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Silvio Berlusconi described him as "our Andrea Pirlo, now and in the future". And with those words the Milan President explained in a nutshell exactly why Riccardo Montolivo has stepped up and demonstrated the ability many people have been expecting from him for years at the top level, and at the same time struggles to impose himself for Italy.
He is now the main man in midfield for his club, a situation not too dissimilar to the one he had at Fiorentina. And just like his time in Florence he is responding with the performances we are still waiting to see with the national team on a consistent basis.
The comparison between club and country is not a completely fair one to make, but it offers insight into why there is a difference in performance. At Milan he is surrounded by comparatively inferior players technically so he naturally becomes the first option in midfield, and probably their only option given the lack of ability around him.
The passing stats reflect this, particularly in the important games. In those matches against other members of the current top six, Montolivo has made the most passes of any player on the team. He was playing to the right of another player in midfield in all bar last weekend's derby and the home defeat to Fiorentina, so these numbers have not arisen by virtue of playing in front of the defence. Of course his position is not inflexible, but he tends to be a little further forward when Massimo Ambrosini or Nigel De Jong are stationed in front of the central defenders, meaning he is not always an easy short pass from the back four.
When he joins up with Azzurri it is a different story. At best he is the second option for the team and in a full strength Italy XI that drops to third. He still gets the ball, but perhaps mentally he does not feel as valued or as important when there are other players who receive it first.
The game against England at Euro 2012 is a good example, primarily because Italy were so dominant from around the 20th minute onwards, yet Montolivo was largely anonymous. The top two passing combinations had Daniele De Rossi and Pirlo as the ball receivers – and that is despite the former only playing 80 minutes, whereas Montolivo played the whole 120.
Indeed in the entire list of Italian passing combinations Montolivo's name as a ball receiver does not appear until you reach the 11th combination, even though the total number of passes received shows he was found by teammates more than most of the other players in that night, leaving him ample opportunity to make his mark.
His position for Italy is a factor – he naturally will not be involved in as many combinations playing his unique brand of faux-trequartista football – though his average position in the England game was not that much further forward of Pirlo, hence why only the No 21 received the ball more during the match, and it does not stop his Milan colleagues from ensuring they find him on a regular basis. Yet while he continues to impose himself on games for the Rossoneri, he cannot do so for the Azzurri despite his teammates' best efforts
Unless Milan continues to buy defensive midfielders, this is a problem he is going to eventually encounter at club level, with players of a similar technical ability playing in midfield alongside him. If he remains the go-to guy, all is well, if not, the mental hurdle he faces around 12 times a year is going to hit him every day.


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The brilliant photo that caught
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Enjoy a cigar by all means - but make certain you've done the work first.
Hockey hasn't - as this column for the Canberra Times made clear . . .
Tony Abbott will probably receive a brief polling bounce after his return from Europe. Yet his playing consular cop hasn't advanced our national interest one iota and he'll soon return to issues that can't be sorted out with a brief photo-op and anodyne questions. The real problem Abbott faces is the person he's left behind to sort out the biggest issue he faces: passing the budget.
Tomorrow it will be three months since Joe Hockey strode purposefully into a room packed full of expectant journalists to unveil his budget. Since then he's alternated between bombast – warning everyone to take their medicine – cajoling – encouraging us that if we have our medicine things will get better – and simply relaxing – wandering off overseas and not worrying about who's taking their medicine. About the only thing he hasn't done is anything to ensure his budget will actually pass the Senate. The last time a government was this incompetent at guiding its financial measures through parliament was 1975; that didn't end well. Nearly 90 days post-release and the country still doesn't have a budget. "Sloppy Joe" is living up to his nickname.
At some point the shuffling will have to stop.
Or perhaps not. Maybe Hockey has given up. Perhaps it's all a bit too hard. His attitude seems to be that he's decided the dose and, eventually, everyone will have to swallow their medicine, like it or not. If so it seems the Treasurer hasn't being paying attention.
The wild card is represented by one person: Clive Palmer. Nothing can pass unless this big man waves it through yet there's absolutely no reason for him to play ball. His three senators scraped in on a nationwide vote of 4.91 percent. Palmer's political interests will be best served if the deadlock continues and a sense of chaos envelops the government. He can (justifiably) then claim the only way to resolve the impasse is for an immediate double-dissolution election. After all, that's exactly what Malcolm Fraser did in 1975. Refuse to pass supply; create a crisis; and demand the people decide. What could be fairer?
Tony Abbott's finally met his match - an obstructive populariser out to win at all costs. An 'all-in' political poker player who has no problem 'seeing' Abbott's right wing credentials and 'raising' him in the man of the people stakes. A double-dissolution brought on in an atmosphere of crisis would see Palmer's party swiftly double its representation in the Senate because the quota for a seat would be halved. Hell, he'd probably win seats in the House as well, taking from the Nats. He has nothing to loose and everything to gain. That's why Palmer won't wave this budget, or any other one crafted by this government, through.
Hockey's handed his head to Palmer on a platter. He never was good at maths; he couldn't even do his own numbers in the party-room battle to beat Malcolm Turnbull. He was an extraordinary choice for this current job, but it seems it's not just his own numbers that confuse him. Apparently he was unaware the government didn't have the Senate majority it needs to pass the budget. He also seems blithely unaware that his intransigence plays directly into his enemy's hands.
It's less than a year since the electorate dispatched a government because it became more concerned about itself than the way the country should be run. Yet surrounded by the trappings of office and an effective, functioning department, even Wayne Swan managed to survive as Treasurer (while leading government spending over a cliff and splurging incoherently; sending cheques out in the mail and building things, needed or not). You may have thought nobody could be as childish again. You would be wrong.
The world must look pretty good from the balcony off your office, particularly when you're puffing on a cigar in the middle of the afternoon and telling the little people they need to pull their finger out and get cracking. Even I could manage that. But negotiating, compromising, and dealing in order to get policy through: well, that requires a professional. It needs someone who's prepared to work, has a bit of nous, and who's prepared to devote their attention to detail. Those are three qualities that Hockey's desperately lacking.
He's out of his depth. Hockey either doesn't see what's required or he's incapable of taking the first step towards resolving the problem he's created. He goes about threatening dire consequences unless the budget's passed and warning he'll push for the adoption of even more draconian measures, but by doing so he's simply revealing his own inability to craft a budget that can pass and incompetence at negotiating it through. The punters won't be happy if he begins slugging us with extra taxes yet Hockey appears utterly incapable of recognising political reality, even when its mugging him.
Last week in Canberra, Hockey insisted there's been a "weakening of public commentary . . . abandoning the argument for good reform". No Treasurer, you are the government. If you believe in the urgent need for greater inequality to boost productivity then it's up to you to argue the cause for change. Thus far no convincing case has been mounted. Just ask that eager barometer of electoral opinion, Palmer. He's been listening to the voters. If they were endorsing Hockey he'd lock-in behind the treasurer. But the electorate doesn't like being told greater inequality is the answer. And if it is the solution, then they don't like the question.
Palmer can't believe his luck. Hockey seems ready to go to an election where the quota for the Senate would be halved at a point where his party's fortunes are at their nadir. Palmer's almost shouting. "Bring it on!"

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Career Guides >> Browse Articles >> Government Job Search
Five Things to Take to the Career Fair
A career fair is a great place to gather information about potential employers and make contacts that can lead to your first job. Here's some advice on how to make the most of your time.
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Five Things to Take to the Career Fair
1. Copies of your resume (25 to 40 depending on the size of the event). Be sure it represents your knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) effectively. It needs to look professional – easy to read format on plain white or cream-colored paper – and be free of typos. If you are looking at several career options, you may want to have two or more targeted resumes with different career objectives!
