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Jean-Claude Van Damme most likely has a fight coming up soon in Thailand against a Thai Olympic Boxer Somluck Kamsing, and on top of that the action star has somewhere in the vicinity of a million other projects that he is working on. Steven Seagal is currently riding tanks and pretending to be training high level MMA fighters how to do the most basic of strikes, which makes JCVD's ventures seem all the more legitimate and likable. One of his latest ventures is a reality television series titled, "Behind Closed Doors" where a British crew follow the action star around as he lives his life as only he can.
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The Musical Artistry of R. CrumbThe legendary underground cartoonist built an impressive portfolio of album covers covered in caricatures of musicians.
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When Big Brother and the Holding Company wasn't satisfied with the album cover their record label had given them for Cheap Thrills back in 1968, they called up cartoonist Robert Crumb with an offer of 600 bucks and a wicked deadline. "So I pulled an all-nighter," he told me. "I took amphetamines and stayed up all night, and did the cover. And I had never heard any of the music!" So began Crumb's career of illustrating album covers and detailing cartoon portraits of legendary musicians, especially of venerated old-time blues musicians like Charlie Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Memphis Minnie.
This is a selection of cartoons from Crumb's new book, The Complete Record Cover Collection, out this week from W.W. Norton. To read Crumb's take on selecting the right musicians to illustrate, turning down big offers from corporate CEOs, and living as an artist in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood in the 1960s, check out our interview with him.
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Sydney Airport will partner with the Starlight Children's Foundation to raise money for sick and hospitalised children and their families this Christmas through the Sydney Airport Giving Tree "Wishes" Appeal.
"Starlight plays an important role in the lives of seriously ill children and their families and we selected it because of the difference it makes to the lives of thousands of families around Australia every year," Sydney Airport CEO Kerrie Mather said.
"With close to 700 businesses and organisations forming the Sydney Airport community, we're calling on all our partners to support this important cause."
A 10-metre "Giving Tree" has been erected in the forecourt of Sydney Airport's international terminal where each wish granted this Christmas will be marked with a star on the tree.
Custom-designed $10 overnight bags will be on sale within the T1 and T2 terminals throughout the Christmas period and $5 from each sale will be donated to Starlight.
Convenient gift-wrap bars will also be set up in the lead-up to Christmas at T1 and T2, where travellers will be able to get presents wrapped for a gold coin donation.
"Many of our retailers will also be generously supporting the appeal, with collection points at many stores and by selling Starlight merchandise," Ms Mather said.
"Starlight faces a huge challenge this Christmas to grant 154 wishes and the fantastic support of Sydney Airport and its partners will make a significant difference to many children and their families," Starlight Children's Foundation CEO Louise Baxter said.
Sydney Airport charity partners, the Rotary Clubs of Marrickville, Rockdale City and Botany Bay have also kindly pledged to donate all money collected throughout Terminals 1 and 2 over Christmas to the Starlight Giving Tree Appeal.
Media alert: the Giving Tree Wishes Appeal will be launched in the forecourt of Sydney Airport's international terminal at 10.30am this morning, featuring the Australian Girls Choir and Captain Starlight.
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Mekong river cruise at 4000 islands start from Donkhong to Don Det and Don Khone visit Somphamith ( Lii Phii Mekong waterfall) return back to main land
Home stay at local Laotian family learn about Lao cooking and Cultural with Islands way people. 4000 islands tour in Southern Laos
Hmong Travel location at Vientiane offer varity of tour package suround Laos
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Luang Prabang city tour Visit Royal Palace, Wat Sene, Wat Xieng thong, Phousi hill for Sun Set
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The house next door stood empty for a long time. So long, in fact, that Kate got into some bad habits. Like undressing without bothering to close the curtains.
That's why the first time she laid eyes on her new neighbor, Sydney, Kate was naked as a plucked chicken.
In spite of that awkward introduction, Kate soon finds herself caught up in Syd's life. Giving swimming lessons in the pool Syd won in a contest. Tending the galumphing, yard-wrecking dog Syd got to help her get over yet another miscarriage.
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Yet Kate begins to realize that it's possible for someone to love her without believing that she's the image of the perfect Mormon woman. In return, Kate can give unstinting friendship as Syd pursues her dream of having a little red-haired daughter.
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Which path leads to the smart grid?
Bruce W. Radford is publisher of Public Utilities Fortnightly .
Which path leads to the smart grid?
A new debate has emerged in electric utility regulation, with battle lines drawn within FERC itself. The debate began innocently enough, back in March, with FERC seeking ways to bring more demand response (DR) into wholesale power markets. The commission chose an incentive approach of paying the market-clearing energy price to successful DR bidders, on the theory that DR represents the virtual equivalent of generation supply. (See Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, FERC Docket RM10-17, March 18, 2010.)
But like all good theories, this idea only begged more questions. The discussion soon became more far-reaching. What's at stake is nothing less than the future of the smart grid: AMI, appliance manufacturing, metering software, and even retail rate design.
The issue now is whether to build the smart grid on DR programs, or on consumer behavior. Should FERC focus at the wholesale level, where RTOs and market inroads have won grudging acceptance, or should policy makers now take another stab at pushing market ideas on the state-level retail sector, where such attempts so far have met with skepticism (among utilities), reluctance (among politicians), and backlash (from ratepayers).
Facing a backlash of its own, on September 13, FERC convened a technical conference to allow experts to weigh in on how to design a net-benefits test to justify paying the full locational marginal price (LMP) for DR bids that clear the market. The commission had sought comment on the net-benefits idea as middle ground to make peace between opposing viewpoints espoused by two leading industry academics.
On one side was Cornell University Prof. Emeritus Alfred Kahn, endorsing FERC's proposal to pay full LMP for DR on the grounds that a negawatt is as good as a megawatt. On the other, Harvard Prof. William Hogan argued DR represents only call options on energy—not actual generation supply—and so should earn compensation equal only to LMP minus G ( i.e., the market price minus the generation component of the retail rate), as if the DR provider first had been made to pay a strike price (G) before selling the option.
