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NGO Nutrition Coalition: Recommendations for a Future Global Partnership on Agriculture & Food Security
The G8 made the commitment in July 2008 to address the food crisis through the creation of a "Global Partnership", which is now known as the "Global Partnership on Agriculture and Food Security" (GPAFS), which would take forward the Comprehensive Framework for Action (CFA).
One of the key objectives of the Madrid Conference is to officially launch a consultative and inclusive process which will lead to the creation of the Partnership.
As key stakeholders, we make the following recommendations which we see as critical to an effective GPAFS:
1. Address Nutrition along with Agriculture & Food Security
The GPAFS must explicitly include nutrition in its objectives. For millions of the poorest families in developing countries, soaring food prices have exposed the lack of attention and adequate response to malnutrition. Millions of people could not afford a nutritious diet before prices went up. Soaring food prices may have increased the number of malnourished children by 44%.
Malnutrition in childhood has permanent and irreversible consequences—it puts children at risk of disease and death, it damages their brain development making them less likely to succeed in school. When people spend more on staple foods they cut back on foods with higher nutritional value, which are crucial for children.
Whilst food security and nutrition are linked, simply ensuring access adequate quantity of food does not guarantee adequate nutrition, particularly adequate intake of essential micronutrients.
The Comprehensive Framework refers to the impact of food price rises on "food and nutrition security". The GPAFS must conceptualize and address nutrition as an issue in its own right and linked to agriculture and food security.
2. A Right To Food Based Framework For GPAFS
The overarching framework of the future global partnership must be grounded in the human right to food. This will ensure that key elements of the right to food, currently absent from the CFA, such as gender, access to land, participation and non-discrimination, are integrated into the response to the crisis.
3. Additional, Predictable & Long-Term Funding
Since the onset of the global food price crisis, the FAO estimates that hunger has increased by over 100 million to 963 million in 2008—to nearly a billion people. The UN estimates that US$25-40 billion per year in additional funding is required to resolve the global food crisis. Word leaders pledged US$12.3bn to tackle the food crisis, but actual disbursements to date are very far from this target.
There is currently no extra funding provided for the proposed GPAFS and the CFA's implementation is running the risk of failing due to lack of financing. Donors must commit to additional funding to support the new GPAFS and ensure that the framework for action actually delivers on its objectives by reflecting the funding needs identified.
4. Accountability & Transparency
The GPAF should promote accountability, particularly mutual accountability between donors of aid to agriculture and their partners, in accordance with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and the Accra Agenda for Action. Such accountability should ensure that strategies are not donor-driven, but needs-driven, and that they are aligned with strategies developed at the level of the partner country.
The future partnership must set out clear and comprehensive monitoring indicators including at the global level in relation to the disbursement of funds pledged by donors. The indicators/benchmarks should be based on the key elements of the right to food and measure the impact of national, regional and international policies on affected and vulnerable groups.
5. Formal Mechanism Ensuring Meaningful Role for Civil Society
In order to be fully inclusive, civil society actors—including farmer organizations and representatives from the right to food community—must be meaningfully engaged in the development, implementation and monitoring of GPAFS at global, regional and national levels.
Current proposals fail to acknowledge the role of civil society in the GPAFS. The Madrid conference provides a key opportunity for civil society to take part in the consultation process from the start. GPAFS will fail to meet its ambitions without this involvement as civil society brings, in particular:
- The voice of people who are ultimately affected by the policy decisions made at national and international levels
- Innovation in the best approaches to tackle hunger which can then be replicated for maximum impact
- An independence from government objectives which will allow critical review and feedback on the process.
- A collective reach which is diverse in its constituency and extensive in its geography adding relevance and legitimacy to the GPAFS decision making processes
- An ability to respond quickly and effectively to support people affected by crises even in the most insecure settings
Such involvement must take place both in the North and in the South, and within the GPAFS management structures. National and international civil society engagement must also be secured by the provision of extra financial resources.
6. Learn From And Build On Existing Mechanisms
A number of initiatives such as the International Alliance Against Hunger (IAAH), policy frameworks such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), regional food and agriculture policies such as ECOWAP, and technical mechanisms such as the FAO and World Bank-sponsored International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) and the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC), are already in place. They all provide elements and address issues to be tackled by GPAFS.
The future partnership must therefore identify existing initiatives and mechanisms and determine how to build on them and bring together policy, techniques and finances for a more effective fight against hunger.