2. A smile, a strong handshake, and a positive attitude. First impressions are important. Approach an employer, smile, and offer your hand when you introduce yourself.
3. A 30-second "sales pitch." Hand the recruiter a copy of your resume and be prepared to expand on it quickly! Share basic information about yourself and your career interests like this: "Hello, I'm Carrie Jones. I'm a senior here at Wonderful University and I'm majoring in English. I'm very interested in a marketing career. As you can see on my resume, I just completed an "http://govcentral.monster.com/education/2172-5-steps-to-getting-a-government-internship">internship in the Marketing Division of the ABC Company in Peoria. I've also taken some courses in business marketing. I'm very interested in talking with you about marketing opportunities with your organization."
4. Information about the organizations that will be attending. Gather information as you would for a job interview. To maximize the brief time you have with each employer, you need to know how your skills and interests match their needs. And don't just concentrate on the "big names." There are often great opportunities with companies with which you are not familiar.
5. Energy! Career fairs require you to be on your feet moving from table to table for an hour or so. Each time you meet someone, be at your best, as refreshed as possible!
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Video Ninjas needed a new wordpress theme design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 72 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
We are The Video Ninjas. The Videos Ninjas are masters in the art of digital video creation for you or your business . We brainstorm with you on ideas, edit and produce your footage, and distribute the final product to you in a variety of formats. Your only job is provide footage to The Video Ninjas (either with your own camera or with one of our HD flip cams). We are masterful creators and producers, and we are not defeated by any size project. We use The Video Ninja creation process for every single client, and we love new ideas.
Small businesses, corporate clients, entrepreneurs, and athletes.
We need the following menu items in a horizontal menu bar: Home, Why Video, Projects, Get a Quote, FAQ, Blog. We would also like to see social media icons integrated on the menu bar as well : only Facebook and Twitter icons are needed.
Our logo (which is attached) prominently displayed in the menu bar as well - preferably in the top left portion of the menu bar. It would also be cool to see the logo somehow implemented into other parts of the site (ninja silhouettes in footer, or other areas) but must be somewhat discrete and not totally required.
The entire site aside from the Home page should have a customizable right sidebar, so we can customize and add widgets after site completion.
Homepage: White background, use colors from logo to finish out theme. Homepage needs to have 3 horizontal images of roughly 300x300 size where we can upload photos (1. Send us your footage 2. We edit your footage 3. We send back your finished video!) . The footer should appear below this 3 step photo process. We would also like to see a uniquely designed 'get started' button somewhere on the front page. This doesn't have to be a HUGE button or take up much space but it should be in there and noticeable on the front page.
Why Video: Right sidebar customizable. Simple text box on remainder of page.
Projects: We want to present our video sample projects in clean, innovative to our prospective clients. You have creative control.
Get A Quote: Customizable form submission page, so we can gather information from prospective clients about their video needs.
FAQ: simple text page with custom right sidebar for widgets
Blog: standard blog page with right customizable sidebar
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Pictured: Jennifer Botterill '02-03, a four-time
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VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Former Harvard All-American forward Jennifer Botterill '02-03 and Sarah Vaillancourt '08-09 helped Team Canada win the gold medal at the 2010 Olympics, as the Canadians defeated Team USA, 2-0, in the gold-medal game Thursday evening at Canada Hockey Place.
Crimson alumnae Angela Ruggeiro '02-04, Julie Chu '06-07 and Caitlin Cahow '07-08 earned silver medals while playing for the U.S. national team.
Botterill, who assisted on the game-winning goal at 13:55 of the first period, finished the Vancouver Games with three points, all on assists. Botterill, a four-time All-American and two-time Patty Kazmaier Award winner at Harvard, has now won three straight gold medals with Team Canada. Botterill is a four-time Olympic medalist, as she also earned the silver the Canadian national team in 1998.
Vaillancourt, a three-time All-American and Patty Kazmaier
recipient in 2008, was the leading scorer among former Harvard
players at the Olympic tournament. Vaillancourt, who earned
her second gold medal as a member of Team Canada, netted three
goals and added five assists for eight points.
For Team USA, Ruggiero, a four-time All-American and 2004 winner of the Patty Kazmaier Award, notched three goals and dished out two assists in Vancouver. Ruggiero, a defender, who was competing at her fourth Olympics, was named to the International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission earlier on Feb. 25. Ruggiero has received four Olympic medals while playing with Team USA, including the gold in 1998.
Cahow, a blue liner, earned her second Olympic medal, while scoring two goals and dishing out two assists for four points at the Vancouver Games. Cahow also picked up the bronze with Team USA at the 2006 Torino Games.
Chu, a forward, who made her third trip to the Olympics, had two goals and four assists for six points in the six tournament games. Chu was the winner of the Patty Kazmaier Trophy in 2007. Chu has now two silver medals and one bronze in her Olympic career.


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The most telling moment in "Come to the Edge," Christina Haag's memoir of her love affair with John F. Kennedy Jr., comes after his death in a plane crash off Martha's Vineyard.
There are two memorial services, one for dignitaries and family, the other for Kennedy's friends. Haag, no longer his girlfriend after a drawn-out breakup nine years earlier, attends the latter. Of all the words that are shared at the informal service, Haag remembers Christiane Amanpour's the best.
Amanpour was a foreign correspondent for CNN at the time, and a former roommate of Kennedy and Haag's when they lived together as friends in a rambling Victorian house in Providence while attending Brown.
"He was an ordinary boy in extraordinary circumstances," she said. "And he lived his life with grace."
The quote reveals two of the book's most poignant themes. The first is destiny — how does a young man born into America's royal family reconcile his sense of self with the enormous burden of expectation that is his birthright?
The second is grace. In Kennedy's world — informed by his mythic, sorrow-tinged mother — grace is transcendence. It's the intangible quality that allows public figures to live among the rest of us while remaining distinctly separate and above.
Because the life of a Kennedy is one of great privilege. And it's into this world that Haag's memoir allows us intimate access. However, she doesn't bow to tabloid sensationalism; instead, she gently dusts off her tender, aching memories and bravely holds them to the light. She examines the past frankly before donning the diaphanous veil of nostalgia that makes the book's fateful denouement all the more tragic.
The reader is swept into a rarified realm where an intensely private Jackie Kennedy — whose quietly regal life is ordered around comfort and personal space — is called Mrs. Onassis; and her children and their friends roam freely at stately homes in New Jersey, Martha's Vineyard, Palm Beach and Manhattan.
"Come to the Edge" is about the endless, burning passion of young love — the kind that strips you bare and leaves you for dead when it's over. And it's here where the book finds both its strength and its weakness. When Haag recounts amorous anecdotes, the text drips with sap. And there are more than a few awkward references to Kennedy wearing nothing but a sarong.
"My boyfriend, I learned that weekend, was the man of the hour in a striped sarong, a toastmaster par excellence, and a dancer who made my knees weak."
But for the few moments that redden the reader's cheeks, the wistful story of love and ultimate loss is told with a wealth of finely wrought details that reveal both Haag's deep sensitivity and wonder at the situation in which she has found herself; and Kennedy's conflicted nature — the free spirit who just wants to climb mountains and ski in the Alps, who admits that he is not yet a man at 30.
The book also paints a compelling portrait of the lost Manhattan of the 1970s and '80s, a mysterious place of wealth and despair where parents left Nat Shermans "like pastel candies, artfully fanned in small china cups" on living room coffee tables, and kids hung out alone in Central Park. Greenwich Village was "untouched by designer outposts. SoHo was deserted; Little Italy was Italian; thrift shops were thrift, not 'vintage.'"
