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Friday, February 01, 2013
Florida Racing on Verge of Chaos
Gulfstream's plan to race year-round starting in December 2013 is a futile attempt to save an ill-advised adjacent shopping mall. Unless Gulfstream backs off, the result is likely to be a scorched earth showdown with Calder and its parent, Churchill Downs, Inc., which will undermine the future of racing in Florida.
Frank Stronach is a visionary. He doesn't think outside the box. He refuses to acknowledge there is a box. His visions are always on a grand scale. Alas, sometimes too grand.
Occasionally, he needs to be reined in. This happened at Santa Anita, where one of his schemes involved demolishing the downhill turf chute, one of the most unique and picturesque courses in the world. Thankfully, he allowed himself to be talked out of that.
The same needs to happen with parts of Stronach's ambitious plans for Gulfstream, the key element of which is year-round racing. This could amount to shooting himself and South Florida racing in the foot.
Stronach's long-held dream has been to morph race tracks into one-stop destinations for entertainment and commerce. It's not far removed from the fabulously successful transition Las Vegas made from no frills hotel-casinos to mega resorts with world class restaurants and high end shopping malls.
Under the right circumstances, this might be the way of the future. However, not every brainstorm winds up a home run. New Coke, Facebook's IPO and Tim Tebow as a New York Jet all struck extraordinarily successful people as potential grandslams.
Stronach has not sufficiently thought through the Gulfstream expansion plan. The Village, the mall surrounding the track, is the equivalent of a bounce house across the street from Disney World. Gulfstream and The Village are located down the block from the glamorous Aventura Mall. The Village is an outdoor, strip-style mall. Aventura is enclosed and air-conditioned. Ever been to South Florida during the endless summer?
Predictably, The Village is a lonely place outside racing season, when Gulfstream serves as a magnet. Two popular bars adjacent to the track's walking ring went toes up during the break between the end of racing last April and the reopening in December.
Year-round racing is sending good money after bad, an attempt to rescue the mall, without consideration of the ramifications for racing.
Calder has been running the summer dates since it opened 40 years ago. If not for Calder, there would be no summer racing. Nevertheless, Stronach apparently feels Calder should step aside for him. To be fair, it's not as if Stronach isn't leaving anything for Calder. Gulfstream's plan calls for summer racing only on Saturday and Sunday. Calder can have weekdays, if it likes.
It's inconceivable that Calder's parent, Churchill Downs, Inc., will lie down without a fight. (Then again, it was inconceivable that Calder would roll over for Gulfstream's incursion into December.) The alternative is the two tracks going head to head for customers and horses. It's debatable which is in shorter supply during the summer.
There is no chance either track can make a go of it under these circumstances. There is every chance both will have to throw in the towel. It's a matter of conjecture what happens then to South Florida racing outside the winter tourist season?
Even the prime dates could suffer. Consider the most successful meets in America: Keeneland, Saratoga, Del Mar. Their common denominator is relatively short meetings that give them the aura of an event. Winter racing at Gulfstream isn't far removed from this. Racing year-round, the event transforms into monotony.
Stronach also is addressing another repercussion of The Village in a grand manner without thinking things through. To make room for The Village, the old Gulfstream, one of the most comfortable, fan-friendly facilities in the sport, had to be bulldozed. In its place is a building designed to accommodate a casino, a massive simulcast room, several classy restaurants and a grand showroom, which recently hosted the Eclipse Awards.
The only thing it's not ideal for is fans interested in actually watching races via binoculars, not flat screens. There are little more than 1,000 seats facing the race track. Among other things, this meant the Breeders' Cup would never return.
Stronach's solution is characteristically grandiose and typically short-sighted. He says he plans to flank the current building with extended grandstands and two luxurious hotels, which will afford a direct view of the race track to more than 50,000 fans. He must never have been to Belmont on any day a Triple Crown isn't on the line.
Hialeah president John Brunetti, whose family fortune comes from the construction business, said he has seen Gulfstream's plans and dismisses them as just big talk. "For Frank to do everything he wants, he'd have to build up to Dania (about five miles to the north)."
Caught in the middle, as usual, are the horsemen, who could be herded into one of those "What were we thinking?" decisions. Gulfstream is making the argument that it will handle more than Calder, and thus offer better purses during the summer, because it handles more now. Of course, it does. Put Calder in January and February and Gulfstream in July and August and the outcome could be vastly different.
Many South Florida horsemen have it in for Calder, especially under the Churchill Downs regime, for what they regard as a heavy-handed, take-it-or-leave-it attitude toward them, exemplified by charging backstretch personnel rent for subpar living quarters. Their yen to cut Calder down to size could cloud their thinking into throwing away a historically dependable racing home for what can fairly be described as an experiment at Gulfstream.
Gulfstream's casino is open year-round now. It hasn't helped The Village. It's folly to think a couple of days a week of sub-par racing will turn things around for the mall. But Stronach seems hell bent to do it anyway.
Part II Monday: Brunetti, Waiting in the Wings
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California Department of Transportation
Date: January 9, 2013
District: 10 - Stockton
Contact: Steve Gonzalez
Phone: (209) 948-7977
STOCKTON - Continuing the push to rebuild California's infrastructure, the California Transportation Commission (CTC) today allocated $64 million to 43 projects that will reduce traffic congestion and repair highways, local streets, and bridges.
"We are putting transportation dollars to work supporting jobs and making improvements that will benefit Californians now and for decades to come," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
The allocations include $42 million from Proposition 1B, a transportation bond approved by voters in 2006. In total, approximately $14.7 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been distributed statewide.
The remaining allocations ($22 million) came from assorted transportation accounts funded by state and federal dollars.
Among the projects that received funding today were:
- San Joaquin: $10,485,000 – State Route 99 (South Stockton) Widening. This Prop. 1B project includes widening lanes from 4 to 6 lanes from just north of Arch Road to just south of State Route 4, and improve and reconstruct various interchanges to ease traffic flow.
- Mariposa: $25,000 – Mt. Bullion Cutoff Road Rehabilitation Phase 2. Reconstruct the road surface and improve the road near the town of Mariposa, from State Route 140 to just past State Route 49.
Please see the attached file for information about all projects that received allocations today.
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|Jun 29th, 2008 01:11 AM
|Mister Tea
"Unabashed slaughter for Jesus! First Commandment? What's that?"
If you believe that sort of thing, it was the one God wrote about having no other gods before Him. But if you're talking about the sixth commandment, the original translation reads "do not shed innocent blood," and I doubt the bad guys in this movie qualify. Rambo's in the clear, as far as God is concerned.
And for all the people giving Protoclown shit: it almost seems like you're deliberately missing his point. No, Sylvester Stallone doesn't go around exploding SPDC troops with a .50 machine gun -awesome as that would be- but the things those SPDC guys do to the Burmese people really happens over there. THAT'S the stuff he was talking about.
|Feb 17th, 2008 02:40 PM
|Kilgore Cod
Its amazing to me that this movie made it to theaters with all the gore intact. Usually they keep that stuff for the Unrated DVD.
Favorite part: Missionary dude flipping out and splattering that bad guy's head with a rock.
|Feb 15th, 2008 12:45 PM
|I liked it. It's a fun film to watch. Sure, it's hardly high art, or even a particularly engaging narrative but the action is really well done and I was never bored.
|Feb 13th, 2008 10:07 PM
well might go see that movie only for the gore factor its rare nowadays to find a good and gory flick
damn pg13
|Feb 13th, 2008 08:59 PM
The point of this movie was to see Rambo kill Asians for 90 minutes. That;s all the movie was ever meant to be, and it was delicious.
Also: Burmese strippers suck. If you're going to sway from side to side, at least do it to the music, and with your top off!
|Feb 13th, 2008 08:54 PM
Hmmm... nerdy nerdy. But I'll chip in. Sylvester Stallone said that when they went out to the shooting location, the film crew actually dodged several real dangers that was present in the movie. He mentioned that the gore you saw in the film was only a few things that were really happening out there in B. And he didnt want to water it down because he felt he wanted to let the audience experience things that really was happening out there. Its no playground or a military walk in the park. What he witnessed out there was nothing short of extreme brutality. Those are his words. Not mine. If you ask me, I agreed with just about everything Protoclown stated above with a small grain of salt of course as you should in just about any place online cuz hey... in the end, theyre just opinions.
This movie rocked. The End.
|Feb 13th, 2008 06:23 AM
|I'm pretty sure he said that to point out that a movie with realistic gore, is a movie with realistic gore.
|Feb 12th, 2008 07:31 PM
You suggest that the disturbingly brutal portions are necessary to remind us that things this brutal happen in real life...
