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A year after they both captured the global imagination, the revolutions in Egypt and Libya are now poised on a knife-edge. The sense of hope that followed the departures of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi — the former nudged out of power by the army top brass; the latter eventually killed by rebel militia after a bloody eight-month civil war — has withered. In Egypt, the shadow of the country's domineering military looms large despite the victory in presidential elections of a candidate from the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood. (Many liberals, meanwhile, question the Islamists' commitment to a free and open democracy.) In Libya, the violent overthrow of the four-decade old Gaddafi dictatorship has left behind a fledgling state that is riven by tribal militias, even as the nation held elections last weekend.
Witnessing the upheaval firsthand, photojournalist Sarah Elliott set about documenting those who have had most to gain — and to lose — from the transformations of the Arab Spring: women. The revolutions in both countries, which were aimed at toppling an encrusted, deep-seated authoritarianism, presented women "with opportunities they had never before imagined," says Elliott. Women massed on the frontlines of protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square; in Libya, some were on the frontlines as well — with machine guns.
Yet when Elliott arrived in Libya last August, not long before the fall of the capital Tripoli, she entered a story that seemed — at least as it was being conveyed then to the outside world — bereft of women. While myriad images beamed out of North Africa depicted crowds of men chanting in the streets or strutting around abandoned tanks, "women were totally unseen, they were absent," says Elliott. In Tripoli, she went to hospitals and prisons, civil society meetings and ransacked government buildings, interviewing women from all walks of life and political stripes. Her project includes both a pro-Gaddafi sniper, whom Elliott first encounters on a hospital bed and then at a makeshift prison, as well as a range of women affiliated with the rebellion—including one lady who would smuggle bullets in her handbag and another, a fighter on the front, who named her child after the popular "Doshka" machine gun.
Elliott's photographs blend portraiture and reportage; the testimony of those she documents is important. "I wasn't just snapping pics," says Elliott. "I sat down with them for hours and kept in contact. I want to fully tell their story." She hopes to expand the project from Libya and Egypt to cover the whole breadth of the Arab Spring — most immediately Tunisia, where last year's seismic upheavals first began and where a fragile consensus exists between the Islamist and secularist forces that came to power in the revolution's wake.
(Related: Egypt's Muslim Sisterhood: What roles do Islamist women play?)
For women, much is at stake. The promise of sweeping political change has run up against the realities of conservative, deeply patriarchal societies. In both post-revolution Egypt and Libya, Islamist pressure led to the axing of minimum quotas for women in the countries' new elected legislatures. Fears grow over a roll-back of the moderate gains made by women's rights in the era of the dictatorships, which, while repressive, tended to be secular. In Egypt, incidences of sexual harassment and intimidation — which had a brief reprieve during the giddy days of unity at Tahrir Square — have worsened; many feel increasingly marginalized by the post-revolution status quo. "For women, there's a sense that their revolution never really ended," says Elliott. She hopes to follow them as their struggle continues.
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Whitney Houston Remembered At 54th GRAMMY Awards
GRAMMY-winning artist Jennifer Hudson paid tribute to six-time GRAMMY winner Whitney Houston at the 54th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 12. Hudson performed a heart-warming rendition of "I Will Always Love You." Originally written by fellow GRAMMY winner Dolly Parton, the song netted Houston two awards at the 36th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 1993, including Record Of The Year.
Host LL Cool J led the packed Staples Center crowd in a prayer, while Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow also acknowledged Houston in his telecast remarks.
Houston died Feb. 11, the night prior to the GRAMMY telecast. She was remembered throughout the telecast by other artists including Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt.

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Cincinnati, OH – The Milwaukee Brewers placed pitcher Tom Gorzelanny on the 15-day disabled list, retroactive to May 8, with left shoulder tendinitis following Saturday's 13-7 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.
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CROOKSTON, MN Delano native Katie Schneider has begun a one-year AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) appointment in the Office of Community Engagement.
A 2012 graduate of the University of Minnesota, Crookston, and former community adviser, Schneider received training in Albuquerque, NM Feb. 26-28.
Schneider will assist with community service and service-learning efforts. She will coordinate service days such as Meet Crookston through Service, National Youth Service Day, and MLK Day of Service.
Her degrees are in equine science and agricultural business, but her passion has always been to work with a non-profit organization.
Growing up on a hobby farm with sheep and horses, along with her 14-year history as a member of 4-H, Schneider found herself donating time to help youth interested in horses and riding.
The first time she received a thank-you note from someone following an equine clinic she hosted, Schneider knew that working for a non-profit was her goal.
"When the opportunity to work as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer on the campus opened, I was interested immediately," Schneider said. "It is the chance to get students involved in service and make a difference and for me to do the kind of work I love."
Lisa Loegering, assistant director for community engagement, is looking forward to having Schneider on board.
"We run community service and service learning out of the same office, and having Katie here is an opportunity to develop new programs, new projects, and to really move this office forward," Loegering said.
The AmeriCorps VISTA appointment is for one year, with an option for a second year. Schneider lives on campus and will be working with community service in the residence halls, as well.
Loegering and Schneider will work as a team, but Loegering hopes to have people see Schneider as the face of community service on the campus, which sounds good to Schneider,
"I am excited to get students involved in volunteering," she said. "I know the campus and it is exciting to be back in this capacity. I am looking forward to working with Lisa and building on what is going on here."
