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With a Son on the Way, Dierks Bentley 'Couldn't Imagine Wanting Anything More'
There are many men who long to have a son — especially if they are surrounded by girls (and their wife) all the time. But although Boots in the Sand performer Dierks Bentley and his wife Cassidy are expecting a baby boy (their third child and first son) at the end of the month, the singer says that right now, with the joy his two girls bring him, he couldn't imagine ever being happier.
The soon-to-be father of three is incredibly proud to talk about his daughters Evie, 5, and Jordan, 2. Bentley tells People, "I have two girls that are so awesome … I can't imagine being any happier or wanting anything more."
Life with his ladies is awesome, but Bentley says it's not always easy work. "We already feel outnumbered — one kid outnumbers you!" he jokes. "They have a different way of doing math. Early years are tough, but it's so fun right now."
Thankfully, although having a boy will be new territory, the Bentley family seems pretty well prepped for a little more testosterone. The 'I Hold On' singer (who has threatened he'll name the baby after pal Luke Bryan) says, "I have no idea what to expect, but we're really excited and looking forward to it."
"I already do some boy things with the girls," Bentley furthers. "They love going on the four wheeler. I got them a little Barbie jeep, which they'll ride in together. Then a friend of mine donated his [child's old one], so I ride in that and chase them down. I crash into them and try to run them off the driveway. I'm pretty rambunctious with them."
"They love going camping and fishing," he continues. "I do a lot of that stuff with the girls anyway, so it'll just be an extension of that with a boy. I love being outdoors so I'm just looking forward to passing that on to the girls and our son."
We do know one thing: baby boy Bentley will probably be roped into lots and lots of dress-up with his sisters. Right now, it's the singer who stands in as their prince. "Sometimes they put on shows and they need a prince — got to get my prince moves down," he admits. "Whatever they want — I don't have a costume, just dancing and twirling them around."
Bentley's family life sounds pretty sweet, and it's about to get sweeter with their tiny bundle of joy who will soon make his appearance. In early 2014, the singer will perform at the first-ever Tropical Nights: Boots in the Sand joined by Brantley Gilbert, Jana Kramer and Billy Currington! We couldn't be happier to have him!


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Tell us a little bit about yourself
(Your studies, When did you join Dell etc.)
I am relatively fresh out of college – I finished up my masters in management & marketing in March 2015 and prior to that I had spent 3 years studying a BA degree in Economics in University College Cork. As part of my master's degree, I had to complete a 6 month internship and that is how I got to Dell. In March 2015 I started as an intern associate and spent 6 months working in a supply chain role. Prior to finishing up my Internship, I began to enquire about graduate roles on offer in Dell and within two weeks of finishing my internship role, I returned to Dell as a graduate in the GOMD team (global offer master data).
What has your experience like as a University hire been? How did you hear about Dell and what was the application process like?
My experience as a University hire has been fantastic for the most part. Since this was my first "real job" after college, I needed to become familiar with the basic foundations of the corporate environment and my time as an Intern in Dell allowed me to do that. Simple things like setting up meetings or voicing my opinion was difficult in the beginning but with the support of my buddy, my team, my manager and other grads/interns, I found my feet after the first few weeks. Even after almost one year in Dell, the support from all these people continues to exist. People know you are young and a lot of this is new to you, so they try to help in any way they can.
Why did you choose to come work at Dell?
After having such a successful intern experience and seeing how much emphasis Dell puts on their staff, I knew Dell was the right place for me to kick start my career. I wanted to work in an organization that valued me and this is something that Dell has done from day one. I love that there is extracurricular activities I can become involved with and add value to the organization as a whole. My job in Dell goes well beyond my day to day role and I really feel that I am a part of a fantastic global team.
Did you participate in any internships or rotation programs before you were hired? If so, tell us about your experience.
Yes, I spent the first 6 months of my time here at Dell as an intern. It was a great experience and open a lot of doors for me. During my time as an intern, I through myself into work and tried to absorb as much content as I could. It did take about four months for me to become comfortable with the work and the environment I was in.
What are some projects that you have recently been involved with and some of your career highlights at Dell?
My main project at the moment is the addition of Basic Standardization & ProSupport services to monitors. Up until now, unlike competitors, we have never offered a customer an upsell on their basic warranty for their Monitor, but now as a result of this project, there will be not only an enhanced basic warranty but also the option of a warranty upsell. In terms of onsite programs, I have been involved with the establishment of a new internship programme onsite in Limerick and this is something I thoroughly enjoyed.
How do you think Dell can help you achieve your career goals after graduation?
Yes! Within Dell, you are constantly encouraged to grow and learn new things, be that in your own organization or in a different one. By getting involved in onsite groups, I have been able to use my Marketing expertise to get experience in areas that I would love to grow my Dell career in such as event management, PR and blogging. Not only that, there are a host of training course available for me to up skill in these areas.
How has Dell helped you in your learning and supported you in your first corporate environment?
The people that I have worked with in Dell have always supported my learning. My colleagues and managers have always helped me to understand the concepts of my work by facilitating one on one training courses with me or guiding me through the business processes. The GenNext group onsite are also a fantastic support and regularly hold training courses in areas such as presentation skills, networking skills and communication skills. The SABA courses available online are also a fantastic resource and gives me an opportunity to up skill in a wide variety of topics such as blogging, social media marketing & project management.
What has surprised you the most about working at Dell? What is your favorite part of working at Dell?
I was surprised at how much interest the company has in its graduates and interns. I knew Dell had a reputation as being a great place to work but Dell actively involved in caring for its new hires and really promotes employee growth and learning. That is something that is important to me as I try to build my career. I was also pleasantly surprised to see how much Dell values diversity among employees and their ways of thinking. Dell wants graduates and interns to bring new and fresh ideas to the table and no idea is ever too big, small or out-landish that it can't be considered.
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Question: Although the Church insists on the biblical teaching of marriage, many of our critics point out that the Bible reports polygamy is a widespread practice that is not condemned by God or the prophets, and thus even the Bible sets aside what we call God's plan for marriage. How should I answer this?
Answer: That something is reported in Scripture should not necessarily be seen as approval. Murder, incest and theft are reported, but this is not condoning what God elsewhere condemns. It is clear that many of the patriarchs, including those highly favored and praised by God, did practice polygamy. How widespread the practice was in ancient Israel is unclear, but it seems unlikely that most Jewish men would have had enough money to support more than one wife.
It is notable that there are not strong denunciations of polygamy from God and his prophets. Although reporting polygamy rather neutrally, the Scriptures do not neglect to report the many problems that emerge as well. The problems occurred not so much among the wives, but between the sons of the different wives. At stake were inheritance rights and other significant blessings.
The memorable story of Joseph and the way his brothers conspired first to kill him and then later to sell him into slavery emerges from the jealousies of brothers by Jacob's different wives and the perception that Jacob favored Joseph.
King David's house was wracked by internecine conflicts related especially to a rivalry between Absalom and Solomon. Horrifying bloodshed also occurred in the household of Gideon.
By the time of Jesus, the practice seems to have all but disappeared. Jesus also makes it clear that whatever provisions Moses and the patriarchs may have allowed in the reign of sin, in the reign of the Kingdom of God, God's original plan was going to be observed. That plan was announced in Genesis 2 and clearly states that God's vision for marriage is one man for one woman in a stable, lifelong relationship bearing the fruit of children.
This has been, and remains, the Church's constant teaching.
Question: In my last confession, the priest used words of absolution that were not what I'm used to hearing. They weren't even close, and I did not hear the word "absolve." Was the sacrament valid?
Answer: It is doubtful. The matter (in this case the imposition of hands) and form (in this case proper words of absolution) make up a sacrament. It is not possible to affirm that a sacrament took place when one or both of these is significantly violated. It is of course hard to imagine God holding you responsible for the sinful or inept actions of a priest, since you approached the sacrament in good faith; hence, you need not fear the judgment of God regarding any serious sins you might have confessed in the botched confession.
