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Grammy Awards 2009
Why Jazmine Sullivan Is Excited About Her 5 Grammy Nods
Originally posted 12/04/2008 04:15PM
When five-time Grammy nominee Jazmine Sullivan hits the awards show for the
first time this year, she plans to make a beeline for one band only: Coldplay.
"I am so excited to meet them!" Sullivan tells PEOPLE. "I actually want to do a song with Chris Martin, so maybe somebody will introduce me to him, or I can slip him an album and he can listen!"
The R&B songstress, who earned the highly-coveted best new artist nod, still can't believe her good fortune. "When they called the Jonas Brothers, I started getting nervous. I was like, 'Man ... they're huge!' I didn't even know they were new artists!"
But with mom right by her side – "I must have grabbed her arm so hard she probably still has red marks!" – she learned she had actually received not just one, but five nominations. "It was surreal," says the Philly-native, who texted mentor Missy Elliott as soon as she heard. "I've been working for this my whole life and to see it finally pay off is just wonderful."
POLL: What Is This Year's Biggest Grammy Snub?
Originally posted 12/04/2008 11:00AM
It's Grammy time again, and each year there are a few nominations (or lack thereof) bound to leave music fans baffled.
Sure, everyone knew rapper Lil Wayne had a stellar 2008 and we all figured Coldplay would score big too, but who was left out to dry?
Lil Wayne, Coldplay Lead Grammy Nods
Originally posted 12/03/2008 10:30PM
Lil Wayne is having a big year.
Not only did the rapper's album Tha Carter III go five times platinum, selling over five million copies, but on Wednesday, he was nominated for eight Grammy Awards, including the prestigious album of the year honors.
And the rapper will face off against British rockers Coldplay in that category, who followed closely behind, earning seven nominations.
For the first time ever, the Grammy nominations were announced on primetime television as part of a special concert featuring performances by Christina Aguilera, John Mayer and Mariah Carey, who opened the telecast with a seasonal run through "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." The show, which was broadcast from the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live also celebrated the official opening of the Grammy Museum, which will open to the public in Los Angeles on Dec. 6.
The event was cohosted by Taylor Swift – a nominee for best new artist last year – and LL Cool J.
Amy Winehouse: Near Clean Sweep at Grammys
Originally posted 02/10/2008 11:00PM
It was Amy Winehouse's night: The British pop singer pulled off a near-clean sweep at the 50th annual Grammy Awards Sunday night, scoring five trophies including record of the year, song of the year and best new artist, while putting on a passionate performance via satellite from London.
Winehouse won all the night's top awards, except album of the year, which went to Herbie Hancock for River: The Joni Letters.
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Steven Knuff shows us the Nokia N93i. It is a new phone that also doubles as a video camera. Nokia's goal is convergence of products so you only have to carry one device instead of a camera, phone, etc.
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Steven Knuff: My name is Steven Knuff and I work for Nokia.
Benjamin: And we are talking today about the Nokia N93i which was announced
Steven Knuff: Yesterday, yes.
Benjamin: What makes it such a cool device?
Steven Knuff: This device is a re-design of a Nokia N93 which has a 3 mega
pixel of Carl Zeiss lens and a 3.2 Carl Zeiss lens and three types
optical zoom it has the form factor of a video camera and that also as the
form factor of enable to watch the video on the device like a tv.
Benjamin: So what's the application for this? Why have a full video camera in
a cell phone?
Steven Knuff: its convergence Nokia is all about convergence these days So we
have many product tried it you know a one device, So instead of having your
pockets full of two or three different devices you have one device and what's
great about this is what u see something you want a film not just to take a
picture of, we getting DVD quality video with this. Thirty frames per second
Benjamin: How do I get that video off of the camera?
Steven Knuff: Two to three different ways. One of them is through you can
actually watch that with a tv out right in the tv or you can actually edit it
on your computer with the Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premier, yes.
Benjamin: What if I just immediately move that to my website is there anyway
that I just use 3G and just move that on line or am I stuck with having move
to computer first in it.
Steven Knuff: There is a few different ways, One of the things which is
announced yesterday with the company called VOX is been able to take your
videos and posting straight to your blog.So it's a incredible video where
citizen journalism have been able to upload here you know anything you see if
you see a car record or something you can shoot out shoot that upload it, and
say "hey look, what I saw"?
Benjamin: How easy is that someone to do this is that I have to go through
hoops and just kind a something that my mom can do?
Steven Knuff: After you set up your mom with an account which is you all knows
how hard to do,Its pretty simple after they take the video it says what you
want to do? A little when you comes out we say send and it says what you want
to send the mms,email or upload. You hit --click upload and asks you were you
want to upload it to and your blog is one of those and your moms blog is one
of those and it shoots to right there and asks you for what the title is it
gives a little of comment about this actual real blog post.
Benjamin : You know video cameras in phones tradionally a kind of sucky,Is
there I mean you got a nice lens on the front of that .What's the image
quality actually gonna look like?
Steven Knuff: Image quality is fantastic Companies like BBC are using the
field reporters going out and record before the camera could show up,So this
is a proven technology in N93 and N93i is just takes the style little bit
Benjamin: So what's the resolution of the camera is it 322x40 or is it a
bigger image?
Steven Knuff: Is bigger image is 644x80,So that be a 480 progressive lines of
resolution that if approximately be the same as broadcast quality that point.
Steven Knuff: Yes
Benjamin: That's awesome.
Steven Knuff: Its fantastic and it is a compact device like this.
Benjamin: So what you are doing is enabling citizen journalism at this point.
