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CHICAGO - No. 15 Illinois 81, Auburn 79: Point guard Tracy Abrams scored a career-high 27 points and the Fighting Illini bounced back from their first loss by holding off the Tigers at the United Center in Chicago.
Illinois (13-1) forced 12 first-half turnovers and led 47-42 at the break. The Illini stretched the lead to 11 early in the second half, but Auburn cut the deficit to one on Frankie Sullivan's 3-pointer with 4:29 left. Abrams, who also had eight rebounds, five assists and three steals, answered with two free throws and Illinois never relinquished the lead.
Auburn (5-7) dropped its second straight despite 21 points from Sullivan, who hit 5 of 12 3-pointers.
The Illini, who entered tied for the lead nationally with 9.8 3-pointers per game, shot just 4-of-14 from beyond the arc after going 8-of-32 in their previous game, an 82-73 loss to Missouri.
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There is no "machine" that can be patented.
I do not understand. I could patent anything if it was not patented before - I just need to pay $20K (more?) to reserve the idea, thing, whichever for me. Patent would just declare my ownership of the thing. The best example of patenting smartness was Singer, who patented the hole in the tip of the needle. The president of company called me another day - they patented the new way of sequencing DNA using electron microscope, but they actually do not know how to do it. They wanted me to do the job to prove that their patent make sense. I made what they wanted and now they are very unhappy because I did something, which they could not do. Now they do not want to pay me for the job. Patenting law in this country is weird.
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Hey guys,
We are still in Westport waiting a window south. Boys here are getting a lot of coho. Seas will remain big till Sunday or Monday but then there looks like some really good weather with not much wind for about a week. We think we have our window to San Fran starting Sunday or Monday, 5 day trip for us. Looking forward to some fresh hand caught Tuna.
Best of luck to those who keep fishing out on the coast.
Great report. Sounds like the big hooknoses are yet to make their push although it's hard for this displaced PNW salt chucker to be dialed in anymore
Someday I am going to find a VCR and convert some video to mpeg so I can put some of the "old days" footage I have from the 80's and 90's out on Swiftsure and the coho madness we enjoyed (not to mention orcas, dalls porpoise, whales, acres of krill, etc).
Sounds like you had a great trip.
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I think we traveled about 150 miles in 4 days in the ocean. We fished Table Top the first couple of days but found only occasional fish and trolled way, way too much. But the weather was great and the ocean was quiet. We woke up Sunday to overcast skys and increasing winds. The report was calling for 15 to 25 later in the day. A young fellow at the dock had told us the night before that Swiftsure was holding huge concentrations of coho so decided to try for it and see how bad the weather was out there. The trip out wasn't too bad; mostly rollers with a little chop. When we arrived at the bouy there were about a dozen boats bottom fishing and a couple of boats trolling for salmon. Lots of birds and a few jumping coho. Not huge signs of fish but more than we had seen anywhere else. The wind started to increase but we stopped and started casting. Lots of rock and roll but good numbers of fish although most were small. The weather finally got too rough and when we turned around there were only a couple of boats left. Decided ilt was time to go back to the beach. Then the 150 decided to give us grief. wouldn't wind above 2700 RPM and could just get on plane but then we were going too fast for the water conditions. It had happened twice before but had healed itself. Dale at Ballard Marine couldn't find anything wrong with it. A huge squall moved in and started to soak us reducing visibility to next to nothing. Not a good place to be with only a hand held GPS and a compass that had lost it's oil and was swinging madly. But the gods looked favorably on two very wet fools and again the Merc healed itself. We were back on the beach taking hot showers and drying out rain gear in another hour.
Sunday dawned even worse in terms of fog with forcasts of more wind. We putted out of the harbor on GPS and just set a course north trolling (did I mention I HATE trolling?) toward Canada. We were somewhere toward the middle when a large ship started sounding it's horn. Well, I think the ship was large because it sure had a big horn, we never saw the ship. Decided that a bass trip to Tatoosh was in order but the further west we went the clearer it became. So we changed direction for Swiftsure again.
About 5 miles off the island we saw birds, a lot of birds, birds like the old days birds. There was the largest mass of krill I have ever seen with salmon crashing, baitfish feeding and gulls and seabirds having all on a huge bite. It literally became boaring. If we wen two casts or five minutes without a grab or a hookup we cranked the motor and moved. Had 20 or more to hand each and it was so easy we left at 1:00 to fish bass. Some guys can't be happy. We even had double headers on topwater sliders. Fish were generally small and by far, most were wild. I did hook one large (16 to 18) fish that I think was a small king but after a 15 minute fight he/she was on its side on the surface 20 feet away and the hook pulled. Oh well, one to remember.
So that was it for Harry for this year, the Canadian lakes are calling him and then there is the Thompson. Joe and I will go back weekend after next to give it one more go and bring the whaler and the airstream home.
I will dream of that Labor Day Sunday until next year. Tight lines and be safe. Bum
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In Ruby 1.8 strings have no encoding associated, they are only a handful of bytes from Ruby's view. Regexps are agnostic in that sense as well they match bytes against bytes. Unless you pass one of the flags /u for UTF8, /s for SJIS, or /e for EUC-JP. By the way note that /s in Ruby has a different meaning than in Perl, and it is not the only flag that conflicts.
If you set $KCODE to "u" then source code itself is assumed to be UTF8 and Ruby turns the /u flag on. Ruby on Rails does that since version 1.2 for example.
AFAICT it is not clearly defined which support does Ruby 1.8 provide for Unicode in regexps. For example Flanagan & Matz have little about it except for some vague descriptions. You could say it is just not supported, but some things do work. For example, it is a known trick that counting /./ matches gives you the length of a UTF8 string, whereas #length returns number of bytes.
A couple of important bits with definitely partial support are the character classes \w and \s (and thus their negations \W and \S).
In general, the definition of a word char depends on the locale. In Catalan "ò" is a word char. Regexp engines are locale-aware and the meaning of \w depends on it. That is, \w is equivalent to [a-zA-Z0-9_] only in ASCII-like locales. In Ruby, if source code is UTF8 and /u is enabled "ò" matches \w.
That's important of course, a Rails application that validates domain or account names against \w for example is permitting accented letters. If they should not be allowed you need to write the character class explicitly: [a-zA-Z0-9_].
On the other hand, since "ò" and friends match \w you could be tempted to validate Unicode against \w, I certainly have beed more than tempted :-). Wrong! There are characters that match but shouldn't. For example "¿" or "¡", or "·".
With whitespace there's also poor support. NEL (U+0085) belongs to \s, but it doesn't in Ruby 1.8. A string that consists of NELs not only is not blank in Rails, but it in addition matches \w in Ruby 1.8! Two gotchas for the price of one!
