, I think it's important to take the five elements we just discussed, corrective action, prevention, leadership, and transparency. Another question, while relatively speaking, which ones are the most pressing and urgent for a particular country, it's difficult to generalize for one continent, even within Africa, there are some great examples of good governance and control of corruption, like Botswana, and some others that are making significant inroads as well. So, I think it's very important to understand, learn, and diagnose their reality within each country, and for that they are very in-depth diagnostic tools which we help with and support countries that want to improve governance and control corruption. In many African countries, these diagnostics are taking place. Having said that, over the difficulties in generalizing, let me suggest just a couple of points, which are important within these five components we just discussed in the previous answer. Obviously, voice and collective action is absolutely crucial in most of the countries in Africa which have a significant challenge of corruption, so is political competition, and so is much more focus on prevention, not just on the passing laws or creating anticorruption a commission, and the issue of leadership and transparency, including the use of ICT tools is extremely important. The issue of economic competition, on the other hand, has made significant inroads, and most African countries do not face the same problem of state capture by a few potent dates outside the government in the economic elite or that is apparent in some countries in other regions, so more the focus would be on the political competition issue, which is absolutely crucial. The second and last point to make in the case of Africa is to look at the world and learn from the experiences also of other countries in recall regions, but again, not generalizing for the whole region. I, myself, I am a Chilean, and in chill a, 15 years ago, we said that we were not going to look at the average common denominator in Latin America as an objective, but instead we are going to aim for industrialized country standards in governance, institutional reforms, and development, and we have basically almost achieved those standards at least in governance we have similar standards having OECD countries nowadays in Chile. By looking at the best examples, in Europe, in the Americas, in Asia, and so on, and a number of African leaders have requested, in fact, information after making this type of presentation about the case of Chile. There are others, coast Costa Rica is another example, and others in Eastern Europe, and others.
One of the biggest incentives to corruption is the discretionary of the public decision makers. In addition, the automation of process changes the discretionary for algorithms and the asymmetry of information vanish. Consequently, will the ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) help to eliminate corruption?
Daniel Kaufmann:
. ICT can be an extremely powerful tool, and it is in the context of the broader issue of transparency we discussed. Just to give a few examples of how it can help enormously, first, in the dissemination of the new data that is nowadays being gathered throughout the world on corruption and governance, indicatorrings for the whole world, you can go to our Web site, and there is plenty of data for that, or specific surveys and diagnostics for a country or for institutions within a country where the users report and provide feedback by disseminating it and opening it to shun shine, that creates checks and balances. Second, having full access to how parliamentarians vote in the legislative is extremely important for the population to have the legislators accountable and less subject to particular influences and capture. The I P can be extremely effect oif that. And the third and fourth example ill give quickly, but there are many more, is for public procurement to have what's called nowadays E procurement where countries like Mexico and others in South America live in the way of lead in the way of having automation and transparency in the process, and therefore less discretion. And also in terms of the taxation, filing taxes through the Web where countries like Chile again are leading the way along others.
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Why does the World Bank contribute funds to governments that it knows are corrupt? Don't you feel you are part of the problem? So long as political elites in these countries (most of whom do not care one jot for the plight of their poor citizens) know that the World Bank will always bail them out, they have no incentive to change their behaviour. The bottom line is that the systems and institutions that make for effective governance depend on people knowing and doing the "right thing". No amount of money thrown at corrupt governments (which are basically comprised of the individuals entrusted to run them) will change this fundamental fact. A conscience is not something World Bank money can buy.
Daniel Kaufmann:
Very important question, and let me provide the frank answer. Until not long ago, the mid nineties, we were not in the World Bank as transparent on these issues as we could have been. In fact, we couldn't in official documents we were discouraging effect from the use of the free world and fully spelling if out, C dot dot. There has been a major sea change ever since James Wolfensohn came in 96, and the major speech given at the Annual Meetings of the miff and world IMF and World Bank on corruption, and the development of that things have change, and World Bank procedures changed alongside. Let me give a few elements on that very quickly in terms of how we were striving for maximum transparency nowadays, and minimizing corruption in projects. We have much different standards for basically selection of projects, international competitive bidding, which is transparent, and full access to information on those projects. We have a hotline, and that's 1-800 831-0463. That's in the U.S. you can also access to the Web page in the home page of the World Bank. One can go to the hotline to inform or to provide information on any possible malfeasance, and that will be investigated. Now, very tough audit, and cases where any firm or enterprise has been investigated and found to have been engaged in corruption in World Bank funded projects by the country, that firm is delisted or sanctioned or otherwise called black listed, and that's also very transparent. One can go also to the government page of the bank or the main home page, and they find the full list of the delisted firms of these almost 100, which is part of that process of essentially minimizing corruption in any action by the World Bank. These are extremely tough zero tolerance policy for staff integrity in terms of avoiding corruption. That does not mean that on location those things do happen. We are dealing with hundreds and hundreds of projects every year, very large, and they do happen. However, it's a much tougher, a much more transparent framework to date, and every day we are trying to improve, and with the citizen involvement, letting us know if there is any malfeasance, we could continue to improve. Q. We could do the do the next one, why does the bank contribute funds to countries that are corrupt, or is that not a fair question? A. Noose fine. That's fine. Q. Okay. Next question, why does the World Bank contribute funds to governments that it knows are corrupt? Don't you feel you are part of the problem, so long as political e let's in these countries know that the World Bank if there is no incentive to change the behavior? The bottom line is... Okay, answer. A. Our main mission is to help alleviate poverty in the countries we work with. To alleviate poverty, one of the most important element system to combat corruption and improve governance. That's our and everybody else's evidence shows very clearly now. Now, about alleviating poverty, combatting corruption, we find that in almost every country, other segments of--many segments of the population care about that. Civil society, many, if not all in parliament, some in the private sector, as well as some reformers in government. So, it's always very important to focus on those that want to join this collective action in addressing the issue of corruption. In the extreme cases where there is absolutely no political will in government in terms of combating corruption, and corruption is endemic, and little is being done within the country nowadays about it, we simply do not lend money to those governments. Where we see that there are opportunities to work with civil society, and with others, we lend very little or almost nothing and provide technical assistance for a bottom up approach to apply checks and balances and to promote transparency and good governance. There is some corruption in government and outside, which is the case in many countries and not just in emerging economies, we do engage, I suppose to when it would be totally stem ig, but we do engage with some loans, and they need to be carefully scrutinized in terms of ensuring they reach the target population, and the intended objective of alleviating poverty, and that's why we go back to the previous question is to important, the type of procedures we have in place for audits, for investigation, and for transparency and for supervision in terms of the use of our funds. Equally important is to work with countries in terms of their own systemic reforms of the procurement process and other such public sector reforms for them to improve governance and for controlling corruption.
