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Monday, September 29, 2008
I promised twinkies
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I've told Kate over at Gluten Free Gobsmacked this, and I'm telling you - no lie, if I ever come to town, you are cooking for me! I love your recipes and ideas. I've been craving knishes for DAYS now and just need to find some time to make them. And make them soon. Happy New Year to you!ReplyDelete
Is this evil? Or genius? Or maybe evil genius?ReplyDelete
Anyhow, Wall Street thanks you because I am about to outgrow all of my pants and will need to infuse $ into the clothing industry so I don't get fired for showing up pantsless to work.
This. Looks. Amazing.
Steve - Anytime you're in Philly let me know, I'd love to have you over for dinner! Or, cake.ReplyDelete
Heather - I'm lucky I've just been lying around the house in sweatpants, it'll be a problem when I have to go back to work!! Thanks! They're delicious!
Oh. My. Goodness.ReplyDelete
Making me drool at work (uhh, not that I read blogs at work sometimes...)! You are so cruel!
And I thought I'd never eat twinkies again.
I first started reading food blogs while I was at work in a boring office! Who knows, if I never discovered food blogs while I was at work, I wouldn't have this one now!ReplyDelete
And have hope, theres a way to make everything gluten-free. Even twinkies.
between these twinkies, your knishes, and your mochi, you are seriously a baking inspiration to me!ReplyDelete
i can't wait to find the time to try these great recipes out. thank you!
Oh gosh thanks guys!!!ReplyDelete
thanks a lot for this, look great!ReplyDelete
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Sculpture for the Table: Sophisticated Salt & Pepper Mills
The salt and pepper grinders in my house are disposable plastic eyesores. Not a beautiful tabletop display, to say the least. But the majority of collections around the blogosphere seem to be made up of mostly shakers, not mills, so I gathered my personal favorites for salt and pepper mills that are guaranteed to be as striking as they are functional.
1. Pepper Mill and Salt Grinder White Oak Set, Teal and Gold, $165
2. Alessi Pépé Le Moko Salt Grinder and Pepper Mill by Jasper Morrison, All Modern, $74 & $78 each
3. Nick Munro Sphere Large Pepper Mill, Bloomingdales, $50 (can also be used for salt)
4. Bottle Grinder Set, Finnish Design Shop, 59.90 euros
5. Peugeot Saint Malo Salt & Pepper Mill Set, Chefs, $84.95
6. Perfex Pepper & Salt Mills, Sur La Table, $89.99
7. Vipp Salt & Pepper, Vipp, $189
8. William Bounds Bamboo Mushroom Mill, William Bounds, $36 each
9. Cole & Mason Wood Electric Salt & Pepper Mills, Williams Sonoma, $69.95
10. Alessi PZ01 BR Wood Pepper Salt Mill, All Modern, $185
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By PATRICK MORRISEY
This time of year, it is hard to not get in the Christmas spirit.
Everywhere I look, decorations are going up. Homes are decked in twinkling lights, street lamps are draped with wreaths and garlands, and stores are doing everything they can to sell the perfect gift to holiday shoppers. It is beginning to look, and feel, a lot like Christmas.
But while most of us feel like the Whos of Whoville, joyfully preparing our homes and hearts for the coming feast and festivities, there are Grinches nearby whose sole goal is to not just steal our joy, but also our money and identities.
That is why the West Virginia Attorney General's Office is doing everything it can to assist and protect consumers this holiday season. We have in the past and will continue to issue tips for consumers about ways to shop safely, donate wisely and ensure their homes remains secure when they are out of town. For example, when traveling, people should ask a trusted neighbor or friend to collect their mail and newspapers, rather than place a hold-order at the newspaper or post office. That simple step can help consumers limit the number of people who know when they are out of town, and could help prevent travel plans from ending up in the wrong hands.
We also encourage people to buy from stores and donate to charities that they already know and trust. Unfortunately, this time of year, scammers will do anything they can to try to take advantage of peoples' goodwill. That includes creating bogus charities, stealing credit card information or offering deals online that are too good to be true. Some scammers are even manipulating gift cards so that they can use the money consumers put on gift cards for their own purchases.
Here are some other tips to keep you and your family safe through the holidays:
· When out shopping, make sure purchases are kept in your trunk or hidden securely inside your vehicle. This deters people from breaking into your car. If you can, take gifts home between shopping excursions.
· Have your car keys in your hands before leaving a store. This ensures you can focus on your surroundings when getting to your car rather than standing in a dimly lit parking lot or parking garage searching for your keys in your pockets or purse. When approaching your car, check around it, under it and in it before loading packages or getting in.
· Consider using a pre-paid credit card for Christmas purchases, especially if shopping online. It helps to control your spending, and helps you avoid having your credit card number stolen.
· Avoid broadcasting travel plans or what you have purchased on social media. You never know who is peering in on your accounts.
•If traveling, consider putting some lights on a timer so it appears that someone is at home.
The holidays truly are a wonderful time of year, but unfortunately everyone must remain vigilant against scams and thieves. While the majority of people you encounter during the holidays will be just like you — looking for the perfect gift for a friend or loved one and eagerly anticipating some quality family time — there may be others out there who are focused only on stealing your joy.
My hope is these few tips and others found on our website, www.wvago.gov, will help you and your loved ones avoid the Grinches and instead have a peaceful Christmas and blessed New Year.
Patrick Morrisey is the Attorney General of West Virginia.


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News Flash: 1More Tour Crosses the Finish Line
1,800 Mile Bicycle Tour of East Coast Ends in Portland, Maine
Five young men on bicycles representing Columbia International University circled the Portland Head Light, a Portland, Maine lighthouse landmark on July 27, ending a 1,800 mile tour of the East Coast that began in Fernandina Beach, Fla. on June 7.
The 1More Tour featured four CIU students and one CIU alumnus: Matthew Densky, Jeremy Rife, Drew Williams and brothers Izzy and Grayson Markle.
In what amounted to a new "sport" called Extreme College Recruiting, the goal of the tour was to recruit 1More student for CIU, reconnect with 1More CIU alumnus and share God's love and forgiveness with 1More person. The men made stops in cities along the way to speak in churches and to stay in the homes of CIU alumni.
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View videos, photos, and journal entries from the trip at the 1More Tour Web site.
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So here I am, the Welcome Wagon, the first media guy in Los Angeles talking to Mike D'Antoni and he's not quitting.
I thought I would be spending the day genuflecting in front of the Zen Master again, but by the time I'm finished with D'Antoni I'm thinking, "Phil who?"
It may be April, May or, for his sake, June before we find out if D'Antoni is the right choice to coach the Lakers.
But I can tell you in the meantime folks here are going to fall hard for his self-deprecating humor.
He talks funny, some kind of West Virginia thing, but that's worked here before. And he's willing to poke fun at himself.


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A historical region in West central France well known for farming but also a great country holiday location. With one of the milder weather climates France. Villas in Poitou - Charentes and Cottages in Poitou - Charentes can offer perfect conditions to holiday and relax in peace. Poitou - Charentes Villas and Poitou - Charentes apartments also come multiply styles and sizes so you are sure to find something to suit you.
Comfortable and well equipped gite, ideal for a couple or small families.
Beautifully converted accessible three-bedroom apartment near the prettiest beach in the Vendée!
These two holiday cottages have been renovated by the owner who lives nearby, and who will advise on places to visit in this lovely area on the Vendée side of the Marais Poitevin.
This semi-detached cottage has been renovated throughout to expose original stonework and beams in every room. The cosy lounge/diner includes a bar whilst the bathroom features a spa shower.
