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NCR Corporation announced today it has been awarded the contract to provide the comprehensive networking and computing infrastructure, next-generation web check-in, information kiosks and unified telephony for the new Muscat International and Salalah Airports currently under development in the Sultanate of Oman. The contract, NCR's largest in the Middle East, was awarded by Ultra Electronics Ithra.
"The network and compute infrastructure is the backbone of Ultra's work as a master systems integrator – I have no doubt that NCR will deliver state-of-the-art IT infrastructure in support of our delivery of world-class airport systems," said Ultra Electronics Ithra Programme Director Grant Levy.
Work has already begun on the two new terminals and is scheduled to be completed in 2014.
Under terms of the contract, NCR will design, install, test and manage voice, data and wireless infrastructure; networks; archiving and storage solutions; compute infrastructure; web check-in solutions; and airport wayfinding solutions.
NCR's technology solutions and services will ensure maximum reliability, efficiency and systems uptimes of the IT infrastructure at the airports, making airport operations easier and helping to create exceptional travel experiences for passengers departing from, arriving at and connecting through the terminals.
The Middle East continues to grow as a destination for business and leisure travel and freight shipping. The International Air Transport Association projects that from 2012 to 2016, the Middle East will have the third fastest air passenger growth rate in the world at 6.6%. Meanwhile, air freight demand will grow at 4.9%, the strongest growth among the regions of the globe. To meet this growth, Gulf countries like Oman are spending billions on airport expansion and development. As a result, the Middle East presents major opportunities for travel and travel-related companies.
"There is tremendous opportunity for NCR to facilitate this anticipated growth in airport construction, leveraging our core competencies, self-service expertise and comprehensive services network to help airports in the region design and deliver an exceptional passenger experience," said NCR Travel Vice President and General Manager Tyler Craig. "NCR is making everyday easier for airport managers and travelers by transforming the traveler experience at all points throughout the journey."
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chester4444 Oct 24, 2010 5:39 PM
in response to tHe sR5This did seem to work for me, however I did this when my library was already deleted, I am now recovering my library from my backup. I hope this works, I have hopes for it. It finally stopped upgrading overtime I open it!!
Cappe Oct 25, 2010 12:30 AM
in response to OSU-MacHello,
I have the same problem you describe:
- I have installed iLife 11
- launch iPhoto 11 and it update the libray. It seems that all is ok
- close iPhoto, reopen, and it's locked with the loading icon
I wait for 6 hour but no start. I have 4 library: for 3 library I have deleted some files from the library file (InterruptedUpdate, ThemeCache, ProjectDBVersion.plist, Projects.db, Projects.db-journal)and now they work. For the big library, no difference. It's locked.
Apple, what are you doing???
kyroha Oct 25, 2010 4:50 PM
in response to CappeUpgrade completed successfully -
Opened iPhoto -
"Your Library needs updated" -
"iPhoto is unable to open this library" -
"Quit" -
I really need to know what to do next. I would love to see an official post from apple with a step by step. After looking through this forum I think it is crazy there hasn't been some kind of warning posted about this upgrade.
Robert Rogers Oct 25, 2010 8:21 PM
in response to kyrohaMy suggestion is if you have a back up restore it and open it in IPhoto 09 and temporarily leave well enough alone. After spending 3days with Apple tech support and engineers I was told to rebuild by data by installing the originals and masters directly into the iphoto11 icon on the doc once the iphoto 11 new library is open .You will loose all your albums and other things you did but the pics will be there..Or you can rebuild your backup and let IP09 open it as before. Perhaps Apple will get this sorted out. Not a pretty picture.. I have 2 libraries one 750GB with 92000 pics and another with 1.45TB with some 200000 pics. Yes they worked in 09. I remember when ILIFE first came out there was a limit of some 20,000 pictures but no limits where set with 09 or 11 or Aperture. My plan is to open them in 09 again and break them into some 10 libraries and than see if I can get them into 11 or better with just dump 11 and us Aperture.
madrhino Oct 25, 2010 8:51 PM
in response to OSU-MacHello,
I have had the same problems in this post since Friday when I upgraded our pictures for family (26K plus) and cannot get the spinning bars to stop. On Sunday I let the program run for almost 24 hours. I am now restoring from Time Machine my iPhoto database and hoping to see if it will take this time.
