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The success of Android has brought Linux to many millions of new users and that, in turn, has increased the development community for Linux itself. But those who value free software and privacy can be forgiven for seeing Android as a step backward in some ways; Android systems include significant amounts of proprietary software, and they report vast amounts of information back to the Google mothership. But Android is, at its heart, an open-source system, meaning that it should be possible to cast it into a more freedom- and privacy-respecting form. Your editor has spent some time working on that goal; the good news is that it is indeed possible to create a (mostly) free system on the Android platform.
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We're not smart enough to know why exactly Hollywood has such a tough time producing female-driven comedies that don't center on a woman's biological imperative to wed and breed. We just know that "Bridesmaids" is irrefutable proof that such a film can be hilarious.
"Bridesmaids" stars Kristen Wiig as Annie, a single woman with a failed business, a mercilessly degrading "f***buddy," a pair of sibling roommates, a mother who attends AA meetings despite having never had a drink…she is, in the parlance of the time, a loser. And when Annie learns that her best friend, Lillian (welcome back, Maya Rudolph!), is getting married, it only brings into focus just how bleak things are.
At first blush it would be easy (read: lazy) to mistake the set up of "Bridesmaids" as pointing toward yet just another romcom, but structurally the film actually resembles "Superbad": two best friends since childhood about to be separated by the tides of life, leaving one of them feeling jealous and abandoned.
Annie is the perfect role for Wiig--and it should be seeing as she co-wrote the film with longtime writing partner Annie Mumolo. Wiig seamlessly switches gears across the comic spectrum, contorting her rubber face to full effect. But she's also great in the film's more serious moments, as Annie confronts the mess she's made of her life, without it feeling maudlin or melodramatic.
Rose Byrne once again confirms her comedic chops, as Helen. She's the perfect foil for Annie: rich, beautiful, cultured, thin, stylish…everything Annie wants to be. But Helen's also a vain, petty, backstabbing monster. Byrne's work here isn't as showy as her turn in "Get Him to the Greek," yet it's still great fun to watch, and brings out the best in Wiig.
But it's Melissa McCarthy (currently starring on "Mike & Molly," though probably best known as Sookie on "Gilmore Girls") that is "Bridesmaids" secret weapon, positively crushing every line, gag, moment and look throughout. Wiig is definitely the star, but it's McCarthy who will have you cringing through gales of laughter.
Really, the whole cast is loaded, with the likes of Jill Clayburgh, Terry Crewes, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Elli Kemper and Jon Hamm all bringing the funny, in even the most minor of roles. Director Paul Feig does a great job of spreading the jokes around without letting the film ever lose its focus, keeping the tempo brisk enough that you don't even notice that it's a (normally ungodly) 124 minutes long.
"Bridesmaids" is as funny, crass, gross, thoughtful, sweet (in its way) and every bit as good as you'd expect from the talent involved.


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Killer bees! Insects help armies wage war
Q. You know about warring humankind "letting loose the dogs of war," but how about "the bugs of war"? –D. Petraeus
A. Fifty years ago, following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik, the U.S. Department of Defense formed the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), which developed stealth aircraft and an early version of the Internet, says Amy Stewart in Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects.
These days, DARPA researchers have also turned their attention to insects, seeking to implant computer chips inside caterpillars before they metamorphose into moths or butterflies so they can be directed into enemy locations to transmit intelligence without detection.
Interestingly, bees and wasps have been used as weapons for thousands of years. In ancient times, hurling a beehive or wasp nest at an enemy was an effective way to wreak havoc and send even fierce warriors running. Early Greek writings on warfare described the practice of building tunnels under enemy walls and releasing the bugs there. Also, the use of catapults to hurl hives over enemy walls goes back at least to Roman times, continuing through the Middle Ages.
Q. In the "race" for global communication penetration, one of the contestants was the "tortoise" and one the "hare." Can you guess what these animals symbolize? –A. Gore
A. As a column reader, you are almost surely one of the world's 1.5 billion Internet users, or a hare. It took the tortoise-like telephone seven decades to go from 1 to 75 percent penetration of North American households, says David G. Myers in Social Psychology. Yet access to the Internet reached the 75 percent figure in only about seven years. Half of European Union citizens, 3 in 4 Americans, and more than 4 in 5 Canadians and Australians enjoy e-mail and web surfing, according to internetworldstats.com.
Q. When I lift my wife for a good hug, her weight seems vastly different depending on whether she's limp or rigid. Is there anything real here, or is it my imagination? I noticed the same thing a few years back when I'd carry our kids to bed.–R. Gosling
A. When you lift something (or someone), much of the work is done by a few major muscles such as the biceps, New York physicist Spencer Weart told New Scientist magazine. But dozens of smaller muscles that help in adjusting how you balance the load are often less well developed and so tire quickly.
"A rigid load is easier to balance, but something limp will shift around, putting more strain on the smaller muscles as you readjust," Weart wrote. "This is why weight lifters pick up dumbbells, not sacks of ball bearings."
Q. What's it take to "defy gravity" on an amusement park roller coaster? –B. Bailey
A. Designing a good roller-coaster loop is a balancing act, with the coaster naturally slowing as it rises against gravity but still needing to move fast enough to clear the crest, says Julie Rehmeyer of Wired magazine. The curving track creates a "centripetal force," causing the cars to accelerate toward the center of the loop, while momentum sweeps them forward. This acceleration gives the ride its visceral thrill but puts stress on the fragile human body.
For instance, Coney Island's Flip-Flap Railway, built in 1895, reached a neck-snapping 12 times the force of gravity at the bottom of its loop, more than enough to induce what pilots call G-LOC, or gravity-induced loss of consciousness. In other words, riders often passed out. So modern designers adapted an upside-down teardrop shape called a clothoid, where the track curves more sharply up top than at the bottom. Now most of the turn happens at the peak, where speed and acceleration are diminished.
Result: no G-LOC, just screams!
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Q: Will my insurance pay to repair my neighbor's home if my tree falls on his home?
A: It may not have to. Typically, a homeowner's own insurance coverage pays for such damage, unless you were negligent and your negligence caused the tree to fall.
Say the tree was obviously diseased or damaged and posed a clear risk to your neighbor's home, for example. In such cases, you could be found negligent and your insurer would cover the claim.
Note: This is one of a series of common -- or in some cases, particularly unusual -- questions received by our consumer advocacy staff, who answer questions from consumers.
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Where do I find more info on myinfotogo?
I want to use Barca on a notebook and a desktop, while having an external hard disk with myinfotogo.
Is it possible to sync them?
does mitg have the features of barca? will it operate the same as barca when I plug the hard disk into another pc?
How does it sync emails downloaded on the external drive to those an a PC? Will it get confused if I sync on more than 1 PC?
thanks in advance.
ps. I am currently using Barca on an external drive only - using Ceedo.
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Study breaks ground in revealing how neurons generate movement
When the eye tracks a bird's flight across the sky, the visual experience is normally smooth, without interruption. But underlying this behavior is a complex coordination of neurons that has remained mysterious to scientists. Now, UCSF researchers have broken ground in understanding how the brain generates this tracking motion, a finding that offers a window, they say, into how neurons orchestrate all of the body's movements.
The study, reported in the April 24 issue of Neuron, reveals that individual neurons do not fire independently across the entire duration of a motor function as traditionally thought. Rather, they coordinate their activity with other neurons, each firing at a particular moment in time.