So, if with this line of reasoning you are not suggesting that it should call us to action (of any degree) against brutality, then by what reason should we be reminded that terrible things happen around the world?
Honestly Protoclown, this line is the only thing I have a problem with in the whole review. I think you did an excellent job of describing Rambo as an ejoyable shoot 'em up action flick. However, the producers of Rambo know just as well as you and I that what they are putting out there is a cathartic "bad guys get what they deserve" romp and the gore is a result from the assumed demand for it by the target demographic. Saying that the disturbing violence is necessary to remind that target demographic that it is a real issue around the world is like saying that the useless scene in Transformers that featured an Escalade, an Xbox, and a Mountain Dew machine that came to life was necessary to remind us that the movie is about robots and not a tacked-on bullshit product placement.
|Feb 12th, 2008 06:05 PM
Despotofks: In what part of my review did I say that Rambo was a "call to action"? Where did I even call it a "war movie"? I never said it was deep, or that it was a film that would change your life by turning you into an activist, nor did I make any of the other claims that you seem to think I made. I never claimed it was anything other than a good action movie with a disturbingly brutal (and largely realistic) portrayal of violence.
Obviously there are far better "war" movies out there that offer up some worthwhile social and political commentary. This is not one of them. You can call a spade a spade all you want, I'm sticking to calling Rambo a damned enjoyable action movie.
|Feb 12th, 2008 02:57 PM
|some girl named lauren
|As a side note, what are you supposed to think when you walk away from watching? "That was intense"? Or just "That was awesome!" I'm fine with either outcome, personally, though it's not like I've spent the $10 to see the movie...
|Feb 12th, 2008 11:47 AM
The only message that Rambo portrays is the old Bugs Bunny Complex: "Don't start things, but if somebody else starts it, you feel free to finish it."
If you're looking for a war movie that's about the human condition amongst the horrors of war then stick with flicks like Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, or Saving Private Ryan. If you're looking for a war movie that's all about turning off the mind and watching bad guys get the ol' "eye for an eye treatment" then enjoy Rambo. But let's just call a spade a spade and not pin Rambo up as a brilliant way to remind people that living in the rest of the world sucks a lot more than living in the USA.
|Feb 12th, 2008 03:11 AM
|Mac Brookman
|To me the movie more or less came across as a "Where is your God?!" sort of thing. Add in an approach that doesn't glorify violence as much as part II and III plus some pretty gruesome and more realistic scenes of gore that should be mandatory in war movies (or at least the ones where you fire .50 caliber weapon at people) and we got ourselves a pretty good movie. Not Oscar material, but still an entertaining movie with dare I say, something of a message in between all the gasping and gore.
|Feb 11th, 2008 10:17 PM
|Rambo rocks!!! i've seen bits of it online, and i can't wait for it to be released on dvd so i can pick up a copy of it....anyone remember the rambo cartoon? it sucked now that i think back on it, it's on Youtube
|Feb 11th, 2008 09:20 PM
|I'm so glad this film turned out good.
|Feb 11th, 2008 04:26 PM
|Marthaeus Autolykos
According to Stallone in an interview, the plot to rescue Christian missionaries had the aim of getting Rambo "saved," so that he'd more comfortably parallel Stallone, who recently became "born again."
Unabashed slaughter for Jesus! First Commandment? What's that?
|Feb 11th, 2008 03:24 PM
Gives a new definition to the expression "blowing chunks" :O
No doubt in my mind that if this had been the first Rambo, and the first Rambo had been this one, everyone would be saying that this new one is the best... If was the old one.
If you see what I'm saying here. Also I sort of pity people who look for messages in movies like at some point a guy who makes entertainment for a living will come up with a revolutionary philosophy about life.
And is it just me or is Stallone looking more and more like a Native American as he ages?
|Feb 11th, 2008 01:04 PM
|Captain PirateFace
Stallone is brilliant....
I used to despise his films (except "Demolition Man" that movie rocked) but if you look at the last Rocky and this amazing, hardcore, "War is Hell and your a killer" film...
You can see the complexity of the man, the actor and the director.
Yay for Rambo
|Feb 11th, 2008 11:34 AM
This new Rambo flick was beautiful. I absolutely loved it. The artistry of the blood
spatter was masterfully executed with dirty finess.
Seriously, this movie rocked. Period.
And I gotta say, Im SEVERLY awed at Stallone's physique and ability to throw down the action like a young mid 40 (aka Rocky 4 Stallone) in this movie. The man runs, screams, shoots unlike any 61 year old I ever met. Kudos to him.
|Feb 11th, 2008 05:23 AM
I watched the first two Rambo films last year, but never saw the third one.
Something tells me that this is going to be like Pan's Labyrinth minus the Fantasy, with an overdose of testosterone and steroids. I could be wrong, but judging from the review, I might not be.
|Feb 11th, 2008 03:44 AM
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – With the release of the Atlantic Sun Conference Coach's Poll, the Lipscomb cross country squads saw little movement.
The Lady Bisons continued their firm grip on first place as a unanimous selection earning 100 points. North Florida continued to be placed second with 88 points.
On the men's side, the Bisons held firm in the second place selection, earning four first place votes and 87 points. The Purple and Gold trails ETSU which garnered five first-place votes and a total of 92 points.
Although trailing ETSU in the A-Sun poll, Lipscomb continues to be in front of the Bucs in the South Region Poll. The Bisons gained a spot, moving up to fifth place, continuing to be the highest-ranked mid-major in the poll trailing Florida, Florida State, Georgia and Auburn. ETSU is ranked eighth in the region poll.
The Lady Bisons are also the highest-ranked mid-major on the women's side as they stood pat with the fourth place ranking in the South Region. Lipscomb trails Florida State, Vanderbilt and Florida and is the only A-Sun school to be represented in the poll.
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Namibia, officially Republic of Namibia, also called (internationally until 1968) South West Africa, Afrikaans Namibië, or Suidwesafrica, country located on the southwestern coast of Africa. It is bordered by Angola to the north, Zambia to the northeast, Botswana to the east, South Africa to the southeast and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It ranges from arid in the north to desert on the coast and in the east. The landscape is spectacular, but the desert, mountains, canyons, and savannas are perhaps better to see than to occupy.
The only permanent rivers are the Kunene (Cunene), the Okavango (Cubango), the Mashi (Kwando), and the Zambezi on the northern border and the Orange on the southern. Only the northern frontier—and not all of it—is readily passable. The coastal Namib desert, the treacherous reefs and shoals of the coast (half aptly named the "Skeleton Coast"), the near deserts along the Orange River, and the dry Kalahari region to the east explain the late conquest of Namibia and form a geographic frame around the country.
Roughly rectangular (600 by 300 to 450 miles [965 by 480 to 725 kilometres]), Namibia has a long, narrow eastern extension (the Caprivi Strip) based on a German misconception that access to the Zambezi—despite the Victoria Falls—meant access to the Indian Ocean.
After 106 years of German and South African rule, Namibia became independent on March 21, 1990, under a democratic multiparty constitution. The capital of the country is Windhoek.
Namibia is divided from west to east into three main topographic zones: the coastal Namib desert, the Central Plateau, and the Kalahari. The Namib is partly rocky and partly (in the central stretch) dunes. While having complex flora and fauna, it is a fragile and sparsely covered environment unsuitable for pastoral or agricultural activities. Diamonds (probably washed down from the Basotho highlands by the Orange River) and uranium are found at Oranjemund in the south and Arandis in the centre. The Namib, 50 to 80 miles wide over most of its length, is constricted in the north where the Kaokoveld, the western mountain scarp of the Central Plateau, abuts on the sea.
The Central Plateau, which varies in altitude from 3,200 to 6,500 feet (975 to 1,980 metres), is the core of the agricultural life of Namibia. In the north it abuts on the Kunene and Okavango river valleys and in the south on the Orange. Largely savanna and scrub, it is somewhat more wooded in parts of the north and is broken throughout by hills, mountains, ravines (including the massive Fish River Canyon), and salt pans (notably the Etosha Pan). Brandberg, also known as Mount Brand (8,442 feet [2,573 metres]), is Namibia's highest mountain and is located along the plateau's western escarpment.
In the east, Namibia slopes gradually downward, and the savanna merges into the Kalahari. In the north, hardpan and rock beneath the sand, in addition to more abundant river water and rainfall, make both herding and cultivation possible.
