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By Ashley Bergner
Box Office Buzz
2012 is going to be a tough year for Hollywood to top. The year's most anticipated movies — such as "The Hunger Games," "The Hobbit" and the new Bond movie, "Skyfall" — were, for the most part, relatively well received by fans and also performed quite well at the box office. However, there are quite a few films slated for release in 2013 that look promising, as well, including several sequels to popular franchises.
While there are quite a few films I'm looking forward to this year, here are the top five I'm most excited about:
5. "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (release date Nov. 22)
Of Suzanne Collins' three "Hunger Games" novels, the first one is my favorite. It's a tightly-written, harrowing thriller that's impossible to put down once you start reading it. Although I enjoyed the other two books in the series, "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay," I have slightly more mixed feelings about them. Still, I think the second book, "Catching Fire," definitely has cinematic potential, and I'm looking forward to the film version this fall.
In "Catching Fire," Katniss and Peeta are forced to return to the arena to fight for their lives in an all-star version of the "Hunger Games," where past winners are forced to battle each other. I'm curious to see how the film makers go about adapting the book. The first part of the book had a few weaknesses (I think Collins perhaps spent a bit too much time focusing on the Peeta-Katniss-Gale love triangle), but the book picks up speed as Katniss and Peeta prepare for their second round of the Hunger Games.
I'm also excited to see the addition of Finnick Odair, a past Hunger Games winner, to the story. Finnick is one of those characters it's easy to write off at first as a stereotype, but throughout the story, you learn he's not quite as shallow and self-centered as he first appears.
4. "Man of Steel" (release date June 14)
There's quite a bit of pressure riding on this summer's Superman reboot, "Man of Steel." For starters, it's probably Warner Bros. and DC Comics' best shot at developing a new superhero film franchise, after the conclusion of its only currently successful superhero franchise, Christopher Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy, this past summer. Warner Bros. and DC Comics also desperately need "Man of Steel" to be successful if they want to have a shot at creating a Justice League mash-up film.
"Man of Steel" has, I think, the potential to be the surprise hit of the summer. I was impressed with the most recently released trailer; Christopher Nolan is producing the film, and you can see hints of his trademark artistic style in the trailer's footage. A darker, grittier tone could help to breathe new life into the Superman franchise, à la "Batman Begins." This might also be a good tone for the proposed Justice League movie to take and could help the film to find its own unique voice rather than appearing to be an "Avengers" copycat.
3. "Iron Man 3" (release date May 3)
While I've enjoyed all of Marvel's individual superhero films leading up to "The Avengers," Iron Man has always been my favorite character from the Avengers team. I'm excited to see Robert Downey Jr. take on the role again in "Iron Man 3," and to see how Marvel handles the first of its individual superhero films released after the success of last summer's "The Avengers."
I like the more serious, slightly darker tone the film appears to be taking. Iron Man is the most brashly self-confident member of the Avengers team, but like any person, he still has his weaknesses, and this film seems to be pushing him to his limit. He'll have to face down a new villain, The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), and it will be interesting to see how Tony Stark copes with life after the Avengers.
However, I hope the film isn't too dark, and that they still include plenty of Tony Stark's famously snarky wit, which is part of what makes the Iron Man character so much fun to watch. I'm also looking forward to this year's other Marvel stand-alone film, "Thor: The Dark World" (Nov. 8).
2. "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" (release date Dec. 13)
Although originally I was a little concerned about Peter Jackson's decision to split "The Hobbit" into three parts rather than two, I'm feeling much better about it after seeing the first part, "An Unexpected Journey." I thoroughly enjoyed the first film and thought it was a fun, rousing adventure, and I'm curious to see what Jackson plans to do with the final two films.
I suspect the second film, "The Desolation of Smaug," will include one of the book's main action set pieces, a battle with giant spiders in the forest of Mirkwood, as well as the escape from the dungeons of the Wood-elves. I'm guessing Peter Jackson will either end the story right before or right after Bilbo sneaks into the lair of the dragon Smaug.
Since Peter Jackson is expanding the series into a trilogy, I'm hoping he'll have more time to delve into the backstory of the "Necromancer," the character who eventually becomes the all-seeing eye of Sauron. Though we didn't catch a glimpse of him in "An Unexpected Journey," Benedict Cumberbatch is credited for the role, and I'm very curious to see what the "Sherlock" star might do with the character.
1. "Star Trek: Into Darkness" (release date May 17)
J.J. Abrams' 2009 "Star Trek" film is one of my all-time favorite movies, and I've been eagerly (and yes, somewhat impatiently) 😉 waiting for this sequel. I loved Abrams' first "Trek" film. He took some huge risks with his origin story: recasting new actors as some of science fiction's best loved characters, altering "Star Trek" canon, and portraying characters we thought we knew in a different way. But those risks paid off, and the result was both a love letter to the classic science fiction series and a reboot that breathed some much-needed life into the franchise.
So far, Abrams has been very tight-lipped about the plot of the sequel, and the trailer teases more than it reveals. We know Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing the film's villain, but we don't know what villain it will be (the trailer doesn't confirm the rumors Cumberbatch will be playing Khan, but it doesn't disprove those rumors, either). Whatever Abrams has planned, I think it will be worth the wait.
So, what films are you most looking forward to in 2013?


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Several weeks ago, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said the U.S. is planning what to do about Syria's vast chemical weapons program once Bashar Assad's regime falls. The Syrians are believed to have hundreds of tons of chemical agents, including sarin, one of the deadliest chemical agents. A few drops can be lethal.
So the central question is this: How can those sites be secured so they don't fall into the wrong hands?
NPR has learned that the 82nd Airborne Division just wrapped up a nine-day training exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., working with Army chemical experts from the 20th Support Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, to get ready for a possible mission to deal with those deadly chemicals in Syria.
Thousands of paratroopers jumped in and practiced fighting a foe and surrounding buildings. They wore chemical protective gear, practiced using chemical detectors and corralled mock chemical munitions for containment.
"In support of our roles to the Global Response Force mission, we are taking prudent measures to ensure we are trained and ready for any mission we are called to execute based on volatile regions across the world," says Lt. Col. Virginia McCabe, a spokeswoman for the 82nd.
As part of that global response, the 82nd always has a brigade on a "short string," ready to deploy in 18 hours.
Officials say U.S. Central Command, whose responsibility includes Syria, has not ordered any unit to take on this mission. But the Army and the paratroopers want to be ready — just in case.
If the paratroopers are called upon to do the Syria mission, they envision a post-Assad situation, where they are invited in by a new government, though they might have to be aware of certain hostile elements or militias that could put up a fight, what the military calls "uncertain conditions."
Officials say the exercise revealed gaps in training and equipment. Now the 82nd is consolidating equipment, such as chemical detectors and alarms as well as decontaminants — just in case the call comes to move out.
