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Open Letter To LRA
I also reject the notion that: If you condemn LRA atrocities, this means that you are pro-Museveni; and if you expose Museveni 's genocide and other crimes, then you must be LRA supporter! This is a cynical moral trap.
On Genocide And Accountability:
Black Star Publisher's Note: This is the original version of an open letter submitted by the author to The Monitor (www.monitor.co.ug), which published an abridged version on May 25. The author formerly was UN Under-Secretary General/Special Representative To The Secretary General of the United Nations for Children and Armed Conflict; he is also the 2005 recipient of The Sydney Peace Prize.
Dear Mr. Martin Ojul (leader of Lord's Resistance Army delegation to Juba peace talks):
In a press statement on 26 April, Nyekorach Matsanga, Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) delegate and spokesman, called for the removal of LRA from the list of "international terrorist organizations."
Then, out of thin air, he gratuitously inserted my name: "People like Olara Otunnu want to come to participate in this peace process but they fear to be labeled terrorists."
I am very shocked by this blatant falsehood and disinformation. No clarifications have followed this or previous disinformation. I see that LRA and the Museveni regime have now joined together in orchestrating this smear campaign.
The purpose of this vicious campaign of smear and vilification against me is to intimidate me (and others who dare to speak the truth about Museveni's Uganda), to silence and discredit my message and revelations.
As you know, I have never been a member or supporter of LRA. For a detailed discussion of all aspects of this subject, I refer you to my recent interview in The Weekly Observer (29 March). On the contrary, I have always condemned in the strongest terms, massacres, maiming and abduction of children by LRA. Similarly, I have exposed and denounced the horrendous crimes committed by the Museveni regime, specifically its genocide and trail of massacres.
Certain narratives have been carefully fashioned to promote disinformation. I reject, for example, the invidious narrative, which is vigorously promoted by the Museveni regime and bears a simple formula: If you are ethnic Acoli, then, by definition, you are LRA. By the same logic, LRA is portrayed as representing the Acoli! This is an integral part of the campaign of ethnic demonisation and the stratagem of divide-and-rule.
I also reject the notion that: If you condemn LRA atrocities, this means that you are pro-Museveni; and if you expose Museveni 's genocide and other crimes, then you must be LRA supporter! This is a cynical moral trap. It is a contrived dichotomy, a false choice, which has only comforted a deep culture of silence and impunity.
It is imperative that the leaderships of both the Museveni regime and LRA be held fully accountable for what they have done. In Lwo jurisprudence, there is no contradiction between accountability and reconciliation. Indeed, the two are aligned. Above all, impunity (atimo nyong, do!) is never, ever accepted.
That is why I am very disturbed by Joseph Kony's persistent denials of LRA atrocities and abduction of children. How painful for victims and families to hear these incredible denials. I urge Kony to personally and directly level with the victim communities. I urge him to own up to the abductions and other atrocities committed by his men.
Kony needs to reciprocate the incredible magnanimity manifested by the victim communities. Although they have suffered unbelievably, they have chosen the painful path of dialogue and accountability, leading to forgiveness and reconciliation. With or without the spectre of ICC, Kony needs to respond directly and in kind to this extraordinary gesture. At a very fundamental level, this local reckoning is most critical and will define the future.
The much discussed (and much misunderstood) mato oput does not countenance impunity at all. On the contrary, mato oput is predicated on full acceptance of one's responsibility for the crime or taboo committed. In Lwo jurisprudence, redemption is possible, but it passes necessarily through this voluntary admission of wrongdoing, acceptance of responsibility, and the seeking of forgiveness, which then opens the way for healing and renewal.
The time has come for urgent soul-searching and response by the LRA leadership on this issue. This will require real courage (amo coo kikome), the kind demonstrated by the victim communities.
The very conduct of the NRM / LRA war also calls for serious scrutiny.
UPDF easily mounted a massive invasion and occupation of DRC; it occupies southern Sudan; and is now in Somalia. It is simply not convincing to contend that, for over 15 years, with massive budgets, and significant military aid and hardware, UPDF has lacked the capability to defeat a struggling LRA, which enjoys no popular support and is composed mostly of abducted children. This is a case of 'unwilling,' not 'unable.'
It is also very striking that throughout this war, UPDF and LRA have rarely engaged each other, while both concentrate on committing unspeakable atrocities against civilians.
Most important, the NRM/ LRA war has served as pretext and cover for Museveni's preconceived genocide project. There is a longstanding relationship (covert and overt) between the Museveni regime and LRA leadership.
It is now well documented that great ' facilitation' has been at play for many years: monies have been secretly delivered directly from State House to LRA leaders; extensive satellite airtime has been provided; and families of some LRA leaders have been under direct support by Museveni. LRA leaders, like Banya and Kolo, upon exiting the bush, have been accorded unusual VIP treatment, and all have become Museveni's strong allies. During the Besigye treason trial, government produced, at the drop of a hat, a whole line of LRA operatives as state witnesses. I ask you: what has really been going on?
For the sake of the victims, full light must be shed on the nature, scope, and duration of this special relationship.
I strongly support the Juba peace process. I have great respect for the mediator, Dr. Riek Machar. In this context, may I impress to your attention, some preoccupations.
First, the most urgent issue, barring none, is ending the genocide. Concretely, this must begin with the immediate dismantling (not decongesting) of all concentration camps.
This requires an organized programme of return to wii obur (long-abandoned homesteads), provision of resettlement supplies, international monitoring team, and adequate security arrangements.
With the cessation of hostilities and the withdrawal of LRA from Ugandan territory, following the government's own logic, there is no longer any pretext for holding people in concentration camps. I ask you: why then is the dismantling of the camps not front-and-center of the Juba talks?
Second, the victim communities, through their legitimate representatives (not the Museveni regime or LRA) have the highest stake in certain critical issues—genocide and its aftermath; war crimes; truth- telling and accountability; resettlement and recovery; a 'Marshall' reconstruction fund and programme; Museveni's apartheid policy of 'two countries within one'; land; and reparations.
There is need for a two-phase peace process, incorporating this broader agenda and participation. Only this can lead to an authentic and comprehensive political settlement.
Mr. Ojul, it would be helpful for you to clarify LRA thinking on the issues raised in this letter.
For my part, I will continue to press for full responsibility and accountability for the crimes committed by both the Museveni regime and LRA leadership. We owe this to the victims of Museveni's genocide and LRA's atrocities.
Olara A. Otunnu, former UN Under-Secretary General, is president of LBL Foundation for Children.
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As several rivers across Midwest and Great Plains are set to crest, a federal judge in Cape Girardeau, Mo., has given the US Army Corps of Engineers the green light to blast openings in a levee along the Mississippi River to ease the flood risk to cities and towns downstream.
