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GAUTIER, MS (WLOX) - Todd Berkesch said he was watching TV when a gust of wind turned his life and home upside down Monday night at Santa Maria RV Park in Gautier.
"I was just scared, I was pinned up in there," Berkesch said. "The trailer wasn't even shaking or anything and all of a sudden it just flipped. It was that quick."
Luckily, Berkesch was able to crawl out of his camper through a hole.
"I hurt my foot, something pinned my foot," Berkesch said. "I'm okay, I think so. I'm going to go get it checked out later."
But first Berkesch wanted to save everything he could from his camper and try to get his truck fixed. The strong winds knocked out the back window.
"I'm going to try to get me another place to live. I work right down the road at Huntington Ingalls, so I will try and get me another place to stay in," Berkesch said.
Carrie Guy and Wes Riley also spent the day trying to salvage what they could.
"We came in here and this right here was sitting up straight and this was laid up that way, the table across the camper," Guy said, describing the mess inside the camper that was on its side.
The destroyed camper belongs to Riley's daughter, Kayla, who is getting ready to be deployed to Afghanistan this weekend.
"She's worried, of course, because she just bought it, brand new," Riley said. "I guess you can say she lost something she just bought, her home for right now. But she's got insurance, thank goodness, and that will help take care of it."
Riley hopes a new camper will be waiting for her when she comes returns next year from her tour.
"I'm glad she wasn't in it," Riley said.
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SHOWDOWN: Who's The Better Girlfriend: Princess Peach or Zelda?
Here we go Nintendo fetishists! The ultimate choice…who is the better girlfriend Princess Peach or Zelda? I know, right? And you thought it was tough picking which character to play as in Super Smash Bros.! They both for sure have their pros and cons…but who will win the ultimate Nintendo showdown? Keep it ladylike, ladies!
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Princess Peach is definitely a catch! But first you gotta catch her! I can only assume it'll be worth all the hard work it takes to save her. Why else would Mario spend all of his time playing damsel in distress with her? I'm betting magic mushrooms aren't the only thing that makes Mario grow! So if you're into that sweet 'girl next door who is constantly being kidnapped' sort of thing, Princess Peach is your lady!
If you prefer a girl who is a little more your equal on the badass fighting front, Zelda is your lady! Sure Princes Peach gets her fight on ocasionally, but Zelda seems… I don't know a little more brainy? Plus she has elven-like ears, a plus in almost every nerd fan group out there. Does she fill all your heart containers? Is she the missing link in your love chain? Ummmm that's all I got…
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Dubai-based Dorma Gulf, a leader in door technology systems and allied products, has introduced new modular electromechanical swing door operators certified for use on fire and smoke check doors.
The new generation operators Dorma ED 100 and ED 250 come in a compact slender "contour" design with powerful units tailor-made especially for profile framed doors. The door operators have stood the test of working flawlessly in extreme weather conditions, from the harshest desert temperatures of the Middle East to the world famous Ice Hotel in Sweden, a statement said.
Equipped with the integrated power assisted motor function, the new swing door operators ensures high-efficiency power supply with a reduced energy consumption in the no-load mode by 20 per cent and by 73 per cent in partial load range. The operators have been very well received by those who have physical disabilities.
Dorma's ED 100 and ED 250 have been integrated with an automatic wind load control system in full energy mode, thereby making the operators suitable for application, be it the exterior doors that are subjected to varying wind loads or the interior doors separating rooms where different pressure prevails.
The system recognises the wind loads and adjusts through its inbuilt intelligence system.
The operator has an interface that makes the system upgradeable by just plugging in the required module, thereby fulfilling all required needs by the same operator, according to the statement. – TradeArabia News Service


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'Paul Blart' tops at box office!
Sony's Kevin James laffer "Paul Blart Mall Cop" debuted to an estimated $33.8 million from 3,144 runs in another boom session at the domestic B.O. that saw unexpectedly strong results across the board.
The Martin Luther King. Jr. holiday weekend was up a whopping 31% over last year, and that was only for Friday through Sunday. Studios can look forward to more good business on Monday.
Like "Mall Cop," Lionsgate's horror pic "My Bloody Valentine 3-D" and Fox release "Notorious" overperformed in their openings
"Valentine" — the widest 3-D release to date — grossed an estimated $21.9 million from 1,033 3-D locations and 1,501 conventional runs to narrowly beat "Notorious" for third place, according to Rentrak.
"Notorious," a biopic of slain rap artist Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G., grossed an estimated $21.5 million from 1,638 theaters to post the best per-location average — $13,126 — of the weekend. Film was distributed by Fox but produced and marketed by Fox Searchlight. Opening is the biggest ever for the specialty unit.
Warner Bros.' holdover sleeper hit "Gran Torino," directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, gunned past "Valentine" and "Notorious" to come in second. Film declined a mere 25% to an estimated $22.2 million in its second weekend in wide release for a cume of $73.2 million.