Very disappointing the performance of iPhoto 9. If anyone has a simpler way of doing which has not be posted please advise. Thank you
serotonina74 Oct 26, 2010 2:56 AM
in response to OSU-MacAfter installing iphoto 11, it couldn't upgrade the library, all my photos were lost from the library. Looking inside the library icon with show contens -> originals only were the year folders, but they were empty. Returned to iphoto 08 throw Time Machine and tried to restore a copy of my library from Time machine. Iphoto couldn't do it as there was an error and just part of my photos were recovered but without preview icons at the events.
What i did is just delete the library from Images folder, installed iphoto 11, and at start asked me to create a new empty library. After that just copied the photos from Time machine -> iphoto library -> show contens -> originals and copied the years folders with my 20K photos to another disk (just to have another copy of my photos :D). Now from iphoto 11 just imported those folders.
That was the only way i could have my photos with ilife 11.
Jammer5 Oct 26, 2010 5:08 AM
in response to serotonina74My condition was completely same as here.
But finally, I succeed in upgrading iPhoto09 to 11!
My iPhoto Library size is 177GB and it contains about 100 smart and
non-smart albums.
1. Backrev to iPhoto09.
2.Delete all Smart and Non-smart Albums.
3.Quit iPhoto09 and restart with OPT+CMD key. Library rebuilting will
4.Quit iPhoto09. and remove iPhoto09 then reinstall iPhoto11.
5.Launch iPhoto11 and start library upgrade. Will be successful this time.
If you need to keep the albums, You should better mark the Keyword to
every photos in the album. Then in the iPhoto11, Make the smart album
using that keyword.
m11091940 Oct 26, 2010 6:24 AM
in response to tHe sR5I followed your exact advice ( other than in safe mode) and now it works perfectly. Thanks and others should try this procedure.
Chip George Oct 27, 2010 9:23 AM
in response to OSU-MacSame problem, but the fix was really easy.
1. Drag backup of iPhoto library to the iPhoto icon.
2. this will launch iPhoto '11. Allow iPhoto to update library.
3. close iPhoto. Copy your now updated, back up, iPhoto library back to your Pictures folder.
Not sure why this only works with the backup, but it works.
U of W Oct 27, 2010 11:47 AM
in response to OSU-MacI am having the same issues with the install on my 2 year old iMac running 10.6.4. Won't upgrade my photos, can't rebuild library. Spinning gear goes on forever and still updates.
Oddly, I can click a sidebar option while he gear is spinning and photos open, places and faces works for a few minutes but the app freezes or closes. The background graphics go crazy when it freezes.
It did load on my MacBook with no issues.
Good luck, all!!
madrhino Oct 27, 2010 5:02 PM
in response to Jammer5Hello
I did what you did and was able to upgrade to iPhoto 9. Very much appreciate your advice and taking the time.
I will now have to explain to my wife why a great Apple product made me delete the smart albums.
Thank you
Jammer5 Oct 28, 2010 7:05 AM
in response to madrhinoHi madrhino
I feel happy I could help you.
I will now have to explain to my wife why a great Apple product made me delete the smart albums.
I also have great problem same as you!
Larry Nolan Oct 28, 2010 9:21 AM
in response to OSU-MacFound this on Macintouch:
David Ticzon
I finally got my problem solved....
Turns out that there are some plug ins that are causing problems with the upgrade of the iPhoto library to iPhoto '11. I had the pleasure of meeting an iPhoto engineer (at my house), who took a copy of my 73 GB iPhoto library to Apple to determine why my IPhoto would crash during the library update. (Yes, I gave Apple my personal library). I was selected since I am near the Apple Campus.
I told the engineer that they are playing with people's lives, because our photos are very important to us. He told me that they are aware of that, and are investigating the problem. (I had my library go from 73 GB shrink to 9 GB when I tried to upgrade to iPhoto '11.)