Les Nouelles enjoys an ideal location on the edge of a village, just five minutes from town amenities and only half an hour from the beautiful Vendée Coast. A traditional stone building.
Just 1km from the sandy beach of the holiday resort of L'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, this charming house, with its enclosed garden, has a light, airy interior. It is ideal for a seaside holiday.
This 3 bedroom 2 bathroom former farmhouse is perfect for a family holiday with its private swimming pool and South facing terrace. Renovated in 2010.
eajestic barely begins to describe this extraordinary 900-year old chateau in Vendee. With luxury accommodations and a picturesque setting outside a pretty village .
Set within verdant Pays du Bocage hillsides near the timeless village, this chateau in Vendee is an independent wing of an enchanting medieval castle and dates back to the time of Louis XIII.
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We are Nick and Chania and between us we have fourty four years experience in owning and running self-catering businesses. We now own and run this beautiful complex of five gîtes in the Charente Maritime. We know holidays are very important so it is our aim to make sure that everything is perfect so that you have a relaxing and memorable visit to France.
Three bedrooms, 1 double and 2 twin, shower room and separate WC. Large lounge / diner with double sofa bed, doors to terraces. Well equipped kitchen and further separate WC.
Sonnelle is a wonderfully spacious traditional house which has been lovingly restored to an exceptionally high standard by the owners. Ideal for couples, or groups with facilities to meet all needs. Quiet relaxtion or activities offered nearby .
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A wonderful old farmhouse dating from the 17th century, in 2 acres of gardens, meadow and orchard with heated pool. Close to Cognac in the Poitou Charente region , South West France. Absolutely idyllic for couples and young families.
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One of 4 luxury gites created from a former cognac distillery and developed to provide the highest standard of accommodation on on site facilities whilst retaining the original charm and character of the buildings.
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Traditional Stone House in Peaceful Hamlet.
A charming period farmhouse built in 1818. La Pagerie consists of large spacious living accommodation, accessed through a wooden gate into the courtyard. The farmhouse has three en-suite bedrooms and a games room with pool table.
Three bedrooms, all with en suite shower and separate WC.One double on ground floor, one double with additional single bed and one twin with double sofa bed. Large open plan kitchen / diner / lounge, with additional double sofa bed. Door to terrace.
We are Nick and Chania and between us we have fourty four years experience in owning and running self-catering businesses. We now own and run this beautiful complex of five gîtes in the Charente Maritime.
10 mins from 'Blue flag' sandy beaches - large 5 bedroom detached villa located in a wonderful village with bars/cafes & restaurants. Family theme with a private & fenced heated pool & a fenced children's pool, Internet access, UK TV & wii console
The house is situated inside a former farmyard it has a sunny south facing garden and shares the 10x5 meter pool with 2 smaller gites.
Private and Peaceful Location in an Elevated Position within 2.5km of Nearest Village.
10 mins to 'Blue Flag' sandy beaches - 4 bedroom detached farmhouse with heated and fenced shared pool, internet, home cinema TV, UK TV, Wii console, iPod docking station, all within walking distance of a a wonderful village.
One of 4 luxury gites created from a former cognac distillery and developed to provide the highest standard of accommodation on on site facilities whilst retaining the original charm and character of the buildings.
We have 3 gites that can be rented seperately or in any combination. The renovation was completed for the 2010 Summer season and the accommodation has been created from the old stone barn. We have also installed a new pool and large games room.
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Rural location in well kept self contained garden with plenty of activities for all age groups.
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This beautiful holiday rental gite is in a 5* location near Aubeterre on Charente Dordogne border. The Manoir de Longeveau where you can play golf or tennis is a 5 minute drive away. There is a secluded pool & extensive grounds to enjoy
Country cottage fully renovated offering a cmfortable and stylish ,self-catering holiday for a couple or a family.
One of three cottages at La Logerie, the Lavender cottage has been lovingly restored to incorporate the best of its traditional features. It also has its own terrace, patio furniture and barbecue.
2 Bedrooms sleeping 4-5, lots of Beams and creamy Charentaise stone. Opens onto your private terrace with garden furniture and BBQ
La Belena from an ancient French word for shepherds house, marks the history of La Voute, once being one of the largest sheep farms in the area. The gite has been converted to a high standard and offers a large open-plan living/dining area with a fully fitted kitchen and exposed stone work and beams, all tastefully decorated and furnished to a high standard. On the first floor are two bedrooms with en-suite shower rooms and WCs. The master bedroom has double French doors leading to your own ve
10 mins from sandy beaches - 4 bedroom detached barn conversion offering excellent facilities. Located in a lively village, and just minutes from Blue Flag sandy beaches, this may be just what you are looking for...!
Sleeps 12. 6 bedroom gite with enclosed rear courtyard. The Old Forge is nestled in the village of Antigny, which lies just over an hour from La Rochelle, Poitiers and Nantes on the Western coast of France.
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1911 M110 Sporting Life Cabinet Ty Cobb
Starting Bid - $5,000, Sold For - $26,438
Graded VG/EX 50 by SGC. Presented is an outstanding high-grade example of one of Ty Cobb's rarest and most stunning cards, and one of the key Hall of Famers in the six-card 1911 M110 Sporting Life cabinet-card set. This auction includes the complete M110 set, assembled and presented by the same consignor, with each card offered individually. This magnificent example features a beautiful full-color pastel artwork of Ty Cobb in a classic batting stance on the front and an advertisement for Sporting Life on the reverse. The M110 set is similar in design to, but far rarer than, the contemporary T3 Turkey Red cabinets. In fact, while hundreds of T3 Cobbs exist (and that card is universally recognized as one of the great classic Cobb cards), probably fewer than twenty (maybe fewer than a dozen) M110 Cobbs are known to exist. Its extreme rarity, and that of the entire M110 set, gives this interesting card great value compared to other Cobb cards of the era. The beauty of this card combined with its incredible rarity explains why the M110 Cobb is considered one of the all-time great classic cards of the entire era. The card has an Excellent to Mint appearance and has been harshly graded VG/EX by SGC due to a barely detectable wrinkle at the edge of the border in the lower right corner (extremely insignificant) and the hint of shading on the right and lower borders, which is a characteristic of the M110 set. This is a very strong card that is otherwise in virtually flawless condition. Bright, fresh, and impeccably clean, both front and back, with bold blue text on the reverse. We grade this card Excellent. This is an outstanding example of one of the rarest and most beautiful of all Ty Cobb cards in simply spectacular condition. Dimensions: 5-5/8 x 7-1/2 inches. Reserve $5,000. Estimate $10,000+.
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What was going on in your Facebook news feed the week of Jan. 11-18, 2012?
Birthday reminders, cat videos, crockpot recipes, baby pictures and invitations to play Bejeweled Blitz, probably, plus lots of current events posts were guaranteed to make you glad or mad.
That week, Mitt Romney won New Hampshire's Republican primary, Playboy announced it was leaving Chicago, and Hostess filed for bankruptcy, prompting fears that there would be no more Twinkies. The Patriots knocked the Broncos out of the NFL playoffs, putting an end to Tebowmania. Chicago had its first real snowfall in an otherwise mild winter, Derrick Rose was out with a sprained toe, and your crazy cousin was picking fights with anyone who commented on any of it.
If you were one of nearly 700,000 randomly selected Facebook users, though, your feed might have contained a little less to "like." Or dislike. For years, Facebook has ignored pleas to add a clickable thumbs-down icon. Maybe this is why.