The approach highlights a tool that hydrologists and environmental groups have advocated for years to reduce long-term flood risks: removing levees at strategic locations to allow floodwaters to spread into a river's flood plain.
It's a strategy being adopted elsewhere, notably in the Netherlands. Its advocates say it not only relieves stress on the remaining levees by lowering flood heights upstream and downstream, but it could also reduce the amount of soil and nutrients spring floods flush into the Gulf of Mexico. Researchers point to the nutrient runoff as the culprit behind a dead zone that builds each year off the Louisiana coast.
But the notion runs afoul of residents – including farmers who work the fertile flood plains – who see the levees as sentinels protecting their homes, farms, and businesses.
"The big challenge to doing this is the fact that these flood plains are privately owned. People have made significant investments, including generations of families' time, turning them into productive farms," says Jeffrey Opperman, an ecologist and a senior adviser to The Nature Conservancy, which is testing the concept along the Ouachita River, a Mississippi River tributary, in northern Louisiana.
Any successful approach, he says, must be "very consistent with private-property rights."
The Corps has yet to decide if it will go ahead with the plan. But its preparations for routing water onto the flood plain on the west bank of the Mississippi between Cairo, Ill., and New Madrid, Mo., highlights the challenges.
The Missouri plan
Spring snowmelt from record winter snows in the northern US are coursing down the Mississippi, while the storm system that devastated the South brought heavy rain to an already saturated Ohio Valley. This is feeding into the Ohio River, which meets the Mississippi at Cairo.
Ordinarily, during peak flows, the Ohio River – which also receives flow from the Tennessee River – sends roughly 10 times more water into the Mississippi River than the Mississippi above the junction provides. This year's snowmelt and storms have only added to that influx.
At the center of the debate is the Bird Point–New Madrid Floodway, a 130,000 acre patch of farmed river bottom designed as a flood-control tool. The floodway is one of three located along the lower Mississippi river. They were established after a Mississippi flood in 1927 killed nearly 250 people across 10 states, an acknowledgment that under severe conditions, levees alone were unlikely to keep floodwaters at manageable levels.
The floodway is flood-plain land bounded by two levees that form essentially a giant tub, with an open outlet at the southern end. Already, rising floodwaters near New Madrid have started to back into the tub from its "drain," according to residents.
When floodwaters rise too high, threatening to overtop levees protecting cities and towns upstream and downstream, the Mississippi River Commission has the authority to ask the corps to use explosives to open an inlet to the tub on its northernmost end. Floodwaters are forecast exceed levels reached during the 1927 flood and another devastating flood 10 years later.
The 130,000 acres that would be affected by the decision fall within Missouri, whose attorney general filed suit in federal court earlier this week as the Corps began to move barges into position to prepare and install the explosives. His counterparts from Illinois and Tennessee, with riverside cities threatened if floodwaters rise to the forecast levels, intervened on behalf of the Corps.
During a meeting Wednesday, the head of the Mississippi River Commission, Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh, told unhappy residents who live inside the floodway that the levee system at Birds Point has never seen the amount of pressure floodwaters are putting on it, according to local press reports of the meeting. Those conditions are forecast to linger for up to 10 days. The floodway is home to some 200 people.
The Corps is doing all it can along the tributaries feeding the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to reduce the flows, Walsh said.
In a 12-page ruling, federal district court judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr., denied Missouri's plea for a temporary restraining order against the Corps, noting that "the Corps is committed to implementing the Plan 'only as absolutely essential to provide the authorized protection to all citizens.' Furthermore, this Court finds that no aspect of the Corps' response to these historic floods suggests arbitrary or capricious decision-making is occurring."
Experiment on the Ouachita River
While the region holds its collective breath to see how the floodwaters behave, a project planned from the outset to control floods and restore the ecological health of the flood plain is underway along a stretch Ouachita River in northern Louisiana.
The project involves some 16,000 acres of land surrounded by a ring levee some 16 miles long and 30 feet high. Its potential for flood control became obvious in 1991, when record flooding on the Ouachita breached the levee and filled the man-made basin. Within 24 hours of the breach, river levels at Monroe, La., 20 miles downstream had dropped markedly, says Joseph McGowan, manager of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, which oversees the tract.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service bought the tract with financial help from the Nature Conservancy to reforest the area and incorporate it into the wildlife refuge. But after heavy rains periodically filled the basin, drowning many saplings, the FWS and TNC breached the levee in multiple places to restore more-natural flows.
Costs prevent the removal of the entire levee, and flood waters aren't like to wash it away – potentially complicating the task of returning the land to the mix of plant and animal life that existed prior to it becoming farmland in the 1960s, acknowledges John Carr, a biologist at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, one of several scientists undertaking a long-term monitoring program to track the tract's ecological health.
Still, the land will do what the Army Corps of Engineers hopes the Bird Point–New Madrid Floodway will do farther upriver. Says Dr. Carr: "It will hold a lot of water."


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Islanders Go West — 22 Miles From Uniondale, Long Island To Brooklyn, NY
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October 24, 2012: Another Day, another team for Brooklyn. This time, Barclays Center welcomed the NHL's New York Islanders, a franchise that has been around since 1972 and won four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980-83.
The news came just eight days before the Brooklyn Nets officially open their first NBA season in the newly built venue, a Nov. 1 home game against the cross-town rival New York Knicks.
The Islanders, under the ownership of businessman Charles Wang, have been seeking to either move from or have its home arena Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum renovated. This past August, a proposal to have a new arena built was rejected by voters.
The move became a reality at a press conference on Wednesday that was attended by Wang, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Barclays Center developer and majority owner Bruce Ratner, Brooklyn borough president Marty Markowitz and Barclays Center and Brooklyn Nets CEO Brett Yormark.
The move itself is scheduled to take place in time for the 2015-16 NHL season. The Islanders current lease at Nassau Coliseum, which the team has called home since 1972, expires in 2015.
The new deal at Barclays Center is for 25 years and is, as Wang himself stated, "iron-clad." However, it still must be approved by the NHL's Board of Governors.
"Our goal from the outset was to have the Islanders play in a local, world-class facility that possesses the amenities our fans deserve," Wang said during the media event, standing in front of a curtain adorned with the logos of the Islands and Barclays Center. "I'm happy to announce we achieve that goal with today's announcement."
According to Yormark, "Today we begin taking season-ticket orders for the Islanders 2015-16 season."
Seating for hockey will be 14,500 but executives already discussed adding about 500 more seats.
Ironically, a pre-season game at Barclays Center between the Islanders and the New Jersey Devils scheduled for Oct. 2 was canceled due to the NHL lockout, a result of the on-going contract dispute between the league and the NHL Players Assn.