This is Haag's world — one that collides squarely with Kennedy's when the two are young. The daughter of a Manhattan ad executive and a striking model, Haag, a Juilliard-trained stage and screen actress, was also born into privilege.
She lives on the Upper East Side and attends a Catholic girls' school called Convent of the Sacred Heart with Caroline Kennedy, who is two years older. In high school she goes to Brearley, an elite prep school, and runs with the same cool crowd as the skinny JFK Jr. — who is trailed by the Secret Service and goes to Collegiate, "the boy's school across the park."
Haag doesn't fall for Kennedy at first, even though — it is later revealed — he has carried a torch for her from the beginning.
When the two finally become a couple — in their mid-20s while starring together in the play "Winners" by the Irish playwright Brian Friel — it lasts for five happy, then turbulent years. Named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine, rumors of Kennedy's infidelities — including a tryst with Daryl Hannah — appear in the tabloids; and that, along with the natural rigors of time and the lengthy absences required of Haag when she takes acting jobs in different cities, cause the relationship to unravel in painfully slow motion.
Six years later, when Haag comes across a headline announcing Kennedy's marriage to Carolyn Bessette, she is devastated, recalling that "seeing the photograph was like a small death."
"I did not know then that there are those you love no matter how much they hurt you, no matter how many years have passed since you felt them in the morning," writes Haag. "I did not know that you could love them in death."
Death is always present in the book, lingering in the shadows between stories of Kennedy smoking a joint, drinking magic-mushroom tea and reading a book on tantric sex in Jamaica; cooking badly with lots of tamari; and calling Haag goofy pet names like Christmas Mouse, Puppy, Chief and Sweet Frog.
The specter of his father's violent death — and that of his uncle's — imbues the young Kennedy with a willfully reckless nature. And the book is flush with weighted moments of foreshadowing.
The most chilling is when Kennedy convinces Haag to make a perilous kayak landing above a coral reef in Jamaica. The kayak flips and is sucked under an enormous swell. The two might have drowned, and Haag is furious when they reach safety.
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Spain's Telefonica expects Mexico's new government to quickly implement new regulations designed to challenge billionaire Carlos Slim's dominance in the local telecommunications market, a top company official said.
In the last decade since entering Mexico, Telefonica has battled Slim's firms - the country's dominant fixed-line, Internet and mobile providers - while struggling to convince regulators to level the playing field.
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However, President Enrique Pena Nieto successfully pushed a sweeping telecommunication legislation through Congress this spring that should help growth at Telefonica, No. 2 in Mexico in terms of subscribers with about 20 percent of the mobile phone market.
This week a majority of Mexican states approved the constitutional reform designed to circumvent the legal hurdles that have prevented regulators from boosting competition in the sector for so long.
"It's obvious the government is looking for speedy change. They aren't just looking to transform a market as important as this one; they want to do it now," Francisco Gil Diaz, Telefonica's executive president for Mexico and Central America, told Reuters on Wednesday.
The legislation will create a new telecoms regulator that will have unprecedented authority to rein in Slim's America Movil , which previously has been able to use legal maneuvering to defy major rulings from competition authorities.
The new law, which changes the Constitution in a bid to put an end to the years of legal challenges, defines any firm that controls more than 50 percent of its market as predominant and subjects such players to tougher regulation.
Slim, the world's richest man, controls about 80 percent of the country's fixed landlines and 70 percent of mobile traffic. Telefonica fought for years to have them declared dominant players.
But only last month, Mexico's competition watchdog confirmed such a ruling against Slim that was limited in scope.
The new law "in fact provides an automatic declaration of dominance, because it's right there in the Constitution," said Gil Diaz, a former Mexico finance minister. "This is the key element, because it will have so many consequences."
Once the new regulator is up and running, a process that should take about six months, Gil Diaz said it will immediately be able to force Slim's firms to provide rivals with cheaper access to the vast network he built up from the state-run Telmex monopoly.
During the last decade, upstart firms have fought for such access, known as local loop unbundling. Mexico remains the only country of the 34-member Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that does not have unbundling in place.
The new watchdog will also subject predominant players to asymmetric regulations. This could allow smaller competitors cheaper connection rates while making Slim's firms pay smaller rivals more to use their networks.
"These are critical aspects in order to effectively see the change they are contemplating," he said.
Moreover, the new law will bar dominant players from exclusive distribution arrangements, such as America Movil's deals to be the first to roll out Apple Inc's successive versions of the iPhone in Mexico.
Such exclusivity agreements on lucrative smart phones has hurt Telefonica. Despite selling one of every five mobile phones in Mexico, the Spanish company brings in only about 12 percent of what Mexicans spend on mobile services.
Gil Diaz said he expected several of the current telecom regulator's commissioners to vie for positions on the board of the new agency, to be known as Ifetel.
That could spur a flurry of decisions at existing regulator Cofetel in the coming months on a backlog of cases regarding interconnection fees for 2010 through 2012, he said.
"They could just do nothing," Gil Diaz said. "But if I were in their shoes and if I aspired to be in the new commission, I'd better look busy."
(Reporting by Michael O'Boyle, editing by G Crosse)


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On a flight from Miami to Indianapolis one of my passengers shared with me her cruise experience. She and her husband had just returned from a seven day cruise on Royal Caribbean to the Bahamas, St. Maarten, and the Labadee, Haiti.
Her favorite part of the cruise was her visit to St. Maarten. She said the people were very friendly and it was also very clean.
She did not enjoy her visit to Labadee, Haiti because the local vendors she felt were too pushy. She said one vendor asked her if she had a child. She said told him a daughter. The vendor asked her for the name of her child. When she told him, he started to make a bracelet with her daughter's name on it. She felt compelled to buy it. When she tried to pay him for it, he did not have change. Then he tried to stuff more merchandise in the bag for her to purchase. She told him she did not want the extra souvenirs. She demanded her change. She said several others on the cruise experienced the same thing with pushy vendors.
I tried to explain to her that they Haitians were probably pushy due to earthquake and their dire economic conditions. I am sure they are trying to support many family members with the tourist income.
The woman shared with me that onboard the cruise ship only water and juice are complimentary. Soft drinks and alcohol are extra. She said you can purchase a unlimited soft drink package or charge them individually.


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Improve Your Business: Boost Accountability
Posted: December 19, 2013
Several years ago, I was searching for a way to improve my business—to take it to the proverbial "next level" you could say. Our agency's mission statement is "Tomorrow's Service Today." I thought we did a pretty good job at it…but something was missing. We're all familiar with the businesses we operate every day. (In my case, it's selling insurance.) But we aren't always familiar... Read Article
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Contact a local Erie Insurance Agent today to learn about how you can protect your business from liability claims. Read the full story from Erie Insurance: "By the Numbers: Holiday Office Parties"... Read Article
Celebrate Small Business Saturday
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In the flurry of Black Friday ads promoting sales at national chain stores, it's easy to forget about your local small business community. And that's too bad since small business gives a big boost to the economy. The Small Business Administration reports that small businesses accounted for 64 percent of new jobs created between 1993 and 2011. Shopping at a small business also pumps two... Read Article
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The personal information of customers, employees and/or tenants entrusted to you is critical to the day-to-day functioning of your business. So have you ever considered what would happen if this business data was lost, stolen or accidentally released? Whether it's a misplaced computer, an improperly shredded document or a hacked database, business data can easily become exposed. If it does, a business data breach could... Read Article
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While we'd like to think that our employees are honest, that's just not always the case. Some employees will pilfer food, alcohol or other items from restaurants while others will go for cold hard cash. In one extreme case of employee theft, federal authorities said, "Pancake houses were turned into crime dens." Federal authorities indicted 18 people in Ohio last year in a series of... Read Article


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Best Mother's Day Gift Ever – New Yorkers Give Thanks to Their Moms
Mother's Day is a time to say thanks for everything your mom has done for you. Whether she bailed you out of jail, had your back when you started that forest fire or made you dance in front of all of her friends, she did it out of love.