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The construction of new facilities, classrooms and labs are vital to making a high quality Davenport education available to students to meet the needs of employers in the knowledge-driven environment of the 21st century. Today's learning environments are ever changing and require continuous investment in programs and facilities used by students, faculty, staff and the community.
Farmers Insurance Athletic Complex
Located on 68th Street just south of the University's W.A. Lettinga Campus the complex will include a 300-seat baseball stadium, 200-seat softball stadium, eight-court tennis facility, concession area and more.
Peter C. Cook Downtown Center
Named for the late Peter C. Cook, a devoted alumnus, supporter and champion of Davenport, the new Downtown Center houses Davenport's MBA programs and Institute for Professional Excellence (IPEX), offering certificates and customized training programs for business and industry.
Student Center
The Student Center has become a hub of campus, alumni and student life on campus. The 1,500-seat field house provides the first home court for our basketball and volleyball teams. The facility's recreational gym, climbing wall, student activity area, fitness center, café, meeting rooms, and Panther Room also are popular gathering places.
Nursing Simulation Labs
The nursing simulation lab opened in September 2009 at Davenport's W. A. Lettinga Campus. It replicates a multi-bed hospital with simulated adult and child patients. The simulators for students are very high-tech manikins that enable students to learn in a simulated real-life setting.

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Science and religion are at war. Or, at least that's the impression you might get from bloggers who watch the spectacle of Republican primary candidate debates. Columnists at the New York Times and the Washington Post are up-in-arms at the hostility toward, and ignorance of, science on the part of the candidates, who seem to be vying to outdo each other in their anti-intellectualism. Some want to lay the blame for the Republican Party's anti-science lurch at the feet of evangelical religion, using the statements of Republican candidates as a sign of attitudes in conservative churches. But evidence from a number of recent sociological studies indicates that the picture is a lot more complicated.
John H. Evans, professor of sociology in the UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences, wrote about his recent research in the Los Angeles Times, where he compared conservative Protestants—regular church attenders who take the Bible literally—and those who don't admit to any religious participation. He concludes:
The conservative Protestants are equally likely to understand scientific methods, to know scientific facts and to claim knowledge of science. They are as likely as the nonreligious to have majored in science or to have a scientific occupation. While other studies have shown that the elite scientists who work at the 20 top research universities are less religious than the public, it appears that the vast majority of people with workaday scientific occupations are like their neighbors, religiously speaking.
Evans concluded that church-going conservative Protestants at the grassroots don't at all sound like Rick Perry or Michelle Bachman or Rick Santorum on questions of science. For Evans, the seeming conflict between science and religion is much more over values that over facts. He even argues that the evangelical rejection of evolutionary theory isn't a sign of being anti-science.
Science and Religion are Friends
Some support for the argument that religious people actually see compatibility between science and religion comes from Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith and Furman sociologist Kyle Longest, who just published a paper showing that 18-29 year olds are more integrative in the way they view science and religion (Sociological Forum, behind a firewall). As quoted by Rod Dreher at The American Conservative, Smith and Longest find the following:
Most clearly, high religiousness, in the form of importance of faith, frequently reading scriptures, and committing to live one's life for God, increases the likelihood that emerging adults agree that religion and science are compatible and not in conflict. Counter to the prevailing wisdom on highly religious youth, emerging adults who are more religious are not less but more likely to believe that religion and science can be integrated. Interestingly, attending a Protestant high school, often portrayed as being the training ground for religiously sectarian or militant youth . . . is one of the strongest predictors of the integration perspective, as these emerging adults are extremely likely to agree that religion and science are compatible and their faith has been strengthened by science, as well as being significantly unlikely to agree that the two are in conflict. This shared context appears to have created a cognitive norm of viewing religion and science as potentially symbiotic, rather than overtly hostile to each other. These emerging adults are able to maintain the authority of religion by finding a harmony between faith and science.
(Dreher's column is worth reading in full.)
Another study showing that religiosity leads to harmony between science and religion comes from Baylor University, where researcher Aaron Franzen finds that increased frequency of Bible reading is tied to, among other things, improved attitudes toward science. "Respondents were 22 percent less likely to view religion and science as incompatible at each step toward more frequent Bible reading," according to David Briggs, who reported the Baylor study for Association of Religion Data Archives. (Interestingly, higher rates of Bible reading were also correlated with greater support for social and economic justice, simple lifestyles, humane treatment of criminals, and with lower support for abortion, same-sex unions, the death penalty, and the expansion of the war on terrorism.)
Are Evangelicals Science-Friendly But Still Ignorant?
