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Subject: Interagency White Paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen the Resilience of the U.S. Financial System
Date: April 8, 2003
To: Chief Executive Officers and Directors of National Banks, Department and Division Heads, Examining Personnel, and Other Interested Parties
Description: Business continuity sound practices developed by the FRB, SEC, and OCC to ensure the continued functioning of critical financial services
Today, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission, issued the attached Interagency Paper on Sound Practices to Strengthen the Resilience of the U.S. Financial System. The Paper, which applies to key financial firms and market utilities considered critical to ensure the continued functioning of settlement and clearance functions supporting critical financial markets, identifies the following four steps necessary to protect the U.S. financial system from the systemic effects of a wide-scale disruption:
The sound practices addressed in the Paper are supported by certain expectations regarding time to recovery, geographic diversity, and implementation timetables for those firms covered by its terms. These expectations will be discussed with the firms involved as part of each agency's ongoing supervisory process.
For more information, call the OCC's Bank Technology Division at (202) 649-6340.
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For many generations, menopause was as shrouded in mystery as anything else related to the female reproductive system -- even friends would dance around the topic while they offered a sympathetic ear.
Today, menopause is an afternoon on "Oprah," on the covers of popular women's magazines, even joked about in those cubicle printouts that proclaim, "It's not a hot flash, it's a power surge!"
"It was one of those things that people didn't look forward to, so they didn't talk about it," said Carol Penagos of Hailey. "Now we're opening up about the alternatives, and it's so much easier to go through."
She had a difficult time with menopause, often having five or 10 hot flashes every day that left her red-faced and dripping with sweat. She would get irritable, snapping at her husband when he didn't understand. "It was like, get away from me, I don't want to be around anybody. Your body's changing so much that there's pain, then there's seclusion, low self-esteem, all of that was going on."
Penagos, 51, used hormone replacement therapy for several years until the symptoms started easing. Jenny Stireman, a nurse practitioner in the OB/GYN department of St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center, said patients like Penagos have benefited from therapeutic advances showing that smaller doses of hormones are still effective, with fewer of the side effects associated with them in the past.
Stireman recently held a seminar called "Menopause and Marvelous" that encouraged women to look at their body changes as a natural progression to a new, exciting stage of life.
"I think of it like puberty, just at the other end of the spectrum," Stireman said. "In the media, it seems like women have always looked at menopause like, 'I'm getting old and it's the end of me.' Now that our life span runs into the 80s, I'm going to spend a third of my life in menopause. Women want good quality of life, they're more proactive about their health."
Many women of the baby boom generation have now passed through menopause -- the average age of onset, defined as having no
periods for a year, is 51, Stireman said -- and they're reporting back to their younger counterparts.
"More than 50 percent of women who are menopausal say this is the happiest time in their life," Stireman said, citing the results of a study published in a 1999 issue of the journal Menopause. Three-quarters reported making a healthy lifestyle change, in terms of diet, exercise or other factors.
Penagos said this has been true for her. She recently went back to school part time to get a nursing degree, and she frequently takes her two dogs on walks or bike rides just to enjoy being outdoors.
"It's a fresh beginning, I just have this new outlook on life," she said. "I feel young again; I'm not in my childbearing years anymore, I don't have to worry about that aspect."
Many women report decreases in libido as well as physical changes including thinner tissues and decreased natural lubrication that make sexual intimacy more difficult, despite no longer having to worry about contraception.
Penagos said that, just as talking about her symptoms with female friends and family members made it easier to go through, opening up to her husband about sexual difficulties made that easier as well. "I never thought I could do that, sit down and have that discussion with my husband," she said. "(Now) I could be one of those Cialis commercials."
All this frankness about menopause can be a double-edged sword, said Dr. Don Smith, an OB/GYN at St. Luke's Magic Valley Medical Center. Patients are more willing to talk about their symptoms, but they've also heard and read so much that some are less open to his advice.
"You can generally tell within two minutes of a consult whether you're going to make any difference or not," Smith said. And with more information available, women are comparing themselves with other women more.
Menopause is obviously a normal thing; there are a lot of women who pass through gracefully without a glitch," he said. But they can be unsympathetic to others whose symptoms have a greater impact on their lives. "They look at other women who struggle and have issues as 'weak sisters.'"
It's important to remember that each woman's experience is different, said both health care professionals.
Marian Lloyd of Hailey said she expected menopause to be much worse than it was for her.
"It's not necessarily as bad as people say it is, you just get hot every once in a while. You always feel like you want to take a shower," said Lloyd, 58, who began getting hot flashes four years ago.
She said she didn't hear much about her mother's experience -- that could have been connected to her mother's Southern attitude about talking about private matters -- but she has talked about menopause with her older sisters and friends. "You hear more about it, and then you learn more about it, and when you're more educated on a subject, you can handle it better. Knowing someone else is going through it makes it easier."
Jokes about power surges aside, knowledge and empathy have gone a long way toward making what once was whispered about behind closed doors into just another natural change that every woman can expect, even look forward to.
Ariel Hansen may be reached at 788-3475 or email@example.com.
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Well basically I am restoring my computer like I do every one and a while, but this time it started freaking out it is at the install page for Microsoft Office 2010 and the loading bar wouldn't load past 18/27. I left it here for like 10 hours so i know it's not working right. I also tried turning my computer off and back on again, but it just goes back to the same screen. However when I turn it back on I can hit F2 and F12 for the booting menus, but I couldn't find anything of help there. Oh and if I close my laptop and open it in switches users and I can't log back in to the only account says I don't have permission. I'm not sure what to do after that, it didn't come with a disk it's all in the computer.
