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Export revenues have barely budged for five years. In some important industries that the government is trying to promote, such as garments and leather goods, they have even declined. As a result, Ethiopia’s foreign reserves are thought to cover just over a month’s worth of imports. Businesses say the shortage of foreig... |
The planned sell-offs should ease some of the hard-currency strains. The announcement also sends an important signal to foreign investors that the government is now serious about economic reform. But Getachew Teklemariam, a consultant and former government adviser, argues that simply selling minority stakes in public m... |
The question is whether Mr Abiy has a vision for the economy beyond the part-sale of public enterprises. Ethiopia still has no stockmarket. The banking industry, which will remain off-limits to foreigners, is overdue a shake-up, for instance by allowing management contracts with foreign banks. The foreign-exchange regi... |
This article appeared in the Middle East and Africa section of the print edition under the headline "Reformer-in-chief" |
When Jarrey Foster makes his season debut Tuesday night, it won’t be for a stacked SMU team in front of a packed Moody Coliseum crowd like he’s used to. |
These Mustangs are 3-3 after splitting games with Bradley and Wright State in Cancún. They have lapses on defense and dry stretches on offense; they have never needed a jolt more than they do now. |
But how much will Foster help? |
The senior swingman is coming off a torn ACL that he suffered last January in a win over Wichita State. He is battle tested, starting on the team two years ago that made the NCAA Tournament, but was more of a role player for that squad. Where he’s always had a profound impact is defense. |
Foster is a versatile defender that can cover multiple positions. His quick feet make him ample on the perimeter, while his leaping ability and strength allow him to jostle with big men. Last year, he held his own against DeAndre Ayton, who is currently averaging 16.9 points and 10.4 rebounds per game for the Phoenix S... |
Right now, SMU is stocked with length and athleticism but is syphoning points to inferior opponents. The Mustangs have given up at least 75 points in each of their last three games to Lipscomb, Bradley and Wright State. |
Their issue on that end is not singular. In SMU’s loss to Southern Miss, spotty perimeter defense allowed the Golden Eagles to rain in 13 3-pointers. Bradley only made five 3s, but brutalized the Mustangs inside for 36 points in the paint. |
At the least, Foster will give Tim Jankovich a solid defender to throw at the opponent’s best perimeter scorer. While he can help inside, his 6-6 frame is more suited to cover ball-handlers on the wing than back-to-the-basket bruisers. |
Foster’s tools will be useful. Jankovich can roll out a lineup with Jimmy Whitt, Nat Dixon, Isiaha Mike and Foster, along with Ethan Chargois. Four of those defenders possess the combination of quickness and strength to defend multiple positions, so SMU will be able to switch on screens and make it tough for its oppone... |
On paper, Foster’s return will boost SMU’s defense. But right now, the defense is more of an overall team issue than a unit that is one player short. To get to where it needs to be, SMU needs an injection of fervency on that end; a mandate that it won’t give up loose balls and won’t allow shooters to drift open. SMU wi... |
On offense, SMU gives heavy minutes to two offensive players who rarely shoot in Dixon and Mike, so an assertive mindet from Foster would go a long way. Right now, the offense is far too reliant on Jahmal McMurray and Chargois’ streaky shooting. When those two are having an off night, SMU doesn’t have other options to ... |
But that’s not a given. While he’s been at SMU, Foster has always had a star to feed off of. Whether it was Shake Milton, Nic Moore or Semi Ojeleye, there was always someone more qualified to do the heavy lifting on that end. Foster’s impact came more from canning jumpshots off of a pass or getting out and running in t... |
However, those are skills he can work on while rehabbing his knee. Foster has been working on his handle while sitting out, and coming back from a lower body injury gives players the chance to work on their shot mechanics. |
The other big factor in his return is whether his athleticism will still be there. Foster will likely be on a minutes restriction for now, and he’ll have to feel his way back into the games. Don’t expect full blown Jarrey Foster from day one. Foster’s game was predicated around high-flying dunks and blocks, as well as ... |
In addition, he’ll be joining a team that needs him badly, and needs an evolved version of what he was before the injury. Foster will help SMU on both ends, but this team is likely more than just one player away, even if that player is a future NBA Draft pick. |
