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Young people in Costa Rica's coastal cities of Limon and Puntarenas have limited knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention methods, and many practice unsafe sexual behaviors, according to a report released Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency reports. Costa Rica released the report during an event launching an agreement between the government and UNICEF to implement a joint HIV/AIDS program targeting young people in the two cities.
For the study, researchers surveyed 800 young people between ages 13 and 18 in both cities. According to the report's findings, 52.5% of young people in Limon and 43.3% of young people in Puntarenas correctly identified HIV transmission routes. In addition, 26.5% of teenagers in Limon and 34.5% in Puntarenas correctly identified methods to prevent HIV transmission. A United Nations target calls for at least a 90% HIV prevention knowledge level by 2010, according to Xinhua News Agency.
The study also found that many young people in these cities practice unsafe sexual behaviors. About 59% of young people in Limon and 51.6% of young people in Puntarenas reported having sex before age 16, and 6.8% in Limon and 24.6% in Puntarenas reported beginning sexual activity at age 13. In addition, 27.7% of young people in Limon and 18.9% of young people in Puntarenas report using condoms during sex, the report said.
According to Marco Fournier, coordinator of the study, the report's findings are "worrying," because "there is a very low knowledge level and the teenagers barely have 40% of the information they need" to prevent HIV and other risks associated with unsafe sex. He added, "The problem is not the frequency the youngsters have sexual relations, but the conditions in which they have them -- with little knowledge, without condoms, one-off relations and with people older than they are." Fournier said he also is concerned about reports that 14% of young people in Puntarenas have had sexual relations against their will. According to Fournier, the study demonstrates the need for significant changes in Costa Rica's sex education programs (Xinhua News Agency, 2/24).
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Reprinted with permission from kaisernetwork.org. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery at www.kaisernetwork.org/dailyreports/hiv. The Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report is published for kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation, by The Advisory Board Company. © 2009 by The Advisory Board Company and Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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I finally bit the bullet, signed up for an ad on the site, and I am interested in seeing what type of people actually look at my self-description and essays. I am not very good at talking about myself, and I don't know that the internet is a good place to find the kind of person I am looking for to date. I know that honesty is important to me, so I am pretty up front and direct when it comes to describing what I am looking for and what gets my engines revving...but I can honestly say that I am my worst critic. I can walk into a outside sales situation and actually meet people, shake their hands, and be perfectly comfortable. I mean, you have to present the product, but if they don't like the way you look or come across...then they aren't going to listen to what you have to say. I guess the best way of getting feedback is to hear it direct from your closest friends. That is where I have a dilemna....unfortunately. Most of my friends are across the country, or they probably would never understand why I am divorced to begin with...since I was raised in a very conservative environment where divorce didn't happen. I still believe in long term relationships, but maybe not so much in the marriage thing....it just doesn't seem to work for me. I am also interested in an alternative to the 2.5 children and the suburban house with the minivan....but I want to avoid the adrenaline junkies who have the vial of cocaine in their pocket...or have to pop pills to stay alive. Happy medium...I want a substance free existence without drugs/alcohol/tobacco...well maybe a little alcohol once in a while. Oh,yeah...avoid like hell the militant muslims who think that Malcolm X hung the moon or like to shoot at soldiers in the US military.(BIG HINT) Add to that some friends that I can call up once in a while to do things with, maybe dinner and some fun conversation. Maybe I can attract the right kind of friends... the quiet librarian who you would think was a spinster or the "cat lady" but when she is alone with me behind closed doors screams at the top of her lungs and wraps her legs around me so tight it hurts. I don't know...maybe the MBA that travels 90percent of the time for her job based out of New York...and wants to stop in my little town for a nice dinner and conversation....and maybe some cuddling along the way. Some people I don't want to meet....ladies who are married to someone in the military...and are cheating on them while they are overseas...drug users....people with evil twins(one is good and then they switch places and cause all kinds of drama)...people embezzling money from their work place...black widows(I like to live)....please leave all that drama and crap out of my life.
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well i can give you the short scoop..number one setting your blog to AUTO approve will help you get more comments...alot won't bother to type knowing you might not approve em....
your essay seems well written that's a plus....tho jmho...you might find the married thing slows some down BUT being honest does go a long way...so...there ya got my answer but whada i know?
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Hmm. I think there's still gotta' be at least a small break between the panels. The paint isn't going to fill that gap in, unfortunately. If there were a glaring problem with this car, asthetically, for me, it would be those panel lines. There's just nothing one can do, that I can think of, to make up for that gap :( No biggie though.
Tag' - is THR going to remove the front bumper cover for the paint by chance? If they do that, then they could carry the color of the stripes into the gap itself, on both the facia and the fenders. Painting them on the car is going to be messy and that basecoat is just going to blow into the gap and run. I'm sure they've gotta' be removing the cover. That being the case, you won't have a break at those gaps that'll be too noticable, IMHO.
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With the first pick in the fourth round, the Oakland Raiders take, cornerback, Tyvon Branch from the University of Connecticut.
Branch is heading cross country, trading in the east coast blue and white for west coast black and silver.
The UConn football team's game at South Florida originally scheduled for Saturday Nov. 22 has been moved to Sunday Nov. 23.
The move was made to allow for a national broadcast of the game on ESPN. The game, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, will kick off at 8 p.m.
. . . a couple from last year and two new faces.
D.J. Hernandez (wide receiver) and Darius Butler (cornerback), return for a second year of duty as seniors.
Junior offensive guard Mike Hicks will not participate in today's Blue-White scrimmage at Rentschler Field.
It was announced before the game that Hicks, of Seymour, will be held out of team activities for 2 weeks for unspecified team violations. It was emphasized that Hicks has not been suspended from the team.
UConn coach Randy Edsall is quickly showing a knack for keeping the state talent at home when it comes to his 2009 recruiting class.
