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John Mutumburanzou wrote to Kubatana recently, sharing his views on GNUs, and the new way of doing politics in Africa: The obsession and deliberate automated habit by contemporary statesman, political brokers and mediators buttressed by multilateral institutions like SADC, AU and the UN to form coalition governments (also erroneously referred to as Unity Government or Government of National Unity) in each and every troubled state in Africa is astonishing and mind boggling to say the least.

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Legitimised coups in modern 21st century Africa

I have never been too fond of radical feminism or any form of extremism for that matter; finding it to be an aggressive, usually narrow and unhelpful approach to conflict resolution. Radicalism is often reactionary, manifesting as a reaction to some undesired reality and is usually the preserve of those who feel they have something to defend against all costs and something to fight for against whatever odds. As an activist, I have found that radicalism has its place, its use and its benefits in pursuing the elusive goal of attaining social justice for womankind

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Kicking out paternalism

There was a “XAML Serialization” thread on Channel 9 – Coffeehouse today that had an interesting use of XAML. He was using XAML as a way to dump the state of his object graph for verification, debugging, potential transformations/exports, etc… As such, he wanted to see some R/O properties written down in XAML, that we currently judge as not interesting to write, since they are read-only…and thus can be read back in, so why write them

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XAML: writing down all values of an object?

Webmaster Level: All If you allow users to publish content on your website, from leaving comments to creating user profiles , you’ll likely see spammers attempt to take advantage of these mechanisms to generate traffic to their own sites. Having this spammy content on your site isn’t fun for anyone. Users may be subjected to annoying advertisements directing them to low-quality or dangerous sites containing scams or malware.

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“Back to the nuts and bolts of the new Google Voice web app though — it shows the coming promise of HTML5 I’ve been waiting for. Using the AppCache feature means that users can still interact with the app, even without a web connection.

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Download source files – here When I wrote my article Zoom and page chaged events for FlowDocumentPageViewer I make mistake, you can read about it – there . However Martin offer solution for this problem. But I don't like his solution, overriding of OnPropertyChanged isn't best solution because this method is risen in many cases so any logic there is serious performance issue

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Zoom event for FlowDocumentPageViewer (corrected)

Our new Plug-in for creating lens flares and lighting effects is now available! As always this product includes 5 advanced video tutorials plus access to the Video Copilot Preset Network for sharing lens flare presets. Check it out now! 2 Packages Available: OPTICAL FLARES PLUG-IN: only $124.95 Includes the Optical Flares Plug-in, 60 Presets and 5 Video Tutorials.

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Optical Flares Now Available!

2300 years ago, Aristotle wrote down the secret to being a persuasive speaker , the secret which forms the basis for nearly every public speaking book written since then. Do you know the secret? If you don’t, you might be wondering what a 2300-year-old theory has to do with public speaking in the year 2010

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Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking

Our new plug-in Optical Flares will be available Monday morning (around 9AM PST) but we wanted to highlight some key features that you may have missed. Be sure to check out the product page and watch the feature videos: Go to the Optical Flares Page Some Key Features include: This Eclipse image is a tutorial available with Optical Flares along with 4 other advanced tutorials including a concert scene and building a wall of lights.

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Feature Spotlight: Optical Flares

eCommerce payment processing by Streamline.com This service provider in the payment card processing domain claims to be the largest of its kind within Europe and boasts of being able to cater to all types of businesses irrespective of the size. They are a member of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group.

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Online Payment Processing by Streamline.com

Confessions of a Public Speaker is a highly entertaining and insightful insider’s view of public speaking, with value for speakers of all levels. This article is the latest of a series of public speaking book reviews here on Six Minutes .

