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Men's Hoops Drops Exhibition Opener, 95-85 :: Baylor Led by Two 20-point Scorers
Honestly, Baylor was my "Suprise Big 12 team" pick this year. If they don't make the NCAA this year... Drew has to do less with more than any coach in the conference. He has recruited at an elite level, and he's never gotten more than 4 conference wins in a season. His Big 12 record is 12-52. He needs to start producing this year.
I mean this is only an exhibition and it's just one game, but they gave up 95 points. Oi.
85 points to a Division II (?) team is pretty embarrassing. When teams lose to these lower level division teams, it's not necessarily that big of a deal, but when they give up nearly 100 points in a loss, then it really has to make the fans kind of wonder.
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It wouldn't have been so bad if it was a lower scoring game or if they team they lost to was even something people have heard of. That's just a nasty loss.
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
ISU MBB: Bigger than a single person, player, or coach.
Grand Valley State beat Michigan State this weekend as well...something tells me not to read too much into that! Izzo will have that team ready!
Considering Mich. State was one of the favorites to go really far this year that is a big upset.
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Grand Valley State beat Michigan State this weekend as well...something tells me not to read too much into that! Izzo will have that team ready!
Hey....the lost to Grand Valley State...that could just be a hint that MSU isnt that good. Alot of D2 schools have a ton of talent these days too.
MSU is just showing what a powerhouse the Big 10 plans on being in basketball once again.
Maybe basketball will go just like football - parity across the country. Where is Turtle Tartleton State? Is that in Estonia?
Let Prohm's Posse Ride: Hallice, Brady, Stu, Lard, Naz, Deonte, Monte, Matt, Simeon, Jordan, and Babb.
Remember when Fizer/Tinsley & Co. lost at Drake to start the season...that worked out pretty well! No one wants to lose ever...but sometimes losses can get the attention of the players.
MBB is a lot more forgiving on unexpected losses than football is for sure!
Many of us seem to have forgotten our close call against Morningside (a NAIA team)...
Men's Basketball Needs OT to Beat Morningside
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Release: 11/21/2000
AMES, Iowa (AP) - Martin Rancik scored a career-high 32 points, including two free throws with 1.4 seconds to play in overtime, as Iowa State held off Morningside 102-97 Tuesday.
Morningside (2-1) battled back from a 13-point deficit midway through the second half and sent the game into overtime on a 3-pointer by Derek Paben with 4.3 seconds to play that tied the score at 88.
The Mustangs led by three points twice in the extra session, the last at 97-94 with 2:20 remaining after Andrew Drevo hit the first of two free throws. Morningside failed to score the rest of the way and Iowa State put the game away at the free throw line, hitting all six of its attempts in the last 30 seconds.
Paul Shirley, who scored 13 points, got Iowa State (1-0) to within one at 97-96 with 1:24 remaining. Jamaal Tinsley, who scored 20 points, missed two free throw attempts, but Rancik grabbed the rebound, was fouled by Drevo and made both attempts to put Iowa State ahead 98-97 with 30 seconds left.
Tinsley was fouled battling for a rebound with 13.9 seconds remaining and hit both attempts to put Iowa State ahead 100-97.
The Cyclones led by 10 points twice in the first half and led by nine at halftime, 43-34.
Morningside, led by Paben's 21 points, cut the margin to 72-67 with 7:11 remaining before eight unanswered points by Tinsley gave Iowa State an 80-67 lead. Dusty Wadlington had 18 points.
The Mustangs set a new Hilton Coliseum record for most 3-point baskets in a game, hitting 18 of 39. That broke the mark of 14 set by Princeton against Western Illinois Dec. 4, 1998, in the Norwest Cyclone Challenge.
The loss ended Morningside's 14-game winning streak against nonconference opponents.
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I was travelling for work, and decided to spend the weekend in the area to get some riding in. I gambled and rented a 58cm Specialized Roubaix (I ride a 60cm Scattante) hoping it would feel fine.
Up till now the most I've ridden was 88 miles, and that was the weekend I purchased my road bicycle (OC to SD :-) ); I had no idea what possessed me but I remember the pain in my legs, the pain in my knee, and needing to walk up the Torrey Pines hill. Prior to the weekend where I purchased a road bike, I was riding my Mountain Bike around 20-35 miles each weekend. Since that painful first weekend with a roadbike I've slowly built up the distance over the course of 7 months: 40 miles, 45, 50, 55, 60,65,70. The only thing holding me back from longer distances is the time it takes me to do it. Right now I land between 50-65 miles on a weekend.
The work week was harsh: up at 5:30AM and back at 8:00PM on most nights. The fluorescent lights of the clean room can make your eyes bleed. Sleep was not great, but it was passable. Could have left on Friday, but my ticket was for Sunday, which allowed me to ride on Saturday. I didn't even think about riding once that whole week. As I came to the realization of who I was once more on Friday, I quickly ran to the LBS to pick up that bicycle.
I had only planned around 50 miles that weekend; well, by 'planned', I mean it was just an idea that went through my head before I took the departing flight. Once I got back to the hotel with the bike, I took it upstairs, outfitted with what I brought (90% of luggage weight was my cycling gear), and took a shower. It was late night Friday, I had the lights off, myself trucked into bed between the sheets, and I intently focused on my laptop screen while letting the History Channel play on in the background. I was focused looking for trails. My sea-level tuned lungs were concerned about too much elevation change, especially because I was at an absolute 4000ft higher. Most rides around 50 miles had 2-4K change in elevation. Then, without thinking about it, I found a 1000 ft elevation change ride....over 100 miles. Its flat Jimmy, its flat. That same feeling came back to me when I first got my bicycle....COMPLETE THE CENTURY. I paused and gave it the 'careful' consideration: I'd be doing it alone, I'd be doing it on a trail that I've never seen, I'd be doing it on a bicycle that wasn't even remotely fitted for me, I'd have no idea how often I could stop for water or food....I thought about all of this in 0.25 seconds before I grinned outwardly knowing my fate was sealed.
I slept in very late that day, up at 10:30AM only to be out by 11:30AM. It was the most amazing ride ever. I stayed hydrated, I carbed up every 10 miles with food....but I found that thirst got the best of me. I usually go through 2 bottles every 20 miles, but by 50 miles I was going 2 bottles every 10 miles, and I was stopping by the beautiful houses near the trail and asking for refills on water. Everyone was friendly and kind. At 54 miles, with only 10 minute stops every 10 miles to eat dates & cliff bars, I used my phone to take a video about how I felt. I was coughing and hacking and clearly wanting even more water than I had access to. I was okay though, my legs felt great, my butt sufficiently conditioned to a saddle, and my mind focused on the Subway that I would encounter just 2 miles behind me. I'm pretty sure I drank about 4 liters of water there - its amazing how much water I had even though I was consistently drinking the whole way. I then stopped at every single park the trail touched and ensured that I topped off all my bottles, as well as drank atleast 500ml at every stop. It was a ritual: notice the water fountain, quickly pull in, drink what I had, fill up, and leave without saying a word. Taking 2 bottles/7 miles made a huge difference in performance (along with the subway sandwhich) and I went just as hard, if not a little harder, on my return.
I finished at about 8:30PM, and the bicycle shop gave me hell for making them wait, but they quickly changed their tune when they found out I just completed a century on my own. The owner grinned and congratulated me, while I stumbled outside of the store and realized that I was stuck in my cycling shoes, and I REALLLY didn't want to walk. The 18 dollars taxi ride took me 1 mile...it was the best cab ride i've ever had, and it was the best present I could have asked for as my last day as a 28 year old.
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"When the Story family built the mansion, they incorporated a ballroom up here on the third floor as a place for social gatherings and special events for the community" Andy Epple said, gesturing to a giant room that takes up most of the third floor of the Story Mansion.
Epple is the president of the Exergy Friends of the Story Mansion- the group that's buying the historic home after Bozeman City Commissioners voted unanimously to sell the mansion during their Monday night meeting.
"The main floor of the mansion itself will continue to be rented and made available for private parties or community groups for special activities" Epple said.
The city bought the mansion in April of 2003 for a little over a million dollars. Since then, they've spend time restoring the first floor, and rented it out to the community for activities.
Per the contract with City Commissioners, the mansion would continue to function as it does now.
That includes the upkeep of the park outside, Epple said. But they have bigger plans in store.
"Our hope for the second and third floors of the main building here is to have an educational nonprofit" he said. They're also looking to have nonprofits move into the carriage house next to the mansion, or use it for community purposes.
The City Commission had strict terms for the sale. Exergy had to agree to huge renovations.
They have to take on 2 of 3 projects- including renovating the second or third floor, or the carriage house.
Or, they have to invest at least $1.5 million into the property in some other way.
"If that doesn't happen the first five years, the property goes back to the city" City Manager Chris Kukulski said, if Exergy doesn't keep up their end of the deal.
Kukulski said it's been a long and complicated process. And, it hasn't come without controversy.
The city has invested over $2 million in restoring, it but are selling for just under $400,000.
And there's been community concerns over a private entity taking ownership.
But Kukulski said the contract created was specifically meant to keep the home on track for restoration, and in the community's hands.
Plus, he said, it won't be a financial burden on the city.
"It will no longer be something in our annual budget to figure out how to maintain and operate, but it is accessible to the public" Kukulski said.
Now is the time to sell, he said, with the terms that Exergy will pick up where the city left off.
And Epple said they're more than happy to do that.
"Our hope is that the Story Mansion will become even more of a community focal center than it is currently" he said.
Now that City Commissioners have given the green light on the sale, there is a process of finalizing the document before it takes effect.
Epple said he expects the title to be in Exergy's hands by July 1st.


