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WACO — Baylor's breathless offense was finally upstaged Sunday night.And not just by the Bears' dazzling new, $260-million, banks-o'-the-Brazos stadium.But by its often-ignored defense.The Bears, as has become their custom, rolled up 574 yards and overwhelmed SMU 45-0 on a festive first night at McLane Stadium.The story this time, however, was the zero, not the 45.It was Baylor's second shutout of the Art Briles era, and it was both relentless and thorough. The Mustangs changed quarterbacks, rotated receivers and sporadically gambled on fourth down, all to no avail. Coach June Jones' SMU offense concluded the game with minus-24 yards on the ground, in large part because its three quarterbacks were sacked eight times. It seemed more like 80 times. Baylor's defensive line, the same one that Briles labeled "one of the dominating in America," argued its coach's case well.At 6-foot-9 and 280 pounds, Bears defensive end Shawn Oakman looks like a giant tree. An angry, scary, fast-moving tree. The transfer from Penn State spent his night haunting and stalking SMU's Neal Burcham and whoever followed at quarterback. Oakman finished with six tackles and two sacks, even though Briles all but cleared his bench.The Mustangs never got closer than the Baylor 36-yard line."Honestly, I didn't feel like we were that effective offensively," Briles said after the game. "I didn't see any fluid or dynamic quality to a lot of things."But defensively — that's what made the game. That's what allowed the game to be won tonight."With only Jones' reputation, frankly, to support the notion that SMU is always going to have a dangerous offense and an array of skill position athletes, the Mustangs were found to be tellingly undermanned. That had to factor into SMU's net of only 67 yards.It was only two seasons ago, however, that Baylor gave up 42 points to Louisiana-Monroe and 70 to West Virginia.That was the year that Oakman had to sit out after being kicked off the team at Penn State. Now, he starts and his name is on the watch lists for the Chuck Bednarik, Bronco Nagurski and Ted Hendricks awards.Before the opener, Oakman admitted that Baylor's bitter Fiesta Bowl loss to Central Florida was still fresh in the defense's minds."We got our butts kicked in that game, and we've been sitting around here with a sour taste in our mouths for awhile now," Oakman said. "We're ready to hit somebody else."He did. And did and did, as the Bears defense — not the offense — controlled the game's tempo for a change."The thing I liked," Briles said, "was we kind of felt going in that we had a chance to have a good defense, and we thought we had a chance to be very good up front."The thing I saw tonight was a lot of strength and speed."The Bears lost star safety Ahmad Dixon and cornerback Demtri Goodson to the NFL, but Briles' defense was strengthened by the return of fifth-year senior Bryce Hager at middle linebacker. The plan, for now, is to use a nine-man rotation along the defensive front.On this night, the Baylor defense stole a page from its offense, playing with overwhelming quickness."There's always a chip on our shoulder," Oakman said early in August. "We don't get the respect that we deserve."But we're always willing to earn it."They picked a festive night to start.
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Third year women's basketball coach Beth O'Boyle is leaving Stony Brook University to become the head coach at Virginia Commonwealth in the Atlantic 10, VCU said Monday. O'Boyle will replace Marlene Stollings, who left for Minnesota.
O'Boyle, who will be introduced Tuesday in Richmond, had just finished guiding the Seawolves to a program record 24 victories in Division I, tying the most wins in school history with the 1986-87 Division III team.
Stony Brook went 13-3 in America East play, its best mark since 2006-07 (14-2) and tied a program-high second-place finish in the regular-season standings. Stony Brook also earned its second WNIT bid. O'Boyle was 42-51 in three seasons.
"In a short period of time, Coach O'Boyle helped the women's basketball program to achieve great things here at Stony Brook, and I want to sincerely thank her for her efforts and wish her well on her future endeavors," interim Director of Athletics Donna Woodruff said in a statement. "Our Seawolves women's basketball program is truly on the rise, and we look forward to finding the right head coach who will ensure that we continue our upward momentum."
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Khloe Kardashian is laying down the law. Either Lamar Odom goes to rehab and actually sticks with it this time or he can pack his things and hit the road.
He is not welcome back in their home until he gets clean.
