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The latest developer diary from Paradox Development Studio is here for the upcoming Common Sense expansion to Europa Universalis IV, and it's focusing on Colonial Nations and Protectorates this time around.
Even more 'subject interaction' is revealed like being able to rename our colonial nations, ending the curse of ye olde spelling erorrs. We can replace their governors too, and tell them to start a colonial war!
Next Europa Universalis IV patch includes free update with "3D fort models"
With the next expansion for Europa Universalis IV on the way, Paradox Development Studio has revealed part of what's coming in the next big patch. Some free content is in the works with "3D fort models" on the list.
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How can we get our toddler to eat?
My 15-month-old has stopped eating. He's never been very good at trying new foods, but at least he would eat baby food. Now he won't eat at all; all he wants is his bottle. Our pediatrician said to take it away and let him be hungry, and when he's hungry enough he'll eat. But he cried so much when I tried it, I didn't have the heart to continue. Any suggestions?
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i have a 2 yr old who doesnt eat. he has been off of the bottle since he was 1 and at first he ate anything. now the only thing he will eat is mac and cheese and any kind of breakfast foods. we have stopped the snacks and the dr told us he will eat when he is hungry. the other night i didnt feed him anything after breakfast bc he refused and when it was bed time he was screaming crying i felt so bad. i dont know if it is a texture thing but as soon as anything goes in his mouth he will spit it out. now he just looks at something and decides he wont eat it without tasting it. i have been giving him pediasure and vitamins and my dr said to feed him jar veggies if i had too. i just feel like he will never eat anything. any suggestions?posted 09/30/2010 by jlynnhart
my 15 month old only drinks milk(bottles) i get so much crap from everyone that i am not parenting right but i can not get him to eat i even tried putting the food in his month he just spits it out! i have tried all foods!posted 08/22/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
My son is 14 1/2 months old and loved table food when we started him on it...but now it seems like he has no interest in food and has dropped to 5% on the curve :( My peditrician told us to give him carnation breakfast drinks (1 a day) and that will make sure he is getting calories....also I have gave in and when he won't eat what i fix i give him supreme pizza his favorite!!! It's so scary when they don't eat but I alwasy remember that if he's hungry enough he will eventually eat but the drinks make me feel better and he has actually chunked up since we started on them!!posted 08/11/2010 by Lizzy Henderson
I would like to add this to my suggestion below These are tactics that i use on my child and trust me sometimes it works and doesn't work. Sometimes he'll eat the whole thing and sometimes he won't that's just how life is. I would like to add somthing to my first suggestion i said in a separate bowl you give him/her the meats and in other bowl you can have either pasta, rice, some veggies mashed potatoes so in between bites you can sneak them in as long as they eat something it's fineposted 01/22/2006 by jcasti
Sorry for the repetition, my browser froze and when I checked, it hadn't been posted!
Dr. Sears suggests a nibble tray in The Baby Book. He says to take toddler friendly foods and put them in an ice cube tray and place it on a low table. The rule is that they have to chew while standing by the table. For more from him: https://www.askdrsears.com/html/3/t030800.asp -- he also stresses that kids aren't growing as much between 1 and 2, so therefore don't need as much to eat. Good luck!
Dr. Sears suggests a nibble tray in The Baby Book. He says to take an ice cube tray and put a bunch of foods your toddler can pick up and eat in it. Then put it on a low table so your toddler can cruise by and eat. He stresses that you have a rule that chewing has to happen while standing at the table, not on the go. For more from him, check out https://www.askdrsears.com/html/3/t030800.asp -- He also stresses that between 1 and 2 your child's not growing like they were, so therefore not eating as much. As others have said, it's normal. Good luck!
You are all describing my 15 month old to a t... I'm so confused now, though! He was on pepcid for a few months b/c the dr thought he might have reflux - and I tend to think he did/maybe still does, but not sure about the still does part. He was a baby who never got into eating cereal well or any foods that great or enthusiastically. Slept terrible at night, but I attributed that to being sick often - has reactive airway/had bronchitis often in his early months. So the meds & coughing made him a bad sleeper - I thought. Started pepcid maybe around 9 mos & it really seemed to help - ate better. Stopped it about 2 months ago as a trial & seemed fine. Now he's back to not eating. I offer him everything we eat, try every kind of food I can think of. He ends up eating some cereal in the morning (prepared jar food) & fights me the rest of the day. All he'll eat are cheerios & entenmann's cereal bars! Back on pepcid past 2 days as trial - but maybe this is just normal behavior??posted 06/10/2010 by a BabyCenter Member
The Dr.'s are right. I have a 14 month old daughter who is also going through not eating that great stage. From the time she was eating solid foods, we put her in the high chair during meals. We also sit there with her, most of the time. Alot of times they aren't hungry just like we aren't because they aren't growing. They WILL eat when they are hungry. I have found that giving her milk in the morning before breakfast, then breakfast an hour later, and water for the rest of the day, until supper, keeps her hydrated and she will eat better. She will eat lunch at noon, nap at 1 and have a snack when she gets up. Sometimes she will even have a snack between breakfast and lunch. Then we eat supper around 6 or 6:30, and she has a bath at 7:30, a story and bedtime at 8pm. We have done this routine from very early on, and the structure and routine works! When she is growing, she still wants to eat every hour or two. Sometimes milk at lunch too, but water and juice for the rest.posted 05/30/2010 by excitedlyexpecting#1
I feel your pain!!! I have a 3 year old who has been like that since she was born. When it came time to give her stage 3 foods she would spit it out if it was not completely smooth. Trying to give her regular foods now that she is 3 is just as hard! She will ONLY eat, spagetti-o's, mac n' cheese, cheese, and crackers. She refuses to eat any kind of meat, she has actually made herself throw up when I make her try it. My husband and I are very frustrated. I've tried taking thoes foods away (like the dr said) and when she is hungry she will eat, but she just cryed everyday, and refused to eat. She started to get sick, and she is already too skinny, so I couldn't do it anymore. It's nice to know I'm not the only one out there, but I still don't know if I'm doing the right think by allowing her to only eat such non-nutrisious food! =(posted 05/18/2010 by Jenellehodgkins
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Range report on 2 new 1911s
I posted in early December or so that I was converting all my handguns to the 1911 platform.
