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Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefits: technical guidance
Find out what Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefits are, how they are worked out, the eligibility rules and how to apply.
The Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefits technical guidance (DB1) is intended for use by professional and voluntary advisers, and by members of the public who want more information. It explains who is entitled to, how to claim and how DWP work out:
- Industrial Injuries Scheme
- Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit
- industrial accidents
- prescribed diseases
- Constant Attendance Allowance
- Exceptionally Severe Disablement Allowance
- Reduced Earnings Allowance
- Retirement Allowance
- Unemployability Supplement
- additional payment for people whose employer has gone out of business
- simplification changes under the Welfare Reform Act 2012
Published 31 October 2013
Last updated 30 March 2017 + show all updates
Last updated 30 March 2017 + show all updates
- Amended appendix 1: List of diseases covered by Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit - disease numbers A1, B6 and D9. Added new disease number C34.
- Amended chapter 5 - prescribed diseases and chapter 14 - appendix 1. Changes due to the prescribed disease legislative change outlined in Social Security (Industrial Injuries) Amendment Regulations 2015, including changing the name of chronic bronchitis and emphysema to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Amendments made as a result of changes to Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit Centre contact details.
- Changed the address of the International Pensions Centre (IPC) at section 13.5.
- First published.

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My first thought upon hearing the news of the rare 5.9 magnitude earthquake in Virginia this week was that it was not a natural occurrence. After all, no one has ever felt or even heard of such a powerful temblor happening in this area in a lifetime. As is usual for my cynical instincts, I hoped that I was wrong. However, several anomalies indicate that something is not normal with the Virginia quake.
First, I spend a lot of time in the "Ring of Fire" zone and have experienced numerous earthquakes. By no means does this make me an expert, nor scientifically qualified to analyze earthquakes. But, as enthusiasts, we looked up every quake we felt over a five-year period — the size, epicenter location, depth, and so on, to get a general sense of placing how it "felt" relative to the official data.


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Doris J. Kirkland, 76, passed away on March 11, 2014, at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center. Doris was born on Jan. 31, 1938, at Orofino to Gerald H. (Blackie) and Clara White McCall.
Doris and husband, Jack, were married in 1954 in Grangeville. After Jack's 23-year career in the Navy, they retired to the Kooskia area remaining there for 26 years before moving to Lewiston in 2003.
Doris was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Mary Lee Miller; and son, John L Kirkland.
Survivors include her husband, Jack Kirkland; children, Laura Taylor of Kennewick, Wash., Jack (Cecilia) Kirkland of Stites, and Leslie (David) Parker of Grandview, Wash.; four brothers, Jack (Rose), Mick, Glenn and Raymond McCall; two sisters, Geraldine (Ronald) Wilson and Emily Billie Ralston; 11 grandchildren, and 21 great-grandchildren.
At her request, no services will be held.
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One of the first examples of such integration is the melding of the WebTrends Data Conduit from leading Web analytics vendor NetIQ with the Siebel eBusiness Applications and the Siebel Call Center. Web information and analysis is fed directly to sales and service people via the addition of two new tabs to the familiar interface that a rep would regularly use. By clicking on the Web Visit summaries and Web Events tabs, sales and service reps can see histories of Web visits from a variety of perspectives, by customer account and by individual. There's no need to simultaneously run multiple applications to view this information, and together, the data represents a more holistic view of customers than could be achieved if the information is assembled in pieces.
Michael straub, director of alliances, technical services at Siebel Systems, says that such integration is a common demand among its call center customers. "We have seen a very widespread need to be able to integrate this Web traffic so that when registered users call in, there is comprehensive data kept in the Siebel depository to help improve conversion rates and build loyalty."
Mixing Apples and Oranges
Identifying decision makers and hot prospects, as well as turning browsers into buyers and buyers into loyal customers is indeed a technical matter of correlating massive amounts of Web data with information in other databases. "I think what businesses are finding out today is that Web data are massive in scale and highly complex in nature," Carey says. "You may have 60,000 records in your CRM system, but your Web site might get one million unique visitors on a daily basis." To manage such volume, Web data are housed in NetIQ's trademarked CommerceTrends Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) Web house and then exported to the Siebel database. In fact, Web data can also be integrated with a transaction database, a registration database, an ERP system or other databases. "As you can see from our Siebel integration," Carey says, "the CRM data are what we think is most critically important." CRM systems have all of the company, contact, product and transaction history information that, when combined with the behavioral Web activity, help create a single view of a customer across multiple touch points.
How quickly this information can be integrated is critical, especially given the pattern that many people go first to a self-service Web site to find information and then subsequently switch to the call center to make a transaction or to follow up. Customers could switch channels the following day or perhaps even hours or minutes later. At present, with the CommerceTrends system, data from the VRM Web house are imported to the Siebel database via batch processes that occur at intervals that the customer decides. Depending on how a company plans to use the Web, data could be loaded even on an hourly basis.
Real-time integration is just around the corner. According to Carey, NetIQ's next generation product will enable real-time reporting and is scheduled to hit the market "in the course of the next couple of quarters."
The links between these two systems enables some unprecedented functionality. Using Siebel workflow, a company can make a qualifying Web event a trigger for action at the call center. Such events could be when a visitor enters a particular section of the Web site, clicks on a banner ad or does something like download a free offer. Anytime one of those things happens, provided the information is loaded, an alert can be sent to a sales rep to follow up in a timely manner. Or in a service environment, if the system reveals that a particular customer is coming back multiple times to an area of the knowledgebase, such information could trigger a proactive service call to that account to make sure that the customer received the information she sought and was able to resolve whatever issue she had.
Something for Everyone
The integration of Web with other enterprise databases benefits the marketing department, so that they can better target and analyze the effectiveness of certain campaigns; sales, so they can identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities; and services, so that they can clearly understand issues or concerns that customers may have and respond proactively. It can also improve information sharing between a company's departments. "This provides the ability for a salesperson to understand the service issues that this person may have faced historically [so they can] be more sensitive and responsive or more timely in terms of the communication they make with the customer based on what their issues are," Carey says.
"It makes something that was an academic exercise into something that you can truly use in an operational sense," says Guy Creese, research director of Internet analytics at the Aberdeen Group. "They are making it much more operational than it has in the past, because the more people use the data and weave it into their daily lives, the better the company will be at analyzing how the Web site is used."
Web analytics has unfortunately been for a long time the bailiwick of only IT or marketing. Initially IT managed analytics, since they were trying to figure out traffic loads, and then a of couple years ago marketing got involved since they wanted to know their customers better and understand how people were moving through the site better. "I'm convinced that a lot of the value of Web analytics is passing this insight around the company to different types of people," Creese says. He says a product manager who is trying to figure out what features to put in a new version could get insight by looking at what features people check when they visit the online product page. "The information is there. It's just not passed on to those people who can use it," he says. Access to Web analytics is akin to having an ongoing focus group with potential benefits for multiple departments.
But to make sense of any Web-visit data, it does require customers to register and opt in to the collection of information. "In that sense, I don't see this as a panacea," Creese says. Not everyone will want to do that. "It's an absolute requirement [that companies have] a clearly stated privacy policy indicating what kind of information is collected and how that information will be used," Carey says. The most effective way to encourage registration, she adds, is to provide a satisfying level of return to the customer for allowing the information to be collected. That could be providing information on products or customizing part of a Web site to a particular enterprise with unique pricing, promotional offers, the ability to participate in customer surveys and so on.