[Editor's Note: For more on this dispute, with Web links to previous Commission Watch columns and Fortnightly articles on this topic, see the reporter's blog post, "The Nutty Professors: Bill, Fred and the Strange Case of Demand Response," at www.outsmartingthegrid.com.]
Back at the conference, the discussion followed predictable lines until the final five minutes. That's when FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff and fellow Commissioner Philip Moeller squared off in impromptu debate, each taking the opposite position over the future of the smart grid.
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A lecture on "State Formation, State Reformation: Deciphering Decentralization in the Philippines and Thailand" will be presented on campus Monday, March 25.
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Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is a condition in which there is increased production of the hormone gastrin. Most of the time, a small tumor (gastrinoma) in the pancreas or small intestine produces the extra gastrin in the blood.
Z-E syndrome; Gastrinoma
Zollinger-Ellison syndrome is caused by tumors. These growths are most often found in the head of the pancreas and the upper small intestine. The tumors produce the hormone gastrin and are called gastrinomas. High levels of gastrin cause production of too much stomach acid.
Gastrinomas occur as single tumors or several tumors. About one-half to two-thirds of single gastrinomas are cancerous (malignant) tumors. These tumors often spread to the liver and nearby lymph nodes.
Many patients with gastrinomas have several tumors as part of a condition called multiple endocrine neoplasia type I (MEN I). People with this condition often have tumors of the pituitary gland (brain) and parathyroid gland (neck), as well as tumors of the pancreas.
Signs include ulcers in the stomach and small intestine.
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Drugs called proton pump inhibitors (omeprazole, lansoprazole, and others) are now the first choice for treating this condition. These drugs reduce acid production by the stomach, and help the ulcers in the stomach and small intestine heal. They also relieve abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Surgery to remove a single gastrinoma may be done if the tumors have not spread to other organs. Surgery on the stomach (gastrectomy) to control acid production is rarely needed.
The cure rate is low even with early detection and surgery to remove the tumor. However, gastrinomas grow slowly, and patients may live for many years after the tumor is discovered. Acid-suppressing medicines work well to control the symptoms of too much acid production.
Call your health care provider if you have severe abdominal pain that does not go away, especially if it occurs with diarrhea.
Jensen RT, Norton JA. Endocrine tumors of the pancreas and gastrointestinal tract. In: Feldman M, Friedman LS, Brandt LJ, eds. Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2010:chap 32.
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Well - font rendering in gnome-print is making heartwarming success last days. RGB and RGBA were actually breeze - but Gdk one was bitch (and still is) - but working. Now I have to think and think and think about device independent glyphists - until something will evolve. And then we'll have it!
Still waiting for my Red Book, before being able to move gnome-print to unicode - once and forever, I hope. And then I simply have to jump back to sodipodi, to make it using all that brave new stuff.
X sucks, PostScript sucks, PDF sucks, as do many other things. But only wait! We are here to embrace and extend all 'em!


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Finish Strong Program Helps Students Complete Studies
Joe Botelho has returned to Rhode Island College to complete his communications studies.
Rhode Island College is actively reaching out to help former students complete their degree through its Finish Strong program, which puts a formal name to an effort begun by Academic Affairs in August 2011.
A resource team has been formed to support the initiative, compromised of representatives from admissions, financial aid, records, the office of academic support and information services and the bursar's office. Each representative is a specialist who can focus on the specific needs or barriers for former students to complete.
Students who left in good academic standing will have a transcript review completed to determine what they need to complete their degree. The review will also include an evaluation of any credits taken since the student left RIC. A member of the resource team will then guide them through the simple process to become an active degree student again. Students who left RIC with an outstanding financial obligation or were in academic difficulty will be able to work with a member of the resource team on personalized plans that lead to their becoming degree students again.
"This program is about the value of an education," said Holly Shadoian, interim assistant vice president, academic affairs said. "Earning power increases with a degree."
The U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 report, "The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings," found that average lifetime earnings increased from $1.2 million for high school graduates to $2.1 million for workers with a bachelor's degree and $2.5 million for those with a master's degree.
There are many reasons why students may leave Rhode Island College before finish their degree, Shadoian said.
"It could have been for these students that life got in the way," she said. "They may have started a family or moved away. Sometimes students change their minds about what they were studying or have been out of the classroom and don't know how they can fit college back in. RIC is a welcoming place. We want to know how we can help make finishing happen for them."
Joe Botelho left Rhode Island College in 1991 to pursue a business opportunity. At the time, he was just two classes away from earning his bachelor's degree. He returned to RIC in fall 2012 to complete his communication degree.
"Experience in my business life has shown me the value of a degree and what it represents," he said, adding that he also wanted to finish his degree in order to be a good role model for his children and to be able to compete in today's job market. "Who knows where this will take me?"
Academic Affairs has partnered with RIC's Learning for Life (L4L) program, a college and community partnership that connects students with the supports they need (whether academic, financial or career-related) to navigate a direct course to college completion. Former RIC students in need of these supports when they return are eligible to become Learning for Life Scholars, according to Chris Lambert, project manager for Learning for Life.
The office of continuing education and professional studies will support Finish Strong by working to increase the number of hybrid and online course offerings and the number of early-spring and summer session courses.
The largest challenge for the program will be collecting updated contact information for former students. Shadoian encourages alumni and friends of the college to reach out to family members, friends, co-workers or neighbors who began at RIC but never finished their degrees. "Encourage them to take that first step and visit www.ric.edu/FinishStrong," Shadoian said.


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PS2 still selling strong
Sony's Playstation 2 console is still selling extremely well, despite being over a decade old at this point – and with the release of the PS4 just around the corner.
The Japanese gaming giant released a press release detailing the success of the PS2 over the past year: "The PlayStation 2 platform continues its sales momentum and remains robust sales especially in emerging counties and regions such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and South America, and exceeded half million units worldwide."
Since a PS2 can be picked up for relative peanuts these days, it's no wonder it's still doing well. This was one of the first consoles to make people actually look like people, dragons like dragons etc. If the sucess of cartoony, social networking games and mobile titles are anything to go by, it's not always necessary to have the latest and best visuals in your game, sometimes you just need a rough representation and a bit of imagination.