That week, Facebook conducted a little experiment. Its robots trolled the news feeds of the users in that sample, tinkered with them to reduce the number of positive or negative posts, then studied the users' own entries for signs of "emotional contagion." They wanted to see if reducing the positives (or negatives) in your news feed made you feel less positive (or negative).
The results were published in the June 17 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The study suggests that yes, emotional states can be transferred via social media, with no face-to-face interaction or nonverbal cues. People with happier news feeds posted slightly happier things themselves; people with grouchier feeds wrote slightly grouchier posts. The more conclusive finding, though, is that Facebook users don't appreciate being treated like lab rats.
There's nothing new about Facebook messing with the content supplied by its half-billion users.
Its ever-changing algorithm determines which of your friends' posts appear in your feed and where. Currently, the algorithm seems to dictate that every time someone "likes" a photo you "liked" previously, then that photo must rocket to the top of your feed again. That forces you to scroll past it over and over and over, because it's not quite annoying enough to make you log off, which means you're wasting even more time on Facebook than you used to. That's not an accident.
Periodically, Facebook provokes a fresh uproar by rearranging the elements on users' home or personal pages, seemingly on whim, or changing the rules about who can see what. Where are your videos this time? Where did these ads come from, and how did Facebook know you were shopping for underwear yesterday? Keeping your privacy settings updated can feel like a losing battle, but those BuzzFeed quizzes are kind of addictive, like everything else on Facebook. So you keep threatening to close your account, but you don't.
The truth is that the whole Internet is one giant experiment in user behavior, though generally the goal is to figure out how to sell you something rather than to make you smile or frown. You might not like it, but you're getting used to it.
But Facebook's research crossed a line. This time, it wasn't just manipulating users' content; it was manipulating their minds. And without permission. Yes, you agreed to Facebook's terms of service and no, you probably didn't read them. So legally, Facebook has done nothing wrong. But ethically? It's a real stretch to argue that clicking on a little box the day you joined Facebook constitutes informed consent all these years later.
Talk about emotional contagion. Facebook made several thousand people happy or sad — and millions of them furious. But somehow we don't expect a mass exodus. Because where does everyone go to rail about this outrage? To Facebook, that's where.


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They may not admit to being Packer fans, but a growing group of Minnesota chefs are becoming Wisconsin cheese heads. That's thanks to a cheese-focused chef-to-chef educational tour program launched last March by the Minnesota division of U.S. Foodservice (USF). Partnering with the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, the distributor hosted a "Cheese Crafters Dairy Tour" for some 25 to 30 chefs.
The group spent two-and-a-half days visiting cheese plants, observing the cheesemaking process, sampling products and gathering menu ideas. Last year's tour focused on the production of mozzarella and other commodity cheeses. This year, USF hosted another tour that focused on Brie, Gouda and other Wisconsin artisan cheeses.
"Several years ago we identified a need to do a better job of bringing value to fine-dining chefs. We wanted to do more than just sell them products," says John Byrne, brand manager and corporate chef at USF-Minnesota. "We carry an extensive line of cheeses so partnering with the WMMB makes sense. They add a level of expertise and credibility."
One of last year's stops was BelGioioso Cheese, where the chefs observed mozzarella being made. Byrne says he gained knowledge he now uses in training the USF sales staff. "I'm a big mozzarella fan, but to see the entire process, from the milk coming off the truck, to the quality assurance testing, to the products coming off the line was great. To taste the products with the BelGioioso family right in the plant brought it full-circle."
Dave Hayworth, director of marketing at USF-Minnesota, says the tours are just one aspect of the chef-to-chef program. It also includes frequent sampling and training with chefs one-on-one and demos and challenges at the distributor's annual Epicurean Experience fall food show. But the tours, he and Byrne agree, are especially effective for both education and relationship building.
"When you walk in the door of chefs who toured with us you get open arms and big hugs. Six, eight months after tour we're able to bypass all of the regular sales jargon because we have that relationship," says Hayworth.
U.S. Foodservice- Minnesota
Plymouth, MN
2009 sales: $18.9 billion (corporate)
ID Top 50 Rank: 2
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By Bob McDonnell
The Surveyor
Summer vacation is no time to sit around for Sierra Suits.
The Berthoud High School soon-to-be junior spends her days this summer working out. Her goal is to be a professional mixed-martial-arts (MMA) fighter.
A typical day for Suits includes sessions at Loveland's Seraphim MMA gym from 9 to 11 a.m. or noon. She returns to the gym at 3 p.m., sometimes staying until 8 p.m. or after. She warms up for these activities with a run each morning. In her spare time, Suits babysits.
Bob Gilstrap, Seraphim MMA's owner also calls himself a head coach and manager of all the gym's clients who fight competitively. Suits started at the gym in May of 2012, according to Gilstrap.
Suits trains not only in mixed martial arts but also in jiu-jitsu. Gilstrap defines the difference between the two as MMA involves full contact, while there is no striking in jiu-jitsu. He said that Suits already earned three gold and one silver medal in jiu-jitsu competitions.
Recently, the 16-year-old Suits traveled to Montana for her first mixed-martial-arts competition. Gilstrap explained that he does not ask his students to compete but that they ask him when they are ready.
Suits felt she wanted to fight, even at her young age. This age came into play when she learned her female opponent was 10 years older than she.
"Most fighters go through a rainbow of emotions before a fight," Gilstrap said.
These include thoughts of being scared and wondering if they are ready. Gilstrap said that many men in their 20s and 30s bail out before their first fight because of these conflicting feelings.
Suits did not.
In Gilstrap's words, Suits "dominated" her elder opponent in Montana. He credits this in part to her participation in jiu-jitsu contests that involved fighting before a crowd.
As a former mixed-martial-arts fighter himself, Gilstrap immediately noticed that Suits embraces the sport and studies it.
She is an example of "putting your mind to it" and knowing that "age doesn't matter," he said.
Suits plans to discontinue any high school sports and concentrate on mixed martial arts. Her next competition on June 28 takes place in Denver. Gilstrap plans for her to fight again in September.
With more experience and maturity, Suits saidher goal is to someday go pro and fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the largest mixed-martial-arts promotional company in the world, according to espn.com.
If determination, hard work and focus count, Suits should reach her goal.


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NEW DELHI: India Against Corruption (IAC) leader Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday announced an indefinite agitation to demand the resignation and arrest of law minister Salman Khurshid over alleged financial irregularities in his NGO even as the minister's wife Louise rubbished the allegations and the Congress came to his defence.
Kejriwal, who was arrested and detained along with 150 supporters at the Rajiv GandhiStadium in Bawana on the outskirts of Delhi, was released late Friday night, but the activist and his supporters refused to leave the stadium till Saturday morning.
Kejriwal, IAC members Gopal Rai and Manish Sisodia and Rashtriya Viklang Party (RVP) president KK Dikshit then reached Parliament Street, where Kejriwal announced the IAC decision to sit on an indefinite protest agitation outside the police station till the government acts on their demands.
Dikshit has alleged that Khurshid's NGO siphoned off funds meant for the disabled.
Salman Khurshid's wife Louise Khurshid on Saturday slammed Kejriwal and a television channel for alleging that their NGO — Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust — had siphoned off lakhs of rupees meant for physically challenged people and termed the charges as false.
"Our papers are open to scrutiny. Every allegation they have made, we have countered. We have got the bills for everything I have all the facts and figures to show the allegations are false," Louise Khurshid told news channels.
"They found only three people who said they did not get the equipment. If we had done a fraud on such a mass scale, wouldn't they have found thousands of people (who did not get the equipment)? In 2009 and 2010 we distributed aids to 2,353 people and there are just three allegations out of the thousands," Louise said.
