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- Introduction
- Land
- People
- Economy
- Government and society
- Cultural life
- History
Botswana, country in the centre of Southern Africa. The territory is roughly triangular—approximately 600 miles (965 km) from north to south and 600 miles from east to west—with its eastern side protruding into a sharp point. Its eastern and southern borders are marked by river courses and an old wagon road; its western borders are lines of longitude and latitude through the Kalahari, and its northern borders combine straight lines with a river course. Within the confines of Botswana's borders is a rich variety of wildlife, including many species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
Before its independence in 1966, Botswana was a British protectorate known as Bechuanaland. It was also one of the poorest and least-developed states in the world. The country is named after its dominant ethnic group, the Tswana ("Bechuana" in older variant orthography). Since its independence the Republic of Botswana has gained international stature as a peaceful and increasingly prosperous democratic state. It is a member of the United Nations, the Commonwealth, the African Union (AU), and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The secretariat of SADC is housed in the capital of Botswana, Gaborone (until 1969 spelled Gaberones—i.e., Gaborone's town, after the tribal chief who had his capital at the site during the colonial period).
Botswana is bounded by Namibia to the west and north (the Caprivi Strip), Zambia and Zimbabwe to the northeast, and South Africa to the southeast and south. The Zambezi River border with Zambia is only several hundred yards long. The border along the main channel of the Chobe River up to the Zambezi was disputed with Namibia until a 1999 ruling by the International Court of Justice favoured Botswana. The point at which the borders of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe meet in the middle of the river has never been precisely determined.
Botswana extends from the Chobe River (which drains through the Zambezi to the Indian Ocean) in the north to the Molopo River (part of the Orange River system, which flows into the Atlantic) in the south. To the east it is bordered by the Limpopo River and its tributaries, the Ngotwane (Notwani), Marico (Madikwe), and Shashe.
The country has a mean altitude of 3,300 feet (1,000 metres) and consists largely of a sand-filled basin, with gently undulating plains rising to highlands in neighbouring countries. The highest point is 4,888 feet (1,490 metres) in the hills north of Lobatse in southeastern Botswana; the lowest point is 2,170 feet (660 metres) at the country's easternmost point, in the Limpopo valley.
The country is divided into three main environmental regions. The hardveld region consists of rocky hill ranges and areas of shallow sand cover in eastern Botswana. The sandveld region is the area of deep Kalahari sand covering the rest of the country. The third region consists of ancient lake beds superimposed on the northern sandveld in the lowest part of the Kalahari Basin.
Geologic exploration has been limited by the depth and extent of Kalahari sand covering the surface geology. The rock groups underlying most of the sandveld are therefore the least-known but appear to be the youngest, belonging to the Karoo (Karroo) System, formed 290 to 208 million years ago. Elsewhere, Precambrian rock formations predominate. The surface geology of the eastern hardveld, exposed in its hill ranges, largely consists of basement complex rocks (more than 2.5 billion years old) intruding from northern South Africa and southern Zimbabwe. This complex is known to extend into younger rock formations (2.5 to 1.2 billion years old) in the extreme southern sandveld, while rocks of the Ghanzi and Damara groups (1.2 billion to 570 million years old) extend across the northwest corner of the country into northern Namibia.
Drainage through the marshes of the Okavango delta is complex and imperfectly understood. The perennial Okavango River runs southward into its delta across the Caprivi Strip from the highlands of Angola. Most of its water evaporates from the 4,000 square miles (10,000 square km) of the delta wetlands. Floodwater reaches down through the eastern side of the marshes to the Boteti River, which flows sporadically to Lake Xau (Dow) and the Makgadikgadi Pans (also roughly 4,000 square miles in area). Less and less water flowed through the western side of the Okavango marshes during the 20th century, so that the 70-square-mile (180-square-km) Lake Ngami—famous a century ago—is today dry and almost unrecognizable as a lake. Meanwhile, the eastern Makgadikgadi Pans are flooded annually by the otherwise ephemeral Nata River from the Zimbabwe highlands, while the southern tributaries of the pans are now dry fossil valleys.
The Molopo River and its Ramatlhabama tributary, on the southern border of Botswana with a course flowing into the Orange River, today rarely flood more than 50 miles (80 km) from their sources. Most rivers in Botswana are ephemeral channels, usually not flowing aboveground except in the summer rainy season. The two great exceptions to this rule are vigorous channels fed by the rains of central Africa—the Okavango River above its delta and the Chobe River flowing through its marshes along the northern border to join the Zambezi above the Victoria Falls.
The soils of the eastern hardveld consist of moderately dry red loamy mokata soils on the plains, or mixed chalky and sandy chawana soils, with brownish rocky seloko soils on and around hills. Seloko soils are considered best for grain crops. The fertility of all soils is limited by the amount of rainfall, which is sometimes inadequate on the hardveld and regularly unable to support any cultivation on the sandveld.
The alluvial soils of the ancient lake beds include gray loamy soils in the wetlands, gray-green saline soils on the pans, gray clayish soils to yellowish sandy soils around the wetlands, and very chalky light gray soils around the pans. There are also areas of gray to black cracking clay in former wet areas, such as those around Pandamatenga.
The annual climate ranges from months of dry temperate weather during winter to humid subtropical weather interspersed with drier periods of hot weather during summer. In summer, which lasts from October to March, temperatures rise to about 93 °F (34 °C) in the extreme north and southwest, the warmest parts of the country. In winter, which lasts from April to September, there is frequent frost at night, and temperatures may fall to near freezing in some high-altitude areas during the day. Summer is heralded by a windy season, the winds carrying dust from the Kalahari, from about late August to early October. Annual rainfall, brought by winds from the Indian Ocean, averages 18 inches (460 mm), representing a range from 25 inches (635 mm) in the extreme northeast to less than 5 inches (127 mm) in the extreme southwest. The rains are almost entirely limited to summer downpours between December and March, which also mark the season for plowing and planting. Cyclic droughts, often lasting up to five or six years in every two decades, can limit or eliminate harvests and reduce livestock to starvation.
1In addition, the Ntlo ya Dikgosi (known as the House of Chiefs in English), a 35-member body consisting of chiefs, subchiefs, and associated members, serves in an advisory capacity to the government.
2Includes 4 specially elected members and 2 ex officio members (the president and the attorney general); the statutory number (63) includes the speaker, who may be appointed from outside the National Assembly.
3The high court meets in Lobatse.
