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Setting a Trap for Pat Morrisey
July 20, 2013
If you ever doubt politics permeates much that is done in Charleston, consider West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey's dilemma....
Choker, Morrisey will have to kill a lot more American diplomats, Ambassadors, Border Patrol agents, Mexican civilians, and civilians of practically every nation across the Middle East before he rates a Nobel Peace Prize. Obama has definitely raised the bar on that award.
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Condi the hawk
The president's second-term foreign policy team defies Euro-babbling caricatures and Foggy Bottom naysayers
American foreign policy will soon have a new face-and much of the world is already doodling in red horns and a curled moustache.
President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state sent shudders down the world's spine. With his soft-spoken manner and moderate image, Mr. Powell was widely seen as the voice of sanity in American foreign relations. His successor, on the other hand, is viewed as a presidential clone, a hard-liner who believes America should run roughshod over the international community.
"Among the most pessimistic conjectures made when George W. Bush gained reelection was that with a mandate, he'd keep Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon and nominate Rice to replace Powell," the French newspaper Le Monde said. "The second of those has now come true. . . . It is bad news for European leaders."
Italy's La Stampa worried that Ms. Rice's appointment marked the "confirmation of a more aggressive diplomacy. . . . We know her programme-the Great Middle East, confrontation with Iran, zero Palestine, zero Europe-and she is not a moderate."
The Kommersant newspaper in Russia was even more dismayed. "Now the hawks will attack us," it opined.
For all the hand-wringing overseas, however, Ms. Rice may face her toughest audience closer to home. Once confirmed by the Senate, the former academic will take over the oldest U.S. cabinet department and one of the most difficult to tame. The department's 40,000 foreign-service employees in Washington and abroad oversee everything from civilian contractors in Baghdad to international adoptions in Mongolia. They are used to running the day-to-day machinery of U.S. public diplomacy their own way as administrations come and go.
Many hoped this particular administration was about to go. When President Bush won a second term, explains one State Department official who asked not to be named because of the sensitive nature of in-house relations, Foggy Bottom was full of "glum looks and long faces. There were certainly a lot of folks here who were secretly or openly rooting for his opponent.
"With Dr. Rice coming there's a sense among a lot of people that she's a lot closer personally and ideologically to President Bush. For a number of State Department staff and officials who are either indifferent or resistant to the president or his agenda-his freedom-focused strategy-there's some skepticism towards Dr. Rice."
Among career diplomats, Mr. Powell would be a tough act to follow in any case. "I think it's safe to say there's great affection and admiration for Sec. Powell for his managerial and organizational skill," which elevated morale and increased resources, according to the official at State. "You'd find folks across the spectrum affirming him for that."
But despite his popularity among the rank and file, Mr. Powell was never regarded as particularly close to President Bush, and his views seemed to hold little sway within the administration. Most observers said he was odd man out during meetings of the cabinet, constantly outvoted by Ms. Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
With Ms. Rice at the helm, by contrast, the State Department will be back at the center of the administration, led by one of the president's most trusted advisers. Conservatives hope that will be good news for fast-tracking the president's initiatives on AIDS in Africa, holding the line on aid to controversial family-planning programs, and limiting the reach of the UN and other world bodies. But that's small comfort to some Europeans, who see her as an unabashed cheerleader for military intervention and American unilateralism in world affairs.
The irony is that prior to 9/11-and long before her legendary comment that the United States should "punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia" for refusing to take part in the invasion of Iraq-Ms. Rice was a champion of American cooperation with Europe. In a June 2001 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), she noted that some critics predicted the two continents would drift apart because of a "values gap" on issues such as gun control and the death penalty.
It was a prediction she rejected outright. "The president and his administration fundamentally reject this premise," she told the CFR. "Europe and the United States are partners today. We will continue to be partners tomorrow and the day after-strong partners. Not because of destiny, but by choice. Not because of the inertia of our history, but because of our shared interests, and, indeed, our common values."
With those shared interests and values severely strained by the war in Iraq, experts predict Ms. Rice will have to spend much of her time repairing relations with America's historic allies. But national security and hurt feelings-as time-consuming as they may be-won't be the only items on her agenda.
During her stint at the National Endowment for Democracy, Ms. Rice was a tireless proponent of winning human rights through democratic reforms. "I think she will focus hard on this subject," says Mark Palmer, a former ambassador during the Reagan administration and now vice chairman of Freedom House. Mr. Palmer believes the new secretary of state is one of the few leaders who recognize that "national security and international peace are inextricably related to democracy." Indeed, he says, after Madeleine Albright, "she's only the second one with a clear history on these issues."
Though Democrats and Republicans might gnash their teeth at the comparison, Ms. Rice can, indeed, sometimes sound like former President Bill Clinton's secretary of state. In her speech before the CFR, for instance, she touted "the important work that together the United States and Europe can achieve beyond our borders: To help foster open societies with open economies around the world. To help bring peace and health to Africa. To help set an example of multi-ethnic democracy for those lands where difference is still seen as a license to kill."
Multi-ethnic democracies and a healthy Africa may not seem like typical GOP foreign policy concerns, but then, Ms. Rice is hardly a typical GOP political figure. She was born in racially segregated Birmingham, Ala., in 1954, and Ms. Rice's parents taught her that she wasn't a victim-but that she'd have to work twice as hard as her white counterparts to get ahead. Her father, the pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church, resisted pressure to send the congregation's children into the streets for civil-rights protests, though he did pick up a shotgun and patrol the streets himself at night after a bombing at a nearby church killed four little girls.
Ms. Rice entered the University of Denver at age 15, graduated cum laude, then earned a master's at Notre Dame before going back to Denver for a Ph.D. By age 27 she was teaching at Stanford. A decade later she was the youngest-ever provost there.
If Ms. Rice ends up surprising critics who see her as a one-dimensional warmonger, John Danforth, her colleague at the United Nations, may end up disappointing moderates in search of a new Colin Powell. Named as U.S. ambassador to the UN last July, Mr. Danforth was a prominent contender, just months later, to succeed either Mr. Powell or Attorney Gen. John Ashcroft.
In the end, Mr. Bush passed him over for both roles, promoting instead two White House advisers with strong personal ties to the president. As something of an outsider, the former Missouri senator and ordained Episcopal priest is viewed by some Democrats as the last voice of moderation in the Bush foreign policy councils.