The promise of real-time integration of the Web and the call center brings us closer to the goal of providing customers a consistent experience across all touch points. This space will undoubtedly take off in the coming months as Web analytics companies like NetIQ integrate with other CRM vendors and, likewise, Siebel and its competitors integrate with additional Web analytics providers.


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Colby-Sawyer lays off 16 staff workers to balance budgetBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
May 22. 2013 9:41PM
NEW LONDON — Colby-Sawyer College has laid off 16 staff members, saying it had to do so to meet its budget requirements.
The 16 are both full- and part-time staff members, college officials said, and each was offered a severance package with health benefits.
The college also hired an expert in employment transitions to work with the laid off staff to help with future employment.
"The extent of the college's regret at having to take this action cannot be adequately expressed, as the individuals affected offered, for years, their great talents and gifts to the college and its mission to educate students," the college said in a statement on its website.
The college has a goal of enrolling 450 students for the incoming class, and has nearly reached that, according to the statement.
"But as the projected net tuition revenues for next year became more clear, so, too, did the fact that the college faces significant financial challenges in order to achieve a balanced budget for next year."
Like other small colleges, "we will need to reduce expenses to achieve that balanced budget. Expense reductions identified by senior staff within departmental budgets were not enough to balance the college budget. The board of trustees and senior staff had to consider every option."
David Sauerwein, the college's vice president and dean of students, said no teachers were laid off. He said the college had to lay off workers.
"I can tell you we're projected to have a balanced budget," Sauerwein said.
"All small colleges are facing demographic, economic and competitive challenges right now, and we're feeling the pressure," he said.


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03-09-2010, 04:04 PM (This post was last modified: 17-04-2012 09:40 PM by Hughsie.)
Share A Joke
Tell your favorite jokes here. Religious jokes, (moderately) offensive jokes, whatever.
I'll start it off:
This guy is sitting in his living room with his daughters in his lap when one of them looks up at him and asks a question.
She says, "Daddy, how did I get my name?"
Daddy looks down at her and says, "Well, on the day that you were born, a rose petal fell and landed on your forehead. Your mom took it as a sign from God, so we named you Rose."
Her sister looks up and says, "What about me, daddy?"
Daddy looks down at her and says, "Well, when you were born, a petal from a daisy fell and landed on your forehead. Mom took that as a sign from God too, and we named you Daisy because of it."
The third daughter looked up at her father and said "Thsadfklnashdjlfhsw!"
Daddy looked down at her and said "Shut the hell up, Cinderblock."
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A mason was building a barbeque pit when he suddenly calculated he was 99 bricks short. He went to the supplier and asked if he could buy 99 bricks. The supplier replied in the negative, saying he could buy 100, but not 99. The mason complied and upon receiving the bricks took one and threw it WAAAAAY up into the sky.
Here's another one.
A woman was on a plane near a man with a strong, expensive cigar. She eventually got fed up with the odor and told him to put it out. The man looked at her and saw she was travelling with a small dog in her bag and formed an idea. He said he would throw out his cigar if she would throw out her dog, knowing she would never risk her precious puppy's life like that.
Surprisingly, the woman complied, and the two opened their windows (employ a willing suspension of disblief here that the cabin didn't depressurize and whatnot) and both threw their respective treasures, however at the last minute, the woman pulled at the dog's chain and retrieved her dog! But surprise, surprise, what did it have in its mouth?
A brick! You read the first joke, right?
"It does feel like something to be wrong; it feels like being right." -Kathryn Schulz
I am 100% certain that I am wrong about something I am certain about right now. Because even if everything I stand for turns out to be completely true, I was still wrong about being wrong.
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(03-09-2010 04:16 PM)LeviTimes Wrote: A brick! You read the first joke, right?
Well played sir! Here's an old one.
Mickey and Minnie Mouse are standing in front of the judge, and Mickey is pleading for a divorce.
The judge looks down at mickey and says, "You know, Mr. Mouse, I don't see why the two of you never tried psychological help. In these days of modern science, a little mental illness can be dealt with and the two of you could go along happily.."
Mickey looks up at the judge and says, "Oh, no your Honor. I never said she was crazy. I said she was fucking Goofy!"
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Wife:''Hey, Peter!''
Husband:''Finally, i've been waiting for so long!''
Wife:''Do you want me to leave?''
Husband:''No! How could you think about something like that? Just a thought about it horrifys me.''
Wife:''Do you love me?''
Husband:''Of course, all the time!''
Wife:''Have you ever betrayed me?''
Husband:''Never! Why are you even asking something like that?''
Wife:''Do you want to kiss me?''
Husband: ''Yes, always when i have the opportunity to!''
Wife:''Would you ever hit me?''
Husband:''Are you crazy? You know me!''
Wife:''Can i trust you?''
Husband:''Yes, my love...''
10 years later...(read it again, but this time start from the below[you know, start with the ''darling...'' and end with ''hey peter!''])
You know what food they serve in a North Korean restaurant?
-Nothing, they dont have any, hahahaha.
Try making up a better one.
If Electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
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A priest and a rabbi are standing on a street corner talking when a 10 year old boy walks by. The priest says "hey rabbi, we should grab that boy, pull him into the alley and screw him". The rabbi looks perplexed and says "out of what?".
I know I was born and I know that I'll die. The in between is mine.
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Q. What is the difference between a pimple and a priest?
A. A pimple doesn't come on a boy's face until he is at least thirteen.
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Four nuns are standing in front of the gates to Heaven when Saint Peter walks up.
He says to them, "You see ladies, it's been kind of busy, and I haven't been keeping an eye on you like I should. So, I'm going to ask you each one question and your answer will determine whether you get into heaven or not."
He turns to the first nun, and he says, "Excuse me, sister, have you ever touched a man's penis?"
The first nun blushes and says, "Yes Saint Peter, with this hand.." and she raises he right hand.
Saint Peter looks at her, and says, "Okay, you see that birdbath over there? The one filled with cherubs? That's holy water. I want you to go wash your hand clean of sin, and sign your name to the book of life for being so honest with me."
She of course is ecstatic, and thanks him profusely. He replies to her, "No, this is heaven, it's the way it's supposed to be..." So, the first nun washes her hand, signs her name and walks on in to heaven.
Thinking that this is a great question, he turns to the second nun, and asks it again. Th second nun says, "Yes, Saint Peter, with both my hands. A lot." So Saint Peter gives her directions to the same birdbath and tells her to wash both her hands. A lot. And she signs her name to the book of life and continues in through the gates.
Saint Peter is about to ask the third nun the same question when the fourth nun starts yanking on the sleeve of her habit, trying to get the third nun's attention. The third nun turns around and looks at the fourth nun.
"Yes," she says, "what is it?"
The fourth nun replies, "Do you mind if we switch places?"
"Of course not," the third nun answers. "But why?"
The fourth nun looks at her earnestly and answers, "Because if it's all the same to you, I'd like to gargle before you scrub your ass."
(05-09-2010 03:04 AM)No J. Wrote: Q. What is the difference between a pimple and a priest?
Ouch. Harsh. Funny, but harsh.
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I just need to keep them occupied all the time though.
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A Rabbi and a Priest play golf together. the Priest hits the ball, misses the hole, get angry and shouts: "Shit I missed!"