The U of M at Crookston has a history of community engagement that began long before the office by that name was established. Faculty realized early on that many of the courses taught on the Crookston campus were best taught beyond the doors of the classrooms.
In 1996, the office of service learning was established and housed under student activities. In addition to coordinating the service-learning program, this office also coordinated community service projects and America Reads.
In 2011, the name was changed to the Office of Community Engagement to better describe the goals and more accurately define the activities. They work directly with local agencies, organizations, and individuals to address community needs.
The mission of the Office of Community Engagement is to serve as a resource for faculty for the integration of service-learning, support students in their development as engaged citizens and scholars, and foster mutually beneficial campus-community partnerships to address community needs.


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You can only throw your vote away on the presidential vote. Where does the electoral college come in? When you vote for federal senators and representatives. Vote for (as best one can) the better guy among them. The popular presidential vote is used only for stuff like: major party status, and federal election funding. So, vote for people you like for president even if they can't get elected, it's good for them.
Somewhere I found a site that polled you on your views on a bunch of topics and figured out which presidential candidate was closest to you (and showed you a comparison to all the candidates, including some withdrawn ones). I'll see if I can find it.
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Matthew 1
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Da genie-ologee of Jebus Christ
1 O Hai! Dis book of genie-ologee of Jebus, son of David, son of Abraham:2 Abraham maded Isaac, Isaac maded Jacob, Jacob maded Judah and hiz bros.3 Judah maded Perez and Zerah wit Tamar. Perez maded Hezron, and Hezron maded Ram.4 Ram maded Amminadab, Amminadab maded Nashon and Nashon maded Salmon. Not liek the fish, lol.5 Salmon maded Boaz, Boaz maded Obed by umpsing Ruth, Obed maded Jesse6 and Jesse maded King David teh king. King David teh king maded Solomon by Hankiez Pankiez wit sum chick that used to has Hankiez Pankiez wit Uriah. Lol, Uriah got pwned.7 Solomon maded Rehoboam, Rehoboam maded Abijah and Abijah maded Asa.8 Asa maded Jehoshaphat, and he maded Jehoram and Jehoram maded Uzziah.9 Uzziah maded Jotham, Jotham maded Ahaz and Ahaz maded Hezekiah.10 Hezekiah maded Manasseh, Manasseh maded Amon and Amon maded Josiah.11 Josiah maded Jeconiah and hiz bros, was bout when they was carryeded to Babblylon.12 And after they was in Babblylon Jeconiah maded Shealtiel, and Shealtiel maded Zerubbabel13 Zerubbabel maded Abiud, Abiud maded Eliakim and Eliakim maded Azor.14 Azor maded Zadok, Zadok maded Akim and Akim maded Eliud.15 Eliud maded Eleazar, Eleazar maded Matthan and Matthan maded Jacob.16 And Jacob maded Joseph. dat wuz alot uv baybi makinn. Joseph was teh mister of Mary, and she maded Jebus, who gets called Christ, liek all teh time. Srsly.17 So all teh genenerayshuns from Abraham to David am 14 genenerayshuns, frm David to gettin lockeded up in Babblylon am 14 genenerayshuns, and frm gettin lockeded up in Babblylon to teh Christ am 14 genenerayshuns. Srsly.
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18 Now, teh burth of teh Christ was liek dis: After Marry and Joseph waz all "We's gonna get marrieded, kthnx", but before dey could had hankiez pankiez Mary was all preggarz from Teh Ceiling Cat.19 Joseph was liek "I has virjn - NOOOO dey be stealin my virjn! Must hied hur".20 But when he was tihnkin, zomg, a BirdCat frm Ceiling Cat was liek, "Oh hai! Iz in ur dreemz, givin u messiahz. Don be scairdy cat. Taek Mary as ur wife - is virjn. But teh Forse is strong in tihs wun, lol! HovrCat is on hur, givn hur feetus, srsly." So Joseph was liek " Oh yey. Iz gonna luv him and squeez him and call him George."21 But BirdCat was liek "No, you gonna call him bahbeh Jebus, cso George bad name, srsly. cuz he save kittehs frum bein bad kittehs. Kthxbai."22 So all dis was all did cuz Ceiling Cat had sed it wud be. Him proffit was all liek:23 "Hay guise, luk! teh virjn is all preggers, and dey gonna call him A-manual", dat be joospeek for "Ceiling Cat wit us"24 Then Joseph walked up, dun wat teh BirdCat frm Ceiling Cat tolded him too, and was all liek "U wit me now lol" at Mary.25 And dey didnt has Hankiez Pankiez til affer dey gets a son and calleded him Jebus Christ. Kthnx.
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Call of Duty's History Lessons
Hank Keirsey wants you to know that he's not a videogame guy.
"I was prepared to hate these guys, these little squirrels who make videogames," said Keirsey, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who has for the last few years served as a consultant on all of the versions of the popular Call of Duty videogame franchise.
Keirsey came by the Post the other day on the eve of the launch of the latest entry in that shoot-em-up series, which has often used real-world battles from U.S. military history as source material. I think he tried to break my hand with his handshake.
Keirsey said he believes that the games are a way to reach a generation of young people who would never otherwise crack open a book about World War II history. Most people don't know about the Battle of Peleliu, he thinks, but if the previous Call of Duty games are any indicator, there might soon be a surge of interest in books about the battles that are shown in the latest game, called World At War.