If you need proper Unicode support, among other goodies, you switch to using Oniguruma. That's the regexp engine used in Ruby 1.9, which is available for 1.8 as a gem:
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The big changes, however, are beneath the bodywork. In place of a 4- or 6-cylinder gasoline engine is a Tesla-designed 154hp (115kW) electric motor that drives the front wheels. In normal mode, the RAV4 EV can hit 60 mph in 8.6 seconds. Switching to Sport mode cuts that time down to 7 seconds. Top speed is listed at a just 80 mph, which means that you won't be hogging the left lane on most interstates in the U.S. The maximum driving range is listed at 100 miles.
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Dead zones off the coasts. Red dots show the location and size of the dead zone; black circles show the location but the size is unknown. Darker blue regions of the oceans indicate that organic particulates are high and may lead to a dead zone.
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Very nice.... If you only drink the stuff. A cursory glance through one magazine, (so I may dead be wrong) shows that it's more concerned with boutiquing beer and celebratizing it's crafters than it is about the actual making of the stuff. At least one article should be about brewing history, and one should include a recipe for the home brewer that replicates one brewer's featured beer.
Pretty much a mirror of the site. Run by "bros" who ban you from their forums for having a difference of opinion on anything. Like others said too, I don't care about the hipster snob culture that give us craft drinkers a bad name, unless you're bashing bud, coors, miller or pbr than its fine. I don't want to hear so much about beers I'll probably never get to try and what's going on in the "scene" just straight honest reviews of beers out there
Must Have for all beer lovers This magazine is full of everything beer. It covers all aspects of beer from brewing to beer culture. If you are a beer lover, and I expect you are, then this is a must have magazine. For $10 a year it is a steal! Give it a shot and learn something new about beer in every issue.
Good content, difficult to read on computer I enjoy the magazine content but find it frustrating to read one the computer. The text is small and when zooming in using the reader, the resolution is too poor to read without significant strain/trying to decipher the text. However, on mobile devices, it is crisp and easy to read, though navigation can get wonky. I would like to see a better reader for use on the computer as the native one in Chrome (the only supported browser) is subpar. Fix the computer reading issue and I would give it 5 stars.
Good if you're a snob; terrible if you like beer This magazine is pretty much about nothing but pubs and cities. It's useful if you like beer "fashion" or "culture." But if you're serious about tasting beers and enjoying the taste and complexities of the drink itself, look elsewhere. I don't care what's going on in the San Fran beer "scene." I just want to know what beers are good, and why. I want to know stats, and what they're brewed with and what they actually taste like. I don't need to know how to LOOK like someone who likes beer, because I ACTUALLY like beer. This magazine is less about the pure love of beer and more about how to be a total hipster. Very disappointing.
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I made a Pit Stop on my Journey north today. An un-scheduled pit stop...though not completely unexpected. I stopped at "Big Daddy" Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, Florida. I'm driving down the highway...saw the signs...passed the signs....saw the turnoff...passed the turnoff...almost. Yes...I almost bypassed an auto museum. Above all...a Drag Racing one.
The other day before heading to Tampa I had done an internet search for auto museums. Why you ask? You probably aren't asking why...but I'll tell you anyway. Because when I had stopped at the Florida tourist information both a month and a half ago I had picked up a brochure for an auto museum that was close to Tampa
I grew up watching drag racing. Surprise...surprise! If you've been reading every single one of my blog entries you know I'm a car guy. You know I like Mustangs and Ferraris. I don't think I've ever mentioned that I like drag racing. Car Craft Magazine...Popular Hot Rod...Mustang Monthly...I bought them all. I boxed them up and they followed me around for 20 years of moving. And I've moved around a lot (another story for another day). Finally threw most of them out about 5 years ago.
Big Daddy Don Garlits...ChaCha Muldowney...John Force...Don Prudhomme...Connie Kalita. All race names I remember. Race cars I knew have been carefully restored and are on display here in this museum. Don Garlits has been described as "the "King of the Dragsters," and could be considered the patriarch of Top Fuel Drag Racing. His Swamp Rat series of 34 hand fabricated black race cars carried him to 144 national event wins
When we moved to Calgary in 1996 we lived in the deep south. Not far away was Calgary's Race City. For 4 summers I volunteered at the race track on the drag strip. Either spending an evening or day at the ET booth handing out timing slips to the race car drivers or pushing a broom in the water box cleaning out chunks of rubber that would fly off the tires as the drivers heated up their tires doing their burnouts. Also spraying down the water box to help out in the burnout process and directing the drivers to their positions at the Christmas tree. It was an extremely loud, dirty (getting sprayed by rubber and water) and exciting time.
A couple of times a year the jet cars would make an appearance. These 12,000 horsepower machines that use a jet engine to propel it down the quarter mile track in around 6.5 seconds at a speed of 250 mph are amazing
For 4 summers I would stand between 3000 horsepower top fuel dragsters and funny cars as they did their burnouts. On occasion the engine would blow up on the starting line. What a rush. Engine parts raining down on the track. I've seen cars crash midway through their � mile runs at a couple hundred miles per hour and cars that ended up in the field at the end of the drag strip because their chute never opened up. Walking around the pits was great. As a volunteer we were able to go where paying customers couldn't. It was fantastic being this close to the action.
Then we moved to the west end of town as we had built a new house and I spent two summers doing the landscaping
"If you think the last four words of the national anthem are 'Gentlemen, start your engines,' you might be a redneck."
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Keith, there is code for connecting to a DS1307 RTC provided with the Time library download, its called TimeRTC. Why not use that?Michael
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Pakistan's U.N. envoy to speak, Feb. 15
Posted February 8, 2007; 10:48 a.m.
Munir Akram, Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations, will present a lecture on "Pakistan's Central Role in Promoting Security and Progress in South Asia and the Islamic World" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 15, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Akram has been Pakistan's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York since 2002, following seven years as representative to the U.N. office in Geneva. He has held many senior diplomatic positions since joining Pakistan's foreign service in 1967 and has served as the country's representative to numerous U.N. bodies and international conferences.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.


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Savanna Ecology
Credit: John Storr
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All organisms need energy and nutrients. Energy moves in one direction through an ecosystem. Nutrients cycle through an ecosystem. The African savanna is one of the many ecosystems where we can trace the energy and nutrient flow.
Why It Matters
- Energy is not limiting to life on Earth, but nutrients are.
- For life on Earth to continue, nutrients must be recycled.
- The savanna is marked by distinct wet and dry seasons.
- Humans have an impact on the savanna ecosystem.