Set against those salutary findings is evidence that conservative religion goes along with decreased science literacy, as measured by a standard large-scale survey of Americans conducted since 1972, which, since 2006, has contained a standard set of elementary (mostly true-false) science questions ("True or false: All radioactivity is man-made" or "True or false: Antibiotics kill viruses as well as bacteria").
Darren Sherkat of Southern Illinois University analyzed the results (paper in Social Science Quarterly —behind a firewall). He threw out questions relating to hot-button issues for religious conservatives, like evolution, but kept in questions on the big bang and continental drift. Even when they got a pass on evolution questions, Sherkat found that sectarian Protestants (that is, evangelicals), Catholics, and fundamentalists scored significantly lower than secular Americans on the basic science literacy quiz. He controlled for variables like low educational attainment, income disadvantages, ethnicity, and regional effects (like being in the South), and still found that conservative religious affiliation drove scores down. Josh Rosenau of the National Center for Science Education found the same thing.
Is there a way to reconcile these seemingly disparate results? Could it be that increased bible reading and other signs of religiosity really do drive greater thoughtfulness and a deeper appreciation for science? Does reading the Bible regularly build a more expansive and integrative worldview than merely holding to evangelical beliefs? In that case, the reports about lower science literacy might be due to individuals who give lip-service to orthodox beliefs, but who don't put them into practice (cultural Christians, as it were). The Baylor study mentioned above did find a divide between those who read the Bible a lot and those who believed it to be literally true but who didn't read it.
A less favorable interpretation is that those Christians who find compatibility between science and their faith are picking and choosing which bits of science they consider "science," or even that they confuse science and technology.
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Friday afternoon was a bit …um… interesting – we were due to play at Tumut in the evening, so a nice gentle drive in the van had some appeal – until the grinding noises came from the starter motor bearings.
Sharon and I looked at each other and shrugged in unison. If the 20 year old van won't make it, let's take the 28 year old motorbike. A quick phone call to our bass player showed he hadn't left yet, and could take the fiddle in his car. The bike was running brilliantly after its service, and the handling had improved markedly with new suspension and new tyres – in fact it was in the best condition it's had for years. So we both decided that the ride would be a good idea.
The ride to Tumut was very pleasant – with perfect weather and good road (via Yass and Gundagai), and we arrived safely in late afternoon. After finding our room (the 'band room') at the Oriental Hotel, we had an excellent feed and tuned up for the show.
There was a good responsive crowd and we had a great time – the sound system behaved well and it was fortunate we had also brought lights 🙂
We played the first hour and had a short break, then by the time we were thinking of another break, it was too near the end so we did the second two hours straight through – time flies when you're having fun.
We were quite exhausted by the end, so after the last encore we packed away the sound gear and headed off to bed.
Early next morning the sun shone golden over the town, and I took a couple of photos on our way out for breakfast at a nearby coffee shop.
After a photo under the Tumut town sign, we headed off to Gundagai for coffee.
Sharon wasn't quite quick enough to avoid the camera this time!
We stopped at the famous Niagara Cafe – where Prime ministers from years past used to stop on their way to Canberra. There is a great old art deco counter there.
And, no, we didn't sing about the dog on the tuckerbox!
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The three matchups in Group E action Friday at EuroBasket 2011 did not disappoint. Defending champion Spain flexed its muscle yet again, Germany bowed up to the challenge against Turkey and France and Lithuania delivered on the promise of an absolute thriller.
On top of that, spots in the quarterfinals were clinched in the process …
Spain 84, Serbia 59 (Box Score)
Any questions about Pau Gasol's complete recovery from his struggles during the NBA playoffs should be clear to anyone watching him in this competition. He joined his younger brother Marc Gasol in punishing Serbia from start to finish as Spain secured its ticket to the quarterfinals in a runaway. Pau finished with 26 points, 15 in the first half, while Marc countered with 20 points and 10 rebounds.
While this wasn't necessarily a rematch of the 2009 gold medal game, won going away by Spain, it was a reminder for Serbia and every other team in this competition just how powerful Spain can be when they have two healthy Gasols and our main man "The Stockbroker," Juan Carlos Navarro, clicking along with the rest of a deep and talented roster. Navarro finished with 14 points.
Serbia knocked off Spain in the quarterfinals at last year's World Championships in Turkey, when Pau Gasol was out injured. It wasn't even close this time around. "We played a great game for 40 minutes," Spain point guard Jose Calderon said. "We were concentrated from the start. Everybody was ready to help each other. "We all wanted to stop (Serbia point guard Milos) Teodosic and we did that. It was a great victory. We have to be proud of holding a great team like Serbia to 59 points, but we have to continue to work hard because we have more games to play."