The Rabbi tells him: You should not curse, God wouldn't like it...
another hole, another miss, another: "Shit I missed!"
again, the Rabbi: You should not curse, god would punish you.
suddenly both of them see a meteor in the sky, heading right 2wards them, hitting the rabbi and kill him. the Priest looks up and hears a mighty voice shouts "Shit, I missed!"
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How many Christians does it take to change a lightbulb?
Charismatic: Only one. Hands already in the air.
Pentecostals: Ten. One to change the bulb and nine to pray against the spirit of darkness.
Presbyterians: None. Lights will go off and on at predestined times.
Roman Catholic: None. Candles only.
Baptists: At least 15. One to change the light bulb and three committees to approve the change and decide who brings the potato salad.
Episcopalians: Three. One to call the electrician, one to mix the drinks and one to talk about how much better the old bulb was.
Mormons: Five. One man to change the bulb and four wives to tell him how to do it.
Unitarians: We choose not to make a statement either in favor of or against the need for a light bulb. However, if in your own journey you have found that light bulbs work for you, that is fine. You are invited to write a poem or compose a modern dance about your light bulb for the next Sunday service, in which we will explore a number of light bulb traditions including incandescent, fluorescent, three-way, long-life and tinted, all of which are equally valid paths to luminescence.
Methodists: Undetermined. Whether your light bulb is bright, dull, or completely out, you are loved. You can be a light bulb, turnip bulb or tulip bulb. A church-wide lighting service is planned for Sunday. Bring a bulb of your choice and a covered dish.
Nazarene: Six. One woman to replace the bulb while five men review the church lighting policy.
Lutherans: None. Lutherans don't believe in change.
Amish: What's a light bulb?
All learning is quite useless if you haven't learned to question what you learn.
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2014 Bentley Flying Spur: Overview
Pros: Increased fuel efficiency, quieter cabin, more rear-seat amenities
Cons: Costs more than a modest apartment
What's New: Exterior styling has been redesigned to stand apart from the lower-priced Continental GT lineup
Before the 2014 Bentley Flying Spur replaced its predecessor, this big, imposing sedan was more of an extension of the 2-door Continental GT lineup -- in fact, it even incorporated Continental into its model name. Changes for 2014 (including removal of the Continental moniker) have helped take the Spur a step away from the GT, aided by styling cues that have trickled down from the $296,000 Mulsanne. The resulting silhouette is more flowing, with nuanced curves and sharper sheet-metal creases.
The new Flying Spur is also a layer cake of luxury on the inside, with the reworked interior offering generous stretches of buttery-soft leather and wood surfaces with mirror-like finishes. Some of the switches and controls are a bit disappointing in their plasticky finish (and familiar, VW-sourced shapes), while the weakest part of the human/machine interface is the navigation system, which feels outdated, even though the "knurled metal" simulated buttons on the touchscreen do add a bit of comedic flavor to the proceedings.
Driving the 2014 Bentley Flying Spur conveys a sense of heft, solidity and startlingly fast acceleration: Drop the hammer with the 8-speed transmission in S mode and this nearly 3-ton behemoth lurches to 60 miles per hour in only 4.3 seconds thanks to its 616-horsepower, 590 lb-ft powerplant. Yet acceleration also feels unexpectedly peaceful due to the eerily silent cabin, which Bentley says is 40 percent quieter than its predecessor. The Flying Spur's air suspension settings have been softened. Along with greater rear-seat amenities, such as a touchscreen-operated remote for air conditioning and various other functions, the new suspension settings make it clear that this 6-figure sedan has shifted its focus toward those being chauffeured in the back seat rather than the guy or gal in the driver's seat. At least Bentley has retained a hydraulic steering setup, which offers relatively communicative handling feedback, despite the low effort required to turn the wheel.
By separating the Flying Spur from the Continental lineup, Bentley has made this long wheelbase sedan feel more expensive and, therefore, more special -- qualities that should help fuel Bentley's recent sales success.


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Did you know that kids aged 12-17 are the fastest growing population of caffeine consumers? This infographic shows which countries consume the most caffeine and highlights some not-so-savory side effects of your morning coffee.
Curriculum & Resources
The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has developed "Jazz in America," an Internet-based jazz curriculum for social studies, American history, and music classes to help students "develop imaginative thinking, creativity, curiosity, a positive self image, and a respect for their own and others' cultural heritage."
This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about poverty—here and in other countries—and will help them explore a creative approach to solve poverty.
The Story of Stuff Project is more than the short film "The Story of Stuff." It's a movement to get us to throw away all the stuff in our lives and work together to build a healthy planet.
Since 2006, No Impact Man, Colin Beavan, and his family have inspired a nation to swap their old consumer habits for new environmentally-friendly ones. The No Impact Curriculum explores the effects of your students' everyday behavior on the environment, their health, and their well-being.
This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about people experiencing homelessness and the importance of sleep.
The Daily Beast interviews writers about their daily writing routines.
The Institute for Humane Education (IHE) curricula, lesson plans, online courses, graduate programs focus on human rights, animal protection, environmental stewardship, and cultural influences.
This Visual Learning lesson will get your students thinking about the risks and rewards of protests, and how to use social media to get people to support your cause.
Toolbox for Education and Social Change has a great classroom tool on cooperatives. You can buy its "10 Reasons Why Co-ops Rock" poster at pay-what-you-want prices. Available in Spanish, too.
This Visual Learning activity will get your students thinking about the intersection of handwriting and digital typeface, and the fate of cursive writing around the world.
The Food Project, based in the Boston area, focuses on sustainable agriculture and youth leadership, and graciously shares many of its manuals, activities, and curricula for free.
Equal Exchange, a worker-owned cooperative for more than 25 years, wants the public to join them in the fair trade movement.
World Savvy prepares the next generation to learn, work, and thrive as responsible and engaged global citizens. It provides curriculum and other classroom-ready resources, professional development, and an educator network to boost student global competency.


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Has Karzai Gone Crazy?
What matters is whether he's a reliable partner.
What is to be done about Hamid Karzai? The short answer is: not much.
These past few years, since the revival of counterinsurgency doctrine, the U.S. military has learned much about "asymmetrical conflicts," in which an ostensibly powerful nation (e.g., the United States) finds itself outmaneuvered by considerably weaker adversaries (e.g., al-Qaida, the Taliban) who have figured out how to tap our vulnerabilities.
It seems that the president of Afghanistan has been learning his own lessons about how to play this game.
Karzai's regime—its sovereignty, budget, army, police, even his personal security—depends entirely on the United States, NATO, and a handful of other foreign allies.
The Western powers have committed so much to the war because they see it as important to their security. Precisely because they have—and keep saying that they have—so much stake in Afghanistan, Karzai understands that he has much more leverage than the simple math might suggest.
It's like the old joke: If you owe the bank $1 million, the bank owns you; if you owe the bank $1 billion, you own the bank. We're the bank, and Karzai's the one in unfathomably deep debt, but he's calculating that we won't foreclose precisely because of this relationship (a politico-military equivalent of "too big to fail"), and he's probably right.
This may explain Karzai's latest string of eruptions. On April 1, he accused the West of trying to rig last fall's Afghan presidential elections (which, in fact, he had so blatantly rigged himself) and criticized the Western military coalition (which is all that's separating him from a rope and a lamp post) as invaders who are legitimizing the Taliban as a movement of "national resistance."
