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160. I understand that the IMF has admitted
now that the recommendation to Malawi was based upon the wrong
information. Do you think that was the case?
(Mr Kohler) I do not think that I can tell you,
"The IMF said this," and "The IMF said this."
I want to underline: this is an issue in the responsibility of
the World Bank and the EU Commission. The IMF was part of this
process of giving advice to the Malawi government and the IMF
may also have not been attentive enough, but I just tell you that
I am not accepting that the IMF is made the culprit for this case,
and I really also will go public if it continues, this kind of
accusation. I have sent the President of Malawi a letter in which
I made clear that he was involved with the World Bank and the
EU Commission in this project; that the IMF was part of, say,
the kind of international advice and the IMF may, again, not have
been attentive enough how they exercised how to run this maize
stock, but it was not the responsibility of the Fund to implement
the advice.
161. If I may ask the last question, because
we have to move on. There may have been responsibility between
the different international organisations in relation to this.
My primary concern is about the issue not the individual allocation
of responsibility. Do you acknowledge that a mistake was made
here in the advice? Do you think there is something that we could
learn in the futurethe IMF, the World Bank and so forthabout
giving this advice and about the kind of impact assessments that
we might make before giving such advice again in the future?
(Mr Kohler) Clearly there have been mistakes.
I think it is right that the government of Malawi has now started
an audit in this, so that, after this audit, hopefully, we are
in a situation to have better information of what went wrong and
who was involved in what went wrong, so that we have a clearer
defined responsibility and, on this basis also, accountability.
It is clearly an issue to think how we can avoid that this kind
of mistake will happen again.
Mr Laws: Will you do an impact assessment
Chairman: I am sorry, but we have to
move on. Jim Cousins on macroeconomic stability.
162. Do you think, Mr Kohler, after the
experience of the last few months in our own markets, that we
can be completely confident in rolling out our own institutions
as they happen to be and our own practices as they happen to be
on the rest of the world, or that perhaps we should put our own
house in order first?
(Mr Kohler) I think what happens in the advanced
countries demonstrates that there are in all places of the world,
all countries, mistakes, political failures, and that means also,
again, there is a need for reviewing things, lessons learned,
to define a better policy. I have definitely the opinion that
it would be a big mistake if we would always concentrateIMF/World
Bank, but particularly, in this case, IMFon problems in
poor countries or emerging market countries. I agree that Enron/WorldCom
demonstrates that there are risks and vulnerabilities here in
the advanced countries, in the UK, in US, in Germany, in Europe,
and we need to tackle these issues.
163. You have made a very strong point this
morning, and I do understand that, about the need for what you
have called self-responsibility and political cohesion as a pre-condition
for economic prosperity. What do you think are the sources of
a lack of political cohesion and bad governance in some of the
poorest countries of the world? Do we not have a responsibility
in actually producing that lack of political cohesion?
(Mr Kohler) This is a question which has a variety
of elements. I think the history, the culture, politics, wars,
even the geographical location of countries often define this
particular situation. But we have no choice but to try, because
in a globalized world everything is interconnected, to work based
on dialogue, inclusion, and also on what I call an encouragement
for national systems to be aware of the need to have respect for
the social dimension or social cohesion in a country. Because
social peace is a productive factor, so that we work for a better
world, but, if we would give up self-responsibility for the countries,
I think we would take over or would try to take over responsibility
which no-one could implement. I mean, there is no world government.
I think even if there were one I have a doubt that the world government
could fix it all because, say, the dimension of the problem boils
down to this, that you need to have awareness for the local situation,
for the local politics, and encourage communities, local processes,
to deal with the situation. So I have no quick-fix, Mr Cousins,
for a better world but to say that there is a local level, there
is a regional level, there are national levels, there is a global
level, and try to define institutions, try to define dialogues,
try to define, as I call it, a kind of global ethics in order
to promote a better world. Global ethics is, for instance, something
which, I think, here in the UK but also in Germany, people now
care for more and more. There is, for instance, a foundation in
Germany called World Ethics where they try to promote, to facilitate,
a dialogue between religions and they try to find out that there
is some common ground between all major religionsso Judaism,
Christianity, Islam. For instance, in all the big religions you
have a rulea kind of golden rule, as they call itthat:
What you do not want to happen to tou, this you should not do
to anyone else. If we would, through dialogue, facilitate and
promote the acceptance of this golden rule, then I think it would
help to create a better world.
164. If I can follow that point directly, is
it not a common principle of the ethics of all those religionsand
one which certainly I would regard as being part of my own upbringingthat
the poor come to the table first to be fed before they get the
lecture on free markets.
(Mr Kohler) I think that is not, as I see it,
the issue, because I have said already that the social dimension,
solidarity, should be part of every human community, human body,
institutions. But, if you would create an environment where people
have the feeling they just can go to somewhere where they are
fed or get answers for everything they are asking for, I think
this institution is not available. The strengthening of self-responsibility,
plus an environment of solidarity and dialogue, I think is the
right approach.
165. I understand that, and you are very clearly
putting what you call self-responsibility firstthat is
the first of your two pillarsbut do not the poor of the
world look at you and say, "Well, here are these guys lecturing
us about free markets and telling us of the value of free trade,
but what can they do to prevent the United States raising trade
barriers against the rest of the world and pouring untold sums
of money into food subsidies, price subsidies, for American farmers?"
(Mr Kohler) Mr Cousins, first, the IMF, at least
since my time, is not lecturing about free markets. I must make
this clear. Secondly, look to this very important kind of historical
initiative in Africa called NEPAD, a new partnership for the development
of Africa, where the African leaders themselves have said, "It
is our obligation, our responsibility to provide
good governance, to fight corruption, to fight against armed conflict.
It is our obligation." So it is not that kind of lecturing,
they themselves are saying, "It is our obligation"
and I think they are right, because of one point: I would guess
that the national pride or the pride of a people, even a tribe,
in Africa is an important element for development, more peace,
more freedom, more democracy. The pride of a nation depends also
on the fact that they are aware: "We did it. We
made it. We are not just depending on aid and all of this"a
very strong point which I feel should always be taken into account.
But your second point is right: there is too much of hypocrisy,
double standards, in the international community. I am, indeed,
advocating more trade integration. Then, I think, it is only clear
that I also have to speak up against subsidies, trade distorting
subsidies in Europe, in the US, in other advanced countries, and
I am doing that. But you should also be aware that there are trade
barriers amongst the poor countries themselvesand this
is, again, going back to self-responsibilityand it is also
not credible for the poor countries in Africa to ask for more
market access to Europe when, on the other hand, they are not
yet exploiting fully the possibility for more trade (and that
means more income and job regeneration) between themselves.