4Tswana is the national language.
|Official name
|Republic of Botswana
|Form of government
|multiparty republic with one legislative body1 (National Assembly [632])
|Head of state and government
|President: Ian Khama
|Official language
|Official religion
|Monetary unit
|pula (P)
|(2014 est.) 2,135,000
|Total area (sq mi)
|Total area (sq km)
|Urban-rural population
|Urban: (2011) 61.7%
Rural: (2011) 38.3%
|Life expectancy at birth
|Male: (2008) 61.5 years
Female: (2008) 62.1 years
|Literacy: percentage of population age 15 and over literate
|Male: (2010) 84%
Female: (2010) 84.9%
|GNI per capita (U.S.$)
|(2013) 7,730


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The nation's elite counterterrorist forces, some facing budget cuts of up to 20 percent, are quietly telling Congress their special capabilities can't be utilized amid the Middle East and North Africa tumult because the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are already stretching their resources.
Even before the uprising in Tunisia, clandestine special mission units of the Joint Special Operations Command were finishing plans to expand human intelligence collection in North Africa, and deny terrorists what one JSOC official called an "electronic sanctuary" in the region.
"We're at the point where we have multiple revolutions, [Muammar el-] Qaddafi may fall, and we can't put the premier military intelligence unit on the ground there because they're all on the ground in Afghanistan chasing farmers," a military official said.
JSOC resources are heavily taxed by the operational tempo in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials said. The current commander, Vice Adm. William McRaven, and Maj. Gen. Joseph Votel, McRaven's nominated replacement, have been pushing to add people and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology to areas outside the war theater where al-Qaida and its affiliates continue to thrive.
But the elite units are facing reductions in their $1 billion-plus budget, which could significantly impact the U.S.'s ability to monitor and react to the events unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa. The problem was revealed by officials involved in negotiations between budget officials, military planners, and senior commanders for a planned expansion of the secret JSOC units.
Even JSOC's most closely-guarded unit, based on the East Coast, could see personnel reductions of up to 20 percent, people briefed on the plans say, depending on how the defense budget process plays out. The unit is scrambling to demonstrate to senior commanders that it can be efficient.
Military officials requested that National Journal not disclose any further details about the particular unit because it would jeopardize the mission and personnel. The officials agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity because the matter is sensitive and classified.
Since 9/11, the JSOC units and their task forces have become the U.S. government's most effective and lethal weapon against terrorists and their networks, drawing plenty of unwanted, and occasionally unflattering, attention to themselves in the process.
JSOC's intelligence directorate, which has transformed the way the military collects and exploits intelligence, may see even its brand new Targeting and Analysis Center – TAAC – cut back. Where the National Counterterrorism Center tends to focus on threats to the homeland, TAAC, recently revealed by the Associated Press, focuses outward, on active "kinetic" – or lethal – counterterrorism missions abroad.
Also since 9/11, JSOC's size has tripled; the command now includes more than 4,000 soldiers and civilians. Once the province of the Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (the Delta Force) and the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six), over the past eight years JSOC devoured a number of free-floating Defense Department entities that allowed it to rapidly acquire, test, and field new technologies.
Under a variety of standing orders, JSOC is involved in more than 50 current operations spanning a dozen countries, and its units, supported by so-called "white," or acknowledged special operations entities like Rangers, Special Forces battalions, SEAL Teams, and Air Force special ops units from the larger Special Operations Command, are responsible for most of the "kinetic" action in Afghanistan.
An official said some of the cuts may be eased with the Special Operations Command, to which JSOC reports, identifying ways of keeping staffing levels current with "$2.3 billion in efficiencies" over five years from its own budget.
"The command also looked at where and how it could use service-common equipment and systems instead of developing [special forces]-unique capabilities," the official said.
Pentagon officials are conscious of the enormous stress that 10 years of war have placed on the command. Votel wants to add several squadrons to the "Tier One" units – Delta and the SEALs. Those plans are on hold for the moment. Another official predicted that SOCOM would find a way to add about 50 positions to JSOC, in part by reducing contracting staff and borrowing qualified technicians and analysts from other parts of the command.
When Gen. Stanley McChrystal became JSOC's commanding general in 2004, he and his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Michael Flynn, set about to transform the way the subordinate units analyze and act on intelligence. Insurgents in Iraq were exploiting the slow decision loop that coalition commanders used, and enhanced interrogation techniques were frowned upon after the Abu Ghraib scandal. But the hunger for actionable tactical intelligence on insurgents was palpable.
The way JSOC solved this problem remains a carefully guarded secret, but people familiar with the unit suggest that McChrystal and Flynn introduced hardened commandos to basic criminal forensic techniques and then used highly advanced and still-classified technology to transform bits of information into actionable intelligence. One way they did this was to create forward-deployed fusion cells, where JSOC units were paired with intelligence analysts from the National Security Agency and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
These technicians could "exploit and analyze" data obtained from the battlefield instantly, using their access to the government's various biometric, facial-recognition, and voice-print databases. These cells also used highly advanced surveillance technology and computer-based pattern analysis to layer predictive models of insurgent behavior onto real-time observations.
The military has begun to incorporate these techniques across the services. And Flynn will soon be promoted to a job within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he'll be tasked with transforming the way intelligence is gathered, analyzed, and utilized.

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Aric Chandler Ross (born January 31, 1972) who performs under the stage name, Jadon Faith, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Jadon is the biological half-brother of recording artist Lori Lynette.
Jadon released his debut single, "All I Have To Do Is Dream", in March 2009. The song, a cover of the classic hit originally released by the Everly Brothers, was successful in getting the performer listed on and eventually noticed by--a moderate number of future fans and independent artist sites...
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Friday, August 22, 2014
The Cane Bay Cobras will come up with a lot more than snake oil this season.
The Cobras broke into the win column for the first time since 2012 on Friday, edging Colleton County 28-27 to put a fruitless 2013 behind them. The losing streak was 12 games.
"I'm just so proud for our kids," Cane Bay coach Russell Zehr said. "We haven't even said a whole lot about last year. Nothing you can say could change that, but I do know that cloud has hung over these kids' heads."
Colleton County's missed extra point with 56 seconds left was the difference.
The Cobras had to make one final stand in the last minute after Colleton County recovered the onside kick too.
Cane Bay's defense made several huge plays to help the Cobras get off on the right foot this fall. Tracy Gilliard returned an interception 40 yards for a score in the opening quarter as part of Cane Bay's 14-0 start and Kevon Young took back one 22 yards in the fourth quarter.
The Cobras also had a stand on fourth down inside their 3-yard line on the first play of the fourth quarter to keep the deficit at 21-20.
Young's interception return and Tyler Farr's run on the 2-point try gave the Cobras the lead with 9:11 left in the game.
Craig Grant's 40-yard touchdown pass to Justin Williams with 56 seconds left brought Colleton County within 28-27 but Riley Downing's extra point try sailed wide left as the football gods smiled on Zehr's team.
"We weren't perfect and we made a lot of mistakes, probably more than we should have," Zehr said, "but we hung in there and never quit. Guys that never quit find a way to win."