Two of Spain's other NBA players, Calderon and Rudy Fernandez, joined the Gasols and Navarro in the starting lineup. Calderon played a turnover-free 20 minutes and finished with eight points, five rebounds and three assists. Fernandez showed off his versatility, with five rebounds, three assists two steals and the play of the game, a wicked first-quarter block of a Milan Macvan layup.
Germany 73, Turkey 67 (Score)
The hero's cape is usually reserved for Dirk Nowitzki and he did his part, draining four straight free throws to seal this huge, stay-alive win for Germany. But he had company in the fourth quarter of this one. Philipp Schwethelm did his damage from distance, scoring 11 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter, including three huge 3-pointers.
The win sends Germany into Sunday's showdown with Lithuania with a chance to advance to the elite eight of this competition, with another gutsy, comeback effort like this one. "We played our worst first half of the summer but we only trailed by a few points at the break," Schwethelm said. "In the second half we made big shots and we won."
Chris Kaman had 20 points and seven rebounds to power Germany inside against a formidable group of big men at work for Turkey. Nowitzki dealt with foul trouble throughout the game but still managed to score 19 points.
Omer Asik and Enes Kanter are the two big men from Turkey we were talking about. And they were rugged in this game. Asik finished with 19 points and 11 rebounds while managed 11 points and three rebounds. They still have a showdown with Serbia on tap this weekend, a game they'll need their bigs to dominate if they want to win. And Sunday's game against Serbia is a must-win if Turkey wants into the quarterfinals (they also need Germany to lose
France 73, Lithuania 67 (Box Score)
The best way to avoid the drama of the complex tiebreaker system to advance to the quarterfinals is to stay perfect, which is exactly what France did by outlasting Lithuania before a hostile, host-nation crowd at Vilnius Arena. We haven't mentioned him before now, but Nando De Colo (you've got to love that name) was spectacular. He led France with 21 points, five steals and four rebounds. He scored 13 of his points in the fourth quarter to help seal the deal.
Tony Parker came through with another solid effort, scoring 19 points. Joakim Noah's work on the glass (game-high 13, six offensive), though, was particularly crucial in such a hostile environment. Noah will have his hands full Sunday when France takes on Spain and the Gasol brothers, so it's probably a good thing that he is cranking it up now.
With their quarterfinals slot already locked down, Friday's game was yet another opportunity for France to prove their mettle. "For us, this is our biggest performance in Lithuania," France coach Vincent Collet said. "To do it in Vilnius, in front of this crowd means that we are a real team. Nando made very big shots that helped us get back in front."
After riding a red-hot 3-point shooting performance to victory over Serbia in their last game, when they shot 11-for-20 from distance, Lithuania's shooters came back to earth against France. They made just seven of their 23 attempts from that range Friday. If not for solid outings from Simas Jasaitis (13 points) and Jonas Valanciunas (12 points), this one might not have stayed as tight as it did down the stretch.
*** The six teams in Group F will back on the court Saturday, starting with Georgia-Finald, F.Y.R. Macedonia-Slovenia and finishing up with Greece-Russia. ***


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International Day for Biological Diversity - 22 May 2002
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International Day for Biological Diversity Dedicated to Forest Biodiversity
La Journée internationale de la diversité biologique dédiée à la biodiversité des forêts
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Secretary-General urges incorporation of biological diversity in elaboration of trade, economic policies
The Convention on Biological Diversity, the text of which was agreed in Nairobi ten years ago, is the main instrument that the international community has given itself with which to preserve the fragile web of life on our one and only planet. There are now 183 Parties to the Convention, which has three main objectives: the conservation of biological diversity; the sustainable use of its components; and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources. These three areas are interdependent, and if the Convention is to be successful, progress in each is essential.
A significant number of accomplishments can be listed at this 10th anniversary of the Convention: a regime for access to genetic resources and equitable sharing of the benefits from their use has been developed and adopted, as have guiding principles to address the problems posed by alien species, an extended programme of work on forest biological diversity, a global initiative on communication, education and public awareness, and a strategic plan for the Convention. Also, in the last ten years, the financial mechanism of the Convention, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has approved more than US$ 1 billion for biodiversity projects presented by developing countries. Other achievements include the establishment of an effective clearing-house mechanism, the publication of a general assessment of the state of biodiversity and status of implementation of the Convention (the Global Biodiversity Outlook), the increased involvement of local and indigenous communities in the Convention's processes, the adoption of a Protocol on Biosafety (the Cartagena Protocol), among others.
