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Nov 20 (Reuters) - Using a testosterone gel in addition to Viagra doesn't make the little blue pill work any better, according to a U.S. study.
Studies have suggested that about one-quarter to one-third of men with erectile dysfunction, or ED, also have low testosterone, and the authors of the study - which appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine - say that a starting course of sildenafil citrate, marketed as Viagra, helped improve sexual function for men with both conditions.
But adding testosterone, typically prescribed to men who have both low testosterone levels and symptoms such as little interest in sex or low muscle and bone mass, on top of Viagra, doesn't provide any added sexual benefits, said lead author Matthew Spitzer, from the Boston University School of Medicine.
"Sildenafil plus testosterone was not superior to sildenafil plus placebo in improving erectile function in men with erectile dysfunction and low testosterone levels," Spitzer and his colleagues wrote.
The study included 140 men, aged 40 to 70. All were prescribed Viagra at 50 or 100 milligrams, which they took as needed before sex. After three to seven weeks, half of the men were randomly assigned to also use a daily testosterone gel, and the other half used a drug-free placebo gel.
During the Viagra-only portion of the study, men's erectile function scores improved.
On the sexual functioning scale, a score of 11-16 is considered "moderate" erectile dysfunction and 17-21 is "mild to moderate" dysfunction. The highest possible score, signaling no erectile problems, is a 30.
On average, men's scores increased from 12.1 to 19.8 with Viagra. Their testosterone levels also rose.
For men who were then given the testosterone gel, testosterone levels increased significantly again. But neither those men nor the ones who used the placebo gel had any further change in their erectile function over the next three months.
There was also no difference between the two groups on measures of sexual desire, orgasm and frequency of intercourse.
Spitzer told Reuters Health his team didn't look at the effects of testosterone without Viagra, and it's possible the gel would boost sexual functioning compared to no treatment.
In addition, testosterone may have other beneficial health effects, such as on strength and body composition.
Other experts said the study didn't mean that testosterone wouldn't help some patients.
"It doesn't mean that if the individual has either symptoms of androgen deficiency or hypogonadism (low hormone production from the testes) that those wouldn't get better with testosterone," said Alvin Matsumoto, a geriatrician from the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Seattle VA Puget Sound Health Care System, who wasn't part of the study.
"What you don't know is if you don't respond significantly to sildenafil and you have low testosterone, whether testosterone wouldn't help in addition." SOURCE: big.ly/MnBcCA (Reporting from New York by Genevra Pittman at Reuters Health; editing by Elaine Lies)


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Pet of the Week: Drago and Katie
Drago is the 6-year-old son of Katie, who is 8. Mother and son were transferred from an overcrowded shelter where they didn't have much chance for adoption. They were raised with other dogs and children and are house-trained. Medium size, Drago and Katie put on a few extra pounds during confinement, but they are eager and playful companions. For adoption, call El Dorado County Animal Services at 530-573-7925. For spay-neuter assistance and other support, call the Lake Tahoe Humane Society and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at 530-542-2857.


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Another week, another round of art. I am busy, busy, busy, but going out and seeing the work is an essential part of it. Time is of the essence. Shows to see, my friends…
1. The Exhibitionist at Co-Prosperity Sphere
Work by Tom Torluemke.
Co-Prosperity Sphere is located at 3219 S. Morgan St. Reception Friday, 6-11pm.
2. Ron Artist: MVP (Malleability vs. Preservation) at Noble & Superior Projects
Work by Lindsay Apatow, Ben Balcom, April Behnke, Luis Miguel Bendaña, Joey Carr, Emilie Crewe, Matt Cummings, Lori Felker, Yasi Ghanbari, Samuel Gove, Jordan Grimes, Jeriah Hildwine, Randy Sterling Hunter, Seth Hunter, Tom McCormack, Ross Meckfessel, Josh Sampson, Kristen Stokes, Vincent Uribe and Corrine Webb.
Noble & Superior Projects is located at 1418 W. Superior St. Reception Friday, 8-11pm.
3. Basement Show at Parking Space
Work by Brandon Warren Alvendia, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Sullivan, Eleni Ann Kelaidis, Justin Thomas Schaefer, Marion Ramos, Michael Thibault, Scott Reeder and Tyson Reeder.
Parking Space is located at 2246 W. 19th St. 3R. Reception Friday, 6-10pm.
4. Girls at The Hills Esthetic Center
Work by Caitlin Arnold.
The Hills Esthetic Center is located at 128 N. Campbell Ave., Unit G. Reception Friday, 8-11pm.
5. Book Release Party at Golden Age
Release party for Can I Come Over to Your House: The First Ten Years of The Suburban.
Golden Age is located at 119 N Peoria St, 2D. Release party Saturday, 6-9pm.
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Zoe & Blake on the carpet
Cannes opening night. Zoe Saldana and Blake Lively at the Palais, both representatives of L'Oreal. Side by side, back and forth, one all in white, the other all in brown.
That's a great pony on Blake. Probably extensions. And whoever does them does a great job. The dress bores me though. I much prefer Zoe's. Because I'm all about that chain belt and those gorgeous pleats. How many carpets do they have to do by contract, you think? I imagine Blake will for sure be on Ryan Reynolds's carpet beyond that, how many are they obligated to show to up to? The deal. I want to know about the DEAL.
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Morning Five: 08.24.12 EditionPosted by rtmsf on August 24th, 2012
- You know you're doing something right in a lawsuit if the defendant's attorneys start attacking the plaintiff's ringleader long before the discovery phase ends. According to this report from The Birmingham News, the NCAA and its licensees maneuvered hard against marketing guru Sonny Vaccaro in an attempt to discredit him prior to a ruling by a federal court in California about whether the so-called Ed O'Bannon likeness case will become a class action suit. It's no secret that Vaccaro has encouraged ex-players who feel wronged by the perpetual and ongoing usage of their faces and likenesses to join the suit, but the NCAA questioned whether his financial motives were too inextricably tied to the players to render him prejudicial. The NCAA had requested voluminous records of his communications for years, but ultimately, the two sides agreed that Vaccaro would turn over "custodial records from Vaccaro's three organizations, communications with the plaintiffs, camp/tournament documents using players' likeness, and payment records to or from players." The court plans on making a decision on the class action later this fall, and without question that ruling could have a monumental impact on the future financial solvency of the NCAA.