It turns out, an old plug-in from the Joe Soft application, called Hear, was causing my problem. Even though this was a iTunes enhancement application, it had ties to the movie files (via Quicktime) that are in my iPhoto library.
Other plug ins that can cause problems are the DIVX plug in and AVI Converter plug ins.
Once I removed the offending plug in, my library converted within a hour and I was happy to be enjoying the new version of iPhoto. I will keep my old iPhoto 9 Library, just in case if I have a problem. (I am testing importing photos from all of my cameras and iPhones, just to make sure import works.)
I was also told that I can do the conversion in "Safe Mode" (hold Shift Key down during startup) if I didn't want to remove the plug ins. However, I needed to know if it was really the plug in, so I did the upgrade in the regular mode with the offending plug in removed.
I have to say that I had moved a copy of the original iPhoto Library to a stripped computer (has no plug ins) and tried converting it to iPhoto '11, and it converted without any problems. Therefore, I know it was a plug in issue.
I was told that I can move the converted library to my main computer (that has the plug ins) and should not have any problems running iPhoto. The plug in problem only occurs during the conversion process.
Regarding the Projects (Books) items, they all converted without any problems. I have open them and verified. All albums are working and all 26,000+ photos are working!
I have shut down and restarted iPhoto and also shut down and restarted my computer, then launch iPhoto without any problems. I actually think iPhoto '11 loads much faster than iPhoto '09
A regular fix is in the works.
Hope this helps.
Thanks again iPhoto Team!
Peter Alexander Oct 28, 2010 9:43 AM
in response to Larry NolanThe problem and solution has been documented here.
Terence Devlin Oct 28, 2010 10:53 AM
in response to Peter AlexanderThe link you refer to will solve the issue for those with permissions issues. However, it will be of no help for those with Plug-In issues, and that's what Larry Nolan's post refers to.


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James Harvey Pickett, 64, of Sink Road, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2004, at his home after a lengthy illness.
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I want to display multiple images in a view. Images are downloaded from internet and are gif format.
This is what I did, but only the default broken icon is shown.
_images is a NSArray stored the path of image files
NSMutableString *html = [NSMutableString string];
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[html appendFormat:@"<img src='%@' />", str];
[_webView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];
I tried this and image are displayed so I believe UIWebView are capable to display my images.
NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[_images lastObject]];
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Or is any other good way to display multiple images? Otherwise I may have to create a UIImageView for each image and put them into a scroll view.


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Over ten years since I started working full-time on Guantánamo, there has been undeniable progress in some areas, and absolutely no movement in others. Hundreds of prisoners have been freed, which has been hugely important for a place in which only a few percent of the men — and boys — held there have ever, realistically, been accused of involvement with terrorism, and, after far too many years of delays and inaction, President Obama has been pushing to finally get the prison closed, albeit over seven years since he first promised to do so within a year.
Just 80 men are currently held, and while it is still unclear if the president will be able to close Guantánamo before he leaves office, as Congress will have to drop its ban on bringing any prisoner to the US mainland for any reason, or he will have to close it by executive action, which may or may not be practical or possible, it is conceivable that the end of Guantánamo is within sight.
And yet, for all of the men abused in Guantánamo, and elsewhere in America's brutal "war on terror," it is noticeable that no one has been held accountable for their suffering, and, for some of the 80 men still held, it also appears that no end to their suffering is in sight. I'm thinking in particular of some of the so-called "high-value detainees," 15 men, including 13 who were brought to the US from CIA "black sites" — torture prisons — in September 2006, after up to four and a half years held incommunicado. One of those men — the first to be seized, in fact — may be the most unfortunate of all: Abu Zubaydah. Read the rest of this entry »
To coincide with some renewed activity in connection with the Bush administration's torture program — namely, the ACLU suing James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the former military psychologists who set up the program — I'm taking the opportunity to make available a video of my song '81 Million Dollars' about the torture program, and about Mitchell and Jessen.
$81m is the amount Mitchell and Jessen were paid for taking their experience as psychologists involved in the US military's SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) program — which involved subjecting US personnel to torture to prepare them if they were seized by a hostile enemy — and reverse-engineering it for use in real-life situations, something for which they were abjectly unqualified.