Keenan Simpson led the Cobras on offense with 134 yards rushing and romped 66 yards to make it 7-0 in the opening quarter.
Colleton County's Tyquan David had a dynamic first half, rushing for 225 yards and scoring on runs of 65 and 48 yards. The Cobras made adjustments, though, and he only finished with 242 yards.
Quarterback Devin Dingle's 7-yard run gave Cane Bay a 20-14 lead with 4:53 remaining in the first half.
Colleton County scored on its opening possession of the second half to take a 21-20 lead, holding the ball for over seven minutes before scoring on Nikeal Simmons' 4-yard touchdown run.
The Cobras and Cougars are both at home next week. Summerville visits Cane Bay and Colleton County hosts former Region 8-AAAA foe Beaufort.
Colleton County 0 14 7 6 - 27
Cane Bay 14 6 0 8 - 28
CB – Keenan Simpson 66 run (Phillip Jackson kick)
CB – Tracy Gilliard 40 interception return (Jackson kick)
CO – Tyquan David 65 run (Riley Downing kick)
CO – David 48 run (Downing kick)
CB – Devin Dingle 7 run (kick failed)
CO – Nikeal Simmons 5 run (Downing kick)
CB – Kevon Young 22 interception return (Farr run)
CO – Justin Williams 40 pass from Craig Grant (kick failed)
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Game Day
What could be a wide-open 60th ACC Basketball Tournament opens today at the Greensboro Coliseum with Boston College taking on Georgia Tech (noon, WRAL/ESPNU).
The only Triangle team in action today — Duke plays Friday at 7 p.m., UNC at 9 p.m. in the quarterfinals — needs a win to solidify its standing with the NCAA Selection Committee.
N.C. State, a preseason favorite that finished fifth in the league, gets new life with a first-round matchup against No. 12 seed Virginia Tech in today's second game (2 p.m., WRAL/ESPNU).
"It's crunch time," Wolfpack senior Scott Wood said, "If we're not ready to play now, we're not working hard enough."
The craziness of NCAA basketball's post season was out in full force Wednesday night at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament in Norfolk, Va. The top two seeds, Norfolk State and N.C. Central, were eliminated despite going 31-1 in regular-season play against league teams.
N.C. Central lost 55-42 to rival N.C. A&T.
ACC Tournament
At Greensboro Coliseum
Today's First Round
Boston College vs. Ga. Tech, noon (WRAL)
N.C. State vs. Virginia Tech, 2 p.m. (WRAL)
Maryland vs. Wake Forest, 7 p.m. (WRAL)
Florida State vs. Clemson, 9 p.m. (WRAL)
MEAC Tournament
At Scope Arena, Norfolk, Va.
Wednesday's Quarterfinals
Beth.-Cookman 70, Norfolk St. 68 (OT)
N.C. A&T 55, N.C. Central 42
Today's Quarterfinals
Delaware St. vs. Hampton, 6 p.m.
Morgan St. vs. Savannah St., 8 p.m.


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Christopher Hitchens
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Best Ciara Songs
kapikapiAugust 3, 2015 - Don't agree with the list? Vote for an existing item you think should be ranked higher or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on or create your own version of this list.
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Oh come on! There is no way that song featuring Justin Timberlake is the best. This is the song that let the whole world know who Ciara is and gave a boost to Petey Pablo's Career. Anyone who votes for Love Sex Magic is just an obsessed Justin Timberlake.
This song actually shows who ciara is.. You should vote for this song its great and she dances and sings in it. Great song and chorography. Besides goodies was her first album and this artist brought it to the chart. Vote this song. Trust me
I can't stop listening to this song!
[Newest]Yes that song is the best
2Body Party
Love this song! Finally she made a comeback! Shes the best performers! LOVE HER LOVE HER LOVE HER!
This song is so sexy and seductive and the dancing shows another side to her dancing ability! I love this song! So far, my favorite song by Ciara
She did well with this comeback. I love the way she dances for her man
[Newest]Love this song listen to it all the time♥♥♥
3One, Two Step
This song is classic. The level Ciara reached with this song, she hasn't reached since. It was at the top of all major charts for a reason. Goodies introduced Ciara to everybody but 1 2 Step proved she wasn't just some one hit wonder.
It's a very good song. She work hard at what she does. Ciara put a lot of energy into this song. It has a good beat. You can sing and dance to th
I love this song. I've been listening to it forever and it never gets old.
[Newest]This MADE HISTORY!
This is cici best song she has so many good ones but this is her crowning achievement
Such a beautiful song by cici, gets me moving every time, amazing music video and touching emotional lyrics! Honoustly the best ciara song!
Again, another seductive and brilliantly put together song!
5Love Sex Magic
I never thought that Ciara and Justin Timberlake would make such an amazing song together! I absolutely love this song, it's just amazing! Love Ciara.. she's just too good x
Itz d best song by ciara.. best music with good lyrics.. definitely should be no:1..
This is just such a damn sexc song and music video...honestly I think ciara and justin should have been a couple...she could do better than future (no offense)
6Like a Boy
This is still my favourite song!
Amazing dancing in the video! Yet her voice gives me goose bumps :3
Should be number 1 or 2! One of the most amazing songs ever!
Sorry is a great song it is based on a relationship so thumbs up for me
Explains how I feel about my first love. All he needs to do is say sorry and I would take him back.
This is her best song
Love the song xxx
This song is just so cool and I recommend it to all ciara fans
I like it very much
If you are a dancer, you understand why!
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11I Bet
Its real and you can tell this song is from her heart!
12Get Up
13Takin' Back My Love
Now ds s too good.. At least deserves a position in top ten. Ciara & enrique just rock together... The song... Its beat... Its awesome!
This should be in the Top 10! Awesome beats and sexy voice!
Deserves to be in the top 10 at least, if not top 5
14I'm Out
Honestly I think some of her other older songs like Promise and Goodies are better, but I do think that this song DEFINITELY deserves to at least be in the top 10. Actually, this song got me into Ciara again, her new album is awesome :) Yay CiCi!
Nicki minaj had made this song~every tone sounds perfect, this song is perfectly written, nicki minaj is the best rapper ever, wooah!
Nicki and Cici are just awesome
15Never Ever
So beautiful! Great message, great production! Love it!
16Gimme Dat
17I Run It
18Got Me Good
19And I
20Can't Leave 'Em Alone
This song make me think about when I wa with my man
R you guys sick... This song is like anything.. D 50 cent added his best stuff... It is d best song of ciara... I can bet.. Just listen it 1 time and you will know.. Wht m saying and I mean it..
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The out-of-control international rage against Israel over the Mavi Marmara incident has now entered the realm of farce. It was bad enough to hear the prime minister of Turkey — a country notorious for human rights violations in its campaign against Kurdish rebels — denounce Israel for "state terrorism." It's simply ludicrous to have to listen to Vladimir Putin chime in.