Louise on Friday filed a civil defamation case in the Delhi high court against the TV Today Group seeking damages of Rs 100 crore, said court sources.
According to the Aaj Tak report, the union social welfare and empowerment ministry had granted Rs 71.50 lakh to the Khurshids' NGO for distributing tricycles and hearing aids to the disabled in 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh.
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While Salman Khurshid is the president of the trust, his wife is the project director.
Referring to a draft Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report allegedly pointing to irregularities in running of the trust, Louise said she had met the CAG and had been "assured" that the report would include her point of view.
Louise also termed Kejriwal as an "ambulance chaser".
"He is not a social activist anymore. He is running a political party and he is looking for issues. I regret that they are using the handicaps of people to try and build a political campaign. It is so unfair," she said.
Information and broadcasting minister Ambika Soni came to the support of Khurshid saying he has a "reputation as a very upright and honourable political leader".
She said the charges of financial impropriety "would have a shattering effect on anybody", and added that Khurshid, who is abroad, should be allowed to come back and "give the real picture".


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Bahrain denies foreign media ban
Manama, February 9, 2012
Bahrain has denied claims that foreign journalists are not being allowed into the country as the first anniversary of anti-government protests approaches.
The Information Affairs Authority (IAA) yesterday said it had licensed several international news organisations to enter the country in the next two weeks.
It said among them were the BBC, Voice of America, National Public Radio, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Der Spiegel, Russia Today, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Reuters, Associated Press and American networks ABC, NBC and CBS as well as Arab media from across the region.
Preparations are even being made for them to accompany police on operations and cover both legal and unauthorised demonstrations.
Responding to claims that some journalists had not been accredited, IAA president Shaikh Fawaz bin Mohammed Al Khalifa said there had been an unusually high volume of media visa requests for the period from February 11 to 18.
He said they had been processed over the past month once specific dates had been requested, with those who failed to specify exact dates or who were late in applying being asked to delay their visit until the end of the month.
Shaikh Fawaz said this was to ensure their safety and chances of securing interviews with key figures.
"A number of journalists applied from the same media outlet, so in those cases we processed the earliest requests and asked those that applied later to come at the end of the month instead," said Shaikh Fawaz.
"We wanted to make sure we had a wide range of international media here during this time, rather than having five to 10 reporters from the same organisation."
He said the IAA was committed to helping foreign journalists cover events in Bahrain safely.
"One of the chief concerns for the IAA is that journalists coming to Bahrain are able to meet people who can provide them with the information they seek, and especially that their safety is ensured," Shaikh Fawaz added.
"To that end, the IAA has been working with the Interior Ministry to arrange for the media to ride along on operations and cover both legal and unauthorised demonstrations," he said. – TradeArabia News Service


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E-Government II
Being Good and Doing Well: Organizational Openness and Government Effectiveness on the World Wide Web
by Todd M. La Porte
Todd M. La Porte is associate professor in
For several years advocates have argued that digital systems in public organizations have considerable promise to improve a wide range of government functions, both in the developed and in the developing worlds. Many countries are grappling with how best to realize that promise.
At the same time, in the wake of these new technologies, new ideas about governance have emerged, stressing collaborative relationships, network-like arrangements and hybrid public-private partnerships between various agencies and organizations that enable more effective problem solving and greater citizen participation in public affairs than in the past.
After nearly a decade of use of the Web in governments around the world, we believe we have sufficient data to evaluate these systems impact on government effectiveness and their contribution to increased public participation. In particular, we believe that important attributes of governance may be captured by tracking and evaluating the use of networked information systems in public organizations, both internally, in terms of bureaucratic structure and function, and externally, in terms of service delivery and citizen contact. Concepts that can bridge the various converging domains of information technologies, public administration and public sector management, comparative political studies and democratic theory are needed to begin to span the conceptual divide between democracy and bureaucracy that has bedeviled public administrationists and political scientists for decades.
In nearly all countries, to some degree, there are three principal threads of e-government reform:
a) development of bureaucratic processes to provide greater administrative convenience, transparency, interactivity and openness;
b) efforts to improve management processes to achieve cost savings and efficiencies; and
c) development of means to increase public participation in both electoral and regulatory processes to respond better to expressions of popular will and increase government legitimacy and support.
We contend that bureaucratic openness, administrative efficiency and increased public participation are separate but potentially linked aspects of increasing reliance on electronic networked information systems, principally the Internet.
paper reports on a systematic long-running research program
supported by the National Science Foundation to survey and analyze
these trends, focusing on the diffusion and use of networked
information technologies around the world in national level
governments. We have analyzed the effects of these digital
government efforts and relate them to several government
performance measures, including standard economic growth rates,
recently published data from the World Bank's Government
Performance Project (Kaufmann, Kraay & Zoido-Lobatón, 1999,
2002) and data collected by the Integrated Network for Societal
Conflict Research Program (INSCR) on the development of democratic
institutions, the degree of political competition and the
stability of regimes. These data include indicators measuring
government effectiveness, political stability, voice and
accountability, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of
corruption. Our data and analysis show that there is a reasonably
strong causal relationship between the deployment of networked
information systems in organizations and later increases in
organizational and administrative effectiveness.
Openness As an Administrative Attribute
For all organizations, accountability is the authoritative exercise of oversight, either by elected officials through the activities of the bureaucracy or by the citizenry exercising oversight of the legislature through regular elections. To study this attribute of organizations in a networked environment we developed the notion of openness, which may be considered an allied but conceptually distinct element of accountability in that citizens through their everyday interactions can continuously assess an open government agency.
Openness is an important enabling condition for the exercise of oversight. Over time, the classic distinction between political decisions taken by elected officials in a deliberative process and administrative execution of those decisions by a disinterested civil service has become less useful. At the same time, these processes are difficult to study systematically. The new reality of bureaucratic power is in many respects the underlying cause of the embrace of the notion of governance, as a separate phenomenon from government.
we have argued that the World Wide Web is a useful vehicle to
evaluate public organizations openness (Demchak, Friis & La
Porte, 2000;
Studying Openness in a Networked World
Annually since 1995 the Cyberspace Policy Research Group (CyPRG), based at George Mason University and the University of Arizona, has surveyed all national government Web operations worldwide to assess how extensively the Web has been adopted by government organizations. Since 1997 CyPRG has also assessed how Web technologies have been implemented in each organization and country. In order to do this assessment, the research team has measured the degree of website transparency and website interactivity, two main components of organizational openness. The third main component of openness, used in performing international comparisons, is website density, the percentage of a government's ministries that have a Web presence.
Our measurement method, dubbed the Website Attribute Evaluation System (WAES), is based theoretically on suggestions from the social science literature that openness is the extent to which an organization provides comprehensive information about its attributes and maintains timely communications with its various publics. Citizen concerns are at the core of this measure. What would a citizen want to know about a government agency's activities or services, and what would a citizen want to do with an agency to respond or initiate actions desired or required under the law?
WAES permits the evaluation of any website by coding for the presence or absence of a number of specific attributes, described below. There are 31 to 45 criteria in all, depending on the year; updates to the measurement instrument have been made to keep up with rapid Web developments.
Transparency refers to the availability of information for navigating a large-scale social system. It constitutes a layperson's basic map of the organization as depicted in the information on the site. The five elements making up WAES are briefly as follows:
§ Ownership tests for evidence of how involved the agency is with the site. The aim is to ascertain whether the agency itself is tailoring the material for the site or has shunted these content decisions to someone else, such as a central government bureau. Agencies that own their own Web operations are more likely to consider it a key part of their organization compared with those that leave the development of their website to others.