Everything is the same as posted with the addition of a Kimber SIS Ultra in layaway I pick up on March 20th and a Ed Brown Molon Labe I have on order.
So I finally got the time to head to the range to test out the 2 new 1911s I picked up spoken about in the post above. A Kimber TLE II and a Puma 1911-22LR.
(For those who do not know the Puma 1911-22 is a full size 1911 that fires the .22LR from a 10 round magazines. It retails for around $250-$270)
With the Puma I was able to put 140 rds downrange. CCI Mini Mags and some Winchester JHP. The 1st 90 rounds were flawless, the next 60 were full of rounds not firing on the first hammer fall. A quick resetting of the hammer by hand and every round fired on the second fall. Not sure if it was ammo or gun related. The rounds that did not fire the first time did have nice firing pin hits on them it seemed. Only more time and different ammo will tell the tale for sure.
The reliability of the gun was perfect. The feel of it was almost exactly like that of the 5" Kimber I was shooting at the same time. Of course recoil was non existent and it was a little strange going from 1 mag thru the Kimber then 1 mag thru the Puma. Both felt the same in the hand but the recoil was worlds apart. Accuracy was fine, the included documentation from the Puma states that the user is to file the front site to desired height. I did not do this today, but the groups were pretty good. The trigger reset is a bit different than a normal 1911 but still is very close to it's roots.
The overall fit and finish of the gun were what you would expect from a $250 1911. Not great but not bad if you keep in mind the use of the gun. It is a range plinker plain and simple but it would be a great gun to introduce a new shooter to handguns. It IMO is not a type of gun you would try to use in any type of formal training as a low ammo cost replacement for a true 1911, I would think a .22LR conversion kit on a true 1911 frame would be a better choice. The Puma is fun to shoot on the range and that is why I purchased it. Overall I am happy with the purchase and would recommend it. I mean it's a full size 1911 dedicated to shooting the .22LR
I made some changes to the Kimber TLE before shooting it. A Ed Brown Chainlink MSH, Ed Brown GI guide rod sand plug, solid short trigger and Magwear grips and magwell set up.
The Kimber TLE II was a jewel. In the past I have not been very kind to Kimber overall on these forums but this one is a keeper. I have owned 1 horrid Kimber (UCII with the EE), 1 decent Kimber (Warrior) and one great one (Raptor UC with the IE) in the past. I have mixed feelings about how the TLE II would perform on the range. The 500 rd break in period was what I was expecting with many FTE and FTFs during this time.
I fired 250 factory rounds (200 FMJ and 50 JHP, all 230GR) downrange thru a mix of Kimber, Kimber Pro Tac and Wilson mags (7 & 8 rd) with zero issues. Accuracy was great, I have never questioned the accuracy of any Kimber. The Magwear grips and magwell is an excellent set up for anyone looking to add a magwell to their 1911, I went with the carry version. This is the first Kimber I have owned that has had zero issues in the first 250 rounds fired.
I am very happy with the Kimber TLE. I still read too many issues with Kimbers and have questions about their customer service and QC but this one is a keeper. I will not hesitate to buy Kimber products in the future.
I hope the Kimber SIS Ultra I am picking up next month works out as well for me.
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Thank you for the range report. I am currently trying to find a Accurate Arms .22 LR top unit for my G-22. If one does not turn up soon, I'm going to just give up and buy a Marvel for my SA Mil-Spec. However, this Puma looks like it might have possibilities.
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Day-um!!! I just read your original thread! You traded in some GOOD handguns for a Kimber and a .22? I hope you still have the Hi-Power. IMO, you should keep the Brown and the Lawman and sell the rest of the "1911's" to purchase ammo.
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The new Ed Brown Molon Labe looks awesome, congrats, post pics and range report after you get that one!
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The new Ed Brown Molon Labe looks awesome, congrats, post pics and range report after you get that one!
Will do, I already have 500 rounds on order to ring the new 1911 out when I get it. Thanks.
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"Thank you for the range report. I am currently trying to find a Accurate Arms .22 LR top unit for my G-22. If one does not turn up soon, I'm going to just give up and buy a Marvel for my SA Mil-Spec. However, this Puma looks like it might have possibilities."
Thanks, with ammo prices the .22LR is a heck of a deal these days!
"Day-um!!! I just read your original thread! You traded in some GOOD handguns for a Kimber and a .22? I hope you still have the Hi-Power. IMO, you should keep the Brown and the Lawman and sell the rest of the "1911's" to purchase ammo. "
The Lawman is the "smoothest" 1911 of the bunch, I think a 9mm STI Trojan is going to find it's way to me this year as well. Ammo prices these days are driving me towards a 9mm 1911 quickly. The HP is still in the safe, I sold one back in the mid 1990s and can not bring myself to make that mistake again. It will be my exception to the 1911 only rule.
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Congrats! Sounds like you got a winner Kimber this time.
