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As the gateway debate continues to rage between scientists and law enforcement, a separate argument concerning the prevalence and effect of marijuana on society is also burning at the federal and local level.
Shane Henrie and Tory Christiansen of the Carbon Metro Drug Task Force reported that community marijuana use has stayed relatively stable and continuous for the pair's entire careers as police officers.
Combined, Henrie and Christiansen have 25 years of law enforcement and criminal investigation experience.
"We read a recent study that claimed youth marijuana use would go down with the price of the drug going up," said Henrie. "But the thing is we haven't seen the price go up, so use among Carbon County youth has remained the same. While it [marijuana] is not the drug we get the most arrests for, we do feel that it is the most commonly abused illegal drug in the community."
According to data compiled by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit substance at locations across the United States.
In 2004, 14.6 million Americans age 12 and older used marijuana at least once in the month prior to being surveyed.
About 6,000 people per day in 2004 used marijuana for the first time, adding up to 2.1 million Americans for the year.
The institute reported that of the first-time users, 63.8 percent were younger than the age of 18.
The use by individuals still in the developmental stages of their lives is of great interest to and scrutiny by the national institute, according to a 2007 facts report.
The short-term effects of marijuana can include problems with memory and learning; distorted perception; difficulty in thinking and problem solving; loss of coordination and increased heart rate.
Research findings for long-term marijuana abuse indicate some changes in the brain similar to those seen after long-term abuse of other major drugs.
"For example, cannabinoid (THC or synthetic forms of THC the active ingredient in marijuana) withdrawal in chronically exposed animals leads to an increase in the activation of the stress-response system and changes in the activity of nerve cells containing dopamine," said the current study.
Dopamine neurons are involved in the regulation of motivation and reward and are directly or indirectly affected by all drugs of abuse, according to the institute.
"One study has indicated that an abuser's risk of heart attack more than quadruples in the first hour after smoking marijuana," pointed out the national substance abuse institute. "The researchers suggest that such an effect might occur from marijuana's effect on blood pressure, heart rate and reduced oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood."
Proponents of marijuana use for medical and recreational purposes maintain that the studies are biased.
The proponents also contend that marijuana does not increase a user's chance of heart failure any more than a cigarette.
Information from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) indicates that marijuana is less than alcohol or tobacco.
"Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking," stated the NORML website. "By comparison marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose."
According to The Lance, a European medical journal, "the smoking of cannabis even long-term, is not harmful to health.....It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat than alcohol or tobacco."
NORML supports the removal of all penalties for the private possession and responsible use of marijuana by adults, including cultivation for personal use and casual nonprofit transfers of small amounts. This policy, known as decriminalization, removes the consumer, the marijuana smoker from the criminal justice system. Something that many organizations including NORML feel would have a positive effect on the justice system and save taxpayer dollars.
However, federal and local law enforcement officials disagree with the idea.
"Marijuana is a gateway drug. I have seen it lead to the use of many other drugs," said Christiansen. "I have seen it start people down the path to abuse of harder drugs more times than not."
The task force members also reported that even simple possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor, can be enhanced to a felony if the individual is arrested near certain areas including schools and churches. They further stipulated that possessing more than 16 ounces of marijuana at anytime, anywhere is a felony.
While organizations like NORML continue to fight for decriminalization for personal, medical and industrial use of marijuana federal and local authorities, continue to speak of its dangers.
NIDA's conclusion about marijuana indicates that Carbon County parents can help keep children away from all drugs by letting youth know of the dangers associated with the controlled substances, In addition, parents should monitor children's activities and stay involved in the youth's lives.
Information for parents about marijuana can be found at www.theantidrug.com.
Editors note: Today's story is the second article in a three-part series addressing the negative impacts of marijuana and the ongoing Gateway Drug debate.
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A Litany On The Tragedy Of Gun Violence
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
A Litany On The Tragedy Of Gun Violence (written for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2010)
Presbyterian World Mission and Multiculturalism
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Multicultural Congregational Support
Download "Presbyterian World Mission and Multiculturalism: Matters of the Word: Scripture teaches us valuable mission practices," adapted from a Bible Study by Alice Winters, a Presbyterian mission co-worker in Colombia.
"A Banquet for the Christian Year"
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The Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has provided this rich feast of liturgical resources for the Christian year. You'll find theological insight, orders of worship, prayers, musical resources, and other ideas for enhancing the celebration of the Christian year in your congregation.
"A Grateful Heart" hymn
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With hearts full of your blessings, O God, we pour out our thanksgiving and praise.
Shape our lives by your wisdom and grace so that we may live with gratitude and generosity; all for your glory and the good of your world; through Jesus Christ our Savior
"A Prayer for Our Children" hymn
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A hymn for children affected by violence by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette.
"Anticipating Hope" (Sermon)
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—PHEWA
Download a sermon from the World AIDS Day Packet 2013 by John McDonald.
"Decade of the Child" hymn
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by Jane Parker Huber
Help us to show your love, O Christ,
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And reach beyond till every child
Is held in love and prayer.
"Down by the Jordan" hymn
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Theology and Worship
A hymn for Baptism of the Lord Sunday by Carolyn Winfrey-Gillette.
"Eli, Eli (Psalm 22)" hymn
From Presbyterian Mission Agency—Theology and Worship
A musical response for Psalm 22 that helps to bring out the lament quality of this prayer for Good Friday.
See related pages: Good Friday, Presbyterian Worship
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PARISHVILLE - The Salmon River boys and girls basketball teams gained a convincing NAC interdivisional sweep on the road over Parishville-Hopkinton.