166. With the structure of world trade as it
is now, against the background of the Zedillo Report which examined
the benefits of trade liberalisation that went to the rich countries
and not the poor countriesand all over the world it is
easiest for a man with a gun to grab the latest lorry load of
cheap American maize, and President Bush is pouring another £190
billion into subsidising its productiondo you think they
will ever achieve self-responsibility?
(Mr Kohler) Yes. I am encouraged through NEPAD,
the Africans themselves. I do think that there are countries like
Mexico, like South Korea, like, if you want, China and otherssouth
Asian countrieswhich demonstrate that there is a chance,
through trade, to come out of poverty and a critical situation.
But there is really the need now to change the overall trade policy,
not least, in the advanced countries, and this kind of dialogue
here in this parliament, with the NGOs, will help to create the
public awareness that the advanced countries have to change and
have to change more rapidly.
167. You are indeed speaking out about these
things, because you gave a speech to the US conference of Catholic
bishops in January and you used some pretty tough language on
this point. You said, "It is unconscionable"that
is the word you used"for the United States, Japan
and the European Union to spend hundreds of billions of dollars
on agricultural subsidies to maintain marginal activities for
the benefit of a small segment of their population, while undermining
agricultural sectors that are central to peace and development
in poor countries." I think most of us would say, "Amen"
to that, but the question is: Where is your leverage as an organisation?
Because that comment is addressed to the funders basically of
the IMFand you have spoken in questions earlier about respecting
their capital, when we were discussing the organisation of the
IMF. Can you at the same time give due weight to the capital they
put in and do anything more than simple exhortation about what
they are doing with agricultural subsidies?
(Mr Kohler) I mean, certainly a difficult task,
and I should not be in the temptation to put too much of a load
or ambition on my shoulders. Butand I think you are more
aware than I am because you are a politicianpolitics in
the 21st century more than ever goes by a public debate communication.
I thinkand I do not hide itthat I feel myself committed
to participate in a public debate and, on this basis, create public
awareness about the problems. I have some trust in the reason
of the people, the ordinary voter, that he is able to draw conclusions.
I trust, indeed, that the ordinary man or woman here in the UK,
in Germany or in France, will understand that the existing pattern
of trade policy needs a change because more and more the ordinary
people understand that this poverty issue is a major threat even
for themselves. So I am part of this public debate. I know that
I am taking risks because the big powers do not like itand
it is in a way backfiringbut I think I should take this
risk, first. Secondly, and more concrete, we are in a process
of discussion with the WTO how we organise our work also in the
institutions and with the orderly mechanisms. This means that,
in particular, the WTO has to take up this discussion and make
the Doha Round really a development round. Thirdlyand this
is what I am going to discuss with my shareholders, the UK ED
and the other EDswe have already discussed in the board
that within our Article IV process of surveillance and dialogue
we should also have a window about market access and trade distorting
subsidies. I am going to pursue this further and I hope that we
will come to a conclusion which enables us, on the basis of a
more systematic approach, to discuss in a transparent way market
access and trade distorting subsidies for all our membership.
168. Do you have in your mind a timetable for
the unwinding of these agricultural subsidies?
(Mr Kohler) Well, I mean, you are Europeanthe
UK is part of the European Unionyou know how difficult,
in particular, the Common Agricultural Policy is, so I should
be cautious about myself setting a timetable. But my advice is
to you and to all your colleagues in the parliaments of the world:
be ambitious. Set an ambitious timetable because time is running.
Because you, the politicians, the parliaments, need to change
169. Oxfam has saidand I quote"Trade
liberalisation measures should be removed from World Bank and
IMF loan conditions. Instead such discussions should be carried
out under the auspices of the World Trade Organisation which is
formally charged with negotiating reciprocal trade liberalisation
measures. Trade reform via the World Bank and IMF is not reciprocal".
Could I ask you therefore, Mr Kohler, why the IMF is involved
in trade liberalisation issues, when this is more properly, in
Oxfam's view, the responsibility of the WTO?
(Mr Kohler) Since I am at the IMF trade liberalisation
is not an element of conditionality, so I want to make it clear
about that. I do not want to comment on what was in the past,
but I do not make it a kind of, say, major conditionality point
for our policy point of view. I would also say that we have empirical
evidence that those countries which had been more forthcoming
with integrating international trade gained also the advantages
of that. I have mentioned already countries like Mexico, like
South Korea, like Malaysia, like Singapore. I mentioned already
what I have in mind about trade and the IMF, and that is, talk
about it, have a dialogue, an Article IV attention to this, but
indeed I would trust that it is the WTO who should sort out the
right political approach about further trade integration involving
both, equal and even-handed, the advanced countries and the poor
170. But it is not the case that you are disinterested
in trade issues. We have heard a theology from you today which
I translate into a sort of water babies theology of "Do unto
others as you would have done unto you". This is a "Do
as you would be done by" philosophy. Given that, you said
that you are ambitious in getting rid of barriers to trade between
developing nations themselves. Is it reasonable to ask them to
look at the problem in their own eye, when they are faced with
bigger barriers outside? In other words, we have America saying,
"I'll do unto others as I'll do to myself, I'll put up big
trade barriers, but you mustn't, you must remove your trade barriers,
before I shall." Is that reasonable?
(Mr Kohler) Yes, I think it is reasonable. If,
for instance, between Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
there would not be a kind of trade integration, then it is pure
economics. For example, the cost of transportation is lower in
this regional area than the cost of transportation to the far
remote countries. I think it makes sense. I think it makes even
more sense in the direction that we have evidence alsoand
I think the European Union is the proof of thatthat to
cope with international competition it is easier if you have the
kind of strong home market and an extended home market; based
on that you are stronger also to compete with remote areas. A
third element, and what I think went wrong in Africa, for instance,
is that we need to strengthen local business activities. The Africans
should be able to produce food also for themselves, and they should
be able to trade with food or products to the next country. So
I think that it is not a contradiction if we would say strengthen
capacity to produce food and to develop a kind of division of
labour in the region, and based on that be prepared to integrate
in the bigger environment.
