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Review: Skyman #1
After an embarrassing defeat at the hands of Captain Midnight, a drunken Skyman accidentally kills an innocent man! Needing a new face for their initiative ASAP, the Skyman Program turns to US Air Force Sgt. Eric Reid: a wounded veteran on the ropes, looking for a new lease on life.
A new series kicks off this week spinning out of the events of a recent Captain Midnight issue. Skyman #1 is written by Joshua Hale Fialkov with pencils by Manuel Garcia. Bit handles inks with Marta Martinez providing colors. Nate Piekos of BLAMBOT rounds things out with lettering. Captain Midnight shuts down Skyman, but now a new man must take up the mantle and actually be a hero. How is that going to work out?
Captain Midnight stopped a bomb planted at Sharkbyte Industries by a Skyman. Since then the guy behind the mask hasn't been doing too well. After getting drunk at a bar and dropping the bartender from the upper atmosphere while spouting off some very nasty words about the president, the government finds themselves in the middle of a controversy. The Skyman program is vital to the nation's security, so it has to continue. Everyone decides if it can be done out in the open, and a black man can be the new face of Skyman, things might work. The only problem is that the recruits who have been training with the suit are all very much white. That's where disabled US Air Force Sgt. Eric Reid comes in. He's the guy that the government (military) can use as their pawn. He gets to walk when he's in the suit, and when it's powered down he's back to being a cripple. What happens when a good man finds himself in a position of power? Will Eric discover he's being used for something much bigger?
Fialkov writes a great introductory issue. It's not absolutely required that you read Captain Midnight and the Skyman issues, but it will help tremendously. We get a better overview of the program and what the suit's abilities are. Fialkov presents a very intriquing and pretty well fleshed-out character with Eric Reid. He still has a few mysteries, but we learn a lot about him in ways that doesn't feel like an info dump or bring the story to a halt. Skyman is literally taking center stage by the end of the issue, so now the future issues will really let him fly. Garcia's pencils and Bits inks make for some very beautiful and detailed art. The backgrounds and character work are top notch, but there are a few times where the faces lose some details and become a little too smooth. Something may have been lost in the inks or coloring stage, it's few and far between but noticeable at times. The transition between disabled Eric and Skyman Eric is presented well too. He almost looks like a different man after he puts the suit on for the first time. Martinez's colors look stunning when it comes to the scenery and costume.
Bottom Line: If you're liking Captain Midnight, you're going to love Skyman. Fialkov has set up an interesting character thrown into even more interesting circumstances. Dark Horse has really done something brilliant with their new superhero comics, and this one is another feather in their hat. 4.5/5
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Graduates - it gives me great pleasure to congratulate each of you, and your loved ones, on your outstanding achievement.
Three times a year, I have the privilege of standing before our graduates to congratulate them as they leave our campuses across the country. Every time I watch the faces of those crossing the stage, I cannot help but be reminded that our school's mission is alive and well: a mission that directs us to embrace the diversity of our nation and to turn over the best trained psychologists and behavioral and health scientists to our communities.
Many of you, and indeed all those in the auditorium today, already came here knowing the issues before us as individual communities and as a nation. With one personal, community, and national tragedy after the other filling all communication channels, we cannot escape the realities before us. With each commencement speech I write, I typically take the time to update the data I present so as to drive home the responsibilities I suggest each of you have as you enter and advance your career. I chose not to do that this year – the data does not get any better, the issues don't get any less complex. It is the urgency for true leadership, for personal and institutional responsibility and courage, for a narrowing of the focus on what really matters, and for actions emanating from positions of legitimate personal integrity – that have taken central stage for our nation and for those across the globe.
For some in this room, you will hear my words as the "same old, same old." For those unique few that have already felt and embraced this sense of urgency, I belabor two points:
First - Diversity within America continues to grow. As we have all recently watched the George Zimmerman trial unfold before our eyes, we were all reminded about how much is left to be said to each other on the topic of differences. In 2012, the US Census Bureau estimated that 14.1% of the US population is African American, 16.9% Hispanic, 77.9% White, 5.1% Asian, and 1.2% of the population is American Indian. The US is projected to become a majority-minority nation for the first time in 2043. While the non-Hispanic while population will remain the largest single group, no one group will make up a majority.