As has been well documented, Lamar Odom has a problem with drugs and has been unwilling to address it since his addiction spun out of control.
Khloe Kardashian has kicked him out before, only to cave and take him back, but Lamar's DUI arrest Friday morning was apparently the last straw.
According to reports, Lamar didn't even call Khloe OR his lawyers after the arrest, leaving them to find out when TMZ broke the story hours later.
Suffice it to say, his estranged wife was far from thrilled with him.
Khloe and Lamar did spend time together Saturday, but after four hours of talking about his addiction to crack and who knows what else, he was sent away.
To go look for his own apartment?
Score some crack from the junkies downtown?
Tool around with his "crack head" enabler/mistress Polina Polonsky?
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Sources say the couple is "still at an impasse" regarding his addiction, which seems ludicrous given how one-sided the debate should be at this point.
Embroiled in cheating scandals and what looks like a serious substance abuse problem, Odom is effectively ruining his marriage, NBA career and life.
What is Khloe to do at this point? She clearly wants to save Lamar in all those respects, but without effort or even admission on his part it will be a lost cause.
No wonder an insider says the future of their union looks "grim."
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How sad! They were the one couple I thought would last for a while, but as the old adage says, "Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure." William Congreve And they surely did rush to the altar.
Didn't this trash know he had a problem when she first met him. That's what happens when you rushy into this stupid marriages....just like her sister Kim.
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SCHoan.............What ever your name is........Your Fucking HATER......BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL YOU WHITE TRASH......
Gee Chante, you sound a bit like a hater yourself, and one with a filthy mouth too.
All the stuff is speculation and unnamed sources, show me first the evidence then I will agree with or take a decision on the matter. Just because he had a DUI does not say anything.
leave him''girl '' he dont need you you are tooo pretty 4 this shit..
Hope he gets help! Ppl shouldn't be hateful.
Anyone can plainly see that Khloe obviously lacks personality and intelligence. She is so afraid of finding out who she really is that she would not even take the proper DNA test when confronted with the paternity dilemma and instead took one to confirm that she is the daughter of Kris (Kardashian) Jenner. Now just how intelligent is that? That is hilarious! Seriously, what does this girl have going for herself besides the money. She was lucky to have found ANYONE who would marry her. Khloe's ultimatum to Lamar was the worst possible way she could have ever handled this situation. Lamar needs love and support to straighten out his addictions. Khloe's attitude was the last thing Lamar needed to hear and is undoubtedly the reason he was driven to his addictions. Khloe blew it and all she did with her ultimatum was guarantee that they will never make it. Lamar, clean up your act without Khloe's help and then go find yourself an intelligent girl, a real woman! We all certainly suspect that Khloe drove Lamar to his addictions. This is one BORING girl who anyone can plainly see lacks personality and intelligence, and Lamar realized he made a big mistake by hooking up with her. Consequently, anyone in their right mind would ultimately and gladly accept Khloe's haughty invitation to leave. Those two have NOTHING in common. Lamar is a nice person who deserves someone much better than a boring girl who is driving him to addictions.
Sims...if this is your way of trying to tick me off, you've succeeded! Stop it!
This is not me & it's to long winded for me to even figure out what part ticked you off.
@ Kim- follow the lead- Kim. BB- 22 Sober
No I did not know that, I think I'll go a check that out right now!
@ Kim-I was reading about staying sober. Did you know( bobby brown ) had "22 Days of being sober" wink wink- I was reading about it. you KNOW.
I'm getting the feeling of this being a Cat and Mouse thing between the two of us....On the one hand, I'm throughly intrigued but on the other, I'm kinda frustrated....
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You have a seductive way about you.
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"Karthi recorded a song, which has lyrics by Vairamuthu, along with his co-star Premgi Amaren," said a statement from the production company.
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From Hovis' famous bread tagline 'the best of both - white with all the goodness of brown' it can either refer to a sexual partner of mixed race or commonly a girl whose vagina is so tight having sex with her feels as good as anal sex.
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From Cockney rhyming slang: Brown bread=dead. Hovis is noted for producing wholemeal bread.
From Cockney rhyming slang: Brown bread=dead. Hovis is noted for producing wholemeal bread.