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Route to the old shutdown of the train, 2 hrs., exit 10:00 /16: 00hrs includes fresh handmade drinks
LEVEL: For riders of all skills
It initiates in the area of stables where the farm manager selects the horse for you; cross the ranch of the Hacienda del Carmen and take the paths throughout the plantations from maize, sugar cane and agave covering itself with the shade of enormous centennial eucalyptuses that sometimes served as shelter for the travelers of the train. This railway route created at the time of Don Porfirio Diaz at the end of the S.XIX and principles of the S. XX communicated Guadalajara with the cities of Ahualulco, Etzatlán until Ixtlán of the Nayarit River, connecting itself to the rail route of the Pacific whose via prolonged it until Nogales, in the Sonora State. Still there, are the rail routes with the rest of some robust sleepers of oak slid by the time.
Let your open imagination with the experience at your return to the Hacienda del Carmen Imagine leaving to be in that times, where farmers and landowners used these ways to communicate with their neighbors.
10:00 exit hrs. it includes refrescantes drinks and fruit of hand
For nascent and advanced riders
The stroll is probably what sometimes the farm managers and the overseer made of the Property to supervise the works in the harvests and to enter the cattle heads property of the landowner. Singular paths that lead to Work of Creek, beautiful property of the S.XIX recently recovered and dedicated to the young of mile horses fourth, once Property with those who made treatments commercial. It will lower to know the stables, the linen cloth and the stables. The Carmen will return to Property crossing the fields of cane and maize.
Stroll to Guachimontones
9:00 exit hrs. it mid-morning includes ten-ten-foot of, drunk refrescantes and fruit of hand
For riders intermediate and advanced level
The stroll initiates in the stables of the Property leaving its walls towards the cane plantations and as frame, the agavero landscape declared patrimony of the humanity by UNESCO. When arriving at the town of Teuchitlán, the colorful town with its hoisted seat and kiosco central, will rest to take refrigerio, to visit the museum and to continue towards the summit of hills where the Teuchitlán culture was elevated and bloomed forming the more important archaeological site of the West of Mexico. A specialized guide will give the route on foot. The landscape will make him sigh…
The stroll begins 2 hours before the sun putting
Levels of nascent to connoisseurs
Benefit of a stroll to horse sheltered by the dusk.
A cavalcade slowed down on the path that lead to the old station of the train of end of century XIX
Landscapes that relax, cane plantations bathed by rays of the dusk. Enormous trees of eucalyptus that darken afternoon.
When arriving at once the station, the Carmen will return to Property in where they will elegant have his table to him dressed to taste in company of his pair, a selection of paltillos and its chosen wine.
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St. Patrick's Day Party set to for March 17 following Ford EcoBoost 300/K&N Pro Doubleheader
The Ford EcoBoost 300/K&N Pro Series East 125 at Bristol Motor Speedway will provide plenty of fun and excitement March 17, and when the winners have been crowned, the entertainment continues with a St. Patrick's Day celebration.
The BMS St. Patrick's Day Party, which takes place in the hospitality area, kicks off at 7 p.m. with plenty of music and food, complete with green beer, green beads and additional surprise giveaways to keep with the atmosphere of the holiday.
George Wendt, who played the fun-loving, beer-drinking "Norm" on the iconic television series "Cheers" will be in attendance, presiding over the festivities. Among the musical guests playing that evening are Monroeville and Frankie Ballard.
Monroeville is scheduled to play from 7p.m-8:30 p.m., followed by a toast from George Wendt and additional music from Frankie Ballard.
Cornhole is among the games fans can enjoy during the party where several food vendors will be on hand as will a variety of beer manufacturers.
Entrance into the party is free to anyone with a March race ticket or iBelong card while food and drinks may be purchased.
A March race weekend ticket package, which includes the March 18 Food City 500 and the Ford EcoBoost 300/K&N East Series 125 events, is still available, starting at $99. A package in the Wallace Tower for both Sprint Cup races also is now available for $99, while packages for fans 15 and younger are available for the March races at half price. Lower row seating for the Food City 500 is available, with tickets starting at $65 for adults and as low as $32 for children age 15 and under.
Guests are encouraged to purchase in advance while the price is $5 less per grandstand ticket than the race-day cost for the same seat.
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ShipRocked 2014 Adds Living Colour and Comedian Jim Breuer, Cabins Sell Out
ShipRocked 2014 have added a few late additions to the lineup for their upcoming cruise and organizers have announced that all of the cabins for this year's voyage have sold out.
Grammy-winning rockers Living Colour are joining the cruise performance lineup, while comedian Jim Breuer will also hop on board for a pair of metal-themed comedy performances. They join a lineup that already included headliners Five Finger Death Punch, along with Papa Roach, Three Days Grace, Sevendust, Candlebox, In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Nonpoint, Love and Death, Young Guns, Butcher Babies and more.
There is a ShipRocked waiting list for those still hoping to be part of this year's voyage. Fans can sign up in case cabins become vacant between now and the cruise launch.
This year's trip sets sail from the Port of Miami on Jan. 26. Cruise-goers will board the Norwegian Pearl as it heads toward the Great Stirrup Cay, a private island in the Bahamas. There will be plenty of music performances throughout the cruise, with the ship eventually returning to Miami on Jan. 30. A full list of performers and activities can be seen at the ShipRocked website.


