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The New Boston Local School District invites the community to join them Thursday afternoon for the public dedication ceremony of their new Pre-K through 12 school building.
The district passed a local levy to build new schools in 2008, and broke ground in April 2011. Originally expecting | to open in June, the new school — located on Lakeview Avenue and the newly created Glenwood Tiger Trail behind the New Boston Stadium — opened to students on | [
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Dark Reign: The List: Avengers
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This honestly felt like it should have been a NA issue. Clint is pissed and takes matters into his own hands. What follows is Clint taking down the whole Dark Avengers. (Really?) I did like the nod towards Clint | and Karla's past. Clint goes and greets Osborn and delivers the final blow.......only for Osborn to have shields and Ares popping out to bitch slap Clint. I could see hardcore old school Hawkeye fans taking issue with Clint's actions here, but I don't really mind
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The hardest part about travel is leaving a place you have fallen in love with and parting from friends who you want to hang with forever. But, When we finally do say goodbye to one another, its awesome to know we have a home somewhere in the world waiting for our return.
| Euphoria is another unique stop for the itinerary and a must see if you are visiting Tallinn. Our walls are painted by local artists with colorful psychedelic designs, comical cartoons and infamous graffiti. We will connect you with Estonian arts and culture.
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Judy Blume in April, 2012.Beloved author Judy Blume wrote in a blog post Wednesday that she is recovering after undergoing a masectomy for breast cancer that was diagnosed in June.
The 74-year-old author, whose books inspired the "Fudge" TV series and the new film "Tiger Eyes," said she was | planning to spend five weeks at an artists' colony in Italy, where she hoped to finish her latest novel. But on June 12 she underwent a biopsy that revealed cancer.
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Five of six Peninsula cities have voted to join a new water agency.
The city councils of Del Rey Oaks and Seaside this week approved the proposed Monterey Peninsula Regional Water Authority — a power-sharing agency of cities aimed at solving the long dilemma over a new | Peninsula water supply.
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Quiksilver Canada has dropped yet another of their monthly edits featuring Calgary’s own Dustin Henry:
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THIS DAY :-
1957 - Two rock and roll acts made their debut
on the Ed Sullivan Show: Sam
Cooke ("You Send Me") & Buddy
Holly & the Crickets with "That'll | Be the Day"),
1960 - Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee were married.
eloped and married at Don Kirshners apartment in Elizabeth. NJ at 3am.
The couple met
in Rome while filming
1964 - Ringo Starr, The Beatles
into University College Hospital to have his tonsils removed.
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By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF chair
It was just another Tuesday. I was judging an airports concession contest, then was going back to the office at 1 p.m. for what I thought was a group meeting. I briefly thought it was odd that most of my colleagues were still sitting at their desks, but shook it off. I was called to a conference room where I saw two company leaders, and I | knew.
The whole process was very cordial and professional. I listened to the talk, took the packet and thanked them for a great five-year run. Who else do you know that gets paid to do their hobby, their passion? My last day is October 21. One would think that I would be devastated, but really, | [
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100 days to hunt down the perfect Christmas tree
With Christmas just 100 days away, it’s time for families to get their festive planning underway and think about the centrepiece to their home – the Christmas tree.
For many households, deciding whether to opt for an artificial tree or a real one is one of the key decisions you’ll have to make. The best choice for your home and the environment, according to the British Christmas Tree Growers Association, is a freshly grown tree.
In the UK it’s estimated that eight million real Christmas trees are bought every year, with two million fake trees being purchased. Studies show that a real tree is five times more environmentally friendly than an artificial tree. One reason for this is that Christmas trees improve air quality. Every acre of Christmas trees grown produces the daily oxygen for 16 people and a hectare absorbs six tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
Most artificial trees | are made of metal and plastics, typically PVC, and are non-bio-degradable. Considering most of these trees are manufactured in the Far East, transporting them to the UK adds to the trees’ carbon footprint.
There are also the aesthetic benefits of showcasing a real Christmas tree in your home, as Roger Hay, secretary for the BCTGA, explained: “A freshly grown British Christmas tree adds something really special to your home – from its beautiful foliage to its festive scent.
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[rspec-users] [BDD] View specs and cucumber -- duplication of effort?
sfeley at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 11:09:55 EDT 2009
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:19 AM, David Chelimsky <dchelimsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Everything in between falls along a spectrum, and it's up to you to find the
> sweet spot, which _will_ vary from team to team, project to project, and
> even view to view.
Here's a discussion on another forum in which nearly the exact same
question was asked:
An excerpt from my answer:
* * * * *
| As a heuristic, I'd suggest that you should _strongly_ consider
writing a unit test any time any of the following questions can be
* Is the code I'm writing more than trivially complicated?
* Does this code exist primarily to give answers to other code?
* Is this existing code that I'm refactoring (that doesn't already
have a unit test)?
* Have I found a bug in this code? (If so, write a unit test before
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NEW YORK --Sphero rolled, danced, and lit up like a Christmas tree.
In Union Square here on Saturday night, marketers from Orbotix, makers of the ball that owners can control remotely with their iPhones and Android devices, dazzled crowds by showing off how their product can be programmed to move in a sort of synchronized ballet ( | video at bottom).
If you're thinking this may be the right holiday gift for the gadget nerd who has everything, note that buying multiple balls won't be cheap. On Amazon, the Sphero retails for $130.
David Carnoy, a CNET colleague, reviewed the device last year and concluded that Sphero possessed some cool tech but that the novelty of moving a ball around the floor runs out fast.
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Rise of course27 October 2012 at 11:11amPosts: 171 (0 today)Status: offline
Always good to get some support for 2D-arts, like wood-carving.
I will try to get this book of Fletcher, something for automn-days like Bleak House still is for me (1000 pgs)!
The graphics on the Back to front tour seemed very new and spectacular() at YT. Remember especially this from person to net visions.
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Looks like an interesting book, Duddy...
putting things back to front, downside up, inward outward
| Must be full of visual inspirations
Wood carving as 2D art, rise? I count three dimensions in carving
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Written by: Allan L. Ziffra, Esq.
Florida’s wrongful death law provides for the recovery of damages to the family members of a deceased that sustained a wrongful death. The Volusia County personal injury attorneys at Rue & Ziffra, P.A., have found that grieving victims are occasionally unclear as to their entitlement to bring a claim for wrongful death in the aftermath of a tragic accident. Referred to generally in this context as “survivors,” there are a number of family members that may potentially recover under Florida law when a loved one is lost due to the | negligence, carelessness or recklessness of another individual or entity.
As defined in Florida’s Wrongful Death Act, “survivors” means the decedent’s spouse, children, parents, and, when partly or wholly dependent on the decedent for support or services, any blood relatives and adoptive brothers and sisters. Survivors also includes children | [
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Because that is ALWAYS the question, yes?
I'm debating if I should read Fang. See I loved the others… but I can tell that something big and horrible happened in the sixth book and I don't know if I want to | read it or not. Maybe I should just forget about Max and her freak show.
