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Modeling the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Among Injecting Drug Users and Sex Workers in Kunming, China
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- Xamxinur Abdurahman,
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This paper presents a mathematical model of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Kunming,the provincial capital of Yunnan, China. The population is divided into several groups, with individuals possibly changing group. Two transmission routes of HIV are considered: needle sharing betweeninjecting drug users (IDUs) and commercial sex between female sex worker(FSWs) and clients. The model includes male IDUs who are also clients and female IDUs who are also FSWs. Groups are split in two—risky and safe—according to condom use and needle sharing. A system of partialdifferential equations is derived to describe the spread of the disease. For the simulation, parameters are chosen to fit as much as possibledata publicly available for Kunming. Some mathematical properties of the model—in particular the epidemic threshold R 0 which determines the goal of public health interventions—are also presented. Though the model couples two transmission routes of HIV, the approximation \(R_0\simeq \max\{R_0^{{\rm IDU}},R_0^{{\rm sex}}\}\) , with closed formulas for \(R_0^{{\rm IDU}}\) and \(R_0^{{\rm sex}}\) , appears to be quite good. The critical levels of condom use and clean needle use necessary to stop both the sexual transmission and the transmission among IDUs can therefore be determined independently.
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- Title
- Modeling the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Among Injecting Drug Users and Sex Workers in Kunming, China
- Journal
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
Volume 68, Issue 3 , pp 525-550
- Cover Date
- 2006-04-01
- 10.1007/s11538-005-9051-y
- Print ISSN
- 0092-8240
- Online ISSN
- 1522-9602
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Kermack-McKendrick epidemic model
- Female sex workers
- Injecting drug users
- China
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Nicolas Bacaër (a) (d)
- Xamxinur Abdurahman (b)
- Jianli Ye (c)
- Author Affiliations
- a. Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Bondy, France
- d. IRD, 32 avenue Henri Varagnat, 93143, Bondy Cedex, France
- b. College of Mathematics and System Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang, P.R. China
- c. Center for Public Health Surveillance and Information Services, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CCDC), Beijing, P.R. China


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saw Dierks Bentley and Karen Fairchild perform "When You Gonna Come Around" at The Ryman on February 2nd. It was very good. One of many highlights that night.
I was thrilled to hear about that new Mary Chapin Carpenter album. I love her. I will definitely be buying it.
As for the new Carrie Underwood song, I unashamedly love it.
The description of country music as "static" in that "Americana vs country" essay is amazingly but not unusually under-informed and misleading.
That whole essay was amazing, and not in a good way.
I can't figure out how I feel about the Carrie Underwood song. I didn't hate it on first listen, but I've found that it's wormed its way into my head on regular intervals since it was released. It's nothing really new or groundbreaking and the subject matter is very much "Cowboy Casanova" rehashed. I foresee a very fast burn rate for it, but I also won't turn off the radio when it comes on – at least not for the first few weeks it's out. ;)
Yesterday, in honor of Johnny Cash's birthday, LA's Album Oriented Classic Rock station FM 100.3 "The Sound" played the first side on vinyl of "Live At Folsom Prison". I was washing my car in the driveway at the time thinking, man no one makes music like that any more! I just wish they would have spun side 2 as well. Its sad but I'm more likely to hear a vintage Cash song on "the Sound" than LA's lone Top 40 AirHead Country radio station. Tsk, tsk.
If LeAnn Rimes becomes a judge on "X Factor", will anyone be able to understand what she is saying? Hmm…
I think Hank III should be collaborating with both David Allan Coe and Billy Joe Shaver! The resulting music might not be very good, but I'm sure they would all have one hell of a time! (lol)
Thanks for the link to the Beccy Cole Aussie video. Morgan Evans is considered sort of a new, younger Keith Urban down under, so he's one to keep an eye on.
"I think Hank III should be collaborating with both David Allan Coe and Billy Joe Shaver!… they would all have one hell of a time!"
That is, unless someone said something that Shaver took the wrong way or took offense to or interpreted as disrespectful. You definitely wouldn't want to offend Shaver, because he has a tendency to "pop off." Especially not in Texas, 'cause if he pops off there, it's legal.
I hate to agree with Jon, but I found the article on Americna to be amazing, although I perhaps should say amazingly pointless and meandering. I'd call it a waste of paper, except these are modern times, so I'll substitute "waste of digital space"
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This issue has been solved. See solution.
I wonder if there is any way to tell in Symantec Management Console (or Deployment Portal) if a PC is online right now and especially if/what user is currently logged in. (I know I can ping it)
Yes, I am thinking of those nice icons and one click-features in Deployment Console 6.9 ....