Explore More
With the links below, learn more about ecosystems. Then answer the following questions.
- Great Pacific Media, How Ecosystems Work, Biology, Ecology (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_RBHfjZsUQ
- Great Pacific Media, Biomes Savanna, Biology, Ecology (video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuk-JW-wng0
- What is the source of energy in the savanna biome? What type of energy comes in and what does it convert to?
- Where does the energy go from one end of the ecosystem to the other? What is it used for?
- Why is energy not limiting to life on Earth, but nutrients are?
- Why doesn't the savanna become dense thorn forest?
- What would happen to carbon if it was not returned to the atmosphere by cellular respiration?
- What is the effect of the rising human population on the savanna ecosystem?


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We've all been there—when biting into a juicy cheeseburger, your lipstick is not only all over the bun, but smeared across your face. Not cool!
Here, we rounded up our favorite long-wear, mess-proof lipsticks, glosses and stains, all of which promise to last till closing time…and beyond.
Hot, Long-Lasting Hue
This coral-orange lip color is the hottest shade of the season. The formula is way hydrating thanks to vitamins A and E, and it lasts for four hours without feathering or budging. Um, yeah, we'll take one in every color.
Wet n Wild MegaLast Lip Color in Carrot Gold, $2, drugstore.com and drug stores nationwide.
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Stay-Put Shades 20 amazing shades to choose from + 14 hours of wear + the most moisturizing formula ever = the dreamiest lip color we've used.
Maybelline SuperStay 14Hr Lipstick, $7.19, drugstore.com and drug stores nationwide.
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Pretty Pout
Spiked with anti-aging ingredients (bye-bye fine lines), this chic hint of a tint is also blended with shea butter, aloe and jojoba to treat chapped lips.
It Cosmetics Vitality Lip Flush 4-in-1 Natural Anti-Aging Lipstick Stain, Pretty Woman, $20, beauty.com
Long-Wearing Gloss
We don't know what's hotter about this gloss—the wet, mirror-like finish (crazy seductive) or the vitamin E anti-oxidant protection. All this, and it stays put for eight hours.
CARGO Long Wear Lip Gloss, Athens, $14, beauty.com
A Date-Night Do
Not only does this dual formula offer up bright, opaque coverage, its moisturizing topcoat gives you up to 16 hours of wear and prevents your lip color from bleeding. Even better, it stays on while you eat and kiss, making it the perfect date-night do.
CoverGirl Outlast All-Day Lip Color, $4.62, walmart.com
Lip Tip
This date-perfect pen goes on like a vinyl-shine gloss, but wears down to a ridiculously long-lasting stain. Lasts for hours on end, and even through dinner, it won't budge.
Mark Gloss Gorgeous Stay On Lip Stain, $11, meetmark.com
Kiss-Proof Pucker
To ensure your fave lip color doesn't end up all over his face (or shirt collar…so seedy), layer this lip primer under your lipstick, stain or gloss. It bonds the color to your lips so it won't slip or smear off.
Too Faced Lip Insurance, $19, beauty.com
Lip Lock
Not every long-lasting color comes in stain form! Opt for a soft, seductively supple pout with this smear-proof, feather-proof, moisturizing lipstick.
Clinique Long Last Soft Shine Lipstick in All-Heart, $15, sephora.com
Pucker Up
This collection of amped-up shades has such seriously intense pigments, that they stay vivid from work to play.
Essence Stay With Me Long-Lasting Lipgloss, $3, ulta.com
Lip Service
Wear bold, notice-me color (that won't budge for hours) with this water-rich, vanilla-scented stain. Add a clear gloss on top to make the color pop!
Urban Decay Lip Envy, $17, sephora.com
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Family: Sciuridae, Squirrels view all from this family
Description Large chipmunk with a bushy tail. Contrasting dorsal stripes are light gray and brown. Duller, but very similar to California Chipmunk. Edging on tail is buff-colored, not white like in the Long-eared Chipmunk. Darker on coast. .
Dimensions 240-255mm, 100-115mm, 70-80g
Similar Species Distinguished from Townsends Chipmunk by having gray (not brown) cheeks.
Habitat Forests & woodlands, Scrub, shrub & brushlands, Alpine & subalpine habitats
Range California
Discussion Calls with chips and a trill from elevated perches in pine and oak forests


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By Ben Levisohn
Fomento Economico Mexicano (FMX) has had a great three-year run. But the good times may be coming to an end, Credit Suisse says.
Femsa, as the Mexican food and beverage company is better known, has returned 42% a year for the last three years including reinvested dividends, easily trumping the iShares MSCI Mexico Capped Investable Market ETF's (EWW) 16% gain.
The company's rise has been propelled by a number of factors, according to Credit Suisse.
We think this was driven by (i) FMX's strong FCF, dividends, and defensive profile, in a low interest rate environment; (ii) Femsa's aggressiveness in shedding underperforming assets (Femsa Cerveza); (iii) Oxxo's stellar growth; and (iv) KOF's most successful and transformational round of M&A since the Panamco days.
Femsa's current valuation of 26.7 times earnings, above its three-year average of 18.3, reflects most of that good news, however, just at a time when its outlook is growing murkier.
For starters, Mexico is contemplating opening up its market to more competition, which could hit Heineken, of which Femsa owns about 30%. The company is also facing headwinds in South America. Credit Suisse's analysts write:
…currency headwinds across South America (most notably Venezuela, but also Argentina and Brazil), and a very challenging operating environment in Brazil lead us to estimate that KOF's growth this year (in Ebitda) might be in the mid-single-digit range, well below the 9% reflected in current consensus numbers, and 16% CAGR over the last five years.
Oxxo could also be a drag, the analysts say. They write:
Last quarter, Oxxo had the first traffic loss that we have on record: Oxxo is far from having the traffic problems that we are seeing at supermarkets in Mexico (which we think are more structural in nature). However we do think that the 1.8% y/y decline in traffic delivered in 1Q13 will not be turned around immediately, and it did raise eyebrows in the street last quarter.
Investors had already been selling Femsa's stock–its shares have fallen 5.4% during the past month of trading. But those still sitting on the fence look to have gotten the excuse they needed: The stock has dropped 3.2% to $110.45 today. It's still up 14% so far this year through May 20.


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OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — It started out as a few trees planted as part of an Eagle Scout project in 2009.
Now Oxford's tree farm has 150 growing trees, from crape myrtles to maple trees to several varieties of evergreens.
Eagle Scout Rustin Rasberry planted the first 100 saplings as part of his project.
"They did a great job. He and his team brought in all the materials and got the irrigation system going," city building and grounds official Billy Lamb tells the Oxford Eagle.