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Pavitra Rishta - Written Update
Written By: Navii Dhesii
Archana's Mother falls to ground. Everybody is trying to console her. They give her, her puffer. Archana says, " Stop! Mom". Her mother says, " They insulted you". Archana tries telling her that they did not. Then her husband says, " Stop Archana! Why are you causing your self pain?". The mother then replies, " They did that to my daughter and you say stop?". He then says, " We are from the girls side. We can not do anything if we tried to. Just think they have no problem with making a relationship with out family they are just worried about Archana". The mother get's up, " They like our house. But, they don't like the house that made this house worthy of | being liked". He then says, " We have not forgotten what Archana has done for this house. But we have 2 other daughters who have to get married, Varsha is 24. If Archana keeps.. ". The mother replies, " Archana, What? What they said about get married to Varsha. We should have just agreed?. He then says, " No, | [
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Kevin Evans (MTN-Energade) proved today that he is human after all when he and Adrien Niyonshuti finished second in the first stage of the DCM Cape Pioneer Tour.
The stage from Oudtshoorn to Mosselbaai (135km) was won by Max Knox and Thomas Zahnd (DCM) in five hours 43 minutes. Evans/Niyonshuti crossed the finish line at Milkwood Primary School 3 minutes and 09 seconds later with Brandon Stewart and Jacques Janse van Rensburg (DCM) third another 1 minute 14 seconds behind.
Over the last four days it has been a case of different day, different province, different mountain bike tour and even different teammate.
The only constant seems to be Max Knox of DCM’s desire to “kill off” his rivals one by one with his cool and calculating hard riding.
Arran Brown, the standout sprinter in South African road | cycling in 2009, showed on Sunday that he’s back to peak form after an injury-enforced layoff when he won the MTN Amashova 106km Classic between Pietermaritzburg and Durban.
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December 5, 2007
College's Emeritus Choir to Perform at Senior Center
The College of the Canyons Emeritus Choir class will perform a free, half-hour show open to the public at the Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center at 12:30 p.m. on Dec. 14, 2007.
The choir will sing holiday music, jazz songs and classic show tunes such as "Oh What A Beautiful | Morning," from the musical "Oklahoma," and a charming duet from the musical "Gigi."
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HEROIC DEEDS WIN RED CROSS AWARDS; Record for 1924 Shows Employment of Its First Aid and Life-Saving Methods.
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WASHINGTON, April 12. -- Among the annual awards by the American Red Cross for acts of bravery in 192 | 4 in the first-aid and life-saving program of that organization are reported many deeds of heroism performed at great risk. That the American people have learned how to save lives through the first-aid | [
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...to read the Bill of Rights.
New York Times Cityroom Blog: On a campaign blitz on Tuesday, NYC's Mayor Michael Bloomberg was dogged by questions about the Islamic Community Center project near Ground Zero.
Each year, readers of Delaware Sea Grant's Reporter newsletter have the opportunity to take the publication's readership survey and be entered to win the Coastal Prize Package.
Born Poor? Santa Fe economist Samuel Bowles says you better get used to it.Bowles | heads the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, which is home to dozens of big brains imported from all over the world. If he’s right, those troubling job numbers are only the start of New Mexico’s problems.
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Pan-Arabism, general term for the modern movement for political unification among the Arab nations of the Middle East. Since the Ottoman Turks rose to power in the 14th cent., there have been stirrings among Arabs for reunification as a means of reestablishing Arab political power. At the start of World War I, France and Great Britain, seeking allies against the German-Turkish alliance, encouraged the cause of Arab nationalism under the leadership of the Hashemite Sherif Husayn ibn Ali, a descendant of Muhammad. As ruler of Mecca and a religious leader of Islam, he had great influence | in the Arab world, an influence that continued with his two sons, Abdullah (Abdullah I of Jordan) and Faisal (Faisal I of Iraq). From the 1930s, hostility toward Zionist aims in Palestine was a major rallying point for Arab nationalists.
The movement found official expression after World War II in the Arab League and in such unification attempts as the Arab Federation (1958) of Iraq and Jordan, the United Arab Republic, the Arab Union (1958), the United Arab Emirates, and the Arab Maghreb Union (see under Maghreb). | [
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Neither wholly spirit nor flesh, the Uratha (as werewolves call themselves in their ancient language) are creatures of two worlds. Since the beginning of time, they have tended the Shadow Realm while staking out territory in the physical world and ruling it as the ultimate apex predators. Yet for the sacrifice of their ailing forebear, the Uratha have been forsaken by their former spirit allies and consigned to a physical world that knows only fear. Now they can rely only on each other, their mother Luna, and what few spirit allies they’ve managed to wrestle back into submission. | They must stand on the threshold between two worlds swarming with enemies.
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Residents meet to discuss towers
Developers proposing designs for Canberra's tallest residential building have faced community concerns over height and shadowing, just hours after controversial plans for a shorter proposal associated with a separate development were withdrawn.
More than 100 people | attended the Belconnen Community Council meeting where the 112-metre-tall project - consisting of two towers of residential, commercial and hotel apartments in the Belconnen Town Centre - was discussed.
Concerns were put to representatives of developers Geocon regarding the scale of the plans, but Chris Millman, from Cox Architecture, said the height of the development boosted its visual amenity and environmental credentials. "We are not apologising for height in this development," he said. "We are actually celebrating it."
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Emergency Preparedness Conference - Braille Institute, Los Angeles
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Building a New Relationship hosted by MUSKRAT Magazine:
Ellen Gabriel, Naomi Klein, & Arthur Manual moderated by Carla Robinson
7- 9 pm, OISE auditorium, 252 Bloor Street West, St. George Subway Station
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With the 2nd and 3rd team gallantly fulfilling their fixtures against Trysull and Siesdon Cricket club, support for the Green and Golds was a little sparce, unlike their counterparts who came fully prepared with their partisan crowd who were determind to have a great time whatever the outcome.
Quatt made one change from the previous win over Geddington, with the evergreen Adam Evans coming in for the unavailable Matthew Fleming. Northrop skipper Chris Brookes won the toss and invited ‘The Cidermen’ to have the first knock on a good looking Quatt wicket.
From the start, the inform opening pair of Adrian Evans and Nathan Hakeman started briskly. Evans in particular took a liking to the inconsistent lengths of opening bowler Lloyd Hayes with Hayes 2nd over going for 17. With Hakeman playing a more responsible role the pair reached a solid 58 off the first 10 overs. Evans passing his 50 in the 16th over, was looking imperious to record his first 100 in this tournament. However, it was not to be as he mis pulled a Heauflish long | hop to deap square leg for a fantastic 65 leaving the hosts a 112 for 1 off twenty overs.
This brough to the wicket, captain Craig Jones, who typically kept the scoreboard ticking over from ball one. Hakeman brought up yet another 50, before taking a suicidal single to be run out for the second time of the weekend. With David Street at the wicket, Quatt were looking to push forward to an imposing total. Jones eventually went in the 36th over for a run a ball 40.
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One Savannah alderwoman says the joint federal-local gun and drug bust announced Wednesday is evidence Savannah-Chatham Metro Police Chief Willie Lovett is doing his job.
The news seemed to catch lawmakers by surprise, prompting calls for more oversight and scrutiny of the FBI's use of unmanned aircraft for domestic surveillance.