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Christmas Wars: The Fight to Hold the World Record for the Most Christmas Lights
In the ongoing battle to hold the Guinness World Record for the Most Lights on a Residential Property (aka the house-with-the-most-Christmas lights), the Gay family in LaGrangeville, New York has once again reclaimed their title. This year the family used 601,736 lights, spanning two acres and set to more than 200 songs. RITZ Crackers, part of Mondelēz International, helped the family top the record, providing 200,000 lights. The Gay family and the Richards family in Canberra, Australia, have been fighting for the title over the past three years. But not to be outdone, the Richards family took home the Guinness World Record for the Largest Image Made of LED lights for their Christmas light installation this year. The installation in Canberra used 1,194,380 lights to make a 3D image of three Christmas gifts spanning 3,865 square meters and raised money for the charity SIDS and Kids ACT. See more pictures and read more about the ongoing lights competition at City Lab and Guinness World Records.
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The 2014 Media Architecture Biennale has drawn to a close in Aarhus, Denmark, and with it five projects have been awarded for "outstanding accomplishments in the intersection between architecture and technology." Representing five different categories (Animated Architecture, Spatial Media Art, Money Architecture, Participatory Architecture, and Trends & Prototypes), these five projects are the ones that most represent the Media Architecture Biennale's goal to advance the understanding and capabilities of media architecture.
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Sustainable lighting design offers various well-being and environmental benefits in addition to economic advantages for clients and users. Although daylight provides a free lighting source, for most spaces the amount and time of daylight is not sufficient and electrical lighting is necessary. A focus on sustainability becomes essential for minimizing energy consumption and improving the quality of life. Even though efficiency has significantly increased with LED technology, electrical lighting is still more widely used. Often the ambition for renovations or new applications goes along with a higher quantity of lighting instead of finding a better lighting quality with an adequate amount of energy.
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Imagine luminaires that could fly and visualise new buildings or individually guide you through space. What would happen if you could even interact with these flying pixels? These concepts could be realised in the near future as the first prototypes and experiments are being introduced. Software-driven LED pixels combined with drone swarm technology provide extraordinary possibilities for inducing new forms of spatial experience. These luminous pixel clouds emerge as digital patterns, but at the same time they emanate a romantic quality with their unique star formations twinkling in the night sky. The first projects have shared a playful note, but laboratories such as MIT's SENSEable City Lab, ARES Lab and Ars Electronica Futurelab have shown an intriguing future in urban design for guidance systems or envisioning real estate developments, as advances in battery technology and wireless control have opened new perspectives for a life with smart flying pixels.
Beyond "Things That Flicker": The Next Step for Media Architecture
From November 19-22 in Aarhus, the Media Architecture Biennale 2014 held in will feature the world premier of "Mapping the Senseable City," an exhibition of the now ten-year-old MIT Senseable Cities Lab's collected works. The following essay was written by Matthew Claudel, a researcher at the Senseable Cities Lab, In response to this collection, exploring what the future holds for media architecture, and imploring it to explore ideas beyond "TV screens for living in."
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Media architecture is emphatically ambiguous. The phrase has been pasted wholesale onto a dizzying array of projects and products. But beyond imprecision, media architecture is vexed by an inherent tension: media are networked, immediate, dynamic communication systems that reach people broadly, while architecture is sited, singular, and persistent in time. Reconciling the two evokes clumsy associations with Times Square, screens, integrated LEDs, paparazzi, or more generally things that flicker.
Manuelle Gautrand to Revamp Paris' Alésia Cinema with Hundreds of LED "Pixels"
Renovated numerous times during its history, Gaumont-Alésia, a Parisian cinema housed in a structure that is over 80 years old, will now be revamped by firm Manuelle Gautrand Architecture. With a design that emphasizes filmography's presence in modern culture, the Gaumont-Alésia is set to become an inviting cultural hub for the surrounding city, showcasing cinema's influence on both the interior and exterior.
Both street facades will be composed of glass curtain walls shaded by pleated metal panels. These panels will be perforated by hundreds of LED "pixels" which will create an image across the pleats. Both entrances to the building become animated walls, broadcasting film stills, movie trailers, and advertisements, all meant to entice passersby. The LEDS are spaced fewer and farther apart toward the edges of the building, creating a stippling effect around the border of the images. At the entrances these animated panels will peel upwards, creating a canopy under which patrons can walk.
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Project Team: Diogo Aguiar, João Jesus, Teresa Otto e Álvaro Villa, Tania Costa Coll
Project Year: 2013
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Lucid Stead: A "Disappearing" Cabin of Mirrors
In Joshua Tree, California, artist Phillip K Smith III has completed Lucid Stead: an optical illusion/installation that modifies an abandoned 70-year-old homestead with mirrors in order to make it appear transparent. The cabin was also fitted with LED lighting to "extract the distilled experience of how light changes over time — how a mountain can be blue, red, brown, white, purple, and black all in one day." As Smith stated, the project is about light, shadow, and tapping into the quiet of the desert. Check out more images and a video of the cabin after the break!