Edsall picked up his second state player for the class when St. Paul-Bristol's Marcus Aiken called and offered him an oral commitment this afternoon.
"He went to practice on Saturday and it felt pretty comfortable to him," St. Paul coach Jude Kelly said. "He was ready to make the decision. My feeling is that if it's a verbal commitment your word is key and I told him if you're comfortable and ready and not going to have any regrets, go ahead and do it and get it done. He slept on it since Saturday and decided this was the place for him."
UConn starting cornerback Darius Butler spent much of Tuesday's football practice at the Shenkman Center in Storrs wearing a blue shirt.
The blue shirts are the offense and it was Butler who was working with the depleted Husky wide receiver corps.
With starters Brad Kanuch (quad) and D.J. Hernandez (ankle) nursing injuries along with projected impact receiver Ellis Gaulden (foot), UConn coach Randy Edsall is looking around the roster for beefing up the receiving corps.
Some video views from a fairly uneventful second day of spring practice Thursday at the Shenkman Center.
UConn quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator Rob Ambrose works with quarterback Cody Endres (12) while quarterbacks Tyler Lorenzen (4) and Zach Frazer (10) look on Thursday at practice in the Shenkman Center in Storrs.
Some quick hits from the first day of spring practice Tuesday at the Shenkman Center for the UConn football team.
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The first fight.
Though this one came with some surprising sparring partners. In the blue corner, weighing in at 279 pounds, Rob "Bald Bull" Lunn. In the red corner, weighing in at 276 pounds, all the way from Allen Texas, Keith "The Silent Killer" Gray.
Yes, it was a doozy of a scrap, as far as first day scraps go.
There will be a Friday night party in the 'Ville for UConn in September.
The Big East announced Tuesday that UConn's game at Louisville has been moved from Saturday Sept 27 to Friday Sept. 26. The game, at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium, will now be played at 8 p.m. and be broadcast on ESPN2.
All four times that UConn has met Louisville have broadcast nationally. UConn beat the Cardinals 21-17 at Rentschler Field last year, which was also was played on a Friday night.


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Mark Hominick is just two steps away from what could be a storybook chapter in his career. Step one is fighting and beating a friend and sometime trainer partner on Saturday night. If he is successful, step two is a matchup against the man he says is the best pound-for-pound fighter on Earth.
Hominick (19-8) was going through his normal training routine early last week when he read the big news. UFC president Dana White said that if Hominick beats George Roop (11-6-1) – whom he faces Saturday night in UFC's Fight for the Troops special on Spike TV from Fort Hood, Texas – he would get a title shot at featherweight champion Jose Aldo Jr. on April 30 in the UFC's debut at Toronto's Rogers Centre.
"No, I didn't know he was going to say that," said the 28-year-old Hominick. "I read it [online] like everyone else."
Hominick would go into a title fight as a heavy underdog for the first big show ever in his home province of Ontario, which is expected to draw the largest crowd ever to see the sport in North America. He grew up and still lives much of the year in London, Ontario. Like so many kids from the province, he grew up playing hockey. But in ninth grade, as part of a school field trip, Hominick was taken to a martial arts academy. And for the most part, it's as if he never left.
"It became my passion," said Hominick, who is on a four-fight win streak. "I was always thinking about it. I never thought at the time it would be a career. I went to university and studied business and was taking fights."
For close to a decade, he trained in kickboxing in London under Shawn Tompkins, before Tompkins had made his name as a big-time MMA trainer. He also competed in jiu-jitsu tournaments.
Hominick started fighting professionally at 19, while in college, driving to Quebec to fight on small shows which included the likes of Georges St. Pierre and former UFC middleweight title contender David Loiseau. He can also remember long car rides to such places as St. Louis and Toledo, driving all day to pick up fights while the sport was banned in his home province.
But back home, things changed in a hurry, as Ontario went from a place where the sport was unknown to being where MMA may be more popular mainstream than anywhere else.
"No matter where you go in the province, every bar has people out the doors on UFC fight nights," Hominick said.
He said he really noticed it in his UFC debut on March 4, 2006, when as an unknown fighter too small for the lightweight class – he walked around under 155 pounds – he upset Yves Edwards with a triangle in the fight where he really made his name. In a UFC 58 card in Las Vegas, on a card billed as "U.S.A. vs. Canada," Hominick saw maple-leaf flags flying in he audience and figured probably 25 percent of the crowd was Canadian.
But the real turning point came a few months later, when St. Pierre beat Matt Hughes to win the welterweight title.
"I don't know what it was exactly," Hominick said. "There was a set of things: I think GSP played a big part in it in Ontario. He was a Canadian star and he represented the country so well."
The irony is that with pay-per-view and bar business booming, MMA was still banned in the province until a few months back. With all the red tape settled, the first Toronto show is only a few months away. But if Hominick doesn't win on Saturday, he's not going to get his hometown title shot.
Roop, who at 6-foot-1 and 145 pounds presents a reach problem for virtually everyone he faces, is probably the UFC fighter Hominick knows best.
When Tompkins relocated to Las Vegas a few years ago, Hominick remained in London, Ontario, but conducted his fight preparation at Xtreme Couture under Tompkins – and later followed Tompkins when he switched affiliation to the Tapout gym.
Roop, a cast member of Season 8 of "The Ultimate Fighter," hails from Tucson, Ariz. After finishing the season in 2008, he became affiliated with Tompkins, who has served as his main trainer and been in his corner for his past several fights.
Hominick noted that since that time, for a few months each year, the two have been regular training partners.
"He's definitely a friend; we spar. It's not like we go out to dinner and to the movies, but we are training partners," he said. "We've put that aside for this fight."