When it was clear that the objects of his attack were not amused, Karzai phoned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to apologize for any misunderstandings that his remarks might have caused. Then, over the weekend, he escalated the rhetoric. At a meeting with Afghan parliamentarians who had rejected a decree that would give Karzai the power to appoint all members of the currently independent Electoral Complaints Commission (and thus total power over elections, making him potentially president-for-life), he said, "If you and the international community pressure me more, I swear that I am going to join the Taliban."
He also assured a group of tribal elders in Kandahar that he would cancel NATO's military operations in the province—which have been (very carefully) planned for the summer and which form the foundation for President Barack Obama's new strategy—if they didn't want it to go ahead.
Some U.S. officials, who have grown accustomed to Karzai's tantrums over the years, say these latest outbursts are beyond the pale and raise troubling questions about the whole military mission.
The point of our counterinsurgency campaign is not so much to destroy the enemy but, rather, to protect the Afghan people—to provide them with security so that the Afghan government can deliver basic services and thus earn the people's trust and allegiance, luring them away from the Taliban and other insurgents.
As Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, put it in a memo last year, the war's focus must be on "the will and ability to provide for the needs of the population, by, with, and through the Afghan government." (Italics added.)
When McChrystal wrote that memo, the big concern was that the Karzai regime's pervasive corruption might undermine his legitimacy in the eyes of the Afghan people. If so, even the most brilliantly executed military campaign would fail to accomplish its political objectives, because it would be impossible to provide services "by, with, and through" a distrusted Afghan government.
However, Karzai's latest remarks raise a more alarming question still: Is it possible for Western governments to work by, with, and through an Afghan president who denounces them at every turn, even to the point of characterizing them as imperialist invaders, thus affirming the main talking point of the Taliban and al-Qaida?
The issue here is not Karzai's peevishness or ingratitude. The issue is whether, under the circumstances, a counterinsurgency campaign can work—whether we're wasting lives and money.
One key question, which U.S. officials are exploring, is whether this rupture with Karzai can be mended. Some officials cite a chronology of events that suggests we may have (unwittingly) sent him off the deep end and that, therefore, we might be able to calm him back down.
The tensions started to escalate on March 10, a few weeks before his April Fools' Day outburst, when Karzai warmly welcomed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Kabul—an event seen in Washington as a deep affront. Yet this didn't come out of the blue. As the New York Times' Dexter Filkins and Mark Landler reported later, Karzai invited our No. 1 enemy for a state visit—then sat by calmly as Ahmadinejad delivered a fiercely anti-American speech in the presidential palace—"to spite" Obama for withdrawing an invitation for Karzai to visit the White House. This withdrawal came in response to Karzai's decree to take over the independent election commission—which is to say that relations have been at best up and down for a while.
Obama made his surprise visit to Kabul on March 28, in part to raise concerns with Karzai in person, in part to assure him of the United States' continued support. Officials say the meeting seemed to go well.
Then, on March 31, the Washington Post published a front-page story that quoted a "senior U.S. military official" threatening to put Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's brother, on a list of most-wanted insurgents so that he can then be arrested or killed.
President Karzai assiduously reads the American press and is extremely sensitive to longstanding accusations that his brother, the head of Kandahar's provincial council, is a drug lord (a charge they both deny). Two U.S. officials I spoke with think that the Post article might have spurred him to make his wild-eyed remarks over the next three days.
It may be time for Obama to send Sen. John Kerry back to Kabul for another half-dozen meetings with Karzai, over 300 more cups of tea, as he did last October, when he persuaded the Afghan president to hold a second round of elections after the first round was proved to be so rigged.
Maybe Kerry can pamper Karzai with recitations of reassurances. If not, there's trouble ahead. Obama could threaten to pull out of Afghanistan if Karzai doesn't straighten up, but Karzai would surely see this as a bluff and might call it. Then what? If Obama really sees his commitment as vital to U.S. interests (and he wouldn't have ordered the escalation if he didn't), then he's not likely to take the gamble.
Another option is to go around Karzai's authority and deal more with Afghanistan's provincial governors and tribal elders. This has been part of Obama's plan all along. Last November, shortly before announcing his new strategy, Obama said in an ABC-TV interview that he and his advisers were focusing on "not just a national government in Kabul but provincial government actors that have legitimacy in the right now."
Gerard Russell, a former U.N. official in Kabul (who is now at Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy), said in a phone interview Monday that the Western coalition is pursuing this approach to some extent. The ongoing military operation in Helmand province has elevated the power of some independent Afghans there, at the expense of Karzai's people.
However, Russell added, there are risks to going around Karzai as the centerpiece of a strategy. "Karzai is very good at this sort of thing," Russell said. "He could undermine these regional governors if they get too powerful."
Russell thinks there was an opportunity last year, before the elections, to get rid of Karzai. Others disagree. They say that Karzai's agility has always been underrated and that, even if it hasn't, an alternative candidate might have been worse. There is also the matter of the "Diem complex." The CIA's assassination of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem during the Kennedy administration, did nothing to improve political prospects and only sucked the United States more deeply into the quagmire.
In any event, Russell agrees that, at this point, the West is faced with just two options on what to do about Karzai: either withdraw support for him—or back him all the way. Ambivalent support or persistent bickering is a recipe for disaster and defeat.
Which is why someone probably needs to start sipping those 300 cups of tea.
When Obama announced his new strategy late last year, he said that the troops he was sending to Afghanistan would begin to come out in July 2011. In elaborating on this policy, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained to Congress that it would be clear by the end of 2010 whether the strategy was succeeding, and decisions about how many troops to withdraw would be made on that basis.
It is now clearer than ever that the strategy's success or failure is, in large measure, up to Karzai. If he hasn't proved to be a reliable partner by then, it's time for us to back someone else—or leave.
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Missouri Lawmakers Vow Veto Showdown with Governor Jay Nixon
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Income tax cuts? No. Nullification of federal gun-control laws? No. New hurdles for public employee unions? No.
Again and again, Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed bills passed by Missouri's Republican-led Legislature that would have put a decisively conservative stamp on the state. Now Republicans who hold their largest legislative majorities since the Civil War era are poised for a showdown that will determine whether they have the political solidarity to actually enact their agenda.
Missouri lawmakers convene a session Wednesday devoted to overriding vetoes, and the itinerary is lengthy. Nixon spiked 29 bills and used his line-item veto on four additional budget items this year.


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Some children might dress up as superheroes, but we think this boy actually is one! 12-year-old Seth Cutright carried his grandmother from his burning home after a propane heater exploded. He was home alone with his grandmother, Rosa Cutright, when he smelled the leaking gas right before Rosa lit a cigarette. "It was like 'boom.' A flash before your eyes," Seth said of the explosion that ignited both the Oregon residence and his grandmother.
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Instead of panicking, the boy picked his grandmother up and carried her to safety before alerting his neighbor of the blaze. "My grandma was on fire," he said. "Not completely on fire, just a little bit. Then when I was walking, it went out. I carried her outside and set her on the ground. I went to the next-door neighbor's and said call the ambulance."
The house was almost entirely destroyed by the fire and Seth suffered heavy burns across his face, body and arms. Though he is expected to make a full recovery with no scarring, Seth wanted to show off his burns as a warning to the public about the dangers of gas leaks.
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When interviewed about the incident, Seth's father told him on camera: "I love you. I'm proud of you. You're my hero." He's our hero, too!