On top of that, the games library for it is huge. According to the Wiki page for the console, to date there are 2,016 official titles available, though some of them are region specific.
Sony not only credits the PS2 as the most successful home console of all time, but also points the finger at emerging regions for the continued success of the Playstation 2. Countries new to gaming find it an affordable buy so it's not surprising that its usage continues to grow.


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Someone had the bright idea of starting an audit process. Going through all the sytems looking for patches and other stuff that needed to be done to the machines. I am now drowning in paperwork mostly policy and procedure documents and the output from portscans across the network and new firewall listings. What have I started :/
There has been a couple of quiet weeks for new films, but in the last week I've seen The Fast and the Furious (lots of fun, lots of cars), Enigma (slow paced at times but good overall), and The Score(Cliche but enjoyable). Not a bad haul and more good ones soon!
The Enigma stuff is becoming a topic of interest to me now. Having seen the film last night I looked up some details of a talk I attended by Dr Mark Baldwin earlier in the year on the same topic. As chance would have it Channel 4 were showing their documentary about the work at Station X this afternoon. I think I need to go visit.
I'm a little worried about the state of the job market at the moment. We're on hiring freeze with no pay-rises and bonuses shifted having made 30% of the company redundant. Both my housemates have had similar situations at their companies. None of us have lost our jobs but friends have. Worrying.


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By: Dr. Ricky Rood , 5:18 AM GMT on May 09, 2013
How Much Does It Cost: What Can I Do? (6)
This is the continuation of a series in response to the question, "What can I do about climate change?" Links to the previous entries are listed at the end.
Last week rather than taking the conventional view of looking at greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, I presented an accounting of the emissions associated with agriculture. My primary points were that agriculture was a major emitter of greenhouse gases, and, therefore, the choices we make individually and collectively about what we eat have large environmental consequences.
I want to explore more the impact of agriculture, particularly livestock. First, however, I want to remind folks of the series on calculating budgets. Last summer I did a series where I compared the basic methods of climate science to keeping a budget – just like a checking and savings accounts. One of the entries in that series looked specifically at complexity. The idea being that despite the fact that maintaining a budget is a relatively simple matter of addition and subtraction, if you consider all of the ways we get and spend money, then it can become remarkably complex.
I implied the complexity of accounting for the greenhouse gas emissions of agriculture in the previous entry. The amount of emissions from the direct use of fossil fuels is relatively small. Big sources of emissions come from removing trees and changing forests to agricultural lands and soil management. Many aspects of soil management influence how much carbon and nitrogen is stored in the soil. There is also the need to consider greenhouse gases other than carbon dioxide: for example, methane associated with ruminates and solid waste from livestock and nitrous oxide associated with fertilizer. Emissions also depend on:
- what crops are grown and what animals are raised
- agricultural practice, for example, whether the land is plowed or no-till methods are used
- policy, for example, renewable energy policy provides incentives and disincentives on what to grow
- biological processes that are different from field to field, region to region, year to year, and that are not highly quantified
The calculation of the budget of emissions from agriculture is a difficult problem. We can say with certainty the emissions are large and they change based on many factors. We can also say that the impact of agriculture on the environment is more far reaching than climate change. Anecdotally, most people think of the impacts of pesticides and herbicides, the issues of genetically modified organisms, soil erosion and water quality before they think of how agriculture and climate change play together. Agriculture is also a major focus of those who think about sustainability.
I ended the previous entry with a relatively weak statement that what we chose to eat or not eat does make a difference. I stated that at the top of the list, perhaps, the easiest decision is to eat less meat. The issue of eating meat, of course, steps into a set of the more controversial subjects of our society. For example, there are the issues of personal choice and intrusion into individual's lives. Also, there are those who place high value on the ethics of raising and slaughtering animals. There is no doubt, however, that livestock production uses immense resources.
The source of much of the material in my previous entry was Livestock's Long Shadow a 2006 publication of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In that report they conclude:
"Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reduction in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost."
As strong as this statement is, there is a school of thought that Livestock's Long Shadow is a significant underestimation of the emissions due to livestock. Most notably is an analysis by Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang, Livestock and Climate Change, which does a different accounting of the budget of emissions of greenhouse gases. In Livestock and Climate Change it is maintained that there is significant undercounting and misallocation in the United Nations budget calculation. A point that is particularly important is that the proliferation of livestock production is human-made just as much as any building, road or power plant. Therefore, for example, the carbon dioxide of respiration of the animals needs to be considered in the budget calculation. Taking all of the budget changes in Livestock and Climate Change, the conclusion is that livestock is responsible for 51 percent of the total emissions. With this number, a far larger intervention is needed than "eat less meat."
In December 2009, I took a group of students to the 15th Conference of the Parties in Copenhagen. When I got off the subway at the conference center, there were two loud groups of advocates. One was People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, who had gone around Copenhagen and placed markers on utility poles and in trees where sea level would be if the Greenland ice sheet melted. Another group claimed that if we were all vegetarian, then we could reduce global warming by 70 percent.
The numbers in Livestock and Climate Change follow from a well-reasoned argument in the calculation of the budget of the emissions due to livestock. However, they are not without controversy. This controversy can be found in a number of places on the web: Columbia Journalism Review and Lifting Livestock's Long Shadow, Nature Climate Change and Measuring Livestock's Long Shadow, NYTimes. At the center of the controversy is another accounting of the impact of livestock, Cleaning the Air: Livestock's Contribution to Climate Change by Maurice Pitesky and others. This paper takes a vastly different accounting and concludes that impact of livestock is much smaller than in the United Nations Report, Livestock's Long Shadow. An interesting aspect of its argument is that "The fact that land-use changes associated with livestock (i.e., forested land converted to pasture or cropland used for feed production) are a significant source of anthropogenic GHGs in Latin America and other parts of the developing world is apparent. However, it is likely that any kind of land-use change from the original forestland will lead to great increases in global warming." The argument being that development in countries with growing population will lead to deforestation. Their argument is carried further "The United States and most other developed countries have not experienced significant land-use change practices around livestock production within the last few decades. Instead, over the last 25 years forestland has increased by approximately 25 percent in the United States and livestock production has been intensified (concentrated geographically), thus reducing its geographical footprint."