Now it's time to return the favor, and what better way to show your gratitude than with a simple, "Thank you"?
Director Michael Marantz proved that these two words can have the biggest impact. Along with his producer Barry Pousman, he gathered up a bunch of New Yorkers, ranging from crazy-haired hipsters to the most adorable kids, to create possibly the most touching Mother's Day present anyone could give.
We dare you not to call your mom and tell her you love her after watching this video.


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The farms, one in the central region and the other in the south, will have a combined capacity of 940 MW.
Companies from Vietnam, Ireland and the U.S. on Monday signed cooperation agreements to build two wind farms in Vietnam worth $2.2 billion.
The pacts are part of various deals reached by Vietnam and Ireland during the visit to Vietnam by President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins from November 5-14.
Vietnam's Phu Cuong Corporation will join hands with Ireland's Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. and the U.S. giant General Electric to set up an 800-megawatt wind farm in the southern province of Soc Trang. The project will need $2 billion.
In the second project, Vietnam's Pacific Corporation will cooperate with Mainstream Renewable Power Ltd. to build another 140-MW wind farm in the central province of Binh Thuan, which is worth $200 million for construction.
The same day Vietnam and Ireland also signed other agreements on poverty reduction, education and training, information and communications.
Vietnam has recently revised down the target for electricity generation by coal-fired thermal power plants from 56.4 percent of the total electricity generation to 53.2 percent by 2030.
The country is more focused on renewable energy, particularly solar and wind energy, targeting a renewable energy ratio of 10.7 percent by 2030.
But that will require a lot of investment in the coming years. Wind and solar powercapacity is estimated to account for only 0.8 percent and 0.5 percent of total electricity generation respectively by 2020.
With over 3,000 km of coastline and numerous islands, Vietnam has more wind power potential than most of other Southeast Asian nations with a total estimated capacity of 24,000 MW, the Vietnam News Agency has reported.
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Though this may not sound like a high placement, Newsweek magazine voted Bozeman High School, in Bozeman, Montana, number 585 out of the top 1500 public high schools in the United States' top high schools list 2009. According to Newsweek, there were over 21,000 high schools in the U.S. in 2008.
About the formula for determining the top U.S. Schools list, Newsweek noted the method used to rank public schools is based on a ratio devised by Jay Mathews, which basically takes the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests all students took at a school in the 2008 school year and divides it by the number of graduating seniors.
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Adios: We may be sentimental fools, but we feel a pang for the passing of New Line, which is becoming part of Warner Brothers as anticipated.
It's not that New Line had done that much for us lately. We could have lived without Snakes on a Plane and Monster-in-Law (which we saw when trapped on a plane ourselves and would have preferred the snakes). Co-Chairman Bob Shaye, who started New Line out of his Greenwich Village apartment in 1967, certainly had his failings. He has always run a seriously dysfunctional company in which atrocious behavior was the norm. And lately he's been distracted and self-indulgent, it's true.
But he also brought the world an array of work ranging from Pink Flamingos (and most of the John Waters oeuvre) to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The company's franchises included the movie version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Nightmare on Elm Street series, and Austin Powers. There were also Boogie Nights, The Wedding Singer, About Schmidt, and Elf.
It was always highs and lows with New Line, commercially and artistically. New Line had the vision to make the Lord of the Rings films—and then got into litigation with director Peter Jackson over money. Now that Jackson's suit has been settled. J.R.R. Tolkien's heirs have gone to court.
Shaye is certainly a controversial figure, but he's also the only person in decades to have built a successful movie studio from scratch. Clearly, he's also not just another cog in a corporate machine. But his company is now. (link)
Feb. 14, 2008
Score! As we predicted last year, Steven Spielberg has bailed on his role as artistic adviser to the Olympics, because the Chinese government has not used its influence to quell the violence in Darfur.
It's been a tough ride for Spielberg, with Mia Farrow pressing him to get out last March in a Wall Street Journal article in which she exhorted him not to be "the Leni Riefenstahl" of the '08 games. On Wednesday, Farrow told us that she's happy Spielberg had what she called "a Lillian Hellman moment." (Farrow has a knack for allusions to famous ladies of stage and screen, it seems.) In this case, she was referencing Hellman's refusal in 1952 to name names before the infamous House Committee on Un-American Activites. * At the time, Hellman famously issued a statement that read in part, "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." (It's a good quote, though it seems unlikely that Spielberg will pay the high price Hellman did for her defiance, which caused her to be blacklisted.)
In response to the Spielberg news, a coalition of activist organizations promptly said they will run ads around the world decrying China's inaction. The next move will be pressuring corporate sponsors, including GE, McDonald's, and many other giant American corporations. Farrow is already asking the public to call these companies and speak out, and she has conveniently listed contact information on her Web site. Patience, she told us, is an overrated virtue.
No one—not even Farrow—is asking athletes to boycott the games. But gold-medal-winning speed skater Joey Cheeks, co-founder of a coalition of athletes called Team Darfur, hopes some athletes will make their views known, especially when the world's attention is focused on them while they're in China.
The hope is to embarrass the Chinese during what was supposed to be a shining showcase for the country. So far, it doesn't seem to be working. On Tuesday, a spokesman at the Chinese Embassy told the New York Times that the Darfur crisis "is neither an internal issue of China nor is it caused by China." The spokesman added, "It is completely unreasonable, irresponsible and unfair to link the two as one." (link)
Feb. 7, 2008
Pop Quiz: "The Writers' Strike—who won?" asks Hollywoodland's inquiring editor.
The obvious answer after a bitter and expensive strike is no one. But why settle for the obvious?
No, we must go for nuance, which is just as well. Because at this point the outcome in this fight is eminently spinnable. What's clear is that the deal was pushed through the system so damn fast that many writers weren't sure what they were applauding at the guild meeting on Saturday night at the Shrine. Many thought they had made gains in new media that really aren't there—specifically, that the guild had won a percentage of ad money from shows streamed on the Internet.
That's not exactly true. But maybe it didn't matter to most of the writers at that meeting. For a great many writers, it was time to end the strike. They wanted to declare victory and go back to work.
To be fair, it appears that the writers made some strides in new media. They pushed up the studios' number on payments for downloads of their work. They made a deal to get paid for rentals over the Internet, which Apple is serving up soon. They established that they have some jurisdiction over material created specifically for the Internet. But in this and many other cases, there are all sorts of exceptions and caveats that Hollywoodland will never fully digest. So, while the writers certainly made gains, they can hardly claim a resounding victory.
Consider the supposed victory of wresting a percentage of ad revenue from the studios. That was a big deal in this negotiation. In the first two years (it's a three-year agreement), the deal gives writers a fixed payment—a few hundred bucks—when their work is streamed free over the Internet, such as when you watch an episode of The Office with commercials appended. But many writers felt that a crummy fixed payment was not good enough. So the guild announced that in the third year of the deal—ta-dum—the writer gets 2 percent of revenue from those ads. The Holy Grail!