171. You touched on NEPAD a few times today,
so I am assuming from your answers that they hold an element of
support from you, but we also heard, I think particularly from
Professor Vines, Bretton Woods and Oxfam that there is a lack
of technical knowledge within some of the African nations and
that they need support. I also notice that you are supporting
five new regional centres for technical assistance. How do you
see those developing? Do you think they will be adequate to provide
the skills gap so that that internal trade and growth can grow
in the way that you imagine it can?
(Mr Kohler) I believe that it is often not a
lack of political will but a lack of capacity, administrative
operational capacity, to do a better job. Therefore, indeed we
decided to set up five regional technical assistance centres,
but we want to concentrate our assistance on our major focus,
and that is macroeconomicsthat is, not least public expenditure
management and the statistics for that and financial sectors for
thatso that is what we are concentrating on. Our initiative
is well discussed and co-ordinated with the World Bank, and the
Work Bank is co-ordinating with the WTO and their trade
assistance to poor countries. So I think you are right, there
is a need for technical assistance, and the WTO and the World
Bank should care about what they can do to provide support for
the poor countries. We are concentrating on our four areas.
172. Could you tell me a little bit more about
how you envisage this operating? It is not really clear to me
where this new expertise would be drawn from, how you would make
sure that there would be some home-grown new technical knowledge.
Who would be co-ordinating it? Who is taking precedence, and will
that mean that the priorities that you want to see set would actually
develop out of these?
(Mr Kohler) We have discussed it with the Africans
themselves. They appreciate very much our concept, and they encouraged
us to concentrate on what I call our prioritiesthat is,
public expenditure management. For this we have two kind of major
vehicles. First, training. We train Africans so that they are
able to handle the budget, how to collect data, how to put it
in a framework, how to assess statistics. We are going to train
them. We are also going to hire Africans as much as possible as
permanent staff in this technical assistance, because we want
again to demonstrate that we are not coming from Washington or
the UK, white people, lecturing them; we want to demonstrate "We
want to support your philosophy, your approach, your culture."
I also want to say that there is an issue where again I give it
back to you as parliamentarians. Official development aid is still
too heavily bound to so-called domestic intereststhat is,
tied aidand I sometimes get really impatient when I recognise
that there are big rhetorics about official development aid, but
in substance it is a kind of accommodation of domestic interest,
giving orders to domestic construction firms and so on. There
is a political interest, clearly, but if it is not going to change
that official development aid is really given with the clear idea
to help the Africans or poor countries, and not to help the next
company around the corner here in Germany or in the UK, I think
then it will not substantially improve.
173. On that, we understand that in Britain
aid is now substantially untied, but we welcome your comments.
To clarify one difference in evidence, we have had a written submission
which says that in 2000 the IMF advised the Government of Malawi
to reduce the strategic grain reserve from 165,000 tonnes to between
30,000 and 60,000 tonnes. In your reply to Mr Laws you said that
that statement was actually false, and it was not the IMF, it
was the World Bank and the European Union, is that correct?
(Mr Kohler) I concentrated on the Malawi case.
You may have an advantage to me. I offered to you a kind of paper
where we outlined in the IMF how we see this development.
174. Mr Kohler, could we have that paper
from you on Malawi, and then we could go on to another question?
That would be very handy.
(Mr Kohler) Yes.
175. That would be fine. How do you react to
the criticism that the poverty reduction strategy papers have
not really been integrated in the basic thrust of the IMF's thinking,
that it is almost like lip-service or lip indicator, that the
focus of the IMF is still on macroeconomic stability and not poverty
(Mr Kohler) First, I think macroeconomic stability
is good for poverty reduction, because poverty reduction will
only be achieved in a medium and long-term approach, and without
macroeconomic stability you cannot sustain this effort. Secondly,
I think Mr Fallon had a different angle of asking me on this.
He said I am over-ambitious and take everything on my shoulders.
Indeed, I travelled three times to Africa. On my last visit when
I travelled to Africa I particularly concentrated on a dialogue
with officials, with civil society, with business people, churches
and so on, asking does this process work, is it accepted? The
outcome of this dialogue was that it seems that it is promising,
the African people themselves accept this concept, and therefore
there is no problem within the IMF. But I admit to you that I
feel the major guardian for the PRSP should be the World Bank,
because we should have this concentration on macroeconomics, financial
sectors, good monetary policy and exchange rate regimes, but the
overall concept and its implementation in the medium and long
term should be the prerogative of the World Bank.
176. I see. I was struck by the fact that when
you were asked about the poverty and social impact assessments
you were not sure which countries were involved. Obviously this
is not a quiz programme, but that did suggest to me that it was
not getting a tremendous amount of management attention. Would
you agree that actually these are a bit peripheral for you?
(Mr Kohler) No, they are not peripheral, but
indeed we are at the beginning of this process. As I said before,
the social impact and poverty analysis is an idea since round
about a year now. I am asking staff, "What about it?",
and the answer to this is that the concept is in a process of
implementation and learning by doing. This involves the World
Bank, us, it involves also particularly the countries themselves.
It is not the concept which you sort out here at the green table
and then overnight it is implemented. We need to have the countries
themselves backing it and working with that. Here there are, I
would guess, as much difficulties as possibly lack of attention
at the managing director's office.
177. Finally from me, the IMF has its own poverty
reduction and growth facility approach. It has been suggested
to us in evidence that this has superseded and overridden the
policy-making process of the PRSP in certain cases, notably Senegal.
Basically the argument is that the country itself is leading the
PRSP, they make a certain amount of progress, and then the IMF
comes along and says, "This is our concept of the PRGF"
and that really overrides it, because they need your money.
(Mr Kohler) That is not our philosophy. What
I understand from the review process of the PRSP and the PRGF
is that there was a kind of very well harmonised attitude to implement
both, and that the PRGF should fit in the PRSP, and the PRSP is
the bigger contest and the bigger concept. So if there is a complaint,
we have to look at it, but I feel the PRGF is not the dominating
vehicle or instrument for the PRSP.
178. Mr Kohler, we have had the issue
of the sovereign debt restructuring, and your deputy Anne Krueger's
proposals for a domestic bankruptcy court which she said would
be an international, worked-out mediation service. They have been
contrasted with John Taylor the US Treasury Secretary's aspect
of debt contracts. They seem to be quite far apart. Are they as
far apart as that, and is there a possibility of us resolving
this issue so that we have such a mechanism to resolve the unsustainable
debt problems of countries, which would benefit debtors, creditors
and, more importantly, the international community?