"Charles got offers to move the team out of our state, and very good offers, and Charles wouldn't do that," said Ratner, who is also a part-owner of the Nets alongside majority owner Mikhail Prokhorov. "Charles wanted to keep them in the state of New York, local. Charles Wang is the real hero today. He has kept this team in New York state. So we welcome the Islanders. We welcome their fans. We welcome the new Brooklyn fans and we're all going to enjoy hockey here. It's a wonderful thing for everybody."
When asked if executives at Nassau Coliseum and politicians in Nassau County had been blindsided by the move, Wang replied, "This should come as no surprise. It's well known that we've been looking to move for some time."
"I know [Charles Wang] has spent the better part of a decade in pursuit of a new local home for the Islanders because he is passionate about this area," said Bettman. "To finally be in position to say to New York Islander fans you don't have to worry about the future of this club, the club is staying local, you'll be able to get to it easily — for us, for Islander fans, I know for Charles and Bruce Ratner is a dream come true."
After some eight years on the drawing board and under construction, Barclays Center opened with a Jay-Z concert on Sept. 28. The Brooklyn-born Jay-Z, who owns a minority interest in the Nets, played eight concerts, which were followed by two concerts by Barbra Streisand, another Brooklyn-born performer.
"We welcome the Islanders. We welcome their fans. We welcome the new Brooklyn fans and we're all going to enjoy hockey here."
In addition to naming-rights holder Barclays, venue founding partners include American Express, Calvin Klein, Cushman & Wakefield, EmblemHealth, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Geico, Honda, MetroPCS, TicketMaster and Stolichnaya.
Other sponsors include Anheuser-Busch, Coca-Cola, Haier America, HighPoint Solutions, New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Red Bull, Sony, Tyco and Willis.
Wang reminded attendees at the media conference that when the Islanders came into existence in 1972, the then New York Nets were tenants in the Nassau Coliseum until 1977, when the Nets moved to New Jersey. "This announcement today reunites these two franchises," said Wang.
Participants in the announcement maintained the mantra that Barclays Center was easily accessible to fans via the Long Island Rail Road and some 11 subway lines within yards of the venue's front door. That would include fans who live on Long Island and might be feeling left behind by the move.
"I took the subway here. It is easy to get here," said Bloomberg. "There is more mass transit under this building than any other stadium in New York City, and that makes it more accessible for everybody. The fans from the team's current home in Nassau County can just take the LIRR, it stops just right across the street."
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Having played massively multiplayer online games for more than a decade, I've developed an extremely low tolerance for boredom, and the endless sand dunes of Tatooine, where my level 26 Jedi Shadow Accel is currently languishing, aren't exactly a bastion of excitement. Sure there are Sand People to battle, Jawas to haggle with, and the odd Sarlacc pit to circumnavigate, but everything's brown in this world. It's like Thanksgiving dinner, rich and delicious but ultimately sleep-inducing.
But is it just Tatooine? I abandoned my level 23 Gunslinger on the colourful moon of Nar Shaddaa, the Las Vegas of the galaxy, filled with flashing neon and female aliens of questionable morals. If any place could hold my attention, that would be it. Still I find myself bored.
Is it a level thing? Am I devouring the game too fast and choking on it, or have I just not found the character class for me?
For answers I turn to the dark side of The Force.
One core factor that separates The Old Republic from say, World of Warcraft, is that while either the Alliance or the Horde have reasons to consider themselves the good guys in their never-ending conflict, the Sith Empire are clearly the baddies in The Old Republic's universe. Even if you decide to make decisions that lean squarely on the light side of The Force, as a member of the Empire you're guaranteed to do some pretty evil stuff.
Take Dymars, my Sith Juggernaut, for instance. Over the course of his 18 level career he's murdered countless innocents, unleashed horrible dark forces on his own faction, slaughtered his rivals, and fostered a master-slave relationship that has to been seen to be believed.
Then there's my Sith Sorcerer, Rubygloom (the bright side of the Dark Side!). She's the brightest, happiest Sith you've ever met, but still she's been forced to kill to maintain her position, something that clearly falls on the side of evil.
If international terrorist organisation Cobra taught us anything it's that evil is always tons cooler than good. That's certainly the case in The Old Republic. The clothes are sexier. The powers and skills, while similar in function to their Republic counterparts, are much more impressive. The dynamic between the player character and their NPC companions is more intriguing, with certain relationships verging on the truly disturbing (more on that later).
Does cooler equal more entertaining? So far it certainly does. Rather than being driven forward by the story or mission-giving characters, I feel motivated to continue playing simply to see how horrific my characters' behaviour becomes. Will the novelty last? Let's hope so; I plan on taking a Sith character all the way to The Old Republic's endgame.
The Story So Far...
I've now leveled all character types to at least level 10 with the exception of the Imperial Agent and Republic Trooper. My highest level character is my level 26 Jedi Shadow, followed by a level 23 Gunslinger and a level 18 Sith Marauder.
Now three weeks into my four week journey, I'm still enjoying the starship battles, the crafting, and group Flashpoints, while I'm still struggling to find a class I fully enjoy and player-versus-player combat is still an ugly mess that I find no enjoyment in whatsoever.
With only one week left in my journey to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, it's now crunch time. I'll be spending the rest of my time seeing how far I can progress one of my Sith characters. It's level 50 or Force Choke for this MMO addict!


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| Hail to the Chef!
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Hail to the Chef! (Japanese: ニューラとバリヤード!どっちのレストラン!? Nyula and Barrierd! Whose Restaurant!?) is the 141st episode of the Advanced Generation series, and the 415th episode of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 1, 2005 and in the United States on June 3, 2006.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
Chasing after a hungry Munchlax, Ash and his friends end up at Rhonda's, a restaurant run by a girl named Rhonda with Mr. Mime as its head chef. Team Rocket stumbles across another restaurant, Rhoda's, run by a girl named Rhoda with Sneasel as its head chef. Meowth quickly takes a disliking to Sneasel, but Jessie and James want it for Team Rocket.
Back at Rhonda's, Mr. Mime puts on a fantastic show for Ash and company, but the food is terrible. Over at Rhoda's, Sneasel's food looks terrible, but it tastes fantastic—except for Meowth's, because Sneasel purposely made him a horrible meal. The two start to fight, breaking through the restaurant wall and right into Rhonda's. Rhonda and Rhoda are actually twin sisters who split up the family restaurant; Rhoda accuses Rhonda, and they challenge each other to see who deserves to run the place.
Team Rocket coaches Sneasel while Brock advises Mr. Mime, and after a night's practice it's time to allez cuisine! Mr. Mime's presentation is great, but now Sneasel also puts on a show. It looks like a close battle until Team Rocket steals the chefs and Pikachu too! Team Rocket hops in their balloon to make a getaway, but Rhonda tells Mr. Mime to use Trick and Psychic. This frees all three Pokémon, who head home and send Team Rocket packing along the way.