"He's really big for a 145-pounder – it's really awkward dealing with his reach," Hominick added. "And he's very durable. I have to continue to attack and work the body. But what you do in sparring isn't necessarily how things will go in a fight."
When the fight was proposed, Hominick said he had no qualms about taking it, unlike a number of fighters who make it clear they won't fight their friends and teammates. Because of Hominick's tenure and an association with Tompkins which dates back 15 years, it was Roop who had to change training facilities for the fight.
Roop has had an up-and-down career but has looked his best in his past two fights, which followed an ill-fated decision to get down to 135 pounds for his first fight of 2010. He looked too drawn and listless in a fight with Eddie Wineland which he lost via decision. Roop got a draw with Leonard Garcia on March 6 in a fight most figured he had won. He followed by becoming the first person ever to finish the unstoppable "Korean Zombie," Chan Sung Jung, with a spectacular head kick on Sept. 30. Hominick notes that Roop has never been finished by strikes in his career.
Having just arrived at Fort Hood, Hominick talked about his excitement in fighting on a military base. But, being a Canadian fighting an American, he figures the people in town who have been so nice to him so far will turn into a hostile audience once the fight starts.
Hominick sparked reaction in recent days by saying he thought he would beat Aldo Jr. standing, a style where no one has even been competitive with Aldo since he came to the United States.
"I can't really think about him because I've got a fight on Saturday, but I do think he's the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world," Hominick said. "But I feel I'm the superior kickboxer and he's never faced anyone with my skills standing."


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Beyonce's fans are sure an over zealous bunch aren't they?
Beyoncé was nearly pulled off stage by a fan on Sunday (September 15). The singer was performing "Irreplaceable" when a shirtless male member of the crowd grabbed the 32-year-old.
Security guards quickly appeared and pulled the singer back onto the stage. Beyonce then resumed her performance like nothing had happened.
Beyonce was obviously fine with the incident. After finishing the song, she approached the male fan and told him, "It's alright, it's alright." "What's your name?" Beyonce asked as she extended her arm to reach him. "Thank you, I love you too," she said before telling everyone at the Estadio do Morumbi that she loved them.
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If Joe Hagans New York Magazine article Alas, Poor Couric is correct -- that Katie Couric slapped a fellow male editor in anger over and over and over again on the arm -- she should be fired immediately.
It appears that feminist spin control is already working overtime. The early release on Drudge indicates It had seemed like a joke at first, but it quickly became clear that she wasnt kidding. But an insider claims otherwise: "Look, it wasn't serious, whatsoever.
But Couric grudgingly agrees that her act was not a mock act: I sort of slapped him around, Couric admits. I got mad at him and said, You cant do this to me. You have to tell me when youre going to use a word like that. I was aggravated, theres no question about that.
This morning, Couric dropped her own countermeasures pointing fingers at CBS, painting them as rigid fuddy-duddies holding her news broadcast back in spite of all the changes at CBS Evening News making the show more personable, more accessible, a little less formal, a little more approachable.
Sorry, Katie changing the subject does not change the subject.
Couric and a few other feminist news hounds blame sexism for Courics failure. I disagree. Being an exciting reality talk show personality who gets on-air colonoscopies does not qualify one as a serious news reporter or analyst.
If there is any point about sexism to be made, it is that news does not feminize well. News junkies want the straight stuff not filtered by pink sunglasses bespectacled with catchy bling. In fact, it would be sexist to not hold Couric to the same standards of professional behavior others are held to in the workplace including the standards on workplace violence.
Couric is a card-carrying feminist who thinks adherence to feminism is more important than facts revealed when she accused Suzanne Sommers of throwing the baby out with the bathwater for proving that feminist statistics on Football Sunday domestic violence are hogwash.
Couric wants a free pass to move feminist neo-patriarchalism into the CBS news room. This would be a smart move only if CBS wants its news show to be rated against Oprah and lose there too.
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I bought a new Ruger 77/17-RM yesterday & it will be my first .17 HMR. I will be using it as a "walk around" gun for ground squirrels and rabbits. I have a Leupold VX-I, 4-12x40 without a home, so I was hoping to put it on the new Ruger, but I need to make sure that it's a good match first. Here's some things I'm considering: What is the (practical) max range of this round?From what I've read, hits can be made pretty far out, but the rounds won't expand well much past 200 yards. Is this true? I'm planning on using the Hornady V-Max rounds, assuming they give me decent groupings. Do most people find that 4x is too much magnification in terms of fast target aquisition? I'm originally from the midwest, where we hunt prairie dogs from shooting tables. They are FAR away and target aquisition isn't an issue, so I'm rather inexperienced in this area.How big of a critter can I plug with this thing? My other "walk around" gun is a .22 WMR, so that could be used as a comparison. Would something the size of raccoon or a fox be out of the question? I realize that the explosive effects will not be the same on a critter that size, but will it kill it fairly quickly, assuming the shot placement is decent?Thanks for the help. I just don't trust the writers in the gun magazines, as they have been less than reliable in the past! I know many of you use this round, so hopefully you'l be able to give me some practical knowledge that is applicable to hunting in CA.
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Posted 05 September 2006 - 09:24 AM
I have a 4x12 on my 17HMR and it works great. I like the 12x for ground squirrels out to 200 yards and I wouldn't have any problem taking any small game with it. I might even go up to Coyote size if it was less than 100 yards.
Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:03 AM
I have been looking at the Mueller 4.5 X 14 X 40 APV. Any opinions?I am not sure of the reticule.
Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:15 AM
Good! I can use what I have & I don't have to shell out any more cash. Coyote sized game, huh? It's nice to know that it would work in a pinch. Now I just need to find something to do for 10 days.........
