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The timezone in El Tigre is America/Recife
Sunrise at 07:31 and Sunset at 20:15. It's light
Latitude. -22.1333°, Longitude. -70.0167°
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- intermittent stream;
- a water course which dries up in the dry season.
- Quebrada Seca (10.9km)
- Quebrada Tamaya (22.6km)
- Quebrada Ancha (32.4km)
- Quebrada Tres Amigos (34.7km)
- railroad station;
- a facility comprising ticket office, platforms, etc. for loading and unloading train passengers and freight.
- Estación El Tigre (12.9km)
- Estación Barriles (22.6km)
- Estación Colupito (33.5km)
- mountains;
- a mountain range or a group of mountains or high ridges.
- Sierra de la Irene (16km)
- Sierra de los Colorados (43.8km)
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- an elevation standing high above the surrounding area with small summit area, steep slopes and local relief of 300m or more.
- Cerro Colupito (44.2km)
- Cerro Tres Puntas (54.4km)
- mine(s);
- a site where mineral ores are extracted from the ground by excavating surface pits and subterranean passages.
- Esperanza (29.6km)
- hills;
- rounded elevations of limited extent rising above the surrounding land with local relief of less than 300m.
- Sierra del Tigre (18.4km)
- airfield;
- a place on land where aircraft land and take off; no facilities provided for the commercial handling of passengers and cargo.
- Aeródromo Barriles (16km)
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Davidson, Philip W., Strain, JJ, Myers, Gary J., Thurston, Sally W., Bonham, Maxine P., Shamlaye, Conrad F., Stokes-Riner, Abbie, Wallace, Julie, Robson, Paula J., Duffy, Emeir M., Georger, Lesley A., Sloane-Reeves, Jean, Cernichiari, Elsa, Canfield, Richard L., Cox, Christopher, Huang, Li Shan, Janciuras, Joanne and Clarkson, Thomas W. (2008) Neurodevelopmental effects of maternal nutritional status and exposure to methylmercury from eating fish during pregnancy. NEUROTOXICOLOGY, 29 (5, Sp.). pp. 767-775. [Journal article]
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Fish contain nutrients that promote optimal brain growth and development but also contain methylmercury (MeHg) that can have toxic effects. The present study tested the hypothesis that the intake of selected nutrients in fish or measures of maternal nutritional status may represent important confounders when estimating the effects of prenatal methylmercury exposure on child development. The study took place in the Republic of Seychelles, an Indian ocean archipelago where fish consumption is high. A longitudinal cohort study design was used. A total of 300 mothers were enrolled early in pregnancy. Nutrients considered to be important for brain development were measured during pregnancy along with prenatal MeHg exposure. The children were evaluated periodically to age 30 months. There were 229 children with complete outcome and covariate data for analysis. The primary endpoint was the Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II (BSID-II), administered at 9 and 30 months of age. Combinations of four secondary measures of infant cognition and memory were also given at 5,9 and 25 months. Cohort mothers consumed an average of 537 g of fish (nine meals containing fish) per week. The average prenatal MeHg exposure was 5.9 ppm in maternal hair. The primary analysis examined the associations between MeHg, maternal nutritional measures and children's scores on the BSID-II and showed an adverse association between MeHg and the mean Psychomotor Developmental Index (PDI) score at 30 months. Secondary analyses of the association between the PDI and only MeHg alone or nutritional factors alone showed only a borderline significant association between MeHg and the PDI at 30 months and no associations with nutritional factors. One experimental measure at 5 months of age was positively associated with iodine status, but not prenatal MeHg exposure. These findings suggest a possible confounding role of maternal nutrition in studies examining associations between prenatal MeHg exposures and developmental outcomes in children. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Slash Makes 'Apocalyptic Love' at Canadian Music Week
Slash recently sat down with noted Toronto radio host Dave "Bookie" Bookman of 102.1 The Edge at Canadian Music Week 2012 to chat primarily about his new album, Apocalyptic Love, out May 22, with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. His last album in 2010 featured Alter Bridge's Kennedy on two songs, in addition to countless other singers such as Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy Kilmister, Chris Cornell, Fergie and Maroon 5's Adam Levine. But this new one is just Kennedy.