Salmon River 80, P-H 46: In the boys game, the Shamrocks pulled away from a 21-6 first-quarter lead for their second win of the season. For the second game in a row, Josh Hynes had a career-high for scoring with a 36-point effort that included three three-pointers. Jordan Wood added 13 points toward the winning cause followed by Dylan Whitehead with 11 and Tyler Brooks with 10. Alex Paulino and Ronatiio Perkins contributed four points apiece while Austin Leduc accounted for the other two.
Mike Burns led the Panthers with 24 points, including a 9-10 showing from the charity stripe. Ryan Snyder added 14 points followed by Tanner Wilson with four while Mike Cook and David Eames closed out P-H scoring with two points each.
Salmon River (2-15, 0-11) closes out the regular season on Friday at Central Division rival Massena while P-H (0-15, 0-12) finishes with an interdivisional game at Madrid-Waddington.
Salmon River 65, P-H 34: No further details regarding the girls game at Parishville were made available by presstime.
In the other NAC boys basketball games played on Wednesday, St. Regis Falls posted a 71-48 interdivisional win over Brushton-Moira and OFA beat Central Division rival Gouverneur 76-36.
SRF 71, B-M 48: In Brushton, the visiting Saints had four players reach double figures as they moved to 17-1 on the season. Caleb Green led the way with 32 points, including five three-pointers. Corey LaBounty added 16 followed by Brandon Votra with 11 and Tyler Daggett with 10 as the Saints pulled away from a 32-21 halftime lead for the win.
Justin Lavarnway paced the Panthers (7-9) with 11 points. Adam Martin and Loren Traynor each netted eight.
OFA 76, Gouverneur 36: At Gouverneur, the Blue Devils built a 22-10 lead by the end of the first quarter as Breton LaRose fired through 21 points followed by Kinnon LaRose with 14 and Tyler Knowlton with eight.
Mark Horne led the Wildcats with eight points.
In other NAC girls basketball action on Wednesday, Colton-Pierrepont gained a 35-21 East Division win on the road over St. Regis Falls while a pair of West Division matchups saw Clifton-Fine outlast Heuvelton 76-71 in overtime and Edwards-Knox down Morristown 54-33.
C-P 35, SRF 21: Andrea Aldous netted a game-high 14 points as the Lady Colts broke away from a 15-15 tie after three quarters with a 20-6 fourth-quarter outburst to come away with the win. Morgan Doyle added eight points followed by Autumn Clark with six, Eve Whalen with four, Kylie McKinley with two and Haylee Hennessy with one.
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Perhaps the most important book yet written on meditation, the process of inner transformation, and the integration of spiritual practice into our American way of life, A Path with Heart brings alive one by one the challenges of spiritual living in the modern world. Written by a teacher, psychologist, and meditation master of international renown, this warm, inspiring, and expert book touches on a wide range of essential issues including many rarely addressed in spiritual books. From compassion, addiction, and psychological and emotional healing, to dealing with problems involving relationships and sexuality, to the creation of a Zen-like simplicity and balance in all facets of life, it speaks to the concerns of many modern spiritual seekers, both those beginning on the path and those with years of experience.
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well, i checked and didn't find anything that i thought was weird. but then again, i probably don't quite know what to look for here. i am quite new to linux.
Do you have kernel headers installed too for 2.4.18-5? If not then please do this:
mv /usr/include/linux old_linux_headers
then do a
ln -s ../src/linux/include/linux/ linux
this make the system headers current with currnet kernel.
then please start over... i know its a pain. linux rocks when it is all set up properly
well, i checked and didn't find anything that i thought was weird. but then again, i probably don't quite know what to look for here. i am quite new to linux.
how can i tell if i have the headers?
rpm -q glibc-kernheaders will tell ya
i've got a bunch of static now, but at least there's sound
okay, the static is because i'm using 5.1 speakers with the sub going thru the digital out, and the front and rear going thru spkr1 and spkr2...........when i turn off the digital out, i get no static. how do i configure this for my speakers?
i think, anyway. i only get the static when i put a cd into my dvd rom, not when i put it into my cdrw............otherwise, i get no sound
okay, ran sndconfig, now i get sound
but, i still get a bunch of static on top of the sound
thanks a lot!!!!
just disabled the digital out, sounds perfect now!!!
ah - you are playing a regular CD ? i would get the tools that are listed on source-forge, this is a very new card and i am sire the drivers are a bit buggy. if you haven't i would get the 19a drivers or even the cvs version.
so, when you do a modprobe emu10k1 it does not return an error - right?
ah - okay - i saw the post it works excellent!


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January 29, 2014
It might be grey and raining outside, but inside the Museum of London and Barnard's Inn Hall, Gresham College have some fascinating lectures planned to brighten the darkest day! First up Caroline Crawford will explore the lives of stars on Wednesday 5 February at 1pm at the Museum of London, how they are born, evolve over billions of years and dramatically burn, revealing clues to our own origins. It seems Hollywood isn't the only place where the stars crash and burn.
Prince Charming? Or just a slimy toad?
And surely the best way to cheer up a dreary day is to fall in love. Tony Mann will explain the mechanics of computer dating and how maths can help us find our heart's desire (or at least a charming dinner companion) in Finding stable matches: the mathematics of computer dating on Monday 17 February at 6pm, at Barnard's Inn Hall.
And if you are using a coin to decide whether to get out of bed or stay under the duvet, you need to hear what Raymond Flood has to say about Probability and its limits on Tuesday 18 February at 1pm at the Museum of London. He'll explain why we know a coin will come up heads roughly half the time over many tosses, but we can't tell you whether yours will land heads or tails tomorrow morning. If it lands heads and you make it to his lecture, you'll find out much more!
There's no need to register for these free public events, just come a bit early to get a seat. You can find out about all the other fascinating talks on the Gresham College website and you can get in the mood by reading about astronomy, dating and probability on Plus.