In August of this year, the World Summit on Sustainable Development will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Convention on Biological Diversity will figure prominently among its concerns and areas of decision. Recently, in a speech delivered at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Secretary General of the United Nations declared biodiversity one of the five key areas where concrete results can and must be obtained.
Clearly many nations are making commendable efforts to adhere to the principles contained in the Convention. Still, the threats to species and ecosystems remain ominous and extinctions caused by human activities continue at an alarming rate. This 10th anniversary of the Convention on Biological Diversity is a good opportunity to reflect on ways to achieve a balance between consumption and conservation, between present needs and future well-being. The conservation of biological diversity is a common concern of humankind and an essential feature of the transition to sustainable development.
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'Kidney Stone' Turns Out To Be a Baby
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January 08, 2009
CARBONEAR, Newfoundland, Jan. 8 – A Newfoundland woman who went to a hospital complaining of kidney pain was shocked when she gave birth to a healthy baby boy soon after.
Juanita Stead, 36, was at a New Year's Eve party when the pain started and escalated to the point where her husband, Terry, took her to the hospital in the eastern town of Carbonear for X-rays, the Carbonear Compass reported.
"The technician looked at me and said, 'My dear, you're pregnant with a full-term baby.' And I said: 'No sir, you got the wrong woman and you're looking at the wrong screen. There is no way I'm pregnant,'" Stead told the newspaper.
She said her menstrual period hadn't stopped, there wasn't any morning sickness and she didn't put on extra weight.
Her other son also made an unexpected arrival on July 30, 2006, at the couple's home, Stead said. While she knew she was seven months pregnant, she was caught off guard.
"I felt like I had to go to the bathroom and out he popped, right into the toilet," she said. "Terry actually scooped him out of the toilet and put him in my lap until the ambulance came."
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In 2002, 60 Minutes, along with Court TV, investigated the Pioneer Hotel fire, a historic fire that swept through an Arizona landmark in 1970 and killed 28 people. A 16-year-old boy, Louis Taylor, was arrested for setting the fire and later convicted of 28 counts of murder.
Steve Kroft's 2002 investigation uncovered evidence that Taylor was railroaded by police and prosecutors eager to resolve the city's worst tragedy. The story prompted a nonprofit legal organization to take on Taylor's case, and after a decade of work, it has discovered striking new evidence that could free Taylor after nearly 42 years behind bars. 60 Minutes revisits the case and the new evidence in a report to be broadcast Sunday, March 31 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT.
The new evidence in the case throws into question whether the fire was even arson. An independent panel of the five top fire experts in the country evaluated the evidence and testimony from the Pioneer case records and found the cause of the blaze could not be determined. John Lentini, one of the experts, tells Kroft there was no evidence of arson.
"You can't have a murder conviction based on arson if there was no arson," says Edward Novak, the lead attorney on Taylor's defense team.
Novak, a prominent Arizona attorney, recently deposed Cy Holmes, one of the original fire investigators. 60 Minutes obtained a copy of the videotaped deposition in which Holmes reveals for the first time some shocking information about how quickly he arrived at a preliminary conclusion about the cause of the blaze and the type of person who set it. "I felt that the culprit was probably black and he was probably 18," said Holmes on the tape.
Novak asks Holmes why he thought an African American man had set the fire. Holmes replies, "Blacks at that point, their background was the use of fire for beneficial purposes...clearing lands and doing cleanup work...fire was a tool...[they're] comfortable with it," he told Novak in the deposition. "And if they get mad at somebody, the first thing they do is use something they're comfortable with. Fire was one of them."
This new deposition has discredited one of the key witnesses in the original case against Taylor, who is black. Armed with this deposition, as well as the conclusions of the five fire experts, Taylor's lawyers have petitioned the Pima County Prosecutor to vacate Taylor's murder conviction, release him from prison and conduct a new trial. After reviewing the petition, the current prosecutor, Barbara Lawall, commissioned the Tucson Fire Department to re-investigate the Pioneer blaze using the latest scientific methods. It, too, concluded that the cause of the fire could not be determined.
60 Minutes requested an interview with Ms. Lawall, but she declined. Kroft met her on a Tucson street to ask her why Taylor is still in prison despite the new evidence. "Nobody can say for sure whether it was or whether it wasn't [arson]," says Lawall.