Impressed, Rhoda leaves the restaurant to Rhonda. But Rhonda makes Rhoda co-manager and Sneasel the head chef; with everyone working together, the restaurant is now better than ever! And after a wonderful meal, Ash and his friends can happily continue on their way.
As the group walks along a path in the middle of a forest, May expresses her excitement about the Contest, which Ash says that she'll do great in. May talks about the exciting new challenges she will face in Kanto's Contest Halls, and a vision of Drew appears in her mind to remind her that she is not alone in her dream. Suddenly, Munchlax pops out of its Poké Ball, starts to smell something delicious the air, and then runs off in search of its source. May tells Munchlax to slow down, and runs off after her Pokémon. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is seen slowly walking through the same forest, tired and starving. Jessie and James fall to the ground, and Jessie complains how much hard work it is tracking Ash and his friends. However, their attention is brought away from Ash as Jessie spots what appears to be a restaurant not far away. The three villains instantly run towards the building, excited at the thought of all the delicious food before Jessie stops them and reminds James and Meowth that they have no money. James and Meowth, unable to stop in time, slam straight into the restaurant's door and fall dejectedly onto the floor. The door opens and a pretty girl greets them and invites them in, saying her name is Rhoda. Rhoda says that today is her restaurant's grand opening and all of the meals are free, to Team Rocket's delight.
Meanwhile, Munchlax has found what it was looking for, and has stopped in front of what appears to be another restaurant. May blushes and says that she knows how Munchlax feels. The doors open, and a girl and her Mr. Mime smile and welcome them in, introducing herself as Rhonda. Max eyes the Mr. Mime with interest, and the girl explains that the Mr. Mime is the chef of the restaurant. The girl goes onto explains that they will not only get a good meal, but an amazing performance too as the Pokémon can cook with style. Brock, as usual, proclaims his love for the girl, who nervously smiles and tries to find a table for them. Brock then has a fantasy of them sitting alone together, with a delicious meal before Max interrupts.
While Ash and his friends have just found the Mr. Mime restaurant, Team Rocket is already inside and sitting down at the one they discovered. It seems that much like the one belonging to Rhonda, the chef is also a Pokémon. This time, a Sneasel. As they sit down, the girl mentions a Pokémon Contest, and Jessie's interest perks up. Meowth says that Jessie is interested in Contests too, and Rhoda instantly runs back, shocked at the talking Pokémon. Jessie explains that that was just their stomachs growling and tells Rhoda that she is a top coordinator. Rhoda instantly runs back over to the group, excited at meeting such a famous person. She suddenly remembers that she must get the menu, and runs off, apologizing. Over at the kitchen, the Pokémon chef, Sneasel, looks on snickering to itself. The group looks over, noticing the Sneasel for the first time. Meowth begins to talk again, and Jessie hits him, telling the cat to keep its mouth shut so as not to scare the girl off again, especially if they want free food. The Sneasel laughs again, this time at Meowth, and Meowth becomes angry at Sneasel and mocks it. The two Pokémon argue and insult each other, but are stopped when Rhoda comes back in with the menu. She explains that her Sneasel is an amazing cook, and Jessie and James become excited at the prospect of tasting some of it.
Ash and his friends are sitting inside Rhonda's restaurant, waiting for the performance to start. The curtains are pulled back and the group looks on in wonder at all the cooking equipment. Rhonda tells Mr. Mime to start, and the Psychic Pokémon does so, using its Psychic abilities to cook, stir, and chop the ingredients. Sneasel has already finished cooking its meal though; it seems to consist of a simple meat dish with sauce. Team Rocket look on, a little underwhelmed having been told that Sneasel was an amazing chef. James tries a little, and he starts to blush and marvel at how delicious the food actually is. Jessie tries some too, and agrees, with her eyes becoming large and sparkly. Meowth, seeing that Jessie and James seem to like it, tries some. He doesn't have the same reaction however, and finds the food disgusting. As they finish their first meal, Rhoda brings some more food, this time meatballs. Jessie and James try some, and once again find the food delicious. Meowth dumps his meatballs down his throat all in one bite, but is forced to drink all of his water as he finds the food alarmingly hot. Suspecting that some trickery is afoot, he steals one of Jessie's meatballs and eats it. Expecting it to taste horrible, he's shocked to find how delicious it is. Meowth instantly becomes angry however, as he realizes that Sneasel must have made his food nasty on purpose.
Unlike Sneasel's rather plain-looking food, the meal that Mr. Mime has cooked up looks delicious and extremely edible. The group looks on, amazed at such an appealing meal. The group digs in as soon as their dishes are served, but instantly fall back in their chairs. Even Munchlax, who would eat nearly anything, falls over in dismay. It seems that while the food looks delicious, it actually tastes disgusting. Rhonda apologizes, and just at that moment, Meowth comes crashing through the wall followed by Sneasel. The two Pokémon are fighting, and Rhoda desperately tells Sneasel to stop, but to no avail. Sneasel jumps past her, knocking her over and into Brock's arms who mistakes her for Rhonda. The real Rhonda then runs up, wondering what her sister is doing here, and Brock looks at the two twins confused before Rhoda explains that she and Rhonda are twin sisters. It seems that the two restaurants are part of the same building, but are separated by a wall. Jessie and James walk through the hole in the wall, and the two groups are shocked to see each other. Rhoda then walks over to the meal that Rhonda's Mr. Mime created and remarks that it looks good, but doesn't taste good. She tells her sister that her Pokémon focuses way too much on putting on a show instead of making the food taste right. The two sisters argue over whether presentation or taste is most important in preparing food. Meowth then steps in and suggests a cooking competition.
That night, Team Rocket speaks with Rhoda, who explains to them that while the food her Sneasel prepares is delicious, it has problems with making it look so and worries that it cannot put on the same performance as her sister's Mr. Mime can. Jessie and James wonder if they could help, and Rhoda excitedly says that with the help of a Top Coordinator such as Jessie, she cannot fail. Jessie smugly says that she will help, and James looks on, confused at his partner's sudden sense of good will. Jessie, sensing this, whispers in his ear that they can use this as an excuse to stick around and find a way to steal Sneasel, Mr. Mime, and Pikachu.
Meanwhile, Ash and friends are talking to Rhonda, who explains that she has the opposite of her sister's problem. While her Pokémon can make food look delicious, Mr. Mime has problems actually making it taste good. She begs Brock to help her improve Mr. Mime's cooking ability, and Brock says that he understands and will help as much as he can. Rhonda thanks him, and they instantly get to work. A little later, Mr. Mime is preparing some stew under Brock's supervision. Mr. Mime, who up until that point had been stirring the meal by itself, tries to use its Psychic power to add flavoring. Brock stops it however, explaining that it must rely on its own cooking ability, and master the art by itself without help from its Psychic powers. After all, it's trying to improve its cooking ability, not put on a performance. As Brock explains that to Mr. Mime, Jessie is doing the same for Sneasel. Having prepared a huge block of ice, she tells the Pokémon to make a sculpture out of it. Sneasel does so, slashing at the block of ice with its claws to make an ice sculpture of itself. James remarks that it's rather small however (smaller than a salt shaker even), as they need magnifying glasses to see it.