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CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, today released its February 2014 National Foreclosure Report with a supplement featuring quarterly shadow inventory data as of January 2014.
According to the CoreLogic analysis:
Completed foreclosures are an indication of the total number of homes actually lost to foreclosure. Since the financial crisis began in September 2008, there have been approximately 4.9 million completed foreclosures across the country.
As of February 2014, approximately 752,000 homes in the United States were in some stage of foreclosure, known as the foreclosure inventory, compared to 1.2 million in February 2013, a year-over-year decrease of 35 percent. Month over month, the foreclosure inventory was down 3.3 percent from January 2014. The foreclosure inventory as of February represented 1.9 percent of all homes with a mortgage, compared to 2.9 percent in February 2013.
At the end of February 2014, there were 1.9 million mortgages, or 4.9 percent, in serious delinquency, defined as 90 days or more past due, including those loans in foreclosure or real estate owned (REO).
"Although there is good news that completed foreclosures are trending lower, the bigger news is the impressive decline in the foreclosure and shadow inventories," said Dr. Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. "Every state has had double-digit, year-over-year declines in foreclosure inventory, which is reflected in the $70 billion decline in the shadow inventory."
"The stock of seriously delinquent homes and the foreclosure rate are back to levels last seen in the final quarter of 2008," said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic. "The shadow inventory has also declined year over year for the past 3 years as the housing market continues to heal, including double-digit declines for the past 16 consecutive months."
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CoreLogic estimates the current stock of properties in the shadow inventory, also known as pending supply, by calculating the number of properties that are seriously delinquent, in foreclosure or held as REO by mortgage servicers but not currently listed on multiple listing services (MLSs). Transition rates of "delinquency to foreclosure" and "foreclosure to REO" are used to identify the currently distressed, unlisted properties most likely to become REO properties. Properties that are not yet delinquent, but may become delinquent in the future, are not included in the estimate of the current shadow inventory. Shadow inventory is typically not included in the official reporting measurements of unsold inventory.
*January data was revised. Revisions are standard, and to ensure accuracy, CoreLogic incorporates newly released data to provide updated results.
CoreLogic Foreclosure Report February 2014
Foreclosure Inventory Methodology
The data in this report represents foreclosure activity reported through February 2014.
This report separates state data into judicial vs. non-judicial foreclosure state categories. In judicial foreclosure states, lenders must provide evidence to the courts of delinquency in order to move a borrower into foreclosure. In non-judicial foreclosure states, lenders can issue notices of default directly to the borrower without court intervention. This is an important distinction because judicial states, as a rule, have longer foreclosure timelines, thus affecting foreclosure statistics.
A completed foreclosure occurs when a property is auctioned and results in the purchase of the home at auction by either a third party, such as an investor, or by the lender. If the home is purchased by the lender, it is moved into the lender's real estate owned (REO) inventory. In "foreclosure by advertisement" states, a redemption period begins after the auction and runs for a statutory period, e.g., six months. During that period, the borrower may regain the foreclosed home by paying all amounts due as calculated under the statute. For purposes of this Foreclosure Report, because so few homes are actually redeemed following an auction, it is assumed that the foreclosure process ends in "foreclosure by advertisement" states at the completion of the auction.
The foreclosure inventory represents the number and share of mortgaged homes that have been placed into the process of foreclosure by the mortgage servicer. Mortgage servicers start the foreclosure process when the mortgage reaches a specific level of serious delinquency as dictated by the investor for the mortgage loan. Once a foreclosure is "started," and absent the borrower paying all amounts necessary to halt the foreclosure, the home remains in foreclosure until the completed foreclosure results in the sale to a third party at auction or the home enters the lender's REO inventory. The data in this report accounts for only first liens against a property and does not include secondary liens. The foreclosure inventory is measured only against homes that have an outstanding mortgage. Homes with no mortgage liens can never be in foreclosure and are, therefore, excluded from the analysis. Approximately one-third of homes nationally are owned outright and do not have a mortgage. CoreLogic has approximately 85 percent coverage of U.S. foreclosure data.
Shadow Inventory Methodology
CoreLogic uses its Loan Performance Servicing and Securities databases to size the number of 90+ day delinquencies, foreclosures and real estate owned (REO) properties. Cure rates, which measure the proportion of loans in one stage of default that cured (versus moving to more severe states of default), are applied to the number of loans in default at each stage of default. CoreLogic calculates the share of loans in default that are currently listed on MLS by matching public record properties in default to MLS active listings. It applies the percentage of defaulted loans that are currently listed to the estimate of outstanding loans that will proceed to further stages of default to calculate the pending supply inventory and adds that to the reported visible inventory. Visible inventory is compiled from CoreLogic ListingTrends. To determine months' supply for visible and shadow inventories, CoreLogic uses the number of non-seasonally adjusted home sales according to CoreLogic data.
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"Cheating Justice"
Elizabeth Holtzman
and Cynthia L. Cooper
Beacon Press, $26.95
Elizabeth Holtzman, a Harvard Law graduate and the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, served on the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate and was district attorney of Kings County (Brooklyn). Now, she and her co-author, the journalist and attorney Cynthia L. Cooper, have written a real eye-opener, "Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution — and What We Can Do About It." In clear, fact-based prose, they have laid out the basis of possible criminal charges against former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney. Ms. Holtzman believes they are still legally prosecutable for the following crimes:
Purposeful false statements in the 2003 State of the Union Message.
Purposeful false statements to Congress in a letter of determination to go to war against Iraq.
Violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 regarding the right to privacy of Americans.