The line of reasoning in Cleaning the Air: Livestock's Contribution to Climate Change contributes to the argument that concentration into highly efficient, mass producing farms is a more practical way forward than reducing consumption (Livestock production and the global environment: Consume less or produce better?, by Henning Steinfeld and Pierre Gerber).
In this food niche of strategies to mitigate climate change, we see the same arguments emerge as in the discussion of fossil fuels. We could be more efficient in our use of resources. With efficiency, however, in the face of a growing population and growing consumption, we are still faced with a growth of emissions of greenhouse gases. Therefore, if climate-change and broader environmental issues are given priority, then we must consume less of those products that are responsible for our largest greenhouse emissions. We can conceive of sources of renewable energy that are free of carbon dioxide emissions. However, it is more difficult to imagine how we raise livestock without the methane and nitrous oxide emissions, and these greenhouse gases cannot be dismissed.
My original list topper on diet was eat less meat. If we take the high emissions scenario as correct, then a climate priority calls for an intervention into our dietary practices that is comparable to the intervention required for reducing fossil fuels. This is a change in diet that I assert will be more difficult than the change in our energy system. Therefore, back to the original question, "What can I do about climate change?" – eat (a lot) less meat. Vegetarianism is good for the planet. This from a man who does eat a lot less meat than he used to, but has been, I maintain, overidentified with BBQ.
Some dietary resources: I have not checked these out too closely!
Environmental Working Group: Meat Eaters Guide (I do like this group's approach to things.)
Climate Diet
Human Media: The Diet-Climate Connection
Previous Entries in the Series
Setting Up the Discussion Deciding to do something, definition of mitigation and adaptation, and a cost-benefit anchored framework for thinking about mitigation
Smoking, Marriage and Climate Behavioral changes and peer pressure
Organizing and Growing Individual Efforts A little detail on efficiency and thinking about how individuals can have more impact than just that of a single person
The Complete List Eight categories of things we can do to reduce greenhouse gases
We Are What We Eat Counting agriculture and its emissions of greenhouse gases
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Over the past few months, the Beltway's foreign policy community has offered two broad observations in op-eds and essays on America's role in the world. The first -- repeatedly coveredin this column -- is that the world is one of increasing complexity, instability, and general dystopia. In a twist to his repeated assertion that the world has never been more dangerous, on March 22, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, declared that "the world is more dangerous, because more people can do us harm." (This implies the world can only become ever more perilous since global population is projected to grow by one billion people over the next dozen years; presumably the Pentagon's Strategic Choices and Management Review will include expanding access to birth control as a key priority.)
The second observation is that we are now suffering a "world on fire" -- as Senator Lindsey Graham described it in February -- primarily because the United States has allowed it to deteriorate. More specifically, President Barack Obama, through his personal inclination or inattention, has let a "vacuum" emerge outside of America's borders, which -- like the earthly portal that brings forth the ancient Sumerian god of destruction, Gozer, at the end of Ghostbusters -- has been filled with mayhem, evil, and darkness. As political scientist Eliot Cohen wrote two weeks ago: "A world in which the U.S. abnegates its leadership will be a world of unrestricted self-help in which China sets the rules of politics and trade in Asia, mayhem and chaos is the order of the day in the Middle East, and timidity and
The proposed solution for a world that has become more dangerous only because the American president allowed it? "Leadership" -- the alleged absence of which is based on the observation of the anonymous Obama adviser who famously told The New Yorker that the administration's approach to Libya was one of "leading from behind." Ever since, whenever a policymaker or pundit observes any foreign policy that they object to, they charge the White House with exercising insufficient leadership. The next time you read some pundit demanding more leadership abroad, there are several assumptions worth bearing in mind.appeasement paralyze the free European states."


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Just finished reading the book by Amity Schlaes. Very interesting & a good read.
Grew up on a hardscrabble Vermont farm in the late 1800's. Not unusual as the majority of the US population was living on the farm. Family was political, Dad was a VT state senator. Good read while somewhat detailed on occasion. Will not say what was in the book though there was one glaring error, which you will have to find on your own.
He did manage to bring the national debt under 20 Billion$ with a budget just over 3 billion$ . I won't describe what I took from the book until others who choose to do so have read it & are prepared to discuss his legacy.


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Is anyone getting these marvel retro figures?
Is anyone getting these marvel retro figures?
I'm still missing
Black Manta
Two Face
Green Arrow
I got the Happy Meal Brave and the Bold Batmobile today.
For those interested, the Walmart Green Lantern 5-pack is up for sale at WM's site:
It might not last. I saw scalpers selling it for $100 last weekend.
For those of you collecting JLU figures, the single packed figs are showing up at TRU now.
I picked up Superman blue, Omac, Captain Atom, Martian Manhunter and Red Tornado today.
I received DCUC wave 15 from BBTS yesterday. I still haven't seen (or heard of) wave 14 at any WM, not that I necessarily would.
Wow, wave fifteen already. I'm happy that thirteen is turning up around me at last.


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We found these ground orchids in Bogor Botanical Garden, Indonesia (more detailed information about Bogor Botanical Garden: www.bogorbotanicgardens.org /). The locals called this flower "Anggrek Tanah", or simply means ground orchid (Spathoglottis plicata).The flowers are actually smaller than tropical orchids in general although it shares the same shape and color. We encountered some difficulties when taking this picture; such as wind which made the entire plant swaying, and It's very difficult to get all the flowers in focus; some of the blurred flowers were caused by the stitching error.
This panorama was taken by Prima Eriawan, Pramanda Dwiraputra, Riandini Najmi and Nadindra Almira of Al-Izhar School, Indonesia.


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Since its inception in 2003, Dayton Children's Clinical Trials has managed several pharmaceutical studies in an effort to improve pediatric dosing instructions on medications taken by children.