Here's a sample of what was said during Bookie's 20-minute interview with the legendary guitarist.
On the evolution of Slash with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators:
"The last record was a great project. I got to work with great people. It was very liberating experience. In that process, I met Myles Kennedy. He floored me as a singer. I thought he was fantastic and so we sort developed a relationship. I asked him if he wanted to go do a tour and so he signed up and it was right from Alter Bridge. So then I met [drummer] Brent Fitz and he introduced me to [bassist] Todd Kerns and at rehearsal for this tour, I realized this really magic moment of recognizing that this was a really well put together group and it was fantastic. So we went out and started touring and I thought, 'If I was gonna do another solo record, I would just do it with these guys.' So the whole record was written on the road. We came out with all the songs, arranged everything, a really grueling pre-production period, and then we went in and recorded the whole album live in the studio."
On the lyrics:
"When Myles wrote "Starlight" [from the last album] back in Cali, I pretty much recognized he's a good lyricist. I don't really need to help him along in that department. So I just sent him the music and he came up with his own ideas and that was how we wrote the whole record."
On the two Canadians in the band:
"What happened was is I was auditioning drummers in L.A. and during that process, I started getting all these emails and phone calls, 'You should try out this guy named Brent Fitz,' who I'd never actually heard of, and after F calls about that, I thought, okay I'd check this guy out. So he lived in Vegas and I happened to be in Vegas so I looked him up and we got together and met. He's a cool guy. So we went to L.A. and we played for one afternoon and he had this really great behind-the-beat sexy rock feel. That's exactly what I was looking for.
"We had actually Dave Henning on bass, which is a guy from Big Wreck [fronted by Canadian Ian Thornley], and we worked with him for a second and I think I was looking for something even harder than that. So Brent said, 'I know this guy named Todd Kerns,' who I hadn't heard of and Todd drove in and just was perfect. And he's a f-kin' great singer on top of it. There's something about the vocals on the record, where a lot of the time, in the choruses especially, one of the bridges where Myles and Todd sing together really compliment each other."
On having 15 songs on Apocalyptic Love:
"Initially, I thought we would do an eight to 10 song record, but we just had so much material. I didn't want to throw any of it away. Well, it wasn't going to happen but it got to a point where I didn't want to part with anything. And there was 15 songs there and [producer] Eric Valentine and I talked about it and we said, 'Okay do the sequence the way that it feels right' because I'm really particular about song sequence. So I got 13 songs together and left two songs out…But we have to make sure everybody gets them, so that's how it worked out."
On Eric Valentine:
"The thing about Eric is he is very very musical, really appreciates good music no matter what genre is, which is a lot I like me. I love all music as long as it is from the heart and it's played well. Eric is that guy but he's also an amazing technician. He takes everything apart and puts it back together, understand it, nuts and bolts, every piece of gear and so on and so forth. But he's a rock 'n' roll nerd. He loves rock 'n' roll. So he digs what I do because it's pretty much from the hip and is raw and unbridled, and so he just loves to harness that to some extent and just capture it and that's all I could ask for.
"We did everything analog, which we did on the last record. And this time, because I've been on this quest for 25 years now of being able to record my guitar in the room with the guys, so the way I've always done it is I got on the headphones which I can't stand – I think they're puny and don't sound right – so I play with the band, but I then erase those tracks and then I go redo them in the control them. So Eric builds a room within the room in the studio so that I can play with monitors in the studio that didn't bleed over the drums. So I can play with the band and keep the guitar tracks. So that's a first for me. So lead guitar on either side – Myles playing on one side of me, me playing on the other- so when the solo comes, that lead guitar disappears and it's that solo, spontaneously, that happens at that moment."
On the stage show:
"I just like good lights and good sound. The other stuff, it's like whatever. As a fan, I just want to see a really kick-ass rock band. If they have to use all this other stuff to supplement the fact that they're boring…[shrugs off with hand]."
