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Superman Lois Lane Rescue Fleischer Statue
Inspired by Fleischer Studio's animated shorts of the 1940s, this Superman Lois Lane Rescue Fleischer Statue captures a tender moment between Superman and Lois Lane.
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Cover date: March 2008
"Kryptonite: Book Six"
Writer: Darwyn Cooke
Penciller: Tim Sale
Inker: Tim Sale
Reviewed by: Neal Bailey
While Superman dies in front of the Kryptonite, Gallo awakens, telling the goons to kill everyone in the room, including Lois, Lex, and Jimmy.
The creature from inside the Kryptonite leads Superman through his homeworld, tells of Jor-El's pleas to save Krypton, and explains that he's part of a scientific race that observes, but does not interfere.
Tony Gallo, apparently nuts, takes two guns and commits suicide. Jimmy takes his guns, and forces Luthor out before he can murder Superman, Lois, and Jimmy.
The creature explains to Superman that he was watching Krypton when the rocket came out from the planet, and when he tried to dimensionally shift out of the way, he was encased in a piece of Kryptonite.
Superman returns to his body, and takes Bridgewater, the alien observer, and the Kryptonite, while wearing a lead suit, towards the sun, releasing Bridgewater and nearly ending his own life.
Superman speaks with his parents about what makes him human, then goes on a date with Lois to show it.
Story - 1:
All these great ideas, all that masterful characterization, and then... this.
It's not the time, though God knows I spent a good deal of it reacquainting myself with what the heck was going on here after some six months.
It's not the art, the art was just fine.
It's... what on earth just happened in this book?
First off, they reaffirm what we already knew (or at least, I think we already knew) that Gallo was subsumed by the alien entity. Dur, right? I mean, that was established a bit back, right?
Then we're supposed to swallow that this creature, who can leave a solid rock and subsume a human, wants freedom, but doesn't have it? A creature that can supposedly dimensionally shift? Unless, I dunno, harnessed within ROCK. Because, you know, he can phase IN to the rock, but can't phase out. And has the ability to phase, but not the technology or adaptation to avoid phasing into solid objects. And can phase into a solid object in THE VACCUUM OF SPACE where he can breathe, but can't bust his way out, despite being able to SURVIVE A TRIP INTO THE SUN.
Little things.
The whole basis of the creature, Bridgewater (Gag, what an awful name for an alien), is that he's an OBSERVER. The DC Watcher, if you will. He NEVER INTERFERES! He sat by coldly and watched as the entirety of Krypton explodes! And that's fine by him, because he's a race of little emotion.
But a small-time mobster killing a few people, well... HOO BOY! STOP THE PRESSES! Gotta take over that guy and try and work some good!
It'd be different if it was played like Bridgewater was trying to make up for not saving Krypton, but it wasn't.
And I swear to Rao if I see ONE MORE RETELLING OF THE ORIGIN STORY in the next FIVE %*#$@#$ YEARS, I will stop reading whoever wrote it forever.
ENOUGH OF THE SUPERMAN ORIGIN. TELL YOUR OWN STORY. Or don't expect me to read it. It's NOT more creative when you do it, I don't care HOW many twists on contemporary continuity you make. It's pandering, and it's ridiculous.
Superman has to get a being that can dimensionally shift out of a rock, because he can't dimensionally shift. He's vulnerable to Kryptonite, and lead melts when exposed to THE FRICKIN' SUN.
The problem, as I understand it, is that this rock needs to be busted up, but is, I'm guessing, near invulnerable because it's Kryptonian? That's the only reason I could think of to have Superman push it into the sun.
But wouldn't the sun then STRENGTHEN it? Why not have another hero fly it into the sun? Or direct it there with rockets? Or throw it in from a distance?
Not as dramatic, one would suppose, but the whole scene, instead of thinking, "How noble!" I'm thinking "What the hell?"
The ending, the last four pages, with Lois, with Ma and Pa, it's brilliant. It's the work that the last five issues began. I loved it. But putting it next to such awful crap makes it suck, because you realize what this ending could have been, and how wonderful the series was until now, and it makes you want to gag, realizing you waited six months for this.
Arbitrary continuity restructuring for no apparent reason complaint here. I won't even go into specifics, you either know or you don't by now.
Gallo kills himself after coming back and demanding that people kill the people around him. Sane, then insane. Inconsistent, and odd. Like this finale.
Art - 5: Still a huge fan of Tim's work, and enjoying the heck out of these pages. For all the weirdness the story has, the art doesn't suffer for it, and even if I have no idea why Superman is going into the sun, I don't complain at seeing it.
Cover Art - 3: Decent poses by Sale, but the page is undermined by a garish color scheme and the fact that you're sitting there, going, "Hey, these guys were never even remotely hostile to one another, this cover makes no sense."
Beyond that, to emphasize the fact that continuity is muddled, we're reading a story that isn't in continuity that tells an origin with no continuation anticipated that tries to rather casually still hold the continuity-beholden reader with a subtle "COUNTDOWN 15!" in the corner.
Problem being, Countdown FOURTEEN came out this week, because this book is six months and then one week late. The delay was delayed just ONE MORE WEEK.
Way to respect the people who handed out hard earned cash for this book, guys. You've totally lost my respect with this lackluster conclusion.
January 2008
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Systematic Injustice
Abortion is condemnable for the same reasons that slavery and genocide are.
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Networks of killing centers across the globe are eliminating "unwanted, unborn" children at a staggering rate. Were the context not abortion, the world would be outraged. Call it what you want, when an innocent group of human beings is targeted and exterminated by the millions, that is an injustice on par with any of history's most egregious atrocities.
One of history's most tragic lessons is that human beings have a remarkable capacity for abusing their fellow humans. When this abuse is severe enough, and moves beyond the mistreatment of a few individuals, we call it a crime against humanity. Crimes against humanity generally refer to any large-scale atrocity committed against a group of innocent human beings. They are not crimes of passion, they are crimes of precision. They are not the result of accidental, momentary impulses, they are thought out and rationalized. The scale of such crimes cannot be carried out by individuals. They require the cooperation and consent of many, many people, and this is exactly what history shows us. The most notorious example is the Jewish Holocaust, in which six million European Jews were executed for their racial heritage.
Raphael Lemkin (1901-1959), a Polish-Jewish lawyer, is the man responsible for making the annihilation of entire people groups an international crime. In 1933, influenced by his knowledge of the slaughter of Armenians by the Turks in WWI and the recent slaughter of Christian Assyrians by Iraqis, he appeared before The Legal Council for the League of Nations in Madrid and proposed to make the extermination of human groups an international crime, calling such crimes "acts of barbarism." His proposal was not accepted. Ten years later, in 1943, he coined a new term, "genocide," in an effort to more specifically describe the Nazi attempt to annihilate entire ethnic groups. (The term first appeared in publication in 1944 in his Axis Rule in Occupied Europe in a chapter titled: "Genocide").
The word "genocide" combines the Greek word for race (geno) with the Latin word for killing (cide). The Nuremberg trials, which concluded in 1946, used Lemkin's term "genocide" in their indictment against top Nazi officials who were there convicted for "crimes against humanity." In 1948, the United Nations officially made genocide an international crime at the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The Convention defined genocide as any of a series of acts designed to "destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." The acts listed include among others, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group or forcibly transferring children out of the group.
Since then, the term "genocide" has been applied to many other historic and contemporary crimes against humanity (retroactively to the Armenian Genocide). In some instances, such as Pol Pot's Cambodian genocide, the victims have been targeted for non-racial reasons. This broadening definition of genocide is reflected in Webster's New World Encyclopedia:
gen·o·cide - n.
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, racial, religious, political, cultural, ethnic, or other group defined by the exterminators as undesirable.