"Scientists have known that neurons that connect to muscles initiate movement in a coordinated fashion. But they have not known how the neurons we are studying - which coordinate these front-line neurons—commit the brain to move the eyes,"says co-lead author David Schoppik, PhD, who conducted the study while a doctoral candidate in the laboratory of senior author Stephen Lisberger, PhD, at the University of California, San Francisco.
"For decades, scientists have been asking, 'Do the signals involve a handful of neurons or thousands? What is the nature of the commands?' The classical understanding has been that one class of neuron is responsible for one movement, such as generating eye movement to the left, and that it remains active across the entire duration of a behavior," he says.
"The new findings suggest a totally different way of looking at how movement is controlled across time," says Lisberger, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at UCSF, where he is professor of physiology, director of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience, and co-director of the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology.
The findings, the researchers say, could inform efforts to develop neural prosthetics to treat paralysis and motor dysfunctions, such as those resulting from stroke. "The brain's messages don't reach the muscles in these conditions," says Schoppik, "so it's critical that the drive to these prosthetics reflect what the brain is trying to do to move muscles. Understanding how multiple neurons work together could influence the type of software created to drive these devices."
The investigation of how neurons give rise to motor behaviorshas been stymied until now, says Schoppik, by the difficulties inherent in studying more than one neuron in action at a time during the course of a behavior. In the current study, the scientists overcame this obstacle in a study of macaque monkeys that had been trained to track a moving object with their eyes.
Basing their approach on two key pieces of information—first, that when a neuron responds to a stimulus there is always a slight variation in its performance, a phenomenon that neuroscientists traditionally refer to as "noise," and, second, that each attempt of the eye to pursue a moving target is also unique - they proposed that some aspects of neural variation may reflect behavioral variation.
They used this inherent variability as a probe. Using a formula from financial securities market analysis that looks at how individual stocks behave at a given time within the context of fluctuations in the larger financial market, they explored how individual neurons would behave relative to their neighbors.
They compared the deviations from the average spiking activity of single neurons and simultaneous deviations from the mean eye velocity. They also measured the degree to which variation shared across two pairs of concurrently active neurons.
The data demonstrated that individual neurons encode different aspects of behavior, controlling eye velocity fluctuations at particular moments during the course of eye movement, while the population of neurons collectively tiles the entire duration of the movement.
The analysis also revealed the strength of correlations in the eye movement predictions derived from pairs of simultaneously recorded neurons, and suggests, the researcher say, either that a small number of neurons are sufficient to drive the behavior at any given time or that many neurons operate collectively at each moment.
The finding, says Lisberger, underscores the importance of recording for more than one neuron at a time. "There is a lot that we can learn from how multiple neurons interact."
The other co-author of the study was Katherine Nagel, PhD, at the time a doctoral candidate in the laboratory of Allison J. Doupe, MD, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and physiology and a member of the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF.
The study was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and by a Conte Center for Neuroscience Research grant.


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I have been reading through the posts today. I havn't heard alot of mention about the offensive line. They played great yesterday and finally looked like the Steelers offensive line we expect to see every week. The Line opened holes for the RB's all day. Plus gave Big Ben plenty of time in the pocket. I thought Chris Kemoeatu played great and should remain at RG. I just think Kendall Simmons has never been the same since battling his illness and coming back from that ACL tear.


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(CNN) - The secretly recorded and recently released clips of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are gaining more momentum on Facebook than Romney's speech at the Republican National Convention.
According to Facebook data provided to CNN, Mitt Romney's remarks that some 47% of voters would not support him because of their government dependence ranked a 5.1 on the Facebook "Talk Meter" scale on Monday, which assigns a number to a person or event's magnitude on a 1-10 scale.
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This is a touch higher than he had scored the night of his August 30 speech at the RNC in Tampa, Florida (5.04) and also a touch higher than Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention on September 4 (5.06). It falls below Hurricane Isaac (5.24), the NFL season opener (6.41), the MTV Video Music Awards (6.67), Bill Clinton's speech at the DNC (7.08), and President Obama's convention speech (7.28).
The comment seems to have resonated the most with men over the age of 35. Women between ages 55-64 were also buzzing about this, the data showed.
On Monday, secretly recorded clips of Romney speaking at a campaign fund-raiser were posted to the website of left-leaning magazine Mother Jones, including a clip of Romney characterizing Obama supporters as dependent on government support systems.
"There are 47% of the people who will vote for the president no matter what," Romney says in one clip. Adding to his argument about entitlement, Romney said his "job is not to worry about those people."
Top 10 places buzzing about Romney's remarks:
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3. Washington
4. Massachusetts
5. California
6. Virginia
7. Vermont
8. Idaho
9. Nevada
10. Maryland
The Facebook data isn't scientific and doesn't measure sentiment, but provide a glimpse into which topics are gaining the most steam among Facebook's 160 million U.S. users.
For more raw data on who is discussing the candidates on Facebook, check out the Facebook CNN Election Insights tool at www.cnn.com/fbinsights.
More hits then a dancing horse !
Romney can not clean up the statement he made. Half the country is a victim and irresponsible and want to be government dependent because they don't pay taxes and he can't be concerned with these people. Wow what do You Call companies like GE which paid no taxes.
Compare how our media treats Mitt Romney's comment and Pres.Obama saying ""I Actually Believe In Redistribution" and you will understand why Republicans think our media is in the tank for Pres.Obama.
I dare romney to look at me as a free loader. I have payed taxes all my life. And I can see how he thinks of us hard working. & those in need. I want my medicare & S.S. I have payed for it not the government. So I say no to romney!!!
Wait! Why do you not talk about Obama's comments about wealth redistribution? This is a major issue!
Keep telling yourselves it is going to be okay. 48 days from now you will be wondering "how did this happen? The polls said my guy was going to win."
It's only getting more buzz on the Democrat news sites. Romney clarified his statement yesterday and stood by it. You can agree or disagree but that's the end of the story. Every fact checker site I've looked at says Romney is mathematically correct and offer caveats as to demographics. Those of you in the 47 percent that won't change your minds no matter what should show Romney how wrong he is and vote for him.
oh and not the burning of the flag and the killing of our soldiers and the lying of the president and the strong arming of this adminstration if this is true we are in trouble when the life of a nation stands in the balance and the president goes unnotice
How many of these 47% have defend our country themselves, children are serving and supported their country & communities honorably.
But what about the gas prices?
I am well educated, a woman, I work hard, and I pay taxes. Why do Thurston Howell III and Lovey hate me so much?
This may be Romney's single, most damaging gaffe that puts the nail in the coffin.
Ryan/Romney -- Lying to us for votes.
Romney spoke from the heart at the meeting with fund raisers which he did not do at the Republican National Convention. It revealed his heart to be cold and unsympathetic to seniors, military families, poor, sick, students,and middle class.
Count me in.., I"M PART OF THE 47%
Romney is toast. Just release your taxes and prove us wrong.


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One of the challenges shared across cultures and faiths is the intangible, ineffable nature of the divine. One problematic, yet theologically productive, solution to this problem is to embody the divine in sculpture and painting; another is to seek divine aid and attest to divine presence by making votive offerings. In the absence of a sacred text, it was sculptural and graphic representation of the divine that made sanctuaries and temples in Greece and Rome theologically active places. But the need to experience god was not confined to these centers. Greek and Roman gods were everywhere—on coins, gems, drinking vessels, domestic wall paintings. Even when they were not there, their power could be felt in the representation of those who had felt their power. They were as pervasive as they were all seeing.