Watch Video Teaser for Slash's "You're a Lie"
Slash just released a special video and song to raise awareness for the plight of homeless youth in Los Angeles. Fans can make a donation to the Los Angeles Youth Network (LAYN) by downloading the song–a special mix of "Gotten," with Adam Levine of Maroon 5 on vocals, from Slash's previous 2010 debut solo album. Head here to watch the video and download the track.
Slash's Apocalyptic Love will hit stores on May 22.
Slash tour dates:
May 03 – Baltimore, MD – Rams Head Live
May 05 – Charlotte, NC – Carolina Rebellion, Rockingham Speedway
May 07 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
May 10 – Biloxi, MS – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Hard Rock Live
May 12 – Kansas City MO – Liberty Memorial Park
May 13 – Indianola, IA – National Balloon Classic Field
May 14 – Minneapolis, MN – The Brick
May 16 – Madison, WI – Orpheum Theater
May 17 – Grand Rapids, MI – Orbit Room
May 19 – Columbus, OH – Rock On The Range, Columbus Crew Stadium
May 20 – Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
May 25 – Pryor, OK – Rocklahoma
May 26 – Albuquerque, NM – Route 66 Casino


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Italy tested out a three-man defence to face Spain with Claudio Marchisio and Antonio Candreva behind centre-forward Alberto Gilardino.
The Azzurri are forced into a tactical shift after losing Mario Balotelli and Ignazio Abate for the rest of the Confederations Cup.
On Thursday they take on Spain in the semi-final and Cesare Prandelli held his first training session behind closed doors.
La Gazzetta dello Sport sources managed to sneak a view of the proceedings in Fortaleza and reported back use of a 3-4-2-1 system.
It's an all-Juventus back line with Gigi Buffon in goal, Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini together.
Emanuele Giaccherini and Christian Maggio are the wing-backs around Daniele De Rossi and Andrea Pirlo, who are back from suspension and a calf injury respectively.
Marchisio and Lazio's Candreva act as support between the lines for Bologna forward Gilardino.
There will be another training session in a few hours, which will be open to photographers and media for only 15 minutes.
Many hypothesised the Azzurri would adopt a three-man defence against Spain, as it was with this system they earned an impressive 1-1 draw in the Euro 2012 group phase.
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Marcia N. Lynch is a 1978 graduate of Mount Holyoke College where she studied sculpture and bronze casting with Leonard DeLonga. She was a film editor for Davenport Films for several children's films for PBS, and has directed and produced films for fundraising in Christian education. This is her first book with Blurb.


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We'll take care of you later
Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) might think it is funny to joke about how many police officers it will take to ensure the totalitarian status quo over health care in the United States, but I for one think it is disgusting. His weak-lipped platitudes about respecting the opinions of those he betrays for corporate blood money is insulting to those of us who know who his real masters are.
In order to ensure that Americans have second-rate health care, and will be forced into bankruptcy in order to receive it, he is fully prepared to arrest anyone who dares to ask that their contrary views be seriously debated. The land of the free and home of the brave, indeed.
The American public, we the people, are predominantly in favor of publicly financed health care. You, our servants, refuse to hear our demands. You, our servants, refuse to even permit our ideas to be seriously debated in the halls of OUR government. Obviously, there is no shame in your power-hungry world or you would surely know the wages of your sins.
Either allow the public's will to be done, or answer to them during the next primary season, the choice is yours. You can be sure that the video of any of you laughing at Baucus' joke of turning the U.S. into a gulag state for the benefit of your corporate masters will be replayed in the form of political ads for your opponents. You better believe that we will empty our pockets, and donate every spare second of our time, to ensure that ALL of you who oppose the will of the people are forced from OUR houses of government in order that the well-being of the American people can be once again faithfully represented.
Jeremy Wilburn, 37027
Good letter Jeremy and I fully concur.
You haven't seen second rate health care until the government controls it.
Do you people live in a fog that you don't know what happens in England and Canada?
Our uninsured here gets better care then either of those places.
Good morning.
If id is against it then I must be a good thing.