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"Running out of Moonlight" is the theme for this year's Holyoke High School Junior/Senior Prom, set for this Saturday night, May 3 at the high school. Parents, family and friends are all invited to see students and their dates cross the stage in the Grand March at 7 p.m. at the HHS auditorium.
Students are anxiously awaiting the crowning of Prom king and queen to take place at the Grand March. HHS junior king candidates chosen by their classmates are pictured from left in front, Tito Fierro, Dylan Kotch and Ben Sumners, with the queen candidates in back, Megan Vieselmeyer, Rosa Ochoa and Kaylee Ham.
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A collision between a log truck and a car closed a highway in Duplin County for most of the morning on Tuesday.
Highway 11 North was closed in both directions east of Kenansville near Highway 111.
Troopers say a car pulled out in front of a log truck. The driver of the car was not hurt, but the truck driver, Douglas Whaley, was airlifted to New Havover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington.
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"You can see the exact anguish in Barack Obama, he can't seem to find an answer here, and he knows that it's undermining everything that he wants to do at home." said Presidential Historian, Allan J. Lichtman.
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Rabbi convicted of sexual offenses on minors decides not to appeal verdict. Lawyer claims trial marred with issues, but family want life 'to return to normal'
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Rabbi Moti Elon has decided not to appeal a Jerusalem Magistrate Court ruling according to which he is guilty of performing at least two indecent sexual acts on a minor.
According to the rabbi, he reached the decision not to appeal the conviction and six month community service sentence after conferring with his family which recommended he move forward and put the incident behind him.
Ynet contacted his lawyer Asher Ohayon who claimed that the rabbi's decision was solely personal, and that at a legal level the rabbi stood a very good chance at winning his appeal.
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According to Ohayon, after cofnering with leading jurist, major technical issues were found in Elon's trial.
Elon was also sentenced to 15 months probation and must pay NIS 10,000 in compensation to the victim a day after new details were released about his case, revealing the rabbi's behavioral patterns and reinforcing the conviction against him.
While testifying, R.M, a social worker, recalled how she watched the rabbi kiss and hug a boy in his car. The case is not included in the indictment, but the testimony was found by the court to be reliable and relevant.
As deliberations over Elon's sentence began, Jerusalem District Prosecutor Sagi Ofir announced his support of a 8–18 months term of imprisonment for the convicted rabbi.
Elon's friends and family argued that he should receive community service, and not a prison sentence. They added that regardless of he sentence, the disgraced rabbi will appeal the verdict.


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A person who stopped to see if a parked car was for sale found the body. The car and body were located in a vacant lot on Harkrider Street. Customers at a nearby tire store said the car with California plates had been parked there for several days.
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Liam McMorrow is not your typical sophomore center. At 21 years old with only one year of organized basketball experience on any level, the term 'project' may be an understatement. Not that McMorrow isn't blessed with natural physical tools that will allow him to prosper in blue and gold, but growing up as a hockey and lacrosse player in suburban Toronto, NCAA basketball was the furthest thing from his mind.