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They both look good, congrats. My Govt model i picked up a few weeks ago probably shoots better than anything i currently own at the moment. At the range today i was at 15 yards and i put like 17 out of 18 in a 3 inch square, for me thats phenomonal. I then took it out to 35 yards and was shooting at a steel target and was hitting 6 out of 8. I was truly shocked, but i was bearing down and not rushing myself as i often do.
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Denver may be landlocked, but it's still home to more than 500 species of ocean-dwellers, thanks to the Downtown Aquarium, the largest aquarium between Chicago and California. Have close encounters with sharks, sea turtles, stingrays, rainbow fish and sea otters as they swim in more than a million gallons of water. Don't miss the exciting Shipwreck exhibit, where a replica of a sunken galleon has transformed into an underwater habitat teeming with aquatic life, or the Sumatran tigers who prowl majestically.
Just down the street from the aquarium, you'll discover the Children's Museum of Denver, a whimsical, imagination-stimulating adventure for kids 10 and under.
The exhibits here will entertain, as well as give an opportunity for exploration and learning. The museum features more than a dozen "playscapes," including a hands-on fire department, an assembly plant for interactive building activities and a tot-sized veterinary clinic.
If you've got a little daredevil on your hands, head directly to the 50,000-square-foot Denver Skate Park, one of the premier public skateboarding parks in the country. There, you'll see skaters of all ages navigating their way through bowls, rail-sliding and catching all kinds of air.
End your first day exploring the 16th Street Mall, a mile-long, tree-lined pedestrian promenade — and one of Denver's most visited attractions. The mall is easy to traverse, thanks to free shuttles that stop frequently at every corner. It's a great spot for dinner, with plenty of kid-pleasing choices. Every block boasts a landmark or a piece of fun public art; treat it like a scavenger hunt as you make your way around. Check out the herd of colorfully painted buffalo between Larimer and Market streets, the iconic Daniels and Fisher Clocktower on the corner of 16th and Arapahoe, or William Burgess' abstract sculpture at 16th and Wazee.
Day 2
Go to where the wild things are in Denver: the Denver Zoo. One of the nation's most popular zoos, this one-of-a-kind wildlife adventure in City Park takes visitors on a globetrotting safari. You'll go nose to nose with a polar bear, trade funny faces with gorillas and orangutans and stretch necks with giraffes. Younger kids will love taking a ride on the Pioneer Train, which chugs past elephants, rhinos and hippos in Pachyderm Park, as well as the Endangered Species Carousel. Here, they can ride atop their choice of 48 hand-carved animals, and you can savor the memory by taking family photos next to their favorite zoo animal. The Toyota Elephant Passage lets kids get up-close-and-personal with elephants, rhinos and more in one of the world's largest bull-elephant habitats. The Endangered Species Carousel offers a ride atop one of 48 hand-carved animals.
For lunch, pack a picnic and spread out in City Park, which surrounds the zoo with 330 acres of refreshing green space and an abundance of fresh-air activities. A perfect spot is the area surrounding Ferril Lake, where you'll take in one of the best views of the Denver skyline and the Front Range.
Another option is a visit to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, also located in City Park. You'll see enormous dinosaur skeletons, including T-Rex, Triceratops and Stegosaurus in the Prehistoric Journey exhibit, where you can also get a glimpse of real paleontologists preparing fossils for display. The IMAX Theater provides giant-screen thrills, and the state-of-the-art Gates Planetarium sends you through the cosmos. Don't miss the new, interactive Expedition Health exhibit, where you'll learn all about how your own body functions.
Or head west to the city of Golden's Colorado Railroad Museum, where more than 100 locomotives, passenger cars, cabooses and HO model railroad attractions make the state's rail history seem larger than life.
Dinner calls for a trip to Casa Bonita, which is not your average Mexican restaurant. This longtime Denver favorite is a great place for kids, and a great place to end your Denver adventure. Casa Bonita entertains little ones with cliff divers, mariachi bands, puppet shows, a pirate cave, magicians and much more. After this packed Denver weekend with the kids, you might consider treating yourself to one of Casa Bonita's famously large margaritas.
Other Family Attractions in Denver Area
Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park: Mind-blowing rides for those taller than 48 inches, plenty of slower family rides for those who aren't, Island Kingdom Water Park, lots of places to eat and a summer concert series make the nation's only downtown theme park a must visit.
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum: Experience the rush of flight in the museum's simulation center, climb into cockpits and wonder at the collection of military and civilian aircraft and the country's only X-wing Starfighter.
Water World: This is one of the biggest and best water parks in the nation, with acres of refreshing summertime fun in Federal Heights. Water World's 46 rides and adventures offer something for all ages.
Butterfly Pavilion: More than 1,200 free-flying butterflies make their home at this one-of-a-kind attraction in Westminster, fluttering all around visitors in a re-creation of a tropical rain forest.
The Wild Animal Sanctuary: This 720-acre rescue/educational facility 30 miles outside of Denver is home to nearly 300 large carnivores (including lions, tigers, bears and wolves!). They roam the massive refuge while you walk above them on the Mile Into the Wild walkway.
Dinosaur Ridge: Compare footprint sizes with giant prehistoric beasts on a 1.5-mile nature walk in Morrison. You'll encounter more than 100 fossilized dinosaur tracks, including those of stegosaurus, apatosaurus and allosaurus.
Skyventure Indoor Skydiving: Lone Tree's smooth-riding vertical wind tunnel literally sends you soaring. A stellar training program and instructors make it great for families.
Spending an adults-only weekend in Denver?