Most medications currently available are labeled with inadequate instructions for child-sized doses. In many cases, dosing instructions are created with only adults in mind. Drugs may work differently in children than in adults, and as a result, pharmaceutical trials are necessary to help protect children from ineffective or harmful dosing.
Dayton Children's is currently conducting trials with physicians in pulmonary, infectious disease and some community practices and is recruiting subjects for participation in several of these trials. View our list of frequently asked questions.
Some trials include, but are not limited to:
Cystic Fibrosis Studies
Tiger-2 Study is now seeking volunteers with mild CF lung disease age 5 and older. This study is evaluating the safety and effectiveness of an investigational medication for mild CF lung disease. This is a Phase 3 double-blinded study.
If you or a loved one have CF and would like to learn more about the Tiger-2 Study, call our research coordinator at 937-641-4004.
Summary of the Tiger-2 Study:
- Volunteers may not need to change their current medication regimen to participate.
- The investigational medication is inhaled using a nebulizer, three times per day.
- The investigational medication may help improve moisture and mobility of mucus.
- The study lasts for about six months.
- During the 24-week treatment period, half of the patients receive placebo and the other half of patients receive investigational medication.
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- Volunteers must be age 5 or older, with mild CF lung disease (measured by a lung function test).
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Nipika Mountain Resort is a luxury Eco-Resort that runs completely off grid and in harmony with the environment. We have 9 self contained cabins that are equipped with everything you will need for a vacation to remember.
The Manor Guest House is a restored Edwardian mansion located in the heart of the city of Vancouver. It is one block from the intersection of 12th Ave. and Cambie Street, across the road from Vancouver City Hall, at the southeastern edge of downtown.
Wilderness recreational retreat located in Narrows Inlet on Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. Not accessible by road, boat transportation provided. Spectacular scenery in rainforest, mountains and sea. Great place for digital detox. Website a "must
Saturna Lodge is a 6-room lodge on pristine Saturna Island, the most untouched of the Gulf Islands, midway between Vancouver & Victoria. Water view & garden view rooms. Lovely gardens & decks. The Mill House restaurant serves Breakfast & Dinner.
At the Best Western Abercorn Vancouver Airport Hotel, our aim is to retain the charm and personality of gentler times. Our charming Tudor-style European Inn offers cozy guestrooms and friendly staff, perfect for any corporate and leisure guests.
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Guinea Population: 11,176,0262 VISITORS FROM HERE!
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|Guinea has had a history of authoritarian rule since gaining its independence from France in 1958. Lansana CONTE came to power in 1984 when the military seized the government after the death of the first president, Sekou TOURE. Guinea did not hold democratic elections until 1993 when Gen. CONTE (head of the military government) was elected president of the civilian government. He was reelected in 1998 and again in 2003, though all the polls were marred by irregularities. History repeated itself in December 2008 when following President CONTE's death, Capt. Moussa Dadis CAMARA led a military coup, seizing power and suspending the constitution. His unwillingness to yield to domestic and international pressure to step down led to heightened political tensions that culminated in September 2009 when presidential guards opened fire on an opposition rally killing more than 150 people, and in early December 2009 when CAMARA was wounded in an assassination attempt and evacuated to Morocco and subsequently to Burkina Faso. A transitional government led by Gen. Sekouba KONATE held democratic elections in 2010 and Alpha CONDE was elected president in the country's first free and fair elections since independence. CONDE in July 2011 survived an attack on his residence allegedly perpetrated by the military. In October 2012, he announced a cabinet reshuffle that removed three members of the military from their positions, making the current administration Guinea's first all-civilian government.
The Niger and its important tributary the Milo have their sources in the Guinean highlands
|Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 245,857 sq km
land: 245,717 sq km
water: 140 sq km
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Oregon
|Land Boundaries:
| total: 3,399 km
border countries: Cote d'Ivoire 610 km, Guinea-Bissau 386 km, Liberia 563 km, Mali 858 km, Senegal 330 km, Sierra Leone 652 km
|320 km
|Maritime claims:
| territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
|generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds
|generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior
|Elevation extremes:
| lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mont Nimba 1,752 m
|Natural resources:
|bauxite, iron ore, diamonds, gold, uranium, hydropower, fish, salt
|Land use:
| arable land: 11.59%
permanent crops: 2.81%
other: 85.6% (2011)
|Irrigated land:
|949.2 sq km (2003)
|Natural hazards:
|hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze may reduce visibility during dry season
|Current Environment Issues:
|deforestation; inadequate supplies of potable water; desertification; soil contamination and erosion; overfishing, overpopulation in forest region; poor mining practices have led to environmental damage
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Guinean(s)
adjective: Guinean
|Ethnic groups:
|Peuhl 40%, Malinke 30%, Soussou 20%, smaller ethnic groups 10%
|French (official) note: each ethnic group has its own language
|Muslim 85%, Christian 8%, indigenous beliefs 7%
|11,176,026 (July 2013 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 42.2% (male 2,383,432/female 2,333,960)
15-24 years: 19.4% (male 1,096,664/female 1,075,842)
25-54 years: 30.4% (male 1,700,026/female 1,691,910)
55-64 years: 4.4% (male 235,705/female 259,752)
65 years and over: 3.6% (male 175,896/female 222,839) (2013 est.)
|Dependency ratios:
| total dependency ratio: 83.2 %
youth dependency ratio: 77.5 %
elderly dependency ratio: 5.7 %
potential support ratio: 17.5 (2013)
|Median age:
| total: 18.6 years
male: 18.4 years
female: 18.8 years (2013 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|2.64% (2013 est.)
|Birth rate:
|36.3 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Death rate:
|9.94 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
| urban population: 35.4% of total population (2011)
rate of urbanization: 3.86% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Major urban areas - population:
|CONAKRY (capital) 1.597 million (2009)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.9 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
|Mother's mean age at first birth:
|18.8 (2005 est.)