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Not new to cycling, though, as I've tried every other discipline in cycling except for track. I mostly wanted to try something new, but then realized that track racing is very fast and that just made me want to do it even more. I have no experience with fixed gear bikes, but I'm sure I'll catch on quick.
I found two outdoor, paved tracks that are relatively close to me: Kissena and New England Velodrome (which I guess is actually an auto track). There is also Trexlertown which is almost twice the distance as the other two. Does anyone here have any experience on these tracks? Do they offer good beginner instruction that you're aware of?
Also, what are the racing classes like? I'm obviously a beginner at the track, but have been riding and racing bicycles for almost 20 years. Is it done similar to road cycling categories? I understand that there are different disciplines within track cycling. I've heard sprint, pursuit, time trial, etc. Is there a list of descriptions for each somewhere?
Finally, I want to get a decent bike to start off with. It will probably be used on the road and running tracks to a lesser degree as well. I was checking out the Specialized Langster Comp. I work at a bike shop, so I can get it for a really good price. I already checked out eBay and such and didn't find much for the same price that could be comparable. Would this be a good bike to start off with?
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2. White Chocolate Eggnog: While traditional, eggnog doesn't have to be boring. This version uses white chocolate liqueur and the classic concoction is topped with whipped cream, grated white chocolate and pumpkin pie spice. Rim the glass with crushed peanuts to complement the white chocolate. If you're serving the ultimate peanut butter fan, try adding a tablespoon of peanut butter to the mix.
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- Question from Joan: I've been on Xeloda for a year now and it is working, but the side effects are somewhat debilitating — hand-foot syndrome. What do you consider to be a good schedule for the drug — 7 days on, 7 days off at a higher dose? I understand that this is a new protocol.
- Answers - Larry Norton, M.D. Yes, that's a treatment that we've developed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. The conventional schedule for Xeloda (chemical name: capecitabine) is 14 days on and 7 days off. However, by analyzing lab experiments, we have determined that most of the cancer killing activity of the drug is in the first 7 days of exposure. Hence we have explored 7 days on and 7 days off instead of 14 days on and 7 days off. This allows a higher dose to be administered safely, and seems to remarkably reduce the incidence of hand-foot syndrome. Currently this regimen is being tested in various settings; however, because of the reduction in toxicity many oncologists are already using the 7 on/7 off schedule as their preferred method of administration. The important thing is to stay away from the drug until the hand-foot heals completely. You can go to other anti-cancer medications for weeks or months until the hand-foot syndrome heals, and then go back to the Xeloda with the new schedule and get anti-cancer activity with reduced side effects.
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GAINESVILLE, Florida, February 10. THE Florida Gators will head to the Southeastern Conference as the defending men's team champion and a top contender on the women's side. Head coach Gregg Troy is excited about preparing his teams for the championship phase of the season, and he talked with the media today about what's in store for the meet.
This year's conference championship will feature a five-day meet that will require teams "to take your enthusiasm and maintain it over five days." He also talks about a strong men's team that will include six swimmers that will be left home but could make qualifying times for the NCAA championships.
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text: Photo Gallery Space Pictures This Week: Flame Nebula, Star "Bubble," More A cosmic skyrocket, a "butterfly" seen on Mars, and a disappearing star feature among our editors' picks for this week's best space pictures. PUBLISHED Thu Jul 05 11:44:00 EDT 2012 0 1 / 9 Heading Home The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft floats through the clouds before landing in a remote area near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on July 1.The three-person crew returned from more than six months aboard the International Space Station, where they served as members of the Expedition 30 and 31 crews.(See "After Space Shuttle, Does U.S. Have a Future in Space?") Photograph by Bill Ingalls, NASA Star "Bubble" A bright star "blows a bubble" of gas in an unusual image released July 2 by the Hubble Space Telescope.As it nears the end of its life, U Camelopardalis—U Cam for short—is running low on fuel, making the star unstable.As a result, every few thousand years, U Cam "coughs out a nearly spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core begins to fuse," according to the European Space Agency.The gas ejected in the star's latest eruption is clearly visible as a faint bubble of gas surrounding the star.(See "Mysterious Structures Balloon From Milky Way's Core.") Image courtesy H. Olofsson, Onsala Space Observatory/ESA/NASA "Magical Nights" Aurora borealis light up the sky over a Sami village in northern Sweden.The photograph, titled "Lapland Magical Nights," was recently submitted to the astronomy-education project The World at Night (TWAN).Auroras are created when charged solar particles slam into Earth's magnetic field and get funneled poleward. The particles collide with molecules in our atmosphere, transferring energy and making the air molecules glow.(See "Best Night-Sky Pictures of 2012 Named.") Photograph by Babak A. Tafreshi, TWAN "Now You See it, Now You Don't" Baffling astronomers, the star TYC 8241 2652 has lost its dusty disk of debris—suggesting it "abruptly shut down and by all appearances went out of business," according to the Gemini Observatory.Only a few years ago, the star—a young analog of our sun—seemed to be a "solar system in the making."An illustration released July 4 (pictured) depicts how the star might appear without its surrounding dust."It's like the classic magician's trick: Now you see it, now you don't," Carl Melis, who led a study on the star in the July 5 issue of the journal Nature, said in a statement.(See "Record Nine-Planet Star System Discovered?") Illustration courtesy Lynette Cook, Gemini Observatory/AURA Flame Nebula Several nebulae—including the Flame nebula, the large bright spot—shine within a star-making region of gas and dust. Released July 2, the image was taken by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).The Flame nebula sits on the eastern hip of Orion the Hunter, a constellation most easily visible in the Northern Hemisphere during winter evenings, according to the WISE website.The red arc at the lower right is the star Orionis, the upper star in the sword of Orion, which sits in a blue dwarf star system about 1,070 light-years away.(See more nebula pictures.) Image courtesy UCLA/Caltech/NASA Cosmic Skyrocket Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star splashes against a dense core of a molecular-hydrogen cloud in an image released July 3.Dubbed Herbig-Haro 110, the composite image was captured by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2004 and 2005 and the Wide Field Camera 3 in April 2011.(See "'Geyser' Moon Sprinkles Salt on Saturn's Rings.") Image courtesy ESA/NASA Butterfly-Shaped Impact A butterfly-shaped ejecta blanket—an area of particles ejected during an impact—surround a large crater in the Martian region of Melas Dorsa in a picture released July 5."To form such an ejecta blanket, the impact must have occurred at a very shallow angle with respect to the planet's surface," according to the German Aerospace Center."It is thought that subsurface ice was present, and that this liquefied or vaporised on impact."("Huge Spirals Found on Mars—Evidence of New Lava Type?") Image courtesy G. Neukum, F.U. Berlin/DLR/ESA Spine of the Swan The yellow sliver and red spot above it make up the DR21 ridge, a huge structure within the extremely active, star-forming region called Cygnus X. The region sits at a distance of about 4,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, or the Swan.A combination of three maps by the European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory created the image, published in July in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.Reddish colors show the finely detailed structures of the cold interstellar material, which converges as filaments toward the main ridge. The white areas show young, new stars, including several high-mass stars.Overall, the new picture suggests the convergence of filaments is a way nature forms massive star clusters with high-mass stars.(See another picture of the turbulent Cygnus constellation.) Image courtesy ESA/PACS/SPIRE and Hennemann/Motte et al Next: More of Our Favorite Space Pictures Image by Rolf Olsen, Your Shot Related Stories Week's Best Space Pictures: How Huge Black Holes Are Born Last Week's Caption Contest Winners Week's Best Space Pictures: See a Supernova's Glowing Ghost