Check out A 5-Star Luxury Day in Denver and A Day of Arts & Culture in Denver.
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This installment of Mouthpieces provides information on the prevalance and relative innocence of upper respiratory infections in shelter cats, and encourages potential adopters to look past the sniffles when seeking their perfect feline companion.
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Hounding Shelters
The tradition of hound hunting poses major problems for shelters in Virginia. Every year during'and especially after'hunting season, they are flooded with hounds who are either stray, abandoned, or relinquished by hunters who no longer want to take care of them.
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The KIND News Adopt-a-Classroom program from Humane Society Youth offers an effective way to start a communitywide youth education initiative-and raise some cash for your shelter.
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The Dollars and Sense of Spay/Neuter for Cats
A study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) supports statistically what animal shelters know from experience-that households with higher incomes are more likely to spay or neuter their cats.
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Animal welfare issues are just one of the passions of the Indigo Girls, the Grammy-winning, politically active folk-rock duo who've been making hearts and minds sing for more than 20 years.
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This installment of MouthPieces offers valuable information that you can pass along to the public about feral cats and trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs.
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This installment of MouthPieces offers valuable information that you can pass along to the public about puppy mills.
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Chinchillas are insanely cute'and that can prove to be a problem if infatuated new owners fail to research the exotic rodents' substantial care needs. Learn what's out and what's in when it comes to advising someone on adopting a chin.


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Lawsuit alleges skimming of nursing home money
"I think it's a serious problem because they spend so little on the actual care," she said. "They're grossly understaffed, so the care is terrible and these management fees just contribute to the problem."
But Reagan, of the industry association, said nursing homes' expenditures already are closely scrutinized by state regulators.
"There is a check in the system for the state to say, 'All right, let's look at whether or not this particular cost is a reasonable cost,' " he said.
"There's no indication," he added, "that there's any relationship between issues of quality and these types of operational decisions that are sanctioned by law."


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More Nvidia price reductions: GTX 280 @$449!!!
It looks like AMD keeps putting the heat on Nvidia. The GTX 280 will soon go for $449, the GTX 260 will stay at $299, and the 9800 GTX+ will go for $199.
Here are the contestants:
GeForce GTX 280 vs. Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce GTX 260 vs. Radeon HD 4870
GeForce 9800 GTX+ vs. Radeon HD 4850
The GTX 280 will lose to the HD 4870 X2 in almost every case except Crysis. However, the GTX 280 will be priced about $100 lower. Let's see what Nvidia does if AMD can get the 4870X2 to launch at $499! We may see that GTX 280 going for $399 very soon!!
The GTX 260 vs. the HD 4870 is a toss up with each winning in different games and settings.
The 9800 GTX+ vs. the HD 4850 is also a close call, but I'd give the overall nod to the HD 4850.
This price war is definitely welcome for us gamers. However, it will definitely impact the bottom line of both companies, possibly causing AMD to go out of business. Still, let's enjoy these prices while we can!
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KOLLAM: President of the Kerala Environmental Researchers' Association Sainudeen Pattazhy has said that the high temperature being experienced now could be due to an increase in the concentration of green house gases.
In a statement here on Saturday, he said it would affect the availability of water in the State.Dr. Pattazhy, a senior lecturer at SN College in Kollam, said urgent steps should be taken to minimise the emission of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbon, hydrochloroflurocarbon, carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide.
According to statistics, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in 1860 was 290 parts per million (ppm) and by 1970 it increased to 320 ppm, he said. In 1988, the concentration of carbon dioxide rose to 360 ppm and it is estimated that the figure would double by 2030.
Dr. Pattazhy said a study conducted by the International Water Management Institute stated that one-third of the countries in the world would be affected by global warming within 25 years.
Anti-pollution devices should be installed in all vehicles and industrial units, he said. Afforestation should also be promoted.


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Why shouldn't a giant squid have its own tiny squid to play with?
This little guy is adoptable though Momo's Piggery where part of the proceeds will got o Cavyhouse, a section 501 guinea pig rescue. You wanna rescue piggies don't you?
Your whole arm just got so much cuter it hurts!
This is a sleepy season. It's hard to get going and get moving. If you make a sweet little sleepy kitty from this tutorial you can satisfy your need for laziness and your crafty side.
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U.S., Europe, Japan, Brazil and India fare well
The International Monetary Fund has raised its world economic growth forecast from 4 per cent to 4.5 per cent, reflecting the positive impact of economic activity in the first half of the year as much as it did "strong clouds [that] have appeared on the horizon," according to an official statement.
Offering comments on the release of the updated forecast Olivier Blanchard, Chief Economist at the Fund, said, "while we remain cautiously optimistic about the pace of recovery, there are clear dangers and policy challenges ahead."
In particular there were concerns over how Europe would deal with fiscal and financial problems, the progress that advanced countries make with fiscal consolidation, and the efforts of emerging countries to rebalance their economies, Mr. Blanchard noted.
More optimistic
On the upside, the Fund report said, the numbers on economic activity for the first half of the year "have come in strong, indeed somewhat stronger than we had forecast." These would give reasons to be more optimistic than the Fund had been earlier, Mr. Blanchard added, referring to an April forecast for growth according to which world economic output was expected to expand at 4 per cent.
Specifically the Fund was cheered by the fact that the world economy expanded at an annualized rate of over 5 per cent in the first quarter of 2010 and that growth was stronger than expected in most countries, including the United States, Europe, Japan, Brazil, and India. "A good sign for the future," according to the IMF, was the finding that in most cases such growth reflected stronger private demand.