|Maternal mortality rate:
|610 deaths/100,000 live births (2010)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 57.11 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 60.14 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 53.99 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 59.11 years
male: 57.6 years
female: 60.66 years (2013 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|4.99 children born/woman (2013 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|5.6% (2012)
|Health expenditures:
|4.9% of GDP (2010)
|Physicians density:
|0.1 physicians/1,000 population (2005)
|Hospital bed density:
|0.3 beds/1,000 population (2011)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 90% of population
rural: 65% of population
total: 74% of population
urban: 10% of population
rural: 35% of population
total: 26% of population (2010 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 32% of population
rural: 11% of population
total: 18% of population
urban: 68% of population
rural: 89% of population
total: 82% of population (2010 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
|1.3% (2009 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
|79,000 (2009 est.)
|HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|4,700 (2009 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|4.4% (2008)
|Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
|20.8% (2008)
|Education expenditures:
|3.1% of GDP (2011)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 41%
male: 52%
female: 30% (2010 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 10 years
male: 11 years
female: 8 years (2011)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Republic of Guinea
conventional short form: Guinea
local long form: Republique de Guinee
local short form: Guinee
former: French Guinea
|Government type:
| name: Conakry
geographic coordinates: 9 30 N, 13 42 W
time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|33 prefectures and 1 special zone (zone special)*; Beyla, Boffa, Boke, Conakry*, Coyah, Dabola, Dalaba, Dinguiraye, Dubreka, Faranah, Forecariah, Fria, Gaoual, Gueckedou, Kankan, Kerouane, Kindia, Kissidougou, Koubia, Koundara, Kouroussa, Labe, Lelouma, Lola, Macenta, Mali, Mamou, Mandiana, Nzerekore, Pita, Siguiri, Telimele, Tougue, Yomou
|2 October 1958 (from France)
|National holiday:
|Independence Day, 2 October (1958)
|7 May 2010 (Loi Fundamentale)
|Legal system:
|civil law system based on the French model
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Alpha CONDE (since 21 December 2010)
head of government: Prime Minister Mohamed Said FOFANA (since 24 December 2010)
cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president (For more information visit the World Leaders website )
elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term (eligible for a second term); candidate must receive a majority of the votes cast to be elected president; election last held on 27 June 2010 with a runoff election held on 7 November 2010
election results: Alpha CONDE elected president in a runoff election; percent of vote Alpha CONDE 52.5%, Cellou Dalein DIALLO 47.5%
|Legislative branch:
| the legislature was dissolved by junta leader Moussa Dadis CAMARA in December 2008 and in February 2010, the Transition Government appointed a 155 member National Transition Council (CNT) that has since acted in the legislature's place
elections: last held on 30 June 2002 (next election scheduled for 24 September 2013)
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court or Cour Supreme (organized into Constitutional, Civil, Penal, Commercial, and Administrative Chambers, and Chamber of Accounts; court consists of the first president, chamber presidents, and NA members) judge selection and term of office: court first president appointed by the national president after consultation with the National Assembly; other members appointed by presidential decree; member tenure NA
subordinate courts: Courts of Appeal or Cour d'Appel; courts of first instance or Tribunal de Premiere Instance; labor court; military tribunal; High Court of Justice; justices of the peace
|Political parties and leaders:
|National Party for Hope and Development or PEDN [Lansana KOUYATE] Rally for the Guinean People or RPG [Alpha CONDE] Union for the Progress of Guinea or UPG [Jean Marie DORE] Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea or UFDG [Cellou Dalein DIALLO] Union of Republican Forces or UFR [Sidya TOURE] note: listed are the five most popular parties as of December 2012; overall, there are more than 130 registered parties
|Political pressure groups and leaders:
|National Confederation of Guinean Workers-Labor Union of Guinean Workers or CNTG-USTG Alliance (includes National Confederation of Guinean Workers or CNTG and Labor Union of Guinean Workers or USTG); Syndicate of Guinean Teachers and Researchers or SLECG
|International organization participation:
|ACP, AfDB, AU, ECOWAS, EITI (candidate country), FAO, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), MIGA, MINURSO, NAM, OIC, OIF, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
|National anthem:
| name: "Liberte" (Liberty)
lyrics/music: unknown/Fodeba KEITA
note: adopted 1958
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Blaise CHERIF
chancery: 2112 Leroy Place NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 986-4300
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Patricia Newton MOLLER
embassy: Koloma, Conakry, east of Hamdallaye Circle
mailing address: B. P. 603, Transversale No. 2, Centre Administratif de Koloma, Commune de Ratoma, Conakry
telephone: [224] 65-10-40-00
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Guinea is a poor country that possesses major mineral, hydropower, and agricultural resources. The country has almost half of the world's bauxite reserves and significant iron ore, gold, and diamond reserves. However, Guinea has been unable to profit from this potential, as rampant corruption, dilapidated infrastructure, and political uncertainty have drained investor confidence. In the time since a 2008 coup following the death of long-term President Lansana CONTE, international donors, including the G-8, the IMF, and the World Bank, have significantly curtailed their development programs. Throughout 2009, policies of the ruling military junta severely weakened the economy. The junta leaders spent and printed money at an accelerating rate, driving inflation and debt to perilously high levels. In early 2010, the junta collapsed and was replaced by a transition government, which ceded power in December 2010 to the country's first-ever democratically elected president, Alpha CONDE. International assistance and investment are expected to return to Guinea, but the levels will depend upon the ability of the new government to combat corruption, reform its banking system, improve its business environment, and build infrastructure. IMF and World Bank programs will be especially critical as Guinea attempts to gain debt relief. International investors have expressed keen interest in Guinea''s vast iron ore reserves, which could further propel the country''s growth. The government put forward a new mining code in September 2011 that includes provisions to combat corruption, protect the environment, and review all existing mining contracts. Longer range plans to deploy broadband Internet throughout the country could spur economic growth as well.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $12.37 billion (2012 est.) $11.9 billion (2011 est.) $11.45 billion (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $5.632 billion (2012 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|3.9% (2012 est.) 3.9% (2011 est.) 1.9% (2010 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
| GDP - per capita (PPP): $1,100 (2012 est.) $1,100 (2011 est.) $1,100 (2010 est.)