The Russian prime minister says he is shocked by Israel's "crude violation of the internationally recognized norms of international law." Well Putin certainly knows about crude violations of international law. He's committed plenty of them himself. This is the same Putin, after all, who has been responsible for Russia's scorched-earth campaign in Chechnya, which has undoubtedly killed more people than all of Israel's campaigns against the Palestinians combined. In the process, Russia has committed too many violations of international law to count. As Human Rights Watch reminds us:
In 83 rulings to date, the European Court of Human Rights has held Russia responsible for serious human rights violations in Chechnya, including torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial executions. In nearly every ruling, the court called the Russian government to account for failing to properly investigate these crimes.
What next? Will Kim Jung-il and Robert Mugabe also join the international chorus condemning Israel's supposedly unconscionable conduct? Or perhaps they already have. When it comes to the Jewish state, no level of hypocrisy can be considered truly shocking anymore.


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It looks like several defense contractors will side with high-profile Republicans and ignore the Department of Labor guidance, and send out layoff notices to thousands of their employees four days before the election. At least two contractors will press ahead:
Despite administration warnings that notices related to sequestration were unnecessary, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney are continuing their preparations.
Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney are going forward with plans to issue layoff notices to thousands of employees due to looming defense cuts under sequestration, despite administration claims that such warnings are unnecessary.
The layoff notices are required, say the defense contractors, under the WARN Act, which requests that federal contractors notify employees of potential layoffs within 60 days of action. The automatic sequester, which would cut $600 billion in defense spending over a ten-year period, would trigger on January 2. About $55 billion of that would affect Fiscal Year 2013. Sixty days notice means that the pink slips would go out November 2, four days before the 2012 elections.
The Labor Department put a couple theories in a guidance for the defense industry arguing that the notices were unnecessary. One, that Congress could overturn the sequester, seemed pretty weak to me. If current law means anything, you have to honor it with anything it triggers. But the Labor Department also said that, because of how procurement works, the actual layoffs wouldn't happen for months after the trigger hits, meaning that the 60-day clock should not begin on the first day of the trigger.
But the defense industry will ignore this. They know that the best way to ensure that they can get those cuts cancelled is to put the fear of God into their employees and build mass opposition from there. The industry has almost never followed the law when it comes to the WARN Act, but all of a sudden now they are sticklers for detail. The fact that this could affect the Presidential election in states like Virginia and Florida, with high concentrations of military contractors, isn't far from the minds of these CEOs, I'm sure.
Engine maker Pratt and Whitney's President David Hess left a little wiggle room in his announcement about the layoff notices, saying that "Some of it may depend on what clarity we get in 30 days," Hess said. The President has 30 days to deliver a report to Congress detailing how the Administration would handle the sequester cuts if they came to pass. This will guide the industry as to where the cuts will land and how hard they would hit contracting. But regardless of that report, expect the more ideological defense contractors to send out the layoff notices, causing mass anxiety at a sensitive time.


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How to Propose Like a Man
Valentine's Day is coming up and a lot of guys are maybe contemplating asking their lady to marry them. Here's a quick guide on how not to mess it up.
Valentine's Day is coming up and a lot of guys are maybe contemplating asking their lady to marry them. Here's a quick guide on how not to mess it up.
One of the main things I've learned from social networking sites, other than what my old friend from 1st grade who I haven't talked to in 20 years had for dinner last night, is that a majority of people cannot spell. Of course, I was the nerd in high school who would circle and correct the errors on the letters from my friends. However, it can't be ju
Gibson.com has named the Stones guitarist ten all time best licks: #1 is probably a no-brainer but see the entire list!
Roger Waters was rallying his fans to vote for Barack Obama in 2008, and now it sounds like he's regretting that decision.
Rolling Stone asked, readers responded, see the list.
Really drivers of the two cars parked right next to me? It's 10pm on Sunday night in a fairly deserted store parking lot and I choose to park in a completely deserted area. I come out of the store 30 minutes later and find cars on both sides of mine and the rest of the parking lot is empty. Really?!
Bono and the boys are getting set to release a double live CD featuring songs recorded live on the recent "360" tour and you can help select which ones!
Really, does this irk you?
Mr. Hendrix gets the sentimental vote and these things are compiled so we can all disagree but there are some GLARING calls here ratings-wise. See the list and see what you think.
One former member offers his opinion, but they also told Dr. Drew that they were abducted by aliens.
Last week Led Zeppelin fans celebrated the band's iconic fourth album's 40th birthday. If you dusted off your original vinyl copy and bought a new needle for the occasion, one thing is for certain: you weren't alone.
The Occupy Wall Street protests are nearing their second month and the latest stars to come out and show their support also performed for the crowd and gave an interview to Rolling Stone Magazine.


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One of the most beloved images of Jesus occurs in the book of Revelation. It depicts the Savior standing outside knocking on the door, waiting to be let into one's heart. To illustrate the need for a shift in disposition among the faithful in order to proclaim the Gospel, however, Pope Francis has taken this image and reframed it by asking, "How often is Jesus inside knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let Him out. . . ."
Father Robert Ruhnke, CSSR, a experienced marriage preparation consultant, stunned his audience with some startling statistics at the 2014 University of Dallas Ministry Conference (UDMC) held Oct. 23-25 at the Irving Convention Center. According to some research studies, the average length of marriage in the United States is 18 months. Rethinking the way couples prepare for marriage could change that trend, according to the noted author of For Better & For Ever, a resource handbook for the newly-engaged.
When organizers of World Youth Day 2014 asked Mike Patin to give a presentation to 6,000 young people at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, the high-energy Catholic speaker thought they were a little crazy. The recipient of the 2006 National Catholic Youth Ministry Award, Patin isn't used to talking about the Word of God as a 153-foot-high rollercoaster roars behind him. But then, he realized, the venue made sense.


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Another permanent to PRO stores product is included in the upcoming Love & Water Collection: MAC Reflects Blue Glitter ($20.00 for 0.15 oz.). It's described as a "sparkling blue." It's more like white glitter that shifts between blue and blue-violet. It's iridescent and really needs to be seen in person to see the beauty of it, which is the case for most glitters! MAC's glitters are not recommended for eye use, so buyer beware. Some suggested uses for glitter: nail polish, hair (add it to gel/mousse/pomade), or body (add it to a cream/lotion). I suspect that Make Up For Ever #7 Diamond Powder is fairly similar (which says it can be applied to eyes).
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The Mavericks have a 10-1 dual record with their latest victory a 29-18 decision over the U.S. Air Force Academy on Saturday. The Mavs are 14th in the most-recent NCAA Division II poll, and, in the words of CSC interim coach Brett Hunter, "have a very good lineup from top to bottom."