Except the payment won't be based on the revenue from those ads. The deal makes an assumption: The revenue will be $40,000. So, the writer doesn't get a percentage of the actual gross but a percentage of a fixed amount—which turns out to be a crummy fixed payment of a few hundred bucks. And that wasn't supposed to be good enough.
It seems like sleight of hand to call this a "percentage of gross." But the Writers Guild leaders say that the notion of a percentage has at least been injected into the process and that $40,000 could actually turn out to be more than the studios get from those ads.
That may be, though it's also worth noting that in the long lists of exceptions and caveats, the studios get about three weeks to stream those television episodes before they have to pay anything at all—and doesn't it seem likely that most of the money generated from streaming those shows would come within a few days of the original broadcast?
So, that big win looks a bit chimerical. But the writers had to end the strike now or face the prospect of many more months of being out of work, which many would not have supported. And the guild may have positioned itself well for next time.
The deal supposedly gives the guild a peek at the numbers so it can figure out what the studios really do get from those ads. And the writers have now synced up their contract expiration date with the actors. So should the studios balk at giving the writers a real cut of the gross from streaming video next time (assuming it's worth having), the two unions could join hands and make some real trouble. (link)
Correction, Feb. 29, 2008: This article originally implied that Sen. Joseph McCarthy chaired the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He did not. (Return to the corrected sentence.)


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On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 4:12 PM, George Murphy <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> The reference to contingency in the ASA statement is due to Torrance's
> influence, especially on Jim Neidhardt who was on the committee that drafted
> the statement (as was I). Torrance spoke of "the doctrine of the contingent
> rationality of the universe," meaning that God created a rational universe
> but that God could have created other rational universes. In other words,
> it's an affirmation of God's freedom in creation.
> I think there would probably be a considerable spread of views among
> non-Christians, & especially atheists, about whether or not the universe has
> to be as it is. Very crudely speaking, there's a tendency for physicists to
> say "Yes" & biologists "No." Steady state cosmology & the bootstrap theory
> of particle physics of the 60s (which you can find expounded in Capra's _Tao
> of Physics_) were expressions - failed, as we now know - of the 1st
> tendency. Gould's very explicit emphasis on the contingency of evolution in
> _Wonderful Life_ is an expression of the 2d. Those who stress the role of
> chance in evolution of course are likely to insist that things could have
> turned out differently.
To his credit Kenneth R Miller has a section on this in his new book, which
I have here on my desk, but don't have room for in my head this week. He
talks about baseball and a set of events in a series, and the rule about
how sometimes one must go back to a certain point and play the game over
from there forward, the idea that the outcome cannot be predicted or
determined from the state at that point, and one thus never gets the same
result twice from a given point. He is saying evolution is like that.
I haven't got my head wrapped around this yet. But - it seems to me its a
dent in the fender of those who hypothesize that God used a statistical
universe to produce any given individual person. To do this latter the
path forward from any given state must be predictable and repeatable. This
is necessary for any deistic notion to allow God to produce a desired
outcome. But the universe isn't like that.
But perhaps I merely fail to understand Miller. I haven't read the book yet.
> Einstein once said "The thing that really interests me is whether God had
> any choice in creating the universe." (Of course one wonders what that
> really meant for a pantheist for whom God and the universe are identical!)
> I think that he really wanted the answer to be "No" but was honest enough to
> know that the question was open.
> Shalom
> George
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> *From:* David Clounch <firstname.lastname@example.com>
> *To:* Ted Davis <firstname.lastname@example.com>
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> *Sent:* Saturday, March 07, 2009 11:10 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [asa] on miracles
> Ted,
> "We believe that in creating and preserving the universe
> God has endowed it with contingent order and intelligibility, the basis of
> scientific investigation."
> When I joined the ASA I asked Elving Anderson what the meaning of
> contingency meant in this context. The answer, as I remember it, was to
> the effect of the order in the universe is "unnecessary". This seems to
> align with a volunteerist viewpoint. I polled some other local ASA
> members and got pretty much the same view. So I was able sign the
> statement of belief.
> Let me ask this: Would it be true that materialists (Dawkins, Meyers, etc)
> think order is not contingent? Does contingency separate materialism from
> non-materialism?
> Or does contingency separate deism from theism? Or is the question too
> simplistic?
> Thanks
> David Clounch
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Ted Davis <email@example.com> wrote:
>> I've said a lot of things in the past about miracles, including the
>> resurrection (the miracle that literally created the church out of a group
>> of trembling and downcast disciples), and I really can't repeat all of
>> that
>> here. The conversation here about Jesus walking on water (or "the sea")
>> does IMO illustrate some of the ways in which the modern "dialogue" of
>> science and religion can come very close to becoming a monologue, in which
>> science reigns unchallenged in an inappropriate way. Keith's point here
>> could be seen as an example:
>> <Nothing prohibits God from doing whatever God wants to do. The issue
>> seems to me to be one of our understanding of God's character, not of
>> God's capability. So one question would be why would God create the
>> physical universe in such a way that God had to break chains of cause-
>> and effect in order to accomplish God's will? Why would God create
>> in such a way as to frustrate God's creative will.
>> Another perspective is that God never acts in a way that violates the
>> created capacities of the creation. MORE snipped>
>> Keith is right that questions about the character of God and the "created
>> capacities of creation" come up in this connection. I certainly agree
>> that,
>> for someone who wants to engage the "miracle" question at a high level
>> they
>> can't be ignored. The danger of course is that the opening sentences of
>> the
>> two paragraphs quoted above are not simply in tension; the second, IMO, is
>> rationalistic in the extreme and flatly contradicts the first. The second
>> is pure David Hume, though I doubt that Hume would have put it that way
>> since I doubt that Hume believed in God at all. The first is both
>> biblical
>> and orthodox, and IMO it is the first that ought to be the stated or
>> unstated background assumption of Christians who approach this issue. The
>> rest of that first paragraph could be seen as an inquiry into that
>> assumption, since many thoughtful Christians would not want to say that
>> "whatever God wants to do" extends to putting on circus side shows of
>> pointless miracles, such as some of those in the non-canonical stories of
>> Jesus. However, IMO, the latter part of that paragraph starts to employ
>> too
>> many implicit assumptions about the amount of confidence we ought to place
>> in our understanding of what Calvin (perhaps a greater theologian than any
>> alive at the moment) would have called the mysterious counsel of God. I
>> spent several years working on "rationalist" and "voluntarist" theologies
>> of
>> creation (those might or might not be the best terms to use, but they are
>> the terms most often used by the relevant scholars), and I admit that I
>> fall
>> squarely on the "voluntarist" side of this. Both are involved, of course,
>> but the definition of voluntarism is essentially that God's will is not
>> wholly conformable to God's reason--or, more to the point practically,
>> what
>> God wants to do and actually does is not wholly conformable to our reason.
>> The position I just articulated, let me point out, is pretty much the
>> official position of the ASA. I don't declare that as ASA V-P; I have no
>> authority to make any such declarations. Rather I state it on the basis
>> of
>> the official ASA statement of faith, which all regular members and fellows
>> affirm, and my expertise in science/religion. The third plank in our
>> platform states, "We believe that in creating and preserving the universe
>> God has endowed it with contingent order and intelligibility, the basis of
>> scientific investigation." The explicit reference here to "contingent
>> order" is undoubtedly a reference to what I just said at the end of the
>> previous paragraph above. The term comes from Thomas Torrance, and the
>> theology comes from the best parts (IMO) of the classical doctrine of
>> creation, in turn based on biblical theology. This does not shut the door
>> to reason--the "order" part of that term is a direct reference to our
>> intelligence, made in the image of God, which enables us to comprehend
>> quite
>> deeply a great deal of the magnificent and subtle creative acts of God.