(Mr Kohler) These two tracks are, for management
of the IMF, two complimentary tracks. That means we are very much
engaged in discussing and working to make the collection action
clauses in sovereign bonds operational. There are a lot of difficulties,
but we are working on that and, as you know, also the G10 are
working on that. We are also sayingand I personally have
the opinionthat at the end the collective action clauses
will not do the job, we need also the sovereign debt restructuring
mechanism. I then depend on shareholders. We have made a kind
of step forward that the G7 major shareholders have agreed that
this is a double track, a complimentary approach, but it is up
to the shareholders and their input whether we will succeed in
this process. There is an argument that the United States Congress
will never accept a change of articles, because the sovereign
debt restructuring mechanism needs to be accommodated through
a change in articles. I would not advise us to stop our activities
because of this argument, but there is a major question. I think
the two positions are in substance not apart, they should be part
of a wider concept, but at the end the politics is decisive here,
and I encourage you, your Parliament, Gordon Brown, the Government,
to be a strong advocate, outspoken, ambitious, to work for the
sovereign debt restructuring mechanism.
179. Back to us, then. On the issue of Brazil,
economic analysis has suggested that the growth prospects there
are dimming with the financial turmoil. If Brazil defaults on
its £171 billion in foreign debt, then the shockwaves will
be felt everywhere. One of our expert witnesses last week said
to us that "To have the Fund walk away from Brazil is exactly
the wrong solution to problems of this kind. That is where the
Fund needs to be, not helping just in fundamental solvency crises,
but in liquidity panics of this kind". They said, as others
have said, "Brazil has done everything the IMF wants, yet
we still find ourselves in this position". What can the Fund
do to reassure Brazil and the international community?
(Mr Kohler) We have demonstrated that we are
supportive and at the side of Brazil, not least that I think two
weeks ago we, in a very flexible way, accelerated our programme
and our policy dialogue with Brazil, enabling them flexibly to
use IMF money for their situation. We are also in a close dialogue
with them to follow what happens and be prepared. I think that
clearly the situation in Brazil is manageable, and we will do
everything to make it manageable, but you should also be aware,
Mr Chairman, that the difficulties come not because of the IMF,
or the stupid IMF, but because of some discussions about politics
and the question "Will more left from the centre coming in
be prepared to service the Brazilian debt, or will they pursue
the policy which was in principle very reasonable from President
Cardosa?" There is an element the IMF has not under its control.
I make you aware, the IMF again cannot be the saviour for everything,
but regarding Brazil I can assure you, it is our interest, we
have a good dialogue, a good co-operation with the Brazilian Government,
so that we should not exaggerate that.
Chairman: Thank you. My colleague Andrew
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At the World Water Forum in Istanbul, Turkey, PATH cosponsored a week-long training for journalists about the global water and sanitation crisis. As follow-up, 25 journalists from around the world will take field trips to Ethiopia and India for a firsthand look at how poor sanitation and hygiene leads to preventable diarrheal disease that kills 5,000 children every day. The training will enable journalists to expose the scale and seriousness of the issue and stimulate lifesaving solutions.
Also at the World Water Forum, PATH staff member Glenn Austin, director of our Safe Water Project, moderated a forum with Water Advocates and the US Coalition for Child Survival entitled, "From the Ground Up: How Innovative Water and Sanitation Programs are Improving Children's Health."
To engage US action for improving the world's water situation, PATH will co-sponsor a congressional briefing in Washington, DC, on March 25 about US leadership and innovation in addressing the global water crisis.
Additionally, PATH has worked with GOOD Magazine, PSI, the American Chemistry Council, Water Advocates, and others to develop a series of videos about the links between safe water, sanitation, and hygiene. The videos, intended for Internet distribution, target socially engaged young people and encourage them to take action by educating their peers, supporting organizations working on water issues, and encouraging policy that supports water for low-income communities.


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Megan Fox was yelled at by commuters in New York City while she was filming the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in Times Square.
The Transformers star shot much of the action in the Big Apple, and Fox admits she was made to feel uncomfortable by passers-by who shouted abuse at her for getting in their way while she was trying to film her scenes.
Fox tells New York Post gossip column Page Six that strangers yelled at her for "hindering their commute", adding, "It's like, we're working, too... We're making a movie right now. You're in it. Go see yourself in August. You're a pleasure."


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There has always been great public interest in gardens and in gardening – in Germany alone there are over 50 monthly magazines and periodicals dedicated to gardens and gardening themes. Google "Gartenreisen" or garden tours in German and you will get over 20 pages of results. One of the longest running and most popular radio programmes in Europe is BBC Radio 4's 'Gardener's Question Time' – broadcasting every week since 1947.
Gardens and zoos saw the most significant growth in visitor numbers to English attractions in 2016, according to VisitEngland's recently published Annual Attractions Survey. The survey, based on data sent by 1,545 English attractions, found that gardens and zoos both saw the biggest increase in visitors in 2016 at 8%. England has more than 3,600 historic parks and gardens – historic houses and castles reported a 7% increase in visitor numbers and country parks a 4% increase.
VisitEngland chief executive Sally Balcombe stated: "It's great to see people enjoyed 2016's 'Year of the English Garden'. Attractions are a much loved and valuable part of the tourism landscape, adding colour and variety to the visitor experience and encouraging people to get out and explore, driving the value of tourism across the regions."
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew remained the third most visited paid-for attraction in England in 2016 with 1.8 million visitors, up from 1,622,821 in 2015, following The Tower of London with 2.7 million visitors and Chester Zoo with nearly 1.9 million visitors. RHS Garden Wisley came in at number 11 on the paid-for list, with 1.1 million visitors, one rank up from 2015 when it attracted 1.08 million. The Eden Project was at number 15 with just over a million visitors and up from 960,029 people in 2015. Hampton Court Palace moved up to number 20 on the paid-for list with 903,270 visitors.
Visits to England's attractions rose by 2% in 2016, with attractions reporting revenues up by 7%. The tourism economy is worth £106 billion annually to England.
RDA member and RDA Group Travel Expo exhibitor, Visit Kent, recently launched an ambitious B2C project to promote 'Gardens & Gourmet' experiences not only in Kent but also in Cheshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and the Peak District to ensure that England remains competitive in the rapidly growing international gardens and gourmet tourism markets – markets that are natural sources of business for coach and group travel operators.
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5.5 miles of running, jumping, wading and sometimes even swimming through mud makes for a great couple of hours. The hardest part about the Dirty Dash isn't the obstacles, it's trying to get good pictures as a group. We had a camera in a waterproof case that kept getting covered in mud (hence some of the pictures). This is the best we could do.
