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East Africa
East Africa or Eastern Africa is the easterly region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics. In the UN scheme of geographic regions, 20 territories constitute Eastern Africa:1
- Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi – in Southeast Africa included in the African Great Lakes region and are members of the East African Community (EAC). Burundi and Rwanda are sometimes considered part of Central Africa.
- Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia – collectively known as the Horn of Africa.23456
- Mozambique and Madagascar – often considered part of Southern Africa. Madagascar has close cultural ties to Southeast Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean.
- Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe – often included in Southern Africa, and formerly of the Central African Federation.
- Comoros, Mauritius and Seychelles – small island nations in the Indian Ocean.
- Réunion and Mayotte – French overseas territories also in the Indian Ocean.
- South Sudan – newly independent from Sudan.
Due to colonial territories of the British East Africa Protectorate and German East Africa, the term East Africa is often (especially in the English language ) used to specifically refer to the area now comprising the three countries of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.78910 However, this has never been the convention in many other languages, where the term generally had a wider, strictly geographic context and therefore typically included Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan.11121314151617
Egypt and Sudan are also in the northeastern portion of the continent,18 but are usually included in Northern Africa.19
It is the predominantly held belief within the scientific community that East Africa is the single home of the origin of modern humans, but it is debated on that it might not be the original home of the humans who first migrated out of the continent.2021222324
Geography and climate
Some parts of East Africa have been renowned for their concentrations of wild animals, such as the "big five" of elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard and black rhinoceros, though populations have been declining under increased stress in recent times, particularly the rhino and elephant.
The geography of East Africa is often stunning and scenic. Shaped by global plate tectonic forces that have created the East African Rift, East Africa is the site of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya, the two tallest peaks in Africa. It also includes the world's second largest freshwater lake Lake Victoria, and the world's second deepest lake Lake Tanganyika.
The climate of East Africa is rather atypical of equatorial regions. Because of a combination of the region's generally high altitude and the rain shadow of the westerly monsoon winds created by the Rwenzori Mountains and Ethiopian Highlands, East Africa is surprisingly cool and dry for its latitude.
In fact, on the coast of Somaliland and Puntland many years can go by without any rain whatsoever.25 Elsewhere the annual rainfall generally increases towards the south and with altitude, being around 400 millimetres (16 in) at Mogadishu and 1,200 millimetres (47 in) at Mombasa on the coast, whilst inland it increases from around 130 millimetres (5 in) at Garoowe to over 1,100 millimetres (43 in) at Moshi near Kilimanjaro. Unusually, most of the rain falls in two distinct wet seasons, one centred around April and the other in October or November. This is usually attributed to the passage of the Intertropical Convergence Zone across the region in those months, but it may also be analogous to the autumn monsoon rains of parts of Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the Brazilian Nordeste.
West of the Rwenzoris and Ethiopian highlands the rainfall pattern is more typically tropical, with rain throughout the year near the equator and a single wet season in most of the Ethiopian Highlands from June to September - contracting to July and August around Asmara. Annual rainfall here ranges from over 1,600 millimetres (63 in) on the western slopes to around 1,250 millimetres (49 in) at Addis Ababa and 550 millimetres (22 in) at Asmara. In the high mountains rainfall can be over 2,500 millimetres (98 in).
Rainfall in East Africa is influenced by El Niño events, which tend to increase rainfall except in the northern and western parts of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands, where they produce drought and poor Nile floods.26
Temperatures in East Africa, except on the hot and generally humid coastal belt, are moderate, with maxima of around 25 °C (77 °F) and minima of 15 °C (59 °F) at an altitude of 1,500 metres (4,921 ft). At altitudes of above 2,500 metres (8,202 ft), frosts are common during the dry season and maxima typically about 21 °C (70 °F) or less.
The unique geography and apparent suitability for farming made East Africa a target for European exploration, exploitation and colonialization in the nineteenth century. Today, tourism is an important part of the economies of Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles,and Uganda.
According to the theory of recent African origin of modern humans, the mainstream position held within the scientific community, all humans originate from East Africa. 27 Some of the earliest fossilized hominid remains have been found in East Africa, including those found in Awash Valley of Ethiopia, Koobi Fora in Kenya and Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
The southern part of East Africa was occupied until recent times by Khoisan hunter-gatherers, whilst in the Ethiopian Highlands the donkey and such crop plants as teff allowed the beginning of agriculture around 7,000 B.C.28 Lowland barriers and diseases carried by the tsetse fly, however, prevented the donkey and agriculture from spreading southwards. Only in quite recent times has agriculture spread to the more humid regions south of the equator, through the spread of cattle, sheep and crops such as millet. Language distributions suggest that this most likely occurred from Sudan into modern Uganda and the African Great Lakes, since the Nilotic languages spoken by these pre-Bantu farmers have their closest relatives in the middle Nile basin.