"Its going to be a tribute to [the] guys who fought in that conflict," he said.
Much of his input over the years, Keirsey said, has involved reducing each game's story dialogue down to "concise grunting noises." In early drafts, you see, the game's writers tend to have the soldiers communicate through somewhat unrealistic "California valley girl" language, in Keirsey's opinion. ("'I think I'll take that bridge! That'll be so good!' Nobody talks like that.")
While Keirsey said he has come to admire the work ethic of those who work in videogames, he still hasn't played all that many, aside from the ones he has personally consulted on.
"I only have so much time in my life," he said.
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The book this post points to at Amazon, The Old Breed, is one of the finest personal histories of WW II. The author experienced the battles of Peleliu and Okinawa as a Marine private who was part of a 60mm mortar team. The reality of the fighting in the Pacific in two of the bloodiest battles is revealed from someone who was eyeball-to-eyeball with death daily. The author was one of the true unsung heroes of the war who did his job and survived to tell about it. I highly recommend the book.
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Jesse Williams – the New McSteamy, Hunk of the Day [PICTURES, VIDEO]
Anyone who's watched 'Grey's Anatomy' since October of 2009 will recognize Jesse Williams as McSteamy's replacement as the hot-and-steamy doctor. While half his air time is spent in arguably intriguing dialogue, the other half seems to be all make-out and topless shots. Clearly, the latter is where his talent truly lies.
Outside of acting, Williams is a baseball fanatic — definitely a plus in our eyes. The actor revealed to ESPN a while back that he's the son of a baseball coach, and since his childhood he's become a man obsessed with the game. No doubt tons more people would start watching sports if Williams decided to play. He certainly has the body for it.


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We know Russell likes to do the little things (Separation is in the preparation!) but did anyone notice the significance of his comment at the very end of his final press conference where he says he'll "probably go to the super bowl, gotta check it out, gotta get used to it, see if we can get there next year."
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William Alexander Stewart --- a groundbreaking linguist who was the "world's foremost authority on Gullah" according to The New York Times (March, 29, 1977) --- died Monday, March 25, in New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University. He was 71. The cause of death was congestive heart failure brought about by adult onset (type 2) diabetes. His ashes will be interred at the National Cemetery in Honolulu.
On the faculty of The City University of New York Graduate Center for more than 25 years, Professor Stewart is best known for his study of "creoles," which are languages such as Gullah that result from contact between two different languages. He was the first linguist to prove that African-Americans who spoke nonstandard English were in fact speaking the remnants of a creole formed from contact between the languages of African slaves and the English of American settlers. He documented certain features of the creole --- such as "he busy" meaning he is busy at the moment; "he be busy" meaning he is habitually busy --- as evidence that African-Americans who spoke nonstandard English were speaking what amounted to a different language, and the demand that they simply conjugate the verb in Standard English would not reflect what the student was trying to say.
Far from having a purely historical interest, however, Professor Stewart's work led to an understanding of how grammatical differences of this separate language can lead to misunderstandings in the classroom. African-American children who speak nonstandard English in American schools were testing far below their white peers in reading and writing. A pioneer of what would later be popularized as Ebonics, Professor Stewart said that language difference explained some African-American children's poor performance in school. (The application of his work to educational curricula is discussed in the attached backgrounder.)
Professor Stewart was born September 12, 1930, to Donna McPhee Stewart and William Carr Stewart in Honolulu, Hawaii. An only child, Professor Stewart grew up in the ethnically diverse district of Oahu. He migrated with his parents to California at age eight. His parents died in a car crash a year later and he was raised in West Los Angeles by his father's parents. He grew up speaking four languages (English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Hawaiian). Drafted into the Army in 1952, Professor Stewart served as a translator in Frankfurt and Paris. He earned a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1955 and an MA in 1958. He was awarded a Fullbright scholarship at the Universidade de Pernambuco, Brazil, from 1959-1960. Professor Stewart's later work would be informed by his own multilingual experience as a child and in the Army.
In 1960 Professor Stewart was a staff linguist at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington, which led to travel in the Caribbean and Africa. By then, he was fluent in German, French, Dutch, Wolof, Haitian, Sranan, Papiamentu, and Gullah, as well as the languages he grew up speaking. His essay "Creole Languages in the Caribbean" was the first study that linked creoles from different origins. He also developed a method for quantifying the use of multiple languages in a society that is still in use today. He co-edited Linguistic Reading Lists for Teachers of Modern Languages in 1963, edited Non-Standard Speech and the Teaching of English in 1964, and developed the Introductory Course in Dakar Wolof for the Peace Corps in 1965.
Professor Stewart made the discovery in 1965 that it was not the vocabulary and pronunciation of African-American vernacular English but the grammar that caused reading problems. By comparing the speech of African-American children and the language of instruction, Stewart realized that the resulting learning problems were similar to someone trying to learn English as a foreign language. In 1968, Professor Stewart became co-director of the Education Study Center in Washington, D.C., which was founded to help ghetto children to read. He was awarded a five-year grant in 1973 by the National Science Foundation in to study how Gullah, a dialect that began in 16th century Barbados, had developed since the Civil War in the coastal area of South Carolina and Georgia.