Posted 05 September 2006 - 11:43 AM
Dan, that 4X12 will work just fine on the HMR. If it has fine crosshairs, so much the better. I have a 12X Leupold on mine, but if I ever change it I will go with a variable power. Something like 6X18. I would not hesitate to use it on raccoon and fox sized animals but prefer something bigger for coyotes. They are tough animals. Keep in mind that if you are sighted in at 100 yards your 17 gr. bullet will drop something like 8 inches at 200. The energy of the bullet will drop porportionatly.You will like this round for what it is intended for. Good luck and let us know.
Posted 05 September 2006 - 07:45 PM
I also have a 4-12x40 magnification scope on my 17HMR, although I wish I had more power for target shooting. It's about perfect for the type of hunting your describe.
Posted 05 September 2006 - 09:43 PM
Thanks for the great information fellas. Sounds like I'll use the glass that I already have. I'll have to revive this thread with images once I get the gun and break in the barrell!
Posted 06 September 2006 - 05:58 AM
Here's my 17 (Savage 93) next to my CZ452 (22lr), I'm a lefty.
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THE Israelites were condemned to wander 40 years in the desert. Did they?
Following the failure of the spies to instill confidence in the free Israelite slaves that they could conquer the Land of Israel, G-d said, in effect: Free slaves cannot become free men.
They will have to die out.
It will take 40 years.
Which means: The stopping points of the freed slaves in the desert recall some awful developments, such as the places where the Israelites lost faith that they could conquer the land of Canaan.
At the journey's end, how much of it should be recalled?
Should the places of failure be mentioned?
The truth is, most people revise their life story as they go along. Points of conflict or failure are forgotten, intentionally written out, dishonestly revised or simply not talked about.
"Revisionist history" is not just a historian's or a politician's enterprise. It is the occupation of many, perhaps most, people.
At the end of the Israelite journey in the desert, all of the encampments are recalled. Not one is omitted.
In fact, some of the encampments along the wanderings are mentioned for the first time only in the historical review.
No editing.
No revisionist history.
THERE were 42 encampments during the 40 years in the desert. The first 14 occurred before the mission of the spies. The last eight took place during the 40th year, after the death of Aaron the High Priest, brother of Moses. So, during the "40 years of wandering," which actually were 38 years, there were 20 journeys, less than one per year.
There was also backtracking. The Israelites backtracked seven times to bury Aaron in the designated place. All told, then, there were 49 stopping points.
The author of the commentary Sefat Emet considers each of the individual desert treks to be a stage of ascent from the 49th, next-to-last level of impurity to which the slaves in Egypt had sunk.
Traditionally, there are 50 levels of impurity, and if one reaches the 50th (bottom) level, one is incurable.
The Israelites were almost there. But with the exodus they turned around and began to ascend — 49 times. They conquered one level of impurity after the other.
Note: To reach the number 49, Sefat Emet is compelled to include the seven times that the Israelites backtracked.
A life story — be it of a nation or an individual — has to include all the steps. That inclusion — of the good, bad and ugly — does not necessarily add up to a negative picture.
The Israelites' seven steps in reverse were part of the 49 steps of national ascent. Similarly, mistakes I have made are part of my life story, and may have actually been necessary for me to advance my life, or even to turn it around. Again, in viewing the Israelite nation at the end of its desert journey as having risen beyond all 49 levels of impurity, the backward steps and the encampments at times of failure are included in the count.
Y. Nachshoni summarizes, "At the end of one's spiritual climb, a Jew must remember all that has happened to him since the start."
PROBABLY the occasion in which this stricture is observed purely in the breach is the funeral.
As the old Yiddish saying goes, "All brides are beautiful, all dead were pious."
To paint a person only by his good points is to deprive that person of the struggles he underwent, the challenges he overcome, the victories that did not come easy, the heroism he displayed.
To be perfect from beginning to end, head to toe, is not a compliment, because it cannot be true.
By recalling every encampment of the Israelite nation after it left Egypt, including those encampments when the Israelites rebelled, complained or lost faith is to paint a realistic picture.
Precisely on that score, it is an admirable picture, one to be inspired by.
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July 3, 2012
Are We Missing Our Own Afghan Success?
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A few days ago I confronted a class of politics and law students, their eagerness undimmed by erratic lighting. After all, this was the University of Kabul, not Oxford. Their questions focused on Nato's contribution to their country's security. Their assumptions were familiar. Some reckoned that the coalition was not succeeding, and most seemed unaware that the alliance has twice affirmed its continuing support to Afghanistan after 2014, most recently at Chicago this year.
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We live in the era of gadgets that want to do it all. The typical smartphone of 2012, for instance, isn't content to just be a phone. It also wishes to be a PC, a still camera, a camcorder, a music player, a gaming console, a navigational aid, a portable TV and a videoconferencing system. Third-party apps give it thousands of additional capabilities.
Everyone, it seems, is trying to be a King of All Trades. With one fascinating exception: e-readers.
Back in 2007, Amazon defined the category with the original Kindle. It had a monochrome E Ink display that wasn't of much use for anything except displaying text-centric books. But its long battery life, seamless on-device bookstore and relentless simplicity made it the first compelling digital alternative to Mr. Gutenberg's venerable invention. More recent E Ink Kindles, as well as e-readers from Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo and others, are all twists on the same basic idea.
Amazon, of course, isn't ignoring the siren song of device convergence. Its new Kindle Fire HD tablet attempts to do most of the things which Apple's iPad does, at 40 percent of the price. But the Kindle Paperwhite shows Amazon still understands that single-purpose e-readers aren't headed for the dustbin of gizmo history anytime soon. The company is beginning to ship this new e-reader on Monday, and loaned a unit to me for review.
(MORE: My First 21 Questions About Amazon's New Kindle Devices)
The Paperwhite, which starts at $119, is no half-hearted sop for tablet-phobic Luddites: It's an all-new model that's a vast improvement on last year's Kindle Touch. It's also better at accomplishing its particular goals than the buggy Kindle Fire HD is at realizing its aims. For consuming text-centric books and other reading materials, it's a joy.