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text: The primary function of your vehicle's suspension system is to provide structural support while maintaining comfortable riding conditions. The suspension system helps your vehicle's tires maintain firm contact on the road at all times by compensating for bumps, potholes, and sudden undulations. Suspension system components like coil springs, leaf springs, torsion bars, shocks, and struts all help to absorb bounce, shock, and unexpected motion from the surface of the road. Without a fully functioning suspension system, your vehicle will be harder to control. Because regular wear and tear takes its toll on your suspension system, the scheduling of routine repairs and an understanding of the signs of an impending service are an important part of suspension system maintenance. For example, experiencing unusual movements over bumps or through turns are signs that your suspension system should be inspected by a staff of professionals. When you suspect suspension system problems, please give us a call or contact us. Knowing how to identify steering and suspension issues will help you determine when to schedule an inspection. Over time, the components of your suspension system, like coil springs, shock absorbers, struts, shocks, tie rods, ball joints, and sway bar links, can weaken and malfunction, thereby decreasing your ability to maintain control of your vehicle. Signs of an impending suspension inspection include leaking shocks or struts. Nose-dives when braking and bottoming out during bumps are also signs of a problem with your vehicle's suspension system. If you begin to experience driving irregularities like bouncing, swaying, or unusual stiffness, contact us today for an inspection of your steering and suspension system. Besides being aware of the signs and symptoms of a worn suspension system, be sure to consult your owner's manual when determining maintenance schedules and intervals for inspections of your vehicle's suspension system.


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Cameo Stones: Hidden Gems in the Figge Collection
For the first time in 40 years, a fine selection of gems from a collection of more than 400 cameo and intaglio stones will be on display in the Figge's Lewis Gallery. Donated in 1929 by Dr. Clarence T. Lindley, the cameo and intaglio gems reflect the changing ideas and prominent beliefs of society and became a popular fashion accessory in the Victorian Era.
More than a decorative art, gem engraving has served to document unique aspects of culture throughout history. Intaglio gems—the process of inscribing into the surface of a stone—were first used as stamping seals by tradesmen, rulers and warriors to mark ownership. They date back to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. Using new hardstone materials, Greek gem engravers would further develop the intricate art of stone carving. By using the multiple colored layers of the stones, Greek artisans carved away the layers of material to leave a low relief form called the cameo. Unlike the functional intaglio seals, cameos were popular as ornamental jewelry because the delicate and sometimes elaborate carvings were highly visible. The small size and durable material allowed cameos to pass down through generations and survive hundreds of years to remain a highly sought-after jewelry adornment.
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In September 2011, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Robert Lucas gave the following justification for the use of Rational Expectations:
If you're going to write down a mathematical model, you have to address that issue. Where are you supposed to get these expectations? If you just make them up, then you can get any result you want.So, are Rational Expectations not "just made up"? Does the evidence tell us that this is how people form expectations? I don't think so. It seems to me that Lucas is saying that we should pick Rational Expectations because they are appealing in some a priori way. I'm not sure what that is, though.
Be that as it may, figuring out how people actually form expectations, in the real world, is devilishly hard. Thomas Sargent and many others have experimented with models of Bayesian learning. Roger Farmer has advanced the idea that agents use a "belief function" in cases where rational expectations of the Lucas variety can't be formed. Greg Mankiw and Ricardo Reis have experimented with macro models in which people don't always update their beliefs on time, and Christopher Sims and many others have tried to microfound this idea with various models of rational inattention (in fact, rational inattention is now a hot topic in behavioral finance).
Of course, there are older, simpler ideas of expectation formation that were pushed out by the Lucas revolution, but which may have received a bad rap. One of these is Milton Friedman's theory of "adaptive expectations", which in its simplest form doesn't seem to explain the data, but may actually be going on in some more complicated form.
That is the conclusion of a recent paper by Ulrike Malmendier, a star of the behavioral finance field. Malmendier shows that people's inflation expectations are strongly affected by recency bias; in other words, people who have experienced higher inflation during a large percentage of their lifetime tend to expect higher inflation, even if their lifetimes haven't been that long yet. From the abstract:
How do individuals form expectations about future inflation? We propose that past inflation experiences are an important determinant absent from existing models. Individuals overweigh inflation rates experienced during their life-times so far, relative to other historical data on inflation. Differently from adaptive-learning models, experience-based learning implies that young individuals place more weight on recently experienced inflation than older individuals since recent experiences make up a larger part of their life-times so far. Averaged across cohorts, expectations resemble those obtained from constant-gain learning algorithms common in macroeconomics, but the speed of learning differs between cohorts.This comes via Carola Binder, a grad student blogger at Berkeley (whom you should follow, by the way).
Binder discusses the implications of this finding for Japanese exchange rates, but I wish she had touche more on the basic idea that this sort of expectation formation might be responsible for the persistence of Japan's deflationary trap itself. Japan has been in deflation, or near it, for two decades now. That's a large fraction of the working lifetimes of many of Japan's current adults. If inflation expectations are set in the backward-looking way that Malmendier suggests, then it might take far more dramatic and sustained central bank action than anyone realizes in order to produce a return to an inflationary environment.
But to me, that's not even the most disturbing implication of Malmendier's finding, and of this type of expectations model in general. In most theories of non-rational expectations, like Bayesian learning or rational inattention, expectations evolve in a smooth, stable way. And so these models, as Chris Sims writes, look reassuringly like rational-expectations models. But there is no guarantee that real-world expectations must behave according to a stable, tractable model. I see no a priori reason to reject the possibility that expectations react in highly unstable, nonlinear ways. Like tectonic plates that build up pressure and then slip suddenly and unpredictably, expectations may be subject to some kind of "cascades". This can happen in some simple examples, like in the theory of "information cascades" (In that theory, people are actually rational, but incomplete markets prevent their information from reaching the market, and beliefs can shift abruptly as a result). In the real world, with its tangle of incomplete markets, bounded rationality, and structural change, expectations may be subject to all kinds of instabilities.
In other words, to use Lucas' turn of phrase, expectations might just make themselves up...and we might get any result that we don't want.
What if inflation expectations change suddenly and catastrophically? That would probably spell the death knell for macro theories in which the central bank can smoothly steer the path of things like inflation, NGDP, etc. It would raise the specter of an "inflation snap-up" (or "overshoot", or "excluded middle") - the central bank might be unsuccessful in beating deflation, right up until the moment when hyperinflation runs wild.
And what would be the implications of financial markets and financial theories of the macroeconomy? Belief cascades could obviously cause asset market crashes. It seems like sudden changes in expectations of asset price appreciation might also cause abrupt and long-lasting changes in saving and investment behavior. Which in turn could cause...well, long economic stagnations.
A very disturbing thought.


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The records of civil registration in England and Wales which commenced on 1 July 1837, relate to the birth, marriage and death of an individual. In Scotland records began in 1855 and in Ireland in 1864 (n.b. Irish non-Catholic marriages were recorded from 1845).
In England and Wales, up to that time, the government had relied very much on the church to register its population but it realised that it was not a complete record i.e. not a full listing of the population. Therefore, a single tier registration system was introduced, based on the administrative poor law unions, which had been set up in 1834, and previously the administrative hundreds. These became the registration districts. Births, and deaths, were recorded as well as marriages. Parish and nonconformist baptism and burial registers were still completed at the same time that the new civil registration system began. The Act also permitted marriages to be performed in Civic Offices and outside the confines of the Anglican Church. Many nonconformist chapels were authorised to perform marriages. Since 1837 there has been much fine tuning of the system and various new regulations and legislation have been introduced from time to time.
Although civil registration was introduced in 1837, it was not until 1874 that the registration of a birth became compulsory. Between these dates, children may not have been registered. There was in fact a loophole as the act was not fully understood and people genuinely thought that to have a child baptised was to register that child. The 1874 Act made registration compulsory within a 6 week period and imposed a fine for non-compliance.