Violation of international standards and laws, as well as of the U.S. Constitution, regarding torture.
Furthermore, the authors add the charge that the Bush-Cheney team and their supporters engaged in actions both nationally and internationally to prevent investigations and to suppress information regarding their illegal activities. The authors charge they systematically set out to modify applicable laws to provide loopholes for their defense in order to keep themselves from being convicted should their acts ever be investigated and prosecuted.
They were apparently confident in the success of their efforts. Ms. Holtzman and Ms. Cooper document that Bush and Cheney openly admitted that they ordered and approved tactics including torture, or as they put it, "enhanced interrogation tactics," of detainees held indefinitely without formal charges or due process.
During the recent presidential election, there was much talk from both parties about upholding the Constitution, restoring America to its accustomed prestige on the world stage, being proud of America and its values, and keeping America strong. If any one of the accusations against Bush-Cheney put forth by Ms. Holtzman and Ms. Cooper is partially true, the country's integrity has been severely undermined by the former administration. If the charges are mostly or all true, the damage to the country in the long run will extend far into the future.
"Cheating Justice" was released nearly a year ago. I live among and socialize with people who, I believe, are politically aware and interested in a strong America, and who would tend to be interested in the hypotheses and information contained in this book. After reading the book in preparation for this review, I realized how important its questions are. And the answers to the questions are even more relevant to the future of our country. Since I likely would not have read the book had The Star not asked me to review it, I decided to survey some friends to see if they were more informed. A few thought they had heard about the book. No one I talked to, however, had participated in one conversation about Elizabeth Holtzman or the book.
Then I checked the World Wide Web and could not find a review of the book done by a major print magazine or newspaper. I found a YouTube video about Ms. Holtzman's appearance at Hunter College and several Internet news pieces about how important but overlooked the book is. The process has left me shaken, more worried about my country and more vexed about my own lack of participation in what we call "our democracy."
During Watergate, the White House counsel John Dean cautioned President Nixon about the spreading of lawlessness from the White House into the whole country. According to the Nixon tapes, Mr. Dean said, "We have a cancer within — close to the presidency, that's growing." Ms. Holtzman and Ms. Cooper point out in this book that a new cancer, a milieu of lying, deceit, and abuse of power similar in some ways to Watergate, may be more prevalent than we have admitted. The authors document abuses by the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., and I would add there may be diminishing integrity in military leadership, where bad judgment if not illegal activity has exposed weaknesses in leaders who before were held up as paragons of honesty.
The authors of "Cheating Justice" document what is, perhaps, the most shocking part of the post-Bush-Cheney years: The international community is now leading the United States in efforts to address the illegal activities conducted during the Bush-Cheney administration. They note that other countries have mounted or are mounting efforts to address the crimes those countries unwittingly became involved in due to the deception of the Bush-Cheney doublespeak. The authors state: "Mounting evidence around the world makes the transgressions of President Bush and Vice President Cheney increasingly difficult to ignore in the United States." Accountability efforts have already occurred in Spain, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, and in international and regional tribunals. But many others are on hold, waiting for the United States to put its own house in order, although "Italy did prosecute and convict C.I.A. officers in absentia for plucking a Muslim cleric off the streets and sending him to Egypt to be tortured."
Former President Clinton's indiscretions and then his lies about his behavior embarrassed the nation, but not since Watergate has there been so much potential for presidential behavior to endanger the confidence of both Americans and the world in the ability of the United States to participate in a viable international community. Instead of leading the world toward international standards of law, the U.S. has fallen behind, refusing to join the International Criminal Court, which opened at the Hague in 2002 to try individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. As the authors note, "At stake . . . is nothing less than preserving the oxygen that keeps democracy going — and that is the rule of law."
Four years ago, when Bush left office, 25 percent of the general population of the United States believed the Bush administration was guilty of war crimes, while 70 percent believed it would be "bad" should top leaders be brought up on charges. These figures partially explain why this book has been largely ignored, although I have to admit the flicker of a conspiracy theory has flitted through my mind. Not one single print magazine or newspaper besides The Star has, at this point, bothered to review a very competently written book by a well-known political figure. (The accuracy of this statement has been verified by Beacon Press.) I am in no way underestimating the importance of any local paper such as The Star. I'm asking, why has our country not taken note of such a competent and important book?
Barack Obama, for his part, has just duplicated the feat of George W. Bush, having been elected and sworn in for his second term of office. Ms. Holtzman and Ms. Cooper point out that his efforts to address the crimes that may have been committed in the prior administration have been halfhearted at best. The book does not directly address the reasons. Is it better simply to move on and forget the past, as has been claimed by some?
During an appearance in 2008 on MSNBC, Jonathan Turley, a constitutional lawyer, said, "It is truly amazing because Congress — including Democrats — have avoided any type of investigation into torture because they do not want to deal with the fact the president ordered war crimes. . . . I never thought I would say this, but I think it might in fact be time for the United States to be held internationally to a tribunal."
"Cheating Justice" implies, without stating explicitly, some disturbing questions. Given the emergent ability of small organizations not officially allied with a specific country to wreak havoc on the general citizenry of the United States, do we, the people, agree to grant our leaders leeway to step over historic rights of privacy and due process in their attempts to provide security? Have we, by our silence, been complicit in acts of torture and illegal detention? Have we thereby helped to advance our country toward "post-democracy," where our leaders may do what they deem best for us even if their action takes them outside the law as long as that action is in the guise of promoting "a greater good"?