The other new wide release was Paramount's family comedy "Hotel for Dogs," which also came in ahead of expectations with an estimated $17.7 million from 3,271 to place No. 5. Pic was produced by DreamWorks.
Paramount prexy of distribution Jim Tharp said "Hotel for Dogs" could ultimately do three or four times its opening number thanks to the long holiday weekend. Same applies to the other new releases.
"Certainly, 'Hotel for Dogs' came in at the top end of anyone's expectations," Tharp said.
On the specialty side, Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire" enjoyed a noticeable bump from its Golden Globe wins.
The year-earlier sesh wasn't weak: Par's high-profile "Cloverfield" debuted to $40.1 million for the three days and Fox's "27 Dresses" opened at $23 million. Rather, more films this year did more biz.
Even titles with overlapping auds managed to find their groove. "Mall Cop" and "Hotel for Dogs" both vied for families, although "Mall Cop" generally played to older kids.
"Ultimately, we got everybody," Sony worldwide prexy of distribution Rory Bruer said.
"Mall Cop" is a victory for James, as it's the first feature he's toplined. Comedy was produced by Adam Sandler's production shingle Happy Madison and cost $26 million to produce. Sony believes the film could hit $40 million by midnight on Monday.
Produced for under $15 million, "Valentine" should bring strong returns for Lionsgate. Most 3-D fare has been family or teen fare, such as "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour."
Lionsgate said 3-D runs turned in revenues four times greater than conventional runs, thanks to higher ticket prices.
"This is the first time horror fans have gotten something in 3-D," Lionsgate prexy of distribution Steve Rothenberg said, speaking of the digital iteration of the format. "Notorious," produced for under $20 million and starring Jamal Woolard as Wallace, crossed over beyond its key demo, according to Fox. Film played slightly more to men.
Fox said the big surprise was that 40% of the audience was under age 25, even though Wallace — also known as Biggie Smalls — was killed more than a decade ago.
"He is a cultural icon that has touched a nerve and resonated with younger auds, proving the impact he's had on the landscape," Chris Aronson said.
Among the producers of "Notorious" is Sean Combs.
Elsewhere on the top 10 chart, Fox's femme comedy "Bride Wars" declined only 44% in its second frame to an estimated $11.8 million from 3,228. Cume is $37.6 million in the pic's 10th day in release.
Universal/Rogue Picture's horror title "The Unborn" dipped a respectable 50% in its second weekend to an estimated $9.8 million from 2,359 for a cume of $33.1 million.
Ed Zwick's drama "Defiance," a Paramount Vantage release, placed No. 8 as it went wide. Film grossed an estimated $9.2 million from 1,789; cume is $9.5 million.
Christmas hit "Marley and Me," from Fox, grossed an estimated $6.3 million from 2,952 runs for a cume of $132.7 million in its fourth sesh.


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Patrice Bergeron and the writers that vote for the Selke Trophy made sure that the Bruins' 2011-12 season earned at least one accolade.
While he would definitely trade it for at least a Game 7 win over Washington, Bergeron won the award for the league's best defensive forward, it was announced in Las Vegas tonight.
It's Bergeron's first Selke and the first by a Bruins player since Steve Kasper in 1982.
Boston's other finalist, Zdeno Chara, finished third in the voting for the Norris Trophy.
Here's a look at all the winners and the Bruins that earned votes:
Selke Trophy
Winner: Patrice Bergeron (Boston)
Other Bruins receiving votes: Chris Kelly (16th place), Brad Marchand (35th), Tyler Seguin (41st)
Hart Trophy
Winner: Evgeni Malkin (Pittsburgh)
Bruins receiving votes: Zdeno Chara (12th place), Bergeron (18th)
Calder Trophy
Winner: Gabriel Landeskog (Colorado)
No Bruins received votes
Vezina Trophy
Winner: Henrik Lundqvist (NY Rangers)
No Bruins received votes
Norris Trophy
Winner: Erik Karlsson (Ottawa)
Bruins receiving votes: Chara (3rd place)
Ken Hitchcock and Doug Armstrong of St. Louis won the Jack Adams and GM of the Year Awards, respectively. Neither Claude Julien or Peter Chiarelli garnered any votes.
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Winner: Brian Campbell (Florida)
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Every now and then I get on a big kick to start packing my lunch and taking it to work. I usually use plastic bags and paper napkins and eventually grow tired of the routine. This time I'm accessorizing in hopes that the bright colors and good karma from the eco-friendly accessories keeps me on track.
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(CBS News) Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made it clear Wednesday there is no room for compromise: Republicans must accept an increase in tax rates for upper-income Americans.
Negotiations on a budget deal haven't gone very far and there are just 27 days before that so-called "fiscal cliff." That's the package of tax increases for most Americans and budget cuts that will hit automatically unless the White House and Congress find a gentler way to solve the crisis in the federal budget.