"Jack Danforth has the stature to go to the president and say, 'Mr. President, I disagree,'" bragged Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, during confirmation hearings this summer.
But Mr. Danforth seems to eschew the image of political maverick so carefully cultivated by Mr. Powell. "Throughout our efforts to bring peace to Sudan, my role was to be your spokesman," he told the president during his swearing-in ceremony last July. "The same will be the case in my new position. The job of permanent representative [to the UN] is to express to the world the views of the president, and that is what I intend to do."
Mr. Danforth's record suggests the loyalty isn't rhetorical flourish. In 1991, despite his own moderate politics, Mr. Danforth led the fight to confirm Clarence Thomas, a staunch conservative, for a seat on the Supreme Court. Mr. Danforth knew better than most just how conservative the nominee was: 20 years earlier, as attorney general of Missouri, he had hired Mr. Thomas for one of his first jobs.
Winning confirmation for an unpopular Supreme Court nominee may prove easier than winning the world over to America's position on issues such as abortion, AIDS, and cloning. But supporters note that Mr. Danforth has already brought warring Christians and Muslims to the bargaining table in Sudan, and a peace deal appears tantalizingly close. And last week he nearly secured a UN vote to establish a worldwide ban on human cloning. Such progress suggests that the president's new foreign policy team may have some surprises in store for the rest of the world-and the doodlers may want to keep an eraser handy.
-with reporting by Priya Abraham
Rice's résumé
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts, political science, University of Denver, 1974
- Master of Arts, University of Notre Dame, 1975
- Ph.D., Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, 1981
- Experience
- 2001-present: National Security Advisor, National Security Council
- 1981-1999: Hoover Senior Fellow and professor of political science, Stanford University
- 1993-1999: Provost, Stanford
- 1989-1991: Director/senior director, Soviet and East European Affairs, National Security Council; special assistant to the president for national security affairs
- 1986: Special assistant to the director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Books
- Germany Unified and Europe Transformed, 1995 (co-author)
- The Gorbachev Era, 1986 (co-author)
- Uncertain Allegiance-The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army, 1984


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ATLANTA -- The preliminary unemployment rate in metro Atlanta declined to 8.0 percent in November, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 8.2 percent in October. The rate was 8.9 percent in November 2011.
The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday that the rate declined because of job growth and fewer new layoffs, represented by first time claims for unemployment insurance benefits.
There was an increase of 12,300 new jobs in metro Atlanta. There were 2,366,500 jobs in November, up five-tenths of a percentage point, from 2,354,200 in October. The growth came mostly in trade, transportation, and warehousing, up 11,000. In one year's time, jobs were up in metro Atlanta by 33,900, or 1.5 percent, from 2,332,600 in November 2011.
There were also 680 fewer new claims for unemployment benefits in construction, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, and administrative and support services.
Metro Athens had the lowest area jobless rate at 6.2 percent, while metro Dalton had the highest at 11 percent.
Meanwhile, Georgia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 8.5 percent in November, down two-tenths of a percentage point from 8.7 percent in October. The rate was 9.5 percent in November a year ago.
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KLEM NEWS Update June 11, 2011
(ORANGE CITY) -- The City of Orange City unveiled a new community branding initiative, logo, and web site at its Customer Appreciation Picnic in City Hall on Thursday evening.
Citizens, business leaders, and visitors were introduced to a distinct, brilliant orange logo that blends the community's Dutch heritage with a contemporary, progressive new look.
Orange City Mayor Les Douma, said that Orange City's re-branding initiative began a year ago, as a group of 40 citizens and community leaders came together to study what it means for a community to have a strong and distinct brand.
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It may be not surprise that the new look focuses on the color orange and the logo uses tulips to make the shape of a windmill. Douma says the slogan- "Color Your Life Vibrant" refers to the meaning behind the color orange.
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The new brand will be seen throughout the community on vehicles, letterhead and headlines the launch of the city's re-designed website- www.orangecityiowa.com. (News report by Angela Drake of KLEM News)
Parks are focus of city preparations
(LE MARS)--Le Mars city workers are part of a cadre of community members readying the city for Ice Cream Days next week.
The city effort involves meeting needs for the celebration coordinated during the third week in June each year by the Le Mars Area Chamber of Commerce.
City administrator Scott Langel says the city concentrates on Foster and O'Toole Parks and the Olson Cultural Event Center to make sure they're set up for festivities.
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A short term fix for the intersection of Plymouth Street and Central Avenue may also be attempted before Ice Cream Days, subject to weather and Iowa Department of Transportation approval.
Funds for flood recovery accepted through Le Mars United Way
(LE MARS)--Funds for flood recovery efforts in the Siouxland area are being raised through the Le Mars United Way.
Tim Stiles of the United Way says donations may be dropped off at American Bank; First National Bank; Great Southern Bank; Kingsley State Bank; Northwest Iowa Credit Union; and Primebank.
"Helping a neighboring community in need is in tune with our mission," said Robin Grosenheider, United Way Le Mars board chairperson. "Your donation through the United Way gives you the assurance that the funds will be directed through the proper channels and put to the best use."
Donations will be accepted at the five financial institutions in Le Mars through Friday, July 1st. Checks should be made payable to the Le Mars United Way. Donors are asked to indicate it is for flood relief.
Lightning causes Merrill corn crib fire
(Merrill )--A weather-related fire destroyed a farm building Thursday night.
Merrill Fire Chief Bill Merchant says a passerby reported the corn crib fire at about 7:30 Thursday night. Merchant says the smoke from fire at 32897 250th Street could be seen over the top of trees.
The empty wooden corn crib and an older wagon were both destroyed. The corn crib was not being used to store grain.
Merchant says the cause of the fire was a lightning strike. Fire fighters were out on the call for about an hour and a half.
Sioux City woman dies in collision
JACKSON, Neb. (AP) Authorities have released the names of two people who died in a head-on collision in Siouxland.
The accident happened Thursday afternoon on U.S. Highway 20 just west of Jackson, Nebraska when an eastbound car collided with a westbound car.
The Nebraska State Patrol on Friday says the drivers of both cars were killed 54-year-old Julie Sands of Sioux City and 54-year-old Donald Buckley of Newcastle. A passenger in Buckley's car was injured.