Ensconced in a minimalist black case, the Paperwhite is a tad thinner, narrower and shorter than its predecessor. (I was able to stow it in my pants pocket.) It uses smartphone-style capacitive touch technology instead of the earlier model's infrared touch; that allows Amazon to make the screen nearly flush with the bezel.
The new Kindle also eliminates some capabilities of the Kindle Touch: It's ditched its speakers and headphone jack, which means that it can't play digital music and Audible audiobooks or use text-to-speech technology to narrate books in a voice that sounds like a Scandinavian cyborg. Amazon apparently concluded that people buy e-readers to, well, read.
But every change in the Kindle Paperwhite is minor compared to the one which inspired its name: the new screen. Still based on E Ink, and still measuring 6″ diagonally, it improves the resolution and contrast and adds illumination, aiming for the most paper-like reading experience of any e-reader yet.
Now, e-readers with light-up E Ink screens are nothing new. Five months ago, Barnes & Noble, Amazon's e-reading archrival, released the first truly pleasing one, the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight. That model takes the already-solid Nook Simple Touch and adds LED lights along the top edge of the screen. Holding a button for two seconds switches on the lighting — making the screen perfectly readable in murky environments or a pitch-black bedroom with a snoozing significant other at your side.
The Nook with GlowLight's light-up screen is good. But the one on the Kindle Paperwhite? It's spectacular — the best thing to happen to e-readers since the original 2007 Kindle came along.
For one thing, it's the first e-reader with illumination that's designed to stay on all the time, not just when it's absolutely necessary. It turns on every time you press the Paperwhite's power button. In dark rooms, it makes the display readable when the previous Kindle would have suffered a blackout. But it also helps in brighter environs and even outside in direct sunlight, largely eliminating the unappetizing greyish look of E Ink.
The Nook with GlowLight's illumination is inconsistent: You can see the LEDs shooting light down onto the display. On the Paperwhite, the LEDs sit along the bottom edge of the screen rather than the top, and do a much better job of flooding it with plentiful light. A bit of unevenness is detectable along the very bottom, but it's usually subtle.
It's not just the continuous, vibrant illumination which makes the Paperwhite's screen more paperlike. The resolution is 768-by-1028, compared to 600-by-800 for previous Kindles and the Nook Simple Touch models. Amazon says it's upped the contrast by 25%, and it's also added hand-tweaked fonts for greater typographical sophistication and variety. Text is blacker and crisper; photos are noticeably less washed-out looking.
With so much about the Paperwhite screen representing such an advance on previous models and the competition, E Ink's remaining downsides — it's monochromatic and sluggish compared to an LCD, with an occasional flashing effect as you flip pages — are less bothersome than ever. It's the first E Ink display that doesn't feel like a mixed blessing.
If the Paperwhite's screen were a battery hog, it might not be worth the tradeoff. But Amazon says that the Paperwhite will go for up to eight weeks if you read for a half-hour a day with the light set at 10. That's less than half its maximum, most paper-white brightness setting, but still enough to make it legible in all sorts of lighting.
I haven't attempted to verify that claim myself: If I did, I might not be able to complete this review until Thanksgiving. But it seems to be a significant advance on the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, which advertises up to a month of reading time with the light turned on, also based on a half-hour-a-day assumption. (Why both Amazon and Barnes & Noble don't state their claimed life more directly — up to 28 hours and about 15 hours, respectively — I do not know.)
$119 gets you a Kindle Paperwhite with 2GB of storage and infinite cloud storage for e-books you buy from Amazon — enough to build a bigger library than you ever owned in dead-tree form. A $179 model includes free built-in 3G service, so you can download e-books without relying on wi-fi. But hotspots are so plentiful these days that I suspect most people will be happier purchasing the $119 version and spending the $60 they save on reading material.
Amazon is keeping a stripped-down Kindle without the lit touchscreen in the lineup at a rock-bottom $69, as well as a model with the the old screen and a physical keyboard and 3G for $139. But if your budget permits you to buy the Kindle Paperwhite, you should choose it over Amazon's other E Ink devices.
As for Barnes & Noble, it made an utterly unshocking move today by knocking $20 off the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, matching the Paperwhite's $119 price. (There is no 3G version.)
Even with Paperwhite/GlowLight price parity, expect B&N to helpfully remind you of a couple of points in the Nook with GlowLight's favor: It doesn't include any advertising — unless you count the "What to Read Next" suggestions on the home screen — and includes an AC adapter. The Kindle Paperwhite puts what Amazon calls Special Offers (also known as ads) on its screen saver and at the bottom of the home screen, and comes with a USB cable but no wall charger.
You can turn off the Paperwhite's Special Offers for $20 — although Amazon says that few buyers of existing Kindles go to the trouble — and add a wall charger for $10, bringing the price to $149, or $209 for the 3G model.
The Nook with GlowLight isn't without other virtues. It's slightly over half an ounce lighter than the 7.5-oz. Paperwhite, and some readers might find its wider, more sculpted case easier to grip. (Using the flat, thin-framed Kindle feels a bit like reading off a handheld blackboard.) The Nook has a physical button for accessing features and returning to the home screen, while the Kindle makes you jab at the top of the screen to get to its various options. B&N's reader also lets you turn pages by pressing the edges of the case as well as by moving your thumb to tap the display, although it requires a rather firm squeeze to register.
Even the GlowLight's great big power button on the back is more thoughtfully designed than its Paperwhite counterpart. Judging from both the Kindle Paperwhite and the Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has a deeply-held belief that power buttons should be dinky, oddly-placed things that are tough to find and press.