Steven Knuff: Yes
Benjamin :So any one can have that phone go out grab some video , what ever
they want to grab upload it immediately right of their phone without having a
computer using their partnerships you developed and have it appear on their
Steven Knuff: Or using Wi-fi
Benjamin: What is the connectivity option with that device? So it's a wi-fi
only and then just?
Steven Knuff: Its wi-fi,it has Bluetooth so you can connect it to your
computer and use that or you can use 3g.
Benjamin:-: I hope this really shows up in high definition? But that device
the whole phone, do you call it a phone or a camera..
Steven Knuff:- we can call a multimedia computers
Benjamin: Multimedia computers that is really a roll of a tongue it's either.
Steven Knuff: Its rolling off at tongue after a few months I am saying in .
Benjamin: It is the beautiful device it got this gorgeous glassy finish, is
that an OLED display in the front
Steven Knuff: It is
Benjamin: It just looks amazing, it's one of those sexy little devices you'd
want to carry with you every where you go.
Steven Knuff: Definitely
Benjamin: You guys have done a great job with the device changing the face of
journalism It's going to be a amazing to watch.
Steven Knuff: We are enabling citizen journalism with this device
Benjamin: absolutely thank you so much for your time.
Steven Knuff: Thank you.
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Tampa car dealer won't face charges
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Over the weekend, the Tampa Tribune reported that the Hillsborough County State Attorneyâs office will not file charges against Tampa car dealer Jason Kuhn even though the Florida Department of law enforcement discovered that employees were asked by Kuhn to donate to Tampa City Council candidate Julie Brown in 2006 and 2007.
Brown was defeated last year by Councilman John Dingfelder, in a race that saw both candidates spend nearly $150,000 each on the local race.
The FDLE learned that Kuhn and his controller asked employees to donate to Brownâs campaign and said they would be reimbursed for their contributions. Thatâs called bundling â and itâs illegal.
But Hillsborough County Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi says Kuhn will not be prosecuted. Bondi said Kuhn wasnât charged was because it was discovered that he did not intend to circumvent the law.
Tampa City Councilman John Dingfelder is not happy that the State Attorneyâs office is deciding not to prosecute Kuhn.
Suspicions were aroused last year during the middle of the race for the Tampa City Council seat when a newspaper analysis discovered that many employees and their relatives of Kuhnâs Honda and Volkswagon dealerships had contributed the maximum $500 to Brownâs campaign, even though some of them had never given money to a candidate previously, and that some lived in Clearwater, Plant City and New Port Richey, far from the South Tampa district where the race was being waged.
Those contributions all came after the City Council rejected a request by Kuhn to re-zone a shopping plaza on Kennedy Boulevard, across the street from his dealerships, to build a used car lot. At the time, Kuhn didnât try to hid his feelings, telling the St. Petersburg Times that Dingfelder's vote â which was a reversal from an earlier hearing, was "very demoralizing" to his employees.
Dingfelder today says heâs heard from others in the community who are unhappy that Kuhn will not be prosecuted. He says they may go before the Florida Elections Commission for further redress. Dingfelder says he believes the State Attorneyâs office is sending out the wrong message.
But Assistant State Attorney Pam Bondi says her office did not feel that the wrongdoing done by Kuhn merited a trial.
After his searing re-election experience, Dingfelder has vowed to try to reduce big money in Tampa elections. Heâs convened a citizens task force to examine how to do just that.
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"A new kind of club culture where the East meets the West." – Kim Holcomb of KING5 TV about the Jai Ho! Dance Parties in Portland & Seattle.
King5 TV's Evening Magazine featured the Jai Ho! Dance Party hosted by Prashant – Singer, Dancer, DJ.
Link to the segment that was aired LIVE on TV in Portland & Seattle is on their website is here.
Please enjoy & share with friends.
This is not the first time that Prashant's work has been featured in news:
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They refer to themselves as Anangu (people). Pitjantjatjara country is mostly in the north-west of South Australia, extending across the border into the Northern Territory to just south of Lake Amadeus, and west a short distance into Western Australia. The land is an inseparable and important part of their identity, and every part of it is rich with stories and meaning to Anangu.
They have, for the most part, now given up their nomadic hunting and gathering lifestyle but have managed to retain their languages and much of their culture in spite of increasing influences from the broader Australian community.
Today there are still about 4,000 Anangu living scattered in small communities and outstations across their traditional lands, forming one of the most successful joint land arrangements in Australia with Aboriginal Traditional Owners.
Extended droughts in the 1920s and between 1956 to 1965 in their homelands in the Great Victoria and Gibson Deserts led many Pitjantjatjara, and their traditionally more westerly relations, the Ngaanyatjarra, to move east towards the railway between Adelaide and Alice Springs in search of food and water, thus mixing with the most easterly of the three, the Yankunytjatjara. They refer to themselves as Anangu, which originally just meant people in general, but has now come to imply an Aboriginal person or, more specifically, a member of one of the groups that speaks a variety of the Western Desert Language.
However, European depredations continued and Dr. Charles Duguid tirelessly fought for their protection, wellbeing and a chance to gradually accustom themselves to their rapidly-changing circumstances. In response, the South Australian Government finally supported a plan by the then Presbyterian Church to set up the Ernabella Mission in the Musgrave Ranges as a safe haven. This mission, largely due to the insistence of Dr. Duguid himself, was ahead of the times in that there was no systematic attempt to destroy Aboriginal culture, as was common on many other missions.
Beginning in 1950, many Anangu were forced to leave their homelands due to British nuclear tests at Maralinga. A large number of Anangu were subsequently contaminated by the nuclear fallout from the atomic tests, and many have died as a consequence.