Between 2500–3000 years ago, Bantu-speaking peoples began a millennia-long series of migrations eastward from their homeland that is (modernly known as) southern Cameroon across the Rwenzori Mountains. This Bantu expansion introduced agriculture into those parts of East Africa either not reached previously by Nilo-Saharan farmers or too wet for millet. During the following fifteen centuries, the Bantu slowly intensified farming and grazing over all suitable regions of East Africa, in the process making contact with Austronesian- and Arabic-speaking sailors on the southern coastal areas. The latter also spread Islam to the coastal belt, but most Bantu never had contact with Islam and remained animists.
The Bantu expansion was followed by the Nilotic expansion across parts of East Africa during ca. the 14th to 18th centuries.
For the Horn of Africa prehistory, see Horn_of_Africa#Prehistory.
Ancient times
The Kerma culture existed contemporaneously with the Middle Kingdom period of Ancient Egypt. The Land of Punt may have been in the Horn of Africa region, too. There is some evidence of a Queen of Sheba around the 10th century BC near Ethiopia or alternately in Yemen across the Red Sea. The Dʿmt were also from this time period. The Sabaean Kingdom held parts of the Horn of Africa during this time.
Later, the Kingdom of Aksum (or Axum) arose on the coasts of the Red Sea, existing from approximately 100–940 AD. The Himyarite Kingdom briefly held land in the Horn of Africa around 100 BC to 240 AD, when it was re-conquered by a resurgent Sabaean Kingdom.
A lot of the culture and people of ancient times found on the Red Sea coast were originally from the Arabian Peninsula, such as the Minaeans and Sabaeans, who settled coastal areas of the Red Sea. There is evidence that the distance between Arabia and Africa was less than its current 20 mile distance at Bab-el-Mandeb and that people migrated across the Red Sea freely, even in ancient and prehistorical times.
For more information, see Horn of Africa.
Arab and Portuguese eras
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore the region of current-day Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique by sea, Vasco da Gama having visited Mombasa in 1498. Gama's voyage was successful in reaching India and this permitted the Portuguese to trade with the Far East directly by sea, thus challenging older trading networks of mixed land and sea routes, such as the spice trade routes that utilized the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and camel caravans to reach the eastern Mediterranean.
The Republic of Venice had gained control over much of the trade routes between Europe and Asia. After traditional land routes to India had been closed by the Ottoman Turks, Portugal hoped to use the sea route pioneered by Gama to break the once Venetian trading monopoly. Portuguese rule in East Africa focused mainly on a coastal strip centred in Mombasa. The Portuguese presence in East Africa officially began after 1505, when flagships under the command of Don Francisco de Almeida conquered Kilwa, an island located in what is now southern Tanzania.
In March 1505, having received from Manuel I of Portugal the appointment of viceroy of the newly conquered territory in India, he set sail from Lisbon in command of a large and powerful fleet, and arrived in July at Quiloa (Kilwa), which yielded to him almost without a struggle. A much more vigorous resistance was offered by the Moors of Mombasa, but the town was taken and destroyed, and its large treasures went to strengthen the resources of Almeida. Attacks followed on Hoja (now known as Ungwana, located at the mouth of the Tana River), Barawa, Angoche, Pate and other coastal towns until the western Indian Ocean was a safe haven for Portuguese commercial interests. At other places on his way, such as the island of Angediva, near Goa, and Cannanore, the Portuguese built forts, and adopted measures to secure the Portuguese supremacy.
Portugal's main goal in the east coast of Africa was to take control of the spice trade from the Arabs. At this stage, the Portuguese presence in East Africa served the purposes of controlling trade within the Indian Ocean and securing the sea routes linking Europe to Asia. Portuguese naval vessels were very disruptive to the commerce of Portugal's enemies within the western Indian Ocean and were able to demand high tariffs on items transported through the sea due to their strategic control of ports and shipping lanes. The construction of Fort Jesus in Mombasa in 1593 was meant to solidify Portuguese hegemony in the region, but their influence was clipped by the British, Dutch and Omani Arab incursions into the region during the 17th century.