Among the headliners is senior Jon Gappmaier, who is ranked No. 3 with a 6-0 record at 157 pounds. Others include junior Zak Slotten, who is 9-1 and rated eighth at 174 pounds; sophomore Francisco "Paco" Retana, the defending Super 4 Regional heavyweight champion; and junior Dylan Granard, who is 11-3 this season and was the runner-up at 165 pounds at last year's regional tourney.
Still, the Eagles defeated Mesa 22-13 during last year's dual in Grand Junction.
Mesa dropped its wrestling program in 1991 and had a 16-year hiatus before reviving the sport in 2007. The coach is Chuck Pipher, who was a three-time champion and the outstanding wrestler twice at NAIA National Tournaments while he was competing for what was then the University of Southern Colorado and is now Colorado State-Pueblo.
Although the Eagles lost by narrow margins to Dickinson State (21-18) and Northern State (21-20) in early December, they have won five of their six duals since then. The only setback has been to No. 6 Grand Canyon (26-15).
Hunter said the Eagles will wear black uniforms Thursday night, and he's urging CSC fans to also be dressed in black for the dual.
Eagles with the best records entering Thursday's action include the following:
133 pounds—Perry McAfee, 11-5; 141—Leandro Arias, 11-7; 157—Bryce Wiedeman, 11-10; 165—Dylan Fors, 7-7; 174—Devan Fors, 8-10; 184—Jordan Debus, 13-7; 197—Chris Leak, 13-7; and Hwt—Michael Hill, 17-7.
Hunter said it's possible that Bret Klopp, who was the varsity's 174-pounder at the beginning of the year, may wrestle Thursday night after overcoming a leg injury. He's competed only five times so far this season.


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Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town (edition 2012)
by Warren St. John
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Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town by Warren St. John
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Just a few miles from Atlanta, the city of Clarkston became a settlement for families of refugees from war-torn countries. Soccer coach Luma Mufleh formed the Fugees, a soccer team consisting of boys from various countries and backgrounds. This inspiring book explores the array of challenges the team faced on and off the field and how determination prevailed.
A good book for understanding the mindset of refugee's. The subtitle seems to be somewhat of an overstatement, but "The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed A Town" could be accurately altered to "The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Touches Your Heart."
Adaptation for young people about a soccer team made up refugee children in Georgia. Interesting, inspiring true story.
This is a remarkable story of what one determined person can do to change what can be emotionally charged situation of integrating refugees into communties and very uncertain how to make such changes work. Somehow I had the young adult version of this story and while that is not a bad thing, the writing seemed too simplified for me. Think the audlt story would make for better reading. December 2012
Richie's Picks: OUTCASTS UNITED: THE STORY OF A REFUGEE SOCCER TEAM THAT CHANGED A TOWN by Warren St. John, Delacorte, September 2012, 240p., ISBN: 978-0-385-74194-1
"There he was with his immigration face
Giving me a paper chase
But the sun was coming
Cos all at once he looked into my space
And stamped a number over my face
And he sent me running"
-- Graham Nash/David Crosby, "Immigration Man"
"Before tryouts began, the boys seemed puzzled. Where, they wondered, was the coach? Luma was right in front of them, but a woman soccer coach was a strange sight to young Africans, and to the young Muslim boys from Afghanistan and Iraq. During a shooting drill, Luma was teaching the boys how to strike the ball with the tops of their feet when she overheard a Sudanese boy talking to the others.
"'She's a girl,' he said. 'She doesn't know what she's talking about.'
"Luma ordered him to stand in goal. She took off her shoes as the boy waited beneath the crossbar, rocking back and forth and growing more anxious by the moment. She asked for a ball, which she placed on the grass. Then, barefoot, as the team looked on, she blasted a shot directly at the boy, who dove out of the way as the ball rocketed into the net. Luma turned toward her team. 'Anybody else?' she asked."
Jordanian-born Luma Mufleh was educated at the elite American Community School in Amman before traveling to the United States for a higher education and graduating from Smith College. Believing that a permanent life in the U.S. offered her far more possibilities that the second-class citizenship provided to women in her native land – where the civil code is based on patriarchal Islamic law – Luma defied her parents and stayed in America. Having thus been disowned, Luma was living near Atlanta, struggling with a failing eatery, and coaching a girls' soccer team when she happened upon nearby Clarkston, a town that has been transformed over two decades by an influx of refugees from war zones around the world.
Happening upon an international cast of young men playing soccer in an apartment complex there in Clarkston, Luma was inspired to start and coach a soccer program for them. In OUTCASTS UNITED, an adaptation of his adult book about the Fugee team "family," New York Times reporter Warren St. John moves back and forth between the individual family stories of the young immigrants who make up the Fugees soccer teams (three different age groups), and the chronicling of their coming together under Coach Luma Mufleh.
"After the trauma of war and relocation, many refugee kids had severe problems. Luma had to keep this in mind. She had learned from experience that she needed about a third of her players to be well-adjusted kids from stable families. They would set an example for the others. Another third of the team would be boys who were for the most part dependable even if they had a few problems at school or with other kids. The last third would be kids with real problems and unstable families. These were the boys who would require most of Luma's energy and who would most likely cause fighting on the teams. They were also the boys who needed the Fugees the most."
As we learn from the harrowing true stories in OUTCASTS UNITED, there are still plenty of people coming to America for the same reasons that so many of our ancestors landed here during past generations. And, as we come to see, Luma Mufleh is a bona fide American hero for the work she has done in Clarkston to change these young lives for the better.
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This young people's version of the adult bestseller, Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference, is a complex and inspirational story about the Fugees, a youth soccer team made up of diverse refugees from around the world, and their formidable female coach, Luma Mufleh. Clarkston, Georgia, was a typical southern town until it became a refugee resettlement center. The author explores how the community changed with the influx of refugees and how the dedication of Lumah Mufleh and the entire Fugees soccer team inspired an entire community.
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November 2010 Athlete of the Month
Keon Rembert and Julie Bossard
Junior basketball players Keon Rembert and Julie Bossard have been named the Hilbert College Co-Student-Athletes of the Month for November, 2010.
The 6-7 Rembert returned to Hilbertafter serving four years in the Army and helped lead the Hawks to a 2-3 non-conference record in his first month of collegiate competition. He averaged 10.2 ppg and 8.4 rpg during the month of November with his team leading 50% field goal shooting percentage and 8 blocks. Rembert's best overall game was against Alfred University when he score 21 points, grabbed 9 rebounds and shot 6-8 from the floor and 9-12 from the charity stripe. Against Oberlin, the team captain netted 15 points and cleaned the glass for 17 boards in the team's triple over-time victory. For those efforts, Rembert was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Player of the Week on November 29th.