That was the very reason President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney gave for the behavior that Ms. Holtzman lists as criminal and prosecutable.
Gary Reiswig is the author of "The Thousand Mile Stare: One Family's Journey Through the Struggle and Science of Alzheimer's." He lives in Springs.
Elizabeth Holtzman has a house in Orient.


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The Dirty Picture....
21 comments:
- Abhirami Muthu said...
Hear hear...
- July 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM
- Pooja Rathore said...
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- July 16, 2013 at 7:03 PM
- Abhirami Muthu said...
I must say there is a startling difference between the innocent soft faced lady standing timidly next to Husain and the bold, brazen woman in pink blazer
- July 17, 2013 at 5:02 AM
- jaya said...
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- July 17, 2013 at 8:15 AM
- Muhammad Mukhtar said...
What is this
- July 17, 2013 at 8:42 AM
- Ravi Patel said...
A more apt title would have been, Dirty Men! Amongst others, the one in the picture himself, Husain! He dared had not done a blasphemous obscenity on any of the great and good or the only one of his so so tolerant and secular faith. Life and limb were obviously much more precious to the wimp. Such an outrage would have invited an obvious halal chop from the neck or the sainted chap would at best have ended up with a limb or two short! The more communal and violent Hindus were so obviously a better bet.
All said, however, i was disgusted at the way the man was hounded out of his country. He was an Indian and whatever his offence, no body had the right to scare him out of his own country. This is exactly what your majesty finds so disagreeable about many of such Sangh Parivar loonies. They are trying to Islamise my great religion and for me nothing can be more blasphemous. We have every right to criticise and express our disgust at something we do not agree with, but the Islamic way is not what this otherwise Nobel land of ours deserves.
In parting, Shobha Didi, just a question for you and the rest to ponder over. Is it not a bit odd and a whole lot more insulting that in the Indian narrative, Muslims, certainly the most communal of all the faiths and belief systems in the entire solar system and beyond, are being wooed in the name of secularism? So so sick! And God, you too are so so wickedly mischievous!
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- July 18, 2013 at 1:12 PM
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- July 18, 2013 at 2:40 PM
- Jogeshwar said...
On looking closely at the picture you both seem to be standing in front of a painting.
p.s. Still waiting for the promised scan of the robb report. Thank you.
- July 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM
Good post, Shobhaa!
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- Kush said...
For a moment I thought its one of those Tagore's pictures with one of his women...
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- raghav uchil said...
No one hounded out MFH out of the country but he chose to stay out. As pointed out by mr.patel, he stayed out of any mischief while painting anything to do with his own religion but wanted his pound of freedom of expression or artists right while depicting Hindu God and Goddesses and got punished for it. Had he been a man enough, he shud have stayed in the country to face the consequences as he had the money and support of like minded people byt he rather ran away to die in a distant land longing for his mother land which is the misfortune he brought upon himself.
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Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Michael Posner explained, "While the country reports provide an overview of a year's worth of events, the website contains current news, as well as an archive of reports, press releases, statements, articles and briefings issued by the Federal government. We welcome your comments on how the site can be improved and grow in the months ahead."
Earlier in the week, President Barack Obama addressed the security situation in Cote d'Ivoire and called on all parties to "show restraint and respect the rights of the Ivoirian people." Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson spoke about events in Cote d'Ivoire, as well as the upcoming elections in Nigeria, in remarks broadly outlining U.S. policy towards Africa. Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Charles Shapiro traveled to Djibouti, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where he addressed increasing African capacity to promote peace and security. As Assistant Secretary Shapiro said, "These security assistance programs...support the State Department's mission to promote stability and good governance and set the stage for humanitarian aid and development."
Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy sent a letter to Congress calling for the establishment of the U.S. Agency for Development (USAID), USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah drafted a letter addressing how development assistance is critical to advancing U.S. interests and solving global challenges today. This remains evident as U.S. humanitarian assistance helps those affected by the crisis in Libya and supports international organizations in tackling chronic malnutrition in Niger and Chad. Furthermore, U.S. partnerships are helping farmers in Pakistan improve their livelihoods and assisting health officials in the Ukraine stop the spread of HIV through PEPFAR.
Administrator Shah also highlighted World Health Day, celebrated on April 7 each year to commemorate the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948 by the United Nations (UN). Our photo of the week spotlighted a health clinic supported by USAID in Haiti, and our colleagues in Afghanistan highlighted efforts to minimize health risks from exposure to microbes.
Also this week, Secretary Clinton met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice spoke about UN reform before the House of Representatives. Ambassador Rice said, "As we well know, America's resources and influence are by no means limitless, and that's why the United Nations is so important to our national security. It allows us to share the costs and burdens of tackling global problems, rather than leaving these problems untended or leaving the world to look to the United States alone."
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Also last week, Secretary Clinton met with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, and they discussed joint efforts in Afghanistan and Libya. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela traveled to Mexico and addressed the many areas on which our two countries cooperate. Providing a valuable service to area residents by facilitating cross-border travel between Mexico and the United States, new passport agencies opened in San Diego, California and El Paso, Texas.
As the week came to a close, President Obama addressed the budget compromise to avoid a government shutdown. In his weekly address, the President said, "...After weeks of long and difficult negotiations over our national budget, leaders of both parties came together to avert a government shutdown, cut spending, and invest in our future. This is good news for the American people. It means that small businesses can get the loans they need, our families can get the mortgages they applied for, folks can visit our national parks and museums, and hundreds of thousands of Americans will get their paychecks on time -- including our brave men and women in uniform. This is an agreement to invest in our country's future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history."