The city is saving money by growing its own trees and flowers for landscaping city property, instead of having to go out and buy them.
"We still buy some things," Lamb said. "But we can buy them when they're real small at the end of the year and we can get super deals on them."
The saplings are then placed in the city's growing area, similar to a greenhouse, where they are shielded from the winter weather.
"It gives them a better start," Lamb said. "And it can save the city a good bit of money,"
The city later added flowers, all perennials.
"We change the flowers out each season in the boxes around the Square," Lamb said.
Lamb said his department will soon be receiving tree removal equipment that will allow the city to safely remove a fully grown tree intact and place it back into the ground.
"That will help us grow and harvest bigger trees," he said. "We're really excited about that."
Information from: Oxford Eagle, http://www.oxfordeagle.com


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Future Sonics Ear Monitors with 13mm MG6pro Dynamic Drivers
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De Waal to deliver Tanner Lectures, Nov. 19-20
Posted November 14, 2003; 05:16 p.m.
Primatologist Frans de Waal will deliver two lectures on the theme, "How Close to the Apes? Human Behavior and Primate Evolution," at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 19-20, in Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50. These events are the annual Tanner Lectures on Human Values, sponsored by the University Center for Human Values.
De Waal was trained as a zoologist and ethologist at three Dutch universities, earning a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht. In his dissertation, he examined aggressive behavior and alliance formation in macaques. In 1975, he initiated a six-year project on the world's largest captive colony of chimpanzees at the Arnhem Zoo. The results of this work were published in 1982 under the title "Chimpanzee Politics."
In 1981, de Waal accepted a research position at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center in Madison. There he began observational and experimental studies of reconciliation behavior in monkeys. He received the Los Angeles Times Book Award for "Peacemaking Among Primates," an account of 15 years of research on conflict resolution in nonhuman primates. Since the mid-1980s, de Waal has worked with chimpanzees at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and with bonobos at the San Diego Zoo.
In 1991, de Waal accepted a joint position in the psychology department of Emory University and at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, both in Atlanta. His current interests include food sharing, social reciprocity and conflict resolution in primates as well as the origins of morality and justice in human society.
In his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, de Waal will discuss the evolutionary origins of human morality, and the implications of what we know about bonobos for models of human social evolution. De Waal has titled his first lecture "The Two Terrible Toms, or Homo Homini Lupus," and the second "On Anthropodenial, or When a Kiss Is Not a Kiss."
Four visiting scholars will deliver comments following the lectures: Philip Kitcher, professor of philosophy at Columbia University; Christine Korsgaard, the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University; Richard Wrangham, professor of biological anthropology at Harvard; and Robert Wright, an independent scholar and author of "Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny."
A public reception in Prospect House follows both lectures. For more information, visit the University Center for Human Values Web site or call 258-4798. The events, part of University's Public Lectures Series , will be Webcast live.
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I am a GM employee, and I am personally glad the government stepped in to assist us. If they hadn't, I and thousands of others would likely have been out of a job very soon. There are a lot of good, hard working GM employees that would have suffered if that happened. In addition, the ripple effect of all those people being out of work would only serve to further cripple an economy that is already on the verge of collapse.
I guess I don't understand the animosity toward GM just because the government has taken a temporary stake in the company. The government wanted something for its investment, and I don't blame them for that. If the government had plans of keeping its ownership indefinitely, and controlling the business, I would have a problem with that too. However, the plan is for GM to buy out the government's interest as quickly as possible. There is already a timetable being put in place for divestment. While they hold a stake in the company, their only input will be to provide oversight on major expenditures. So far, they have not objected to any of the plans GM had previously announced for new models, R&D, and new technology. Hopefully that will continue.
Now, I don't like the fact that the government has a majority stake in the company either, but if that is what it took to help GM survive during this economic crisis, I'm all for it. For those that want to boycott GM just because the government has a temporary stake in it, I guess that their prerogative. However, please let me know who you work for, or what your business is, so I can be sure to return the favor if I get the chance.


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There will be more cases of skin cancer diagnosed in the United States this year than all other cancers combined. Kansas and Missouri have two of the 10 highest state death rates from melanoma, according to a 2010 EPA study.
On this special edition of The Local Show, KCPT partners with the producers of the national public television documentary, More Than Skin Deep, to tell the story of skin cancer. During this one-hour special you'll also have a chance to speak to area dermatologists in the KCPT phonebank to address your own medical concerns. And we'll take your calls with a panel of medical experts live on the air.
Joining Nick Haines in the studio:
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In the final edition of the 2010 European Soccer Power Rankings, it isn't surprising the top two teams hail from Spain, the nation who won the World Cup this past summer. After the 5-0 drubbing of Real Madrid in "El Clasico," Barcelona proved they are right now far and away the best club in the world, and this group of Blaugrana is playing at a level the sport has rarely seen. 43 po...


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College freshmen Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan (voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman) celebrate a campus prank in "Monsters University." The movie is a prequel to animation studio Pixar's 2001 film, "Monsters, Inc." showing the characters learning their trade in scaring humans.
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Like Pixar films before it, "Monsters University" isn't bad, but it feels like coasting from a studio that once challenged all our conceptions of what was possible from animation and storytelling.
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There are no original-mold G1 female toys, although there are repurposed figures and exclusive repaints that fiction has turned into females, such as Road Rage from G1 Tracks.
There are no original-mold G1 female toys, although there are repurposed figures and exclusive repaints that fiction has turned into females, such as Road Rage from G1 Tracks.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Yeah, but those were all exclusive club and convention repaints and the like, and I don't count them.
I found Soundblaster this morning at Target (first time in several weeks), in a pretty battered box. I really like the black color scheme, and it's a way to get another use of this sculpt (and Buzzsaw, finally) without getting a second Classics-styled Soundwave or Laserbeak. (Granted, if Soundwave hits clearance, I might get it anyway for a bird Laserbeak.)
And a special thanks to JT, who is a gentleman and a scholar. I noticed after leaving the store that the artwork showed him with what looked like G1 Prime's blaster. I opened him up to not find this gun, but see it referenced in the instructions as well. Fearing someone stole the gun (because idiots will do stuff like that--still haven't figured out why someone stole the guns out of a Silverbolt, replaced them with irrigation tubing, and returned the figure a few years ago), I had to ask about it, because my weird tendencies wouldn't let me wait until I got home to check. You rock, JT, no matter what Bel-Cam says.
Still no markdowns on the other stupid tapes. I swear, figgy, I want to know what was going on at your Target, because this is, what, two or three full months since they went on clearance there.