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia said Tuesday it has barred a journalist for U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from the country for five years over a visa infraction, a charge rejected by the veteran American journalist, who described it as "bureaucratic trickery" to keep him out of the country.
The barring of David Satter, who has written several books about Russia, appears to reflect the Kremlin's nervousness about critical opinion before next month's Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Satter has been strongly critical of the games, which Vladimir Putin has made a priority of his presidency. In a recent commentary posted on CNN's website, Satter criticized the International Olympic Committee's "irresponsibility" in choosing Sochi and warned that it could lead to "one of the greatest catastrophes in the history of the Olympics."
Satter began working in September for RFE/RL, which is funded by the U.S. Congress to support human rights, democracy and other U.S. priorities.
Marie Harf, deputy spokeswoman of the U.S. State Department, said Tuesday the U.S. is disappointed that Russian authorities denied a visa to Satter and is monitoring his case.
"The U.S. Embassy in Moscow has raised our concerns on this case and the treatment of journalists and media organizations in general with Russian authorities. As we've said many times before, hindering the free flow of information undermines the kind of open environment for free debate and discussion that supports innovation and dynamisms," said Harf.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the U.S. journalist had not applied for an extension of his visa within the prescribed time. Satter argued that the case was bureaucratic obfuscation, and RFE/RL President Kevin Klose said in a statement that barring Satter from entering Russia was a "fundamental violation of the right of free speech."
Satter insisted that the ministry had promised him a new visa, but failed to provide a letter of support on time, causing the migration agency to declare him in violation of visa rules. Satter left Russia on Dec. 4 on a court order and tried to obtain a new visa in Ukraine, but he said a Russian diplomat there read him a statement on Dec. 25 saying that Russian "competent organs" considered his presence in the country "undesirable."
Satter, speaking from London, said the Russian explanation "is a case of just bureaucratic trickery."
Klose said the U.S. Embassy has lodged a protest with the Foreign Ministry.
Satter, 66, first worked in Moscow in 1976-1982 as a correspondent of the British newspaper Financial Times, and has written extensively about the Soviet Union and Russia since then. His books include "Darkness at Dawn: the Rise of the Russian Criminal State," which focuses on the alleged role of Russian security agencies in apartment building explosions in 1999 that triggered the second war in Chechnya. An abridged Russian-language version was published recently in Moscow.
"To say that I'm not allowed on the territory of the Russian Federation at the request of the security services — this I haven't seen applied to a journalist in my entire career of writing about Russia," he said.
The expulsion of Western reporters was common during Cold War times, and the Kremlin has revived the practice in recent years. In 2011, Russia denied entry to Luke Harding, a Moscow correspondent for the London-based Guardian. In 2012, French freelance journalist Anne Nivat had her business visa canceled after she tried to gather information about opposition groups in the provinces.
Satter's expulsion will likely further strain U.S.-Russian ties, which have been hurt by disputes over Washington's missile defense plans, Russia's rights record and Ukraine, which in November ditched a pact with the European Union in exchange for a $15 billion bailout package from Russia.
Some Russian commentators criticized the government's decision to expel Satter, saying that it would only hurt the Kremlin's efforts to polish Russia's image before the Olympics.
"Whoever made this decision is a fool who has inflicted much more damage on Russia than any spy," Viktor Kremenyuk, a deputy director of the state-funded U.S.A. and Canada Institute, said in an online commentary.
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Reese Witherspoon: Mugshot Revealed After Arrest
Reese Witherspoon shows a bit of smile in this newly released mugshot after her arrest in the early morning hours of Friday (April 19) in Atlanta, Ga.
The 37-year-old actress and her husband, Jim Toth, whose mugshot is also pictured, is facing a disorderly conduct charge while Jim, is facing a DUI charge after blowing a .139 on a breathalyzer test.
Reese and Jim made their first public appearance since the incident earlier this evening at the premiere of Mud.
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Wayne LaPierre, speaking recently before a group of gun manufacturers, explained the need for military assault weapons in society as being necessary to resist the establishment of a tyrannical federal government.
Wayne LaPierre, speaking recently before a group of gun manufacturers, explained the need for military assault weapons in society as being necessary to resist the establishment of a tyrannical federal government.
During the presidential campaign, Rep. Michele Bachmann asserted that they might have to resort to "a Second Amendment solution" if they weren't successful politically.
Rock musician Ted Nugent has declared the Obama administration a tyrannical government and stated that he and "some of his buddies" are prepared to assist in his overthrow.
The question that comes to my mind when I hear this sort of rhetoric is why does it always come from the far right, never from the center or the left? When has anyone ever heard of a left-wing militia running around the woods practicing military tactics to prepare for opposing a tyrannical federal government?
If this truly is their rationale for needing assault weapons, shouldn't they also be accumulating some helicopter gunships, tanks, artillery, tactical nuclear weapons, etc., if they are going to take on the most powerful military the world has ever seen? And after they are successful, what sort of government are Wayne, Michele and Ted going to establish? Will it be an enlightened, inclusive government open to a wide range of views, or will they impose an extreme right-wing agenda on the American people?
Just asking.
Mick Stockard
Valley Springs
In my humble opinion, we are looking for solutions in the wrong places regarding gun violence. The problem is not with the law-abiding citizens who are causing problems by owning any type of guns. The solution lies in going after any person who uses a gun in the commission of crime, no matter what.
I wonder how long it would take for all those criminals out there to wake up to find themselves in prison for life if they use a gun for any crime? Better yet, maybe if the crime results in a death, they should face the death penalty without appeal.
Let's get real. We need to crack down as hard as possible on these idiots who have no regard for other decent human beings trying to raise our families and make a living.
Lee Dovichi
We live in a world of contradiction - where many obsessed with "the right to life" are often the loudest proponents of unrestricted access to weapons of death. Where many who are appalled at the carnage of an Aurora or Sandy Hook look for relief from the horror of it by switching channels to watch favorite shows based on murder, rape and brutality.
We find it painful to watch real-life tragedies unfolding on CNN, but love the movies, TV shows and video games where things get blown up - where there's lots of yelling and bashing and people getting shot.
We love the "visuals" of violence, don't we? Just not the reality.
Is there not a connection somewhere between the terror on our streets and the terror we invite into our homes? Will there ever come a time in America when the violent termination of human life -whether depicted on film, TV, or video games - becomes so abhorrent that it stops being "exciting" to watch? Not likely.
We live in a world of contradiction where "Viewer Discretion Advised" is just a teaser.
Charles F. Barnard
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Farmingdale State, 16
Centenary College, 8
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's lacrosse team won their third straight conference game today with a 16-8 victory over Centenary College (1-5, 0-2 Skyline). After holding an 8-5 edge at the half, the Rams scored on 4-of-8 extra man opportunities in the final two periods and held the Cyclones to just two goals to improve to 3-5 overall and 3-0 in the Skyline Conference.
Farmingdale State had three players with four goals each. Junior Jeremy Goohs (Merrick, N.Y./Calhoun) finished with four and two assists, while senior Ryan LaFlare (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) and junior Chris Fiorenzo (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) both tallied four goals and one assist. Goohs put away the eventual game-winner at the 13:21 mark in the third period, assisted by sophomore Kevin Sharkey (Bellmore, N.Y./Mepham).
