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Mstislav Rostropovich, 80 -- Legendary cellist and conductor who was one of the greatest string players of the 20th century; he performed at the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Jack Valenti, 85 -- Film industry lobbyist and former White House aide who shaped the film industry with his creation of the film ratings system.
"I think that movies are the quintessential 20th, 21st century art form."
Boris Yeltsin, 76 -- Former Russian president who presided over the collapse of Communism and was the first freely elected leader of Russia.
Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., 68
David Halberstam, 73 -- Journalist and author who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam War coverage and later wrote 15 bestsellers.
"In 1962, I became the first full-time paid correspondent for an American newspaper in Vietnam."
Army SGT Alexander Van Aalten, 21, of Monterey, Tenn.
Marine LCpl Jeffery A Bishop, 23, of Dickson, Tenn.
Army CWO Dwayne L Moore, 31, of Williamsburg, Va.
Army PFC Michael J Slater, 19, of Scott Depot, W.Va.
Army CPL Wade J Oglesby, 27, of Grand Junction, Colo.
Army CPL Michael M Rojas, 21, of Fresno, Calif.
Army PFC Christopher M North, 21, of Sarasota, Fla.
Army SGT William W Bushnell, 24, of Jasper, Ariz.
Army SSG Marlon B Harper, 34, of Baltimore, Md.
Army CPL Ray M Bevel, 22, of Andrews, Texas
Army PFC Jeffrey A Avery, 19, of Colorado Springs, Colo.
Army SSG Steven R Tudor, 36, of Dunmore, Pa.
Marine LCpl Dale G Peterson, 20, of Redmond, Ore.
Army 1LT Kevin J Gaspers, 26, of Hastings, Neb.
Army SSG Kenneth E Locker Jr, 28, of Wakefield, Neb.
Army SSG William C Moore, 27, of Benson, N.C.
Army SGT Randell T Marshall, 22, of Fitzgerald, Ga.
Army SGT Brice A Pearson, 32, of Phoenix, Ariz.
Army SGT Michael L Vaughan, 20, of Otis, Ore.
Army SPC Jerry R King, 19, of Browersville, Ga.
Army SPC Michael J Rodriguez, 20, of Sanford, N.C.
Army PFC Garrett C Knoll, 23, of Bad Axe, Mich.
Army SPC Jeremy E Maresh, 24, of Jim Thorpe, Pa.
Marine Cpl Willie P Celestine Jr, 21, of Lafayette, La.
Marine LCpl Adam E Loggins, 27, of Athens, Ala.
Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96 -- Entertainer who was a tireless advocate of the arts, and was best known as a panelist on "To Tell the Truth."
Patricia Buckley, 80 -- Philanthropist and wife of William F. Buckley Jr.
Mary Crisp, 83 -- Republican feminist leader who was ousted from her position as co-chair because of her support for the Equal Rights Amendment.
"Thank you for this opportunity to continue to serve you as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee. You have my heartfelt gratitude and my total commitment."
Virginia Tech Victims Remembered:
Ross Abdallah Alameddine, 20
Christopher James Bishop, 35
Brian Roy Bluhm, 25
Ryan Christopher Clark, 22
Austin Michelle Cloyd, 18
Jocelyne Couture-Nowak
Daniel Alejandro Perez Cueva, 21
Kevin P. Granata, 45
Matthew Gregory Gwaltney, 24
Caitlin Millar Hammaren, 19
Jeremy Michael Herbstritt, 27
Rachael Elizabeth Hill, 18
Emily Jane Hilscher, 19
Jarrett Lee Lane, 22
Matthew Joseph La Porte, 20
Henry J. Lee, 20
Liviu Librescu, 76
G.V. Loganathan, 51
Partahi Mamora Halomoan Lumbantoruan, 34
Lauren Ashley McCain, 20
Daniel Patrick O'Neil, 22
Juan Ramon Ortiz, 26
Minal Hiralal Panchal, 26
Erin Nicole Peterson, 18
Michael Steven Pohle Jr., 23
Julia Kathleen Pryde, 23
Mary Karen Read, 19
Reema Joseph Samaha, 18
Waleed Mohammed Shaalan, 32
Leslie Geraldine Sherman
Maxine Shelly Turner, 22
Nicole White, 20
Marine LCpl Daniel J Santee, 21, of Mission Viejo, Calif.
Army SGT Larry R Bowman, 29, of Granite Falls, N.C.
Army CPL Cody A Putman, 22, of Lafayette, Ind.
Army PFC John G Borbonus, 19, of Boise, Idaho
Army SPC Ryan A Bishop, 32, of Euless, Texas
Marine 1st Lt Shaun M Blue, 25, of Munster, Ind.
Marine LCpl Daniel R Scherry, 20, of Rocky River, Ohio
Marine LCpl Jesse D Delatorre, 29, of Aurora, Ill.
Army PFC Lucas V Starcevich, 25, of Canton, Ill.
Army SGT Joshua A Schmit, 26, of Willmar, Minn.
Army SGT Brandon L Wallace, 27, of St Louis, Mo.
Army PFC Aaron M Genevie, 22, of Chambersburg, Pa.
Army PFC Steven J Walberg, 18, of Paradise, Calif.
Army SGT Mario K De Leon, 26, of San Francisco, Calif.
Army SSG Robert J Basham, 22, of Kenosha, Wisc.
Army PFC Richard P Langenbrunner, 19, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
Army PFC Jason M Morales, 20, of La Puente, Calif.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 84 -- Novelist and cultural icon of the 1970s who wrote some of the most acclaimed works of American literature.
"I was taught to see the importance of having all sorts of ideas circulated in this country and that no official can make any American shut up no matter what he says."
Roscoe Lee Browne, 84 -- Emmy Award-winning actor whose five-decade career spanned stage, film and TV.
Don Ho, 76 -- Entertainer who achieved national fame with his 1966 hit "Tiny Bubbles."
Army SPC Christopher M Wilson, 24, of Bangor, Maine
Army SGT Jason A Shaffer, 28, of Derry, Pa.
Navy PO2 Joseph C Schwedler, 27, of Crystal Falls, Mich.
Army PFC Daniel A Fuentes, 19, of Levittown, N.Y.
Army SGT Forrest D Cauthorn, 22, of Midlothian, Va.
Army SPC Jay S Cajimat, 20, of Lahaina, Hawaii
Army SSG Jerry C Burge, 39, of Carriere, Miss.
Army CPL Joseph H Cantrell IV, 23, of Ashland, Ky.
Army SPC Walter Freeman Jr, 20, of Lancaster, Calif.
Army PFC Derek A Gibson, 20, Eustis, Fla.
Army 1LT Phillip I Neel, 27, of Maryland
Army SPC Conor G Masterson, 21, of Inver Grove Heights, Minn.
Navy CPO Gregory J Billiter, 36, of Villa Hills, Ky.
Navy PO2 Curtis R Hall, 24, of Burley, Ind.
Navy PO1 Joseph A McSween, 26, of Valdosta, Ga.
Army CPT Anthony Palermo, 26, of Brockton, Mass.
Army SPC Ryan S Dallam, 24, of Norman, Okla.
Army PVT Damian Lopez Rodriguez, 19, Tucson, Ariz.
Army SGT Adam P Kennedy, 25, of Norfolk, Mass.
Army SGT Todd A Singleton, 24, of Muskegon, Mich.
Navy CDR Philip A Murphy-Sweet, 42, of Caldwell, Ind.
Army SSG Harrison Brown, 31, of Prichard, Ala.
Army PFC David N Simmons, 20, of Kokomo, Ind.
Army CPT Jonathan D Grassbaugh, 25, of East Hampstead, N.H.
Army SPC Ebe F Emolo, 33, of Greensboro, N.C.
Army SPC Levi K Hoover, 23, of Midland, Mich.
Army PFC Rodney L McCandless, 21, of Camden, Ark.
Army SSG Jesse L Williams, 25, of Santa Rosa, Calif.
Army SPC Clifford A Spohn III, 21, of Albuquerque, N.M.
Army PFC Kyle G Bohrnsen, 22, of Philipsburg, Mont.
Army SGT Raymond S Sevaaetasi, 29, of Pago Pago, American Samoa
Army SPC Ismael G Solorio, 21, of San Luis, Ariz.
Army PFC Brian L Holden, 20, of Claremont, N.C.
Army PVT Brett A Walton, 37, of Hillsboro, Ore.