That's my jacket!
Now for my want list of Deluxe figures:
Arcee - realistic sports car, maybe red instead of pink, with pink robot parts that unfold in bot mode.
Hot Rod - a re-release or one that can not be mistaken for Rodimus Prime.
Dino (Mirage - DOTM) red Ferrari
Leadfoot (American release)
Blackout (completely transforming without a backpack)
Barricade (white Chicago Police Dept. detailing)
Scrapper (ROTF)
High Tower (ROTF)
I think that's it.
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Chux, the lone store where I found the tapes on clearance was a City Target location which has much less square footage than the average Target. As such, their inventory and product selection is less than your average Target as well. Most likely they needed that one peg to be able to stock something else.
WM in Beaumont had one Springer. "Had." And "one." So he'd better live up to y'all's hype.
They also had Legends/Legions/Whatever Small Figures Are Called This Week Optimus Prime. Probably someone else, too, but I saw the $10 price tag and didn't bother looking. I had wanted Megatron just for Chopshop, but, for $10, hell no.
That's my jacket!
That assortment was a hard pill to swallow, even though I did get all the discs. I drew the line at the new "commander" ones though. Same price as Powercore but way smaller. No thanks.
Anyone here planning to attend Botcon next month?
Not me.
Big Lots has had some various pop culture t-shirts for around $5. The one in San Bernardino (on Orange Show, beside Target) had them marked down to $2.50. They were very limited on sizes, but I got a baby blue SW shirt along with a beautiful orange shirt with a line drawing of Optimus Prime (which I'd passed on before because I have too many TF shirts). Not sure if that'll be more widespread, since Big Lots seems to do clearance sales at the store level, but it still might be worth checking.
Also, I double-checked at WM. Just Legion Prime and Bumblebee. No Megatron. He's not listed on their packaging, so I'm not sure if he's out yet. (I'm kinda hoping he shares a SKU with the cassettes and shows up as they go on clearance, so I can get Chopshop for a decent price.)
That's my jacket!
Chux, Megatron isn't out yet. Didn't realize you meant you were actively looking for him. Megs and Starscream are the next wave.
I'm not. If I see him cheap (which I imagine he will be, eventually), I'll get him for Chopshop.
That's my jacket!


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End-stage kidney disease is the last stage of chronic kidney disease. This is when your kidneys can no longer support your body's needs. The kidneys remove waste and excess water from the body.
Renal failure - end stage; Kidney failure - end stage; ESRD
End-stage kidney disease (ESRD) is when the kidneys are no longer able to work at a level needed for day-to-day life.
The most common causes of ESRD in the U.S. are
ESRD almost always comes after chronic kidney disease. The kidneys may slowly stop working over 10 - 20 years before end-stage disease results.
Common symptoms may include:
Other symptoms may include:
Your health care provider will perform a physical exam and order blood tests. Most people with this condition have high blood pressure.
Patients with end-stage kidney disease will make much less urine, or urine production may stop.
End-stage kidney disease changes the results of many tests. Patients receiving dialysis will need these and other tests done often:
This disease may also change the results of the following tests:
Dialysis does some of the job of the kidneys when they stop working well.
Dialysis can:
Your health care provider will discuss dialysis with you before you need it. Dialysis removes waste from your blood when your kidneys can no longer do their job.
Two different methods are used to perform dialysis:
A kidney transplant is surgery to place a healthy kidney into a person with kidney failure. Your doctor will refer you to a transplant center. There, you will be seen and evaluated by the transplant team. They will want to make sure that you are a good candidate for kidney transplant.
You may need to follow a special diet for chronic kidney disease. These changes may include:
Other treatment depends on your symptoms but may include:
You should be up-to-date on important vaccinations, including:
Some people get benefit from taking part in a kidney disease support group.
End-stage kidney disease leads to death if you do not have dialysis or a kidney transplant. However, both of these treatments can have risks. The outcome is different for each person.
Fogarty DG, Tall MW. A stepped are approach to the management of chronic kidney disease. In: Taal MW, Chertow GM, Marsden PA et al. eds. Brenner and Rector's The Kidney. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 61.
Himmelfarb J, Ikizler TA. Hemodialysis. N Engl J Med. 2010 Nov 4;363(19):1833-45. Review. PubMed PMID: 21047227.
Tonelli M, Pannu N, Manns B. Oral phosphate binders in patients with kidney failure. N Engl J Med. 2010 Apr 8;362(14):1312-24.
Abboud H, Henrich WL. Clinical practice. Stage IV chronic kidney disease. N Engl J Med. 2010 Jan 7;362(1):56-65.
KDOQI. KDOQI Clinical Practice Guideline and Clinical Practice Recommendations for anemia in chronic kidney disease: 2007 update of hemoglobin target. Am J Kidney Dis. 2007;50:471-530.
KDOQI: National Kidney Foundation. II. Clinical practice guidelines and clinical practice recommendations for anemia in chronic kidney disease in adults. Am J Kidney Dis. 2006;47(5 Suppl 3):S16-S85.
Palmer SC, Navaneethan SD, Craig JC, Johnson DW, Tonelli M, Garg AX, et al. Meta-analysis: erythropoiesis-stimulating agents in patients with chronic kidney disease. Ann Intern Med. 2010;153:23-33.
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Estelle Cruijff Breaks it Off With Badr Hari
- Written by Dave Walsh
K-1 fighter Badr Hari lives a pretty crazy life that has seen a great deal of controversy, with some of that controversy revolving around his relationship with Estelle Cruijff, the former wife of football star Ruud Gullit. It looks like the odd love affair, punctuated by Badr Hari's brawl at the Amsterdam ArenA that left Koen Everink in rough shape, has finally come to an end and has hit the Dutch tabloids. The relationship between the two was fodder for the press for quite a while and it looks like today will be no different.
It is interesting to note that Badr Hari's next court date is in October and that the relationship couldn't outlast the charges accrued during it. Maybe Badr Hari will finally find some peace and get back into fighting shape in time for the K-1 World Grand Prix this time around.


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Let's see what Marino can do with Hartline and Bess as his WRs instead of Duper, Clayton and Nat Moore who could catch anything in sight.
Throw in Rodgers or Brees or ellie or any other elite QB nowadays.
Try luck or rg3 too.
This team is utterly devoid of playmakers because ireland has a fetish for inside-out linemen. You can find better skill position players on almost any random college team. Philbin said it, "we have nothing going on" on offense. NO stretch, NO challenging the defense, NO impact at all.
Teams like that are ALWAYS on the south side of .500, no matter how great their defense may be (and ours isn't great anymore).