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Côte d'Ivoire: A Country in Distress, An Opportunity to Act
June 2003
From: UNITED METHODIST WOMEN'S ACTION NETWORK
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For three decades following its independence from France in 1960, Côte d'Ivoire, also known as the Ivory Coast, had one of Africa's strongest economies and was politically a pillar of stability in a region plagued by wars. "Once hailed as a model of stability, Ivory Coast is in danger of slipping into the kind of internal strife that has plagued so many African countries."[1] Côte d'Ivoire is a country full of ethnic and religious diversity. It is also the world's leading producer of cocoa. Unfortunately, after a military coup in 1999, the country has been facing a tumbling economy and rising religious, ethnic and political tensions.
Cote d'Ivoire is located in Western Africa and borders the North Atlantic Ocean, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia and Mali. It has a total population of about 16.3 million, 5 million of which are non-Ivorian Africans living in Côte d'Ivoire. About one-third of the immigrants are from Burkina Faso; the rest are from Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Benin, Senegal, Liberia and Mauritania. There are also 20,000 French and 100,000 Lebanese immigrants residing in the country. 20-30 percent of the total population is Christian; 35-40 percent is Muslim, living in mostly the northern half of the country; and 25-40 percent practice indigenous religions. The majority of the migrant workers are Muslims, about 70 percent, and Christians, about 20 percent.[2]
In addition to being the world's largest producer of cocoa, Côte d'Ivoire is also among the world's largest producers and exporters of coffee and palm oil. Despite the government's efforts to reduce the country's dependency on producing agricultural goods, the economy is still largely dependent on it. About 68 percent of Côte d'Ivoire's population is engaged in the agricultural sector. "Gross national product per capita was $727 in 1996 but had fallen to below $660 by 2001,"due to decreases in the prices of agricultural goods and increases in population.[3]
Côte d'Ivoire officially became a French colony in 1893 and gained its independence from France on August 7, 1960. Felix Houphouet-Boigny, a Catholic, became Côte d'Ivoire's first president, and ruled the country until his death in 1993. In 1990, Houphouet-Boigny, leader of the Democratic Party of Côte d'Ivoire (PDCI), lifted the ban on opposition parties in elections and won Côte d'Ivoire's first multi-party presidential election.[4]
Henri Konan Bédié, who at the time was PDCI's speaker of the National Assembly, became president in 1993 following the death of Felix Houphouet-Boigny. During Bédié's six-year rule as president, his government was accused of corruption and bad governance, which led the IMF, World Bank and European Union to suspend economic aid in 1998. As opposition to Bédié grew, he sought to eliminate potential political opponents. "Unlike Houphouet-Boigny, who encouraged immigration and included Muslims in government, Bédié fomented ethnic and religious mistrust through his own breed of nationalism which came to be known as 'Ivorite' or 'Ivorian-ness.'"[5] Bédié stirred up hatred against immigrants in order to undermine a potential political rival, Alssane Ouattra, a Muslim. Ouattra had been prime minister under the first president and later became head of the Rally of Republicans Party (RDR), which is heavily supported by Muslims. Bédié "reinforced his position…by adopting an electoral code that required both parents of presidential candidates to be Ivorian and also stipulating that the candidate himself must have lived in the country for the past five years."[6] He stated that Ouattra was not a native Ivorian but from neighboring Burkina Faso, and thus was barred from running in the 1995 elections. Ouattra was forced to withdraw his candidacy from the race and Bédié was reelected.[7]
In 1999, there was a bloodless military coup led by General Robert Guei against Bédié's corrupt government. The Ivorians welcomed the coup because General Guei had pledged to clean up the corruption and rewrite the constitution. He pledged to work with leaders from opposition parties, including the RDR and Laurent Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front (FPI).[8] By July 2000, Guei's plans had changed and he started promoting ethnic and religious hatred in order to eliminate political rivals from the 2000 presidential elections. A new constitution was drafted and ratified in the summer of 2000. "It retained clauses that underscored national divisions between North and South, Christian and Muslim…"[9]
Under the newly ratified constitution, in order to run for the presidency, both parents of the candidate must be born in Côte d'Ivoire. Despite Ouattra's and others' attempts to contest this law, the newly formed Supreme Court, believed to be headed by Guei's ally, declared the law constitutional, disqualifying 14 of the 19 presidential candidates for the 2000 elections. As a result, brutal fighting broke out between Christians in the south and Muslims in the north.