However, it is advisable for you to consult another priest in the sacrament of confession and review with him any serious sins since the last good (valid) confession you had. You might also seek his advice on reporting the incident to local Church authorities. I am sorry this happened.
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Kind of obvious there ain't too many folk from the UK here, this is the first thread about the election !
So far Labour are wining by 1 seat, though there's only one seat been declared so far
Hopefully the Torries wont get in, if they do expect the working class to be emmigrating from the UK !
Anybody got room for a would be hacker potentially seeking political asylum !
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Make that 2 for Labour
I'll be up for another few hours watching the election prog, but for those of yous elsewhere in the world that may be interested I'll update every so often or alternatively you can keep up to date here http://news.bbc.co.uk/
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it's neck in neck Lab 94 Con 92 Lib Dmes 14 others 23
Looking like a hung parliament !


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Infiniti M35h is World's Fastest Full Hybrid
- The Infiniti M35h is faster than the Porsche Panamera S Hybrid in a drag race
- Infiniti's stats: 0-100 mph in 11.54 seconds and a quarter mile in 13.41 seconds
In a sign of the times, hybrids have become such an accepted part of car culture that they are now seen in everything from cheap and cheerful econocars to the most expensive Le Mans racers. In fact, in the performance world the extra boost of an electric motor during acceleration is like turbocharging with electrons.
As a result car makers have increasingly embraced the hybrid platform as a way to both make their top performing vehicles perform even better, and, in the face of tougher emissions regulations, make them better for the environment.
Although the current selection of high-performance hybrids is pretty slim, the few that are on the road are vying for attention in any way they can. Always fans of precision engineering, the Germans have made their mark with entrants such as the BMW ActiveHybrid 7 and the Porsche Panamera S Hybrid. Not content to let those storied European performance brands steal all the hybrid thunder, Infiniti has increasingly turned up the volume on a campaign to let the world know the M35h is the fastest hybrid on the road.
Late last year the M35h set off the opening salvo by claiming the Guinness World Record for fastest accelerating full hybrid, traversing a quarter mile in 13.896 seconds. After a bit of tinkering with software, Infiniti brought the car back to the track recently, and, under third party certification, was able to best that initial record with a 0-100 mph time of 11.54 seconds and a quarter mile of 13.41 seconds.
Those numbers are good enough to rank it faster than some performance icons, including the 2007 Porsche 911 Carrera and the 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage Volante. They are also quick enough for Infiniti to claim it can beat the pants off of one of its main performance hybrid rivals: the Porsche Panamera S Hybrid. Infiniti even kicked off a recent advertising campaign meant to highlight that one fact.
What it means to you:
If you're in the market for a high-performance car, the hybrid badge is no longer a reason to run the opposite way. In fact, with the Infiniti M35h as a guide, that hybrid badge may even mean its one of the best performers in the lineup.


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Dragic scores 15 of his 17 points in 4th quarter to help Suns beat Grizzlies 96-90
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Goran Dragic was slowed by illnees during the first three quarters against Memphis. He managed to put together a strong fourth quarter and helped Phoenix get a win.
Dragic scored 15 of his 17 points in the final period to lead the Suns to a 96-90 victory over the Grizzlies on Tuesday night.
After scoring just two points on 1-for-6 shooting through three quarters, Dragic was 5 for 6 in the fourth — including three three-point plays to help the Suns snap a two-game losing streak.
"I was trying to stay in the game, then got a couple of steals and (three-point plays) that gave me the momentum," Dragic said. "My confidence went up. I always try to help my team and play as hard as possible."
After the score was tied at 88, Dragic scored six straight points to put the game away. The fourth-quarter performance was even more impressive when he said he had "some kind of virus," that weakened him. He said it affected his game through the first three periods, and afterwards, he said: "Right now, I feel awful."
While Dragic struggled early, Marcin Gortat carried the offense and finished with 20 points on 8-for-10 shooting from the field to lead the Suns. Jermaine O'Neal had 14 points, while Kendall Marshall added 11 points and Luis Scola finished with 10.
"(Gortat) played a good game," Scola said. "In the second half, Goran took over. .Jermaine came in and was big the whole game. I think we had a good game overall."
Jerryd Bayless scored a season-high 29 points on 11-for-15 shooting, including 3 of 4 on 3-pointers, to lead the Grizzlies. Zach Randolph had 21 points and 13 rebounds, and Tayshaun Prince scored 11 points.
But down the stretch, Memphis was out of synch. They, like the Suns committed seven turnovers in the fourth period, but three of Memphis' came in the final 3 minutes after Phoenix had taken the lead it would not surrender.
"That's what we focus on," said Suns interim coach Lindsey Hunter, who is now 4-4 since taking over for Alvin Gentry on Jan. 20. "That is what we are going to hang our hats on night in and night out. We don't always shoot the ball well, but one thing we can control is how we defend, and that is something we really, really stress."
Phoenix, which outscored Memphis 31-19 in the fourth, was able to hang on despite committing a season-high 22 turnovers, partly offset by shooting 51 percent. In addition to Gortat, O'Neal was 5 of 7 from the field, and Dragic finished 6 for 12.
"The disappointing part is they outscored us in the paint 52-40, and they got 11 offensive rebounds for 16 second-chance points," Memphis coach Lionel Hollins said. "Then we made some sloppy turnovers coming down the stretch for no reason."
The start of the second half was full of poor shooting. The Suns started 1 of 8, and Memphis was 2 of 17 during one stretch — with many of those rebound tips that rolled off the rim.
The shooting percentages, which were so good in the first half, decreased to a more normal number.
Neither team was able to get much of a buffer, but Memphis did make a push behind Bayless late in the third period, and a tip-in by Prince at the horn provided Memphis with a 71-65 lead entering the fourth.
"I just tried to get through the first three quarters," said Dragic, who was dealing with foul issues in addition to the virus. "In the fourth quarter, I got my confidence up."
Memphis' lead didn't hold up as Dragic converted consecutive three-point plays near the midpoint of the fourth, putting Phoenix up 80-79.
Dragic converted another three-point play when he was fouled on a 10-footer in the lane for an 86-82 lead. Bayless, meanwhile, was still connecting from the top of the key, and despite Dragic's production, the Suns' lead never reached more than six.
But Memphis' turnovers stymied any chance the Grizzlies had of another run. There was a backcourt violation, a bad pass by guard Mike Conley and then Prince and Bayless failed to connect on the inbounds pass with about 50 seconds left.
"We had a chance to win the game, but we had too many turnovers in the fourth and didn't get any opportunities," said Conley, who finished with nine points on 3 of 11 shooting and handed out five assists.
Conley's drive with 3 seconds remaining gave the Grizzlies a 52-50 lead at halftime.
Gortat hit his first seven shots, part of Phoenix hitting 60 percent until the latter stages of the half. They ended the half at 53 percent, Gortat going 8 of 10 from the field.
NOTES: Suns F Jermaine O'Neal returned to the lineup after missing the last seven games due to personal medical reasons. ... Officials reviewed a last-second tip-in by Prince at the end of the third before finally ruling that it came before the buzzer. The review was so close that all three officials looked at the shot on replay all the way through the break between the third and the fourth periods. ... Jared Dudley, who averages 12.2 points, third-best on the Suns, was scoreless in 17 minutes, missing all five of his shots. ... Bayless' previous season high was 23 at Oklahoma City on Jan. 31. ...Prince obtained last week in a three-team trade that sent Rudy Gay to Toronto, was in the Grizzlies' starting lineup after coming off the bench for his first game with Memphis. ... Phoenix is now 5-20 on the road this season. . The Suns' 22 turnovers were the most by a Grizzlies opponent since Dec. 21 when Dallas committed 24.