§ Contacts and reachability assesses the website visitors ability to contact individuals or positions inside the organization. This attribute indicates the agencys willingness to permit outsiders to reach inside the organization beyond the webmaster gateway, and thereby to see inside the organization in a more detailed way. Agencies vary greatly in their approaches to contact with outsiders, with some willing to provide detailed contact information, while others prefer to centralize it by providing a one-stop-shop point of contract.
§ Organizational information assesses how well information is provided about an organizations operations and its connection with related organizations or information. The criterion tests for indications of where an organization is headed and how it is structured. This is in part revealed by use of vision and mission statements and organizational charts.
§ Issue information assesses how well an organization informs users about the issues for which it is responsible and measures the ease of access to reports, government data, archives and government information policies. Here the agency also indicates its understanding of the scope of its operating and policy environment by including links to other agencies or non-governmental organizations relevant to its own work and therefore to the public at large. By charting this subset of attributes, we can study the evolution of governmental Web-based networks.
consequences and responses assesses what an organization
requires of a citizen to comply with regulations or laws, to take
advantage of programs or to use government services and to provide
recourse when disagreements arise. For example, putting official
forms on the site or explaining how to initiate a dispute
resolution process or contact an ombudsman demonstrate that an
agency is anticipating citizens' needs and is willing to respond
to problems. This set of criteria relates to the effort that an
agency makes to present information and services to citizens most
directly. Doing so generally takes considerable organizational
Interactivity is a measure of the level of convenience or degree of immediate feedback, which is the second component of openness. The more interactive the site is across the first four transparency attributes, the greater is the demonstrated level of agency concern for the convenience of the citizen and the speed of communications between the agency and its clients. Interactivity assesses the extent to which elements of transparency are clickable for a site visitor. The greater the click value the more convenient it is to acquire data or interact with the agency and thus the more the agency encourages the client to make use of the site and the agency itself. Interactivity questions roughly parallel those for transparency.
§ Security and privacy checks the extent to which a site both ensures that users' personal information is not compromised while using the website (use of secure servers, passwords, especially for transactions) and that citizens can use the site without providing too much personal information as a condition of use (use of cookies, or requiring extensive identifying information).
§ Contacts and reachability focuses on the extent the organization permits the client to electronically reach inside the agency with clickable dialog boxes or hotlinks, for example whether senior officials are listed with active hotlinked email addresses. It also tests the extent to which the agency prescribes the form of contact through use of structured dialog boxes and the like, rather than simple email.
§ Organizational information measures how easily a user can navigate inside the organizational structure or wider issue community via the site. This criterion tests the extent to which the agency begins to demonstrate sophistication in both its concept of citizen involvement in the agencys operations and in the scale of investment in technical sophistication to achieve openness.
information is the clickable correlate to transparencys
issue information element. It assesses the ease with which
citizens can contact other policy-domain organizations via
hypertext links on the site.
§ Citizen consequences and responses is the clickable correlate to transparencys citizen consequences element. It assesses the extent to which citizens can easily review and input or receive responses to these consequences and tests for efforts to accommodate users with disabilities and who may not read or speak the national or dominant language of the country. This section is the most challenging in terms of technical sophistication and in willingness of the agency to accept input from external sources. One criterion tests for a particularly courageous level of openness. It asks if the agency has made a citizens appeal process open to online submission. A relatively unconstrained online appeal process with automatic agency-reply deadlines requires substantial changes to internal processes and budgets to accommodate these demands. This feature indicates unprecedented agency support for both openness and for the new technology.
The level of openness of a government is computed by taking the average of transparency and interactivity scores for all evaluated organizations, adding them and multiplying this result by the percentage of ministries in the government with a website. This yields a single numerical country score that captures all three dimensions: transparency, interactivity and Web density.
CyPRG data can be used to examine individual organizations, to make comparisons with other organizations or aggregates or to make systematic assessments or benchmarks of national digital government performance. In the 2001 census, CyPRG found that there were 171 countries (of a total of 193 countries worldwide) with at least one national ministry level website. Table 1 shows the diffusion of the Web into countries and ministries worldwide: at the conclusion of the 2001 CyPRG census of national-level Web presence, 51 percent of all ministries had a website.
As the Web has spread, governments have become more adept at using its features to provide information and services. This improvement can be seen in global median transparency and interactivity levels, which have steadily increased from 1997 to 2001, though individual countries' trajectories vary. Table 2 shows these overall trends. Note that transparency levels (0.51) are almost double interactivity levels (0.31); this ratio reflects the much greater organizational effort associated with enabling transactions as opposed to static information presentation. Organizations find that it is easier to make information available than to make it convenient for external stakeholders to acquire. Electronic interactivity is likely to be much more difficult to organize, in terms of back office operations, reorganized workflows and sharing needs than simply providing for basic electronic access.
These results are largely supportive of other work that finds that existing government implementation of network technologies focuses on information dissemination and simple transactions and has yet to address issues of organizational redesign and citizen participation (West, 2000; Ho, 2002; Moon, 2002). Openness has also steadily increased, from 0.11 in 1997 to 0.35 in 2001.
Our earlier efforts to isolate the correlates of openness yielded meager results. We did not find that our measure of openness was the result of any systematic characteristic of countries. In particular we were surprised not to find a relationship between democracy and openness: countries with long democratic traditions were not more likely to have more open websites, on the whole, than any other countries. Our analyses found that national income was only weakly related to openness. Other hypotheses, such as amount of trade, type of legal system, size of central government and the like were found not to be significant in explaining openness levels. Therefore, we concluded that openness might be an independent variable tapping aspects of administrative behavior as yet under-characterized.
while openness may be an interesting phenomenon in and of itself,
it bears little more than passing academic interest if it is
unrelated to any outcomes we care about. We propose that openness
has direct implications for the quality of governance, both
theoretically and practically. We contend that greater government
openness is likely to lead to improved government performance.
Organizations with well-developed Web operations are likely to be
seen as more effective administratively than organizations with
relatively weak Web operations. Public pressure for better service
is hard to resist for long, and over time, such pressure leads to
increased sophistication of the technical features incorporated
into websites and increased transparency and interactivity, which
are reflected in our coding of their websites and of their overall
Performance Indicators
Our early research was stymied in making serious arguments about governmental effectiveness, since data on effectiveness simply did not exist. Recently, however, a team of researchers at the World Bank published new data on government performance (Kaufmann, Kraay & Zoido-Lobatón, 2002). These indicators are summarized briefly in tables 3 and 4. Having data that systematically describe government performance in other than economic terms is critical to test the contribution to governance of openness and networked information systems.
The World Bank's government effectiveness measure is of particular interest because it focuses on the administrative apparatus of the state most closely tied to Web operations. With it, we are able to relate openness data we have collected to government or administrative effectiveness data from the World Bank to show that Web openness has an independent effect on administrative performance. Using structural equations to control for reciprocal effects, our results suggest that openness has a direct impact on administrative effectiveness, but that administrative effectiveness does not affect openness.
In other words, improvement in effectiveness is caused by more openness in Web operations, but not the reverse. Even a poorly run agency can develop a high-quality online presence once it has experience with the Internet. Subsequently, Web presence seems to motivate the agency, possibly through increased expectations on the part of its constituents or by identification of new modes of operation, to operate more effectively. In short, organizational Web operations appear to be creating a virtuous cycle of opportunities, demands and expectations, and administrative responses.
This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. SES9907996 and was undertaken with Chris Demchak, University of Arizona, and Chris Weare, University of Southern California.