The Omani Arabs posed the most direct challenge to Portuguese influence in East Africa and besieged Portuguese fortresses, openly attacked naval vessels and expelled the Portuguese from the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts by 1730. By this time the Portuguese Empire had already lost its interest on the spice trade sea route due to the decreasing profitability of that business. The Arabs reclaimed much of the Indian Ocean trade, forcing the Portuguese to retreat south where they remained in Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) as sole rulers until the 1975 independence of Mozambique.
Omani Arab colonization of the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts brought the once independent city-states under closer foreign scrutiny and domination than was experienced during the Portuguese period. Like their predecessors, the Omani Arabs were primarily able only to control the coastal areas, not the interior. However, the creation of clove plantations, intensification of the slave trade and relocation of the Omani capital to Zanzibar in 1839 by Seyyid Said had the effect of consolidating the Omani power in the region.
Arab governance of all the major ports along the East African coast continued until British interests aimed particularly at ending the slave trade and creation of a wage-labour system began to put pressure on Omani rule. By the late nineteenth century, the slave trade on the open seas had been completely outlawed by the British and the Omani Arabs had little ability to resist the British navy's ability to enforce the directive. The Omani presence continued in Zanzibar and Pemba until the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964, but the official Omani Arab presence in Kenya was checked by German and British seizure of key ports and creation of crucial trade alliances with influential local leaders in the 1880s.
Period of European imperialism
Between the 19th and 20th century, East Africa became a theatre of competition between the major imperialistic European nations of the time. During the period of the Scramble for Africa, almost every country comprising present day East Africa to varying degrees became part of a European colonial empire.
Portugal had first established a strong presence in southern Mozambique and the Indian Ocean since the 15th century, while during this period their possessions increasingly grew including parts from the present northern Mozambique country, up to Mombasa in present day Kenya. At Lake Malawi, they finally met the recently created British Protectorate of Nyasaland (nowadays Malawi), which surrounded the homonymous lake on three sides, leaving the Portuguese the control of lake's eastern coast. The British Empire set foot in the region's most exploitable and promising lands acquiring what is today Uganda, and Kenya. The Protectorate of Uganda and the Colony of Kenya were located in a rich farmland area mostly appropriate for the cultivation of cash crops like coffee and tea, as well as for animal husbandry with products produced from cattle and goats, such as goat meat, beef and milk. Moreover this area had the potential for a significant residential expansion, being suitable for the relocation of a large number of British nationals to the region. Prevailing climatic conditions and the regions' geomorphology allowed the establishment of flourishing European style settlements like Nairobi, Vila Pery, Vila Junqueiro, Porto Amélia, Lourenço Marques and Entebbe.
The French settled the largest island of the Indian Ocean (and the fourth-largest globally), Madagascar, along with a group of smaller islands nearby, namely Réunion and the Comoros. Madagascar became part of the French colonial empire following two military campaigns against the Kingdom of Madagascar, which it initiated after persuading Britain to relinquish its interests in the island in exchange for control of Zanzibar off the coast of Tanganyika, an important island hub of the spices trade. The British also held a number of island colonies in the region, including the extended archipelago of Seychelles and the rich farming island of Mauritius, previously under the French sovereignty.
The German Empire gained control of a large area named German East Africa, comprising present-day Rwanda, Burundi and the mainland part of Tanzania named Tanganyika. In 1922, the British gained a League of Nations mandate over Tanganyika which it administered until Independence was granted to Tanganyika in 1961. Following the Zanzibar Revolution of 1965, the independent state of Tanganyika formed the United Republic of Tanzania by creating a union between the mainland, and the island chain of Zanzibar. Zanzibar is now a semi-autonomous state in a union with the mainland which is collectively and commonly referred to as Tanzania. German East Africa, though very extensive, was not of such strategic importance as the British Crown's colonies to the north: the inhabitation of these lands was difficult and thus limited, mainly due to climatic conditions and the local geomorphology.
Italy gained control of various parts of Somalia in the 1880s. The southern three-fourths of Somalia became an Italian protectorate (Italian Somaliland).
Meanwhile, in 1884, a narrow coastal strip of northern Somalia came under British control (British Somaliland). This northern protectorate was just opposite the British colony of Aden on the Arabian Peninsula. With these territories secured, Britain was able to serve as gatekeeper of the sea lane leading to British India.