The cause of the accident is under investigation.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Flood concerns temporarily close casino
(SLOAN)-WinnaVegas Casino Resort is temporarily closing.
The general manager of the casino resort in Sloan was informed by the Corps of Engineers that flood water could reach the casino by tomorrow (Sunday).
An eight-foot berm was built around the perimeter of the casino, including the construction site of the new hotel in an effort to secure the area from flood water.
The WinnaVegas Inn on Interstate 29, at exit 127, is remaining open because it is not affected by the "controlled flood."
WinnaVegas Casino Resort general manager Catherine Colsrud says when it is a safe environment, the business will reopen.
Missouri River tops 1993 levels in several places
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The Missouri River is already higher than it was during the 1993 flood in much of Nebraska and Iowa, and the water is still rising.
The river is expected to crest next week 5 to 7 feet above flood stage in Nebraska and Iowa. And the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the water will remain at that high level at least into August.
The river was at 33.3 feet in Sioux City, Iowa on Friday. That's above the 27.3-foot crest recorded in 1993.
Flooding forces closure of I-680 between states
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) Rising floodwaters on the Missouri River have forced the closure of the section of Interstate 680 that links Iowa and Nebraska.
The Iowa Department of Transportation announced the closing on Friday.
I-680 is now closed between the spot where it meets I-29 and the North 30th Street exit in Omaha. The closing includes the Mormon Bridge over the Missouri River.
A 10-mile stretch of Interstate 29 between that location and Council Bluffs is also shut down.
Officials recommend that drivers who want to cross between Nebraska and Iowa detour south to Interstate 80 to cross the swollen Missouri River.
Iowa governor says integrity of levees a concern
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) Gov. Terry Branstad says he's concerned as to how levees in western Iowa will hold up to high water along the Missouri River for a prolonged period.
The governor was in Council Bluffs Friday to view flood-fighting efforts and provide an update on the state's response.
The Missouri is rising rapidly because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is increasing the amount of water it releases from upstream reservoirs to deal with heavy spring rains and Rocky Mountain snow melt.
Branstad optimistic on budget talks
JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) Gov. Terry Branstad says he's cautiously optimistic that the Legislature will strike a budget deal he can accept before the fiscal year ends June 30.
In a Friday interview on the public television program ``Iowa Press,'' Branstad maintained progress was being made on budget talks between his office and legislative leaders.
He says that even if talks break down, he has the authority to keep the state running into the next budget year. He says he doesn't think that will become necessary.
G.W. Bush vets: Still time for Perry to enter 2012 race
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) Governor Rick Perry says he's considering a run for the White House. And an exodus of staff from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's imploding campaign this week -- including Austin-based Perry consultant David Carney -- has fueled speculation that the governor will run.
Perry also plans to meet with deep pocketed Republican donors next week in New York City, and speak to the Alabama Republican Party later this summer.
The wave of Perry speculation has prompted several veteran fundraisers for President George W. Bush to weigh in on Perry's chances.
They say the fact that Perry will be entering a crowded 2012 presidential field late may actually help his fundraising on the way to winning the GOP nomination.
Man sentenced in deadly Cedar Rapids robbery
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) A man accused of killing another man during a robbery in Cedar Rapids has been sentenced to 75 years in prison
Eighteen-year-old Denem Null was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery in the death of 26-year-old Kevin Bell in January 2010. Prosecutors say Null shot Bell when a drug deal involving Bell's roommate went bad.
Null pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder and first-degree robbery.
KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids says Null was sentenced on Friday to 50 years in prison for murder and 25 years in prison for robbery, to be served consecutively.
Two others charged in the case, Gabriel Taylor and Johven Lee, pleaded guilty to robbery and were sentenced last week to 25 years in prison.
Woman pleads guilty in death of Iowa woman
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) A 22-year-old woman has been sentenced to 50 years in prison in the stabbing death of a Council Bluffs woman.
Lisa Reeves was charged in the death of 39-year-old Tammy Rocha last winter. A passing motorist found Rocha lying in the middle of a street on Jan. 14.
The Daily Nonpareil in Council Bluffs says Reeves pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Thursday in Pottawattamie County District Court. She was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
Reeves, her father, Brian Reeves, her boyfriend, Eric Long, and another man, Clarence Woolsoncroft, were charged in Rocha's death.
Woolsoncroft was convicted of second-degree murder and awaits his sentencing.
Brian Reeves and Eric Long pleaded guilty to various charges and were sentenced to prison.
(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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In-form Trujillanos moved top of the Venezuela Primera Division as Mineros de Guayana missed a chance to go second.
Pedro Vera's Trujillanos eased to their fourth straight league win with a resounding 4-0 victory at Yaracuyanos.
With Zamora still out of action due to Copa Libertadores duties, Trujillanos took advantage to go a point clear at the top but having played two more games.
Ernesto Zerpa's own goal sent Trujillanos on their way at Yaracuyanos before Edward Bracho added a second on 34 minutes.
Irwin Anton and Freddys Arrieta struck in the final 17 minutes against a side sitting 16th with just one win this season.
Mineros de Guayana were unable to climb above Zamora and into second after being held 1-1 at Deportivo Tachira.
Caracas and Tucanes – fourth and fifth respectively – played out a 1-1 draw.
Deportivo Lara suffered their first loss of the season as Carabobo claimed an impressive 4-2 win at the Estadio Metropolitano de Futbol de Lara and Jose Moreno's first-half brace helped Deportivo Anzoategui to a 3-0 win at home to Deportivo La Guaira.
Sergio Ortiz's 59th-minute goal saw Aragua to a 1-0 win at Atletico El Vigia, Atletico Venezuela were 2-0 winners at home to Zulia and Llaneros de Guanare edged Deportivo Petare 1-0.
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People suggested it on this thread. I think it would be really cool to make a map like a primitive monster society would (like orcs, trolls, goblins...), taking in consideration their limitations, technology and access to materials.
People suggested it on this thread. I think it would be really cool to make a map like a primitive monster society would (like orcs, trolls, goblins...), taking in consideration their limitations, technology and access to materials.
That's a very interesting idea!