Until ireland is gone and there is a COMPLETE CULTURE CHANGE in this franchise to rid it of the inside-out jj/wannabe/soprano cowboy CANCER that has destroyed it since Shula left, we are going NOWHERE.


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Events celebrate African culture, Sept. 30-Oct. 2
Posted September 28, 2004; 10:59 a.m.
"Sankofa Weekend," a series of events celebrating various aspects of African culture, will be hosted by the Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding and Akwaaba on Thursday through Saturday, Sept. 30-Oct. 2.
An opening banquet will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at the Fields Center, featuring a lecture on hip-hop culture by Derrick Ashong, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University who is also a writer, music producer and actor. The weekend also will include an African fashion show, a panel discussion on "New Approaches to Sustainable African Development," live African music and food. A full schedule is available on the Fields Center Web site.
Tickets for the opening banquet are $5 and are available at the Frist Campus Center ticket office through 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 29. Other events are free.
The event is co-sponsored by the Bildner Fund for the Advancement of Diversity on Campus, Undergraduate Student Government Projects Board, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, Venture Fund, Frist Campus Center, Department of Music, Program in African Studies and International Center.
Contact: Eric Quinones (609) 258-3601


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Palau Population: 21,108
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|After three decades as part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific under US administration, this westernmost cluster of the Caroline Islands opted for independence in 1978 rather than join the Federated States of Micronesia. A Compact of Free Association with the US was approved in 1986 but not ratified until 1993. It entered into force the following year when the islands gained independence.
Westernmost archipelago in the Caroline chain, consists of six island groups totaling more than 300 islands; includes World War II battleground of Beliliou (Peleliu) and world-famous rock islands
|Oceania, group of islands in the North Pacific Ocean, southeast of the Philippines
|Geographic coordinates:
| total: 459 sq km
land: 459 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Size comparison: slightly more than 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC
|Land Boundaries:
|0 km
|1,519 km
|Maritime claims:
|territorial sea: 3 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
|tropical; hot and humid; wet season May to November
|varying geologically from the high, mountainous main island of Babelthuap to low, coral islands usually fringed by large barrier reefs
|Elevation extremes:
| lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mount Ngerchelchuus 242 m
|Natural resources:
|forests, minerals (especially gold), marine products, deep-seabed minerals
|Land use:
| arable land: 2.17%
permanent crops: 4.35%
other: 93.48% (2011)
|Irrigated land:
|Natural hazards:
|typhoons (June to December)
|Current Environment Issues:
|inadequate facilities for disposal of solid waste; threats to the marine ecosystem from sand and coral dredging, illegal fishing practices, and overfishing
|International Environment Agreements:
| party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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| noun: Palauan(s)
adjective: Palauan
|Ethnic groups:
|Palauan (Micronesian with Malayan and Melanesian admixtures) 69.9%, Filipino 15.3%, Chinese 4.9%, other Asian 2.4%, white 1.9%, Carolinian 1.4%, other Micronesian 1.1%, other or unspecified 3.2% (2000 census)
|Palauan (official on most islands) 64.7%, Filipino 13.5%, English (official) 9.4%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5% (2000 census) note: Sonsoral (Sonsoralese and English are official), Tobi (Tobi and English are official), and Angaur (Angaur, Japanese, and English are official)
|Roman Catholic 41.6%, Protestant 23.3%, Modekngei 8.8% (indigenous to Palau), Seventh-Day Adventist 5.3%, Jehovah's Witnesses 0.9%, Mormon 0.6%, other 3.1%, unspecified or none 16.4% (2000 census)
|21,108 (July 2013 est.)
|Age structure:
| 0-14 years: 20.7% (male 2,250/female 2,110)
15-24 years: 17.6% (male 1,849/female 1,875)
25-54 years: 46.6% (male 5,981/female 3,854)
55-64 years: 8.3% (male 615/female 1,129)
65 years and over: 6.8% (male 407/female 1,038) (2013 est.)
|Median age:
| total: 32.9 years
male: 32.5 years
female: 33.9 years (2013 est.)
|Population growth rate:
|0.37% (2013 est.)
|Birth rate:
|10.9 births/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Death rate:
|7.86 deaths/1,000 population (2013 est.)
|Net migration rate:
|0.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2013 est.)
| urban population: 83% of total population (2010)
rate of urbanization: 1.4% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
|Sex ratio:
| at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.07 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
25-54 years: 1.55 male(s)/female
55-64 years: 0.55 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.4 male(s)/female
total population: 1.12 male(s)/female (2013 est.)
|Infant mortality rate:
| total: 11.77 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 13.35 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 10.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)
|Life expectancy at birth:
| total population: 72.33 years
male: 69.17 years
female: 75.68 years (2013 est.)
|Total fertility rate:
|1.72 children born/woman (2013 est.)
|Contraceptive prevalence rate:
|32.8% note: percent of women aged 15-44 (2003)
|Health expenditures:
|10.3% of GDP (2010)
|Physicians density:
|1.3 physicians/1,000 population (2006)
|Hospital bed density:
|4.8 beds/1,000 population (2010)
|Drinking water source:
| improved:
urban: 83% of population
rural: 96% of population
total: 85% of population
urban: 17% of population
rural: 4% of population
total: 15% of population (2010 est.)
|Sanitation facility access:
| improved:
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population
urban: 100% of population
rural: 100% of population
total: 100% of population (2010 est.)
|Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
|48.9% (2008)
|Education expenditures:
|10.3% of GDP (2002)
| definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 92%
male: 93%
female: 90% (1980 est.)