January 23, 2014
Vending machines that don't return change are annoying, especially if the prices they demand aren't nice round figures you can make up with a single coin. If that's the case, then there's nothing but to cram through your wallet, fishing out the right coins to make up the amount exactly. What's the best way of doing that? Without noticing many of us probably follow this recipe: find the biggest (as in largest denomination) coin that fits into the amount, then the next-biggest that fits into the remainder, and so on, until you (hopefully) hit the required sum. As an example, if you're being asked for 85p, you probably fish a 50p coin out first, then a 20p coin, then a 10p coin, and finally a 5p coin. And what if you haven't got all of the coins just mentioned in your wallet? In that case you follow the same recipe using what you've got.
This greedy recipe (greedy because you always go for the biggest coin that fits) seems to offer the best solution in that it seems to involve the fewest number of coins to make up the amount you need. For example, supposing you do have a 20p coin, but decide to go for two 10p coins instead, you increase the number of coins to make up 85p from four to five. So the greedy algorithm seems useful, not just for people struggling with vending machines, but also for cashiers returning change to customers.
But is greed really always the best option? It turns out that this depends on the coins that are available. Imagine, for example, you need to make up 8p. Greed would tell you to go for a 5p coin, then a 2p coin and then a 1p coin. And that's indeed the smallest number of coins to make up 8p with if you are using Pound Sterling, Euros, US Dollars, and most other currencies. But now imagine a currency that in addition to these denominations also has a 4p coin. Then you could make up 8p with two of those, beating the greedy strategy by one. Such a currency system might seem silly but it's not unheard-of: the pre-decimal British coinage system was one for which the greedy recipe failed when it came to minimising the number of coins needed to make up a given amount.
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December 24, 2013
Santa's just putting his hat on and button up his jolly red coat when an exasperated elf runs up to him: "Santa! We've got a problem! There have been so many good children this year we can't put all the presents into your sleigh!"
The problem is that Santa's sleigh has a weight limit, and can only carry 2 tonnes of present. Each present has a different weight, and each present has a different star value too: a star for each good deed of the toy's recipient. Santa obviously wants to reward as many good deeds as possible, maximising the total star value of the presents in the sleigh. But he can't exceed the maximal weight or those presents are going nowhere! So which should he put in his sleigh?
The elves start out trying all different combinations of presents to find the best one. This would have been fine if there only were a few items, but they quickly realise it is totally impractical when you have millions of presents to deal with. If they carry on this way Christmas Eve will have long passed and no presents at all will be delivered!
Such a brute force solution is unacceptable, and not only to the elves and Santa. Mathematicians would also find this an unacceptable approach, and ask whether there is an algorithm – a recipe for finding a solution – which works for any number of items, and so that the time it takes to complete the algorithm grows with the number of items in a reasonable, non-explosive fashion.
Mathematicians have a clear definition of "reasonable and non- explosive" in this context: the time it takes to complete the algorithm should grow with the number N of items no faster than the polynomial N to the power of K, for some integer K, grows with N. That's still pretty rapid growth, especially if K is large, but at least it's not exponential.
So does such a polynomial time algorithm exist for our problem? The answer is that nobody knows - not yet - though most mathematicians believe that there isn't. In fact, if you can prove or disprove that a polynomial time algorithm exists you will have answered the question behind door #22 too, as they both can be turned into NP complete problems.
Optimisation problems such as this one, which is known as the knapsack problem, crop up in real life all the time. Thankfully Santa is well read in mathematical literature and knows an algorithm they can use that won't take too long and, while it not give the very best combination of starred pressies, it will get sufficiently close.
So rest assured, if you've been really, really good, your present is probably now packed on the sleigh, ready for the Santa's big delivery run. Merry Christmas!You can find out more about NP complete problems on Plus.
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December 23, 2013
When Kepler was decorating his Christmas tree you can be sure his Christmas baubles weren't boring and round. Oh no, we're sure they would have been beautiful and elliptical!
Ah, the humble ellipse. It might look just like a squashed circle but it is so much more! One of the conic sections discovered by the ancient Greeks, it generalises the circle using eccentricity, a measure of how squashed it is. A circle is an ellipse with eccentricity zero, a very squashed nearly flat ellipse will have eccentricity close to one. An ellipse has two foci (points that lie within the ellipse), with the handy property that the sum of the distances from each focus to a point on the ellipse is equal to the ellipse's width. But not just a pretty shape, it turned out to be Kepler's answer to life, the universe and everything - he discovered that the heavenly bodies didn't move in circles, as had been thought for hundreds of years, but instead had elliptical orbits around the sun. Kepler tried to convince himself of the perfection of this design of the heavens by describing the interaction of nature with the heavens introducing a distortion to pull the motion from a perfect circle into an ellipse.
You can read more about conic sections and Kepler's proof on Plus.
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December 22, 2013
It's that time of the year again when Santa needs to think about how to deliver all those presents to the people on Earth. Unfortunately his reindeers are a bit weak this year, having suffered some severe bouts of flu, and he knows he can't ask them to travel more than a million kilometres in total. Is there a route around the Earth that visits all those cities, towns and villages he needs to visit, but is less than a million kilometres long?
A bit tired this year.
That, it turns out, is a very tricky question. One way of answering it would be to try out all different routes and work out their lengths. But since there are 7 billion people on Earth and he needs to visit every single dwelling that's totally unfeasible. It would take him until long after the Universe has ended to try all possible routes. Is there a clever algorithm Santa could use instead?