When it comes to content, Amazon seems to have the edge overall. It says it has 180,000 exclusive titles, and it lets members of its $79-a-year Amazon Prime service check out one book a month from a library of 180,000 tomes at no additional charge. Still, with massive quantities of books available on both platforms, including many free or nearly-free public-domain items, plus hundreds of magazines and dozens of newspapers, no buyer of either a Kindle or a Nook will ever run short on stuff to read.
Unlike the Nook with GlowLight, the Kindle Paperwhite still has a very basic web browser built in. Amazon has been describing it as "experimental" for half a decade now, which seems to be a code word for "Don't expect too much." Its store also includes 74 downloadable apps — mainly traditional games such as chess, checkers and sudoku, none of which are major arguments in favor of buying a Kindle.
The bottom line is that the Kindle Paperwhite and the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight are both well-done gadgets. Each one has some advantages over the other; neither has any crippling flaws.
But that doesn't mean that these two e-readers are evenly matched. Amazon decisively wins this round, thanks to its remarkable new screen. Unless you've already invested copious amounts of money in e-books from Barnes & Noble or another company — most of them aren't easy to move onto Amazon's hardware — the Kindle Paperwhite is the e-reader to buy. It's the best one that Amazon, or anyone, has built to date. It's also the best product that Amazon has sold under the Kindle moniker — a refreshing reminder that there's always room for a device that does one thing really, really well.


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Kortrijk Asian Handicap 0.00 in ordinary time at odds 1.73
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- Yield in League 12.83 %
This is Belgium , Jupiler League
Lierse - Kortrijk game
Lierse in last 5 matches have 1 W 2 D 2 L
Kortrijk in last 5 matches have 2 W 1 D 2 L
Kortrijk is a better team now and cant see home team to win.
Lierse is not in best form at the moment.
Last games :
14.09.2013 D1 Club Brugge 4-1 Lierse SK
31.08.2013 D1 KV Mechelen 0-0 Lierse SK
24.08.2013 D1 Lierse SK 1-0 RS Waasland-Beveren
14.09.2013 D1 KV Kortrijk 3-0 KAA Gent
01.09.2013 D1 Standard Liège 2-0 KV Kortrijk
24.08.2013 D1 KV Kortrijk 1-2 KV Mechelen
Previous Meetings :
04.05.2013 D1EL KV Kortrijk 0-3 Lierse SK
30.03.2013 D1EL Lierse SK 0-0 KV Kortrijk
09.03.2013 D1 Lierse SK 1-0 KV Kortrijk
This is a match between even teams.Today away win is my bet.
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KOH (Potassium Hydroxide) Preparation
Exam Overview
Doctors use the KOH preparation to find out whether a fungal infection is present on the nails, skin, scalp, or beard.
A doctor or nurse takes a sample of skin by lightly scraping the infected area that is scaling or flaking.
The doctor or nurse places the nail, skin, or hair sample on a slide with potassium hydroxide (KOH) solution and gently heats it. This solution slowly dissolves the skin cells but not the fungus cells. The fungus cells are then visible with a microscope. Color stains may be used so that the fungus is easier to see.
Why It Is Done
A doctor may do a KOH test to find out whether a person has a fungal infection. Fungal infections may cause:
- Ringworm of the scalp or beard. With this infection, a person has flakes of dead skin (dandruff) on the hair; broken, crusted, or matted hair; redness or irritation of the scalp or beard; swollen areas and blisterlike bumps with pus (kerions); and/or hair loss.
- Ringworm of the skin . With this infection, a person has patches of skin that are itchy, red, or scaly, with blisterlike bumps on the edges.
- Athlete's foot . With this infection, a person has peeling, cracking, and scaling on the bottoms of the feet or between the toes, or blistered skin on the feet.
Findings of a KOH test may include the following:
No fungi are present in the nail, skin, or hair samples.
Other tests may be done to find out the cause of the skin infection.
Fungi are present in the nail, skin, or hair samples.
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Your doctor may be able to find out whether you have a fungal infection by the appearance of the rash and may not need to do a KOH test.
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I'm building up an older but unused Trek 5200 WSD (OCLV) for my wife, and ran into a weird problem last night when I started putting it together. This is the 47cm model that used the 650c wheels. The issue I'm having is that the Ultegra SL calipers come up just a bit short in the rear and fully extended sit right on the top edge of the rim. If they slip or twist even a little she's going to cut the sidewall, so it's not going to work.
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Creditor Protections Fall in Junk-Bond Bonanza
Corporate bond issuers are enjoying some of the weakest legal constraints in two years, according to a Wednesday report by Moody's Investors Service that analyzes the terms that are attached to bond documents, designed to protect investors.
The legal language or "covenants" in low-rated company bond offerings during September were assigned a combined score of 3.88 by the ratings company, toward the least-stringent end of its 1-to-5 covenant-quality scale and the fourth-riskiest score in the rater's records dating back to January 2011.
As hordes of investors chase richer yields than those on offer in Treasurys and other super-safe debt, companies were able to sell a record $46.6 billion of high-yield bonds last month, Moody's said. The vast majority of those deals allowed the companies to take out existing debt and replace it with cheaper funding. The easing in legal language in their bond documents was a byproduct of the demand for their new debt, with investors willing to accept looser terms.
Also tipping the scales in favor of borrowers: Only 11.8% of the "junk"-rated companies' offerings were secured by assets and other guarantees, down from the average of 21.6% going back to the start of 2011.
"The full [covenants] package has gotten extremely weak in this cycle," Alexander Dill, vice president and head of covenant research at Moody's, said in an interview.
While credit conditions haven't loosened enough to suggest a repeat of 2005 to 2007, when credit markets overheated ahead of the 2008 financial crisis, September was the weakest month for covenant quality so far this year, the rater said.