In 1890, beginning with the purchase of the small port town of (Asseb) from a local sultan in Eritrea, the Italians colonized all of Eritrea.
In 1895, from bases in Somalia and Eritrea, the Italians launched the First Italo–Ethiopian War against the Orthodox Empire of Ethiopia. By 1896, the war had become a total disaster for the Italians and Ethiopia was able to retain its independence. Ethiopia remained independent until 1936 when, after the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, it became part of Italian East Africa. The Italian occupation of Ethiopia ended in 1941 during World War II as part of the East African Campaign.
The French also staked out an East African outpost on the route to French Indochina. Starting in the 1850s, the small protectorate of Djibouti became French Somaliland in 1897.
In the Horn of Africa, Afro-Asiatic languages predominate, including Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya and Somali. In Southeast Africa in the African Great Lakes region, Bantu languages like Kikuyu and Kamba are most widely spoken; Nilo-Saharan languages, such as Luo, Kalenjin and Maasai, are also spoken in lesser numbers. Swahili, with at least 80 million speakers (as a first or second language), is an important trade language in the Great Lakes area, and has official status in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. European languages such as English, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent French, remain important in higher institutions in some parts of the larger region.
Until recently, several East African countries were riven with political coups, ethnic violence and oppressive dictators. Since the end of colonialism, the region has endured the following conflicts:
- Northern East Africa
- Darfur Conflict in Sudan
- Ethiopian Civil War 1974-1991
- Eritrean War of Independence 1961-1991
- Eritrean-Ethiopian War 1998-2000
- Ogaden War 1977-1978
- Somali Civil War 1991-ongoing
- Second Sudanese Civil War 1983-2005
- South Kordofan conflict 2011-ongoing
- Southern East Africa
- Burundi Civil War 1993-2005 and the Genocide of Hutus in 1972 and genocide of Tutsis in 1993
- Uganda-Tanzania War 1978-1979
- Ugandan Bush War 1981-1986
- Lord's Resistance Army insurgency in Uganda, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of the Congo ongoing
- Rwandan Civil War 1990-1993 and the Rwandan Genocide of Tutsis
- Zanzibar Revolution 1964
- Outside East Africa with East African participation
- First Congo War 1996-1997 and Second Congo War 1998-2003
- Kivu Conflict (Laurent Nkunda Rebellion)
Kenya has enjoyed relatively stable governance. However, politics have been turbulent at times, including the attempted coup d'état in 1982 and the 2007 election riots.
Tanzania has known stable government since independence although there are significant political and religious tensions resulting from the political union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964. Zanzibar is now a semi-autonomous state in the United Republic of Tanzania. Tanzania and Uganda fought the Uganda-Tanzania War in 1978–1979, which led to the removal of Uganda's despotic leader Idi Amin.
Djibouti, as well as the Puntland and Somaliland regions, have also seen relative stability.293031
South Sudan peacefully seceded from Sudan in 2011, six and a half years after a peace agreement ended the Second Sudanese Civil War. South Sudanese independence was nearly derailed by the South Kordofan conflict, particularly a dispute over the status of the Abyei Area, and both Abyei and South Kordofan's Nuba Hills remain a source of tension between Juba and Khartoum.32
See also
- Ajuuraan State
- Aksumite Empire
- Arab slave trade
- British East Africa
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
- East African Campaign (World War I)
- East African Campaign (World War II)
- East African Community
- German East Africa
- Horn of Africa
- Italian East Africa
- Land of Punt
- Southeast Africa
- African Great Lakes
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Disregarding Manny Pacquiao, if you were to ask the average person on the street what she or he associates with the Philippines, there's a half-decent chance that a dusty lightbulb of recollection might flicker on enough for this person to tell you something about the legendary (and legendarily ill-gotten) shoe collection of Imelda Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines under long-serving strongman Ferdinand Marcos. Following that line of thought, the inner librarian of the mind might just be able to light a torch and guide one down the clammy stone steps to the sub-basement stacks to remember the "People Power" movement that eventually swept the Marcoses from power and into exile. All this tortuous archival exercise is prelude to this: If the Filipino (though now by way of Costa Rica) war metal deviants of Deiphago had had anything to say about it at the time, Imelda's shoes would've been whittled to gleaming points, lashed to poles and fashioned into makeshift pikes and maces and all manner of medieval weaponry, and the entire archipelago just might have been obliterated in the heaving rush of hot death churned out by these three maniacs. People power, indeed.