Army 1LT Gwilym J Newman, 24, of Waldorf, Md.
Army CPL Jason J Beadles, 22, of La Porte, Ind.
Army SGT Edelman L Hernandez, 23, of Hyattsville, Md.
Army SPC James T Lindsey, 20, of Florence, Ala.
Army SSG Casey D Combs, 28, of Auburn, Wash.
Army SGT David A Stephens, 28, of Tullahoma, Tenn.
Eddie Robinson, 88 -- Legendary football coach who won 408 games during his 57-year career at Grambling State University.
"You write your own stories. Coaches can't make you great. You've got to make yourself great."
"With me, just winning the ball game is not the thing. … I want to win the guy."
Barry Lee Bush, 52 -- FBI special agent killed in the line of duty.
Bob Clark, 67 -- Film director best known for the 1983 cult classic, "A Christmas Story."
"We've touched something in the heart of the people, and I think it's the craziness, the integrity, the realness of the movie, I think."
Army SGT Edmund W McDonald, 25, of Casco, Maine
Army SPC Agustin Gutierrez, 19, of San Jacinto, Calif.
Army SSG Jason R Arnette, 24, of Amelia, Va.
Army SPC Wilfred Flores Jr, 20, of Lawton, Okla.
Army SGT Joe Polo, 24, of Opalocka, Fla.
Marine PFC Miguel A Marcial III, 19, of Secaucus, N.J.
Army 1LT Neale M Shank, 25, of Fort Wayne, Ind.
Marine LCpl Daniel R Olsen, 20, of Eagan, Minn.
Army SSG David A Mejias, 26, of San Juan, P.R.
Army SSG Eric R Vick, 25, of Spring Hope, N.C.
Army SGT Robert M McDowell, 30, of Deer Park, Texas
Army SPC William G Bowling, 24, of Beattyville, Ky.
Army SSG Bradley D King, 28, of Marion, Ind.
Army SPC Brian E Ritzberg, 24, of New York, N.Y.
Army SPC Curtis R Spivey, 25, of Chula Vista, Calif.
Army PFC Gabriel J Figueroa, 20, of Baldwin Park, Calif.
Army SSG Shane R Becker, 35, of Helena, Mont.
Army PFC James J Coon, 22, of Walnut Creek, Calif.
Ransom Myers, 54 -- Marine biologist who was the first to warn that overfishing is leading to the extinction of marine species.
"Deep within the psyche of humans is a love of large-grade animals. And to have these go extinct, from a point of view of humans, is intolerable."
Charlotte Winters, 109 -- Last surviving female World War I veteran.
Paul Lauterbur, 77 -- Chemist and physicist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2003 for the development of MRI.
"MRI gives clearer pictures of the soft tissues and organs in the body, which leads to better medical diagnosis."
Army SFC Benjamin L Sebban, 29, of Chattanooga, Tenn.
Army SFC Christopher R. Brevard, 31, of Phoenix, Ariz.
Army LTC Peter E Winston, 56, of Plant City, Fla.
Army SSG Gina R Sparks, 35, of Drury, Mo.
Army SGT Freeman L Gardner Jr, 26, of Little Rock, Ark.
Army SPC Lance C Springer II, 23, of Fort Worth, Texas
Army SGT Adrian J Lewis, 30, of Mauldin, S.C.
Army SGT Greg N Riewer, 30, of Frazee, Minn.
Marine Cpl Henry W Bogrette, 21, of Richville, N.Y.
Marine LCpl Trevor A Roberts, 21, of Oklahoma City, Okla.
Army SGT Jason W Swiger, 24, of South Portland, Maine
Army CPL Jason Nunez, 22, of Naranjito, P.R.
Army PFC Orlando E Gonzalez, 21, of New Freedom, Pa.
Army PFC Anthony J White, 21, of Columbia, S.C.
Army SGT Curtis J Forshey, 22, of Hollidaysburg, Pa.
Army SPC Sean K McDonald, 21, of Rosemount, Minn.
Marine SSgt Marcus A Golczynski, 30, of Lewisburg, Tenn.
Army MSG Sean M Thomas, 33, of Harrisburg, Pa.
Calvert DeForest, 85 -- Comic actor who gained fame as Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night talk show.
John Backus, 82 -- IBM programmer who created Fortran, the first widely used computer programming language.
Bishop G. E. Patterson, 67 -- Led the Church of God in Christ, the nation's largest African American Pentecostal denomination.
"You got to have faith to know that he cares for you."
Marine LCpl Harry H Timberman, 20, of Minong, Wisc.
Army PFC Anthony A Kaiser, 27, of Narrowsburg, N.Y.
Army SFC John S Stephens, 41, of San Antonio, Texas
Army SGT Nimo W Tauala, 29, of Honolulu, Hawaii
Army SGT Ryan P Green, 24, of Woodlands, Texas
Army SPC Marieo Guerrero, 30, of Fort Worth, Texas
Army SGT John E Allen, 25, of Palmdale, Calif.
Army SGT Ed Santini, 25, of Toa Baja, P.R.
Army PFC William N Davis, 26, of Adrian, Mich.
Army PFC John F Landry Jr, 20, of Lowell, Mass.
Army SGT Wayne R Cornell, 26, of Holstein, Neb.
Army PFC Stephen K Richardson, 22, of Bridgeport, Conn.
Army PFC Joey T Sams II, 22, of Spartanburg, S.C.
Army SPC Curtis E Glawson Jr, 24, of Daleville, Ala.
Marine Cpl Dustin J Lee, 20, of Quitman, Miss.
Army SFC Darrell R Griffin Jr, 36, of Alhambra, Calif.
Army SGT Nicholas J Lightner, 29, of Newport, Ore.
Betty Hutton, 86 -- Singer and actress.
Peter VanVechten Hamill, 80 -- Physician who served as medical director for the pivotal 1964 report that linked smoking to cancer.
Bowie Kuhn, 80 -- Former baseball commissioner who oversaw baseball's transformation to a business of free agents with multimillion-dollar contracts.
"I was willing to take on the tough problems and deal with them as I honestly felt they should be dealt, and was not afraid."
Army SGT Gregory D Fejeran, 28, of Barrigada, Guam
Army SGT Christopher J C Fernandez, 28, of Dededo, Guam
Army SPC Jonathan K Smith, 19, of Atlanta, Ga.
Marine LCpl Nathanial D Windsor, 20, of Scappoose, Ore.
Army SGT Daniel E Woodcock, 25, of Glennallen, Alaska
Army SGT Thomas L Latham, 23, of Delmar, Md.
Army SFC Douglas C Stone, 49, of Taylorsville, Utah
Marine LCpl Angel Rosa, 21, of South Portland, Maine
Marine LCpl Steven M Chavez, 20, of Hondo, N.M.
Army SPC Adam J Rosema, 27, of Pasadena, Calif.
Army CPL Brian L Chevalier, 21, of Athens, Ga.
Army SPC Stephen M Kowalczyk, 32, of San Diego, Calif.
Army SGT Robert M Carr, 22, of Warren, Ohio
Marine LCpl Raymond J Holzhauer, 19, of Dwight, Ohio
Army PFC Alberto Garcia Jr., 23, of Bakersfield, Calif.
Army SSG Blake M Harris, 27, of Hampton, Ga.
Army SSG Terry W Prater, 25, of Speedwell, Tenn.
Army SGT Emerson N Brand, 29, of Rigby, Ind.
Army PFC James L Arnold, 21, of Mattawan, Mich.
Army SPC Joshua M Boyd, 30, of Seattle, Wash.
Army SPC Forrest J Waterbury, 25, of Richmond, Texas
Bob Hattoy, 56 -- Clinton aide and AIDS activist who, in 1992, became the first gay AIDS victim to address a national political convention.
"I don't want to die. But, I don't want to live in an America where the president sees me as the enemy. I can face dying because of a disease, but not because of politics."
Ernest Gallo, 97 -- Co-founder of E & J Gallo Winery, which produces one out of every four bottles of wine sold in the United States.
Sen. Thomas Eagleton, 77 -- Former Democratic U.S. Senator from Missouri for nearly two decades who helped pass legislation that effectively ended the Vietnam War. A vice presidential candidate for 18 days, Eagleton was forced to step down after revelations of mental illness.
Army SSG Karl O Soto-Pinedo, 22, of San Juan, P.R.