To me the issue would be alien ways of thinking, how can a human (us in reality) emulate a non-humans concept of reality, space, distance. There's an old wood cut illustration I've seen that elucidates this concept of different realities well. There is an illustration by a 19th century artist of a famous Maori chief that shows a realistic man with tattoos on his face wearing a western styled suit. A self portrait by that same Maori chief showed only the tattoos, and not anything else, not even the facial features surrounding the tattoo. His perception of the world and himself, is completely different from our point of view. Not that a non-human couldn't design a map for his needs, but could a non-human actually understand the map, especially when the cartographer has a completely alien perception of the world and how to depict it. If you are just using orc-ish composition, but using our own perception of reality - would it even be close to an orc emulation of the world?
Think about the movie, Contact, with Jodie Foster. When they received the aliens instructions on building the time/space traveling device, nobody could read it. The billionaire friend of Jodie points out that the map is read as a cylinder (or as a sphere, I can't remember for sure) and not a 2D flat surface. Until pointed out how the map was to be read, nobody could read it. That I see is the problem for realistically attempting to design a map using non-human thinking.
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I think that just adds to the variety of ideas people would come up with... and why it would be a great challenge!
Eventually, they WERE able to figure out how to read the instructions... at least the billionaire friend was.
So maybe a map could be a monster map with a human translation. Or maybe, since monsters are (generally) built the same as we are, and populate the same worlds, they would tend to do many things in ways similar *enough* for all the skilled cartographers here to decipher. (They wouldn't want *all* humans to understand their maps, would they?)
I've thought of about 80 possible interpretations of this concept, while considering the perception of reality problem, in the last couple of minutes!
I hope it is a challenge (and soon) cause I'm seriously champing at the bit wanting to attempt it (and probably fail miserably, but yeah...)
Given that those monsters would be subject to the same world as we are and representing the same things, I think that there would be some similarities. Like creatures, most things evolve towards efficiency naturally. A map that used as media a circular surface (such a coconut) cannot be transported and stored with ease, and would be abandoned soon in favor of a flat, foldable map. Most arrangements would be inefficient both to convey information, carry and manufacture, so I think that a more-or-less familiar result would be achieved.
Of course, their different manipulation capabilities, access to material, cultural background, goals and reliance on senses would make sure that the map was diverse enough.
I think that this could be fun, and every entrant should start by stating the major cultural/physiological differences of their monsters. For example, if someone chooses wood goblins, their maps might not depict woods as trees and such, that is obvious to them, they would make special markings for those weird "treeless spots" that connect one "normal land" to another, or maybe focus on internal features of the forests that we would skip (the mushroom growing areas and whatnot). Or maybe a race that relies heavily on hearing could depict things by their sound, in a sort of a synesthetic way, I dont know
Could it also be a lite challenge, so the little kids can play?
Little kids can play in the grown up challenges... it's just that the competition is pretty stiff!
PS: omg I wanna make a wood nymph map O.O
Wait... are wood nymphs monsters? D:
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Hum, I was under the impression that you had to do something before being able to enter the regular monthly challenge.
Can you do both simultaneously?
Yes you can. But once you win a golden compass in regular challenge (or having a map featured as cartographer's choice) you can't enter lite challenge no more.
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The only rule is that if you've won a Lite Challenge, you cannot do a Lite Challenge ever again - anyone can participate in a full challenge, and you can still participate if you've won a full challenge, but also cannot participate in a Lite Challenge. Consider that when I joined the guild, there was no such thing as a Lite challenge, there was only the monthly challenge. I won my second map challenge, so I can only participate in full challenges, if I want. I've won 4 challenges, but have participated in over 20 challenges.
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Birth A pair of tiny twins illustrates the agonizing challenges that premature births present to parents and doctors | Daniel James Devine
Life with a premature baby is a journey with sharp cliffs, switchbacks, and beautiful views. Some trails descend to valleys, others snake to mountaintops. One couple from Evans, Ga., has traveled it all.
Married in 2007, Robin and Derrick Trafford, 32 and 33, were unable to conceive naturally and turned to in vitro fertilization. Their fertility specialist transferred two embryos—small enough to fit on the tip of a pen—and Robin became pregnant with both.
Except for a temporary problem with one baby's placenta, the first few weeks of the pregnancy were uneventful. When Robin went for a 19-week checkup, though, she learned she was 3 centimeters dilated: Going into labor at that stage would mean certain death for the twins. Call your husband, Robin's obstetrician said. Tell him you're on your way to the hospital.
Extremely premature births create some of the most difficult moments parents and doctors ever face. Although medical science has greatly improved the survival odds of babies as small as 23 weeks of gestation, it's still difficult to predict which ones will live or die. Doctors must make difficult decisions about when to push for survival, and when to relent. Parents like the Traffords must decide when to hold on or let go.
Happily for Robin, the staff at University Hospital in Augusta, Ga., was able to halt her labor with a dose of magnesium sulfate. She began bed rest in hopes of maintaining the pregnancy at least until 24 weeks, when the survival chances of the twins—a boy and girl the Traffords named Samuel and Abigail—would be much greater. (A normal pregnancy lasts 40 weeks.)
But a few days later, Samuel's water broke. The lack of fluid surrounding the baby meant his lungs might not develop properly. Robin's doctors hoped the ruptured membrane would heal, and ultrasound technicians checked Samuel's fluid level each day while the Traffords looked on and prayed.
Derrick began keeping a journal to "vent," he says, and addressed each entry to the twins. Robin says she learned what Scripture means by "be still and know that I am God" during the bed rest.
Robin was able to keep the twins in her womb until 27½ weeks, when Samuel's placenta separated from the uterus, restricting his supply of oxygen and nutrients. Doctors performed an emergency cesarean section on a Saturday morning in April 2012. Abigail weighed 2 pounds, 4 ounces. Samuel was an ounce smaller.
To help the babies breathe, doctors inserted a ventilator tube through Samuel's mouth and into his lungs. They provided Abigail with a "CPAP" system that delivered constant, light air pressure to her nostrils.
Twelve hours after delivery, one of the doctors told the Traffords Samuel had taken a turn for the worse. The baby's lungs, weak and underdeveloped, had burst under the pressure of the ventilator.
Derrick and Robin went to the neonatal intensive care unit, where nurses had been trying to resuscitate Samuel for 20 minutes, using tiny chest compressions. "I don't think there's anything more we can do," said the doctor.