The result, as the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's CIA torture report made clear last December, was unspeakably brutal and pointless, producing no information that could not have been produced without the use of torture. It also involved the CIA lying about its actions.
See below for the video, of myself and Richard Clare of my band The Four Fathers, playing the song last month while my friend Todd Pierce (the former military defense attorney who represented Guantánamo prisoners in their military commission trials) was staying with me. Please note also that the version by the full band is available here on Bandcamp, where those interested can buy it for just 60p ($0.93), or as part of the whole of our album 'Love and War' — as a download or on CD. Read the rest of this entry »
Remember back in December, when the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report about the CIA's post-9/11 torture program was published, with its devastating revelations that the use of torture "was not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining cooperation from detainees," that the CIA's justification for its use of torture techniques "rested on inaccurate claims of their effectiveness," that its interrogations "were brutal and far worse than the CIA represented to policymakers and others"? (See my articles here and here).
We all do, of course, and to anyone who has not been fooled by the black propaganda of the torture apologists, it is depressing — if not unpredictable — that, in response, a book has just been published, entitled, Rebuttal: The CIA Responds to the Senate Intelligence Committee's Study of Its Detention and Interrogation Program, published by the US Naval Institute Press, which attempts to claim that the Senate report is biased.
The book contains contributions from, amongst others, former CIA Directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden, former chief legal officer John Rizzo and Jose Rodriguez, the former Chief of CIA's Counterterrorism Center — all of whom have good reasons to hope that a conjuring trick like this will prevent them from being regarded as they should be, as war criminals evading justice, along with other senior Bush administration officials, up to and including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and others, and a number of senior lawyers and advisers. Read the rest of this entry »
I'm sure many of us remember where we were on December 9, 2014, when, two years after it was completed, the 500-page executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's five-year, 6,700-page, $40m report into the CIA's post-9/11 torture report was released, which I wrote about here and here.
It was a momentous occasion, for which Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and everyone who worked with her to compile the report and and to publish it (or its executive summary, at least), deserve profound thanks. In dark times, in which the US system of checks and balances has gone awry, this was a bright light in the darkness. It also caused British commentators like myself to reflect on the fact that it was something that would never happen in the UK.
That said, however, the widespread sense of horror that greeted the publication of the executive summary, with its profoundly disturbing details that were unknown before — like the "rectal feeding" of prisoners for example — has not, in the six months since, led to firm action to hold accountable those who authorized and implemented the program, which is, of course, unacceptable. As I wrote at the time in my article for Al-Jazeera: Read the rest of this entry »
It's been some time since I wrote about Abu Zubaydah (Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn), one of 14 "high-value detainees" transferred from secret CIA prisons to Guantánamo in September 2006, beyond discussions of his important case against the Polish government, where he was held in a secret CIA torture prison in 2002 and 2003. This led to a ruling in his favor in the European Court of Human Rights last July, and a decision in February this year to award him — and another Guantánamo prisoner and torture victim, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri — $262,000 in damages, for which, just last week, a deadline for payment was set for May 16, even though, as the Guardian noted, "neither Polish officials nor the US embassy in Warsaw would say where the money is going or how it was being used."
I wrote extensively about Abu Zubaydah from 2008 to 2010, when there was generally little interest in his case, and I have also followed his attempts to seek justice in Poland since the investigation by a prosecutor began in 2010, leading to his recognition as a "victim" in January 2011, just before I visited Poland for a brief tour of the film I co-directed, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo," with the former Guantánamo prisoner Moazzam Begg.
I have continued to follow Abu Zubaydah's story in the years since, as other developments took place — when Jason Leopold, then at Al-Jazeera America, got hold of his diaries, which the US authorities had refused to release, and last December, when the executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's report into the CIA's torture program was released, and one of Abu Zubaydah's lawyers, Helen Duffy, wrote an article for the Guardian, entitled, "The CIA tortured Abu Zubaydah, my client. Now charge him or let him go." This followed the revelations in the report that, if he survived his torture, his interrogators wanted assurances that he would "remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life," and senior officials stated that he "will never be placed in a situation where he has any significant contact with others and/or has the opportunity to be released." Read the rest of this entry »
On April 14, lawyers for Ahmad Rabbani (aka Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani), one of the last few Pakistani prisoners in Guantánamo, "filed an emergency application with the Islamabad High Court, demanding that the Pakistani government intervene immediately in his case," as the legal action charity Reprieve (which represents Mr. Rabbani) explained in a press release.