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DOVER — Traffic backed up on the Spaulding Turnpike in Newington Wednesday afternoon following a crash on the northbound side of the highway involving a small box truck.
Two vehicles were involved in the incident, which took place at about 1:20 p.m. near a portion of the highway that borders the Newington Walmart, according to a State Police dispatcher. Police briefly closed down the northbound side of the highway following the crash, causing a traffic jam beginning at about 1:30 p.m.
Details about the accident were scant Wednesday. Newington police referred questions to State Police. A State Police spokesman did not return a call seeking comment.


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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) The Indiana Hoosiers have seen some of the preseason rankings and have heard people talking all over campus.
Clearly, they're aware of the debate about whether they'll be playing for a national championship in the spring.
Inside the locker room, the Hoosiers have chosen to stay away from the discussion and focus on the things that matter most - getting stronger, getting quicker and exceeding their own goals rather than those being set by the outsiders.
``You know, we were here when nobody was talking about us, so it's a humbling experience when everyone is talking about you,'' junior swingman Victor Oladipo said Thursday. ``Look we love accolades, we love recognition, but we know none of that matters right now.''
By April, it might.
The pundits are raving about Indiana's freshmen class, pitching center Cody Zeller as a player of the year candidate and talking about the Hoosiers in the same breath as perennial college basketball blue-bloods like Duke, Kansas and North Carolina.
There hasn't been this much preseason excitement in Bloomington since 2002-03, the year after Indiana finished as the national runner-up, and Hoosiers fans say it's about time.
Last season, Indiana made one of the most dramatic turnarounds in college basketball. After three straight losing seasons, the Hoosiers upset three top-five teams, including No. 1 Kentucky on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer, and reached the regional semifinals of the NCAA tournament for the first time since Tom Crean took over as coach.
So when Crean got most of his key players back and one of the nation's top recruiting classes, the natural assumption was that the Hoosiers could win it all.
``I don't know that we've really set any goals as a team, but obviously, we want to win a national championship,'' Zeller said. ``We're not going to guarantee anything, we're just going to play and see where it takes us.''
Crean is eager to see what he has.
Although a new NCAA rule allowed him to lead small groups of players through short practices this summer, Crean has not really had a chance to see his team together in months.
Indiana will hold its first official workout, a closed practice that will be televised by ESPN, next Friday. Indiana doesn't plan to hold its traditional Hoosier Hysteria festivities until Oct. 20.
``I don't think we spend much time talking about that,'' Crean said, referring to this year's soaring expectations. ``They understand we're trying to raise the standard of play here. We've got to continue to grow to a point where we're really consistent and we've got to have a toughness about us. It's not about being arrogant or cocky or being tough when you're ahead by 10 points, but being tough when you're down five or six on the road. We're spending our time getting the best skills out of them that we can.''
There's no telling how good the Hoosiers might be
If freshman Yogi Ferrell emerges as the starting point guard, as many anticipate, senior Jordan Hulls and Oladipo, a junior, may spend more time playing their natural shooting roles.
If Maurice Creek is healthy enough to become a contributor, as Hoosiers fans hope, that will be an added bonus.
Even Zeller looks different. He says he's grown about a half-inch since last year, measuring an even 7-feet in his shoes, and has bulked up to 240 pounds. He played most of last year between 225 and 230 pounds.
And while the combination has certainly created a stir outside Assembly Hall, Crean spent the summer going back to the basics..
``I've never incorporated more drill aspects than I did this year because I think it's really, really important,'' he said.
Will the combination allow the Hoosiers to meet the hype?
The players hope so.
``We're not throwing anything out,'' said Hulls, who was wearing a T-shirt celebrating Indiana's tourney run. ``We'd like to win every single game we play, of course.''


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While orphan diseases are rare, patients with rare diseases are numerous. There are up to 7,000 identifiable rare diseases, affecting an estimated 622 million people around the world. There is a clear need to provide rare disease patients with the same quality of care as other patients, and governments have provided incentives to companies developing orphan drugs to address a significant public health need. As effective diagnostics play a greater role in accurately diagnosing orphan diseases, the addressable patient population will expand.
One of the biggest challenges for rare disease patients is obtaining the correct diagnosis, which can be extremely difficult and can take years, or even decades. An increasing number of companies developing drugs for rare diseases are working with diagnostic companies, or their own diagnostic divisions, to establish biomarkers and develop companion diagnostics for patient selection. Companion diagnostics can assist with identifying patients for clinical trials of a novel drug, and may be approved simultaneously as part of a conditional drug approval.
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This tutorial covers the use of Overdrive ebooks for Linux users.
Important notes:
Instructions are based on Ubuntu 12.04 and a Nook Simple Touch, and instructions found online for having Adobe Digital Editions on a linux system detect the Nook. Adobe Digital Editions is installed with Wine.
Some ereaders require drivers to be installed, which may not work with Wine and may need to be installed by other means. For instance, Wine would not run Sony's Reader Library software. Depending on your distro and your device, your mileage may vary, so to speak.
This tutorial was created by a linux user, albeit a n00b. If you know of/discover better solutions than are described here, please use our contact page, select "webmaster" from the menu and submit corrections/etc directly.


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INDIANAPOLIS—For all the attention he draws from opponents, Noah Vonleh never has been surrounded like this. Standing adjacent to a basketball court at North Central High, site of this summer's adidas Invitational tournament, he is working hard not to be intimidated by the sight of nearly two dozen microphones stretched toward his chin.
As was the case with most of his basketball endeavors on this night, Vonleh is struggling. Typically loquacious, he all but retreats from the digital recorders and iPhones arrayed in front of him.
"I didn't come ready to play today," Vonleh said. "I didn't have my best performance. I took a lot of crazy shots, wasn't getting to the basket like I normally do. That's about it. I should have come out ready to play."
This is college basketball recruiting in the summer of 2012. Still two years removed from high school graduation—an incredibly versatile 6-9 forward, he ranks among the top-five prospects in the Class of 2014—Vonleh is feeling compelled to explain a substandard performance to an army of reporters representing daily newspapers, national recruiting services, national sports websites, team-specific sites and even a longtime columnist who now works for a TV station.
A little more than two decades ago, when the Nike All-American Camp was stationed here on the IUPUI campus, there were maybe a half-dozen reporters in attendance as future Final Four stars Corliss Williamson and Tony Delk showed off their skills.
Vonleh is not entirely new to this circus. ESPN wrote a lengthy piece about his potential when he still was a junior varsity player. The rapid escalation in attention, though, does have an impact. As he competed Wednesday night, the coaches watching in plain sight included Final Four vets Bill Self of Kansas, Thad Matta of Ohio State, Ben Howland of UCLA and Jim Calhoun of Connecticut. North Carolina's Roy Williams and Kentucky's John Calipari sent assistants.
Originally from Haverhill, Mass., a rising junior at New Hampshire's New Hampton Prep, Vonleh is attractive to all of them not only because of his obvious and varied talents but also because his parents, as immigrants from Liberia, have no school allegiances and there's no particular power to beat near his home base. Geography is becoming less a factor in basketball recruiting, but coaches will pounce when it's no factor at all.
"Right now, I don't have any schools that I'm favoring," Vonleh said. "I'm just going to keep waiting until the end of the summer, and then I'll probably cut down my list of schools. But right now, I'm open to everyone."
In addition to interacting with reporters, Vonleh also is coping with the new regulations—or lack thereof—regarding communication from college coaches. They can text and call as often as they like, which is far more often than he would prefer. His summer coach with the Mass Elite, Vin Pastore, said Vonleh has stopped responding to coaches' calls and won't resume until the summer is through.
It's then that Vonleh intends to cut the list of schools recruiting him to a manageable number. That might include Indiana, Kentucky and Louisville; he addressed each of them when questioned Wednesday night. Syracuse was the first school to offer him a scholarship—fully three years ago, and Pitt was there about the same time.