note: data are in 2012 US dollars
|Gross national saving:
|-20.9% of GDP (2012 est.) -6.4% of GDP (2011 est.) 3.6% of GDP (2010 est.)
|GDP - composition, by end use:
| household consumption: 88.6%
government consumption: 14.7%
investment in fixed capital: 17.4%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 26.6%
imports of goods and services: -47.3% (2012 est.)
|GDP - composition, by sector of origin:
| household consumption: 88.6%
government consumption: 14.7%
investment in fixed capital: 17.4%
investment in inventories: 0%
exports of goods and services: 26.6%
imports of goods and services: -47.3% (2012 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|rice, coffee, pineapples, palm kernels, cassava (manioc), bananas, sweet potatoes; cattle, sheep, goats; timber
|bauxite, gold, diamonds, iron; alumina refining; light manufacturing, and agricultural processing
|Industrial production growth rate:
|4.8% (2012 est.)
|Labor force:
|4.771 million (2012 est.)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 76% industry and
services: 24% (2006 est.)
|Unemployment rate:
|Population below poverty line:
|47% (2006 est.)
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: 2.7%
highest 10%: 30.3% (2007)
|Distribution of family income - Gini index:
|39.4 (2007) 40.3 (1994)
| revenues: $1.328 billion
expenditures: $1.639 billion (2012 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|23.6% of GDP (2012 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|calendar year
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 15.2% (2012 est.) 21.4% (2011 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$1.754 billion (2012 est.) -$1.215 billion (2011 est.)
|$1.348 billion (2012 est.) $1.428 billion (2011 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|bauxite, alumina, gold, diamonds, coffee, fish, agricultural products
|Exports - partners:
|India 10.3%, Spain 9.2%, Chile 9%, US 6.9%, Germany 6.1%, Ireland 6%, Ukraine 5.5%, France 4.8% (2012)
|$2.606 billion (2012 est.) $2.097 billion (2011 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|petroleum products, metals, machinery, transport equipment, textiles, grain and other foodstuffs
|Imports - partners:
|China 14%, Netherlands 7.6% (2012)
|Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
|$174.3 million (31 December 2012 est.) $111.8 million (31 December 2011 est.)
|Debt - external:
|$2.584 billion (31 December 2012 est.) $3.139 billion (31 December 2011 est.)
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|Guinean francs (GNF) per US dollar - 6,986.1 (2012 est.) 6,658 (2011 est.) 5,726.1 (2010 est.) 5,500 (2009) 5,500 (2008)
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|Electricity - production:
|955 million kWh (2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 147
|Electricity - consumption:
|888.2 million kWh (2009 est.)
|Electricity - exports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - imports:
|0 kWh (2010 est.)
|Electricity - installed generating capacity:
|393,000 kW (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from fossil fuels:
|68.7% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from nuclear fuels:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from hydroelectric plants:
|31.3% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Electricity - from other renewable sources:
|0% of total installed capacity (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - production:
|0 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Crude oil - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - imports:
|0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
|Crude oil - proved reserves:
|0 bbl (1 January 2012 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - production:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - consumption:
|8,671 bbl/day (2011 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - exports:
|0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Refined petroleum products - imports:
|8,970 bbl/day (2008 est.)
|Natural gas - production:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - consumption:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - exports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - imports:
|0 cu m (2010 est.)
|Natural gas - proved reserves:
|0 cu m (1 January 2012 est.)
|Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy:
|1.392 million Mt (2010 est.)
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|Telephones in use:
| 18,000 (2011)
country comparison to the world: 194
|Cellular Phones in use:
|4.5 million (2011)
|Telephone system:
| general assessment: inadequate system of open-wire lines, small radiotelephone communication stations, and new microwave radio relay system
domestic: Conakry reasonably well-served; coverage elsewhere remains inadequate and large companies tend to rely on their own systems for nationwide links; fixed-line teledensity less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular subscribership is expanding and exceeds 40 per 100 persons
international: country code - 224; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2011)
|Broadcast media:
|government maintains marginal control over broadcast media; single state-run TV station; state-run radio broadcast station also operates several stations in rural areas; a steadily increasing number of privately owned radio stations, nearly all in Conakry, and about a dozen community radio stations; foreign TV programming available via satellite and cable subscription services (2011)
|Internet country code:
|Internet hosts:
|15 (2012)
|Internet users:
|95,000 (2009)
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| 16 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 144
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 4
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 12
1,524 to 2,437 m: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 2 (2013)
| total 1,185 km
standard gauge: 238 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 947 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)
| total 44,348 km
paved: 4,342 km
unpaved: 40,006 km (2003)
|1,300 km (navigable by shallow-draft native craft in the northern part of the Niger system) (2011)
|Ports and terminals:
|major seaport(s): Conakry, Kamsar
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|Military branches:
|National Armed Forces: Army, Guinean Navy (Armee de Mer or Marine Guineenne, includes Marines), Guinean Air Force (Force Aerienne de Guinee) (2009)
|Military service age and obligation:
|18-25 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; 18-month conscript service obligation (2012)
|Manpower available for military service:
| males age 16-49: 2,359,203
females age 16-49: 2,329,784 (2010 est.)
|Manpower fit for military service:
| males age 16-49: 1,493,991
females age 16-49: 1,535,418 (2010 est.)
|Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
| male: 118,443
female: 115,901 (2010 est.)
|Military expenditures:
|3.4% of GDP (2011)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|conflicts among rebel groups, warlords, and youth gangs in neighboring states have spilled over into Guinea resulting in domestic instability; Sierra Leone considers Guinea's definition of the flood plain limits to define the left bank boundary of the Makona and Moa rivers excessive and protests Guinea's continued occupation of these lands, including the hamlet of Yenga, occupied since 1998
|Refugees and internally displaced persons:
|refugees (country of origin): 6,552 (Cote d'Ivoire); 5,400 (Liberia) (2012)
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Source: CIA - The World Factbook


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Wow only a month and socialism is well under way. Controlling banking, housing, medical care, and now what or how much you drive. You democrats asked for it and I hope you enjoy it.
BTW- anyone see the cost involved with this and do you think such a tax would actually replace a gas tax or simply end up in addition to the gas tax????