Webster's New World Encyclopedia, Prentice Hall General Reference, 1992
Such definition, in fact, is broad enough to include abortion, and some pro-life groups have made a compelling case that abortion is genocide. Abortion is certainly deliberate and systematic. There is roughly one abortion for every 4.5 births in America today (in New York City, the ratio is one abortion for every 1.5 births). Abortions are performed in a vast network of clinics around the country, more than 3,000 a day, 1.21 million a year, and more than 50 million since abortion was legalized in 1973. Furthermore, abortion targets a very specific group of human beings: unwanted, unborn children, a victim class that is defined by the pro-abortion mantra, "Every child, a Wanted Child." Their "final solution" for unwanted, unborn children is abortion.
While the appropriateness of calling abortion "genocide" depends on what definition of genocide you are using, it is a plain and simple fact that abortion is the systematic destruction of millions of human beings. Genocide or not, abortion, like the Jewish Holocaust and like the mistreatment of native and African-Americans, is a phenomena which dehumanizes a group of human beings so as to justify their elimination. This nation, and the world as a whole, has a sad legacy of dehumanizing people who have something we want or get in our way.
The reason that some people take such offense at comparing abortion to past crimes against humanity is the same reason that the white establishment of America was scandalized when Dr. Martin Luther King compared the abuse of black Americans to the Holocaust. It is easy to condemn crimes that are far away (either by distance or time), it is much harder to condemn them when they sit right in your back yard. Abortion supporters are infuriated at the notion that abortion is comparable to the Holocaust because they incessantly argue that the unborn aren't people. This is exactly the same argument that is always made to justify crimes against humanity. They're not really people. This is what Hitler said. This is what America said when it counted enslaved African-Americans as 3/5 of a person.1 If we can't compare atrocities past to atrocities present, then the term "never again" loses all its meaning.
At the end of the day, if the unborn are people (and they are), then abortion is not only comparable to past crimes against humanity, it is, by sheer volume, the greatest holocaust of all.
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- The Three-Fifths compromise of 1787 was reached after those in the North demanded that slaves not be counted at all for enumeration purposes while those in the South wanted slaves counted as full-persons. The reasons should be obvious. More people equals more voting power in the House of Representatives. Since slaves were not allowed to vote, counting them as only 3/5 of a person actually gave Southern states less voting power than if slaves had been counted as full persons, but far more than they would have had if slaves weren't counted at all. Though counting them as less than full persons was actually beneficial for the cause of freedom, it still illustrates how warped America's national perspective was.
Possible Objection:
Even if abortion is a systematic injustice, you can't compare it to slavery or the Holocaust. Abortion kills babies before they're self aware or have had any life experiences. Those killed in the Holocaust were deprived of the lives they were already living, and that is much worse.
To learn our response, continue to the next page: A Future Lost
Related Entries:
- Making a Person Property: Repeating history, the Court again turned certain human beings into property.
For Further Study:
- Factories of Death: Lessons from Auschwitz (Abort73 Blog)
- Eulogy for the Martyred Children: What MLK Has to Teach Us About Abortion (Abort73 Blog)
- Abortion and the Angel of Auschwitz (Abort73 Blog)

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A Quick Introduction to SuperCollider
Guest Contribution by Graham Gatheral
Let's be honest: code can be daunting. All those words and numbers and operators and punctuation errors… For a start, there's no GUI. How are you supposed to make anything without a GUI?!
Well, as we'll see later we can make a GUI-based synth in SuperCollider with just a few dozen lines of code! But let's put GUIs to one side for now, because SuperCollider's real power is in its ability to produce flexible and complex dynamic systems directly from code, and without too much trepidation… My aim here is to introduce an audio synthesis programming language to an audience that is, for the most part, more comfortable working with a GUI. So I'll start off with some simple code examples and then move onto how SuperCollider can use game-code parametric data to drive synthesis 'patches' in real-time.
If you don't have SuperCollider already, download an installer here:
Regarding platforms, I'm on Windows 7 but the code will certainly run fine on a Mac.
Warning: The code examples below were written for demonstration purposes and have not been fully tested. Please be careful not to expose your ears to loud sounds (particularly when using the metal impacts tuner) as stable behaviour cannot be guaranteed. This is especially critical if using headphones!
A Quick Introduction
SuperCollider consists of three components:
- an object oriented programming language
- a language interpreter
- a real-time sound synthesis server
When code is executed, it is interpreted and sent to the server, whereupon the sound is generated.
SuperCollider has had an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) since version 3.6, which is great because now you have everything you need in one place:
- Code editor (where you write your code!)
- Help browser
- Post window (shows the outcome of your code, including any errors)
- Document browser [not shown below]


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Nike Ohio State Buckeyes #1 NCAA Twill Football Jersey
This jersey is a NCAA replica with team name and numbers on screened, sewn-down tackle twill. Nike Swoosh on left chest and Nike Team Sports jocktag with extra-length tab applied to bottom hem. Made of 100% polyester.
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Strategies for LGBT Aged Care discussed at roundtable
The 2nd National Roundtable on LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care kicked off in Sydney today.
Convened by the National LGBTI Health Alliance, the roundtable gives policy makers, service providers, older adults, LGBTI people, and key organisations an opportunity to review the implementation of the National LGBTI Ageing & Aged Care Strategy and to feed information back to government as to how well the strategies are working in the community.
"In addition participants will identify healthy ageing opportunities, needs and wants of older LGBTI people, including housing, health, mental health and other non-aged care sector services and discuss the progress of cultural change within the ageing and aged care sectors and initiatives to achieve support of LGBTI people within aged care" said Rebecca Reynolds, Executive Director of the Alliance.
Senator Dean Smith will attend the second day of the Roundtable (August 13) to hear about the outcomes from day one and discuss what the sector and the Government can do to act on these recommendations.
According to the National LGBTI Health Allaince outcomes of this Roundtable will ensure that national efforts to provide safe and inclusive aged care services are cohesive and able to best realize the potential of the Strategy.
- TOPICS: Dean Smith, LGBTI rights, National LGBTI Ageing and Aged Care Strategy, National LGBTI Health Alliance, Rebecca Reynolds, Senator Dean Smith
- CATEGORIES: National, News + Politics
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Jo HarrisonUnfortunately the image accompanying this story is reinforcing the most appalling stereotypes about LGBTI elders. It shows the backs of these men, so their faces cannot be seen, and is in no way an image that could in any way be related to the positive action taken by LGBTI elders themselves in Australia in relation to their own experience and rights. It demeans LGBTI elders themselves and renders those with lived experience expertise barely visible and faceless. It does not draw on an image of known elders who have spoken up in public forums across Australia and shown their faces, their political acumen and their history of activism, including in relation to ageing issues, publicly, in order to bring about change and influence policy. The LGBTI aged care response in Australia is too focused on non-elders and mostly excludes those with lived experience from meetings, boards, committees, decision making forums, and conferences, or sets fees and charges and other circumstances that make it almost impossible for elders to control the solutions to their own issues, and be peer educators themselves rather than being the talked 'about' in situations with few or no elders in the room. It is time for this to change. It is also essential that Indigenous and CALD elders are always present when issues around ageing and diversity are discussed, so that their input is not option but compulsory. 'Involvement' and 'consultation' are not self-determination or the development of solutions based on lived experience expertise. We need to seriously demonstrate a commitment to elders controlling and informing their own circumstances and futures. This image does exactly the opposite and that is seriously disappointing. cheers Dr Jo Harrison


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The Athletic Alumni organization is open to former student-athletes, coaches, managers, and trainers of UT Arlington sports. An annual gift of at least $100 to the Maverick Club provides our Athletic Alumni with exclusive privileges. It is our way of saying thank you for your dedication to UT Arlington.
Your gift to the Maverick Club assists with the various events for you such as the Homecoming Reception, Alumni Weekends. You will also have access to an online database so you can connect with past teammates, coaches, etc. Giving to the Maverick Club also builds the tradition of Mavericks for Life by assisting us in purchasing the Letters we give to our current athletes which are a Letter Jacket, Blanket, Watch, and a Varsity Ring.
Take the step; join the Athletic Alumni Chapter; be part of the growing movement of former Mavericks who are recognized as extraordinary individuals for having contributed to the UT Arlington Athletic legacy.