Obviously, the time it will take any algorithm to answer the question will depend on the number of places that need visiting — the more places, the longer it takes. So the question is whether there's an algorithm for which the time taken grows in a manageable, non-explosive way as the number of places grows — it's what complexity theorists call a polynomial time algorithm. If Santa were to ask such a complexity theorist he would find out that the class of all problems that can be solved in polynomial time has a name: it's called P.
Now Santa doesn't know if his problem of finding a route belongs to the class P. What's pretty obvious, though, is that if someone gave him a potential solution — a route they claim visits every place but is less than a million kilometres long — it would be easy to check whether that's true: he'd simply have to add up all the individual distances between places. A computer could do that quite easily. This means that Santa's problem belongs to a class of problems called NP. It consists of those problems for which potential answers can be checked in polynomial time, even though we might not know how to solve them from scratch in polynomial time.
But now suppose that Santa has a brainwave. Sitting down with a computer he constructs a polynomial time algorithm that finds the kind of route he is after. He would then have shown that his problem is not only a member of the NP class, but also of the P class. Amazingly, it would also hand Santa a polynomial time algorithm for all other problems in the NP class — because it turns out that his problem is a version of the famous travelling salesman problem, and that all the other problems in the NP class can be reduced to it. What is more, his algorithm would win Santa $1 million: the question of whether the P class and the NP class of problems are equal is considered one of the hardest in mathematics, which is why the Clay Mathematics Institute as offered $1 million to anyone who solves it.
Unfortunately Santa doesn't have the time to do any of this, and he's not a computer expert anyway. So he just takes an educated guess at what route to take and gets going, hoping for the best. It's a shame really because if he'd been able to show that P=NP he would have held the key to many of the world's secret communications, including everyone's bank details that are sent encrypted over the internet. This is because NP problems are used as the key for such encryptions, with the secrecy relying on the fact that the problems are very hard to crack. You can find out more in the Plus articles The travelling salesman and Safety in numbers.
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December 21, 2013
Raging rivers and thundering waves are exciting and frightening and for mathematicians they are a massive problem. Suppose you've got a turbulent mountain stream — if you're a mathematician, you'll want to know if you can describe the flow of the water using a mathematical equation. Given a point in space (that is somewhere in the stream) and a point in time (say 5 minutes from now), you would like to know the velocity and maybe also the pressure of the water at that point in time and space.
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Scientists believe that turbulence is described to a reasonable level of accuracy by a very famous set of equations, known as the Navier-Stokes equations. These are partial differential equations which relate changes in velocity, changes in pressure and the viscosity of the liquid. To find the velocity and pressure of your liquid, you have to solve them.
But that's no easy feat. Exact solutions to the equations — solutions that can be written down as mathematical formulae — exist only for simplified problems that are of little or no physical interest. For most practical purposes, approximate solutions are found through computer simulations — essentially through educated guess-work — that require immense computing power.
Plus there is an additional problem that makes numerical difficulties pale into insignificance: no one knows if exact mathematical solutions even exist in all cases. And if they do exist, we still don't know if they involve oddities, such as discontinuities or infinities, that don't square with our intuition of how a liquid should behave.
It's these difficulties that have turned the understanding of the Navier-Stokes equations into one of the seven Millennium Problems posed by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Whoever proves or disproves the existence of finite and smooth solutions is set to earn a million dollars.
All this might seem strange, even scary, given that the equations are used all over the place, all the time — meteorology and aircraft design are just two examples. The fact is that, in the cases we can compute, approximate solutions do seem to give an accurate description of the motion of fluids. What we don't know is what, if anything, the model given by the Navier-Stokes equations tells us about the exact nature of fluid flow.
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Flooding Brings Further Disruption To Parts Of The UK
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On the road to the Lonely Mountain, the dwarves ran low on food.
They had just one hot pocket remaining and only 300 kegs of ale.
Gandalf multiplied the hot pockets and ale til there was enough for everyone.
Having eaten everything in sight the dwarves needed a nap, so no more progress was made on their long journey.
Gandalf gave a long speech while standing on a rock, but nobody listened, except the pwnies.
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Despite the 2 - 1 OT result, the New York Rangers likely deserved their two points in the first 60 minutes of play.
One of the stronger and more cohesive games the Blueshirts have played this season was nearly foiled by an equally impressive effort by Carolina Hurricanes' netminder Cam Ward, but New York continued to press and ultimately prevailed.
"It was a fun game to play, a lot of action on both ends," said goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, who recorded 31 saves in the victory. "It is important in a low scoring game to not give the puck away and we didn't.
"Tonight we played a very smart game."
It was the smart effort that Head Coach John Tortorella had been looking for. Penalties were limited. The offense contributed to the defense and the defense contributed to the offense.
"I think we got a little bit of our personality back and the style of play we wanted to play," said Tortorella. "I thought Ward was outstanding. The good thing about our club is that we didn't get frustrated, we didn't force the issue and played the style we wanted to play."
Despite controlling the flow through most of the game, the Rangers were held scoreless until 8:41 of the third period when Matt Gilroy took a pass in the slot from Mats Zuccarello and buried a wrist shot against the grain to beat Ward on the stick side.
Gilroy has improved dramatically in the past several weeks, leading to his solidifying a position in the top-six and allowing the Rangers to send struggling young defender Mike Del Zotto to Hartford to regain his confidence.
But the night was capped by the young Norwegian Zuccarello who, after assisting on the game's first goal, became the OT hero.
Zuccarello retrieved the puck behind the Carolina net following a rush by Brandon Dubinsky and strutted quickly around the post to beat Ward with a near-side off-angle shot.
The victory put the Rangers at 7th place in the Eastern Conference with 49 points, seven ahead of 9th place Carolina.
The Rangers return to action this Friday in Dallas to take on the Stars at 8:30 pm EST.