For those of you that understand the magnitude of what these figures will bring for us as a nation, I send you out to help break down the barriers that remain amongst so many.
Second - For those of you destined for positions of leadership – I send you out knowing that most organizations train and condition employees to be doers versus thinkers. We all have the natural tendency to get caught up in what we believe are the most importance causes and issues for us as individuals. I suggest that stance in life is for those whose contributions to society will go un-noticed. For the leaders amongst you, you already sense the full potential of your individual talent – take it now and share it, not for yourself, but so that you can benefit others. It's an old fashioned positioned to take, sure, but you will come to understand it never lost its relevance. Trust yourself to step away from the everyday narrative, be the leader you already are, and have the depth of courage needed to step aside from the status quo.
Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby proclaim that this, Commencement Ceremony for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, is now concluded.

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Color reproduction
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The K2000, especially in its 'Bright' setting is rather more saturated than most DSLRs on the market, with a particular over-fondness for the color green, but it can be toned-down a bit by shooting in 'Natural.'
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Artificial light White Balance
The K2000 offers a good degree of control over white balance, with eight presets (including three different fluorescent lighting settings). And, if you dig down to Custom Setting 8, you'll find a White Balance fine-tune option that allows fairly subtle adjustment of white balance in both the Amber-Blue and Green-Magenta axes. This option, combined with a color-adjustable LCD, should allow you to get pretty close to perfect white balance if you're determined to get it spot-on for JPEG shooting.
Interestingly, despite having three fluorescent white balance presets, we got better results out of the camera using Auto. The tungsten (incandescent) performance under our tungsten light bulbs was good-to-excellent, though.
The flash performance is pretty impressive for a camera in this class with both exposure and color handled well. Skin tones are perhaps a touch too magenta but that can be a problem with the camera's default JPEG setting, rather than an indictment of the flash. The K2000 strobes its internal flash unit to aid focus in low light - not always a pleasant experience for the subject - but the camera's pre-exposure metering flash burst is well timed so that it doesn't leave you waiting around but rarely prompts subjects to close their eyes.
Overall Image Quality / Specifics
The K2000 is unquestionably aimed at the first-time DSLR user - its help button and automatic scene mode selection make that very clear - but the pictures it produces aren't always consistent with that ambition. The light metering is often pretty conservative, with an occasional tendency towards underexposing. In general this is a good thing as it reduces the likelihood of bright areas of the image becoming too bright and straying outside the camera's dynamic range. It's certainly desirable for users with the time and patience to post-process their images and pull the brightness back up but it might come as a bit of a shock to compact camera users who expect constantly bright images (albeit with the blown-out highlights that tend to plague compacts).
What is a problem is the quality of a the camera's JPEG engine - something we've been concerned about with some previous Pentax DSLRs. Images straight out of the camera do not make a very good job of conveying all the detail that the sensor is capturing. Examples on the next page show what is and isn't possible by tweaking the camera's image settings.
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Pentax K-x Digital SLR
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Pentax K-x 12.4MP Digital SLR
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Pentax K-x 16203 Digital SLR Camera
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My Real Money YAHOO/DJ column is now on (free) TheStreet.com site:
"If Yahoo! grabs Dow Jones, (pardon the dirty word) the synergies
make a lot of sense. They get a primo media property that has a growing Web
presence that fits into Yahoo's existing business model. And, it creates a
broader network to serve ads, both online and off. It's a strong way to combine
the highly-sought-after, high-income demographic of the Dow Jones properties
with the high-volume Web traffic Yahoo! generates.