It might be a Hollywood motto but it's also a legendary line from Oliver Stone's seminal 80's corporate thriller, Wall Street. The film helped make the movie careers of Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen (to mixed success); it defined an era and influenced pretty much every film since that has involved money, stocks, sh... |
Now it looks like Douglas's Gordon Gecko is set to return to the bigscreen in Wall Street 2. However this time his protege won't be bad boy Charlie Sheen but rather Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen star (and up and coming Indiana Jones Jr.), Shia LaBeouf. |
LaBeouf's crack team of entertainment gurus are currently negotiating with 20th Century Fox for the young actor to join the Wall Street sequel, which will again be helmed by director Oliver Stone. Douglas will also return for the sequel, reprising the role that won him his second Oscar (his first is for producing One F... |
The original Wall Street starred Douglas as greedy investment banker who takes a young Charlie Sheen under his wing and shows him the ways of 1980's Yuppie-dom (google it). Allan Loeb will pen the script for the sequel - odd considering that the original film was written by Stone who was inspired by his own father's ca... |
Wall Street 2 will also reflect the current economic crisis, which has helped the film gain new momentum on the Fox backlot, ever since it was announced (and stalled) a few years ago. |
In my eyes Douglas is one of the few leading men in Hollywood with a clean record sheet. His starring roles are all worth watching - including his lesser efforts - and LaBeouf is on the verge of big things. He may actually be over the verge and already be a full blown leading man, once Transformers: Revenge of The Fall... |
Douglas will next be seen opposite Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner in The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past. |
More on Wall Street 2 when we get it. It's expected to be released in 2010. |
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WASHINGTON — Marines providing artillery support to U.S.-backed Syrian fighters in Raqqa fired so many consecutive rounds they burned out the barrels of two M777 155 mm howitzers. |
The story was told directly to Army Sergeant Major John Wayne Troxell, the senior enlisted adviser to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, by a Marine Corps battery commander. |
“Every minute of every hour we were putting some kind of fire on ISIS in Raqqa, whether it was mortars, artillery, rockets, [High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems], Hellfires, armed drones, you name it,” Troxell told reporters on Monday. Troxell had visited Raqqa a couple weeks ago for a period of four hours. |
The Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, commander for the Raqqa campaign, Gen. Rojda Felat, knew she had to aggressively keep pressure on ISIS in Raqqa, which meant coalition support in terms of ISR, drones and artillery also had to be aggressive, Troxell explained to reporters. |
SDF forces backed by coalition air and artillery support liberated Raqqa after four-plus months of fighting. However that liberation has come at a steep cost. Much of Raqqa has been destroyed by the intense urban street to street battling and the thousands of air and artillery strikes. |
Despite ISIS’ loss of its self-proclaimed capital, the group has not been defeated and complete annihilation of the group is unlikely. |
ISIS has lost considerable combat power and its ability to launch external attacks outside Syria has been greatly diminished but the group and its threat can only be neutralized, Troxell explained. |
ISIS fighters may look to export its fighters and ideology to East and West Africa, Troxell said. |
Nevertheless, the burnout of two M777 howitzers highlights the amount of artillery shells that rained down upon ISIS and Raqqa. |
The rounds it would take to burn out a barrel is dependent on the level of charge and the range to the target, he said. |
The level of charge of the round is also a function of the weight of the shell being used and the distance to the target. |
Marines have been providing artillery support to the SDF since March. |
Military Times’ Pentagon Bureau Chief Tara Copp contributed to this story. |
When seven year old Jessica died her parents made the simple choice to donate her organs, saving others from what they were going through. |
Kathlyn is a scripture teacher who believes everyone needs to hear God's message whether they choose to believe it or not. |
I still sing your songs. |
Kids are inquisitive about so many things, with God high on the list. Dale does Q&A in his scripture class. |
They call their followers "Pastafarians". A religious minority fights for the right teach its scripture alongside more established faiths. |
Grabbing a small window of opportunity, Jennifer Wright asks for help to make a life for herself and her children away from the violence. |