Building Transformed Into Giant Rubik's Cube
For his thesis project, Javier Lloret turned a building into a giant, solvable Rubik's Cube. Making use of the media facade of the Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, he projected the world's most famous handheld puzzle onto a huge scale – inviting passers-by to solve the puzzle. In the process, Lloret transformed the nearby area, showing that (when used correctly) technology can make the urban environment more fun.
Read on to find out how Lloret did it…
Invisible Skyscraper Unveiled for Seoul
California-based GDS Architects' new proposal, dubbed Infinity Tower, is designed to disappear from its Korean skyline. How? Cameras will be mounted at six strategic points; thousands of LED screens on the facade will then broadcast the real-time photos captured and logged by the cameras. Though no estimated completion date has been announced, the developers have received construction permits to break ground. More about this incredible vanishing act and how it's done at Fast Co-Design.
UVA Transforms Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion with "Electrical Storm" of LEDs
London-based United Visual Artists (UVA) has brought Sou Fujimoto's "cloud-like" Serpentine Pavilion to life with an "electrical storm" of LEDs. With the intention of making the architecture "breathe" from within, UVA seamlessly integrated a network of LED lights into the latticed, 20mm steel pole structure that mimics the natural forms of an electric storm. In addition, carefully conducted auditory effects further enhance the experience, transforming Fujimoto's "radical pavilion" into an electrified geometric cloud.
Light Matters: What Media Facades Are Saying
Light matters, a monthly column on light and space, is written by Thomas Schielke. Based in Germany, he is fascinated by architectural lighting, has published numerous articles and co-authored the book "Light Perspectives".
Today we have permanent media façade installations worldwide that call for attention. With size, tempo, colour and brightness they stand up as individuals within the urban nightscape. Many of them send out their luminous messages in a broadcast mode. For this reason, neighbours, on occasion, demand an intense dialogue with regard to content and form of the media façade, especially as it's often unclear whether light installations are architecture or advertisement.
However, in the same way a good book requires a storyteller, media facades demand curators to arrange exciting stories that fit into the site and suit the client. The following four examples show how media facades reflect the story of the buildings themselves – see them all, after the break…
Origin / United Visual Artists
Designer: United Visual Artists
Score: Scanner
Client: The Creators Project
Location: New York City (2011) and San Francisco (2012)
Additional Audio Programming: Henrik Ekeus and Dave Meckin
Producer: Keri Elmsly
Photographer: James Medcraft
"Reflect" / Ivan Toth Depeña
Ivan Toth Depeña's light-based installation "Reflect" was permanently installed in the Stephen Clark Government Center Lobby in Miami in November, 2011. Commissioned by the Miami-Dade Art in Public Places initiative, the work illuminates the dynamism of the lobby space and encourages a sense of discovery in the visitors.
Toshiba Milano Salone / Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane
Architects: Dorell.Ghotmeh.Tane
Location: Milan, Italy
Project area: 534 sqm
Project year: 2010 – 2011
Photographs: Francesco Niki Takehiko, Daici Ano
Led Action Façade, Digital Façade for Medialab Prado / Langarita Navarro Arquitectos
Architects: Langarita Navarro Arquitectos – María Langarita, Víctor Navarro
Location: Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain
Collaborators: María Langarita, Víctor Navarro, Juan Palencia, Roberto Gonzalez
Client: Area de las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
General Contractor: Pecsa Teconsa U.T.E.
Engineers: Mecanismo
Lighting Consultant: Ca2l
Project Area: 144 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Construction Year: 2008-2009
Photographs: Miguel de Guzman
Reconstruction of Kremlin Concert Hall / OTASH studio
Architects: OTASH studio
Location: Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
Authors: Dejan Otasevic, Ivo Otasevic, Uros Otasevic (designer)
Project architectural team: Slobodan Damjanovic, Pavle Bogdanovic
Associates: Nenad Peranovic, Marija Simsic, Dragana Mijatovic
Design Year: 2007
Project Year: 2008-2009
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Well, no breaking out of the offensive funk that inning. Reds go down 1-2-3.
Is DRob becoming a fly ball hitter because he's made good contact a couple times of late? SEEMS like it.
Heisey is always down 0-2 when he doesn't swing at the 1st pitch
Votto with a soft ground out
Denorfia with a ridiculous swing? Lol
1-2-3 first for Homie.
Well, the Padres go down 1-2-3 in the first as well, so that's something.
Denorfia has the chip on his shoulder it looks.
Sorry Chris, you were greatly unimpressive for the Reds and they moved on. Enjoy a very nice living in San Diego.....oh and just because you hit a HR doesn't mean you are a homerun hitter
On pace for a 2 hour game with minimal runs.