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Book Review: Confessions of a Public Speaker (Scott Berkun)

Good to see that the dates for the Community Tech Days have been confirmed. It’s now set for 24th January at Microsoft IDC in Hyderabad. The event has a great line up of sessions and speakers, and its a nice opportunity for developers and IT Pros to know about the enhancements in Microsoft technologies right from Microsoft and other experts too

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Community Tech Days in Hyderabad

Today, I had to deliver a talk on Security features in .NET and IIS and I was going through the www.iis.net website.  In the past I had been there for Smooth streaming and other stuff but I stumbled upon the tools, a truck load of them that are very handy utilities while managing a webserver. URL Scan Site Shell Server Defender and much more related to security at http://www.iis.net/downloads/Security and with respect to performance http://www.iis.net/downloads/Performance Ok, and my titbit for this post is that, if you want to use the URL Scan utility on your server running IIS 7, IIS 7.5, you need to enable IIS 6 Metabase Compatibility before configuring the tool.  Here is a write up on the same site to do that at http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/125/metabase-compatibility-with-iis-7/ Cheers !!!

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IIS Tools – truck load of them at www.iis.net

Video Copilot presents the all new 3D lens flare studio: Optical Flares! Key Features include: 3D Position & Light Tracking Real Texture Mapping Includes 60 Presets (Pro Preset Pack Available) Realistic On-Lens Simulations Automatic Luminance Tracking Dynamic Triggering (Animation without Keyframes!) Creative Tutorials and much more! Check out the product right now: Optical Flares Product Page Be sure to watch the feature videos for an exciting, in-depth look at using Optical Flares.  With such a powerful plug-in, we separated the videos into individual sections so you can check out the features you want to see! Optical Flares will be available Monday, Jan 25 in our online store. Optical Flares is available for download only

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Optical Flares Page Online!

After Effects CS5 will to be a 64 bit application only.  At the moment QuickTime is only a 32 bit application and users of other 64 bit applications like (3D max 64 bit, Nuke 64 bit, etc.) do not have the ability to import or export any QuickTime files.   So seeing how QuickTime is one of most popular formats that has been supported by After Effects since the beginning, what will happen with AE CS5? I received direct word from the Adobe After Effects product manager himself: Michael Coleman ____________________________________________________________________ He said this: “QuickTime is very important and we will continue to have QuickTime support in the next After Effects

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QuickTime & AE CS5: The 64 bit Question

Six Minutes weekend reviews are back for a third year of bringing you the best public speaking articles from throughout the public speaking blogosphere . This review features topics including: speechwriting lessons from Martin Luther King Jr.; structuring your presentation logically; becoming aware of your voice; benefits of a flip chart; mistakes with visuals; speaker habits; stages in a professional speaking career; and more! From the Six Minutes Archives  One Year Ago from Six Minutes … Speech Analysis: I Have a Dream – Martin Luther King Jr

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Public Speaking Tips: Weekend Review [2010-01-15]

As some of you may know, the new version of After Effects CS5 will be native 64 bit, which offers major speed and memory enhancements (among other things) but 3rd party plug-in developers like Video Copilot, will need to update their code before they will work in 64 bit. But worry not… When After Effects CS5 ships, (some speculate later this year) Video Copilot is committed to offering free product upgrades to customers on all of our plug-ins. All… TWO of them Twitch & Optical Flares

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Optical Flares & Twitch: 64 Bit?

Freedom Fone’s ability to fulfill it’s promise as a must have tool for bridging the digital divide has yet to be determined. Millions of poor people have access to mobile phones, but with tariffs as high as they are in countries like Zimbabwe, experimentation in this field is still costly. And of course, for our project these are early days

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Free Kiswahili synthetic voice for Freedom Fone a possibility

Video Link As we get closer to the release of Optical Flares, our new lens flare creation studio, I wanted to show you some cool examples of Optical Flares in action. This reel includes actual productions by some of our beta testers and some tests I did internally.  I think this reel has a nice variety of how lens flares can be used but I’m sure you could think of many more! Motion graphics or visual effects… be ready for Optical Flares: January 25, 2010.

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Optical Flares In Action

Streamline.net web hosting review Brief Introduction This is yet another company that was launched a decade back as an off shoot of Dollamore – the parent company and managed to make a name for itself in a very short time by hosting close to over 150,000 websites. They pride themselves on the fact that their customers find it easy to do business with them and ascribe that to the fact that they have been able to make the process of web hosting a very convenient and uncomplicated one

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Streamline.Net budget web hosting company