Army PVT Wesley J Williams, 23, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Marine SSgt Dustin M Gould, 28, of Longmont, Colo.
Army SSG Paul M Latourney, 28, of Roselle, Ill.
Army SPC Luis O Rodriguez-Contrera, 22, of Allentown, Pa.
Navy LCDR Morgan C Tulang, 36, of Hilo, Hawaii
Navy HN Lucas WA Emch, 21, of Kent, Ohio
Army SPC Christopher D Young, 20, of Los Angeles, Calif.
Marine LCpl Raul S Bravo, 21, of Elko, Nev.
Army SGT Brandon A Parr, 25, of West Valley, Utah
Army SGT Michael C Peek, 23, of Chesapeake, Va.
Army SGT Ashly L Moyer, 21, of Emmaus, Pa.
Army SPC Blake Harris, 22, of Pueblo, Colo.
Army SPC Ryan D Russell, 20, of Elm City, N.C.
Army PVT Barry W Mayo, 21, of Ecru, Miss.
Army SSG Darrel D Kasson, 43, of Florence, Ariz.
Army PVT Mark W Graham, 22, of Lafayette, La.
Army SSG Justin M Estes, 25, of Sims, Ariz.
Army SSG Robert M Stanley, 27, of Spotsylvania, Va.
Army SGT Andrew C Perkins, 27, of Northglenn, Colo.
Army SPC Ryan M Bell, 21, of Colville, Wash.
Army SPC Justin A Rollins, 22, of Newport, N.H.
Army PFC Cory C Kosters, 19, of The Woodlands, Texas
Army SSG Christopher R Webb, 28, of Winchester, Calif.
Army SPC Shawn P Rankinen, 28, of Independence, Mo.
Army SPC Michael D Rivera, 22, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Marine LCpl Dennis J Veater, 20, of Jessup, Pa.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 89 -- Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Among the most prominent historians of his time, he also served as an aide to President Kennedy.
"The great threats to the U.S. are self righteousness and complacency, and I think we have to examine ourselves and do our damnedest to live up to our best standards."
Herman Brix, 100 -- Olympian and actor who parlayed his 1928 Olympic medal into an accomplished film career.
Evelyn Munro, 92 -- Union activist who fought to improve working conditions for sharecroppers in the 1930s.
"I wanted to learn what it would really be like to be a socialist, and what it would be like to do work with the poorest people in the United States."
Army SSG Joshua R Hager, 29, of Broomfield, Colo.
Army PFC Travis W Buford, 23, of Galveston, Texas
Army PFC Rowan D Walter, 25, of Winnetka, Calif.
Army SGT Jeremy D Barnett, 27, of Mineral City, Ohio
Army SPC Ethan J Biggers, 22, of Beavercreek, Ohio
Marine LCpl Anthony Aguirre, 20, of Channelview, Texas
Army SSG William J Beardsley, 25, of Coon Rapids, Minn.
Army PFC Daniel Zizumbo, 27, of Chicago, Ill.
Marine Sgt Chad M Allen, 25, of Maple Lake, Minn.
Marine PFC Bufford K Van Slyke, 22, of Bay City, Mich.
Army SGT Richard A Soukenka, 30, of Oceanside, Calif.
Army CPL Lorne E Henry, Jr, 21, of Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Army SPC Jonathan D Cadavero, 24, of Takoma Park, Md.
Dennis Johnson, 52 -- NBA star and coach who won three NBA championship titles during his 14-year playing career.
"This is a franchise that has made me every bit of what I am today."
Richard Lehman, 83 -- CIA analyst who twice was awarded the CIA's highest honor; he created the president's daily intelligence briefing.
Ray Evans, 92 -- Oscar-winning songwriter who, with partner Jay Livingston, wrote countless hits for TV, film and recording artists.
Robert Adler, 93 -- Co-inventor of the TV remote control.
"This thing has so many buttons. I don't know what most of them are for and frankly I could not care less."
Rep. Charles Norwood Jr., R-Ga., 65 -- U.S. congressman who focused much of his political career on promoting a patients' bill of rights.
"You know it only takes two people, a sick patient and a willing provider. That's all it really takes to have healthcare work."
Frankie Laine, 93 -- Singer.
"'Rawhide' was a big, big turning point … and 'Rawhide' really saved my skin."
Harriett Woods, 79 -- Political activist whose narrow loss in a 1982 Senate race sparked the creation of EMILY's List, a.group that touts pro-choice Democratic women.
"I have so often told people you have to take risks, you have to take up the challenge if you want to make a difference in life."
Willye White, 66 -- Five-time Olympian.
"I didn't win the gold medal of the Olympics, but I do have and did win the gold medal of life."
Robert "Skip" Jennings, 66 -- ABC News cameraman for more than 30 years.
Sidney Sheldon, 89 -- Best-selling novelist and TV producer.
"I believe that if you're trying to please everyone, you wind up pleasing almost no one. I get an idea that excites me, and I write it as well as I know how."
Richard Kelley, 91 -- Stepfather of President Clinton.
Molly Ivins, 62 -- Liberal columnist and author; one of the president's harshest critics, her column ran in over 400 newspapers.
"Anyone who thinks that … assumes George Bush is dumb, is going to, as he would say, mis-underestimate him badly."
The Rev. Robert Drinan, 86 -- Human rights advocate who was the first Roman Catholic priest to become a voting member of Congress.
E. Howard Hunt, 88 -- Former CIA agent who was the mastermind of the Watergate break-in and served 33 months in prison for his role.
"Aside from the personal results of Watergate -- the impact on each of us individually -- I think that the main victim was the country itself."
Eleanor McGovern, 85 -- Wife of Sen. George McGovern who was the first spouse of a presidential candidate to make solo campaign appearances for her husband.
"I have enjoyed campaigning. I've learned much about myself."
Denny Doherty, 66 -- Singer for the Mamas and the Papas.
Sen. George Smathers, 93 -- Former U.S. Senator from Florida; a confidant of President Kennedy, he served in Congress for more than two decades.
Art Buchwald, 81 -- Columnist and humorist whose column, syndicated to more than 500 newspapers, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982.
"I've found a way to make other people laugh. I hope that I can be remembered for that."
Andrea Parhamovich, 28 -- American civilian killed in Iraq while working to promote democracy.
Yvonne De Carlo, 84 -- Actress best remembered as Lily Munster whose film career lasted more than five decades.
Carlo Ponti, 94 -- Film producer famous for his award-winning work and his marriage to Sophia Loren.
Roberta Wohlstetter, 94 -- Military intelligence analyst who received the Medal of Freedom for her study documenting intelligence failures leading up to Pearl Harbor.
President Ronald Reagan: "Roberta Wohlstetter, a generation ahead of her time. … She rose above all obstacles and has had a profound influence."
Del Reeves, 73 -- Grand Ole Opry entertainer.
Tillie Olsen, 94 -- Feminist writer whose works portrayed the struggles of women and the working class.
"It is you, my readers, who gave life to the words that I wrote. And I want to applaud those of you who are here, and thank you."
Teddy Kollek, 95 -- Mayor of Jerusalem from 1965 to 1993 who presided over the reunification of Jerusalem after the Arab-Israeli war in 1967.
"The hatred is too deep, but I have no doubt about the end result. The end result will be peace."


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Risk is a very crucial part of any insurance programs. As you have understood that, at least there are four types of risks in insurance. They are Pure Risk, Speculative Risk, Particular Risk and Fundamental Risk. Each of them has different definition and not all of them can be claimed although they are considered as risk. It means that there are risks that can be claimed and not. Here is the explanation.
Not All Risks In Insurance Can Be Claimed
The questions like; are all risks can be claimed to the insurance company? Will you take it for your own? Or is it the responsibility of the government? Well, look at the short explanation below;
– Pure Risk can be insured and the risks are static.
– Fundamental Risk can be insured. But it can only be an extension of pure risk.
– Speculative Risk cannot be insured. The risk is dynamic (changing).
– Particular Risk cannot be insured.
Then you can take a conclusion that there are two risks in insurance that can be insured. They are Pure Risk and Fundamentals Risk. Surely, they can be insured under the terms. Here are some terms and conditions that you need to understand;
– Impacts should be assessed with money, which means that the risk needs to be financial risks.
– Risks are homogenous (same) and present in significant amounts (The law of the large number).
– Risks cannot be predicted, it should occur by chance and not intentionally.
