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“No final peace agreement will be signed without the government making it known to the people first,” Secretary Teresita Q. Deles, presidential adviser on the peace process, said in a statement issued on Saturday.
For the MILF, spokesperson Von Al-Haq stressed that the Moro rebels will continue its advocacy for transparency with the Bangsamoro people.
“Every development [in the peace process], we always bring it to the ground for consultation with our stakeholders,” he said on the phone on Sunday.
The two sides have reached a significant stride in the 15-year-old peace talks last month with the signing of the Decision Points on Principles, which shall serve as the framework in the discussion and formulation of the comprehensive peace compact.
Both sides have since separately conducted consultations regarding the breakthrough in parts of Mindanao.
Amity talks are slated to resume this month with the discussion expected to focus on the crucial issues of power and wealth sharing.
Ms. Deles insisted the “government has no hidden agendas” when it comes to the negotiations with the Moro rebels or with any other groups. “The promise of the government is that before there is a document that is to be signed, it is going to be publicized,” she said.
Ms. Deles said the government wants to come out with a plan that addresses the concerns of the party it is talking with, adding that it should also be acceptable to the Filipino people.
Internationally, she noted, it should be seen as the best the government can offer under the circumstances.
Meanwhile, Ms. Deles, government chief negotiator Mario Victor F. Leonen and some members of the government panel arrived in Zamboanga City over the weekend to consult with local government officials and members of the civil society on the progress of the talks.
Peace Advocates Zamboanga, which is the group that facilitated the consultation, asked how the future accord would redress the innocent victims of the war and other grievances.
Ms. Deles responded that part of the negotiation is to create a “Bangsamoro Commission” which will oversee such problems.
As the government is starting to gain support on the talks, the MILF, meanwhile, held a meeting with the MNLF to discuss what the ongoing talks have achieved and how the two fronts will integrate their efforts.
Jun Mantawil, head of the MILF peace panel secretariat, said the meeting held in Davao City on Saturday was a follow-up to a series of fraternal consultations in the past with the aim of finding consensus points to promote the higher interests of the Bangsamoro people. “Nothing formal is to be agreed by the two parties except perhaps a meeting of the minds to work for the higher cause of the Bangsamoro people,” he explained. — Romer S. Sarmiento and Darwin T. Wee
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BEACHWOOD — Lori Stevic-Rust, clinical psychologist and dementia expert, will speak on “Dementia: Seeing it Through the Eyes of the Person” at 10:30 a.m. May 20 at Montefiore, 1 David N. Myers Parkway.
The free talk is part of “Food for Thought,” Montefiore’s Sunday brunch and speaker series.
Stevic-Rust will discuss what dementia is and how it affects not only memory, but also mood, behavior and personality and decision-making. Learn what different behaviors mean and how to manage them and when it is no longer safe for a loved one to be home alone, to drive and to manage finances.
Stevic-Rust is Montefiore’s program advisor for its new assisted living memory care program and pavilion for people with early- to mid-stage dementia. The 1,000-square-foot exterior expansion, along with a 4,400-square-foot renovation of existing space, is scheduled to open in the fall.
A national speaker on health-related topics with specialty areas in geriatrics and stress disorders, Stevic-Rust is a contributing writer for Cleveland Business Connects magazine and a regular contributor to Fox 8 News (WJW-TV) and WKYC-TV.
She holds a doctorate in psychology and a master’s degree in community counseling.
The event is sponsored by the Bea Gray Sunshine Fund of The Montefiore Foundation.
A light bagel lunch will be served. No reservations are required.
Call (216) 910-2647.
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Sure there are the late-night feedings, the early-morning hockey practices, and all kinds of stress – but new research suggests that parents are still happier than childless couples.
A forthcoming paper from psychologists at the University of British Columbia, Stanford, and the University of California suggests parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning than non-parents and parents derive more joy from child care than other daily tasks.
The paper, In Defence of Parenthood: Children Are Associated With More Joy Than Misery, combines three different studies, one from each school, and will be published in the journal Psychological Science this year.
“We were surprised by our findings,” said Elizabeth Dunn, a University of British Columbia psychology professor and co-author of the study. “The impression many of us have now from media and academic research is that parenting seems to be this rather negative experience.”
In the past, other research has linked parenthood with lower life satisfaction, unhappy marriages and even depression. But in the UBC study, 186 participants were asked to rank how they felt during their day-to-day activities, such as going to work, cooking, commuting, socializing, playing with children and changing diapers. Parents reported they felt child care was more meaningful and made them happier than other tasks.