Drainage and soils
As noted, only the border rivers are permanent. The Swakop and Kuiseb rivers rise on the plateau, descend the western escarpment, and die out in the Namib (except in rare flood years, when they reach the sea at Swakopmund and Walvis Bay, respectively). The Fish (Vis) River rises in the Central Plateau and (seasonally) flows south to the Orange. Various lesser rivers rise on the plateau and die out downstream in the Namib or Kalahari desert.
Namibia's soils range from barren sand and rock to low-quality sand-dominated to relatively fertile soils. The best soils are in the north, in the Otavi Mountains, in parts of the central and southern portions of the plateau, and in the Caprivi Strip. Water—not soil fertility—is the primary constraint on agriculture. Both in the densely populated Ovambo region in the north and in the commercial farming areas, overuse of land has reduced tree and bush cover, compacted soils, led to serious erosion, and lowered the water table by as much as 100 feet in the 20th century.
Namibia is located on the southern margin of the tropics and has distinct seasons. The coast is cooled by the Benguela Current (which carries with it the country's rich and recovering fish stocks) and averages less than 2 inches (50 millimetres) of rainfall annually. The Central Plateau and the Kalahari have wide diurnal temperature ranges, more than 50 °F (30 °C) on summer days and less than 20 °F (10 °C) in winter. In Windhoek, on the plateau, the average temperature for December is 75 °F (24 °C), and the average maximum 88 °F (31 °C). In July these averages are 55 °F (13 °C) and 68 °F (20 °C), respectively. Humidity is normally low, and rainfall increases from about 10 inches (250 millimetres) on the southern and western parts of the plateau to about 20 inches in the north-central part and more than 24 inches on the Caprivi Strip and Otavi Mountains. However, rainfall is highly variable, and multiyear droughts are common. In the north and adjacent to mountains, groundwater is as important as—but only slightly less variable than—rainfall. Kalahari rainfall—in its Namibian portion—is not radically different from that of the plateau, but, except in the northern Karstveld and isolated artesian areas, groundwater is less available.
Plant and animal life
Both the Namib and Kalahari deserts are characterized by exotic, fragile desert plants. The mountains are sparsely wooded, and the plateau is predominantly scrub bush and grass. Trees are much more frequent in the north. Varieties of aloe are common throughout the plateau and the less sandy portions of the Kalahari.
Namibia is richly endowed with game, albeit poaching has seriously diminished it in parts of the north. Throughout the ranching zone, game (notably antelope and giraffes) coexists with cattle and sheep. The Etosha Pan in the north is a major game area and tourist attraction.
Namibia has established several parks and reserves to celebrate and protect its rich plant and animal life. These include Etosha National Park, Skeleton Coast Park, Namib Naukluft Park, and Sperrgebiet National Park. |Ai-|Ais and Fish River Canyon Park, along Namibia's southern border, merged with South Africa's Richtersveld National Park in 2003 to form the |Ai-|Ais–Richtersveld Transfrontier Park.
Settlement patterns
Less than 1 percent of the country is estimated to be arable, though almost two-thirds is suitable for pastoralism. Wasteland (mountain and desert) and bush or wooded savanna, plus a small forest zone, constitute the remainder.
About half of the entire population live in the far north, roughly 15 percent in the commercial ranching areas north and south of Windhoek, 10 percent in central and southern ex-black homelands, more than 10 percent in Greater Windhoek, and the remainder in coastal towns and inland mining towns. More than one-third of the total population live in urban areas. Namibia's population is young—some two-fifths are 16 years of age or younger—and is growing at a relatively modest rate compared with those of other African countries.
Ethnic and linguistic composition
About 85 percent of Namibians are black, 5 percent of European ancestry, and 10 percent, in South African terminology, Coloured (Cape Coloured, Nama, and Rehobother). Of the black majority, about two-thirds are Ovambo, with the Kavango, the Herero, the Damara, and the Caprivian peoples following in population size. Other ethnic groups have much smaller populations. Afrikaners and Germans constitute two-thirds and one-fifth of the European population, respectively. Most ethnic Europeans are Namibian citizens, though some have retained South African citizenship.
English is the national language, though it is the home language of only about 3 percent of the population. Ovambo languages are spoken by more than 80 percent of the population, followed by Nama-Damara with about 6 percent. Kavango and Caprivian languages and Herero, as well as Afrikaans, constitute about 4 percent of home languages. Many Namibians speak two or more indigenous languages and at least a little of two of the three European languages (English, Afrikaans, German) in common use.
Some 80 to 90 percent of the population at least formally adheres to a Christian confession. About one-half of the population is Protestant, most of whom are Lutheran. Roman Catholics constitute almost one-fifth of the population. Smaller Christian denominations include Dutch Reformed, Anglican, African Methodist Episcopal, Methodist, and Presbyterian groups. A small segment of the population adheres to traditional beliefs.
Namibia's annual rate of population growth is approximately 2 percent. The average life expectancy is about 63 years. The country has a young population, almost two-fifths of the population being under age 15 and more than one-fourth between the ages of 15 and 29. Infant mortality remains a serious problem, but the overall rate is about average for countries in southern Africa and is below that of most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Like almost all other human welfare indicators, the black-white disparity in demographics is very high—a legacy, in large part, of the South African occupation regime's practice of apartheid.
Slightly more than half of Namibia's population is rural. Internal migration is primarily from rural to urban areas, a result of rural poverty, war dislocation, and removal of residence restrictions. Many exiles returned to the country after independence, while some 10,000 Europeans and almost as many black South African hired troops and auxiliaries departed.
Nominally, Namibia is a lower-middle-income economy with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) that is significantly above average for countries in sub-Saharan Africa. But that summary is misleading. Only one-quarter of all Namibians and only one-sixth of black Namibians have adequate incomes; up to two-thirds live in abject poverty with limited access to public services. Economic growth remains problematic because of a shrinking productive sector, lack of capital stock, and severe world market problems for base metals and uranium oxide. Furthermore, the prudent fiscal policy instituted by the government after independence means that, unless foreign assistance commitments rapidly turn into large actual inflows and private external investment in mining, manufacturing, and fishing emerges, the one segment of the GDP that grew rapidly in the 1980s will decline. Superimposed on these factors are near-stagnant wage employment and the collapse of the local economy that arose owing to the presence of South African troops and, later, UNTAG units in the northern towns.
Agriculture and fishing
Commercial farming (undertaken predominantly by white settlers) is concentrated on the production of Karakul sheep and beef for export. It has been damaged by drought and drops in world prices, but in the early 1990s Karakul prices, a commitment by the European Community (EC) to purchase beef, and relatively good weather improved short-term prospects. Crop raising is a distinctly secondary activity on commercial farms, but it is almost coequal with livestock production on small African family farms (many of which operate at sub-subsistence level and are headed by women) in the north. Rural development efforts aimed at small farmers and a 1991 land conference to explore land policy point to agricultural improvements in favour of black (and female) farmers, but major results are expected only in the medium term. The 11 percent of GDP produced by the agricultural sector contrasts sharply with the 35 percent of Namibians dependent on it for employment.
Fishing is limited by depleted stocks. Better conservation controls and a 200-mile exclusive economic zone have improved its outlook. By 1990 it accounted for more than 3 percent of the GDP.
Mining is central to the economy: it accounts for just under 30 percent of the GDP, though less than 10 percent of the labour force is employed in this sector. Diamonds, uranium oxide, and base metals dominate mining; however, gold and natural gas are increasingly significant, and oil production (offshore and in the Etosha basin) is potentially so. Namibia supplies about 30 percent of the world diamond output, but the value of this contribution varies with world prices. Uranium production is also important, but the key Tsumeb/Matchless mine complex near Windhoek faces problems in reaching new ore bodies, and new mines are needed to avert loss of output in the medium term. Other important minerals include tin, lithium, lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, tungsten, and silver. While the offshore Kudo natural gas field is proven, development will be costly. The appropriate uses appear to be domestic ammonia-urea production or sale to South Africa.
Manufacturing produces about 5 percent of the GDP. It is dominated by meat and fish processing, brewing, and light engineering work (especially metal fabrication). Strategic growth areas include light engineering, building materials, and salt- and natural-gas-based chemical processing, plus import substitution and consumer goods.
Tourism began to expand in the 1990s, and, given the beauty and diversity of the landscape—especially on the coast, at Etosha, and in the Fish River Canyon—its development may be significant.
Finance and trade
Two commercial banks, First National Bank of Southern Africa and Standard Bank Namibia (subsidiaries of South African parent companies), account for most banking business. Reorganization of land, housing, and development banks was begun after independence. The Central Bank of Namibia launched an independent currency, the Namibian dollar, to replace the South African rand in the mid-1990s.