- Thursday was an assistant coach kind of weekday as a number of high-profile schools announced comings and goings among their coaching support staff. Kentucky, a school whose media relations department must work a ridiculous amount of overtime, announced that former Wildcat center Marquis Estill will join the team as an undergraduate student assistant while he finishes his degree. Estill left school early in 2003, after receiving all-SEC honors after his junior season. Meanwhile, across the continent in Seattle, Washington announced that it was adding former Arizona State assistant Lamont Smith to its staff as a top recruiter mere days after adding another new assistant, former D-II head coach Brad Jackson (Western Washington). The key word in the previous sentence is former, as Arizona State lost not only Smith but also Scott Pera, who is leaving the desert to coach closer to his home at Pennsylvania. As Herb Sendek said about the twin departures this week, "the timing isn't ideal." More on ASU in a post later today.
- Much has been made recently about the Big East's 60-day window to negotiate a new television deal with ESPN that begins on September 1, but it isn't the only conference looking forward to making waves with a brand new broadcasting deal. Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told media on Wednesday that the league expects to sign a 13-year deal with FOX and ABC/ESPN worth $2.6 billion and will provide "unprecedented" exposure in a much more "widely distributed" manner. Or, in other words, what everyone else says about these deals. From a financial perspective, if this deal turns out to be true, a distribution of over a quarter-bill to each of the 10 member institutions doesn't sound very bad after all. As Bowlsby suggests, perhaps 10 schools is the right number after all — leagues have been pushing each other out of the way to expand, but maybe they should start thinking about strategic contraction instead?
- One school not reaping the tens of millions of dollars that the schools located nearby it are is Creighton, but that isn't stopping the hot mid-major basketball school from investing in its future while things are going well on the court. Plans were announced earlier this week that the school will build the Fighting McDermotts a brand spanking new 35,000 square-foot practice facility to match what some of its MVC peers have already done. Perhaps more importantly, the school seeks to match what a certain Big Ten school an hour to the southwest is doing — even though Creighton is clearly the more successful basketball program than Nebraska, the spectre of all those BTN dollars at NU certainly keeps the Joneses over in Omaha looking over at their neighbor's lawn. With possibly two more years of Doug McDermott as a Bluejay, this practice facility could be the recruiting carrot that Creighton needs to bridge its current and pending success with a strong recruiting future.
- Last summer the story of Lamont "Momo" Jones' transfer from Arizona back home to Iona was a hot topic. The question of how it would ultimately impact both schools was a common refrain, and as it turned out, it was his new school that played in March Madness (losing to BYU in the First Four), while his old school was shipped to the NIT (losing to Bucknell). Jones enjoyed his best season statistically in 2011-12, going for 16/3/3 APG while shooting a career-high 46% from the field. More importantly to the rising senior, though, he spent what he characterizes as the best of year of his life near his family — especially his ailing grandmother in the Bronx — and even became a first-time father of a boy, Jace', in May. With all the negative stories surrounding college basketball these days, this piece by Dan Greene is one that will send you into the weekend with a smile on your face.


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Anti-abortion lawmakers take on Planned Parenthood
- 2 lawmakers say federal dollars for Planned Parenthood help keep the lights on
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Forty years after Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood and its critics are engaged in a fierce brand war.
The billion-dollar charity wants to protect its image as a trusted health care provider and advocate for women.
Its critics say the nation's largest abortion provider is a rogue organization that misuses federal money.
STORY:Fight over abortion rights comes due
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At stake is more than $500 million in government financing for Planned Parenthood's health care, prevention and education programs. That money can't be used for abortion.
Two Congress members from Tennessee say the money subsidizes abortion programs. Both Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Diane Black, R-Tenn., introduced bills this month to ban abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood from Title X grants for family planning.
"Planned Parenthood received $542 million from Uncle Sam last year. They don't need or deserve your money," Blackburn said in an email.
Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, said the bills would harm those who rely on the nonprofit for health care. She dismissed Blackburn and Black as out of touch with the American public.
"Some members of Congress just don't get it," she said in a prepared statement on the bills.
Dual identity
Controversy over Planned Parenthood is fueled by its dual identity. It is both the nation's largest abortion provider and a major source of health care for women.
According to its latest annual report, the nonprofit performed about 334,000 abortions in its 750 clinics nationwide. That's a little more than a quarter of abortions in the United States.
Planned Parenthood also provided about 10.8 million health care services in 2011. A third of those services were for contraception; 41% were for sexually transmitted infection tests. Abortions represented 3% of services.
Jeff Teague, director of the Nashville-based chapter, said 40.6% of the services it provided in 2011 were for family planning and 22.7% for sexually transmitted infection tests; 15.5% were for abortions.
"We are a health-care provider," he said. "Yes, we do provide abortion service, but the vast majority of what we do is preventive health care."
Claims disputed
That argument doesn't sway critics such as David Fowler, president of Family Action Council of Tennessee.
"One abortion is too many," he said.
Laws cutting a total of $61.7 million in money for Planned Parenthood have been passed in seven states, according to the website of the Susan B. Anthony List, a national anti-abortion group. But courts have blocked most of the cuts.
Abortion foes have had mixed results on the national level. In 2011, the House approved the so-called Pence Amendment to cut money for Planned Parenthood. The measure failed in the Senate. Its sponsor, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., was elected governor of Indiana in November and passed the bill on to Black.
Black argues that federal monies help Planned Parenthood keep the lights on at its abortion clinics because some of the money pays for overhead.
"Those dollars are keeping those clinics open," she said.
Blackburn's bill is similar.
"It's unconscionable that Planned Parenthood is receiving record levels in funding while also performing record levels of abortions," she said.
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Teague said both Tennessee politicians are wrong. Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee dropped out of Tennessee's Title X program in last year when legislators decided to give the money to government health clinics instead.
The previous year it received $334,600 in family planning money. None of the money went to overhead, Teague said. The funds didn't even cover the cost of the chapter's family planning program.
The chapter's tax returns back up that claim. For the fiscal year ending in June 2011, the group took in $408,603 in revenue for family planning but spent $955,159.
"It's all there in black and white," Teague said. "They clearly don't understand how federal grants work."