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- Final Fantasy XII - The Zodiac Age
Announcement Trailer
- Hard Reset Redux
Gameplay Video
- Yooka-Laylee
E3 Trailer
- Horizon Zero Dawn
Aloy\'s Journey Trailer
- Agents of Mayhem
Announcement Trailer
- LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
BB-8 Gameplay Trailer
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Launch Trailer
Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit Cheats
publisher: EA
developer: EA
genre: Racing
|ESRB rating: E
release date: Sep 30, 98
|» All About Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit on ActionTrip
Type the cheats below at any menu to activate the cheat.
madland - Removes all constraints from opponent AI. AI cars
will drive at their maximum ability.
rushhour - Race with lots of traffic on the road.
empire - Race on the Empire City track.
elnino - Race with the El Nino car.
merc - Race with the Mercedes CLK GTR.
gofast - Make your car go super fast in Single Race mode.
allcars - Enable all cars including Pursuit Vehicles.
jag - Race with Jaguar XJR-15.
dcop - Gives you the Pursuit Diablo SV bonus car.
ecop - Gives you the Pusuit El Nino bonus car.
cars - Gives you all the bonus cars.
money - Allows you to use the manual transmission as if it were an automatic. This can be a significant advantage, since the manual transmissions are usually more efficient (available in single player, single-race mode only).
bullhorn - Makes cops use their bullhorns (Hot Pursuit mode only).
go01 -Miata
go02 -Toyota Landcruiser
go03 -Cargo Truck
go04 -BMW 5 Series
go05 -71 Plymouth Cuda
go06 -Ford Pickup with Camper Shell
go07 -Jeep Cherokee
go08 -Ford Fullsize Van
go09 -64/65 Mustang
go10 -~66 Chevy Pickup
go11 -Range Rover
go12 -School bus
go13 -Taxi - Caprice Classic
go14 -Chevy Cargo Van
go15 -Volvo Station Wagon
go16 -Sedan
go17 -Crown Victoria Cop Car
go18 -Mitsubishi Eclipse Cop Car
go19 -Grand Am Cop Car
go20 -Range Rover Cop Car/Ranger Vehicle
go21 -Cargo Truck (same as 03)
Redrock Ridge (forward, non-mirrored) About half way into a lap, you'll have to make a difficult left hairpin turn. There is an alternative left turn immediately before that hairpin turn.
Antarctica (forward, non-mirrored) After driving past that "Electronic Arts" landmark (at roughly half way into a lap), take the left path, then right. You'll immediately see a shortcut entrance in the right wall. Upon exiting the shortcut, you'll need to turn right.
Rocky Pass (forward, non-mirrored) Where you see the falling-rock road sign, right past that sign, there is a small and short cave tunnel off-road to you right. Driving through it instead of making that sharp right turn on the road will save you some time.
Country Woods (backward, non-mirrored) There is one difficult left hairpin turn after all those 90 degrees sharp turns (at about half way into a lap). Instead of making that hairpin turn, do this: A few seconds before approaching that hairpin turn, you can make a sharp left turn (with the help of your handbrake) and drop to the lower level. While still in the mid-air, continuously press that L1 reset button. You'll immediately recover from that crash landing and "skip" that hairpin turn. This saves you at least 3 seconds. One other trick on this track: there is one big and high jump at the beginning of this backward track (your car hitting the roof of the tunnel). Once landed, keep straight and accelerate all the way till you hit hard at the wall. When you crash, immediately press the L1 reset button to continue. This way you don't have slow down to make that 90 degree turn and can easily gain 2+ seconds.
Aquatica (forward, non-mirrored) After the initially left, right, right, right turns, now during the next long and gradual left turn, there is a shortcut entrance in the right wall. Upon exiting the shortcut, turn right.
Aquatica (forward, non-mirrored) Right before you go through the tunnel that takes you back onto the boardwalk, you can go off the road to the left and go over the tunnel, and land back on the track on the other side. It doesn't really save any time, but if it's a choice between going around and slamming into the side of the tunnel, go around.
Empire City (forward, non-mirrored) There are light poles on your LEFT side when you just pass the start/finish line. Immediately before the 4th light pole, you'll find a shortcut entrance. After exiting the shortcut, go STRAIGHT. There is a wall in front of you but a little bit to your left is another shortcut entrance. Upon exiting this shortcut, turn right.
Empire City (forward, non-mirrored) Immediately after the second SET of concrete pillars (when near the end of a lap), you will easily see a "fake wall" on your right side. Drive through it and you'll drop to the lower level. This saves you 2 to 3 seconds.
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Africa is huge, internationally vital, potentially rich and powerful yet mired in failure - political, economic, social and even cultural. Yet the story of contemporary Africa is not just one of global tragedy but also of enormous hope for the future. This stimulating and unconventional book on Africa today and its relationship with the West explores the many complex reasons behind Africa's failure to fulfil its potential - it is a continent blighted by colonialism, exploitation and the interference of great powers in the international relations of the region - and offers some genuinely original and well-argued suggestions for ways forward. Index, bib, 185pp, UK. IB TAURIS.
2007 9781845112851 Paperback
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De Haan, Peter
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2011 9789982997294 Paperback
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HELLO, AFRICA. TELL ME, HOW ARE YOU DOING? A Noble Continent in Painful Renaissance
Kofi, Osei G.
Osei G Kofi, having visited 47 of Africas 54 countries in his capacity first as a journalist (he was foreign news editor at Nairobi Times and the Reuters East Africa correspondent), then as senior communications officer for UNICEF and latterly as communication consultant. He has a unique depth of knowledge and perspective. He pulls no punches in his criticism of the megalomaniacs and despots who have too often held sway in Africa, but he equally takes Western governments and multilateral institutions to task. He is unstinting in his praise of those Africans who have succeeded, gloriously and often against all odds, in offering to their people and the world a new possibility, the possibility of a fully realized African Renaissance. 453pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HELLO AFRICA PUBLISHING.
2006 0620355344 Paperback
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A HOME FROM HOME: From Immigrant Boy to English Man
Alagiah, George
New in paperback. George Alagiah was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Ghana. His family came to Britain in the 60s. This is his story, going to school in Portsmouth (where his friends were all white and teased him in the shower room for not having a summer tan) and gradually discovering his immigrant identity. 288pp, UK. ABACUS.
2007 2006 9780349119113 Paperback
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Wainaina, Binyavanga
A trio of witty essays In 'How to Write About Africa', Wainaina dissects the African clichés and precon-ceptions of Western writers and readers with a ruthless precision. In 'My Clan KC', he undresses the layers of meaning shrouding the identity of the infamous Kenya Cowboy. And in 'Power of Love', we start with a bemused recollection of the advent of the celebrities-for-Africa phenomenon, and end with the speculation two decades on that a $9-dollar-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya, whose dollar-a-day people continue to fascinate the $5-dollar-a-day, 25-year-old backpackers who came and loved and compassioned and are now the beneficiaries of $5000 a month consulting for the United Nations. 52pp, KENYA. KWANI TRUST.
2008 9789966700827 Paperback
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INTO THE HOUSE OF THE ANCESTORS: Inside the New Africa
Maier, Karl
A journalistic portrait of the continent based on interviews with traditional healers, chiefs, business innovators, scientists, generals, doctors, poets and politicians. The author presents an optimistic view of a rising force of activists and innovators taking control of their lives in ways that are ingenious and inspirational. 'Both well informed and comprehensive, bearing witness to an experience of Africa both deep and wide. Above all, a very balanced book, reflecting a real human understanding'. Abiola Irele. Notes, index, 278pp, USA. WILEY [JOHN] & SONS LTD.