Rembert (Bennetsville, SC/Archbishop Walsh) is a criminal justice major.
Bossard had the best of month in her basketball career this November. The 6-0 forward averaged a double-double (11.4 ppg, 10 rpg) as the team-leader in minutes played per game (33.4), field goal percentage (42.9%), and was the AMCC league leader in blocks (13) for the 1-4 Hawks. She had a monster game against the College of New Rochelle with 22 points and 14 rebounds in 39 minutes of play helping the Hawks earn their first victory of the season. This marks the first time the multi-sport athlete has been recognized for her outstanding efforts.
Bossard (Arkport, NY/Canisteo-Greenwood) is a psychology major and carries a 3.28 cumulative GPA.
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Free classes likely to fill quickly as GED changeover approaches
Educators are encouraging people who plan to get a GED to do so before the exam changes at the end of 2013. This is especially important for anyone who has passed some of the five subject areas because they will have to start all over again if they do not complete by December 31.
Free GED preparation classes in English and Spanish are available at Ventura Adult and Continuing Education (VACE), 5280 Valentine Road in Ventura. Classes start on August 20, 2013, and new students can join any time there is space available during the school year. VACE anticipates a much higher-than-usual demand for classes as people rush to pass the test before it changes. Preparation classes in English are available Monday-Friday in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Spanish preparation classes are offered Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Classes are free, students pay only a $10 per person annual registration fee.
VACE also administers the GED test for an additional fee every month in English and Spanish (the certificates are identical). It is not necessary to take the classes before taking the exam but it is highly recommended. Test takers now have the option of pencil-and-paper tests or computer-based tests at VACE's facility. Beginning January 1, 2014, only computer-based testing will be available. Individuals must have photo identification and proof of current address to take the GED test.
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Does globalization reduce poverty? Dollar and Kraay (2001) have used aggregated country data to argue that globalization reduces poverty. Watkins (2002) suggests they are wrong. Dollar and Kraay's response is appended to Watkins' paper.
Dollar, D. and A. Kraay (2001). "Trade, growth and poverty."Finance & Development, September. .
Watkins, K (2002) "Making globalization work for the poor." Finance & Development, 39, 1, March.
Will the rich North globalize? While promoting increased trade openness for the rest of the world, the industrialized world, notably USA Europe, and Japan, has maintained protection for some of producers, notably farmers.
Former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz in his book on globalization (Stiglitz 2002: xv) comments:
"Today, few -- apart from those with vested interests who benefit from keeping out the goods produced by the poor countries -- defend the hypocrisy of pretending to help developing countries by forcing them to open up their markets to the goods of the advanced industrial countries while keeping their own markets protected, policies that make the rich richer and the poor more impoverished -- and increasingly angry."
Dollar, D. and A. Kraay (2001). "Trade, growth and poverty." Finance & Development, September.
Christian E. Weller, Robert E. Scott and Adam S. Hersh (2001) "The unremarkable record of liberalized trade", Economic Policy Institute.


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As the lead Federal agency responsible for the protection and sound development of the nation's natural resources, the Department of the Interior has a special obligation to be a leader in energy management and conservation. As such, bureaus and offices across the Department are committed to conserving energy and water resources, eliminating waste, increasing renewable energy use, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impacts by optimizing the use of energy efficient and water conserving technologies. Bureaus and offices are also striving to incorporate energy efficiency, water conservation, and sustainable practices into the decision-making processes during the planning, design, acquisition, renovations, operations and maintenance of buildings. The Office of Acquisition and Property Management (PAM) coordinates these important Department-wide efforts.
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IBM Security QRadar Vulnerability Manager can find security problems before damage occurs
Every organization worries about the security of their IT systems. You rely on your data and applications to stay up and running. You can't afford downtime or data breaches. Recent announcements from IBM can help you find device and application security vulnerabilities and prevent problems from happening.
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India's Wheat Surplus Rots While Country Continues to Suffer Malnutrion http://bit.ly/cDBESM
Europe's Largest Fruit Seed Bank Endangered by Real Estate Development http://bit.ly/9GDqcB
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WASHINGTON D.C. (AP) -- The Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex marriage in California by holding that defenders of California's gay marriage ban did not have the right to appeal lower court rulings striking down the ban.
The court's 5-4 vote Wednesday leaves in place the initial trial court declaration that the ban is unconstitutional.
California officials probably will rely on that ruling to allow the resumption of same-sex unions in about a month's time.
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In mid-1980s, Abdul Qadeer (AQ) Khan - Pakistan's infamous Nuclear scientist - provided the design for the P-1 (P stands for Pak) nuclear plant to Iran. A plant that contained 5,832 P1 centrifuges in 38 individual cascades, four sets of cascades would be producing enriched uranium in stages up to weapon-grade. Iran called these IR-1. The plant was built in Iran with parts smuggled through the networks. For example, in 2002, B.S.A. Tahir - AQ Khan's protege - was using SMB Computers as a cove … [Read more...]
Netanyahu's Horrible Mistake on Iran and History of Proliferation via China and Pakistan
Yearly Socio-Economic Predictions for India, Pakistan and US
Every year, at Drishtikone, we analyze the coming year for three nations - Indian, US, and Pakistan. In my view, for our purposes, these three nations are very important. One, because it is the Indian perspective that this blog shows while discussing and talking of Hinduism. US, because it is the most important country in the world. And Pakistan because it is the nation that had had and will have far reaching consequences for the region and the world.This year, I wanted to use this video … [Read more...]
How Republicans (America's "Poor man's Pakistan Army") can bring down American Democracy
Flexible and just systems and societies always have two types of social contract - Laws (that you have to abide by as per the letter) and Traditional Guidelines (that aren't set in letter but abided by in spirit). Democracy is a system that needs both. But more than the rigid written laws, it needs all the governing arms to understand and carry on the tradition of the spirit of the foundational social contract.Many a times, a democratic country gets corrupt and bad rulers. Countries where … [Read more...]
CNBC's Joe Kernen engages in Racial slurs on Squawk Box
Recently - on Sept 20th - Reserve Bank of India (India's Central Bank) raised the interest rates to combat rampant inflation in India. That came up during the discussion on Currencies on CNBC's Squawk Box. Co-hosts Joe Kernen, Becky Quick, and Andrew Ross Sorkin started discussing, where Becky even said she had some Rupees in her purse from her last visit to India. And, then Joe Kernen gets on with his mimicry act on Indians and jokes about the 7 Eleven's.Becky does try to shut his racial … [Read more...]