Verbal Cartoon
In a cave in Afghanistan sits Osama Bin Laden plotting against President Obama.
In a subbasement in America sit Rush Limbaugh plotting against President Obama.
Capt.: re: your "Verbal Cartoon". Yes, but only one is a fat sociopath who has a radio show.
Where does Mr. Wilburn get the idea that most Americans favor publicly-funded
health care? Can he back this up?
HOUSE: Ditto. I know very few "we the people" who are in favor of government funded health care. But then, almost everyone I know works for a living and does not expect the government to change our diapers for us.
There are lots working people in this country that can't afford health care.
So Criterzen where do you get your facts about diapers?
Mr. Wilburn appears to have no problem with the Federal Government passing a mandatory requirement that he buy health insurance. Compliance would have to be enforced. The only joke is that the police would be the enforcement agency.
Instead of a Nanny state, would we be turned into a police state?
"Either allow the public's will to be done, or answer to them during the next primary season, the choice is yours. You can be sure that the video of any of you laughing at Baucus' joke of turning the U.S. into a gulag state for the benefit of your corporate masters will be replayed in the form of political ads for your opponents. You better believe that we will empty our pockets, and donate every spare second of our time, to ensure that ALL of you who oppose the will of the people are forced from OUR houses of government in order that the well-being of the American people can be once again faithfully represented."
Uh HUH...ok. So a majority of people want so government paid healthcare. Ok. So if a majority want it, and politicians (well, a majority of politicians anyway) would do almost anything to be reelected, then why do you suppose the Senator would make such a joke.
I can only think of three possibilities:
1. He believes the majority of his constituents do NOT want government paid healthcare OR
2. He believes he is going to be reelected regardless of what his views are on healthcare OR
3. He doesn't care if he gets reelected or not.
As I don't live in Montana I can't speak for the people there...but if he is reelected during the next primary season, it will obviously be either the first or second possibility.
4. He is stupid?
I understand that those overeat will be penalized in tax increases to pay for their increased healthcare issues, according to what the federal government is now trying to do.
Ok...understand that. BUT, those who are on Food Stamps can buy ANY kind of foods they want. They can buy cake, ice cream, candy, cokes, etc and they DON'T pay taxes on that.
I say, if the federal government wants to regulate our diet now, then start with those they already subsidize and limit the types of foods that can be bought with government funds.
Perhaps. But then if the people elected someone THAT stupid, then that doesn't say much about them either.
Now THIS is FUNNY!
Cheney's more popular than Pelosi!
Cheney and Pelosi Have Poor Ratings in Common
Crap. I was HOPING this would turn around.
Still, it is the summer...MAYBE things will get better when school starts up again.
U.S. jobless rate hits 26-year high
Now chief don't go talking bad about the people that elected Bush.
Baucus recognizes that illegal aliens make up a significant portion of the uninsured and is pushing to exclude them from the universal coverage. While this failed in the SCHIP expansion, I think it may suceed in whatever they are putting together now.
Who should pay for the illegals' healthcare? Should they be denied healthcare if they don't pay?
If I win the lottery, as a show of support for the unemployed,
I'll quit my job.
You and me both house. lol
Well I expected this to happen. Now the question is, is this just rhetoric or will they actually DO it? Given the fact Microsoft is an international company, I would bet on the latter.
Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore
Not me...I like my job too much.
Mass. under Romney, passed health care mandating that all obtain it. There are financial penalties, not criminal.
Medicare is far more efficient than private care. 15% of Medicare goes to overhead as opposed to 31% for private.
Chief, is the glass always half empty for you?
Chief, why wouldn't Microsoft just move its corporate headquarters to another country? That way, only US revenue would be subject to US taxes.
This could also apply to any other international company.
Kosh III,
And just what kinds of financial penalities did they have? What happened when the person was unable to pay?
Eventually, some kind of criminal charges had to be filed...either that or the person would have to declare bankruptcy.
Once again if you are satisfied with your health insurance, you are going to be extremely upset, when the govt. starts dictating insurance terms to you.