1998 0471295833 Paperback
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JOINING AFRICA: From Anthills to Asmara
Cantalupo, Charles
This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor's twenty-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. It is a documentary of a journey through the continent, including an intense five-year encounter with economically struggling but culturally fertile Eritrea. The Africa presented here is neither a postcolonial study nor an exotic tourist destination. It is rich with the voices of its people, whose languages, Cantalupo argues, have greater potential to effect change than any NGO or high-profile celebrity. 282pp, USA. MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
2012 9781611860368 Paperback
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LOST WHITE TRIBES: Journeys Among the Forgotten
Orizio, Riccardo
After the colonial empires crumbled, few Europeans chose to stay in the new independent states. The descendents of those who did however, occupy an uncomfortable strata in the society in which they live, not belonging to either the indigenous population or the affluent new white immigrants. These lost people are the subject of the author's journey. He describes their lives and attempts to both integrate and preserve their perceived uniqueness in countries as diverse as Namibia, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, Guadeloupe and Haiti. 288pp, UK. VINTAGE.
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LE MAL D'AFRIQUE: A Journey into Old and New Africa
Bonn, Guillaume & Lacey, Mark
Photojournalistic view into an unprecedented and extraordinarily diverse present-day Africa, one also sharing Bonn's personal context of being born and raised there and how this history informs his remarkable photographs. We see Bonn's great grandfather in military uniform during an expedition to Niger and Sudan, or his grandfather hunting a giant crocodile in Madagascar or his father wearing a colonial era-pith helmet while being cradled by his nanny. 94 col illus, 144pp, USA. EMPIRE.
2006 0977900835 Paperback
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MANDELA, MOBUTU AND ME: A Newswoman's African Journey
Duke, Lynne
Memoir by the Washington Post correspondent describing the period when, based in Johannesburg as bureau chief, she covered news across the continent. Duke's particular identity as an African American woman engages thoughtfully with the African communities she describes and explores. Index, x, 294pp, USA. DOUBLEDAY ANCHOR (USA).
2003 0385503989 Hardback
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ME AGAINST MY BROTHER: At War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda
Peterson, Scott
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NEW NEWS OUT OF AFRICA: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance
Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
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2007 2006 9780195331288 Paperback
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Ryan, John
A record of the journalist's forty year career, reporting and living in Africa. He interlaces his reports with history and personal experiences of life in Africa punctuated by five wars and being detained four times. 346pp, SOUTH AFRICA. Jonathan Ball, 1868421236
2002 Paperback
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Kapuscinski, Ryzard
New in paperback. Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and reported major wars, coups and revolutions as they happened throughout the developing world and global South. In this distillation of his reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, he takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other: the non-European or non-American. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and considering its formative significance for his own work, Kapuscinski traces how the West has understood the Other from classical times to colonialism, from the age of enlightenment to the postmodern global village. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. 100pp, UK. VERSO.
2009 2008 9781844674169 Paperback
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OUT OF AMERICA: A Black Man Confronts Africa
Richburg, Keith B.
A black American journalist assigned to cover Africa is disillusioned as he finds he identifies more with American values than with repression, starvation and brutality that seem to characterise the land of his ancestors. 'He has written a courageous book that is at once moving and disturbing, an African journey of the heart that I will not soon forget.' David Lamb, author of The Africans. Index, 248pp, USA. HARVESTER .
1997 0156005832 Paperback
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Alagiah, George
The former BBC Africa Correspondent emigrated with his family to Ghana in 1960. This book combines both autobiography and commentary - and includes brutally honest views of the genocide in Rwanda. 34 b/w photos, bib, index, 286pp, UK. TIME WARNER.
2002 0751532142 Paperback
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REPORTING WAR: Journalism in Wartime
Stuart, Allan & Zelizer, Barbie (Eds.)
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2004 0415339987 Paperback
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REVOLUTIONARY TRAVELLER: Freeze-Frames from a Life
Saul, John S.
In this book Saul draws on a series of his own occasional articles written over a span of forty years which, together with a linking narrative, serve to trace not only his own career as an anti-apartheid and liberation support movement activist in both Canada and southern Africa but also help recount the history of the various struggles in both venues in which he has been directly involved. He thus shapes a unique memoir, capped by some longer summary pieces on the global processes of empire and decolonization that he has witnessed. 436pp, CANADA. ARBEITER RING PUBLISHING.
2009 9781894037372 Paperback
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THE ROAD TAKEN: An Autobiography
Buerk, Michael
The autobiography of Michael Buerk, the journalist whose broadcasts from Ethiopia during the 1984 famine shocked the world. Describes why was drawn to journalism and the impact of re-porting from South Africa during the last years of Apartheid, from Buenos Aires at the start of the Falklands War and Ethiopia and Eritrea during the Civil War. Illustrated with colour photo-graphs. Index, 453pp, UK. HUTCHINSON.
2005 2004 0099461374 Paperback
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THE SHACKLED CONTINENT: Africa's Past, Present and Future
Guest, Robert
Now in paperback. Seeks answers to the question why Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the past three decades and why it is so much at the mercy of conflict, AIDS and failed development programmes. Finds answers in corruption, state mismanagement and an absence of private property laws. Some glimmers of hope in Uganda's curb on the spread of AIDS and South Africa's democratic transition. Guest is the African editor at The Economist magazine. Index, notes, 290pp, UK. PAN MACMILLAN.
2005 2004 0330419722 Paperback
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THE SHADOW OF THE SUN: My African Life
Kapuscinski, Ryzard
Now in paperback, the widely acclaimed account of the author's extensive travels in Africa over a 40 year period beginning with Ghana's independence. 'I avoided official routes, palaces, im-portant personages, and big politics ... I preferred to hitch rides on passing trucks, wander with nomads through the desert, be the guest of peasants from the tropical savannah ... This is therefore not a book about Africa, but rather about some people from there; about encounters with them and time spent together.' 325pp, UK. PENGUIN.
2001 0140292624 Paperback
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SHOOTING HISTORY: A Personal Journey
Snow, Jon
Now in paperback, the acclaimed autobiography of one of Britain's most highly regarded newsmen. Covers twenty five years of firsthand observations of key world events and includes extensive African material from his experiences in Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia and South Africa. Index, b/w photos, 395pp, UK. HARPER PERENNIAL.
2005 2004 0007171854 Paperback
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Kapuscinski, Ryzard
Since 1964, the author has witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups across the world. Here he brings together his reportage and memoirs from countries including The Congo, Algeria and Ghana. 234pp, UK. GRANTA PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1862071063
1998 Paperback
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Venter, Sahm & Colart, Claude (Eds.)
A tribute to fallen colleagues, this book comprises a veritable United Nations of writers, photographers, producers and camera operators - 25 nationalities in all. This collection of their experiences in 38 countries reflects the gamut of emotions crowding the collective psyche of these witnesses of history. Funds raised from sales will be used for an annual award for humanitarian journalism and plans are to build an orphanage for girls in Abidjan. Contributors include CNN's Christiane Amanpour and the BBC's Fergal Keane. With a foreword by Desmond Tutu. 278pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.
2004 1919931953 Paperback
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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: Selected Pan-African Postcards
Adbul-Raheem, Tajudeen
This key selection of Tajudeen's Pan-African Postcards, written between 2003 and 2009, demonstrates the brilliant wordsmith he was, his steadfast commitment to Pan-Africanism, and his determination to speak truth to power. He was a vociferous believer in the potential of Africa and African people and his personality bounces off the page - one can almost hear the passion of his voice, 'Don't Agonise! Organise!'. Edited by Horace Campbell, Ama Biney and Adebayo Olukoshi. 270pp, UK. PAMBAZUKA.
2010 9781906387853 Paperback
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TALK OF THE DEVIL: Encounters with Seven Dictators
Orizio, Riccardo
Now available in paperback. A vivid account of an Italian journalist's quest to find and interview former dictators in their new lives after being exiled or deposed from the countries they ruled. He meets amongst other, Idi Amin living as a Muslim in Saudi Arabia, Jean Bebel Bokassa, and Colonel Mengistu. 200pp, UK. SECKER & WARBURG, 0099440679
2003 Paperback
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TELL ME NO LIES: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs
Pilger, John
Now in paperback. An anthology of investigative journalism covering the major events of the last fifty years, beginning with Martha Gellhorn's reports from the liberation of Dachau in 1944 and ending with a selection of journalism by Edward Said written between 1997 and 2002. Each piece of reportage is placed in its political and historical context. Also includes pieces by Linda Melvern on the Rwandan Genocide, Max Du Preez and Jacques Pauw on Apartheid Death Squads, and Robert Fisk on Iraq. Index, sources, 626pp, UK. VINTAGE.