Back with Brock and Mr. Mime, Brock tells Mr. Mime to taste the stew to check if it needs any extra flavoring. Team Rocket however, are putting ridiculous makeup on Sneasel and getting it to try on lots of different, stylish clothes. The two Pokémon work throughout the night, perfecting their techniques. The next day, the competition begins, with Brock and Meowth acting as referees and Ash, May, Max, Jessie and James acting as the tasters. Brock explains that the object of the Contest is to not only make a delicious meal, but to also put on a performance. He tells the two Pokémon to start, and they rush off to their respective food piles and start cooking. Jessie and James wish Sneasel luck, and Meowth does the same for Mr. Mime, but is stopped by Brock who tells him that he must remain neutral. The two groups look on amazed at the two Pokémon, who both seem to have perfected the things that the other could do.
The Contest soon gets into full flow, but is stopped when a black whip grabs hold of Sneasel, Pikachu, and Mr. Mime; it is Team Rocket. The three Pokémon are thrown into small cages and the two villains laugh. They start their motto, but stop in the middle as they wait for Meowth to do his line. Jessie, angry that their performance was stopped, whips Meowth over and asks it why he didn't do his line. Meowth says that he was confused as to why they were helping Sneasel, and James tells him that that was just a ruse to get close to Pikachu. They continue and finish their motto, with Meowth's spirit and confidence restored. Rhoda asks what they are doing, and Jessie explains that this was their plan all along. Rhonda tells Team Rocket to give back her and her sister's Pokémon, but Team Rocket ignore them and jump out of the window into a balloon waiting for them. Ash, frustrated, tells Pikachu to use Thunderbolt. The attack is useless however, as the cage is electricity-proof. May then sends out Combusken and Brock sends out Mudkip to use a combination of Fire Spin and Water Gun, but Jessie laughs as the attacks cannot reach them. Jessie starts to mock them, twirling the key around her finger while James cries happily. Back on the ground, Rhonda tells her sister to let her handle the situation, and shouts to Mr. Mime to get the key with Trick. Mr. Mime's ladle ends up twirling around Jessie's finger for a moment before it smacks her in the head. Grinning, Max explains that Trick switches an opponent's tools with your own. Mr. Mime then uses Psychic on the key to open the whole cage, and the three Pokémon jump out, but not before Sneasel slices the balloon with its claws, which sends Team Rocket blasting off again.
The three Pokémon land safely, and their Trainers run over to them happily. Rhoda tells her sister that she is grateful to her and content with handing full control of their father's restaurant over to Rhonda. Rhoda apologizes to Sneasel, and tells her sister to do her best. As Rhoda walks off, Rhonda looks on sadly, and calls out to her twin sister. Rhonda says that there's no need for her to leave; they can run the restaurant together, as a team. The episode ends with the group sitting inside the now-combined restaurant, where Sneasel and Mr. Mime are happily working together to create a meal for the whole group to enjoy.
Major events
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
Pokémon Trainer's Choice: Dustox
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
- Chimecho (James's)
- Combusken (May's)
- Munchlax (May's)
- Mudkip (Brock's)
- Mr. Mime (Rhonda's)
- Sneasel (Rhoda's)
- When Team Rocket is in their balloon after capturing the three Pokémon, the song that Jessie sings to mock the people on the ground is to the tune of the series ending theme, Pokémon Counting Song.
- Exciting Pokémon Relay was used in the cooking competition scenes.
- This is the final episode in which Lindsey Warner voices Brock's Mudkip.
- Nearly a week before this episode's U.S. debut, Weavile and Mime Jr.'s names were released. They happen to be the evolved form and pre-evolved form of the two main Pokémon in this episode.
- The episode's title is a pun of the name of the presidential anthem of the United States, "Hail to the Chief".
- This is the second time that Meowth has been worried about being replaced by a Sneasel.
- The ending credits list Jessie's Seviper and James's Cacnea as being in the episode, when in fact they never appeared.
- In one scene during the motto, James's hair is not completely drawn and colored.
- In one shot, Ash and company are wondering when Mr. Mime's show will begin and they will be served food, even though food is already on the table. The food disappears in the next shot.
- In Latin American dub, Mr. Mime is called "Señor Mime", previously happen in Showdown at the Oak Corral and The Scheme Team.
Dub edits
Pokémon Trainer's Choice
- Question: Trainers, which Pokémon is not a Flying type?
- Choices: Swellow, Dustox, Masquerain
- Answer: OK, Trainers! If you chose Dustox, you were right!
In other languages
|Mandarin Chinese
|For mange kokke!
|Voor het keukenblok!
|Hurraa kokille!
|European French
|Un combat de chefs
|Duell am Herd!
|קרב השפים
|Gara di cucina
|마임맨과 포푸니의 요리 대결!
|Hyllest til kokken!
|Brazilian Portuguese
|Salve o Chefe!
|Latin America
|¡Vivan los chefs!
|Felicitaciones al chef
|Länge leve kocken!
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.


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Lumberton to get new ER
Lumberton is getting a state-of-the-art emergency room with a touch of small-town care.
According to an Altus press release, the company will break ground Sept. 25 and begin building the 10,000 square-foot complex, which will include a trauma room, eight treatment rooms, lab services, a triage unit, radiology suite, pharmacy and year-round emergency room services.
No major healthcare infrastructure or hospitals have been available to Lumberton residents since at least 1999, Altus said in the press release.
"We are extremely excited to be a part of Lumberton's growth," said Altus' regional executive Kevin Herrington in a statement.
He said the new facility offers residents an excellent alternative to lengthy wait times or having to drive to Beaumont.
Herrington added that Southeast Texas Medical Associates patients will now have even more access to medical services in Southeast Texas. In conjunction with the emergency center project, SETMA plans to build a professional medical office facility that will include laboratory and X-ray services supporting three physicians and a nurse practitioner, with additional providers added as necessary.
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Dr. Graça discusses the future of volleyball in Argentina
Mar del Plata, Argentina, July 19, 2013 - In his first day in Argentina attending the 2013 FIVB World League Finals, Dr. Ary S. Graça F° (President of the International Volleyball Federation) was welcomed by Gustavo Pulti (Mayor of the General Pueyrredon Region) at the government headquarters.
Juan Antonio Gutierrez (President of the Argentine Volleyball Federation), Horacio Taccone, (President of the Ente Municipal de Deportes y Recreación) and Pablo Garcia, (Finals Local Organising Committee member) also attended the meeting.