You can learn more about the details of the budget deal on the White House Blog.
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"...that's why the United Nations is so important to our national security. It allows us to share the costs and burdens of tackling global problems, rather than leaving these problems untended or leaving the world to look to the United States alone." - Susan Rice.
Now that is an astonishingly optimistic statement considering it was the U.N. and our own government that got us into at least 3 wars so far, none of which was necessary or desirable. War is good for national security? Perhaps bankruptcy is even better?
Does anyone besides the SecDef ever ask questions about why Americans have to deal with problems in the Middle East that the Saudi, Jordanian, and Egyptian governments won't touch?
What's the deal with our selling arms, nuclear reactors, and computer technology to US-friendly human rights violators?
Isn't it reasonably foreseeable that these items will be misused at some point in the future?
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@ Zharkov -- The transfer of nuclear technology should be of great concern to all of us. I read that more nuclear power plants will be built along the Pacific Rim, despite what happened in Japan.


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Shut down the government! Blow through the debt ceiling! Subject the United States to fiscal chaos or financial ruin if your party can't get its way on unrelated ideological priorities!
With apologies to Nike, maybe it's time for the House Republicans to stop threatening and "just do it."
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Like an insistent teenage driver, determined to see how fast he can take that blind curve on a rainy road at night, the GOP seems unwilling to abandon its particular brand of brinkmanship until it winds up in the emergency room. If that's the case, mightn't it be better to let the crash happen, if only so the reconstruction can start?
In a Washington in which serial crisis over basic business has become the new norm — and the Republicans' default negotiating posture has all the bluster of the Cowardly Lion's "Put 'em uuup! Put 'em uuup!" — perhaps the thing to do is accept the worst. If the latest go-round is simply another ritualized prelude to a temporary solution, another melodramatic installment of "As the World Turns," then what's the point? Won't the same cast be back next month, or next year, battling the same problem?
( WATCH: Debt ceiling showdown: By the numbers)
This recent pattern creates an atmosphere not of crisis but of ennui — even boredom — and lost credibility. Be sensible, or have the courage to follow through on your heated threats, but the nation is done waiting for you to decide.
"I'll tell you what'll break the fever," said former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), who co-chaired the commission on fiscal reform that in 2010 recommended major changes in taxes and entitlement spending that Congress declined to take up. "It's a very simple thing. It's called the people who loaned us $17 trillion, now soon to be $18 trillion, $19 trillion. They're going to say, 'We still love you, you're great. But you have a dysfunctional Congress, and you're addicted to debt. You've proven that, and so we want more money for our money.' The guy who gets screwed is the little guy."
For the moment, the House Republican leadership seems torn about just what to do next. One potential strategy would be to avoid a showdown over a government shutdown by passing a temporary spending measure — one good for a couple of months at most, but perhaps even as little as a week. The GOP would then concentrate its firepower on winning concessions — like a year's delay in the individual insurance in Obamacare, and construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline — in exchange for extending the government's ability to borrow money in mid-October for just one year. Some in the leadership are said to want the shutdown fight to come first.
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Senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer signaled the tone of the standoff on Thursday, telling CNN's Jake Tapper, "What we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest." For good measure, he called the Republicans' list of conditions for raising the debt ceiling "ransom demands" and added, "It's not a negotiation if I show up at your house and say, 'Give me everything inside or I'm going to burn it down.'"
For their part, House Republicans bemoaned what they saw as the final betrayal of Obama's promise to lead a new kind of Washington, and even privately invoked the ringing rebuke of Joseph Welch, the Army's special counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings nearly 60 years ago, to challenge the president: Have you no sense of decency, sir?
In the tussle over raising the debt ceiling in 2011, the White House — stung by the GOP's 2010 midterm victories and fearful of sparking a recession that would hurt President Barack Obama's own chances for reelection – was willing to cut a messy deal. In the current standoff, Obama has informed Speaker John Boehner that there will be no such negotiations.
( Also on POLITICO: House GOP banking on Plan C)
Boehner's gambit has been to load up the debt ceiling bill with such a Christmas tree of conditions — the delay on Obamacare, a rollback of EPA regulations, limits on medical malpractice lawsuits, an increase in means testing for Medicare, among other things — that if the Republicans won any of them, the speaker could claim a victory for his fractious flock. The plain truth is that he could probably not get enough Republican votes to avoid default — or perhaps a shutdown — without such inducements.
That is because while Boehner has a good idea of what might happen in a shutdown or default, most of his members do not — and they may simply insist on finding out. Fewer than one in five current House members were serving during the last government shutdowns, under Newt Gingrich's belligerent leadership in 1995 and 1996. In most objective retellings — and in the vivid memories of Boehner and other senior Republicans who lived through them — those episodes marked the beginning of Bill Clinton's successful march to reelection against Bob Dole.
"What people forget is that going into that shutdown, Dole had a pretty significant lead," said David Winston, a pollster and strategist who has advised the House Republican leadership, then and now. "And by the time they finished the two shutdowns, he was trailing by a significant margin. All the numbers dramatically changed."
( PHOTOS: John Boehner's life and career)
Those two shutdowns — totaling 33 days — cost the government more than $1 billion, and clipped economic growth by several tenths of a percentage points for two quarters. Most estimates are that a comparable shutdown today would cost at least twice as much.
Breaching the debt ceiling would itself prompt a shutdown, of course — and a far more draconian one, since the government would instantly be unable to pay for about 40 percent of its obligations. Merely the threat of default in the 2011 debt ceiling fight resulted in about $19 billion in higher borrowing costs over the coming decade, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.