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So today was a bit funny. Started off like opposite day when we started warming up. I couldn't hit a forehand over the net. Dunno what the deal with that was, but the funny bit was that I was making practically all of my 1hbh's. Hence why I called it opposite day. Once we started warming up with rallying though things got better and I made all the balls I should be making.
Net play was solid for the most part. Biggest problem today though was my backhand volley. Was making clean contact with ball but they were just popping up on me. Teaching pro said I was hitting them a little to close instead of out in front. Will try to keep in it mind for tomorrow when I'm at net.
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It's been a year since they came. A year since they murdered my grandfather and forced their own will on us. It's the day I've been dreading for months. It's the day the tributes are chosen for the Hunger Games. Only this time, it's not the Districts' children who are chosen.
My nightmares are interrupted by my mother shaking me. She usually calls my name to wake me, but I can tell from looking at her that she's not in a mood for talking. I get dressed and have what may be my last meal with my mother. Then we make our way to Capital Square, where I will be required to wait for my name to be called.
I've never seen so many people up so early. We wouldn't be able to penetrate the crowds if it wasn't for our official escorts, armed with guns, who demand they make way.
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It's been one year since the end of the war, one year since the Capital was overtaken and a new democracy was set in place. But for me, the war hasn't ended, and maybe it never will. I'm still waiting for a Capital hovercraft to appear in the sky and burn everything I have left to ashes. I know it will never happen, but the nightmares come all the same. Sometimes I still see my sister in her yellow braid, calling out my name just before she goes up in flames. She's gone. The rebel victory could do nothing to change that. I wish I could take her place now, like I did when she was chosen as a tribute for the Hunger Games.
Soon, the Capital will know what it's like. To have your children taken from you. To watch helplessly as they're transformed into killers to be murdered in the arena. At least this gives me some comfort, more than even Peeta could offer me.
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Mike Rosario is no longer a Scarlet Knight. The former great next hope for Rutgers is officially a Florida Gator. He committed to the school Sunday afternoon after visiting Gainesville over the weekend.
"It's a great coach, a great group of guys and it's just a great place to hang your rafters up after it's over because the experience is just unbelievable," Rosario said when reached by phone. "The guys that have been here, so many pros, every sport is so good. It's unbelievable. It's really a college town and I really loved it."
Rosario was granted his release from Rutgers Wednesday and visited only Florida before making his decision. There was wide speculation that he would end up at USC with his good friend and former St. Anthony High School teammate Jio Fontan but Rosario said his goal was to find the school best for him."I told Jio that I was going to make my decision and I was gonna do what's best for me," he said. "Out of love I chose Florida but I told him I love him and I wish him the best. He knows that we're brothers so he knows that we're never, ever stop keeping in contact. I still know we're going to be close. He said, no matter what I'm going to be by your side. He's my brother so I made my decision to come here instead of there and he backed me up 110 percent."
His declaration ends a tumultuous two-year era at Rutgers. He became the first McDonald's All-American to commit to the school and quickly becoming the face of the program before he even stepped onto the RAC hardwood. He leaves with two losing seasons behind him, the coach that recruited him with nine toes out the door and a program in flux like no other BCS school.
Still, he has nothing but fond memories of his time as a Knight.
"I love Rutgers because it was home and it was 20 minutes away from home and I was the face of the program," Rosario said. "I really loved it. I really had a joyful time here and even to have the opportunity to attend college. I still would thank them for everything that they've done for me. Just everybody that has helped me to get better as a person and as a player, I want to thank them for doing that for me."
Rosario will finish out the spring semester at Rutgers before making the move down to Florida, ending an almost two-week process that started when the Star-Ledger reported Rosario was not happy with his situation at the school. He said about his decision, "The monkey is off my back."
Rosario will join other formerly highly-recruited Rutgers players like Dahntay Jones and Todd Billet who also transferred out after two season. While Rosario admits that sitting out the 2010-11 season as mandated by the NCAA will be difficult, it becomes easier thanks to his new surroundings.
"It's going to be tough sitting out a year but I have some experienced guys around me," he said. "I have guys that are going to help me stay focused on the task at hand. It's going to be unbelievable for me because it's a big test, but it's a great test for me. I think that this is the best decision that I have made in the last five years."


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Roman never talked much about the war when he was fighting it. Still doesn't, at least not with his mom. He hasn't written anything about it yet, she said.
"He's having the same difficulty we all experience," said Erwin, the Vietnam swift boat veteran. "Just because his mom is a great instructor doesn't mean it will be any easier for him."
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America's pastime is doing better than ever.
According to Forbes' latest Major League Baseball team valuations, the league is worth $36 billion, and the average team worth $1.2 billion, an increase of more than 48 percent for the largest year-over-year jump since the magazine started valuing teams, in 1998.