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Pakistan: Hundreds of women die for "honour" each year
|Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
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|27 January 2011
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|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
LAHORE, 27 January 2011 (IRIN) - Did 22-year-old Saima Bibi scream out as she was electrocuted at her parents' home in their village near the southern Punjab city of Bahawalpur in Pakistan? Did she plead with her family for her life? Did she seek mercy?
The answers to these questions will never be known. In one of the most harrowing "honour" killings reported in recent months in the country, Saima was, according to media reports, murdered by her relatives. They committed the crime following a ruling by a gathering of village elders that she be put to death by electrocution for eloping with a man she had chosen to marry. Police are investigating the murder and the prime minister has ordered the findings be submitted urgently.
An autopsy report states the girl had died due to severe burn injuries. Her relatives had said she had committed suicide. A police officer in Hakra village, where Saima died, Afzal Lodhi, told IRIN "a raid was conducted to recover Saima's body" after police received a tip-off over the phone.
Murders of the kind which ended Saima's life are not uncommon. According to the autonomous Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), over 600 women were killed for "honour" in 2009. This usually entails the murder of women suspected of having sexual relations outside marriage; choosing who to marry rather than accepting decisions made by families; or behaving in other ways that are seen as "immoral". Other "honour" killings go unreported, especially when they take place in remote, rural areas.
"Such killings occur when the 'honour' of male members of a household is perceived to have been injured," said I.A.Rehman, the secretary-general of HRCP.
Though women aged over 18 have the legal right to marry of their own free will "tradition" means they are expected to go along with parental choices.
"My marriage was 'arranged' by my family, and I plan to arrange the marriages of my two daughters, aged 15 and 13, when they are older, because such matches bring the families closer together," Bushra Suhail, 42, told IRIN.
"Forgiving" the perpetrators
While "honour" killings are regarded as murder by the law, Islamic provisions allow the relatives of a victim to "forgive" the perpetrator, and choose to accept blood-money rather than seek capital punishment, a factor that is believed by rights activists to make it difficult to end such murders.
"I think unless the law provides non-compoundability, in other words no provision for forgiveness, we can never deal with what we call 'honour' crimes. This should be a crime against the state and not a person. What happens is the father [of a woman] kills and his son forgives, or the son kills and the father forgives. This happens time and again," Fouzia Saeed, director of the NGO Mehergarh and a member of the government's National Commission on the Status of Women, told IRIN.
Apart from "honour" killings, women also suffer brutality of various kinds, following accusations of "immoral" conduct. This has included the shaving of heads or incidents in which they have suffered mutilation of various kinds. The number of such incidents is unknown.
"Judging by what is reported in the media, the most horrific violence is being inflicted on women. The trend seems to be increasing, perhaps as social tensions and frustrations grow due to economic hardship and related factors," Gulnar Tabbusum, convenor of the Women's Action Forum, an organization which works for the rights of women, told IRIN.
"Many young women today are educated and would like to have a choice in whom they marry. But incidents such as the electrocution and torture of Saima Bibi leave us afraid. We hesitate even to claim this right," Asiya Batool, 19, told IRIN.
Theme (s): Gender Issues, Human Rights,
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Shoppers Drug Mart Optimum Program
Shoppers Drug Mart has a very valuable points program called Optimum. You earn 10 points for every dollar spent in store when they scan your optimum card. Personally, this is my favourite rewards program because I earn many points and fairly easily. I will explain how.
Points redemption :
8000 points = $10 off
22,000 points = $30 off
38,000 points = $60 off
50,000 points = $85 off
95,000 points = $170 off
You can use your points on the following:
- Household items
- Food and drinks
- Makeup
- Baby products
- Pet products
- Magazines & books
- Health aids
- Candy & gum
- Electronics
- Gift sets
Things your points won't cover:
- Prescriptions
- Anything with codeine
- Stamps
- Wireless phone cards
- Post office merchandise
- Passport photos
- Tickets by ticket providers
- Tobacco and cigarettes
- Bill payments
- Delivery charges
- Bottle deposit and returns
- Gift with purchases
- Charitable donations
Be sure to sign up for these in order to get special bonus points coupons and offers:
- VIB program for parents with babies and small children
-free sample pack for baby
-special bonus points coupons emailed to you
- Shoppers drug mart optimum sign up
-get special points coupons sent to your inbox
- Glow magazine
-cost for 1 year subscription (8 issues) is 7,500 points
-inside you can find exclusive bonus optimum points coupons
- RBC Visa shoppers optimum rewards card
– 25 points per $1 spent in store OR 5 points per $1 spent anywhere else
– No annual fee
– Get 15,000 points just for signing up
- RBC optimum debit card
-earn 1 point per $1 spent anywhere, earn 10 points per $1 spent in store
-earn 50,000 points when you open your bank account and an additional 5,000 points when you use the RBC customswitch
In-Store Events and offers:
1) 20X the points event is a pretty common points event that happens at Shoppers to help you earn extra points. Usually if you spend a minimum of $50 – $75, you will get 20X the points on that purchase. Sometimes the minimum amount spent to get the 20X the points varies; however, it is usually spend $50 or spend $75.
** You CAN use coupons to bring your total down and still get the bonus points. Example if your total before coupons is over $50 and you have $20 in coupons, you will still receive the 20X the points as long as you are not using FPC (free product coupons), B1G1 (buy one get one) coupons. The reason for this is simple. When the cashier enters in a coupon, they use a code. The code for dollars and cents off coupons is different from the FPC coupon code, therefore the dollars and cents off coupons count as cash.
2) Spend ___ Earn ____ can vary from points to gift cards. Usually the amount is spend $50 or $75 minimum to earn a $10 giftcard, 18,500 points OR Cineplex movie passes. These are just examples of offers from the past.
** Please note that you probably wont receive the giftcard or movie passes if you total after coupons is less than the $50 or $75 minimum. This is because it is up to the cashier to award the gift card or movie pass. In this case, it would be safer if you spent the minimum $50 AFTER coupons to ensure you get your giftcard etc.
3) If you flip through the shopper's drug mart flyer, you will notice certain products have extra bonus points attached to them. Example: Receive 1000 bonus point when you buy any 3 participating Huggies products. They have several of these offers every week in their flyer. If this is during a 20X the points event, you will only receive the 20X the points on the base point amount. You can view the current bonus point offers here: http://www1.shoppersdrugmart.ca/en/Optimum.aspx
** You are able to use manufacturer coupons and still get the bonus points
4) Once you sign up for an optimum card or VIB program, you will receive special emails with printable bonus points coupons. If this is during a 20X the points event, you will only receive the 20X the points on the base point amount.
** You are able to combine these points offers with manufacturers coupons
Example: coupon is for 1000 bonus points when you buy 3 participating Huggies products and you have a Huggies manufacturer coupon, you can use it and still get the 1000 points.
5) You can earn points when you fill your prescription at Shoppers Drug Mart. Please note that Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland can NOT earn points on prescriptions. Points awarded are based on the full amount of prescription. In British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, points are only awarded based on the customer's portion paid.
6) Shoppers Spend your Points Event is a great way to get more bang for your points. They aren't usually always the same but an example is if you spend 50,000 points, you receive $100 off your purchase. That is $15 more than if you spent your points on a non-event day. 95,000 points spent gives you $200 off your purchase, which is $30 more than non-event redemption.
** I recommend that you use coupons so you can lower your total and get more for your points.
** If you want to redeem your points for $50, you have to use the redemption for $60 which is 38,000 points. You will loose the remaining points, so I suggest spending $60 and redeeming at $60.
** Regular points are NOT awarded when redeeming points. If you spend over the redemption amount and you pay out of pocket for the remainder, you will earn points on the amount you paid.
** You can earn bonus points when redeeming, but only if it states a certain points amount like 3000 bonus points, and not when it states 15X or 5X the points.
7) If you know how much you are going to spend pre-shop, then buy a Shoppers Drug Mart gift card before you shop. If I know im going to spend $50 because I want to receive a $10 giftcard or get bonus points for spending a minimum $50, I buy a $50 gift card. This will earn me an extra 500 points because you earn base points on gift cards. Then I will do my shopping and pay for my purchases using the gift card.
** you can not earn 20X the points on gift cards, just the base points of 10 points per dollar.
Hopefully you will enjoy this awesome rewards program as much as I do! Happy shopping!
Wow, great post! Thanks for all the tips… I def will be doing #7!!


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Wet Willie: Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson Takes On The Ice Bucket Challenge
August 18, 2014 07:44 AM by Stephanie Gustafson
Facebook users are currently obsessed with the ice bucket challenge, a social media phenomenon in which participants douse themselves with ice water. In the last few weeks, LeBron James, Bill Gates, Taylor Swift and Jimmy Fallon have joined the movement, all in hopes of raising money for ALS. Duck Dynasty's Willie Robertson has also stepped up to the plate — and his ice bucket video is causing quite a stir on Twitter!
Say what you want about the cast of Duck Dynasty, the famous bearded reality stars really are good guys at heart. This is especially true of the super popular Willie Robertson. Willie is always eager to help out with important causes — and ALS is no exception!
The other day, Governor Bobby Jindal asked Willie to take on the ice bucket challenge and donate to the ALS Association. Willie was happy to accept this challenge. He posted a YouTube video of his ice bucket experience, first stopping for a quick prayer "for those suffering with this disease and their families." Then, the reality star asked spectators for a countdown, before being doused with a huge bucket of ice water.
While most ice bucket challenge participants hold buckets of ice water over their own heads, Willie apparently needed a little help. He completed the challenge in front of the memorable Duck Commander sign at the warehouse in West Monroe, waiting for two of his relatives to dump a trash barrel full of ice water over his head. The relatives completed this enviable task from the roof of the warehouse, while Willie stood below. Thoroughly soaked, the reality star commented, "A lot of force…that hit me like a truck!"
Check out the video of Willie Robertson's ice bucket extravaganza — and then tell us what you think in the comments section below!
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Aug. 25, 2009
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Following two days off, the Alabama football team practiced for two hours in pads on Tuesday afternoon at the Thomas-Drew Practice Facility.
"I think it was really important to get two days rest," Alabama head coach Nick Saban said after Tuesday's practice. "I think what the players do everyday sort of shows where they are in their maturity. The older, more experienced guys can come back today and not skip a beat and have the same focus when they get there, and the same intensity and sense of urgency to go execute and do things. The younger players sort of lose some of that and have to kind of play their way back into it. It's important that we get the rest, but I think it's important that we get back into it and get everybody back into it."
Saban commented on last Saturday's scrimmage and said the emphasis of Tuesday and Wednesday practices would be to work on the fundamentals.
"We had some very positive things in the scrimmage," Saban said. "We made some big plays offensively. We moved the ball. When we weren't efficient in what we were doing, it was certainly because of some mental error or missed technique or missed assignment. Defensively, I thought we played pretty well and when we gave up plays, it was the same thing. We made a mental error or had a missed assignment. Those things can be corrected.
"These two days, that is really what the emphasis is all about. The emphasis for today and tomorrow is to practice a lot of fundamentals and a lot on trying to do the things from a position standpoint that we need to do. It's to take some of the young players we feel we need to make improvements with and really work on the fundamentals and the basics with them. We get back and make sure they have the core of what we need to do."
Alabama will practice again on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. (CST).


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Its really annoying FARCRY2 server go down in primetime and without warnings.
Not once, but every day the same S h I t.
UBI??? Whats up guys???
Get your act together, because this really sucks.
Or warn the players at least, i can understand that maintenance is needed, or you try to make the maintenance same time every day, or put in a warning system.