|School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
| total: 15 years
male: 14 years
female: 15 years (2001)
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|Country name:
| conventional long form: Republic of Palau
conventional short form: Palau
local long form: Beluu er a Belau
local short form: Belau
former: Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Palau District
|Government type:
|constitutional government in free association with the US; the Compact of Free Association entered into force on 1 October 1994
| name: Melekeok
geographic coordinates: 7 29 N, 134 38 E
time difference: UTC+9 (14 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
|Administrative divisions:
|16 states; Aimeliik, Airai, Angaur, Hatohobei, Kayangel, Koror, Melekeok, Ngaraard, Ngarchelong, Ngardmau, Ngatpang, Ngchesar, Ngeremlengui, Ngiwal, Peleliu, Sonsorol
|1 October 1994 (from the US-administered UN trusteeship)
|National holiday:
|Constitution Day, 9 July (1979)
|1 January 1981
|Legal system:
|mixed legal system of civil, common, and customary law
|18 years of age; universal
|Executive branch:
| chief of state: President Tommy REMENGESAU (since 17 January 2013); Vice President Antonio BELLS (since 17 January 2013); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government
head of government: President Tommy REMENGESAU (since 17 January 2013); Vice President Antonio BELLS (since 17 January 2013)
cabinet: NA (For more information visit the World Leaders website )
elections: president and vice president elected on separate tickets by popular vote for four-year terms (eligible for a second term); election last held on 6 November 2012 (next to be held in November 2016)
election results: percent of vote - Tommy REMENGESAU 58%, Johnson TORIBIONG 42%
|Legislative branch:
| bicameral National Congress or Olbiil Era Kelulau (OEK) consists of the Senate (9 seats; members elected by popular vote on a population basis to serve four-year terms) and the House of Delegates (16 seats; members elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
elections: Senate - last held on 6 November 2012 (next to be held in November 2016); House of Delegates - last held on 6 November 2012 (next to be held in November 2016)
election results: Senate - percent of vote - NA; seats - independents 9; House of Delegates - percent of vote - NA; seats - independents 16
|Judicial branch:
| highest court(s): Supreme Court (consists of the chief justice and 3 associate justices organized into appellate trial divisions; also within the Supreme Court organization are the Common Pleas and Land Courts) judge selection and term of office: justices nominated by a 7-member independent body consisting of judges, presidential appointees, and lawyers, and appointed by the president; judges appointed until mandatory retirement at age 65
subordinate courts: National Court and other 'inferior' courts
|Political parties and leaders:
|International organization participation:
|ACP, ADB, AOSIS, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, IOC, IPU, MIGA, OPCW, PIF, Sparteca, SPC, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, WHO
|National anthem:
| name: "Belau rekid" (Our Palau)
lyrics/music: multiple/Ymesei O. EZEKIEL
note: adopted 1980
|Diplomatic representation in the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Hersey KYOTA
chancery: 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006
telephone: [1] (202) 452-6814
FAX: [1] (202) 452-6281 consulate(s): Tamuning (Guam)
|Diplomatic representation from the US:
| chief of mission: Ambassador Helen P. REED-ROWE
embassy: Koror (no street address)
mailing address: P. O. Box 6028, Koror, Republic of Palau 96940
telephone: [680] 587-2920
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The economy consists of tourism and other services such as trade, subsistence agriculture, and fishing. Government is a major employer of the work force relying on financial assistance from the US under the Compact of Free Association (Compact) with the US. The Compact took effect, after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994. The US provided Palau with roughly $700 million in aid for the first 15 years following commencement of the Compact in 1994 in return for unrestricted access to its land and waterways for strategic purposes. Business and leisure tourist arrivals numbered over 109,000 in 2011, for a 27% increase over 2010. The population enjoys a per capita income roughly double that of the Philippines and much of Micronesia. Long-run prospects for tourism have been bolstered by the expansion of air travel in the Pacific, the rising prosperity of industrial East Asia, and the willingness of foreigners to finance infrastructure development. Proximity to Guam, the region's major destination for tourists from East Asia, and a regionally competitive tourist infrastructure enhance Palau's advantage as a destination.
|GDP (purchasing power parity):
| GDP (purchasing power parity): $221 million (2011 est.) $208.9 million (2010 est.)
note: GDP estimate includes US subsidy
|GDP (official exchange rate):
|GDP (official exchange rate): $221 million (2011 est.)
|GDP - real growth rate:
|5.8% (2011 est.) 5.5% (2005 est.)
|GDP - per capita (PPP):
|GDP - per capita (PPP): $10,500 (2011 est.) $7,600 (2005 est.)
|Agriculture - products:
|coconuts, copra, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes; fish
|tourism, craft items (from shell, wood, pearls), construction, garment making
|Industrial production growth rate:
|Labor force:
|9,777 (2005)
|Labor force - by occupation:
| agriculture: 20%
industry: NA%
services: NA% (1990)
|Unemployment rate:
|4.2% (2005 est.)
|Population below poverty line:
|Household income or consumption by percentage share:
| lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%
| revenues: $89 million
expenditures: $94.3 million (2010 est.)
|Taxes and other revenues:
|40.3% of GDP (2010 est.)
|Fiscal year:
|1 October - 30 September
|Inflation rate (consumer prices):
|Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.7% (2011 est.) 1.6% (2010 est.)
|Current account balance:
|-$20.8 million (2010 est.) $15.09 million (FY03/04)
|$12.3 million (2010 est.) $5.882 million (2004 est.)
|Exports - commodities:
|shellfish, tuna, copra, garments
|$113.4 million (2010 est.) $107.3 million (2004 est.)
|Imports - commodities:
|machinery and equipment, fuels, metals; foodstuffs
|Debt - external:
|Market value of publicly traded shares:
|Exchange rates:
|the US dollar is used
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|Telephones in use:
| 6,900 (2011)
country comparison to the world: 206
|Cellular Phones in use:
|15,400 (2011)
|Telephone system:
domestic: fixed-line and mobile-cellular services available with a combined subscribership of roughly 100 per 100 persons
international: country code - 680; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean) (2009)
|Broadcast media:
|no TV stations; a cable TV network covers the major islands and provides access to rebroadcasts, on a delayed basis, of a number of US stations as well as access to a number of real-time satellite TV channels; about a half dozen radio stations with 1 government-owned (2009)
|Internet country code:
|Internet hosts:
|4 (2012)
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| 3 (2013)
country comparison to the world: 194
|Airports (paved runways):
| total 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013)
|Airports (unpaved runways):
| total 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (2013)
|Ports and terminals:
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|Defense is the responsibility of the US; under a Compact of Free Association between Palau and the US, the US military is granted access to the islands for 50 years, but it has not stationed any military forces there (2008)
|Military branches:
|no regular military forces; Palau National Police (2009)
|Manpower available for military service:
|males age 16-49: 6,987 (2010 est.)
|Manpower fit for military service:
| males age 16-49: 5,272
females age 16-49: 3,969 (2010 est.)
|Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:
| male: 216
female: 222 (2010 est.)
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|Transnational Issues
|Disputes - International:
|maritime delineation negotiations continue with Philippines, Indonesia
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Drake and Nicki Minaj: (Not) Married!by Hilton Hater at . Comments
A hearty round of congratulations is due for Drake and Nicki Minaj. The rapper sweetly Tweeted today:
Please refer to @nickiminaj as Mrs. Aubrey Drake Graham and dont stare at her too long. She's finally mine. :).
No other wedding details have been revealed, but the romantic, public exchanges didn't end there:
"Yes, its true. Drake and I tied the knot," Minaj Tweeted, asking her new, official man: "U scurred? @drakkardnoir u ready to make the announcement or wha?"