What's more: A record 15 clubs are now worth at least $1 billion, with the New York Yankees leading the way at a whopping $3.2 billion. They're tied with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys as the most valuable American pro sports team.
According to Forbes, television money is the biggest catalyst for the league's revenue growth, accounting for $2.88 billion (37 percent) of MLB's $7.86 billion revenue in 2014.
But while the overall league growth helped the Rockies' value jump nearly 49 percent, to $855 million, and their 2014 revenue increase nearly 9 percent, to $214 million, their standing relative to the 29 other clubs dropped. Colorado fell one spot this year, to No. 23 among MLB teams. Partially to blame, according to Forbes, is their viewership on Root. An average of only 37,000 viewers tuned in for each game, making the Rockies the fifth-smallest audience in the league.
In last year's valuations, the Rockies were valued at $575 million with a 2013 revenue of $197 million and operating income of $13.7 million.
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Wednesday November 14, 2012
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian women got off to a flying start in the Women's World Teams squash championships by making the second round after comprehensive wins in their opening group matches in Nimes, France.
Malaysia, powered by world No. 1 Nicol David, have never won the world team title – their best result being third placing in the last three editions.
But confidence is high in the team following Nicol's return to form and Low Wee Wern's rise to No. 7 in the world rankings.
The team were all business-like as they swept past China 3-0 in their opening Group C tie on Monday.
Nicol thrashed Li Dongjin 11-3, 11-8, 11-5 while Wee Wern and national No. 3 Delia Arnold also recorded straighforward wins.
The Malaysians showed no signs of fatigue as they returned to the court later to beat South Africa 3-0.
Yesterday, the Malaysian women continued their fine form by whipping minnows Spain 3-0.
Once again fielding a full strength side, Delia gave Malaysia the lead by beating fourth ranked Spanish player Chantal Moros-Pita 11-3, 11-3, 11-2.
China Open champion Wee Wern then sealed the win by defeating Cristina Gomez 11-3, 11-3, 11-3 before Nicol took to courts and easily dispatched Xisela Aranda Nune 11-2, 11-3, 11-7.
Meanwhile, England and Egypt flexed their muscles as the tournament favourites by easily booking their last 16 spot.
There were upsets, however, as 10th-seeded India stunned seventh seeds Ireland 2-1 before beating Argentina 3-0 to top Group G.
Hosts France also gave the home crowd much to cheer by beating eighth seeds Holland 2-1 in Group H.
In other matches on Monday, England and Egypt flexed their muscles as the tournament favourites by easily booking their last 16 spot.
There were upsets, however, as 10th-seeded India stunned seventh seeds Ireland 2-1 in Group G while hosts France gave the home crowd much to cheer by beating eighth seeds Holland 2-1 in Group H.
Group A: England bt Mexico 3-0, England bt South Korea
Group B: Egypt bt Wales 3-0, Egypt bt Scotland 3-0.
Group C: Malaysia bt China 3-0 (Nicol David bt Li Dongjin
11-3, 11-8, 11-5; Low Wee Wern bt Gu Jinyue 11-3, 11-3, 11-3;
Delia Arnold bt Xiu Chen 11-3, 11-8, 11-5), South Africa bt
Spain 3-0, China bt Spain 2-1, Malaysia bt South Africa 3-0
(Nicol David bt Siyoli Waters 11-5, 7-11, 11-2, 11-2; Low Wee
Wern bt Diana Haynes 11-9, 11-5, 11-2; Delia Arnold bt Milnay
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David bt Xisela Aranda Nune 11-2, 11-3, 11-7; Low Wee Wern
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Group D: Hong Kong bt Czech Republic 3-0, Columbia bt
Namibia 3-0, Hong Kong bt Columbia 3-0, Czech Republic bt
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Group E: New Zealand bt USA 3-0, New Zealand bt Japan
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Group F: Australia bt Canada 3-0, Australia bt Austria 3-0.
Group G: India bt Ireland 2-1, Ireland bt Argentina 3-0;
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We're staying with sports wives in our Hotty vs. Hotty challenge today, and today we're going with Indy Car wives. These guys have some stunners!
We're staying with sports wives in our Hotty vs. Hotty challenge today, and today we're going with Indy Car wives. These guys have some stunners!
Jack Osbourne tweeted a pic of Ozzy and Pearl, his grand daughter.
When Cameron Crowe was a young writer at Rolling Stone magazine he went undercover for a year at a high school in San Diego, an experience that became a book called 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High.' Crowe then adopted his tale into a screenplay, and thus was born the Amy Heckerling-directed movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High.'
Wow, do I love mugshots. These are the best and most ridiculous photos of folks who have been busted in 2012.
We're going to make a pretty huge statement right now ladies and gents, so brace yourselves: photobombing is hands down the best way to capture any sort of moment. Ruining a picture with that unexpectedly hilarious face or the addition of a random stranger in a photo simply adds that extra oomph needed to bring a picture to the next level. Plus, it's just funny stuff.