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Richard J. Erickson, 74, of Pontoon Beach formerly of Malta, Mont., passed away after a lingering illness Monday, Sept. 3, 2012 at Anderson Hospital in Maryville, Ill.
He was born Nov. 16, 1937 in Malta, Mont., to Edwin N. and Georgia T. Erickson. He attended the University of Utah and Northern Montana College. He married the former Mary Lynne Gonsowsky Oct. 25, 1966.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Mary Lynne Erickson, Pontoon Beach; son, James Scott Erickson, of Pinedale, Wyo; two daughters and a son in law, Shelly Ann and Scott Stump, Glen Carbon, Ill., and Traci Lynn Carrier, North Augusta, S.C.; son, four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; bother Edwin T. Erickson and sister Harriet Jean Kimura.
Cremation services entrusted to Wojstrom Funeral Home & Crematory. Online guestbook available at www.wojstrom.com.


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While making my rounds I have notice an increase in antler growth this year, whether or not it is due to the extremely wet spring and the growth of the food sources, or my imagination. I have already noted several bucks with growth past there G 3's and several within days of getting to that point. With all of the rain we have received this past spring our food plots have grown to amazing levels supplying the whitetail herd a variety to choose from.
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I would like to invite you to spend the July 4th weekend with us! There is plenty to do around the resort or take a day trip to one of the surrounding towns. Enjoy our evening hayride that stops and overlooks a scenic view of the Mississippi River Valley. From this view you will watch Pleasant Hill's firework show. (One of the best in the mid-west) along with 5 other firework shows on the horizon! This unique experience is one you will always remember!
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Here at Heartland Lodge we have started a new month, which in turn brings us one step closer to deer season here in Pike Co, IL. With all of the rain we have had, our food plots have increased growth, by leaps and bounds. Along with that, we have seen some outstanding antler developement while making my rounds in the evenings, which only elevates our impatience for this fall. I still have a select few archery hunts available for this fall and with the non-resident tag application ending June 30th, the days are winding down for your chance to receive a quaranteed tag. I truly hope you are able to hunt with us this fall and for those of you that are already made your plans, I look forward to seeing you in camp.
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Deloitte supports inmates of old age home
Global professional services organization Deloitte celebrated the 11th annual edition of the 'Impact Day' which is an employee driven community service programme along with the inmates of Tollygunge Home - a shelter for the elderly, here on Friday.
The young and the old sang and danced together, others sat relishing the performances, smiling and clapping now and then, as the employees of Deloitte intermingled with the inmates of Tollygunge Home.
Aloke Tagore, HR Manager, Deloitte said, "IMPACT Day represents the organization's year-round strategic community involvement initiatives and sees the entire Deloitte team in India invest an entire workday celebrating special activities on their community projects."
The 150 year old Tollygunge Home, which provides free food and health facilities to more than 30 senior citizens depends on donations to continue with its good work and is further trying to develop a dairy farm and kitchen garden to cut-down its dependence on external sources.
"We learnt from the Home authorities that they are working towards gaining self-reliance by growing fruits and vegetables within their premises. To help them in their endeavour we have donated saplings, apart from other things," Tagore revealed.
"Our corporate social responsibility initiatives go beyond monetary donations and we want our employees to be involved in the entire process, from planning to implementation," he added.
According to the officials, more than 60 percent of Deloitte's community projects focus on issues critical to the country's economy with sustainable and broad based initiatives involving skills-based volunteerism.
The 'Impact Day' witnessed the participation of over 21,000 employees in 70 plus projects across 8 cities, the officials informed.
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It's not private info or anything: about 2 weeks ago I read the requirements on 2 separate facebook pages for example and the staff is always on irc.
In short, it's providing a sort of decent pc (yours or rented to the hosting company), internet connection with solid international bandwidth (that's where they get picky and where it gets expensive), having a responsible person or team on that country, contracts if possible (so servers aren't shutdown when the provider feels like it), pay for everything.
duel servers are simple unplayable
lag spike all the time, no matter what time of the day
instangib, ca and ffa server are fine
thats what im talkin about. now i can pay for pre.
hooray for üsküdar!
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We were aware of lag problem in Turkey servers, hence Raist has been working to find a new better host. It should be up soon guys, thanks for patience
The hosting company has been changed for the TR servers and our initial observations show that there is no lag whatsoever now! And any future problems can be dealt with swiftly as long as the service we receive is stable. Ty everyone who helped me test the old and new hosts
thx a lot for turkish servers. fps games requires low ping for playing. Now we can enjoy quake.
Thank you QL staff and special thanks to Raist for Turkey Servers!! Now, its time to enjoy QL!!
Thanks a lot to id and the donator (Raist I guess?) for the Istanbul servers I haven't been playing for 8 months ago, came back yesterday and found out TR servers. It feels great to play with 10ms


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Jets to Split With QB Coach Matt Cavanaugh
With many an "other shoe to drop" in the coming weeks, the status of Jets QB coach Matt Cavanaugh might be one of the most awaited firings/non-retentions of the new year. While the Jets QB coach had the thankless task of working with Mark Sanchez, according to the Daily News it now appears that Cavanaugh won't be back this year no matter who is taking snaps from center.
Brian Bassett, TheJetsBlog.comCavanaugh has long been a lightning rod with the uneven development of the Jets quarterback. With Mark Sanchez's inability to break the 60% completion plane in his four seasons with the Jets, Mark Sanchez's poor mechanics, bad decision-making and mortal hesitance all factored in to the decision. No matter what happens, the Jets need some new blood at the quarterback coaching spot however they move forward based on the dismal slide since 2011. Still, it was Sanchez who lauded Cavanaugh repeatedly in 2011 as a key reason why the Jets grew in leaps and bounds in their red zone success – not the work of Schotty or "consultant" Tom Moore. More than likely, the success was attributable to former Jets WR Plaxico Burress who was a force inside the 20s, but almost nowhere else.