The filing notes that Mr. Rabbani "has been unlawfully captured and later on illegally detained, without a charge or notification of any pending or contemplated charges against him since 2001," and that he "has been repeatedly tortured and subjected to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment as a result of gross and flagrant violation of national and international law." The lawyers added that his "unfortunate torture … still continues."
In addition, the lawyers stated that Mr. Rabbani's case "involves a matter of urgency, as the fundamental rights, life, health, liberty and dignity of a man, who has been unlawfully detained, admittedly on mistaken identity, without a due process of law or fair trial guarantees, is at stake." They added, "The ongoing torture, humiliation and deterioration of health of a Pakistani citizen, who has a right over the state institutions to protection of his life, dignity and liberty requires this case to be heard on an urgent basis." Read the rest of this entry »
I'm just catching up on a story from two weeks ago that I was unable to post at the time because I was busy with another couple of stories — the dismissal of David Hicks' Guantánamo conviction, and the ongoing campaign to free Shaker Aamer.
The story I didn't have time to report involved the European Court of Human Rights and the CIA "black site" that existed on Polish soil from December 2002 to September 2003. In July last year, the court delivered an unprecedented ruling — that, as the Guardian described it, Poland "had violated international law by allowing the CIA to inflict what 'amounted to torture' in 2002 at a secret facility in the forests of north-east Poland. The court found that Poland 'enabled the US authorities to subject [the detainees] to torture and ill‑treatment on its territory' and was complicit in that 'inhuman and degrading treatment.'"
The ruling dealt with two of the "high-value detainees" held in the site — Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia, for whom the torture program was specifically developed, even though it was subsequently discovered that he was not involved with Al-Qaeda, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi accused of involvement in the attack on the USS Cole in 2000. Both men were subjected to the ancient torture technique known as waterboarding, as well as a variety of other torture techniques, and, while Abu Zubaydah is still held without charge or trial, al-Nashiri is facing a war crimes trial in the military commissions at Guantánamo, a process that has been stuck on the pre-trial phase for years, as his defense team tries to raise the question of his torture and prosecutors do all they can to keep it hidden. Read the rest of this entry »
I hope you have time to read my new article for Al-Jazeera English, "Punishment, not apology after CIA torture report" looking at yesterday's release of the 500-page executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee's 6,700-page report into the CIA's "Detention and Interrogation Program," which took five years to complete, and cost $40m; or, in other words, the release of the summary of the Committee's report about the Bush administration's torture program, as run by the CIA.
In the article, I run through the history of the secretive program and how knowledge of it became public, from 2004 onwards (and including a mention of the report on secret detention for the UN in 2010, on which I was the lead writer and researcher), and I also look at a few of the genuinely shocking stories that emerge from the executive summary, some of which are shocking even for those of us who have spent years — in my case nearly nine years — researching and writing about the torture program.
I remain worried, however, that the Committee's important work will be swept under the carpet, and that no one will be held accountable — by which I don't just mean CIA officials, and James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, the former SERE psychologists who designed the program (and earned $81m as a result!), as much as those who gave them their orders in the first place; namely, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and the various lawyers around them — David Addington, William J. Haynes II, John Yoo and Alberto Gonzales, for example — who did so much to initiate the torture program and to attempt to justify it. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week there was some good news from Bagram, in Afghanistan, bringing one of the many long injustices of the "war on terror" to an end, when Amin al-Bakri and Fadi al-Maqaleh, two Yemenis held without charge or trial since 2002 and 2003 respectively, were repatriated.