Gavin wants you to know the school religious education policy in NSW... where SRE is not GRE, and GRE is not SRE. Got it? |
When he learnt the Catholic scripture teacher told kids they were "God's sheep", the tv newsman signed up to be an ethics teacher. |
My boy, the son of an Ethics teacher, would happily go to Scripture if it meant he'd get the stickers and chocolate Easter eggs. |
Death can be one of those taboo subjects, which is what makes this story so fascinating. |
Headshot/resume by mail only. No unsolicited demos. Interviews by appointment only. No calls. No drop-offs. |
The ASA will investigate SEO practices from eConsultancy reports that the Advertising Standards Authority (AMA) in the UK will require web sites to disclose if they are placing paid links on their web site. In addition, Google is backing this. |
What Google wants and what the AMA wants are slightly different things. Google wants the links to be nofollowed, which technically won't reveal to a normal web user if a link is paid or not. ASA wants the link to be disclosed to the normal web user, so they know it is a paid link. |
Google requires the use of code, typically the 'nofollow' but alternatives such as a redirect through a robots.txt blocked script, but thats not what the ASA and the CAP are interested in. The ASA wants to ensure that paid for links, and other promotions, are disclosed in such a way that the average consumer can see t... |
It's therefore possible for links to be safe by Google standards but still in breach of the ASA. Equally, it's possible for links to be safe by the ASA standard but in breach of Google's guidelines. You can imagine black hat SEO agencies are not likely to buy links from sites and ask the website owner to then publicly ... |
This seems like pretty significant news if it pans out. Personally, I am all for disclosing to end users if the links are paid. Really. |
Thousands of people are being forcibly evicted from camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. An estimated 369,000 IDPs live in Mogadishu and there are over one million IDPs in Somalia today. For decades, IDPs in Somalia have been pushed from place to place by conflict and periodic f... |
Whether or not you make New Year's resolutions, let's assume you're making one this year. |
The musical On the Town opened in New York City on this day in 1944 and ran for 462 performances. |
It's National Fruitcake Day! Yes, that's a thing. How about a set of tunes inspired by fruit, if not fruitcake? |
Happy Boxing Day! It's a day that seems to confuse Americans (it's a British thing) but it's more about Christmas boxes than pugilists. |
Read more about Happy Boxing Day! |
Read more about Seven Fishes? |
Winter arrives at 5:23pm today. Let's welcome in the season with your favorite songs of winter. We'll spin a set after 9am. |
Happy Holidays! Today we're going to our happy place. We want happy songs. And by that, we mean songs with "happy" in the lyrics. |
Yesterday we revealed the results of WFUV's Best of 2018 Listener Poll. |
Today at 10am we'll countdown your favorite songs of 2018. But before that, what are your favorite songs with "favorite" in the lyrics? |
On this date in 1903 the Wright brothers made the first successful airplane flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
The Linksys EA8500 Max-Stream AC2600 MU-MIMO Smart Wi-Fi Router uses the latest wireless technology to deliver speedy 5GHz throughput to multiple devices at the same time. |
Uses new MU-MIMO technology. Easy setup. Lots of features. Speedy 5GHz performance on our tests. |
Expensive. Clients must support MU-MIMO to take advantage of enhanced performance. Advanced settings are difficult to find. Middling 2.4GHz performance in testing. |
Equipped with Qualcomm's MU EFX MU-MIMO technology, the Linksys EA8500 Max-Stream AC2600 MU-MIMO Smart Wi-Fi Router ($279.99) ushers in the next generation of 802.11ac networking devices. According to Linksys, Multi-User Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output (MU-MIMO) networking provides throughput speeds that are three time... |
The EA8500 looks identical to the Linksys AC2400 Dual Band Wi-Fi Router (E8350) that I reviewed earlier this year. It has a matte-black finish, measures 2.2 by 10.1 by 7.2 inches (HWD), and has four adjustable external antennas. As with the Linksys EA8350, there aren't any front-facing status lights other than a backli... |
The EA8500 is a dual-band AC2600 router with (theoretical) throughput speeds of up to 800Mbps on the 2.4GHz band and up to 1,733Mbps on the 5GHz band. It has a 1.4GHz dual-core processor under the hood, and a Qualcomm chipset that supports both 802.11ac and MU-MIMO. Unlike traditional routers, which use Single-User Mul... |
The Smart Wi-Fi management interface is the same one used on the Linksys AC3200 Tri-Band Gigabit Smart Wi-Fi Router (EA9200) and the Linksys EA6900 AC1900 Smart Wi-Fi Wireless Router. It's a Web-based console offering a wealth of management options, including parental controls, guest networking, media prioritization, a... |