– If the risks occur, thus, the client will have a loss, in means the insured client must have an insurable interest in the insured objects.
– The risk is not contrary to the public interest or law in the country. So, drugs (narcotics) should not be the insured object.
Now, you have known what risks in insurance that can be insured and what are not. This is important since not all clients who take insurance program understand so well about the risk. Remember, not all risks in Pure Risk can be insured. The insurable risks should be under specific terms and conditions.


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By Tom J Doyle
Ray Wilkins believes Fernando Torres could be used as a makeweight by Chelsea in a bid to land either Radamel Falcao or Edinson Cavani in the summer, bringing an end to his nightmare spell at Stamford Bridge.
The Spain forward joined the club for £50 million from Liverpool in 2011, but has only scored 14 goals in 68 Premier League appearances for the Blues, with speculation building over his uncertain future in London.
And while Roman Abramovich parted with £7.5m to land Demba Ba recently, the former Chelsea assistant coach feels they will need to sign either the Atletico Madrid or the Napoli striker to take the club "to the next step."
"I would love to say [Torres] has still got a future at the club because he once was a dynamic centre forward, but unfortunately that hasn't been the case at Chelsea so I'm a little bit disappointed for him," he told Goal.com.
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"Demba Ba is a fantastic stop-gap but I think they'll probably use Torres as a bit of a makeweight when they end up going for Falcao or Cavani.
"The likes of Falcao and Cavani are very, very expensive, but those two centre forwards are probably the ones that can take Chelsea to the next step once again."
Despite the disappointment from both parties at Torres' troubled times at Stamford Bridge, Wilkins feels a swap deal with Falcao could be beneficial for both club and player.
"Obviously the benefit from Falcao coming is that [Torres] would be going back to Madrid where he started his footballing career. He'd be going home, and Chelsea would be getting an absolutely splendid centre-forward," he added.
Chelsea slipped 13 points behind league leaders Manchester United after being held 2-2 at home by Southampton on Wednesday, and are out of the Champions League group despite winning the competition last season.
And Wilkins thinks the club are now putting emphasis on finding the types of players who will lead the side to glory from the front - starting with a great deal for Newcastle striker Demba Ba.
"They've realised they need new forward players. Ba had to come in as well because Kalou's gone and Sturridge went to Liverpool," he said.
"Sturridge went for £12 million and Ba came in who is a bit of a goal machine - he's scoring for fun and you're getting him at £7.5 million, you're quids-in.
"You've got a player who is used to playing PL football whereas Daniel hasn't quite made it. He's very talented but he hasn't at the moment and Ba has so it's a good bit of business."
Wilkins was assistant manager at Chelsea from 2008 to 2010, during which time the club won a Premier League title and an FA Cup.
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It turns out midwives aren't the only trendy new hires for well-to-do urban moms; as The Stir's Ericka Sóuter discovered, upon exploring the subject after seeing an episode of Pregnant In Heels in which a wealthy expectant mom requests a wet nurse, this is not an uncommon request in certain demographics. In fact, LA's Certified Household Staffing agency, along with equipping the rich with personal chefs and chauffeurs, boasts a wet nurse registry a thousand (lactating) women strong (they charge a weekly rate of $1,000). For those who prefer to cut out the middle man, Milk Share – a listserv known for connecting moms seeking, and donating, breast milk – has started to turn up Wet Nurse offers. [For those not completely clear on the distinction between breast milk donation (something many readers felt squeamish about when I wrote about feeding another woman's milk to my own son, two years ago) and what we're talking about here, a Wet Nurse is someone who actually feeds her milk to another woman's baby via the breast, instead of pumping for the other parents to bottle-feed their child.]
While Sóuter's response to the wet nurse resurgence is, in a word (her word), "Yuck," -- she thinks the above distinction is a significant one -- mine was "Only $1,000 a week?" I mean, breastfeeding is hard work! I'd think you could charge more. Other than that, though, this thing doesn't strike me as particularly strange; while breastfeeding can be quite challenging for some moms, others have an easy time of it, and produce plenty (plus more) of milk. Hence the demand and supply for milk share services, respectively, whether through friends, milk banks or resources like Milk Share. Many women also really love to breastfeed; they find deep joy and satisfaction in the act itself. Hence the supply of wet nurses; like women who generously serve as surrogate moms because they Love-with-a-capital-L being pregnant (I am the product of a surrogate arrangement, actually, and one of my good friends loved pregnancy so much that she's seriously considering becoming a surrogate herself... and it'll probably fund a down payment on her young family's first house), these women have a passion for breastfeeding, and thus something to give moms who can't, or won't, but who want their babies to get breast milk during their early months nonetheless.
I loved being pregnant, but I wouldn't want to be a surrogate. (Nine months and no baby? No thanks.) Yet, if I was great at breastfeeding, I don't think it'd feel like a huge leap to nurse another woman's baby... what with maternal instinct and all. Not that I'd pursue employment as a wet nurse, but it's far from the most bizarre idea I've encountered. And although I wouldn't hire someone to live with me for the exclusive purpose of nursing my baby, it's the hiring-and-living-with-me part that weirds me out, rather than the actual nursing. I mean, if I had a close friend who could also nurse my baby in a pinch… Hey, why not? I've known mom-friends who've both had children around the same time and 'traded' in this way, out of convenience and caring. I've also known two-mom families in which both moms had babies within a year or so of each other, and thus overlapped in their breastfeeding; their kids could nurse from either parent, which was a logistical blessing, as well as a nice bonding mechanism for everyone involved. None of my 'normal enough' scenarios involve a stranger nursing my baby, and I guess it's the bonding factor that stops me short (something Sóuter paused over, too), but in cases like this one, where an abandoned baby was saved by a woman who was willing to nurse her before medical authorities arrived, I don't think "Yuck" at all.
What do you think? Does the idea of a wet nurse make you uncomfortable? (Beyond inherently not-okay historic examples, namely slavery). What about the idea of a woman breastfeeding a baby who isn't her own? Does this gross you out, or do you, like me, think it's pretty natural in a variety of circumstances?


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Syrian army reopens key road to Aleppo
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops wrested control of a key road linking the government-held heartland with the embattled northern city of Aleppo, reopening the crucial supply route after heavy fighting with rebels, state media and activists said Monday.
Government forces and opposition fighters have been locked in a bloody, block-by-block fight for Aleppo since rebels launched an assault on the city 15 months ago. The battle has been locked in a stalemate, with neither side willing to relent with control of Syria's largest city at stake.
With much of the northern countryside now in opposition hands, a cat-and-mouse game has emerged over the past year as the rebels try to cut the government supply lines to the regime's remaining troops in the north, particularly in Aleppo.
After the rebels cut the main north-south highway late last year, President Bashar Assad's regime built a desert road to bypass contested areas. Opposition fighters responded by severing the alternate route — a winding road that runs northeast from the city of Hama — in August.
It was that desert road that regime troops reopened late Sunday, according to Syria's state news agency and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group.
"Control of that road was life or death for the future of the regime in Aleppo and for the citizens under the control of the regime," Observatory director Rami Abdul-Rahman said. "It's important, because now they (the government) can extend supplies to Aleppo."
Still, he said, the road remains "very dangerous" and susceptible to ambushes.
The state news agency said the military "broke the siege of armed terrorist groups that were preventing food supplies from reaching residents of Aleppo." The government refers to rebels as terrorists.
Meanwhile, several members of an advance team of experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons returned to their headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, after holding what they called "constructive" talks with the Syrian government about its initial disclosures on its chemical program.
The OPCW said in a statement that Syrian authorities have been "cooperative," and that the experts will continue to evaluate the information handed over by the government.
The disarmament experts have been sent to Syria as part of a deal unanimously endorsed by the U.N. Security Council last month to rid the country of its chemical weapons by mid-2014.
For the first time since the mission began last week, Syrian personnel working under the supervision of the OPCW experts on Sunday began destroying the country's chemical arsenal and equipment used to produce it.
In Indonesia, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States and Russia are "very pleased" with the mission's progress so far, and called the steps taken Sunday "a good beginning."
The joint OPCW-U.N. mission to scrap Syria's chemical program stems from a deadly Aug. 21 attack on opposition-held suburbs of Damascus in which the U.N. has determined the nerve agent sarin was used. Hundreds of people were killed, including many children. The U.S. and Western allies accuse the Syrian government of being responsible, while Damascus blames the rebels.