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- Introduction
- African independence in 1960
- Freedom from empire: an assessment of postcolonial Africa
- Reflections from 1960
- Key players in 1960
- Table of African independence dates
- Colonial presence in Africa: a brief background
Freedom from Empire: An Assessment of Postcolonial Africa
The following is a special report written for the 2011 Britannica Book of the Year (events of 2010). It reflects on the state of postcolonial Africa 50 years after 17 African countries became independent.
The currency of the tag postcolonial as a cognomen for countries that once laboured under various forms of European colonial rule tends to obscure the fact that it is at the same time a hotly disputed label. Scholars who embrace it (which is not to say that they are not at the same time critical of it) argue that it is a convenient term for referring to those societies (whether in Africa, Asia, or Latin America) that, being former colonies, continue in different ways to display the imprints of European colonialism. To deploy postcolonial in this sense is to account for the subsisting maladies in those places against the background of the exceptional severity of the colonial impact. At the same time, those who refuse to touch the term with a barge pole insist, no doubt with some merit, that behind what is presented as an innocent attempt at periodization often lurks a derogatory tendency to totalize those societies in an apparent attempt to describe the unique pathologies that they are presumed to embody. In this alternative sense, postcolonial refers not merely to the simple fact that a group of countries share certain characteristics on account of their status as former colonies; it is about the seeming intractability of those problems because they are rooted in a vaguely defined postcolonial culture.
These disputations are in their own way echoes of fundamental ideological tensions among those who study postcolonial societies generally. In Africa such tensions funnel down to the ticklish issue of how the history of the continent is to be written—which social agents and political narratives to valorize and what cultural values to affirm and/or defend. These tensions are not irreconcilable. On the one hand, it is possible to acknowledge, as scholar Richard L. Sklar once said, that colonialism has produced "enduring social formations" in Africa without necessarily succumbing to the nihilism (Sklar, to be sure, does not) that those formations are ineradicable. To do so is to dismiss out of hand the corrective capacities of human agency. On the other hand, it is possible, even necessary, to insist on the unpalatability of the existing social order in most of Africa while not balking at the moral imperative of allocating blame not only when, but especially when those who are deserving of blame are African agents themselves; and although the range of possible perspectives on Africa is not exhausted by these polarities, they are at least a reminder of the important fact that when it comes to the history of the continent, very few issues are actually settled.
When we talk about postcolonial Africa, therefore, it is important to bear in mind that we are referring to an extraordinarily diverse spectrum of political regimes, economic conditions, and social realities. For instance, while it is common to characterize the entire continent as an economic basket case, the examples of Tunisia, Botswana, Morocco, South Africa, and Egypt—countries with the most stable GDP growth on the entire continent—offer more positive stirrings. This fact is worth reiterating, if only to counter the dogma of those who would use the postcolonial label without the slightest concession to its capacity to gloss over this complexity. Even to assert this complexity is not to deny that African countries are beset by similar social, economic, political, and infrastructural challenges. Rather, it is to affirm that much as this is true, it should not be allowed to detract from the fact that an increasing number of countries (Ghana is a good example) appear to be on the cusp of the most revolutionary transformations seen anywhere in the whole of the less-developed world over the past half century.
Oddly enough, the mood in these expanding economies is reminiscent of the headiness on the rest of the continent in 1960. That year was heralded as the year of Africa's freedom from empire. In 1960 alone, 17 African countries, 14 of which had been ruled by France, broke free from their European overlords. These were Cameroon (January 1), Togo (April 27), Mali (June 20), Senegal (June 20), Madagascar (June 26), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (June 30), Somalia (July 1), Benin (August 1), Niger (August 3), Burkina Faso (August 5), Côte d'Ivoire (August 7), Chad (August 11), the Central African Republic (August 13), the Republic of the Congo (August 15), Gabon (August 17), Nigeria (October 1), and Mauritania (November 28). Earlier, Egypt (1922), Ethiopia (1941), Libya (1951), and, between 1956 and 1958, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, and Guinea had blazed the trail in becoming fully independent African countries. Other countries snapped their chains at different points in the course of the 1960s, while late decolonization brought the fruits of independence to Angola and Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Namibia, in 1975, 1980, and 1990, respectively.
At the dawn of independence in these countries, the thrill of autonomous nationhood was matched by the anticipation of material elevation. There was understandable expectation that political freedom would translate into instant economic dividends. The giddiness of those days was most famously rendered in the soaring rhetoric of Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, who boldly proclaimed that once African countries realized "the political kingdom" for which they had so valiantly struggled, it was only a matter of time before "all things shall be added."
As if to confirm Nkrumah's optimism, the initial auguries were in fact very positive. The first two decades of postindependence have been rightly described as the "golden era" of African development. This is no surprise, as they coincided with massive state outlays for social and physical infrastructure. Many of the new states reaped the rewards for their investments with periods of sustained growth: the average rate of annual GDP growth in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s was nearly 5%, with Botswana, Gabon, and Côte d'Ivoire (easily the most successful African performers) notching upwards of 7% growth. This period of excellent economic performance lasted until the early 1980s, following which the story for most African economies has been one of consistent decline. The reversal of economic fortunes is indexed by the fact that today Africa receives the highest amount of foreign grants and loans per capita of any region of the world. Indeed, according to the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative's 2010 Multidimensional Poverty Index, the 10 poorest countries in the world are in Africa (from poorest to least poor): Niger, Ethiopia, Mali, the Central African Republic, Burundi, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Rwanda.
The dispute over how African countries seem to have snatched grim destitution from the jaws of economic prosperity is far from settled, and the battle line remains drawn between those who blame problems inherited at independence and others who contend that African countries (by which they mean African leaders) are solely responsible for their own wretched lot. Both positions have merits that are worth pondering. Those who plead colonial incapacitation argue that while African countries might have thought that they had secured political independence from their colonial masters, what they actually got was a caricature rather than the substance of independence. In this view, political independence was a mere facade for the retention of actual economic power by the colonial masters, insofar as power was transferred to a local elite whose weltanschauung was no different from the Europeans'. In reality, so the argument goes, what this meant was that colonial rule perdured through other means, with the important difference that while the former European masters were white, their African successors were black. No doubt this argument is often overstated, but the reality that it seeks to apprehend is legitimate nonetheless: the one lament most likely to be heard from citizens in Africa nowadays is that just as in colonial days, their leaders do not seem to give a hoot about their welfare. Many citizens, amid obvious frustration, have toyed with the idea of a romanticized return to what they are convinced were the certainties of the colonial era.
Emergent scholarship on the colonial era in Africa has qualified this view somewhat by suggesting, controversially, that since African subjects themselves were complicit in the implementation of colonial governmentality (think for a moment of the army of "local custodians" required to carry through various colonial ordinances), it is dishonest to describe them as innocent victims of colonial rule. The logic of this position is that postcolonial African leaders may indeed have been recipients of a mode of power that was guaranteed to perpetuate the hegemony of the colonial masters, but these leaders took the reins with their eyes wide open and could not claim total ignorance of the structure of a system that they themselves had partly implemented, if not designed. The latter constitutes the point of departure for those who indict African agency for Africa's myriad problems. Such people point to the absence of accountability among officeholders, political arbitrariness, endemic corruption, and persistent human rights abuses as the bane of the African political class and the signal reasons why the majority of African countries are, as it were, stuck in a rut. Zimbabwe and Nigeria are often invoked, rightly, to a degree, as examples of countries where these factors have produced a state of developmental stasis.