2005 2004 0099437457 Paperback
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TRUE NORTH: African roads less traveled
Wende, Hamilton
Hamilton Wende returned to South Africa in 1991. Looking towards a career in journalism, he was advised to pack a rucksack and explore Africa. Like many South Africans, he had hardly been north of the Limpopo, and so over the next four years he travelled to and covered stories in Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. A journey through a continent filled with the starkest contrasts of the brutality of warfare and its consequences set against serene and beautiful landscapes. 192pp, SOUTH AFRICA. MOUSEHAND BOOKS.
2009 9780620407663 Paperback
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Levy, Bernard-Henri
Now in paperback. The author combines philosophy, journalism and personal reflection to file a series of gripping first-person reports and travel narratives from forgotten war zones in Sri Lanka, Angola, Sudan and Columbia. Notes, xxiii, 371pp, UK. DUCKWORTH.
2004 0715634240 Paperback
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Venter, Al. J. & Friends
Venter's choice of military events is eclectic. He has four chapters on Afghanistan, three on Somalia, several on how Lisbon fought its desperate rearguard colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea as well as several on the Rhodesian War. These include a tribute to his old friend Ron Reid-Dale, founder-commander of the Selous Scouts, a vivid profile of the RLI 'Incredibles' in a cross-border strike on enemy positions in Mozambique as well as a chapter by Colonel Brian Robinson, longest serving commander of the Rhodesian SAS. Venter also draws heavily on his experiences as a military correspondent for Britain's Jane's Information Group in the Middle East: he accompanied the IDF when it went into Beirut in 1982. Over 100 photos, 430pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.
2011 9781869194109 Paperback
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WHERE SOLDIERS FEAR TO TREAD: At Work in the Fields of Anarchy
Burnett, John
New in paperback. In 1998, bored and rather broke, John Burnett heard that the World Food Programme were looking for small-boat handlers to help deliver aid to the flood-stricken and starving people of Somalia and that the money was good. On the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, Burnett was nevertheless completely unprepared for the realities of working in a country without government or law where the only authority that matters comes from a loaded gun - and where hippos, crocodiles and green mambas offer alternative means of violent death. Countries experienced include Somalia, Angola and Sierra Leone. Notes, bib, 368pp, UK. ARROW.
2007 2005 9780099464990 Paperback
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Pursuing Your Passion at 40+
If you work in advertising, you're either a creative or a suit. The creatives are the writers, art directors, and producers. The suits manage the business. I loved that role but hated the suit label, because inside, I wasn't one.
I had always seen myself as a creative, ideally a writer (and an actress and a dancer, if I spit it all out). But early on, my dad advised me that for practical reasons — like making money — the soft stuff should be my avocation. So I spent years selling other people's ideas. Then at 45, I decided to change roles and start being creative myself. Now, with two books under my belt and a flourishing speaking and television career, this ex-suit has never been happier.
What is it about midlife that drives us to color outside the lines that defined us? I asked MORE readers to weigh in, and dozens of singers and sculptors, dancers and designers shared their stories. The best news: Finding our inner artiste at midlife doesn't mean starving in a garret. The proof is in these tales of careful planning and the honing of creative talents. Yes, these women have made financial sacrifices, but they feel more than compensated by the joy of doing what they love.
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In elementary school, Shelley Irwin wanted to be in the Partridge family. In junior high, she envisioned Broadway stardom; in high school, a film career. But growing up in a family of doctors and nurses and lacking the confidence to declare herself an actress, Irwin got a master's degree in physical therapy.
After working 15 years in the field, Irwin had "a nice house with spoiled dogs and no debt. A husband and children were my plan, but that didn't happen. Turning 40, I realized something was missing," she says.
One Saturday afternoon, Irwin stumbled onto the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts in Southfield, Michigan, and, out of curiosity, asked about a class in radio. Eight months later, after graduating at the top of her class, she started at the bottom as an intern at a local ABC station — pouring coffee, carrying microphones, cutting tape. She would work the early-morning news show, head out to sessions with PT clients, and return for the night shift. The studio became her study hall, where she closely watched the anchors' styles and read everything she could get her hands on to learn the job.
Soon Irwin started to pick up reporting assignments, scoring a coup interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger by daring to charge through his entourage in a Detroit parking lot. She was making $8 an hour (her physical therapy practice paid the bills), but the emotional rewards were high.
Two promotions and a relocation to Grand Rapids later, Irwin, 46, is host and producer of a two-hour NPR affiliate morning show and host of three community-focused television programs on PBS. She has just won her fourth Gracie Award for individual achievement from American Women in Radio and Television. "I am a completely different person than I was six years ago," Irwin says. "I'm confident, happy, and grateful every day. I wish I had started this career 10 years ago, but I've made it my goal to stay on the fast track with no fears." Irwin's compensation still doesn't match what she pulled down as a physical therapist, but, she says, "I can't wait for Mondays."
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EFFECTS OF TALKER VARIABILITY IN COCHLEAR IMPLANTS by Yi-ping Chang _____________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Yi-ping Chang
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|Speech perception is influenced by many factors; differences in talker characteristics also significantly influence speech perception. Because speech understanding is fairly robust to variations in pronunciation, researchers have theorized that a "speaker normalization" process occurs, in which multiple talkers' speech patterns are normalized to a target pattern. However, effects of "talker variability" may also be produced, in which speech recognition performance worsens with multiple talkers, relative to that with a single talker. Due to partial loss of talker voice information in spectrally degraded speech as experienced by cochlear implant users, the talker variability effects in cochlear implant speech may be more complex and the underlying mechanism is still not clear.; The first part of this study is perceptual experiments investigating talker variability effects in cochlear implants. A baseline experiment with cochlear implant users showed a significant talker variability effect. Then a series experiments was conducted with normal hearing subjects in simulations to investigate effects of number of talkers, talker set, background noise, carrier, spectral resolution, and number of successive talker-specific stimuli.; In the second part of this study, we compared talker variability effects with talker discrimination performance. The results revealed a strong correlation between talker variability effects and talker discrimination performance. The most prominent talker variability effects were observed in cochlear implant users with moderate levels of talker discrimination performance. Talker variability effects were relatively small in cochlear implant users with relatively good or poor talker discrimination performance.; The third part of this study is acoustic analyses and modeling of talker variability effects in cochlear implants. The acoustic distance between vowel stimuli and scatter indices of vowel pairs were calculated based on the temporal spectral envelope of the vocoder processed vowel stimuli. To account for talker variability effects, modifications were made respectively for single- and multi-talker context. In general, the normalized average acoustic distance could well predict the overall performance and talker variability effects. However, the prediction for the detailed confusion patterns showed some mixed results. The results are consistent with the assumption that talker variability effects are caused by listeners' adaptation to talker characteristics in a single-talker context.
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Arizona State (2003): Earned her second straight All-American honor, claiming NFCA/Louisville Slugger second team acclaim ... first-team All-Pacific Region choice ... first-team All-Pac-10 honors ... was one of 40 finalists for National Player of the Year honors ... posted a career-high 48 RBIs, second all-time in a single-season at ASU ... set the single-season record for home runs (15) ... second all-time with 27 career home runs ... third all-time in career RBIs with 115 ... ASU career leader in batting average (.378) ... fifth all-time in career doubles (30) ... played in all 57 games with 56 starts ... batted .325 with 51 hits and seven doubles ... scored 34 runs and had 103 total bases ... walked a team-high 19 times and had a team-high .656 slugging percentage ... batted .833 (5-6) with the bases loaded ... second on the team with 16 multi-hit games and tied for the team high with 11 multi-RBI games ... led the team with 19 two-out RBIs ... hit seven home runs against Pac-10 Conference pitching ... hit back-to-back-to-back home runs (first-time in ASU history) against SW Texas State, collecting six RBIs ... hit four home runs in a stretch of six games against Stanford, Arizona and Oregon State ... hit home runs against Arizona in consecutive games.