Senior goalkeeper Kevin Winters (Baldwin, N.Y./Baldwin) had a great game in net for the Rams with 15 saves. Sophomore James Vaz (Hicksville, N.Y./Holy Trinity) and freshman Tom Dluginski (Seaford, N.Y./Seaford) combined for six takeaways on the defensive end of the field, while junior Joe Gritser (Bethpage, N.Y./Bethpage) finished 13-of-19 on the faceoffs.
The Rams will host Montclair State this Sunday, April 1st at 1:00pm for another Skyline Conference game.


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The Challenge (08)
So by now you've all seen the Food Network Challenge… I want to first say thank you to all that have sent emails, blog comments, text messages and phone calls…sharing your support! I truly appreciate knowing that you are out there enjoying what I and Pink Cake Box produce!
After living the real life 8 hour challenge, and then watching it on tv…my comments are below 🙂
1) I do realize there is no crying in cake 🙂 But sometimes there is…
2) At the time, I made the decision to do as the client wanted…even though in theory she wasn't a client…and it was a challenge….but in real life I always try to make the bride happy!
3) In the end, I was upset because I didn't stay true to my work (i.e. it wasn't as clean as I would like, nor was the color scheme very cohesive, etc) and the result was that my cake looked terrible…and the judges called me on it.
So that's it in a nutshell. It was a great learning experience..I do feel I did a lot better in the 2nd one…and I can promise I don't normally cry when I make wedding cakes. : )
Thanks again to my family and friends for sharing your warm wishes with me!!!


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GPSolo Magazine - September 2004
Dispute Resolution Question of Competencies in Ada Mediations
When the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed, it raised the question of whether disability has a unique impact on mediation. Many mediators, faced with a party with a disability, resorted to a way of thinking about the professional-client relationship that was retrograde: The person with the disability was objectified and treated as if greatly different from those without disabilities.
If we think more precisely about competencies and capacities in ADA mediation, the potential value of mediator rosters and mediator training can help point the way back to basic principles preserving the integrity of all participants.
Establishing competencies. The important question is whether the door to mediation services is shut more often to clients with apparent disabilities and non-apparent disabilities that are disclosed than to those with seemingly no apparent disabilities who happen to lack the competencies to mediate. The response to a person who has no apparent disability but exhibits behaviors associated with cognitive or mental disabilities is to assume that an inability to mediate is the result of an apparent disability. And a person with an apparent disability who is able to mediate is thought of as a "superperson." This focus highlights a possible conclusion about the relationship between disability and its role in mediation, giving it more importance than it actually has in the success or failure of the process. When parties have difficulty with mediation so that the outcome is doomed and one of the parties has a disability, the tendency might be to relate the failure of mediation to that disability. Where there is a non-apparent disability in a failed mediation, the tendency is to search for and attribute the failure to factors associated with mental and cognitive disability. If the mediation has a successful outcome, it is rarely attributed to disability, which is more often seen as an impediment to successful mediation.
Competencies versus mental capacity. Some mediation practitioners have focused on whether there are benefits in distinguishing between determining capacity and facilitating competencies in mediation. Using the plural form of competency points to an important distinction. To participate in mediation, all parties must have certain competencies. Some are obvious, such as: (1) thinking and behaving in a collaborative manner; (2) balancing the emotional and cognitive dimensions of problem solving; (3) understanding the interests of other parties; (4) risk taking; and (5) following shared principles when making decisions. Most individuals have the competencies necessary to participate in mediation. The mediator's role is to help activate competencies that already exist or to be a role model for the competencies needed to complete the mutual problem-solving process.
Capacity usually refers to a legal or mental health finding about a person's overall ability to function. Mediators usually have neither the legal authority nor the technical expertise to determine capacity. Even if they had both, determining capacity as defined in law and mental health would raise ethical issues in requiring a mediator to function as someone other than a mediator while delivering mediation services.
The ADA and competencies. The ADA acknowledges that input from all parties is important in implementing its provisions. Although the ADA doesn't directly address the dispute resolution practitioner's behavior, he or she must determine the appropriateness of mediation without violating the civil rights of the person with the disability. Determining capacity without the expertise, legal authority, and consent of the person with the disability could violate civil rights by withholding access to service. On the other hand, facilitating competencies in aid of determining appropriateness falls within a mediator's range of skills and party expectations. In addition, facilitating competencies is interactive, involving not only the mediator but also all parties in the mediation.
Do not presume that when a person with a disability is in mediation, his or her capacity has to be determined beforehand. Focusing attention only on that person will result in treating him or her differently than an individual about whom capacity is not deemed an issue. The objective of mediators ought to be to approach all parties in mediation as if an audit of competencies needs to be made continually from the beginning. Ask yourself what every individual will need to get through the mediation. This process often results in a list of competencies to consider and suggested approaches to take.
Rosters and competencies. After the ADA passed, the Department of Justice sponsored trainings to create a roster of individuals experienced in mediating civil rights disputes and possessing training in the substantive aspects of the law. However, roster membership doesn't guarantee that mediators will exercise the competencies necessary to provide services that meet the needs of all parties.
ADA cases are sufficiently distinct that each one presents a new challenge for a mediator. One practice that will help ensure that all parties' needs are met and also support the learning that experience brings is to supervise and monitor cases to which roster mediators are assigned.
Viewing mediation involving people with disabilities with a broader lens highlights the responsibilities to clients, regardless of their personal characteristics. Not only does this improve practice techniques, but it also helps avoid the negative consequences associated with focusing on the disability, including: (1) encouraging the mediator to think about the person as the "identified patient;" (2) depriving people with disabilities of their rights to have access to mediation; (3) overreaching, where mediators function as judges and mental health professionals; and (4) assuming erroneously that the disability is more directly connected to mediation competencies than other characteristics of the parties.
Training and competencies. One way to ensure that roster mediators share common skills, knowledge, and abilities is through training that allows mediators to examine assumptions with respect to people with disabilities in their roles as parties in mediation. Mediators in training are instructed to look for real or potential violence, as well as mental, cognitive, and behavioral indicators influencing client decision making. Most discussions about capacity in training focus on a party's inability to continue in the mediation.
Mediators generally fend for themselves in determining capacity to mediate, with vague notions about how to determine whether mediation is the appropriate method of dispute resolution. Being drawn to mediation because of a sincere desire to help usually serves no useful purpose in determining capacity or in facilitating competencies. And interventions based on problem-solving techniques from professions such as social work, law, human resources, and finance usually have goals other than facilitating the client's ability to participate in a process whose central principle is self-determination.
Consequently, training is probably the most difficult activity to discuss as well as to influence. A goal would be to start with mediators who understand the substantive area of the law as well as behavioral dynamics and then offer them the opportunity to mediate cases with supervision and the possibility of mentoring. Mediation trainers should: (1) avoid using the terminology usually associated with determining capacity; (2) include exercises that focus on recognizing cues of competencies necessary for the mediation to proceed regardless of who is presenting the behavior; (3) present strategies about intervening to determine whether the trainee has assessed correctly what competency needs to be facilitated; (4) introduce techniques that would represent a non-intrusive reinforcing of blocked competencies; and (5) instruct trainees about how the determination of competencies occurs throughout the mediation for all parties, including the mediator.
Peter R. Maida is the executive director of the Key Bridge Foundation in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The owners of this cottage live and work in Singapore but when the school holidays start they pack up their bags and travel to Denmark to spend summer at their holiday house. The family of five have being living abroad for years now but their Danish home on the north coast of the Danish island of Zealand is where their heart lies.