>> But
>> the "contingent" part means, as Keith said, that God does whatever God
>> wants--and that (here I am drawing on my work as an historian of
>> "contingency" in the relevant sense) our minds aren't going to be able to
>> limit what God wants. As in, we won't be able to do it, b/c we aren't
>> omniscient; but also, we won't be able to do it, b/c God can and does do
>> things that lie utterly and entirely outside our ability to know them.
>> That
>> is precisely what is meant by "contingent" in this context.
>> To summarize: go slowly here. It's not hard to understand why one might
>> raise questions about the authenticity of any given "miracle" report,
>> whether in the Bible or anywhere else. It's not hard to understand why a
>> careful theologian might need to develop a coherent set of criteria for
>> affirming the likelihood that God did act "miraculously" in a given
>> instance
>> (the resurrection would be simply one such instance, IMO, and many more
>> could be added). At the same time, we must take appropriate care not to
>> raise our limited intellects over God's freedom. Most of us probably
>> believe that, without freedom, we wouldn't be human; some go further and
>> say
>> that, without freedom (in the sense of being a creature whose integrity is
>> respected by the creator), the creation would be a genuine creation; I am
>> stressing the essential point that, without freedom (in the sense
>> explained
>> above), God would not be God--and, I would add, if God isn't free then you
>> can pretty much give up any illusion that you are, yourself.
>> I had a detailed, lengthy exchange about this very point--that God would
>> not
>> be God, if certain theological assumptions were not challenged--several
>> years ago with Howard Van Till, on this list. The archives should contain
>> it, for anyone who wants to read more about this crucial issue.
>> Ted
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Jobs in Renewable Energy Expand in Turbulent Process
New analysis examines global trends in employment in the renewable energy sector.
Michael Renner is a Senior Researcher and the Co-Director of State of the World 2014 with the Worldwatch Institute.
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There may now be as many as 6.5 million direct and indirect jobs in renewable energy, according to updated data from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Earlier assessments had put the global estimate at 2.3 million jobs in 2008 (United Nations Environment Programme) and at 5 million jobs in 2012 (International Labour Organization). Although these estimates suggest a strong expansion in employment in renewable energy, the figures also represent successive efforts to broaden data collection across countries and sectors, write Worldwatch Senior Researcher Michael Renner and IRENA's Rabia Ferroukhi, Arslan Khalid, and Alvaro Lopez-Peña in the Worldwatch Institute's latest Vital Signs Online trend (www.worldwatch.org).
The overall upward trend in renewable energy jobs has been accompanied by considerable turmoil in some industries. Nowhere are the upheavals more noticeable than in the solar photovoltaic (PV) sector, where intensified competition, massive overcapacities, and tumbling prices have caused a high degree of turbulence in the last two to three years, but they have also triggered a boom in installations. Global PV employment is thought to have expanded from 1.4 million jobs in 2012 to as many as 2.3 million in 2013.
Solar PV has bypassed biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) as the top renewable energy job generator. Most of the 1.45 million biofuels jobs are found in the growing and harvesting of feedstock such as sugar cane, corn, or palm oil. This involves physically demanding manual work, and workers often contend with oppressive workplace conditions. Processing of the feedstock into fuels offers far fewer jobs, but the ones created are higher skilled and they pay better.
Employment in the next-largest renewables sector, wind power, is estimated to run to some 834,000 jobs. Uncertainty about the future direction of policies in several countries weakened job creation in this field in 2013, leading to a sharp drop in new installations in the United States and to weak markets in large parts of Europe and in India. In contrast, developments in China and Canada were more positive.
Countries that are home to half of the world's population—China, members of the European Union, Brazil, the United States, and India—account for the bulk of renewable energy employment: 5.8 million direct and indirect (supply chain) jobs out of 6.5 million worldwide.
Better information is necessary for a range of countries to generate a more complete and accurate renewable energy employment picture. Attention is also needed on the question of whether development of renewable energy leads to job loss elsewhere, including in the conventional energy industries.
All in all, available information suggests that renewable energy has grown to become a significant source of jobs. Rising labor productivity notwithstanding, the job numbers are likely to grow in coming decades as the world's energy system shifts toward low-carbon sources.
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Many people socialise after work, in the evening or at the weekend through the festive season and the campaign aims to drive down fatal and serious road traffic collisions and protect other road users by enforcement and education.
Inspector Ian Hancock, Road Policing Team, said
Officers will be carrying out roadside stop checks across Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire on drivers during the campaign – both at night-time and the morning after. Anyone suspected of being over the limit will be breath-tested. All drivers involved in road traffic collisions which the police attend are also tested.
If you're going out for a drink with friends or family think of the consequences of drink driving and nominate a designated driver.
Don't forget that you could still be over the limit the next morning if you drink the night before.
Last Christmas we stopped thousands of vehicles and breath-tested over 1,800 drivers – arresting 118 people.
We are committed to reducing the number of fatal and serious road traffic collisions in Staffordshire.
Driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs is both anti social and dangerous.
Staffordshire Police want to make it clear that It is against the law and the offences committed have both short and long term consequences
- when you are caught you will be breath tested and if positive you will be arrested
- you will be taken to a police station and if the station test is positive, or you fail or refuse to provide a blood or urine sample, you will be charged
- you will attend court and if found guilty, you will be banned from driving for a period of at least 12 months. You will have to pay a hefty fine, court costs or even be given a prison sentence
What happens next?
- losing your licence may mean losing your job and your standard of living
- you could lose the respect of friends and family and you will have a criminal record
- you may be excluded from travelling to some countries. When you can drive again you will pay a lot more for insurance cover.
If someone was to be seriously injured or killed as a result of your involvement in a road traffic collision, you could be charged with a more serious offence, the consequences from which will be much more serious and possibly in addition to those already stated
- your driving ban will be longer
- your fine will be bigger
- you are more likely to go to prison
- the families of those maimed by serious injuries, the injured themselves who may not be able to work again, and the relatives of anyone killed by your actions, will remember you for the rest of their lives
Insp Hancock added
Remember, drinking or drug driving is anti social, against the law and it can ruin lives and families. The family could be yours.
Is drink or drug driving worth the risk of these consequences?


text: Cape Town - South Africa's one-day international (ODI) captain AB de Villiers is relishing his first opportunity to lead his team without keeping wicket. "I have always felt a bit rushed trying to captain the side and keep wicket," De Villiers said on Friday in Cape Town. "I will probably stand at mid-off and be able to communicate with my bowlers a lot better as well as get a better perspective of the game." De Villiers had been in charge of the one-day team since 2011 and had conducted affairs in all 13 of those matches from behind the wicket. Quinton de Kock, the 20-year-old Highveld Lion, would now take over the gloves in the first of three ODIs against New Zealand, starting on Saturday at Paarl. De Villiers acknowledged the ODI team had not been consistent, winning nine of the 13 matches under his watch. Having climbed to the top of the ODI rankings, just one point ahead of England, South Africa needed to win the series 3-0 to maintain their position. "We will just take one game at a time, and not worry about rankings," De Villiers said. "We need to build a team for the next World Cup, and we need to produce consistent results. We have to Champions Trophy coming up in June which is a massive tournament for us on the way to the 2015 World Cup." The team were still trying to establish a solid batting line-up, but would persist with the policy of a floating line-up, sending players in as the circumstances demanded, rather than sticking to a rigid batting order. South Africa had not played a 50-overs match since winning the fifth and final ODI in England in September, which enabled them to draw the series 2-2. New Zealand had a mountain to climb if anything was to be salvaged from their South African tour. Beaten 2-1 in the T20 series and comprehensively outplayed in the two-Test series, they were determined to go out fighting. Captain Brendon McCullum believed the addition of specialised one-day player Kyle Mills would add strength to a team which, he said, were "incredibly focused and determined to put up the best fight they can". "Kyle is very experienced with a good record and he will provide some leadership -- we have been a bit short of leadership," said McCullum. "We know we can perform with the white ball and the spirit in the change room is good." As in the Test series, the New Zealand line-up was not at full strength. Johannesburg-born Grant Elliott was brought in for the injured Corey Anderson and Neil Wagner, who spent his early years in Pretoria, was added when Adam Milne aggravated a leg injury. A victory over South Africa would end a dismal run for the Black Caps, who had not won a series for over a year. Their last win was against Zimbabwe - languishing in 10th place the world rankings - and then the Kiwis were beaten 3-0 by South Africa at home immediately afterwards. The second ODI will be played at Kimberley on Tuesday and the third at Potchefstroom on Friday.