Here's how Secretary Geithner put it on CNBC when asked whether the administration is prepared to go over the "fiscal cliff": "Absolutely. There's no prospect to an agreement that doesn't involve those rates going up on the top two percent of the wealthiest Americans. Remember, it's only the two percent."
By two percent, he means individuals making more than $200,000, and couples taking in $250,000 or more.
Republicans say rates shouldn't be increased on anyone."Fiscal cliff" talks frozen, Obama lobbies big business
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With no agreement, going over the fiscal cliff would be painful. The automatic tax increases break down like this: Households making $20,000 to $40,000 would see an increase in $1,200 a year. Incomes of $40,000 to $64,000 would see taxes rise $2,000, and in the $64,000 to $108,000 bracket, taxes go up $3,500 a year.
President Obama and the Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner talked this over Wednesday. There is a code of silence the White House and Speaker Boehner try to apply to these phone conversations, releasing as few details as possible to protect the underlying negotiations.
Nevertheless, CBS News has learned the following: The speaker and the president spoke before Treasury Secretary Geithner's comments about going over the "cliff."
The conversation was described as relatively brief, meaning shorter than the 28-minute conversation Speaker Boehner and the president had last week. Also those familiar with the conversation did not describe it to CBS News with words like "curt," "frank," and "direct," meaning it was probably more gentle than the previous conversation.
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Lloyd James Austin III (born August 8, 1953) is a United States Army general who currently serves as Commanding General, United States Forces - Iraq. On June 30, 2010, he was confirmed by the Senate to replace General Ray Odierno and to lead Operation New Dawn .
Lloyd James Austin III was born on August 8, 1953 in Mobile, Alabama. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) with a Bachelor of Science degree in June 1975. He also earned a Master's Degree in Education from Auburn University, and a Master's Degree in Business Management from Webster University. He is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced courses, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College.
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CHICAGO — Former Mayor Richard Daley has been hospitalized in an intensive care unit after feeling ill upon returning to Chicago from a business trip in Arizona.
His spokeswoman Jackie Heard says Daley was feeling disoriented on a Friday evening flight back from a conference he attended as part of his work for the law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman.
Heard says Daley walked off the plane and was met by an ambulance that took him to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
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Well I watch it because it's funny. It brightens up my week whenever I get frustrated with homework or some "drama" that's going on between my friends. I like on how it shows they are enjoying their life and that it's telling you to enjoy your's too. That's why now I'm trying to get a lot of experiences so that way I can say to myself later "Hey, I actually did that once.". The songs are pretty good and the characters are relatable and more realistic then any other moe or fanservice show. I'm a bit sad it's over but I'm also excited for the movie.
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I'm 31 years old, male, and am caucasian living in the U.S. Although I have the fun of things like being part Russian for example. Not that I study my heritage much as I should. Now on to why I watch K-ON! and K-ON!!
First, I've grown a strong liking 4-Koma. Both because I read comic strips and because of anime like Azumanga Daioh. In general, 4-Koma based anime tends to appeal to me. The same could be said about anime that may not be based on 4-Koma, but have a feel like it.
Second, I am fan of characters (especially if they're pretty girls) interacting in more relaxed settings. Speaking of interaction. The interaction formed from a group finding a common purpose such as err joining a light music club can be appealing.
When I heard that Kyo-Ani was animating K-ON! and found out it was 4-Koma, I just had to try a few chapters. Ritsu's awesomeness from the start sold me on the series. Thus I waited with an even stronger anticipation for the anime to start and kept reading the manga.
The anime didn't disappoint as the cast in general showed themselves to be fun and they worked well together. Sure, there were a few changes, but the anime felt like it would for the most part be a fleshed out version of the manga.
I also liked how they handled the music. The songs were spread out, yes. However they were treated as important events. They didn't pull the obligation song ***** where you hear the same exact song every episode as just background noise. Not that I don't watch series, but it's a nice change.
Episode after episode was enjoyable. Even the weaker episodes were good enough to remind me why K-ON! was a high level favorite for me. It's essentially in the top 4 for me. Currently at number 3, now above Sketchbook. Having three cour kind of gave it the edge.
For the record, I have GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class as the second favorite. The current favorite is Hidamari Sketch. Which got the edge in part due to three seasons. As well as the fact, Yuno is a high level favorite with the advantage of having the screen time to truly make use of her.
That still doesn't change the fact that K-ON! surpassed a lot of series. Thanks to the music, the character interaction, the story, and the awesome girls. The most absolute favorite for me being Tainaka Ritsu herself. The others are nice as well, but Tainaka Ritsu is the main girl for me. Especially since she's the spark character. The spark character being the one that sets things in motion.
|2010-10-04, 13:34
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Wordy b@stard
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Mid-Tejas
The typical way that U.S. shows LIKE Josie & The Pussycats, The Archie Show, Jem and their imitators used music was a song a week method. Often times, this formula really worked out to 3 -4 weeks of the SAME song played over and over until you got sick of it. As Japan began to introduce music and idols into their shows, they replicated this pattern. Go back and watch the original Macross. How sick of Watashi no Karewa Pilot were you by the 10th time Minmay sang it? I was thankful it was a short song, because much as I loved the show, I wanted to claw my ears out hearing it again! Since then musical shows have pretty much followed the same formula of play one song at every opportunity, sell image albums in the stores that never were played IN the show.