In his early academic career, he lectured in Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University from 1962 to 1967, and was a lecturer in social psychology at Johns Hopkins University, 1967/68. He joined the faculty of Columbia University Teachers College in 1968 and remained until 1978. In 1973 Professor Stewart began teaching at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York as an adjunct associate professor. Professor Stewart became full professor at The Graduate Center in 1984 (he had been appointed a visiting professor in 1982) and taught courses in pidgins and creoles, phonetics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and forensic linguistics. He was also an editor of the Oxford Student's Dictionary of American English, published in 1983.
Beginning in 1984 Professor Stewart was also called before various state and federal courts as an expert witness in linguistics, testifying in cases like the Caesar's Palace/ Trump Place case, the "Webster's" Dictionary case, and the Minute Rice/Minute Tapioca case. In the 1986 Caesar's Palace case, Trump v Caesars World, Inc., the court accepted Professor Stewart's conclusion that the word "palace" had not become a generic (and therefore unprotectable) term signifying an establishment offering luxurious accommodations and entertainment but rather a term that requires a modifying adjective or noun to transform the literal meaning to a metaphorical one. In 1990 he co-edited an edition of the Annals of the New York Academy of Arts and Sciences devoted to forensic linguistics.
J. L. Dillard dedicated his book Black English to Professor Stewart, who he said made the serious study of African-American English possible.
Classroom applications of the late William Stewart's work on African-American English
To combat the low achievement of African-American children, Professor Stewart promoted teaching of English using methods that were used to teach English as a foreign language. Professor Stewart believed that the failure to teach them as nonnative speakers, and not anything intrinsic to their character, was the cause of their poor performance. He argued that education's focus on neurological or emotional defects, or certain features of a lower-class environment‹such as depressing surroundings, excessive noise, poor childcare, substandard nutrition, physical abuse, the absence of a father‹would not help students to succeed. He wrote that education failed to efficiently or fairly educate "linguistically-different" children and thus contributed to their poor performance.
From there, Professor Stewart published a series of articles that demonstrated how African-American children's failure to learn was due to teaching materials. In his 1966 essay "Social Dialect" Professor Stewart attacked the theory that the English of African-American children was evidence of their diminished capacity for learning. African-American English was then, as it is today, confused with street slang that employs a specialized vocabulary and nonstandard pronunciation. Speakers of African-American English were often regarded as careless, lazy, ignorant or stupid. Stewart recognized that they were speaking a dialect with its own rules, and it was a matter of language difference and not language deficit that was to blame. Thus he was an early observer that test scores reveal the cultural bias of the test and not the abilities of the tested population.
In addition Professor Stewart suggested that teachers be educated in the rules of African-American English so that they could better help their students adapt to Standard English and prepare curricula that reflected their student's knowledge. He also argued that primers used in the teaching of students who did not speak Standard English should reflect their dialect, so that the material would be relevant to the students and that language differences would not interfere with their learning to read. Primers in Standard English did not require white students to learn anything new; the speakers of nonstandard English, primarily poor African-American children, had to learn a new way of speaking before they could learn to read. Professor Stewart developed materials that used the modern methods of foreign language instruction to improve the English of nonstandard speakers, including three primers in African-American dialect that anticipated later efforts to have Ebonics recognized as a foreign language.
Professor Stewart's perceptions of the origin of African-American English and the process of decreolization gave the first understanding of African-American English as the product of historical linguistic and sociolinguistic processes, thus removing it from a contemptuous perception. Professor Stewart's typology of sociopolitical language types continues to figure in most foundational discussions of language and society. Recently, his work with Professor Guy Carden, at Simon Fraser University, on French Creole reflexives made considerable impact and stimulated the debate on acquisition in creole studies.
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The home is located on a two lot private drive and set hundreds of feet off the road. As you head down the long driveway and reach the home you will see a traditional double wing colonial that sits majestically on the lot.
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In the middle of July, Google announced the release of the new Google AdWords Keyword Match Type called Broad Match Modifier in the US. Here's a quick "how-to" and why you'll want to use it.
Until now Google offered three match types:
- Broad Match
- Phrase Match
- Exact Match
How & Why?
For some advertisers, Broad Match is too liberal and Phrase Match is too conservative. What Broad Match Modifier brings to the game is somewhere in between. For example, if you had previously wanted to advertise the term "nike shoes" and only have your ad displayed when the search term included the word "nike", you would have had to use the phrase match terms. This becomes difficult because you need to add many different variations of the terms in order to reach a wide enough audience. With the new Broad Match Modifier, you can now use one keyword: "+nike shoes". This will display your ad for many variations of the keywords and make sure that it always contains the word "nike".
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ICL Challenge III: Dessert
Think of your favourite dessert and turn it into a cupcake. Make one batch (i.e. 12) of cupcakes interpreting the theme of "dessert" in any way you wish…
On the night everyone will have a say in declaring the winner, who walks away with the ICL Winner's rosette plus a cupcake themed goody bag (presented in the much-coveted ICL bag!).
Event details:
Monday 3 August 2009
6.00pm – 8.30pm
Barrowboy & Banker pub, 6-8 Borough High Street, SE1 9QQ
Entry fee: £5 – even if you don't wish to enter the competition why not come along to taste the cupcakes? (Entry fee includes tea or coffee)
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The following Mets were tendered contracts and will go through the arbitration process:
1. Ryan Church (30): Hit .276 with 12 homers, but was ineffective after sustaining a concussion in late May. He's the projected right fielder.