Historical photographs provided by Arizona Historical Society


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KABUL, Afghanistan — The planned release of preliminary results from the runoff vote in Afghanistan's presidential election will probably be postponed, a spokesman said Tuesday, a move that comes as officials struggle to resolve an impasse over fraud allegations.
Abdullah Abdullah, one of the two candidates vying to replace President Hamid Karzai, has warned he would boycott the results as he claims that supporters of his rival Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai engineered fraud in the June 14 balloting.
The crisis has undermined Western hopes for a smooth transfer of power ahead of the withdrawal of U.S. and allied combat troops by the end of this year. Both candidates have promised to sign a security pact with the Obama administration that would allow nearly 10,000 American forces to remain in the country in a training capacity and to conduct counterterrorism operations. A disruption in the announcement of election results could mean another delay in finalizing that agreement, which was rebuffed by Karzai.
According to the official timetable, initial results are due Wednesday and final results are due on July 22, with the inauguration date for the new president scheduled for Aug. 2.
Abdullah won the first round of voting on April 5 by a large margin, but he says his campaign monitors recorded widespread ballot box stuffing and other efforts to rig the vote in Ahmadzai's favor. He wants a new vote to be held in five provinces where the bulk of the fraud allegations were made.
His campaign said it would welcome a decision by the Independent Election Commission to delay the results.
"It's a good decision to delay the results until they find a good mechanism to separate the clean votes from the fraudulent ones," Abdullah's spokesman Fazel Sangcharaki said. "If the IEC announces the preliminary results, it will suffer the consequences and the anger of our supporters. We can't stop the rage of the people."
Ahmadzai's campaign has denied any involvement in fraud and said it also registered complaints about irregularities but would respect the constitutional process.
Ahmadzai, a former finance minister and World Bank official, also earlier called on Abdullah to rejoin the process and demanded that the commission stick to the official timetable for releasing preliminary results.
His spokesman, Abbas Noyan, said the campaign would have no objection to a delay of the preliminary results. "It's good for the transparency of the election and our votes were very clean," he said. "We hope swearing-in ceremony will be held on Aug. 2 as planned."
The spokesman for the Independent Election Commission, Noor Mohammad Noor, said Tuesday that the panel is considering a possible postponement of the announcement because it still needs to audit results from 1,930 polling stations in 30 of 34 provinces. There were 23,000 polling stations nationwide.
"There are 1,930 polling stations in 30 provinces that still need to be audited and that will take time," he said in a telephone interview. He said the audits were focusing on polling stations where massive ballot box stuffing was reported.
The election commission was holding meetings to discuss the issue, officials said.
Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, has invited more than 40 world leaders and a number of international organizations to participate in the Aug. 2 inauguration, according to ministry spokesman Ahmad Shakib Mustaghni.


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The primary purpose of the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office is to fairly, impartially and honestly enforce all criminal laws. The ultimate goal is to make Clackamas County a safer and healthier place to live.
The Clackamas County District Attorney's Office is part of a law enforcement partnership that includes the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, Juvenile Department, Community Corrections, eight municipal police agencies and the Oregon State Police.
The District Attorney's Office contributes to the County's public safety network as a member of the Local Public Safety Coordinating Council; the Council's Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Crime Prevention Subcommittees; the Family Violence Coordinating Council; the Criminal Justice Council; the Multidisciplinary Child Abuse Investigation Team; and the Multidisciplinary Elder Abuse Team.
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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. -- Barry University's Renato Lombardi was named the men's tennis NCAA Elite 89 Award winner at the NCAA Division II Championships banquet Tuesday night.
Lombardi, a sophomore from Lausanne, Switzerland, received the honor for being the student-athlete with the highest grade point average among the 16 participating teams at the men's tennis championships. Lombardi carries a 3.94 GPA in finance.
On the court, he is 14-1 in singles and 21-1 in doubles.
Lombardi is the second Barry athlete to receive the Elite 89 Award. Former men's golfer Daniel Stapff won the award in 2012.
The Elite 89, an award founded by the NCAA, recognizes the true essence of the student-athlete by honoring the individual who has reached the pinnacle of competition at the national championship level in his or her sport, while also achieving the highest academic standard among his or her peers.
Barry opens play in the NCAA Championships Round of 16 at 4 p.m. Wednesday vs. No. 10 Drury. Follow the match via LIVE SCORING.