Yet on the downside Mr. Blanchard cautioned that the strong clouds that had appeared on the horizon present "real dangers and serious policy challenges, and give reasons to be less optimistic than we were earlier."
Fiscal solvency
The clouds started building over Greece, but quickly extended to Europe, Mr. Blanchard explained, underscoring that these clouds threatened to cover the entire global economy. He argued that worries about fiscal solvency in Greece got transmitted to fiscal solvency concerns elsewhere and this in turn led to doubts about "the solvency of banks… financial turbulence, disruptions in market financing and a freeze in the interbank market in Europe."
Despite striking this ominous note for the future, the IMF still noted that its forecast for 2011 would remain broadly unchanged, at about 4.25 per cent. It added that both this and the 2010 growth rates however "hide a large difference between and within advanced and emerging and developing economies."
In particular the IMF forecasted estimated for advanced countries at 2.6 per cent for 2010 and 2.4 per cent for 2011, emphasising that these low growth rates implied that high unemployment would remain a central issue. In significant contrast however the Fund's growth projection for emerging and developing economies was 6.8 per cent in 2010 and 6.4 per cent in 2011, which included an upward revision of 0.5 per cent for 2010 and a downward revision of 0.1 per cent for 2011.
The IMF also called upon emerging countries such as India to deal with capital flows, expected to increase in the aftermath of the crisis in Europe, because such flows were "largely driven by good fundamentals, and likely to be long lasting." Mr. Blanchard said that limiting their size through controls, or fighting their effect on the exchange rate through reserve accumulation, may prove "difficult and eventually self defeating."
The Fund also recommended that emerging market countries focus on shifting from external to internal demand, as that would permit them to maintain growth in the face of lower exports to advanced countries, and to better satisfy domestic needs.
This would require both structural reforms and exchange rate appreciations, the Fund said.


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Pakistan, the Taliban and the US
Pakistan's military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, has pledged full cooperation with the United States against terrorism, but Pakistan will need to carry out a U-turn in its policy of support for the Taliban if it is to regain the West's confidence and end its present diplomatic isolation. The stark policy choices the military faces may also require a complete turnaround from twenty years of clandestine support to jihadi parties and the growth of a jihadi culture, which has sustained its policies in Kashmir and Central Asia.
After having spent the past seven years providing every conceivable form of military, political and financial support to the Taliban, Pakistan is now essentially being asked by Washington to help the US bomb the Taliban leadership, along with their guest Osama bin Laden, and topple the Taliban regime.
In an immediate follow-up to Musharraf's rhetorical pledge to assist the United States in countering international terrorism, President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell asked Pakistan to take concrete measures to prove its sincerity. "We thought as we gathered information and as we look at possible sources of the attack it would be useful to point out to the Pakistani leadership at every level that we are looking for and expecting their fullest cooperation,'' Powell said at a news conference on September 12. A day later, after mentioning Musharraf's message of support, Bush said, "Now we'll just find out what that means, won't we? We will give the Pakistani government a chance to cooperate and to participate as we hunt down those people.''
The United States has given the military regime a list of demands in order to facilitate Washington's expected attack on bin Laden. They are believed to include permission for the use of Pakistani airspace for the bombing of bin Laden's camps, an immediate end to Pakistan's supply of fuel and other goods to the Taliban, closure of Pakistan's borders with Afghanistan in order to prevent the escape of Arab militants to Pakistan and the sharing of intelligence with the United States about bin Laden and the Taliban.
The list is clearly only the first step in testing Pakistan's resolve. More demands are almost certain to follow, among them US use of military bases, airports and harbors for the expected military offensive. Washington has asked for a comprehensive report from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) about every detail it has on bin Laden, including his contacts with Pakistani extremists, his use of Pakistani militants to carry messages around the world and his hiding places in Afghanistan.
At the same time, Washington has given the ISI a little time--"no more than a week or so," according to Western diplomats--to see if it can persuade the Taliban to hand over bin Laden and dismantle the multinational network of extremists belonging to his Al Qaeda (the Base) organization. Within days of the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks, senior ISI officers were in Kandahar holding intensive talks with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar in a bid to convince him that if he does not hand over bin Laden, US strikes will also target the Taliban leadership. The chances of success are bleak, because of the close relationship between Omar and bin Laden. The Taliban have sounded alternately defiant and conciliatory, but on September 15, Omar issued a bellicose statement against the United States, saying the Taliban were ready to defend bin Laden and die. There does appear to be panic in the movement; several ministers in Kabul and commanders in the field have sent their families to Peshawar and Quetta in Pakistan--indicating that they themselves are ready to flee.
Washington is thus for the moment adopting a two-track policy, pressuring Pakistan but at the same time giving it space to absolve itself of its past support for the Taliban and deliver bin Laden, something the ISI has refused to do over the past five years. Since September 11, Musharraf has been huddled with his top generals, giving no public statement of his intentions; in his two brief television appearances he has looked exhausted. After meeting with all his generals, his Cabinet and his National Security Council, the government has only said, without giving details, that it will stand by the United States.
Clearly, Musharraf has every reason to be worried. Pakistan has a 1,560-mile-long border with Afghanistan, and the United States would need Islamabad's full military and intelligence cooperation if it were to launch an attack. But for the past seven years Pakistan has been the main provider of military supplies, fuel and food to the Taliban army, and Pakistani officers have advised the Taliban on their military campaigns. Over the same period, up to 60,000 Pakistani Islamic students, three-quarters of whom were educated in Pakistani madrassahs, or religious schools, have fought in Afghanistan for the Taliban. One year ago, when the Taliban captured Taloqan in northeastern Afghanistan, then headquarters of the anti-Taliban United Front, more than sixty Pakistani military officers and a small unit of the Special Services Group--Pakistani commandos--were supporting and advising the Taliban force of 12,000 troops, which included some 4,000 non-Afghan militants.