I love the contrast of the wide chocolate floorboards against the crisp white timber walls. This summer house is a welcoming mix of cosy lounging spaces, eclectic pieces picked up on their travels and contemporary joinery. It has a relaxed style that looks like a great place to unwind and get back in touch with nature. The green Thai triangular massage cushion is a nice quirky touch and looks like a good place to sit and read in the afternoon sun.
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YORK — A monthlong series of forums seeking public opinion about the Maine lobster industry is drawing to a close.
The 16th and final forum organized by the Department of Marine Resources is taking place Thursday in York.
Throughout January, lobstermen and others with an interest in the state's signature seafood have packed into meetings held in coastal towns along the Maine coast.
Commissioner Patrick Keliher and DMR staff attended the meetings in search of ideas about the harvest, prices, marketing, Maine's relationship with Canada and the lobster licensing system.
DMR officials will analyze the information they received before deciding how to proceed.
Maine's lobster industry was thrown into turmoil last summer when a lobster glut caused prices to plunge. Preliminary numbers show last year's harvest totaled a record 123 million pounds.


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2013: Played in all 12 games, starting six at defensive tackles ... Moved to defensive tackle after starting all 11 games in 2012 at defensive end ... Made 28 tackles, four tackles for loss, two sacks and forced two fumbles ... Had three tackles and half a tackle for loss in the opener at ECU ... Made four stops and half a TFL at Maryland ... Notched a sack at Pittsburgh ... Registered his second sack of the season at Idaho.
2012: Appeared in all 13 games starting 11 at defensive end ... Seventh on the squad with 50 tackles ... Registered 4.0 tackles for loss and three sacks ... Notched seven tackles against Villanova ... Recorded five tackles and 1.5 sacks in the playoff victory over Coastal Carolina ... Had career-best 10 tackles against No. 6 Georgia Southern.
2011: Appeared in all 13 games, making two starts at defensive end ... Totaled nine tackles (2 solo, 7 assisted) ... Made a season-high two stops in the week seven loss to CAA Champion Towson and in the week eight victory over Villanova.
2010: Redshirted.
HIGH SCHOOL: First Team All-Southeastern District Defense ... Second Team 757 All-Gameday squad ... Played both tight end and defensive end for the Hornets ... Very quick for his size ... Relied upon for the pass rush ... Collected seven sacks in 2009.
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I am about to promote four of my students to shodan (first degree black belt). All of them train very hard and are deserving of the promotion. I wanted to take this opportunity to explain some of my thoughts about promotion. See also: Black Belt.
In our dojo, we do not promote students to shodan unless they are at least 17. That is simply the way that we handle the issue. Some dojo allow younger students to become shodan and others may require an older age. My rationale is that the usual age for shodan in Okinawa is 16. I want to be more conservative, so I made our age 17.
There are many reasons to promote a student. I know that it is time to promote a student to shodan when it seems wrong for him to wear a white belt. We do not use colored belts in our dojo to signify kyu ranks. Sometimes visiting instructors will ask me, "why is that student still a white belt?" Usually it is because of age. So, when the student turns 17, it is about time for the promotion.
We also promote students to make room for the students under them. It is hard for a student to be promoted if his senior is not promoted or refuses rank. Let's say that John is the senior and has very good skill. Sam joins the dojo two years later. Sam also develops good skills. I want to promote Sam (because he deserves it), but feel reluctant because John is still a white belt. John might not care at all about rank. But I will promote him to make room for Sam. I will promote John first to preserve his seniority.
This is funny. I was speaking to a high ranking person (I won't say the dan level, but it was pretty high). I asked him about this dan level so that I could specify it correctly in writing. It turned out that he and another instructor had been promoted on the same day. But he made a point to tell me that he received his certificate first, showing that his name should go first in terms of seniority.
He is correct, but I found it rather silly. They were promoted on the same day, probably in the same hour.
In any event, I will promote a deserving student to make room for the juniors to advance.
Sometimes a student will tell me that he does not want rank. I will always say that the rank is not for him. The rank is to enable him to help in the dojo.
Promotion is a recognition. Some students will feel higher. Others will feel like they must work harder. The latter is the attitude I encourage and respect. Remember the parable of the mature rice stalk. When it is mature, it bends (bows) under its own weight. As it becomes "higher" it bows lower. So should we. The mark of an advanced student is humility.
Shodan is like first grade to me. Sandan is like high school.
Sometimes we say that it takes 100 students to make one shodan. I think that it takes 10 shodan to make one sandan. The numbers might change a little, but you get the idea.
We also say that a student is really serious at godan.
At shodan, a student is still learning the basics. At nidan, the student can help to teach as an assistant. At sandan, a student can teach his own classes. At godan, a student can have his own dojo.
Again, the numbers might change, but this is the idea.
When I promote a student, I am always impressed to hear them say, "I will have to work much harder to deserve this."
One thing -- please do not quit when you become shodan. I always find this to be a little sad. Shodan should launch the student, not mark the ending of his Karate training.
There is so much to learn in Karate. If you train diligently, ranks and titles will come on their own. You do not have to seek them. A promotion should be a surprise. After a few minutes or hours of happiness, it should be back to training.
Finally, some people ask me why we do not wear embroidered belts in our dojo. It is simply a matter of reservedness and austerity. I do not need to have my name and the name of my style on my belt to know them. Most instructors will wear out many belts during their careers. When they get old, it is time for a new one. See Ratty Belts and Ratty Belts 2. We should not be attached to such things.
It is a little like a "Sensei" patch. If you are a sensei, you do not need to wear one. If you are not a sensei, wearing one will not make you one.
Just train hard, help your fellow students, and be sincere.
I just thought of something. When I have been promoted, I do not like to tell people about it for a year or two, just in case it was a mistake. And after a couple of years, there is nothing to tell.
Charles C. Goodin
Promotion to Black Belt
I am about to promote four of my students to shodan (first degree black belt). All of them train very hard and are deserving of the promotion. I wanted to take this opportunity to explain some of my thoughts about promotion. See also: Black Belt.
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Gothenburg takes 3rd at McCook Invite
Bison beat Swedes in second round.
One that got away kept the Gothenburg softball team from competing in the finals of the McCook Invitational Saturday.
The Swedes opened with an easy win against Holdrege, but then lost a winnable game to the host Bison team. Gothenburg finished with a victory over North Platte to place third in the tournament.
The Swedes, 5-2, will try to avenge the loss to McCook with a home game Thursday against the Bison. Gothenburg faces an early start with a 10 a.m. game Friday at the Scottsbluff Invitational.
Dusters Fall 8-2
The key for this win was jumping off to a 5-0 lead sparked by Karen Franzen's three-run double in the first inning.
The Swedes started the game with a ground out, but then the next five batters reached base and scored. Franzen's bases-loaded double was the big blast.
"After that, honestly I felt the game was over," Swede coach Roger Neujahr said. "When you go up 5-0 with our pitching we feel confident."
The Dusters combined two singles and a double to score a pair of runs in the fourth inning.
Gothenburg answered with a three-run sixth inning to pull away. Alisha Ballmer's double led off the rally. A couple of catcher's errors extended the rally. Roni Putnam doubled to drive in two runs. A sacrifice fly scored the third.