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After I completed the 2009 Boston Marathon (i joined Tedy's Team, I did not qualify but I didn't just write the check either... i actually raised the money!), I wrote the thank you letter below to my friends and family who supported my efforts. While writing this letter I realized how much running has done for me. Running was not something that I talked about with my friends and I would certainly not offer up the fact that I was runner to anyone that I worked with. It was almost like my dirty little secret. I do not look like a runner and I usually don't act like a runner. At least, I don't think so. Although, I'm not really sure how a runner should act. Maybe like Ryan Hall? In fact, when I was a teenager hanging around San Francisco I remember looking at runner's and telling my friend's (with our skateboards in hand) that if I ever started running to throw me off the Golden Gate Bridge because I had clearly lost my mind. I figured this letter would be a good first posting on the undefeated running blog.
Dear Friends and Family,
I want to thank you for helping me reach my goal of raising $3000 for the American Association. Tedy's Team raised a total of $250,000.00 for stroke research!!! Meeting stroke survivors on our marathon team and learning about other runner's experiences with stroke in their lives was inspirational. I am more grateful than ever that I am able to line up on the starting line of a marathon or able to go for a run... or just a walk down the street. Don't take your health for granted!
Running the Boston Marathon was an incredible experience. The history that surrounds the race and the support of the people lining the course is awesome. I completed the marathon is 4 hrs and 29 mins (1st half 2:03; 2nd half 2:26; i was planning on running a negative split!)... more than a half hour slower than I wanted which was a similar sentiment to many of the runners I spoke with after the race. All of us agreed it must have had something to do with the strong headwinds and cold temperature. Although, after digesting the whole experience I realized that those conditions made it an even better experience for me. You're not always going to go out and have perfect conditions to run in as you might not always have perfect health conditions to live with. Human nature comes with two amazing elements though; perseverance and resilience. We are born with these elements and they can be made stronger by training but they reach their full potential with the support of the people around you. During the race I thought about all of you who supported me in this endeavor and it truly helped to keep me going at some of the most challenging times. I was running up over the top of Heartbreak Hill (at about mile 21) and was hit with a headwind so strong that I thought my lower abdomnials tore. I really thought I needed to stop running. I walked thru the next water station to regroup. I looked around at the crowds that were about 5 people deep (and continued to get deeper on both sides of the course through the finish line) and then I thought about all of the people that were supporting me in this run. Even though my lower ab's were still cramping I started running again. Turning onto Boylston street and seeing the Boston Marathon Finish line a quarter mile away was unreal. There is a picture attached of me crossing the finish line.
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We've collected the top five reviews, roundups and how-to articles from across the AppStorm network in August. Whether you're interested in Mac, iPhone, or Web apps, there's bound to be something you didn't spot over the course of the month.
Now would be a good time to explore a part of the AppStorm Network you've never seen before!
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Apple Media Event: iPods, iTunes, Apple TV and More!
Earlier today Apple held its annual live media event covering all things new in the land of iPod, iTunes and even AppleTV.
They've released a ton of enhancements and upgrades across the board and we've got your one-stop coverage. Below you'll find a brief overview of all the goodies you'll be blowing your paychecks on in the coming weeks.
30 Helpful Apps to Bring on Vacation
Vacations can be quite complicated. Finding flights, booking hotels, procuring transportation, scouting tourist locations, and grabbing a quick bite to eat are just some of the daily tasks you'll have to juggle. Fortunately, your iPhone makes the perfect travel companion and can make all of these tasks a lot easier.
Below we'll take a look at 30 incredibly helpful apps that will help you spend more time enjoying your vacation and less time worrying about the particulars. Most of the apps are free so you can start downloading right away without dipping into your travel budget!
Flipboard for iPad: Does It Live Up to the Hype?
Today we're going to look at an iPad application that has received quite a bit of hype over the past few weeks – Flipboard. Aiming to be your "personalised social magazine", Flipboard comes with a gorgeous interface, and a wonderful concept.
Although there are plenty of RSS, Twitter, PDF and eBook readers available for the iPad, there hasn't yet been anything along these specific lines. Flipboard sets a lofty target in terms of functionality – one that was never going to be easy to meet. Read on to find out how well I think they pulled it off!
Producteev: The Ultimate Free Productivity Solution
Today we're going to take a look at Producteev, an awesome todo app that might just be enough to have you saying adios to Backpack and Remember the Milk.
Unlimited projects and tasks, labels, due dates, reminders, collaboration, automatic web/iOS syncing, email integration, this is the free task manager you've been waiting for.