Their experience of issues of land rights and native title in South Australia have been unique. After four years of campaigning and negotiations with government and mining groups, the Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act was passed on 19 March 1981, granting freehold title over 103,000 square kilometres of land in the far northwestern corner of South Australia.
The Maralinga Tjarutja Land Rights Act, 1984 (SA) (the Act) granted freehold title of an area of 80,764 square kilometres to Maralinga Tjarutja. The Unnamed Conservation Park (now Mamungari Conservation Park) was transferred to the Maralinga Tjarutja in 2004.
The sacred sites of Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (the Olgas) were extremely important spiritually and cermonially to the Anangu with more than forty named sacred sites and eleven separate Tjurkurpa (or 'Dreaming') tracks in the area. Some of these dreaming tracks led as far as the sea in all directions. Unfortunately, Uluru and Kata Tjuta were just over the border in the Northern Territory and separated from the Pitjantjatjara Lands in South Australia and had become a major tourist attraction and, ultimately, a National Park. The Central Land Council laid claim to the Ayers-Rock-Mt. Olga National Park and some adjoining vacant Crown land in 1979, but this claim was fiercely resisted by the Northern Territory government.
After eight years of intensive lobbying by the Traditional Owners, on 11 November 1983, Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced that the Federal Government intended to transfer inalienable freehold title to them. He also agreed to ten main points they had demanded in exchange for a lease-back arrangement to the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service for a "joint-management" régime where Anangu would have a majority on the Board of Management. This was finally granted in 1985, but with the government reneging on two of the most important points the Anangu had requested: they were forced to agree to lease the Park for 99 years, instead of the fifty years originally agreed on, perhaps more importantly, they had to allow tourists to climb Uluru, thus continuing the desecration of one of their main dreaming tracks.
Park Management has erected signs asking visitors not to climb the "Rock," but have no authority to enforce it. Thousands of visitors climb the rock every year. This is said to offend and sadden the Traditional Owners.
However, joint management of the 13.25 square kilometre World Heritage listed National Park has certainly been of benefit to Anangu, the Government and the millions of visitors who continue to be awed by the unique beauty and interest of the Park.


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I had the pleasure of spending Tuesday and Wednesday at LeadsCon in Las Vegas to participate in the event's panel on how to tap into new traffic channels.
We talked conversion rates on LinkedIn traffic versus Facebook or Twitter traffic, and also the role publisher content can play in lead generation. It was a great conversation with Brad of General Assembly, Jon of Pontiflex, and Austin of GoChime.
But, I have to say one of the highlights of the event was having the opportunity to chat with so many other speakers, attendees, exhibitors, and partners as part of our LeadsCon interview series. We will have lots of great video to share with you in the next week or so, but in the meantime you can catch a preview of a few of our interviewees below…
Thank you to all who made time for an interview — I'm looking forward to next time.
Oliver Roup | Founder & CEO | VigLink
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'Franklin & Bash's' Breckin Meyer and Ryan Phillippe's deleted '54' kiss surfaces onlineAdd to Favorites | Franklin & Bash
The 1998 movie "54" is probably remembered as much for what got left out of its theatrical version as for what's actually on screen. The most notorious of those cuts -- a kiss between Ryan Phillippe's and Breckin Meyer's characters -- has surfaced online.
The scene, part of a work print of the film (hence the poor video quality), was posted on YouTube in July but has picked up a lot more notice in the past couple of days thanks to a post on My New Plaid Pants. The scene shows their characters having an emotional conversation in the basement of Studio 54. Shane (Phillippe) leans over and kisses Greg (Meyer, now starring on TNT's "Franklin & Bash"), who rebuffs him.
The scene was one of many excised from the film's original cut after it fared poorly with test audiences. By some accounts, as much as 45 minutes of footage was dumped, some of it replaced by reshoots done a couple months before its release in August 1998. Just about all references to Shane being bisexual were removed from the theatrical release. (The DVD release restored some of the cuts, but not the kiss scene. Director Mark Christopher showed his cut at a film festival in 2008.)
Fifteen years later, it's hard to see what the big deal is. But it's an interesting little curio from that time.
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Who to believe in reportage of the Fatah conference: the New York Times's Isabel Kershner or Khaled Abu Toameh, the Jerusalem Post's veteran reporter on the Palestinians, himself an Arab Muslim?
The new leaders [elected at the conference] are considered more pragmatic than their predecessors and grew up locally, in contrast to the exile-dominated leadership they are replacing. . . . By the end, many of the participants seemed buoyant. They said that Fatah, led by the Palestinian Authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas, had emerged from the conference energized and more unified than it had been in years.
The rest of her report is a litany of mostly self-serving quotes from Fatah leaders, interspersed with Kershner's own credulous analysis.
Reading Toameh, one wonders if they attended the same event:
The assumption that [the newly-elected] Muhammad Dahlan, Jibril Rajoub, Marwan Barghouti and Tawfik Tirawi are more moderate than old-timers like Ahmed Qurei, Nabil Sha'ath and Hani al-Hassan is completely mistaken. . . .
In fact, all the newly-elected Central Committee members voted during the Fatah convention in Bethlehem last week in favor of a political platform that does not rule out the armed struggle option against Israel.
The kind of thing that might have been useful for Kershner to point out, no?
The young guard members also voted in favor of a series of hard-line resolutions that were brought before the conference, including one that endorses Fatah's armed militia, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades, as an official organ of the faction, and another that states that the Palestinians will never relinquish the "right of return" for refugees to Israel proper and that they are willing to make "sacrifices" to liberate Jerusalem. . . .
During the Fatah meetings in Bethlehem, most of the young guard activists appeared to be more radical than their older colleagues, especially with regards to the peace process with Israel.