K-On was equally guilty of selling the un-exposed songs in the backchannel, but it never drove a single song into the ground during the showing of the series. We got to see fantasy videos, live performances, snippets of practices, references from other character's point of hearing and even alternate versions done within the context of a talent fair, or played by another pairing of club members. Of all of the songs, (With exception of the OP's and ED's, Fuwa Fuwa Time is the most oft played and identified with the show, but while its the "first" song they performed together and used throughout both seasons, it never gets tiring to hear it. On the contrary Fuwa Fuwa is used sparingly enough that when we hear it at the end of the series, it becomes nostalgic and appreciated, instead of "Oh they cheap'd out and relied on the ONE song they used all season..."
In retrospect, I'm really happy and satisfied that the music in K-On, a show we all THOUGHT was about music, was used just enough to support what the show was REALLY all about: Friendship.
|2010-10-04, 22:56
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I was thinking, "Is Fuwa Fuwa Time all they practice?"
|2010-10-05, 12:41
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|2010-10-05, 15:13
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Ah, but it was the NEW group doing the tune in their personal way. In general, as one of the "where's the new song per week" group in the beginning -- I'm pretty satisfied with the end results. I got a LOT of music to add to my playlist over the two seasons.
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|2010-10-06, 10:42
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I thought it was the sort of show which you could relax while watching it. Something I realised by the final episodes of K-On was that I always had a smile on my face while watching the show. That was something rather interesting.
|2010-10-07, 00:04
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Treatise on why I love My Wife's band.
I watch K-On not because the girls are cute; Becaue they are, especially My Wife and Mugi-chan.
Nor is it because it is gutbustingly funny. Because It is, Ritsu, you the "man!!"
I watched K-On and probably will continue to do so forever and ever because it is a heartwarming and idealized childhood of hopes, dreams that anyone is free to join and be a part of.
I spent my adolesence in an all male private school, where cynicism was our sky, anger the ground we stood upon, callousness our meat and drink, violence and even drugs as natural as the air we breathed.
Yet just like the five angels, for that's what they are, of Afterschool Tea Time, my own circle of five friends were the ray of light and joy that made it all sane. And though, being boys growing up in the 1990's, we were not allowed to say or express it (cos quote Bill and Ted, that would make us "fags"), we really really loved each other.
K-On showed an idealized possibility where you are free to express that most wonderful love between friends, the brothers and sisters you meet in your life, and showed a possiblity of friendship and togetherness being able to conquer anything.
It is for this reason that I am frankly able to relate to the girls better than all the muscleheaded Schwarzeneggers and heartlessly sarcastic Seinfelds that clogs modern western mass media like month old sewage.
Yui, Mio, Mugi, Ritsu and even Azunyan were able to speak to the kind and innocent child inside me that I forgot existed, in spite of the fact I am a twenty nine year old man. They allowed me to be a part of their adventures and feel the joy of being an idealistic and optimistic teenage girl without feeling shame for it. For being able to reach out to the long dead decency inside me, I will love K-ON for the rest of my life.
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|2010-10-07, 02:18
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saw it on Animax on it's first run. got interested because my guy friend keeps talking about it and the legendary Mio is in it. dub was annoying and so was the name Azu-meow.
*seriously, they could've just used Azu-nyan instead!*
Yui's voice didn't fit her personality and character, so I searched for a stream and got totally hooked with it because it looks fun to watch and I'm really having fun just by watching it. not to mention that I have RL friends who's as wacky as the HTT girls, really. my high school life was just as fun as theirs.
lastly, Keion-bu kept me company during a tragic moment of my life you know, girls tend to be emotional while on their 20-ish
|2010-10-10, 22:35
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Smile, like HTT Girls
Well, since everyone's compared their schoolyears to the K-On characters, I might as well, too.
Like I posted in Mio's thread, back in Secondary School, I was friends with these two whacky guys, and was rather burned out by their silliness at first. But then, as time went on, I found them to be quite nice, our friendships bonded, and I was soon influenced by their silliness and joins them as well. College was worse (high school is not a common commodity around here), with more cheesy friends surrounding me, reducing me to being one of them in the end. Heh. It's fun, though.
Ironically, this case, I'll have to admit, have me being more in common with Azusa than Mio. I guess that must be why I look up to S1 Mio as much as Azusa did.
|2010-10-11, 22:58
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sydney
Age: 23
I watched K-on because it was about music and stuff...
When i 1st talked about it to me friends they all were laughing about at and me.... , but i still talked about it and told them to watch.
Few weeks later they all enjoyed k-on and everyone in my year watches it because of me XP
And everyone is soo sad that k-on ended.......