It's easy to see why they're all enamored of Vonleh, even if your first glimpse is on a night when he performs poorly. Vonleh can play every position on the floor, certainly at this level and probably even in Division I. He began Wednesday's game against the Atlanta Celtics by setting up in the low post and ended it functioning as a point guard because "we were struggling, we weren't making any shots, our guards weren't getting to the basket. I had to try to step up and get some guys open."
Pastore said he allows Vonleh to make decisions about where to station himself at a given moment because he is more interested in developing the young man's talent than winning tournament games.
"Part of him maturing as a basketball player is him understanding who is covering him and what to do," Pastore said. "I try to let him figure it out. Kind of like a catcher calling his own game. At the next level, sometimes he's going to have bigs on him he can go by; sometimes he's going to have guards on him."
Vonleh is working to develop a game similar to Kevin Durant's. It's a worthy goal, but Durant's knack for scoring is preternatural. Pastore admits it's more of an effort for Vonleh, although he is a capable shooter with a nice little jumphook into his left shoulder. On the other hand, Vonleh's frame likely will accommodate far more power than Durant has managed and he'll have a chance to be a more impactful defender.
Most important is that Vonleh willingly plays inside even though he has perimeter skills, eagerly shares the ball even though he is the best player on his team and continues to work at expanding his game even though few his age have such an arsenal of skills.
"The bottom line with him: He's going to play somewhere, some position, but it's going to be on the court — no matter where he goes to school," Pastore said. "He's a winner in every aspect of the game.
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natty dread wrote:The city map that shows through the bonus colours looks really blurry and pixelated.
The road impassables also need work, they look uneven and pixelly.
natty dread wrote: why does only the green area have army boxes?
natty dread wrote:I don't think either are necessary.
crazymilkshake5 wrote:Ill get working on the XML for this once this gets sticked for the graphics stamp.
natty dread wrote:Note that 3-digit numbers are centered differently than 1 and 2-digit numbers. If you center the numbers so that 3-digit numbers fit in those circles, the 2-digit numbers will be rendered to the side of the box...
cairnswk wrote:if you just want to centre armies use a box 20px x 20px and then later remove the boxes. this is sufficient for 88s only centering.
RedBaron0 wrote:Why are the bridges white? Best to just color them and put a border in the middle.
RedBaron0 wrote:Do you even need a bridge between Vester Port and Fredriksburg?
natty dread wrote:why not put the territory border in the middle of the bridge?
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The Saint Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations by the French Canadians in Saint Helen's Island, Montreal, Canada. A large crowd of French Canadians in Saint Helen's Island in Montreal in Canada. Light works and fireworks illuminate the sky. A downpour starts. Men and women near a board which reads 'St Helene Island'. Women under a covered area. People watch the fireworks. A final several-foot long replica of Niagara Falls made of fireworks on display. The men and women watch the display.
Struggle for independence of America, and border between Canada and United States. Sam Adams and early colonists of the Continental Congress seek to bring Canadians into their efforts against British rule. Sketches of British ships in nearby harbors monitoring the colonists. Picture of a snake with 'Die' and 'Join' written under it. Richard Montgomery leads group to take Canada by force, heading up Lake Champlain toward Canada with 4000 men. Attack led by Benedict Arnold toward fortress of Quebec. Map shows the boundaries between Quebec and New England. Governor Sir Guy Carlton abandoning Montreal to Montgomery. Path of Montgomery and Benedict Arnold together to try to seize Quebec. Depiction of Montgomery killed in the attack, and loss by the American colonists at Quebec. With commentary and narration by J. Frank Willis.
Flags at half staff in mourning on roof of College of Notre Dame in Montreal, Canada (Collège Notre-Dame, in Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal). Thousands of people (a total of about 1 million in one week) pay last respects to the 'Miracle Man' of Montreal, who died January 6th, 1937. Brother Andre, the former Alfred Bessette, was a revered 20th century disciple of St. Joseph associated with St. Joseph's Oratory, a major Roman Catholic religious sanctuary in Montreal, Canada (l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal). On Saturday, January 9, the coffin is taken from the Oratory to the Montreal cathedral Marie-Reine du Monde (Mary Queen of the World), for a first funeral Mass. Six Firemen Officers carry it inside. Later, back into the sanctuary (St Joseph's Oratory) it would lie in state until January 12 for a second funeral ceremony. View of the open coffin. Views of the St. Joseph's Oratory. Brother Andre poses for picture a few years before his death.
Fencers compete in an international meet for the McConnell Cup in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Two participants fence during the competition. Spectators watch.
Shows Canada's Olympic swimming team at Montreal, Quebec. The athletes perform somersaults from a high ramp into a pool. Spectators gather in large numbers around the pool and cheer for their team.
Struggle for borders and territory between Canada and United States. Sketches of French-Canadian traders and merchants exchanging goods at Montreal, Canada. Picture of Governor James Murray. British merchants seeking control over the fur trade, but rejected by Governor Murray. Establishment of government in Quebec. With commentary and narration by J. Frank Willis.


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The time has come to say goodbye to my blog. Part of me is sad and a bit nostalgic but more than anything I'm excited. This blog started as one thing and ended up something quite different than the original intention. It's time to start fresh. So rather than being all final about it, why don't we start something new? Skip on over to my new address at backyardrunner.com and have a look around. If you'd like my new posts to come straight to your email inbox just sign up (where it says "sign up" or "follow" in the side bar) and you won't have to wonder when I post or look for me on Facebook.
But if this is goodbye I want to say thank you. Thanks for reading, commenting, stopping by to look and buying from my Etsy shop back in the day. It means more to me than you know.
If you are hanging on for the ride, thank you too. It's the same ol' me with new shoes.


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Zig-zag patterned circle skirt
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Santiago, Chile
A while ago I found this fabric in a store that sells fabrics by the kilo, and recently decided to make a circle skirt out of it. What I like about circle skirts is that they are really really easy to make and look very good on people with voluminous hips and bum (like me), unlike gathered skirts which make everything look bigger (ideal for skinny girls though). It has a cut from waist to hem in the back, where the zipper goes, it's hemmed with bias tape (so no tricky folding and ironing the curved hem) and the waistband is just a rectangle 4 cm. wide by my waist measure.
Material Notes
I couldn't figure out which fabric was it, but it's non-stretch and very light and fluid, fresh and perfect for summer. The waistband is made from poplin, and it's interfaced and lined with the same fabric. Also I loved how the zig zag pattern adopted a star or sun-like shape because it's cut on a circle.
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Oct 15, 2013, 07.12 PMby Ellen Hatteland
Wonderful skirt and you did a perfect job with the zipper – nice fabric :)
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Pitts wrote:Ginger wrote:I could better believe it if you'd supply us with something a little more tangible than 'I have it on good authority'. We keep getting this from posters here who "have someone on the inside" supplying them with all these truisms.
I understand your concern, but you have to understand that offering any further details would jeopardize job security and friendships and I will not risk that. I can believe this person because I have known them since they were a teen and they are not prone to lies and rumors.
Are you DePauli by any chance?
Evgeni Malkin will be a Penguin for a very long time. People need to realize that it is perfectly okay to have 2 elite superstars on one team. Just because one has to play 2nd fiddle to another doesn't mean we have to ship them off somewhere else. Crosby and Malkin will be perfectly fine playing together for a very very long time. You can take that to your local bank.


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PfR Version 2 - IOS 15.2(3)T and IOS-XE 3.6
The simplification initiative starting from IOS 15.2(3)T and XE 3.6 brings a lot of improvements. The current code does not have utilization and range resolvers. PfR is doing first qualification of the links based on utilization, followed by any other resolver, followed by range at the end.
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Casa Multi 3 Traditional Rug
This beautiful Casa rug is inspired by traditional patterns yet created with up-to-date colours and contemporary technology, offering a dense, long-lasting pile and crisp design. A range of trending themes are explored in the Cascade Collection. The designs feature traditional and modern elements, with a transitional feel that would be idea in a variety of settings.