He replied: "Baby I am never scared. PROUD is more the word I would use."
All readers together now: AWWWWW!
** UPDATE: Reps for both stars now say no wedding actually took place. They fooled us!


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Of course the knee jerk reaction of the pundits at RTF is to assume it was Obama's fault. Here is a story from Faux News.EXCLUSIVE: Univ. of Arizona Reveals Origin of Memorial T-Shirts
Many Americans were startled to see University of Arizona students distributing t-shirts at the memorial service in Tucson yesterday. On the front of the shirts, "Together We Thrive" was printed, along with a trendy logo.
University spokeswoman Jennifer Fitzenberger told FoxNation.com "it was our idea to do the t-shirts." She said distributing merchandise at a memorial was appropriate and rejected the charge that the University over-commercialized the service. "Our intention was to have something to remember after the event...something that symbolizes our community's spirit...which would live on." When asked if the University had worked with the White House or any partisan groups on any level regarding the t-shirts she said "no."
Fitzenberger insisted the University made no money from the "Together We Thrive" t-shirts and they weren't for sale. "We took the idea to University of Arizona BookStores and they contracted it out with a vendor." Reports put the cost of the t-shirts at $60,000.
FoxNation.com spoke to representatives at University of Arizona BookStores who revealed the vendor they used...."Youth Monument," a Los Angeles-based company specializing in "the hottest" college brands. "I don't feel comfortable commenting on the story," said Nick Ventura when contacted by FoxNation.com. Ventura called himself "a partner" at Youth Monument. When asked if the University of Arizona was a regular client and if there was any contact with the White House or any political group he responded "no comment."
"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48
Raven - Moneybird's Black Magic Marker***
(Esprit's Power Play x Trumarc's Lean Cuisine)
Mick - Moneybird's Jumpin' Jack Flash***
(Clubmead's Road Warrior x Oakdale Whitewater Devil Dog)
Peerless - Moneybird's Sole Survivor
(Two River's Lucky Willie x Moneybird's Black Magic Marker)
The whole T-shirt thing was digusting no matter who did it. I never said it was Obumma, just that it was totally disgusting as was the behavior of the crowd.
Hihope Hiland Heathen of Perth CD, RE, CGC, TDI. (RIP)
teracroft Clan Piper of Perth CGC TDI (RIP)
Boyne's Fast Break of Perth RN CGC CGCU( munchin in training)
For the most part, (to paraphrase the FLOTUS), the memorial was the first time since the election that I was proud of our President. He quoted Scripture, from Psalms & Job not the Koran or other religious works, stated that Christina was in Heaven ( not "in a better place") and asked for God's blessing for the victims, those left behind, and for our country as a whole. He honored the memories of those taken by reminding us of a lot of what makes our country great which is what a President should do in times like these.
Was he perfect? Imo, no. He repeatedly trotted out the timeworn mis-description of our nation- "our democracy" - even though for now we still live in a republic and, in my view, set the stage for legislators coming efforts to restrict our liberty. "We should be willing to challenge old assumptions in order to lessen the prospects of such violence in the future."
But he also set a challenge for us, and for himself and I'm curious to see if he lives up to it. As has been pointed out here and elsewhere, the name calling, finger pointing etc comes from both directions and PBO has been a major player in that game. He "wants to live up to [Christina's) expectations". Good. If he can be lead by example, we'll all be better for it.
I am curious though about the words of Daniel Hernandez.
"On Saturday, we all became Tucsonians. On Saturday, we all became Arizonans. And above all we all became Americans."
Now I realize this man is only 20 years old, not an experienced public speaker and (imo) was trying to tap into the 9/11 type phraseology of unifying. But we were already "all Americans", we didn't "become" on Saturday. Now if he had said "And above all, we all came together as Americans" that would have been different. I hate to sound so cynical at a time like this but I have to think his words were chosen carefully, if not written for him.
Do you think this a veiled reference to the debate on immigration reform?
Just a misstatement or an intentional injection of personal politics into an available opportunity?
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Not really my kind of thing
Come on guys! Between thinly veiled cod-words to immigration reform, to chairs that are laser-aligned.....ya'll are sounding ridiculous!
It was a beautiful ceremony. It paid respects, it celebrated life. It was apolitical. A true hero gave his comments.
Give it a freakin' break!
Find some good in the world for once. Not everything has to be evil and sinister.
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By Brandon Speck/NEMS Daily Journal
Ashton Shumpert made his college choice on Monday without any fanfare.
Itawamba AHS' 4-star athlete committed to Mississippi State. He confirmed his commitment to the Daily Journal via text.
"I knew when he decided, it would be without a lot of fanfare," Itawamba AHS coach Toby Collums said. "That's kind of how it happened. He just quietly goes about his business. He's handled the process very well. We're proud of him."
Recruits can make it official on national signing day, Feb. 6. Shumpert's offers came from all over; Vanderbilt, Georgia, Purdue, Alabama, Alcorn State, Oklahoma State, Southern Miss and Memphis.
Shumpert was unavailable for comment on Monday.
"I didn't get to speak with him long. He was with his family. I just told him me and my family are happy for him," Collums said. "I'll be supportive no matter what he does. If he's at MSU, we'll be ringing cowbells."
Fellow Mississippi State commit, Houston defensive end Chris Jones, said he was surprised but happy about Shumpert's choice. The two played together at the Alabama-Mississippi All-Star Classic.
"He didn't exactly say where he was going but I thought he was kind of leaning toward Ole Miss," Jones said. "He'll be a part of a winning program and will be a big part of it. He's explosive. He's going to get after it the whole game."
The 6-foot-1, 210-pound running back/safety was named Daily Journal Offensive Player of the Year after posting 1,796 yards on 153 carries and 25 touchdowns for the Indians (12-1). He missed the first three games of the season and shared the backfield with 1,400-yard back Charles Moore. He also had a team-second 5.8 tackles per game.
narrowing it down
He narrowed his 10-offer sheet down to Mississippi State and Ole Miss on Dec. 20, with Vanderbilt and Georgia close by.
Shumpert was named Gatorade Mississippi Player of the Year, Division 1-4A Player of the Year and Mississippi Association of Coaches First Team All-State.
"It didn't shock me. I knew he wanted to stay in-state," Collums said. "I commend him, because a lot of our better athletes leave the state. To see him stay is great."
As the only tailback of MSU's 2013 commitment class, Shumpert should be able to compete for playing time by the 2014 season. Starter LaDarius Perkins has one more year, and two years behind him are Josh Robinson and Derrick Milton. Sophomore Nick Griffin is recovering from his second ACL injury.
Contributing: Brad Locke


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