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TACOMA, Wash. – Christians who feel vulnerable in the face of the rising tide of popular Islam in post-Suharto Indonesia have found a way to create their own haven.
In the city of Manado, North Sulawesi, where Christianity binds a disparate ethnic population, a flourishing potpourri of local television stations has sprung up since the 1998 fall of the Suharto regime. These Christian-leaning stations, with their portrayal of Western-sympathetic politics and local community life, have created a cultural oasis for Minahasans, the majority ethnic group of the province.
A new study of this local anomaly by Gareth Barkin, media anthropologist at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash., is published in the current issue of Visual Anthropology Review. His article, "Reterritorialization in the Micromediascape: Indonesian Regional Television Amid the Rise of Normative Media-Islam," analyses how local stations have defied the mass media trend across Indonesia and created a comfort zone for North Sulawesi's 2.2 million people, amid rising anti-Christian violence across the 90 percent Muslim country.
"The religious tone in Indonesia has hardened noticeably in the past 15 years, and national media have reflected this with broadcasts that are fusing "Indonesianness" with Islam, sidelining religious minorities," said Barkin. "What surprised me is not just how Minahasan Christians have used their media to create a sense of security. They also have maintained good relations with local Muslims, largely avoiding the sectarian violence that has gripped nearby provinces."
Barkin focuses on Manado's Pacific TV, though the influence of local media, with its Christian bent, is apparent in much of North Sulawesi—a province of the Southeast Asian nation. On the nearby island of Bunaken, this cultural grasp is even more extreme. Every evening, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., loudspeakers serve as a sort of public radio, compelling everyone to listen to domestically produced Christian pop music and reports on locals' donations toward the rebuilding of churches and other projects.
In seaside Manado, near the northern tip of Sulawesi, the aerial towers of five (soon to be six) regional television stations probe the skyline. The stations serve up local fare, Christian worship shows, and an unusual amount of Western-oriented programming—including interviews with visiting Western diplomats, Voice of America, and Deutsche Welle. They are surprisingly popular. In most major cities, such as Yogyakarta, national television attracts the lion's share of audiences. These national stations are leveraging religious sentiment with content that includes Ramadan soap operas and new "reality shows" in which "families negotiate challenges through the lens of Islam," as Barkin writes.
Pacific TV is North Sulawesi's most popular station. Started by a local couple in 2003, it is reportedly watched by nearly as many people as Jogja TV in Yogyakarta, despite having one-fifth the population within its coverage area. This is all the more unexpected because the province's population is disparate—made up of eight historical language groups who were designated by 19th-century Dutch colonialists to be in a region called Minahasa.
Whereas many local stations attract audiences because their programming uses regional languages such as Javanese or Balinese, "Minahasans tune in to local TV even though it's in the same language as national broadcasts," Barkin says. "Most Indonesians consider national television to be 'our TV,' whereas in North Sulawesi, it's 'theirs.'"
In the 15 years since General Suharto's three-decade-long presidency collapsed, violence against Christians has risen dramatically. In 2010 a record number of anti-Christian incidents were recorded. In 2011 that number nearly doubled, accompanied by claims of government complicity or inaction in cases of Christian victimization.
Barkin conducted his field research largely over the summers of 2011 and 2012, interviewing dozens of Indonesians in North Sulawesi and Yogyakarata. He also drew on other researchers' work and used data that he collected over the previous decade, including a 20-month field study of national broadcast culture in the city of Jakarta.
For a copy of "Reterritorialization in the Micromediascape: Indonesian Regional Television Amid the Rise of Normative Media-Islam," visit: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/var.12003/abstract.
Gareth Barkin is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Asian Studies Program at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Wash. As a media anthropologist, he has researched the television industry in Indonesia, and how producers create models of citizenship and Muslim identity through commercial programming. His academic interests include visual and media anthropology, Southeast Asian studies, representations of Islam, global media markets, transnational culture flows, and ethnographic filmmaking. He is currently conducting research on broadcast culture in East Timor.
Press photos of Gareth Barkin and the city of Manado are available upon request.
Photos on page: Top right: Television tower in Manado; Above left: Gareth Barkin in Indonesia; Above right: Manado with its array of television towers.
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At some other forum, someone suggested ZA as an alternative for iptables. Because MS comes with lots of shortcomings on this aria, something like iptables seems to be very hard to program on a MS platform.
Now I've installed Zone Alarm Basic, but it seems to me a bit to much on the user level and has to much options, I don't want.
Just want to open, or block ports and ip addresses. Don't want to get alerts and other features.
Does Checkpoint provide an alternative that does basically the same as iptables?
For now Zone Alert did do a fine job.
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Prayers Said Over Nursing Students Before Next Step
Every year, Trinity's nursing faculty and senior nursing students encircle the newest members of the College's nursing program. They place their hands on them as they are blessed and welcomed into the next step of their education—their first professional clinical.
Trinity's nursing department celebrated this annual Commitment to Caring Ceremony on Monday, October 1. Dr. Bill Van Groningen, chaplain, blessed the hands of junior nursing students as they prepared for their first interactions with patients.
"Jesus knew the power of touch and used it to bring healing and hope, especially to those suffering from disease and social exclusion," said Van Groningen. "For these reasons, before our student nurses head out into the hospitals, we take time to offer a blessing on their hands."
Dr. Joyce Azzaline, acting chair and associate professor of nursing, welcomed students and professors to the event along with Brian Beenes '13 of Oak Forest, Illinois, and Shannon Ferko '13 of Chicago, Illinois, president and vice president, respectively, of Trinity's Nursing Student Organization.
As the event's guest speaker, nursing graduate Mindy Beenes '06 shared her experiences as a professional nurse. Beenes told stories of her first clinicals and how they helped her prepare for her job today as a labor and delivery nurse.
"As you start your clinical rotations, remember that clinical is the time to gain as much knowledge and experience as you can," she said. "The more often that you do something, the more confident you will feel."
Anna Hofman '14 of Waupun, Wisconsin, appreciated the sense of support the ceremony provided.
"It was a reassuring feeling that there were so many people there supporting our journey in becoming nurses," said Hofman. "It made me realize that with hard work and God on our side we are able to do anything."
The Blessing:
Father in heaven, bless these hands we pray. Anoint these hands with your mercy and grace so that your healing touch will be extended through their touch. May each person who receives care by the touch of these hands experience the compassion that flows from your suffering, saving love, the comfort of your healing presence, and the competence and commitment of spirit filled, conscientious care givers. We pray in the name of Jesus, Amen.


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The death toll of reporters and citizen journalists killed in Syria since the beginning of the regime's campaign to flush out anti-government protests has jumped to 158, according to Doha Centre for Media Freedom (DCMF).
DCMF has documented the killings based on its sources in Syria, Local Coordination Committees, the Homs Revolutionary Council and the Syrian Journalists Association.
Some were killed during the Syrian army's random shelling of neighbourhoods, others were killed by snipers and there are those who succumbed to the wounds inflicted on them during torture after being captured.
DCMF conveys condolences to the families of all journalists killed in Syria and expresses shock and sadness at the deaths. Immense courage has been displayed by local and foreign reporters covering events in Syria.
DCMF also condemns, in the strongest possible manner, the brutal killings of these journalists. A bold violation of international human rights has been demonstrated and freedom of expression is deteriorating. The centre urges the Syrian authorities to end the targeting of local and foreign journalists and demands it guarantees their right to move freely across the country to report.
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The following is the list of journalists killed in Syria as documented by the DCMF.
1. May 5 - Ahmed Souleymane Daheek, photographer killed by tank gunship near Homs.
2. Nov 20 - Farzat Yahya Jerban, Broadcast technician and photographer, arrested by the Syrian intelligence service in the small city of Al-Qusayr near Homs, later found dead and dumped in the street with clear signs of torture on his body.
3. Nov 26 - Nizar Adnan Humsa, Photographer detained by Syrian intelligence for over one month in the Al Bayada neighbourhood in Homs. His dead body was handed over to his family on November 26.
4. Dec 6 - Firas Barshan, Photographer shot and killed by Syrian security in the city of Hama.
5. Dec 15 - Hamza Khalid Amer, Photographer killed by an ARPJ rocket while filming the army's incursion of Shamseen, near Homs.
6. Dec 15 - Bilal Jibss, Photographer killed by a sniper in Kafr Tkharam, Idlib.
7. Dec 22 - Basil Al-Sayed, Photographer killed in a random shooting while filming.
8. Dec 27 - Muatassim Al-Saleh Broadcast technician killed near Hama.
9. Dec 28 - Muawiya Ibrahim Ayoub, Photographer killed by security forces while filming the incursion of the Rasten neighbourhood near Homs.