Al-Bakri, who is 44 or 45 years old and has three children, was a shrimp merchant and gemstone dealer, and was seized in Thailand on a business trip. Al-Maqaleh, who is 30 years old, was held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq before being transferred to Bagram. The site of America's main prison in Afghanistan from 2002 until its handover to the Afghan authorities in March 2013, Bagram (renamed the Parwan Detention Facility in 2009) also housed a secret CIA prison where al-Bakri and al-Maqaleh were held, and they continued to be held in a secretive US facility that was part of the Bagram/Parwan complex after the handover of Bagram to the Afghan government. According to the International Justice Network, which represents both men, they were also held in other "black sites" prior to their arrival at Bagram.
The men's release follows years of legal wrangling. Despite official silence regarding the stories of the men held in Bagram's "black site," lawyers managed to find out about a number of the men held, including al-Bakri and al-Maqaleh, in part drawing on research I had undertaken in 2006 for my book The Guantánamo Files. Habeas corpus petitions were then submitted, for the two Yemenis, and for a Tunisian named Redha al-Najar, seized in Karachi, Pakistan in 2002, and Haji Wazir, an Afghan businessman seized in the United Arab Emirates, also in 2002. Read the rest of this entry »
In January 2015, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a prisoner at Guantánamo, will become the first prisoner still held to have his memoir published. Guantánamo Diary, which he wrote by hand as a 466-page manuscript, beginning in 2005, will be published in the US by Little, Brown and Company and in the UK by Canongate, and the date of publication is January 20, 2015. His lawyers tenaciously fought for seven years to have his diary declassified, and were ultimately successful, although parts of it remain classified. The publishers describe it as "not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir — terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious", and "a document of immense historical importance".
A Mauritanian, Mohamedou Ould Slahi is a cousin of Abu Hafs al-Mauritani (real name Mahfouz Ould al-Walid), a spiritual advisor to al-Qaeda, who disagreed with the 9/11 attacks, and he also briefly communicated with the 9/11 attackers while living in Germany. These connections led Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor of the military commissions at Guantánamo, to describe him as a "Forrest Gump" character, "in the sense that there were a lot of noteworthy events in the history of al-Qaida and terrorism, and there was Slahi, lurking somewhere in the background," although, as Col. Davis stressed, in early 2007 "we had a big meeting with the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Justice, and we got a briefing from the investigators who worked on the Slahi case, and their conclusion was there's a lot of smoke and no fire."
Ironically, Abu Hafs is now a free man, while Slahi is still held. Slahi handed himself in to the Mauritanian authorities on November 2001, and was then rendered to a secret torture prison in Jordan by the CIA, where he was interrogated for eight months until the Jordanians concluded that he was an innocent man. Nevertheless, the US then flew him to to Bagram in Afghanistan, and then on to Guantánamo, where "he was designated a 'special project' and subjected to isolation, beatings, sexual humiliation, death threats, and a mock kidnapping and rendition," as his publishers explained — and as was mentioned in an article in the Guardian. Read the rest of this entry »
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NEWARK, Del. -- Ryan Brooks scored 23 points and sparked a key first-half run in Temple's 76-56 win over Delaware on Saturday.
Down 5-0, the Owls went on a 28-4 run capped by two Brooks' free throws with 8:50 left in the first half. Brooks, who also had nine rebounds, scored 11 points during the run.
Juan Fernandez added 14 points and Lavoy Allen grabbed 15 rebounds for Temple, which shot 50 percent from the field (25 of 50).
The Owls led by as many as 29 points, 74-45, on two free throws by Luis Guzman with 2:46 left to play in their 16th straight win against the Blue Hens.
Delaware, which shot 33.3 percent from the field (20 of 60) was led by Jawan Carter with 17 points. Carter also had four of the Blue Hens' nine turnovers. The Owls scored 14 points off of turnovers.
The Blue Hens trailed 40-19 at halftime, and lost their fourth straight home opener.


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The story behind every success has its own unique touch. André Fowles' stellar performance on the highly acclaimed Food Network TV 's Chopped Champions is a success story. But the road to glory was not an easy route, and Fowles credits his success to his family. Andre's wif ... Read More
Earning his chops!