Their discussions touched upon the importance of sport in today's society especially in giving youngsters options for the future. They all also noted the boost in the popularity of volleyball.
Gustavo Pulti emphasised the importance of volleyball for the city and thanked the FIVB, its President and the Argentine officials for supporting the decision to host the Finals in Mar del Plata and hoped that the city would welcome future sports events. "Mar del Plata is open for new challenges. We feel we have proved this test and we have the vocation to go on with these kinds of important international events."
Dr. Graça went onto say, "We have to make volleyball grow in Argentina first, especially at the women's level. You have very good schools. And volleyball encourages children to play together. It is socially interesting. Volleyball is the sport we all need especially as it helps give us a society feeling. Then, we have to make a programme together." Mr Pulti was in full agreement with this and hoped that discussions would continue on the topic.
As Juan Antonio Gutierrez, FeVA President pointed out, "We completely identify with this project at the world level. If FeVA would not have had the support of the City Hall Mayor, with the active presence of Mr. Taccone and all his staff at the Organising Committee, it would have been impossible to reach this event with such infrastructure. We are very thankful to everyone that made this great volleyball party possible."
Talking about the development of volleyball all over the World, Dr. Graça went on to develop his ideas saying, "We have to have a very strong Argentine Volleyball Federation. In the year 1982 we had a World Championship here that was very successful and then the work stopped. In the year 2002 we had another World Championship again, once more very successful and unhappily that work also did not go on. It is proved that Argentines are very competitive. The Beach Volleyball Grand Slam of the World Tour held in Corrientes was a complete success, and this proves my words. This is part of a development project and we have to support those that work in this area. This will develop the sport in the region. Argentina is important politically and technically. Argentina must return to its utmost."


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Tens of thousands fled their homes Saturday in Bosnia and Serbia, evacuated by boat or helicopter as rising waters surged into villages and towns. Authorities said the record flooding killed at least 20 people and the death toll could rise further.
Meteorologists say the flooding is the worst since records began 120 years ago and is due to a three-month amount of rain that fell on the region in just three days. Goran Mihajlovic from Serbia's Weather Center told The Associated Press that such a rainfall happens once in 100 years.
In the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina, some 10,000 people were being evacuated Saturday after the rain-swollen Sava River pushed through flood defenses. Mayor Mico Micic appealed for help, saying "we need everything, we are under water."
Officials in Bosnia say 12 people died and more bodies could emerge as water recedes from the dozens of cities flooded in the past three days. In some places, floodwaters had reached the second floor of people's homes and they had to be rescued by helicopter from their roofs.
In Serbia, which saw eight deaths, emergency crews and soldiers were using boats and helicopters to rescue thousands trapped in the town of Obrenovac, near Belgrade. Officials said more than 15,000 people have been evacuated so far from the flood-hit regions, most of them finding shelter in schools and sports halls.
The flooding in Obrenovac is threatening the Nikola Tesla power plant, Serbia's biggest. Plant capacity had already been cut after a nearby coal mine was flooded.
The rain eased in some parts Saturday but Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a press conference that new flood wave on the Sava River will hit Sunday evening.
"Our primary concern is to protect the power plant," said Vucic. "We are doing all we can."
Thousands of volunteers have responded to government's appeal to help build up flood defenses along the Sava. Bused in from all over the country, the volunteers spent the night building sandbag barricades with soldiers and emergency crews.
One volunteer from Belgrade, Nemanja Radovic, came to Sremska Mitrovica, a town on the Sava.
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Residents in both countries have mobilized through Facebook or other social media, collecting tons of food, blankets and clothing for the crisis-hit areas.
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Wareham (front) and Stokes (back) contributed to Harvard's sixth-place finish at the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship (photo courtesy Rob Migliaccio).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – In some of the closest sailing of the fall season, Harvard's coed team notched a sixth-place finish at the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship, hosted by Navy over the weekend. The Crimson also posted a 12th-place finish at the Women's Atlantic Coast Championships. The Atlantic Coast Championships mark the conclusion of the fall season for Harvard.
A quartet of Crimson seniors took to the water against 17 other schools at the Atlantic Coast Dinghy Championship. Alan Palmer and Quincy Bock sailed in the A division for Harvard, while John Stokes and Meghan Wareham represented the Crimson in the B division. The duo of Palmer and Bock recorded a score of 66 over the course of eight races.
The A division required high-quality sailing on a consistent basis, as fifth through 11th places were separated by only 28 points. Palmer and Bock's seventh-place finish was just two points behind Brown in sixth and trailed fifth-place College of Charleston by seven points.
In similarly close fashion, the first-place B division squad from Georgetown finished just 18 points ahead of Stokes and Wareham in seventh. The Harvard pair finished lower than ninth only once over the course of eight races. Navy finished sixth with 55 points, two ahead of Harvard. Brown finished fifth just behind Roger Williams with 54 and 51 points, respectively. Georgetown captured the overall title, wining both divisions and finishing with 66 total points.
Four other Harvard sailors competed at the Women's Atlantic Coast Championship. Juniors Emily Lambert and Alexandra Jumper tallied 119 points, one ahead of seventh-place Yale in the A division. Over the course of 15 races, the pair finished in the top five on five occasions. Harvard freshmen Morgan Russom and Caitlin Watson sailed in the B division, finishing 16th.


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Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping* (2007)Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
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Floodplain maps serve as the basis for determining whether homes or buildings require flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Approximately $650 billion in insured assets are now covered under the program. Under a funded mandate from Congress, FEMA is modernizing floodplain maps to better serve the program. However, concerns have been raised to Congress as to the adequacy of the "base map" information available to support floodplain map modernization. The National Research Council initiated this study to advise Congress and the nation on this issue. The report concludes that there is sufficient two-dimensional "base map imagery" available from digital orthophotos (aerial and satellite photographs similar to those viewed on Google Earth) to meet FEMA's flood map modernization goals. However, the three-dimensional "base elevation data" that are needed to determine whether a building should have flood insurance are not adequate. FEMA needs land surface elevation data that are about ten times more accurate than data currently available for most of the nation. The report recommends that new, high-accuracy digital elevation data be collected nationwide using laser measurements from aircraft (lidar technology). The new data should be input into the National Elevation Dataset that the U.S. Geological Survey maintains for use in support of flood map modernization and other applications.
Key Messages
- The nation's information for land surface elevation is inadequate to support FEMA's Map Modernization and that new national digital elevation data collection is required.
- The committee proposes that this program be called Elevation for the Nation to parallel the existing Imagery for the Nation concept.


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Kris.gholson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 263 diseños de 75 diseñadores freelance.