It's a Thursday edition of Hotty vs. Hotty and we have some smokers for you today.
Girlfriends and wives of tennis players are on the menu for today's hotty vs. hotty.
The Christmas comedy 'Elf' is about one of Santa's little helpers who learns that he is really human and then leaves the North Pole to seek out his birth family.
The film starred the long-limbed cut-up Will Ferrell as the "elf" in question, and became a huge holiday hit in 2003. 'Elf' also featured an all-star assortment of supporting actors and familiar faces. You can check out what the cast of 'Elf' is up to these days below.
It's NASCAR wives for today's Hotty vs. Hotty, and let's just say you won't be disappointed.
With Christmas only two weeks away, Santa is a pretty busy guy these days. He has to double check all presents are made, organize final copies of the naughty and nice lists and do some last-minute reindeer grooming so they're in tip-top shape for Christmas. It's a stressful few weeks, but Santa's been doing it for like, hundreds of years, so he has the whole thing down pat.
Then: In 1993, at the age of 10, Heather DeLoach became everybody's favorite music video star when she hit TV screens in Blind Melon's 'No Rain' video as the adorable girl dressed as a tap dancing bee. She followed that up with performances in 'I'll Do Anything' and 'Camp Nowhere.'
With Christmas only a few short weeks away, our holiday excitement seems to build every single day. Honestly, how can you not be totally stoked over the idea of presents and Santa and tons of hot chocolate with marshmallows? It's impossible. That's why we love to express this crazy anticipation in our favorite way-- through festive clothing. We're huge fans of giving our cat's reindeer antlers and making our pups wear Santa hats, but what does that mean for us?


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Let me introduce myself before we get into this! I am Robert Nemet, 16 year old Romanian, who lives in a small city named Toplita, in a country known as Romania. I started my interest in video games at the age of 9, thoroughly playing games all day long, which was like a hobby for me. But as life went on, I started to show an interest in creating my own games. I first started off with Amnesia Custom Stories, which was something pretty easy for me, at the age of 14. My most successful attempt at Custom Stories resulted in this bad boy! Then, as I learned a lot more, I switched towards the Unity engine nearly a year later, and the first game I made with it wasn't so impressive, and life problems made me lose motivation on that. I started working secretly on the Unity engine, starting up a few projects and then it turns to the present. Lunacy - The Darkness!
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Explains more on the upcoming work I have. With this move, Haunted Hallways REMAKE will remain unfinished, though fans can continue it ("Fan Continuation" title must be added, and my name to be mentioned in the credits. Not so hard).
This custom story is intended for replayability (different series of events on each playthrough, along with a different goal, unless you're unlucky enough to get the same series of events twice. But each series of events indicate a goal (hint), and each one is different, so getting the same hint twice means you'll see through the same thing again).
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Life Thrives at Polar 'Space Base'
Extreme cold, ice, darkness challenge Airmen
As temperatures hover at 30 degrees below zero, the Airmen and radars of Detachment 3, 22nd Space Operations Squadron stand watch over North America's frozen north.
Landing on a snow-packed runway 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle in winter can be a white-knuckle experience for anyone. But that's what it's like at Thule Air Base, Greenland.
Blinding winds howling at more than 50 mph, temperatures plunging below zero and 24-hour nights are commonplace there.
No wonder. Thule is more than 500 miles above the most northern part of Alaska. If it were in the Southern Hemisphere, the base would be at the same latitude as Antarctica. It is the Department of Defense's northernmost base.
It seems like a strange place for Airmen to serve. But in a land more home to reindeer, arctic fox and musk ox, they are helping ensure the Air Force's warfighting future by providing a key mission: missile warning and space surveillance and satellite command and control operations.
From the moment their feet touch the ground, Airmen discover an uncommon experience, beginning with hand-shakes from the base commander and senior leaders who endure the extreme runway cold to welcome each and every new arrival.
Airmen serve a one-year remote, unaccompanied tour in a multinational workforce on a nearly deserted, rocky, frozen landscape. Their home is on one of the most extreme environments found in the Air Force, or anywhere.
"This is not something you get to experience every day, or even in a lifetime. The beauty here… you cannot express the magnitude," said Col. Edward A. Fienga, 821st Air Base Group commander. The group operates and maintains the base in support of its vital space missions.
"It looks like the moonscape here. It has an incredible, rugged beauty of its own," said Lt. Col. Bob Pavelko, commander of Detachment 3, 22nd Space Operations Squadron.
Lying halfway between Moscow and Washington, D.C., Thule started in the 1950s as a post in the vast defense net built to hem in the Soviet Union. Today, the base has two major space missions. It supports Air Force Space Command, whose capabilities are a critical component for success in modern warfare, especially in the war on terrorism.