Either way, the Jets are right to move on from a failed experiment with Matt Cavanaugh.


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Philidor's Defense
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This edition is a good guide to show the players the ideas in one of the most classic, solid openings against the Classic White's King's pawn setup. All the important variations are covered in Harding's classic style.
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Philidor Defense - A Re-Appraisal
Black defends his King's pawn before proceding with similar play as in the Greco Counter-Gambit. Suddenly White does not have positional play against a Philidor Defense, but is thrown into tactical complications of this gambit. You, as Black, will know what to do while your opponent eats time on his clock trying, repeat trying, to find his way. Black is playing to win.
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Detailed Coverage of a Dynamic Opening
The Philidor is a dynamic and underrated answer to White's most popular opening move, 1. e4. Recently it has acquired something of a cult following amongst certain Grandmasters; its supporters include the French number one Etienne Bacrot and the former European Champion Liviu Dieter-Nisipeanu. One of its major selling points is its flexibility - Black even has a choice of two opening moves. It also suits a wide variety of playing styles. Games can lead to sharp, tactical duels as well as strategic, positional battles.
In this book Christian Bauer, himself a renowned Philidor expert, uncovers the secrets behind this intriguing opening. Using his own experience and other top-class Philidor games, Bauer identifies both the critical main lines and the tricky sidelines. He also examines the key tactical and strategic ideas for both White and Black, while highlighting crucial issues such as move-order options - a major weapon for the modern Grandmaster.
* Comprehensive coverage of a provocative opening
* Packed with original analysis
* Ideal for club and tournament players
Philidor Files
The Chess Predator's Choice Against Both 1. e4 and 1. d4
More than 85% of all chess games start with either 1.e4 or 1.d4. The Black Lion presents a flexible, logical and sensible way for Black to meet both of these moves. This robust, multipurpose opening system looks quiet, like a sleeping lion - hence the name. But when this predator is provoked, and the game heats up, Black eats its prey in an extremely swift and efficient way.
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he Modern Philidor Defence consists of seven chapters, dealing with different move-orders. Each chapter comprises of a "Quick Repertoire" then a thorough theoretical study in the part "Step by Step"and "Complete Games". In order to include a system in your opening repertoire, it would be sufficient for you to read the review and see the games and this should not take too much of your time. After this, you can start playing this opening in friendly games at your club, or on the Internet.
The Modern Philidor Defence
Lure Your Opponent into the Philidor Swamp
Taking your opponent out of his comfort zone is a good idea to start your game with. Grandmaster Sergey Kasparov pushes this concept one step further: lure your opponent onto the slippery paths of the Philidor Swamp!
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Bison Golf Scramble renamed to honor Barry Brewer
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The new logo and backdrop for the Barry Brewer Bison Golf Scramble were unveiled at the awards ceremony.
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FRANKLIN, Ky. - The annual Bison Golf Scramble went out on a high note.
It's not ending, though. It's being renamed to honor one of Lipscomb's most avid athletics fans.
Thursday at the Kenny Perry's Country Creek Golf Course a record number of golfers, more than 130, played in the scramble, one of the more popular events on the Lipscomb athletics calendar. One of the big announcements during the awards dinner was that the event is now known as the Barry Brewer Golf Scramble.
It is a fitting honor since Brewer spent many years as a founder, salesman, recruiter and director of the Bison Golf Scramble.
"Barry has contributed so much to the heart and soul of athletics here at Lipscomb," said Scott Saunders, major gifts officer in the Office of Development. "He is a member of our Hall of Fame. And in many ways this has been a Hall of Fame type of event."
A new green, purple and white logo was unveiled at the dinner.
Brewer, a former tennis player for the Bisons, is an avid supporter of all the athletic programs at Lipscomb. He was director of the Bison Club, now known as the Champions Club, for two years.
Brewer is also a member of the Lipscomb Athletics Hall of Fame. He was inducted in 2003 for his meritorious service to the athletics program.
Brewer serves as CEO of 21st Century Christian & Bookstore.
He and his wife, Debbie, have two children; Martha Ann Hawkins who teaches at Lipscomb Campus School and Tyne, a student at Lipscomb University.
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AKWESASNE - The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe welcomed a gathering of business and government leaders from Franklin and St. Lawrence counties and the surrounding area to the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino Resort for a Business After Hours event co-hosted by the Malone Chamber of Commerce.
While the focus of the evening was networking and casual conversation among those in attendance, the topic of resolution of a series of issues related to the tribes boundary drew much attention.
Our surrounding counties are very important to our Tribe, as both a business and as a government, said Chief Ron LaFrance. The St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Council remains committed to a negotiated settlement that would benefit both the Mohawk people and our neighbors.
The tribe would like to see the terms of a 2005 settlement agreement between the tribe, New York state, Franklin County and St. Lawrence County enacted. The agreement would permit the tribe to acquire, only from willing sellers, certain identified lands in Franklin and St. Lawrence counties and return them to the tribes territory. In exchange, the local communities would receive substantial benefits, which LaFrance outlined for those at last nights event.
Those benefits include local governments receiving payments from New York state equal to any lost property taxes for the lands the Tribe is able to acquire, and annual payments of $1 million from New York state to both Franklin and St. Lawrence counties to be paid in perpetuity.
Legislation proposed in 2005 increased the payment amount to $2 million per year for each county. In addition to the direct economic incentives, the settlement would clarify questions related to building codes, jurisdiction, and police and fire services.