While Bre Messersmith picked up the win throwing four innings, freshman Amanda Barkmeier slammed the door on the Dusters. She fanned seven batters in two innings (one strikeout victim reached on a catcher's error).
Of the Swedes' seven hits, four were doubles.
Bison Defeat Swedes 4-1
Some times the little things do make a difference. Gothenburg learned that in a 4-1 loss to McCook.
We gave up the fewest hits in the tournament against McCook, but still lost, Neujahr said.
"They had a key hit, we had a key error, they moved base runners and we got beat," he said. "It doesn't seem possible, but we did."
The Swedes had four hits and McCook hit five. With few base runners, the little things did make a difference.
Gothenburg put a batter on base in six of the seven innings, however only one player scored.
Ali Abramson led off the third with a single and stole second. She later came home on an error.
Two of McCook's hits, combined with two Swedes errors, produced three runs in the fourth inning. The Bison used a single and a double to earn their last run in the next frame.
Except for those two innings, McCook had just one other base runner in the game.
Messersmith went the distance on the mound and suffered the loss.
Quick start leads to win
Gothenburg jumped out to a 4-0 lead after two innings and coasted to a 5-2 victory over North Platte in the consolation game.
Bre Messersmith and Amanda Barkmeier combined to allow just one earned run.
"Bre kept them off balance then Amanda came in and absolutely shut the door again," Neujahr said. "Six up, six down. She looked the best she has this year."
Gothenburg went up 2-0 after one inning. Roni Putnam and Messersmith each singled. Vanessa Linegar drove in the first run with a single and the second scored on a sacrifice bunt.
North Platte opened the second inning with a single and two doubles, but came away with just one run.
The Swedes answered that with two more runs in the bottom of the second with the benefit of just one hit. Linegar's double drove in one of the runs.
The Bulldogs added another run in the fifth when a triple scored a runner who had reached on an error.
Gothenburg finished the scoring with a solo run in the sixth. Jordyn Haake singled and pinch runner Siera Schwanz eventually came home.
"It was our best overall game with pitching, defense and a few timely hits," the coach said.
Linegar had two hits to lead the Swedes at the plate.
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CBS' "Face the Nation" — Pickering; former Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. – The University of Alabama football team began spring practice on Saturday afternoon with a two-hour workout in shorts and helmets on the Thomas-Drew Practice Fields.
"The main objective to me for spring practice is to focus on player improvement," Alabama head coach Nick Saban said on Saturday. "Whether it is what a player needs to be able to do, the technique of how he should do it and to have an understanding conceptually of why it is important to do it that way.
"In the spring you don't have game plans. You don't have to change what you are doing and it is an opportunity for everyone to know our offense, our defense and our special teams – and to understand what is expected of them. I think it is also a time that a player needs to learn how to practice."
The Crimson Tide welcomed nine mid-year signees to the practice field: quarterback Cooper Bateman, junior college offensive lineman Leon Brown, quarterback Luke Del Rio, wide receiver Raheem Falkins, running back Derrick Henry, offensive lineman Brandon Hill, tight end O.J. Howard, quarterback Parker McLeod and defensive back Jai Miller.
Alabama also welcomed three new coaches to the staff with secondary coach Greg Brown, assistant head coach and offensive line coach Mario Cristobal and wide receivers coach Billy Napier getting their first on-field look at the 2013 Crimson Tide squad.
The two-time reigning National Champions return a total of 12 starters on offense and defense and Cody Mandell at punter.
The UA offense returns six starters beginning with quarterback AJ McCarron, who was a third-team Associated Press All-American in 2012. The Tide welcomes back three starting wide receivers in Amari Cooper, Kevin Norwood and Christion Jones. Alabama also has two starters back along the offensive line with left tackle Cyrus Kouandjio and right guard Anthony Steen.
The Tide brings back seven starters on the defensive side of the football with Butkus Award finalist and consensus All-American C.J. Mosley leading the linebacker crops. The Crimson Tide also returns linebackers Adrian Hubbard, Trey DePriest and Xzavier Dickson while defensive end Ed Stinson anchors the front. Cornerback Deion Belue and safety HaHa Clinton-Dix man the secondary with sophomore-to-be Geno Smith, who started two games late in the season.
The Crimson Tide will practice three times next week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) before taking a week off for spring break (March 25-29). Alabama then resumes spring practice with the fifth of 15 spring practices on Monday, April 1.
Alabama's 2013 A-Day Game is scheduled for Saturday, April 20, at 2 p.m. (CDT) inside Bryant-Denny Stadium.
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The Procuress: Fake or Mistake?
THE PROCURESS, the painting featured in the third episode of BBC One's Fake or Fortune, is now on view to the public at The Courtauld Gallery in London.
In the late 1940s Geoffrey Webb, an officer responsible for the restitution of art seized by the Nazis in Germany and The Netherlands, was given a version of the 17th-century painter Dirck van Baburen's The Procuress (the original painting, dated 1622, is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
The painting was assumed to be a fake. It had been found in France, in the house of the notorious forger Han van Meegeren (1889-1947). Van Meegeren specialised in forging paintings by Vermeer. He deceived many members of the art establishment and collectors, including the Nazi leader Herman Goering, before being unmasked in a sensational trial in Amsterdam in 1947.
The Procuress was of particular interest to Van Meegeren because Vermeer depicted Baburen's composition in the background of two of his pictures (A Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, circa 1670-72, London, The National Gallery, and The Concert, circa 1663-66, Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [stolen]).
Maria Thins, Vermeer's mother-in-law, owned a painting of The Procuress by Baburen which hung in the house Vermeer shared with his family and mother-in-law in Delft. Her Baburen was probably that now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts but this painting was only rediscovered in 1949 in an English private collection, and was thus unknown to Van Meegeren.
Van Meegeren maintained that his wife had bought The Procuress in Marseilles and that it was genuine. However, when the painting came into Geoffrey Webb's possession it was described as a forgery by Van Meegeren. Webb gave The Procuress to The Courtauld in 1960 as a painting by Van Meegeren (along with several drawings by the English baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor). He hoped it would be of use to students.
Since then, it has been kept for study in the Department of Conservation and Technology. In the late 1970s, however, a researcher suggested the picture might be a 17th-century work.
This hypothesis was put to the test in the BBC programme Fake or Fortune. Technical research for this programme was undertaken by Dr Aviva Burnstock, Head of the Conservation and Technology Department at The Courtauld, and Dr Klaas Jan van den Berg of the Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, The Netherlands.
This confirmed that The Procuress was painted on an old canvas. X-radiography provided evidence that an earlier composition might have been scraped down before the current image of The Procuress was painted. However, analysis (using techniques unknown to earlier researchers) showed that the binding medium mixed with the pigment for the upper paint layers was Bakelite (a modern phenol formaldehyde resin).
Van Meegeren is the only documented forger to have used this material, with which he mimicked the effects of aged oil paint. This proves that The Procuress is almost certainly by Van Meegeren.
It therefore seems likely that Van Meegeren produced this painting with the intention of claiming it was the version of Baburen's The Procuress which Vermeer had known, and which is reproduced in two surviving paintings by Vermeer. As such it is a fascinating addition to Van Meegeren's forgeries of Vermeer.
Click here to see a larger image of the painting.
Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril: Beyond the Moulin Rouge is on display at The Courtauld Gallery until September 18, 2011.
The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN


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