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Torres del Paine - Day 4:The Ascent to Mirador de Las Torres
A Patagonia Experience
And so we were off down from our hilltop camp, past the Refugio and Hosteria Torres, and towards the Ascensio bridge. Where yesterday we had come in via the left fork of the trail (from Lago Nordenskjold), today we were going to head right up the Ascensio valley. One small problem there: the Ascensio cuts a pretty steep gorge just north of the bridge crossing and up to Refugio Chileno about half way up the valley. So the trail we were to hike ascends to the top of the gorge heads along the ridge top for a short time and then descends back to river level at the refugio. The climb is probably less than 1000 ft of elevation change but then you give almost all of it back, realizing that everything you gave back you will have to climb again on the final ascent to the towers.
So off we went with everyone pretty much setting the pace that they were comfortable at and agreeing to meet at the top of the ridge and allow everyone to recover. I led with Mauricio, Bill, and Elisa and we reached a resting point after about 45 minutes of climbing. Alexis, Scott, and Theresa followed about 10 minutes later and Ken, Norma, and Carola about 5 minutes after that. We gave the final group a good 15 minutes of recovery before the next leg of the journey down to the refugio. I was thankful for the excellent weather because the trail we were on was very narrow overlooking the river below and was mostly loose dirt and on one of those days where the Patagonia winds were blowing would create one hell of a duststorm. But a small part of me wondered what it would have been like to experience some of the rougher weather as well.
At the refugio, two of the towers peaked out over the ridge and provided an excellent view as the sky continued to stay amazingly clear and the winds remained light. It was time to reapply sunscreen which was always a constant thought down this far south (near the southern hole in the ozone layer). It seemed like one had to do this every 2-3 hours on any exposed areas to ensure that one didn't get a fairly serious burn. We didn't spend too much time at the refugio before pressing on. The trail past the refugio stayed more at river level, but it presented another set of problems. The trail had pretty much eroded away in several locations and that meant some bushwacking and boulder scrambling.
But all in all it wasn't bad and was more a warm-up for the true bouldering that we were going to do shortly. In fact as the valley widened slightly we had some relatively flat sections through some moderately forested areas on this section of the trail. But it was short lived as this section was only about an hour or so long before we reached the left hand turn to begin the final climb to the towers.
The first section up the rocky scree slope followed along and in a small stream bed. I was constantly shedding layers as I used more energy climbing the trail and the temperature continued to rise (even though we were ascending). It wasn't long before we came out onto the main slope for the final slog to the viewpoint.
Mauricio had Ken and Norma follow directly behind him to give them some additional assistance with picking out the best footing up the slope. For the rest of us following behind it was truly inspirational to see this older couple (Norma was in her mid 60s and Ken in his early 70s) make this moderately difficult scramble up the slope. It was a slow and steady climb as we aimed for the large house-sized boulder that signified the near top of the climb (the pace also let me pause and capture some amazing pictures as we made the climb). As close as we were to Las Torres they were initially hidden behind the steep slope that we were climbing. But as we neared the top they began to peak out their granite heads from over the ridge top that we were climbing. As we passed that house-sized boulder they were well and truly visible. But as one finally passed the true top of the ridge to the viewpoint Las Torres simply filled the entire view in front of us.
These towers of sheer granite were an imposing presence in front of us. What was more amazing was the blue sheen of the crystal clear sky that contrasted against these gray monolithic structures. I had read the stories of people making the climb to the viewpoint to find the towers partially or completely encased in cloud cover. They would wait until a partial clearing occurred so they could take the obligatory photos and then head back down the slope. The winds and weather would be so rough that they would spend as minimal a time at the mirador as was necessary.
On this day, however, I was more worried about getting a sunburn than anything else. We claimed a spot for the group, unlaced our boots, and then unpacked and ate our lunches all the while soaking in the majesty of our surroundings.
We were by no means the first early noon-time group to reach the mirador, but as we relaxed on our rock, more and more people arrived at the viewpoint to capture their sight of Las Torres. Especially on this day, the climb to Las Torres was not one for solitude as easily 150+ people were lounging at and around the mirador. I kept occasionally taking photos of the towers in various settings thinking maybe one picture would highlight a different view than one I had taken previously. What I realized though was that no single photo can capture the enormity of Las Torres and how they literally tower directly above you at the mirador. To take a decent picture one has to zoom back so far that in a picture the towers appear less omnipresent in the photos than they do when you are there in person.
After not quite 2 hours at the mirador we figured it was best to be heading back down towards camp. It had taken us a bit over 4 hours going up and the return would probably not be much if any shorter. Again we had Norma and Ken take the lead behind Mauricio. Heading down was a bit more chaotic as the two-way traffic on the trail was much more congested than it was when we made the climb up earlier in the day.
The weather had not really changed at all and it was still picture perfect to get to the view. We slowly retraced our steps down the slope, through the lenga forest, along the Rio Ascensio back to Refugio Chileno. We made the climb and descent through the Ascencio gorge and returned to the Hosteria Torres road and back to Eco Camp.
Back at EcoCamp we cleaned up for another evening of good food and wine, some additional drinks, and great conversation with friends. Tomorrow was the alternate day for the Las Torres climb if the weather had not cooperated so we just had some minor sight-seeing planned. No early morning, no long hikes, just a mostly relaxing day to look forward to. As evening progressed clouds finally arrived on the horizon and blanketed the area.
As we slumbered off to our tents for the evening the wind started getting a bit blustery. Overnight our first taste of Patagonia weather finally arrived. Strong winds of around 50-60 mph whipped our tents (nothing to worry about though as the tents had withstood a 100+ mph wind in the park and were designed to withstand 150 mph winds) and rain pelted down. It was a bit difficult to sleep with all the noise, but one ignored it as best they could to get the rest they needed.


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Somalia's history has been long dominated by raging conflicts and aggressive, authoritarian governments. Before it emerged as a modern state, it was subject to the presence of tribal wars, later bound together by the colonialist ambitions of the British and the Italians. Upon independence the country achieved a temporary level a stability, but at a cost, as the dictatorship of Said Barre utilized oppressive tactics of espionage and secret police forces to maintain control over the nation. Barre also was a master of manipulating cold war politics to his advantage, but when the Soviet Union collapsed, the government of Somalia was soon to follow. In 1991 the government fell apart and civil war consumed the nation, initiating 21 years of war.
Today Somalia has yet to fully heal, but the nation's capital of Mogadishu is quickly becoming the world's greatest success story. On August 2011, the militant group al Shabaab abandoned the city, relinquishing 6 nearly of control due to the pressures of environmental famine and fighting against adversaries on multiple fronts. The rebuilding of Mogadishu began almost immediately. Somalia continues to maintain a top-down political system, a lingering relic from the days of Soviet influence. Yet this system is beginning to change, as the city residents, the returnees, and supportive communities abroad the real change-makers.
To provide a catalyst for community-level engagement and change, the Mayor of Mogadishu, Mohamoud Nur, has teamed up with Urban Interactive Studio and strategic planning firm Sutika Sipus, to create an online platform for Somali returnees and all those who witness the changes in Mogadishu to share their experiences. Now, with a means for broad, global communication among all stakeholders, Mogadishu is undergoing radical transformation from the ground up.
Contemporary processes of post-war reconstruction feature an array of actors, such as UN organizations, non-governmental agencies, and extensive aid packages by foreign governments. While all of these institutions may maintain positive and locally connected priorities, their presence may also prove detrimental via prompting rapid inflation, distorting real estate markets, alongside a combination of internal mandates and disproportionate advantages to the local population.
Yet Mogadishu is different. There are international actors in Mogadishu, most notably the presence of Turkish aid workers and infrastructure reconstruction projects overseen by the International Order of Migration (IOM), and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Yet the rebuilding streets and sewer systems fail to explain the broader level of change found within the city.
When al Shabaab withdrew from Mogadishu, the city was at peace for the first time in decades. Where it was previously impossible to walk down many streets, or send children to school, residents suddenly had the ability to discover their city; a city in shambles. A group of high school students began to pick up trash in front of their home, and after about an hour, discovered that their small amount of individual effort made a massive impact when applied collectively. They began to recruit other students, regardless of age, tribe, or neighborhood, and organized sessions for city cleanup. Growing in size and organization, the newly founded Mogadishu City Volunteers began to undertake projects throughout the city, cleaning abandoned lots of garbage and razor wire, planting trees and flowers.
It has been estimated that 14% of Somalia's population is in diaspora.[1] But today, many are returning to reclaim property, open new businesses, and rebuild. The return of so many Somalis has been a contentious issue in the city. This population brings many assets such as global education, multicultural experiences, and money. But their presence also escalates local real-estate prices, creates tiered economies, and ultimately presents greater challenges to the local populations who are attempting to rebuild their lives.
The majority of Somalis who return however, do not necessarily return with the intent to settle; at least not immediately. With 21 years of war alongside decades of tyrannical oppression by the former government of Said Barre, many who sought refugee asylum during the last 40 years have little desire to return, but a lingering curiosity about change. Those in diaspora with the greatest interest appear to be the youth, those who left Somalia as children or lived their entire lives in foreign country, forever raised on stories of the homeland. Many younger Somalis return to investigate the rebirth of Mogadishu for a few months and then return to their home in Europe or America to report news of change. Some of these younger Somalis do return again, later, but this time with a business plan intact.
Unfortunately for those who visit Mogadishu and then return home there is little space for the stories to be shared. Beyond the kitchen walls or the family room, few others will hear about the dramatic changes taking place in Somalia. Most of us are limited to popular news coverage. But change cannot happen in a vacuum. For Mogadishu to succeed, it must also be connected to the outside world through real bonds.
In an era of globalization, Somalia requires the interest of more than the Somali people to prosper. Support is not need in terms of aid money or humanitarian relief, but rather through the establishment of viable business relationships to reassert and leverage Mogadishu's strategic location. Historically, Somalia has functioned as the gateway to Africa, linking Asia and the Gulf states with the sub-Saharan. Its position remains significant, yet to be successful it must form a new identity. For decades Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has been referred to as the world's most dangerous city, but if the stories of its current revival can be shared and embraced, a new identify will form as the greatest success story of our time.