10. Date unknown - Rami Ismail Iqbal, citizen photographer. Iqbal is believed to have succumbed to his wounds in jail, after being shot by the Syrian army on December 21st. Death confirmed on 23/6/2012
11. Jan 2 - Shukri Ahmed Ratib Abu Burghul, Radio presenter received gunshot wound to the head on December 30 on arriving at his home in the Damascus suburb of Darya after hosting his weekly programme on Radio Damascus. He died of his wound in a Damascus hospital.
12. Jan 11 - Gilles Jacquier, French television producer and reporter killed by a rocket or a mortar shell in Homs.
13. Jan 27 - Usama Burhan Idriss, Photographer killed in a shelling of Inshaatt neighbourhood in Homs.
14. Feb 4 - Madhar Amr Tayara, Photographer killed near Homs.
15. Feb 5 - Saleh Samih Murjan, Photographer killed by sniper fire in Karm Zeitun near Homs.
16. Feb 21 - Rami Al-Sayed, Photographer, killed in an arbitrary bombardment of Baba Amr neighbourhood in Homs.
17. Feb 22 - Marie Catherine Colvin, American journalist, killed in a shelling of Baba Amr neighbourhood.
18. Feb 22 - Rémi Ochlik, French photographer killed in a shelling of Baba Amr neighbourhood
19. Feb 24 - Abdullah Khaled Awad, Photographer killed in a random shelling of Al-Kusair city near Homs.
20. Feb 24 - Anas Al-Tarshah, Photographer killed in a random shelling in Homs.
21. Mar 9 - Amr Kaaka, Photographer killed by the security forces in Doma near Damascus.
22. Mar 25 - Jawan Mohammed Qatna, Kurdish photographer abducted by four men from his home in the town of Derbassiyeh, north of the eastern city of Al-Hassakeh. His body, which showed signs of torture, was found three hours later in a nearby village.
23. Mar 26 - Walid Blidi, Algerian journalist holding British passport shot dead by the Syrian army near Azmareen village on Turkish border.
24. Mar 26 - Nasim Entriri, Algerian journalist holding British passport shot dead by the Syrian army near Azmareen village on Turkish border.
25. Mar 29 - Ahmed Mohamed Djibril Al-Rahmoun, Seventeen year old citizen journalist killed amid army shelling in Idlib.
26. Apr 6 - Anas Al-Houlani, Seventeen year old media acivist killed in Homs.
27. Apr 9 - Ali Shaaban, Lebanese camerman working for Al-Jadeed killed on Lebanon's side of the border.
28. Apr 14 - Alaa Al-Din Hassan Al-Douri, citizen journalist killed after he was arrested by Syrian armed forces on April 14 at a roadblock near the city of Hama .
29. Apr 14 - Samir Shilb Al-Sham, 26-year old Syrian citizen cameraman killed near the Homs hospital.
30. Apr 14 - Ahmed Abdullah Al-Abdullah, Syrian citizen camerman killed while filming an attack in Al-Damir.
31. Apr 17 - Khaled Mahmoud Kabbisho, citizen journalist killed by Syrian armed forces after he was arrested from his home in the town of Idlib.
32. May 4 - Abdul Gani Kaakah, citizen journalist killed during a demonstration in the city of Aleppo on 4 May.
33. May 17 - Mohammed Hassan Azhari, 24-year-old citizen journalist tortured by the Syrian authorities following his arrest on April 13th and succumbed to his wounds in a Damascus prison.
34. May 27 - Khaled Al-Bakr, citizen journalist found dead following violent bombings in Al Kassir, near Homs.
35. May 27 - Amar Mohamed Souheil Zada, director of Al-Sham Information Network killed during bombing of Homs
36. May 27 - Citizen journalist, Ahmed Adnan Al-Ashlaq killed in Homs
37. May 27 - Fahmi Al-Naiimi Al-Ashlaq, aged 20, was targeted by the army as he was filming the army attacking Al Khalidiyah, a city near Homs.
38. May 28 - Bassil Al-Shahade, a student filmmaker, was killed in Homs by a shell explosion launched by the Syrian army.
39. May 31 - Abdulhameed Idriss Matar, 22-year old cameraman, was killed in Al Kassir, near Homs, after a tank of the Syrian army fired at him.
40. June 13 - Ayham Youssef Al Hariri, 35-year old citizen journalist was killed in Houran by a missile of the Syrian army while covering a bombing and helping wounded civilians.
41. June 15 - Bassim Darwish, Syrian citizen journalist, killed by the Syrian authorities while covering a bombing of the city of Rastane, near Homs.
42. June 16 - Ahmad Hamada, a 27-year old Syrian videographer killed by the Syrian regime's security forces while covering the bombing of an old neighborhood in Homs.
43. June 21 - Omar Al-Ghantawi, 18-year-old videographer and media activist, killed by a sniper while covering the shelling of Joubar and Sultanya, near Baba Amr.
44. June 21 - Hamza Mahmoud Othman, 20-year old Syrian citizen videographer, killed by a sniper in Homs.
45. June 26 - Wael Omar Barad, 31 year-old citizen journalist shot in the heart while filming fighting between the Syrian Free Army and Syria's regular army in Jarjaraz.
46. June 28 - Samer Khalil Al-Salta known as 'Abou Yasser', 37 year-old citizen journalist died following the bombing of the city of Douma, near Damas.
47. June 28 - Mohammed Ali Al-Haymad, a citizen journalist was shot dead by the Syrian army while filming an army assault in Deraa.
48. July 2 - Mahmoud Hamdou Hallaq, 35-year old citizen videographer was shot while filming the Syrian Army attacking the city of Izaz near Aleppo.
49. July 12 - Ihssan Al-Binni, a Syrian photographer was killed in the Damascus suburb of Dariya as he left work.
50. July 14 - Iraqi journalist, Al Juburi Al-Kaabi killed in the city of Jaramana
51. July 14 - Falah Taha, an Iraqi journalist killed in the city of Jaramana
52. July 19 - Media activist and director of the Media Centre in Al Qusour, Mohammad Al-Husni, died due to shrapnel injuries in a bomb blast in Homs.
53. Aug 2 - 21-year-old Syrian photographer and citizen journalist Zuhair Muhammed Al-Shaher was killed by the army in his hometown of Deir Ezzor as he was providing food and medical supplies to civilians in need.
54. Aug 3 - Citizen journalist Ahmad Salam, 23 years old, was shot by a sniper in Damascus.
55. Aug 4 - Syrian TV presenter Mohammed Al-Saeed was kidnapped from his home in mid-July and executed by an Islamist militant group.
56. Aug 11 - Syrian citizen journalist and army defector, Bara'a Yusuf Al-Bushi killed during a comb attack while covering a story in suburb of Al Tal.
57. Aug 11 - Syrian reporter for SANA, Ali Abbas, 37 attacked and killed at his home in Jdeidat Artouz, Damascus.
58. Aug 20 - Japanese war reporter Mika Yamamoto, 45 shot in the neck while covering events in Aleppo.
59. Aug 22 - Omar Al Hamed Al-Zamel a citizen journalist who established a radio station, was killed during an aerial bombardment by government forces.
60. Aug 22 - Musab Al-Odah Allah, a Syrian reporter for Tishreen newspaper and opposition sympathiser was shot dead by Syrian army soldiers during a raid.
61. Sep 4 - Journalist Mohamed Badeer Al-Qasim, who helped to establish a media centre in Deir Ezzor province, killed while reporting on a battle near in Homs
62. Sep 6 - Citizen journalist Nawaf Al-Hindi, killed in aerial bombardment of Damascus suburb.
63. Sep 9 - Filmmaker and poet Tamer Al-Awam, 34, killed in the northern city of Aleppo after being injured by a shrapnel shell while escorting the Free Syria Army.
64. Sep 19 - Abdul Kareem Al Okdah, a reporter and photographer for Al Sham network, was killed in the city of Hama
65. Sep 26 - Iran's Press TV correspondent Maya Nasser was killed by sniper fire in the city of Damascus.
66. Sep 26 - Abdul Aziz Ragheb Al-Sheikh, correspondent at Al Sham network, was killed in Al Jabla district in Deir al-Zour.
67. Sep 27 - Mohamad Fayad Askar, media activist, was killed by Syrian regime forces in Al Kousour district in Deir al-Zour.