Does a high level of education combined with lack of job oppertunities lead to more corruption in developing countries?
Daniel Kaufmann:
The evidence suggests that most of the action, other direction, what does this mean? We find that improving governance and controlling corruption provides an enormous development did I have doand the country. We call it the 400 percent dividend because we find that the country that makes inroads in controlling corruption, far from perfection, but make some inroads in controlling corruption, and increase its income per capita 400 percent from $2,000 to $8,000 per capita, for instance, in the long run it will take generations for that improvement to take place, but it's an enormous payoff. We find the same type of link between controlling corruption and decline in infant mortality, improving health standards, and improvements in education, particularly in eliminating illiteracy, increasing literacy levels. That is the direction of causality, which is most dominant that we find, from improving governance and controlling corruption to better development prospects, including jobs, incomes, education, and health, and not so much vice versa. We do not mind much evidence that by waiting for incomes to magically improve, then somehow magically also governance will improve and corruption will be controlled. It's the other way around. It requires hard work, political commitment, at every turn, to improve governance, to control corruption, in order to reap such development dividend.
Thank you for participating in the discussion. For further reading, here are some of the resources Daniel Kaufmann mentioned in the discussion:
- World Bank Institute - Governance & Anti-Corruption Resources
- World Bank Public Sector Governance
- World Bank Department of Institutional Integrity (to report fraud or corruption)
- Governance Data
- World Bank Procurement - List of Debarred Firms
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The remainder of the cutbacks would come from supplemental contracts, federal funds salary utilization, energy management savings, extended service reductions and professional leave reductions.
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Their beauty may distract you from the fact that this is part of a powerful social upliftment project.
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Volunteers coming to stay in the village have added immeasurably to the project. One person helped set up a music academy among the children; another an organic vegetable garden, yet another taught the children Capoeira – Brazilian martial arts combined with music.
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Basically my iphone screwed up and crashed leaving me with only the apple Logo screen for over 4 hours.
This was unlocked and jailbroken on 1.1.4
In my panic and rush, I somehow upgraded my iphone to 2.0.2
I have quickpwn'd my phone which has activated and jailbroken it.
Only problem I have is that I'm now unable to use my O2 PAYG sim card.
Is there a sim unlock for this firmware yet?
Are there any step by step instructions for downgrading to 1.1.4?
Please help.....
I found this on yahoo answers
Would this unlock my sim to work with my iphone?Yes there is. I was in exactly the same situation as you were. Here are instructions I followed for Windows:
1) Get QuickPwn RC3.
First Step on the iPhone Hack Journey | iPhone-Hacks.com...
2) Get the iPhone 2G Firmware 2.0.2 IPSW. Note the filename!
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3) Get bootloaders BL-39.bin and BL-46.bin.
4) Place your iPhone in DFU mode and connect it to your PC with the USB cable.
5) Extract the QuickPwnRC3.zip you downloaded in step 1 and run QuickPwnRC3.exe.
6) Select iPhone 2G (the one on the left), click the next arrow.
7) Click the browse button and specify the iPhone1,1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw file you downloaded in step 2. Wait for it to load, then click the next arrow.
8) Check the checkbox next to "Unlock phone". The rest of the options are up to you. Click the next arrow.
9) Here's where you specify the BL-39.bin and BL-46.bin files you downloaded in step 3. Click the next arrow.
10) Follow the instructions on the screen when prompted. This is where you'll need to press the home and power button in various combinations and durations. You can release the home button when the jailbreaking process starts. This should take less than 2 minutes.
11) Wait for the iPhone to boot up. BootNeuter will automatically execute and select the correct bootloader. Don't touch the screen. You should see a message saying "Don't Interrupt!".
12) After a minute or two, you will see a message saying that it will take up to 2 minutes to flash the baseband.
13) Once the baseband has been flashed, the iPhone will return to the home screen. Your 2G iPhone should now be fully jailbroken and SIM unlocked!
Or does this just do what I already have done to my iphone?
Never mind!
I have managed to get it unlocked by using quickpwn on the 2.0.2 firmware and creating a custom firmware and restoring the iphone using this
I then went into cydia and downloaded bootneuter
Then opened bootneuter and neutered and unlocked my phone when I flashed it
this managed to unlock my phone to the O2 Payg
Not sure whether this is now unlocked for any network but it does the trick for me
Hope this helps anyone else stuck with my problem


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