Was Africa dealt a bad hand at independence, or did Africans dig themselves into a hole from which they have so far failed to extricate themselves? Are the economic and political problems of African countries a result of an international Western conspiracy or a concatenation of foreign and domestic factors that astute political agency might have alleviated? Contrasting answers to these questions are possible on the bases of contradictory African examples. Given the well-documented plunder in the late 1800s of the Congo region under Belgium's King Leopold II, for instance, Congolese could justly complain that their country was dealt a bad hand at independence. The Republic of the Congo (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo) was born in the throes of violently enforced slave labour, and the country's traumatic history continued after independence when Western leaders, ostensibly on the trail of "Soviet-backed communists," went after authentic representatives of the people (e.g., nationalist Patrice Lumumba, the country's first prime minister [June–September 1960]) and paved the way for a pliable but vicious leadership (by Mobutu Sese Seko [1965–97]). With the Cold War as backdrop, this pattern was repeated in several other African countries; Somalia, Angola, and Mozambique immediately come to mind.
The example of Botswana, for instance, would seem to suggest that neither colonial rule nor continued Western interference need be a death sentence. Scholars who take this position point to the landlocked Southern African country as an example of an African nation that has risen from the ashes of British colonialism to construct one of the most politically stable and economically prosperous societies on the continent—though it is fair to say that Britain never quite went after "Soviet-backed communists" in Botswana after the colony won independence in September 1966. The Botswana "miracle" is usually attributed to a range of factors, especially a relatively coherent and disciplined leadership and a strong civil service—in short, an efficient state, the kind that seems to be missing in such places as Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, and Cameroon.
Yet, whether one sees the bottle as half full or half empty, or whether one blames foreign or domestic factors for postcolonial Africa's woes, two points seem clear. One is that both positions can end up seeming frustratingly inadequate. There is always a tendency, after all, to read too much meaning—or too little, for that matter—into current events in Africa, a tendency that often leaves analysts of various hues looking rather distant from the rough-and-tumble of local milieus.
The second point deserves greater elaboration. In attempting to counter narratives of gloom in which postcolonial Africa's so-called backwardness is pinned on an inscrutable "African essence," scholars often cite economic statistics that appear to show conclusively that the continent is embarked on an upward spiral. They note, for example, that since 2000 Africa's economic growth has accelerated. Indeed, from 2000 to 2008 collective GDP grew by leaps and bounds, rising 4.9% (a June 2010 McKinsey Global Institute report put Africa's collective GDP in 2008 at $1.6 trillion, roughly equal to that of Brazil or Russia). Scholars point, moreover, to an increase in foreign direct investment in Africa from $9 billion in 2000 to $62 billion in 2008, and they cite rapid growth in the region's domestic service sectors—such as banking, retailing, and telecommunications—as household incomes have climbed. Such positive trends would seem to bode well for Africa.
Now, one might pour water on this enthusiasm by noting that we have been here before (witness the African "golden era" referenced earlier) or by remarking that such is the fragility of many political regimes in Africa that these important gains remain susceptible to quick reversals. Those observations would be valid. They are not the point I am pursuing here, however. What I would like to underscore is simultaneously more mundane and more profound: even when the most positive economic indicators are indisputable, they invariably exist cheek by jowl with deep immiseration. South Africa perfectly emblematizes this striking paradox of high economic development and profound human degradation. Africa's biggest economy by some distance, South Africa in 2009 boasted a per capita GDP of $10,000 and ranked a proud 31st on the global GDP scale. Yet 22% of its 49.3 million people (2009 estimate) were living at or below the national poverty line in 2008, and nearly 22% were unemployed. South Africa, of course, has its own problems, intelligible in the specific matrix of the enduring effects of apartheid capitalism and its skewed distribution of economic advantages on the basis of race.
But the pattern in South Africa—of stupendous poverty in the midst of plenty—is hardly unique. The pattern is the sociological backdrop to the angry militarism of young "emancipation fighters" in the oil-producing Niger Delta, the material underpinning of the turn to religious essentialism on sundry college campuses across western Africa, and easily the most important factor behind the ceaseless hemorrhage of highly skilled people from every region of the continent to Europe, North America, and increasingly Asia.
In pondering this and other ancillary issues, one invariably arrives at the critical crossroads where the question of the continued legitimacy of the postcolonial state becomes the key issue. If the postcolonial state in most of Africa has become nothing more than an institutional appendix, what is the point of keeping it alive? The debate that emanates from this critical question is at the heart of most discussions about the character of politics and the nature of political contestation in contemporary Africa. For the underprivileged, though, the debate has always taken a radically different slant. For instance, while the elite's quest for political liberalization in Africa that took wing in the mid-1980s has had state "reform" as its goal, the underprivileged have consistently agitated for a root-and-branch perestroika that they hope will eventuate in wealth redistribution. It would seem at the moment that only serious attention to the latter can stem the continued erosion of the legitimacy of the postcolonial state in Africa.
African independence in 1960
The year 1960 was a pivotal one in African history, with 17 of the continent's countries achieving independence. On the 50th anniversary of this occasion, Britannica has assembled a collection of materials examining the issues, people, and events that drove the independence movement, as well as an assessment of postcolonial Africa today.
Freedom from empire: an assessment of postcolonial Africa
Reflections from 1960
In hindsight it is clear that 1960 was an important and exciting year in African history. But the importance and excitement were evident even then. The following article was written for the 1961 Britannica Book of the Year (events of 1960) and offers one perspective of how the events on the African continent were viewed in 1960. This piece retains the original spelling, names, and tone typical of that time.
The year 1960 was the most important in African history. From Senegal to Somalia, from Algeria to the Union of South Africa, the continent reverberated with cries of independence, attained or desired. Bewildering at times in variety and extent, events developed at a pace that in some cases precluded firm judgments about their significance. Amid the diversity, however, certain basic facts stood out as characteristic of the continent as a whole: (1) Africans, with notable exceptions, achieved or were moving in the direction of control over their own destinies. (2) For the most part, they favoured a policy of nonalignment in the "cold war," fearing reimposition of an old or establishment of a new colonialism. (3) Willing to co-operate with each other on diplomatic, economic and cultural levels, they did not, however, take any remarkable steps toward establishing Kwame Nkrumah's proposed United States of Africa. Indeed, intraterritorial friction was not uncommon. (4) Beset by postimperialist economic problems, the Africans looked to the United Nations for aid. (5) Despite the problems of freedom, they rejoiced in their newly won status.
March Toward Independence
Last of the areas of the world to experience the post-World War II surge of anticolonialism, Africa in 1960 saw the forces of nationalism brought to a focus by pressures from within and without. . . .
Anticipating the progress toward freedom, the British granted dominion status to Nigeria, the most populous country of Africa (pop. 34,296,000) on Oct. 1. Faced with the problem of reconciling the interests of the three main peoples, the Moslems, the Yoruba and the Ibo, observers credited the several years of British preparations for independence in Nigeria with the avoidance of hostilities such as occurred in the Congo. Size, population and natural resources marked Nigeria for leadership in Africa. It might be noted, however, that Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa, unlike a few other leaders and several African states, had not been charged with messianic tendencies.
Two lands as disparate as Ghana (formally established on July 1) and the Union of South Africa (by vote on Oct. 5 to take place in 1961) marked phases of their nationalistic development by modifying their dominion status to become republics.