68. Sep - Anas Al-Abdullah, photographer killed during aerial bombardment of Damascus suburb, Al Tadamon.
69. Sep - Tahseen Al-Toum citizen journalist killed in a bombardment of the Damascus suburb, Erbeen.
70. Oct 2 - Ahmed Ali Saada, a citizen photographer, was killed in shelling by Assad forces in Damascus. Saada also worked for the Syrian National Council.
71. Oct 3 - Mona Bakkour was killed in an explosion at the officer's club in Saadallah Al-Jabri Square in Aleppo. She was working for Thawra newspaper in Aleppo and managed the Syria Al-Qaalla website. She was in Al-Siyahi hotel overlooking the Saadallah Al-Jabri square when the explosion took place.
72. Oct 10 - Cameraman Mohammed al-Ashram "was killed by terrorists" in Deir Ezzor, the largest city in eastern Syria.The journalist was taking photographs when he was hit by two bullets, in his chest and his foot
73. Oct 20 - Omar Abdul Razik Lattouf was killed (alongside his nephew) in Aleppo by Syrian forces as they attempted to return to Homs from Turkey
74. Oct 20 - Mohammed Jumaa Abdul Karim Lattouf (Omar's nephew) was also killed in Aleppo by the Syrian forces
75. Oct 23- Anas Al-Ahmed, an 18-year-old media spokesperson was killed while attending a funeral.
76. Oct 23 - Fatima Khaled Saad, a 22 year old blogger, died after being tortured by the Syrian intelligence services who seized her camera and mobile with which she was filming anti-regime protests.
77. Nov 1 - Mohammad Khalil Al-Wakaa, a media activist, was killed during bombardment on al mayadeen city in Deir Ezzor
78. Nov 2 - Hassan Haidar Al Sheikh Hammoud, a media activist, was killed while shooting videos in Homs suburbs
79. Nov 5 - Cameraman Samer Khrayshi was killed while shooting videos of the military operations between the regime and Free Syrian army in Arbeen in Damascus suburbs.
80. Nov 16 - Media activist Mustafa Kerman killed in bombing of Aleppo
81. Nov 17 - Abdullah Hassan Kaaka, a media activist killed while under torture by regime forces
82. Nov 18 - Media activist Mohammed Al-Khalid, executed by firing squad at hands of Free Syria Army brigade in Aleppo.
83. Nov 19 - Mohammed Al-Zaheer Al-Naimi, a media activist killed after being caught in shelling bombardment in Al-Bouaida suburb of Damasacus
84. Nov 20 - Huzan Abdul Halim Mahmoud, a media activist, was killed in Ras al Ayn in Hasaka suburbs.
85. Nov 22 - Basel Tawfiq, a Syrian state TV journalist, was shot dead in the Tadamun neighbourhood of Damascus.
86. Nov 29 - Mohammad Koraytem, a journalist, was killed due to the bombardment on Daraya in Damascus suburbs
87. Nov 30 - Citizen journalist, Marwan Hamid Charbaji was killed in a bombardment of the Daraya suburb of Damascus.
88. Dec 4 - Naji Assaad, retired government newspaper journalist and contributor, killed by sniper fire in Tadamun neighbourhood of Damascus
89. Dec 6 - Citizen journalist, Mohamed Khair Sheikh Qwaider was killed in a military bombardment of the Erbeen suburb of Damascus
90. Dec 12 - Syrian state television journalist Anmar Yassine Mohamed was killed during bombing of the Al Mazzah suburb of Damascus
91. Dec 22 - Haidar Al-Sumudi, cameraman for Syrian Arab Television, was shot dead by an armed terrorist group outside his home in Kfar Sousa in Damascus
92. Dec 26 - Yezen Abu Al-Hamoui Al-Ali, a Syrian journalist who worked with Al Jazeera, was shot dead by snipers in the province of Hama
93. Jan 4 - Sohail Mahmud, a pro-regime journalist working for Dunya TV, was shot dead in Aleppo.
94. Jan 13 - Fawaz Zu'bi was killed by government forces in Daraa
95. Jan 15 - Shehab Ahmed Assad was killed in Homs by government forces
96. Jan 17 - Belgian-born French journalist, Yves Debay was killed by sniper fire in Aleppo
97. Jan 18 - Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Hourani was shot dead by sniper fire in Daraa
98. Jan 18 - Media activist Amjad Sioufi was killed in a bombardment in Damascus
99. Jan 31 - Abdel Karim Nazir Ismail, freelancer killed in Arbin
100. Jan 31 - Issam Obeid, freelancer killed in Arbin
101. Jan 31 - Loay Al-Nimir, freelancer killed in Arbin
102. Feb 2 - Media activist Nabil Al-Nabulsi killed while covering clashes in Daraa Izra
103. Feb 3 - Citizen journalist Abdul Latif Khalil Khuder died from wounds sustained during bombing of Damascus
104. Feb 6 - Mohammed Kurdi, a media activist was killed while covering clashes in Damascus
105. Feb 11 - Media activist Zaid Abu Obeida was killed during bombing of Damascus
106. Feb 12 - Citizen photographer, Hamada Abdel-Salam Al-Khatib was killed during bombing of Homs
107. Feb 15 - Yousef Adel Bakri, a media activist and contributor to Aleppo News Network, died during shelling of Aleppo
108. Feb 17 - Journalist and media activist, Mohammed Saeed Al-Hamwi died from injuries sustained during bombing of Qaboun district of Damascus
109. Feb 17 - Media activist Mohamed Mohamed was killed by sniper fire in Damascus
110. Feb 19 - Adnan Abu Abdo was killed by tank shelling in Daraa
111. Feb 24 - French photojournalist Olivier Voisin died from injuries sustained during shelling of Idlib
112. Feb 25 - Media activist Wael Abdul Aziz was killed while covering clashes in the Baba Amr district of Homs
113. Mar 3 - Walid Jamil Amira, who reported for the Jobar Media Center, killed by sniper fire in Damsacus
114. Mar 10 - Head of the Qaboun Media Center, Amr Badr Al-Deen Junaid killed by mortar fire in Damascus.
115. Mar 10 - Qaboun Media Center's, Ghaith Abd Al-Jawad killed by mortar fire in Damascus.
116. Mar 13 - Editor-in-chief of Anab Balady newspaper Ahmed Khaled Shehadeh was killed in shelling of the Daraya suburb of Damascus
117. Mar 14 - Mahmoud Natouf, reporter for Sana Al-Thawra, killed during government shelling of Damascus
118. Mar 29 - Freelance reporter and videographer, Amer Diab, shot by government forces in Damascus
119. Date unknown - The death of Abdul Raheem Kour Hassan, director of broadcasting for Watan FM was confirmed by the government on April 1
120. Apr 24 - Freelance reporter and videographer, Youssef Younis killed covering clashes in Damascus
121. May 27- Yara Abbas, a war correspondent for Al Ikhbariya, was shot dead by a sniper in Homs.
122. July 5 - Fida Al-Baali, a citizen journalist and a correspondent of Orient TV, died after a shell shrapnel penetrated and settled in his body while he was covering the shelling of the al-Qaboun quarter in Damascus.
123. July 27 - Videographer and reporter for the Al Shaghur Multimedia Network, Muhammed Tariq Jadua, killed covering clashes in Jisr Al-Shaghur
124. Aug 16 - Shahir Al-Muaddamani, director of the media office at the Local Council of Daraya City killed by a shell while on his way to cover clashes in Daraya.
125. Aug 20 - Muhammad Hassan Al-Musalama, media activist and videographer working with the Revolutionaries of Daraa Al-Muhata - Tarq Al-Sadd group killed while filming clashes in Daraa.
126. Aug 28 - Hassan Mhanna, a reporter for Syrian news channel was killed in a suicide bombing in Aleppo.
127. Sep 5 - Abdel Aziz Mahmoud Hasoun, correspondent for Masar Press, killed by tank shell while covering clashes in Jobar, Damascus
128. Sep 28 - Murhaf Al-Modahi, a Syrian photographer, was killed in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.