Oddly, some advanced settings are hidden and can only be accessed by entering 192.168.1.1/ui/dynamic/advanced-wireless.html in your browser's address bar on your PC or Mac. Here, you'll find settings for each band that include things like AP Isolation (in which each of your wireless clients will be in its own virtual n... |
The EA8500 is easy to install. Once the router is plugged in and connected to your PC, open a browser and type linksyssmartwifi.com in the address bar. This launches the Smart Wi-Fi Setup program that will walk you through the process of naming SSIDs, creating passwords, and setting up security options. You can also se... |
I ran the usual throughput and storage tests on the EA8500 and added a couple of MU-MIMO tests to determine throughput speeds with three MU-MIMO clients. I also ran these tests in SU-MIMO mode (or rather, with MU-MIMO disabled) for comparison. |
For the MU-MIMO tests, I used three identical Acer Aspire E15 laptops equipped with Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 wireless 802.11ac network adapters, which support MU-MIMO. I measured close-proximity (same-room) throughput with all three laptops hitting the 5GHz band at the same time. The average throughput speed was 209 Mb... |
Results were not nearly as dramatic when testing at a distance of 30 feet; with MU-MIMO disabled, the average throughput speed was 82.3Mbps, and with MU-MIMO enabled, it was 90Mbps. That's only a 9.4-percent improvement over SU-MIMO. |
On my single-user throughput tests, the EA8500 delivered a speedy score of 313Mbps on the 5GHz close-proximity test, beating the Netgear Nighthawk X6 Tri-Band R8000 (171Mbps) and the Asus RT-AC68U (290.5Mbps), but trailing the D-Link DIR-890L/R (558Mbps) and the Asus RT-AC3200 (452Mbps). At a distance of 30 feet, the E... |
The EA8500's 2.4GHz throughput was mediocre in testing. It scored 54.4Mbps on the close-proximity test and 43Mbps on the 30-foot test. The Netgear R8000 outperformed it on both tests (90.7Mbps and 76.2Mbps, respectively), as did the D-Link DIR-890L/R (92.7Mbps and 82Mbps), the Asus RT-AC68U (90Mbps and 81.9Mbps), and t... |
To test the router's file-sharing (read/write) performance, I connected a USB drive to the USB 3.0 port and transferred a 1.5GB folder containing a mix of video, music, photo, and data files. The EA8500's read result of 57.3MBps is slightly faster than the D-Link DIR-890L/R's speed of 52.2MBps and the Linksys EA9200's ... |
With the Linksys EA8500 Max-Stream AC2600 MU-MIMO Smart Wi-Fi Router, you get the latest wireless technology and solid 5GHz performance, but you'll pay a premium for both. If you have several devices vying for bandwidth, the EA8500 is one of the few routers out there that can serve multiple clients simultaneously, but ... |
In a move to eradicate Russia’s worst evil – corruption – President Medvedev has signed a national strategy on tackling the problem. Among the ambitious goals it sets is changing people’s attitudes. |
The presidential decree approves two documents: the national strategy and the national plan to fight corruption in 2010-2011, the Kremlin’s press service reports. The strategy defines the main directions and stages of the anti-corruption policy for the future, while the plan – which will be renewed every two years – he... |
Admitting corruption to be one of the “systemic threats” to Russia’s security, the documents suggest a whole bunch of measures aimed at its eradication. Those, for instance, include forming a completely different approach to the issue in people’s minds. Government structures, political parties, public organizations and... |
Among the goals is increasing a legal culture by achieving maximum transparency of public services and by carrying out preventative measures in state organizations. |
Officials, for their part, should control the way anti-corruption plan measures are fulfilled and also help the media to report on the process. |
The president instructed the head of his administration, Sergey Naryshkin, and the chair of the presidium of the Presidential anti-Corruption Council, to report on the implementation of the national plan and present proposals on how to improve on the anti-corruption measures. |
Dmitry Medvedev declared war on corruption at the very beginning of his presidency in 2008 when he set an anti-corruption council and became its head. Although he is far from being the first Russian leader eager to fight the demon of corruption, he is one of the most devoted and decisive on the path. However, two years... |
Indeed, “Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase” (Charles Caleb Colton). Unfortunately, there are very few people in Russia who have never had to pay a bribe. This immoral practice has taken root in almost every sphere of life – be it paying off a bureaucrat to cut through red tape,... |
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