It also adds some bulk to an entity falling increasingly behind
archnemesis Google (GOOG) in the online advertising space. Yahoo! could
add another $1.783 billion per year in revenue — a nearly 30% bump for the
firm, which did $6.4 billion in total revenue in fiscal 2006 — and it also adds
another $386 million in profits, a number that almost doubles Yahoo!'s
Yahoo sports a trailing price-to-earnings ratio near 60, while Dow Jones
trailing P/E ratio is near 18. If Wall Street puts an online multiple on the
revenue, it raises the potential stock price of the combination dramatically."
Click on over and read the whole thing . . .
Forget Murdoch: Yahoo! Should Buy Dow Jones
TheStreet.com, 5/9/2007 7:41 AM EDT
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After a three-year break, various side projects and rumours of a split, Bloc Party suddenly got it together last summer and released the album Four. Kele tells us why it took them so long, and why he's decided to start telling the truth in interviews.
Obaro Ejimiwe – Ghostpoet to you and I – cobbled together his first album Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam in his Coventry bedroom. A couple of years on, and with a Mercury nomination under his belt, he joins us to tell us about the follow-up, Some Say I So I Say Light.
And in Singles Club we have tracks from Casual Sex, Four Tet and Rachel Zefira.
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Entrepreneurship can foster an economically vibrant societyComment on this story
Entrepreneurship presents massive opportunities for increasing employment creation and growth in gross domestic product (GDP). The UN reaffirms this view and makes a note that entrepreneurship and job creation can reduce poverty and boost sustained growth in Africa.
Switzerland is among the countries that topped the Global Innovation Index of 2013, and policy is among the key factors that have played a critical role in enhancing entrepreneurship. Unemployment in that country averaged 3.34 percent from 1995 until last year. The current unemployment rate in Switzerland is 3.2 percent, with only 149 000 Swiss citizens currently without jobs.
While policy played a key role in enabling entrepreneurship growth in Switzerland, research conducted by the Unisa Bureau of Market Research reveals that in South Africa policy uncertainty, a poor work ethic and restrictive labour regulations have been constraining the growth of entrepreneurship and new business ventures.
Furthermore, the total early-stage entrepreneurial activity measure shows that of all the sub-Saharan African nations, South Africa has the lowest rating on perceived opportunities for starting a business in the next six months, with only 30 percent of people intending to start a business. This is well below the average of 70 percent for the region.
The latest figures from Statistics SA's labour force survey show that of the 4.6 million unemployed South Africans, 72 percent are under the age of 35 and 600 000 have a university qualification.
On the other hand, more than two thirds (13.4 million) of South Africa's current employment is created by small, medium and micro enterprises. This sector contributes 60 percent towards the national GDP. This phenomenon is not unique to South Africa. It is clear that entrepreneurship presents opportunities to create jobs and career paths for young people.
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's findings reveal that 40 percent of young South Africans fear starting a business because they lack the skills and experience to understand the business world.
Key lessons can be drawn from countries such as Switzerland, Spain, and the US. According to the Ernst & Young Group of 20 entrepreneurship survey, the US is ranked as having the best culture of entrepreneurship and access to funding, which indicates that the country tolerates risk and failure, prefers self-employment, and celebrates self-made wealth to a greater extent than the other countries. The US also has the third-best education and training environment.
The Ernst & Young survey reveals that South Africa ranks poorly in terms of access to funding, tax regulation and co-ordinated support. South Africa was ranked sixth out of the 20 nations that participated in terms of access to funding for entrepreneurs, fifth for tax regulation, and eighth for co-ordinated support.
As the Chinese proverb says, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Therefore, instead of continuing to point fingers and stating the obvious challenges and causes, we should obsess over finding feasible and sustainable solutions. There is a need, and more importantly an opportunity, to effectively groom future business owners by cultivating a culture of entrepreneurship even at high school level.
The government, parents and businesses alike have a role to play to ensure that South Africa starts moving away from a job-seeking mentality to an entrepreneurial mindset. The National Development Plan states: "It is up to all South Africans to fix the challenges faced by our country; it is up to all South Africans to fix the future, starting today; to accelerate progress; deepen democracy and build a more inclusive society and translate political emancipation into economic well-being for all."