The power struggle between the old and new guards in Fatah has never been over ideology or the future of the peace process. On these issues, there's almost no difference between Barghouti's views and those of Sha'ath and Qurei.
Rather, it's a power struggle between a camp that for two decades denied young guard activists a larger say in decision-making and access to public funds and jobs, and those younger activists.
You'd know none of this reading the Times's coverage. But that sort of might be the point.


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Still leaking, USS Texas to close for repairs next week
By Allan Turner | June 15, 2012 | Updated: June 15, 2012 12:17pm
Julio Zaccagni (left) and Don Cade, both former Battleship TEXAS crew members, share a laugh during the 2011 USS TEXAS Veteran's Reunion at the Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, in LaPorte. (Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle)
Photo By Cody Duty
Juan Salinas poses for a snapshot Tuesday on the Battleship Texas, while workers toiled below to plug a serious hull breach.
Photo By Michael Paulsen/Houston Chronicle
John Eddleman, a former Battleship TEXAS crew member, gets a hug from Kathy Heath as her husband John Heath looks on during the 2011 USS TEXAS Veteran's Reunion at the Battleship TEXAS State Historic Site, Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, in LaPorte.
Photo By Kim Christensen/For the Chronicle
Pearl Harbor survivors Allus Moore, left, Bill Eckel, Enoch E. "Buttsy" Vaughn, George Hemingway and Bob Youngman place their hats over their hearts in a moment of prayer at the Pearl Harbor Day Memorial Ceremony on the Battleship Texas at the San Jacinto Battleground Park on Dec. 1.
Photo By Nick de la Torre/Chronicle
Houston stuntman Mark Chavarria was a stunt man for the movie Pearl Harbor, which was partially filmed at the Battleship Texas near La Porte.
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Steven Howell, executive director of the Battleship Texas Foundation, said donations are needed to construct a permanent dry berth for the aging battleship, which is moored at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site.
Photo By Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau
The first battleship memorial museum in the United States, the Battleship Texas is one of several Houston icons readers have labeled a wonder.
The USS Texas continued to take water Friday, but officials said the influx has decreased from about 850 gallons per minute to about 100 and repairs may begin as early as Monday.
Ship manager Andy Smith said the ship will remain open to visitors this weekend, but will close Monday as repairs are set to begin. The ship likely will remain closed through next Friday.
The 100-year-old battleship, which participated in both world wars, developed a leak last weekend that quickly flooded bilge areas beneath the engine room. Smith theorized the leak or leaks resulted from rusting of the hull.
The Texas underwent major repairs in 1988, and in 2007, Texas voters approved a $25 million bond issue to dry-berth the ship. State and federal advocates for the battleship recently determined that the sum may not be sufficient for the project.
Smith said Friday that salvage and dive teams will inspect the damaged hull on Saturday and devise a plan for repair.
Dealing with the leak has been complicated by flooding of oil tanks inside the ship.
About 6,500 gallons of oily water were removed from the lower engine room through the use of absorbent mats and skimming; an additional 50,000 gallons were pumped from tanks below the starboard engine. The last phase of the cleanup will entail degreasing and pressure washing those areas, Smith said.
Beginning Monday, oil cleanup will be limited to daytime operations so as not to interfere with salvage and dive teams.
The Texas, awarded the state in 1946 as the nation's first memorial battleship, has been on display at the San Jacinto Battlefield State Historic Site at La Porte since 1948.


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by Corky Binggeli
November 2007
Organized by types of materials, and applications this guide helps designers successfully address material evaluation and selection of interior components. Technical information for each material is presented in a concise reference format to aid designers in their design solutions.
Covering all aspects of interior design materials, this book includes:
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Christians are largely responsible for the weak, ineffective impact of the Christian faith in our new postmodern culture. For decades we have expunged any graphical descriptions relating to biblical events or even Scripture messages.
Consider the polite, politically correct wording used in modern Bible renditions of Isaiah 64:6
"All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away." (NIV)
Filthy rags. Let's see, does that mean our righteousness is like rags we use to dust the house? Or is it more like the cloth we might use in the downstairs washbasin, or to wash the car? Perhaps what comes to mind is the kitchen washcloth that's been used a few times and needs to be thrown in the washing machine.
Actually, the word Isaiah used was never so polite. Although he could have used any number of more polite words, what he chose to use was the Hebrew word "ayd", which refers specifically to rags women of antiquity used as menstrual pads. He deliberately wanted shock effect! Modern Bible translators wouldn't dream of putting the phrase "our righteous acts are like used menstrual cloths" yet that is exactly what Isaiah wrote.
I don't mean to pick on Bible translators, as they have a difficult job when converting the original biblical languages into meaningful text for modern cultures. Still, the point is that our culture has been sanitized. So it's no wonder that the graphical nature of Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" is stirring up such controversy.
In my view, it's about time someone reminded us what Jesus really went through. His death was graphical. His beatings at the hands of Roman soldiers skilled in such things were beyond our comprehension. In a prophecy dating back 700 years before the event took place, Isaiah suggests that Jesus literally had his beard torn from his face in a savage act of brutality.
Until this film came along, motion pictures about Jesus always displayed His death in artistically gentle ways that conveyed none of the ugly truth of the event. The symbolism was meant to be gentle, sanitized for a "family" audience so that nobody would get upset. As soft as these portrayals were, television networks would take it even further, and delete scenes showing nails pounded into Jesus' hands. The movie "Jesus Christ, Superstar" perhaps best emphasized the lackluster view our culture has of the death of Jesus Christ, asking "who are you and what have you sacrificed?" and stating such nonsense as "I don't know how to love him."