100 Amazing AppStorm Recommended iPhone Games
Over the past few months, we've run a regularly weekly series entitled "Game Friday". Each week, we take a look at five of the best new iPhone game releases, or five particularly great games in a certain category. With so many games available for the iPhone, it can be incredibly difficult to wade through all the sub-par apps. We're here to help!
Today, we're offering a one-stop shop for all your iPhone gaming needs. We'll be looking back at the different games we've featured over the past few months, and selecting 100 of our favourites. That should be enough inspiration to keep you playing for weeks to come!
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20 Killer Email Marketing and Promotion Apps
One problem with email marketing is that even a tiny mistake or a misplaced keyword could mean that your email will end up in the spam folder. There are a number of apps that help you to maintain the balance between being informative and less annoying. Today we've rounded up a list of prominent players in the marketing & promotion field, after the break.
30 Incredibly Useful & Fun HTML5 Mobile Apps
It might be in its infancy, but HTML5 is the next 500 pound Guerrilla and much more as far as Internet is concerned. With features like plugin-less video playback, offline storage, geo location etc., HTML5 is on the verge of giving walled gardens like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Cocoa a good run for their money. After the jump, we have compiled a list of HTML5 web apps developed for accessing from your smartphones.
15 Simple Ways to Integrate Facebook into Your Website
Since now that it is clear we can't beat them it is time to join them. There are umpteen number of ways to plug websites of any shape & kind into Facebook thereby nurturing a community, encouraging conversations, improving user engagement and increasing page views.
The choicest options and tools to tap into the billion eyeballs audience are coming up after the jump.
20 Back to School Apps and Tools for Students
A lot of you may be dreading school, but it doesn't have to be all bad, especially if you're prepared. For all our student subscribers out there, we at Web.AppStorm have compiled a list of websites and tools that are guaranteed to help you get the most out of your education this semester. Go back to school with confidence!
Forrst: Share More Than Just Snaps
Forrst is a fantastic place for developers and designers only where you can share snapshots, links, and code snippets with colleagues or friends. Also, you will be able to ask questions publicly and receive answers from your counterparts, or perhaps from a Forrst Ranger.
The concept is pretty similar to Dribbble but you are able to share more than snaps, which gives you a brand new social experience in the web technologies environment.
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80 Of The Most Useful Mac Tools and Utilities
Macs are awesome straight out of the box, but that doesn't mean that you can't make them a lot better with a few quality downloads.
Today we've rounded up eighty of the most handy utilities to improve the basic functionality of your Mac in a number of ways. Below you'll find almost every kind of utility you could need, from hardware controllers to maintenance software and file organization tools.
2001-2010: A Mac Odyssey
Apple have come an incredibly long way over the past decade. From the release of the very first version of OS X, right through to the iPhone 4 and iPad in recent weeks, the change we've seen both in technology and Apple as a company has been remarkable.
We're paying homage to this fascinating journey today with our very own infographic, highlighting the rise of Apple over the past ten years!
5 Mac AntiVirus Tools for OS X (And Do We Need Them?)
Wait aren't Macs supposed to be immune to viruses? Can Macs really be attacked by malware? Should you be protecting yourself?
Today we're going to take a look at five popular Mac AntiVirus utilities and jump head first into the raging debate about whether or not they should even exist. No matter which side you're on, you'll definitely want to check out the information below.
Power Up Your Clipboard with ClipMenu
ClipMenu is an incredibly neat little app that we've mentioned in several recent articles here on AppStorm. However, we've never given it a proper review and wanted to take the time to show you just how cool it is.
If you've downloaded ClipMenu before and only given it a brief try, there is a lot of functionality that you might have missed. Below we'll walk you through the full feature set so you can be sure to take full advantage of all that the application does.
50 Essential Mac Apps for OS X Beginners
So you just unboxed that shiny new Mac, fired it up and heard the glorious chime. Now what? It can be a little bit overwhelming to start from scratch and build a library of useful applications but we're to help!
Today we'll take a look at 50 awesome apps that are perfect for new OS X users switching over from a PC.
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Brewer Police Search for Big Apple Robbery Suspect {Update with Video}
Brewer police have provided this short surveillance video from the store this morning saying this is a person of interest in this morning's robbery of the Big Apple store.
Sgt. Anthony Pinette says a male entered the store this morning, confronted the store clerk and took off with an undisclosed amount of money.
No weapon was displayed in the hold up.
If you have any helpful information you're advised to contact the Brewer Police Department at (207) 989-7001