In the Union of South Africa, with its 3,000,000 European inhabitants, the Africans reflected in their opposition to the racial pass laws their deep-seated resentment of apartheid and their longing for the ballot. Reactions from many parts of the world to the shooting of Africans at Sharpeville during the week of March 21, when 72 were killed and many more wounded, compelled a discussion of the occurrences at the United Nations and prompted a sporadic boycott of South African goods in Ghana, Great Britain, Canada and other places. The subsequent strike by Africans proved a failure as hunger drove them back to work. Though the government declared a state of emergency (March 30), detaining 2,000 persons until the emergency was revoked (Sept. 3), it did drop the pass laws for a brief time. But opposition to Afrikaner policies led to an assassination attempt upon the life of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on April 9. Meeting in May, the commonwealth prime ministers avoided any direct censure of the Union of South Africa. However, after the vote of Oct. 5, when over 90% of the eligible European voters cast their ballots, with a majority of 72,000 favouring the republic, there was uncertainty as to the reaction of the other members of the commonwealth to the change.
In another area of the continent, that of more concentrated European settlement, the animosities of previous years again burst forth. Although the French settlers of Algeria had catapulted Charles de Gaulle to power in 1958, their more extreme elements resented his offer (Sept. 1959) of "self-determination" for Algerians. On Jan. 24 the colons threw up barricades and exerted sufficient pressure upon De Gaulle to have him withdraw the offer temporarily, only to restate it later. On June 25 representatives of the Algerian rebels met with French officials for a few days but to no avail. The breakdown of the talks was followed by the visit, during the fall, of Ferhat Abbas, Algerian leader, to China and the Soviet Union where the Algerian rebels received de facto recognition. Coupled with the opening of an office in Cairo on March 22 to recruit Arab volunteers to fight against the French, these actions indicated the Algerians' determination to press their case. Continually cited by the African peoples as one of the major residues of imperialism, the unresolved Algerian question weakened western prestige in the eyes of the Africans and Arabs.
Within the realm of political advance must be cited the recommendations of several conferences calling for further steps toward the aspiration of almost all Africans, uhuru (freedom). Kenya, the scene of the Mau Mau uprising, not only witnessed the official end of the emergency after seven years, but also the announcement on May 11 of plans to permit Africans to purchase land in the white highlands, a decision which, if taken earlier, might have prevented the uprising. Neither the Europeans nor the Africans were fully satisfied with the results of the Kenya Constitutional conference held in London (Jan.–Feb.) which called for "eventual self-government." Dissatisfied as he was with its results, Tom Mboya, rising African leader in Kenya, did observe its change in direction. Symbolic, too, of change, was the first death sentence in Kenya imposed on a European for having killed an African.
After a two-week conference, the British announced in May that on April 27, 1961, Sierra Leone would celebrate its independence. Elections would be held in Uganda in Feb. 1961 with Africans dominating the legislative council. The British trust territory of Tanganyika in Sept. 1960 received limited self-government with further advance promised within a few years. Julius Nyerere, at the helm of this new government, emerged as one of the leading African spokesmen. In the case of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the long-awaited Monckton commission report (Oct. 11) recommended greater African representation in the federation. Two months earlier a London parley had agreed to give to the Africans a majority in the legislative council of Nyasaland. The Monckton report, while advising against splitting what it considered a potentially important example of multiracial partnership, did call for granting the right of secession to any of the three component areas of the federation. Under Hasting Banda's leadership, this had been requested by the people of Nyasaland for seven years.
The Congo
One further case deserves special mention in any discussion of the march toward independence during 1960, that of the explosive Congo. Unique though its situation was, events there nevertheless illustated problems that confronted the rest of the continent in varying degrees. The advent of freedom on June 30 brought general rejoicing to the Congolese and the emigration of thousands of Belgians. Independence would have seemed most unlikely a few short years before. Belgian policy had concentrated on economic and social advance and neglected political education. The latter condition was offered by the Congolese as the reason for the postindependence confusion. Belgians countered with the charge of Congolese immaturity and conflict of interest among the many different Congolese tribes.
In the resulting intervention by United Nations forces, Secy.-Gen. Dag Hammarskjöld's aim appeared to be that of trying to keep the Congo and Africa out of the "cold war" but, though avowing the neutrality of the United Nations in the internal affairs of the Congo, the charge of implicit interference, a charge that came from diverse quarters, could not be avoided. Attempts on the part of Premier Nikita Khrushchev to associate Hammarskjöld with the colonialist position were not persuasive enough to prevent the African nations' support of the secretary-general on a vote of censure. The situation appeared to be fluid in a political sense with no certainty as to the outcome. In any case, the deteriorating economic picture foretold that for the Congo and the rest of the continent the elimination of colonial control would not automatically mean a cornucopia of abundance.
One of the fundamental questions disturbing Africa during the year, and likely to continue, was the problem of how far self-determination was to go within African lands. The Mali Federation of Sudan and Senegal was broken by the secession of the latter on Aug. 20, and as mentioned above, in the most dramatic case of the year, in the Congo, the provinces of Katanga and southern Kasai proclaimed their independence of the central authority of Léopoldville. In somewhat different circumstances, nationalists in Nyasaland called for the breakup of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formed in 1953 against their wishes. And the reiterated intention of the French that in the event of the Algerians' electing independence under President de Gaulle's offer of self-determination, there would then be self-determination for the French colons, illustrated the need for caution in thinking in terms of fixed, final boundaries. Conversely, British Somalia and former Italian Somaliland, the latter after ten years of United Nations trusteeship, were joined on July 1.
In sum, 1960 saw the culmination of the drive toward eliminating alien rule in Africa. Several areas continued to exist under European control and there was no guarantee against a new imperialism whether from without or within. Yet no one would deny that Africa had turned a historic corner.
Other developments
Though intimately related to the extraordinary crescendo of political events, other significant developments of a nonpolitical nature took place in Africa in 1960. No startling economic progress was made toward meeting the "revolution of rising expectations." Africa would continue to hope to secure financial and technical aid from abroad. Symbolic steps, however, indicating that stagnation had not set in, included the May 17 opening of the Kariba dam hydroelectric project on the Zambesi river, the start of work on the second Aswan dam on the Nile (with $280,000,000 of Soviet aid) and the continued solicitation of funds for the Volta river development in Ghana. Pres. Kwame Nkrumah's denial of reports of prospective nationalization of industry in Ghana, though himself professedly a socialist, touched on a matter of pervasive importance for the underdeveloped countries. What economic concessions would be offered to induce outside capital to come to Africa? One readily apparent factor helping the continent was the attempt to curry favour from the Africans by both the eastern and western blocs.
In the face of economic and political pressures, the Africans turned toward the United Nations for solutions to their dilemmas. The UN department of economic and social affairs had, earlier in the year, pointed to the difficult problems involved in building sound and self-sustaining economies in Africa. Concluding his five-week tour through Africa in February, Hammarskjöld called for the channeling of aid to Africa through the United Nations and in April called for more aid. Perhaps for reasons such as these, the new African members, after their admission to the United Nations, supported the secretary-general in the Sept. 21 dispute over his Congo policy.