Resolving its boundary is a priority issue for the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the Tribal Council made that clear when it resolved its casino revenue share dispute with New York state in May. In resuming its payments to the state, payments which have exceeded $86 million since 2005, the tribe agreed to forego any legal arguments based on a non-licensed gaming facility in Plattsburgh in exchange for a resolution of the land boundary issues.
This basically means once our boundary issues are resolved, we have absolutely no basis to withhold future payments to the state without jeopardizing our right to conduct gaming under the compact, LaFrance explained. From a business perspective alone, we would not jeopardize that income source. Our tribe relies on the income to survive.
Just as the status of the tribes boundary and a potential settlement agreement is an issue that is important to the entire area, the gathering also highlighted the emergence of the regional economy.
Hugh Hill, executive director of the Malone Chamber of Commerce, reinforced regional economic opportunities during his remarks, Hospitality and tourism ranks as one of the greatest opportunities, and the remarkable achievements in that area by the St. Regis Mohawk community are a sterling example of determination, hard work, sacrifice, vision. The result is what we see here today: A magnificent and successful world-class resort, with friendly top notch customer service, cuisine, gaming and entertainment in a beautiful setting. This resort is providing hundreds of jobs for local people, generating sales for local businesses and is an important part of a successful North Country economy.
The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe is one of the north countrys leading economic engines. The tribe currently employs more than 1,600 people at its various enterprises, including the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino Resort, with an annual payroll of $47 million. The tribe has also worked with 244 vendors from Franklin County and 281 vendors from St. Lawrence County, thereby supporting hundreds of additional local jobs.
The wages our employees earn, the money we spend with our local business partners and the visitors we attract all generate significant benefits that extend far beyond our tribes boundary, LaFrance said. The futures of the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe and the surrounding communities are forever linked, and I believe the future is very bright.
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Big Screen Classics: YOJIMBO
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A wandering ronin named Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) stumbles upon a rural 19th Century Japanese town split down the middle by two rival gangs. Having no clear allegiance to either side, he decides to play each against the other in an attempt to lead both towards extinction. What follows is an ultra-tense cinematic showdown at high noon between cat and mouse. Unfortunately, Sanjuro's carefully laid plan begins to unravel when the son of one gangster arrives in town: the wily, ruthless, and uncouth Unosuke (Tatsuya Nakadai), who boasts not only blade, but also revolver. When the game changes, Sanjuro finds himself in a fight for his life and the lives of the innocent citizens caught in the middle. Unquestionably Japan's biggest stars of the period, Mifune and Nakadai appear together here onscreen for the first time ever – this was, and honestly still is, the biggest of big deals. Aside from THE SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), YOJIMBO is Kurosawa's best and most celebrated work. To see it on 35mm is to be in awe of a master and his actors who were, are, and always will be towering giants of the cinema. (Sam Prime)


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Buzz: Training Camp Should Open On Sunday
According to Chris Johnston, Bill Daly says that NHL training camps are expected to open on Sunday.
Training camp can not open until after the CBA is ratified by both the players and the owners.
The Board of Governors has a meeting tomorrow where they will ratify the CBA. The players are not expected to ratify the deal until later in the week/the weekend.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Despite improved traffic, the much-touted Black Friday weekend sales didn't look like it would salvage November same-store sales for retailers, analysts said.
Ahead of retailers reporting same-store sales results for the month on Thursday, analysts over the weekend cut their November estimates to a 2.9% sales gain from a 3.1% increase last week, according Retail Metrics. The month's tallies were already under pressure with superstorm Sandy expected to cut sales by as much as 2 percentage points and the U.S. presidential election also distracting shoppers early in the month, Retail Metrics data showed. See related Black Friday story.
"Black Friday may not be enough to save November," Deustche Bank analyst Charles Grom said, adding his team made 400 calls to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT, -0.17% and Target Corp. TGT, +0.08% stores and surveyed more than 1,000 shoppers, besides store visits. "We walked away uninspired by this weekend's sales results relative to prior years. While most stores were very crowded on Thanksgiving night/early Black Friday morning, it's clear that sales volume is getting shifted with the pie not necessarily growing."
Macy's CEO Lundgren on what Black Friday means
With Black Friday kicking off the holiday season sales, Macy's CEO Terry Lundgren talks to MarketWatch's Andria Cheng on why this day matters for retailers, how the company plans to keep the momentum through the holiday season, and how this year compares with others.
Wal-Mart, Target, Toys "R" Us and Sears Holdings Corp. SHLD, -1.85% were among retailers that unleashed Black Friday specials early by opening doors on Thanksgiving night, along with Macy's M, +0.11% , Best Buy Co. BBY, -0.05% and Kohl's Corp. KSS, -0.86% opening at midnight.
Grom's research showed that Black Friday weekend sales were flat versus last year, with Wal-Mart, Kohl's and Macy's the early winners while Target and J.C. Penney Co. JCP, -0.51% were "a bit disappointing." Read related blog on Black Friday frenzy.
Mall traffic tracker ShopperTrak also said Black Friday proved to be a retail mixed bag. While foot traffic rose 3.5% on Black Friday to 307.7 million store visits, retail sales actually declined 1.8% on Friday with some spending shifted to Thursday. The firm still expects Black Friday to be the season's biggest traffic and sales day with eight of the top 10 shopping days not arriving until December.
Retailers on Monday unleashed their so-called Cyber Monday sales in hope shoppers returning to work after the weekend will give them more sales boost. Read related Cyber Monday story.
National Retail Federation's data from the weekend was more upbeat, showing traffic from Thursday through Sunday rose to 247 million from 226 million last year and the spending for the weekend up 14% to $59.1 billion. NRF data also showed average holiday shopper spending climbed 6.3% to $423 this weekend.