2. John Maine (27): Season was cut short with shoulder injury that required surgery. Reports have him ready for spring training He's the projected third starter.
3. Pedro Feliciano (32): Is the primary situational lefty following the trade of Scott Schoeneweis to Arizona.
4. Duaner Sanchez (29): Had problems coming back from two shoulder surgeries. Acquisition of J.J. Putz takes off the pressure. Was pitching brilliantly before injured in 2006.
5. Jeremy Reed (27): Acquired in 12-player deal this week. Is expected to assume departed Endy Chavez's role.
These players can file from Jan. 5-15. The Mets have to exchange their salary offer by Jan. 19. The hearings are from Feb. 1-21.


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The popular media player VLC is setting its sights on Windows 8 and beyond. The developers are calling for donations to be sent forward to fund further development into hiring third-party aid. This will help create a top quality experience on Microsoft's latest platforms. At the time of writing the project has a backing of £4,532 pledged so far with 252 donators.
With 29 days to go, it's time to empty the pockets and support the team in bringing across the player's functionality to Windows 8 with an aesthetically pleasing interface. But that's not all. As the title suggests, the team is also looking at Windows Phone 8 (as mentioned in the video), which is a huge bonus for owners of new hardware from Nokia and HTC.
Snippet from the project page on Kickstarter:
"This new port will be natively integrated within the new User Experience and will also support ARM-based tablets in a subsequent release In contrast to the built-in media player, VLC for Windows 8 we intend to add support for DVDs and VCDs out-of-the box as well as unencrypted Blu-Rays. All the features known from our current releases will be retained like a full fledged equalizer, video filters and superior support for subtitles."
There are a number of VLC solutions for Windows Phone (with streaming and other functionality), but it's always better for consumers to have official support on the Store. A concept has already been drafted and the team is confident the app will be able to take full advantage of the Windows Store and with the backing of followers and fans, they hope for a speedy arrival. No word on Windows Phone progress, however.
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The Ford E-350 Econoline is part of Ford's successful E-Series and is one of the longest running series of vans still in production today. It is typically used as a utility van, with modifications aimed at recreational use in a handful of versions.
First introduced in 1961 and still available today, the E-Series has been offered in a wide range of models and styles. The series also includes the E-150, 250, and 450. Each is considered a full-size van since the second generation of vehicles first introduced in the 1970's. Changes to the vehicle over the decades have been pronounced, but it has always been a utilitarian van most commonly purchased by contractors, landscapers, plumbers, etc. as a work vehicle designed to tow equipment either individually or as part of a fleet. Prior to the introduction of the MINIvan, this model was purchased as a family van. When sold as a family van instead of a cargo van, rows of seats were installed in place of cargo space; windows were added in the back, as well as other modifications.
Although the E-Series van is considered full-size today, the first models were considered compact with the E-150 and E-250. The E-350 was added later as the E-Series took over the full-size van market and an option larger than the E-250 was needed. The 450 is the largest of the Ford van models today, often converted for use as small buses or to tow larger workloads.
The E-Series is by far the most popular line of vans in the U.S. today, making up 79.6% of total full-size van sales. Of these, over 95% are estimated to be used for commercial purposes.
Despite being used as a family van on occasion, the E-350 has always been known as a work vehicle. It is seen in a variety of industries including construction, home services, telecom and even the news industry; wherever a lot of equipment is needed and travel is daily and often. The transportation industry uses E-Series vans as shuttles when they need more space than a 250 provides. While the E-350 is a compromise in size and drivability, it is often too large to be conveniently parked for long periods in most urban areas. Towing capacity for the entire E-Series ranges from a couple thousand pounds to over 20,000 pounds depending on the model, and the 350 usually is within the mid-range. The most recognizable features are extended cargo space and a bulkier build.
The 2012 Ford E-350 Econoline is available as either a large passenger van with room for up to 15 people or as a large cargo vehicle with greater towing capacity than the E-250 but less than the E-450. The transmission is offered as a 5.4-liter V-8 with an optional 6.8-liter V-10 for additional power. In 2012, the E-350 now comes with an MP3 jack, cast-aluminum wheels standard, and a dual battery system in place of the auxiliary battery is optional. The front grille is larger than previous versions and it features squared headlights. The rear-side doors can swing out to 178 degrees, wider than past models for easier loading or easier entrance in the case of passenger models. Buyers can choose a sliding door instead at no extra cost, and chrome bumpers are also an available option. Sixteen inch wheels are standard. The front has two bucket seats. The rear is fitted with three or four rows of seats accommodating 15 passengers, or cargo space. It comes with air conditioning and options include a multimedia system, power windows, locks and mirrors, in-dash internet, and a navigation system.
Safety features for the 2012 F-350 include: standard front airbags, standard four-wheel disc antilock brakes, standard electronic stability system, standard roll stability control, available backup camera, and available integrated trailer-brake control.
There have been many changes to the E-Series throughout the years. The original 1961 compact Econoline vans were based on the Ford Falcon. These vans were introduced to compete with Chevrolet's Corvair 95. The first generation was in production from 1961 to 1967. The second generation was sold from 1968 to 1974 and featured the first short hood with the engine all the way in the front of the vehicle. The 2012 model is part of the third generation introduced in 1992 known for its redesigned exterior and more powerful engines ranging from the V-6 to the V-8.