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Drug abuse and dependence can be treated with levels of success comparable to those for other chronic conditions. Similarly to chronic diseases, such as diabetes or hypertension, the use of a combination of approaches (medications, behavioural changes, and health care for physical and psychological symptoms) during appropriate periods of time is needed to suit each individual's needs and the severity of the problem at different stages of recovery.
There are many types of services for drug users that may be linked to provide a 'continuum of care'. If there is integration between different interventions, clients are more likely to progress and move smoothly from one programme to another to become, and remain, drug-free.
Types of interventions
Early/brief interventions
Early/brief interventions are designed to prevent the progression to problematic drug use by detecting persons who are using drugs in a potentially hazardous manner and helping them to stop or decrease use. This is best carried out within the primary care system by general practitioners, nurses and community workers.
Outreach, harm reduction and low-threshold interventions
Outreach, harm reduction and low-threshold interventions aim to reach drug users, build trust, provide basic living support, prevent or reduce negative health consequences associated with certain behaviours, and initiate a therapeutic process whenever the person is ready for it, without setting abstinence as an initial condition. In relation to drug injecting, "harm reduction" components of comprehensive interventions aim to prevent transmission of HIV and other infections that occur through the sharing of non-sterile injection equipment and drug preparations.
Detoxification programmes help a person who is dependent on a psychoactive substance to cease use in a way that minimizes the symptoms of withdrawal and the risk of complications, sometimes using a prescribed medication. Detoxification alone has limited effectiveness and should be considered the starting point for other treatment interventions aimed at abstinence.
Counselling and psychotherapy
Counselling and psychotherapy form integral parts of most forms of treatment. They aim at initiating and maintaining behavioural and lifestyle changes, and help to control urges to use illicit substances. Counselling is an intensive interpersonal process concerned with assisting people in achieving their Jodhpurls or functioning more effectively. It uses a variety of methodologies and techniques, including motivational interventions, cognitive-behavioural approaches (social skills training, stress management, anger management),relapse prevention, provision of incentives, community reinforcement therapies and family interventions. Psychotherapy is generally a longer-term process concerned with reconstruction of the person and larger changes in more fundamental psychological attributes, such as personality structure.
Pharmacotherapy involves the use of prescribed medications to support the patient in stabilizing his/her life and reducing or eliminating the use of a particular illicit substance. Two main types of pharmacological agents are administered for these purposes: substitution drugs, which are pharmacologically related to the drug producing dependence; and blocking agents, which do not have any psychotropic effects and block the effects of the substance(s) producing dependence.
Pharmacotherapies are often accompanied by psychological and other treatment.
Self help Self help approaches aim at abstinence from alcohol and other drugs and are mostly organized around the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) or adaptations of that programme.
These programmes involve admitting one is powerless over one's drinking/drug taking and over one's life because of drinking/ drug taking, turning one's life over to a 'higher power', making a moral inventory and amends for past wrongs, and offering to help other people with addiction problems.
Ancillary health and social services. Many patients also require other services, such as medical and mental health services, vocational training, employment and housing support, and legal advice.
Continuing care/aftercare
As the patient progresses, the intensity of treatment decreases and the final part of treatment entails continuing individual and group support in order to prevent a return to substance use. Full rehabilitation and reintegration requires efforts at all levels of society.
Treatment Setting
Depending on the individual needs and problem severity, treatment interventions will take place in one of the following settings:
Community-based treatment is in a non-residential setting. Outpatient treatments (day attendance based services provided from a hospital) are often bracketed by community-based treatments. Examples of community-based treatments are opioid substitution programmes, counselling programmes and aftercare services.
Residential treatment
Residential treatment programmes provide residential services on the same site as treatment services. The programmes generally strive to provide an environment free of substance abuse, with an expectation for compliance in a number of activities such as detoxification, assessment, information/education, counselling, group work, vocational training, and the development or recovery of social and lifeskills. Two main types of residential treatment are available: shorter term residential therapy (less than six months, including detoxification) and residential therapeutic community treatment (typically six to 12 months post-detoxification). Therapeutic communities are highly structured programmes focusing on the resocialization of the patient to a drug-free lifestyle, using the programme's community as an active ingredient of treatment.
Institutional treatment
Institutional treatment, meaning drug treatment programmes in correctional institutions, can provide similar services to those available in the community with the aims ranging from a reduction of the health consequences, including HIV/ AIDS transmission, to the elimination of drug abuse and a reduction of criminal behaviours. The most successful programmes link to community-based programmes that continue treatment when the client returns to the community.


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European Commission
Brussels, 18 June 2014
Q&A on the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR)
Why do we need an EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region?
Better coordination and cooperation between the countries and regions concerned is needed to address shared challenges and better exploit opportunities. On this basis, the European Council of December 2012 requested the European Commission to present a new macro-regional strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region before the end of 2014.
Which countries are involved in the Strategy?
The Region is a functional area primarily (but not exclusively) defined by the Adriatic and Ionian Sea basin. Home to more than 70 million people, the Region plays a key role in strengthening geographical continuity in Europe.
In its current shape, the Strategy builds on the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative1, which concerns eight countries: four EU Member States (Croatia, Greece, Italy, Slovenia) and four non-EU countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia).
Will it be open to other countries?
The Strategy remains open to other partners in the Region.
Why does the EU need to be involved in this? Where is the added value?
The EU is in a good position to facilitate and coordinate cooperation, especially in the Strategy's initial phase. However, leadership of the Strategy should come from the countries and regions involved themselves.
Involvement of the EU will facilitate a cross-sector approach consistent with different EU policies. It will highlight possible complementarities and synergies between policies and programmes currently carried out in the Region. It will help aligning and mobilising the wide range of funds and programmes currently available in the Region to support the achievement of the Strategy's goals.
There is already a wealth of experience in this area: the existing Maritime Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Seas is an integral part of this new broader macro-regional strategy. The new Strategy can build on the lessons learnt from the other two current macro-regional strategies (EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EU Strategy for the Danube Region). In this context, the involvement of the EU can also lead to synergies between the EUSAIR and the other macro-regional strategies, in particular with the Danube Strategy which includes five EUSAIR countries and addresses transport, energy and the environment as key fields of action.
See also: the Report on the added value of the macro-regional Strategies (June 2013)
What are the main objectives of the Strategy?
The two general objectives of the EUSAIR are: to promote sustainable economic and social prosperity of the Region through growth and jobs creation, by improving its attractiveness, competitiveness and connectivity, while preserving the environment and ensuring a healthy and balanced marine and coastal ecosystems.