Maryland ranks near the top of the nation in the number of firearms its federally licensed gun dealers report as lost or stolen, according to | the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a distinction far out of proportion to the state's size or rate of firearm ownership.
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Fringe 2010: Fringe-For-All #2—One-man hootenanny
Still more entertainment in unexpected places at the Fringe-For-All...
The Big Four Oh: 40 Jokes, Poems and Stories by Brian Beatty
Droll witticisms performed for the entertainment of people seated in the dark.
"One of my favorite Minneapolis comics. Odd, endearing, adored by hipsters and Wobegonians alike." - Maria Bamford
"A comedy force wrapped in a riddle trapped in a paradox dressed in a bear suit." - McSweeney's Internet Tendency
"Weird, dark, twisted, hilarious." - METRO Magazine
"Brian Beatty works with both a scalpel and a hammer. He's a dry wit who isn't above the occasional bawdy one-liner." - Dessa
"I never recommend things done by people who defeat me in Literary Death Matches, but if you miss this show you will have made a serious fucking mistake." - John Jodzio
"Brian does more in four lines than most of us do by five p.m." - Op | ium Magazine
[Blogger note - I misread this more than once as "Brian does more than four lines (of coke)..."]
"A one-man hootenanny. You never know what you're going to get, but it's always entertaining!" - Mary Mack
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Beating the square root out of a radical sign with the number one
By Peter Duveen
PETERS NEW YORK, Tuesday, June 14, 2011--Willard Gibbs (1839-1903) was a towering figure in late 19th Century physics. He was responsible for promoting a form of vector calculus that is close to the one taught in schools today. Even more importantly, he introduced revolutionary concepts and made new discoveries in the fields of thermodynamics and its sister science, statistical mechanics. But none of these accomplishments prevented him from falling victim to a rather glaring deficiency.
According to an account in a biography by Muriel Rukeyser, a young man who later became a prominent banker was present during a consultation between Gibbs and a real estate agent. Gibbs, it is said, was keen to figure out the diagonal breadth of a property from the given rectangular boundaries. Beginning with the Pythagorean theorem, he got as far as adding the squares of the two sides of the property, but his calculations had to stop there. We are told, quite shockingly, that he "confessed that he had forgotten the rule for finding the square root!"
The rule? | “Method” might be a better word. A forgivable oversight, considering the person who used the term “rule” was merely a banker, and there is no indication from the account that he was a savvy mathematician. But Gibbs? Unable to compute a square root?
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Our 2,000th+ member trivia celebration continues! Be the first to respond and win! The prize will be a 3 month dA membership.The Question: Aside from the PC, what are the names of the other | party members who have fought profesionally in the Imperial Arena of the Imperial City?
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We managed to restrain ourselves, somewhat, at this year's Will County Book Recycling Event. We dropped off 20 books, and came back with "only" 16, making the slightest dent in our chronically unwieldy library. That photo above shows my personal haul:
Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase: Huge bestseller from the 1960s, a comic piece about a high | school teacher. Kaufman recently passed away, and from her obituary I first learned of this book. I might read this in tandem with Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim.
Great Tales of City Dwellers: Intriguing 1955 collection of city stories by an array of great writers. The inclusion of Nelson Algren (his great story "How the Devil Came Down Division Street", from The Neon Wilderness) is what grabbed me, of course, but I'm looking forward to almost everything else here, including Budd Schulberg and Joseph Heller.
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Delivering Super ServiceOur fictitious Super Tech takes the lead on this super story, here he helps a car wash owner who purchased our Automatic Recharge Module and not seeing the results he expected. Super Tech gives some super guidance and helps rekindle his memberships by offering up some best practices.
Helping You Weather the StormIf you’ve ever had a lightning strike take out your carwash equipment and cause downtime, then you can definitely relate to this fictitious story. At the end of our tale, the carwash owner sees how the power of DRB Systems Support keeps his carwash up and running during those unexpected events.
SiteWatch® Website Connect™Website Connect was created to allow you to link your SiteWatch® POS to your business’ website with an eye towards expanding your sales of prepaid services. The connection between your new website and SiteWatch will provide the ability to sell | prepaid cards, ticket books and unlimited monthly passes – and have that information automatically entered into SiteWatch. You’ll extend your sales reach to the Internet, allowing you to take advantage of this rapidly growing venue for your customers to buy your products. In our increasingly Internet–dependent world, this can mean higher revenues and | [
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I am sitting here looking at myself in the reflection of my laptop, wondering exactly how I can complain about being tired. I then realized that I want to complain because of how redicously out of shape I've become. I may not be out of shape compared to you, but I am compared | to where I was two years ago, and I didn't think I was in all that great of shape then. I am definately down from my peak performance age of about 27 when I was working landscaping, just married, and i had recently (re)discovered the joys of real off road biking. Non-coincidently this was immediately preceding the birth of my firstborn.
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The Nebraska women's basketball team tips off its 2012-13 regular season by taking on an experienced North Carolina A&T team on Friday night at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Tip-off between the Huskers and Aggies is set for 7:05 p.m., with free live audio coverage provided by the Husker Sports Network on Huskers.com. Friday's radio broadcast will be internet-only because of head-to-head station conflicts with Nebraska volleyball, which competes against Indiana at the NU Coliseum at 7 p.m. NU's flagship stations, B107.3 FM in Lincoln and The Wolf 93.3 FM in Omaha, are contractually obligated to carry volleyball on Friday night.
A live video stream of Friday night's action will be provided for subscribers of HuskersNside. Fans can subscribe to NU's premium site on either a monthly ($12.95) or year-long basis ($54.95), or they can purchase an exclusive women's basketball package for just $29.95.
Nebraska enters 2012-13 after a young Husker team ran to a 24-9 overall record, including a 10-6 Big Ten mark in 2011-12. | The Huskers advanced to their fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in the past six years and battled their way to the Big Ten Tournament championship game in their first season in the conference. The 2012-13 Huskers return four starters and nine letterwinners from last season's squad.
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Helping Teachers Improve Math and Science Achievement
According to the Teaching Commission's report Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action, the U.S. job market is so scientifically and technologically based that math and science knowledge is critical for the health of our economy.17 While science and technology advance at lightning speed, stagnant math and science performance in schools shortchanges our students' future and endangers our prosperity and our nation's security.
Improving Math and Science Instruction Around the Nation
No Child Left Behind supports the belief that developing teachers' knowledge and skills in math and science will contribute substantially to the goal of improving student learning, and that students will perform better on assessments of math and science if their teachers have in-depth knowledge of the subjects they teach.
In the United States, the professional preparation programs for many teachers at the elementary, middle school and high school levels include very little math and science. Only 43 percent of middle school students take science from teachers who have a major in science and are certified to teach | science.18
No Child Left Behind requires that federal funds go only to those programs that are backed by evidence of their effectiveness. Over the last decade, researchers have scientifically proven the best ways to teach reading. We must do the same in math. We must work toward using research-based teaching methods.
How well did students perform in 2003?19
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Probe Begins on Naro Defect
Korean and Russian engineers are now investigating a glitch with the Naro rocket that prevented its scheduled launch on Friday.
A helium leak was discovered five hours before the due launch in Goheung, South Jeolla Province.