Two Thule units help the United States maintain space superiority.
Satellite trackers
Detachment 3 is part of the 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. Its primary mission is to communicate with polar- orbiting satellites – sending information to and receiving data from the satellites – using three massive satellite dishes at an automated remote tracking station. Unit Airmen and civilian contractors provide telemetry, tracking and command operations for American and allied government satellite programs. Large, spherical domes house the satellite dishes to protect them from the extreme weather.
"Space is the ultimate high ground. If we lose the ability to communicate with our satellites, we lose that advantage," Colonel Pavelko said.
Detachment specialists communicate with satellites 10 to 14 times a day and receive and relay data used for communications, navigation and weather. They make more than 22,000 satellite contacts per year. The Airmen and civilians provide indirect support to warfighters by moving data and information that may be used on the battlefield.
Early warning
The 12th Space Warning Squadron operates the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System. Part of the 21st Space Wing at Peterson AFB, Colo., the squadron's primary mission is the detection of intercontinental ballistic missiles and sea-launched ballistic missiles.
Squadron Airmen also watch the sky high over the northern polar cap. They have a secondary mission of space surveillance, monitoring objects in space that come through their polar coverage area. They perform these missions with a four-story-tall, two-faced, phased- array radar system. The Airmen send the information they gather to Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo., to update a master space catalog. Two or three American or Canadian servicemembers monitor the system's console at all times.
"Up to 3,000 miles away, we can see a piece of metal the size of a softball," squadron commander Lt. Col. Timothy Lincoln said.
Thirteen miles from the center of the base, the BMEWS site sits atop a large hill, giving its radar an open view northward. Because of the severe winter weather, the site has its own 15-room "storm dorm" to house workers should bad weather prevent them from returning to Thule.
Security forces Airmen protect this Air Force "priority level one" asset 24 hours a day.
As part of the Air Force's modernization plan, the system is undergoing an upgrade to its radar and will become part of a new missile defense called the ground-based midcourse defense system. The new capability will support a larger Department of Defense system that could destroy incoming missiles before they re-enter the atmosphere. The upgrade should be complete by 2010.
Life at Thule
Getting the missions done, as well as life at Thule, has its challenges. During winter, only aircraft and dog sleds can make it to the base. The nearest village is 75 miles away. Winter storms can restrict people to their rooms.
"But for the most part, we have a very normal base with lots of facilities for quality of life that keep people at the edge of mental acuity so they can perform their jobs well," Colonel Fienga said.
Airmen work with civilians and contractors from Canada, Denmark and Greenland. The total workforce of about 600 people has many contractors. About 52 percent are Danish.
"The continuity here is represented by the contractors here for the long term, whether it's U.S. or Danish contractors," Colonel Fienga said.
Thule can receive visiting aircraft, a mission now more common. With the closing of Keflavik Air Station, Iceland, Thule has become an alternate landing base for transiting aircraft. Alaska Air National Guard aircraft often stop for fuel when moving to or from a theater of operations.
"It's a unique opportunity here … just being in the darkness," Colonel Fienga said. "With a one-year assignment, you can roll up your sleeves and really get something done because you're likely to only be one-deep in your job. You have a lot of responsibility at a junior rank."
For a month, around December's winter solstice, the sky is black. For another two months, dim twilight is as bright as it gets and that lasts only a few hours a day. So Airmen and civilians develop ways to deal with the harsh environment.
Senior Airman Tom Gast, of the 821 st Support Squadron, said the first thing he does in the morning is turn on his "happy lamp." The lamp replicates the light of the sun to keep his circadian rhythms, or daily cycles, in balance.
"The cold is one of the biggest challenges," said Airman Pedro Pita, of the 821st security Forces Squadron. "If you're trained and know what you're doing, you'll do all right."
Getting used to the cold is also a safety concern. Average winter temperatures range from 13 to 20 degrees below zero, with wind- chill measurements commonly plunging into a dangerous zone of 50 degrees or more below zero.
"The weather can be calm one day, and then when you wake up the next day, the wind is blowing at 65 or 75 knots, and you can barely see outside. So you always have to be prepared to be stuck wherever you are," said Staff Sgt. Wayne Taylor, also of the security forces unit.
Sergeant Taylor keeps busy to deal with the isolation and weather. And he doesn't forget his family.
"I stay in constant contact with my family, hang out with my friends and study for promotion testing," he said.
Staying active is the key to coping, for some.
"The way I deal with these challenges is by staying active, not sleeping all the time. I also buy nice, warm, comfy clothing," said Airman 1st Class Angela Ortiz, another security forces Airman.
Thule is a small base, so everyone knows everyone else. That has its advantages.
"I had the opportunity to play basketball with our base commander, which was really neat. I don't know if you could do that at any other base," security forces Airman 1st Class Tara Horvat said.