Remembering Roe
This week the charity has asked supporters to wear pink buttons in support of the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision on abortion. Many chapters also are hosting "Rock 'n' Roe" concerts as fundraisers.
Anti-abortion activists also are commemorating the 40th anniversary of Roe. Many will travel to the nation's capital this weekend for the annual national March for Life.
Both sides point to polling as proof their side is winning.
COLUMN:Roe v. Wade about much more than abortion
COLUMN:Roe. v. Wade losing its grip
A Gallup poll from last year showed that 51% of Americans say they are "pro-life" while only 41% call themselves "pro-choice."
But another Gallup poll showed that 52% of Americans want abortion legal in most circumstances with an additional 25% wanting it legal in all circumstances and only 20% wanting an outright ban.
Teague said the pro-choice and pro-life labels don't fit the complexity of abortion.
"People can be genuinely concerned about the number of abortions," he said. "But they still want it to be safe and legal."
Black said it is unlikely her bill will become law any time soon. But she won't give up, in part because of her experience in the Tennessee legislature. She spent years trying to cut Title X money for Planned Parenthood in Tennessee and failed several times but eventually that bill succeeded.
Black believes the same thing can happen on the national level.
"These dollars need to go to women in need," she said. "Abortion is not health care."
Bob Smietana also writes for The Tennessean in Nashville.


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Weather Blog: Wintry look and feel returns
Thank you for stopping by the Weather Watch 12 Blog! A super soaked weekend has given way to rain and snow showers to start the work week. In today's blog we discuss the return of a wintry look and feel to our area.
Let's start on a positive...the start of spring is only 9 days away! Spring officially begins:
March 20 at 6:02 a.m.
The rain showers this past weekend may of had many looking ahead to spring, especially with the start of daylight saving time! The rain along with melting snow has resulted in large puddles and standing water where storm drains are blocked. Rain totals below are valid through 7am Monday.
Rain showers are not done quite yet, expect rain to transition to snow showers from west to east across southeastern Wisconsin from late Monday morning through the afternoon. Snow showers will continue on and off into Monday evening. The RPM computer model forecast below is valid at 5pm Monday. The light blue color presents light snow.
The snow showers may lead to a dusting of snow in a few locations, best chance for inland locations. Parts of the area will just see trace amounts of snow.
The snow may be enough to brush off car windshields, but likely not enough to cause big headaches on area roads. Snow showers should taper off Monday evening and a few flurries will linger into Monday night. As the snow exits temperatures will tumble into the 20s overnight.
With temperatures well below freezing any puddles or standing water will freeze. Watch for icy spots on sidewalks, driveways, and parking lots Tuesday morning.
A couple chilly days are expected for Tuesday and Wednesday. Daytime highs will hang in the low to mid 30s, about 5-9 degrees below average. Below are forecast temperatures at 3pm Tuesday, notice some locations in northern Wisconsin will be stuck in the 20s.
Factoring in a breeze of 10-20mph will result in wind chills, or feels like temperatures in the teens and 20s statewide. While spring may be nearing, winter is still trying to hang on.
For the latest weather information watch WISN 12 News, and for updates throughout the day follow me on Twitter @jnelsonweather
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Over the last couple of years, Columbia Environmental Research Center scientist, Dr. David Alvarez, collaborated with a team of six USEPA scientists developing methods for sampling and analysis of hormonally-active pharmaceuticals, such as those prescribed in hormone replacement therapy, along with identifying their potential fate and metabolism in vertebrate organisms (fish and rats). The prestigious USEPA ORD Teamwork Award presented to the Endocrine Active Pharmaceuticals (EAP) Team is "In recognition of extraordinary commitment and group effort from team members in overcoming geographic and organizational boundaries to complete a comprehensive product of Chemical Safety for Sustainability." (Contact: Marcia K Nelson, Columbia, MO at firstname.lastname@example.com or 573-876-1875)
Each year, the science journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (ET&C), of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), publishes a list of the journal's exceptional scholarly reviewers to recognize their vital role in the science peer-review process. Dr. Ning Wang, USGS research fish biologist, of the Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, was selected as one of the 15 ET&C exceptional reviewers of 2014, spotlighting those who consistently provide the journal with high-quality, timely reviews. Based on both the quantity and the quality of reviews completed, the exceptional reviewers were selected from among more than 900 ET&C journal reviewers. (Marcia K Nelson email@example.com 573-876-1875)
The American Fisheries Society (AFS) <http://fisheries.org/> has awarded USGS Fish Biologist, Dr. Cari-Ann Hayer, the distinction of an Emerging Leader, an award program AFS sponsors to provide an opportunity for select individuals to participate on the governing board and receive mentoring that will develop future leaders in fisheries and the Society. Dr. Hayer is a member of the Invasive Carp research team at the Columbia Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO, investigating habitat selection of larval and juvenile invasive carp and identification of their native predators. (Cari-Ann Hayer, firstname.lastname@example.com <http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/StaffMembers.aspx?StaffMemberId=694>)
On December 16 in the Columbia Daily Tribune, Columbia, MO, a publication co-authored by Dr. Donald Tillitt, USGS scientist, was featured in an article by Andrew Denney, "Chemicals Used in 'Fracking' Can Disrupt Human Hormone Function, MU Researchers Say". The article is available at: <http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/chemicals-used-in-fracking-can-disrupt-human-hormone-function-mu/article_e282f006-6685-11e3-bc8f-10604b9f6eda.html>.
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Done With Entrecard
The time has finally come to remove the Entrecard widget from Affiliate Confession and make better use of the sidebar space it has occupied. Over the last couple of months some major bloggers have dropped Entrecard and some of my favorite places to advertise (that have brought me the most traffic) have left as well, but the last straw in helping me make that decision was when Lisa from To Create A Website rejected my Entrecard advertisement because she is also leaving Entrecard.
I've had a 9 month love, hate relationship with Entrecard and sang it's praises when I first installed the widget on this blog at the beginning of December 2007. Through those 9 months I've tried massive advertising experiments, purchased credits from eBay and Entrecard itself, won thousands of Entrecard credits and spent massive amounts of time dropping cards and trying to find blogs worthy of advertising on.