Soo i watched k-on because it is funny and really good music to play it XP
I even made my own songs listening to K-on (It was for my enrichement task i had to do..)
The song is not anything about k-on, it just helped me understand how to make music by listening to it XP
|2010-10-12, 02:25
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|2010-10-12, 05:46
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robots & skateboards
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: NS, Canada
Age: 24
I started watching K-ON because I didn't have any other show to watch, but it turned out to be just the kind of show I liked watching, so it stuck with me. I think it's funny and the animation is pretty and the music is good.
|2010-10-13, 07:17
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Smiling beauty
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indonesia
Age: 29
I watch K-ON! when I had nothing to watch at that time. I was attracted to the drawing style (the one on the official site) and that it'll be animated by KyoAni. For the first glance, I thought "Whoa, Haruhi-themed with Lucky Star's design". I was expecting that it'll be more music-centric, but apparently that's not the point XD
Still, I like how this anime can influence our emotion.
|2010-10-15, 13:47
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
Age: 31
Honestly I had watched the first series initial because one of my friends had told me about it and recommended it to me after I had enjoyed Haruhi Suzumiya and Lucky Star which they had also gotten me into.
I enjoyed pretty well while it just dealt with the 4 original girls, then after Azusa appeared the series become one of my favorites and I looked forward to second season purely for more of her, as I would have watched it for just for more Azusa Nakano . Once the second season started though I watched it for Azusa, the relaxing feel it had to the series, humor, potential music, slice of life, and cuteness [and definitely not the possible Yuri subtext ]. And my age see under my avatar .
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Most hardcore college basketball fans know the story of tiny Division II school Chaminade having one of the most historic upsets in NCAA history. The year was 1982 and the 900 person school was facing off against Virginia. Two things Virginia had were a #1 ranking and a 7-4 center named Ralph Sampson, who was en route to his third straight national player of the year award. They left with a 77-72 defeat in Hawaii, one that the national media had a hard time believing and goes down as one of the ultimate David versus Goliath stories.
On Zeller's slow night, Hulls and Oladipo help Hoosiers take down Georgia
Cody Zeller has not had a lot of off nights since arriving in Bloomington, but he definitely was not himself last night in Brooklyn at the Progressive Legends Classic. Taking a physical pounding, Zeller finished with 6 points and 4 rebounds, well below the expectations one carries for a pre-season NCAA player of the year candidate. Despite Zeller's off night, Indiana managed to get past Georgia with a 66-53 win as they pulled away late.
Georgetown knocks off UCLA in Shabazz Muhammad's college debut
With his eligibility finally out of limbo and a three game wait, Shabazz Muhammad was chomping at the bit to announce his presence in college basketball. He showed flashes, coming off the bench for 25 minutes, but could not do enough as the Bruins were outplayed by a hungry Georgetown team. Otto Porter showed why some had him as the favorite for Big East player of the year, filling the stat sheet with 18 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists/blocks and 3 steals in the 78-70 Hoya victory.
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The Bantu Expansion
Koen Bostoen
The Bantu Expansion stands for the concurrent dispersal of Bantu languages and Bantu-speaking people from an ancestral homeland situated in the Grassfields region in the borderland between current-day Nigeria and Cameroon. During their initial migration across most of Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa, which took place between approximately 5,000 and 1,500 years ago, Bantu speech communities not only introduced new languages in the areas where they immigrated but also new lifestyles, in which initially technological innovations such as pottery making and the use of large stone tools played an important role as did subsequently also farming and metallurgy. Wherever early Bantu speakers started to develop a sedentary way of life, they left an archaeologically visible culture. Once settled, Bantu-speaking newcomers strongly interacted with autochthonous hunter-gatherers, as is still visible in the gene pool and/or the languages of certain present-day Bantu speech communities. The driving forces behind what is the principal linguistic, cultural, and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa are still a matter of debate, but it is increasingly accepted that the climate-induced destruction of the rainforest in West Central Africa around 2,500 years ago gave a boost to the Bantu Expansion.
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.
The Ethiopian Red Terror
Jacob Wiebel
The Red Terror was a period of intense political and inter-communal violence in revolutionary Ethiopia during the late 1970s. This violence erupted two years after the revolution of 1974 and was concentrated in the cities and towns of Ethiopia, particularly in Addis Ababa, Gondar, Asmara, and Dessie. In the struggle over the direction and ownership of the revolution, opposition groups of the radical left violently opposed a military regime that itself came to embrace and promulgate Marxist-Leninist language and policies, and that relied heavily on the use of armed force to stifle dissent. While much of the violence was carried out by security personnel, the delegation of the state's means and instruments of violence to newly formed militias and to armed citizens was a defining feature of the Red Terror. The number of casualties and victims of the Red Terror remains heavily contested and is subject to divergent counting criteria and to definitions of the Terror's scope in relation to other concurrent conflicts in the region, such as the Eritrean and Tigrayan civil wars; plausible figures suggest more than 50,000 deaths, in addition to many more who were subjected to torture, exile, personal losses, and other forms of violence. To this day, the Red Terror constitutes a period that is remembered in Ethiopia as much for the forms of its violence as for the extent of its harm. Its ramifications, from the support it triggered for the ethno-nationalist insurgencies that overthrew the military regime in 1991, to its role in the emergence of a sizeable Ethiopian diaspora, make the Red Terror an episode of defining and lasting significance in the modern history of Ethiopia.