The Obama administration threatened to launch punitive missile strikes against Syria, prompting frantic diplomatic efforts to forestall an attack. Those efforts concluded with September's unanimous U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons.
The resolution also endorsed a roadmap for a political transition in Syria adopted by key nations last year, and called for an international peace conference to be held in Geneva. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon suggested November for the peace talks, although questions have been raised whether the government or the opposition could be coaxed to the table.
U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said Monday that Ban "continues to believe that this can take place in mid-November, and it's his firm determination to seek to make that happen."
"Everyone knows that it is not easy, that it is going to be difficult to bring the sides to the table," Nesirky said.
Associated Press writers Ryan Lucas and Diaa Hadid in Beirut, and Edie Lederer at the United Nations contributed to this report.
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Gawker.com reports that Gov. Jon Corzine has reassigned aide Samantha Gordon:
What do you get the employee who survives a brutal high-speed accident with you? Well, New Jersey governor Jon Corzine may be retaining the same driver who was behind the wheel during his vicious crack-up back in April, as the AP says—but he won't retain the traveling companions. We hear Samantha Gordon, the Huma to his Hillary, his mid-20s body woman who emerged largely unscathed from the crash, has been reassigned from her job. In the crash, Corzine was supposedly in the front seat, and not wearing a seatbelt, unlike his primary aide Ms. Gordon, who, though also not wearing a seat belt, was in the back seat alone. Ms. Gordon did not return a phone call this afternoon. Sounds like a rough deal to us.


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For those of you who have been enjoying Johnny Yong Bosch as your Lelouch of choice, we have an exciting announcement for you! Johnny's own band, Eyeshine has officially made their debut on Crunchyroll! You can find their music videos and mini-documentary under the "Pop" tab in the shows section, or simply go to www.crunchyroll.com/eyeshine.
Formed in 2004 by front man Johnny Yong Bosch and Maurice Salmin, Eyeshine first found success in 2006 with a unique blend of pop punk and post grunge called Edge Rock. The band gained a modest audience with its debut EP, "How About That" and their first full length album, "Red Stripes White Lights" but it was their sophomore effort, "My Paper Kingdom" that officially opened the flood gates in 2009. MPK featured their award winning song, "ALONE," whose honest and simple lyrics made a connection to a steadily growing fan base. The band has continued to self produced 6 more albums: "Tone Of Echoes" (features the Elfenworks Foundation sponsored song "Hope Is So Far Away"), "Afterglow" (acoustic album), "Sonosis" (instrumental album), "Sansvox" (karaoke album), "XMAS" (Christmas album), and their latest album "Revolution Airwaves."
Eyeshine won the worldwide Ford sponsored competition "Gimme The Gig II" in May 2012. They recorded a single and filmed a music video with the Legendary Don Was (President of Blue Note Records and 7 time Grammy Award winning Producer - Rolling Stones, Elton John, John Mayer, etc) and Krish Sharma (Producer/Engineer - The Rolling Stones, Counting Crows, Hilary Duff, Jesse McCartney, etc) out of the "Ford Focus Studio." Which is a Mobile Studio that was built into a Ford Focus by "Mad" Mike Martin (Pimp My Ride). KTLA (West Coast News Stations affiliated with The CW TV Network), filmed and aired the one-hour special on west coast television (KTLA, KTVU, and KICU).
If that isn't enough to get you excited, then how about a message from the 99th Emperor of Britannia himself!
Come on, how can you resist? Go check out Eyeshine now!
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Lugiamania here, and we're starting up a new feature each month where we introduce and discuss an awesome title from Crunchyroll's HUGE catalog library! This month, we're starting with one of my personal favorites from a few years ago: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion!
Just in case you haven't heard of this juggernaut of a franchise, here's what you need to know: A collaboration between manga-ka superstars CLAMP and animation studio Sunrise of Gundam fame, Code Geass featured an all-star cast and slick animation with giant robot battles and teenagers and school uniforms. Spanning 2 seasons, several OVA, multiple manga series, and spawning a truckload of merchandise that is still being churned out to this day, it's probably safe to say that Code Geass is one of the most popular anime that has been created in the last few years.
The story takes place in an alternate universe in which the empire of Britannia has conquered pretty much the majority of the known world (save for the EU and China), including Japan. Now under Britannian rule, the Japanese have lost not only their country, but their identity as well, being reclassified as "Elevens", due to the renaming of Japan to Area 11, and are treated like second-class citizens. Advanced technology in the form of "Knightmare Frames", giant mechs that are used in combat, gave Britannia the upper hand and allowed them to easily conquer multiple countries, expanding their empire. However, there are those who oppose Britannia, and will do anything to win back Japan's freedom, including a young man named Lelouch. He is granted a power called "Geass" by an mysterious girl he inadvertently saves one day, and acquires the ability to command anyone to do his bidding, as long as he makes eye contact while giving the order. A brilliant strategist and armed with this "Power of the Gods", he uses his Geass to his advantage as he rebels the Britannian empire and extracts his revenge against them.
For those of you who prefer to not have to read subtitles, Code Geass is one of those titles that Crunchyroll offers in both subbed AND dubbed versions, so if you would rather Johnny Yong Bosch voice Lelouch instead of Jun Fukuyama, you're free to choose.
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"ALL HAIL BRITANNIA! ALL HAIL LELOUCH!" If neither of these declarations sounds appealing to you, believe me when I say that by the end of Code Geass, at the very least, you will understand their sentiments. Set in an alternate future where the empire of Britannia rules a third of the world, including the former country of Japan (now called Area 11), this is one of the few series that really has it all—school setting, intellectual drama, giant mech fights—and manages to execute them right.
To be sure, Code Geass was a high-profile series from the start—a collaboration with Sunrise Studios (best known for their Gundam series) and famed manga artists CLAMP, and you've already got the makings of something incredible. Add in an all-star voice cast (Jun Fukuyama, Takehiro Sakurai, Yukana) and you almost certainly can't go wrong. For starters, this anime looks amazing—some people may be off-put by CLAMP's signature lanky, super skinny character designs, but you can't deny that about 90% of the cast is comprised of beautiful boys and girls. (Actually, make that about 99%). The color pallet is incredibly vibrant, with a rainbow of colors despite the serious and political nature of the show at times. The mech designs themselves are impressive as well, with a slightly more organic feel than Gundams but not actually resembling humans quite yet. The animation is very fluid, even during the fight scenes, which, unlike some other series, actually leave you wishing they went on longer.
Of course, there are pretty anime abound out there, but what Code Geass really has going for it is the fact that almost all the characters are able to grow and carry themselves in the sometimes funny, often serious, and always dramatic plot. All of the leads are instantly likable, not necessarily in the sense that they were a favorite character, but that they all had a history and reason for doing the things they did. Nearly every single one of them intrigued me and I genuinely wanted to find out more about all of them; even the supporting cast and more minor characters were executed incredibly well. (In fact, it might just surprise you at who you're cheering for by the end). Lelouch may seem like a spectacularly cold-hearted bastard whose devotion to his younger sister Nunally is beyond obsessive, but he pulls it off so fabulously that you can't help but applaud him for it. Similarly, Suzaku is also much more complex than his outward 'white knight' demeanor may suggest, and some of the best moments in this show are when the two are squaring off not in a physical battle, but in a battle of the mind. Even the villains don't always act like true villains, and by the end of the show's many twists and turns, you may find yourself questioning just who's really fighting for the greater good. Director Goro Taniguchi is also a mad genius, not just for being able to successfully build the tension and drama in scenes, but also knowing how to pace this story—he cuts off episodes at just the right moments, so you're always left hanging and wanting to know more immediately. Despite the high energy of the plot, the series didn't feel rushed, and just when tensions are getting too high, it either pauses at the inevitably fluffy "school-life" episodes or just continues marching forward with an explosion that is akin to getting whiplash.
With an all-star cast, you expect an all-star performance, and Code Geass is no exception; Jun Fukuyama and Takehiro Sakurai lead as Lelouch and Suzaku, respectively, and despite being (purposely) typecast against their usual styles, they really manage to outdo themselves. During the antagonistic confrontations between the two, the anger and bitterness literally feels like it's oozing out of their every pore, to the point that it hurts. Yukana is simply the essence of C.C., uncaring and emotionless, while Ami Koshimizu brings out the spirited and fiery force of Kallen. The soundtrack is a mix of grandiose orchestrations and jazzy numbers during fight scenes, which add to the atmosphere of flair and aristocracy. Openings and endings are also something you want to watch at least once, if not for the art direction then at the very least for the amazing songs.