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The 2001 Ford E-350 Econoline serves as a rear-drive, full-size cargo van that suits anyone who needs to transport a large group of people or haul heavy loads on a regular basis.
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The Ford Econoline, around since 1960, has sold to more than six million customers.
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The 1999 Ford E-350 Econoline is a cargo van that is often used by large families or construction workers out in the field.
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The 1998 Ford E-350 Econoline classifies as a full-size cargo and passenger van.
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The 1997 Ford E-350 Econoline differs slightly from later models in branding.
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A huge portion of the population is dealing with high blood pressure. In fact, one third of the population has high blood pressure and doesn't even know it! So knowing and dealing with your blood pressure puts you ahead of the game to recovery and control.
Hypertension isn't something you simply recover from, however. It takes a dramatic change in your lifestyle, and increase in your exercise, and careful limitations of specific minerals and sodium. It's also important to take steps to reduce stress and try to take life a little easier to hopefully lower your blood pressure without having to take tons of dangerous medications with tons of side effects (including erectile dysfunction). Furthermore, you'll feel better! Why put your health in jeopardy when you could simply make different choices with your life to make you happier and healthier as quickly as possible.
Lay Off Sodas, Smoking, and Snack Foods
The first step to defeating hypertension is cutting salt, sugar, and excessive caffeine out of your diet. It's important to drink plenty of water instead of soda, because keeping your body hydrated and allowing it to filter salt through your urine excrement makes your blood pressure fall. Laying off of smoking will increase your breathing capabilities so your lungs don't have to struggle to collect oxygen, giving your heart more to work with, to lower your blood pressure. Also, lay off of salty, sugary snacks and junk food. These fatty, unhealthy foods push your body to the brink and make you feel terrible, as well as make your blood pressure skyrocket! Keep your food choices healthy and incorporate plenty of bananas, water, and any other kind of potassium possible. Fruit is also a great way to lower your blood pressure- not only does it contain tons of water and nutrients, it also is a great replacement for other types of foods.
Get More Exercise
Working your heart makes it stronger over the long run. Plus, shaving off weight and losing inches means that your body doesn't have to work as hard to get the blood around your body, which means your blood pressure will be automatically lower. More than that, exercise stimulates a lower resting heart rate, again lowering your blood pressure- really a one-two punch for those having problems controlling their health.
Reduce Stress, Any Way Possible
Are you constantly worried about the next problem? Are you angry about something? Putting all your worries and anxieties on a shelf can be a great help for those having problems with their blood pressure in some instances. Often, people forget how much stress they're under- but having the body deal with it all makes the brain create hormones to make you focus on your problem, as well as raise your heart rate and blood pressure. So take time every day to relax and focus on long, healthy breaths, keeping focused on what the overall goal is- to calm the heart and lower your overall heart rate. Remember that everything is going to be fine, and you don't have to try and manage everything. Taking this approach might help you keep your senses when dealing with large amounts of stress.
It's easy, fun, and very beneficial to your health to get started beating your blood pressure problem now; instead of waiting for it to solve itself in the long run. Taking positive, forward steps; like watching your diet, getting plenty of exercise and reducing stress not only make you feel better and make you lose weight and be healthier; but they also allow you to build a better life from the ground up; letting you take back control of your life.


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What would your GetReligionistas do without the many faithful readers who constantly send us URLs for stories that raise issues relevant our work here? We simply can't read everything that's out there in the mainstream press, no matter how hard we try to keep up with the essentials. But readers see lots of things and often connect the dots that are needed to link news items back to the journalistic terrain that we try to cover.
For example, consider this recent New York Times piece on religion and politics. Here's the top of the story:
A poll of American Jewish voters shows that they overwhelmingly support Barack Obama for president, just as they did four years ago, and that Israel and Iran rank low on their list of priority issues in the presidential election.
The results cast doubt on the claim that Mr. Obama has alienated a significant swath of Jewish voters because of his rocky relationship with Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
"We show no slippage in Jewish support for President Obama," said Robert P. Jones, chief executive of the Public Religion Research Institute, an independent research group based in Washington D.C., which conducted the poll of 1,004 Jewish adults from Feb. 23 to March 5. The margin of error is plus or minus five percentage points.
Support for Mr. Obama is still higher among Jews than among the general electorate, with 62 percent of Jewish voters saying they would like to see him elected, and 30 percent saying they preferred the Republican candidate.
A Jewish reader sent us this email with a note posing this question: Is it possible that a "pew gap" can be seen emerging among American Jews, one similar to that found among the alleged "Catholic voters" and the American population in general? Might the whole concept of a unified "Jewish vote" now be a myth?
In particular, this reader wondered if the divisions among Jewish voters might resemble those found in that familiar GetReligion typology about four camps among "Catholic voters." You remember the one:
* Ex-Catholics. While most ex-Catholics are solid for the Democrats, the large percentage that has left to join conservative Protestant churches (including some Latinos) may lean to GOP.
* Cultural Catholics who may go to church a few times a year. This may be an undecided voter ... depending on what is happening with the economy, foreign policy, etc. Leans to Democrats.
* Sunday-morning American Catholics. This voter is a regular in the pew and may even play some leadership role in the parish. This is the Catholic voter that is really up for grabs, the true swing voter that the candidates are after.