Farming and Herding in Eastern Africa: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
Freda Nkirote M'Mbogori
The inception of agriculture in eastern Africa is a major topic of discussion among Africanist archaeologists, although very sparse evidence exists. Questions range from whether domestication was a local invention or whether it was introduced from the Near East, Asia, or elsewhere outside of Africa. These questions have remained unanswered because wild progenitors and models of the spread of African domesticates are yet to be established using undisputable data. The paucity of direct data has therefore necessitated the use of objects of material culture such as pottery, beads, burial cairns, architectural structures, and so on as indicators of pastoralism and cereal farming. In addition to the origins of African domesticates, research in eastern Africa has concerned itself with questions of farming technologies from later archaeological and historical times to the present. The remains of elaborate farming systems with extensive irrigation networks have drawn considerable attention. Though not unchanged, some of these farming systems remain in contemporary use in Kenya, Tanzania, and Ethiopia.
Heritage and the Use of the Past in East Africa
John Giblin
This article outlines historical and ongoing uses of the past and academic heritage research into those activities within eastern Africa. The use of the past will be discussed as a deep historical practice in the area that is the EAC in the 21st century, demonstrating how political elites have constructed versions of the past to suit contemporary and future aims for hundreds of years. Then there is an outline of the colonial introduction of formalized Western heritage institutions and legislation in the early 20th century, the subsequent nationalization of these in the mid-20th century, and the late-20th- and early-21st-century internationalization of heritage. These overviews are followed by a discussion of different approaches to heritage research including early studies of museums, traditions, heritage management, archaeological introspections, and more recent "critical heritage studies," which interrogate the use of the past as a form of cultural production.
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.
The Ottomans in Northeast Africa
A. C. S. Peacock
In the mid-16th century, the Ottoman empire expanded to encompass parts of the modern Sudan, Eritrea, and the Ethiopian borderlands, forming the Ottoman province of Habeş. The Ottomans also provided aid to their ally Ahmad Grañ in his jihad against Ethiopia and fought with the Funj sultanate of Sinnar for control of the Nile valley, where Ottoman territories briefly extended south as far as the Third Cataract. After 1579, Ottoman control was limited to the Red Sea coast, in particular the ports of Massawa and Suakin, which remained loosely under Ottoman rule until the 19th century, when they were transferred to Egypt, nominally an Ottoman vassal but effectively independent. Politically, Ottoman influence was felt much more broadly in northeast Africa in places as distant as Mogadishu, at least nominally recognized Ottoman suzerainty.
Popular Politics in East Africa from Precolonial to Postcolonial Times
James R. Brennan
Popular politics have influenced the development of East Africa's political institutions from roughly two millennia ago up to contemporary times. Among the discernible political dynamics over this time period were pressures to include or exclude peoples from key institutions of belonging, the decisive role of patron–client relationships across all political institutions, the role of generational conflict, the source of political authority based on command of the visible and invisible worlds, and the changing role of indigeneity and "first-comer" status claims. These dynamics can all be found at work in the development of conventional political structures that span this time frame—that is, from the small chieftaincies and kingdoms of the precolonial era; to cults of public healing and medicine making; to engagement with European colonial institutions and the 20th-century creation of "traditional" indigenous authorities; to the growth of associational life that led to political parties, one-party states, and their postliberalization successors. Yet there was also tremendous diversity of these experiences across East Africa, which goes some way toward explaining the differences not only among the region's contemporary nation-states but even within those nation-states. Popular pressures for inclusion either resulted in the expansion of existing political institutions or created demands for new institutions that directly challenged the exclusionary and often brittle existing political structures.
The Swahili in the African and Indian Ocean Worlds to c. 1500
Abdul Sheriff
The East African coast is an interface between the continental world of Africa and the maritime world of the Indian Ocean, and the monsoons provided a convenient wind system to link them. It was inhabited by a littoral society that was best placed to play a leading role in economic, social, and cultural interaction, including intermarriage, between the two worlds. Its written history goes back at least to the beginning of the Contemporary Era, and it can be termed Swahili from the beginning of the second millennium when this branch of the Bantu languages spread down the coast to give it linguistic unity. Its speakers were organized in towns and villages from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, which developed into city-states when there were major upturns in international trade and were integrated in the wider Indian Ocean world. The citizens spoke an "elegant" language that was further embellished through its interactions with Arabic and other Indian Ocean languages and literature. Islam spread with that trade, and mosques became a prominent part of the archaeological remains along the Swahili coast. In the process, the Swahili became thoroughly cosmopolitan. Any attempt to disentangle the different strands, "oriental" or "African"—which are two sides of the dense cultural fabric of the littoral people—is bound to be futile. They are two sides of the Swahili coin. This civilization was partially disrupted by the entry of the Portuguese in the 16th century when they tried to divert the spice trade to their channel around the Cape of Good Hope, but it revived during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Tropical Africa in the Global Economy
Ralph A. Austen
Tropical Africa has been in communication with the global economy since at least the last centuries
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By using geography, this is actually easier than you may suspect. Here is a basic map of Nazareth's location:
Let me know if that is enough information for you, I apologize for the Wikipedia sources, but I'm not terrific with website sources, as I'm an old man now.