And that's where my main issue with Entrecard comes in. Trying to locate blogs worthy of spending your hard earned credits to advertise on is a huge time waster mainly because 97 to 98% of the blogs in the Entrecard system are one small step above being spam blogs. And unfortunately the pricing system for advertising isn't based on actual traffic a blog receives, it's based on how many ads are waiting to be shown in the blog's que. This sometimes creates hugely overpriced ads that bring little to no traffic.
The process of hunting down blogs in your niche, visiting them to see what they look like, weeding through blogs that have advert prices above 1000 credits, yet have less than 10 rss readers, getting less than quality traffic from your ads and then sticking with that process week, after week, after week is just too cumbersome. Where Entrecard fails in my opinion is that the adverts you place only last for 24 hours. In my last advertising blitz I spent somewhere around 8 hours using up 30,000 credits, advertising on 300 different blogs and did get some low quality visitors to the tune of 250 to 300 oer day. But that only lasted for 10 days and the whole process starts over again.
That just doesn't work economically for me. If I'm going to spend 8 hours doing advertising for my blog, it should last longer than 10 days and bring better quality traffic. Entrecard is too much like those lame traffic exchange systems where you earn traffic credits for visiting other sites in the system you aren't interested in just to get people who aren't interested in your site to visit you. Sadly, Entrecard is not much different than that.
If you have an ad already in my que it will run, but as of today, I won't be approving any new ads. See ya later Entrecard.
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Syria: terrorist bomb factory blows up and Christian churches destroyed
Syria: terrorist bomb factory blows up and Christian churches destroyed
Murad Makhmudov, Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
The people of Syria have become the target of "a geopolitical game" by powerful nations in the West and by "Sunni Islamic Wahhabi/Salafi" power games emanating in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and with Turkey taking the position of both forces. This means that the chances of reaching an internal political solution in Syria, is being reduced by the day because of outside meddling which is fermenting sectarianism. Also, the recent terrorist bomb factory which blew up and killed many individuals in Hama highlights the duplicity of the international community.
After all, just like the military insurrection in Libya, the military arming of terrorists in Syria also happened "overnight" and within a ridiculously short period of time. Therefore, it is abundantly clear that outside meddling; geopolitical games to enter the "vacuum" that opened-up in the Middle East and North Africa; promised deals with military personnel to turn them into mercenaries; the movement of international terrorists via the usual ratlines; and a host of other factors related to "a geopolitical game" and "Sunni Islamic Wahhabi/Salafi" opportunism, have all entered the fray. The upshot of all this is that innocent civilians are being killed and sectarianism is being used in order to weaken Syria because of political and geopolitical factors.
If individuals http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2012/04/26/414867.htm check this link by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) then clearly the photos are harrowing. It is important to note that the so-called "Free Syrian Army (FSA)" and terrorists within the FSA, and other terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda, have no qualms in setting up terrorist houses in the middle of housing and heavily built-up areas. They also have no qualms about attacking religious minorities, killing individuals who don't support their objectives, firing on the armed forces of Syria, and then melting back into built-up areas knowing full well that the armed forces will fire back in order to defend themselves.
The weakness in the Kofi Annan plan, despite good intentions, is that it means that terrorist bases of various Sunni Islamic terrorist organizations and the FSA, have a free rein to maintain and develop their power bases. This is because outside nations are continuing to send military and economic support to a variety of terrorist and mercenary organizations. Therefore, unless these "forces of darkness" are forced out to a special buffer zone inside Turkey and the ratlines of funding terrorism is stopped – then how can political dialogue and the Kofi Annan plan work?
Clearly, nations which are meddling into the internal affairs of Syria desire to see the Kofi Annan plan fail. After all, the deaths of Syrians killing Syrians doesn't concern them because Western powers have political objectives to pursue and Saudi Arabia and Qatar have religious objectives to implement by stealth – with Turkey being sat in the middle and happy with both situations. This means more violence and the death of innocent civilians who are caught-up in all of this because the FSA and various other terrorists organizations, have built up their forces within major cities.
Therefore, while many international media outlets mention the ongoing crisis in many parts of Syria, not enough are focusing on what it is like under the control of the FSA/terrorist organizations which are spreading their hatred. This is where the picture breaks down because in areas controlled by the government of Syria all individuals, irrespective if Alawite Muslim, Sunni Muslim, Orthodox Christian, Roman Catholic, Druze, or irrespective of having no faith – all reside in peace and based on the mosaic of Syria. In contrast, areas under the control of the so-called opposition are based on sectarianism and destroying the mosaic of Syria.
The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom published an interesting article written by Constanze Letsch (link below this article). This writer comments that "A few streets down, Ferit's schoolfriend Ahmet was sitting in his garden, chatting with his parents-in-law, Ibrahim and Meryem, who are from Homs. At the end of February they fled their house in Hamidiyeh, a predominantly Christian neighbourhood, to live with relatives in Tartous, and two weeks ago, they joined their daughter Rana, their three granddaughters and their son-in-law Ahmet in Samandagi."
"Armed men of the opposition have destroyed all 12 churches in the neighbourhood of Hamidiyeh," said Ahmet, a master tailor. He added that many houses had been severely damaged, while others had been vacated by people fleeing from the violent conflict in the city."
"In some cases, opposition members allowed people to take their possessions," Rana said. "But the insurgents live in the houses now, fighting against the army."
"Asked if he had recognised any of the armed men, Ibrahim shook his head."Their faces were covered. Some of them wore bandanas that said: 'There is no God except Allah.'"
"Meryem said she has been threatened for not wearing a headscarf."They told us: 'We will cover you up, too' and 'It will be your turn [after the Alevis].' We are very scared."
In another article about Syria published by Modern Tokyo Times it was stated that "If democrats in the West believe that their version of history is winning, then not only do these people have blinkers on, but more alarming they are supporting forces which are hostile to democracy, religious pluralism, the rights of women, and all progressive forces. The Muslim Brotherhood, Saudi Arabian, and Western alliance, is a "strange bedfellow" if looked at rationally. Therefore, is the alliance based on Western governments supporting Islamism or is it based on naivety, a picture unseen, or other factors?"