From her wheelchair, Robin recalls praying aloud, "I speak the life of Jesus into my son!" Derrick remembers a stunned look on the doctor's face as he bent to check Samuel one last time with a stethoscope. "I hear a heartbeat!" the doctor said. "It's getting faster!"
The medical team worked to stabilize the baby, but told the Traffords 20 minutes without oxygen might have caused irreversible damage to Samuel's brain.
Back in their room, the couple prayed: "Lord, we have no idea what to do. Just show us. If You want us to fight, we will."
Parents aren't the only ones who wonder when to fight or let go. Neonatologist David Levine wonders, too. The Columbus, Ga., physician has cared for newborns for more than 30 years, and currently works at Columbus Regional Medical Center.
To Levine, the question of resuscitation is clear when a premature baby is just 20 weeks developed or less. In those cases he explains to parents there's no medical technology to sustain a baby that small.
If a baby is a little older and larger he assesses each case individually. He thinks about what he'll have to do to keep alive a baby that is dying at birth: "We have to put a tube down the baby's throat, we might have to squeeze on the baby's chest, we could break some ribs. It's a very traumatic process. And we're talking still about maybe a 10 percent survival rate, maybe a 75 percent handicap rate."
Levine sighs when describing the struggle to combine his pro-life convictions with the pragmatics of premature birth: "I don't want to cause pain and suffering to a baby who can't survive. ... [Or whose] chance is very, very high that he's committed to a lifetime of assistance in living."
Levine explains the realities to parents before delivery, and often asks them for permission to resuscitate the baby if it comes out of the womb making an effort to live and appearing older than the medical team had expected. "A minute before delivery we're still not exactly sure what we're going to get," says Levine. "And I spend that time praying … that God will make the path clear. If it's His will for the baby to survive."
Those moments are the worst in a neonatologist's life: "They talk about doctors playing God, but we can't play God. We can make mistakes."
On occasion, parents have asked him not to resuscitate a baby Levine thought could survive. "That was very difficult for me—very difficult. … There are parents out there who want a perfect baby. And if you can't give them a perfect baby, then I guess they want to try again."
He and other doctors have committed to taking parents' wishes into account in questionable cases, however. Families have taken hospitals to court claiming both "wrongful death"—where the medical team didn't resuscitate an extremely premature baby despite the parents' wishes—and "wrongful life"—where the team resuscitated a preemie against parental wishes, resulting in a severely handicapped child.
Some doctors think it's easier to set a blanket policy: No resuscitation before 24 or 25 weeks. Levine disagrees with that approach—he says it's just a way of emotionally disconnecting from the decision. As a doctor who believes life comes from God, Levine sees his role as "agonizing" with the parents, praying with them, and showing compassion as everyone seeks to understand God's will in a difficult situation.
An hour or so after the Traffords returned to their hospital room, a neonatologist told them Samuel was declining again. Robin and Derrick returned to the NICU, where they saw Samuel's heartbeat slowing on the monitor.
The doctor asked to take Samuel off the ventilator.
"That was a hard decision," says Derrick. But they could see it was unlikely much else could be done for the baby. "I think God just eased our hearts and gave us comfort that he was going to be OK, because he was going to be in heaven."
With tubes and IVs disconnected, Robin and Derrick took turns holding Samuel. As he died, Robin sang the words to a song by Rita Springer: I don't understand your ways / Oh, but I will give you my song … It's gonna be worth it / It's gonna be worth it all.
"The Lord just dumped so much grace on us to walk through that time," she says.
It was time to fight for Abigail. The day after delivery, X-rays showed Abigail's heart had a valve defect called a PDA that sometimes affects preemies, and was pumping too much blood around her lungs. Rather than growing bigger, after two days Abigail had lost a fifth of her original birth weight. The mountain trail was winding downhill.
When Abigail's PDA closed within a day or two, it seemed the trail had turned upward. Down again: When Abigail's belly bloated because she wasn't digesting her formula properly. Up: When she began drinking from a bottle at five weeks. Down: When Abigail fought infections and her heart rate would suddenly drop—on bad days, up to 10 times an hour. (Nurses tapped her feet to remind her to breathe.)
Sudden cliff: One day Robin was feeding Abigail when the baby choked and turned blue. A nurse grabbed Abigail and patted her back, helping her regain her breath and color. Later, Robin and Derrick wondered how they would bring home a child in Abigail's frail condition: "On that ride home, we couldn't even talk to each other," says Robin. In the car, she resorted to yelling out the motto they had chosen: "We will not fear!"
One of the neonatologists who worked with the Traffords, Cecil Sharp, encouraged the couple to read a Psalm a day—one for each day Abigail was in the NICU. "We've never had a baby in here longer than we've had Psalms for them," he explained.
Sharp told me when parents become overwhelmed by the unexpected challenges of the NICU, they need to change their outlook, like changing a TV channel. "Let's get back to the preemie channel," he tells them. A preemie has underdeveloped intestines, and wouldn't normally be drinking milk at its age—so digestion problems are no surprise. A preemie doesn't have the immune benefits of its mother's womb—so infections are no surprise, either. When families stop expecting their preemie to function like a normal newborn, they stay hopeful through the ups and downs.
When parents, nurses, or fellow doctors begin worrying about "quality of life" for a particular baby, Sharp reminds them how hard it is to predict medical outcomes. "There are cases where I could say, 'Wow, I remember worrying about this or that [condition] on this baby, but this child has grown up, graduated from high school. I attended the graduation, and now the child is getting married. … Some have gone to college. … It's so hard for us to make the argument about quality of life when we don't have a crystal ball to look down the road."
Sharp sees his role as not merely helping preemies survive, but helping parents through one of the most difficult journeys of their lives. He wants them to be "joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer" (Romans 12:12).
Abigail, after a bout with a bladder infection, finally came home from the NICU when the Traffords reached Psalm 69: "You who seek God, let your hearts revive. For the LORD hears the needy."
Today, at 1 year old, Abigail weighs 16 pounds, 10 ounces, takes medication to control her blood acid level, and is finishing up occupational therapy to improve her motor skills. She has almost learned to walk, says "dah-dah" and "bah-bah" (daddy and bottle), and barks at the family dog.