Now, to the point:When you claim the bible contradicts itself here, you are doing what I personally call surface-level research. You left no room for doubt after your original findings, to further investigate, and that can become a problem. The truth is, the passage of Matthew is not linked to your Wikipedia article Harod. This man, whom died in 4bc had I believe 3 sons, two of whom continued to use the name Harod as a sort of dynasty to their father. By using your wiki link I found the correct Harod listed under, "successors" here: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Archelaus
I hope I did not spoil anybody's fun with this, but I felt it necessary to provide correct information. I doubt you will find many people who know this fact, and I hope you use the information!
Quote from: neopagan on May 17, 2013, 07:42:30 PMLiterally, I was a skeptic about everything except my religion... it's like a magic drug you are raised on and never bother to question. years after I realized I was an atheist, I dug deeper into why I didn't believe. That rigorous skepticism and inwardly focused critical thought made me realize that I wasn't all that rational about other things in my life either. You will probably find you have a lot of old beliefs that are not related to religion but are bullshit nevertheless. It's not just about gods, but magical thinking in every aspect of your life.
Literally, I was a skeptic about everything except my religion... it's like a magic drug you are raised on and never bother to question.
After the banishment of the ethnarch Herod Archelaus in 6 AD, Iudaea (the conglomeration of Samaria, Judea and Idumea) came under direct Roman administration with Coponius as prefect; at the same time Quirinius was appointed Legate of Syria, with instructions to assess Iudea Province for taxation purposes.[8] One of his first duties was to carry out a census as part of this.
The Gospel of Luke links the birth of Jesus to a "world-wide" census ordered by Augustus carried out while Quirinius was governor of Syria. This is thought to be a reference to the census of Judea in 6/7 AD; however, Luke also, like the Gospel of Matthew, dates the birth to the reign of Herod the Great, who died in 4 BC, ten years before the census of 6 or 7 AD. According to Raymond E. Brown, most modern historians suggest that Luke's account is mistaken.[12] Scholars trying to reconcile the Biblical accounts have speculated about alternative explanations, such as a different census before Quirinius was governor.[13] The majority view, however, among modern scholars[14] is that there was only one census, in 6, and the author of the Gospel of Luke deviated from history in connecting it with the birth of Jesus.
Both gospel accounts are correct .The birth of Jesus took place when Quiriinius was in office . The Magi arrived approximately 2 years after his birth .. This is the reason Herod decreed that all males 2 years and under be slaughtered.
I know you all know that there are tons of contradictions one can find in the Bible.But I'm particularly curious about what theists have to say about this one (SmartNoodles, this one is for you too ).So, here it is:Was Jesus born before 4 BCE, as it can be deduced from Matthew 2:1, or was Jesus born after 6 CE, as Luke suggests in Luke 2:1??Here are the quotes:Matthew 2:1"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem..."You just need to go find in history when did King Herod live. Although I'm sure you can find it elsewhere, Wikipedia is a very reliable source, so if you look it up, you can find that Herod the Great died in 4 BCE (although other sources point to 1 BCE, but this shouldn't make a big difference since Jesus was born when Herod was still alive, which means his birth happened before 4 BCE). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_GreatLuke 2:1-2"1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)"And we all know that this Census was the reason for Joseph and Mary to go to Bethlehem where Jesus was born. So, let's apply the same criteria here and go to history to figure out when this Census happened. And Luke clearly gives hints about this by mentioning that this happened "when Cyrenius was governor of Syria". So, let's go to Wikipedia one more time, and we can find that this census happened in the year 6 or 7 CE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_of_QuiriniusSo, clearly these two gospels are contradicting each other.Theists, SmartNoodles, what are your answers to this?Edit: typo


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posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 6:33 am
Dear Linda & Bengt,
I have some quite basic questions. I'm just starting my first GMM and trying to find out how to handle certain missing values.
The data I use are mainly the entries of (officially registered) offenses of a sample consisting of ex-cons. They all started their prison term as juveniles during the same time period, but when they did they were of course not of the same age. The trajectories I want to observe are going to start at their 14th birthday based on the number of entries per year of life, but due to the sample some are only 23 years old when I recently checked their criminal register (in 2008) and some are already 35. Is there any way to mark the missings by a certain value or so, so that mplus registeres that there is not a group who is abstinent since they are 23 (e.g.), but their observation period stops?