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The New Statesman Essay - How we have lost the joy of sex
In a world full of sensual images, why has sexual misery never been greater? Ziauddin Sardarblames e
Sex has become impossible. It has turned into a mindless, egoistic, explicit league championship event, a public performance art in which instant gratification must lead to total satisfaction. But the equation that sex equals satisfaction just does not compute. On the contrary: sex | is increasingly synonymous with misery and unhappiness.
Sex is the pre-eminent spectacle of our time. Sex is everywhere, and impossible to escape. Sexual voyeurism is the fastest growing genre on television. The late-night output of Channel 4, Channel 5 and satellite channels such as Sky One, Living and Bravo are largely devoted to programmes ranging from the smutty ( | [
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Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid left Jakarta Thursday on a two week trip to the Middle East, urging people to be calm and professing himself unworried about possible moves to unseat him during his absence, said reports.
Wahid will visit Yemen, UAE, Sudan, Egypt and Nigeria, ending his trip by performing the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, reported the Iranian News Agency, citing the official Antara news agency.
He is scheduled to return to Jakarta on March 7th, said IRNA.
"Be calm," Wahid said, when asked if he had a parting message for the Indonesian people.
"There is nothing going on. Mrs. Mega is here," AFP quoted him as saying that Wahid was referring to Vice President Megawati Suk | arnoputri, who accompanied him to the aircraft before his departure from Jakarta's military airport at 8.45 am (0145 GMT).
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July 8, 2008
The Race Cards. Can you spot the ad?
What to make of the new Six Flags campaign? You don’t need to go far to get an opinion. Go online or ask anyone who’s seen it. It’s polarizing work.
The ads feature a rowdy young Asian, who loudly interrupts uber-lame scenes yelling “One flag! No Fun!” At subsequent images of an exciting park ride, he returns, exhorting: “Six flags! More Fun!” Each spot is more or less the same. Crap activity gets a low flag. Park rides get six. It’s not a bad idea. Using the park icon as a rating system for summer fun (or lack thereof) is solid. And if not for the blatant stereotyping (Chinese? Japanese? Korean?), I’d give the concept four or five flags.
But there’s the matter of the screaming Asian. On a base level, he’s what makes the spots stand out | . But like Al Jolson, belting out tunes in black face, the man feels drawn from something pernicious -World War II propaganda. He’s Charlie. Or the Chinese Dry Cleaner. Would these spots deliver without the exaggerated caricature? I’m sure the agency looked at countless guys. And I’m sure he was the funniest. Regardless | [
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On March 24, the Fairfax County Republican Committee (FCRC) held an extremely successful convention at West Springfield High School. With over 1000 attendees, this is the largest convention anyone can recall the Fairfax GOP ever having, | and it is a sign of great things to come in 2012 and beyond.
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5 hr – 5 to 15%
24 hr – 15 to 35%
Free T4 - much more useful then total T4 (e.g. interested in unbound
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Free T4 index: indirect measure of free T4. Corrects for high/low
values of TBG.
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The blunted eyes of our youth search for a guide,
And after four hundred years it seems like some are still stepping off the planks
Lines of salt etched down cheeks from tears they failed to hide,
They weep openly in the streets flocked together like pigeons, waiting for bread on river
An aching pain seeps down the body, and they say there is a tingling in the toes
Even so | , I could tell it was their soles that hurt.
And though the backs that were cracked upon froze
In a dark and indigent future, I swore I saw my identities worth.
I observed the full bellied crosses pregnant with lost souls
And above those crucifixes were carved their identities, in forms and figures
They went from niggers colored’s to Negros
Afros and Afro Americans and right back to niggers.
I wept for I knew I could not sell them mine, I sank to my knees.
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Fans of those popular bumper car rides at amusement parks such as Great America or Santa Cruz's Boardwalk take heed -- you can't sue if that extra bumping leaves you with a bump on the noggin or some other injury.
The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Great America and other amusement parks cannot be sued for injuries that occur in the jostling of rides such as bumper cars, finding that such thrill-seeking carries an "inherent risk" akin to playing a sport.
In a 6-1 decision, the Supreme Court rejected the arguments of a South Bay doctor who sued Santa Clara's Great America theme park after she broke her wrist while riding the "Rue Le Dodge" bumper car ride with her son in 2005. The ruling overturned
"The risk of injuries from bumping was inherent in the Rue le Dodge ride, and under our precedents (the park) had no duty of ordinary care to prevent injuries from such an inherent risk of the activity," Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar wrote for the court.
The Supreme Court in the past has | barred lawsuits that occur when people take ordinary risks in sports such as football and skiing, under the legal theory that there is "an assumption of risk" in such activities. Great America's lawyers | [
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The SKSD has no incentive to cut waste, outrageous perks for | administrators, etc., since they assume their levies will always pass (since only 50% is needed). Around 1995, voters were outraged by wasteful spending in the CKSD, especially perks for administrators. A couple of levies failed, and the CK school board got the message. The perks were eliminated and some wast | [
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In current period, one of most popular name of India is Baburao Hazare. He is popularly known as Anna Hazare, an Indian social activist who is especially recognized for the Indian Movement against corruption, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
We have identified the key leadership characteristic of Anna Hazare which can be example of effective leadership characteristic to be a leader, even for an organization.
In 1962, despite not meeting the physical requirements, 25-year-old Hazare was selected, as emergency recruited Indian Army. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Hazare was posted at the Indo-Pak border. On 12 November 1965, he was the only survivor of | a convoy when Pakistan launched air attacks on Indian bases. This led him to dwell on the purpose and meaning of life and death. By reading a book of Swami Vivekananda titled "Call to the youth for nation building", he committed to work towards ameliorating the sufferings of the poor. He started to spend his spare time reading the works of Vivekananda, Gandhi, and Vinoba Bhave and took an oath to dedicate his life to the service of humanity, at the age of 38. He took voluntary retirement from the army in 1978.
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Evil Nine Feat. Danny Brown – The Black Brad Pitt (Gesaffelstein Remix)
Holy shit. There is no other fitting reaction to music like this. Throw your 128 BPM expectations out the window for a moment. EO rarely if ever will post rap, but when its in | the context of a Gesaffelstein remix and it is being released on Brodinski’s label, it warrants a post. Danny Brown’s creepy and inappropriate vocals just add to the ridiculous nature of this track. The release date is August 20th on Bromance, and it will come equipped with an original (which is significantly less eerie, yet still bizarre) and a bonus remix from Soufien 3000.
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An Excerpt From Working With AIDS Bereavement: A Comprehensive Approach for Mental Health Providers
"Helping the AIDS Mourner"(An excerpt from Working With AIDS Bereavement, pages 55-90)
Effective bereavement interventions range from educational activities to psychotherapy. This chapter describes these activities and a method for matching activities and mourners. Finally, it proposes a psychotherapeutic approach -- Integrative AIDS Bereavement Therapy -- that combines aspects of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapy and is enhanced by recent developments specifically designed to assist AIDS mourners in reducing their risk for complicated grief.