Good times. If you're up for a fun mud run, you'll love this.
Next one on the list - Tough Mudder


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Hey this is my personal pantheon build, i did not copy any other build on this website (me personally think that all the other builds suck on this web site)
But i just started playing pantheon like a month ago and i have endlessly looking for a build that suits me and panth at the same time.
So i just tried to make my own, and it worked out.
The last three items in the item build are just extras you dont need them but you can if you are doing really good :)
First off the items. i pick dorans' blade first because its mainly for dps and that is what pantheon is.
For boots you get beserker greaves for the attack speed.
Then you get Chalice of Harmony for the mana Regen.
Then you get Youmuu's Ghostblade * Always toggle it for the attack speed and movement speed*
Then you get stark's ferver for the attack speed and life steal.
After that if the game is not over you should get the blood thirster for the attack dmg and life steal Again you wont need lots of health with lots of life steal.
Sword of divine,phantom dancer, infinity edge, and frozen mallet are all extras you dont need to get them.
For the skill build i switch from Heartseeker strike and spear shot because they are your main moves for the beggining.
Just wait until the end to get aegis of zeonia.
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Michael Douglas has always had a gift for playing ethically challenged and morally ambiguous characters, and even a cursory look at his greatest hits — "Fatal Attraction," "Basic Instinct," "The War of the Roses," "Disclosure" and "Wall Street" — reveals just how successful he's been at it.
"The jerks and pricks are always a lot of fun to play, and it seems to be my area, my focus," he admits, "although sometimes when I look at my resume I'm still surprised to see that all of these characters are contemporary and all deal with moral dilemmas."
Douglas didn't always traffic in the jerk department. In fact, he started out playing sensitive young men.
"In a sort of strange parallel with my dad," he says, "I moved to darker characters. He didn't get acclaimed until 'Champion,' where he played a prick, and it was the same thing for me with 'Wall Street.' But then look at all the awards and nominations — they're usually for bad people. So I guess we don't reward good behavior."
Happily for the star, there's plenty more bad behavior on display in his two new films — "Solitary Man" and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." In the former, he plays a big-time car dealer "with a couple of ethical lapses which cause his small empire and marriage to collapse." In the latter, he effortlessly slips back into the reptilian role of Gordon Gekko, his most iconic part. "After eight years in jail he's shed his skin — or at least one," Douglas says with a laugh.
Is Gekko a changed man? "Hopefully you're not quite sure where he's coming from. And yes, there's something of me in him — but there's something of all of us in him. That's the beauty of the character."
Born in 1944, Douglas grew up on the East Coast, and although he saw little of his legendary father as a kid, he admits that Kirk Douglas' shadow "was hard to step out of." But he inherited his father's "tenacity and stamina, and my mother's diplomacy," and landed his first acting break in the CBS Playhouse episode "The Experiment."
"That got me out to Hollywood, where I did a few films before sliding into episodic TV and getting 'The Streets of San Francisco,'?" he recalls. "That show was the most important development moment in my life, being able to do 104 hours and having a great mentor like Karl Malden. It was a great training ground."
Douglas eventually parlayed that experience into a successful film career, starring in such hits as "The China Syndrome," "Romancing the Stone" and "Jewel of the Nile." But it was as a producer — of 1975's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," which won the 31-year-old his first Oscar — that he first tasted real success. "And everyone strongly recommended that I just focus on producing, as making the transition from TV to movies was much harder back then," he notes. "But I always had a passion for acting. That was always my first love."
For Douglas, the key to a successful acting career "is good material well-executed — and I've been pretty lucky in finding good material and never really having a low — or slow — point in my career, except for taking a break the last few years to spend time with Catherine (Zeta-Jones) and the kids," he says. "The business has changed a lot since I began, but there's always options, and my production company, Further Films, has a bunch of projects we're working on including 'Rollover,' based on Adam Penenberg's book 'Tragic Indifference.'?"
Next up is Steven Soderbergh's "Liberace" film, with Douglas starring as the flamboyant pianist. "I'm excited, although my piano-playing's going to need some serious work," he allows. "But hey, I saw 'Avatar' — they'll be able to make me play great."


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Hope- A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
There was not much of this in Charlotte last season for the Bobcats but when you watch Kemba Walker and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist play you get to visualize and enjoy the hope these 2 bring to the city. Last night in a rare NBA TV appearance the Bobcats Defeated the Dallas Mavericks 101-97 in a OT thriller. A team they had previously been 0-16 against and in that game we saw just how dangerous Kemba and MKG can be. Kemba was just a monster with 26 points 6 rebounds 7 assists and 8 steals. MKG recorded his 1st double-double with 25 points and 12 rebounds. As you can see these two can fill up a stat sheet but there is more to them numbers. Kemba Walker looks rejuvenated after struggling last season he looks like the guy this nation fell in love with at Uconn he is playing intense, stress free basketball and its just enjoyable to watch. He lived in the gym this off-season and playing in new coach Mike Dunlap's system Walker has been what I said he would be in the July and that is a candidate for the NBA's most improved player award, Refer to my "Vegas Summer league" article. MKG has great energy and does so many things well and is just a joy to watch. He finishes around the rim well and just gets after it defensively and being the youngest player in the league at 19 years old he has a tremendous amount of upside and time to work on that jump shot of his. The Bobcats are 2-3 with wins over the Pacers and Mavs playing tough, Physical, Respectable basketball and these 2 are a huge part of that. In my opinion playing in the East an 8th seed playoff appearance is not out of question for the young Charlotte team. They certainly won't win any Championships this year but the Future looks bright in the QC and behind these 2 franchise cornerstones progress seems inevitable.


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East End Fellowship is a multi-ethnic, economically diverse Christian church in the east end of Richmond, seeking God's joy and justice for our neighborhoods. We meet for a worship service each Sunday at 4pm at the Robinson Theatre, as well as have weekly Missional Communities that meet on various weeknights throughout the week.
We want to see more of God's Kingdom come here in the east end, as it is in heaven. We believe that discipleship (the process of someone becoming like Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit) is the key to everything we are about as a church, and so much of our time, energy and resources is poured into discipleship.
There is no Plan B for Jesus.
We want every man, woman and child to know the Father, to be part of his spiritual family as a disciple of Jesus, and to join in his mission through the Holy Spirit in this city he so loves. Another way of saying this is we want to make disciples of Jesus who then go and do the same in the east end of Richmond and beyond.