It is rather inconceivable at times how a series that tries to cram so many different elements and tries to cater to every single audience could succeed so well. There are a few less-than-stellar aspects, namely the plot getting rather confusing and too-political at times, but the fabulous parts are just so fabulous that one can overlook those missteps—I don't care that I can't remember why/how Lelouch manages to defeat the Chinese Federation in one stroke so long as I can see him preening himself about it later on. The characters are what's at the heart of this roller coaster ride, and I sincerely enjoyed watching each and every one of them getting their screen time. So whether you love the high-stakes robot battles, or the mental chess matches they play, or heck, if you just want to see lots of pretty boys and girls (with fan service for both sides), do yourself a favor, and watch this series.
My only regret I have for this series is not watching it sooner, but with the new Akito of the Exiled OVAs coming out, the fandom has been getting a revival boost, both in terms of merchandise and content. If you've always thought about watching the show, there's no better time than now to jump on the Code Geass bandwagon!
We will be having special features focusing on Code Geass this month, so start up the discussions and feel free to share with everyone your thoughts on this amazing series!
this is soooooooooo awesome anime ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wish they do Code Geass Season 3 instead a movie tho. bt i cant wait for the MOVIEEEEEEEEEEEE
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It's a great anime...now how about R2 being on CR as well...lol
What even
My favorite anime it got me into the mecha/sci-fi genre and into Gundam.
I really love Rolo, Cornelia, Villetta, Milly and Gino they are my top 5 favorite characters. I also really like Anya, Suzaku, and Jeremiah too.
Akito is nice so far I can't wait until Spring though it seems so far away. Hope that the other two episodes won't have such a long wait period. xD
Life is a bitch, so if its easy you're doing it wrong
I forgot if Season 2 was on here or not.... doesn't matter an anime I reconmend yall all should watch :3
When I first saw the show (I was the magic number of 8 years old) I just fell for it as the BEST anime ever. But now that I'm older X3 I saw this thing called Code MENT. And now whenever I look at the regular show, all I see is the abridged series so it kinda ruined it for me...Still I love it and I might die knowing this is all gunna happen!!
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I love this anime it has a great plot line and lots of suspense!
Crunchyroll needs to get the second season.
P.S. If u havent seen this anime ur missing out on something amazing
um what does this do?
I don't understand how you can give up on a show like this. The plot is absolutely rivetting. It's by far one of the best written shows I have ever seen. Two minutes is NOT enough to determine whether it's worth a go or not.
Chasing kitties.
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I forgot if Season 2 was on here or not.... doesn't matter an anime I reconmend yall all should watch :3
It's not, only first season is on CR
What even
One of my favorites. It just feels so organic. Everything and everyone is constantly changing, adapting, growing, and changing sides, and it's fascinating to watch everything unfold. Some of the plot twists had me speechless. While I don't agree with some of the characters' actions, I know why they chose what they did and understand them. It also had great gender equality. In most war/battle anime, it's either all men or all women and a few badasses of one gender. But Code Geass has its fair share of badasses of both sexes.
It does have some faults though. Some of the shifts from serious battles to school wackiness were bumpy and felt out of place. Towards the end of the second season, a lot of characters ended up with some heavy plot armor.
But it really is a great anime that anyone should watch.
CR you must no... Need!! to get R2
Don't advertise something that you only have half of. You'll only make people mad.
First of all I think this is a great idea. However, I believe selecting a title that is entirely represented on CR would be better for both discussion and getting people to check out the anime (without leaving CR to finish watching the series!) As for Code Geass, I have the DVDs and have seen both the subbed and dubbed versions and I like the subbed acting better. The Clamp designs, art and animation are top shelf! This is a hard series to discuss without treading into spoilers.
bought the whole series!!! love it, tho theres no way for Bokoku no Akito to reach the states
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bought the whole series!!! love it, tho theres no way for Bokoku no Akito to reach the states :(
It isn't impossible; Code Geass could get picked by another company. Maybe.
If you want to watch season two, you can see it on http://www.amazon.com by searching "code geass" and buying the season two DVD boxed set.
(It sounded like I was going to suggest an illegal streaming site. That was the joke. Laugh.)


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Once you have cleared and prepared your soil, you are now ready to plant the plugs in your lawn. Water the area to be planted to thoroughly moisten the soil. Placing the plug roots into moist soil is very beneficial in the planting process.
There are two basic ways to plant plugs: planting in rows, and digging individual holes..
Planting in Rows
Use a hoe to dig rows 2 to 3 inches deep. When digging, space each row 15 or 18 inches apart depending on the spacing your have chosen. Place each plug into the rows spaced from 15 or 18 inches apart based on your choice. Remember, the closer the plugs, the faster your lawn will fill in. This is usually a good time to sprinkle a starter fertilizer around the base of each plug.
When you complete a row, fill in with the displaced soil so the top of each plug is flush with the ground level. You may lightly step on each plug to compress it into the soil and remove air pockets under the plug. Make sure that soil is pressed against the plug on all sides.
Planting by Digging Individual Holes
The easiest way to dig holes while planting plugs is through the use of a hoe or a 3in x 3in sod plug tool. Be sure the holes are deep enough so that the plug will be level with the existing ground when planted. When you dig the holes, remember to space them 15 or 18 inches from center to center in each direction depending on your needs. Start with one row, and then stagger the plugs in the next row in a checker board or criss cross pattern. You may sprinkle a very small amount of starter fertilizer into each hole before adding the plug. Be careful to press each plug into the hole until it is flush with the level ground. It is very important that the plug fit snugly into the hole with no air pockets under or on the sides of the plug. (Air pockets allow the plug roots to dry out and die.)
Caring for your newly planted lawn
Once you have completed planting, thoroughly water your lawn and continue to water on a daily basis for the next 2-3 weeks. The important point to remember is that you don't want the plugs to dry-out during this time. After 2-3 weeks of daily watering, you can cut-back to every other day for the next 3-4 weeks until your lawn is well established. At the time of planting, a light application of a starter fertilizer can be sprinkled around each plug or across the whole area. Fertilize again in one month and then follow recommended applications for your lawn variety.
Once your plugs are established, you can begin to mow it. Mowing will actually help spread the grass, causing it to grow horizontally instead of vertically.


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The NRL board has voted to retain the golden point rule in its present form despite pressure from some clubs to change to a golden try option.
Chief executive David Gallop says keeping the golden point rule is the fairest way to decide a match and had also provided fans with an exciting dimension to football. The board has also voted to reinstate Saturday evening semi-finals, admitting last year's experiment of Friday night finals in weeks two and three had not worked.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday praised a deal inked by European Union governments to create a single supervisor for their banks.
"I can only welcome the agreement that has been reached between the partners to set a timeline to agree on thresholds and to make progress on that journey toward banking union," IMF director Christine Lagarde told reporters during a visit to Chile's capital of Santiago.
"We regard this as one of the three pillars to reinforce the Euro zone — the currency pillar, the banking union pillar and the fiscal union pillar. On the banking union pillar clearly progress has been made yesterday and we salute it."
After a marathon session, EU finance ministers agreed on a deal that gives the European Central Bank extensive powers, including power to grant and withdraw banking licenses, investigate institutions and fine banks that fail to abide by the rules. It also paves the way for Europe's rescue fund to directly aid the euro zone's troubled banks.
Under the deal, banks with more than €30 billion ($39 billion) in assets supervised or those that represent a significant proportion of their national economies will be under the oversight of the European Central Bank.
Lagarde also lauded Chile for being one of the strongest economies in South America. She said the IMF expects the Andean country's 2012 economic growth at 5.5 percent, as robust domestic demand offsets weaker exports.
"It's one of the best students in the class," Lagarde said about Chile's economy and the government's ability to keep unemployment at historic levels and inflation controlled at below target of 3 percent.
"It has enjoyed robust growth for the last decade. It has a strong economic policy framework and it has now reinforced the economy resilience in the country in the face of potential external shocks coming from the United States, the European Union and potential volatility of the price of commodities."
Lagarde said Chile, the world's top copper producer, faces potential risks from fluctuations in the price of commodities. She said it could also suffer from a potential U.S. fiscal cliff problem, if it's not resolved in time, and an acceleration of the Euro zone debt crisis.