129. Sep 29 - Freelancer citizen journalist, Nour Al-Din Al-Hafiri, killed while covering clashes in Damascus
130. Oct 29 - Mohammed Said, Syrian citizen journalist, was killed by snipers in Aleppo.
131. Nov 19 - Mohamed Ahmed Taysir Bellou from Shabha Press killed in Aleppo
132. Nov 23 - Hasan Haroun known as Mohammad Al-Tayeb was killed in Al Gouta suburb of Damascus
133. Nov 23 - Ammar Tabajo known as Mohammad Al-Saeed was killed in Al Gouta suburb of Damascus.
134. Nov 23 - Akram Al-Saleek was killed in Al Gouta suburb of Damascus
135. Nov 23 - Ammar Khaytee was killed in Al Gouta suburb of Damascus.
136 Nov 23 - Yasin Haroun was killed in Al Gouta suburb of Damascus.
137. Nov 24 - Mohammad Yamen Naddaf worked for Shahba Press Agency and was killed while covering the conflict in Aleppo.
138. Dec 4 - Iraqi cameraman Yasser Faysal Al-Joumaili was shot dead by fighters linked to Al-Qaeda in the Idlib province as he was headed to the Turkish border
139. Dec 20 - Syrian photographer Molhem Barakat was only 18 years old when he was killed in Aleppo. He also worked as a freelancer for Reuters and died while covering the battle for the Kindi hospital.
140. March 8 - Cameraman Omar Abdel Qader worked for pro-Assad Al Mayadeen station and was killed in Deir Ezzor while covering the clashes between regime forces and rebels.
141. March 9 - Canadian photojournalist Ali Mustafa was killed by a barrel bomb while covering the attack in Aleppo.
142. April 14 - Correspondent for Al Manar television channel, Hamza Al-Hajj Hassan, killed while covering the regime's takeover of Maalula.
143. April 14 - Technician for Al Manar television channel, Halim Allaw, killed while covering the regime's takeover of Maalula.
144. April 14 - Cameraman for Al Manar television channel, Mohammad Mantash, killed while covering the regime's takeover of Maalula.
145. April 25 - Freelance photojournalist, Mouaz Alomar was killed in an explosion in Hama province.
146. May 5 - Al-Moutaz Bellah Ibrahim, a journalist working for Shaam News Agency, was killed by IS militants after being kidnapped in March
147. June 20 - Egyptian Photojournalist, Ahmed Hasan Ahmed died after suffering a gunshot wound days earlier in Damascus
148. June 27 - Cameraman for the SMART News Agency, Mohamed Taani died 6 days after sustaining shrapnel wounds while covering clashes in Daraa
149. July 20 - American freelance journalist James Foley was executed in a video posted online by the IS islamist group
150. Aug 2 - American freelance journalist Steven Sotloff was executed in a video posted online by the IS islamist group
151. Sep 10 - Mohamed Al-Qasim, who worked for Rozana radio station, was killed in Idlib
152. Sep 15 - Journalist and media activist Abdullah Hammad, was killed in Homs.
153. Sep 15 - Zaher Mtawe'e, a member of the Zebdine Coordination Committee was killed while covering clashes in Zebdine
154. Oct 15 - Member of the Nabaa Media Foundation, Atallah Bajbouj, was killed covering clashes in Daraa
155. Dec 8 - Orient TV journalist, Salem Khalil, was killed along with two colleagues when their car was hit with a missile
156. Dec 8 - Orient TV journalist, Rami Asmi, was killed along with two colleagues when their car was hit with a missile
157. Dec 8 - Orient TV journalist, Yousef el-Dous, was killed along with two colleagues when their car was hit with a missile
158. Dec 10 - Aljazeera.net journalist, Mahran Al-Deeri, was killed covering clashes in the province of Daraa
Many of the killings documented by the DCMF can be seen in videos posted on YouTube.


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The walls of the rectum are fragile and subject to tearing. Rich sources of bacteria in the region could lead to infection. This is hazardous for the woman.
She looks like your average soccer mom
A perfect example of how horrible fucking music can ruin an otherwise great video.
Oh Carolina, won't you be my neighbor?
Carolina is so hot....but the music......wtf???????????????????????
How do I get to this vid?
The music sounds like the end of the evening news.
I just want to suck her flappy pussy lips ! very good !!!
wtf is with this music?????
I would sure like to go a few ronds with Caroline, she is hot. She can sure deep throat a cock, and take a pounding in that asshole. She enjoys sex, and loves the taste of cum.
the best woman on the website!! I just want to suck her flappy pussy lips ! :D thanks and more
gallina vieja hace buen caldo
Whose idea was it to put in that lame ass music track?? Really??
who is this chick??
legend of zelda music
Whats her name?
Damn she's sexy as fuck!!!!
Best pussy ever seen!!!!
The music made me feel like a champ. WHY??
The bloody musac!!! What a woman!! super sexy pussy, in fact all of her !! What bloody drongo thought that musac was ok???
ouah bien sexy
She so reminds me of myself twenty years ago.
you could fist both holes and still have room to spare!
I fucked a gal in tulsa who looked a lot like this gal.Her hubby and i double teamed her for most of the evening and she was almost as good looking as this woman but much smaller pussy lips ;)
I gotta add my voice to the chorus above ranting about the music. The vid and the music itself for that matter are OK...but together?? NOT! Sounds like the music they play while rolling the lengthy credits after a travel documentary!
What a pussy flower.
her asshole is enormous!
bellissima donna gran fica e bellissima scopata.....
Who's the DJ ?
what the fuck is that for music ?!
5.53 a pussy fart ! She must have had a lot ass-fucking in the past !
was fuer eine heiisse mutti .GEILE SAU!!
love those massive lips
Fantastic pussy lips - I would love to suck the cock out of her vagina.
I'm still waiting for the news program to start, but hey, she was fucking awesome, thats what I call a MILF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can't do this. This music ruins it for me
She loves it in tha ass cuz her pussy is too beat down already. lol
Carolina super wuerde dich auch gerne verwoehnen Kuss
kill the A-team music!
EPIC pussy fart!
Tonight, with Dan Rather...
she look like dawson mum in dawson creek
What a nice pussy, love thoose lips.
Nice meaty labia,wouldn't mind sucking those but the hideous music - argh ! Sounds like the news headlines are on the way.
Yes, it had a nice and promising first half, then sort of dwindled. The whole doubleteam action kind of ruined what could have been a favourite the world of porn. Sex toys didn't help either, and quite a dismal finish. C+
No fanfare music at the end....amateurs.
Lol at 5'53"!!!!!! PFFFT!!!!!
it would improove hardly maybe wearing some ph but this expresion she has is really a dream women who like anal like this ara perfect
You can tell she has been fucked in the ass like a thousand times. Never seen an asshole that loose.
She's just like a married gal at my bank. They both even have 1" pussy lips!
Sweet Caroline!!!Love those nasty looking meat flaps,I could suck on those for hours.
Without the fake tits, one hot momma.
The second guys load was pointless!
Those guys should get Carolina to do another video, she is way more than just awesome. She is the absolute epitome of what a MILF is about. Best video on this site, bar none.
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they have to do something about this. If brian wants my respect, he has to do something.
they have to do something about this. If brian wants my respect, he has to do something.
Cant leave it up to those gambler officials. Apologies buy us nothing.
Unreal. Hopefully Gay's $18M can buy him a fucking call.
Lebron would have made that a 4 point play. No love for Raps holy Shit/ Gave DD a goddam concussion On the brightside we wont be seeing Anderson in vrunch time again.
Good thing they've traded for Rudy Gay. This Raptors team needs a CLOSER badly!! and he'll immediately gives this team some respectability because of who he is.
i dont understand how the players stand for this. that ball would be in the 200s and the only way you would get me out of there is with 10 secuirty guards
i would have been OK with an injury-riddled 20 point loss. This isn't cool
Bravo Casey, Bravo! Take that fine, and speak up. It's bullshit!
Casey just went off on the refs in his interview
Casey real pissed ... which I hope will finally change something.
Well, this is by far the most blatant non-call we got. The Charlotte one was admittedly just a soft foul on the shot, something unfortunate, but not impossible to miss. The Amir call was just inexplicable. Like they just didn't want to give him shots for some reason. But this one almost looked intentional. Like Horford knew eh'd be giving up a layup if he didn't smack him.....sigh
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Drake Delivers Tender Love Song 'Hold On, We're Going Home'
While other artists make mixtapes, Drake would rather throw out new tracks each week to keep his fans enticed. The latest effort, 'Hold On, We're Going Home,' not only shows a melody from the Toronto rapper but also some of his own vocal stylings.
Unlike other rappers who attempt to sing on their own tracks, it's safe to say that Drake can carry a tune. And on this sugary sweet, feel-good tune, which debuted on Chicago radio station WGCI, listeners are brought back to the days when R&B crooners would woo girls with some fluid sounds and even smoother lyrics.