Presidential elections were held in October of 2000. With the polls showing the opposition candidate leading, General Guei dissolved the National Electoral Commission and proclaimed himself the winner. Thousands of protestors took to the streets and chaos ensued. By the end of October the military and police had abandoned Guei and Gbagbo became president. Violence erupted once again when Ouattra was barred from running the in the December 2000 parliamentary elections due to questions about his citizenship. By spring of 2001, local elections were held without violence and full participation of all local parties. Ouattra's party, RDR, won most of the local seats and in August of 2002 RDR was given four ministerial posts in the new government. Despite these developments, tensions continued and fighting broke out. "On 19 September 2002, a new rebellion by military groups virtually cut the country in half, with the government in control of the south and rebels in control of much of the north. Hundreds of people have been killed. Thousands more have been driven from their homes and now face hunger and disease. Abuses have been committed both by government security forces and by the armed opposition group the Mouvement patriotique de la Côte d'Ivoire (MPCI), Côte d'Ivoire Patriotic Movement."[10]
In October of 2002, rebels agreed to a ceasefire brokered by ministers from six African countries, but this collapsed when the military and rebels began fighting over control of the key cocoa industry town of Daloa. With violence growing in all parts of the country, in January of 2003, President Gbagbo accepted a peace deal reached at talks in Paris between the rebels and the government. The deal proposed a power-sharing government that remains unpopular with the public. Political parties and rebels agreed to form a government with nine members from rebel groups holding cabinet positions. As part of the peace deal, Seydou Diarra, a representative from the opposition, was sworn in as Prime Minister. This transition remains incomplete and French troops are still needed to monitor the progress and maintain order.[11]
The political unrest and violence have badly damaged the Ivorian cocoa industry. Cocoa processing and trading companies have shut down, rebel groups disrupt harvests and the transportation of crops. Violence has killed hundreds of people in the country's cocoa-growing regions. With the cocoa industry in shambles, millions of people are left without a way to provide for their families, which only worsens the social and political crisis. As the primary caretakers and food providers for families in Ivorian society, women bear the brunt of the hardships resulting from the current conflict.
In Côte d'Ivoire, the Constitution and the law prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. Ivorian women received the right to vote and stand for election in 1952, and the first Ivorian woman was elected to Parliament in 1965. The president established the Ministry of Women's Affairs in 1976. In 2001, women held 6 of the 26 ministerial positions in the Cabinet. There were 5 women justices in the 25-member Supreme Court, and 19 women held seats in the 225-member National Assembly. In the same year, Henriette Dagri Dibabate served as Secretary General of the Rally of Republicans (RDR), the first woman to lead a political party.[12]
Despite these gains, women continue to occupy a subordinate position in society. When families have limited resources to send children to school, boys often receive educational opportunities over girls. The literacy rate for adult men in Côte d'Ivoire is 55%, while for adult women it is 38%.[13] Many employers discriminate against women in hiring for jobs because they don't want to have pregnant workers. Women seldom meet stringent loan requirements, which makes it difficult for them to start their own businesses or cope with economic hardship.