Among the deals scoring the lowest for investor protections: a $750 million offering of 5.875% notes due 2022 from cable provider Cablevision Systems, which scored 4.6 on the rater's covenants scale, and an $800 million offering of 4.5% debt due 2020 from Nielsen Finance LLC, which scored 4.56.
Representatives for Cablevision and Nielsen didn't immediately return calls.
Matthew Musicaro, associate analyst at Moody's added that companies are selling a significantly higher percentage of bonds that are unsecured by assets, allowing them the flexibility in the future to issue more bonds backed by their assets. That's risky for holders of unsecured debt because it means secured debt could be issued ahead of them, potentially pushing them further down the repayments queue in the event of a default.
"In some senses, covenants have been less restrictive, but to some degree, it is a function of many deals being offered by repeat issuers…who can have less restrictive covenants be accepted by virtue of the market 'trusting' them as repeat issuers," said Adam Cohen, founder of Covenant Review.


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Columbus Short Gives Grating Interview Post-Scandal Season 3 Finale
Things aren't looking too good for both Columbus Short and his on-screen Scandal character, Harrison Wright, as last night's Season 3 finale left things up in the air for Harrison. As for life off camera, just two days ago, TMZ reported Columbus's second wife, Tuere "Tanee" McCall-Short, filed a restraining order against him following a fight in which she claims he threatened her life.
And if that wasn't awkward enough, Columbus gave one of the most grating interviews on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, just hours after the Scandal finale aired. Topics on the table ranged from Harrison's (spoiler!) possible death and Columbus's new music and the exchange was… sigh.
Click here to listen to Columbus Short's full interview on the Tom Joyner Morning Show.
When host Tom Joyner asked Columbus about his new single, "Gave Ya," which Columbus later described as a message for women who aren't confident about themselves. The exchange between the two was pretty curt:
Tom: "Did you always plan to release a song? Was that in the plan?"
Columbus: "No, that wasn't in the plan."
Tom: "When were you originally going to release this song?"
Columbus: "When it was ready."
Tom: "And when was that?"
Columbus: "Right now."
Finally co-host J. Anthony Brown addressed Columbus and asked him "you just don't want people talking to you?" Columbus then tried to be more social, by saying that he was keeping it "1000," but he clearly wasn't in the mood for conversation — especially when talk of his wife came up.
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I did learn stay away from dept store/superstore bicycles. I was wondering if there is saving this frame or should I just throw the whole thing in the scrap pile?
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London: England's wicketkeeper Matt Prior, right, shakes hands with Australia's Steven Smith as Australia declare their first innings on 492 for 9, with Smith unbeaten on 138, during play on the second day of the fifth Ashes cricket Test at the Oval cricket ground in London, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013.
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[B]ecause the equality of right and ability breeds "equality of hope in the attaining of our Ends," and because each man's ends are naturally to be preferred to his rival's, the two will inevitably "become enemies," and in the absence of a neutral arbiter "they will endeavor to destroy or subdue one another."
And there Fish more or less stops. (Well, actually, he goes on to argue in a similar fashion against the logical plausibility of free speech, academic freedom, and blind justice.) Maddeningly, he leads us to the center of the Hobbesian maze, then refuses to extricate us. If life is a war of all against all, what guarantee do we have that adhoccery will work, no matter how inspired? None, of course--at which point Fish generally cackles and says that since he's a pragmatist, he believes that his ideas about the world are just that, ideas without consequences. There is, he says, "no straight line from these propositions to the solution of any real-life problem; they are of no help and do no work except the non-directing work of telling you that you are on your own."
In other words, Fish isn't the unprincipled relativist he's accused of being. He's something worse. He's a fatalist. But then, so were the pre-Socratics, several Roman philosophers, and Machiavelli. Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong. On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right. In fact, he once quipped that, now that objectivity is dead, it is no longer necessary to be right. You just have to be interesting. Which he is.


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Looks like the assistants are up for grabs at this point - Greg Manusky may be in Dallas, Rob Chudzinski is still in Miami but is expected to interview here Thursday, Dave Wannstedt may be here or San Diego. Looks like Marc Trestman may be favored for the San Francisco job instead of here as rumored.
Only new mentions? Chicago assistant special teams coach Chris Tabor is rumored as a 'likely' candidate here. Tabor works under Dave Toub, a contemporary of Ron Rivera's in Chicago and Philadelphia (Toub assisted John Harbaugh there, and takes a lot from that time). Rivera has no direct connection to Tabor himself, but the background is apparently appealing.
So, Chudzinski looks to be their top OC choice. Wannstedt, Manusky, and Ryan are looking to fall in somewhere, and one will probably be DC. Time will have to sort it all out.
Without much else to say in this post, here's what I hope for, regarding an assistant staff.
OC - traditional coordinator, calls the plays, is on the field instead of the booth. Does most of the gameplanning but reports from assistants on their specialties are relied upon. Runs the offensive practice and
QBs coach - assists in running the offensive practice, helps in gameplans. No combo OC/QBs coaches. Traditional concentration on gameplanning 3rd down and v/s nickel. Input on play calls.
OL coach - hard nosed, heavily technique based drill instructor. Resident expert on attacking fronts.
WR coach - always in the booth on gameday, helps with passing game and how to attack defensive secondary.
RB coach - handles adjustments and aids in run game development
TE coach - true position coach, no "assistant line/TE coach".
No running game/passing game titles. Up to two third tier coaches, one that does quality control/tape preparation and one that primarily helps with, for instance, the OL and TE.
DC - DCs don't vary much compared to OCs. You run the defense, there's not a lot to it.
DL - also aids in rush skills for LB, fine tunes blitz packages
LBs - tackling czar. No ILB/OLB coach split in 4-3.
DBs - two coaches, but one primary and one assistant. Assistant is quality control and nickel defense.