Exports constitute up to 90 percent of the goods produced. Diamonds; uranium oxide; meats, furs, and other animal products; base metals; fish; and gold are shipped to South Africa, other neighbouring countries, and western Europe.
Imports originate predominantly in South Africa as a result of long-standing business links, proximity, and, until 1992, Namibia's membership in the Southern African Customs Union. Major imports include food, consumer goods, fuel, and capital goods.
Transportation is dominated by Trans-Namib, a public-sector rail, road, and airline operator. Transport infrastructure is reasonably good, with main routes through the Caprivi Strip (and thence to Zambia and Zimbabwe) and to Botswana being upgraded. Air Namibia flies to national and regional destinations and to Europe. There is an international airport at Windhoek. A handful of large road-transport companies compete with larger numbers of small haulers.
Administration and social conditions
Namibia is a republic. The country's constitution, which took effect at independence in 1990 and has since been amended, is highly rights-conscious and aimed at achieving a durable separation of powers. Executive power is vested in the president, who serves as head of state and government and is directly elected to a five-year term, the vice president, who is appointed by the president, and the cabinet, which consists of the prime minister and other ministers who are also appointed by the president.
Legislative power is vested in the bicameral Parliament. The National Assembly is constituted to initiate and pass legislation. It consists of 96 members who are directly elected to five-year terms under universal adult suffrage and up to 8 members who are appointed by the president and do not have voting rights. The second house, the National Council, serves in an advisory capacity on legislative matters and comprises three representatives from each of Namibia's 14 administrative regions. National Council members are elected by Regional Councils and serve six-year terms.
The judicial system comprises the Supreme Court, the High Court, and lower courts.
Internationally, Namibia hastened to join regional organizations (e.g., the Southern African Development Coordination Conference and the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union) as well as global bodies (the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the EC Lomé Conventions, and the Commonwealth). Its relations with South Africa have been pragmatic and surprisingly noncontentious (on the South African side as well).
The government offers seven years of primary education and five years of secondary education. Primary education is compulsory and may be completed between the ages 6 and 16. More than 80 percent of all children of age for primary education are enrolled in school—a figure higher than that in many African countries.
With more than 80 percent of its adult population literate, Namibia has one of the highest rates of literacy in sub-Saharan Africa. Various informal adult education programs have been implemented to combat the remaining illiteracy. Higher education is provided by the University of Namibia and the Polytechnic of Namibia, both located in Windhoek, and four teacher-training colleges.
Health and welfare
Most Namibians are poor—about half of the population falls below the poverty line—and nutritional standards are low. Undernutrition and malnutrition are problematic, especially among children. Formal wage employment engages less than half of the workforce, and unemployment is high. An unfortunate legacy of Namibia's colonial past is apparent in the income disparity between blacks and whites, whose average incomes are several times higher than those of black Namibians.
Namibia has one of the best health care systems in Africa, as measured by both its population-to-doctor and its population-to-hospital-bed ratios. Emphasis is placed on primary and preventative health services, and the country's system of regional hospitals and mobile clinics has attempted to raise the level of services available in rural locations.
The AIDS epidemic is a serious problem in Namibia. The country has one of the highest infection rates in the world: by 2000 one in five adults was infected, and the number of HIV/AIDS cases overwhelmed the government's health care system. To curb the spread of the disease, the government developed prevention and treatment strategies and in 2003 began offering free antiretroviral treatment.
Women and children, being the most disadvantaged groups, have received special attention in social policy. In the case of women, ending legal and social discrimination and improving access to education, land, and employment are stated goals toward which some action has begun. The government has also sought to meet the child health, education, nutrition, and other goals adopted by the 1990 World Summit on Children.
Cultural life
Namibian cultures are diverse. Just as the culture of the Afrikaners differs significantly from that of the German-speaking community and as both of those cultures differ from that of the more varied technical-assistance community, so do African and Creole cultures differ. The Rehobothers closely resemble the rural Afrikaner culture of the mid-20th century, while the Nama have more in common with the other pastoral black communities, and the "Cape Coloured" have a distinct urban culture with both black and European elements. The northern black cultures—while distinctive as to language and forms of music and dance—formed out of a mixed farming context unlike that of the Damara and Herero. The San are a tragic case. Their culture was ruined by ranch serfdom and wartime exploitation as trackers, and efforts to rebuild from the fragments have been limited by lack of knowledge, resources, and space as well as by the paternalism of many of their self-appointed "guardians."
With the exception of the San, Namibian cultures appear to be alive and evolving, not least in the urban areas. However, rising unemployment may lead to the breakdown of neighbourhood and other social groupings and to the anomie and lawlessness that characterize the townships of many southern African cities, notably in both Zambia and South Africa. The black cultures are not well supported by formal institutions or the government, owing both to doubts as to what would enable rather than smother their development and to a lack of fiscal resources.
A number of holidays and festivals are observed, most of which are religious or historic in significance, albeit not necessarily of specific current content. Sports are popular among both spectators and participants. A wide variety of sports are followed by the white communities, but the black communities concentrate on football (soccer).
Radio and television broadcasting services are government-owned, as is one daily newspaper. All appear to have substantial intellectual and programmatic freedom. A fluctuating band of party, semiparty, and (in one case) independent newspapers exist and are not subject to censorship, but the survival of most is in doubt for economic reasons. They are supplemented by an array of religious, trade union, and other specialized papers that also have complete freedom of expression.Reginald Herbold Green
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Kalahari Desert>Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province in South Africa. In the southwest it merges with the Namib, the coastal desert of Namibia. The Kalahari's longest north–south extent is roughly 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres), and its greatest east–west distance is about 600 miles;…
Zambezi River…boundaries of six countries—Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique—and the use of its waters has been the subject of a series of international agreements.…
veld: Physiography…Northern Cape province, and in Namibia. Its boundaries are not as well defined as are those for the Highveld, but generally it lies at an altitude between 2,000 and 4,000 feet (600 and 1,200 metres) above sea level. In Zimbabwe to the northeast, the Middleveld also consists of the land…
Namib>Namibia to the Olifants River in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It reaches inland 80 to 100 miles (130 to 160 km) to the foot of the Great Escarpment. The southern portion merges with the Kalahari on the plateau atop the escarpment. Its…
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ICD-10 Diagnosis Code M00.279
Other streptococcal arthritis, unspecified ankle and foot
Diagnosis Code M00.279
Short Description: Other streptococcal arthritis, unspecified ankle and foot
Long Description: Other streptococcal arthritis, unspecified ankle and foot
This is the 2019 version of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code M00.279
Valid for Submission
The code M00.279 is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (M00–M99)
Version 2019 Billable Code
Information for Medical Professionals
The diagnosis code M00.279 is grouped in the following Diagnostic Related Group(s) (MS-DRG V35.0)
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- 711.07 - Pyogen arthritis-ankle (Approximate Flag)
- 711.07 - Pyogen arthritis-ankle (Combination Flag)
- 041.09 - Other streptococcus (Combination Flag)
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Infectious Arthritis
Also called: Septic arthritis
Most kinds of arthritis cause pain and swelling in your joints. Joints are places where two bones meet, such as your elbow or knee. Infectious arthritis is an infection in the joint. The infection comes from a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection that spreads from another part of the body. Symptoms of infectious arthritis include
- Intense pain in the joint
- Joint redness and swelling
- Chills and fever
- Inability to move the area with the infected joint
One type of infectious arthritis is reactive arthritis. The reaction is to an infection somewhere else in your body. The joint is usually the knee, ankle, or toe. Sometimes, reactive arthritis is set off by an infection in the bladder, or in the urethra, which carries urine out of the body. In women, an infection in the vagina can cause the reaction. For both men and women, it can start with bacteria passed on during sex. Another form of reactive arthritis starts with eating food or handling something that has bacteria on it.
To diagnose infectious arthritis, your health care provider may do tests of your blood, urine, and joint fluid. Treatment includes medicines and sometimes surgery.
- Fungal arthritis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- HLA-B27 antigen (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Reactive arthritis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Septic arthritis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Viral arthritis (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Streptococcal Infections
Also called: Strep
Strep is short for Streptococcus, a type of bacteria. There are two types: group A and group B.
Group A strep causes
- Strep throat - a sore, red throat. Your tonsils may be swollen and have white spots on them.
- Scarlet fever - an illness that follows strep throat. It causes a red rash on the body.