My next question also adresses the missings - since I know during which periods in their biographies the observed were convicted and therefore their chance of offending is rather low, what missing value should be used so the growth curves are not distorted, because the number of offenses during the prison term is "0"?
Do You have any idea what would be the best way to handle this?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 5:00 pm
For your first question you may want to take a look at our multiple-cohort example in the UG - see ex6.18. Or, you may handle the different age ranges by using a missing data indicator for ages that are not observed for the individual.
Regarding taking incarceration into account in crime curve modeling, we are contacting experts who might have worked on this. - Any reader who knows such work off hand?
posted on Friday, July 31, 2009 - 1:11 am
Hi Bengt,
thanks for the advice!
Still, if someone has an idea on taking into account the prison terms I'm thankful for any suggestions or hints on papers.
Have a nice weekend,
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, July 31, 2009 - 12:30 pm
I hear that incarceration modeling may have been attempted by Shawn Bushway at Univ of Albany and Paul Nieuwbeerta in the Netherlands. You may want to Google them. Please let us know if they have any relevant papers.
Amir Sariaslan
posted on Friday, July 31, 2009 - 3:35 pm
You may want to have a look at the following paper:
Eggleston, E. P., Laub, J. H. & Sampson, R. J. (2004): Methodological Sensitivities to Latent Class Analysis of Long-Term Criminal Trajectories. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, vol. 20(1), pp. 1-26.
Tihomir Asparouhov kindly showed how to model the offset component in the Poisson model here:
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 03, 2009 - 6:20 pm
Here is a response from Hanno Petras at the Univ of Maryland:
In addition to the current response on the discussion board, to my
knowledge exposure time has only been implemented for simple Poisson
Models. I did a little search and the below article is the only one
which integrates ZIP and exposure time. I think that a ZIP model might
be useful for Bellas data where the prob of structural and random zeroes
can vary across time. A two-part model might be interesting as well
where times of incarceration could be used as a time invariant covariate
impacting the probability of being 1 on the u-part. In terms of experts,
Wayne Osgood at PenState comes to mind.
AU: Andy H. Lee
AU: Kui Wang
AU: Kelvin K.W. Yau
TI: Analysis of Zero-Inflated Poisson Data Incorporating Extent of
SO: Biometrical Journal
CP: © 2001 WILEY-VCH Verlag Berlin GmbH, Fed. Rep. of Germany
AD: Curtin University of Technology, Australia; City University of Hong
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DOI: 10.1002/1521-4036(200112)43:8<963::aid-bimj963>3.0.CO;2-K
Amir Sariaslan
posted on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 11:54 am
Professor Muth�n,
Thank you for posting Dr. Petras' suggestions. The two-part solution is an interesting one but I am wondering why one would use a time-invariant covariate accounting for the exposure? Assuming that information on incarceration is available for each time point; wouldn't it be more reasonable to use that information as time-varying covariates affecting the u-part of a two-part model? I have a feeling that I might be missing something here.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 - 4:50 pm
Hanno says he will answer you tomorrow.
Hanno Petras
posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 5:29 am
Hi Amir,
sorry for the confusion. Incarceration time is certainly a time variant covariate, but unless that incarceration effects the time specific likelihood to engage in the behavior differently, I would start out with a model where the effect (and not the value of the covariate) is constrained to be invariant (i.e., proportional hazard). Of course, you can relax this constraint either for the entire time span or in a piecewise fashion. Overall, these modeling decisions should also be guided by your specific research questions.
Amir Sariaslan
posted on Thursday, August 06, 2009 - 7:18 am
Dr. Petras,
Thank you very much for clearing things up. It has indeed opened up my eyes to new ways of modeling incarceration effects.
posted on Friday, August 07, 2009 - 4:12 am
Thank You all for the very good help and hints.
Indeed, there's a footnote on taking into account the conviction time (Poisson-based models) in:
Blokland, A., Nagin, D. and Nieuwbeerta, P. (2006): Life Span Offending Trajectories of a Dutch Conviction Cohort. In: Blokland, A. & Nieuwbeerta, P. (Eds.): Developmental Studies and Life Course Studies in Delinquency and Crime. A Review of Contemporary Dutch Research.
where they also cite:
Jones,B., Nagin, D. & Roeser, K. (2001). A SAS procedure based on mixture models for estimating developmental trajectories. Sociological Methods and Research 29(3): 374-393.
Maybe that's helpful :-).
I'll google for more papers of Nieuwbeerta and post them here when I cross something helpful! have a great weekend!!
posted on Saturday, August 15, 2009 - 6:21 am
Hi there,
this papers was just published and it is also presenting ideas on missing in incarceration samples - think it's the one Bengt meant earlier:
Bushway, S.D., Seeten, G., & Nieuwbeerta, P. (2009). Measuring Long Term Individual Trajectories of Offending Using Multiple Methods. In: Journal of Quantitative Methods.
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