The degree of co-operation among African states during the year was to be found more in the diplomatic and cultural fields than in the economic area. Conferences and meetings of African governments and peoples took place at Tunis (Jan. 25), Accra (April 7), Conakry (April 11–15), Addis Ababa (June 10) and Léopoldville (Aug. 25–31). Aside from the condemnation of imperialism, racialism and the French atomic tests in the Sahara, these meetings were notable less for their achievements than for the continued contact with each other they afforded African leaders. Yet differing political orientations, language barriers, separate histories, tribal and religious obstacles and personal ambition acted to hamper co-operation. The first west African Olympic-style games, however, opened in Nigeria on Oct. 3, and leaders such as Mboya and Nyerere did come out in support of the federation of the British areas of Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar. It appeared, though, that for the near future the forces of inertia would operate to keep changes within a nation-state framework.
On the whole a vast new interest in the African panorama, almost commensurate with the epic changes, was displayed by news media, individuals, organizations and governments in 1960. Both the Soviet Union and the United States vied with each other in the race to win the good will of the potential African intellectual elite. The U.S.S.R. announced plans for a new university to provide free education in Moscow for several thousand foreign students. The United States and private groups set up scholarships and transportation assistance for several hundred African students that would bring the number of African students in the United States to about 2,000. Africans showed themselves most anxious to lower the 80% illiteracy rate and leap into the 20th century through the magic of education. Nigeria, for one, planned to open the University of Nigeria on Oct. 12. As to the character of the education, it is worthy of mention that the sultan of Morocco in October stepped into the controversy over the type of education to be taught at the 1,100-year-old Karaouine university to support the new curriculum.
Future U.S. interest in Africa was indicated by Pres.-elect John F. Kennedy who made one of his first major appointments that of Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan as assistant secretary of state for African affairs.
Clearly, the tempo of change in numerous directions on the African continent has been greatly accelerated. It was an exciting year. Problems abounded—but so, too, did Africa's eventual good prospects. . . .
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says new U.S. sanctions imposed on Russian officials make it clear "that there are consequences for their actions" in Crimea and he's warning that the U.S. stands ready to impose further sanctions if necessary.
The president stressed that the government has the authority to go after officials in the Russian arms sector and those who support Russian cronies if the government doesn't pursue a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Ukraine.
Obama on Monday froze the U.S. assets of seven Russian officials for their support of Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine in the most comprehensive sanctions against Russia since the end of the Cold War. The Treasury Department also is imposing sanctions on four Ukrainians involved in the separatist effort.


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Grass finished livestock will be focus of forage and grassland conferences
December 13, 2005
"From the Farm Gate to the Dinner Plate" is the theme for two conferences to be held in January for livestock and forage producers and sponsored by Virginia Cooperative Extension and Virginia Forage and Grassland Council.
Nationally recognized speakers will help producers learn about how to utilize forage systems to grass finish animals. The conferences will be held Jan. 25 at the Reva Fire Department (just west of Culpeper, Va.) and Jan. 26 at Ever's Restaurant in Harrisonburg. Registration for both conferences will begin at 8:30 a.m. end at 3:00 p.m.
Ted Gentry, guitarist with "Alabama," will share many aspects of his farming operation during the conference. Gentry has returned home to his small cotton farm in Northeast Alabama, where he is currently working on sustainability in his operation. In attempts to create maximum profitability per acre, Gentry instituted a planned cross breeding system to form a composite breed, "South Poll," for his grass-based cattle operation. He does direct marketing through his own meat company, Burt's Beef, and to retail stores. Currently, Gentry is working to tie together genetics, management, and public education in the grass-fed industry.
Richard Watson, assistant professor of agronomy at Mississippi State University, will share information on forage development and management systems to meet the demands for pasture-finished beef. He will also discuss the critical issues producers must address in developing a forage management plan to make efficient use of pastures and meet consumers' preferences.
Sustainable Genetics, LLC co-founder Bill Hodge will speak about what genetics considerations are important for the grass-finished producers and how matching the right grass with the right cattle genetics can deliver a product consumers want. For the past 20 years, he has served in the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, the last five of which have been in Carroll County, Ga. He is vice president of the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce and the chairman of the chamber's Agri-Business Committee.
Susan Duckett, associate professor in animal and dairy science at Clemson University, will share what she has learned about forage-finished beef, including consumer preferences, quality, and palatability. Duckett has been working with Virginia Tech, University of Georgia, and West Virginia University researchers in developing innovative concepts and practices to enhance the efficiency, profitability, and sustainability of grass-fed beef production systems in Appalachia.
Early registration is $25 for Virginia Forage and Grassland Council members and $50 for nonmembers. The deadline for early registration is Jan. 17. After Jan. 17, registration will be $40 for members and $65 for nonmembers. The nonmember registration fee includes a one-year membership to the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council and the American Forage and Grassland Council and subscriptions to the Virginia Forager Newspaper, the Forage Leader Magazine, and the monthly e-mail publication Forage Progress.
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Stacey and Dan claim their 18-year-old daughter, Taylor, verbally, mentally and physically abuses their entire family; Taylor says it's actually her parents who are abusive.
Angie and Hunter say they have given up on forcing their son to go to school; the teen only wants to play music and video games, and he won't follow any rules, according to his family.
Sherry claims she is absolutely terrified of her 8-year-old genius son and his violent outbursts; she blames her son's behavior on his father, Todd.
David says his young-adult daughter has violent rages, refuses to take her medication, uses illegal drugs and regularly drives drunk.
A 21-year-old woman's family may be to blame for her violent, drunken behavior, and something deeper may be going on with her.
Amanda says her ex-husband's mother is a vindictive, manipulative liar; the mother-in-law says Amanda has anger problems, has threatened to set the house on fire and punched her in the head five times.
When Malia was 15, she became involved with a 35-year-old man, who is now in danger of going to prison; her parents say they fear that if they can't get through to her, she will end up dead.
Amber says her husband's sons' mother has Munchausen syndrome and Munchausen syndrome by proxy, over-medicating the children and faking cancer; the boys' mother says she is looking for a way to end the drama with Amber and co-parent in peace. Written by anonymous
Jessie says that her stepmother attacked her and her baby, and that her father fears her.
Bree says a young mother dating her father manipulates him and schemes to get her hands on his millions.
Author Dianne Lake tells of joining the Manson family at age 14, why she remained loyal to the leader who abused her, and what she knew about the murders; a woman tells of her baby brother being snatched from his crib in 1986 and her family's search. Written by anonymous
Dennis says a woman, he met on a dating website, told him a tale of woe and convinced him to spend more than $200,000 to help her.
YouTube star Trisha deals with her family's disapproval and her haters, who she says seek to ruin her life by stalking and assaulting her.
Wife and mother Trisha livestreams her entire life; detractors say she live-streams others' personal information, makes negative comments about their appearance and even claims they are convicts; Trisha storms off and collapses.
Jessica and Amber say their ex-stepfather sexually abused them, when they were young girls, and he was convicted and made to register as a sex offender; he maintains his innocence and says their mother brainwashed them into lying.
Steve denies molesting his three stepdaughters and agrees to take a polygraph test; his biological daughter reveals a secret she claims she has been carrying for years.
A dominatrix allows her 14-year-old daughter to skip school, smoke marijuana, drink, and be involved in a polygamous relationship, and they want the girl's straight-laced father to open his mind and accept their lifestyle.
Teen Gabrielle's grandmother says she has spiraled out of control, due to her dominatrix mother's negative influence.
Courtney says her former friend, Amie, has lied about being pregnant three times and losing five babies in total; Amie says she is disgusted by Courtney's false and hateful accusations.