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The IUCN World Conservation Congress is the world's largest and most important conservation event. Held every four years, it aims to improve how we manage our natural environment for human, social and economic development.
The 2012 World Conservation Congress will be held from 6 to 15 September 2012 in Jeju, Republic of Korea. Leaders from government, the public sector, non-governmental organizations, business, UN agencies and social organizations will discuss, debate and decide solutions for the world's most pressing environment and development issues. The Congress will link the important issue of Nature with determinant factors such as climate, food, development, people/governance and life.
The Congress starts with a Forum where IUCN Members and partners discuss cutting-edge ideas, thinking and practice. The Forum leads into the Members' Assembly, a unique global environmental parliament of governments and NGOs.
Effective conservation action cannot be achieved by conservationists alone. The 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress is the place to put aside differences and work together to provide the means and mechanisms for good environmental governance, engaging all parts of society to share both responsibilities and the benefits of conservation.


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About this Collection
Includes 41 motion pictures and 28 sound recordings, motion pictures produced from 1945 to 1965 by Leslie Stewart (owner of the Ninety-Six Ranch), 2,400 still photographs drawn from the Center's ethnographic field project conducted 1978-1982 and from historic photos dating 1870-1958. Background essays provide historical and cultural context for this distinctive northern Nevada ranching community. Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982 presents documentation of a Nevada cattle-ranching community, with a focus on the family-run Ninety-Six Ranch. The focus was on the work of buckaroos, as cowboys are commonly called in the region.
Paradise Valley is the name of both a cattle-ranching valley and a crossroads community in northern Nevada's Humboldt County. It is home to persons of Anglo American, Italian, German, Basque, Swiss, Northern Paiute Indian, and Chinese heritage. The valley is a cul-de-sac formed by the Santa Rosa Mountains and watered by their melting snows. Miners and agriculturists arrived at about the time of the Civil War, but the mines played out by the end of the century and the valley was devoted to ranching through the 1980s. Ranching has continued even as improved technology has again made the extraction of gold profitable and mining has been revived.
The documentation for this online collection was largely drawn from the work of an ethnographic field research project in Paradise Valley, Nevada conducted by the American Folklife Center from 1978 to 1982. The project documented more than thirty ranches and numerous other sites and activities, resulting in extensive collection of administrative papers, printed materials, and collected ephemera; 45,300 color and black-and photos; 150 hours of sound recorded interviews; four hours of l6mm motion picture film; one hour of historic motion picture footage (copied to video); and 10 hours of video recordings. The Paradise Valley Folklife Project collection (AFC 1991/021) is available to researchers in the Folklife Reading Room.
The Paradise Valley Folklife Project employed a team of researchers representing different disciplines who documented a variety of aspects of traditional life. Howard W. "Rusty" Marshall, then of the Folklife Center's staff, directed the project. Richard E. Ahlborn documented ranch crafts and horse gear. Marshall and Ahlborn co-authored the publication that accompanied the exhibition (Buckaroos in Paradise. Washington: Library of Congress, 1980. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981). Thomas Vennum Jr. interviewed Northern Paiute Indians about their work as ranch hands and buckaroos. James Deetz led a group of historical archeologists (Eugene Prince, Lynn Eisenmann, and Jamey Deetz) in a survey of the valley's former Chinese community and two historic archeological sites on the Ninety-Six Ranch. Margaret Sermons Purser continued to research the early history of the community, culminating in her doctoral dissertation "Community and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century Paradise Valley, Nevada" (Ph.D. diss., University of California, 1987) (AFC 1987/047). Carl Fleischhauer participated in various roles, notably organizing the project's overall media documentation effort, compiling information about Leslie J. "Les" Stewart and his Ninety-Six Ranch, and producing a videodisc about the ranch, now transformed into this online collection. Fleischhauer was joined in producing media documentation by William H. "Bill" Smock, a filmmaker from San Francisco, who worked as a still photographer and produced the motion pictures included in this online collection.
The project team also included specialist researchers contracted by the Folklife Center. Keith Cunningham documented oral traditions in the town of Paradise Valley. He and his wife, Kathy Cunningham, also prepared a comprehensive index to the field research project's 150 hours of tape recordings. Linda Gastañaga studied the Basque presence. Suzi Jones studied foodways and material culture. William A. "Bert" Wilson studied the annual cycle of work on several valley ranches.
During 1983-1985, materials were selected from the project collection for a laser videodisc. In its first version, the disc provided an interactive video display in the 1983 Library of Congress exhibition The American Cowboy, and in its final form two years later, it became a publication of the American Folklife Center entitled The Ninety-Six: A Cattle Ranch in Northern Nevada. The content and structure of the videodisc forms the basis for this online collection.


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Srigadha Post Office is a B.O (Brance Post Office). It is located at Karim Nagar (district) Karimnagar (division), Karim Nagar of Telangana (TG) state, Pincode: 505304. This Postoffice falls under Karim Nagar postal division of the Andhra Pradesh postal circle.
Related Head Office | Jagtial H.O |
Related Sub Office | Gambhiraopet S.O |
Srigadha Post Office Contact Number | NA |
Postal District / Postal City / Postal Town | Karim Nagar |
Postal Division | Karimnagar |
Postal Region | Hyderabad |
Postal Circle | Andhra Pradesh |
Postal State | TELANGANA (TG) |
Service Type | Offered (Yes or No) |
Mail Services | Yes |
Parcels | Yes |
Retail Services | Yes |
Premium Services | Yes |
Speed Post | Yes |
India Post Speed Post Tracking | Yes |
Tracking System | Yes |
India Post Tracking Number Formats | Yes |
Express Parcel Post | Yes |
Media Post | Yes |
Greetings Post | Yes |
ePost Office | Yes |
Philately | Yes |
Postal Life Insurance (PLI) | Yes |
Electronic Indian Postal Order | Yes |
Information Services | Yes |
Track & Trace | Yes |
Complaints & Guidelines | Yes (visit www.epostoffice.gov.in to post your complaints) |
Financial Services | Yes |
Savings Bank (SB) Account | Yes |
Recurring Deposit (RD) Account | Yes |
Monthly Income Scheme (MIS) | Yes |
Public Provident Fund (PPF) [Monthly] | Yes |
Time Deposit (TD) | Yes |
Senior Citizen Saving Scheme (SCSS) | Yes |
National Savings Certificate (NSC) | Yes |
Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) | Yes |
Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts (SSA) | Yes |
Recruitment | Yes (Please visit www.indiapost.gov.in/recruitment.aspx to apply) |
Full Address: Srigadha, Karim Nagar, Telangana, 505304
Office Name | Srigadha |
Address | Srigadha, Karim Nagar, Telangana, 505304 |
Phone Number / Telephone Number | NA |
Webiste | https://www.indiapost.gov.in |
ePost Office Website URL | https://www.epostoffice.gov.in |
Abbreviation | Stands For |
H.O | Head Office |
B.O | Branch Office |
S.O | Sub Post Office (includes E.D. Sub-Offices) |
Usually Post Office(s) are named after the city/ villa/ position they serve. The Srigadha has the Postal Index Number or Pin Code 505304. A Pincode or a Postal Code is a 6 number post law of postal numbering system used by India Post. The first number indicates one of the regions. The first 2 integers together indicate the sub region or one of the postal circles. The first 3 integers together indicate a sorting/ profit quarter. The last 3 integers relate to the delivery post office type.