Communities vary in terms of the services available for AIDS mourners. To some degree, the extent of services is consistent with the magnitude of the problem. That is, those communities hardest hit by the epidemic, especially those with large populations of middle-class gay men, have established the most extensive support systems. The first step for clinicians is to determine the types of services available in their communities. Once this resource | map is constructed, clinicians can match mourners to appropriate bereavement interventions based on the individualized assessment described in Chapter Two. While a discussion of community-wide health planning is outside the scope of this monograph, it is important to note that the array of AIDS bereavement interventions described here can be useful in designing a community-wide response to this problem.
Educational and Support Approaches
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Amber Rose Denies Sending Photos to Nicki Minaj’s Man.
Amber Rose has found herself wrapped up in yet another nude photo scandal, and this time it involves Nicki Minaj.
The 27-year-old is being accused of sending nude photos to Minaj’s assistant and rumored boyfriend, Safaree. According to celebrity gossip site, MediaTakeout.com, an insider revealed that Rose leaked the photos — one of which shows the model wearing nothing but a pair of heels — and sent them to Safaree, causing a feud between her and Minaj.
Rose has since refuted the claims, taking to her Twitter page to blast the story as completely false. “These blogs do nothing | but try to ruin ppls lives I DID NOT send pics to anyones boyfriend pls [sic] stop with the lies. Its so ridiculous. smh,” she wrote. “Yall been doing this to me for 3 years now it shld | [
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VOL. 124 | NO. 168 | Thursday, August 27, 2009
Lewis’ Access to Justice Work Extends Past Bar Presidency
By Rebekah Hearn
PERSONAL CAMPAIGN: Attorney Buck Lewis is continuing his work to make justice | available for everyone, an initiative he championed as last year’s Tennessee Bar Association president. -- PHOTO BY BOB BAYNE
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I’m not interested in the winning anything but I honestly do like John Chow’s blog.
I subscribe to about 100 blogs on the subjects of internet marketing and advertising. There are so many daily posts that it would be impossible for me to read everything so I usually just | look at the titles and only read the ones that promise something new and interesting. However there are a few blogs that I make a point of reading every single post. John Chow Dot Com is one of these blogs.
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Finally, a product for the clumsy drunk on the go! Meet Vino2Go. The sippy cup for wine drinkers.
No more spilling all over yourself at this year's office party. No pointing fingers from relatives at the purple stain on your new | white holiday blouse (that will be forever cherished in this year's holiday photos).
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA, January 9, 2012 — The Perry Hall Family Worship Center has finally found a home of its own. After years of saving up contributions as they worshiped from the basement of Pastor Dominic Correlli, Sr., they were able in 2010 to begin construction on their new facility in the suburban Baltimore area. And thanks to the ability of their technology partner in the project, Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro), the outside sales division of Guitar Center that focuses on the needs of professional users, the Perry Hall Family Worship Center was able to realize all of their audio, video and lighting hopes on budget and on schedule.
The church’s new sound system consists of eight QSC WL2082-i dual ILA speaker cabinets and a pair of QSC WL118-sw subwoofers, controlled through a QSC SC28 2X8 System Controller. Other key pieces of equipment include QSC PLX3602 and PLX3102 power amplifiers, an Aviom A-16 input module, lighting systems from American DJ including PAR 64 fixtures and Elation DMX 4-channel dimmer rack, BenQ DLP projector and DaLite 108 X 144-inch projection screen. All of the systems | were designed and sourced by GC Pro, and the installation and systems integration was accomplished by KoKo Brothers, one of the certified members in GC Pro’s highly successful national Aff | [
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George Dayton Payne III died in his sleep on Dec. 11 at the East Hampton house where he had lived for most of his life. He was 86. In his last years he had emphysema and vascular disease that resulted in the amputation of one of his legs.
Born in East Hampton on May 18, 1926, to George Payne Jr. and Viola Teale Payne, he graduated from East Hampton High School and went to college for a time before joining the work force. His many jobs included working as a mail | carrier and at the Promised Land fish warehouse on Napeague, where he once had to contend with flooding during a hurricane. He also worked on Gardiner’s Island.
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- The eight kilometres of world-famous white sands at the nearby Poetto beach - "paradise" doesn't quite seem to cut it
- The Ippocampo Well-being Centre, mainly for the name, but also for the tranquil setting, stylish facilities and divine relaxation treatments
- The old part of Cagliari city, clustered with ancient limestone buildings at the top of a hill
Sardinia beach holiday
Flamingo Hotel, southern Sardinia
Private beach resort in Sardinia with flights, transfers full-board and a choice between seven or 14 nights
With over 1,000 miles of unspoilt coastline, Sardinia is one of the most beautiful countries in the Mediterranean. Marked by its warm lagoons, white sands and wide, secluded bays, Italy's sleepiest island is a traveller's paradise - and the four-star Flamingo Hotel Resort gives you a perfect view of (and direct access to) those turquoise waters.
Facing its own private stretch of white sand, this edenic four-star hideaway offers stylish accommodation in luscious natural surroundings. The hotel is concealed by gorgeous greenery and a backdrop of pretty hills, creating a quiet, exclusive place | to relax. Inside, the design reflects the island setting - calm, harmonious and understated, with fresh bouquets in each room.
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While every man is an individual with unique and sometimes peculiar idiosyncrasies, there are certain, universal pet peeves that all men seem to share. The following are three things women do that my brethren generally find utterly repugnant:
1. Unfavorable | comparisons. We absolutely detest being unfavorably compared to your father, your brother, your brother-in-law, your ex, the guy who took your virginity or any other man who's seen you naked. Why? Because the clear implication is that, in your opinion, we are somehow deficient in some way, and that makes us feel bad about ourselves and you. If, on the other hand, the comparison is favorable, and we are lauded for our superiority over some other schlub, then you should feel free to compare | [
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- DOB: 02/27/1983
- Height: 5' 9"
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- Residence: Canyon Lake, CA
- Team: Rockstar Suzuki
- Team Manager: Bill Ke | efe
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Adelaide's Flamenco Dance Areti
Learn Flamenco Dance in Adelaide at, Flamenco Dance Areti, Adelaide's premier Flamenco Dance School and Performance Ensemble. The school offers Flamenco Dance Classes ranging from beginners through to advanced levels. Each dance class emphasises correct technique, learning flamenco rhythms, and executing flamenco dance forms according to the current pure flamenco trends in Spain.
Areti Boyaci is the Director of Flamenco Dance Areti and is a long established and highly regarded flamenco dancer and teacher, with over 20 years experience, based in Adelaide. Areti Boyaci also teaches the Spanish Dance Programme for the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. Areti was recently interviewed by former Australian Ballet dancer Annie Carroll on the Spanish Dance aspect of The Australian Ballet's 2013 production of Don Quixote. Areti has toured, as principal dancer, with the National Flamenco Company, Flamenco Fire. Areti Boyaci has produced flamenco productions with Australia's most renowned flam | enco performers as well as with guest artists from Spain, to national acclaim. In 2011 Areti Boyaci was awarded funding from The Ministery of Culture, The Government of Spain.
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A $69 Chloe toucan T-shirt? Is it worth it?
I used to not even think about these purchases. But these days, as a mommy, wife, dog owner and all around responsible adult, I must.
But you see... I | adore this T-shirt.