The current economic and political crisis also threatens women's health, safety, and ability to support their family. Nearly 90% of women who completed a domestic violence survey in 1998 indicated that they had been beaten or struck on at least one occasion. The law enforcement and judicial systems continue to view spousal abuse as a private, family issue and only intervene when there is serious bodily harm or the victim files an official complaint. Eighty percent of the million people who have been displaced since the unrest began are women and children. Forced displacement increases the risk of HIV infection, sexual abuse and exploitation, as women turn to prostitution as a way to provide for their families.[14]
Ivorian women are mobilizing and organizing in the face of these considerable challenges. A growing number of non-governmental organizations act as advocates for women, including the Republic Sisters, and the Ivorian Women's Movement. The actions of the Ivorian Association for the Defense of Women (AIDF) and Constance Yai, its president, demonstrate how Ivorian women are fighting for justice and equality. With others, Ms. Yai has traveled throughout the country to educate families about reproductive health. She organizes community meetings between religious leaders, traditional chieftains, the police, and health care providers to talk about women's rights. In 2000, AIDF opened a house for battered girls and wives which reportedly received 18 battered women a week.[15]
Children are another vulnerable population in the current political and economic upheaval. In 2001, almost half of Côte d'Ivoire's population was under the age of 18. Seventeen percent of Ivorian infants have low birth weight, and the infant mortality rate is 175.[16] In the United States, 7.7% of babies have low birth weight[17] and the infant mortality rate is 6.9[18]. Roughly 200,000 children throughout the Côte d'Ivoire live on the street.[19]
According to government statistics, 57 percent of school-age children in Côte d'Ivoire attended primary school in the 2000-2001 academic year.[20] Sixty-seven percent of male children are enrolled in primary school, compared with 50% of female children.[21] The current violence in the country has severely affected children's access to education and some schools have closed down completely. Since the renewal of the political violence in mid-September 2002, an estimated 1 million primary school students in Côte d'Ivoire have had their schooling interrupted.[22]
With families struggling to survive and earn a living, children are often put to work to help provide for the family. Many children in urban areas sell goods on the street. Forced child labor is a problem in the farming sector. Approximately 15,000 children between the ages of 9 and 12 have been sold into forced labor on cotton, coffee and cocoa plantations in Côte d'Ivoire.[23] International advocates have cited the cocoa industry in particular for its abuse of children. Children working on cocoa farms perform difficult and dangerous tasks, like applying pesticides and using machetes to harvest the cocoa. They work 12-hour days, are separated from their families and are sometimes not paid. The International Institute for Tropical Agriculture found that only 34% of children working on Côte d'Ivoire's cocoa farms attended school, while 64% of those not working on cocoa farms were in school.[24]
The AIDS epidemic is fast unraveling the fabric of Ivorian society. Around 10% of the population is infected with the HIV virus.[25] Roughly 400,000 Ivorian women are living with HIV/AIDS. In 1995, AIDS was the leading cause of death for adult men in Cote d'Ivoire and the second leading cause of death for adult women.[26] Families caring for HIV/AIDS-infected patients spent 80% of their health care costs on medical care for the relative with HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS expenses once took up 11% of Cote d'Ivoire public health system budget.[27] From 1996-1998, 67% of Ivorian teachers' deaths were HIV-related.[28] AIDS-related deaths have reduced the pool of agricultural workers, shrinking the volume of crop harvests and the amount of land under cultivation. The number of children under age 14 orphaned by AIDS is 420,000.[29] Teachers have been taken out of classrooms, farmers out of the fields, and parents away from their children, all fallen casualties of the country's AIDS epidemic. The spread of HIV/AIDS threatens to further weaken a society already in severe economic and political crisis. In the context of the current conflict, Côte d'Ivoire faces a long struggle to reestablish peace and prosperity.
Like many developing countries, Côte d'Ivoire is burdened with millions of dollars in debt repayments that it must make to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank every year. In 2001, the value of Côte d'Ivoire's Gross Domestic Product was $10.4 billion. For the same year, the value of its total outstanding debt was $10.6 billion and it made around $898 million in debt repayments. [30] For Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) like Côte d'Ivoire, such repayments take away vital resources that could instead be used to improve schools, provide access to clean water, or fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
· Get each member of your unit to send a post card or call their congressional representatives urging them to vote for full authorization of H.R. 1298, the U.S. Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003. Full authorization of the legislation would appropriate $15 billion to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria over a 5-year period, with $3 billion in 2004. Remind your members of Congress to keep their promise to people suffering from HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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Contact your members of Congress and ask them to vote for H.R. 2482, the Iraqi Freedom from Debt Act. This bill would put pressure on the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to cancel Iraq's outstanding debt as a way to help the country along the path to reconstruction and development. If passed, this legislation would set an example that could be applied to other heavily indebted countries, like Côte d'Ivoire.