When summer hits, things change. The sun comes out, and the pace of life picks up.
"You can climb Mount Dundas or go 'Thule Tripping' [walking or driving off base]," Airman Pita said. "You can go \down to the waterfall or to the ice caves."
When the sun comes out, and stays out, the trick becomes knowing when it's time to hit the sack. Even with shades to block out the sun, it's not always easy to fall asleep.
"You'll stay up all day and not realize that it's two or three o'clock in the morning," Airman Pita said.
Thule's mission is essential for the Air Force to maintain air and space superiority. But it is not for everyone. But those who endure the year-long tour will always remember the extreme, polar base. Images of their Thule tour will remain frozen in their minds as reminders of a once-in-a-lifetime polar experience.
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Boston Bruins defenseman Dennis Wideman will miss Monday afternoon's game with a left shoulder injury sustained during Saturday night's game against the New York Islanders. Wideman hit the boards awkwardly in the third period of the shootout win over the Isles, and B's head coach Claude Julien termed the blueliner "day-to-day" prior to Monday's matinee against the Colorado Avalanche. Johnny Boychuk was a healthy scratch for the first four games of the season, but will dress and play in Wideman's place in Monday's lineup.
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SOURCE: "Baseball and Baseball Talk in The Old Man and the Sea," in Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual, 1975, pp. 281-87.
In the following essay, Barbour and Sattelmeyer argue that baseball and baseball talk in The Old Man and the Sea serve as the boy Manolin's initiation into adulthood and establish a course of heroic action in the novella, as the struggles of baseball player Joe DiMaggio and Santiago are shown to be emblematic of humanity.
Since the education and range of reference of so many of Hemingway's characters seem to come chiefly from the newspaper, he presents us with the curious problem of a modern novelist who increasingly requires historical annotation. This is especially true of his references to the world of sport, where the names of yesterday's heroes may evoke only bewilderment. For foreign readers...
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This Bird Has Flown – A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul
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|This Bird Has Flown - A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul
|Compilation album by Various Artists
|October 25, 2005
|Razor & Tie
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This Bird Has Flown – A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul is an indie tribute album by a variety of artists that commemorates, as the title suggests, the fortieth anniversary of the release of the Beatles' 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was released on October 25, 2005 by Razor & Tie. It follows the track listing of the UK version of the album, although the two songs added to the American release are available as bonus tracks on iTunes Music Store.
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All tracks written by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted.
- "Drive My Car", performed by The Donnas – 2:44
- "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", performed by The Fiery Furnaces – 2:57
- "You Won't See Me", performed by Dar Williams – 3:34
- "Nowhere Man", performed by Low – 2:54
- "Think for Yourself" (George Harrison), performed by Yonder Mountain String Band – 2:15
- "The Word", performed by Mindy Smith – 3:03
- "Michelle", performed by Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals – 2:56
- "What Goes On" (Lennon–McCartney-Richard Starkey), performed by Sufjan Stevens – 5:50
- "Girl", performed by Rhett Miller – 3:03
- "I'm Looking Through You", performed by Ted Leo – 2:25
- "In My Life", performed by Ben Lee – 3:12
- "Wait", performed by Ben Kweller and Albert Hammond, Jr. – 2:26
- "If I Needed Someone" (Harrison), performed by Nellie McKay – 3:19
- "Run for Your Life", performed by Cowboy Junkies – 4:07
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- "I've Just Seen a Face", performed by Slow Runner – 3:27 (available on iTunes Music Store)
- "It's Only Love", performed by Sam Champion – 2:14 (available on iTunes Music Store)
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text: Billy Eugene Linkous, 55, of Wheelersburg, passed away quietly at home on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010, after a long illness.Born June 18, 1955, in Portsmouth, Ohio, he was the son of the late Avanell (Carter) and Bill Linkous. Billy worked many years as a custodian for the Wheelersburg School System and was a member of the Victorious Christian Life Center in Wheelersburg.Surviving are his loving and devoted wife, Shirley Gail (Floyd) Linkous; mother and father-in-law, Beulah and Dale Carter of Greenup, Ky.; his special grandchildren, Austin Morrison, Abby and Caleb Malone, Cody McCormick and Brady Tackett. Billy is also survived by many friends and family who loved him dearly.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by an infant sister, Zona Gail Linkous; grandparents, Zona and Brian Carter, Myrt and Blanche Linkous.And many thanks to Country Angels Homecare and staff for all their years of loving care and kindness. And a special thanks to Dr. David Provaznik and Dr. Marion Hochstetler.Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010, at Harrison-Pyles Funeral Home in Wheelersburg, with Pastor Vicki Bays and Bobby Linkous officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens at Franklin Furnace. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday and one hour before the service on Tuesday.


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