Demchak, C. C., Friis, C., &
Friis, C., Demchak, C. C., & La Porte, T. M. (1998). Configuring public agencies in cyberspace: A conceptual investigation. In I. Th. M. Snellen, & W.B. H. J. van de Donk (Eds.) Public administration in an information age: A handbook. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Ho, A. T.-K. (2002). Reinventing local governments and the e-government initiative. Public Administration Review. 62, 434.
Kaufmann, D., Kraay, A. & Zoido-Lobatón, P. (1999). Governance matters. Retrieved December 15, 2004, from http://econ.worldbank.org/docs/919.pdf .
Kaufmann, D., Kraay, A. & Zoido-Lobatón, P. (2002). Governance matters II: Updated indicators for 2000/01. Retrieved December 15, 2004, from http://econ.worldbank.org/files/11783_wps2772.pdf
La Porte, T. M., Demchak, C. C. & de Jong, M. (2002). Democracy and bureaucracy in the age of the Web: Empirical findings and theoretical speculations. Administration & Society, 34(3), 411-446.
Moon, M. J. (2002). The evolution of e-government among municipalities: Rhetoric or reality? Public Administration Review 62, 424.
Vigoda, E. (2000). Are you being served? The responsiveness of public administration to citizens demands: An empirical examination in Israel. Public administration, 78, 165-191.
Weare, C., Musso, J. & Hale, M. L. (1999). Electronic democracy and the diffusion of municipal web pages in California. Administration & Society, 31, 3-27.
West, D. M. (2002). State and federal e-government in the United States, 2002. Providence, RI: Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University.
2. Transparency, Interactivity, Openness Worldwide, 1997-2001
Table 3. World Bank Governance Indicators
Kaufmann, Kraay and Zoido-Lobatón, 2002, pp. 5-6.
Source: Kaufmann, Kraay and Zoido-Lobatón, 2002, pp. 55
Source: Kaufmann, Kraay and Zoido-Lobatón, 2002, pp. 55
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Information Science and Technology


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Polly Campbell's newly released book, Imperfect Spirituality, has lit up the blogosphere, bookstores, and radio with the message of self-acceptance and identifying what we all need to let go of in order to overcome anxiety and stress in our lives.
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Friday, August 5, 2011
The Power of I Forgive You...
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That's where we differ. I have forgiven I just haven't forgotten. I almost feel like if I could forget then the forgiving would be more complete but it doesn't work that way. I don't feel bitterness or resentment or anger, just pain pain pain pain and bewilderment. Still trying to wrap my head around all the things left to heal from.ReplyDelete
Good for you on forgiving him...I can't imagine how that must feel. Maybe someday down the road ...years down the road? We will be able to forget...although I imagine myself laying on my death bed when I am 80 looking up at him saying, "I still can't believe you cheated on me..."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 31, 2013 at 5:21 AM
That is so funny, but true. I pray that God works on our hearts so that when we get to the death bed we can think on more important things :)ReplyDelete
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Come enjoy a movie
The Outdoor Movie Series features family friendly notable films, will continue throughout the year. Moviegoers are invited to bring picnic blankets and lawn chairs.
Admission: Free
When: twilight on the third Friday of each month
Where: Memorial Park across from the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum, 7910 Park Ave., Houma
Information: Houma Regional Arts Council at 873-6367
Artist of the month
Galliano native Carolyn Crosby France will display her artwork. France was selected by Arts Guild organizers as the group's artist of the month for November.
Admission: Free
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. throughout November
Where: Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild's Downtown Art Gallery 630, 630 Belanger St., downtown Houma
Information: www.TFAG.org
Craft time
Want to learn to scrapbook? Already know how to scrapbook and want to meet with others who do? The Lafourche Parish Public Library System offers a few opportunities for scrapbookers of all levels to come together and do what they love. The event workshop for those 12 and up can scrapbook. All supplies are provided, and no registration is necessary.
Admission: Free
When: 2 p.m. Nov. 24
Where: Lockport Branch Library, 720 Crescent Ave.
Information: www.lafourche.org/newsite/ or 532-3158
Learn to tweet
A new class, Twitter Teaching, will help residents learn to use Twitter.
Admission: Free
When: 10 a.m. Nov. 30
Where: Raceland Branch Library, 177 Recreation Drive
Information: www.lafourche.org/newsite/
Forensic science
Lockport Branch Library's Forensic Unit will meet this month. The children 11 to 17 will experiment with identification techniques. Registration is required.
Admission: Free
When: 3:30 p.m. Nov. 30
Where: Lockport Branch Library, 720 Crescent Ave.
Information: www.lafourche.org/newsite/ or 532-3158
Play performance
A performance of "The Forgotten Carols," will feature the Vandebilt Catholic High School choir. Les Sonnettes Des Joie and Mulberry Baptist Church's bell choir will perform a pre-show concert. Los Angeles and New York cast members from the Theos Theatricals touring company will perform the tale of an empty life changed by a personal encounter during Christmas.
Admission: $20
When: 6 p.m. Nov. 30
Where: Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd.
Information: ticketmaster.com
Christmas time
Christmasfest, Thibodaux's annual event featuring a Christmas parade, pictures with Santa and Mrs. Claus, refreshments, snow and the lighting of a 160-year-old mansion at the Dansereau House.
Admission: Free
When: Dec. 2
Where: Through Thibodaux city streets
Information: Rhonda Dempster at 446-1187, email email@example.com or visit www.thibodauxchamber.com
Lockport Christmas
The 21st annual Lockport Christmas parade includes the tree lighting at Bayouside Park. Santa will hand out toys to children. The Central Lafourche High School band will perform a Christmas concert, and refreshments will be served by the Knights of Columbus.
Admission: Free
When: 5 p.m. Dec. 1
Where: Lockport city streets
Information: Warren Vedros at 413-9772 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Run for a cause
Cardiovascular Institute of the South and Terrebonne General Medical Center's third annual Houma Heart and Soles Half-Marathon includes a half-marathon at 13.1 miles, a two-man relay at 6.55 miles per person and a 5K walk/run at 3.1 miles. The race has a unique "Red Carpet" finish inside of the Civic Center. After the race, the event has music and food. There will also be an awards ceremony for top finishers.
Admission: Varies depending on what you want to participate it
When: 7 a.m. Dec. 1
Where: Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, 346 Civic Center Blvd.
Information: www.active.com/running/houma-la/houma-heart-and-soles-half-marathon-2012-lf044. For training guides, visit www.tgmc.com/halfmarathon.
Enjoy pancakes with Santa
The 23rd annual Breakfast with Santa sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Houma includes all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, coffee, milk and juice. Photos with Santa and face painting are also available.
Admission: $5 in advance or $6 at the door
When: 7-11:30 a.m. Dec. 1
Where: Vandebilt Catholic High School's cafeteria, 209 S. Hollywood Road, Houma
Information: Charlotte Grace at 655-5404
Parade time
Once Upon a Cajun Christmas Parade, sponsored by Terrebonne Parish Consolidated Government, features "Papa Noel" arriving in a 20-float Christmas parade that begins at Terrebonne High School and travels down Main Street to Barrow and then turns on School Street where it ends behind the Courthouse Square. The event will feature caroling and the lighting of the Christmas tree.
Admission: Free
When: 7-10 p.m. Dec. 7
Where: downtown Houma
Information: Anne Picou at 873-6408
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Liberty Mutual chairman Edmund F. "Ted'' Kelly, under fire for receiving nearly $50 million a year from the Boston insurance giant, said Friday that an "accounting issue'' made his compensation appear larger than it is.
Kelly, who retired as chief executive last June after 13 years, but still serves as chairman, estimated his annual compensation package between 2008 and 2010 was closer to $13 million to $15 million, but was inflated by performance incentives, collected over the years and only recently cashed in.