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[1] BBC News, Country Profile: Ivory Coast. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1043014.stm
[2] Background Note: Cote d'Ivoire," U.S. Department of State. November 2001. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2846pf.htm
[3] Ibid.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Human Rights Watch, Ivory Coast Country Report 2001. http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/ivorycoast/cotdiv0801.htm
[6] Institute for Security Studies, Cote d'Ivoire – History and Politics. http://www.iss.co.za/AF/profiles/IvoryCoast/Politics.html
[7] Ibid.
[8] Ibid.
[9] "Background Note: Cote d'Ivoire," U.S. Department of State.
[10] Amnesty International, The Wire, Cote d'Ivoire hit by turbulent times, December 2002.
[11] BBC News, Timeline: Ivory Coast. http://www.bbc.co.uk
[12] "Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2001," U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, March 2002,. http://www.supportmpci.org/humanrights.htm
[13] "Key indicators for children and women in Ivory Coast: SOWCR, 2003", UNICEF. http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf
[14] "UNICEF Humanitarian Action: Côte d'Ivoire Sub-Regional Crisis," UNICEF, January 24, 2003. http://www.unicef.org/emerg
[15] "Country Report on Human Rights Practices," U.S. Department of State.
[16] "Key indicators for children and women in Ivory Coast: SOWCR, 2003", UNICEF.
[17] Ibid.
[18] "Infant Mortality", National Center for Health Statistics. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/infmort.htm
[19] "Country Report on Human Rights Practices: Côte d'Ivoire", U.S. Department of State.
[20] Ibid.
[21] "Key indicators for children and women in Ivory Coast: SOWCR, 2003", UNICEF.
[22] "Back to School for Thousands of Displaced Children in Ivory Coast," Kent Page, UNICEF.
[23] "The Chocolate Industry: Slavery Lurking Behind the Sweetness," Global Exchange. http://www.globalexchange.org/cocoa/background.html
[24] Ibid.
[25] "Country Profile: Cote d'Ivoire", UN Development Programme, http://hdr.undp.org
[26] "Economic Impact of AIDS in Cote d'Ivoire," The POLICY Project, Lori Bollinger, John Stover, and Benjamin Zanou, September 1999, p. 4.
[27] Ibid, p. 7
[28] "Côte d'Ivoire: HIV/AIDS epidemiological summary," African Development Forum., October 2000.
[29] "Key indicators for children and women in Ivory Coast: SOWCR, 2003", UNICEF.
[30] "Côte d'Ivoire Data Profile," The World Bank Group. http://devdata.worldbank.org


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I wonder if Oprah will ask any of those artists, "What is Country??"…that would make a few of the commenters on this site happy…
Awesome first week numbers for Reba – I hope the trend continues.
That Edison Research presentation was very interesting – especially in noting how the majority of people said country music is either worse or the same as it was in past years – not getting any better.
What's even more alarming is that only 2% of listeners said they are new listeners to country music. So where are all these so-called 'new converts' to the genre? There were some surprise choices in the top-rated artists overall too.
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Holly Williams is very talented but by today's standards she is suited for Americana stations and not Top 40 mainstream country. "Keep the Change" is a good song but the reason it was chosen as a single is that its a Hillary Lindsey co-write composition. The killer song on Holly's new album is "Mama" and its too bad that song wasn't selected as the radio single instead….
Wow, a "green song contest"! Hey how about "Al Gore is a global warming scam fool, who thinks global U.N. control is totally cool! He imagines warming due to greenhouse gas, as you'd expect for someone with their head up their #$%…."
Ya never fail to take a chance to take a dig at Hillary Lindsey or the democrats do ya? ;)
All these post-Mavericks interviews by Raul Malo are definitely making me see the band in a different light these days. I never knew about any internal strife until these recent references to lawsuits and being lazy musicians. Too bad, because they were one of the top live bands, not to mention one of the most innovative studio bands.
Yay Dan!
Harsh words from Malo about the Mavericks.
Hmmmm….Malo wasn't happy that MCA wanted to just re-record the old Maverick's hits over and over again…..yet he seems to do just that with "Hello Again"….sounds an awful lot like recycled "Here Comes the Rain" again.
I should send a note to Raul Malo thanking him for articulating exactly what it is I don't like about Carrie Underwood's singing.
Ha! Spot on, Kelly.