And crucially, to contribute to the EU integration of the participating Western Balkan candidate and potential candidate countries, by bringing together countries with much shared history and geography.
The idea is to identify concrete joint priorities for the macro-region, making the best use of existing institutions, policies and funds and setting realistic goals for maximum impact.
What areas will it cover?
The following four themes/pillars have been identified:
Capacity building –including communication-, research & innovation and SMEs development are cross-cutting aspects, whereas due account is to be taken of mitigation of and adaptation to climate change effects as well as of efficient disaster risk management (including prevention) as horizontal principles underpinning all actions carried out under the four pillars.
On what basis were the four themes selected?
The four themes were first identified in meetings of the Foreign Ministers of the participating countries with Commissioner Hahn in November 2012. From September to December 2013, a stakeholders' consultation was held across the Region on the content of the future Action Plan of the Strategy, with the aim of reflecting the real needs of the inhabitants of the area. The contributions gathered were further discussed at a Stakeholder Conference of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, jointly organised in Athens on 6-7 February 2014 by the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission.
What exactly is the relationship between the Maritime Strategy and this new one?
The EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region largely builds on the Maritime Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Seas adopted on 30 November 2012. It shares the same geography, many challenges and main growth and jobs opportunities, and adds a new dimension of cooperation between partners on the coastal hinterland.
Maritime and marine issues are fully mainstreamed into the four pillars of the EUSAIR, notably with reference to: Research & Innovation on blue economy and maritime clusters; sustainability of fisheries; diversification and sustainability of aquaculture; maritime governance; marine knowledge, biodiversity and Marine Protected Areas; pollution of sea (eutrophication, marine litter and major oil spills); maritime traffic congestion; surveillance and short-sea and deep-sea shipping; island connectivity; maritime and coastal tourism sustainability and seasonality. Strong emphasis is also given to building capacity in candidate and potential candidate countries so as to progressively comply with EU rules and standards such as the Common Fisheries Policy, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Maritime Spatial Planning Directive.
What are the concrete benefits for the Adriatic and -Ionian Region?
The strategy builds on existing initiatives and proposes new ones designed to:
Who can benefit from the Strategy?
All macro-regional stakeholders can benefit from the Strategy, including: local, regional and national administrations, universities, clusters, SMEs, civil society organisations and associations, private partners, and international investors. And, above all, the citizens living in the Region.
How will the Strategy be paid for?
Although the Strategy does not come with extra EU financing, the EUSAIR will mobilise and bring together existing EU and national funding instruments.
In particular the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) as well as the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) for 2014-2020, provide significant financial resources and a wide range of tools and technical options.
EU Funds and programmes of relevance for the specific pillar to be covered include, inter alia:
Other finance is also available, notably from the Western Balkans Investment Framework, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and other International Financial Institutions. These funds and instruments should create significant leverage and attract further funding from private investors.
How will the Strategy be implemented? Who does what?
Experience with existing macro-regional strategies shows that good and stable governance is crucial to get the most out of this kind of cooperation. The recent Commission's Report on governance of Macro-Regional Strategies of 20 May 2014 identifies two main needs in order to bring clearer results and greater impact: stronger political leadership and effective decision-making, and greater clarity and better organisation for day-to-day actions.
The Report clearly places the onus on participating countries themselves to take the prime responsibility for ensuring that the Strategy and its accompanying Action Plan are implemented in practice.
A pair of countries – one EU Member State and one non-EU country - coordinated the development of the Action Plan for each pillar:
Effective and straightforward governance structures will be put in place as soon as the Strategy is endorsed by the Council.
Technical and operational tasks will be supported by the future Adriatic-Ionian transnational cooperation programme under European Territorial Cooperation goal.
What is the role of the Commission?
The Commission will act as a facilitator to the process of developing and implementing a coherent Strategy for the Region. This entails offering strategic support by identifying shortcomings that need to be addressed at political level, as well as suggesting resolution of implementation stalemates. It should ensure coherence, notably through mainstreaming of the macro-regional approach into EU policies and funds. The Commission will also liaise as appropriate with existing institutions (e.g. the EIB) that can deliver an important contribution to the implementation of the Action Plan.
What are the next steps?
The Communication and the accompanying Action Plan are transmitted to the European Parliament, the Council, the Committee of the Regions and the European Economic and Social Committee. After endorsement by the European Council, expected during the second half of 2014, the implementation of the Strategy can start. However, the mainstreaming of the Strategy into the Operational Programmes for the European Structural and Investment Funds and for the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance for 2014-2020 is already taking place.
Communication and Action Plan on the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region
The intergovernmental Adriatic-Ionian Initiative was launched in 2000 with the aim of strengthening regional cooperation, promoting political and economic stability and thus creating e a solid base for the European integration process.
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McAuliffe offers olive branch to GOP
RICHMOND, Va. — Terry McAuliffe, the legendary Democratic fundraiser and political fixer, had a message for Republicans during his rain-drenched inauguration Saturday as Virginia's governor: Let's make a deal.
With a Republican-controlled General Assembly and control of the state Senate up for grabs in two contested special elections, McAuliffe struck a conciliatory tone following a bitter campaign, praising outgoing Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, and even quoting Thomas Jefferson in calling for compromise on subjects such as Medicaid expansion.
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"The impediments to consensus are well known: ideology, personal political ambition, partisanship or score-settling," the 56-year-old said as longtime allies Bill and Hillary Clinton looked on. "No one who has served as an elected official has looked back and wished they had been more rigid, more ideological or more partisan.
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"Like four years ago, the skeptics are predicting divided government driven to gridlock by partisanship," McAuliffe said. "Virginia, together, we will prove them wrong again."
Still, the challenges are very real, and McAuliffe, who barely won his race, may have little room to maneuver. The 16-minute speech made clear the extent to which he understands that his success depends on crossover Republican support.
His first big test comes in trying to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, something he has said is one of his top priorities. But many Republicans remain strongly opposed and the problems with the Obamacare rollout have only stiffened the resistance.
Recognizing this, the state's 72nd governor argued in his speech that the business community and health care executives want Virginia to take federal money that's on the table. Nonetheless, he signaled he was open to getting as much as he can get from the Republican legislature.
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"With a stronger health care system in Virginia as our objective," he said, "I will work with the legislature to build on the Medicaid reforms that the General Assembly has already achieved, and to put Virginians' own tax dollars to work keeping families healthy and creating jobs here in the Commonwealth."
It was the smallest turnout for an inauguration in memory, and the dreary weather was a big factor — the event almost was moved inside due to thunder.
Another apparent reason for the relatively small crowd was that McAuliffe, a native of Syracuse, New York, lacks deep ties to Richmond. A huge swath of his supporters freely admitted to pollsters last year that they were voting primarily against his Republican opponent, Ken Cuccinelli.
The pair ran bitter campaigns against each other, and, Cuccinelli, the outgoing attorney general, never called to congratulate McAuliffe. McAuliffe won by only 2.5 percent, with a plurality, despite a massive fundraising advantage.
The Clintons, as usual, were an unavoidable presence at the event, though neither spoke and McAuliffe did not refer to them in his speech. But several other of McAuliffe's friends from decades as a player in national politics also were on hand, from Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) to Jerry Lundergan, the father of Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes. Also spotted were Clinton loyalist Huma Abedin, the wife of scandal-scarred New York politician Anthony Weiner, and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a potential 2016 presidential candidate.
McAuliffe's son John, a midshipman at the Naval Academy, led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. As is tradition in the Old Dominion, many of the elected officials wore morning suits with gloves.