* The "sweats the details" Roman Catholic who goes to confession. Is active in the full sacramental life of the parish and almost always backs the Vatican, when it comes to matters of faith and practice. This is where the GOP has made its big gains in recent decades, but this is a very, very small slice of the American Catholic pie.
Everything starts with questions about worship attendance.
Thus, note in particular that the Times says that Obama commands a rock-solid 60-plus percent of the "Jewish voters," while 30 percent prefer various Republican options.
Those percentages may sound familiar, for those who follow the debates about the declining number of American Jews who regularly or semi-regularly attend worship services. It's hard to pin down a specific number, but various surveys have found that somewhere between 25 and 15 percent of American Jews attend worship services on a weekly basis.
While, clearly, there are religious Jews who remain dedicated Democrats, is it possible that the 30 percent of American Jews who lean right politically are also more traditionally religious and, thus, tend to take part in worship services more often? If so, pollsters need to start inserting questions about worship attendance into surveys seeking insights into the future of the mythical, monolithic "Jewish vote."
This issue actually came up here at GetReligion last year, linked to another mainstream news report. At that time, I wrote:
Obviously there are secular Jews, there are cultural Jews (who go to High Holy Days services and that's about it), there are doctrinally liberal Jews who frequent pews, there are several varieties of Orthodox Jews, etc., etc. I would assume that Obama is doing better with voters in some of these camps than in others. ...
If you are a Democratic Party fieldworker, will you get a warmer welcome at a Jewish community center or an Orthodox synagogue?
So, other than worship attendance, what are the other cultural and doctrinal issues that pollsters need to probe to better understand the emerging trends among the various kinds of Jewish voters? Ideas anyone?


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Oct 26, 2002
Reading here in the forum I fiund that you have said that oral thrush is an early symptom of HIV infection.
How early? 2 months? 3 months?
What is early speaking about HIV infection?
Excuse me to post this message in the Simplifying treatment, but I'm scared.
I tested negative at 2 and 4 months after exposition, but at 2.5 months of the exposition I developed oral thrush. I tried with Nistatine and Miconazole and all goes well until I leave the treatment, moment that thrush grow up another time.
I'm very scared.
Thanks in advance.
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First - there is a lot of confusion about how to diagnose thrush - since thrush is a diagnosis that sometimes is given to white patches and coatings in the mouth or tongue and is caused by something else. So I'd start there - which is to be certain that the diagnosis of thrush is correct. Someone may need to give you a second opinion about the diagnosis - since thrush is uncommon unless there is some very good reason to have it.
If it is confirmed -- thrush is rarely associated with HIV in the first few months after exposure. Can happen but even if it does, it is during seroconversion during which HIV virus levels are high enough to detect on standard tests, and by month 4, HIV antibody tests should also be easily measured. And since you are HIV negative 2 and 4 months after a possible exposure, it sounds like you do NOT have HIV infection.
So at this point I cannot be sure you have thrush - but it sounds like you can be pretty certain that even if it is - it is not an early symptom of HIV. Since you don't have HIV.
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Opinion: Angela Merkel, Can You Hear Us Now?
Assistant books editor Sohrab Ahmari on European countries' feigned outrage over National Security Agency surveillance programs. Photo: Getty Images
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For the second straight year, the national magazine Education Week has ranked Arkansas fifth in the nation when it comes to public schools. It's not that simple.
The magazine ranks states in six categories. Three were updated this year: "chance for success"; "school finance"; and "transitions and alignment," or the way that public schools lead into other areas of education, such as college and workforce training. The magazine used last year's research in the other three areas: "K-12 achievement"; "the teaching profession"; and "standards, assessment and accountability."
Let's remind ourselves that this is a bunch of education reporters looking at a lot of numbers through the lenses of their own perspectives and then guessing. Because they rank Arkansas fifth does not mean Arkansas is fifth.
But while they didn't uncover the undeniable truth, they did create something worth considering, and while Arkansas may not be fifth, it's probably doing OK compared to other states.
The state's education system gets A-pluses, 100 percent, in the standards it sets, how it holds schools accountable, its early childhood education programs, and the way it transitions from public schools to workforce education.
It is because of these areas that you will hear Gov. Mike Beebe trumpeting the state's high rating, as he did, and rightly so, during his 2010 re-election campaign. In fact, Arkansas has been doing well in this survey for a while now.
But you also will hear a resounding "yes, but" from Republicans and some others. They'll be pointing out – and rightly so – that in the areas that really matter, student achievement and chance for success, Arkansas is receiving C's and D's. In fact, it gets a solid F in current student performance.
So is Arkansas doing poorly, or doing well? Yes.
Student achievement and chance for success are why we have schools. Nobody outside education really cares about good policies. Results are what matters. So schools are doing poorly.
However, if Education Week is to be believed, Arkansas' education system is doing well in those areas it can control – policies, programs, the teaching profession as a whole.
It can't control who walks in the door the first day of kindergarten or do much about their lives at home. This is a poor state, and household income is one of the most reliable contributing factors to student performance. Arkansas has high divorce and teen pregnancy rates, though its percentage of children living in single-parent homes, 38 percent, is not that much higher than the national average of 35 percent, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Still, many students lack a stable, two-parent home where someone is available to check their homework and attend parent-teacher conferences. Arkansas also has the nation's second-lowest percentage of adults with college degrees, so there are fewer homes where higher education is a legacy.