I don't believe the majority of Americans, will be for the upcoming proposals, once they understand the consequences.
Well, if the majority of Americans hold true to form, they won't understand the consequences until AFTER government paid healthcare becomes the norm...and of course by then it'll be too late to do anything about it.
Wait times to see doctor are getting longer
"The survey found that, on average, wait times have increased by 8.6 days per city. Boston had the longest wait, averaging 49.6 days, followed by Philadelphia with 27 and Los Angeles with 24.2. The shortest was Atlanta with an 11.2-day wait.
In all cities among all the specialties, the wait was 20.5 days.
The survey surmises that long wait times in Boston could be the result in part of the 2006 health reform initiative that requires nearly every Massachusetts resident to get health insurance."
If you want to wait 8 weeks to see a doctor, then Massachusetts is the way to go.
g, Nashville Jumps played Wang Dang Doodle this morning to commemorate Koko Taylor. RIP, Koko. We'll miss you.
OK, universal healthcare would provide preventive healthcare that would be affordable. this would help prevent people from waiting until they are in dire straits then end up in the ER. their ER bills don't get paid because they have no money, which in turn increases the cost of healthcare. studies have shown that if folks have preventive care, this wouldn't happen as often and the costs would go down.
gdiafante, chief does not need a glass. he lives in Limbaugh pit.
nazi, you need to see the movie Cadillac Records, its about Leonard Chess, and Chess records where KoKo first recorded.
In my experience some contributors to long waiting times are patients who waste the doctors time by seeking narcotics, frivolent allegations, having to bee seen for every little ache and pain and lack of doctors.
Face it, the health care system is broken, and has been for a while now.
nazi, you are going to fling your green visor in disgust, when they screw up your insurance plan. And its gonna happen, Obama has the votes.
In 1984, my wife and I vacation in England. We had to rush my wife to the hospital for treatment. We did not have to pay, because of Englands heath system.
The stay in the hospital did not cost us a thing.
Cadillac Records? Nope, haven't seen it but I'll definitely check it out. Have you seen, Do You See Me Smilin' which is about Fat Possum Records? It's awesome.
Nemo, you mean she wasn't put on a 45 day waiting list? lol!
No. The day it happen, is the day she was admitted. We waited about half an hour before seeing the doctor.
"By: chiefpayne568 on 6/5/09 at 8:31
Perhaps. But then if the people elected someone THAT stupid, then that doesn't say much about them either"
You mean like what happened in 2000 and then again in 2004 ?
nemo, England's health system includes Americans?
Did anyone see this on the Today Show this morning? It's hilarious!
The same thing happened to my Mom when she was
visiting there. When she asked about the bill, she said
the lady said something like, "No charge. You'd do the same for us, right ?".
Can you imaging foreigners coming here and getting health care on Dragon and Chief's dime? They'd close the borders...lol
Yes it does slacker. I was surprised, but I was informed that while we were visitors, we still payed taxs.
There is one other question I have: If Pelosi really believes that the CIA lies to her, then why does she waste her time being briefed by them every day? Seems to me she'd just skip the briefing and do something else.
Anyway, this error in judgment on her part isn't going to go away any time soon.
House GOP Leader Challenges Pelosi to Provide Justice with Evidence CIA Lied to Her
By: Blanketnazi2 on 6/5/09 at 9:21
Did anyone see this on the Today Show this morning? It's hilarious!
I can hear Rush screaming now. Oh My God...Obama is a Mummy!!!
"You mean like what happened in 2000 and then again in 2004 ?"
By your definition, yes. By mine, more like 1996.
"Can you imaging foreigners coming here and getting health care on Dragon and Chief's dime? They'd close the borders...lol"
They should ALREADY be closed...to illegals.
Who should pay for the illegals' healthcare? Should they be denied healthcare if they don't pay?
Nemo, I can hear all the wackos saying that his proves that Obama is the anti-christ. sheesh.


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The girl shivered, sending the midnight curls that rippled in disarray down her slender back into shimmery waves. She continued to shake as she looked into the red eyes that glowered back at her. Her mouth seemed to form words, but the sound didn't come out of her lips, partially stained with blood as they were. The one standing over her seemed to know what was said in any case.