There are many successful initiatives contributing to entrepreneurship. Some are worth learning from, others worth combining and some worth replicating.
As a bank that is highly involved in the communities it serves, Nedbank has various programmes aimed at enabling entrepreneurs to flourish. For instance, the Vote Small Business initiative seeks to galvanise support for small businesses. The bank also partners with sister companies Mutual & Federal, Old Mutual, Masisizane and black business partner Wiphold on the Imbizo Business Acumen Programme, which supports and nurtures the owners of micro businesses.
Introduced on the back of the successful Imbizo initiative, which continues to help ignite economic activity across rural and township areas, the Imbizo Business Acumen Programme is now in its third year and has already seen a noteworthy number of small business owners in Acornhoek (Mpumalanga), Centane (Eastern Cape) and Kliptown (Gauteng) gaining key business skills in the last four months of last year.
* Jake Oosthuizen is the head of black business partners and alternative segments at Nedbank Retail. He contributed this article as part of the "Transformation Dialogues" broadcast on SAfm in a partnership between Business Report and Nedbank. This series tackles different topics and is broadcast every last Wednesday of the month.
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Labor market conditions have improved in recent months; the unemployment rate has declined but remains elevated.
"When the European banking system crashes (and it will) it is going to reverberate around the globe.Ā The epicenter of the next great financial crisis is going to be in Europe, and it is getting closer with each passing day."
"But we expect that to pass through the system, and assuming no new shocks in the oil sector, inflation ought to moderate to about 2 percent later this year."
"We, the Federal Reserve, have spent 30 years building up credibility for low and stable inflation, which has proved extremely valuable in that we've been able to take strong accommodative actions in the last four, five years to support the economy."
"Sadly, just like back in 2008, most people will never even see this next crisis coming."


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Things U Need 2 Know- Thurs 1/31/13
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January 31, 2013
While everyone's being quiet in that whole Chris Brown/Frank Ocean alleged fight the other day, one thing we do know -- Chris Brown is walking around with a cast on his right hand.
CBS has renewed "How I Met Your Mother" for a ninth and final season and fans will finally get to know who the mother is.
TNT's two-hour premiere of Dallas' second season drew just 2.98 million al viewers, down 31% from where it left off last summer.
Now Ray Lewis is being accused of using a "deer antler spray" that IS on the list of the NFL's banned substances.
Jim Nabors, 82, and his partner of 38 years, Jim Cadwallader, flew into Seattle this week from their home in Hawaii and got married, since Washington allows same sex marriage.
Gomer Pyle is gay? Who knew?
Whitney Houston's brother Michael says he feels responsible for the her death because he introduced her to drugs.
Porn star Ron Jeremy is in critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a heart aneurysm.
JC Penney tried a new approach -- low prices all the time and no more sales. People stopped coming in droves. The sales are returning this week.
Sorry to report that Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti have separated after 11 years of marriage.
Barbara Walters is out of the hospital and is now home, as she continues to recover from chicken pox.
ABC will air a new primetime game show "Bet On Your Baby," in which parents try to predict their toddler's next move to earn $50,000 in prize money for their college fund.
Jason London has been arrested on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct after an Arizona bar fight.
Chris Cuomo has left ABC for hopefully greener pastures at CNN.
If you remember the movie poster for "The Graduate," it featured a young Dustin Hoffman and a sexy woman's leg. The woman who posed for that post has now identified herself -- it was the leg of an up and coming actress, Linda Gray, who found her fame on "Dallas."
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are scaling back on South Park. They're moving from a 14-episode season to just 10 a year, which will be shown in two 5 episode half-seasons.
Here's a marriage made in Hollywood: Melissa Gilbert is now engaged to "Thirtysomething"'s Timothy Busfield. It's the third marriage for both.
Alec Baldwin's wife Hilaria Thomas is expecting the couple's first child.