Let's be clear that many poor or single-parent families produce fantastic students. Many, many people who don't have college degrees are successful without them and still raise their children to believe that school is important. And schools in pockets of Arkansas have figured out how to thrive despite many of their students coming from challenging circumstances.
But, taken as a whole, these outside issues have a huge effect on how students perform in the classroom, and on how Arkansas ranks in certain categories. They are the results of millions of individual choices and circumstances, and schools can do only so much in response. Public schools are a function of the government, and we all ought to know that there are many problems government simply cannot fix.
So, when it comes to education, Arkansas is both doing well and poorly. Its policies and programs are pretty good, but not good enough, and maybe not nearly good enough. Regardless, aspects of the state's culture make it more difficult for schools to succeed.
It's not as simple as A, B, C.
Or D and F.
Steve Brawner is an independent journalist in Arkansas. His blog — Independent Arkansas — is linked at arkansasnews.com. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com


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PHOENIX -- Though Tommy John surgery was just around the corner, Brett Anderson did find solace away from the mound in the days leading up to his major operation in 2011.
Such comfort was tucked away in the kitchen.
PHOENIX -- Though Tommy John surgery was just around the corner, Brett Anderson did find solace away from the mound in the days leading up to his major operation in 2011.
Such comfort was tucked away in the kitchen.
"Binge eating. Depression eating. What else was I supposed to do? I was going to have surgery, anyway," Anderson said.
The A's lefty reached 250 pounds, not too far off from where he weighed in during the previous couple of years, but certainly not where he needed to be to help himself enjoy a long career once it resumed.
Anderson knew that time wouldn't come for at least another year, affording him thousands of hours to replace his old eating habits with new ones, and to construct a workout routine that would keep him too busy to even think about trips to the kitchen, which before were inspired mostly by boredom.
"There's never a better time to change when you can't do anything else," he said. "It's never fun to be hurt for an extended period of time, but in my case it was probably a blessing in disguise, where it took something like that to realize I should probably make some changes."
"In my opinion, having that surgery was the best thing that's happened to him," an A's staff member said.
Anderson lost 25 pounds during his year-long rehab, a number written about just as many times, if not more, since his August return last year. The inspiring story, magnified by the immediate success he enjoyed during the final months of the season and into the playoffs, has been told countless times. Anderson's finally ready to write a new one.
The southpaw, one of six players dealt to Oakland from the D-backs in the 2007 Dan Haren deal, reported to A's camp on Monday at 225 pounds, right where he wants to be. He's fully healthy, and despite still being just 25 years old, he's being looked upon as the leader of Oakland's youthful staff and is likely primed for an Opening Day start in less than two months following a pleasantly normal offseason.
"It was good to have a normal offseason like a normal baseball player where I didn't have to worry about rehabbing," he said. "I could just focus on being ready and being healthy and getting ready for the season. I feel good, my body feels good, nothing of concern at this point. It's actually weird going into the season feeling 100 percent."
Anderson, who has been limited to 38 starts over the last three seasons due to four stints on the disabled list, celebrated rehab-free days and embraced this normalcy in the winter by not risking the chance of losing it. He remained with his family in Houston, where his father, Frank, a renowned college baseball coach, has settled into a new job as the pitching coach at the University of Houston. He woke early. He got his workouts in at the college campus. He ate mom Sandra's cooking -- "She's not a very good cook," Anderson said, "so it helps because then I don't eat as much" -- and then repeated the same routine the next day.
"Maybe I'll do something fun next offseason," he said.
First he wants to make at least 30 starts for the A's this year, something he hasn't done since 2009.
"The way he finished up last year, we're obviously very optimistic about what he can do for us this year," pitching coach Curt Young said. "You go through that injury and you basically put two years of rehab in. He's beyond that and he can just worry about making his starts, which is good for Brett, good for us."
Anderson won his first four starts after coming back from surgery, posting a minuscule 0.69 ERA while walking just three in 26 innings. He lost his next two starts and suffered an ill-timed oblique strain, before making a seemingly miraculous comeback in short time to pitch Game 3 of the American League Division Series. Anderson allowed two hits in six shutout innings in Oakland's 2-0 win, saving the team from elimination.
"He showed us a lot there at the end, gave us a lot," right-hander Jarrod Parker said. "That's the type of stuff you see from a leader. He may not be very vocal, but he doesn't have to be."
The wry Anderson joked that "maybe my eccentric personality will come out more this year" but safely assumes his role as a leader will likely mirror the one held by the likes of former teammate Brandon McCarthy, who was looked upon with much respect by youngsters by just going about his usual business.
"We're going to have the most boring pitching staff for awhile, with all the young guys, until they come out of their shells," Anderson said, laughing. "You can't get [Tommy] Milone to talk, and Parker is kind of the same way. [A.J.] Griffin's a bit eccentric, but that's about it. I'm not going to be that rah-rah guy, but hopefully guys know they can come and talk to me."
Should they take him up on the offer, they'll likely be able to find Anderson in the weight room, where the pitcher spends a good chunk of his spring mornings on the stationary bike, much like he did while rehabbing next to Billy Beane -- while the A's general manager was recovering from shoulder surgery -- last year.
"I gotta give Billy some credit," Anderson said. "He pushed me, because I would never let him go longer than me. One day I stayed on the bike for an hour and 45 minutes.
"I'm never going to be athletic by any means, but hopefully I've built a durable frame that's going to carry me between starts."


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