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It might sound cockamamie to suggest that one of the reasons why the Eagles traded Donovan McNabb to the Redskins was so they wouldn't draft Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford. ESPN's Adam Schefter did more than suggest it, he tweeted it (Twitter continues to rule the world).
But I have to say I'm completely on board with this theory. In fact, a team source mentioned last week that it was a motivating factor and I guess I was in too much of a stupor to realize its importance.
Yes, the No. 1 reason why the Eagles dealt with Washington was because it made the best offer. And, yes, that offer -- a second round draft pick and a conditional fourth-round draft pick in 2011 -- made shipping McNabb within the division that much easier.
But the Eagles also did not want to have to deal with Bradford, a quarterback they rate very high, for the next decade. I know one Eagles coach -- who would know such things -- that had Bradford ranked among the better quarterback prospects over the last decade. There was a reason why offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg was at Oklahoma last week to watch Bradford throw during his Senior Day.
The Eagles feared that Redskins coach Mike Shanahan would use his second-round pick to move from the No. 4 overall pick into the Rams' top spot. St. Louis likes Bradford and could very well take him, but the team needs a complete overhaul and it may have been willing to give up the top spot to address a host of other needs.
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STOCKTON - The beginning of a new construction project on Interstate 5 will do more than just build a new interchange at French Camp Road.
It is the last of a string of projects that will complete a long sought-after goal of creating a major connecting road between I-5 and Highway 99 through south Stockton.
"This is the last piece of the puzzle," said Gordon MacKay, interim Public Works Department director for Stockton. It started at the eastern end with the project to rebuild the Highway 99 interchange at Arch-Airport Road.
That project was completed in 2005. Now under way is an estimated $50 million project to build a mile-long elevated roadway to connect Sperry Road to the French Camp Road interchange. This piece could be finished by the end of 2013.
MacKay and other transportation and local officials turned out earlier this week to a groundbreaking ceremony by French Camp Road for the final project to rebuild the I-5 interchange, widening French Camp Road and building new merging lanes on the freeway between French Camp Road and Downing Avenue.
Estimated to cost about $60 million, this part of the project is expected to be completed in December 2014.
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"What this project is all about is the economic development," said Andrew Chesley, executive director of the San Joaquin Council of Governments.
Particularly in south Stockton, said City Councilman Dale Fritchen. "This is going to be a huge boon for south Stockton."
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"They've been in the pipeline for about a decade and now coming to fruition," she said. "This is huge."
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When I was a 9 years old, I snuck $3 out of my mom's wallet and rode my bike to the corner drug store. I bought her a tiny china bud vase with "Happy Anniversary" painted in gold. I was a good-hearted thief and my mom loved the gift. While she may have questioned my pickpocketing ways, she never worried about my safety on the sidewalk, next to a busy road.
I knew dinner was ready because my siblings and I listened for my mom's call throughout the neighborhood. We rode our bikes around town, to the store and to school, unchaperoned. We climbed in ditches and went inside our neighbor's houses. We caught fireflies in mason jars and made yarn pompoms and went door-to-door selling them all summer long, just for fun.
When my husband was 10, my son's age now, he put hundreds of miles on his BMX bike, riding from school to his parent's print shop to baseball practice with his slugger bat slung around his back, and back home in time for supper. We didn't have cell phones or websites that allowed us to check for neighborhood pedophiles.
We simply lived in a different world.
I look back on my carefree childhood and I grieve what I will never be able to give my kids: innocence.
Over Easter, we visited my in-laws rural farm located in a town with less than 500 people.
With hundreds of acres to explore, my kids absolutely love jumping hay bales, picking wildflowers, filling the table with farm fresh food and roaming. Getting poison ivy, optional.
On the way home from working with the cattle, and away from my kids' ears, my mother-in-law told me about the recent trial of a crazy man who murdered two young girls walking along side the road in a neighboring small town a few summers ago. We wondered if drugs and violent video games led him to such a horrible act.
It saddened me to think even the "safe" places really aren't any more.
A few hours later, I urged my 6 year old to go play outside while we worked on supper. She looked up at me and said, "But what if someone steals me?"
Her fear hits close to home.
This is the world we live in, where our Kindergartners understand lockdown drills because school (even church, movie theatre and university) shootings have become a sick twisted way of life. And my little one thinks about abduction?
And while I refuse to live in fear of what could happen down every dirty road or at the park across the street from my house, I also choose to take smart precautions. So, where does that leave us? Longing for an innocence that doesn't exist as we raise our children in a world vastly different than the one we grew up in.
But we take heart because Christ did not leave us hopeless or with fear as a companion.
Truths We Must Take to Heart:
We Aren't Really in Control– Ultimately, we have to relinquish the myth that we can actually keep our children safe and our homes secure and our lives out of harms-way. Oh, we can be wise, but we can't be in control. As a parent, this is the hardest lesson. If you watch old home videos of me with my kids, I say "Be careful" 4256 times. But I didn't give them breath and I can't determine when they take their last. I can shepherd and walk beside them, but they are not my creation. They belong to God. Living in this freedom has allowed us to traipse all over Kenya, Africa, and trust God to do His part as we do ours. We might not be in control, but we cling to the promise that He is and works things out for our good. Romans 8:28
God Does Not Call us to be Safe– I love safety. I'm a seatbelt-wearing, vaccinating, precaution-taking mother. But if you read the Bible, you don't find promises of safety. Actually, you discover the opposite. Safety can keep us frozen in place, it can distort adventure, it can paralyze us with fear. "Followers of God don't always know where they are going, but they know who they are with. We do not bow at the alter of safety." David Platt. So, while we long to provide safe homes and environments for our children, we can't swallow the pill of ease because we've convinced ourselves we are safe. On the contrary, radical obedience to Jesus can be risky. James 1:12
This is Not Our Forever Home-And this is the truth that I cling to. It offers comfort when I am afraid or worry has found a foothold. The house we live in isn't really our home. The swinging hammock in the back, the chalkboard table we crowd around–these are temporary. We are ill-fitted for this world, we stick out like sore thumbs and are urged not to conform–why? Because Jesus is preparing our forever home with him. This is our blessed hope, the promise we cling to in our changing world. I Peter 2:11
Perception is still Perception– Whenever I hear about local crime, I tell my friends about it. News spreads quickly as we try and look out for each other and then there's the news on TV, Internet, etc. I've updated this post with these stats. It shows that overall crime against children has gone down, but perception of crime has gone up. So we are safer, but feel less safe, mostly due to media coverage and constant access from living such connected lives. So, is the root of our fear based on violence in our world? Or is actually from overexposure and access? [Deep Thoughts]
Above all, there's no room for fear to rule our hearts because that's where love lives. And perfect love casts out fear.


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Ten years ago, before kids and mortgages and All That, my husband and I were experts in the language of love. If sex is a form of communication, well, back then we were on the unlimited calling plan. We may not have always verbally expressed ourselves, but we always conveyed what we meant, physically or emotionally.
Then we had a baby.
Suddenly, I was not only uninterested in sex, I was also strangely confused about how to tell my husband. So while in some ways our daughter's birth brought us closer than ever, in other ways we started to grow apart.
I just didn't know how to explain to J.B. how tired I was, how my body hurt from being pinched and pulled by our baby, and how by the end of the day I couldn't imagine sharing it with anyone else. We both became prickly and defensive: I was sure that when J.B. wrapped his leg over mine at night it meant he was coming on to me (again); when I turned my back and pretended to be asleep, he assumed I no longer found him attractive.
Bye-bye, language of love.
Whether it's right after the birth of a baby or a few years down the line, it seems like lots of happily married couples hit the sexual skids when they become parents. And most of them have heard sex therapists on TV and read articles and books, and know they should talk it out.
But there's the rub. Sex is a socially charged and highly personal issue that remains a bit taboo despite our seeming openness. And talking about not having sex? Chances are, the subject comes up when one of you wants it and the other doesn't. Bad time to talk. And who wants to crack open that can of worms later on when it's over? Besides, isn't sex supposed to be fun and spontaneous -- like it used to be? Won't talking about it spoil the magic?