More to the point, Satan Alpha Omega is a fucking great record. When you first listen to it, your ears will likely complain, but you will just have to remind them that you are the boss, and they are inanimate dangling flesh-flaps. Once subdued by your authority, and further cowed by the assault of this album's 37 seething minutes, your ears will kindly perk up and say, "Gee, that was swell, can we hear some more of those soothing sounds?" Which is to say, one gets the sense that Deiphago's primary mission here is to revel in the fact that they've forced the listener to eventually come to terms with this unhinged squall.
Deiphago's brand of uncompromising noise takes its cues from both the black-tinted reckless thrash of early Sodom and the chaotic melodicism of Slayer's soloing, with plenty of nods to the sloppy-by-necessity conviction of the early Brazilian scene (Sarcófago and Sepultura, in particular). All those gnarly proto-thrash/death/black whatever influences are then chopped, gargled, and spewed out in the bestial war metal template of Blasphemy, Revenge, Black Witchery, Proclamation, et al. Deiphago lives in a musical world where time isn't so much kept as suggested, and guitar riffs bloom bizarrely and unpredictably, spreading in the fecund shadows like a clutch of mushrooms in a moss-blanketed forest.
In attempting to describe Satan Alpha Omega, all words start to feel like euphemisms, or at least like laughable understatements; common adjectives like 'chaotic', 'frantic', 'hellish' simply don't cut it here. This is a dense, buzzing blast furnace of an album, but it nonetheless improves upon its predecessor significantly; after all, to say that Filipino Antichrist was under-produced is a bit like saying the Grand Canyon is just a pretty big crack in the ground. Thus, Satan Alpha Omega retains just enough clarity to convince the careful listener that beneath all the calls to increasingly vainglorious feats of sacrilegious violence, there is being carried out an ongoing argument between savagery and subtlety. Make no mistake, savagery wins out again and again, but the point is that there's more happening here than non-riffs pounded and distorted into oblivion. Case in point: there is, honest to goodness, a weird noise rock stutter buried in some of the riffing on "Human Race Absolute End," and the massively destructive title track jackhammers out some almost (no shit!) Dillinger-ish staccato full-band action amidst its gloriously-committed chorus vocals (i.e., "Sataaaaaaan, Alphaaaaaaa, Omegaaaaaaa!!!"). The middle of "Heretic Oath" takes a little "Raining Blood" tom-breather before diving back into riffmageddon, while "Satanmongers" is particularly ruthless, with the vocalist's inhalations between lines practically becoming an instrument unto themselves.
Ultimately, the seven-minute dark ambient piece that closes the album probably would have worked better as a mid-album breather. It's actually quite well done, and maintains a suitably dark atmosphere, but after the listener's been battered for thirty straight minutes, it's just as easy to shut it off as it is to wade through the drone und clang. Nevertheless, Satan Alpha Omega is a remarkably violent album, even if its violence is intelligently-meted. If blistering war thrash with delirious vocals and fantastic drunken wasp soloing sounds like your idea of a good time, then come on over and we'll have a party. If we listen closely, we'll hear a bunch of extra voices and spectral whispers lurking around the edges of the verses to "Demonic Munitions" and the opening of the title track. I wonder if they're the ghosts of Imelda's shoes, wafting up from behind to claim their steel stiletto vengeance. Bullet belts and ballet flats, from the Philippines to Costa Rica to your grateful, pulverized flesh-flaps. What fun.


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President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney traded accusations on tax policy Thursday, with both claiming at campaign stops in battleground states that the other's strategies have failed.
Romney used a rally in Golden, Colorado, to unveil a simplified campaign message called for by some Republican strategists, laying out a five-point plan that he said would put the nation back on the correct economic path.
The proposals are traditional conservative stances on domestic energy production, trade, job training, deficit reduction and boosting small businesses, with Romney promising that, if elected, he would deliver on them to unleash the full potential of the U.S. economy.
"His policies have not worked. They have not gotten America back to work again," Romney said of Obama, citing 41 straight months of unemployment over 8%. "I'm going to get America working again."
In particular, Romney challenged Obama's call for extending lower tax rates, set to expire at the end of this year, only for income up to $250,000 for families or $200,000 for individuals, which would allow the rates on income above those marks to increase to 1990s levels.
Calling that plan a tax increase, Romney said it would inhibit the job creation needed for economic growth and described the Obama policy as being "like a dog trying to chase its tail."