[Chloe toucan print T-shirt, $69 at Nordstroms]
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Entrepreneurship Mentor L. "Jay" Burks
L. "Jay" Burks describes himself as the entrepreneurial professor. Education and turning barriers into opportunities are some of his passions. For over ten years, Jay has been consulting small businesses. Currently, Jay is the Executive Director for Delaware's Office of Minority and Women Business Enterprise. The mission of the office is to assist minority and/or women business enterprises in competing for the provision of commodities, services, and | construction to State departments, agencies, authorities, school districts, higher education institutions and all businesses. Prior to coming to work for the State of Delaware, Jay was the Director of Cheyney University Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Center. Under Jay's leadership, the businesses that received services from the Center | [
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Arare (pronounced ah-rah'-ray) are one of the most popular snack foods in Japan. EDEN Five Flavored Arare Rice Puffs are made from sweet brown rice Oryza glutinosa, a stickier and more glutinous variety than regular brown rice. The sweet brown rice is washed, soaked and steamed with sea salt. | The steamed rice is then placed in a special machine that pounds it into a glutinous, sticky dough called mochi. While the sweet rice is being pounded, black sesame seeds are rinsed and lightly roasted to release their characteristic rich nutty flavor. When the pounding of the rice is finished, the sesame seeds (Sesamum indicum), green nori flakes (Enteromorpha sp. or Monostroma nitidum), | [
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Re: help me choose track spikes
bow that you post those new ones...i like the bottom left too
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Sales professionals often call their customers and simply say | , "Hi, I'm calling just to touch base …" or “Hi, I’m calling to follow up,” or something to that effect. Sorry to say, but in the fast pace of the 21st century the “just touching base,” or the “just following up” calls | [
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I say bring the sedan and 5-door here as the Buick "Centieme" (this name graced a recent concept CUV for the brand; it would allow Buick to sort of resurrect the "Century" name without the negative connotations associated with that model name). I think Buick could eventually be to the premium segment what Chevrolet is to the affordable segment (minus the truck based products). This car badged as a Buick would help the brand's expansion and transformation.
... | Give it to Pontiac, not Buick...
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London, England (Sports Network) - The St. Louis Rams listed wide reciever Danny Amendola as questionable for Sunday's contest against the New England Patriots.
Amendola was expected to miss 6-to-7 weeks after suffering an injury to his collarbone against the Arizona Cardinals in Week 5, but may be able to beat the original time table for recovery.
The 26-year-old was a limited participant in practice all week. Before getting injured, Amendola hauled in 32 passes for 395 yards and two touchdowns through the first five games of the season.
Also questionable for the matchup at Wembley Stadium are tackle Wayne Hunter (back), linebacker Mario Haggan | (thigh), defensive tackle Matthew Conrath (knee) and tight end Mike McNeill (knee).
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Neil Rosen, acquitted of murder in October, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the aggravated stalking of his ex-wife and writing a bad check for a Rolex watch.
Rosen, 27, a former Coral Springs resident who now lives in his native Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced to 221 days in jail and five years of probation by Broward Circuit Judge Stanton Kaplan.
Rosen was charged with writing a check on a closed account for $3,999 to buy a Rolex a year ago today.
Two months later, he was arrested and charged with the August 1991 murder of a Michelle Davis, a waitress and part-time model who was smothered in her Weston apartment.
Evidence in the murder trial included threatening calls Rosen made to Davis, his former girlfriend, before she was killed. But a jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder.
In December, Rosen was back in jail, this time in Brooklyn, held on a no-bail warrant issued in Broward that charged him with aggravated stalking.
Rosen had made a series of | menacing phone calls to his ex-wife, Sheri Lynn Garner. The two, who were divorced in 1991, had slept together the night he was acquitted of Davis` murder, but the renewed relationship quickly soured.
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Four Laws That Drive the Universe
By Peter Atkins
(Oxford University Press, USA, Hardcover, 9780199232369, 130pp.)
Publication Date: November 2007
Written by Peter Atkins, one of the worlds leading authorities on thermodynamics, this powerful and compact introduction explains what these four laws | are and how they work, using accessible language and virtually no mathematics. Guiding the reader a step at a time, Atkins begins with Zeroth (so named because the first two laws were well established before scientists realized that a third law, relating to temperature, should precede them--hence the jocular name zeroth), and proceeds through the First, Second, and Third Laws, offering a clear account of concepts such as the availability of work and | [
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By Jeremy Gaunt
WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA (Reuters) - Wilko Johnson, cult guitarist from 1970s beat band Dr Feelgood and herald of English punk rock, is on a high - even though he is dying of pancreatic cancer.
The musician, songwriter and sometime actor has watched with amazement as a planned tour of farewell concerts sold out and interest has surged in almost anything he has touched, including the 2009 award-winning documentary "Oil City Confidential."
One British newspaper has even affectionately dubbed him the country's latest "national treasure".
"Why didn't we think of this 20 years ago?" Johnson told Reuters, at home a few miles from his Canvey Island birthplace, near where the Thames estuary opens into the English Channel.
It is the kind of joke, accompanied by a devilish laugh, that makes death far easier to talk about than expected.
Johnson, 65, will happily tell you that learning last month that the end of his life is probably less than a year away has not all been negative, with an almost "euphoric" feeling keeping some of his darker traits seem totally in check.
"It makes you feel so alive," he said. "Just walking down the street | , man, everything looks really intense. Any little thing you look at, it almost gives you a kind of childlike consciousness.
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The announcement that the moral teachings of the Qur’an will reign in the world is good news given in the Qur’an, in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas) and in the works of Islamic scholars. The Prophet (saas) has told us that Allah will use the Mahdi as the vehicle through which Islamic morality will be dominant in the world. In one hadith, the Prophet (saas) tells us that, with Allah’s permission, the Mahdi will appear in the End Times and establish the dominance of Islamic morality in the world:
If only one day of this time (the world) remains, Allah will raise up a man from my family who will fill this earth with justice as it had been filled with oppression. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 36, Number 4270)
We are told in the hadiths and in the interpretations by Islamic scholars that one of the most important stages in preparation for this dominance will be the establishment of unity throughout the Islamic world. The hadiths tell us further that, with the appearance of the Mahdi, the disorganization of the Islamic world will come | to an end and Muslims will be allied with one another in the morality of the Qur’an under the Mahdi’s leadership.
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If igf acts in a similar way to HGh (i.e. hyperplasia) why would you need to cycle it, as suggested by bobo? After all, | users of HGh can usually take it for months with better results than they would get from a 5-week cycle (especially for fat loss). Is there a significant feedback mechanism that would down-regulate the body's own synthesis of IGF and take time to recover from IGF usage? From what I'm reading on this forum, the post-cycle effects of IGF only seem to be psychological anyways (withdrawal symptoms | [
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An all-American trick that is sure to get a great response!
Push a red silk into your closed fist, followed by a white silk and then a blue silk. Reach back into your fist- and pull out an American flag! The individual silks have | blended into the patriotic symbol of the U.S.A.!
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Wreckage Of Plane Believed To Be Carrying Jenni Rivera Found; No Survivors
First Published: December 9, 2012 7:02 PM EST Credit: Getty Premium
-- The wreckage of a small plane believed to be carrying Mexican-American singing superstar Jenni Rivera was found in northern Mexico on Sunday and there are no apparent survivors, authorities said.
