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Afcon Hosts Gabon Make History
Africa Cup of Nations co-hosts Gabon finished the group stages with a perfect record after a 1-0 victory over Tunisia in Franceville on Tuesday night.
Both sides had already booked their place in the quarter-finals before this encounter. For Gabon it is only the second time they have managed this feat, having previously reached the Last 8 stage in the 1996 finals in South Africa.
Talisman Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang got the only goal of the game for the home side in the second half, his third in three matches at this year’s tournament.
Tunisia dominated the early stages with Issam Jemaa and Youssef Msakni going close, before Wissem Ben Yahia fired in a stunning drive that went just over the angle of crossbar and post.
Saber Khelifa found the side-netting for the North Africans, while Gabon’s first real chance came after the half-hour mark as Andre Poko headed wide of the target from Roguy Meye’s cross.
The opening goal arrived on 62 minutes when Aubameyang beat Rami Jridi, though the Tunisian goalkeeper will believe he should have stopped the shot.
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Grainy videos depict the violence that has killed at least 6,000 Syrians, but the prospects for international intervention appear dim. Is the world inured to the ubiquitous images?
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in London February 1, 2012.
Assange was detained in Britain in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant issued by a Swedish prosecutor after two female former WikiLeaks volunteers accused him of sexual assault. [REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth]
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in London February 1, 2012.
Assange was detained in Britain in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant issued by a Swedish prosecutor after two female former WikiLeaks volunteers accused him of sexual assault. [REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth]
Read more: Julian Assange appeals extradition to UK’s top court
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Today is Betty White’s 90th Birthday:
“If you lie to anybody on the planet, don’t lie to that person reflected in the mirror,” she says. “Always be able to meet your own eyes, and know that you’re telling the truth.”
(Photo: SNL/NBC)
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New Sounds Of Africa: Sorie Kondi
Sorie Kondi is a blind singer and Kondi virtuoso (he adopted his instrument’s name as his own) from Sierra Leone. There’s nothing fancy about his production and no team of musicians to distract from the simplicity his compositions. His songs, like “Without Money, No Family” above, are about his tough but resilient life. He also crafts a majority of his own instruments.
Kondi has been invited to the American festival South By Southwest but needs help with travel expenses.
Visit his Kickstarter Page to help bring this great sound stateside.
We dig.
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Link reblogged from The Museum of Useful Things
It is officially winter in Boston. With our first snow of mention on the ground and underfoot, we look at our products that become handy in inclement weather. A Goose Neck Twine Dispenser will help with crafts and chores when house bound. Take the edge off the cold with a nip from the Hip Flask….
(Source: museumofusefulthings.com)
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Happy birthday, Muhammad Ali: As Muhammad Ali turns 70, it would be easy to say happy birthday and recite his accomplishments as a boxer and humanitarian. But in his heyday, Ali was complicated, columnist Bill Dwyre says.
Photo: Muhammad Ali blows out the candles on a cake baked for his 25th birthday in Houston on Jan. 17, 1967. The three-time heavyweight champion, who turns 70 Tuesday, is still a “big kid” who enjoys his birthday parties, his wife said. Credit: Ed Kolenovsky / Associated Press
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
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V.F. spotlit a young editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1990. Prescience!
Barack Obama, age 28, in his first Vanity Fair appearance; photograph by John Goodman.
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Puppies pull a play sledge for the amusement of supply officer George Black during Richard E. Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition. They were the offspring of the 94 dogs originally brought along for transport on the journey—and would soon be the youngest residents of a part of the camp called Dog Town.
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Photo reblogged from Laughing Squid Links
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Link reblogged from parislemon
Oh, AT&T.
I suspect their next move will be a lot of complaining that the government is now the reason why they’re so inept — something which they already have started doing in the end of this letter.
As for T-Mobile, I would bet that they use some of that huge $4 billion breakup fee from AT&T to enter into negotiations ASAP with Apple to bring the iPhone to the last of the big four carriers in the U.S.