Rick: "Wow, a "green song contest"! Hey how about "Al Gore is a global warming scam fool, who thinks global U.N. control is totally cool! He imagines warming due to greenhouse gas, as you'd expect for someone with their head up their #$%….""
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Francis-Barnett was founded in Jaguar's hometown in Coventry, England, by Gordon Francis (son of Graham Francis of Lea-Francis fame), and Arthur Barnett. Beginning in 1919, Francis-Barnett built lightweight motorcycles designed to transport Englishmen at reasonable cost, especially during that period of austerity following the first World War. Find this 1937 Francis-Barnett 250 Cruiser here on eBay in Dallas, Texas.
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Condition is the biggest issue with our featured example. The fuel tank is rusted through, it's missing parts, and at some point it was subjected to a restoration that included a coat of paint that appears to have been applied with a paper towel. But there's no doubting the appeal of having a bike that looks like this in a collection of the seemingly endless string of one-horse British motorcycle producers of the 1920s and 1930s.
The starting bid here is $3,995, with no bids just a few days before the auction ends. Given what an actual restoration would cost, you'd have little hope of recouping the investment. But as-is, maybe with a bit of sympathetic attention to the fuel tank and a bit of tinkering to get it running, this is the kind of bike that would turn a lot of heads at the local bike night.
Hey David, I saw that example too before I saw your post. That's got to be an anomaly as that's a lot of old bike for $2900.
That two owner bike ran and seemed very clean and had the original leg fairing (which spoils the clean design IMHO).
Engine fairing, stamped steel forks and an Ibeam downtube. Lots of innovation on that bike.
Kind of innovative design.
This one appears to be rather optimistically priced, or at least a hoped for price. A similar, but much nicer bike, recently sold for £1850 at Silverstone:
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Software team codes IBM higher in Q2
Every quarter IBM orders investors to pay attention to a particular product group as the driver of its success. For this year's second quarter, IBM has promoted the software division as its savior. That's software - not services. Got it? IBM sold a lot of stuff during Q2. In fact, it sold $23.8bn worth of goods and services, …
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Since I'm an IBMer, I'm going anonymous with this--
The most interesting number in the entire release was that the company spent $19,000,000,000 buying back its own stock. That's nineteen billion dollars.
Think of what it could have done for employees or retirees or earned down the road from reinvesting that money back in the business. I'd have been happy with a nifty $50,000 bonus.
What a grotesque waste of money. I hope it keeps Sammy's stock options afloat awhile longer. :-(
Spending $19Billion in cash on shares still means you have $19 Billion but in stock rather than cash. This is generally good for the shareholders, and if you didn't realise, they own the company and are whom the company works for. Not the employees or retirees, but the shareholders. As a corporation, IBM has a legal duty to do what is in the best interests of shareholders. Not just Sam and the rest of them at the corporate trough, but the pension funds etc. The funds which are investing for your pension (and their own grubby fees of course).
Employees don't really have any skin in the game at all - they are just hired hands. This realisation is difficult at places like IBM where workers used to be treated really well with a lot of cash, bonueses, benefits etc, whilst now all those have been trimmed (slashed) back in the name of profit. The way to better income is either better performance (if you want to play that game) or moving to a better job (if you think another option is on the table for you).
Finally, buying this stock back may actually protect the company from aggressive take over moves, since the stock is less dilute and there is less of an attractive cash pot sitting in the middle of the company.
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from what I recall from recent quarters and sales figures, that should read "Hooray for Lotus" instead, and this is likely to improve even further with the launch of Quickr, Connections, and Notes 8 this year
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First, the second poster "Misunderstanding" is definitely not an IBM employee and was most likely never an IBM employee.
IBM has never treated their employees well unless you're talking about the 60's, 70's and maybe the early '80s. But that was a different culture.
In this century, IBM has under paid, and over worked their staff.
With respect to the first poster, buying back the stock allows IBM to then offer it to their employees at a discount to current market. ESPP is a *good* thing.
With respect to the article, yes Software is more profitable and has higher margins when you consider the considerable erosion to the price people are willing to pay for an offshore/onshore resource even though they wear an IBM name tag over their subcontracted employee badge.
Thanks to this "globalization" (read: move to the cheapest source of labor), labor has become a commodity.