- Impetigo - a skin infection
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Cellulitis and necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease)
Group B strep can cause blood infections, pneumonia and meningitis in newborns. A screening test during pregnancy can tell if you have it. If you do, I.V. antibiotics during labor can save your baby's life. Adults can also get group B strep infections, especially if they are elderly or already have health problems. Strep B can cause urinary tract infections, blood infections, skin infections and pneumonia in adults.
Antibiotics are used to treat strep infections.
NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Ecthyma (Medical Encyclopedia)
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- Group B streptococcal septicemia of the newborn (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Group B streptococcus - pregnancy (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Perianal streptococcal cellulitis (Medical Encyclopedia)
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- Scarlet fever (Medical Encyclopedia)
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General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.
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The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement.


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Snow-Search Japan Now Available in JapanJan 01 (Sat ), 2011
Snow-Search Japan, the award winning guidebook to skiing and snowboarding in Japan by WSG Media, is now available to be purchased in Japan from Outdoor Japan Media, the exlusive distributor in Japan.
The will soon be available in bookstores in Japan as well as a growing number of snow sports shops in resort areas in Japan. The book can also be purchased directly via Outdoor Japan Media. More details at www.outdoorjapan.com/snowsearch


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The information in this article, Baking Bread and Why You Should Do It, has been updated and incorporated into an all-new, enhanced article.
Simple Comforts: How and Why You Should Make Your Own Bread
The information in this article, Baking Bread and Why You Should Do It, has been updated and incorporated into an all-new, enhanced article.
Updated Aug 18, 2016
Published Mar 7, 2011
I grew up and attended school in the Greater Seattle area. After spending many years as an executive in the software industry, I started a specialized accounting practice offering contract CFO work to emerging high tech and service industries. Awhile back I abandoned city life and moved to a serenely beautiful rural area on on San Juan Island in NW Washington State.These days I call Arizona home and am actively pursuing the purchase of a mountain retreat along the Mogollon Rim.As you may have noticed, I am a bit of a glamourista but hope you do not hold that against. me. My bug out bag includes makeup and other items to make me look and feel good if SHTF.
Nothing beats home made bread. Nothing.
I've been making bread for the past 10 years, and cannot imagine going back to store bought processed plastic bread.
Bread is the reason I buy flour 100lbs at a time. We go through 3 loaves a week, and Monday is designated "bread day" in our house.
Besides, bread doughs can easily be turned into pizza crusts-roll flat, and top-or cinnamon buns-roll flat, add sugar and cinnamon mixture, roll, proof and bake-or regular buns. I have even deep fried flattened pieces, brushed them with a bit of butter and added toppings-cinnamon sugar, garlic, or parmasan cheese-for a tasty treat.
Yep, home made bread is, IMHO, the only way to go!
The bread sounds yummy, but I just want to mention that there are nutritionists that say that too much bread in our diet is a possible cause of muscle and bone loss. It has to do with PRAL (potential renal acid load.) Grains (and many proteins) cause a lot of acid in your bloodstream and your body leaks bone and muscle to make your system more alkaline. The best thing to counteract the acid is to eat lots of vegetables and fruits, which are alkaline. I read about this in Nutrition Action Newsletter, Nov. 2010.
I found that "Artisan Bread" book several months ago;agree completely, no-brainer, artisanal bread. I figured out how to copy the $6./loaf cranberry-pecan bread from a local baker and I think mine is better! Do it!
Since you mention being able to bake this bread during, shall we say, an interruption in the current program, shouldn't we also consider the availability of store bought yeast?
I'm wondering how to use this recipe with a sourdough starter? It seems like the bucket 'sponge' is very similar to the sourdough starter: pull out a cup of starter to make bread with, then replace it with flour/water back to the fridge for up to two weeks…
I would love to be able to make these breads with a sourdough starter!
Look up No Knead Sourdough on youtube and there's a video there from a woman who used her own wild sourdough starter …quick search and I found it…. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1JKiP8pd8
I like the idea of no-knead sourdough. The more we learn to do for ourselves, the better. I already make bread at home, but have yet to try a no-knead recipe or any sourdoughs. Sourdough is good for some things other than bread. I have had some great sourdough biscuits, and once my in-laws served us breakfast at their house and made sourdough waffles. They were fabulous. Maybe it is time for me to give it a try.
FYI: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, has info on his site regarding unsprouted grains having enzymes that negatively affect our health because they interfere with digestion. Check it out.
Peace Love Joy & Harmony,
P.S. Thanks for the easy-to-make bread info.
There were some errors in the first printing of their book that are corrected here:
For instance, it should be 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt and not tablespoons.
I remember my grandpa making bread when I was little. When I first started prepping, and conserving so that I could afford to prep, making my own bread was one of the first things I learned to do. My family actually eats it instead of letting it get moldy.
I would like to suggest a solar oven. Whether it is for when the power goes out or when it is too hot to turn the oven on inside, it is a wonderful alternative. Baking time for bread is same as in the oven.


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The text on this page makes a number of claims that are difficult if not impossible to verify. They should be removed as soon as possible. While a description of the features of this product is fine, a sales brochure is not. Jessek 14:51, 6 July 2007 (PDT)
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text: RoseMary Shell gave up an $81,000 a year job in Pensacola, Florida to move in with her fiance, Wayne Gibbs in Gainesville, Georgia. A few days before they were to be married in early 2007, Wayne left RoseMary a 'Dear John' letter in the bathroom (is that better or worse than a break up Post-it??) and instead of getting mad, RoseMary got even. She sued Wayne for breach of contract and just yesterday was awarded $150,000 for her troubles. RoseMary and her lawyer were on the Today show this morning, gabbing with Meredith about the settlement. The best part? Bitch still has the ring, and she's sure as hell hocking it. Clip above. Jury Awards Jilted Bride $150,000 [Gainesville Times]


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I really didn't want to write another column that hinges on the notion of a war between the genders.
But our front-page story Sunday — on legal challenges by students punished for campus sexual assaults — raises such provocative questions, I just couldn't help myself.
University officials around the country are ratcheting up efforts to protect female students by reining in sexual misconduct. But as Times reporter Teresa Watanabe explained, that campaign is raising concern about the rights of the accused.
Young women have long complained that their reports of sexual violations weren't taken seriously enough, that campus investigations were half-hearted and discipline was lax.
Now men are claiming that the adjudication process doesn't give them a fair shot; what they contend are consensual sex acts their universities consider assaults.
Our story — with details from cases at Vassar, Duke, the University of Michigan and Occidental College — highlights the combustible mix of sex and alcohol, and illustrates colleges' clumsy efforts to regulate the messy tangle of student sexual encounters.
What do you do when two young people — both drunk and amorous — have sex that neither completely remembers, both belatedly regret and each sees through a different lens the morning after?
In my day, we called that a lesson; you might cry privately, commiserate with friends, and then life goes on.
Today, we call that a crime; lives unravel, lawyers intervene and years of therapy ensue.
The attention to sexual assaults on campus is overdue. It took a surge of complaints by female students, fed up with being ignored, to get federal officials to pressure universities to protect the victims of sexual violence and kick rapists off campus.
But the broad-brush measures being established now may ultimately create as many problems as they solve.
Some schools define sexual assault so broadly, the term encompasses everything from grinding on the dance floor to rape at knife point. Many rely for resolving misconduct complaints on untrained advisors and a process tilted toward the presumption of guilt.
And rules that make sense in criminal courts — where you can't use being drunk as a defense for breaking the law — play out differently on campuses where binge drinking and sexual hookups are commonplace.
Most of the focus has been on ensuring that sexual encounters are consensual. The California Legislature is poised to approve a measure that sets parameters for that: State colleges would have to adopt policies that require "an affirmative, unambiguous and conscious decision by each party to engage in mutually agreed upon sexual activity."
But the details our reporter unearthed show how murky that concept can be.
The Occidental case involved two freshman students — 17 and 18 — who had sex last fall while both were very drunk.
According to official reports of the investigation, the 17-year-old visited a classmate's dorm room, took off her shirt while dancing and made out with the young man. Then she left and returned later, after texting to make sure he had a condom. Her friends tried, several times that night, to walk her back to her room. But she kept texting and sneaking out again.
The next day, she couldn't remember if she and the young man had intercourse. A week later, she made a "sexual misconduct" complaint with university officials after she was encouraged by an activist professor who helped create the Occidental Sexual Assault Coalition.
No criminal charges were filed; the Los Angeles County district attorney's office concluded both were "willing participants exercising bad judgment."