(2002): Had one of the best offensive seasons in ASU history ... earned first-team All-American honors ... led the team in batting average for the second straight year at .405 (fifth all-time in a single-season) ... one of 10 finalists for National Player of the Year honors ... first-team All-Pacific Region and All-Pac-10 honors ... earned NFCA National Player of the Week honors (5/18) and Pac-10 Player of the Week accolades ... named to the NIST All-Tournament team and the Region III All-Tournament team ... currently ASU's all-time leader in career batting average (.402) ... tied the single-season record with 17 doubles ... her 75 hits is fourth all-time in a single-season ... also led the team in RBIs (40), total bases (116), slugging (.627) and on-base percentage(.459) ... hit .470 with runners in scoring position ... posted a team-second-best 19 RBIs with two outs ... also hit eight home runs, second on the team ... led the team with 23 multi-hit games and 11 multi-RBI games ... posted the teams second longest hitting streak at 10 ... batted .350 in the Pac-10 Conference ... Maroon & Gold Scholar-Athlete.
(2001): Had an outstanding first year ... named the team's Offensive Player of the Year ... played in 57 games, starting all 57 ... led the team in batting average (.399), hits (67) triples (2) and slugging percentage (.530) ... earned second-team All-Pac-10 honors ... over the final 33 games she batted .495 with five doubles, two triple, three home runs, 12 runs scored, 15 walks and 22 RBIs ... was a main contributor in each of Arizona State's three wins against nationally-ranked Stanford and California, earning NFCA National Player of the Week honors and Pac-10 Player of the Week honors ... against Stanford, she went 2-for-4 with a double to help propel ASU to the extra inning win ... the next day against Cal, she went 2-for-3 with a home run, a run scored and two RBIs ... the home run put ASU ahead in the game 2-0 and a single later help to win that game in extra innings ... overall she went 4-for-8 (.500) with a double, a home run, a run scored, three RBIs and three walks ... in 21 Pac-10 games she batted an amazing .418 in the pitching rich conference ... posted the team's longest hitting streak at 13 games (fifth longest in the Pac-10) ... produced a team-high 18 RBIs with two outs ... finished tied for second on the team with 17 multi hit games and third in multi RBI games (6) ... batted .530 at the National Invitational Softball Tournament, earning all-tournament honors ... also led the team in postseason batting average at a .455 clip ... named to the Region III all-tournament team.
High School: A 2000 graduate of Los Alamitos High School, Los Alamitos, Calif. ... lettered four times in softball and twice in volleyball ... earned 1999 Most Valuable Player honors of the Sunset League ... first-team all-league selection ... 1999 Long Beach Press Telegram Dream Team member ... first-team All-C.I.F. and all-county ... team co-MVP with current ASU teammate Kristin Farber ... first-team All-American 18U Gold Nationals, playing for the Gordon Panthers ... 1998 first-team all-league ... named best defensive player.
Personal: Major is education ... parent is Holly MacDonald of Los Alamitos, Calif. ... has one older brother, Jason, who played professional baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Kansas City Royals ... born March 31, 1982 in Long Beach, Calif. ... full name is Phelan Elizabeth Wright.


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A significant winter storm is beginning to unfold across the Ohio Valley this evening.
In typical Columbus fashion, the exact line between heavy snow and ice is setting up very close to the metro region. It is important to remember that any minor shift in the track of the low could have huge implications with the forecast. Some minor adjustments have been made since yesterday, but the big picture is still intact.
TIMING: Snow is expected to start this evening after 6:30 p.m. with the heaviest precipitation occurring between 8 p.m. and 3 a.m. Snow may mix with or change over to sleet and freezing rain after midnight depending on where you live. This will transition to light snow early Wednesday morning and taper off by noon.
ACCUMULATION: 3-6 inches of snow for the immediate Columbus metro area with up to 4 tenths of an inch of ice. 6-10 inches of snow north of Franklin County and 2-4 inches of snow with possibly over 1/2" of ice south of Columbus. See the winter storm map for details.
IMPACT: Major impact to area roadways Tuesday night and much of Wednesday. Expect very hazardous travel conditions and numerous school closings for Wednesday. Additionally, areas that see severe icing could experience power outages due to downed trees.
DISCUSSION: Forecast has been adjusted to include slightly less snow for heart of Franklin county compared to yesterday and thus slightly more ice. It cannot be stressed more how tight the gradient will be between snow / ice totals just across Franklin County and thus the potential for minor shifts. Any minor shift could result in a major difference in sensible weather.
Snowfall rates of 1-2" per hour are possible this evening in addition to isolated lightning and thunder.
Regardless of whether you see all snow or a mix, a big impact to travel is likely. Also, areas that see over 1/3" of ice accretion should prepare for isolated power outages. Higher totals over ½" will make power outages even more likely. This zone will be most likely along and southeast of I-71 running south of Columbus.
Another cold air mass will move in for the second half of the week. Lows in the single digits are likely Thursday and Friday mornings. Another storm system is on the horizon for this weekend and may bring light snow again. Stay with examiner.com and Mike Groenke on twitter for the latest winter weather forecasts.
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With years of insurance experience WiseDriving has put in loads of effort to negotiate exceptional prices for our customers. With no mileage limitations or any penalty fees, WiseDriving offers a unique telematics product to our customers.
Our clever systems will look at how you've been driving every month. Using all of the information that the intelligent WiseDriving box captures it will determine your Driving Score. You can view your driving score anytime you want by logging onto your portal and viewing your Dashboard. Here we will break it all down for you showing you how you've been doing over various months as well as what your total score is. The better you drive, the better your score!
Telematics seems to be the new buzz word in insurance and so it should be. It's all about how we can help our customers to save money on their insurance. If you are a safe driver and you feel it is unfair that you have to pay more because of other drivers on the road, you will appreciate Telematics. Telematics offers all our customers to pay insurance on how they drive as individuals. Giving you more control over your insurance premiums.
Our WiseDriving Telematics product has been developed with our customers in mind. We want to make sure that we always offer our customers the best prices we are able to do. So if your driving has improved month on month we will always try to give you the best price possible taking into consideration your improved driving


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Being in a serious, monogamous relationship takes a lot of commitment, dedication, selflessness and maturity. It requires you to be willing to fight for it; to put the relationship as priority in your life, not just something that is convenient and fun. In the 2000 Sandra Bullock film, 28 Days, Bullock plays a recovering addict. In one scene, one of the recovering addicts in rehab (Gerhardt) asks the AA counselor how they will know when they can date again. His response was: "Well, in your first year, buy a plant, at the end of that year, buy a pet, and IF... at the end of that second year, they are both still alive, that would be when I would recommend starting a relationship." That advice is not only applicable to recovering alcoholics. The plant, pet, relationship plan could be a good idea for anyone looking for a serious relationship, especially after you've been through a difficult relationship, a series of relationships, or if you're thinking about getting married. Take some time and go through a process. Try the plant, pet, relationship plan.
The plant - Getting a plant will be a great start to nurturing something and taking care of something other than yourself. Many people go through life only thinking about themselves. What am I going to wear? What am I going to eat? What will I do today? A plant is a great step towards the relationship. It allows you time to pause and care for something other than yourself. It gets you in the habit of checking on something else with the watering and feeding and sunlight and what not. A pet is too much of a commitment to be step 1 it requires a lot of work. Start slow. Start with plants and go from there.
"Shop Owner: Sir, I can't replace the plant just because you killed it.
Gerhardt: I did not kill this plant, it was sick or something. I gave it everything. I was talking to it, telling it stories. I drew a sketch of it, and put it on my refrigerator.