Transportation and Communications Minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza said that “everything points toward” it being the U.S.-registered Learjet 25 carrying Rivera and six other people from Monterrey en route to Toluca, Mexico. The plane had gone missing after takeoff early Sunday.
“There is nothing recognizable, neither material nor human” in the wreckage,” Ruiz Esparza told the Televisa network.
Authorities had not confirmed that Rivera was among the dead.
Jorge Domene, spokesman for Nuevo Leon’s government, said the plane | left Monterrey about 3:30 a.m. after Rivera gave a concert there and aviation authorities lost contact with the craft about 10 minutes later. It had been scheduled to arrive in Toluca, outside Mexico City, about an hour later.
Also aboard the plane were her publicist, lawyer, makeup artist and the flight crew.
The 43-year-old who was born and raised in Long Beach, California, is one of the biggest stars of the Mexican regional style known as grupero music, which is influenced by the norteno, cumbia and ranchera styles.
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The Centennial boys basketball team had been here before. The two-time defending Class 3A East regional champion found itself down by three points with six seconds left in regulation. But the Eagles have turned to Omari Ringgold all year when they needed...
Behind a huge second quarter kick-started by Nekhi Bradley and Dajuan Dent, No. 13 Oakland Mills put host River Hill in a hole too deep to dig out of on the way to a 62-52 victory Wednesday in boys basketball. Oakland Mills (17-0 overall, 14-0 in Howard...
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— John Wall was dribbling up the court at a frenetic pace, with defenders backpedaling helplessly and teammates gasping to catch up. Wall whirled the ball behind his back to juke Atlanta Hawks guard Jeff Teague and open what appeared to be a clear...
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Next: Radiative heat flux Up: Loading Previous: Distributed heat flux Contents
Convective heat flux is a flux depending on the temperature difference between the body and the adjacent fluid (liquid or gas) and is triggered by the *FILM card. It takes the form
where is the a flux normal to the surface, is the film coefficient, is the body temperature and is the environment fluid temperature (also called sink temperature). Generally, the sink temperature is known. If it is not, it is an unknown in the system. Physically, the convection along the surface can be forced or free. Forced convection means that the | mass flow rate of the adjacent fluid (gas or liquid) is known and its temperature is the result of heat exchange between body and fluid. This case can be simulated by CalculiX by defining network elements and using the *BOUNDARY card for the first degree of freedom in the midside node of the element. Free convection, for which the mass flow rate is a n unknown too and a result of temperature differences, cannot be simulated.
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Welcome to the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office website. We are proud to offer this service to you as citizens of Lincoln Parish.
This site includes information about the Sheriff's Office as well as topics relating to your safety and security as well as information concerning events and programs available through the office. You will also have an opportunity to sign up for various programs such as vacation checks, home security checks, neighborhood watch programs, ladies home defense classes, hunter education, and many other programs of benefit to you the public.
I, along with the deputies, want | to assure you that we will continually strive to provide you with professional and efficient law enforcement. If we can be of assistance, simply notify us through this site or by phone. | [
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The Klingon Empire is Dead
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Join Date: Dec 2007
03-11-2010, 03:41 AM
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I have a RA 5 Fed I truly love, but those mega long p | vp queues lead me to roll a Klingon. Im now Lt Cmd 8 and while the instant queues for pvp are great, its a much tougher grind without any real pve. I tend to like to mix things up, grab a few matchs then hit some episodes. Thats why most people who roll klingons wont make it past T2, no pve content to fall back on when you have had your fill of pvp.
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The battle to harness the power of the seven Dragon Balls explodes in vivid detail like never before. The Dragon Box features over 40 uncut episodes, remastered and restored frame by frame, rendering the legendary action in pristine clarity. Each episode is presented in Japanese and English with the complete opening and closing credits and includes the original episode previews.
Contains episodes 251-291.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
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High Sierra 2013: Thievery Corporation, Primus, moe., Leftover Salmon, Barr Brothers & More
We here at LMB aren’t shy about calling the High Sierra Music Festival our favorite gathering of the year. We consider it an annual pilgrimage to Northern California on July 4th weekend and at least one member of our team has been present at the event since 2006! This year will be no different. The initial lineup was just announced and playing the Plumas County Fairgrounds in Quincy, CA will be Primus, Thievery Corporation, moe., The John Scofield Überjam Band, Leftover Salmon, White Denim, Anders Osborne, Steel Pulse, The Barr Brothers, Rubblebucket and many more | . Check out the initial lineup announcement video with more to be announced soon.
HSMF 2013 Initial Lineup:
• Primus • Thievery Corporation • moe. • Steel Pulse • Leftover Salmon • The Greyboy Allstars • Gramatik • Emancipator •The John Scofield Überjam Band • The Infamous Stringdusters • Lee Fields & The Expressions •Allen Stone • North Mississippi Allstars • Pimps of Joytime • Lord Huron • White Denim • Carolyn Wonderland • Rubblebucket • The Barr Brothers • Peter Apfelbaum & Sparkler | [
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Skip LaPlante with an autobiography in
music, sound, and noise
Let's jump around a little. The most incredible concert I ever heard was in the James River Face Wilderness in Virginia one night a mid-August far too many years ago. I was on the Appalachian Trail, doing the backpacker thing as usual. I was | at a shelter, had finished dinner and was hanging around as evening set in. There had been hints of katydid activity the few evenings previous, but probably I had been camped too high to be in the critters' home territory. This night there were not less than 5000 katydids within earshot, all over the place in every direction (except underground). The katydid calling drowned out all other sound, or maybe there was so much of it and it was so rich that I didn't notice anything else | [
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Premiere date:November 04, 2007
Finale Date:April 16, 2009
Description:Written for adults, the series follows | oblivious adventures of Xavier, a wanderer with delusions of grandeur. He's searching for his purpose and along the way has bizarre experiences, often unwittingly getting himself into trouble | [
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Reactions to Michael Jackson's Death (Pt. 2) Davey-D, Prince vs. MJ
|One More Star in Heaven...|
More Michael Jackson remembrances and upcoming tribute parties...
Davey-D emails with an interesting take on MJ's cultural impact:
For the past six years, David Paul and Jeff Harris have presented their legendary "Prince vs. Michael Jackson" parties, playing clubs in Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, in addition to San Francisco.
"Today is a sad day," Paul said yesterday. He made no further comment on Jackson's passing, instead referring to an official statement Harris posted on their Bomb Hip-Hop site, which reads: "When David Paul and I conceived the idea for the tribute party to Michael Jackson and Prince over six years ago, it was meant to celebrate the music of two of the biggest pop cultural icons of our generation. It was done with love and mutual respect for both artists something that I hope can be felt at each event.
Harris continues: "Michael Jackson's music has been a very important part of my life from the beginning. I owe a great debt to Michael for inspiring my passion for music. From the first Jackson 5 records my parents gave me at the age of | 3, instinctively I knew what whatever I chose to do in my life it would center around music.