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- Pile Height: 10MM
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FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) - It has been five years since record flooding swamped two towns in northwest Ohio. Residents and community leaders are still waiting for a solution.
Flood prevention has become a top priority along the Blanchard River and in the towns of Findlay and Ottawa where there have five major floods since 2007.
Already, nearly $4 million has been spent by city and county governments on flood-control efforts.
The Courier newspaper in Findlay (bit.ly/Nxtx11) reports that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's going to take three more years to finish studying the watershed, determine flood solutions and seek federal funding.
One of the federal officials studying the issue says that by the end of the year they should be able to present flood control options to local officials.
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Often the games we play reflect the lives we lead, and therein lies lessons to be learned. They show us how important it is to always respect each other, CEOs and food severs alike. They provide us an appreciation for humility and a disdain for arrogance.
Often the games we play reflect the lives we lead, and therein lies lessons to be learned. They show us how important it is to always respect each other, CEOs and food severs alike. They provide us an appreciation for humility and a disdain for arrogance.
We hesitate to bring this up, knowing there are hundreds of Appalachian State University alumni and Mountaineer football fans among us here in Davidson County. But we're thinking the majority of Appalachian State fans will agree that Saturday's football game against N.C. A&T, in which the Mountaineers lost 24-21, was a prime example of how a superior team should not play the game.
The contest started routinely enough as the Mountaineers drove about 80 yards and scored on their first possession. But then, they went for two on the conversion try and failed. The logic there, one can only assume, was that it offered no huge gamble. ASU wouldn't need the points if it happened to fail, the game wasn't going to be close anyway. Success meant more points faster, and a big blowout would begin. It would set the fans into a frenzy and initiate another giddy Saturday in Boone.
It was a sign of a great lack of respect. And by the time the Mountaineers acknowledged they were in for a battle, which didn't occur until the second half, many of their fans were embarrassed enough to leave the stadium. A&T led 21-6 at the half.
If ASU had played a smarter, more respectful game, it may have ended up winning. For example, instead of taking a knee and ending the first half down just 14-6, the Mountaineers decided to throw the bomb. It ended up being intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
There were other suspect plays as well, such as trying to convert on fourth downs when they should have been punting.
We are reminded of the 2004 season when Wake Forest played A&T and won 42-3. The Deacons were up three touchdowns late in the first half against the outmatched Aggies. Wake was driving and into four-down territory. With many second-unit players already in the game, instead of punching in another touchdown or kicking a field goal — the Deacons were well within range — coach Jim Grobe let the clock expire. One fan in the stadium that day was heard to say, "He's probably the only coach in the ACC who would have done that." He was probably correct. And that says a lot about the Wake Forest coach as a person.
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The African Rinderpest Panzootic, 1888–1897
Thaddeus Sunseri
Between 1888 and 1897, rinderpest virus (cattle plague) spread throughout sub-Saharan Africa, presumably for the first time, killing over 90 percent of African cattle and countless wildlife, expedited by European colonial conquest. Beginning in the Eritrean port of Massawa, the virus was transmitted across the Sahel, reaching the Senegal River by 1891. The epizootic spread south out of the Horn of Africa, into the western and eastern Rift valleys, and likely by sea with coastal commerce, infecting East Africa after 1891. Although slowed by the Zambezi River, in 1896 rinderpest reached the regions of modern Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, and southern Angola before it burned out or was arrested by breakthroughs in vaccine therapy by 1900. South of the Zambezi, early European methods of stanching rinderpest by destroying all cattle exposed to the virus often elicited protest, resistance, and sometimes rebellion. Rinderpest was eliminated from southern Africa shortly after the turn of the 20th century but became enzootic in other parts of the continent, often in wildlife, until eradicated globally in 2011. In each region of infection, local ecologies, trade patterns, agricultural bases, social structures, and power dynamics shaped the impact of rinderpest. Almost everywhere, rinderpest was preceded by drought and locust plagues, and followed by human diseases, especially smallpox and malnutrition.
Animating African History: Digital and Visual Trends
Paula Callus
Contrary to popular belief, the animated moving image on the African continent has long and diverse histories across many countries. Although it shares both the technology and some of the formal aspects of cinema, its historical development followed a different trajectory to that of indexical film, both in Europe and in Africa. This may be because of animation's ability to draw upon a range of artistic practice, which means it can take many guises; at times it appears like a cartoon, or sometimes like puppets or sculptures that come to life; at other times it is a metamorphic drawing or painting, or even a photographic montage. In addition, while animation tends to be associated with content specifically intended for a children's audience, it has in fact been an effective vehicle to conceal sociopolitical critique that would otherwise be considered problematic. Different animators in Africa have used animation to this end, presenting subversive and social-realist content within the unrealistic depictions of fantastical stories, the parodic, comedic or allegorical, or culturally located visual metaphors. African animators have also used animation to safeguard and give permanence to the stories, myths, and legends they grew up with. These legends have occasionally also informed animated superheroes in games such as the Kenyan mobile phone application Africa's Legends, or the cast of an Afro-futurist setting such as the Nigerian "Afro-anime" production Red Origins. With the onset of digital technology, the landscape of animation in Africa has seen a blossoming of activity from expert and non-expert prod-users. Their work circulates in formal and informal settings, whether visible at a festival, on television and mainstream media, in online social networking spaces or on video streaming sites such as YouTube or Vimeo. The prolific characteristic of animation made for digital spaces has resulted in a paradoxical simultaneous visibility and invisibility. Networks of African artists have benefited from the visibility and distribution that the Internet and smart phone technologies offer; for example, Kenyan multimedia artists Just a Band were quoted as saying that they were discovered online before they were discovered in Nairobi. However, the ephemeral quality of these digital spaces can also be problematic from the archivist's perspective as digital traces change. For this reason it is increasingly important to capture the traces that African artists leave in this dynamic space as they reflect the zeitgeist.
Anthropological and Ethnographic Methods and Sources
Constance Smith
For scholars of African history, anthropology offers a number of valuable and invigorating methodological avenues, from engaging directly in ethnographic fieldwork to analyzing anthropological data compiled by others. Given the asymmetries of written documents and the biases of archival material for Africa, anthropological methods and sources offer a different type of access to those who, for various reasons, tend not to appear in other forms of documentary record. The materials of past ethnographic research—texts and material objects, produced and collected by anthropologists and their assistants as well as by missionaries, government officials, travelers, and others—constitute one of the largest categories of written source material. However, the contexts in which such research was conducted can present certain challenges when using these materials as sources. For example, the complex entanglements between colonial governance and the making of anthropological knowledge make it imperative for historians to be aware of the discipline's intellectual history and how its ways of seeing and ordering have shaped portrayals of Africa's diverse cultures.
Methodologically, historians are also experimenting with field methods that draw heavily on ethnographic techniques. The emergence of historical ethnography has developed a rich, syncretic approach, in which communities' own relationships with, and understandings of, the past are brought to the fore. Although ethnography is known for its immersive and long-term fieldwork, elements of the technique can also be incorporated into other historical methods. This is in part a matter of approach, rather than of different source material. For example, engaging ethnographically with archives can offer different insights into issues of governance and the production of knowledge.