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I got the feeling they took the Ranger body plus their faces and added some slight modifications to cover that they recycled the skins.
Similar things could be said for the ritualist - who cares for the eyes if this class usually has bandaged eyes anyway.


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On Wednesday February 20th, Governor Walker gave his biennial budget address. The last time he gave this address the people of Wisconsin got Act 10. This time conservative wonderboy Walker offered up a huge income tax break for middle class Wisconsinites of a whopping $100 a year. He bragged about cutting property taxes (funny, everyone I know has seen theirs go up) and how great Wisconsin public school teachers are. Then, like Ted Nugent, he just whipped it out - yep, that's right he pulled out his voucher plans. Sorry public school teachers, he just isn't that into you – he has his eyes on those private school teachers and their lack of union representation.
Of course he saved his most egregious proposal for last:
My budget changes the food stamp program so non-elderly, able-bodied adults will be required to be enrolled in employment training to receive food stamps. More than 75,000 people will benefit from getting extra help with job skills.Walker is cutting taxes for everyone (If you call eight bucks a month a tax cut); including taxes for those corporations that are people too, and at the same time cutting a lifeline (food stamps aka Foodshare in Wisconsin) for those that are less fortunate. This isn't about a temporary or permanent hand up. This is about the Republican Party's hatred of helping any individual. Working poor? Lose your job? Hungry? Well pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Oh, you don't have any boots or straps, well that is just too bad. If you were an unborn child we could help, but you are out of the womb so you are just shit out of luck.
I'm all for providing a temporary hand up, but for those who are able-bodied, it should not be a permanent hand out. I care for the people of this state too much to force them to live a life of dependence on the government. I want those who are able to be prepared so they are ready to fill a job when one is found—so they can have the same type of success that Elizabeth and Alan have had with our program.
These reforms will help transition people from government dependence to true independence.
One thing that Walker and the rest of the GOP does not seem to get is that there are people who work and receive Foodshare benefits, there are others who have lost their jobs and are on Foodshare. But, the governor in one broad sweeping brush declares that anyone receiving these benefits needs job training. Really? Are you going to tell that to the woman with a masters degree who gave 20 years of her life to a company and was laid off that she needs job training? Or that the man or woman who mows lawns and shovels snow for a living that after he/she is done working he/she has to attend a job training class in order to get benefits so that his or her family can be fed?
Governor Walker, first you need to learn that there is no such thing as a food stamp program in Wisconsin. The program is called Foodshare and it uses a benefits card. Second, please keep my eight bucks a month and make sure that people have enough to eat in this state.


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Priscilla Hill and Katherine Johnston are two local cancer survivors whose portraits and personal stories are featured in Portraits of Hope in downtown Covington. Their stories can be viewed in the window of The Lula Building. (Staff Photo: Crystal Tatum)
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Monitoring Service properties.config
We recently installed a Monitoring project type as a Windows Service. However, I noticed that there is not a properties.config file for the project properties stored within the project (at least not that I can find). Are the project properties stored in a different location for Monitoring project types?
Anytime the process runs, it fails because it is trying to use project properties, but cannot fine the properties.config file in the project directory.
Here is the error captured from the logs:
Error capturing component data. System.Exception: Could not find property file c:\Program Files (x86)\Altiris\Workflow Designer\WorkflowDeploy\Release\CWxBuildAutomationCreateCRService\properties.config
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There's probably just a bug in the code that generates the Windows Service exe for the corresponding workflow project that fails to generate the properties file.
Deploy your project (or just run it in the debugger) to a different directory, grab the properties file out of the folder and paste it into the bin directory where the windows server was generated. That should work fine.


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2016 run for Palace not in Grace Poe's plans
MANILA, Philippines—Running for higher office in 2016 is the last and least of the concerns of Sen. Grace Poe, who is looking forward to serving out her six-year term in the Senate.
"Nobody has approached me to run for 2016. I've also not approached anyone," Poe, the surprise topnotcher in the May senatorial election, said in a weekly news forum.
"In the future, I may have a different mind-set but for now, I am telling you that I don't feel that I'm qualified until I prove myself in the Senate," she added.
Poe, the daughter of actor and one-time presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., said she has friends who are more than qualified to run for higher office three years from now.
Poe is known to be a close friend of Sen. Francis Escudero, the elder Poe's campaign spokesman when the actor ran for president against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2004.
"I guess it's normal when you're within the Top Five, you're considered as a possible [candidate in the next elections]. I won't have false humilities," Poe said.
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Welcome to Movember Radio, moustache stories for your stereo. This year's Movember & Sons theme put an emphasis on the importance of the knowledge sharing between the generations. In this episode we meet Mo Bro and prostate cancer survivor Jim Higley who, in a very open and honest conversation with his son Kevin, talks about how a cancer diagnosis affects the entire family.
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LINCOLN – Just ask anyone associated with the Lincoln High program and they will universally declare the following: Joe Yankee is the quintessential X-factor.
On a team loaded with players ranging from good to very good, Yankee might just be the one Lion whose impact cannot be understated. The junior continued to strengthen said argument Sunday afternoon against a strong Moses Brown offense, striking out seven Quakers in the Lions' 14-4 mercy-rule thrashing at Chet Nichols Field.