"Either way, for Alawites, Christians, the Druze, Sunni Muslims, secularists, women, and so forth; the growing menace of radical Sunni Islam threatens the civilization of Syria and the multi-religious nature of this society. The so-called forces of "democracy" have killed over 2,000 soldiers and police officers in Syria; attacked Christians; threaten the rights of women; and are spreading their terrorism throughout Syria."
It is essential that the FSA/terrorist organizations are forced out of major cities because until this happens then the bloodshed will just continue. The government of Syria can't be forced to sit and watch, while terrorists continue to enter the country and internal mercenaries persecute religious minorities and women.
Turning back to the article by Constanze Letsch it was also stated that "Mehmet, the owner of a textile shop across the street, said he had had to fire all of his four employees."Business dropped by 95%. There used to be many Syrians who came for a day or two to shop here, but that has stopped." He paused. "Many of us want Bashar [al-Assad] to stay, and stability to return to Syria. We were better off before."
"They are not the only Turks who quietly express support for the regime in Damascus. Religious minorities including Christians, Alevis (a Turkish Muslim sect) and Alawites (their Arabic-speaking counterparts) are increasingly anxious that the government's active support for Syria's armed opposition could have a distinctly negative upshot."
"Cemil Mityasoglu, a Christian wholesale market trader from Antakya, summed it up: "For many Alevis and Christians, Syria seemed like a safe haven. For them it was reassuring to live so close to the Syrian border, knowing that they could always go there if things became ugly in Turkey."
Whatever the real truth is about the situation in Syria and why so many Syrians have been killed. It clearly can't be separated by the funding of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to spread radical Sunni Islam in Syria – and the political agreement with certain Western powers and Turkey to enter the "political vacuum," which was opened by the so-called Arab Spring. The current situation in Syria began because of outside meddling and the ongoing chaos suits their agenda. After all, many outside nations desire direct military intervention in order to not only weaken Syria but to alter the political and religious landscape based on religious fundamentalism.
The religious mosaic of Syria is being threatened and the same applies to the rights of women. It is essential that political reforms come from within the government of Syria and with other political organizations which are opposed to outside meddling and terrorism. If the center in Syria collapses then a future nightmare awaits Syria because over 100,000 people in Iraq were killed and even today terrorism is a daily threat. Similarly, in Afghanistan you have had over 30 years of chaos and untold numbers of people have been killed because of outside meddling. This applies to firstly supporting radical Sunni Islamic terrorism and organizations – and then, after September 11, fighting former allies. Either way, both periods just engulfed the people of Afghanistan and after 30 years the country is worse off than before.


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I don't know if this is "just one of those things" or if it's something that needs changing, and yet I find myself thinking about it a lot ever since Bethany Nowviskie wrote her Fight Club Soap blog post about the Nature/UC feud.
Most things on an academic campus are set up to get out of the way of scholarship — to make scholarship absolutely as easy and pain free a process as possible. After all, scholarship is the raison d'être of the institution, and scholarship is angst-ridden enough just on its own. It functions best when its practitioners are constantly right up against their limits, right where they're most vulnerable and facing insidious insecurities. So it makes a whole lot of sense to make as much as possible get out of the way of these endeavors. But there is a cost.
Nowviski pointed out the cost from a licensing and collection development standpoint, but I'm sure that's only the beginning. For example, newer faculty here often point out that our institution is in much better shape than many they applied to because we were still hiring faculty all the way through the financial melt-down. And it's true; we did fare better than many other institutions. But what they don't realize is that we had staff layoffs and FTE reductions and that we continue to lose staff through attrition, and all so that we can preserve the school's commitment to hiring new faculty and reduce the teaching load across campus. So telling me that I just don't know how tough it is out in the rest of the academic world where there were real job losses is both true and not true at all. I really did fear for my job, and the library is now doing more than before but with fewer FTE, as are most other staff departments on campus. But we also do everything we can to make sure this doesn't affect the faculty and students as they pursue their work.
Sometimes I wonder if a little more awareness would be a good thing. But maybe it's not. Maybe more awareness would just increase angst, and goodness knows scholarship is angsty enough on its own.


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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Random Heroic: Halls of Lightning
For my second heroic dungeon using the new LFG tool, I found myself in Halls of Lightning, which surprisingly is part of Ulduar. Never thought I'd find myself in Ulduar. Oh well...
This time our group wasn't that great and we wiped a couple of times. I died about 3 times total but I didn't mind as long as we finished the entire dungeon. This was also the lengthiest heroic so far and it took us 1 hour to beat it. It was late at night, after 1AM and people were tired.
At one point I made a fool of myself by trying to resurrect one of the dead members of our group and I picked the damn tank (which was a warrior) instead of choosing the healer! I do have an excuse though: for some reason I thought the tank was a paladin (oops!) and I guess I didn't realize the priest was dead. And I wasn't even drunk...
We wiped at the final boss, Loken, of course. Initially we used the "standard" strategy for this fight which is to hug the boss and when he starts casting his AOE, run like hell for the stairs (where's the damn stairs??), then when he stops go back, rinse and repeat. There are some problems with this strategy. I won't even get into them.
We then decided to adopt the "alternative" strategy which is to keep hugging the boss even when he casts the AOE and let the healer heal through it. It worked nicely so keep that in mind if you ever need it.
And that's it for Halls of Lightning. It was fun but not as good as my first random heroic. Here are the achievements I got. For some reason I didn't see the Heroic: Halls of Lightning achievement pop up on the screen.
Lightning Struck
Timely Death
Shatter Resistant
Halls of Lightning
Heroic: Halls of Lightning
4 comments:
- Celebrandil said...
Congratulations for beating what was once the hardest encounter in the game (except for raid bosses of course)!
In the first few months after the WotLK release, Loken was the guy who killed the most players in the game. There's a statistic about this on the WoW page somewhere. I hated him.
- December 14, 2009 at 2:03 AM
- Darth Solo said...
@Celebrandil no shit?? This was the hardest boss?? I mean, we did wipe, but once we adjusted our strategy everything went fine. Unfortunately, hard as he is, he drops crap.
- December 14, 2009 at 7:41 PM
- Celebrandil said...
Indeed he was. It was one of the very few movement encounters, so you couldn't stand still and nuke him. Back then when most people were dressed in greens and blues, it was hard to burn him down quickly enough before the healer was overwhelmed with the incoming damage. And anyone hit by the explosion died instantly, which usually caused a wipe. However this changed as people got better gear, and now with the epics that everybody is wearing, he's a pushover.