Majid Jordan joins him, which adds to the suaveness of the buttery track.
"I got my eyes on you / You're everything that I see / I want your hot love and emotion endlessly / I can't get over you / You left your mark on me / I want your hot love and emotion endlessly," Drake delivers.
The track is the latest off his upcoming LP, 'Nothing Was the Same,' set to release on Sept. 17.
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Anyway, I apologize for my absence, but life has been really weird this last 36 hours. Apparently every husband in my immediate family has taken the train to Idiotville, with stops at Moron Junction and Clueless Town. I spent a majority of yesterday on the phone consoling their wives (my mom & sister namely) as well as commiserating. The funny thing is, none of the idiocy is related, our men have all just separately screwed up in their own unique ways.
So here is half of a post from yesterday... most of it is old news and you've moved on, but I spent time on this dammit! So, here you go... BBL8TR!!
From Sunday:
- We're going back a few pages ladies. I may have to do this in two parts!
TammyAZ~ This is old... but I can see both sides regarding whether or not to stamps your wallpapers and manips with your "signature". I'm actually a little shy when it comes to that sort of thing myself. (Hence the penname, LOL) I'm honored that people like what I put out there, but at the same time I don't want to be like, "Hey, Hey! Look at me!" What if you used some kind of watermark or embossed text? You know... sort of invisible, but still there? Or you could be like "the artist formerly known as Prince" and just use a symbol so you would know if someone borrows an image. *shrugs*
Desiree~ I do have two children, but not twins. My daughter is 9, almost 10. And my son is almost 4 now. (I keep saying I'm going to have to stop calling him BabyRob soon, because he's so big now! They grow up way too fast.) God Bless you having little ones so close together! And early risers to boot! *big hug!* I could see how you would go crazy when we're like, "Oh, yeah... little Johnny slept til 9!". I'd go bonkers too!
Jaclyn~ Sounds like you had a fun weekend planned. Did I tell you already that you should be nominated for aunt of the year!? You really should!
Susie~ My hubby loves Butternut Squash soup. I completely forgot this until you posted, but it's the one thing my husband will actually cook on his own. And from scratch, no less! He really LOVES it, LOL! PS- Thanks for the phone call to check up on me. You are so sweet. Hubby should be home today .
Chrissy~ I think it's sweet and resourceful that you thought to use your certificate for your mom. Of course she would probably understand if you couldn't do anything but make a homemade card, but that you jumped through some extra hoops to get her something she will enjoy and use, that makes it extra special.
Caryn~ I was at the salon this week too. Just a touch up on the color and a cut. What did you have done?
AnneMarie is back, woo hoo! How are you, sweetie?
Okay... so I'll get back soon with some current conversation. Love you all!! Mmwaaah!!


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The Lake District (UK) > Great End > Climber's Log
Great End Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
|A part of long walk...
|...which included Harrison Stickle, Pike of Stickle, Esk Pike, Bowfell and Crinkle Crags. 'twas a long day.
|Posted Aug 3, 2012 12:03 pm
|End of a long day
Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2012
|After a long approach from Seathwaite over Esk Hause, ascended Scafell via a scramble up Cam Spout Crag, then a scary descent (solo & unroped) down Broad End, to ascend Scafell Pike (for 2nd time) and then took in summits of Ill Crag and Great End before descending back down Esk Hause again and on to Seathwaite.
|Posted Jul 12, 2012 3:19 pm
|A short side trip
Date Climbed: May 21, 2012
|... on a long day. I had camped at Red Tarn and started the day hiking up and over Crinkle Crags, and followed the ridge all the way to Scafell Pike.
I dropped my pack on the saddle south of Great End, and without it, it was a short and easy stroll up to the large summit plateau. There were two big cairns up there, one on the north and one more to the east. My altimeter gave the same altitude for both.
For the record: shortly before reaching the saddle, coming from the east, the track crossed a small stream. The water was clear, but since there were sheep and people around, I filtered it before drinking. It was the last water source that I saw before I would come down from Scafell Pike. It would have been a fine camp site too, but it was still early in the day.
|Posted May 29, 2012 12:01 pm
|A couple of times
|On my winter wish list too.
|Posted Jul 21, 2011 5:30 pm
|Lovely mountain
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2008
|Bagged on the way back from Scafell Pike.
|Posted Jul 28, 2010 5:58 pm
|Dan Bailey
|done central and window
|a couple of times each; usually seem to get stunning weather
|Posted Jul 2, 2010 7:33 am
|Best place for winter climbing in Lakes
|Climbed Central and Custs gullies.Nice!!
|Posted Mar 5, 2010 4:44 pm
|Fantastic climbing
|..in winter. Done Custs, Skew Gill and Central Gully a few times. Always a delight and never the same twice!
|Posted Mar 3, 2010 12:53 pm


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Siskiyou Wilderness > Preston Peak > Climber's Log
Preston Peak Climber's Log
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|Northwest Ridge Via Raspberry Lake
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2014
|I climbed the sharp obsidian peak #6121 and then Preston Peak with My 12 year old Grandson. We climbed the northwest ridge via Raspberry Lake.
Lots of brush, sun and some forest fire smoke.
A fantastic adventure, but gained some grey hair watching my Grandson's bravado upon the class 3 rocks and he found a few vertical pillars (certain class 4's) that added to my and his stress... Grippy granite with lots of hand holds and cracks = Lots of fun!
Not so sure that I would take a kid this young up it again... but that's an old guy speaking..
|Posted Aug 25, 2014 10:42 pm
|One of my first peaks back about 15 years ago. In 2010 I decided to make this an annual event, climbed 3x since.
|Posted Jan 27, 2011 11:39 pm
|Dennis Poulin
|Route Climbed: via Raspberry Lake Date Climbed: 24 September 2005
|A long dayhike on a beautiful day.
|Posted Oct 1, 2005 7:21 pm
|Route Climbed: SW ridge to NW ridge Date Climbed: May 29, 2005
|A long day from Trout Camp, we ascended via Rattlesnake meadow and descended to Raspberry Lake. Next day, Bear Mountain.
|Posted Jun 3, 2005 6:29 pm
|brutus of wyde
|Route Climbed: Northwest Ridge Date Climbed: late 1970s
|Climbed this great peak with Pat Brennan early in my climbing career. He had just spent a month on a climbing road trip and we did this summit to punctuate the end of his time on the road. I still have an old photo of rafting on Raspberry Lake on the way out to the car.
|Posted Jan 22, 2005 10:03 pm
|Route Climbed: The ridge from Raspberry lake Date Climbed: summer 1985
|My absolute very first mountain. I was just a kid, and my incredibly slow parents were barely able to drag their overloaded overnight packs to Raspberry lake. Being full of 16 year old energy I took off up the ridge by myself and had the time of my life. Thus is this reclusive exquisite peak forever lodged in my memory. Seeing the ocean from the summit made me feel like I was on top of the world.
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SNOW HILL – Civil proceedings pitting a former Ocean City Chamber of Commerce leader against his former employer over disputed financial arrangements dating back several years began in earnest in Worcester County Circuit Court this week.
Last April, former Ocean City Chamber Executive Director Daniel Barufaldi filed suit against the local chamber, alleging breach of contract, breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing in a contract, negligent misrepresentation and other charges related to his hiring, employment and eventual resignation. In the suit, Barufaldi alleges he was never offered a formal contract when hired in November 2005, nor were the terms of his employment ever finalized.
Barufaldi claims in the suit the rather vague terms of his employment with the chamber cost him a shot at a higher paying job about a year into his employment when the then-president produced a contract pre-dated to the start of his employment. Barufaldi resigned from the chamber under less than stellar terms in January 2007 and took a similar position with the Charles County Chamber of Commerce, who he worked with for a little over a year.
The trial began on Wednesday morning with jury selection and by Wednesday afternoon Barufaldi was on the stand to testify about the alleged events. Defense attorney William Hickey grilled Barufaldi about his past employment history, from a private sector job 30 years ago to a series of lesser-paying public sector jobs in the last decade or so including his chamber post.
"You left a $100,000 a year job as the director of sales and marketing in the private sector for the entire U.S.?" Hickey asked Barufaldi. "You had a job that paid you $100,000 plus bonuses, yet you came down here to Ocean City seeking a job for around $52,000?"
Barufaldi explained he was willing to take less because of all the chamber job had to offer.
"I came to Ocean City because it looked like a nice place to be with the beach and everything else," he said. "On top of that, I wanted to work for a non-profit."