PAWTUCKET — With its playoff hopes squarely on the line, Shea High avoided elimination from the postseason on Friday with a 6-2 victory over Juanita Sanchez.
The Raiders (7-10) host Wheeler School (9-7) this afternoon at 2 p.m. in what amounts to a "win and you're in" game for the home team.
"I think we're in if we beat Wheeler," Shea coach Dino Campopiano said after Friday's game had ended.
It wouldn't be a Boston baseball season without Theo Epstein and the Red Sox resuscitating some aging baseball player. Kevin Millwood becomes Epstein's reclamation project, a former all-star starting pitcher who has posted an ERA of over five in three of his last four seasons.
The recent string of rainy weather, resulting in a myriad of postponements, will not impede the high school baseball playoffs from starting on time.
The Interscholastic League sent out a reminder to coaches on Thursday – the fourth consecutive day that wetness impacted the high school scene – that Monday is still the last day of the regular season. The brackets in Division I and II will be distributed to the schools on Tuesday with Wednesday serving as the official opening of the postseason.
PROVIDENCE — The first offseason departure has arrived for Providence College as the school announced Thursday that sophomore guard Duke Mondy has been released from his commitment.
Mondy departs after a 2010-11 campaign that saw the Michigan native sit out the final four games of the season. At the time the only thing PC officials said about Mondy's situation was that it was a "coach's decision." Mondy did appear at Ed Cooley's introductary press conference in March, telling Blackstone Valley Sports when asked to clarify his situation that, "I'm good, just can't wait to play."
WOONSOCKET — This has been a nightmarish year for Mount St. Charles Academy, a team most folks predicted would again compete for the Division I-North title and embark on a long run in the state tournament.
There have been the injuries. Two of the Mounties' top players -- ace pitcher Olivia Hendricks (foot injury) and third baseman Nicole Silva (illness) -- out indefinitely. The four losses they suffered in the last inning. The five straight games they stranded 10 or more runners on base.
PAWTUCKET -- Tolman High scored its biggest win of the season on Monday, handling Division II-South leader Middletown its first loss.
The Tigers rallied for two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to pull out the win. The game was tied after seven innings to both teams began their at-bats in the eighth with a runner on second base. Middletown plated its runner to take an 11-10 lead, setting the stage for Tolman's final comeback of the day.
Ashley Hessler put down a bunt single for Tolman to get things started. Jordan Klemanchuck then singled in both runners to win the game.
PAWTUCKET – Tolman High dealt a crushing blow to Shea High's playoff chances on Monday.
The Tigers rolled to a 15-5 victory over the Raiders in a Division II contest shortened to six innings by rain at McConnon Field.
Tolman improved to 10-6 with the win while Shea fell to 6-10.
"It's kind of a bittersweet win for us," Tolman coach Theo Murray said, "because Shea needed to win two of three games this week to be playoff-eligible. Now they have to win their last two games, and they play two tough teams, Wheeler and Juanita Sanchez."
PAWTUCKET — After losing five straight games, including a 10-2 trouncing Saturday night against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, the Pawtucket Red Sox had fallen back to .500 and needed a victory badly.
They got one on Sunday, a 9-3 drubbing of the Yankees that put Pawtucket back over .500 and just 2½ games out of first place with their modest 19-18 record.
Veteran pitcher Matt Fox, a former first-round pick of the Minnesota Twins in 2004, beat Scranton for the second time in 10 days on Sunday, striking out seven in five innings while allowing all three runs.
PAWTUCKET — Baseball scouts usually sit in the best seats minor league stadiums have to offer, a few rows behind home plate. They come armed with the tools of their trade – radar guns, stopwatches and "cheat sheets" that record the data of players down on the field.
"The radar gun is mainly used to measure the speed of pitches," Chicago White Sox scout Gary Pellant was saying on Sunday afternoon at McCoy Stadium. "I've seen some scouts use them on infielders, to see how strong their arms are. Amateur scouts do that because they watch a lot of high school players who change positions."


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Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympian, was charged with murder for the shooting death of Reeva Steenkamp, his model girlfriend.
Pistorius, 26, wore a dark suit and wept during the hearing at the Pretoria Magistrates Court. Steenkamp, 29, was shot dead in Pistorius's home in a gated community on the eastern outskirts of Pretoria yesterday, Valentine's Day. He will be kept in jail after the bail hearing was postponed until Feb. 19 to give more time for investigations. Pistorius's father, brother and sister sat behind the runner in court.
"The alleged murder is disputed in the strongest terms," his family said in an e-mailed statement from Fast Track agency in London today. "He has made it very clear that he would like to send his deepest sympathies to the family of Reeva."
Pistorius, dubbed "the Blade Runner" because of his double leg amputation and prosthetic running blades, has won six Paralympic gold medals. He became the first amputee runner to compete at an Olympic Games in London last year and was named by Time Magazine in its list of the world's 100 most-influential people. Pistorius was born without fibulas and had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old.
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"The charge is murder," Medupe Simasiku, a spokesman for the National Prosecuting Authority, said at the court today. The prosecution will argue it was "premeditated murder," prosecutor Gerrie Nel said.
Police have interviewed witnesses, including neighbors, who heard noises from Pistorius's home at the Silver Woods complex, a gated community in eastern Pretoria, in the hours before the shooting, Police Brigadier Denise Beukes said yesterday. There were previous incidents of "a domestic nature" at the house, she said, declining to give further details.
Some sponsors are reviewing their affiliation to Pistorius.