- December 15, 2009 at 1:52 AM
- Darth Solo said...
I guess I can see how he can be hard for undergeared people. Still, I would have thought that for Ulduar you can't really go in greens and blues.
- December 15, 2009 at 6:31 PM


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VANCOUVER - The "unforeseen circumstances" that led to the cancellation of Kanye West's Yeezus tour stop Sunday night didn't have anything to do with an equipment truck stolen the night before or West's surprise plans to pop the question to girlfriend Kim Kardashian, according to the crew that sets up the show.
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According to a TMZ report, West surprised Kardashian Monday evening by renting out an entire baseball stadium to ask her to marry him. The report said West flew Kardashian to San Francisco and took her to the AT&T Park, home of the Giants, where he had a full orchestra playing one of her favorite songs.
Though despite the enormous amount of planning a marriage proposal of that magnitude would take, stagehands who helped put together the tour's kickoff concert Saturday night at Seattle's Key Arena say the intricate set — which includes a massive oval video screen and a 10-metre-high mountain that a mock Jesus ascends — was a logistical nightmare that needed more time and practice to put up and take down twice in two days.
"The time frame to get this done was not realistic," said Maynard Smith, the lead rigger in charge of over 100 Key Arena staff who worked with West's roadies. "Back-to-back dates in this tour are just not realistic at this point.
"They just didn't have a realistic grasp of the degree of complexity and the time requirements of off-loading and assembling and flying out this whole thing and then deconstructing it packing it and trucking it (to Vancouver)."
Many out-of-town fans bemoaned the logistics of getting back home and either selling their tickets or taking more time off work after news broke Sunday around 2:30 p.m. that the concert was being postponed to Halloween.
The tour crew worked their hardest to erect and tear down the stage without a dry run Smith said, but the time frame was too tight.
International Association of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 15 President Bess Sullivan said she worked Sunday's Pink concert at Key Arena and had to wait for crew to finish packing up West's set at 9 a.m.
"It was this giant mountain and it was like an opera set," Sullivan said, adding that she had heard the aluminum structure had its design overhauled in recent weeks.
Tour crews arrived in Vancouver around noon Sunday, making the Vancouver show's 7 p.m. start time impossible, Smith said.
Fans are being asked to keep their tickets to the cancelled show, which will be honoured for the Halloween concert that will still feature budding superstar Kendrick Lamar opening. That may be a good thing, as a date further along in the tour usually insures a smoother set design and performance Smith said.
"It's going to be successful, the (upside) of it is the fan base is probably going to get a better product by putting this off to Halloween," Smith said. "They did the right thing by not trying to give you a scaled down production."


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She died without having found her grandson, born in captivity after her pregnant daughter-in-law was kidnapped by Argentina's dictatorship in 1977.
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As budgetary constraints ease, storage shops are looking to emerging techs and cloud services to help deal with virtualized environments, data growth and performance demands.
About the Storage Purchasing Intentions survey
The Storage magazine/ SearchStorage.com Purchasing Intentions survey is fielded twice a year; this is the ninth year the survey has been conducted. Storage magazine subscribers and SearchStorage.com members are invited to participate in the survey, which gathers information related to storage managers' purchasing plans for a variety of storage product categories. This edition had 699 qualified respondents across a broad spectrum of industries, with the average company size measured as having revenue of $1.4 billion.
Budget cycles for the last couple of years have been slightly less brutal for data storage managers as business slowly nurses an ailing economy back to health. In the latest edition of the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com Storage Purchasing Intentions survey, the data provided by the 699 survey respondents paints a picture of cautious optimism: Things are getting better, but maybe not all that quickly.
Respondents represent all industry sectors, led by computer-related businesses (13.9%), financial services (11.5%), health care/pharmaceutical (10.3%), manufacturing (8.5%) and education (7.7%). The average number of employees at the participating organizations was 19,744, but the dividing line is 1,000 employees -- half the respondents were above that mark and half were below.
The average company revenue came in at $1.4 billion, which is consistent with the results from our last four surveys over a two-year period.
Budget belt loosens just a bit
In our spring 2011 survey, respondents indicated their storage budgets would rise 1.8% higher than their 2010 budgets, which was a fairly healthy jump over the measly 0.6% reported previously. We frequently see budgets adjusted upward from their spring marks, and while that trend continues with the current survey, it does so with a very modest uptick of just 0.1 points. Larger companies are showing a stronger recovery, with a 5.1% change over 2010's budget. Midsized organizations saw a 2.1% rise, which is approximately half a point higher than a year ago; smaller companies are still struggling with basically flat budgets that grew by only 0.4%.
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Running the numbers:
- Average storage budget: $3 million
- Small and large companies' storage budgets dip to $900,000 and $8.2 million, respectively; midsized firms are steady at $2.6 million
- Highest-ever recorded average storage budget was $3.4 million in 2006
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Biggest year-over-year budget gain: 5.2%, reported in the fall of 2006
Disk storage systems take biggest bite out of budget
Going back to our very first Storage Purchasing Intentions survey nine years ago, disks and disk subsystems have always accounted for the biggest chunk of storage budgets. This year follows form with 37% of budgets (the biggest slice by far) earmarked for storage systems. The percentage has hovered in the high 30s to low 40s despite dramatically declining disk prices largely because companies now need so much more disk (and other storage) to accommodate off-the-chart data growth. The average installed disk capacity is 269 TB, the highest number we've seen in the three years we've been asking this question. For 2011, storage managers expect to add an average of 42 TB of new disk capacity, ranging from 20 TB for small companies up to 86 TB for enterprises.