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For the last year, Loud.com has been a battleground. Artists there have been given the opportunity to use beats by Cool & Dre, David Banner, Reefa and others to make songs and compete against each other for a $100,000 cash prize and a recording contract with SRC Records. After plenty of competition and much deliberation, this Saturday marks the contest's semi-finals round.
Most Official, The Franchise King MC, Tha Crow and Kill-A-Kat are the four finalists, representing a variety of regions, with very diverse styles. Although the six-figure prize winner is to be determined, all four acts are guaranteed rewards, and they each have two of the most sought after executive minds in Hip Hop working for their benefit.
Steve Rifkind is not only the man many credit for pioneering "street team" promotion, he helped spawn the careers of Wu-Tang Clan, dead prez and Big Pun, as well as help re-establish acts like David Banner, Pete Rock and M.O.P. Now the founder of SRC Records, Rifkind has juggled his heavy role in the careers of Banner, Akon and others to invest his time and energies into this competition held on his website.
"My day-to-day for Loud.com is building the brand, and making sure these artists - the final four are getting their own brand," Steve Rifkind told HipHopDX this week. "I'm trying to work with the programmers at the radio stations. We have [a contestant] in Chicago, another in Minneapolis, we have somebody in Boston, and somebody in L.A. That's really what I'm doing, functionally, day-to-day," said the founder of both Loud Records and SRC Records. At the time of speaking, the famed Hip Hop industry executive was commuting between New York and Los Angeles for the competition.
Also speaking to HipHopDX, was James Cruz, President of SRC. With a reputation as one of Hip Hop's top marketing men, Cruz joined SRC in the past year after lengthy tenures with Mercury Records, Bad Boy Records, and most recently at Violator Entertainment.
"Watching these guys, and understanding that they have a genuine, sincere commitment to their artistry, and to their movements, it's going to be our jobs to brand them at some shape and point," said Cruz, who still manages the careers of Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliot. "What we have on Loud.com is basically a viral American Idol contest. What we're doing is taking it away from television and really putting it right on the web so that it can be shared by many different people." Since the addition of video webisodes to the competition, Cruz believes that the marketing strategy for both the brand and these artists outdoes traditional methods. "If you look at MTV, the #1 video last week played 11 times," said the SRC President, comparing it to Internet-accessible content, such as Loud.com.
Although contestants have been pursuing a $100,000 cash prize for the top winner, the remaining four contestants will all benefit from Loud.com's branding and an SRC Records single deal. Rifkind also puts the competition akin to Fox's top-running show. "If you take American Idol, there's always one winner, but the second and third-place contestants also put out records." Indeed, Justin Guarini, Clay Aiken and even Koch Records signing William Hung represent the success of runners-up in the most famous musical competition of late. "We'll be able to break some records outside of the winner," hopes Rifkind.
With the weekly challenges, traffic and site interest has increased immensely. "The street is voting, and the streets don't lie," says Rifkind of growing popularity in the user voting of Loud.com. The finalists have endured scrutiny for online criticism as well as a series of industry judges.
"These guys grind. I'm really impressed; they make it look easy. This next episode that comes out on Saturday, let's see what they can really do. 'Cause I gave them a task that really is a task. If they pull it off, it's game over." As with all weekly challenges, this week's episode premiers at 8pm EST on Loud.com.
The winner will be announced June 9th. Stay tuned to HipHopDX for more updates.


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Papp: Coast Guard plans no Arctic shoreside infrastructure
The Coast Guard has no plans to build shoreside infrastructure in Arctic Alaska, at least not for the next decade, said its commandant, Adm. Robert Papp, while unveiling the service's first strategy for the Arctic on May 21.
"There is a lack of shore infrastructure in the remote reaches of the Arctic, and the expense of building permanent infrastructure and the uncertainty of dynamic and evolving requirements have demanded that the Coast Guard rely on mobile offshore infrastructure to meet demands," Papp said, alluding to last summer, when the service sent ships northward in previously unprecedented numbers for a 4 month deployment. Papp spoke during a Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington, D.C.
The service will again send a National Security Cutter to the Arctic this year, Papp said--specifically, the USCGC Waesche.
The strategy (.pdf) itself calls for three main objectives: improving awareness; modernizing governance; and broadening partnerships.
In the "modernizing governance" category is another call by the Coast Guard for the Senate to approve the Convention on the Law of the Sea, a treaty in global effect since 1994 that establishes procedures for the international recognition of national nautical economic zones. Proponents have argued that ratifying the treaty would ensure recognition of an American economic zone extending 600 miles offshore in the Arctic region, a natural-resource area only now increasingly available for exploitation due to global warming.
Embedded within the "improving awareness" category is a promise that the Coast Guard will advocate for establishment of an interagency Arctic fusion center, "pending resources or funding."
The Coast Guard strategy comes after the White House released a national strategy (.pdf) for the Arctic region May 10 and the eight-nation Arctic Council admitted on May 15 China, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Singapore as permanent observers to the council.
National representatives from Arctic states have argued that observer status should be granted to non-Arctic countries. "My argument for opening up for more observers is that we're happy that people want to join us, because when they join our club, they're not starting another club," said Espen Barthe Eide, the Norwegian minister of foreign affairs, during a Jan. 20 meeting of the council.
For more:
- go to a CSIS webpage with an archived webcast of Papp's remarks
- download the Coast Guard Arctic strategy (.pdf)
- download the White House Arctic strategy (.pdf)
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Murder of Filipino journalist sparks outrage from head of UN agency
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The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has deplored the recent murder of Filipino radio host and newspaper correspondent Robert Sison, and called on authorities to step up protection for media professionals in the country.
UNESCO Director-General Ko?chiro Matsuura said the targeting of professional journalists represents "an intolerable violation of the basic human right of freedom of expression."
He called on the Government of the Philippines to fully investigate the incident and to increase protection for journalists.
Mr. Sison, 60, was the host of a local radio programme and correspondent for the weekly newspaper "Regional Bulletin," which has published articles critical of local officials.
He was gunned down by unidentified assailants while driving home on 30 June in Sariaya town, Quezon province, some 97 kilometres from the capital, Manila. His two daughters, both also journalists, were in the car with him. Liwayway, 30, was shot in the arm, and Almira, 24, escaped injury.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Mr. Sison is the second media professional to be killed this year in the Philippines.