In Orlando, Florida, Obama attacked Romney's call for more tax cuts as an example of long-standing Republican policy that was most recently enacted by his predecessor, helping bring the recession that was in place when Obama took office.
"They have tried to sell us tax cut fairy dust before," Obama said. "It is not a plan to move our economy forward. It takes us backward to a place we don't need to be."
The president also made a campaign visit to Virginia, while Romney joined Republican governors -- including several potential running mates -- at an Aspen, Colorado, conference.
In a format resembling a celebrity "roast" -- but one with blue blazers and verbal bouquets instead of vulgar put-downs -- the seated governors rose one-by-one to praise Romney.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called Romney a man of "fabulous ingenuity" and "great integrity."
"We need you, we're looking forward to your services as president," said Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma.
"I really appreciate your focus on middle class families," Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell told Romney.
In a hint that Romney's decision on a running mate might come soon, his longtime adviser Beth Myers, who heads up the campaign's search for a vice presidential candidate, will be traveling with Romney to Colorado.
Polls show that Romney and Obama are statistically even in Colorado and Virginia, while Obama holds a small lead in Florida. All three states are among the eight or so considered vital to the chances of both candidates in November.
Reviving the American dream of equal opportunity has been the central theme of Obama's campaign, and Romney's new five-point message Thursday was an effort to blunt the president's middle class outreach.
In general, it rehashes Romney's previously stated stances on energy, taxes, deficit reduction, trade and small business development but offers few details
For example, the energy component involves easing regulations to expand domestic production of oil, coal and natural gas. A conference call by Romney's advisers made no mention of alternative sources such as solar or wind energy championed by Obama, but Romney included continued pursuit of such programs in his later remarks in Colorado.
The tax component came under heavy criticism from Obama, who cited a study by the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center that says Romney's proposals would provide large cuts to the very wealthy while increasing the burden on the lower and middle classes.
Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior Romney campaign adviser, called the report "a joke" on Thursday's conference call, while Romney economic adviser Kevin Hassett said it fails to include the projected revenue increase from an expanded employment base that Romney's policies would bring.
"Eliminating that from your analysis means you're going to have a very, very biased result," Hassett said. Romney officials also complained that one of the study's three authors was a former member of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
In his Florida remarks, Obama ridiculed the Romney team's criticism of the report, noting another of the co-authors was an economist in the administration of Republican President George H.W. Bush.
"They said (the report) didn't take into account the economic growth that would result from tax cuts," Obama said, drawing laughter when he added: "We all know how well that worked the last time they tried it."
Romney calls for cutting today's rates by 20% as well as eliminating the Alternative Minimum Tax and limiting current deductions, exemptions and credits available to top-level income earners.
However, Romney has yet to say which specific tax breaks he plans to eliminate, and the Tax Policy Center report indicated the result of his plan would force the tax burden to shift toward lower- and middle-class Americans.


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"Do you believe that banning certain weapons in high capacity magazines will mean that law abiding citizens will then become more of a target to criminal as we will have no way to sufficiently protect ourselves."
Vice President Joe Biden looks Michael Kress executive editor of Parents.com and quips, "Is this Parents Magazine?"
This is your life…
The vice president explains his theory on home protection:
"If you wanna protect yourself get a double barrel shotgun. You don't need an AR15, it's harder to aim, harder to use and in fact you don't need 30 rounds to protect yourself."
He also recommended shooting it outside to scare away intruders.
So what's wrong with that? Shotguns have been around longer than the AR15.