Dunn, who is expecting her first child, said parenthood is related to, but may not cause, happiness.
“I’m not the pregnant girl going around saying everyone needs to have babies to be happy,” she said. “As a scientist, I’m not saying that. But you’re not about to enter a dark period of misery, which was the impression that’s out there.”
But new parents report that things do change after baby.
“We were this happy, carefree couple,” said Raj Sharma, 35. He and wife Jasmeen Gill, 30, have a seven-week-old infant. “Now we have a kid, so there’s a whole new set of considerations.”
No going out to lounges or dinners and no more drinking, said Gill. And no one told her about nursing every two hours, even in the middle of the night. “It’s been seven weeks, and I haven’t had more than 21/2 hours sleep in one stretch.”
Still, they plan on expanding their family.
“Absolutely,” Gill said. “Even though my life has changed, there’s so much more to it, the meaning, the experience . . . It’s only been seven weeks but already I’m like, ‘When am I going to have my next child?’ “
Article source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Parents+happier+than+childless+couples+study/6649252/story.html
It takes more than physical skill to be a winner at the highest level of professional sports. It needs grit, determination, focus and confidence. Chelsea have shown that in spades in their last three Champions’ League games. In both legs against Barcelona in the semi finals, the Blues were pinned to the proverbial wall from start to finish; tonight, in the main, was more of the same.
Home-town favourites Bayern Munich had more of the ball, four times as many opportunities on goal, and a plethora of chances to kill the 2012 Champions’ League Final both in regular time and extra time. Arjen Robben’s missed penalty, chances squandered by Mario Gomes and Thomas Muller, the botched pass from Ivica Olic which rolled past Daniel van Buyten before an open goal…
And yet Chelsea were the victors, courtesy of defying all the odds over 270 minutes. Even after John Terry’s moment of insanity in the Nou Camp, Roberto Di Matteo’s ten men clung grimly on, finding the mental strength to recover from 2-0 down and advance with an astonishing display of bloody-mindedness and sheer willpower.
Several of Chelsea’s staff embody this mental capacity. Di Matteo’s composure, level-headedness and humility in the face of all the pressures and plaudits he has encountered of late have been incredibly eye-catching. He refuses to let the incessant speculation over his future cloud the importance of the present, and has cajoled a squad which was at breaking point into an impenetrable, cohesive unit.
Didier Drogba’s selfless energy and work ethic have shone out over Chelsea’s run to the Champions’ League trophy. The Ivorian’s commitment to covering his teammates is outstanding. Chelsea fans will have noticed it long ago, I’m sure, but it’s only really dawned on me watching the semi-finals and tonight’s game that whenever Ashley Cole or Jose Bosingwa is caught out of position, it’s almost invariably Drogba who busts a gut to get back there and plug the gap. Yes, he conceded a penalty in extra time – but doesn’t that tell you something? How many strikers would have been in the position to concede it?
Veteran striker Drogba may have just played his final game for Chelsea – but between his effort defensively, the bullet header to equalise in the dying moments and the title-clinching penalty conversion, surely he has done enough to extend his eight-year stay in London. And even in the jubilant scenes which followed the shoot-out, the Ivorian found time to console not only Bastien Schweinstaiger, but his former Chelsea teammate Robben, with whom he talked and hugged for some time while his teammates celebrated.
Depleted in midfield, Di Matteo leaned heavily on Frank Lampard to anchor his team, and the Chelsea stalwart did not disappoint. This was not a night for Lampard to showcase his attacking talents, but he covered as much ground as he could in shadowing Muller and Toni Kroos and harrassing Bayern’s creative talents when they came within shooting range.
Ashley Cole rolled back the years to produce one of the finest defensive displays of his Chelsea career (Image | Sky Sports)
And then there was the back four. Many – me, for a start – believed that the absence of John Terry and Branislav Ivanovic would be decisive. Although Bosingwa and David Luiz weren’t perfect in their performance – Luiz committed so many fouls it wouldn’t have been surprising to see him sent to an early bath – their work rate was outstanding. Gary Cahill played through the pain barrier in extra time.
Cole, meanwhile, personifies the siege-defence mentality Chelsea have been forced to adopt in the latter stages of this tournament, the England left-back producing one of the most memorable displays of his career in timing every tackle to perfection and getting in block after block as Munich threatened to overcome their ‘visitors’.