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Running the numbers:
- NAS is the most installed storage system type, with 62% of respondents having those systems; Fibre Channel (FC) SANs are close behind at 57%, easily outdistancing block rival iSCSI (38%)
- Midrange systems continue to be the most popular, with 44% of disk system budgets allocated to them
- In 2006, 59% said FC arrays would be their main disk spend; on this survey 35% say they'll add drives to existing systems rather than buy new FC systems (17%), a trend that emerged in 2007
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Solid-state storage has moved from "exotic" to "practical" in fairly short order. While its incursion into the hard disk market is still barely a blip on the storage radar, solid-state devices are finding their way into more and more organizations and in a variety of implementations. Twenty-five percent of respondents currently use solid-state storage, a healthy 10 points higher than last fall and nine points more than last spring. Another 9% said they plan to implement some solid-state storage this year, while 30% consider themselves in the evaluation phase. Among companies currently using solid-state, average installed capacity is 7.6 TB. Besides cost, wear out has been frequently cited as another shortcoming of solid-state storage, but only 12% said this endurance issue has kept them from using solid-state.
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- Solid-state storage shows up most frequently in arrays (71%), with server-based solid-state (43%) a popular alternative
- 58% of those not using solid-state cite its high cost; 37% say their hard disks are doing just fine, while 35% need more solid-state education
- 27% report having more than 10 TB of solid-state installed
- Those planning to buy more solid-state will add an average of 6.3 TB
Key statistic:
Average installed solid-state storage capacity is 7.6 TB
Cloud storage still hazy
You'd be hard-pressed to find many data storage managers who aren't giving cloud storage service offerings a serious once-over, but it may be a little tougher to find companies ready to commit to the cloud. We continue to see incremental growth and sustained interest, with approximately 21% of those surveyed using non-backup cloud storage services to some degree. Two years ago, only 14% said they were cloud users, so while the overall numbers may still be somewhat small, the growth is real. Disaster recovery (DR) is the most popular application for cloud storage, while the most likely suspect, remote offices, continues to lag. Among companies that aren't yet using any cloud storage services for primary or near-line applications, only 54% flatly rule out adding cloud services, although another 26% are uncertain if they'll add cloud to their storage mix.
Enlarge CLOUD STORAGE SERVICES FOR PRIMARY OR NEAR-LINE diagram.
Running the numbers:
- Current cloud users are bullish, with more than 90% planning to add more cloud storage services in 2011
- 15% of non-cloud users plan to take the plunge by using cloud storage for DR
- Although there's still some confusion about what constitutes an internal cloud, 14% of respondents say they already have one and another 8% have implementations planned
- While hybrid cloud configurations are getting a lot of attention, only 6% are using them now
Key statistic:
Current cloud storage users have an average of 16 TB of data parked in the clouds
Virtual servers and virtual storage
With nearly 100% penetration, few data storage shops have avoided the effects of server virtualization. Most companies (45%) still favor Fibre Channel storage for their virtual servers partly because the systems were already installed but also because of fears of inadequate performance with other types of storage in demanding virtualized server environments. Desktop virtualization doesn't have such wide implementation yet, but we found a surprising 47% of respondents have virtualized at least some of their desktops. Desktop virtualizers also prefer FC storage (45%) over iSCSI (27%) and NAS (25%). Storage virtualization, still lurking in the shadows of server virtualization, is growing at a more leisurely but steady pace. Thirty-two percent have virtualized at least some block or file storage; 23% are evaluating it. Among current storage virtualization users, 18% say all their file storage is virtualized and 14% say the same of their block storage. The preferred methods of storage virtualization are via a storage array (44%) or with an appliance (42%).
Enlarge TYPE OF STORAGE BEING USED FOR VIRTUALIZED SERVERS diagram.
Running the numbers:
- 63% use more storage now with virtual servers than before
- 36% say server virtualization has made storage management tougher
- 50% plan to buy new tools to better manage storage for virtual servers
Key statistic:
15% say they'll buy an appliance to virtualize their storage in 2011
Data protection's slow evolution
Take disk-based backup, deduplication, virtual servers and cloud backup, and you would probably figure data protection doesn't look anything like it did a few years ago. Well . . . yes and no. Backup tends to change very slowly. For example, the "tape is dead" dirge is on continuous play, but new tape techs continue to emerge. Yes, we're using it less -- 73% spin off some/all backups to tape vs. 85% three years ago -- and libraries are shrinking (an average 96 slots vs. 150 five years ago), but tape is still a key part of backup and archiving. And while dedupe seems like just another feature by now, not even one-third of our respondents are using it today. Virtual server backup is in the spotlight as backup app vendors tap into VMware's APIs to make the process less painful, but 35% still just load a backup client into each VM. Cloud backup adoption is slow too, with 28% using some form of cloud backup, a number that has doubled vs. three years ago. But it's been up and down the last two years, which might indicate more tinkering than commitment.
Enlarge USE OF CLOUD BACKUP SERVICES diagram.
Running the numbers:
- Most popular target for disk-based backup is a NAS system (45%)
- 29% use data deduplication in their backup process; 34% plan to add it this year
- 47% will increase spending on cloud backup services vs. last year
- "Not comfortable sending our company's data into a public cloud" is the top (34%) reason for not using cloud backup
- 18% say virtual server backup is too complicated; 18% say they back up too much
Key statistic:
46% of cloud backup users have more than 10 TB of backup data stored in the cloud; overall, users have an average of 16 TB of backup data in the cloud
Efficiency is still in vogue
One of the lasting effects of the punishing economy is a new emphasis on efficiency. Technologies like thin provisioning gained a solid foothold over the past few years, while newer techs, like primary data deduplication and compression, are stirring up plenty of interest if not a lot of product choices (yet). Data storage tiering languished when it was called information lifecycle management (ILM), but has taken on new life as an enabler for the efficient use of solid-state and spinning disk technologies. Data archivers, typically implemented for compliance and storage management, are used by 70% of respondent organizations, and 48% are looking to add new data archiving capabilities this year.
Enlarge STORAGE EFFICIENCY TECHS GAIN GROUND diagram.
Running the numbers:
- Overall, 36% of those surveyed use some form of primary storage data reduction and 36% are evaluating it
- 27% use automated storage tiering (AST) and 32% are evaluating it
- Email archiving is used by 41% of respondents; 40% use file system archivers
Key statistic:
Multiprotocol arrays are used by 36% of respondents to gain storage capacity efficiencies
BIO: Rich Castagna is editorial director of the Storage Media Group.