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Jolly said she was aware of physical therapy for young children only for those recovering from injuries or with disabilities. "I didn't realize you could do it for preemies born two to three months early," she said. Even her husband, Andwele Jolly, 32, who works as a physical and occupational therapist for injured adults and athletes, was not familiar with therapy for his tiny baby. But it makes sense, he said. "Movement is one of the key things that helps any healing process." St. Louis Children's Hospital nurse practitioner Joan Smith said that in the '80s, nurses thought very premature babies couldn't tolerate touch. Research showed this as well, she said, but that was because the babies probably associated touch with a medical procedure. That idea changed over the past 10 to 15 years as researchers learned more about the development of the premature infant's brain. "Now we want to simulate relaxing, comforting, positive touch," she said. Proper holding and positioning can actually help the babies tolerate medical interventions and stabilize their heart rate and breathing. At Mercy and St. Louis Children's hospitals, sites of the two biggest neonatal intensive care units in the St. Louis area, all babies born before 32 weeks (8 weeks before the normal 40 weeks' gestation) receive therapy, starting about 30 weeks' gestation. Babies born later receive the care if they show delays or problems. Smith is leading a study at St. Louis Children's that involves testing what is called the M Technique on babies born between 26 and 29 weeks. It is a sequence of touches done with a set pattern, pressure and speed that has mainly been used on the fragile and elderly. "We are going down to lower ages to see what younger babies can tolerate and how they do," Smith said. Much of the physical therapy for preemies involves mimicking the dim, warm, quiet and restrictive environment of the womb. Full-term babies keep their legs and arms tucked close to their bodies for several weeks after their birth, much as they did in the womb. Their brains have developed enough to keep their muscles in this flexed position, which builds strength and enables them to calm and soothe themselves. Premature babies, on the other hand, lack the development to hold their limbs close. Instead, therapists use various positioning tools to help build their strength. Nearly two years ago, nurses at St. Louis Children's Hospital started wrapping babies in a Dandle ROO, a cradle of stretchy fabric that provides individualized resistance, support in different positions, a gel pad for properly molding the baby's head and a brim to shield the baby's eyes. Each baby is unique, and the therapy can change based on things such as muscle tone, tremors, range of motion, transition to sleep and wakefulness and excitability. Therapy includes stretching, massage and different positions. More weight-bearing and upright exercises are added as the baby gets older. Pineda is testing babies at their gestational ages of 34 and 40 weeks and will test them again at ages 2, 4 and 6 to better structure physical therapy interventions. "We need to learn what to expect at specific time points, even in premature babies, because that will tell us when babies are on target or whether they may need more intensive interventions to catch up," she said. One of the biggest challenges, Pineda said, is for parents to continue with therapy. Her previous research has shown that 63 percent of children are not getting the services they need after they leave the hospital. Because of the risk, Mercy provides a follow-up program for all babies born before 32 weeks. The children are assessed every six months until they reach the age of 2 to make sure they are progressing, Kleekamp said. As therapists continue to learn about the needs of these tiny newborns, they rely on the babies' signals to know when they are doing more harm than good. Grimaces, cries and leg extensions are some signs that the babies need a break. Most importantly, the therapists are helping parents learn the signs and cues. "Doing the bedside training with us to help us know how to touch him and hold him so he doesn't get stressed is so helpful," April Jolly said. "It's much easier to keep him calm knowing that you're doing the right things." (c)2013 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Visit the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at www.stltoday.com


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The Washington University Department of Psychiatry history time line was created in the fall of 2007 by Dr. Eugene Rubin, Vice Chair for Education, with the support of the Department
of Psychiatry. This project is intended to help preserve some of our Department's history as well as provide a longitudinal perspective of the Department for those interested in gaining
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Also, thanks to Paul Anderson, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Archivist, and Philip Skroska, visual and graphic archives, for their assistance. This time line history is the property
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Only one day after Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫) was forced to resign as minister of justice, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) called another press conference in which he berated Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) for failing to acknowledge his alleged involvement in illegal lobbying. He said: "This is the most shameful day in the development of Taiwan's democracy and its rule of law."
Within one day, Tseng stepped down, still professing his innocence, and Lin Shiow-tao (林秀濤), the prosecutor in charge of the original breach of trust case, protested that the Special Investigation Division (SID) had misrepresented interviews. Ma, however, was fully behind the SID and forced Tseng to resign with no chance to defend himself.
The SID called a press conference to declare the case closed, rained fire and brimstone and threw accusations, but stopped short of any indictments and did not dare to refute Lin's protestations. They simply referred the case to the Control Yuan, an institution that is of no real use to anyone.
However, Ma was different. He followed his thunder with action in a way that has rarely been seen from the modern Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).
On the day Tseng resigned, Ma, acting as KMT chairman, said he expected Wang to return to Taiwan immediately to explain himself. The next day he found pretext to further express his opinions.
It is probably impossible for Ma and Wang to reconcile. The dramatic events of those two days give the strong impression that the SID passed the ball to Ma and Ma then ran with it, committed to going for a touchdown.
Ma is well aware the public has little time for politicians lobbying the judiciary and that the revelation of Wang's alleged involvement in an illegal lobbying case would put pressure on Wang, and cast doubt on his position as a legislator-at-large.
As KMT chairman, Ma has considerable power over Wang's political future. He could decide to suspend Wang's duties during the investigation or he could rescind his status as legislator-at-large.