Post Office | Pin Code |
Srigadha P.O | 505304 |
The primary function of Srigadha post office was collection, processing, transmission and delivery of matters but as of moment, a Post Office offers numerous other vital services in addition to its traditional services. The fresh services handed by a Dak Ghar include – Post Services, Financial Services, Retail Services and Premium Services.
Mail Services are the introductory services handed by Srigadha Post Office. Matters and correspondence services include all or any postal papers whose contents are in the form of communication which may include Letters, Cards, Inland letter cards, packets or parcels, Ordinary matters etc.
Mail Service also includes transmission and delivery of Parcels. A parcel can be anything ranging from a single written letter or anything addressed to an addressee. No parcel shall be by any chance be in a shape, way of quilting or any other point, similar that it can not be carried or transmitted by post or beget serious vexation or threat. Every parcel ( including service parcels) that needs to be transmitted by post must be handed over at the window of the post office. Any parcel plant in a letter box will be treated and charged as a registered parcel. Delivery services are handed by some named delivery and branch post services. This dakghar have the installation of Delivery, therefore the people of Srigadha and near points can mileage all the types of correspondence services.
Post services in India serve in colorful ways and Srigadha Post Office offer utmost of the retail services. They offer the installation to accept or collect constomer bills like telephone or mobile bills, electricity bills for Government and private associations through Retail Post. Some of the aditional agency services that Post services offers through retail services are as follows-Telephone profit collection,e-Ticketing for Road Transport Pots and Airlines, Trade of UPSC forms, university operations, Trade of Passport operation forms, Trade of Gold Coins, Forex Services, Trade of SIM and recharge tickets, Trade of India Telephone cards,e-Ticketing of Railway tickets etc. The postal guests of Srigadha can pay their bills and mileage other retail services from this Dak Ghar.
Utmost of the decoration services can be profited by the Srigadha peoples and near living people. The decoration services handed by Srigadha Post Office are - Speed Post, Business Post, Express Parcel Post, Media Post, Greeting Post, and Logistics Post.
Speed Post is a time set service in express delivery of letters and parcels. The maximum weight up to which an composition or parcel be transferred is 35 kgs between any two specified stations in India. Speed Post delivers' Value for plutocrat'to everyone and everyplace, delivering Speed Post upto 50 grams@ INR 35 across the country and original Speed Post upto 50 grams@ INR 15, banning applicable Service Duty. Kindly check functionary website for streamlined Speed Post service charges.
Speed Post offers a installation of on- line shadowing and dogging that guarantees trustability, speed and client friendly service. Using a 13 number barcode that makes a Speed Post consignment unique and identifiable. A web- grounded technology (www.indiapost.gov.in/speednettracking.aspx) helps the Srigadha guests track Speed Post entrustments from reserving to delivery.
Except Speed Post, India Post also allows people to track their order information for certain products like Parcels, Ensured letters, Speed Post, Registered Post, Electronic Money Orders (EMO) and Electronic value outstanding parcel (EVPPs) etc. The shadowing number is available on the damage given at Srigadha Post Office. Using the shadowing number postal guests can find out the date and time of dispatch of an composition at colorful locales. The time of booking and the time of delivery of composition.
Different types of postal service have different kinds of tracking number formats. The shadowing number for Express Parcel is a 13 number alphanumeric format. The format for Express Parcel is XX000000000XX. The shadowing number for a Registered Correspondence is a 13 number alphanumeric number and its format is RX123456789IN. But a Electronic Plutocrat Order (EMO) has a 18 number shadowing number and its format is 000000000000000000. For domestic Speed Post (EMS) there's a 13 number alphanumeric shadowing number with the format EE123456789IN.
Bharatiya Dak Ghar Seva | Tracking Number Format | Number of Digits |
Electronic Money Order (eMO) | 000000000000000000 | 18 |
Express Parcel | XX000000000XX | 13 |
Registered Mail | RX123456789IN | 13 |
Speed Post (EMS) Domestic | EE123456789IN | 13 |
International EMS Artilces to be delivered in India | EE123456789XX | 13 |
In Express Parcel Post, the Srigadha postal client gets time bound delivery of parcels. These parcels will be transmitted through air or any other fastest mean available at that time. Minimal chargeable weight for which Express Parcel entrustments will be reserved is0.5 Kg. Maximum weight of Express Parcel entrustments which shall be reserved across the Post Office counter by a retail client shall be 20 Kg and maximum weight that can be reserved by commercial client is 35 kgs.
India Post offers a unique way or conception to help the Indian commercial organisations and the Government associations reach implicit guests through media post. Through media post people can announce on cards, letters, aerogramme, postal stationary etc. Guests get to see the totem or communication of the separate commercial or government associations. The Aerogramme indeed gives the associations the occasion to make their product have a global impact.
Greeting Post is yet another innovative or unique step by India Post. It consists of a card with an envelope withpre-printed and pre attached postage stamp on the envelope. The stamp on the envelope is a replica of the design that appears upon the card but in atomic form. Therefore there's no need affix postage prints on the envelope implicitly saving your time of going to post services and standing in the line. All the rules and that are applicable for the postage pretenses will also be applicable to the Greeting Post.
Logistics Post manages the entire transmission and distribution side of the parcels. It deals with collection of goods, storehouse of goods, carriage and distribution of the colorful parcels or goods, from order medication to order fulfilment. And that too at the minimal possible price. Logistics Post services provides the Srigadha postal client with cost-effective and effective distribution across the entire country.
The arrival of internet made communication veritably rapid-fire through emails. But, the internet has not yet reached utmost of the pastoral corridor of India. To change this division between pastoral & civic life, and to get the benefit of internet technology to Srigadha people's lives, Indian Postal Department has introducede-post. e-post is a service in which substantiated handwritten dispatches of guests are scrutinized and transferred as dispatch through internet. And at the destination address office, these dispatches are again published, enveloped and delivered through mailmen at the postal addresses. E-post centres are established in the Post Services, covering a large geographical area including major metropolises and sections. Thesee-post centres are well equipped with internet connection, scanners, printers and other necessary tackle outfit. Still, thise-post service does n't particularly need ae-post centre, but can this installation can be profited at any normal Post Office or you can visitwww.epostoffice.gov.in to pierce postal services on your desktop, laptop or indeed onmobile.However, the post is scrutinized and transferred to ane-post centre bye-mail and a correspondence entered ate-post centre is published and transferred to near Post Office for dispatch, If a communication is reserved at Srigadha post office.
A Srigadha client can also mileage these services of ane-post, at his/ her home. All he/ she has do is to register as a stoner atwww.epostoffice.gov.in website. After enrollment, a stoner can usee-post by surveying and transferring dispatches, printing and admit dispatches. The communication to be scrutinized mustn't be written in a paper not more A4. There's no limit for transferring number of wastes of dispatches ine-post.
E-Post Office offers certain services like – Philately, Postal Life Insurance, Electronic Indian Postal Order, Information Services, Track & Trace and Complaints & Guidelines services.
Philately service deals with collection, trade and study of postage prints. Philately includes lot of services Philately Information, Stamp issue Program, Prints List and Buy Prints service.