The first Super Bowl ad released by Mercedes was a snooze, despite the pretty girl.
This one's better.
According to a new study, rich people pay less for car insurance than poor people. [Nationwide is on your side... as long as your side is the right side of town.]
_ The Labrador retriever keeps its 22-year reign as America's top dog. The American Kennel Club's annual ranking of most popular dog breeds shows Labradors in the lead, followed by the German Shepherd and the Golden Retriever.
_ A 49-year-old woman was stopped for speeding four times in about 2½ hours on a southern Minnesota interstate while on a mission to make it to her granddaughter's school event. Her first of four tickets came at about 2:30 Friday. The fourth at about 5 PM. She did not make it to her granddaughter's school event.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Salma Hayek and Ice-T guest star in tonight's (8p ET, NBC) 30 Rock series finale.
_ Country music legend Johnny Cash will grace a special stamp issued this year as part of its new music icons series.
Around $55 million was spent on food for last year's Super Bowl. If the amount's the same this year, it will take ten million man hours to prepare.
Broccoli, kale and spinach are nearly perfect foods, since they are packed with vitamins and minerals your body needs. But leafy green veggies are the number one cause of food poisoning, according to the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Meat lovers should also beware, since tainted meat and poultry cause more deaths from foodborne illnesses than any other food.
A new study has found that men who do more housework have LESS SEX. Men who do a lot of housework average sex with their wives 3.2 times a month. While men who just do traditionally 'manly' things like car repair have sex 4.8 times a month. The researchers say it's because we still follow old-fashioned gender patterns. If a woman sees a man vacuuming, she finds him less sexually attractive.
If Congress wants us to LOVE THEM again, all they have to do is this. Make the day after the Super Bowl a NATIONAL HOLIDAY, so we can all get it off of work. Right now there's a
on the White House's website calling for it . . . but it needs almost 90,000 more signatures by February 23rd to get an official response from the


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Honeymoon with Mom (2006)
When she's dumped at the altar, a young woman takes her mother on her intended honeymoon to a remote resort. But her mother has ulterior motives -- she needs a big interview to help her magazine, and the resort owner is the perfect catch.
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A Yamaha Blaster all-terrain vehicle was reported stolen from a barn in the 1900 block of W. Erie Rd. in Temperance.
The vehicle, valued at $2,000, was taken early Tuesday morning.
The 52-year-old homeowner told sheriff 's deputies that he was woken up around 2 a.m. because of his barking dog.
Around 6 a.m., the man went to his van and noticed his briefcase was open and his wallet, including credit cards and a gift card, was missing, according to Monroe County Sheriff's Office reports.
He also noticed his ATV had been taken.
Sheriff's Detective Jeff Pauli learned two of the man's credit cards were used to make purchases. The first incident took place at a Toledo Walmart, but the transaction, which was more than $1,000, was denied.
The thieves then tried to use the card either to purchase a room or pull money out of the ATM at a Days Inn in Toledo.
The second credit card was used to purchase more than $600 in products from a video game site located in the United Kingdom.
Detective Pauli was able to lift two different shoe prints from the ground near the Temperance man's home. A loss-prevention officer from Walmart was attempting to provide the video surveillance of the suspected thieves.


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Pension Sixtysix Zandvoort
Burgemeester Engelbertsstraat 66,
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(Near the beach)
Score of 69 reviews: 9.0
This attractive seaside resort has much in store. Zandvoort has a cosy centre with small streets, beautiful dunes, a long sandy beach and a boulevard with plenty of bars and restaurants. Zandvoort is also known for its racetrack, where large events are held regularly.
Pension Sixtysix houses 4 rooms with a view of the centre or the sea. All rooms have a private bathroom with a shower and toilet. Furthermore, the room is equipped with a double bed, refrigerator, microwave and a Senseo coffee machine, television and internet.