ST - one primary, and always one secondary. Secondary aids in coaching scout team as well.
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The young entertainer has been involved in a number of troubling incidents in recent months. Just four weeks ago, police were called to her home in Studio City when she refused to return her two young sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline. That time, police had paramedics take her to a hospital. The reason was not disclosed and she was released a day and a-half later. Since then, she has lost visitation rights with the boys, who are in Federline's custody.
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Marjorie B. Parham, publisher emeritus of The Cincinnati Herald, complained of a disobedient leg and needed a little help negotiating the steps. Relatives of the late boxer Ezzard Charles and Funk bassist William "Bootsy" Collins came on their behalf. Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, former Cincinnati Mayor Dwight Tillery, former State Rep. William L. Mallory Sr. and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth were there.
My idol, Nikki Giovanni, didn't show up.
But there I was awash in greatness, among legends, heroes, do-gooders, artists, under-rowers and a few no-names who've stepped out on shaky limbs to fortify their communities. They all left pieces of themselves.
WCIN-AM, the little station that could and the country's second-oldest black radio station, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. On Friday the station kicked off its anniversary with the program, "The 50 Most Influential Blacks in Cincinnati in the Past 50 Years."
This list wasn't a popularity contest. Nor was it rife with the usual colored suspects of big business leaders, deep pocket contributors or flashy types used to making the grade and then depositing the results on their résumés. Get your hands on a program and you'll see some serious thought went into composing this chapter of history.
During the class photo I stood beside Charles Fold, the Grammy-winning Gospel godfather. We joked and casually put our arms around one another. I was close to tears. I hid my emotions beneath the brim of my fur Kangol fedora.
But there I was chumming it up with a Gospel legend. I used to watch Charles Fold and his singers on Channel 9 in pre-dawn/pre-church Sunday hours with my mother. She waited for me at our table as I walked, starstruck, through the corridors of the Cincinnati Convention Center ballroom.
It took all night and all the preceding week for me to reconcile this: I was to be honored and recognized for what I do. This wasn't any "Aw, shucks" faux humility on my part. Try to understand that I take seriously the company I keep. I can tick off 30 people more deserving than I, and they're all names you'd agree with.
I'm a columnist by trade, but my columns are really more like 800-word tone poems, like flash points of truth and unrestrained I'm-saving-a-fortune-on-therapy yelps.
No one tells me what to write, how to write it or what favorites to play. Any mistakes have been my own. Any triumphs are because other people feel me. Almost hourly I am bathed in vibrancy and toweled off in courage through constant shout outs from across the street.
"Keep it up, Miss Wilson!" they shout. "Girl, you killin' 'em. I read you every week, and I just wanna say thank you."
Valentines come when my head, my confidence and my reserve of ideas are low. It's a cycle, and I get juiced up and there I go again.
I've not been at this very long. I got my first paid writing gig only 15 years ago, and I started in newspaper journalism a decade ago.
In July, this column will be three years old. I'm not yet 40. I have spent (some say wasted) more than two-thirds of my life inside my own head, figuring out who I am, my mission and how to propel it forward.
I do it all for my family. I'm representin'. Everything else -- the awards, invitations to Harvard, back slaps, book contracts and radio gigs -- is superfluous. When I die, it'll make good copy in the bulletin. Funeral home patriarch Donald Jordan (another honoree) can make me look good.
On Friday night as I pimped -- that's right, pimped -- to the stage to get my award from WCIN General Manager John Thomas, I knew I was where I belonged.
All my anxieties, questioning, doubts and demureness diminished. The award means acceptance. I sometimes come off as a hard-ass who doesn't care what people think. But really I do. I care what my people think.
When black folks revile you, you know you've been dissed. But when black folks love, respect and accept you, you know you've been welcomed home. Sometimes I wonder if black folks get this or get me, but then I have to move on.
I know this column carries Influence. Awards won't validate that. I like Influence over power. Influence is subtle, yet strong. Influence says, "I'm speaking," but it doesn't yell. When Influence enters the room, people take notice, but they're not disrupted. They whisper in the company of Influence. Finally, Influence is restrained, graceful, honest and talented. And Influence knows it.
Making my way from the stage back through the crowd, award in hand, my brother, Kenny, stood and applauded me. I got to my mother and kissed her.
Doled out alphabetically, I was the last to get the award. And I can't think of a better way to put a period behind Influence.
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Brace Yourselves 'Sons of Anarchy' Fans, Bad Ass Damon Pope Has Been Cast
Beware of SPOILERS if you haven't caught up on Sons of Anarchy, but I have some exciting news to share. There are casting news and then there are Sons of Anarchy casting news, and perhaps none as big as the crucial role of ex-drug lord Damon Pope. In the Season 4 finale, we saw Pope's daughter murdered by Tig and that act of violence is sure to wreak havoc for Jax and SAMCRO for Season 5.
On May 12, creator Kurt Sutter tweeted this out to his fans:
"we have our damon pope. that news will break soon. couldn't be more thrilled with the choice. top notch actor. and a very unique choice."
At long last that man has been revealed as…
Harold Perrineau
You've seen him wheeled around the prisons of HBO's Oz as Agustus, and you've seen him yell, "WALT!" all over the island of Lost. Perrineau is so cool his voice kicked ass in the Marvel Anime: Blade series as the baddest vampire slayer in the Marvel Universe. And how could anyone forget his Mercutio in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet? TV Line broke the news earlier today.
We're extremely pleased with the casting as Perrineau has a wide range of acting prowess and is a truly unique choice to enter the world of SAMCRO. He'll be joining Jimmy Smits who was the first major Season 5 announcement as Nero Padilla, a dangerous and unlikely mentor for Jax. Chuck Zito is also going to guest-star in the upcoming season too. I think I can speak for all SOA fans, when I say that the fall can't come soon enough.
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