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Basil S. Yamey LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Decision-making in business depends in part on a knowledge of costs and their structure and behaviour. Yet in the literature of eco-nomics the analysis of costs in relation to business decisions does not go back far in time. The business man would have looked in vain in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, 1776, for any helpful consideration of the issues involved. The intellectual sparring be-tween economists and accountants on the nature of costs and their significance for business decisions began only in recent decades— on such matters as the indivisibility of certain costs and their allo-cation among activities; the relevance of marginal rather than of average costs; the distinction between escapable and inescapable costs; and the significance of thinking in terms of opportunities foregone rather than of money costs incurred.
Almost contemporaneously with The Wealth of Nations, a treatise on bookkeeping and accounts was published which shows a lucid awareness of several of these critical issues, especially of the fu-tility of attempting to allocate common or joint costs or of treating as a separate "profit centre" an activity which is inflexibly and in-separably linked with other activities. This book is Robert Hamil-ton's An Introduction to Merchandise . . ., 2nd edition, 1788, of which Parts IV and V relate to bookkeeping and accounts. The au-thor, then professor of philosophy in the Marischal College, Aber-deen, was also known for his contributions to political economy. He clearly had an intimate knowledge both of economic problems and also of business and accounting practice.
The interest of Hamilton's discussion of the treatment of costs in accounts has been recognized in the literature on the history of accounting. Nevertheless it is worth recounting again what he said on the subject, by noting three examples, (a) He explains that "when the American trade was open," ships built in the northern provinces were bought by English merchants, who usually after one or more voyages brought them to England for sale. Hamilton ob-


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The Enoteca Boccaccio is located directly across from East Carolina University's semester study abroad classroom building. Andrea is a dear friend of ours and he teaches us Italian while we help him with his English. This is the most authentically beautiful, welcoming place to get a sandwich for lunch or an apertif before dinner. Sharing a coffee, spritz or glass of wine at the Enoteca is one of our favorite ways to relax!
The Tuscany, one of the most beautiful Italian regions, is known throughout the world for its Landscapes and for the Works of Art that it houses (It is the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance). Six localities have been designated World Heritage Sites: the Historical Center of Florence, Siena, San Gimignano and Pienza, the Square of the Cathedral of Pisa with the Leaning Tower and the Val d'Orcia. It is in the central Italy and borders with Emilia Romagna (north), Marche and Umbria (east) and Lazio (South). The West coast is bathed from the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Sea; here we can find the islands of the Tuscan archipelago including the island of Elba. The regional capital is Florence and the other provinces are: Arezzo, Grosseto, Livorno, Lucca, Massa, Pisa, Pistoia, Prato and Siena.


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Don't expect to see Pat Boone at any White House functions any time soon. The pop and gospel singer accused President Barack Obama of being a Marxist during an appearance on Fox Business News.
"He is following his playbook, which is Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals," Boone declared on Wednesday night. "This is the guy that trained him to be a community organizer, a Marxist, a socialist, a progressive, who wrote the rules for doing what Mr. Obama is doing."
TV characters we can live withoutHost Neil Cavuto then said that while he doesn't support Obama, he doesn't share Boone's beliefs in Obama's ulterior motives. "I think he's a smart guy; this is just a weak area for him," Cavuto said."I think he's a brilliant guy, and I think he knows what he's doing, and he's doing it by design because he has a plan," Boone said, disregarding Cavuto. "He thinks it's good for America — virtually socialist nation in which nobody gets rich, government is in charge of everything."Boone, who was part of the Birther movement, also added that he was on Obama's "enemies list," published by The Globe in 2009.Watch the full video below. What do you think of Boone's theories?


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The DP Hunter Dog House is a rotationally-molded plastic house. It is made from material that can be commonly found in outdoor playground products. All panels of these products are filled with recycled EPS foam (commonly used as an insulation material in construction).
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To commemorate World Press Freedom Day on May 3, CPJ published a list of the 10 most censored countries, citing Equatorial Guinea as the fifth worst offender. In response, the Minister of Information and government spokesperson, Jerónimo Osa Osa Ecoro, dismissed the analysis of the country's press situation as biased.
"We are going to communicate with those international media organizations who are out to destroy the image of the country," Ecoro told me last week. "They have a biased opinion of the situation in the country."
To mark World Press Freedom Day, the government called national and international journalists to a "relaxed" press conference where President Teodoro Obiang "answered all questions" and declared how he enjoyed watching two hours of debate between the French presidential candidates ahead of the election this past weekend, according to the government. "There are really no restrictions on any activity of the press, provided they are legal," the presidential press office quoted Obiang as saying.
Yet, at the same time, the director-general of Equatorial Guinea's state-owned Radio Television broadcaster RTVGE, Teobaldo Nchaso Matomba, barred Samuel Obiang Mbana, an independent journalist (and no relation to the president), from participating in a televised debate to which he had been invited two days earlier to speak on how press freedom could transform the country. Mbana, an international correspondent for the German-government funded broadcaster Deutsche Welle, the Senegalese-based Apanews, and the pan-African radio station Africa N.1, had been invited by the debate's presenter, Pablo Obama Osa. But on arrival at the debate location, Matomba prevented him from taking part.
"I was told I am problematic, that I might say something the station is censored not to say, and which the government doesn't want aired," Mbana told me.
Matomba did not respond to a text message seeking clarification on Mbana being too "problematic" to participate in the debate. Over the telephone, he told me he was too busy to respond to my queries. Minister of Information Ecoro, when contacted about the matter, said, "I am not aware of this. Call the director [Matomba]." He was however quick to proclaim the country is committed to the freedom of the press.
But CPJ research shows otherwise. On June 11, 2011, Matomba had state security agents arrest a television crew from ZDF, Germany's biggest public TV channel, which had been in the country to film stories about women's soccer and the general state of affairs in the country ahead of the FIFA 2011 Women's World Cup. Matomba ordered the destruction of their footage, including pictures of children playing football in the slums, on the premise that the footage portrayed the country negatively by showing poverty.
The only Spanish-speaking country in Africa has also censored coverage of political unrest around the world -- even suspending a state radio presenter for mentioning the Libyan revolution while live on air. And there are no signs of improvement in the future. Private newspapers have been run aground. There exists no opposing voice; the only private radio and television network, RTV-Asonga, belongs to the president's son, Teodorino Obiang Nguema - for whom France last month approved an international arrest warrant following criminal investigations into money laundering. But journalists do not dare speak of this inside Equatorial Guinea.
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