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That Time Amy Sedaris (Hilariously) Crashed NYFW
A gaggle of models find themselves upstaged by comedian Amy Sedaris in this mockumentary filmed at Adam Selman's debut fashion show at New York Fashion Week, Spring-Summer 2014. Selman enlisted his close friend, the Letterman regular and star of cult comedy Strangers with Candy, to play an in-your-face photographer, spoofing the traditional casting call.
"Amy played that character from The Eyes of Laura Mars," says Selman, also who also referenced the opening scene of Lipstick as further fodder for the antics. "I just wanted her out there taking pictures and doing her thing. But it was so great because her camera wasn't even turned on." No stranger to spectacle, Selman created stage outfits for Britney Spears, Michael Jackson, and the Scissor Sisters before working with Rihanna and her stylist Mel Ottenberg.
His foray into fashion via his eponymous line is a mash-up of boudoir sexy and streetwise inspired in part by retro Francesco Scavullo Cosmopolitan covers, and was designed with RiRi in mind. "It's hard for me not to imagine her wearing these things because we work so closely together. We're very simpatico in inspiration and design right now," he explains. Meanwhile, his pal Sedaris, who frequently turns up on television in bespoke Selman, keeps his spirits high, so to speak. "The first week after knowing him I ordered 100 dress labels with his name on it," she muses. "I knew I was going to ask him to make me dresses for the rest of my life."
Adam Selman: Gorgeous! on Nowness.comHow did you and Amy Sedaris meet?
Adam Selman: "We met on a Dolly Parton video shoot in Dollywood. I was dressing all the extras, including Amy, for the video. We instantly hit it off, while walking to the Chick-fil-A. After we came back to New York, I joined her craft club — we were called ">the Frayed Knots. It was really an excuse to get together and smoke pot. We then decided to do a crafts book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People."
What have you learned from working so closely with Rihanna?
"I think the best thing is to not become too emotionally attached to clothes. Especially with someone like Rihanna, who eats clothes. She does a lot of looks so it's good to constantly be pushing."
Have you always been interested in fashion, even as a child?
"We grew up on a ranch in Texas, close to Waco, and I come from a very religious background. We didn't have Vogue lying around. I would have to sneak it out of the doctor's office. My mom taught me how to sew. My dad was a carpenter, which is actually very similar to a pattern maker. It was a very hands-on childhood, very creative. When I finally moved to New York I was like "Ohhh, Versace."
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Peacekeepers battle anti-balaka fightersComment on this story
Bangui - At least 16 people were killed when African peacekeepers battled Christian anti-balaka vigilante groups refusing to disarm in Central African Republic, the national Red Cross said on Wednesday.
The Red Cross counted another 15 heavily injured people, while aid organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres counted three dead and 38 injured.
Soldiers of the African-led International Support Mission to CAR (MISCA) have been battling anti-balaka fighters since Saturday in the capital Bangui with machine guns and grenades.
"MISCA has to use force against the anti-balaka because they compromise the MISCA's work in (capital) Bangui and other towns," MISCA commander General Jean Marie Mokoko told private radio station Ndeke Luka.
Mokoko said anti-balaka undermined the work of the 1 600 French and 5 500 African Union peacekeepers in the conflict-torn nation where more than 1 000 people have been killed and 1 million displaced in the past 15 months.
Anti-Balaka fighters had killed an African peacekeeper in the town of Boali, 95 kilometres north of capital Bangui, Mokoko added.
"The renewed clashes show that the conflict in CAR is not yet over," said MSF CAR principal Hakim Chkam.
Humanitarian agencies said fighting was hampering aid deliveries and the collection of dead bodies, especially in the Muslim-dominated neighbourhoods PK5 and PK12.
CAR has been in turmoil since Muslim Seleka fighters rose up against the government in December 2012 and overthrew then-president Francois Bozize, a Christian, in March 2013.
The country descended into a bloody conflict between the Muslim fighters and Christian vigilante groups.
Almost all of the country's 4.6 million people are in need of humanitarian aid, according to the EU. - Sapa-dpa
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