Shop Owner: Did you water it?
Gerhardt: I-- I have-- It's important that I did not kill this plant, you understand? So if you're just saying that because that's how you're making your excuse, you have got to understand-- You can't mess with-- I'm never gonna get laid. [Sobs] You obviously don't care. And that's one thing I do, is care. I feel sorry for all the plants in here. I'm going home."
The pet - If you can master the plant, you can move on to the pet. Skip this step, if you must, but skip it at your own risk! Having a pet is a huge responsibility. That's what parents tell their kids when they beg for a pet. But when we grow up and decide to get a pet, we somehow forget how serious that warning is. People get pets because they want to. It's usually an emotional and spontaneous decision. But it shouldn't be taken likely. Depending on what kind of pet you get, it could require a lot of time and effort. For instance, if you get a dog, you will need to walk it and feed it and find someone to watch it when you go out of town. But caring for a pet will help prepare you for a relationship.
The relationship - After the pet and the plant, you're ready for a relationship! The lessons you learn in caring for something else will prepare you for the time and effort that a relationship takes. Watering the plant, feeding the fish, walking the dog... the love and affection you show towards the plant and the pet will help prepare you for a relationship. This is not to trivialize a relationship, but oftentimes people jump from relationship to relationship without taking time to just be alone. Owning a pet and caring for a plant will allow you to have some me time while you prepare yourself for your next relationship.
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Building or repairing your credit score can be confusing. There is a huge lack of financial education explaining how excellent credit is built, so here are some basics. Watch this Unlocking the Secrets of Your Credit Score video to learn more.
Why is a credit score important?
Every time you complete an application for credit (mortgage, credit card, car loan, etc.), the lender must decide if they will grant you the loan. Your credit score (range is 300-850) plays a big role in their decision-making process because it reflects your overall credit history. In other words, it shows the lender your track record in terms of repaying debt. The higher your credit score, the more likely you are to be approved for loans and will receive lower interest rates when borrowing.
This method of determining how responsible you've been with past credit is also being used for decisions on renting of apartments, approval for cell phone plans and is a large factor in what price you'll pay for auto insurance. (Why does it matter? Testing showed people with good credit scores are more cautious drivers and have fewer accidents. Keep this in mind each time your auto insurance policy is renewing and ask for better pricing if you've improved your credit recently.)
What makes up your credit score?
You actually have three credit scores, one for each of the credit bureaus - Experian, TransUnion, and Equifax (scores will be similar, but vary slightly by bureau). Each credit bureau maintains a file about your credit history. (You can request one free report from each of the credit bureaus once per year at www.annualcreditreport.com.) Over time, the information in your credit history changes & your credit score changes based on how you handle re-payment of debt owed.


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NSFW: Gear videos may never be the same after iVardensphere's Interesting View On Music Gear.
IVardensphere is a Canadian band that mixes tribal drums with 'pounding analogue synths'.
NSFW: Gear videos may never be the same after iVardensphere's Interesting View On Music Gear.
IVardensphere is a Canadian band that mixes tribal drums with 'pounding analogue synths'.
Audio Damage has released Filterstation for Windows and Mac.
Filterstation is the Audio Damage take on the classic serial/parallel/stereo dual filter topology, made famous by the Sherman Filterbank and its many clones.
Filterstation for Windows and Mac (VST3/VST2/AU) is now available for US $49. See the Audio Damage site for audio demos.
This video, via HOX808, is equal part synth porn and synth jam. It features Metasonix D 1000 vacuum tube drum machine and a smorgasborg of analog synth goodness.
Extreme Saturday Synth Porn: Take a synthgasmic psychedelic trip with Stomachlining's FLWRPWR. Continue reading
This video captures a little Novation LaunchPpad vs Sherman Filterbank action.
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Yet another experiment using Sherman Filterbank and Novation Launchpad, this time running monome app Press Café.
No external signal was processed: the 2 internal filters are self oscillating and they're singing by themselves!
I'm only triggering the envelopes via MIDI: the 2nd and 4th columns of buttons of the Launchpad trigger the amp Attack/Release, while the 1st and 2nd columns trigger the filter ADSR at different velocities, producing percussion sounds.
The Sherman Filterbank is a powerful, real analogue, solid hardware instrument, with a unique sound. In this interview from Electronic Beat's Slices, Herman Gillis talks about origin of the Sherman Filterbank and more. Continue reading
Ethnic digital drum machine w/ Sherman Filterbank & TENORI-ON (by Franck Smith)
Using traditional percussion samples on TENORI-ON w/ Sherman Filterbank 2, Moog Analog Delay + digital manipulations via Korg Kaoss Pad KP3.
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In this example, bigdecimal class round method working is demonstrated.
Method return type is a bigdecimal value as per context
Method throws NumberFormatException if it finds value other than integer and double. Method also throws ArithmeticException if the rounding mode is UNNECESSARY.
Syntax for using the method: public BigDecimal round(MathContext mc)
BigDecimal objects with names x, y;
y = x.round(mc);
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Today was the start of both my Paleo and Crossfit challenges. Needless to say I am exhausted! Now, I did not eat appropriately today according to my Crossfit trainer, Joe, because I only ate twice between 6 AM and 4 PM...my excuse was that I was that I went back to bed from 7AM - 12PM, for some reason he said that didn't count. Also, I was feeling under the weather yesterday so I did not make it to the grocery store for my pre-Paleo stock up, so I had to default to two protein shakes for breakfast and lunch.
Breakfast/Lunch Smoothie
2 cup acai super antioxidant smoothie mix
1 cup grapefruit juice (no sugar added)
1.5 scoops Perfect Fit Protein
1 tbsp Flaxseed, ground
The trainer at Crossfit asked me to be there at 4:30 PM for my "intro workout", so I was there at 4:15 PM of course. I had no idea what to expect and started thinking it would just be a quick tour of the gym and maybe little talk about the proper regime for Crossfit. BOY WAS I WRONG!?!?
He had me run 400 meters, do push ups, pull-ups, air squats, dips, and some hamstrings/glute/crunch thing. Then he said, "Okay, now that's the warmup." I almost fainted.
Then he showed me the proper protocol for burpees and wall balls..."Okay, now you are going to do as many rounds of 7 burpees and 7 wall balls in 7 minutes." I was thinking "Wow, seriously? After the warmup this will be easy!"
HAHAHAHA (again) I was WRONG!
I completed nearly 4 minutes before I was on the brink of covering the gym floor with my delicious going down protein smoothie. Joe told me that I did a great job for my first time, which made me feel good but I still wish I'd completed the final three minutes. What I loved most... the trainer saw that I was reluctant to give up and he told me "You know you have nothing to prove to me. This is for you, and most girls your age who claim to be in better shape give up after two minutes."
My first day of Paleo and Crossfit may have been challenging but I am confident that in four weeks I will look back and be AMAZING at the results and glad that I stuck with it. After all, as Joe said "This is for you!"
This is my time to take control... again. Yet, each new day is a new turn. If I have a bad day, then who am I cheating? No one but myself. I can make a fresh start with each day, each workout, and each decision.
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The overcrowded parking lot will clue you in to the Blue Door Cafe & Bakery's popularity. The outside looks like any other greasy spoon diner (the building was originally owner Michael Bruno's mother-in-law's restaurant, the Golden Goose). But take one step inside, and you'll know you're in for something special. A classic domed-glass pastry case immediately draws the eye, behind which stacks of giant cinnamon rolls and chocolate croissants appear — and disappear just as quickly. Marble-topped tables, hand-printed tickets and old wooden cabinets add to the Blue Door's vaguely hipster vibe. There's two menus to peruse — one with everyday dishes, the other with rotating specials. The huge, crispy, flaky, house-made croissant in the vegetarian croissant monsieur ($10) does not disappoint. Stuffed with a farm-fresh egg, Gruyere, spinach and a light brushing of bechamel and Dijon, it is filling but not heavy, and the accompanying side salad is spotlessly prepared. A scallop fricassee special ($24), served with a puff pastry and local beet microgreens, goes beyond your typical brunch fare and proves that chef Jimmy Pintiello isn't afraid to push the culinary envelope even this early in the morning.