When Hickey questioned Barufaldi about his employment agreement with the chamber, the former director said he had a verbal commitment but never a firm contract from the chamber. In the absence of the formal contract, Barufaldi claimed he prepared his own written document outlining the terms of his employment, which chamber officials never signed.
"In the absence of an employment agreement, I wanted a piece of paper that said I was hired and what the terms of employment were," he said. "I didn't want to take their word for it. I didn't want to get hung out to dry, which is what happened in the end."
Wednesday's proceedings ended with Barufaldi still on the stand. Earlier in the trial, the plaintiffs entered a motion to preclude the defense's expert witness from testifying, or in the alternative, to take a deposition from the expert witness before he could testify. At the close of the day on Wednesday, Judge Thomas Groton advised counsel on both sides to proceed with the deposition of the expert witness first thing on Thursday morning before the trial would resume.


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I'm gona say something that's going to get me in trouble. here it goes:
that Scala guy looks a hell of a lot better than David Lee.
there i said it.
Nate Robinson
Stephon Marbury
Jamal Crawford
I'm gona say something that's going to get me in trouble. here it goes:
that Scala guy looks a hell of a lot better than David Lee.
there i said it.
Scola plays well when McGrady doesnt play. Hes already serviceable but hes not as good as Lee yet. He did get alot of help from double teams drawn by Yao but the Knicks played bad in the 4th. I dont know if they got tired from the back to back games but thats not a good excuse.
yea man well idk...2 me they both energy guys but scola probably wins cause of experience
I think David Lee is still better than Scoula.I'd like to see Scoula try to do what he's done in Houston on a terrible team like the Knicks.The Knicks did good tonight against Houston.What I noticed about the Knicks is that they just suck.The Knicks played hard each of their last 4 games(including tonight against Houston), and they only have 1 win to show for it. That is a sign that even when they play hard, they can't win games consistantly.The Knicks do have a lot of talent, but unfortunately, they still suck, and I think the Knicks would still be at least 6 games below .500, even if they played hard all season.I still respect the Knicks for their effort, though, these past 4 games. Hopefully they play with this kind of effort the rest of the season.
The first quarter ended with the Rockets 25, and the Knicks 19 points.
This was from the Knicks Starting lineup of Marbury, Crawford, Q.Rich, Zach, and Curry.
What seven Knick Players in the 2nd quarter made the comeback charge to have a halftime Knick lead of 3 points?
It wasn't Q.Richardson!
Those 2nd quarter players should've been the players to start the 4th quarter with.
Nate & Lee played all of the 2nd quarter with Jefferies playing the first 8 minutes, Crawford added 8 straight minutes in that quarter, with Marbury getting in and out minutes that added up to 7 minutes, along with 5 minutes each for Curry & Zach.
Q.Richardson was not supposed to get anymore playingtime after the first quarter.
Malik Rose playingtime was supposed to be that of a Role-Player at the SF position only getting pieces of minutes throughout the game just to bumb Yao for 4 to 6 fouls (The Rockets depend on Yao scoring while T-Mac is out), the Knicks had a better chance for the WIN with a Frontline of Curry, Lee, and Malik or Zach, Lee, and Malik, using Jefferies as the substitute SF for Malik.
If the Knicks Head Coach and Coaching Staff refuse to give playintime to SF-Balkman & SF-Chandler for fear of WINNING and a Strong Chemistry Energy Brewing on the team at least be senseable and let Malik Rose take Q.Richardson spot at the SF Position.
I dont think Malik can guard small forwards.
glad i wasnt home to watch this game, picked a good one to miss we played like **** and got no-show preformances from Harrington(3 pnts) and Chandler(9 pnts), and the defense and offense let up in the 3rd which changed the game.....we allowed 31 in the 3rd nd scored 14 ourselves(box scores are perfect for these games instead of watching)....but at least Nate is starting to get back to his normal self
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"I Will Never Let You Down," Rita Ora's first single from her upcoming studio album, already has quite the EDM pedigree. The summery pop track was originally written by dance music superstar, Calvin Harris, who also happens to be her boyfriend.
Now, the tune has been remixed specifically for the dance floor by DJ/producer Switch, who along with Diplo founded the group Major Lazer, although Switch is no longer with the band.
In Switch's reliable hands, the jaunty, mid-tempo beat of the original version has been replaced with a funky classic house music rhythm and electro bass lines.
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The new remix is taken from the upcoming compilation album, Pepsi Beats of the Beautiful Game, a collection of tracks inspired by this year's World Cup games in Brazil. According to Billboard, each track from the comp will also serve as the inspiration for its own short film, with Spike Lee and Idris Elba among those tapped to direct the clips.


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Waking at night short of breath; Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea; PND; Difficulty breathing while lying down; Orthopnea
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Evening folks,
Just checking in quickly...still no time to post pics sorry!
The kids are all now in bed, and I'm pretty knackered. They get up super early (the older ones; BabyE sometimes sleeps till 8 or 9 which is awesome!) even though they didn't go to bed unil almost midnight. They will still get up about half6..on a Saturday!!
Dawn - Wow great story! Thanks for sharing!
Raine - I'm so sorry to hear about your aunt I am thinking of you and your family.
Raine & Caryn Guy Fawkes Night comes from the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This was a group of English Catholics who tried to assassinate the Protestant King and replace him with a Catholic head of state. Guy Fawkes was the person who was left in charge of the gunpowder which was placed underneath the House of Lords, but it was discovered and he was arrested (and sentenced to death I think). November the 5th was then made a holiday (though it's not any more) and bonfires and fireworks were set off to remind us of this. You are supposed to put a Guy on the bonfire (just a dummy made up of straw, wood etc.). I think the film V for Vendetta is loosely based on the story. I used to know more about it, cause you learn about it at primary school but I've kinda forgotten now
Marielle - YAY for Rob, Kristen & Stephenie landing in Brazil!! No Taylor though right?? I hope not anyway... It's all really happening now isn't it?
Susie - Did everyone enjoy your soup?? I love homemade soup - yum!
Oh I did miss my Lex anniversary! Whoops Oh well, I'll celebrate my 2 years one next year instead Haha!
Oh and Ginnie and Susie, you should totally read Harry Potter!! It really is very good.
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Note: This thread isn't for the people who want another max contract.
If our plan isn't to get another max, we're obviously going for a center. We know the main guys for that position, which include the up and coming DeAndre Jordan.
I know Crawford didn't leave the best impression on a lot of Knicks fans, but his run with the Hawks has given them a very good scorer off the bench (in fact he was good in the few games he played as a starter for us in the 2008-2009 season).
Would you be willing to get a center, Crawford, and another defensive player (vet. minimum)?
Of course, how much money he'd be willing to give up would be the deciding factor. In game 2 he would have been huge to take the pressure off Melo, whether giving him a little rest or giving Melo a significant amount of being able to go more one on one instead of being double/triple-teamed.
He's been great in the Playoffs this year, having a big game to help the Hawks beat the Magic in game 1 and having 25 points in game 2, in which the Magic didn't win by much.
Forget about the Isiah Thomas days, Crawford has succeeded since, so has Zack Randolph.
Only one other player I can think of at the moment, who would probably take less than Crawford, unless Crawford wants to play in New York that much, is Vince Carter. Put Vince Carter as the back-up point guard or even starting SG, and you have another play-maker. Only thing with Vince is the Magic and Suns take a lot of threes, and he played more like a spot-up shooter, which is not his game, I don't know if D'Antoni would do the same with him. Vince also would have to be bought out.
I'd love to get DeAndre Jordan, and Crawford to take less enough to let Turiaf be able to back up DeAndre, but I don't see that happening.
While we're at it, we must get Jeffries back for his defense, he's stepped it up, and won't ask for much most likely again.


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NEW YORK — This season, Big East basketball is working on its transition game. West Virginia is already gone to the Big 12. Pitt and Big East charter member Syracuse head to the ACC after this season, to be followed by Notre Dame. Central Florida, Houston, Memphis, SMU and Temple all are on their way.
The conference membership changes, but the intensity on the court remains as high as ever. When rivals meet for the final time in Big East competition, it will be even higher.
"The last game is going to be exciting, something that we're looking forward to — it'll be special," Georgetown coach John Thompson III said Wednesday. "The Georgetown-Syracuse tradition, it's been more than a rivalry, almost. It has been part of the fabric of this conference."
The Hoyas visit Syracuse on Feb. 23, with a return match in Washington on March 9 in the regular-season finale. Thompson said both he and Syracuse counterpart Jim Boeheim want to continue their rivalry as non-conference opponents, but he knows there never are guarantees when it comes to scheduling outside your league.