A service offered by the Government to pay a given quantum of plutocrat on the death of an individual to his prescribed designee. The quantum may also be paid to the person himself, in case he survives that maturity period. The two services offered under Postal Life Insurance are – Pay Premium service and PLI information.
eIPO or Electronic Indian Postal Order is a installation to buy an Indian Postal Order electronically by paying a figure on- line throughe-Post Office. This service is launched by the Department of Posts, Ministry of Dispatches & IT, Government of India.
eIPO can now be used by Indian Citizens living in India for paying online figure, whoever seeks information under the RTI Act, 2005. eIPO offers 2 types of services – eIPO information and payment of online freights.
This helps Srigadha guests to get information regarding certain products like – Leg Law hunt, Speed post, Banking, Insurance, Business Post, Logistics Post, IMTS and numerous further other services.
The track & trace service is veritably helpful as it aids in getting information of our valuables. Track & Trace service offers 5 different services – Leg Law hunt, EMO shadowing, Speed Post shadowing, WNX shadowing and Transnational correspondence service.
Using e-post office service Srigadha postal costumer can access services based on – complaint registration, complaint status and guidelines on complaints.
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ePost Office Website | www.epostoffice.gov.in |
The guests of Srigadha can enjoy the colorful savings schemes available in this post office that prove to be largely salutary for the people living in Srigadha area. The Fiscal service offered by PO includes Savings and Postal Life Insurance (PLI). There are colorful options available to save and invest withpost-offices. The generally used bones include-Savings account, Recreating Deposit, Monthly Income Scheme, Monthly Public Provident Fund, Time Deposit, Senior Citizen Saving Scheme, National Savings Certificate, Kisan Vikas Patra and Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana. Post Office also offers Insurance product through Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Pastoral Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) schemes that offer low decoration and high perk.
Monthly Income Scheme (MIS) |
National Savings Certificate (NSC) |
Kisan Vikas Patra (KVP) |
Monthly Public Provident Fund (PPF) |
Recurring Deposit (RD) Account |
Savings Bank (SB) Account |
Senior Citizen Saving Scheme (SCSS) |
Sukanya Samriddhi Accounts (SSA) |
Time Deposit (TD) |
A Savings bank account serves the need of regular deposits for its guests as well as recessions. Cheque installation is also mileage by Srigadha postal consumers.
A post office offers a yearly investment option with handsome return at the time period with an option to extend the investment period. Insurance installation is also available with certain conditions.
MIS offers a fixed investment fashion for five or further times with yearly interest payment to the account holder. There's also a installation of automatic crediting of interest to SB account of the Srigadha postal client.
This service offers intermittent deposits subject to a particular limit for a time period of 15 times with income duty immunity, on the investment. It also offers loan and pullout installations for the postal guests.
Fixed deposit option for ages ranging from one, two, three to five times with installation to draw monthly interest offered at compounded rates. Automatic credit installation of interest to SB account.
Offers fixed investment option for elderly citizens for a period of five times, which can be extended, at a advanced rate of interest that are paid in daily instalments.
NSC is offered with a fixed investment for 5 or 10 times on instruments of colorful appellations. Pledging installation available for serving loan from Banks.
Kisan Vikas Patra is a saving instrument scheme in which the quantum Invested doubles in 110 months ( i.e. 9 times & 2 months). It's available in appellations of Rs, 5000, and Rs. Minimal deposit is Rs 1000/-and there's no maximum limit. The KVP instrument can be bought by any grown-up for himself or on the behalf of a minor. This instrument can also be transferred from one account holder to another and from one post office to another. This instrument can be en-cashed only after 2 and1/2 times from the date of issue.
Sukanya Samriddhi Account Yojana offers a small deposit investment for the girl children as an action under'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' crusade. This yojana is to grease girl children proper education and debonair marriage charges. One of the main benefits of this scheme is that it's veritably affordable and offers one of the loftiest interest rates. Presently its interest rate is set as8.6 per annum that's again compounded yearly. The minimal deposit allowed in a fiscal time is INR. 1000/-and Maximum is INR./-. Posterior deposits can be made in multiples of INR 100/-. Deposits can be made all at a time. No limit is set on number of deposits either for a month or a fiscal time. A legal Guardian can open an account in the name of a Girl Child. Account can be closed only after completion of 21 times of the separate child. The normal Unseasonable check allowed is after completion of 18 times only if that girl is getting wedded.
The functionary working hours of Post Services vary from one another, but the general Post Office opening time starts from 0800 AM or 0900 AM or 1000 AM and the ending time is 0400 PM or 0500 PM or 0600 PM independently. The working days are from Monday to Saturday, Sunday being a vacation. This does not include the public leaves or the extended working hours. You can corroborate the working hours of Srigadha Branch Post Office from the sanctioned coffers.
Online shadowing of India Post allowed Srigadha people to pierce their postal composition tracking information and confirm the delivery of their postal composition by using the shadowing number assigned to them at the time of Booking. They can find the shadowing number on the Postal acknowledgement handed over to them at the Srigadha Branch Post Office counter at the time of postal composition booking. Following particulars can track through the www.indiapost.gov.in/articleTracking.aspx functionary website.
The India Post tracking system is streamlined at regular intervals to give the Srigadha postal guests with the most over to date information available about the position and status of their postal composition. They'll be suitable to find out the following
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No, you are not crazy. It is deja vu all over again. The Amanda Knox case that captured nonstop media attention in 2011 is back on the docket. You'll remember Knox was originally convicted of the murder of her roommate in Italy, then after four years in prison acquitted and released to go home to the United States. Yesterday the Italian supreme court ordered yet another new trial for Knox, which raises at least two very large questions: How can she face trial for a third time and what happens if Italy demands extradition? We'll take those points one at a time. We begin with Olga Khazan. She is a global online editor at The Atlantic, where she wrote a piece on the Italian justice system and joins us from a studio there. And Olga Khazan, thanks very much for your time today.
OLGA KHAZAN: Thanks so much for having me.
CONAN: Well, the first question any American would have is about double jeopardy. In this country, if you've been acquitted, you can't be tried on the same charges again.
KHAZAN: Yeah. There are actually sort of some legal questions as to whether this is actually double jeopardy that she's going to be going through, since basically they're overturning a ruling that was made by an appellate court and retrying the case in another appellate court. And in some cases the U.S. does actually permit retrials of people who have had their convictions reversed on procedural grounds. There's a lawyer quoted in USA Today as saying that the case is not likely to be considered a case of double jeopardy by U.S. courts because Knox wasn't acquitted before a jury.
CONAN: So this then gets confusing because in Italy, it seems no case is ever settled.
KHAZAN: Yeah, exactly. One of the main differences between the two court systems is that appeals are very common in Italy. The initial trial tends to sort of favor the prosecution, and the appeal that follows usually results in a reduced sentence. So the court of cassation actually hears a ton of cases each year, and there's a huge judicial backlog, which might explain some of the delays that we're seeing in this case. And it actually sees 80,000 new cases each year, which is 100 times more than in France or Germany.
CONAN: And it is the - in fact, some of the people who felt aggrieved by the acquittal verdict who said, wait a minute, the family of the young woman who was murdered among them, who said, this stinks. Take another look at this.