As the church lost the significance of the event we call the "passion" of Christ, even distancing itself from the crucifixion to concentrate on the hope expressed in the resurrection, the culture surrounding the church also lost awareness of what the event was really all about.
Even today, as the film prepares to open, some Christians are planning to stay away, using such excuses as "I don't like violence in movies" or "I don't want my kids to see Jesus like that." One Christian teen told me she wasn't going to see it because it represented "too much movie ketchup for me." By further distancing themselves from the reality of the crucifixion, they are missing a life-changing opportunity to draw closer to God, to relate a little more completely to the suffering Jesus went through on our behalf. What is portrayed in the film is a true moment in history. It happened. It was witnessed by hundreds of thousands gathered for their annual Pilgrimage to the Passover celebration. It was a graphical event, and that is what made it such a catalyst for change. The more we understand what Jesus went through, the more we can see the greatness of His love and the more we can appreciate the glory being offered to us as He reached out through that event with love and grace to bring us all the opportunity to reign with Him in the hereafter.
Mel Gibson has plunged a knife into a bloodless culture. If there is any life left within, perhaps it will stir our society into action. Whatever your religious views are, I hope you take the time to see the film and reflect on how that event impacted history. In the process you may find yourself drawn closer to the reality of a God who loves you beyond measure.


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They asked the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) to launch a campaign to urge Kenyans to withhold income and Value Added taxes.
In a statement signed by Mr Charles Kanjama of Muma and Kanjama Advocates, the lawyers will tie white and yellow armbands to support their cause.
"The white ribbon will signify peace, while the yellow one will signify justice, both of which are in short supply," said Kanjama.
In the letter to the LSK Council, the lawyers said citizens had a right to put pressure on the Government.
"The plan would involve two phases: The first on all small and medium-scale enterprises (for one month) and the second involving bigger corporate enterprises," said the statement.
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They also suggested that employees be given loans or advances equivalent to their previous monthly salary.
The plan would ensure that no payroll is prepared during the tax boycott, hence no Pay As You Earn (PAYE) for several months.
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Kanjama said several LSK members had been approached and agreed to represent employers taken to court over the issue.
At the same time, the lawyers want LSK to file a suit to seek a declaration upholding their course of action.
"We as the LSK are asking the citizens to starve this Government of cash, to complement the threatened withdrawal of donor support, until its illegitimacy is rectified," stated the proposal.
Other recommendations include the limitation of the duration of the electoral tribunal to reduce costs.
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iPhone 3G in Canada: Rogers Says Data Rates Might Be Slightly Less Ridiculous?!
Sure, those on the twisty-turny AT&T train have looked on at free iPhones in the UK and €1 iPhones in Germany with some lust in their wallets. We get that. But those of us in Canada gaze longingly at all of your clear plans and reasonable data rates with something akin to battered-consumer syndrome.
Rogers, the GSM monopoly in Canada, until recently charged $100 a month for 200MB of data, making us the disgrace not only of the industrialized world, but of pretty much the whole world. They've changed slightly over the last few months, but in only the most confusing, impenetrable, and still ridiculously over-priced manner possible. So, with the iPhone 3G coming, many of us Canadians have been stuck in a Schrödinger-esque quantum state somewhere between thrilled at finally getting the device, and terrified at what it might cost.
As always, Rogers provides nothing in the way of lifting the box:
[Rogers Wireless president Nadir] Mohamed explains that the plans will be "easy to understand" as well as more adaptable and encouraging for users who want mobile data. [... He] adds that he expects the average revenue per use to go up with the launch of the iPhone 3G. A typical Rogers customer pays approximately $63 per month for a combination of voice, messaging, and data features, but an average iPhone subscriber should boost that figure to approximately $90 per month, Mohamed says. Most of the increase should come from increased data use.
Here's an idea: Why not just post the Rogers iPhone 3G data plans, the way AT&T, O2, T-Mobile, and real telcos the world over have begun to? And please, pretty please with a cherry on top, make the data rates on par with the rest of the world?
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iPhone 3G in Canada: Rogers Says Data Rates Might Be Slightly Less Ridiculous?!
"Most of the increase should come from increased data use." From that comment, it doesn't sound like we'll be getting an "all-you-can-eat" data plan. Instead, we'll keep paying through the nose for data-access. And 64$ average? Maybe if you don't use your phone all that much. My bill for my business phone last month was 328 dollars. Having moved to Canada from Europe; I'm appalled at the highway robbery Canadian telco's are allowed to perpetrate on their customers and I don't understand why the Canadian government doesn't do something to fix it. This isn't "business-as-usual", it's abuse.
I'm of 2 minds here:
I'm pretty sure that Apple must have held Rogers feet to the fire with regard to their data pricing. Apples knows what a gong show the Canadian mobile data market is and they want to sell phones here. There HAS to be some in the contract between Rogers and Apple with regard to the data pricing.
On the other hand, Rogers have a monopoly and they usually act like it. They aren't a charity, and they have a responsibility to reap maximum profits for their shareholders. It doesn't make me like them, but I get it.
I think we're going to see lower pricing than in the past, but it certainly won't be as good as the US or Europe.
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Rogers and Apple today announced that the iPhone 3G will be available in Canada on July 11. iPhone 3G combines three products into one small, lightweight device: a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod, and it puts the Internet in your pocket with the best e-mail, web browsing, search and maps applications ever on a mobile phone.
The new version of the iPhone harnesses the power of Rogers's broad and powerful 3G mobile broadband network, which offers 3G mobile phones download speeds of up to 1.4 Mbps.