The big question
"The question now becomes, can retailers build on this sales momentum or were sales pulled forward and a significant lull looms with almost a full month to go before Christmas," said Ken Perkins of Retail Metrics. "We fear a sizable lull once Cyber Monday passes."
The S&P Retail Index fell on Monday after five straight trading session gains.
Black Friday Stokes Holiday Season Hopes
Early indications are giving retailers such as Macy's higher hopes for the 2012 holiday season. Andria Cheng reports on The News Hub.
"The dynamics of Black Friday weekend are changing," said Janney Capital Markets analyst David Strasser. "It is becoming less profitable. The Thanksgiving day openings increase (expense) dollars with at best modest (sales) benefits as total sales get spread over a longer time period of time. Consumers (were) making planned purchases/door busters, and not buying/delaying higher margin impulse attachments/purchase."
While Black Friday doesn't a season make, it does give an early read on which retailers have been more successful attracting shoppers and likely staying at top of mind with consumers, analysts said.


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YIELD: Serves 6 to 8
- 1 4-to 6-pound pumpkin
- 2 cups of sugar
- 1 cup water
- 3/4 cup chopped hazelnuts
- 1 cup heavy cream, whipped with 1 tablespoon sugar
Cut apart the pumpkin and remove the seeds. Peel the sections and cut into 1 inch cubes.
In a large mixing bowl, toss the sugar, water, and pumpkin pieces.
Transfer the pieces, plus all the water and sugar, to a baking pan. Cover tightly with foil and bake in a preheated 350° oven for 1 hour.
Check the water level after 30 or 40 minutes. Add more if necessary, or bake uncovered if it is too wet. There should be little water left and the pieces should be soft but not mushy.
Allow to cool, then refrigerate. Serve sprinkled with hazelnuts, and with the whipped cream.
From Turkish Cooking: A Culinary Journey through Turkey by Carol Robertson, published by Frog Books, an imprint of North Atlantic Books, copyright © 1996 by Carol Robertson. Reprinted by permission of publisher.


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Naval Academy Midshipmen Help Pixar's Buzz Lightyear Fly
Posted on: April 18, 2013 08:00 EDT by Jessica Clark
In the 1995 Pixar film "Toy Story," main character Woody argues that Buzz Lightyear can't really fly - that instead he "falls with style."
A team of five midshipmen set out to determine the aerodynamic capabilities of the famous toy superhero once and for all as part of their final project in last semester's wind tunnels class.
Testing a Buzz Lightyear action figure in one of the Naval Academy's wind tunnels revealed that Woody was right. Buzz's body is too large in proportion to his wings to allow him to fly well, said Midshipman 2nd Class Kris Ward.
But the mids didn't stop there. They went on to research how they could improve Buzz's ability to fly by designing and building him a new set of wings.
"The ground rules that we set for ourselves were that we would keep Buzz's shape and dimensions the exact same as the original action figure. The only thing we changed was the airfoil's cross-sectional geometry," said Ward.
To do this, the team researched low-speed, high-lift airfoil shapes and chose the best three to test against the original wing.
"We also assumed Buzz to be a glider, as he is for the most part in the movies," said Ward.
The result: They improved his gliding ability by 25 percent.
The Buzz Lightyear test was one of three possibilities the team submitted for their final project and, ironically, the last one they expected to be approved, said Midshipman 2nd Class Cameron Little.
What started out as an exercise of their imagination turned out to be an important part of preparing these aerospace engineering majors for their senior capstone next year, in which they have to research, design and build a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle.
"The design aspect - learning how to do all of that ourselves - is really going to help us next year," said Ward.
The project also afforded them more autonomy than they were accustomed to. Throughout the semester the parameters they used to perform various tests in the wind tunnel were rigidly set by the professor, but this project required the midshipmen to determine what to test, how to test it and how to present the results - along with teammates Midshipmen 2nd Class Zachary Haueter, Daniel Hibert and Robert Dunlap - in a technically-detailed presentation to the aerospace engineering faculty.
"That was just a whole new experience in itself," said Little.
So we just have one question. Does Disney have room for a few Naval Academy aerospace engineering graduates?


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An access violation may occur in the Sysmon control when you try to add or delete counters by using the Sysmon programming interface.
This problem occurs because Sysmon tries to dereference a null pointer while it is redisplaying the counters.
Service Pack InformationTo resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
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If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, submit a request to Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.
Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
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The new regime of Muslim central banker Alassane Ouattara, installed in the Ivory Coast using United Nations troops backed by the Obama administration, suspended all of the country's opposition newspapers and is reportedly leading a vicious crackdown on political opponents. Human rights activists and Western diplomats spoke out against the assaults, leading to a temporary lifting of the media suspensions this week. But trouble is still brewing.
The week of September 10, the government's so-called "National Press Council" decided to temporarily ban all six newspapers critical of the new regime. The alleged crime: publishing photographs of former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo with his government, which was ousted by ruthless Islamic militias and the UN last year following a contested election outcome. The nation's highest court declared Gbagbo the winner.
An estimated 3,000 people died, including over a thousand Christians slaughtered by Ouattara's forces as they marched to Abidjan backed up by international air power. And while the war largely faded after Gbagbo was arrested with UN support, the lawlessness and violence are still ongoing as attacks on police are cited to justify arrests of opponents and the censoring of critical media voices.
"Ivorian people should be allowed to determine for themselves the validity of competing political views, statements and arguments," said a statement issued by the U.S. embassy in Abidjan after the assault on opposition media. The UN "peacekeeping" mission in the Ivory Coast, meanwhile, called the attack on newspapers by the regime it put in power "a very unhealthy sign."
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Photo: Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara escorts U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she arrives at the presidential palace in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Jan. 17, 2012: AP Images