Occidental concluded essentially the same thing. Its investigative report acknowledged that the young woman "engaged in conduct and made statements that would indicate she consented to sexual intercourse." But she "did not have the capacity to appreciate the nature and quality of the act" because she was too drunk.
The young man, the report said, was too drunk to recognize that she was too drunk to consent — but that didn't keep him from being expelled by Occidental.
In other words, a young man is accountable for his actions when he's drunk, but a young woman is not.
Is that really the message that we want to send our daughters?
It's tough to have a productive discussion about a topic so freighted with conflicting perspectives and agendas.
We ought to be doing more to keep young women safe from predators on campus. Young men need to understand that "no means no," and drunk does not equal consent.
But if we're warning our sons that it's unsafe to get drunk and hook up, why do we think it "blames the victim" if we give that message to our daughters?
The young woman in this case said her life has been upended; she has post-traumatic stress disorder from an hour she can't even remember. The young man, an A student in high school, can't get another college to look past that one drunken tryst.
There's a difference between rape and a regrettable choice. I'm not sure anymore where that line falls. But one thing hasn't changed since I was a university student, trying to navigate the sexual trade winds:
College is about growing up — and growing up means making mistakes, realizing you can recover, setting your own boundaries and learning to be accountable for your choices.
We do our children no favors by making sexual stupidity a capital offense. It doesn't educate men or rescue women; it just turns naive and awkward college students into perpetrators and victims.
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The annual game of should-I-or-shouldn't-I retire played by Brett Favre from 2002 through 2011 has yielded a broader question for Packers fans everywhere.
Should he, or shouldn't he, be on the team's Mt. Rushmore?
On Wednesday's edition of Pro Football Talk on NBCSN, yours truly and the extremely wise (after all, he went to an Ivy League school) Ross Tucker argued Favre should be left off the short list of four all-time great Packers. PFT Planet and the extremely misinformed (after all, he went to an Ivy League school) Erik Kuselias believe Favre should make it.
The official PFT Mt. Rushmore consisted of Vince Lombardi, Curly Lambeau, Don Hutson (Google him), and Bart Starr. Voters replaced Lambeau and Hutson with Reggie White and Favre.
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New Mexico Geology Focuses on Crinoid Fossils of New Mexico, March 31, 2006
by Shawna Carter
SOCORRO, N.M., March 31, 2006 — The New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources recently published the February 2006 issue of the award-winning journal New Mexico Geology, which focuses its attention on crinoid fossils from the Pennsylvanian Period.
Crinoids, which are also known as "sea lilies" or "feather stars" depending on their structure, are echinoderm species known to use suspension methods of feeding, collecting small organisms from the passing ocean current. They have always been an abundant life form in deeper sea water; and, today, there are about 640 species of crinoids in our oceans.
The featured study in the current issue of New Mexico Geology describes more than 40 species of fossil crinoids from the Pennsylvanian Period, which was between 325 and 286 million years ago. Fifteen of these species were newly identified and named in New Mexico.
Based on the study's findings and current knowledge of crinoids, the authors conclude that there were open seaway connections throughout the Pennsylvanian Period between the intermontane basins of New Mexico and midcontinent basins of Texas and Oklahoma.
New Mexico Geology is published quarterly by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR), a research and service division of New Mexico Tech. A subscription to the award-winning journal costs $12 per year, or $22 for two years. Individual issues may be purchased at a cost of $3.50 each. For more information about this or any other NMBGMR publication, write to the Bureau Publication Office, New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801, or call (505) 835-5490, or visit the Bureau's website at http://geoinfo.nmt.edu.


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Is This The Saddest Champion We Have Ever Seen At The Games?
Gymnast Ri Se-Gwang taped the leader board in the male gymnastics at the games overnight but social media was quick to highlight he wasn't that happy.
After pulling off an impressive vault routine, the North Korean overtook Russia's Denis Ablaze and although he initially punched the air, he looked a little dejected during the awards ceremony.
As Ri struggled to hold back tears, he stepped on the podium to sing the national anthem.
Following the win, the athlete spoke to reporters about what victory felt like, saying ''I was filled with joy because I thought I was able to bring a sense of victory to our leader."
When you win a Gold medal but then you remember that you have to go back to North Korea #Olympics #PRK #Rio2016 pic.twitter.com/oOmV6gTbmC— Josh (@jbillinson) August 16, 2016
While it is possible his emotion was triggered by his incredible achievement, a number of viewers had another theory.
Some sports fan claimed that his reaction actually reflected his desperation to leave Kim Jong-un's North Korean regime.
Felt so sad watching how oppressed Ri Se Gwang looked even after winning gold #gymnastics #Rio2016— Sara Cordoni (@CordoniSara) August 15, 2016
One twitter user said ''Felt so sad watching how oppressed Ri Se Gwang looked even after winning gold."
It was North Korea's third gold medal in their history at the games.


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BATON ROUGE — A toll bridge that has been riddled with problems since opening in coastal south Louisiana near Grand Isle has increased its collections by adding a payment lane on site, the chief financial officer of the Department of Transportation and Development said today.
DOTD Undersecretary Michael Bridges said the collection rate has grown by 10 percent since the shift from offsite toll payment kiosks, with fewer people skipping out on paying the travel costs.
However, Bridges acknowledged the change last month at the bridge on La. Highway 1 in Leeville, on the way to the popular fishing and vacation island, also has encountered problems. The glitches include equipment failure, long lines and driver confusion.
"We are working through some challenges right now, and we will be rolling out some additional options in the future," Bridges told the Louisiana Transportation Authority, a state panel that oversees the toll project.
The $161 million bridge was part of an upgrade to a flood-prone area critical to the nation's offshore oil and gas industry, designed to improve transportation and protect the strategic roadway. But it has been prone to problems since its opening in July 2009, when toll collections began.
Toll revenue is supposed to repay the borrowing costs to build the bridge. The costs vary depending on the type of vehicle, with cars and most other two-axle vehicles charged $2.50 roundtrip and the heaviest trucks charged $12.
Until mid-June, toll payments for those who didn't have a pre-paid toll tag had to be made at off-site kiosks, which led to confusion, criticism and unpaid tolls. Last month, one of the loans used to finance the 18-mile bridge over Bayou Lafourche was downgraded to junk bond status because of weak performance on the toll collections.
Bridges said the onsite, automated toll payment lane opened June 20 and the kiosks were shut down. Now, people can pay on the bridge, with cash or credit cards. No one is on site to collect the money; the entire process is through a computerized machine.
The switchover has caused new snags.
Bridges said cars and trucks ran into long lines during peak travel hours and when special events were happening on Grand Isle. Also, transaction times took longer than expected, and problems arose because of weather's impact on the automated toll collection machine, he said.
DOTD plans to add another payment lane in October, and canopies will be used to shield the automated machines from rain, Bridges told the transportation panel.
"This is in my district. It has become a significant issue," said Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, who added he appreciated transportation department efforts to make changes to address concerns.
A new round of complaints is expected next year, when tolls are slated to grow higher to pay off the construction borrowing.
"Terrible timing for a toll increase," Chabert said.
Toll payment lane on La. 1 bridge boosts payments
BATON ROUGE — A toll bridge that has been riddled with problems since opening in coastal south Louisiana near Grand Isle has increased its collections by adding a payment lane on site, the chief financial officer of the Department of Transportation and Development said today.


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Officer: Trayvon Martin target a 'no-shoot training aid'
A Florida police officer fired for bringing targets resembling Trayvon Martin to a gun range apologized to the shooting victim's family "for being used as a pawn in somebody's political agenda" but said the targets are a valuable training tool.
Police Sgt. Ron King denied claims by Port Canaveral Interim Chief Executive Officer John Walsh that King was leading target practice with two other officers and a civilian earlier this month when he asked the group if they wanted to shoot at the targets.
The Port Canaveral Police Department fired King on Friday following an internal investigation, according to port officials.
King, a firearms instructor, denied in a video posted on YouTube that he suggested anyone shoot at the target, which features a faceless silhouette of a person in a hoodie holding a beverage can, a pack of Skittles candy tucked in a pocket. A bull's eye appears on its chest.
Trayvon Martin, 17, was wearing a hoodie and carrying Skittles and a can of iced tea on Feb. 26, 2012, when he was fatally shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, then 28, in a gated Sanford, Fla., community.
King, in his video, referred to the target as "no-shoot training aid" and said it should be used only as an example of a situation where an officer should not fire his gun.
"Using real-life situations as a training scenario is not uncommon," King said.