Springhaus Software
Springhaus Software will be my outlet for creative expression. I'm a frustrated coder by day that works a 9-5 job and have lots of ideas for cool new web applications, iPhone and Android apps. Since I don't get to act on those in my day job, I've formed Springhaus Software to give me a brand name to develop these applications under. I'd love to make a bit of a profit from these as I do and potentially abandon my 9-5 job at some point. Some of the app ideas that I've considered include location-based services, a Facebook app for polling friends opinions, and a social networking site that tries to bring together those excited about growing and trading food locally. Many of these will require future logos for those products so I look forward to posting future work to 99designs.
Although, Springhaus Software is currently a shop of one, I look forward to bringing on like-minded software developers/entrepreneurs in the future, so I really need a logo that will stick with people. It should be iconic (think Apple's logo) and portray the idea that Springhaus Software is a fountain for new and cool applications in a variety of content areas. Ideas "spring forth" from our creative genius.
First and foremost, the Springhaus Software logo will be featured on other products and websites that Springhaus Software creates - so the audience will be consumers interested in using our created applications. The first application that I will tackle will be a Facebook app for polling friends opinions, so Facebook users will likely be the first potential viewers of the Springhaus Software logo. We'll be the company behind this and other web/mobile applications.
I need a logo that is somewhat iconic and can be used in the footer/credits for applications that Springhaus Software creates.
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"The leads are weak," Jack Lemmon's character, Shelley Levene, tells Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross."
Research from IDG, AMA and others say about half of customer communications, content and sales conversations are not relevant to customers' needs; over half of the content that marketing produces is not relevant to the field/channel sales teams. It's exceedingly difficult to be successful, i.e., to launch, sell and manage products with great market share and profits with such a large ball and chain strapped around the marketing and sales teams' proverbial ankle.
The problem starts with a typical product launch plan. It contains a list of content deliverables such as a presentation deck, product brochure, whitepaper, application notes, etc. While these are needed, what's often absent are the categories, styles and types of messaging required for market success. The result, as the research indicates, is that most of the customer communications (content and conversations) are company/product-centric and descriptive. What's missing is content that is customer-centric and persuasive.
The solution is to create the right messaging first, and then deploy it into your go-to-market content, such as collateral, campaigns, sales tools and sales/channel support training, and employ it in the conversations that sales has with customers.
This five-step process will help you implement more influential customer communications:
Establish messaging as a separate deliverable.
Messaging is a summary answer to the prospective customer's primary and secondary buying questions, a.k.a. the key points that must be communicated in order to convince a person to engage/buy. Messaging is integrated into content via the copyrighting/creative process and integrated into sales conversations via the communicator. Content is the actual words you use, both written and oral, along with support visuals, to persuade a person to do business with your firm. Content can be delivered in the form of documents, audio, and video.
Determine the right categories, styles and types of customer messaging needed for market success.
The two messaging styles are descriptive and persuasive. The categories of messaging can include: company, solution, platform, product and market segment/role messaging.
As an example, descriptive product messaging is the typical "what and how" content in a product brochure. It answers the customer's secondary buying questions, such as:
What does the product do?
How does it work?
What features are included/optional?
What are the key benefits?
Persuasive product messaging is the "why" content. It provides clear, relevant, differentiated, provable, business language answers to the customer's primary buying questions, a.k.a. persuasive messaging types, such as:
"Why should I consider your product?" for demand creation
"Why should I meet with you?" for meeting creation
"Why should I change from the status quo to a new solution?" for opportunity creation
"Why should I buy this new solution from your company instead of your competitors?" for order creation
"Why should I buy now?" for urgency creation
These "why questions" are at the heart of every prospective customer conversation, be it online or off-line, that both Marketing and Sales must persuasively answer in order to convince a person to engage and buy.
Create persuasive messaging.
The top three customer business objectives are
Deploy messaging into content.
Once you have created your persuasive messaging, you're ready to deploy it into your go-to-market content, such as collateral, campaigns, sales tools and sales/channel support training. For example:
Use each reason statement (customer business objective story line) separately in an advertising/demand-generation campaign. Then drive readers to a landing page with more information and proof that the messaging is true.
In collateral, create a section called "Three Great Reasons to Replace Your Current Solution or Select Us Over the Competition."
Employ messaging in sales conversations.
To ensure consistent customer communication, show the field/channel sales teams how the new messaging and go-to-market content is different from what they normally get, and train them on how to effectively employ it in their sales conversations/process, e.g., create/win more deals by more effectively getting a meeting, qualifying a prospect, selling a solution, setting landmines for the competition, etc.
Yes, creating the right messaging first is more work and you already have too much on your plate. The question you have to ask yourself is: "Would I be more successful if I created less, more relevant and influential go-to-market content, using the ideas above?"
The collective answer from your peers is an unequivocal YES. What they found is that getting the messaging right is truly a silver bullet: It's the only deliverable that instantly improves the effectiveness of all your customer communications – it enables you to engage customers with more influential content and sales conversations, more consistently, across more touch points.
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After his mother's death, Ken Moraif had to unravel her finances. Millions of Americans each year face a similar task, but he had a unique challenge " he had to
After his mother's death, Ken Moraif had to unravel her finances. Millions of Americans each year face a similar task, but he had a unique challenge " he had to crack a code.
His mother had detailed her financial accounts in a notebook, but each password was written in code, and clues for deciphering the passwords were written in code. Sorting through his mother's estate took more than a year, he says.
This level of security was fitting for his mother, a former Morse code operator in the Royal Air Force during World War II. She was 'very secretive' about her financial information " even with her son, a certified financial planner at Money Matters in Plano, Texas. 'That's a level of paranoia most people don't have,' Moraif says.
While Moraif's experience is extreme, dealing with finances after a person dies adds another level of stress to an already stressful time. These eight steps can ease the process:1. Don't make emotional decisions
The first advice Moraif gives clients who've had a death in the family: Don't rush into anything. Under emotional stress, people may make rash decisions they later regret.
Someone who loses a spouse may hastily choose to move in with a child or sell their home, or may fall victim to nefarious salespeople. 'Don't make wholesale changes with your investments until you're emotionally ready to do so,' says Moraif, who recommends clients wait six months to act.2. Ask for help
If your family member had a financial advisor, this should be a primary point of contact. This person can handle finances " including tracking down accounts or coordinating with estate attorneys " while you deal with your emotions, says Stephanie Sandle, a certified financial planner at MAI Capital Management in Cleveland. Even though she's helped clients after a loved one's death, she says that she didn't fully appreciate all of the emotion and stress until she experienced it firsthand.