That Ma and Wang do not see eye-to-eye is an open secret in political circles, yet they have managed to coexist for years without one having to tackle the other.
The trouble is, with the precipitous fall in Ma's popularity ratings, Wang has found it increasingly difficult to support Ma's policies. Wang's procrastination over major votes in the legislature over the cross-strait service trade agreement and the referendum over the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao District (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), has been like a spark to dry tinder.
Ma had wanted the service trade pact to be effective from Jan. 1 next year, which would require it to be ratified in the legislature before the end of this year. Further, if a clash between the referendum and next year's seven-in-one elections is to be avoided, the former would need to be passed in the next legislative session.
In contrast to Ma's sense of urgency, Wang acts as if these are of no concern, and seems to agree with the opposition that the agreement needs to be scrutinized clause-by-clause. Ma finds this infuriating.
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* FBI looking into allegations of campaign finance
* Scandal could end Republican lock on Cuban vote
* Bizarre case highlights Miami's dirty politics
By David Adams
MIAMI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A campaign finance scandal
involving a South Florida Republican could open the door to a
surprise congressional victory for his Democratic party
challenger, resulting in the election of Miami's first
Cuban-American Democrat.
The race for Florida's 26th district between two rival Cuban
Americans is setting a new standard for dirty tricks, even for
Miami's politically passionate Cuban exile community.
The electoral shenanigans, which have dominated local news
and prompted an FBI probe, went viral nationwide in a video when
a local TV reporter knocked on the door of a candidate involved
in the scandal and was doused with a jug of water.
David Rivera, a one-term Cuban-American Republican and
hardline crusader against Cuba's communist government, is
seeking re-election in a rematch against Joe Garcia.
Before being elected to Congress, Rivera served eight years
in the Florida Legislature, sharing a house in Tallahassee with
fellow Republican and rising political star Marco Rubio.
Garcia, a former Department of Energy official, is also a
tough critic of Cuba's government, though he supports the Obama
administration's moderate policy of "people-to-people"
exchanges, including cultural visits and unrestricted travel for
Cuban exile families.
Polls by both parties show Garcia now leading by at least 9
percentage points in what would be a surprise pickup for the
In a bizarre twist, Rivera is accused of interfering in the
Democratic party's August primary by allegedly funneling at
least $40,000 in cash to the campaign of a candidate running
against Garcia, according to two sources who worked on the
The money went to pay for campaign mailings backing another
virtual unknown, Justin Sternad. An unemployed former hotel
worker, Sternad was making his first bid for public office.
Among the mailings, Sternad professed to be an Obama fan
while raising questions about Garcia's recent divorce,
suggesting he left his wife while she was battling cancer, an
accusation the Garcia campaign strongly rejects.
"This case has layer after layer of unreality," said Seth
Gordon, 63, a former political consultant in Miami. "We have
scruffy campaign practices here, but it's mostly low-grade
stuff. This is pretty high-grade."
Sternad's attorney declined to comment.
Sternad's campaign team included Ana Alliegro, 42, a
political consultant who is a friend of Rivera and calls herself
a "Republican Political Guru and Conservative Bad Girl!" on her
Facebook page.
Alliegro went missing soon after the allegations about the
payments surfaced. Her lawyer told Reuters that he doesn't know
where she is.
Rivera denies he had anything to do with Sternad's campaign.
"Congressman Rivera has never met Mr. Sternad, has never spoken
to Mr. Sternad, knows nothing about Mr. Sternad and has no
connection whatsoever to Mr. Sternad or his campaign," he said
in a statement.
Garcia eventually won the primary easily with 53 percent of
the vote, though Sternad still managed to come in third with 10
percent, beating out two other candidates.
Despite the occasional whiff of scandal, no south Florida
congressman has ever been indicted while in office. Democratic
party Congressman and former judge Alcee Hastings was impeached
by Congress in 1989 and removed from the bench but earned sweet
revenge by getting himself elected to Congress in 1992.
This is not the first time Rivera has faced allegations of
campaign finance mischief. The Florida Department of Law
Enforcement and the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office recently
closed an 18-month investigation into alleged misuse by Rivera
of campaign contributions without filing any charges.
The present accusations are potentially far more serious.
Rivera provided tens of thousands of dollars in cash to
finance Sternad's campaign, according to the companies that
handled the mailing of flyers.
Federal campaign finance law limits contributions to $2,500
per person in a primary, and only $100 in cash, according to the
Federal Election Commission.
When a veteran political reporter from the local ABC
affiliate tried to interview the candidate at home, Sternad's
wife gave him the water treatment.
John Borrero, president of Rapid Mail Inc, told Reuters the
mailings were paid for by Rivera in cash, totaling more than
$40,000. "I never talked to. Everything was
orchestrated by ... David Rivera," Borrero said.
Borrero said he has worked for a lot of campaigns but
usually is paid with checks from campaign accounts. "They paid
in cash. It seemed odd, but I don't question who mails what,
unless it's a bomb," he said.
Borrero said he gave a statement to FBI agents who visited
his office and also turned over purchase orders, Post Office
receipts and bank deposit records.
"It's federal now. I gave them everything," he said.
The FBI office in Miami said it had no comment.
Hugh Cochran, president of Campaign Data, told Reuters that
his company compiled the mailing list data at Rivera's request.
Cochran, a retired FBI agent, said he didn't realize the
data was intended for Sternad's campaign until later when he
spoke to Borrero. "I was baffled by that," he said.
(Editing by Prudence Crowther)