King apologized to Trayvon's family and to any law enforcement professionals who may have been embarrassed by the publicity swirling around the incident. He accused an unnamed officer of inventing details of the incident to damage the credibility of the police department's leadership.
"I remain a professional law enforcement officer and a professional firearms instructor," said King, who can appeal his dismissal. "I refuse to sit by while others use the Martin family and myself as a way to further their own political and career agendas."
Walsh was unmoved. "I found the entire situation unacceptable," he said. "It is not the type of behavior that I want a police officer to have on both a personal and professional level."
Walsh also apologized to Trayvon's family, which has argued that the black teen was targeted and murdered. Zimmerman says he shot Trayvon in self-defense after being attacked. Zimmerman, who faces a second-degree murder charge, is set to go on trial June 10.
The shooting sparked protests and national conversations on race, gun laws, and the meaning of self-defense.
Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Trayvon Martin's parents, was highly critical of King.
"It is absolutely reprehensible that a high-ranking member of the Port Canaveral Police, sworn to protect and serve Floridians, would use the image of a dead child as target practice," Crump said. "Such a deliberate and depraved indifference to this grieving family is unacceptable. The citizens of Port Canaveral deserve better."
Contributing: Scott Gunnerson, Florida Today


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It has just been announced that Marvel is developing a Black Widow film for Scarlett Johansson.
ScarJo has always been down to do a Black Widow stand alone film, telling Variety in 2016 that was constantly mentioning it to the studio. "It would have to fit in the idea of where they want to go. I'm invested in that character. Marvel is greatly invested in that character. I would like for it to happen under the right circumstances."
Well, wish granted, because according to E!, Jac Schaeffer has been hired to pen a script for the project. It's all still in early development so we'll see who's hands it will end up in by the time production begins.
If that's the case, hopefully, it opens the door to having a Black Widow / Hawkeye 'Budapest' Film, because everyone still wants to know what happened there with those two.
Johannson is also going to be in 'Infinity War' which is out May 4.
Amy Cooper is one with the force and the force is with her.


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They lost a lot of key players this offseason.
Its a good play yeah they lost players and have no recievers past AJ who is always hurt, but nobody is in there way for the division. They can run better than anybody else and have a top tier defense even without Demeco and Mario. Solid play.


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Seven Bulldogs Score At Least Eight Points In Balanced Offensive Performance
HACKENSACK, N.J. — The Yale University women's basketball team used a balanced scoring performance and tenacious defensive effort to remain undefeated on the young 2011-12 season.
Senior captain Michelle Cashen scored 10 of her team-high 12 points in the first half to lead Yale to an 80-51 victory over Fairleigh Dickinson in which seven Bulldogs scored at least eight points at the Rothman Center Monday night.
"Everybody on this team is working hard," said Chris Gobrecht, the Joel E. Smilow, Class of 1954, Head Coach of Women's Basketball. "I am just so pleased with the work ethic that this team has shown this early in the season. They inspire each other with their work ethic. Every player wants to work hard because the player next to her is working hard.
"I am really surprised that we are at the point we are offensively. I didn't think we would click quite as much this early. I thought we would be a good offensive team because we have a lot of kids that can score and we have excellent teamwork, but it is clicking a lot better than I thought it would this early."
Junior guard Megan Vasquez scored all 11 of her points in the second half, while freshman Hayden Latham also scored 11 for the Bulldogs (2-0).
In a homecoming of sorts, freshman guard Sarah Halejian scored her first points of her Yale career. The Wyckoff, N.J., native scored all nine of her points in the second half in front of a boisterous crowd. Of the 732 people in attendance, roughly half was cheering for the Bulldogs and the hometown favorite.
"I have been looking forward to this for a while," Halejian said. "I know everyone at home had it marked on their calendar, so it was really great to see everyone. I am so lucky to have so much support from my family, friends, and coaches. Everyone has been so supportive of me, so it doesn't surprise me that they were all there."
After missing the season opener with a foot injury, Aarica West returned to the lineup and also scored nine points. Allie Messimer also scored nine points, while sophomore guard Amanda Tyson added eight points.
Trailing 12-6 after the opening five minutes of play, Yale used a 17-2 run to pull ahead 23-14. The Bulldogs maintained that cushion through the remainder of the half and went in to the halftime break leading 34-24 despite seeing two of their starters — Vasquez and sophomore Janna Graf — being held scoreless in the opening 20 minutes.
The Bulldogs really weren't challenged the rest of the way except for the opening minutes of the second half. Fairleigh Dickinson (0-2) opened the second half with an 8-2 run to trim Yale's lead to 36-32, but Vasquez drained a 3-pointer to jumpstart a 13-4 run that gave Yale a 49-36 lead and put the game out of reach.
The defensive effort was even more impressive. Yale held FDU to just four points over the final 7:01 of the game, forcing a total of 30 turnovers by the Knights' offense.
"A big part of how these guys get it done is they wear out other teams," Gobrecht said. "That was certainly part of the game plan, to just go at them and try to wear them out. We have the depth to do it. It's really nice to be able have people come in off the bench and do such a good job. We definitely picked it up on the boards in the second half."
The Bulldogs now have a chance to improve to 3-0 when they take on Marist on Friday in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. If Yale returns to New Haven with the win, it will be the first 3-0 start to a season since they opened the 1998-99 season with a 4-0 start.
Report filed by Jon Erickson Jr., Yale Sports Publicity


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Macclesfield Psalter News
Discovery and Acquisition
The Macclesfield Psalter is a national treasure. It is the most remarkable English illuminated manuscript to be discovered in living memory. With the vast majority of frescos and panels destroyed by religious zeal, social unrest, or insensitive restoration, illuminated manuscripts remain the richest and best-preserved witnesses to the refined beauty and ribald humour of English medieval painting.
Completely unknown, the Macclesfield Psalter rested on the shelves at Shirburn Castle for centuries, until the Library of the Earl of Macclesfield began to be dispersed at auction in 2004. As the leading fine art museum in the East of England and the home of an outstanding manuscript collection, the Fitzwilliam Museum tried to acquire the manuscript at the Sotheby's sale on 22 June 2004. It was purchased by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art awarded a starred rating to the manuscript and the Arts Minister placed a temporary export bar on it until 10 February 2005, recommending that every effort should be made to keep it in a public institution in this country. The National Art Collections Fund launched a public appeal to raise £1.7 million on behalf of the Fitzwilliam Museum. In addition to the Museum's own funds and contributions from its Friends, major grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, the Cadbury Trust, and the Friends of the National Libraries, and generous donations from a large number of Trusts and private individuals allowed the Museum to make an offer for the full price in late January 2005. This was a campaign in which no contribution was too small. The support of the public was truly astounding and cannot be measured in figures. If listed in full, the names of donors would fill up a book larger than the Macclesfield Psalter. We are grateful to all of them and honoured to become the guardian of this national treasure.
Conservation and Display
As soon as the Macclesfield Psalter arrived at the Museum, it was displayed in the Medieval & Renaissance Gallery (Rothschild Gallery) between 15 and 27 February. Over 5000 people came to see it. It then received the urgent attention of the Museum's conservators. The manuscript has been in private hands since the early modern period and has suffered from heavy use and subsequent neglect. Its broken eighteenth-century binding had to be replaced with a new structure to provide the necessary support and flexibility for future study and display. While disbound for conservation, the Macclesfield Psalter was digitised in full.
- A full copy of the Psalter is available in PDF format on CD from The Fitzwilliam Museum Shop or our Photography Department
- High resolution images can also be requested from the Museum's Photography Department
- A richly illustrated book on the Macclesfield Psalter, with a brief introduction, and a separate, complete reproduction of the manuscript, with a thorough commentary, are available from the Museum's shop
The conservation campaign presented a unique opportunity for the public to enjoy the richness and diversity of the original. The Macclesfield Psalter was the East Anglian centrepiece in The Cambridge Illuminations exhibition, which showcased the finest manuscripts from the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum, the University Library and the Colleges of Cambridge between 26 July and 11 December 2005. The Macclesfield Psalter received a gallery to itself, with over 60 of its most elaborate pages displayed individually.
After the closing of The Cambridge Illuminations exhibition, the
manuscript was fully conserved and went on public display during the
exhibition 'I turned It into a Palace': Sir Sydney Cockerell and the
Fitzwilliam Museum (4 Novemebr 2008 - 17 March 2009, include llink to
virtual exhibtiion). Having rested since March, the Macclesfield Psalter
will be displayed in the Medieval & Renaissance Gallery (Rothschild
Gallery) from the end of June until the end of September 2009.