Key Device Features:
Operates on Wi-Fi, EDGE, and 3G networks
New enterprise e-mail capability with support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync
New iPhone software development kit (SDK) to support new innovative applications
New Activation Process and Return Policy:
The iPhone 3G will be activated at point of sale when the device is purchased, in store. The Fido grace period will change from 15 days to 30 days and will require the device to be returned to place of purchase before service is cancelled. The 30-day Rogers grace period will remain unchanged with the exception of no limits being imposed for voice or data usage.
-Pricing and Plans
Device Pricing:
$199 8GB and $299 16GB for new activations and qualified upgrades with existing 2 or 3-year agreements.
Data Plans and Pricing:
The iPhone 3G will be activated on existing Rogers and Fido voice rate plans, but new data plans have been created for the 3G device.
All iPhone 3G customers are required to have one of the new data plans and qualifying voice plan.
Customers intending to use the iPhone 3G for access to corporate e-mail, business applications, or access to corporate intranet are required to activate with Enterprise Data Plan for iPhone.
SUP service discounts for both voice and data pans will apply to iPhone 3G.
RAC service discounts for voice and data will apply to iPhone 3G, when on a qualifying data plan.
Ambassadors will not get a discount on device purchase for iPhone 3G.
Data Pricing will be as follows:
Consumer Data Plan (must be added to qualified voice plan):
$30 - Unlimited Data (E-mail/Web), includes Visual Voicemail when subscribed to any voicemail service.
Enterprise Data Plan (must be added to qualified voice plan):
$45 – Unlimited Data with personal and corporate e-mail, web, includes Visual Voicemail when subscribed to any voicemail service.
-Upgrade Eligibility and Qualified Upgrade Pricing
Upgrade eligibility will be determined based on standard upgrade eligibility rules. Customers must be upgrade eligible to receive the qualified upgrade pricing. However, not all customers will be qualified upgrades. Rogers has not determined the price of the 3G device for non-qualified upgrades.
All customers will be required to sign a 3-year agreement. There will not be a "no commitment" price or a 2-year agreement for the iPhone 3G.
-Activation Process
The new 3G device will be activated in store in Rogers, Fido and Apple stores. Customers must accept Rogers and Apple terms of service, sign a 3-year agreement, and select the data plan for the iPhone 3G before leaving the store. A short tether process to unbrick the 3G device will be performed in all Rogers and Fido stores (tether cords will be provided). Apple stores will also perform this tether process, however in the event that a customer's device is not tethered in the Apple store, their device will be inoperable until they get home and tether through iTunes. Prepaid will not be allowed on the iPhone 3G device.
RAC tools, including TOE and Salescentral have been modified to allow agents to enter customer's information, select rate plans and data plans, device price (if applicable) and output a document that will allow store reps to quickly access the customer's information and save time for data entry in the activation process.
Because the 3G device will only be activated in store, compensation for the 3G device will be BAU. RAC reps will receive compensation for upgrades and new activations with a 3-year agreement.
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The device purchase limit will be three (3) per customer for iPhone 3G in Rogers and Fido stores.
-Direct Fulfillment
The DFU tool will be available at launch at RAC for iPhone 3Gs. Customers will be required to pay for the device when the order is placed and the phone will be shipped to the store in the customer's name for pickup.
-Return Policy
The return policy for Fido iPhone 3G is changing from 15 days to 30 days for both Apple and Fido stores. The 30-day Rogers grace period will remain unchanged with the exception of no limits being imposed for voice or data usage.
To cancel service within the first 30 days, the customer must return their equipment to the place of purchase (no exceptions).
If the customer cancels service after 30 days, they will be charged the ECF and DECF. The customer is not required to return the device to cancel after 30 days.
3G demos will be pulled from stock when they arrive following launch process for display devices.
Video loop content will be pushed to stores when it is available.
The following merchandising elements will be in stores for launch:
Rate brochure and display rate card
22 x 28 poster
Window banner
Device training, including features and functionality, will be available via Library and Fidoversity by 6/30.
Training for all representatives will begin no later than 7/1.
Launch preparedness training, including last minute details, will be conducted the week of launch (if needed) by team leaders.
All iPhone-related communications, inclusive of training announcements, will be posted to Library. Search on keyword "iPhone 3G" to locate.
-Launch Plans
Support logistics for launch day will be available:
Letters will be sent to all landlords under VP/GM signature for advance notice of store hours, crowds expected, possible parking issues, etc.
Security will be provided for locations requesting armed police or unarmed, uniformed guards.
Manager checklists will be provided to support managers to set expectations and help them be prepared to complete all required actions.
Documents will be posted on TGP to let managers know when to expect delivery of launch support materials.
Job descriptions for key launch day functions will be provided for: Back Office Manager, Crowd Manager, Greeter, Product Demonstrator, and Security Support.
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Tunis — Tunisia's film-maker and African film expert Ferid Boughedir has been unanimously elected as President of the first committee of the Pan-African Film and Television Fund (FPCA) at the end of the international meeting held last November 19 in Tunis for the establishment of FPCA legal and institutional framework, by the Carthage Film Festival 2012, in partnership with the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF).
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Civil Servants, APRC National Assembly Members, Members of the Councils and some party supporters were mobilised to march from Arch22 to July 22 and converged at the gate of state house in Banjul, on Monday the 11th January 2013, to be addressed by President Yahya Jammeh and to deliver their position against the 17 points raised by the European Union under article 8 of the Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific states.
The EU raised 17 points that it said are vital for discussion and settlement. They put their proposals within a time frame.
President Jammeh called an emergency cabinet meeting on the 8th of January 2013 to discuss the matter and to explain his stance .Jammeh informed his ministers that his government will not implement any of the seventeen issues raised by the EU. He said the conditionality reflects an aim to recolonise Gambia and Africa which he said would not happen in his life time.