If you're someone hoping to find out more about Jesus or how he wants to put the world back together, or if you're looking for a church family that puts discipleship at the center of everything, we'd love to have you join us.
In April of 2016, we began a journey, exploring the 5-year vision we believed God gave our church as we walked through the teaching series The God Who Builds. That summer, following this teaching series, an All-Church vision retreat, a 33 day fast and a month dedicated to prayer and listening to God, we gathered together and committed ourselves to God and his Kingdom coming in our neighborhood, responding in loving, faithful obedience to the God who builds.
To find out more about our 5-year vision, including the practical outcomes we are going after, please visit on vision page.
We believe in having a plurality of leadership, which is the Biblical understanding of shared leadership through elders, pastors and deacons, along with Missional Community leaders, all sharing in the responsibility of local church leadership, with Jesus Christ serving as the 'head' of his Church.
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Jon may be heading back to his local Virgin Megastore soon. Not because of the music-industry's lawyers, but because he won't be able to elude the Cable Guy. A host of cable companies, including AT&T Broadband, Charter Communications, Comcast , and Cox Communications, are moving away from the old flat-fee pricing scheme that allowed users to download and transmit endless amounts of data [especially music, movies, and software] over high-speed connections. Instead, they're rolling out new pricing schemes that could put limits on bandwidth usage per month and charge users additional fees if they go above the limit.
"LESS SHARING"? Another option: tiered pricing based on bandwidth speed, rather than the amount of bandwidth used. Charter has had tiered pricing based on speed of service [the faster the download, the more you pay] for almost two years. It reports that 60% of its users choose a lower-speed plan.
These new pricing models could be serious trouble for the still-growing peer-to-peer [P2P] file-sharing movement, which is inextricably linked to cheap bandwidth. Indeed, the cable companies just might accomplish what the entertainment industries -- with their high-pressure legal tactics, copy-protected CDs and DVDs, and aggressive lobbying campaigns in Washington -- have failed to do.
"This is one of the greatest threats to peer-to-peer file-sharing," says Kelly Truelove, an independent P2P expert. "If a critical mass of broadband providers institute pricing structures that make people sensitive to the amount of data they transmit, there will be less sharing."
RUNNING FOR COVER. The cable companies' adoption of new pricing strategies has less to do with stopping piracy than with economics and business models. At an average monthly cost of $45, broadband is still perceived as too expensive by many consumers, and in recent months, prices have been rising, rather than dropping. That's slowing subscriber growth. According to market-research firm ARS, the rate of new signups for broadband in the first quarter of 2002 slid to 12%, the worst quarter on record.
Disappointing demand has left cable operators scrambling to cover the $60 billion they spent building and upgrading their networks over the past decade. At the same time, they've tired of seeing a small group of heavy users tax their networks while paying the same flat rate as everybody else. AT&T Broadband says on its system, 1% percent of users account for 16% of bandwidth consumption.
Cable companies have another reason for acting now: Because they can. AT&T, Comcast, and Cox have been freed from their agreements with @Home, the now-bankrupt high-speed Internet service provider. Under the old system, @Home controlled prices and speeds as well as customer relationships. Those deals expired at the end of 2001, and @Home ceased operations in February, 2002. "One-size-fits-all doesn't make sense anymore. As more people sign up for broadband, it makes even less sense," says Mark Kersey, a broadband analyst with ARS. "Now [the cable companies] are in complete operational control, and they can do what they want."
TWO-WAY TRAFFIC. Good news for cable companies, bad news for file-sharing services. Networks such as KaZaA, LimeWire, and Morpheus depend on cheap bandwidth. But hard-core file-swappers such as Jon might have second thoughts if they get hit with steep cable-bill hikes for downloading hundreds of music files that, even in compressed MP3 form, comprise several megabytes of bandwidth.
File-sharing programs work well only when users make the songs or movies on their hard drives available to other users, creating a better selection that draws more users, which then creates better selection ad infinitum. Since many broadband users leave their connections on 24 hours a day, every tune or film they've ever downloaded is available to the million-strong file-sharing community at all times.
Remember, file-sharing involves both uploading and downloading. What happens when big bills start arriving in the mailboxes of the "supersharers" who supply a disproportionate amount of the inventory to P2P networks? Would they be willing to pay stiff broadband fees for transmitting files to others on the network?
LOST APPEAL? If the supersharers don't want to fork over for merely being suppliers, they might be inclined to be less generous. If the services have less to offer, they could ultimately be less appealing. And broadband users who opt for slower-speed service would be less likely to use P2P networks since downloading and uploading would tie up their connections and slow down their Web surfing.
[In contrast, current versions of the label-backed services, pressplay and MusicNet, wouldn't be affected. Their users only download music or stream it. And the services' restrictive plans would keep users well within bandwidth limitations.]
The prospects of the cable companies' moves has the entertainment industry cheering. "Everything else in life has restraints -- except digital music and movies," says Ted Cohen, vice-president for new media at EMI. Cohen is optimistic that tiered pricing for broadband could introduce a "financial consequence" for piracy and cut down on sharing of pirated content. "Tiered pricing won't help artists or labels get paid, but it's a step in the right direction," he says.
BANDWIDTH BANDITS. It may be premature to count out the innovative file-swappers, however. P2P expert Clay Shirky points out that more efficient file compression and trading patterns could still make the cable companies' bandwidth charges irrelevant. Some cable hackers have already come up with ways to turn off bandwidth counters and grab as much download and upload capacity as they want. Even music execs concede that the new pricing won't completely eliminate piracy.
The cable companies are plowing ahead. Cox is pilot-testing a tiered pricing plan in Las Vegas. AT&T Broadband, which has yet to settle on a new pricing system, plans to have a new policy in place by summer's end. Spokeswoman Sarah Eder says it's considering charging customers based on the number of bits and bytes they send over the network.
That could leave swappers such as Jon with the choice of either getting his music the old-fashioned way -- or paying the cable companies a substantial sum for grabbing it off the Internet.


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BizCloud enters Asia
Business technology provider CSC has now extended its BizCloud to Asia. As of Friday, (March 16, 2012), the on-premise private cloud to be charged as a service offering, purportedly the first of its kind in the world, CSC customers have access to "the agility and convenience" offered by a public cloud and "the privacy, security and control" typically expected of a private cloud.
Company executives have said that BizCloud "gives users all the components needed for a private cloud, preconfigured, integrated and tested, on their own premises behind their firewall" but need only treat it as a subscription, "pay only for what they use and choose from different [grades of] service-level agreement, provisioning and support," and can simply ask CSC to scale up or down workloads according to their needs at any point in time.
Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of CSC in Asia, Bob Hayward expressed his belief that this latest announcement will encourage more enterprises in the region to move onto the cloud. "Asian organisations have been uncertain about the move from traditional IT to the Cloud. As an Asian first, customers can now take a safe first step to a preconfigured, integrated and tested private cloud on their own premises in just ten weeks," he said, spelling out the attraction.
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When I came home on Wednesday, there was no mail in our mailbox. That seemed strange, but it happens sometimes. I didn't think much about it.
Tonight, though, we realized we were missing our latest Netflix movies. We checked the web site, and sure enough — they should have arrived Wednesday. "Uh oh," I said. "This could be trouble."
"We mostly get catalogs and personal finance magazines," Kris said. "We don't get checks in the mail. Could a thief really have nabbed anything important?"
"It's tax season," I said. "We've received most of our documents, but not all of them. We don't have the interest statement for your bank account, for example. That probably has your social security number on it."
"What can we do?" Kris said. It was 8 p.m. Friday evening.
I googled for information about stolen mail. Ironically, one of the top results was a Get Rich Slowly article from last February: "What To Do If Your Identity is Stolen". After re-reading that post (and the comments that follow), I plan to:
- Check our credit reports. AnnualCreditReport.com is an official, government-approved site through which consumers can request one yearly report from each of the three major credit reporting agencies. We cold request them all at once or we could stagger them. I'll stagger my requests. I'll make my first check tonight, and my second in a couple weeks. (Update: my credit report is currently clean.)
- Open a post-office box. I rejected the idea before now because it seemed like an unnecessary expense. I'm going to do more research into this. I'll also price security mailboxes.
- Speak with our postal carrier tomorrow. It's too bad we didn't realize there was a problem today — she had to bring a package to the door, and we could have talked to her then.
- Report the theft to the police. I'm sure there's nothing they can do, but it never hurts to alert the authorities.
- Check with the neighbors. If they're missing Wednesday's mail, we can be certain there's a problem.
I've been dreading something like this. The rising threat of identity theft is one of the reasons I've been moving to a paperless personal finance system. We're pretty diligent about shredding documents, but I've always felt the mailbox was the weak link in our security chain. It's time we address that, I guess. Odds are nothing critical was taken. However, there's a possibility that you'll be seeing a lot of articles about identity theft here in the near future.
"One thing's for sure," Kris said. "Whoever stole our mail isn't going to be impressed with the Netflix movies they got: True Grit and The Razor's Edge." HA!
Have you ever had your mail stolen? Can you offer us any advice? What can you tell us about post office boxes?
(See also the U.S. Postal Service's guide to protecting your mail from thieves.)
Our mail carrier just came to the door. She says that her route has had a terrible problem with mail theft lately, though not on this street. While we were with her, she called her supervisor, who said that we should contact the county sheriff's non-emergency line and go to the USPS site to file a notice. The supervisor also noted that there was a huge bout of mail theft all over the area last week (not just on our carrier's route). People are apparently after refund checks to fund their drug habits.
Our carrier told us a story about how one time she'd left mail in a fellow's box, drove up the street and then back down, and the guy came out wondering where his mail was. In just a few minutes, it had been stolen. The guy eventually found it in some nearby bushes, torn open and left behind.


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When Mrs. Kuroki was diagnosed with diabetes in 1986, neither she nor her husband had any idea that she would lose her eyesight only a week later. Normally outgoing and full of joy, Mrs. Kuroki went into a deep depression, staying home all day and hardly ever showing her beautiful smile. One day, when outside of their home, Mr. Kuroki saw a little pink shibazakura, or moss phlox. When he put it up to his nose, he realized that its beauty wasn't just found in its appearance, but also in how pretty it smelled. Determined to make his sweetheart smile again, Mr. Kuroki spent the next two years prepping and planting the garden that would one day surround their home. And now, from late March to April, the garden transforms into a world of pink flowers, love, and happiness, sometimes attracting over 7000 people a day.
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In a culture in which it's customary to eat three large meals a day while snacking from morning to midnight, the idea of regularly skipping meals may sound extreme. But in recent years intermittent fasting has been gaining popular attention and scientific endorsement.
Across the world, millions of people fast periodically for religious and spiritual reasons. But some are now looking at the practice as a source of health and longevity. Valter Longo, the director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California, initially studied fasting in mice that showed that two to five days of fasting each month reduced biomarkers for diabetes, cancer and heart disease. The research has since been expanded to people, and scientists saw a similar reduction in disease risk factors.
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WALTHAM — The Ford pickup truck with New York license plates was loaded with a mirror, minirefrigerator, microwave, and other necessities of life for a college dorm room.
"What didn't we pack?" quipped Anthony Arcese Sr., holding a Cuisinart coffeemaker, as he helped his namesake son move into Helen L. DeRoy Hall at Brandeis University in Waltham. "We packed the front seat, the back seat, the cab. Everywhere."
Brandeis was in the forefront of college students' annual migration to Greater Boston, which begins in earnest this week. On Sunday, the university welcomed 862 freshmen and transfer students, a sure sign of the end of lazy summer days.
"They are blistering smart," said Andrew Flagel, senior vice president for students and enrollment at Brandeis, who was doubling Sunday as an orientation volunteer. "They're the most competitive class we've ever admitted."
The Sunday scene at Brandeis will be repeated on other college campuses throughout the week, as rented trailers and moving vans filled with clothing, books, and comfortable bedding clog streets.
Many students will have to jam all their belongings into half of a small room.
"I've packed things that can slide under my bed and be tucked into the closet," said Michelle Schein, 18, of Longmeadow, as she helped to unload her family's packed Volvo SUV.
Her mother tried not to interfere with her daughter's plan. "She knows exactly where she wants everything to go," said Shari Schein, holding two pillows.
Area colleges and universities are preparing for the arrival of thousands of parents and students during the week.
At Boston University, 3,900 freshmen will start to arrive Monday. In all, nearly 12,000 students will live in campus housing this year, said Colin Riley, a university spokesman.
"By Friday, roughly 6,000 students will be in their residence halls for the fall," Riley said Sunday. By Labor Day, "we'll have everybody in our student residences."
Boston College on Wednesday will have 2,250 freshmen move into residence halls. Upperclassmen are due Thursday and Friday. In all, 85 percent of its 9,000 undergraduates live on campus, which is "the most of any college or university in Boston," BC spokesman Jack Dunn said.