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CMEE Under the Stars Benefit & Auction
Saturday, July 8, 2006,Children's Museum of the East End, 7th Annual gala "CMEE Under the Stars Benefit & Auction" 6:00 PM cocktails, 7:00 PM dinner at the Channing Daughters Winery, 1927 Scuttlehole Road, Bridgehampton, NY: The 7th Annual gala "CMEE Under the Stars Benefit & Auction" was held to celebrate the overwhelmingly well received Children's Museum of the East End(CMEE--pronounced "see me") since its grand opening eight months (in October 2005) and over 50,000 visitors ago with an evening filled with music, art, laughter and surprises. CMEE Under the Stars Co-Chairs, lifestyle expert Katie Brown, Jacqueline Lowey, Adeline Neubert & Cynthia Sulzberger (Faculty Member, Hampton Day School), arranged for local artists to design unique tabletop centerpieces to the delight of guests (as well as this photographer and his brother, Chris London). The irresistble red hot rhythms and soulful grooves of CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band kept everyone on their feet with a fusion of rock and roll, funk, ballads, blues, boogie and jazz. MEDIA/PRESS: Roberta Bouer | Winkleman Company |318 East 93rd Street | New York, New York 10128 | tel: 212.996.0443, ext. 16 | fax: 212.996.3538 |e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com | PHOTO CREDIT: ©Manhattan Society.com 2006 by Gregory Partanio |tel:718.614.7740 |e-mail: email@example.com More


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Scared Straight: High HIV Rates Among Black NYC Women Frighten a Health Reporter
My longtime lover and I were driving through Harlem when we passed a billboard that made me want to slam on the brakes and pull the car over. On it were two women -- one Black and one Latina -- their pretty, youthful faces in lights. But under their pictures was a statistic that sucker-punched me: 93.4 percent.
As in, 93.4 of all new HIV cases among women in NYC occur among Black and Latina women.
As in a mere six-plus percentage points away from 100?
"Oh, hell no!" I thought, and then turned to my boo and asked, "When was the last time you took an HIV test, again?"
Letting Down Our Guard
Sadly, the question I posed -- which I certainly haven't always -- is one that not enough of us are asking our partners. According to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, a majority of the newest reported infections among women in that city were obtained during heterosexual sex. And the number of newly infected Black women is on the rise: The latest count (which covers the first half of 2009) is up nearly 2 percent from 2008.
The astronomical figure hits even closer to home for me: Not only do Black women account for more than 66 percent of all new cases (beating Latinas two to one), but the group of sistas getting infected fastest are 30 to 39 years old -- an age when many of us are getting married or are trying to be married. When many of us are having children. When many of us -- myself included -- figure, hell, I've been in this long-term relationship for a while . . . I can let down my guard and trust my partner. Right?
Clearly, wrong.
Three days later, I got my second HIV test of the year.
I went because even though my sexual partner and I have assured each other of our negative statuses, I have never actually seen his paperwork; nor has he seen mine. Plus, even though I'm pretty sure he's not an IV-drug user, and I don't think he's slept with (or is sleeping with) men, I don't know that for sure -- particularly since we are not in a committed relationship. To put it simply, I am at risk. If I hadn't seen that billboard and then thought enough to call the Department of Health to learn more, I don't think I would have fully understood at just how much risk I actually am.
Getting Infected During Our 30s
That made me think: If I write HIV-related stories for a living and I'm not fully informed about my risk, how informed is the average sista?
To find out, I hit up a friend who runs a Facebook community called Married to Me, a mostly Black, women-only group that advocates for healthy living -- mentally, physically and spiritually.
We posed this question to its membership of 2,000-plus women, mostly in their 30s and 40s: Which group has the fastest-growing rate of infections in New York City? The options were Black women, 16-25; Latina women, 35-44; Black women, 30-39; and Latina women, 18-27.
Only seven women ventured to guess, and all of them got it wrong.
The answer is C, but all of them said A, mistakenly believing, as many media messages suggest, that this is a youth-driven epidemic. But because the topic was broached in a safe, nonjudgmental community space, scores of women now have the right answer and are armed, in turn, to empower others. (Interestingly, all four brothers who answered the same question on the male version of the site -- Married to Me for Men -- got it right.)
Real Talk
For me the issue is how am I going to better protect myself, knowing what I now know. Fortunately, my most recent HIV test came back negative, but since a few of my trysts have been unprotected, I have scheduled a follow-up, since HIV sometimes takes up to six months to detect. I have also instituted a firm no-condom, no-love policy with my lover. He is cool with that and even smiled when I opened a conversation recently with, "No more guest appearances for Mr. Condom -- he's here to stay."
My boo says he was tested less than six months ago, but I plan on telling him, "I'll show you my paperwork if you show me yours" the next time we're together. And I've decided that safer sex is a topic I can and need to bring up with other sisters I trust, since it's a part of everyday life. Besides, I can use the encouragement to continue making safe, healthy choices regarding my sexual health.
In the end, I'm realizing, we must be our sisters' keepers. We've got to have these discussions on social-media sites as well as in our living rooms, at the bus stop, in the workplace and at the nail salon. We need to have real talks that include facts and figures. Just as we babysit each other's kids, cook for each other when we're sick and listen to each other's relationship problems, sometimes we just need to ask our sister-friends, Do you know your HIV status? Are you protecting yourself?
Tomika Anderson is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, N.Y. Her work has appeared in Essence_,_ POZ_,_ Real Health and Ebony magazines, among others.


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|Do you know where your variables are?
Re^3: trouble parsing log file...by inman (Curate)
|on Nov 20, 2006 at 20:48 UTC ( #585143=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
The logic is that you are testing the log file for a specific condition. You create a starting condition that assumes that everything has gone well and would result in a green button. The idea is that if you get to the end of the file without hitting one of your two tests then everything was OK.
You read the file one line at a time looking for either DOWN or PROBLEM. When one of these tests work, you set the button response accordingly and use last to leave the while loop and do something with the outcome.
You may only be reading 5Mb of files but this translates into a much larger use of memory. It also involves the computer reading the file line by line anyway as it puts it into memory. If your match is on line 20 of a 2000 line file, your script only needs to read 20 lines and you are done.
If you continue to have trouble, post your code in the replies.
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Story highlights
- Lois Goodman is described by her attorney as "the dean of the tennis officials"
- Last August she was arrested while in New York preparing to work the U.S. Open
- Los Angeles police accused her in the blugeoning death of her husband
- Charges were later dropped, the USTA reinstated her, and she will work this year's Open
The U.S. Open tennis umpire who last year was accused in her husband's death until charges against her were dropped will be back at work later this month when the tennis classic takes court in Flushing, New York.
Lois Goodman, 71, was reinstated as a line judge with the United Tennis Association on December 20, after Los Angeles police dropped their charges, and has worked at minor tournaments in Los Angeles earlier this year, according to her attorney, Robert Sheahen.
"To their great credit the United States Tennis Association reinstated Goodman, almost immediately after the criminal case was dropped," said Sheahen.
U.S. Tennis Association spokesman Chris Widmaier confirmed in an e-mail that Goodman was re-instated in December. "I would only be speculating, but my guess is she is happy to be returning," Widmaier added.
Last August, as she was in New York preparing for the U.S. Open tournament, police arrested Goodman and accused her of bludgeoning her 80-year-old husband, Alan, with a coffee mug, and then fatally stabbing him with the broken mug's shards at their California home in April, 2012.
After a lengthy investigation, authorities dropped the charges in November.
"We received additional information regarding the case," Sandi Gibbons of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said in November. "Based upon this information, we announced that we are unable to proceed with the case at this time. The court granted our request to dismiss the case without prejudice."
The district attorney and police were still investigating the case, and would not "make any further statements that might compromise that investigation," Gibbons added at the time.
Last Wednesday, Sheahen filed a complaint against the LAPD seeking unspecified punitive damages and the reimbursement of $100,000 in legal expenses.
Attorney Sheahen said the suit against the LAPD claims false arrest, malicious prosecution and civil rights violations.
"It was their complete lack of training and over-zealousness. The LAPD seemed motivated by their own twisted need for publicity," said Sheahen.
"They did not go by the book. They alerted the media to the arrest. It was just bizarre how the LAPD went on about it."
As of Monday, the LAPD had not received a copy of the lawsuit, according to LAPD Sgt. Albert Gonzalez.
Sheahen described Goodman as "the dean of the tennis officials."
"She's a really respected lady in her field, at home and in temple and that why the charges were even more outrageous," he added.
Sheahen said Goodman would not be making any statements to the media.