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12 years from now on the early morning of morning of September 11, 2001, 19 Islamic hijackers took control of four commercial airliners (two Boeing 757 and two Boeing 767) en route to California (three headed to LAX in Los Angeles, and one to San Francisco) after takeoffs fromBoston, Massachusetts; Newark, New Jersey; and Washington, D.C - are unleashed a terror attack so unprecedented that it has remained the most iconic image in most Americans of this generation.And, with that 9-11 has come … [Read more...]
The month that was, while Drishtikone was in Transition
We have been off air on Drishtikone for the new transition to complete.In this time, a lot has happened - in India and the world.India:IPL Betting controversy: Led by the Indian Pacer Sreesanth, players and bookies have been caught cheating on teams and throwing matches to get pay offs from betting in the IPL games. Not just the players and outsiders like Vindu Dara Singh, who was connecting many dots, but even the owner of a team - Raj Kundra of Rajasthan Royals has admitted to b … [Read more...]
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Two interesting pieces of information on the Boston Bombers have emerged.First is that none of the Bombers (younger was less than 21 years old anyway) had licenses to buy firearms. Yet they had a large cache of arms to carry out many attacks! And this comes right after the Senate has voted against improving the background checks. The Boston bombing suspects engaged in a deadly firefight with police last week, possessing six bombs, handguns, a rifle and more than 250 rounds of ammunition. But … [Read more...]
Is the concern over US Debt paranoia and are we creating permanent unemployment?
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On Andrew Sullivan's website, guest blogger Gregory Djerejian (whose normal home is The Belgravia Dispatch) bemoans what he calls "Syria Hysteria." The supposed hysterics in question include Senator Joe Lieberman, former Bush speechwriter (and my current colleague at the Council on Foreign Relations) Mike Gerson, and yours truly, who is dubbed "our favorite Rudyard Kipling-lite." That's pretty distinguished company, even without the flattering comparison to one of the greatest writers in the history of the English language.
Djerejian, a lawyer who works at a financial services company in New York, is aghast that all of us have been sounding the alarm about Syria's role in facilitating the infiltration of dozens of jihadists into Iraq, where they are responsible for carrying out some of the worst terrorist outrages. The fact that dozens of jihadists are entering Iraq from Syria every month is incontestable; this has been stated publicly by General David Petraeus and numerous other officials, who have based their claims on interrogations of captured terrorists and other hard intelligence.
Djerejian tries to wave away Syrian guilt by pointing to the recently released National Intelligence Estimate, which states, "Syria has cracked down on some Sunni extremist groups attempting to infiltrate fighters into Iraq through Syria because of threats they pose to Syrian stability, but the IC now assesses that Damascus is providing support to non-al-Qaeda-in-Iraq groups inside Iraq in a bid to increase Syrian influence." That's not much of an exoneration. Note the word "some"; Syria obviously has not cracked down on most Sunni extremist groups. And although the NIE says that Bashar Assad is not "providing support" to al Qaeda in Iraq (what's the definition of "support"?), it is silent on whether the Syrian strongman is looking the other way as would-be suicide bombers transit his soil.
Djerejian naively imagines that the Damascus regime would have nothing to do with such Islamic radicals, since in 1982 Bashar's father crushed an Islamist uprising in the Syrian city of Hama. This is, of course, the same mistake made by those who imagine that, evidence to the contrary, Saddam Hussein would never have made common cause with Islamic radicals. In fact, both the Baathist regime in Baghdad in its later years, and now the Baathist regime in Damascus increasingly rely on Islamic imagery to cement their authority.
For all Assad's claims that he doesn't want to allow an Islamic takeover of Syria, the evidence is overwhelming that he is deeply complicit with Islamic radicals operating against neighboring states. Damascus, after all, is the headquarters of Hamas, led by Sunni radical Khalid Meshal. Damascus has also established a very close alliance with the Shiite radical regime in Tehran. Syria, in fact, acts as principal middleman between Iran and the Shiite radicals of Hizballah in Lebanon. Imagine that—a supposedly secular Baathist regime led by Alawites (a Shiite sect) making common cause with both Sunni and Shiite radicals. Since all of this is common knowledge, the only surprise here is that Djerejian is surprised.
Given Djerejian's stubborn unwillingness to grasp the fact that Syria has been waging war on the U.S. and our allies (viz., Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and, in the past, Turkey), correspondingly he is agape at the arguments made by Lieberman, Gerson, and me to get tough with the Damascus regime. I suggested in contentions, for instance, that we might use our airpower to close Damascus airport until Assad cuts off the flow of foreign fighters, who mostly travel to Iraq through that same airport. Writes Djerejian, with heavy-handed irony: "A peachy idea! Save that using airpower against a sovereign nation's airport is an act of war, you know."
So is providing support to terrorist groups that are operating in another nation's sovereign territory. Our inexplicable failure to respond accordingly does not change the fact that Syria (and Iran) is waging war on us. To speak bluntly about these matters does not constitute, as Djerejian huffily has it, "ignorance and adventurism." It is no more than an acknowledgment of reality.


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'Walls Have Ears - 21 Years Of Wall Of Sound'
Wall of Sound are pleased to announce details of a new label compilation 'Walls Have Ears-21 Years Of Wall Of Sound' to be released on the 13th of April 2015 through [PIAS].
The brainchild of Mark Jones -1994 saw the launch of Wall Of Sound, and following the underground acid-house explosion of the preceding years, set about unleashing a catalogue of releases that were to become synonymous with the era; mixing sonics and genres together. First ever signing to the label, Mekon (John Gosling), sums them as "A well-oiled machine reversing into the future".
"I just want to give artists the platform to do what they do. That's what it's always been about for me. It's never been about sitting in a studio saying, 'Don't do it like that, do it like this'. Wall of Sound has always been about artists being themselves. It's been a very very interesting journey, 21 years....who would have thunk it?" Mark Jones / Wall Of Sound
The compilation features an array of artists from the heady days of the label's inception and includes tracks and artists from the off shoot labels: We Love You and Bad Magic and cruise through a catalogue that encapsulates the diversity of a label that has been home to the likes of Royksopp, Grace Jones, Propellerheads, Les Rythmes Digitales, Reverend and the Makers, The Human League, Aeroplane, The Bees, Tiesto and more...
"Happy 21st Birthday and thank you Mark Jones for funding, pressing and distributing the first ever Basement Jaxx record EP1(I visited him one lunchtime wearing a suit, after playing him a tape cassette of the material I asked 'Would anybody buy this?' ,'Yes' he said. 'Any chance you could press some records? we don't have any money', 'Yes' he said. Thank you Mark! Thanks for living and thinking outside the box!" Felix / Basement Jaxx
"Spending time with Wall Of Sound is like being in an epic road movie, without a map. And no road". Banksy
Available digitally and on a double CD and digital download - including tracks culled from various BBC sessions the full tracklisting is:
Propellerheads - Take California
Royksopp - Poor Leno
Les Rythmes Digitales - (Hey You) What's That Sound?