The Blue Door Cafe & Bakery, 1970 State Road, Cuyahoga Falls, 330-926-9774, bluedoorcafebakery.com
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As I try to live life and situate a solid career, you'll be seeing some artwork uploaded here, some journals posted, and plugs for other random stuff that's relevant. So, hope you enjoy what's on offer, and your curiosity energized.
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The Scientific Advisory Board
Chairman – Dr. William Abraham, Chief of Heart Failure, Ohio State University
Barry T. Katzen, M.D. – Director Miami Vascular Institute Interventionist and endovascular
Camillo Ricordi, M.D – Director, Diabetes Research Institute and Cell Transplant Program
University of Miami
Doris A. Taylor, Ph.D. – Director Cardio Stem Cell Research Texas Heart Institute Preclinical research and cell culturing
Dr. Christopher M. O'Connor – Chief Heart Failure Duke University Congestive heart failure and ischemic heart disease
Dr. Sergio Pinski – Chief Electrophysiology Cleveland Clinic Florida Cardiology and electrophysiology
Edward Diethrich, M.D. – Former Director Arizona Heart Institute Cardiac surgery and endovascular specialist
Eric Crumpler, Ph.D. – Florida International University Researcher Preclinical research
Felipe Prósper, Ph.D. – University of Pamplona Spain Director Stem Cell Research Preclinical Research
George J. Magovern, M.D. – Chief Cardiac Surgery Pittsburgh Allegheny Cardiac surgery
Harold Ott, M.D., Ph.D. – Harvard University Stem Cell Researcher Preclinical research
Richard Heuser, M.D. – Director Phoenix Heart Institute Interventional cardiology
Robert S. Schwartz, M.D. – University of Minnesota Cardiovascular Reseach Preclinical research
Robert Van Tassel, M.D. – Cardiologist Minneapolis Heart Institute Interventional cardiology
Samuel S. Ahn, M.D., MBA – Former Director UCLA Endovascular Program Endovascular specialist
Stephen G. Ellis, M.D. – Director Cath Lab Cleveland Clinica Interventional cardiology
Stephen Ramee, M.D. – Director Cardiology Oschner Clinic Interventional Cardiology
Stuart Williams, Ph.D. – U of Louisville Cardiovascular Research Preclinical Research
Syde A. Taheri, M.D. – Inventor with over 40 patents Preclinical Research
Warren Sherman, M.D., FACC – Director Cath Lab Columbia University Interventional cardiology
Wendell King – Inventor Biological Pacemaker Preclinical research
James Margolis, M.D. – Director Miami Heart Institute Interventional cardiology
Jorge Genovese, M.D. – Leading researcher electrical stimulation for stem cell repair Preclinical research
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Released: Aug 01st, 1994
Running Time: 71
Director: Craig Andrews
Company: HIS Video
Cast: York Powers, Devon Rexman, Tony Belmonte, Ren Adams, Randy Storm, Rob Abbott, Tanner Reeves, Tyler Scott
Critical Rating: AAA 1/2
Genre: Gay and Bi
Man Construction takes us into a day in the life of the men of Man Construction, a company run by Tyler Scott and his more-than-able assistant, Tony Belmonte. The firm specializes in condo renovations, done by hot and horny workers. Scott decides to take the day off, since Belmonte can handle things at the office, and Scott would rather take care of some other things, namely, getting down with his lover, Tanner Reeves. Reeves and Scott start out with some oral action, before Reeves offers his talented butt to Scott for nice heavy pounding.
Not to be left out, Belmonte manages to get laid twice in his work day: first during a job interview with Powers; then later, when he is forced to discipline Abbott for not completing his jobs. Abbott shows Belmonte he can follow through, first fucking his face before throwing Belmonte over his desk to plow his ass. Rexman and Adams show us how to negotiate a bid, getting the price down by getting their cocks up. And then, Storm and Abbott take a much needed coffee break, stirring up their own fresh cream in a hot encounter.
Too bad all construction firms don't offer their customers these same services. With the fun these guys are having, maybe I should change careers. Or, at least, maybe I should get an estimate for a deck for my backyard. Build a spot on your shelves for this one.


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Melbourne, FL – August 10, 2014 – It is that time of the year when surf fishing anglers get their rods and reels ready for the 3rd Annual Anglers of Conservation Surf Fishing Tournament being held from October 10th to October 19th. Tournament anglers will test their skills in Brevard County along the beaches of Florida's Space Coast to win cash money for the longest fish in 11 different categories, shark, whiting, red fish, snook, blue fish, flounder, Spanish mackerel, black drum, pompano, sheepshead, and Jack Cervalle. There will also be three Calcutta winner take all for the longest shark, most spots on a red fish and longest combined length of a combination of the 11 different species in the tournament.
The tournament kick-off meeting will be held at Harry Goode's Outdoor Shop in Melbourne on October 10th at 6:00 P.M. with fishing starts at dawn on October 11th. Fishing ends at midnight on October 18th and the Award ceremony will be held on October 19 at Grills Melbourne Riverside. Entry fees are $40.00 for adults and $20.00 for youth anglers.
There will be two surf fishing workshops that are included in the registration fee. The first workshop is being held at Harry Goode's Outdoor Shop in Melbourne, FL on September 10th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. The second workshop is being held at Strike-Zone Fishing in Melbourne, FL on October 8th from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.
Proceeds from the tournament go towards the Anglers for Conservation (AFC) education fund that supports the effort to build a new generation of anglers using education, habitat restoration projects, and conservation tactics to protect the Indian and Banana Rivers and the Mosquito Lagoon for future generations. The AFC mission cannot be accomplished without the support of project and tournament sponsors. Today I would like to introduce four sponsors that are supporting the 3rd Annual Anglers of Conservation Surf Fishing Tournament.
Wild River Tackle Tek™ – This is the second year Wild River has been a sponsor. Launched in 2012, Wild River Tackle Tek™ is an outdoor adventure gear provider. The Wild River brand of outdoor gear has a variety of tackle bags and boxes, water proof jackets and pants, outdoor gloves of all kinds as well as an assortment of other outdoor accessories. This year at the 2014 ICAST they showcased their new line of Multi-Tackle Box Configurations which has six new bags: the Large and small backpacks, the open and closed top bags and the medium and small dual compartment tackle bags. Last year,at the 2013 ICAST, Wild River rolled out their new Nomad XPTM with a Led lighting system and an add-on solar panel to charge the onboard battery charger. Wild River has donated a few tackle box systems to be used in the raffle to raise money for ACF.
Sunsect – This is the first year Sunsect is a sponsor. Sunsect is a cross between a broad spectrum sunscreen and an insect repellent. The company has been selling their product to the U.S. Military. It is made in the USA. Sunsect has donated samples to be put in every angler's bag and 4 oz. tubs that will be given away in the raffle.
Tailin' Toads – This is the second year Manny Altman and her Tailin' Toads fishing Apparel Company have been a sponsor. Manny hand picks an assortment of her sun protection apparel to be bundled up into a Tailin' Toads gift basket. Her donation was a big hit in last year's raffle.
FishPond – This is the first year FishPond is a sponsor. FishPond is company that deigns and manufacturers fishing packs and vests that are built from recycled material that includes commercial fishing nets that have been removed from the ocean and beaches. According to John Land Le Coq, founder and CEO, "The use of recycles material helps reduce greenhouse emissions and the amount of manmade material littering our oceans and clogging our landfills." FishPond has donated one of their BLUE RIVER CHEST/LUMBAR PACK to be used in the raffle to raise money for ACF.
Without sponsors like these Anglers for Conservation would not be able to do what they do – protect the waters of the Indian and Banana Rivers and the Mosquito Lagoon.
I hope to see you at the anglers meeting. This is going to be a great tournament.
Until next time, be safe in the sun and have a great day in the great outdoors.