KHAZAN: Yeah, exactly. So the acquittal has been annulled, and this is a question over whether the previous acquittal was correct. There were some accusations that there were errors made by the appellate judge and some allegations of corruption in the team of experts who nullified the forensic evidence. And there was some talk that the experts were a little bit too close to Sollecito's family, one of the defendants, and that they were only given a few items of forensic evidence to review rather than the entire body.
CONAN: And it also looks like this investigation was bungled from the start, including the police force who first went to investigate the crime scene.
KHAZAN: Yeah. Actually, that was one of the most surprising things about this case, is that the entire investigation seemed sort of flawed from the very start. They had sort of an amateurish police force gathering the evidence at the very beginning and the prosecutor on the case was sort of a hybrid of a detective and a district attorney, which you might read about in the Rolling Stone article that I mention in my story.
CONAN: Mm-hmm.
KHAZAN: So the police investigator actually had a lot of incentive to look for evidence that supported the prosecutor and the confession was also not recorded and that was the main evidence used against her. And then on top of that, in the trial, the jurors weren't sequestered and the prosecution failed to establish a motive.
CONAN: Failed to establish a motive?
KHAZAN: Yeah. That was actually one of the - part of the reason why the conviction was overturned was because of how flawed the entire trial was.
CONAN: And just said - as I remember the case - reading about it in your piece today was the - the prosecutor said, well, you know, there's stuff that happens and we can't explain it.
KHAZAN: Yeah, exactly. It does seem like also the jury was sort of not totally professional throughout the case. It seemed like they were kind of calling out and not paying attention during parts. So it looks like - but it looks like a lot of cases are actually taken through several layers of appeal. So I wouldn't say that it's unusual that this is being appealed again. It may actually be appealed another time after this. That's not unusual for Italy.
CONAN: So there could be a fourth appeal.
KHAZAN: Yes, exactly. It could be that they - this could be taken back to an even higher court. So we may not actually hear the end of it for another year or two.
CONAN: Which raises another - a number of - we keep hearing, for example, of Silvio Berlusconi, the former and, who knows, perhaps future prime minister of Italy, who's convicted in cases, and they're never seemingly decided.
KHAZAN: Yeah, exactly. It looks like the average time to settle a civil case in Italy - according to Reuters - is actually more than seven years, and for a criminal case is five. And there's - I mean, this has been the subject of a lot of investigations. And I guess - actually, U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts said he couldn't believe how many cases were brought before Italy's Court of Cassation each year. That's from a Reuters article that was sort of looking at how flawed the judiciary is there, in the wake of the Berlusconi trial.
CONAN: And given all of these - well, one of the writers you cite in your story called it carnival-esque, the justice system in Italy. Is there any cry for reform?
KHAZAN: I think there is, but I actually think the current system, if I remember correctly, is actually the result of a previous set of reforms. And I think the concern is that they just want to make sure that everyone gets a trial to the fullest extent of the law, and that they're able to see their appeals through to the fullest extent. And so I think that, you know, if this hadn't been dragging on and if they had just let it stand, I feel like the victim's family in the Knox case would feel like, you know, that there were some problems in the trial and that they still deserve to see, you know, justice served.
CONAN: So what is the next step there in Italy now?
KHAZAN: So, essentially, it looks like Amanda won't have to return to Italy for the trial. It looks like she's going to be tried in absentia. And so, basically, her lawyers are likely going to appear on her behalf, and then the U.S., if her conviction is upheld, then the U.S. would have to then fight extraditing her back to Italy to serve the remainder of her sentence, which I believe was 26 years.
CONAN: She served four. We'll get onto that question of extradition next. Olga Khazan, thank you very much for your time.
KHAZAN: Thank you so much.
CONAN: Olga Khazan is the global online editor at The Atlantic, and she spoke to us from a studio there. To join us now to talk about extradition is Chris Blakesley, law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, joining us from his home in Las Vegas. Good of you to be with us today.
CHRIS BLAKESLEY: Thank you, Neal. Glad to be here.
CONAN: So - and tried in absentia. Well, we heard about the questions about double jeopardy. That wouldn't fly here. Tried in absentia, that's also something that wouldn't necessarily fly here.
BLAKESLEY: Right, not necessarily. Although if she has the opportunity to go back and doesn't do so, that could raise some issues about whether she waived it. On the other hand, it's sort of anathema to us. In our system, we don't generally have it. Although when we entered into the extradition treaty, we accepted their system.
CONAN: So - and their system does include these kinds of cases. But why in the world would Amanda Knox ever go back to Perugia?
BLAKESLEY: Oh, I don't - I mean, if I were advising her, I wouldn't ever - I wouldn't do it, unless compelled to do so. So her attorneys being there will be her representatives to try to make it as fair as possible. So I think that's the way it sounds like she's going to go about it, and probably should.
CONAN: If, though, her conviction is then - if the case is reversed again and she's reconvicted, the United States would take it very poorly if a convicted murderer were not to be extradited here from Italy.
BLAKESLEY: Exactly. And we have a duty to extradite. Under the treaty, we agreed to do such things.
CONAN: So the United States government would then presumably try to - if she was still here - arrest Amanda Knox and send her on to Italy.
BLAKESLEY: Right. What would happen is they - Italy would make a provisional arrest request, requesting that she be delivered to serve the sentence, to finalize it all. And then, her attorneys here would try to block that extradition, and that's possible. I mean, it's - I think there are still some lurking possible issues relating to double jeopardy. I don't think it's a closed issue, notwithstanding the language in the treaty.
CONAN: So, in other words, her lawyers could argue before an American judge, wait a minute. This amounts to double jeopardy, and therefore, we shouldn't agree to it.
BLAKESLEY: Right. I mean, it seems to me that due process - which is also in the Fifth Amendment, along with the double jeopardy clause - double jeopardy and due process kind of fold in together. And so there can be arguments about whether that process over in Italy, under these circumstances, satisfies our double jeopardy clause.
CONAN: Now, we're talking about process and procedure. Are those the only things that might be available for - in an extradition hearing? Could you go back and look at the evidence?
BLAKESLEY: Well, all that's necessary for an extradition to occur is enough evidence for probable cause. That's if there's simply an indictment or its equivalent from over there. After a conviction, then the conviction itself is sufficient.
CONAN: So no arguments about they mishandled the DNA evidence, or this witness was compromised.
BLAKESLEY: No. I mean, that wouldn't happen normally in the extradition hearing.
CONAN: And would any precedent be set in this case?
BLAKESLEY: Well, possibly. I mean, if it ended up going to an attempt to block the extradition, and a refusal of that, and then an attempt at habeas corpus after that, there could be several stages of appeal or of habeas corpus here in the U.S., in addition to whatever would happen afterwards in Italy.
CONAN: We'll get to that in just a minute. We're talking with Chris Blakesley. And Chris is a law professor at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. All right, take us through that a little more carefully. Who would be filing a writ of habeas corpus, a demand to produce the body?
BLAKESLEY: Right. Well, the - her attorneys in the United States, if it were - if their attempt to block extradition failed, then they would file a writ of habeas corpus to argue that it was inappropriate to take her body and send it back over to Italy for prosecution, and that would raise all of the potential issue of due process, et cetera. Then if that were refused, there could be an appeal of that, and so on.
CONAN: It sounds like this is not going to be decided quickly, even if the Italian courts decide quickly.