Courtney and Amie come face to face, for the first time in two years, and Amie tries to prove she is telling the truth about losing five babies.
Twenty-eight-year-old DJ's parents and sister Moniece Slaughter (Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood (2014)) say they are concerned for his mental health and fear he poses a serious danger to himself and others.
Michelle, 14, has run away from home numerous times because her parents do not trust her like an adult; her 18-year-old boyfriend says her parents should get used to having him around.
Young teen Michelle's father and boyfriend discuss an altercation that got so heated, her father says he was ready to end her boyfriend's life; the explosive drama continues backstage.
Brandi has not seen her ex-husband or her 11-year-old son, since she was arrested for assault and child endangerment, and her ex says she is an out-of-control alcoholic.
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Brandi and Victor regarding their wild relationship and Brandi's drinking problem, and her mother joins the fray.
Sarah says she is madly in love with a man she has never met, and she plans to abandon her husband and children and move to Africa to be with him; Dr. Phil sends a team to Kenya to investigate and reveals what the team discovers.
Christina, who walked away from her family when her daughter was 13, says her ex let the girl get away with anything and has turned her into a raging, angry monster with low self-esteem.
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Christina, who left her family, when her daughter was 13 years old, but now says she's worried that the young woman is in a toxic situation with the ex-husband she calls narcissistic and his pregnant new wife. Written by anonymous
John claims that evil forces possess his 12-year-old son, Jack, which instruct the boy to kill his family; John's ex-wife, Jen, refuses to allow their son to go through an exorcism;
Gypsy Rose Blanchard's mother forces her to pretend to be sick, make her undergo countless surgeries, shaves her head, has a feeding tube inserted and makes her use a wheelchair; the deceit and torture eventually breed a contempt leading to murder. Written by anonymous
A severe case of Munchausen syndrome by proxy leads to murder: Gypsy Rose Blanchard decides that killing her own mother is the only way to escape years of abuse.
Sue and Mike accuse their son-in-law of being a verbally abusive liar, trying to turn their daughter against her own family; formerly pregnant heroin addict Kaitlin returns to the show, asking for a second chance.
Tony thinks he is going to be a famous rapper, refuses to get a job, and gave his children to his aunt while his career takes off; the show reaches out to record labels Tony says are interested in him; music producer DJ Silk has advice for Tony. Written by anonymous
A young woman says she hates her appearance so much that she rarely leave her house, and allows cameras to capture her extreme daily rituals that she keeps secret from everyone.
British model Chloe Ayling claims she was lured to a modeling shoot, where she was abducted by masked men, drugged, restrained and held for six days, but some are doubting her story.
Teen troublemaker Sierra has run away from home on a spiritual journey to find herself and faces her mother for the first time in more than a month.
Jessica has convinced herself that she's going blind and admits that taking care of her kids is no longer her priority.
Jerica says she has eight to 10 alternative personalities, or programs, that exist within her and protect her from bad things.
Members of a secret Facebook group accuse a woman named Suzie of conning them out of money, furniture, horses, and in business, killing two horses, damaging their property and hacking their phones, but they don't have any proof.
Hollywood actress and model, Teri Copley, says she's worried for the safety of her daughter, Ashley, and her 3-year-old granddaughter, claiming her daughter's boyfriend, Hector, is physically abusive and the family is homeless.
An 18-year-old Little Rock native vanishes without a trace.
Nicole, 27, admits that she is an alcoholic and a danger to herself and others. but says she drinks because she hates looking in the mirror and to help her escape from reality.
A suburban family say their teen daughter's criminal behavior is so out of control that they have kicked her out of their home and changed the locks to stop her from stealing.
Teens Liberty German and Abigail Williams go hiking in the woods of their small hometown in Indiana and are brutally murdered; in their final moments, the best friends may have recorded images and audio of their killer.
Billy, 20, says the hip-hop world would benefit from his presence, refuses to work and rages when his parents don't give him money; Hanson performs.
Janis spends her retirement savings on her socialite daughter's drug rehabilitation and says the young woman is still making life miserable for the entire family; AnnaRose King (Good Enough (2016)).
Melissa's devastation over her mother's death is damaging her relationship with her boyfriend; Kaitlyn, who claims she survived years of abuse at the hands of her UFC fighter husband, says she lied three years ago, when Dr. Phil interviewed her; Written by anonymous
Chase, 19, dropped out of college after smoking marijuana, which, he says, caused him to have mental problems; his parents say he has terrorized the family, ever since he moved back home.
Sherri says she was shocked to receive a letter in the mail 16 years ago from Sarah, a little girl who claimed they were sisters and shared the same father; DNA unlocks the mystery.
A woman's relationship with her ex-fiancé proves nearly fatal, when he viciously attacks her; the woman's daughter saves her life.
A woman claims her 35-year-old son has been verbally abusing her, ever since she called 911 on him seven years ago, which led to him receiving a misdemeanor conviction for domestic battery.
Tatiana has left Jehovah's Witnesses and wants her husband to leave, too; CPS has put their children in foster care, over what the parents say is a misunderstanding, and they are fighting to get them back.
Amanda says her father wrote a suspicious note six hours before his sudden death, and she is convinced he was murdered; her mother and brother say she is so obsessed that she has given up on her own life.
Parents say their 18-year-old daughter's behavior is out of control; she says they have labeled her with a severe mental illness and blamed her for their family being dysfunctional.
Tina says her 11-year-old daughter looks like a sweet, innocent girl, but has started fires in the house, killed a cat, and tried to smother her baby brother.
Carrie is accused of being an uninvolved mother and constantly drunk, and separates from her formerly well-paid husband to move back in with her parents.
Pamela expects to go to jail for refusing to allow her ex his court-ordered visitation with their children, saying he abuses them and attempted to drown one of them; the children's father says she is a jealous ex making up stories for revenge. Written by anonymous
Sandra, 15, has been arrested more than 50 times, smokes, drinks, has dropped out of school and steals high-priced items; her parents are at odds over how to parent her, and she blames her father for disciplining her;
Dr. Phil presents the recovery stories of some of the nearly 500 past guests he has been able to help with inpatient treatment for substance abuse.
Melissa says her husband refuses to get a job, dresses like a demonic clown and spends all day composing and posting vile music about killing people; members of Insane Clown Posse say what they think of his music.
Spiritual teacher and former rabbi Marc Gafni, accused of sex abuse and harassment, sits down with Dr. Phil to tell why he says he has been the target of a smear campaign.
Kristine accuses her vindictive daughter of being a neglectful mother to her three young children and having a mental illness because she claims that she can see fairies and calls herself a reincarnation of Pocahontas.
Dr. Phil follows up with past guests, including two sons whose parents said they made their lives a living hell; a woman whose daughter called her a raging alcoholic; and a woman who struggled with her weight.
Darlene calls support-group leader Melinda a lying, mentally unstable bully who scammed innocent victims of the 2016 Tennessee wildfires.
Kelly says that her daughter, Danielle, suddenly changed from a vibrant young woman to a health-obsessed hypochondriac and a hoarder.
Aja says she is sick and tired of taking care of her ungrateful, entitled, drug-addicted mother, who neglected her and her sister while they were growing up.
Police say parents starved, chained up and abused 13 children; family, neighbors, and childhood friends speak out; kidnap survivor Michelle Knight sends a message to the children.