Similarly, Pitt coach Jamie Dixon wants to continue playing in New York every year, a chance he gets now with the Big East Tournament and with games at St. John's. While the Panthers plan to continue participating in events like the Jimmy V Classic, Coaches vs. Cancer and the Preseason NIT, there is a difference between the regular season and the Big East Tournament. But Pitt's decision to leave is about more than basketball, and Dixon must make do.
"We've had good followings, good crowds, at our games here," Dixon said. "Everybody talks about how we played Duke at Madison Square Garden, and it was probably a 50-50 split on the crowd. Not many schools can do that. It shows the number of people we have in this area. We've always thought of New York, and billed it, as our second home — and probably more so for us because of our recruiting base."
Dixon currently has four players from the New York metro area on his roster, including top returning scorer, Tray Woodall of Brooklyn. The senior averaged 11.7 points per game last season, and even though the Panthers are only picked sixth in the Big East's preseason coaches' poll, Woodall knows what it would mean for Pitt to end its time in the conference by cutting down the nets at Madison Square Garden.
"It's very important, this being our last time, to try to win it," Woodall said. "In the last 10 years, we've been one of the most dominant teams in this league. So we'd like to get back to that title and try to win it all."
Syracuse also dives into the Big Apple talent pool regularly, but also has a hometown edge, with McDonald's All-American forward DaJuan Coleman joining the roster this season out of Jamesville-DeWitt High School. That's the same high school that produced former Syracuse stars Danny Schayes and Andy Rautins, as well as the Orange's second-team preseason All-Big East guard, Brandon Triche.
"Me being from Syracuse, just growing up with a Big East background, it just makes it that much greater," said Triche, who called Gerry McNamara's heroics in the 2006 conference tournament as his favorite Syracuse-Big East memory -- sure to win him points with the former guard who is now an Orange assistant coach. "I've played for Syracuse and loved being at a Big East school. Us going to the ACC, we want to end on a high note."
That might be easier said than done, even though the Orange ranked second to Louisville in the preseason conference poll, and stand No. 7 in Sporting News' preseason top 25. Starters Scoop Jardine, Kris Joseph and Fab Melo all departed, along with sixth man Dion Waiters. Adding Coleman and forward Jerami Grant should help, but for the Orange to succeed, it also will require Triche, forward Rakeem Christmas and a variety of former bench players to rise to the occasion.
"We had such great veteran leadership with Scoop and Kris, and two NBA first-round picks (Waiters at No. 4, Melo at No. 22)," Boeheim said. "We lost a tremendous amount of firepower. I've never seen a team rated this high in this league, losing four players of that caliber."
Asked what the lofty preseason ratings say about the talent level of his team, Boeheim broke into a half grin and said, "We'll find out."


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"Today's announcement acknowledges a new type of diesel-electric offering, one that is built with the passenger in mind," explained Michael Cahill, president of Siemens Rail Systems in the U.S. "Our goal is to provide high ride quality with smooth, safe and efficient performance — for both the locomotive engineers and the passengers — with cost savings for the operators and maintainers."
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The locomotives will be built and assembled at Siemens' solar-powered transportation manufacturing facility in Sacramento, Calif. Cummins diesel QSK95 engines will be made in Seymour, Ind. The 95-liter prime mover is the most powerful high-speed 16-cylinder diesel to be installed in a locomotive generating more than 4,000 hp (2,983 kW), the companies said.
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BRISTOL, PA -- AMI Entertainment Network Inc., a digital jukebox and TV content company, is planning to offer music videos across its jukebox network. The music video service could go live by the end of the year.
The genre has been around for decades, even before MTV (which no longer plays music videos) started airing them in 1981. Song-length juxtapositions of music and images go back, at least, to Walt Disney's "Fantasia" and song-and-dance routines in movie musicals. The visual side of rock was leveraged in movies, from Elvis Presley in "Jailhouse Rock" to the Beatles in "A Hard Day's Night," among many others. By the late 1970s, it was common for record companies to produce promotional films and video clips to give musicians exposure beyond their touring circuits.
The music video category, once nearly obsolete, is now making a comeback, thanks to YouTube and other Internet sources. "The time is right to bring music video to jukeboxes," said AMI president and chief executive Mike Maas, who announced the new service on March 20 during the Amusement Expo in Las Vegas. Once prohibitive, licensing fees are now within a practical range, Maas explained, and AMI has received approval from the labels to begin building a music video catalog. AMI's music video exhibit was among the most talked about at this year's exposition.
The AMI chief executive did not reveal detailed information about the financial structure of the program, but he said operators would not see a difference in the subscription-based digital jukebox business model. At the point-of-sale, video will be offered as a premium purchase (requiring additional credits). Music video selections will be assimilated into the jukebox user interface, and play on separate a display. They can also play on a location's televisions and those running on AMI's Tap TV system, when the latter is idle.
The music video service is designed for the NGX jukebox, AMI's flagship hardware platform. But video will require optimal computer power, so AMI has developed the High-Performance Core, which has more processing speed and memory than the original NGX motherboard. The HPC and original board have the same footprint, so it will be available as an upgrade for existing NGX boxes.
The HPC will be installed on all new NGX models, including the NGX Face Place, a jukebox-photobooth hybrid. (AMI is also making several interface improvements to the Face Place juke. New software will enable fund sharing between the photobooth system and jukebox, permitting the same credits to be used for both music and photo vends.) The new board will only add about $100 to the cost of any NGX system.
Introduced two years ago, the Rowe NGX, which stands for Next Generation Jukebox, is AMI's best-selling product -- Maas reported there have been more than twice as many sold as the popular NiteHawk, a wall-hanging Internet jukebox in the Rowe line. "NGX is more than a jukebox," Maas said, "it's a long-term platform that could be augmented with skins and technology." Smart Skins, decorative frames that lock onto the exterior of the unit to provide a new look around the box's 32" vertical screen, are prominent NGX features. The HPC is an internal expansion.
Bristol, PA-based AMI Entertainment Network Inc. no longer includes Megatouch videogames; AMI's music and games divisions became separate entities in January. Megatouch LLC offers the ML-1 and other touchscreen videogames, along with Prize Farm SWPs. In addition to jukeboxes and music services, AMI offers Tap TV, which now supports Tap TV Trivia, a bar game controlled by personal smartphones.
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Booked Emerton saves shaky Socceroos
Published: December 4 2012 - 6:54AM
Australia 1 (Brett Emerton 86m) def Hong Kong 0 at Mong Kok Stadium.
Socceroos stalwart Brett Emerton came to the rescue of an unconvincing Australian side, netting the winner in the dying minutes in their 1-0 win over lowly Hong Kong.
At No.172 Hong Kong is the lowest ranked team 33rd-ranked Australia have ever played yet the Socceroos never looked to get on top of the hosts despite having the lion's share of possession in the East Asian Cup qualifier.
Brisbane duo Ivan Franjic and Matthew Smith made their international debuts.
But late substitute Adam Taggart, also earning his first cap, and Central Coast dynamo Thomas Rogic injected the pace Australia needed in the final stages.
A well-organised Hong Kong played a short, sharp passing game.
There was little action in front of goal in the opening half with the first real shot coming in the 30th minute courtesy of Hong Kong's Chan Man Fai.
Australia had a chance to go ahead moments later when an Emerton free-kick caused panic in the penalty box but Mark Milligan lost a goal-mouth scramble with 'keeper Yapp Hung Fai.
Aziz Behich played a perfect ball to Matt McKay who looked like scoring but sent his powerful volley over the crossbar.
Melbourne Victory striker Archie Thompson continued the Australian assault with a shot just before the break but misfired.
The hosts were fired up in the second half and Lo Kwan Yee forced an early save by Socceroos 'keeper Eugene Galekovic.
Australia started showing signs of frustration and skipper Emerton was booked for a bad tackle.
Lo threatened again in the 50th minute keeping Adelaide gloveman Galekovic busy with another strike.
The shots kept coming from the hosts, with Galekovic doing well to save a strike from Lee Wai Lim.
Australia fired back with shots from Thompson and Franjic, but never really looked convincing.
In an attempt to add pace up front Osieck substituted Taggart for Thompson in the 70th minute.
He then brought Rogic on for Richard Garcia ten minutes later and the impressive youngster didn't take long to have an impact, forcing a save from Yapp with his first touch.
But it was veteran Emerton who finally found the net for Australia in the 86th minute.