She's busy, too. While Robin spends 15 minutes or so on the phone, Abigail crawls from the entertainment center to the dog kennel to the entertainment center and to the kennel again, where she repeatedly opens and closes the door. "She's definitely tenacious and focused. And she has a temper. But she's super loving," says Robin.
"She very rarely meets a stranger—she'll smile at anyone," says Derrick, who bequeathed her his dark brown eyes.
The Traffords have more hard decisions ahead: They still have five embryos frozen. They plan to implant one this year but wonder if there's another mountain climb ahead.
Robin says Abigail and Samuel taught them not to grasp anything in life too tightly: "God is faithful. He controls whether we live or die. … We know to raise her with very open hands, because she does not belong to us."
On April 7, Abigail's birthday, the Traffords returned to the NICU to visit other parents with premature babies. They handed out cards and pictures intended to give them hope for the journey: The pictures showed Abigail when she was born, when she left the NICU, and when she turned 1.
On the cards they wrote, "Just thinking of you. Love, the Traffords."
Thanks to modern neonatal intensive care units, a preemie born at 24 weeks of gestation has more than a 50 percent chance of survival. Medical technology has bounded forward since the early 1950s, when doctors realized early oxygen chambers were causing 10,000 babies to go blind. In the 1980s doctors developed a heart-lung bypass procedure and began using surfactant to open air sacs in premature babies' lungs. More recently, they learned nitric oxide could also improve lung function.
Currently, 23 weeks gestation seems to be a threshold for preemie survival. Below that, the baby's organs simply aren't developed enough to survive outside the womb, even with the aid of modern technology. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, about a quarter of babies born at 23 weeks survive, in developed nations, and only about 5 percent of babies born at 22 weeks survive. The AAP recommends if a baby is born before 23 weeks or weighs under nine-tenths of a pound, doctors generally shouldn't attempt resuscitation, since the process is painful for the baby and usually futile.
A so-called "gray zone," from 23 to 25 weeks, creates a conundrum for neonatologists: Because of the uncertainty of pinpointing a baby's date of conception (doctors normally estimate it from the mother's last menstrual cycle), a baby may be more or less developed than its assigned gestational age would suggest. Whether a gray zone baby is likely to survive is a case-by-case judgment call.
Even outside the gray zone, preemies often have other medical problems in the womb, decreasing their chance of survival. The uncertainty leaves doctors and parents with hard decisions: If the baby is born and doesn't look healthy or large enough to survive, should they attempt painful lifesaving measures that may or may not be successful, or simply make him comfortable as he dies? Pro-life doctors and parents wrestle with the question as much as anyone else.
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This is Sonic's Ultimate Genesis collection, and if you're a casual or retro gamer you need to go pick this one up.
Instead of trying to make great graphics and releasing a entirely new game which no one is going to remember. Sega decided to put over 40 of the games from their most popular console.
You get a few arcade titles and some videos about the makings of SUGC. But besides that nothing is really new.
The game has trophies/achievements, and is a great addition to any gamers. If you grew up with a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, and want a few nostalgic moments, This is a game for you.
Since the PS3 controller has nearly over trice the buttons as the Sega genesis controller. You can actually program the controller to what buttons you want it to be.
Although I liked almost all the games on this disc, Like goldenaxe and Sonic the hedgehog. A few games like Flicky make the game worse amazingly. The best way I can explain it is if I offered to give to a milkshake, but I spit in it before hand. That would make the milkshake not as good even though I gave you more.
I really don't have much more to say about this game. It's meant to appeal to a certain type of gamer so I can't really say anything mind boggling about it. At any rate you may have a good time, and for 30 bucks you can't go wrong.
Value: 8-10
Value for a Retro gamer: 10-10
Overall 72-100
Grade "B" Game
Casual Gamer: Yes
Hardcore Gamer: Maybe
Obsessive Gamer: Maybe
Pro Gamer: Maybe
Newb Gamer: Maybe
Noob Gamer: No
Retro Gamer: Yes
Table Gamer: Yes
Online Gamer: N/A
Co-Op Gamer: Yes
Multiverse Gamer: Maybe
Multiverse-Casual Gamer: Yes
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The increased focus on the financial stability of companies supplying vendor management systems, or VMS for short, may work against smaller, independent software enterprises and in favor of larger, better capitalized companies, particularly large staffing companies that offer their own VMS products. The shift could tilt power back to staffing companies, which have complained about the increasing leverage of independent VMS firms that manage the assortment of contingent staffing services used by large employers to manage temporary and contract labor.
"We know there are a lot of companies that are evaluating their VMS providers," says Steve Whitehead, managing director of strategic accounts for staffing company Randstad North America in Atlanta. "Companies are second-guessing decisions, holding up broader implementation of some tools. There is a bit of a pause in the market." Randstad, an international staffing company based in the Netherlands, offers its own VMS to its customers.
The catalyst for the new review of VMS providers is the recent collapse of Ensemble Chimes Global, the largest player in VMS. Ensemble Chimes was part of Axium International of Los Angeles, a company best known for providing payroll services to the movie industry. When Axium abruptly filed for bankruptcy and shut down in January amid allegations of financial mismanagement, subsidiary Ensemble Chimes folded as well, leaving corporations and staffing companies around the country and the globe scrambling to deal with pending contracts and hundreds of millions in bills. Ensemble was sold out of bankruptcy on January 23, followed by the rest of the Axium business on January 31.
"When the No. 1 player goes belly up, that creates a crisis of confidence," says Jim Lanzalotto, vice president of strategy and marketing at Yoh, a technology staffing company based in Philadelphia. "Some of biggest corporations are saying, 'We don't know if we can trust this anymore.' "
Yoh offers its own VMS, and Lanzalotto figures his firm should have an advantage now because it is a division of Day & Zimmerman, the Philadelphia-based multinational corporation whose operations include architectural and project management services.
"The pure VMS guys, they have no assets," Lanzalotto says. "They have software, but no capitalization. If something goes wrong, there is nothing to fall back on."
While VMS providers are now under greater scrutiny, the underlying technology shows little sign of losing popularity. The reason is that vendor management systems tend to perform as billed, helping large corporations gain control of what had been a decentralized and haphazard system of using temporary and contract labor. The VMS concept adapts the techniques of centralized billing, purchasing and managing of vendors for basic needs like office supplies to the contingent labor field, with a goal of improving efficiency and saving money.