Actually I certainly am an IBM employee, in a technical role, have been for some years, but I'm not a particularly high up IBMer. But I am one who understands the current climate at least. And modern business practice. Not sure why you think I am not...may be because I am not from the United States.
I thought things were quite cushy for all of last century, apart from the early nineties. Since the start of this century its got worse: lower salary increases, PBC bonuses, and fewer Bravo awards for example.
ESPP (and ESPP+) is currently a poor deal compared to the scheme we used to get (about 2 years ago). And that is coincidental with the buy-backs...I guess the changes were a disincentive to avoid share dilution by too much employee purchasing.
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Personalized Education Plan
The first step you take as a student at Audeo is to participate in a credit audit. Your Audeo counselor will look at the academic credits you have coming into our school and compare them to the requirements of your goal credits, no matter what path you decide. For example, if you choose to graduate with Audeo and attend a four-year university, your counselor will compare your existing credits to the graduation requirements as well as university entrance requirements, and help you build a schedule for classes that will enable you to meet your goals for graduation and university. If you are falling behind at your current school and need to catch up, your counselor will compare your existing credits to the credit level and type of your goal program, and will help you build a schedule of Audeo classes that allow you to accelerate your learning and return to your program. Your counselor will talk to you about your goals, learning style, test scores, and current interests to help you build a schedule that's right for you. This schedule of classes and strategy for success is called a Pathways Personalized Education Plan (PPEP).
After you have set up your PPEP with a counselor, you work one-on-one with your teacher at your learning center to succeed in your studies. Your teacher will talk with you and your parents about your progress and development in your academic studies to make sure that your PPEP is updated and accurate to match any changing goals, career interests, or academic achievements. A teacher may offer any class to you at any time, and courses take 3-4 weeks to complete. Our students study one or two courses at a time.
Classroom Environment
There will be other students in class with you as well. Any student in the classroom can take any course, and our classrooms are designed for quiet, focused study. This means that you won't be in a room full of students asking questions you already know the answers to, competing for your teacher's attention, or distracting you from the challenges of schoolwork. Your teacher will be available to work one-on-one with you during this time to answer questions about your studies or introduce new material, and your teacher is always available by email for the days you aren't in the classroom. Often, teachers will work to bring together multiple students taking the same course or in the same field of study. They schedule field trips, group learning seminars, and small group activities to allow you to take advantage of the same learning opportunities as a traditional public school, without the disadvantages of a traditional setting.
If you have any questions or concerns about what to expect when you enroll, contact us at (858) 678-2050.


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We did it we survived Calle Ocho !! and what a ride it was.. we laughed we cried we had an amazing time. Little pit tore it up on stage as did Sean Paul and Daddy Yankee of course.
The wooden Rooster was back again this year and so was all of south fla.. if you were there thanks for coming out if you missed it "hey" theres always next year !


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Morning Brew – Heather Morris is coming back to "Glee"
Good morning!
A new study shows that LGBT families are actually healthier than most others. I like those statistics!
Out's Power List has several new additions this year, including Ellen Page, Megan Ellison, Brittney Griner, Jenna Lyons, Robin Roberts and Roberta Kaplan. Ellen DeGeneres tops the list this year, with Rachel Maddow at number three.
Glamour went to the GLAAD Media Awards and talked with actress Natasha Henstridge, who had this to say:
"It's nice to keep those things fresh in the minds of the networks and producers that are funding all these things and hearing what people want to see. I've [auditioned] for three characters in the last week and a half that are lesbian characters, so clearly this thing has a huge impact. Many gays and lesbians aren't represented in small towns, so to be represented on TV is huge."
Hole's seminal album Live Through This is 20 years old, and Spin has a great oral history with the bandmates, including out drummer Patty Schemel.
Like to work out? Try an Out-Fit Challenge. They're coming to a handful of cities this summer/fall.
Faking It premieres next Tuesday on MTV, but you can watch the pilot episode now (and for the next 48 hours) via the MTV App. Here's a look at one of the characters on the show about two best friends pretending to be lesbians.
Angel Haze's performance of "Same Love" for SBTV is definitely worth watching.
*Denotes rerun