No financial advisor? Enlist help from other family members. 'Don't try to do everything yourself,' Sandle says.3. Get multiple copies of the death certificate
Be sure to request copies of the death certificate, generally from the funeral home handling arrangements. Ask for help estimating how many and the type you'll need " certified, long or short form, etc. " because people often underestimate. Moraif recommends ordering at least 20, because you'll need them for financial institutions, insurance providers and other companies.4. Call the employer
If the individual was still working, call the human resources department to notify the employer. Ask whether benefits coverage will continue for family members, whether there's a life insurance policy and the name of the company that administers the retirement plan.5. Locate the original will and trust
If the decedent had a will or trust (or both), these documents serve as the guide for many financial decisions to come. A legal process, known as probate, will likely ensue for distributing property and assets, unless the estate is small or the trust is all-encompassing.
'This process is kind of daunting if you're not aware of how it works,' Sandle says. She recommends working with a financial advisor if you have one or a probate attorney if you do face probate court, because it can be a long and expensive process.
If you're named executor of the estate, keep track of expenses related to the family member's death (including final medical bills). You may need this information when you file the person's final tax return, Sandle says.6. Gather necessary financial documents
You'll need to track down all the decedent's accounts. Any preparation the person did will be helpful, but some accounts may have been overlooked. The process is not unlike being a detective, Moraif says. Plan to sort through the person's mail for at least three months to find missing information, including non-recurring bills, he says.
This list of possible documents isn't exhaustive, but it serves as a starting place:Bank and investment accountsRetirement accountsMortgage and other loan statementsInsurance policiesTax returnsBills " including services, utilities, credit cards, property taxes7. Prepare to file tax returns
In the next year, you must prepare a final tax return for the decedent, so collect all information that will make that process easier. In addition, you may need to file an estate tax return if the estate is more than $11.2 million.8. Use this as a learning experience
Many people don't think about what they'll leave behind when they die. But if you've had to sort out someone else's finances, you'll appreciate how arduous the process is.
'No one wants to think about dying, but if you talk about it in advance and have a plan in place, it's so much easier on the survivors,' Sandle says.
More From NerdWalletWhat is a financial advisor and how do I choose one? Choosing between term and whole life insurance What happens to debts after someone dies?
Anna-Louise Jackson is a writer at NerdWallet. Email: email@example.com. Twitter: @aljax7.
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Wall Street sealed the third month of its spring rally with a huge advance. The fourth month looks a little less certain.
Stocks shot higher right before the closing bell Friday after fluctuating on a mix of economic data. Analysts said the surge was the work of short-sellers who had bet that stocks would fall and then had to rush to buy when those bets turned out to be wrong.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 96.53, or 1.2 percent, to 8,500.33. The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 12.31, or 1.4 percent, to 919.14, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 22.54, or 1.3 percent, to 1,774.33.
A jump in commodities prices, which came on expectations that an improving economy will lift demand for raw materials, also fed the advance.
Even though Wall Street ended May with a big win, it was the shakiest month of the spring rally that started in early March with the first signs that the economy's slide was slowing. When trading resumes Monday, investors are expected to show more of their recent skepticism about how strong the recovery will be once the recession has ended.
New worries are weighing on investors including climbing interest rates and a weaker dollar. Crude oil prices recently hit a six-month high above $66 a barrel, while the dollar on Friday sank to its lowest level in months against the euro and British pound. Some analysts say these developments are simply the consequence of a recovery in the economy and the financial markets, but others say the trends could threaten the economy's health in the long term.
Another more short-term obstacle is General Motors Corp.'s expected bankruptcy filing on Monday. The market has been factoring in the likelihood of a GM bankruptcy for months, but investors still are unsure what the fallout might be for auto suppliers and other companies.
"Technically, the market is looking quite good," said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at the brokerage house Avalon Partners Inc. "Although, I suspect we'll probably stay within this trading range for another couple of weeks."
All three indexes rose sharply for the week and, more importantly, had their third straight monthly gain. The Dow is up 4.1 percent for May, the S&P 500 index is up 5.3 percent, and the Nasdaq is up 3.3 percent.
Wall Street's advance since it hit 12-year lows on March 9 has been stunning, even with the unsteadiness the market has shown in May.
The Dow is up 29.8 percent, while the S&P 500 index is up 35.9 percent and the Nasdaq is higher by 39.9 percent.
Even with those gains, stocks are still down from their peak in October 2007, two months before the start of the recession. The Dow is off 40 percent, the S&P 500 index is lower by 41.3 percent and the Nasdaq is down by 37.9 percent.
Friday's economic data prevented the market from finding a direction for much of the day. Commerce Department's report on first-quarter gross domestic product showed the economy contracted at an annual rate of 5.7 percent, a bit more than analysts' forecasts. Also, personal spending was revised lower. But the drop in GDP was smaller than the 6.1 percent estimated last month, and the report showed corporate profits rising.
The report "points to recovery," Cardillo said. "And what you have here is a market that continues to look for recovery."
The Chicago-area purchasing executives monthly report of Midwest manufacturing activity showed a bigger decrease in May than in April. Analysts had anticipated a smaller contraction. The report is viewed as a precursor to the Institute for Supply Management's national manufacturing index, due Monday.
But helping counteract that disappointing report was the University of Michigan's index of consumer sentiment, which showed a larger-than-expected increase in May. Another report earlier in the week suggested an upswing in consumer confidence, too.
Besides the ISM report on Monday, the coming week has a series of critical economic data that will help determine the market's next move, including pending home sales, retailers' sales figures and, next Friday, the government's employment report for May.
Government bonds rose Friday, pushing yields lower. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.46 percent from 3.62 percent late Thursday.
The 10-year yield hit a six-month high of 3.75 percent on Wednesday. Spiking interest rates earlier this week stoked concerns about Americans' ability to borrow and refinance mortgages.
Oil prices have been jumping to six-month highs as the dollar tumbles. Light, sweet crude rose $1.23 to settle at $66.31 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold and silver prices rose as well.
Wall Street is a little ambivalent about crude's advance. On one hand it poses the threat of inflation, and if energy is too expensive that could curb the economy's rebound. However rising commodities prices are often seen as an indicator of economic health as business activity picks up.
Rising commodities prices have also driven some of the best performers in the stock market over the past month: Metal and coal producers, miners and pipelines.
Technology stocks have also gained in recent weeks.
The weakening dollar is also drawing more investors, like Robert Pavlik of Banyan Partners LLC, to the stocks of multinational companies. Those companies can export more and earn higher overseas revenues when the dollar is down, he said.
The worst performers in May were companies tied to the housing market and discretionary spending, such as construction companies, home improvement retailers, furniture makers and consumer electronics sellers. And financial stocks, while holding up, have not been leading the market higher as they were in March and April.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 9.37, or 1.9 percent, to 501.58.
Advancing stocks outnumbered declining stocks by more than 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume was 1.86 billion shares.
Overseas, Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.8 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 rose 0.7 percent, Germany's DAX index rose 0.2 percent, and France's CAC-40 rose 0.4 percent.


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