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Volume 72, No. 3 • 2012 A NEWSLETTER OF THE OKLAHOMA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The University of Oklahoma MEWBOURNE COLLEGE OF EARTH & ENERGY TER Julie M. Chang, OGS Geologist INTRODUCTION The Oklahoma Geological Survey obtained grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to compile and digi-tize geothermal data for the state of Oklahoma as well as to obtain a limited amount of new data. This funding is part of the State Geothermal Data project (http:// www.stategeothermaldata.org), which is organized by the Association of American State Geologists and whose goal is to "bring data from all 50 states into the National Geothermal Data System." In Oklahoma, one aspect of this geothermal project involves compiling old and obtaining new heat production data. Previous geothermal investigations in Oklahoma include Carter et al. (1998), Lee et al. (1994), Luza et al. (1984), and Harrison et al. (1983). Heat Production in Oklahoma: Old and New Data Continued on pg. 2 WHAT IS HEAT PRODUCTION? Heat production in the earth is a measure of how much heat is released by the radioactive decay of elements such as uranium (U), thorium (Th), and potassium (K). In igneous rocks, heat production generally decreases from felsic to ultramafi c rocks (Wollenberg and Smith, 1987). For example, heat production for felsic, interme-diate, mafi c, and ultramafi c igneous rocks is ~4 micro-watts per cubic meter (W/m3); ~2 W/m3; ~1 W/m3; and 0.3 W/m3, respectively. Peralkaline (low aluminum; high sodium and potassium) intrusive igneous rocks may have heat production values up to 12-20 W/m3. Silici-clastic sedimentary rocks commonly have higher heat production values (2-4 W/m3) than do chemical sedi-mentary rocks (0.4-2 W/m3). Of the siliciclastic sedi- Figure 1. Map of Oklahoma (Miser, 1954) showing heat production (W/m3) in Oklahoma (after Cran-ganu et al., 1998). Black squares = Cranganu et al. (1998); blue circles = Lee et al. (1996); red triangles = Borel (1995); yellow x = Roy et al. (1968). Q3 OGS Notes 2012 rev.indd 1 10/29/2012 4:47:07 PM
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All incoming students will receive their laptop at Orientation.What if I've never used a laptop computer? There will be mobile computing orientation programs during laptop distribution. What if I already own a laptop? Because laptops other than those issued by St. John's will not be eligible for extensive hardware and software support, it is mandatory that all incoming full-time freshmen and full-time undergraduate transfer students participate in our Laptop Program. All laptops will be preloaded with software and set to St. John's network specifications for use within a secured infrastructure .What kind of software will be loaded onto the laptop? The PC will be running Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, a virus scanning and prevention utility, and an Internet browser. The MAC will be running Mountain Lion operating system, Microsoft Office 2008, iLife, and an Internet browser. 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The Ohio State Women battled Virginia Commonwealth Thursday night, earning an 83-71 victory. There's a local tie with VCU, head coach Marlene Stollings from Beaver, Ohio. Yep, a Pike County-girl-done-good story. Read more about Stollings here.
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The Triumph GT6 was based on the Triumph Spitfire convertible, with production beginning in 1966 and continuing until 1973. The sports coupe showed off its beautiful curves, with a front end not too dissimilar to that of modern Porsche's.
Giovanni Michelotti first commissioned the GT6 back in 1963 and after a number of unsuccessful prototypes the first GT6 rolled off the production line in 1966. All GT6's were assembled in Coventry in the West Midlands.
All models featured the same 1996cc inline 6 engine. The mark one ran from 1966 until 1968 of which there were 15,818 built. This was also the most popular of the models. The mark two saw 12,066 created between 1968 and 1970, whilst the mark three had 13,042 built between 1970 and 1973.
The slick design of the Triumph GT6 had 2 seats, though a small third seat could be ordered for children. The design was altered slightly from the Spitfire in that a larger bonnet was required to house the 6 cylinder engine. The boot was also designed as a hatch, as seen in the Jaguar E Type.
The engine developed 95 bhp at 5,000 rpm to ensure the GT6 packed some power. Up rated springs were introduced to the car to cope with the additional weight of the engine. The car went from 0 to 62 in just 12 seconds, with a top speed of 106 mph.
The interior of the GT6 was also a big selling point, with wooden dashboard and the likes of carpets and a heater included as standard, which was rare for cars at the time.
The 1969 mark two model addressed concerns over the rear suspension found in the mark one model. This was done in an attempt to boost its reputation in the States. Amendments were also made to aesthetics of the car including a new front bumper and side vents. The engine was also reengineered to deliver 107 mph with an improved 104 bhp.
The mark three saw a major face lift to the design so that it more closely mirrored that of the Spitfire. The car delivered a cleaner design and smoother curves. Whilst the engine was not altered the design of the car allowed for a greater top speed of 112 mph and 0-62 of just 10.1 seconds.
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President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, who takes office Saturday, has said he plans to take a different approach, focusing on reducing violence. He has offered few specifics about how his security policies will differ from Calderon's strategy, but he's said that change is coming.
"We will keep the policies that I think work," Pena Nieto said this week, "including cooperation with the United States to effectively fight organized crime."
As Pena Nieto prepared to take the reins this week, Mexicans learned the answer to a question that has been the subject of much speculation: Where will Calderon go, now that his term is ending?
Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government announced Wednesday that the outgoing Mexican president will spend the next year as a global public leaders fellow at the school.
"President Calderon is a vivid example of a dynamic and committed public servant, who took on major challenges in Mexico," David T. Ellwood, the school's dean, said in a statement.
Hours after the announcement, a Mexican researcher who is studying ethics and corruption at Harvard this year said university officials should reconsider the move.
"I am alarmed that Harvard will protect a person as unethical as Felipe Calderon," Irma E. Sandoval wrote in a Twitter post.
Sandoval, who is a fellow this year at Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and also heads a corruption and transparency research laboratory at Mexico's National Autonomous University, said she was hoping others at Harvard would join her in protesting Calderon's appointment.
The outgoing president, she told CNN, does not deserve the one-year fellowship.
"He is handing over a country in flames," she said.
At the end of the video released by the Mexican president's office Wednesday, Calderon strides down the steps of his official residence.
"As a citizen I will continue serving the country passionately until the end of my days, always grateful for the privilege I have been given to be Mexican. Many thanks, and see you soon, Mexico," the president says.
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Thu Apr 19, 2012 16:03
I used to climb all over the old Fort Davis buildings when I was a kid. That was before they rebuilt the enlisted barracks and officer housing with modern materials. A lot of the old buildings were two story adobes and all I saw had wooden floors. A lot of the wood was already rotting at that time so I imagine it's all gone by now.
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Nothing new....
Wed Apr 18 19:07
About wooden floors in adobe buildings. If you visit any of the old frontier fort sites (in Texas for example) you will find wood floors made of dimension lumber set over split or rough hewn floor...
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Thu Apr 19 16:03
Adobe floors ..dirt and more dirt =
Wed Apr 18 19:23
Thanks. The buildings of which I refer ... they are dirt on six sides = four walls plus one top plus one bottom ... If stucco, then that was a slurry of dirt, insie and/or out. Wood door or window...
Adobe houses, wood floors
Jerry Lobdill,
Thu Apr 19 05:36
Hi Cal and OTC... It's sure been quiet around here recently! The headquarters of the LCs ranch near Cliff, NM was an adobe house built by Robert Craft in the early 1880s. It was a U shaped building...
L C Ranch, "U", me , and my bride
Sat Apr 21 07:59
Not "you" me and my bride ... but the building shaped like a "U" and which is not the Lyons ranch in your photo where "me and my bride" stayed .... Maybe I shoud shift gears here and discuss the...
L C Ranch, "U", me , and my bride = peee s
Sat Apr 21 08:47
Gilla River is two steps behind photographer. Swimming pool elevated about four feet from yard level and two bunk houses same elevation and right also out of photo. Elevation was due to natural slope ...
Lyons lodge
Jerry Lobdill,
Sat Apr 21 08:20
Hi Cal, You are describing the Lyons lodge built in 1899 exactly where you describe it to be, and the photo in the link is the lodge. The adobe in my picture is located near Cliff and was called the...
Gentlemen, is this the same house of
Wed Apr 25 09:44
the old LC Ranch owned by I. W. Lacy, former cattle ranching partner of L.G. Coleman (bro-in-law of Clay Allison?) Thanks, Sharon
Lacy-Coleman & LC Ranch
Jerry Lobdill,
Wed Apr 25 10:49
Sharon, This house was built by Robert Black on his 160 acre homestead, no earlier than 1870. The L&C partnership bought it from him in the time frame 1883-1886. It was owned by the LCs until the...
Very Interesting Gentleman!
Thu Apr 19 10:00
Jerry, You can send the pic to me or I can explain in email how to post the picture. I would enjoy seeing it.
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Last week I spent Tuesday through Friday with my wife because last Wednesday was our 20th wedding anniversary and it was absolutely fantastic time that I will always cherish. We drove to just outside of Charleston South Carolina to a place called the Middleton Inn and I owe a debt of thanks to Dusty Rayburn for the suggestion of staying on the Middleton plantation. It was an absolutely gorgeous place! We got to take a carriage ride around the plantation, walk through the gardens, sit and reflect over our years together on the grounds and at the lodge. We also spent time in Charleston walking through the market, taking a carriage ride, and just spending time together in the city. We ate at the Middleton Inn Restaurant which was a lot of fun because it is such a beautiful place and it is also an expensive type place that we normally do not eat in. We simply had an awesome time together!
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