Cannabis and Tobacco in Precolonial and Colonial Africa
Chris S. Duvall
Cannabis and tobacco have longstanding roles in African societies. Despite botanical and pharmacological dissimilarities, it is worthwhile to consider tobacco and cannabis together because they have been for centuries the most commonly and widely smoked drug plants. Cannabis, the source of marijuana and hashish, was introduced to eastern Africa from southern Asia, and dispersed widely within Africa mostly after 1500. In sub-Saharan Africa, cannabis was taken into ethnobotanies that included pipe smoking, a practice invented in Africa; in Asia, it had been consumed orally. Smoking significantly changes the drug pharmacologically, and the African innovation of smoking cannabis initiated the now-global practice. Africans developed diverse cultures of cannabis use, including Central African practices that circulated widely in the Atlantic world via slave trading. Tobacco was introduced to Africa from the Americas in the late 1500s. It gained rapid, widespread popularity, and Africans developed distinctive modes of tobacco production and use. Primary sources on these plants are predominantly from European observers, which limits historical knowledge because Europeans strongly favored tobacco and were mostly ignorant or disdainful of African cannabis uses. Both plants have for centuries been important subsistence crops. Tobacco was traded across the continent beginning in the 1600s; cannabis was less valuable but widely exchanged by the same century, and probably earlier. Both plants became cash crops under colonial regimes. Tobacco helped sustain mercantilist and slave-trade economies, became a focus of colonial and postcolonial economic development efforts, and remains economically important. Cannabis was outlawed across most of the continent by 1920. Africans resisted its prohibition, and cannabis production remains economically significant despite its continued illegality.
Digital Sources for the History of the Horn of Africa
Massimo Zaccaria
The Horn of Africa has an exceptional cultural heritage, starting with its manuscript sources, which are among the most important on the continent. It is a heritage that is rich but scattered throughout the region and not always easily accessible, prompting researchers to rely on cutting-edge technology. Since the 1970s, photography and microfilm have been key for preserving this especially valuable heritage. In the Horn of Africa, the "digital turn" has been the latest development in the close relationship between technology and research. For Ethiopian manuscript studies, the advent of digitization has meant more than simply improving old techniques. A new generation of projects is experimenting with innovative methods of research made possible by digital technology. The purpose is no longer just to provide digital copies of manuscripts but to explore the possibilities that computerization offers to study documents and other historical sources.
Increasingly competitive prices and low operating costs have made the digital revolution attractive even for African institutions, which, in recent years, have sought answers to the pressing needs of preserving and enhancing their historical sources. These technological developments have significantly broadened the range of sources investigated. While important, manuscripts represent only a part of the documentary heritage of the Horn of Africa. Numerous archives and a long-overlooked print culture offer equally interesting access points for studying the region.
The experience gained, though temporally circumscribed, has highlighted a number of more or less predictable problems. The projects to date, although they have often yielded only partial results, have highlighted the wealth of sources still present in the Horn of Africa and the way in which digital technology is making a valuable contribution to their preservation. Access remains perhaps the most critical issue. In the Horn of Africa, as in other African regions, digitization does not necessarily lead to Internet access.
Ethnicity in Africa
Gabrielle Lynch
Among today's scholars there is a near consensus that precolonial African identities were relatively fluid, permeable, overlapping, and complex; that ethnic identities are socially constructed; and that a colonial order of delineated control encouraged Africans to rethink group identities and heightened a sense of socioeconomic and political competition along ethnic lines. There is also growing consensus that ethnic identities are nevertheless the subject of ongoing (re)negotiation and that, to find resonance, the politicization of ethnicity, while instrumental in motivation and opportunistic in character, must be rooted in linguistic, cultural, and socioeconomic similarities and communal experiences of marginalization, neglect, injustice, and achievement. Many scholars also emphasize how the realities of ethnically delineated political support reflect pragmatism and expectations of patronage in the context of difficult and unequal socioeconomic contexts, as well as the significance of remembered pasts and associated narratives of justice and strategies of acquisition. Such realities and discursive repertoires provide a list of grievances that elites can use to foster a sense of difference and mobilize local support bases, but that also provide nonelites with a means to question and counter intra- and intercommunal differences and thus social and spatial inequalities. Ethnic support then strengthened by a reinforcing cycle of ethnic bias and expectations of greater levels of assistance from co-ethnics. According to such arguments, ethnic identification and political support are rational, but not for the simple reasons that classic primordial, instrumental or neo-patrimonial accounts suggest.
Film, Radio, and Society in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
James Genova
From the period of the "Scramble for Africa" in the 1880s to the era of decolonization that began in the 1950s, culture and media played essential roles in constructing images of the colonized subject as well as governing newly conquered empires. In the struggle for political independence, Africans used film, music, literature, journals, and newspapers to counter European ideas about African society as well as to provide the foundations for postcolonial national identities. With sovereignty largely realized across Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, the roles of culture and media were critical in forging the bonds of nationhood and solidifying the legitimacy of the new states. However, those official efforts increasingly clashed with the aspirations of cultural activists, who desired a more thorough transformation of their societies in order to transcend the colonial legacy and construct progressive communities. Media and culture became a forum for political conflict whereby governments increasingly restricted creativity and subsequently sought complete control of the means of cultural creation and diffusion. Both the aspirations of public officials and opposition activists suffered during a period of prolonged economic crisis in Africa, which began in the 1970s and stretched into the 1990s. The sinews of governance as well as the radical pretensions of culture workers were torn asunder as many parts of Africa suffered state collapse, civil war, famine, and epidemic diseases (including the HIV/AIDS and Ebola crises). The dawn of the new millennium coincided with the age of neoliberal globalization that, for many African countries, was synonymous with structural adjustment programs and oversight from such international lending institutions as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. This often required the privatization of media across Africa and included the greater prominence of non-African media sources on radio, television, and the cinema throughout the continent. It also was reflected in a shift among African culture workers, who frequently centered on the impact of globalization on African societies in their work. Filmmakers, musicians, and writers often use their platforms to speak to the wider world beyond Africa about the place of African societies in the globalized world.
Forest History
Christopher Conte
Natural and human histories intersect in Africa's forested regions. Forests of several types cover the continent's mountains, savannas, and river basins. Most current classifications divide forest by physical structure. Open canopy forests occur in semi-arid regions of western, eastern, and southern Africa, while closed canopy rain forests with large emergent trees cover much of the Congo River basin, the upland forests of Rift Valley escarpments, and the volcanic mountains in eastern and Central Africa. Along the tropical coasts, mangrove forests hug the river estuaries. For much of human history, Africa's forests have anchored foraging and agrarian societies. In the process of domesticating the landscape through agriculture, Africans modified forests in ways that ranged from large-scale deforestation to forest creation on savanna environments. A boom in forest commodities preceded European colonialism and then continued when foreign governments took formal possession of African territory in the late 19th century. In this context, states ascribed value to forest trees as commodities and so managed them as profitable agricultural crops. Colonial forestry separated people from forests physically and culturally. This fundamental shift in human–forest relations still resonates in postcolonial African countries under the guise of internationally funded forest conservation.
The History of Islam in East Africa
Felicitas Becker
The history of Islam in East Africa stretches back to around 1000 CE. Until the mid-20th century, it remained largely confined to the coast and closely bound up with the history of the Swahili towns situated on it. The Swahili language remains central to many East African Muslims, hence the occasionally heard phrase, "Swahili Islam." East African Muslims are mostly Shafiites and some belong to Sufi orders, especially Qadiriyya and Shadhiliyya. Since c. 1850, Islam, with many variations in ritual, has become the religion of speakers of a multitude of languages across the region, second only to Christianity. The region's independent nation-states initially promised equality for all religions within a secular order. Since c. 1990, though, the minority status of East African Muslims has fed into a multitude of grievances related to the region's economic and political impasses. This situation has led to growing movements of Islamic preaching and activism, supported by increased contacts with congregations elsewhere in the Indian Ocean. At times, they have influenced electoral politics, especially in Zanzibar, where Islamic activism resonates with fear of marginalization by the mainland. In Kenya, Somali-influenced Islamist terrorists committed a series of atrocities in the 2010s. East African governments, in turn, have been proactive in tracking and disrupting such networks, and in Kenya, the government engaged in targeted assassination. Nevertheless, peaceful coexistence between Muslims and adherents of other religions remains the norm in East Africa, and its dynamics are often poorly understood.
HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Rebecca Hodes
Approximately 36.7 million people worldwide are living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Almost 20 percent of South Africa's adult population (aged fifteen to forty-nine) is HIV-positive, and about one in every five people living with HIV worldwide is in South Africa. The pandemic, and the political controversies it elicited, have come to define both local and global understandings of the post-apartheid nation. The history of HIV in South Africa begins in the 1980s during an era of heightened repression by the apartheid state, in which discriminatory laws and fearful public responses tapped into broader prejudices relating to race and sexuality. During the 1990s, as South Africa transitioned to democracy and as rates of HIV reached pandemic levels, partnerships were built between civil society and state actors to confront the many challenges that the HIV epidemic presented. However, from the late 1990s, corruption and the abuse of political power within the Department of Health, together with the government's refusal to provide life-saving antiretroviral treatment (ART), ignited a new era in health advocacy. While the HIV-treatment activist movement won the struggle for public access to treatment, Jacob Zuma's succession to President Thabo Mbeki heralded a new era of political controversies in the state's HIV response. A copious historiography on the HIV epidemic in South Africa maps the contemporary chronology and evolution of the disease, including a focus on changing public understandings and responses
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The years since the collapse of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 have seen the rise of a new freedom to define art—Who makes it? Where can it be found? What is its commercial value?—and, consequently, the reevaluation of art's place in society.
Kelly Grovier surveys the dynamic developments in art practice worldwide since 1989, focusing on artists whose fresh visual vocabulary and innovation reflect these past turbulent decades. The book's ten chapters examine the key themes in contemporary art—portraiture in the age of face transplants and facial recognition software, political activism, science, and religion, to name a few—by artists including Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, George Condo, Marlene Dumas, Gottfried Helnwein, Sean Scully, Cindy Sherman, Banksy, Ai Weiwei, Antony Gormley, Christo and Jean-Claude, Jenny Holzer, Chuck Close, and Cornelia Parker. A chapter-length timeline at the end of the book traces the evolution of art from 1989 to today by closely examining one key artwork from each year.
Illustrated with the work of over 200 key artists, Art Since 1989 is a lucid and engaging look at what may prove to be one of the more tempestuous eras in human history, if not the history of art.
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Kelly Grovier is a poet, historian, and cultural critic. He contributes regularly on art to the Times Literary Supplement, and his writing has appeared in the Observer, the Sunday Times, and Wired. He is the cofounder of the international scholarly journal European Romantic Review and the author of 100 Works of Art that Will Define Our Age.


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And I have nothing against graceful degradation either. What I do have a problem with is the assumption that any experience you build must run on every device out there. The only way to truly achieve this is to cater to a lowest common denominator in your design.
Isn't that pretty much the defintion of graceful degradation / progressive enhancement, though?
If a client wants an iPhone only site, they really want an iPhone app. You might not be able to convince them of that and you may have to build them a site just for iPhone, but it's certainly not the ideal we should be aiming for, is it?


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Women members of the House and Senate succeeded in their fight to keep language in the Iraq and Afghanistan Emergency Supplemental appropriations package that provides funds for programs for women and for human rights. In conference committee negotiations, some male lawmakers tried to delete $60 million designated for women's programs in the Afghanistan reconstruction package, claiming that this amount was too large of a portion of the overall $1.2 billion Afghan reconstruction package.
After contentious debate, Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Mary Landreiu (D-LA), and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) succeeded in keeping the funding for women's programs, along with $5 million earmarked for the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, in the bill. According to the Washington Post, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) challenged her male colleagues who attempted to take out the money, asking how they could eliminate funding for the "brutalized women of Afghanistan." "It's been stripped out. Who ever heard of such a thing?" said Landreiu.
Introduced by Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), the Afghan women's program funding amendment passed the House on a voice vote with bi-partisan support. The funds were authorized last year in an amendment by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to the Afghan Freedom Support Act of 2002.
Women's rights, human rights, and Afghan groups have criticized the Bush Administration for shortchanging Afghanistan's reconstruction. While Congress added $400 million more to Afghanistan's reconstruction than requested by President Bush, the spending for Iraq's reconstruction is 20 times more than Iraq's despite the fact that the two countries are the same size and Afghanistan has suffered more destruction over 23 years of war.
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These 'about me' sections, or even sections that inform you about blogs, have never been my forte. Much to my chagrin, I was never taught the unwritten rules of what you are supposed to say. The links at the side of the blog – Twitter and Goodreads, for example – are liable to tell you more than I could ever say in words.
Mostly, this will be a book blog. I read a lot, and I love to share my views on my most recent reads. I try to read a little bit of everything, but if you look closely you'll notice I will occasionally become obsessed with one specific genre for a short period of time. Old books, new books, yet to be released books – I read them all. If you're an author looking for advance readers or just wish for more reviews of a book you've already released, please feel free to contact me. There is a contact form at the side of my blog – if you scroll down below the Twitter and Goodreads sidebar you will find it – so drop me a message and I'll be sure to get back to you in double time. After all, finding new authors is what makes the book world go around.
Thanks for taking your time to read this. With a little bit of luck, you will find my blog much more interesting than this mundane introductory section.


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|Cook County Medical Examiner's
Two weeks ago the Cook County Illinois Medical Examiner's Office made a bold move. The office began releasing photos of unidentified dead bodies on its webpage. The hope is that someone might be able to ID a missing family member or friend from the photos. But the move has sparked controversy.
|Dr Steve Cina
The photos of decaying corpses have been called too graphic, disturbing, and insensitive. But the Cook County Medical Examiner, Dr Steve Cina, feels that it's worth the discomfort if the photos help a family find a loved one.
An unidentified person (UP) is a person who has died and his/her body has not been identified. Once normal channels have been exhausted in trying to gain identification, a coroner or medical examiner may post a photo and information on the UP site in hopes that it triggers someone's memory, or that someone recognizes the person and can identify them.
A physical description of the person including sex, race, and the clothes they were wearing, along with descriptive body features such as height, birthmarks, tattoos, or dental information can be used. Photos on the site are updated biweekly.
All of the photos are watermarked by the Medical Examiner's office and include a disclaimer of the "potentially graphic nature of the images."
But, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office is not the first to place photos of the deceased online in an attempt to discover their identities. In fact, the CCME worked in conjunction with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) http://www.namus.gov to create their page.
NamUs is a searchable database funded by the National Institute of Justice and managed by the UNT Health Science Center. It was also created in an attempt to discover whom these unidentified persons are.
Searches can be conducted by using demographics, case numbers, physical characteristics, or other specific information. New cases are added each day by medical examiners and coroners across the U.S.
Currently, NamUs has almost 10,000 unidentified persons in their database. Fewer than 10% of the remains have been identified and those cases closed. Just over 90% of the cases remain open. Close to two million people have visited the site since it began in 2010.
|Cook County Morgue
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office currently has several unidentified persons, some still waiting to be identified after four years. The office also has close to 50 bodies that are identified but unclaimed.
An unclaimed person (UCP) is someone whose body has been identified but no next of kin have been found, or if the family has been located, they cannot afford to pay for a funeral, or they do not want to accept responsibility for the body. In 2011, Cook County Medical Examiner's Office began donating unclaimed remains to the Anatomical Gift Association (AGA) within two weeks after arrival there.
Once the body is picked up, the AGA is then required to wait 21 days before embalming it and another 60 days for next of kin to be located or come forward. If, after that time, no one has claimed the body the AGA may use the body for medical research and subsequent cremation.
The Doe Network http://www.doenetwork.org is an organization ran by volunteers that includes searchable websites for unidentified and missing persons from around the U.S. The organization has been active for 12 years and has been recognized by the Department of Justice.
Fifteen sites are listed that deal with unidentified remains, unexplained disappearances, and missing persons. Unidentified remains may be from the US, Canada, Europe, Australia, or other countries. The network deals with hot and cold cases.