"It's an accounting issue,'' Kelly, 66, told the Globe, shortly before he spoke to students at MIT about growing up in Ireland and his business career in the United States. "It's as if I got stock options over the years. If the company does well, the stock options do well.''
Kelly's defense was echoed by chief executive David Long, who said in an interview with the Globe Friday that the compensation numbers were misleading because they included tens of millions of dollars in performance incentives, called phantom stock and options, that Kelly accumulated over nearly two decades with the firm. Long added that Liberty's board tries to set executive pay in line with what similar companies offer.
"I am not going to apologize'' for Kelly's pay, Long said. "I think Ted Kelly built a hell of a company, and I was pleased to work with him and I don't think he has anything to apologize for either. I think a lot of people who worked for him would say thank you to him.''
Reports of Kelly's recent pay, however, have angered some policyholders. The company has received about 250 complaints, Long said. Liberty Mutual is mutually owned by its policyholders, so any surplus profits are supposed to go back to customers as dividends or be reinvested in the company.
Although Liberty Mutual has no stock to be traded, the company created a phantom stock program designed to mirror the stock incentives used to reward executives by publicly traded companies. Stock options give executives the right to purchase stock at a set price in the future: If the stock appreciates, the executives make money; if it falls below the set price, the options become essentially worthless.
Liberty Mutual created a similar program to tie some of its executives' earnings to increases in the company's value. The value of its phantom stock and stock options skyrocketed over the years because of the company's rapid growth and improving finances, Liberty Mutual executives said.
Kelly said the company was near bankruptcy when he first joined the company in 1992 as president. It is now a solidly profitable Fortune 100 company with about $35 billion in annual sales. That pushed the value of the phantom stock from less than $18 in 1993 to nearly $100 last year.
Kelly earns about $400,000 a year as chairman, Long said.
The controversy over Kelly's pay erupted earlier this month after the Globe reported that Kelly earned nearly $50 million a year from 2008 to 2010, which would have made Kelly one of the highest-paid top executives in the country - earning more than the leaders of corporate icons like Bank of America Corp., IBM, and Walmart Stores. Kelly later said he received a similar amount last year.
The issue also comes at a time of heightened concern about executive pay packages. Two weeks ago in a nonbinding vote, shareholders of Citigroup Inc. rejected the company's decision to boost chief executive Vikram Pandit's pay to $14.9 million last year.
Long said Liberty Mutual will try to avoid questions about its executive compensation by publicly disclosing top executives' annual pay packages, starting early next year, in a format similar to what the Securities and Exchange Commission requires for public companies. That will make it easier for people to compare the pay to that of other companies.
As a mutual company, Liberty Mutual only has to report basic pay information to the state insurance commissioner.
"Unfortunately, in today's environment, I think people think you're not doing something above board if you don't [disclose it],'' Long said. "I don't want people to assume the worst with us.''
Long also defended the company's fleet of five corporate jets, which he said are used to ferry customers and executives to meetings and corporate events, including a company-sponsored golf tournament in Georgia. Next month, the company plans to fly board members and spouses to China for meetings.
"We're a pretty big company, so we do business in a lot of places,'' Long said.
The only person allowed to use the jet for personal use is the CEO, which is necessary for security reasons, Long said. "We make sure that the planes are fully utilized and used above board,'' he said.
Liberty Mutual spokesman John Cusolito said the company also provides the CEO and board members with extra money to cover income taxes they might face related to the trips.
Long also dismissed complaints by local government watchdog groups about the $46.5 million in state and local tax breaks the company received to help build a $300 million office tower in Boston near its headquarters. In return, the company promised to add 600 jobs, plus another 500 construction jobs. The project is halfway through construction and Long expects to add the jobs even faster than pledged.
Liberty Mutual employs 4,700 in Massachusetts, including 2,900 in Boston.
"We view this as a commitment,'' Long said. "If the building isn't a symbol of us being committed to the city of Boston and the state for the foreseeable future, I am not sure what is.''Todd Wallack can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @twallack.


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Every game is big for the Dodgers and Angels at this time of the season because both teams are fighting to get into the postseason. For Dodgers right-hander Dan Haren, Wednesday's start in the Freeway Series was really big because the show he's put on the past two months has been anything but entertaining — except for the opposition.
Haren had an ERA of 3.28 at the end of May, and had seen it rise to 4.76 before he took the mound against the Angels. He was 0-5 his past five starts. Not a good trend for the 33-year-old veteran.
Someone might have asked, "Who is that masked man out there?"
Wednesday night. Haren retired the first 16 batters he faced before losing his perfect game and no-hitter on a one-out single to left by the Angels' Hank Conger in the sixth inning.
Even so, Haren eventually threw 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball, retiring the side in order in all but the sixth and eighth innings. Thanks to a home run by Matt Kemp and an RBI double by Andre Ethier in the second inning, the Dodgers defeated the Angels 2-1 before a sellout crowd of 43,669 at Angel Stadium.
Haren (9-9) picked up the victory. He allowed three singles while striking out four and walking none. He threw just 87 pitches, but was relieved by J.P. Howell with one out in the eighth and Erick Aybar on first via a bunt single.
Aybar eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Chris Iannetta off reliever Brandon League, who relieved J.P. Howell, who after relieving Haren gave up a single to pinch-hitter C.J. Cron. Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth for his 32nd save. He gave up a leadoff single to Kole Calhoun, who stole second. But Jansen struck out Mike Trout, got Albert Pujols to fly to center and struck out Josh Hamilton.
Haren was asked if he needed that.
"I think that's probably the understatement of the year," he said, smiling. "I just want to do good for the guys. Of course, I'm happy to win a game finally, but we can't just go all year winning every one of (Clayton) Kershaw's games and losing all of mine."
What was he doing differently? Even Haren didn't sound too certain about that.
"I've tried almost everything," said Haren, who had an ERA of 9.47 in July. "Me and (pitching coach) Rick Honeycutt worked on a few things that started to click this week. It's not as much as people might think."
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was stoked, to be sure.
"Really happy for Danny to go out and pitch well," he said. "It's tough on guys when they don't feel like they're contributing and that work really hard and want to help the team. So it felt really good for him to pitch well and it was something that we needed, obviously. It's been a negative and he turned it into a positive tonight."
The first-place Dodgers (65-50) remained 2 1/2 games ahead of the Giants in the NL West. The second-place Angels (67-46) remained two games behind Oakland in the AL West.
Rookie right-hander Matt Shoemaker (9-4) made the start for the Angels and pitched six innings. He allowed two earned runs on six hits. He struck out six and walked two.
Conger talked about breaking up the perfect game.
"With (Haren), he throws all his pitches for strikes, so you can't really sit on a certain pitch," he said. "For me, I was just trying to look out over and try to swing at strikes because he's got nasty stuff."
It was noted to Conger that it must have seemed weird for Haren to have struggled so much of late, then be perfect through 5 1/3 innings.
"To me, it's not really weird," he said. "With a guy like him you disregard his past starts because any day he could just step on the mound and throw what he did tonight."
The Dodgers got to Shoemaker for two runs in the top of the second inning. Designated hitter Kemp whacked a 400-foot home run — his 14th — over the left-field fence. It was Kemp's sixth home run since July 29.
Carl Crawford then singled off the glove of Angels second baseman Howie Kendrick, stole second and came home on a double to right by Ethier.
There were still no outs. Justin Turner walked to put runners at first and second and then A.J. Ellis sacrificed the runners to second and third.