"This is news to me," Jon Sigurdsson, chief executive officer of Ossur Hf, which manufactured his Flex-Foot Cheetah Blades, said by phone from Reykjavik today. "We'll look into this matter."
Multichoice, a South African satellite TV company owned by Naspers Ltd., pulled an advertising campaign and removed billboards featuring Pistorius "out of respect and sympathy to the bereaved," spokeswoman Lani Lombard said in an e-mailed response to questions. Nike Inc. and BT Group Plc, a telecommunications provider, expressed condolences in separate e-mails and declined to comment further.
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Steenkamp got a degree in law from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, was voted in the Top 100 most attractive women last year in FHM's South Africa edition and was a television presenter, according to her publicist Sarit Tomlinson.
"Her whole life, what she could have achieved, never came to fulfillment," her uncle, Mike Steenkamp, said in an interview broadcast on eNCA, a Johannesburg-based television channel. "She is with the angels."
South Africa recorded 30.9 murders per 100,000 people in the 12-month period through March 2012, down from 31.9 per 100,000, the South African Police Service said on Sept. 20. The murder rate has fallen since reaching 67.9 per 100,000 in 1995, when the police force was integrated after the end of all-white, apartheid rule. South Africa's murder rate is more than six times that of the U.S.
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Pistorius competed in his first able-bodied elite event at the 2011 track and field world championships in Daegu, South Korea. He got his chance after sport's highest tribunal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, in 2008 overturned a ban on him competing against able-bodied athletes imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations, which said his blades give him an advantage.
As a child, he played sports including water polo, cricket, tennis and boxing. As part of his rehabilitation after injuring his knee while playing rugby as a 16-year-old, Pistorius took up track running. A year later he won the gold medal in the 200 meters at the 2004 Athens Paralympics.
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Charlotte, N.C. - A good start was required for the Milwaukee Bucks, a team with plenty of question marks entering the regular season.
So far they have delivered with a surprising 6-2 record, including a 3-0 mark on the road.
But now the going is about to get considerably tougher.
In the next six games to end the month, they play four on the road. They open a two-game trip at Charlotte on Monday night followed by a tough test against defending league champion Miami on Wednesday night.
Then it's a back-to-back set against Central Division rival Chicago, which handled the Bucks to the tune of a four-game sweep last season.
After that?
The New York Knicks, now reshaped with Jason Kidd, Ronnie Brewer and Rasheed Wallace on the roster, play at the BMO Harris Bradley Center on Nov. 28.
The Bucks conclude the month with their only visit to Minnesota, a team that routed Milwaukee in the final preseason game.
But the Bucks have delivered on their promise of a solid beginning, something everyone agreed the team desperately needed with coach Scott Skiles and general manager John Hammond in the final year of their contracts.
Milwaukee has won in different ways, getting a buzzer-beater from Brandon Jennings to edge Cleveland in the home opener and clutch shots by Monta Ellis to hold off New Orleans on Saturday night.
And the Bucks routed Indiana on Wednesday after piling up a 32-point lead in the third quarter.
"Anytime you win in this league, they're all big," Bucks forward Mike Dunleavy said after the team edged the Hornets, 117-113, on Saturday. "Every win counts the same in the standings.
"But heading into a two-game road trip before Thanksgiving, for us to win (Saturday) and to win Monday in Charlotte would be big. Then we'll go from there."
The Bobcats won only seven games in the lockout-shortened 2011-'12 season but already have four victories in their first eight games.
Miami will be home after a long western trip and will have former Bucks and Celtics star Ray Allen, who will face Milwaukee for the first time as a member of the Heat.
The Bucks went 0-8 on the road to open last season but are unbeaten away from home thus far with victories at Boston, Washington and Philadelphia.
"We're playing our style, defending, creating a lot of turnovers and getting out in transition," Dunleavy said. "That's the strength of this team right now."
The Bucks started slowly on Saturday against New Orleans but recovered to score 60 points and lead by two at halftime. Against Indiana they started well and built a 26-point halftime lead, also scoring 60 points.
"Our approach in several of our games has been good to start the game," Bucks coach Scott Skiles said. "We were good at Philly to start the game; we were good at Boston (in the season opener) to start the game.
"We were good against Indiana at home and pretty good against Boston at home (in a 96-92 defeat). If when the ball goes up we can be ready, and be ready to start the third quarter and dictate how the game is going to be played, you're going a long way toward winning the game."
The Bucks are scoring nearly 20 points a game on the fast break, and Skiles believes that number can go higher if the team improves its defensive field goal percentage and rebounding.
Milwaukee has weapons on the break with quick guards Monta Ellis and Brandon Jennings, along with backup point guard Beno Udrih. Dunleavy is great in transition whether shooting the three or finding the open man, and power forward/center Larry Sanders can run the floor and is finishing more of his chances.
"We've still turned it over a bit too much (on the break)," Skiles said. "But usually it's because somebody has been trying to make a play for somebody else. Guys are looking for each other; you live with that.
"It's not because one guy is in a crowd and spinning around and getting the ball raked out of his hand.
"If you're going to get stops, you're going to rebound the ball and try to play in the open floor, turnovers are big. You can't be going down and wasting opportunities and giving turnovers back."
Jennings has handled transition opportunities with more poise than in past years, and Ellis also is comfortable on the break. Both players had nine assists Saturday.
"I think it's just that he (Jennings) is taking the play that's there for him," Skiles said. "You don't see him as much just driving in and throwing up a wild layup that has zero chance of going in. He does have nice floaters if he just sticks with those and spreads the ball around.
"I imagine teams are saying, 'He's a threat to score and a threat to pass.' And that makes him dangerous."