Independent VMS providers like Ensemble Chimes snatched a major share of the market by offering not only the technology to manage staffing contracts and vendors but also some independence from the staffing companies that provide the labor. But the Ensemble Chimes collapse is prompting a new look by corporations into their use of third-party VMS companies. Some staffing companies are suggesting that third-party VMS companies aren't worth the risk.
"We have told some of our clients that we are just not interested in dealing with some of these independent-type players without some way of making sure we don't get caught again," says Roy Krause, CEO of Spherion, a large, diversified staffing and recruiting company based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Spherion also offers a VMS.
While Ensemble Chimes no longer exists, its software and technical expertise is now part of Beeline Consulting, the company that bought Ensemble Chimes out of bankruptcy. Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Beeline offers a range of VMS and managed services products and is a division of the much larger staffing and recruiting company MPS Group. Beeline hired about 50 Ensemble Chimes employees, mostly technology workers.
David Cooper, principal at Beeline, says a significant number of Ensemble Chimes customers moved to his company after the deal, partly because abruptly changing VMS vendors is difficult and partly because Beeline can point to its financial backing from MPS Group.
"My personal opinion is that the only ones who will be left in this space will be the staffing company-based VMS providers," Cooper says.
In January, Cooper joined about 30 other representatives of staffing companies and VMS providers at a Dallas summit sponsored by the American Staffing Association. As a leader in the company that emerged as the successor to Ensemble Chimes, Cooper found himself peppered with questions from staffing companies.
Some staffing company executives used the opportunity to vent long-held resentments toward VMS providers, complaining about lack of access to corporate hiring managers, loss of contracts to other vendors and the impersonal nature of working through a computer program. "One of the suppliers said that if it wasn't for the VMS providers, they could still be getting job orders on napkins like they used to." Cooper says.
Cooper says there is no going back to those days. "The VMS industry is not dying and we don't need to freak out," he says.
Richard Wahlquist, president and CEO of the American Staffing Association, says the Ensemble Chimes collapse and the summit helped focus attention on VMS issues that have worried staffing companies for several years.
"The largest single concern over the introduction of VMS arrangements and the increase in the use of VMS arrangements is putting an intermediary between a staffing company supplier and the end user," Wahlquist says. "I think the Chimes episode provided an opportunity for ASA to try to mount an education campaign with America's largest companies to suggest that there are some very important principles when deciding whether to enter into one of these arrangements."
In February, the ASA released a VMS best practices white paper, offering tips on evaluating and using VMS services, with an emphasis on detecting potential financial problems. Wahlquist also sent a letter about the ASA conclusions to CFOs of 2,000 large corporations.
A number of staffing companies have reported receiving calls from their corporate clients after the letter went out asking questions about their VMS services. That's exactly what Wahlquist was hoping to stimulate.
"This whole process only works well when suppliers—staffing firms—have the opportunity to have dialogue with human resources departments and with other company supervisors," Wahlquist says. "If the process gets reduced to a pure play of filling orders through a software arrangement, it doesn't work as well."
Wahlquist figures that the Ensemble Chimes collapse, while disruptive, may ultimately prove to be a blessing for staffing companies by bringing them closer to their clients. He acknowledged that there is no turning back from the use of VMS systems. While Wahlquist expects a continuing emphasis on vetting VMS providers for financial stability, he doesn't foresee a future when the only ones offering the service will be staffing companies.
"I know there are some folks in this space who would like to imagine that will be the future," Wahlquist says. "I'm not certain that we won't continue to see a number of different VMS flavors."


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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Toss your cap. Turn your tassel. Just don't snap that "selfie."
Graduates at the University of South Florida and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., have been asked to refrain from taking self-portraits with their cell phones as they collect their diplomas. The seemingly simple directive is standing out for placing the slightest curtailment on a collective societal march toward sharing every waking moment on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and the like.
Kyra Ciotti, a 22-year-old mass communication major at USF, has taken selfies lying in bed, riding in a car, posing with her dog, taking a shot of tequila and whenever she feels her hair is having a particularly good day. She had planned to keep her arm extended as she walked across the stage at a ceremony Friday, capturing the moment for a sister in Australia.
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University of South Florida graduating senior Kyra Ciotti poses as Rita Sibaja takes photos of her in her cap and gown in Tampa.
Now, chastened by the university's admonition that it's improper and fearful of a threat to withhold diplomas, she'll keep her phone away.
"I didn't think it was that big of a deal," she said as she posed on campus in her cap and gown for some early graduation pictures. "But I don't want to be disrespectful."
For others, the simple act of outlawing selfies may have sparked the desire for one.
Anthony Sanchez, a 22-year-old microbiology major at USF, said he's only taken a few selfies in his life. But he's not ruling out another at this weekend's ceremony.
"It put the idea in my head," he said. "I wouldn't have thought of it until they said don't do it."
Self-portraits have been around since the early days of photography, but it was the growth of cellphone cameras that made them into a pop cultural phenomenon. A selfie host Ellen DeGeneres took at the Oscars this year became the most retweeted item in history, but the snapshots have become so widespread that they've been taken by everyone from President Barack Obama (who was criticized for one with other world leaders at the funeral of Nelson Mandela) to Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide (who took an other-worldly shot outside the International Space Station.) Selfie was even declared the 2013 word of the year by Oxford University Press.
Administrators at both USF and Bryant said their intentions were far less dramatic than making a statement about a generation often accused of oversharing. They said they were simply trying to keep already long ceremonies from dragging on even longer.
"It's your moment in the sun right next to everyone else's moment in the sun," said Michael Freeman, the USF dean of students who issued the guidelines saying selfies were banned along with marching, strolling and other fanciful methods of accepting a diploma. Freeman said a handful of graduates took on-stage selfies during the December commencement and he has noticed students growing more and more cavalier as they approach the university president. Aside from keeping the ceremony on time, he wanted to maintain decorum.
"I don't have an anti-selfie bent," he said. "I would just caution students to think there's a time and place."
Neither USF nor Bryant has issued a blanket ban on selfies. Students are free to take them throughout the ceremony, just not on stage.
Sheila Guay, the special events director at Bryant, said selfies would take away from the ceremony and ruin photos that family members try to capture.