Besides Illinois, other states listed on the Doe Network are Kentucky, Iowa, New York, New Jersey, Texas, Nevada, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts and Tennessee. Almost four million visitors have visited the site since it began in 2001.
Although the photos may be considered disturbing, they do serve a very real purpose. There is an estimated 40,000 remains currently unidentified in the U.S. Sites such as these could help countless families and friends find out what happened to someone dear.
It is often said "You can judge a society by how it treats its dead." It is time we allow those who have remained nameless to be identified and bring some sense of closure to those lives.
And the internet may be the most effective way for us to do this...
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How to Find the Route Your Plane Is Taking
World Travelers Can Research Flight Paths to See if Airlines Avoid Conflict Areas
Travelers, corporate travel departments and security consultants are trying to figure out ways to avoid flights that pass over war zones after the revelation that some airlines were avoiding eastern Ukraine while others, including Malaysia Airlines , were flying over areas of conflict.
With a little research, you can build confidence that your airline is avoiding trouble spots—or discover if it isn't. While you won't know for sure the exact path your flight will take on a given day, you can figure out whether your airline routinely skirts certain countries, and the most likely route you'll fly.
Every day hundreds of passenger airliners fly over trouble spots. Passenger jets regularly pass over Baghdad, for example. There are 41 "kinetic conflicts"—situations where people are shooting at each other—around the world, according to security intelligence firm iJet International Inc., which advises corporate travel departments and airlines.
"This is not an isolated incident" of flying over conflict areas, said iJet chief executive Bruce McIndoe, who has already had conversations with clients—traveler managers and airlines—about supplying more information about potential trouble areas. Even though most of the 41 are small, localized conflicts without high-powered surface-to-air missiles involved, "it's a whole new world as of a couple of days ago," he said.
There's also the remote possibility of having to make an emergency landing at an airport in the middle of a conflict.
Airlines make decisions for every flight about the planned route, usually based mostly on weather forecasts and winds. Airlines want the most economical route, but often fly out of the way of severe weather or take a longer route with more favorable winds. And some are more cautious about flying over conflicts than others.
In the days leading up to the July 17 downing of Malaysia Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, several airlines, including Australia's Qantas Airways and Dubai-based Emirates, regularly flew longer routes around the area of fighting between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces. Other carriers continued to fly routes over the territory that had been deemed safe by local governments and air-traffic control agencies.
"I think this is a wake-up call," said Michael McCormick, executive director of the Global Business Travel Association, which represents corporate travel executives. He says companies and individual travelers assumed airlines could be trusted to fly in safe skies, but now some will start evaluating flight-path risk on their own. Travel managers already use security firms to evaluate risks on the ground, such as riots, strikes, crime and storms.
"The reality is companies send travelers to every corner of the world and we can't make that assumption anymore that airlines are looking after this part of security," Mr. McCormick said.
Savvy travelers can check up on airlines with flight-tracking services like FlightAware.com and Flightradar24.com. Both collect data from air-traffic control agencies and in some cases use automatic position broadcasts from airplanes themselves. They are considered accurate and reliable, with extensive use by airlines and corporate jet services.
FlightAware and Flightradar24 let users enter an airline flight number and then see the path of the latest trip. Both have flight histories available, so you can check the path over several days. On FlightAware, you can also search for flights by departure and destination, which can give you more flights to compare on roughly the same long-distance path.
Flight paths are largely determined by weather, winds, turbulence, costs, traffic restrictions and congestion, notes Fredrik Lindahl, CEO of Stockholm-based Flightradar24. "So a flight between two cities can take a different route every day," he said.
But airlines do have preferred routes and most days fly much the same route. Checking multiple days will clearly show whether a particular airline is avoiding certain countries on a particular route, or whether it is indeed flying over potential trouble.
There are limitations in the flight-tracking data. FlightAware and Flightradar24 have gaps in radar coverage areas. That forces their computers to make assumptions about flight paths that can make a flight appear to pass over an area—North Korea, for example—when it actually skirted around it. United Flight 976 from Washington's Dulles International Airport to Dubai looks like it passes over northern Syria on FlightAware, but each day it actually skirts the Syrian border to the north and travels down the Iraq-Iran border to the Persian Gulf. Flightradar24 shows the path avoiding Syria.
FlightAware this week began drawing gap areas with a white line instead of its regular green flight-path line; Flightradar24 shows gaps with a dotted line.
"People are surprised at how difficult flight-tracking is in remote areas," said Daniel Baker, CEO of Houston-based FlightAware. The disappearance of Malaysian Flight 370 in March demonstrated those limitations, he noted.
Airline operations managers set broad policy about flying over certain countries. But the responsibility for each flight falls to the captain, who is ultimately in charge, and the dispatcher, a flight planner on the ground who helps direct cargo loading to keep the plane properly balanced and within weight limits and calculates how much fuel to load.
Governments and air-traffic control agencies are reluctant to shut down airspace, in part because airlines pay fees for airspace use. A week before MH17 crashed, a military transport plane was shot down in eastern Ukraine by a sophisticated surface-to-air missile at relatively high altitude above 20,000 feet. To some, that was a clear indication that the firepower being used in the conflict had escalated, but airspace was closed to commercial flights only below 32,000 feet. MH17 was flying at 33,000 feet when attacked.
The International Air Transport Association, which represents airlines world-wide, has called for an investigation into why better information about the threat to airliners wasn't distributed before the July 17 tragedy.
"No effort should be spared in ensuring that this outrage is not repeated," said IATA chief executive Tony Tyler. "Governments will need to take the lead in reviewing how airspace risk assessments are made."
Airlines are already under more pressure to disclose whether they are flying over war zones. FlightAware's Mr. Baker said his airline customers began calling after the MH17 tragedy asking for data and graphics on flight paths of other airlines to compare to their own. Private jet customers, too, "are asking questions and watching the maps much more closely," he said.
On Tuesday, several U.S. airlines decided to cancel flights to Israel after a rocket fell near the Tel Aviv airport. A Delta Air Lines 747 turned around in-flight and went to Paris instead. Soon after, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered U.S. airlines to suspend Tel Aviv flights temporarily.
Businesses that specialize in travel security are getting greater attention. GHA LLC builds travel assessments that provide a tailored list of landmarks like hospitals or embassies in relation to your hotel. The company also develops a list of potential threats to your trip that can range from bad water to terrorism. Founder Brian Schwatken said traffic to the company's website is up 300% since Flight 17 crashed.
"You don't want your business to revolve around tragedy, but we think it's necessary and we hope we can help people," said Mr. Schwatken, a former Marine Corps intelligence specialist.
Mr. McIndoe of iJet calls it an "overreaction" for individuals and corporations to start evaluating flight-path security risks, and says that airlines will rebuild confidence. Large carriers have to evaluate what their code-sharing partners are doing, he noted, because they are selling tickets on flights operated by other airlines that may not make the same decisions. And large global airlines have more resources to evaluate risks than smaller airlines, he suggests.
"A major player will have more depth and more operating experience than smaller guys," he said.
—Jon Ostrower contributed to this article.
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If Colombia is still managed by Jose Pekerman, he's flat out stated that he will not consider anyone in MLS for selection. from Arrows SC
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I reviewed all the box scores:
Orlando - Colorado
The Orlando lineup and it's substitutions are missing.
Philadelphia - Montreal
Missing Montreal Patrice Bernier second yellow (red) in 67th minute
Missing Philadelphia Eric Ayuk Mbu second yellow (red) in 77th minute
Salt Lake - Columbus
Missing Salt Lake Tony Beltran yellow card 45+2 min.
NYC - Red Bulls
Missing NYC linupt and it's substitutions
Seattle - Portland
Seattle substitution in 60th min was Andy Craven in for Chad Barrett
I'll submit these now.
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34/30 week, I'll take it. Can't wait for tomorrow's USOC match,
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