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. . . if you're 64.
It was a beautiful day for a ride to the beach, Here are a few beach pics:
Here are the nudies:
And here is a little fellow I saw along the way:
This ride goes to the north of the space shuttle launch pads. There is no shuttle on the pad now, but it's quite a sight when one is:
It was a pretty good day for a ride.


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4 Big Security Risks Right Now
Security challenges can come in many forms. Sometimes, it's customer data that's at risk, other times, it's your company secrets.
IT TechNewsDaily asked Jeff Donios, technical director at digital marketing agency VML and Jeff Borisch, IT manager of design research firm SonicRim, to tell us about the three main security challenges faced by IT departments of small businesses.
1. Protecting personal information
"A lot of companies capture information as users are on the web making purchases," Donios said. "If there's a security breach, someone has access to exactly what a consumer did, what they purchased and that's sensitive info."
Donios categorized this challenge under managing public perception—because beyond facing the consequences of leaked private information, a small business also risks damaging the company's reputation.
2. Protecting Intellectual Property:
According to Donios, small business owners have more to lose than large corporations.
"As a small business you're trying to solve a specific problem within your market; you exist because you solve that problem extremely well. If another company gets a hold of the core of how you solve that problem, then they can replicate what you do and put you out of business," he said.
Donios pointed out that it would be easy for an employee to upload data onto zip drives or online applications like Dropbox because not all businesses invest in systems that track what information is leaving the company.
3. External risks
Some people speculate that cloud computing puts small businesses at risk since a third party has control over the security and functionality of its servers. But according to Jeff Borisch, IT manager of design research firm SonicRimthe risk isn't any different than the risk of managing your own servers.
"It's just a different kind of risk. As a small business, maybe you have a consultant come in—they might not be available to take care of problems," Borisch said. "Or maybe the guy you have in-house has so much to do that he can't keep up with every security issue."
4. BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) risks
Borisch adds one more security challenge—as he calls it, the social aspect.
Sometimes employees would rather use their iPhone than the company-issued BlackBerry, or maybe they bring in their own laptop. Any of these devices could introduce a virus onto the company's network. Borisch said a business can prevent that by not allowing employees to bring in external devices at all.
"But then you get the personality problem—the social aspect of balancing what you could do to keep things secure, versus what people are going to accept," he said.


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Changing your old or broken guitar strings is something every guitarist needs to know how to do. This can be done very easily in just a few steps.
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1Remove all of the old guitar strings. Be aware that on some models of electric guitars, the bridge is not bolted on and can fall off very easily, though it is easily replaced. Once you have taken all the old strings off, now would be a good time to clean the guitar in the places you can't get to when the strings are on.
2Take the biggest gauge string in your pack and pull it through the bridge so it is where the low E string should be.
3When you get the string to the top with the tuning pegs, pull the string through the small hole in the peg. Leave some slack in the string so you have something to wind up, this keeps the guitar better in tune. Wrap the string back around and under the string. Turn the peg counter clock wise until you are in tune.
4Continue the previous step for the A, D, G, B, and high E strings, cut the excess string with a pair of wire cutters and you are done.
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- This process is much faster with the use of a peg winder found at your local music shop.
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Seems like tyrant has ran out of ideas, the newest skill legion is like an overly complicated combo of rally and heal. but there are still lots of simple skills that can combine well with some of the currently underpowered skills (payback, siphon etc)
Cripple x dmg dependent
Permanently reduce the enemy's attack by x
Synergies: Armored, Flurry, Cripple on attacked commander/wall + Siphon to own fear
Growth x passive
Each turn increase the current and max hp of this card by x. (disease prevents current but not max hp increase)
Synergies: Refresh, Cleanse
Sabotage activation
Jam and Mimic an random enemy structure (Jam is 50%)
Burrowed x defensive
Enemy's attacks will pass through this card and damage your commander instead. Damage done to the commander this way is reduced by x, 100% chance miss against flying.
Synergies: Antiair, Siphon, Evade
Cloaked defensive
Cannot be targeted by any hostile activation skills. Effect does not work if an adjacent card also has cloaked.
Synergies: Burrowed + Cloaked = invincibility mode trololol, might need some kind of detector skill to counter both burrowed & cloaked…. could be a combat modifier like pierce and antiair
Disarm dmg dependent
50% chance to permanently remove 1 random skill from the enemy, can be restored by cleanse.
Synergies: Swipe, Flurry. Disarm on attacked commander/wall would troll fear xD
Focus activation
Randomly buff an allied card making its attack/strike 100% chance to hit flying/evade, and its offensive skills (Jam, Immobilize, Flurry, Disarm) 100% chance to activate.
Synergies: Jam, Immobilize, Flurry
Forcefield activation
Randomly shield an allied card giving it 50% chance to return all types of damage back to their source. If a card with payback is shielded then it will have 100% chance to return damage (all types including atk, counter and strike)
Synergies: Payback, Counter, Refresh
Some new triggers
on threat: triggers when commander receives damage (new anti fear mechanism for slowroll)
on summoned: triggers when an enemy card is summoned (anti summon mechanism)
on damaged: triggers when receives dmg. similar to on attacked but works for strike/counter too, although do not work for blocked dmg by armor/protect.
on healed: triggers whenever hp is increased (heal, leech, supply, regenerate, a commander with this trigger and powerful on healed effect would be another way to promote siphon)