Sydney FC teen Terry Antonis came on in the final minute as the fourth player to make his debut.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/booked-emerton-saves-shaky-socceroos-20121203-2arpt.html


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UNT students trap mosquitoes to monitor spread of West Nile virus
Backyard scientists have trapped them with a turkey baster and a screen.
Although the traps that University of North Texas students set around Denton are more sophisticated, they have a little of that backyard-scientist look. Residents from Philadelphia to Colorado Springs to Coppell have called 911, not knowing what to make of the netted contraption in their city with a little light bulb, a tiny stream of gas and a battery pack.
It's a mosquito trap.
UNT students set out two kinds of traps each week during mosquito season, part of a city program that monitors for West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne illnesses. They put the traps out in the late afternoon and gather them up early the next morning.
One kind of trap lures the insects with light and carbon dioxide — the signals a mosquito follows for its blood meal. The other trap uses a bucket of stagnant water to lure gravid mosquitoes seeking a place to lay eggs.
The scientists make the "stinky water" using things like manure and grass clippings, said James H. Kennedy, the UNT biological sciences professor who supervises the sampling. "That's a scientific term," he said.
The mosquitoes must be caught alive, which means they need to survive being vacuumed through a tiny plastic fan. Hence, nothing stronger than a 6-volt battery drives it.
"Otherwise the fan is too fast," Kennedy said.
The bugs also must be chilled and packed for transport to protect the sample.
"The DNA of the virus breaks down quickly," Kennedy said.
Once the samples are at a state health department lab in Austin, they are analyzed and both the city and UNT are notified of the test results.
By design, the traps lure mosquitoes, but occasionally other bugs get in the traps. The students must sort through the samples to make sure they are sending only mosquitoes.
Undergraduate students Sarah Hammontree and Colleen VonEhr have found other flying insects, such as moths, green lacewings, ant lions and parasitic wasps, in the traps.
The students must also care not to let too many Chironomidae mix among the Culex modestus and other kinds of mosquitoes. Too many midge, which look like mosquitoes, in the sample and they get a note from the lab, according to Jeff Mabe, a doctoral candidate.
Once in the traps, the disease-carrying mosquitoes don't look any different than the others. Trapping this year has been different, however.
Kennedy said he told Mabe that he thought the virus would emerge early this year, but he was surprised at how early.
"It came with our first traps in May," Kennedy said.
He wonders if they had set traps in April whether those mosquitoes, too, would have been positive for West Nile. Since May, mosquitoes caught in 16 traps around the city have tested positive, with several traps ensnaring more than one disease-carrying mosquito so far this year.
UNT first started working with state health officials and the city on mosquito monitoring after another graduate student, Bethany Bolling, set traps as part of a research project 10 years ago. West Nile virus had been reported on the East Coast of the U.S. in 1999 and it spread west quickly, Kennedy said.
He had extra funding to help her pay for traps, which they set up along the Greenbelt Corridor from Ray Roberts Lake to U.S. Highway 380 in the summer of 2002.
"We knew we were going to find it," Kennedy said. "In August, we got our first positive."
For West Nile, the virus amplifies by going back and forth between one kind of mosquito and local birds. In the first years of the virus in North Texas, a lot of birds died, Kennedy said.
Since then, area birds appear to be building up antigens, Kennedy said.
That virus amplification may explain why the traps set in the city's yard at Texas Street and Mingo Road frequently test positive, even in years when no human West Nile cases are reported. A creek runs through the yard. Large trees line the creek bed to the north and south of the yard, making good habitat for both birds and mosquitoes, Kennedy said.
Since then, Denton and UNT have worked together to monitor mosquitoes, a sampling program that costs the city less than $15,000 per year. Because spraying is expensive and sometimes controversial, Denton's response to mosquito control is graduated and based on documented presence of the disease — both in the traps and in humans.
This week, the students hung traps in three different areas along Hinkle Drive, all on private property. The traps are close to where human cases have been reported and where the city has sprayed for adult mosquitoes. They may get enough data to see whether spraying has an effect, Kennedy said.
The city's spray is based on pyrethrum, an insecticide derived from chrysanthemums and generally considered safe for humans and other mammals. It breaks down in sunlight. But its effectiveness in actually controlling mosquito-borne disease is not understood, Kennedy said.
"It may give a little relief in the number of adult mosquitoes," Kennedy said.
Such spraying has no effect on the larva ready to hatch and continue amplifying the virus.
Mosquitoes don't need much stagnant water to breed. A child could play with a toy outside and leave it in the yard to collect a bit of water from a sprinkler or thunderstorm, and that's enough for another brood of mosquitoes, Kennedy said.
Residents can do a lot to eliminate standing water in their yards. Briquettes containing the bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis can control mosquito larvae in stagnant water.
The need to trap and test mosquitoes for disease may not wane, Kennedy said. About 50 of the 80 types of mosquitoes found in Texas have been found in Denton, he said. Warmer temperatures have expanded the range of many insects in Texas, including mosquitoes.
The state lab monitors for not only the West Nile virus but also other diseases mosquitoes carry, which, like West Nile, can be debilitating or deadly.
Some diseases, such as malaria, could be more of a problem in Texas, but haven't been so far because of good habitat control and other public health measures, Kennedy said.
But other diseases, such as dengue fever, which has emerged in Florida, can be more difficult.
"The students we are training today, we are teaching how to communicate what they are doing," Kennedy said. "When the public asks questions, they need to know."
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Well folks, the recent release of more details regarding Trinity (just today) had me thinking about Bulldozer, and AMD's future iterations of it. We all know that Bulldozer came out with guns blazing only to know later that it was firing plastic pellets. Thing is, Piledriver looks to be in good shape, and Steamroller and Excavator will hopefully build further on the BD architecture. Haswell is coming next year, Broadwell in 2014, Skylake in 2015, Skymont in 2016. Whatever will succeed Skymont probably has been started already as well if Intel plans to start selling it in 2016, unless they plan to just keep evolving the current architecture. As for AMD, the same thing applies. Unless they plan to evolve Bulldozer further down the road (i.e. evolve Bulldozer into a sleek, light, fast Ferrari!), they had better have started Project X years ago already.
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The would be a continuation of an existing 1-cent sales tax the city has collected for the past five years. The 1-cent sales tax initiative is set to expire at the end of this year. If approved by voters, the new 1-cent sales tax would go into effect in 2014.
There will likely be much discussion of the proposed 1-cent sales tax renewal in the pages of The Courier as we point toward an election, possibly around the end of summer.
As we collect information and facts on how much money from the old 1-cent sales tax was collected and where it was spent, we will share what we learn in stories so the people of Russellville will have a full understanding of how their money is being spent.
Mayor Eaton says that the people who benefit from the work done with the 1-cent sales tax have a vested interested in keeping the 1-cent sales tax for another six years and getting more work done in the city.
Like with all topics of public interest, I'd like to see a dialouge on the opinion page of The Courier about what people think of the plan. If you think it is a good idea, say so. If you're against it, tells us why. If you have questions, or just comments, share them with everyone.
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While talking with Mayor Eaton for about an hour on Tuesday morning on the sales tax issue, I kept calling him "Jeff."
Yes, I know the mayor's name is Bill.
My best explanation is that I can be lousy with names, even with people I know.
I can well remember most of the details of some play I listened to on the radio from the 1969 World Series, but I'm not so good with names.
I apologize to Bill.
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I was the benefactor of an apparently random act of kindness while at lunch on Tuesday.
A ᾽Bama girl, who was in front of me at the drive-through at a hamburger restaurant in Russellville, paid for my lunch after getting her food.
When I pulled up to the window, and the cashier told me the lady in front of me had paid for my order!
She handed me my food and I drove away.
How cool is that? Let me tell you, it is very cool.
No one has ever done anything like that for me before, and I must tell you it gave me a good feeling. I think I enjoyed that combo meal more than I have enjoyed a meal in a long time.
I will tell you that just moments before I got to the window I was complaining to myself.
I noted the ᾽Bama girl had paid for and then received her food.
She then gave the cashier more money and I thought the driver was ordering more food, and I'd be stuck there a few minutes until her food was prepared. She then drove away, leaving me with the nice surprise.
Soon, I will do the same thing and buy some person's food at the drive-through. You've always gotta repay such debts.
Then, I'll do it another time for someone, because I think I'll like the feeling I get for doing such a good deed.
This might make a good trend to start doing for around the Arkansas River Valley.
Thanks, ᾽Bama girl!