Police have been called more than 100 times because divorced parents Marty and Marla accuse each other of breaching their parenting agreement; Marla accuses Marty's new wife of abducting and poisoning the former couple's 10-year-old child.
Five Michigan teens have been charged as adults with second-degree murder, after being accused of throwing rocks off a highway overpass, killing a father of four; in an exclusive interview, the father of one of the boys speaks out.
Bailey, 21, says she liked a tweet from a complete stranger, and it was love at first post; the stranger, who has never met her, wants her to stop sending thousands of messages professing her love; Bailey's mom says she wants her daughter back. Written by anonymous
Bailey, 21, returns to the show to tell Dr. Phil that she wants to meet the object of her obsession for the first time, because she has something important to tell her.
Crystal accuses her ex-boyfriend of sexually assaulting their 3-year-old daughter; he says she is crazy and a liar, and that she and her mother coached the child into making horrific claims.
Dr. Phil continues his conversation with Crystal, who accuses her ex-boyfriend of sexually assaulting their 3-year-old daughter at least twice in 2016; Crystal's mother, Barbara, joins the conversation and says she believes her daughter.
Ivy says that when her mother found out she was working as an escort, she told her she had to leave home -- but without her baby; her mother says she is desperate for Ivy to get out of this dangerous lifestyle and stop being a deadbeat parent. Written by anonymous
Karla has lost custody of two of her children and is blowing through her retirement fund to please her online husband, who she thinks is film industry legend Tyler Perry.
Kourtney and Kelly continue trying to convince their mother, Karla, that she's not Mrs. Tyler Perry, but the victim of an online scammer.
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Alan Sorrell: A Life Reconstructed (Soane Museum)
Sir John Soane's Museum is the most fitting setting for the first major survey of Alan Sorrell's oeuvre. Alan Sorrell (1904-1974) was an English artist who worked in multiple mediums, but is best known for his archeological illustrations. Like Sir John Soane, an architect who became Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy, Sorrell was a draughtsman who became Senior Assistant Instructor of Drawing at The Royal College of Art. Soane and Sorrell succeeded in their craft so much so that they enabled future artists to work as well as they did within the academic tradition. Framing Sorrell's work inside the Soane's Museum encourages viewers to engage and interpret the art like a new student discovering line, shape and colour in a new light.
Sorrell is best known for his reconstruction drawings of British historical sites; Prehistoric, Roman and medieval. Similar to his commercial work as an illustrator (his patterns and book designs are on display as well), Sorrell captures the balance between shape and colour. The systematic attention to detail and the artistic sense of imagination creates compelling works on paper. Even though Sorrell is remembered for these drawings, I found the most compelling pieces in the exhibition to be the two self-portraits that give an intimate lens into his personal artistic process.
Self-Portrait (1928) is a drawing that Sorrell created once he arrived in Rome during his artistic endeavors. The quality of his draughtsmanship is so apparent that it begins to bleed into the viewer's space. Pencil, ink and white gouache illuminate and stain the paper, producing an expressive moment with the artist at work. As Sorrell hunches before his easel, he looks straight out at the viewer. The contrast between the dark ink and bright gouache emphasizes the deep folds of the fabric on his body and the draped cloth beside him. The jagged edges seen throughout the composition further confront the viewer with a feeling of restlessness. The eye darts from Sorrell's high cheekbones to his pursed lips and furrowed brow and then towards the working-sketch of the hanging lamp and multiple canvases in the background and then back to the foreground to notice the different depictions of each of the fold in his stockings. This eye movement around the image creates an entertaining (and instructive) mapping experience for the viewer.
Furthermore, it becomes readily apparent that his talent is not limited to drawing when observing Sorrell's later painting, Self-Portrait (late 1930s). Here, the artist has decidedly zoomed in to focus on his face during the artistic act of creation. His sharp gaze is literally parallel to the vertical and sharply pointed pencil in his hand. The attention to line and its function is present in his drawings and his paintings. Soane would most probably approve of Sorrell exhibiting in his home, and expanding his reputation among other artworks. The quality of Sorrell's talent is clear, and the way he peers into the viewers' eye he leaves no room for skepticism.
Alan Sorrell: A Life Reconstructed was at the Soane Museum from the 25th October 2013 to the 25th January 2014.
See here for more information on Sorrell and the book associated with the exhibition.
Aimee Rubensteen is an MA student at the Courtauld.


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News Corp. Finds No Proof of Bribery by WSJ
Devlin Barrett explains bribery allegations against the Wall Street Journal in its China coverage and the suspected source of the bribery charges furnished to the Justice Department. Photo: AP Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... the Justice Department ... last year opened an investigation into allegations that employees at The Wall Street Journal's China news bureau bribed Chinese officials for information for news articles ... Devlin Barrett in Washington he is in Washington with the story Dublin thanks much for joining us ... sure I were you ... I'm great thank you and now do we know ... deatails about ... which news articles are in question and of the alleged bribes were paid ... well we're told is that one set of allegations ... roughly corresponded to reporting ... that the journal was doing in twenty twelve about Chongqing Shaanxi the isthe was the center of power of a ... senior party official ... and Bo Xilai ... who ... eventually ... lost losses position that it did it in a scandal over the poisoning of a British citizen ... it's all pretty complicated but ... essentially what we're told is ... there a lot of things going on with the Journal in China at the time and that tied in twenty twelve ... and at that and that time period is when these accusations in July ... ok is there any evidence to support these allegations ... the company says that it ... hired outside orders outside lawyers to investigate into a massive on a couple of all their books and could find nothing to back up ... wide ... this alleged whistleblower plane ... and ... when when they told a government that the government and came back to them said well now the informant has a different set of allegations about a different set of expenses ... and the company went ... into the big Audubon that stop and still couldn't find any ... okay now you mention Journal reporting ... with respect to the Bo Xilai story ... and if it there's also a what what what ... could this be related at all when speaking of that reporting ... there's also the hacking that has ... been going on here ... and in our age organizations that have also been very forthright in their coverage of China ... I was all this related ... write part was fascinates me about this whole situation is that you have a situation where company is being investigated ... I'm in and one for one issue as a potential criminal suspect ... and it but it's also be investigated by the same people the FBI ... as a potential criminal victim in terms of the computer hacking ... so the other thing that's happening in twenty twelve is this going on ... is that the FBI is working with Dow Jones try to figure out who ... has been ... penetrated the Journal's computer systems ... and so all these things are happening at once essentially and ... that led some officials within the company to ... suspect ... that ... the the original allegation Your whistle whistle or can or ... not so much of a sense of of doing the right thing or even having ... read information bite out of the out of a kind of ... retribution or our payback for the recordings on ... nevertheless toddler could be ... Chinese ... we see in the fishery has until now ... we we just don't know the company has never been told ... that the folks I spoke to the government simply would not engage in any way I'm in a way that would identify the was over the next ... frankly understandable to a certain degree ... the other reason why this is coming in a critical time is next month ... it is expected to be the final presentation by the company to the government ... on this whole broad global internal investigation ... over ... for crop prices which stand out of ... that the newspaper phone hacking situation I and England ... and so ... that will kick off the final negotiations for how to settle this whole thing ... and so at that point at some point after that at that ... meeting at some point ... the government will show its cards and say what it thinks of of the China allegations at but they don't have to do that yet ok Gov only got ten seconds last question is unclear ... whether the Justice Department has closed its case or not is it ... now why would I would I would first living it is still essentially an open case until the settlement ... ok ... great thanks much for joining us and one


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