He also chastised foreign powers for wanting to steal Gambia's abundant natural resources and he Jammeh would not allow them. He mentioned the discovery of oil and other natural resources and said the oil is not exploited because he would not allow 5% of the profit to be given to the Gambia.
Proposals for discussion put forward by the European Union to the Government of The Gambia but rejected by President Jammeh at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, 8 January 2013 are as follows;
1. Commitment of Government of the Gambia to allow the free operation of independent media in The Gambia within a deadline of one month;
2. Removal of restrictive barriers/monetary/regulatory to registration and licensing of the media;
3. Removal of restriction on accessing and sharing information electronically within one month;
4. Revision of provision in the criminal code that allow for prosecution on the charges of sedition, libel, false publication and false information to a public servant within 6 months,
5. Revision of laws on freedom of expression and media regulations within 24 months
6. Upholding of moratorium on death penalty with immediate effect
7. Provision of information regarding the recent executions, and including location of burial to families within one month
8. Review of the death penalty by the National Assembly within 12 months
9. Review of the death penalty by the National Assembly and to propose to introduce a de jure moratorium within 24 months
10. Review of the provision of the death penalty in the element of the criminal code and other laws for most serious crimes within six months
11. That the Government sign and ratify the second optional protocol to the international covenant on civil and political rights within 18 months
12. Conclusion of an MOU with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to allow them access to prison facilities on regular basis within 3 months
13. Provision of regular and timely access for diplomatic corps within one month
14. Presentation of costed proposals to improve prison detention facility condition within 12 months
15. Provision of information on the UN Convention against torture ratified on June 6th 2006 within 3 months
16. Signing of the optional protocols to the convention against torture within 6 months
17. Establishment of the Human Rights Commission proposed by the Commonwealth secretariat.
The Procession and Demonstration
It is very difficult for Foroyaa to give a clear information on the social composition of the marchers. Some claimed that they were public servants who were asked to join the march by their superiors. Others were APRC National Assembly members and other party stalwarts. It appears that much effort was not put to mobilize a respectable broad base crowd that would drive home a National Message.
Interestingly enough, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Regional Administration, Mr Saihou Sanyang is the one who read the solidarity message from the marchers and forwarded it to the President.
Mr Sanyang indicated that they do not agree with the conditionalities raised in the EU's memorandum to the Gambia Government on the basis of substance, intent, procedure and what he described as the Neo-Colonialists overt intentions;
He added that the conditionalities have violated the sovereign rights of the Gambian people and they assure their leader that they would die for him to keep that;
They accused the EU of going beyond the limits of the genuine and balanced dialogue by laying down conditionalities with time frames prior to consultations on such measures ,which according to them, are high handed;
He said the EU's action further indicates direct interference in the domestic affairs of this country and they shall not accept it;
That the Gambia National Assembly takes up this matter to the EU Parliament in a matter that would maintain and uphold the dignity of the country.
The President's Reply
President Jammeh indicated that the fact that he was born after Independence clearly shows that he did not want to be born under colonialism. He told the few people who were allowed to enter the statehouse gate that the Yahya Jammeh who was prepared to give his life in 1994 to liberate the country is the same Yahya Jammeh who is ready to die to prevent recolonisation.
After receiving a copy of the solidarity statement of the marchers, he stressed that his government is not dependent on the IMF or the World Bank; that any international body is welcome to dialogue with the Gambia with respect and dignity as long as the dialogue does not insult their integrity and independence.
He said he is not anti West, East, North or South but he is anti imperialism, and will remain anti hypocrites because he is a muslim and he should not work with hypocrites. He said in 1995, the EU came up with a declaration that they the coup makers were given two (2) months to handover to a civilian government they overthrew, otherwise there would be sanctions and that they the EU prophesised that the Gambia would suffer if he did not agree to their demands because Gambians would starve.
The Gambian leader is quoted as saying : "that was the day I told them that they can take their aid, their World Bank and IMF and that i have a bank that would make sure that Gambians would not suffer for a decade and they will one day come and ask how i develop the Gambia",.
President Jammeh said they looked at him and said in an arrogant manner that: "Mr. Chairman, the IMF and World Bank will not work with you. "He said he told them that they don't know what creation is all about" but that he relies on what he calls Allah's World Bank.
Editors Note
We will follow the response of the EU and the population to enable our readers to have a balanced perspective


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While the app has already been available for iOS since first launching back in August and also on Android with a soft launches in China, Australia, and New Zealand, today the app has finally arrived for all Android users through Google Play.
The app is now available for free on Google Play, and like the iOS version the Android version of Plants vs Zombies 2 moves the franchise to the freemium model with extra content available to purchase through in-app purchases. There's also exclusive offers for in-app purhcases in the app offering up to 65% off some items to celebrate the launch of the app on Android.
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This book provides a concise introduction to the increasingly important field of forensic mental health. It aims to set out both the key concepts in forensic mental health as well as the way the discipline operates in the broader context of criminal justice and mental health care systems. It will...
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Doctors try to contain the outbreak of a deadly disease.
Humanity is constantly under attack from horrific viruses and other infectious diseases — the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is currently tracking nine outbreaks just in the U.S. alone, including the rapid spread of the deadly West Nile Virus. But, leave it to Hollywood to come up with even scarier and deadlier outbreaks than the real ones, such as the mysterious outbreak in Contagion (2011) for which the CDC had "no treatment protocol and no vaccine" or the crazy neurotoxin in The Happening (2008) that caused people to kill themselves. Stock up on hand sanitizer and latex gloves and join us as we take a look at some the scariest outbreak movies.