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Le Dîner en Blanc - Take 3
Thursday Life plates the final course of the spectacular picnic that took place on Saturday, April 1 ... Read More
Recipe Corner - Grandma's Fruit Cake
Thursday Life shares with readers a recipe courtesy of Grandma Veronica Davis now perfected by her a ... Read More
During recent travels to the USA, I trolled the shelves of wine shops and supermarkets just to see what's on the market. What struck me was some of the names and labels of many of the newer wines, not in the boutique wine shops, but those on the supermarket shelves. I am not sure why it surprised me because the research has shown that wine drinkers choose wines for three main reasons. Here is a short overview. Friends' Recommendations This is how my journey in wine began. I was wor ... Read More
Who says we don't do picnics? We certainly do, and in grand style. Thursday Life takes you inside the secret location — Usain Bolt Regupol Track at the UWI Mona Bowl for the second staging of Le Dîner en Blanc, Kingston. (Photos: Antonio Graham, Kenyon Hemans, Michael Gordon) Read More
And so with the hundreds of exquisitely white-clad guests seated for their picnic, there really was no better way for The Best Dressed Chicken to seize the moment than with a parade of platters of classic roast chicken, marched in to Flo Rida's Welcome to My House. "We saw Dîner En Blanc as the place to showcase the simple perfection of roast chicken, " said Joan Forrest-Henry, divisional sales and marketing manager, The Best Dressed Chicken. "Of course, we wanted ... Read More
"Dîner En Blanc was the perfect setting to introduce and pair our Winning Wines of J Wray & Nephew Limited with an array of delicious dishes from not only the event's preferred caterers but also for the various homemade picnic baskets that showcased an assortment of cheeses, meats and desserts", shared Chesna Haber, business development manager at J Wray & Nephew. "Our Apothic Wines from California, available in red and white" she continued, &ldqu ... Read More
Moët Ice Impérial was once again the official pour at Dîner en Blanc Kingston. "The global event for those who can chicly attire themselves in all-white was the perfect fit for the brand," according to Jared Samuel, brand manager for Moët & Chandon. "Moët & Chandon's style is characterised by its seductive palate, its elegance and its bright fruitiness; and this was also definitely the ambience of the night," expressed Samuel. ... Read More
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — Barcelona bounced back from their worst run of La Liga defeats for 13 years in emphatic fashion as Luis Suarez scored four in an 8-0 thrashing of Deportivo la Coruna yesterday. Ivan Rakitic, Lionel Messi, Marc Bartra and Neymar were also on target as Barca reasserted their control on the Spanish title race. However, only Barca's superior head-to-head record continues to separate them from Atletico Madrid at the top of the table with four games remaining as Fer ... Read More
Le Dîner en Blanc — the world's most stylish dinner party — is fast approaching, and the Chow Society team has upped the ante to create a stunning all-white affair that will be etched in the memories of the 1,000 or so guests for a long time to come. Celebrated Chef Jacqui Tyson — a master at cooking up scrumptious recipes — has prepped us on how to make Dîner en Blanc that more memorable, by sharing some simple yet essential planning tips fo ... Read More
The problem is not our local beef — indeed it is actually better than imported meat as it is organic and hormone-free — but the processing of the meat causes the beef to be tough and sinewy. Before returning to Jamaica to help with the family business in 2000… I spent many years mastering the art of butchery and was a practising master butcher in Canada, at one of Toronto's leading gourmet stores. My training was… at the Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Tec ... Read More
Have you ever heard of 'the overview effect?' The life-changing perspective that astronauts get when they view the earth from outer space? The first time I heard about it, it fascinated me! It still does. It's considered a state of mental clarity that astronauts are changed by, having had the privilege to see the earth from space. It's an awed and visceral understanding of the big picture and a connectedness amongst all things, within life, leaving one with a sense of pe ... Read More
With mere days before the second staging of Le Dîner en Blanc, Kingston, 2016, J Wray & Nephew (JWN) Business Development Manager Chesna Haber and members of the Chow Society – organisers of the all-white social calendar event — along with a few table leaders enjoyed an intimate wine-and-food-pairing evening @twentythree on Monday. Oenological and victual interests were piqued with six courses of delectable, sweet and savoury selections from Fromage Gourmet Market & Bis ... Read More


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