text: Garland's Community Multicultural Commission (CMC) is celebrating its 10th anniversary by hosting the "We The People, For The People" Conference Saturday, September 22 at the Curtis Culwell Conference Center. This event will feature a naturalization ceremony to welcome new United States citizens and several workshops and interactive learning opportunities for senior citizens and parents/guardians with children in the Garland public school system. "The CMC was created in 2002 to make sure the widely diverse cultures represented in Garland have a seat at the local government table," says CMC Chair Jennifer Nguyen. "The CMC is organizing this event in coordination with the Healthy Living Expo to help Garland citizens gain access to important services and information, as well as to broaden awareness of the intricate cultural tapestry that is Garland." All Conference activities are free and will take place in the Conference Center portion of the Curtis Culwell Center. The Conference will begin with an invitation-only Leadership Breakfast to engage and inspire community, neighborhood, nonprofit and business leaders. Following the breakfast, the U.S. Office of Immigration and Naturalization Services will swear-in 40 new citizens. This ceremony will take place in the Culwell Center Lecture Hall and is open to the public, although seating is limited. Throughout the morning, the CMC will host informational workshops and booths focused on the needs of senior citizens and of parents and children in the Garland Independent School District. Sessions for senior citizens include benefits and services provided by the Social Security Administration, preventing fraud and identity theft, adult education opportunities, and much more. A workshop is being offered to provide a special focus for adults caring for aging parents. Meanwhile, Garland ISD will answer questions about standardized testing, college readiness, how parents can work with schools to benefit their students, and much more. The day's activities will culminate with the Mosaic Festival, which features local musical and dance performers representing an array of cultures including Latino, African, and Asian just to name a few. The Mosaic performers will appear on the Culwell Center Arena stage from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m., entertaining those who are attending the Healthy Living Expo. For more information about the CMC's "We The People" Conference, please visit GarlandTx.gov and look for the link under the "Programs and Initiatives" tab, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 972-205-2676. The first 300 patrons who visit the "We the People" Conference will receive a free, reusable shopping bag. Sponsors for the Conference include the City of Garland, Garland Independent School District, Cindi's NY Delicatessen, the DFW Asian American Citizen Council, Garland Chamber of Commerce, Hiep Thai Foods, Hong Kong Market Place, Spirit in Motion, Trophy Dental of Plano, and the Waffle House.


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Web Stories
Choueiri knighted in Lebanon
Posted November 3, 2004; 09:50 p.m.
Edgar Choueiri , associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been awarded the Medal of the Order of the Cedars, Rank of Knight in his native country of Lebanon.
The president of Lebanon, Emile Lahoud, bestowed the honor at a ceremony in Beirut on Oct. 11 in recognition of Choueiri's contributions to the fields of astronautics and spacecraft propulsion. The ceremony, at which Choueiri was the sole honoree, was attended by more than 800 people and was followed by intensive media coverage in Lebanon.
In accepting the award, Choueiri said the honor carries a responsibility to play an active role in "helping the youth of this rising nation to better appreciate the excitement, promise and rewards of careers in science and technology." Choueiri also emphasized the importance of values that are beyond the scope of science and "are most critical to our humanness: compassion, ethics, charity, tolerance, justice and integrity."
Choueiri also gave many newspaper, radio and television interviews as well as technical talks on the use of plasma propulsion systems for the exploration of Mars. Choueiri joined the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in 1996 and was promoted to tenure in 2002. He also directs the Program in Engineering Physics and is an associated faculty member in the Program in Plasma Physics.
Contact: Eric Quinones (609) 258-3601


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Linux users: wanna dare SCO to sue you?
so today I hear news about Gentoo starting a game company for linux games. pretty neat stuff, especially since they're already releasing the cd image for America's Army (I kind of has reserves about that games motivations...). The dl site is being killed though, so I was thinking about starting a torrent since I've never used bittorrent before, but word on the street is there's already one going. it's here. It's going now and working great... Bram bittorrent rocks. Thanks for some cool software.
thanks to whoever first posted the programmers stone link, it's a fun read :)
well this is about the third round of this fight that I remember, so I think I'll try a more realistic approach. why are software developers using a community website about software to voice political opinions??? why can't we keep it to just software around here? sure, we all have more things to talk about in life besides software, but that's why I use things like livejournal and simply link to my livejournal on my public page instead of throwing my personal happenings/views in everyone's damn face. my girlfriend might be pregant, but wtf do open-source developers care? I don't think that anyone will disagree that this is counter-productive. what are we all getting out of this? and WHAT THE HELL are some of us thinking by threatening to certify certain people to cause more of a battle? what's next, defacing each other's homepages with l33t 0days and posting pro/anti war stuff???
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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Employee Relations
Our Mission
The primary purpose of Employee Relations is to protect the interests, rights, and privileges of exempt staff and non-exempt staff in all levels of university operations and programs. Through the Office of Equity and Diversity, Employee Relations is designated by the university to function as an impartial and neutral resource to assist members of the university community. Employee Relations provides information relating to university policies and procedures and facilitates the resolution of problems and complaints through informal investigation and mediation. The rights and interests of all parties to disputes are considered, with the aim to achieving fair outcomes.
Grievance Process Form
Any UTHSC staff can seek the advice of Employee Relations however our involvement does not replace or supercede other university grievances, complaint or appeal procedures. As a result, employees seeking relief through the formal grievance process must initiate this process through the Office of Equity and Diversity by filling out the grievance form.
This provides a method for the resolution of problems which may arise between the University and regular, staff non-exempt employees.
Grievance Hearing Panel
Would you like to be a grievance hearing panelist? The Office of Equity and Diversity is seeking a diverse pool of volunteers to serve on panels for the UTHSC Grievance Hearing Process. Panelists must be active regular full-time employees of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and should possess the following characteristics:
- Ability to be fair and objective in hearing others concerns
- Ability to exercise sound judgment
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Good standing with the university (disciplinary action, parking services, etc )
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and be discreet
- Willingness to help resolve employee workplace issues
- Willingness to learn new skills
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