BLAKESLEY: I think that's right. I don't think either set of courts will decide it so quickly.
CONAN: There is also a question - and again, this is not something any lawyer, any representative could conceivably recommend - but might Amanda Knox take up, I don't know, farming in Uruguay?
BLAKESLEY: I doubt it. I mean, it doesn't seem like she should. If she goes to a place that has relations - legal relations, extradition treaty with Italy, she risks their sending her back to Italy for the sentence.
CONAN: Now, there have been several cases in Italy where they have asked us to produce some people that they would like to try, and these are officers of the Central Intelligence Agency involved in rendition cases, where they rounded up suspects in Italy and had them sent off to various places, allegedly to be tortured. The United States has declined to provide those people.
BLAKESLEY: Right. No, exactly. And that sort of refusal to extradite happens all the time. So if you - let's suppose that, in the end, by whatever means, either the magistrate or somewhere along the line, the U.S. refuses to extradite, Italy's mechanism for protesting that would be to do just that, send a diplomatic note of protest to the U.S. Department of State, saying that we violated the treaty. That would be pretty much the extent of their capacity to challenge, unless they said: and besides, no more extraditions with us.
CONAN: So, a quid pro quo: If you're not going to send us our prisoners, we're not going to send you ours.
BLAKESLEY: The treaty's defunct. We're finished. Yeah.
CONAN: And then there is the other complication: Italy, of course, is a member of the European Union.
BLAKESLEY: Right.
CONAN: And does that come into it at all?
BLAKESLEY: It sure does. They're - the European Union has the European Court of Human Rights, which is involved in protecting rights, including due process-type rights. So there's the possibility of challenges even in that body, if it ever got to that stage over in Europe, from Italy to the Court of Human Rights, possibly.
CONAN: It sounds like this might be one of the more interesting cases in recent memory.
BLAKESLEY: It's fascinating and troublesome, and so sad for the family of the victim. I mean, it's always tragic and fascinating - a hard thing to teach, very interesting to teach.
CONAN: Because there are so many interests on so many sides, here.
BLAKESLEY: So many interests, and almost always, in my arena, so tragic.
CONAN: Why almost always?
BLAKESLEY: Well, just in criminal law, such bad things happen. And in international criminal law, even worse things tend to happen, at least in the arenas that I teach about and write about.
CONAN: I see. They're not going to go to all this fuss unless something pretty drastic is involved.
BLAKESLEY: Right. And the issues, the ones that are poignant and important tend to be from cases that are really troublesome and sad.
CONAN: There are any number of cases involving extradition where one parent took a - spirited away one of the children in a child custody case. The kind of thing you're talking about?
BLAKESLEY: Right. That happens. There could be parental abduction. There's a separate treaty for that, but not all countries are parties to it. Child abuse, egregious murders - in the extradition arena, all of that's a serious problem and difficulty.
CONAN: Well, Chris Blakesley, thanks very much for your expertise. We appreciate it.
BLAKESLEY: OK. You're welcome.
CONAN: Chris Blakeley is a law professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He joined us by phone from his home there in Las Vegas. Tomorrow, NPR's Nina Totenberg will join us to wrap up the Supreme Court's week and look ahead at what's next in the gay marriage discussion. Join us for that. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION, from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Erasing David
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The idea that we can be tracked using our mobile phones, or that we all put too much personal information on sites such as Facebook won't be news to most ears. We are constantly being made aware of "identity theft" and the internet encroaching upon our privacy. It might surprise you to know that the UK is the third most intrusive surveillance state in the world – third only to China and Russia.
Erasing David is a documentary exploring how quickly our privacy is being eaten away. David Bond attempts to "disappear" from society for 30 days without leaving a trail of records and data with which he can be traced. Two private detectives aim to find him from information that's readily available; hospital records, appointments and travel documents. We follow his state of mind as he's hounded across Europe, finding out what happens when the database state goes wrong.
Originally sceptical as to what new information this film could provide, David's struggle with the compromise between privacy and normality within society makes for an intriguing, and paranoia-inducing watch. www.erasingdavid.com.
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After the judge's order, Islamabad's administration declared that Musharraf's lavish country residence could serve as a jail, meaning the ex-president could be held there under house arrest.
The development is the latest act in the drama surrounding Musharraf's return to Pakistan, which climaxed with his arrest Friday after a speedy escape from another court hearing.
The former general, who seized power in a coup and ruled Pakistan for nearly a decade, has seen his fortunes plummet since he returned in March after four years in self-imposed exile.
The arrest of such a prominent military figure in a country that has experienced three coups has unsettled Pakistan at a time when it is preparing for historic elections on May 11.
Saturday's order came at a hearing in an Islamabad court, where Musharraf was brought under heavy security as supporters and opponents gathered outside the court.
The judge ruled that he would be given judicial remand, which means that he would be held in custody until the next hearing on May 4. Musharraf's legal team had been pushing to get his estate on the edge of Islamabad declared a temporary jail under Pakistani law. The Islamabad chief commissioner later issued a notification declaring the residence a jail, said police official Mohammed Khalid.
After the court hearing, Musharraf was taken back to a police guesthouse where he had spent the night, and then was transported in the late afternoon to his private house on the outskirts of the capital.
Musharraf was arrested in the case that stems from his decision, while in power, to sack and detain the judges, including the country's chief justice, after declaring a state of emergency and suspending the constitution. At the time, Musharraf apparently was concerned that the judges would push back against his re-election as president. As a justification for the state of emergency he also cited the growing Taliban insurgency in the country's northwest.
But the move backfired horribly.
The country's lawyers took to the streets in widespread protests that eventually weakened Musharraf's government so much that he was forced to call new elections and step down.
A judge has said that Musharraf's 2007 decision amounted to terrorism, which is why the case is now being heard before an anti-terrorism court. Such courts are closed to the media and the public.
Musharraf returned to Pakistan to make a political comeback and contest the May 11 election. But he was greeted with little popular support and was disqualified from running in the election.
A judge on Thursday ordered his arrest. That sparked Musharraf's dramatic escape from court in a speeding vehicle. After getting away, he holed up in his heavily guarded house on the outskirts of Islamabad until he was taken into custody on Friday morning.
In a message posted on his Facebook page after his arrest, Musharraf wrote: "These allegations are politically motivated, and I will fight them in the trial court, where the truth will eventually prevail."
Musharraf seized control of Pakistan in a coup in 1999 when he was army chief and spent nearly a decade in power before being forced to step down in 2008. He returned despite Taliban death threats and a raft of legal challenges. He also faces legal charges in connection with the 2007 assassination of the former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the 2006 death of a Baluch nationalist leader.
But it has been the case related to the judges that has sparked the most contention since Musharraf's return — a reflection of the deep animosity many in the legal sphere still have for the former strongman.
His arrest is a significant act in a country where senior army officers have long seemed untouchable. The army is still considered the most powerful institution in Pakistan, but its aura of impunity has declined in recent years, especially in the face of an activist judiciary.
When Musharraf entered the court Saturday, he was surrounded by a phalanx of police and paramilitary Rangers.
Pakistani lawyers chanted: "Whoever is a friend of Musharraf is a traitor." Supporters shouted: "Long live Musharraf!"
Musharraf had hoped to regain some of his power by winning seats in the May 11 election. That vote will mark a significant milestone for Pakistan which has seen its democratic evolution stalled by a history of military coups.