She echoed Freeman, saying: "There is a time and place for them, and here is not one of them."


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Images: Iron Hawk 14 in Saudi Arabia [Image 22 of 32]
Photo by Sgt. Harley Jelis
AH-64 Apaches operated by the U.S. Army's 4th Battalion, 227th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 42nd Combat Aviation Brigade, and Royal Saudi Land Forces (RSLF) personnel from 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Group, prepare for take-off before a practice air assault during Exercise Friendship and Iron Hawk 14 on April 12, 2014, near Tabuk, Saudi Arabia. Iron Hawk and Friendship 14 involved U.S. Army forces from the 42nd CAB, New York Army National Guard, and 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and Saudi Arabian ground and aviation forces. Over weeks of practice the two militaries focused on improving their joint operating capabilities, integrating infantry, armor, and aviation assets from both countries in the final event on April 13, 2014. The 42nd CAB, composed of National Guardsmen from New York, Michigan, Delaware, Indiana, and Kentucky, and soldiers from 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, is currently deployed to Kuwait in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, and conducts joint partnerships and exchanges with nations from across the region. (N.Y. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Harley Jelis/Released)
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See the Tivoli Storage Manager page as an example.
Product ratings. Our Request For Enhancements (mentioned yesterday). Service Management Connect. They are more ways that we're working to build a community around our customers, our solutions and IBM.
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I've been worried that this could be a tough game for us. Now, I'm watching WVU coming apart at the seams in Norman. Could the Mountaineers be packing it in?
In conference play, the Mountaineers have not won a game in which their opponent has scored more than 64. ISU gets to that magic number plus a few and wins 73-65.
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."
ISU shares the rock 19 times for an 18 point win in front of a record 4,578 crowd.
2015 CF Avatar of the Year winner.
This game should not of been close the first time around.
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This game should not of been close the first time around.
Im mixed on this. I agree with what you're saying here, the only reason it was close was WVU started just hitting ridiculous shots.
However, our road vs home performance has been wildly different against most conference teams this year. Im not sure you can take any home performance as an indicator of how we'll handle them on the road.
Closer than we want it to be
WVU wins... by 5
ISU is still averaging about 74 points per game on the road in conference play. The only thing that scares me with this ISU team is close games going down to the wire, and I'm hoping ISU holds a comfortable 10-15 point lead for the last 30 minutes or so of this game.
A squeaker that ISU will win by 3. Just in time for the end of the regular season, we'll see this team show mental toughness and the ability to close out games under pressure.
I hope.......
"Correct me if I'm wrong, Scotty.......but if I kill all the golfers, they'll lock me up and throw away the key!" Carl Spackler
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A squeaker that ISU will win by 3. Just in time for the end of the regular season, we'll see this team show mental toughness and the ability to close out games under pressure.
I hope.......
I like you're thinking and I hope you're right.
I just hope our team doesn't think their already in the Tourney, so they come out and play sloppy. That's what we don't want to happen.
ISU will lose.
WVU will score more than normal (10 pts above their avg) due to it being at home, senior night and let's face it, with the exception of last night ISU plays very little defense. Clones go at them hard from the start and keep pushing till the fat lady sings. Roll into Kansas City with some good momentum and a hunger for more.
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I think we win very easily. WVU has nothing to play for. Their season is over for all practical purposes. Senior night, but really one senior of note (the turkish dude)
Win #21. People still complain that we're a bad road team and don't have enough wins.
Kansas Must Be Destroyed
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Things to see and do - Guadeloupe
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Hotel Village Soleil from77 €Book
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Guadeloupe Travel guide
Guadeloupe : Michelin's recommendations
What a string of dreamy names! Karukera, the butterfly-shaped "island of lovely water", unfolds its wings between the Tropic of Cancer and the Equator. Separated by a sound called Rivière salée (Salty River), Grande Terre and Basse Terre look out over their little islands with evocative names like Désirade and Marie-Galante.
These places have grown famous due to their long coral-sand beaches, giving access to a fabulous underwater world. Time passes in delightful slow motion here, they say. After enjoying this appetising postcard image, you can move on to something a bit more spicy !
Creole culture, an inimitable blend of Amerindian, African, Indian and European influences, is as spicy as bébélé (a dish made with tripe and green bananas) and should be experienced with music. Although not as frequently exported as biguine and zouk, the African Gwo Ka drums are a symbol of Guadeloupean identity.
As fiery as its still-active volcano, this island with innumerable hiking trails offers you magical tropical forests and cascades such as Carbet Falls, which once dazzled another voyager destined for fame called Christopher Columbus.
Guadeloupe is like a land of plenty, as rich as its gastronomy, as colourful as its landscapes and as varied as its multiple identities. Guadeloupe is also a linguistic breath of fresh air, a way of playing with the French language through such popular Guadeloupean expressions as pa ni pwoblem (no worries)!
Guadeloupe : Must-see towns and regions
Located on Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe's economic capital is a good place to end a trip; visitors can stock up on colourful goods to be found in the town's various markets. Although it has a pleasant his...
With its old creole houses lining the two main streets, Deshaies is one of Guadeloupe's most charming villages. Razed by the British in 1804, the settlement retains vestiges of an artillery emplacemen...
Once an important Amerindian settlement, Capesterre is a pleasant village; its church and town hall were rebuilt in the Art Deco style after the 1928 hurricane. To the south lies the agreeable La Feui...
Founded in 1636 as Grand Cul-de-Sac, Ste-Rose is one of Guadeloupe's oldest settlements. It has long been engaged in sugar-cane cultivation, an ever-dwindling sector. Its commercial centre merits a fl...
Having basked in the golden age of the sugar industry and survived two big hurricanes, Le Moule is today a pleasant town with a picturesque centre, where creole architecture contrasts with the pale fa...
Vieux-Habitants was one of the first settlements established by European colonists (1637). The site had long been a centre of Amerindian civilisation, as evident from rock carvings along the River Dup...
Saint-Claude lives in the shadow of La Soufrière which rises to its northeast. In 1976, the town was gravely endangered by the caprices of "the old lady", and the population was evacuated. The village...
While Pointe-à-Pitre is Guadeloupe's economic capital, Basse-Terre remains its historic (and indeed sentimental) capital. Endowed with a tranquil charm, the stones of its old houses languishing in the...


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