Shoemaker struck out Dee Gordon for the second out, but walked Yasiel Puig to load the bases. Shoemaker avoided further damage by inducing Adrian Gonzalez to ground out to second.
Haren got some help from Gordon, who has become an outstanding second baseman, in the bottom of the third. Conger hit a ground ball that Gordon chased and grabbed on the outfield grass. As he did, he fell to the ground and threw out Conger from the seat of his pants for the second out of the inning.
Haren next retired light-hitting John McDonald for the third out, which meant Haren had set down the first nine batters.
The Angels won a review in the Dodgers' half of the fourth inning. With Ethier on first via an infield single, Turner tapped one to the right of Shoemaker, who snagged the ball and threw to Aybar covering second. Ethier was ruled safe, and Angels manager Mike Scioscia challenged.
The call was overturned and Ethier was called out. It seemed the correct call because although Aybar's left foot appeared off the bag when he caught the ball, his right foot dragged on the bag before Ethier got there.
The reversal slowed down the inning and the Dodgers were turned away.
After getting Hamilton and Aybar to ground out to short and second, respectively, to start the Angels' fifth, it appeared the perfect night might be over when Haren started off Kendrick with three balls. He struck out Kendrick for his 15th consecutive out to start the game.
After Haren gave up that first hit to Conger in the sixth, pinch-hitter David Freese followed with a line single to center. Conger rounded second and went for third. Unfortunately for him and the Angels, Puig was in center and he shot down Conger at third for the second out. Scioscia came out to argue, but he did not ask for a review of the play. Calhoun then lined out to Gonzalez at first.


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Social Fresh is a social media event and training company. Our flagship Social Fresh conferences are one day events for marketers, held in cities across the country. We are also launching a couple other event, an online community, a podcast and will be growing the site as a content channel.
Our events and content focus on social media news for business results and the marketing perspective. But we want to convey this information in a fresh and fun format.
Marketers (agencies and brands), business owners, executives all looking to keep up with the vanguard of the social media industry, but without the time to read 30 blogs each week.
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Design will be centered in browser, Social Fresh logo left justified. Include enough room to the logo's right to fit a 728x90 pixel banner ad.
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Main content will appear on the left, 640px wide. Right sidebar 300px wide. Total site width = 1000px wide. Main content column will contain blog post excerpts with text and image teasing similar to TechCrunch.com's front page.
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Rumford police are investigating a stabbing on Waldo Street.
The male victim was taken by Medcare Ambulance to Rumford Hospital and was then transferred by Dart air ambulance to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, Sgt. Tracey Higley of Rumford police said. No information on the man's condition was available.
No one has been charged yet in the incident, which was reported at 3:07 p.m. on Monday, Higley said. Police believe the incident was an isolated dispute.
State police and Rumford police are continuing the investigation of the incident. Other law enforcement agencies responded to the initial call, Higley said.


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May 4th may become the greatest day for superheroe fans. Tis' the day that 'The Avengers' hits theaters in the USA in 3D. All your favorite superheroes in one movie, in what we hear is almost a 3 hour epic action adventure!
So to get you geared up, we have for you 4 clips from the movie and 2 featurettes sure to make your head explode.
Here's what you're going to see in the following four clips: two focused on action and two on dialogue. On the action side, Black Widow kicks some ass, and Thor and Captain America make NYC their playground. On the dialogue side, Tony Stark and Loki go to a mano a mano verbal battle and Maria Hill and Nick Fury chatting about some issues.
Here's the synopsis for those who have no clue of what the film is about:
Marvel Studios presents "Marvel's The Avengers"—the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes IronMan, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, NickFury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, and directed by Joss Whedon, "Marvel's The Avengers" is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series "The Avengers," first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action andspectacular special effects, when "Marvel's The Avengers" assemble in summer 2012.
"Marvel's The Avengers" is presented by Marvel Studios in association with Paramount Pictures. The film is being produced by Marvel Studios' President Kevin Feige and executive produced by Alan Fine, Jon Favreau, Stan Lee, Louis D'Esposito, Patricia Whitcher, Victoria Alonso and Jeremy Latcham. The story is by Zak Penn and Joss Whedon and the screenplay is by Joss Whedon. The film releases May 4, 2012, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.


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And when that horse is a defending champion who never threatened to win its season's debut over a month ago, it makes the story that much sweeter.
The champ, Musical Romance, is back.
There were extenuating circumstances in her defeat, but that's no guarantee of future victory, of course. As it turned out, however, wishes were horses.
Normally, taking a hunk of flesh off the back of a foreleg, "grabbing a quarter," isn't all that serious, but it is painful. The problem is that the injury Musical Romance sustained in her Sunshine Millions return got infected.
She didn't leave her stall for four days and didn't resume serious training for three weeks. The fact that she could return to defeat a gateful of fillies and mares in the Grade 2 Inside Information is testimony to her heart and class.
And a pretty damn good job by Bill Kaplan to get her ready, a hands on "Calder trainer" in charge of this "Calder horse" that went from nice filly to champion in a memorable 2011 campaign, culminating with a victory in the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint.
Gulfstream Park is, according to the publicists, "Florida's biggest racetrack." If that is so, the Calder is its soul, the home of South Florida racing throughout most of the year.
For this race, "[Musical Romance] breezed beautifully," Kaplan said, "and when we got her back, and she was OK, I knew she would be ready for this race."
Ready, indeed, and, with a very able assist from her regular partner, Juan Leyva, a "Calder jockey," won another big race.
"I call Juan 'The Iceman,' the trainer said. "He just sat in the pocket and waited and then got through. I was afraid [the hole] wouldn't open up but then she came right on through there."
Came though there she did, a tack that has become a trademark, the ability to jump into the breach and emerge victorious on the other side.
"I was in tight a little bit," Leyva said, "but it was just a matter of being patient, waiting. I had a lot in the tank. I know once I ask this filly she's going to go through anything. This filly is awesome."
The crowd of connections and well-wishers who flooded the winners' circle also had their priorities. "Let's go cash," one said, and about half the group left the circle. They collected $11.20 for every deuce.
So, what's next?
"It's always day-to-day," said Kaplan. "The tentative schedule of races for her are the Vinery Madison (Keeneland, April 12), the Humana Distaff (Churchill Downs, May 5) and back to Calder for the Princess Rooney (Grade 1, Calder, July 7)."
Back to Calder, back home.
Meet the New Boss
Javier Castellano has had quite a season here at the 2011-2012 stand, and now he's in the record books, breaking the record for most wins during a Gulfstream race meet when he won his 98th race of the meeting in the opener aboard Repenter.
Castellano set the record on the 72nd day of live racing, eclipsing three riders who were tied with 97 Gulfstream Park meet victories. It had taken Jerry Bailey 64 days to win 97 GP races: Wigberto Ramos 81 and Julio Pezua, still riding occasionally in New York, only 50 days.
"It's a great day in my life," Castellano said. "I've been doing so well lately. I've been so lucky. I've had a lot of help from all the owners and trainers and my agent, Matt Muzikar. It's been a great meeting. I won my 3000th race and I've been riding a lot of good horses. I'm looking forward to my next goal, the Kentucky Derby."
Toward that end, he's sitting aboard two loaded guns; Risen Star winner El Padrino and the undefeated Gemologist, a very impressive allowance winner here Friday, both trained by Todd Pletcher. "Hopefully, I can win it."
Castellano has seven mounts on the Sunday card, seeking to add to his meet record 98 winners and has the ride aboard Entrustment for Marty Wolfson in the day's featured Honey Fox Stakes. Castellano has won seven stakes races at the session.


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