The winner of the presidential election will continue to face rising militancy in violence in the country.
On Saturday, a suspected suicide bomber targeted security forces outside the main gate of a hospital in Khar, the main town in the Bajur tribal region. Four people died in the blast, said political administration official Abdul Haseeb Khan. The tribal regions border Afghanistan to the west and have been the scene of numerous attacks by militants, who are opposed to the Pakistani government and want to impose their version of Islam on the rest of the country.


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"We are elated this day has come, but we also know our good news is another family's tragedy."
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful double-lung transplant on Wednesday, the girl's family said.
Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an adult donor at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Tracy Simon said.
The Murnaghan family said it was "thrilled" to share the news that Sarah was out of surgery.
FILE - In this May 30, 2013 file photo provided by the Murnaghan family, Sarah Murnaghan, center, celebrates the 100th day of her stay in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with her father, Fran, left, and mother, Janet. The 10-year-old suburban Philadelphia girl received a lung transplant there Wednesday, June 12, 2013, her family said. Credit: AP
"Her doctors are very pleased with both her progress during the procedure and her prognosis for recovery," the family said in a statement.
During double-lung transplants, surgeons must open up the patient's chest. Complications can include rejection of the new lungs and infection.
Sarah went into surgery around 11 a.m. Wednesday, and the procedure lasted about six hours, her family said.
"The surgeons had no challenges resizing and transplanting the donor lungs - the surgery went smoothly, and Sarah did extremely well," it said. "She is in the process of getting settled in the ICU and now her recovery begins. We expect it will be a long road, but we're not going for easy, we're going for possible."
Sarah's family and the family of another cystic fibrosis patient at the same hospital challenged transplant policy that made children under 12 wait for pediatric lungs to become available or be offered lungs donated by adults only after adolescents and adults on the waiting list had been considered. They said pediatric lungs are rarely donated.
Sarah's aunt, Sharon Ruddock, said the donor lungs came in through normal channels as a result of being on the adult donor list.
"It was a direct result of the ruling that allowed her to be put on the adult list," Ruddock said. "It was not pediatric lungs, she would have never gotten these lungs otherwise."
No other details about the donor lungs are known.
Sarah's health was deteriorating when a judge intervened in her case last week, giving her a chance at the much larger list of organs from adult donors. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson ruled June 5 that Sarah and 11-year-old Javier Acosta, of New York City, should be eligible for adult lungs.
Critics warned there could be a downside to having judges intervene in the organ transplant system's established procedures. Lung transplants are difficult procedures, and some experts say child patients tend to have more trouble with them than adults do.
Sarah's relatives, who are from Newtown Square, just west of Philadelphia, were "beyond excited" about her new lungs but were "keeping in mind that someone had to lose a family member and they're very aware of that and very appreciative," family spokeswoman Maureen Garrity said earlier Wednesday.
The Murnaghan family noted that Sarah's successful surgery was the result of another family's loss.
"We are elated this day has come, but we also know our good news is another family's tragedy. That family made the decision to give Sarah the gift of life - and they are the true heroes today," Sarah's family said in their statement.
The national organization that manages organ transplants, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, added Sarah to the adult waiting list after the judge's ruling. Her transplant came two days before a hearing was scheduled on the family's request for a broader injunction.
The network has said 31 children under age 11 are on the waiting list for a lung transplant. Its executive committee held an emergency meeting this week but resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on lungs, instead creating a special appeal and review system to hear such cases.
Sarah's family "did have a legitimate complaint" about the rule that limited her access to adult lungs, said medical ethicist Arthur Caplan, of the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York.
"When the transplant community met, they didn't want to change that rule without really thinking carefully about it," he said. The appeals process that was established this week, he said, was "built on evidence, not on influence."
He added: "In general, the road to a transplant is still to let the system decide who will do best with scarce, lifesaving organs. And it's important that people understand that money, visibility, being photogenic ... are factors that have to be kept to a minimum if we're going to get the best use out of the scarce supply of donated cadaver organs."
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90 minutes of putzing around (okay, maybe it was a little bit more than that), followed by one glorious minute of productivity, vaulted USA into the second round against Ghana. And today we see if our boys can follow the five-point blueprint to success and advance to the quarterfinals, where we would meet the winner of this morning's Uruguay / South Korea match.
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Renewable energy could fully power a large electric grid 99.9 percent of the time by 2030 at costs comparable to today's electricity expenses, according to new research by the University of Delaware and Delaware Technical Community College.
A well-designed combination of wind power, solar power and storage in batteries and fuel cells would nearly always exceed electricity demands while keeping costs low, the scientists found.
"These results break the conventional wisdom that renewable energy is too unreliable and expensive," said co-author Willett Kempton, professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy in UD's College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. "The key is to get the right combination of electricity sources and storage — which we did by an exhaustive search — and to calculate costs correctly."
The authors developed a computer model to consider 28 billion combinations of renewable energy sources and storage mechanisms, each tested over four years of historical hourly weather data and electricity demands. The model incorporated data from within a large regional grid called PJM Interconnection, which includes 13 states from New Jersey to Illinois and represents one-fifth of the United States' total electric grid.
Unlike other studies, the model focused on minimizing costs instead of the traditional approach of matching generation to electricity use. The researchers found that generating more electricity than needed during average hours — in order to meet needs on high-demand but low-wind power hours — would be cheaper than storing excess power for later high demand.
Storage is relatively costly because the storage medium, batteries or hydrogen tanks, must be larger for each additional hour stored.
One of several new findings is that a very large electric system can be run almost entirely on renewable energy.
"For example, using hydrogen for storage, we can run an electric system that today would meeting a need of 72 GW, 99.9 percent of the time, using 17 GW of solar, 68 GW of offshore wind, and 115 GW of inland wind," said co-author Cory Budischak, instructor in the Energy Management Department at Delaware Technical Community College and former UD student.
A GW ("gigawatt") is a measure of electricity generation capability. One GW is the capacity of 200 large wind turbines or of 250,000 rooftop solar systems. Renewable electricity generators must have higher GW capacity than traditional generators, since wind and solar do not generate at maximum all the time.
The study sheds light on what an electric system might look like with heavy reliance on renewable energy sources. Wind speeds and sun exposure vary with weather and seasons, requiring ways to improve reliability. In this study, reliability was achieved by: expanding the geographic area of renewable generation, using diverse sources, employing storage systems, and for the last few percent of the time, burning fossil fuels as a backup.
During the hours when there was not enough renewable electricity to meet power needs, the model drew from storage and, on the rare hours with neither renewable electricity or stored power, then fossil fuel. When there was more renewable energy generated than needed, the model would first fill storage, use the remaining to replace natural gas for heating homes and businesses and only after those, let the excess go to waste.
The study used estimates of technology costs in 2030 without government subsidies, comparing them to costs of fossil fuel generation in wide use today. The cost of fossil fuels includes both the fuel cost itself and the documented external costs such as human health effects caused by power plant air pollution. The projected capital costs for wind and solar in 2030 are about half of today's wind and solar costs, whereas maintenance costs are projected to be approximately the same.
"Aiming for 90 percent or more renewable energy in 2030, in order to achieve climate change targets of 80 to 90 percent reduction of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from the power sector, leads to economic savings," the authors observe.


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