Many in red showed that they had what it takes to win tonight, too. Manuel Neuer, barely tested in two hours of football, stood up to save Juan Mata’s penalty and then convert his own in the shoot-out. Philipp Lahm exorcised his shoot-out demons of the semi-final; Muller recovered from a couple of poor misses to score the opening goal seven minutes from the end of normal time.
In the end, however, Bayern didn’t get enough from their front three tonight. Robben, Gomes and Frank Ribery combined to blaze shot after shot over the bar or round the post, and on several occasions missed the target when it should have been easier to hit it. And after Robben’s penalty miss in extra time seemed to herald a shoot-out, it was Schweinstaiger, the archetypal Munich hero, whose stuttering run-up backfired so spectacularly in the final moment of the competition.
There will, naturally, be endless questions over the next couple of months about the futures of Di Matteo, Drogba and others in the Chelsea squad. For now, at least, they have proven their worth – mentally, as well as in terms of results – to Roman Abramovich and Chelsea.
Article courtesy of Rob Schatten from his excellent blog ‘The Armchair Pundits’
Article source: http://www.footballfancast.com/2012/05/football-blogs/the-psychology-of-a-winner
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Jeffery Combs will make available his special new digital package for the Psychology of Asking program on Sunday. This package will not only include his highly acclaimed ‘Psychology of Asking’ Audio but also some special bonuses as well.
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Report by Kamala Kanta Dash; New Delhi: Roots and Routes, the monthly Newsletter of the Global Research Forum for Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) was released by Dr. A. Didar Singh, former Secretary of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), Government of India and Guest of Honour Ambasador Paramjit Singh Sahai at a Seminar on “India’s Diaspora Policy and Advocacy� held at the School of Social Sciences in JNU on 12 May 2012.
The inaugural April issue has the welcome message from Mr. Vayalar Ravi, Minister of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) Government of India. The Minister has lauded the efforts of the GRFDT and has wished the forum a great future. To quote him “I appreciate the efforts of the Forum, to connect, highlight and enlighten on various aspects of diaspora and transnationalism. I hope this initiative would yield to greater cooperation, understanding and benefit the society at large.�
The Newsletter also features congratulatory messages from 14 leading diaspora scholars and policy makers from Armenia, Bangladesh, China, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zimbabwe. The inaugural issue, among others, covers a report of the GRFDT’s national seminar on Indian Diaspora: Mobility and Identity chaired by Prof RK Jain, a book review by Vinod Kumar of JNU, an interview with Dr. Kavim Bhatnagar, a list of new books on the subject, information on forthcoming conferences, admissions and fellowships.
Like the inaugural issue, the forthcoming issues of “Roots and Routes” will cover updates on seminars, conferences, book reviews, interviews, fellowships and other scholarly updates in the subject areas of global diaspora, international migration, diaspora policy, remittance, global trade and FDI, diaspora advocacy, diasporic art culture, diasporic writings, diasporic entrepreneurship, issues of identity, multiculturalism, social cohesion, racism, discrimination, social exclusion, diaspora and development, charity and philanthropy. This newsletter would be highly informative and useful for students, academics and book publishers in the subjects of social sciences, humanities and management including Sociology, Literature, Political Science, Economics, Development studies, Business Management and International Relations etc.
GRFDT is a consortium of researchers and policy makers drawn from national and international universities, institutes and organizations. It has been conceived as an academic and policy think tank to engage national and international experts from academics, practitioners and policy makers in a broad range of areas such as migration policies, transnational linkages of development, human rights, culture and gender etc to mention a few. In the changing global environment of academic research and policy making, the role of GRFDT will be of immense help to various stakeholders. The engagement of diaspora with various platform need to be reassessed in the present context to engage them in the best possible manner for the development human societies by providing policy input at the national and global levels.
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A think-tank to come up with ideas to map out the future of financial services in Malta, maintaining the levels of excellence achieved so far is to be set up, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said this morning.
Opening the fifth annual Finance Malta conference, Mr Fenech said:
“We need to continue to think outside the box and identify the ways to ensure a sustainable growth in financial services; whether in terms of fiscal or non-fiscal incentives, policy or regulatory developments and educational and training requirements, amongst others.
“In this manner, financial services can continue to support our economy in achieving better levels of growth, investment and job creation.”
Mr Fenech said that Malta had to do its utmost to protect its financial stability, balancing the constraints of fiscal consolidation with the need to foster growth.
Across Europe, he said, there was a growing realisation of the need for policies which promoted growth and jobs and restored full and balanced economic health.