Grace Jones - Williams' Blood (Aeroplane Remix)
The Wiseguys - Start The Commotion
Zoot Woman – It's Automatic
The Bees – A Minha Menina
Tiesto vs Diplo (feat. Busta Rhymes) - C'mon (Catch 'Em By Surprise)
E – Kletik – Maracana Madness
The Human League – Night People
Reverend And The Makers – Heavyweight Champion Of The World
The Jolly Boys - Rehab
Aeroplane - We Can't Fly
Two Culture Clash - …And Dance
Kids On Bridges - Walls
B.E.F. (feat. Boy George) - I Wanna Be Your Dog
Scala & Kolacny Brothers - Nothing Else Matters
Sykur - Curling
Shawn Lee - Happiness
Ceasefire - Trickshot
Mekon (feat. Roxanne Shante) - Yes Yes Y'all (Duke Dumont Remix)
Propellerheads - Dive (John Peel live session1996)
Royksopp - Remind Me (Jo Whiley live session 2002)
Dirty Beatniks - Whores, Freaks, Saints and Angels (Lamacq Live session 2000)
Grace Jones - Love You To Life (Later With Jools Holland 2008)
Wiseguys - Ooh La La (Lamacq Live session 2000)
Infadels - Can't Get Enough (Lamacq Live session 2006)
Blak Twang - Kik Off (Jo Whiley session 2002)
Reverend and The Makers - The State Of Things (Zane Lowe live session 2007)
The Jolly Boys - Perfect Day (Later With Jools Holland
The Elektrons - Get Up (Giles Peterson live session 2007)
The Shortwave Set - Now Til 69 (Rob Da Bank live session 2008)
Akasha - Brown Sugar (Mary Anne Hobbs live session 1998)
Ugly Duckling - A Little Samba (Lamacq Live session 2001)
Shy Child - Drop The Phone (Tom Robinson live session 2007)
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Röyksopp - The Inevitable End
Röyksopp will release their fifth and final album 'The Inevitable End' on 10th November 2014, through their own Dog Triumph via Wall Of Sound and Cooking Vinyl.
'The Inevitable End', is electronic music overlords Röyksopp's second album release in the space of 6 months, following the critically acclaimed mini album and sell out tour with fellow Scandinavian legend Robyn 'Do It Again'. 'The Inevitable End' is their most personal album to date and features Jamie McDermott (The Irrepressibles), Ryan James (Man Without Country), Norwegian singer songwriter Susanne Sundfør and Robyn.
"With 'The Inevitable End' we've moved into a darker subject matter, with emphasis on the lyrical content. This candid approach feels very both personal, sincere and conclusive." says Svein, "With this album it became clear we wanted to make an album in a classical sense even if it's the last one we make," adds Torbjørn.
Having now created five complete bodies of work, the pair feel like the future is open to being more experimental with how they share their music.
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KIDS ON BRIDGES - Kidology - ALBUM RELEASE
Kids on Bridges debut album 'Kidology' is packed with a heavyweight cast of contributors including Dr John, Chemical Brothers producer Steve Dub, New Orleans funk drummer Zigaboo Modeliste and BAFTA award winner Jim Howick from Hellboy and Peep Show also makes an appearance!
Kids on Bridges hail from the mecca of pop music Liverpool which suits them just nicely with their upcoming album 'Kidology', which is full of hook-laden rock 'n' pop gems. They are currently blasting their way through the new music ranks which has seen them supporting Soulwax, Goldfrapp and Friendly Fires and book a slot at Bestival performing right before Beck. They have also picked up fans on the national airwaves with plays from BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac and Scott Mills, XFM's John Kennedy and BBC 6Music's Steve Lamacq to name just a few.
Following the critically acclaimed single 'Walls' which also doubled up as Wall of Sound's 20th Anniversary theme tune (watch the video HERE) and follow up single 'Bankers To Feed' which is released on the 29th September (watch the video HERE) the band now release the full length album 'Kidology' on 13th October 2014.
This is no ordinary collection of songs, as lead singer Christian Bragg explains: "The big thing we wanted to do with this album was to represent a full listening experience by creating a journey and not just a batch of songs you scan through on iTunes - hence we created interludes to set the mood and flow of the album. The album was heavily inspired by New Orleans, where we have spent a lot of time, and our hometown of Liverpool. We wanted to merge our natural Kids On Bridges sound with the positive vibes we take from both cities to give the album a unique sound and setting."
The album was originally had the working title of 'Trickology', a word the band had heard Dr John use (who plays on the album no less) but later changed it to 'Kidology' following a mix up which resulted in the band discovering the word meant 'the art of deception and quintessentially British'. That definition could not have summed up the ethos of the album any better, with many of the songs examining modern Britain and the deception within news media. Album opener 'Dear Routine' is the perfect example of this which sees actor Jim Howick, famed for his roles in Hellboy and Peep Show, taking on spoken word duties.
Another collaborator on the album is legendary funk drummer Zigaboo Modeliste. The band first met Zig (as they now call him) whilst DJing before The Meters show in New Orleans and soon formed a friendship based on their mutual love of new electronic music. At the time he was working with Mos Def and Mark Ronson on a track for the Grammys, but the band soon managed to get him hooked on their album demo tracks which he described at the time as "electro voodoo rock". Following that, Kids On Bridges were asked to remix one his tracks and before they knew it were jamming out album tracks of their own with the legendary drummer in a London studio.
Finishing up the heavyweight collaborators list is Chemical Brothers producer Steve Dub who worked closely with the band in the studio to realize their forward vision for 'Kidology' making it the album it is today - which is one which stands out from the crowd and demands to be heard.


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RSU Pryor
Rogers State University's first branch campus, RSU-Pryor was established in 1986, when the School on the Hill was still going by the name of Rogers State College. It's the only university serving the Pryor and Mayes County area, and some 350 students come through its doors each semester.
Echoing the connection between higher education and the military that characterized one of RSU's predecessors, the Oklahoma Military Academy, RSU-Pryor is a cooperative venture with the Oklahoma National Guard. From the beginning, the Guard provided two buildings for the school on the grounds of the Whitaker Education and Training Center.
In March of 2008, RSU officials broke ground on the $1.3 million expansion that more than doubled the size of the original Pryor campus. Funding for the 7,400-square- foot expansion included a $300,000 grant from the Oliver Dewey Mayor Foundation, along with contributions from private citizens and a portion of a statewide higher- education bond issue. The expansion included five new classrooms, five offices, a computer lab, and a commons area, among other improvements.
Students at the Pryor campus take general education classes and can earn a two-year degree in business administration. Many of those students go on to finish a four-year degree program at RSU's main campus in Claremore.