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Grant will fund mobile food pantry in Beloit | News
The Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin has received a grant to fund mobile pantry distributions in Beloit, according to a release.
The $2,000 grant is from the Stateline Community Needs Grant Program, officials said.
"Second Harvest Foodbank is grateful for the Stateline Community Foundation's support of the Mobile Pantry Program in Beloit," President and CEO for Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin Dan Stein said in the release. "Mobile pantries are a vital source of a variety of types of food including fruit, vegetables, meat and dairy to individuals and families in Beloit who struggle to afford the basics of a healthy diet."
Second Harvest Foodbank operates two mobile pantries in Beloit in partnership with the Masonic Center, according to the release. Last year, the mobile pantries served 36,142 people more than 670,000 pounds of food.
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A retrospective study of women over age 40 enrolled for at least ten years in an HMO found that 16 percent of the women reported a breast symptom to their primary care doctor and 6.2 percent were found to have breast cancer. (Article, p. 651.)
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Few argue that higher education's a good investment for those who seek degrees. As it turns out, it's not too shabby for those who run the schools who hand out the degrees. The latest accountability report from the UW system claims that the system's 26 campuses and its 179 thousand students contribute ten billion dollars to the state economy. Compare that to the billion or so that state taxpayers put into the system every year. The same report says last year's graduating class of around 33 thousand contributed over a half billion to the state's economy. About 35 million of that came from the UWL graduating class of about 16 hundred.


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We will be sharing food with the homeless and food insecure in Lakeland. We will meet at the Westminster Presbyterian Church on S. Florida Avenue to cook from 1pm to 3pm. Then we share food 3pm to 5pm at 933 Kentucky Ave. Clean up will be back at Westminster at 5pm. Feel free to come help with any part of it.


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columnBy Alexactus T Kaure
IF IT was a business personality of the year award the newspapers would have probably put that on page two or three. But here is a Namibian academic receiving an award for his outstanding contribution to education in Africa. Yet The Namibian, for example, put a small advertorial by the University of Namibia (Unam) on page B23.
The award was conferred by the Africa Education Leadership Awards at ceremony in December in Mauritius. Prof Lazarus Hangula then participated in a panel discussion titled 'Building Future Leaders' but our newspapers did not even bother to either interview him or publish some excerpts of what he presented during the panel discussion.
To me it suggests that our society does not really put much value on scholarship. All we think about is money and more money.
Professor Hangula is both a long-time acquaintance and a mentor. I first met him when I had stint as a researcher at the Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre (MRC), Unam, where he was the director. Thus this award is not just for him but for Unam and Namibians, especially those who believe in the centrality of ideas, because Hangula has spent a good part of his life thinking and writing. What he would insist on, especially with regard the land question, for example, was the need to address the agrarian issue and not necessarily land distribution for its own sake.
A brief biography of Hangula should be cited here. Lazarus Hangula is the current vice-chancellor of the Unam, a post he has held since 2004. Prior to this post, he served as the pro vice-chancellor for academic affairs and research, as a council member and as vice-chairperson of the Senate of Unam.
His other appointments include serving as a member of the National Council for Higher Education and as an ex-officio member of the Namibia Qualifications Authority. Professor Hangula is a former technical advisor to the Joint Angola-Namibia Team of Experts on the Demarcation of the Maritime Boundary between Angola and Namibia, and former member of Namibia's country programme for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. He has authored or co-authored numerous scholarly articles and has a book on The International Boundary of Namibia. He holds a doctor of philosophy and a master of arts from Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany.
What I want to do now is to put these in the context of scholarship. The 'quiet operator', coming as his does from the German intellectual tradition, has been trying to model Unam on the concept of a modern university. That is to say a university with an idea, a referent, so to speak. In my last column on the new University of Science and Technology (the former Polytechnic) I spoke about it as the technological idea of excellence. Here I will speak to two other aspects of the university. These are the Kantian idea of reason and the Humboldtian notion of culture.
In the Kantian university the vice-chancellor's function, (for example, as in many other Commonwealth countries like our own, or president at some other institutions especially in the American system) is a purely disciplinary one of making decisive judgments in inter-faculty conflicts on the grounds of reason alone. In the university founded on the notion of culture, the vice-chancellor would incarnate the pan-disciplinary ideal of general cultural orientation, thus becoming the central figure of the university.
In my view, Hangula has been trying to build a university based on the Kantian model because one is running a new university which is still trying to plant its feet firmly on the ground. And in such a context the vice-chancellor has to deal with multiple and conflicting demands from students and administrators to the teaching staff. This has not been easy because one is dealing with people from different backgrounds, not to say countries, in terms of the composition of the student body and faculty.
I am not suggesting that all has been an easy sailing. There have been problems here and there, for example the 'computer saga', some few years ago, that led to resignation (expulsion?) of two academics as well as other teething problems. But despite this Unam has been developing in leaps and bounds in terms of its physical infrastructure with the addition of new departments and other facilities. I especially like the new library.
There is one final issue that I would like to address and this applies to both Unam and the new University of Science and Technology. There is, in my view, a paucity of full-time graduate students at both these institutions. That's why recently the Namibian Cabinet instructed the Ministry of Education to support Unam to concentrate on post-graduate studies and specifically doctoral programmes.
This is crucial, especially if they would be full-time students, because it would enrich the academic and intellectual atmosphere at our institutions. As it stands now the few doing post-graduate studies are basically full-time workers. This is not healthy. Let's see how Unam will address that challenge.


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Authors choosing categories for their papers published in CAS publications should choose the lowest level category that is relevant. All lower level categories will inherit up to their parent category.