At Northeastern University, early move-in for students will be Monday and Tuesday. All others will move in stages each day through next Sunday, according to the university's website. The total number of students living on campus this year was not available on Sunday, said Casey Bayer, a spokesman.
New undergraduate students enrolling at Emerson College will move in Monday and Tuesday, while most returning students won't arrive until next Sunday and Monday,according to the college website.
'We packed the front seat, the back seat, the cab. Everywhere.'Anthony Arcese Sr., helping his son move into Brandeis University dorm
At Tufts University, some freshmen arrived as early as last week to take part in a special community service-focused orientation. Other new Tufts students are due to move in on Wednesday, according to the school's website.
At Brandeis, returning students will trickle back onto campus this week, with classes beginning Friday. The school starts earlier than others to allow time for the school to close for Jewish holidays, Flagel said.
"We have to make sure we get all our class days in," he explained.
On Sunday, a steady stream of cars, vans, and pickup trucks pulled up to dormitories. The university does not allow larger rented trucks for move-in days, according to orientation staff.
About 100 upperclassmen, outfitted in bright-blue Brandeis orientation T-shirts, volunteered to unload vehicles. Student-athletes sporting gray Brandeis T-shirts also lent some muscle. They hauled refrigerators, trunks, rolled-up rugs, and other large items up several flghts of stairs.
"It's exhausting work, as you can see," said Dylan Schlesinger, 21, a senior English major from Miami, during a break between loads. "But it's so worth it."
Brandeis set a 5 p.m. deadline for students to settle into their new rooms. A welcoming ceremony with school president Frederick M. Lawrence was to follow. Then it would be time for excited freshmen and anxious parents to say goodbye.
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The Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 grantees for several programs in its Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention program. One of the grant programs, the Competitive Personal Responsibility Education Program (C-PREP), provides funding to more comprehensive sexuality education programs. Two other programs also announced their grantees, the Competitive Abstinence Education (CAE) Grant program and the Title V Abstinence-Only program. Both of those programs must adhere to the strict eight-point definition of "abstinence education" in Title V, Section 510 of the Social Security Act. As such, programs must exclusively teach the "social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity" and that "abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage [is] the expected standard for all school age children."[1]
The C-PREP grants were only available to public and private entities in states and territories that never received Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP) funding. PREP is a mandatory funding stream that was created in 2010 as a part of health care reform legislation. The program provides grants to states to deliver complete, medically accurate, and age-appropriate sex education to young people in order to help them reduce their risk of unintended pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The program is designed to educate adolescents on both abstinence and contraception for the prevention of pregnancy and STDs, including HIV/AIDS as well as at least three of the following adulthood preparation subjects: healthy relationships, adolescent development, financial literacy, educational and career success, and healthy life skills. The health care reform legislation contained a provision such that if a state did not apply for PREP in FY 2010 and FY 2011, organizations in those states became eligible to apply for their state's share of funding for the remaining three years of the program. Thirty-seven public and private entities in the five states—Florida, Indiana, North Dakota, Texas, and Virginia—as well as three U.S. territories that did not apply for PREP funding in FY 2010 and 2011 received C-PREP grants ranging from $200,000 to $900,000.[2]
The CAE program is $5 million of dedicated discretionary funding for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs that was included in the final FY 2012 federal appropriations legislation. While $5 million represents a miniscule portion of the federal budget, history shows that such programs, once established, can expand rapidly. Only $20 million was allocated for the original Community-Based Abstinence Education program (CBAE) when it was instituted in Fiscal Year 2001, but its funding surpassed $100 million only four years later. FYSB describes the CAE grantees as supporting "abstinence education, and where appropriate, mentoring, counseling and adult supervision to promote abstinence from sexual activity."[3] The nine programs that received the 24-month CAE grants "focus on those groups most likely to bear children out of wedlock, including youth, ages 10 to 19, who are homeless, in foster care, lie in rural areas or geographic areas with high teen birth rates, or come from racial or ethnic minority groups."[4]
The Title V abstinence-only program is a mandatory funding stream that was included in health care reform legislation, after originally being allowed to expire on June 30, 2009. This extension equals a $250 million allocation ($50 million annually) for abstinence-only-until-marriage programs to be available to states from FY 2010, the first year of the resurrected program, to FY 2014. While the program is more flexible than it was in previous years, funded programs must continue to teach abstinence to the exclusion of other topics and may in no way contradict the A–H federal definition for "abstinence education." They are prohibited from providing complete information about contraception or condoms for the prevention of unintended pregnancy, HIV, and other STDs. Despite the increased flexibility, only 36 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Federated States of Micronesia applied for and received Title V abstinence-only grants, totaling $38,917,481.[5]
While the C-PREP program uses taxpayer dollars to fund more comprehensive sex education programs that "educate young people on both abstinence and contraception to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS," the two abstinence-only grant programs are using federal dollars to fund programs that have been proven ineffective. Congress continues to fund these ideologically driven programs despite clear evidence that federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs are not effective in stopping or even adolescent sexual behavior.
[1] Social Security Act , 42 U.S.C. §§ 710(b)(2)(A)–(B) (2010), accessed 17 January 2012, <http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-1996-title42/pdf/USCODE-1996-title42-chap6-subchapV_2-sec710.pdf>.
[2] Family and Youth Services Bureau, "2012 Competitive Personal Responsibility Education Program Grant Awards," Department of Health and Human Services (27 September 2012), accessed 24 October 2012, <http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/resource/2012-cprep-awards>.
[3] Family and Youth Services Bureau, "2012 Competitive Abstinence Education Grant Program Awards," Department of Health and Human Services (28 September 2012), accessed 24 October 2012, <http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/resource/2012-caegp-awards>.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Family and Youth Services Bureau, "2012 Title V State Abstinence Education Grant Program Awards," Department of Health and Human Services (1 October 2012), accessed 24 October 2012, <http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/fysb/resource/2012-title-v-awards>.


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In 1972, John Lennon had a problem.
He and his wife, Yoko Ono, had been living in New York for a year, and they wanted to stay. But it happened also to be the year President Nixon was running for reelection. Opposition to the Vietnam War had reached a peak, and Lennon and Ono often showed up at antiwar rallies to sing "Give Peace a Chance" — and to tell their fans that the best way to give peace a chance was to vote against Nixon.
The Nixon White House responded by ordering Lennon deported.
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