"At the moment as I'm writing this, I'm totally devastated, deeply saddened and really don | [
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1/4 cup bottled vinaigrette salad dressing, at room temperature
4 cups fresh spinach leaves
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese | (substitute this with soy or rice cheese if vegan or lactose intolerant )
4 hamburger buns
For onion topping, cut onions into 1/2-inch-thick slices. On the rack of an uncovered grill, grill onions directly over medium coals for 15 to 20 minutes or until tender, turning once. Grill burger patties directly over the coals alongside the onions for 4 to 5 minutes per side or until heated through. Brush grilled onions with the | [
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As the book being serialized putting up an interesting question, ‘Why Pay Tax?’ has put up a detailed view of taxation and economic activity in the country, as well as conceptual forms of ascribing functions to various participants in an economy, it is perhaps time to put in a word | , while not making a formal review as it isn’t systematic enough. A review has also its drawbacks as one is pained to play the role either of a publisher (if it is a good book) or a reader (whether | [
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|Winning trust from our customers
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||Isuzu creates a safe and comfortable work environment respecting each employee's personality and character so that everyone can fully demonstrate his/her | capabilities.
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||Isuzu proactively undertakes social contribution activities as a good corporate citizen.
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The latest PROSOCO video pits the FastFlash air and waterproof barrier system against a Peel and Stick system in a side-by-side comparison. Which one is faster? Which one is easier to install? Which one can make you the most money on the job?
See for yourself.
They say it's haunted. They say doors slam by themselves on windless nights and footsteps sound on the hith, peaked roof | . University of Notre Dome legend has it that the restless spirit of the "Gipper" - George Gipp, the famous All-American football player - roams Washington hall | [
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The late Barry Weber, a well-known and beloved
gearhead known as FrankenStrat2 on The Gear
“What does it mean to be a gearhead?”
That is a question that can be answered in
many ways. There are people who | create,
play, maintain, buy, and sell gear for a living.
And, of course, there are people who
are passionately involved with playing, tinkering
with, and collecting gear as a hobby.
I suppose one could quantify the concept
with some kind of formula involving variables
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Velashape at Catalina Rejuvenating Med Spa
At Catalina Rejuvenating Med Spa we now offer VelaShape™, to help you to lose | weight and start looking great!
VelaShape™ is the first and only FDA-cleared, non-surgical, alternative for cellulite and circumference reduction. The secret behind VelaShape is elosTM- a unique technique that combines powerful energies to reduce the volume and appearance of fat | [
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What will happen to my precious social media tools like Flickr, del.icio.us and Upcoming, now Microsoft wants its grubby mitts on the Yahoo! family!!?
That's what I was wondering when I heard about the Microsoft $44 bn bid for Yahoo. Obviously it potentially changes the face of the computer and web landscape | . But my first reaction was for us poor users of the very unmicrosofty social media brands that are recent acquisitions of Yahoo and which may soon be part of Office Live or something like that. Check out this article on Wired about the Flickr rebellion that's already starting.
So will this make our Office more | [
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Sikh youth group donates RM20,000
SEREMBAN: The Sikh Naujawann Sabha (Sikh Youth Organisation) donated RM20,000 yesterday to The StarMyanmar Relief Fund in aid of the victims of Cyclone Nargis.
Its president Malkith Singh said members of the organisation decided to chip in after reading about the plight of the Myanmar people and the need for urgent aid.
"We hope the money will be channelled towards items that are urgently needed by the victims and their families such as water purifying sachets and dry rations," said Malkith Singh when handing over a cheque at The Star office here.
Malkith Singh, who is also the Malaysian Gurdwara's Council secretary, said the contribution was only part of the organisation's efforts to reach out to the cyclone victims.
(Photo left: Chipping in: Malkith Singh handing over the cheque to Sarban Singh (left). Also present were SNSM | members Jai Nanak Singh (right) and Sukhbeer Singh.)
With aid still inaccessible to many of the victims of Cyclone Nargis, the organisation has decided to team up with its counterpart, the Bangkok Sikh Gurdwara, to extend food and medical aid to those in dire need | [
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News K-ON! by the Numbers: Sales of 'Phenomenon' Outlined
posted on 2011-11-06 14:25 EST
With the consent of the magazine's editors, the news site Narinari.com outlined Nikkei Entertainment magazine's report on "Understanding the K-ON! Phenomenon" on Saturday. Before Nikkei Entertainment's December issue shipped with the report on Friday, Nikkei already revealed that goods tied to the slice-of-life manga and anime franchise have surpassed 15 billion yen (about US$192 million) in sales:
- Copies of the 39 CDs tied to the two anime seasons sold: 2.8 million
- Copies of Blu-ray Discs and DVDs sold: 1.1 million
- Copies of kakifly's original manga volumes sold: 2.5 million
- Number of different tie-in items: Over 1,050
Among the | companies that are collaborating with the December 3 opening of the K-ON film are the LAWSON chain of 9,000 convenience stores, the Lotteria fast-food restaurant chain, the Denny's family restaurant chain, the Universal Studios Japan amusement park, and the Lumine department stores.
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Latin (Allium Poorum)
Tips and Trivia
Leeks have been cultivated since at least 3000 BC, and they are native to the broad region stretching from Israel to India. Relished throughout Europe. They have been cultivated for so long that their beginnings are uncertain. Phoenician traders introduced the leek to Wales when they engaged in the tin trade in the British Isles a casual act that would unexpectedly elevate this humble plant to national status. Legend has it that in 640 AD, the Briton King Cadwallader was sorely pressed by invading Saxons. To distinguish themselves from the enemy, the Welsh wore leeks in their hats and subsequently gained a great victory over their enemies. Since that time, the Welsh have proudly eaten and worn the distinctive vegetable as a matter of national pride. Witness the tender scene in Shakespeare's Henry V when Fluellen turns to the victorious young King Hal:
"Your majesty says very true: if your majesties is remembered of it, the Welshmen did good service in a garden where leeks did grow, wearing leeks in their | Monmouth caps; which, your majesty know, to this hour is an honourable badge of the service; and I do believe your majesty takes no scorn to wear the leek upon Saint Tavy's day." (Act IV, Scene 7)
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blogKnowledge is a weapon. Arm yourself.
Venezuela: The Birth of an Alliance for a Coup
March 17, 2012
Less than a month before a coup d’état staged against the government of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in Caracas was born a civil association named Alliance for Freedom, aimed at fighting communism “radically” and destabilizing the country.
This way was stated in the local newspaper El Universal, on March 17th, 2002, in an article titled “Alliance for Freedom to face the Left.”
In an opening ceremony, the Alliance’s coordinator and former political party leader Agustin Berrios said they would “battle to get rid of Chavez” and the causes “that brought us to Chavez,” reported the mentioned newspaper.
The goals of the Alliance for Freedom were once again exposed when former chief of the state oil company PDVSA, Andres Sosa Pietri, who attended the ceremony, defended the idea that PDVSA would change into “a public enterprise with private shares.” Such option allows to begin a process of undercover privatization, as one denounced several years ago in the Mexican oil company Pemex.
| But the birth of the Alliance for Freedom was not an isolated fact. Days earlier, statements and calls for unrest added up: on March 15, Eddie Ramirez -director of Pamalven, PDVSA subsidiary- called to “a peaceful resistance” after | [
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