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European magazine refuses to publish stories about Israeli groups if they refuse to fall in line with publication's political views
Merav Yudilovitch
Published: 03.22.06, 12:16 / Israel Culture
Merav Yudilovitch
The world of dance is in an uproar: British magazine Dance Europe was accused last week by the London Jewish Chronicle of politicization and racism after the magazine refused to publish an article on Israeli dance troupe Dance Drama, whose choreographer is Sally-Anne Friedland.
Several weeks ago journalist Stephanie Freid approached the editors of Dance Europe about writing a piece on Dance Drama. Freid notes that after interrogating her about Dance Drama's views on the occupation, editor Emma Manning "told me they had allowed an Israeli advertisement once, but only with a disclaimer saying it disapproved of the occupation."
Manning told the Jewish Chronicle that "as an editor, I am entitled to choose what to print." The magazine's head of advertising, Naresh Kaul, was even more explicit: "We are opposed to the occupation. If any company in Israel cooperates with us by adding a disclaimer saying it is opposed to the occupation, settlements and everything else, we will cooperate with them."
Israeli Choreographer's Assocation CEO Sigalit Gelfand said in response: "We see it as a serious matter that a cultural magazine sets
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Director Paul Greengrass knows how to capture people in crisis (a recurring theme this year), and he's at his best with "Captain Phillips," the fact-based hostage drama about Somalian piracy on the high-seas that's a likely Oscar contender for best picture.
It's not only a matter of getting a sense of realism and immediacy with his hand-held camera and hyper-kinetic cutting. It's also about attaining the authenticity of performance, with Tom Hanks at his most powerful in more than a decade opposite a brilliant debut by Barkhad Abdi as his Somalian kidnapper.
"What moments of crisis do is create a kind of ballet, that tension building up of movement and counter movement," Greengrass told me at a recent press conference. "And it tells you something about the world when you see it building in that way. But you have to capture that ratcheting up as accurately as you can, and if you can do it, I think you can get something underneath that, which is common humanity, compassion, and wisdom without sentimentalizing the brutal truth of what's occurring."
Thus, it wasn't enough to merely tell the harrowing ordeal of merchant mariner Richard Phillips, whose American cargo ship, the Maersk Alabama, was hijacked in 2009 on the Indian Ocean by Samali pirates and how he was taken hostage in a lifeboat until rescued by the U.S. Navy. Greengrass wanted to tell a larger story of a world in economic crisis through the clash of the have and the have nots.
This is dramatically set up at the outset when Phillips anxiously tells his wife (played by Catherine Keener) during the car ride to the airport how worried he is about their two children coping with a changing world that will be unrecognizable to their generation.
"One of the interesting things is that it was a story about people caught in a situation, none of whom wanted it to end badly," Greengrass continued. "Even the pirates, although they were willing to use violence, in the end, what they wanted was the money. The biggest creative challenge from my point of view was how do you get that compression and stay truthful to the fundamentals of what happened? We did a lot of work to make sure that we understood exactly what had happened on the Navy side, and who these young men were and where they came from and the clan structure of the piracy."
And, according to their research, Somali piracy grew in response to foreign over-fishing, compelling former fishermen to hijack ships and hold them ransom for money. Meanwhile, powerful warlords turned the piracy into global organized crime. But since the incident with Phillips and the Maersk Alabama, the hiring of armed guards and other precautions have significantly curtailed Somali piracy.
For Hanks, Greengrass' semi-documentary approach of "finding the moment" was an arduous and claustrophobic departure. But the two-time Oscar winner admitted that it was the best one to serve the demands of this movie. To enhance the performances, the director went so far as to separate Hanks and his fellow actors playing the crew from the four actors portraying the pirates (all played by newcomers discovered by Greengrass in Minneapolis).
"The only difference was that this is their first movie as opposed to their 17th. Learning from that, I think, is that there is no substitute for accurate behavior, there's no substitute for true reacting," Hanks suggested.
Greengrass added: "You're making a strong bet on the ability of four young men who had never acted before, but I believed in them and I believed in what authenticity they could bring to the film as young Somalis with a knowledge of the country and the people. So when it came to that moment, it was a little bit like pro sport. And in a way, I think it helped Tom, too, because he didn't know them and they didn't know him, so there was a sort of intimacy there. They were antagonists at that moment and that you could really tell on screen."
But the most memorable moment for Hanks' Captain Phillips was improvised aboard the USS Truxton, where they were shooting. "We didn't even know we were going to shoot that scene," Hanks recalled. "It wasn't in the script. We checked out the infirmary. And the actual crew had no idea they were going to be in a movie that day. We decided to try and get something...and so we shot it.
"It fell apart once because of natural things that happen in the course of making movies. We just said, 'Don't worry, we'll just do it again'. We shot it for about half an hour...and out it came. I think it's a testament to Paul's willingness to go off the page and off the beaten path and off the plan and off the schedule, and shoot in a location that we hadn't scouted. But it all made sense in the environment of the entire movie that we made."
"Actually, while Tom was getting ready for that scene," Greengrass added, "I said to [the medic], 'Look, just treat it like a regular military exercise -- it'll be absolutely nothing, just entirely routine, just that it'll be Tom Hanks.'"
Only the emotion is so raw, so vulnerable, that you forget you're watching Hanks, the movie star, and instead are watching Captain Phillips facing his own worst fear -- a state of total disorientation.


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New Zealand is really, really trying to become a smoke free country. Tax increases have caused many to abandon smoking altogether just to save money. And who can blame them when the tax increases that they have seen have caused the costs of cigarettes to reach nearly 40 percent in increase? To make things even more dismal for smokers in that country, it is projected that cigarette packs will cost roughly fifteen US dollars by the time 2016 rolls around. On top of that, new laws are rolling out that will require cigarette vendors to sell cigarettes under the counter, instead of relying on visible displays.
The fact is that the tax hikes and laws against displaying cigarettes are trends that are starting to show their faces here in the US. It makes one wonder whether or not the trends we are seeing in New Zealand are an indication of the direction we could be headed in the US. On top of the tax increases, with big tobacco companies slowly showing a willingness to try tobacco free nicotine products, actual smoking may become a thing of great rarity in the country.
The fact is that smoking all across the world is starting to slow down. New Zealand could be setting a very influential precedent if their plan works out.


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Earlier this year I reported that software developer is the best job for 2013, according to a study by CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. (EMSI). Since 2010, 70,872 software developer jobs have been added (7% growth)—and these professionals earn $90,530 a year, on average. The BLS expects a 30% increase in the number of software developers by 2020 (from 2010).
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — The director of Mountain Home Veterans Affairs Medical Center in East Tennessee says in response to an audit showing long wait times that the facility will expand.
Mountain Home Director Charlene Ehret spoke at a news conference Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs released statistics this week finding the Mountain Home facility near Johnson City ranked ninth nationally in longest wait times for new patients to receive specialist care, with a wait of 67 days.
The Johnson City Press (http://bit.ly/Swf7B7 ) reported that Ehret said Mountain Home plans to open a new clinic Monday in Campbell County and plans to expand its Sevierville clinic space to allow new physicians to take up residence there.
Ehret said the wait time was mostly due to lack of clinical space in Knoxville, especially for optometrists and audiologists.
Information from: Johnson City Press, http://www.johnsoncitypress.com


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I'll be doing backup vocals for Outlaw Dervish confirmed for the opening slot at DeCom (2:00-3:00pm)Thu, October 2, 2008 - 1:08 PM permalink - 12 comments
Yay! it's just for a few tunes but YAY anyway!
For those of you who don't know him, Outlaw Dervish is TRAVIS WERNET doing spoken word vocals with dance rhythms and earthy and tribal toned Didjeridoo sounds. He is a master Didj player and lyricist!! Please check out his amazing debut CD which I sing on and is produced by Ben Leinbach who has produced s... read more
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The East Bay Express is celebrating their "Best of The East Bay" winners at the Oakland Museum this Friday ( tomorrow) night!
It's a big party from 7-12 midnight ....and its FREE for ALL AGES
Oh... and there will be some fabulous LOCAL artists (including ME!) selling their work along with great food and music.
There will also be a KIDS ZONE sponsored by Chabot Space and Science center.
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Real Housewives of New Jersey
Kathy Wakile to Her Sister Rosie: Stop Defending Me!
Season 5 of the Real Housewives of New Jersey has been all about healing and moving forward. First, the Jersey couples went to Lake George for a weekend of therapy and now they are in Arizona digging even deeper within themselves. But some people aren't as open to being analyzed. Kathy Wakile, for one, feels that Rosie is reading too much into her actions.
Kathy took to her Bravo blog to explain her feelings.
"At the drum ceremony Rosie once again feels like she has to come to my defense. Of course I appreciate it, but she doesn't realize that I let a lot of stuff go because I really don't care for conflict, especially when it is not really a big deal in the big picture."
In other words, Kathy is telling Rosie that she can take care of herself. And, the times she doesn't stick up for herself, it's because she doesn't want to be bothered with the drama.
Fair enough.
Do you think Kathy needs Rosie to speak up for her? Share your opinions in the comments section below.
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Theophilus London teams up with Trouble Andrew on "Snow Angel."
We're 100 hundred percent tired of winter over here (it's just all gray skies and seasonal affective disorder after New Year's Eve!), but genre-bending Brooklynite Theophilus London isn't quite done with the darker months yet. After working with practically every artist in the book (think: TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara, Glasser, and Solange), the stylish MC has teamed up with Trouble Andrew for a chilling new track, "Snow Angel," which is set to appear on his upcoming album (ironically coming out this summer).
Listen to Theophilus London featuring Trouble Andrew's "Snow Angel" after the jump.
Heavily sampling Radiohead's eerie "Everything In Its Right Place," Theophilus' new track sounds just about as ominous as a report of an oncoming snowpocalypse. As Trouble Andrew takes care of the hook, softly repeating "Snow Angel" over and over, Theophilus defensively spits about the usual suspects: women, money, drugs ("snow" sounds a tad symbolic, guys), guns, alcohol, guys coming after him… you know, the stuff winter gloom is made of. "Don't f*** with trouble, that's my cousin, he got the semi/ Protect your neck, protect your set/ Protect your b****, protect your checks." Well, we can't say for sure who's actually after Theophilus, but judging by the lyrics, we'd be fools to cross him. Which is why we're just gonna thaw out for a bit, pretend it's summer, and think about Theophilus looking like THIS.
+ Listen to Theophilus London featuring Trouble Andrew's "Snow Angel" (NSFW).
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