"Where's the magic if you're not having sex?" says Valerie Raskin, M.D., author of Great Sex for Moms: Ten Steps to Nurturing Passion While Raising Kids. But how do you start talking? What do you say? And how do you say it so you don't end up bruising egos or booting one of you to the couch? My husband and I started by paying attention to the distinction between how we talked about sex and the details of what we were talking about. To begin:
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Nichole Cook, of Pittsburgh, mom of Eleanor, 8, Odessa, 7, and Izabelle, 6, was embarrassed into silence not long after Eleanor was born: One time during sex she squirted breast milk all over her husband. "I was mortified. I thought it was gross -- and totally not normal." Rather than telling him how she felt, though, Cook simply avoided sex altogether for the next couple of weeks.
While talking about sex can be awkward, no one yet has actually died of embarrassment. Dr. Raskin suggests breaking the ice simply by acknowledging how hard it is.
That's what Cook did, a few weeks later. "I was really nervous, but I finally just said, 'That was really embarrassing for me.'" As it turned out, her husband hadn't even noticed and didn't think it was a big deal anyway. "After that, we just made sure we had a towel handy. Now it's something we laugh about."
Rather than letting things build up, talking about it now makes room for more openness later.
Choose the right place and tone
One of the worst fights J.B. and I had about sex was right after a failed attempt at it. I really wanted to be in the mood -- even though I wasn't at all -- so we got partway into the act before I admitted that things weren't working. We lay in bed trying to "talk" about what had happened. But we were so upset that we ended up blaming, and J.B. stormed angrily out of the room.
Thus, we discovered the importance of environment for having a fruitful discussion of our sex life. Choose a night when nothing else is planned and wait until the kids are asleep. Turn off the TV and the phone. This isn't an inquisition. It's an opportunity to reconnect with each other, to steal an intimate moment in a chaotic life. It's about how you show and share love, about something that should be fun and pleasurable.
J.B. and I have had some of our best talks late at night on our front stoop. We turn off the porch light, pour some wine, and sit side by side. There's something about not looking directly at each other (and the wine, maybe) that lets things flow. It may cut awkwardness to merge your heart-to-heart with an activity -- try talking while hiking, or walking, or sorting through your penny jar.
Acknowledge the problem
This is not the same as agreeing on the cause of the problem. It's just a way to get the conversation rolling. Dr. Raskin calls this "outing the secret -- even though it's not really a secret." Begin by stating the obvious: "I know things aren't like they used to be," or "I know we haven't been having sex very much lately." Often, acknowledging this reality, without judgment, can bring a couple closer.
After that big fight, I realized that my husband and I had let things go far too long. While Ramona was napping the next day, I simply said: "I'm having a hard time with sex these days. I hate the way it's come between us, and it must really suck for you, too." The fact that I wasn't trying to deny or make excuses helped J.B. feel comfortable.
After listening to J.B., I realized he wasn't as angry about the situation as I'd thought. It annoyed him that I'd initiated sex when I didn't really want it, but he'd needed to leave the room to cool down because he simply couldn't change gears and talk rationally while he was still aroused. This not only helped me understand why he became so agitated but also made it easier for me to talk about what I was experiencing physically.
Asking and listening without getting defensive is an important part of this process. Repeat what your partner's saying and ask if you're understanding correctly. Ask, "Is there more you want me to know?"
Look forward, not back
Agree to make a fresh start. Don't pull out old fights; avoid generalizing or labeling. Saying things like "You never want sex" or "You're a sex fiend!" is just talking negatively about the past. We all say dumb things; don't waste time fighting about whether they're true.
It's also a bad idea to compare yourself to other couples. What's right for them isn't necessarily what's right for you. When Holly Wing's husband saw a poll in a magazine that claimed most of its readers had sex a lot more often than they did each month, he kept referring to it -- comparing their own not-nearly-so-much stats. Wing, a Berkeley mom of 2-year-old Clio, then started to counter with her own statistics, and before long they were locked in battle. "Instead of solving any problems, we were just getting really good at fighting!"
So stick to what you're feeling ("I feel sad that we're having trouble finding the time to make love") rather than accusations about how you measure up to others.
Stay positive
"I don't want to talk about sex we haven't had anymore," Wing told her husband after another fight. "If you want to have sex seventeen times a month, well, then, let's go for it!" she said, naming his wildly optimistic ideal. Of course they didn't meet the goal, but the effort did help. Wing felt that her husband realized how hard it is to make time for (and want) frequent sex rather than just complaining about it. And he appreciated her willingness to give it a try.
Shooting for high numbers may not be your solution, but the attitude is admirable. Remind each other that you'll get through this and that you both want to work it out. Instead of saying, "You never woo me anymore," try "Remember that poem you wrote me on our honeymoon? That got me hot!" And if your conversation falls apart and you revert to blaming -- stop. Don't try to win. Just end it and try again later when you've both cooled down.
What to talk about
That there's love behind your lovemaking
If you state explicitly, right up front, that you love and respect each other, and that in talking about this you're only talking about the way you show your love, you're both likely to feel more comfortable expressing your feelings. And keep reminding each other of your love and your mutual desire for each other's happiness -- that should be the backdrop to your conversation.
The meaning of sex
You can't figure out how to fix your love life if you don't know what you want it to be. So discuss what physical intimacy represents to yourselves and in your relationship. Women, for instance, often misunderstand the ways in which sex is important for many men. It's not just a matter of stereotypical gotta-have-it male urges but can be a critical form of emotional expression. For whatever combination of reasons, many men feel and express love physically, so they may experience a lack of sex as rejecting not only them but their offering of love as well.
The definition of sex
It's a good idea to talk openly about what actually constitutes "sex" to each of you. Is it only intercourse, or does it include other kinds of touching? A husband whose sex drive is at low ebb may be delighted to find that his wife will think him no less a man if he gives her a massage -- with or without "extras" -- instead of a more "demanding" service.
For Cook and her husband, sharing an understanding that she no longer felt sexual about her breasts was a breakthrough. "I felt like they were just for my kids, not him," she says. With that off the table, they were able to talk about what did still work for both of them.
That it's not him. Or you
Many factors mess with parents' love life, only rarely sexual skills or prowess. The list includes exhaustion, a light-sleeping child, hormones, embarrassment about weight gain, lack of time, difficulty shifting gears from parent to lover.
When Heidi Johnecheck, of Petosky, Michigan, mother of Max, 4, and Jaxon, 2, found a magazine article that listed ten reasons it's physically hard for moms to have sex -- everything from vaginal dryness to sheer exhaustion -- she tore it out and gave it to her husband. "As much as I'd tried to tell him, he just couldn't comprehend what 'I don't feel like it' meant," she says, and he took it personally. "But the article showed that it wasn't just me or just him."
Specific ways to make things better
Johnecheck and her husband decided to tackle one simple problem head-on: They made a kid-free visit to a local sex shop to buy some lubricants. "We actually made a date together," Johnecheck says, "and decided to just be silly and have fun with it."
Brainstorming about what might help you get back in the swing of things is a great way to move things forward. At the top of the list for most couples? "More private time," says Dr. Raskin. And while scheduling "date night" can help, think about it broadly. If nights out are expensive and infrequent, what about finding time in the mornings (when women's testosterone levels are highest, resulting in higher libido)? What about Saturday-afternoon naptime (when you'll both be less tired than at night)?
This is not the time to be shy or coy. Be specific about yourself ("I'm finding that it takes me a lot longer to get excited lately"). If you want more mood setting than "Okay, the baby's asleep. Let's do this," ask for it: "First I'd like you to sit through a chick flick with me and hold my hand."
Your body and your life have changed since you had a child. Maybe there's something in particular that you do want that you never did before. Just say it: harder, softer, faster, slower, touch me here. And if you say what you do want your husband to do instead of just what you don't, he'll likely be turned on, too.
For me and J.B., when I finally could say "Not tonight" without worrying it would turn into a fight, a funny thing happened. It became easier for me to say yes. Because once I knew he understood my feelings, we started to address some of the underlying issues: I needed more time for myself, more romance, and more help with our daughter.
Those first years after the birth of Ramona were tough. But four years later I now see talking about sex as just another opportunity for expanding our intimacy -- in and out of the bedroom.


text: Hot on the heels of the Mini Crossover Concept revealed at the Paris Motor Show, we get our first glimpse of a prototype Mini crossing over in the wild. The all-wheel-drive micro-UV is obviously wearing the same epilepsy-inducing camouflage BMW has been fond of lately, but you can see the mule bears a great deal of resemblance to the concept. This "Mini" seems to be pretty large compared against the BMW 1-Series parked in front of it. [NextAutos]