Malta, he said, was pulling its weight even on the European stage. It contributed to the European Stability Fund, and pledged funds to the bailout of Greece.
The European Union was doing a lot to seek to prevent the turmoil the world suffered over the past few years. This included a reorganisation of the regulatory structure of financial services, a range of new regulations and directives all aimed at ensuring stability and protecting the interests of investors, tighter capital requirements for banks in Basel 3, and the regulation of credit rating agencies.
Malta, compared to the rest of Europe, was in a very fortunate position.
“Our banks have and continue to finance all their loans from deposits received, which has allowed them to outperform most banks around the rest of Europe and provides them with the resilience needed to survive a global credit crunch.”
Mr Fenech noted that the aims of the reform were good, and for the most part the government supported it. However, there were two particular measures which it believed would not be in Europe and Malta’s interest.
The first was the Financial Transaction Tax, on which it maintained its position that unless introduced on a global level, it would be damaging to the European, and Maltese economies and could drive financial services companies beyond European shores.
Malta also expressed its opposition to the proposed Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, arguing that this would not encourage efficiency within the European Union.
Moreover, it believed companies would begin to look outside the Union to locate their investments if certain fiscal advantages no longer remained available in the EU.
Earlier in his speech the minister noted that there were now more than 500 funds based in Malta, with a net asset value of close to €8.5 billion.
Malta continued to attract insurers, both captives and general business. The 25 banks registered in Malta – and the one providing services under the freedom of establishment rules – offered a broad and very competitive range of services on the domestic market as well as to international clients.
The segments of the industry that are not regulated are also doing well. People involved in corporate services, from sole practioners to large, internationally connected firms, all report that they are constantly busy registering companies, providing registered offices and a myriad other services, he said.
Article source: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120518/local/think-tank-to-map-out-future-of-financial-services-to-be-set-up.420294
19 May 2012
Last updated at 04:23 ET
Voters living in a part of Kent where electoral boundaries could be changed have been urged to take part in a consultation.
Draft recommendations for changes to Swale Borough Council’s wards have been drawn up by the Local Government Boundary Commission for England.
The commission has started a consultation, due to finish on 8 June.
Max Caller, who is the commission’s chairman, said the review aimeds to deliver “electoral equality”.
Article source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-18115682
“No final peace agreement will be signed without the government making it known to the people first,” Secretary Teresita Q. Deles, presidential adviser on the peace process, said in a statement issued on Saturday. For the MILF, spokesperson Von Al-Haq stressed that the Moro rebels will continue its advocacy for [...]
BEACHWOOD — Lori Stevic-Rust, clinical psychologist and dementia expert, will speak on “Dementia: Seeing it Through the Eyes of the Person” at 10:30 a.m. May 20 at Montefiore, 1 David N. Myers Parkway. The free talk is part of “Food for Thought,” Montefiore’s Sunday brunch and speaker series. Stevic-Rust will [...]
Sure there are the late-night feedings, the early-morning hockey practices, and all kinds of stress – but new research suggests that parents are still happier than childless couples. A forthcoming paper from psychologists at the University of British Columbia, Stanford, and the University of California suggests parents experience greater levels [...]
It takes more than physical skill to be a winner at the highest level of professional sports. It needs grit, determination, focus and confidence. Chelsea have shown that in spades in their last three Champions’ League games. In both legs against Barcelona in the semi finals, the Blues were pinned [...]
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Jeffery Combs will make available his special new digital package for the Psychology of Asking program on Sunday. This package will not only include his highly acclaimed ‘Psychology of Asking’ Audio but also some special bonuses as well. Stockton, CA (PRWEB) May 20, 2012 Jeffery Combs, entrepreneur, sales coach, and [...]
Report by Kamala Kanta Dash; New Delhi: Roots and Routes, the monthly Newsletter of the Global Research Forum for Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT) was released by Dr. A. Didar Singh, former Secretary of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), Government of India and Guest of Honour Ambasador Paramjit Singh Sahai [...]
Photo: Jeremy Wonnacott, DOI A think-tank to come up with ideas to map out the future of financial services in Malta, maintaining the levels of excellence achieved so far is to be set up, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech said this morning. Opening the fifth annual Finance Malta conference, Mr Fenech [...]
19 May 2012 Last updated at 04:23 ET Voters living in a part of Kent where electoral boundaries could be changed have been urged to take part in a consultation. Draft recommendations for changes to Swale Borough Council’s wards have been drawn up by the Local Government Boundary Commission for [...]
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