"Who am I?" He asked her back, raising a delicately arched brow at the girl of no more than fourteen. She nodded mutely. He smirked. "It doesn't seem to matter at this point, now does it?" He walked towards her, crimson eyes flashing to the carnage around him. She kept her eyes on the shiny black boots as the clicked quietly on the blood soaked floor.
He stopped and bent down to her face, long sharp black nails slid under her chin with surprising gentleness, he tilted her head back and forth. "You are quite pretty, the looks are from your mother I presume," He nodded towards one of the bloodied corpses, whose blonde curls mixed with the blood round her pretty face, hiding it from view. The girl managed to speak, "Yes," She whispered.
"Ah, I'm sorry for your loss then," He said, and brushed the bloody locks out of the mothers face, he hummed with amusement. "Why if it isn't Lady Elizabeth. The years have treated you well," And indeed they had. Not a mark or wrinkle marred her fair skin; long lashes supported deep green eyes that were heavy lidded in death. "You knew her?" The girl asked, her own green eyes frozen on her mother, who looked lovely even drenched in the red liquid of death. 'Indeed I did," He answered smirking as he straightened up.
The girl was starting to lose her fear now; instead, a curious numb sensation was filling her. She wondered if she were dying too. "If it doesn't matter who you are; then may I ask what you are?" A deeper smirk, his eyes flashed a deeper crimson. "Very intelligent, I'm surprised," Her cheeks flushed in anger. "Well, I think it is sufficed to say I am, how to put this, 'One hell of a person?'" The girl was not amused. She spent a few minutes working on the idiom before saying, "So, you are a demon then?" The demon laughed. "Oh yes, you are quite the intelligent specimen, how intriguing." She kept her eyes focused on the midnight heels as she asked her next question. "Did you kill the people here?" She asked quietly, despite the emotions that had suddenly flared to the surface and overcome the numb fog. The demon smirked again. "Oh no, not I little one." He purred silkily as he stood over her.
"Who did?" She asked, but the demon seemed to have lost interest in that particular discussion. "What is your name girl?" He asked suddenly, his blood red eyes turning to her suddenly. "I want you to answer my other question first." She said stubbornly. Suddenly she found that perhaps bravery was not the best trait she had as black nails pinned her to the wall. She gulped as the thinnest trickle of blood slid down her pale throat, noticing details about the demon she had missed before. His hair was dark as coal, and messily styled. His pupils were but thin slits. "When I ask you a question girl," He hissed at her through pointed teeth that the girl had no doubt could bite through her easily. "You answer it." His breath smelled of blood and something that reminded her of death, but for some reason did not smell bad, rather it enticed her. She nodded weakly, her lungs screaming for air. He released her and she collapsed to the floor, gasping for breath.
"So, I believe I asked you something?" He said, she coughed a few times, and then managed to wheeze out, "Sierra," as her lungs refilled themselves over and over. The demon drummed his dark fingers on his arm as he crossed them in a motion almost dainty. "Si, er, ra," The demon lengthened out the syllables. The name rolled off his tongue like black water, enticing and arousing. Sierra blushed in spite of herself.
"Is it spelled with a C?" The demon asked her curiously. Sierra shook her head. The demon hummed as he thought.
Sierra worked up her courage again. "Are you going to eat me?" she asked. The demon smirked once more. "Probably," He told her. "It is a pity, Lady Elizabeth was a former acquaintance of mine, and it is quite rude to eat her offspring, but I am quite hungry, and you do smell quite lovely you know," He told her as leisurely as many spoke of the weather. She shivered involuntarily; the demon gave a dark chuckle. "You should be honored actually; I do not choose my meals quite as easily as many do these days."
The girl managed a glare at him, while inside she feared pain from the action. He merely grinned wider, like a cat, she thought. "What should I take it as then?" She snapped, egged on by his smirk, his laughing eyes, his very presence seemed to put her on edge. "A love confession?" The demon chuckled again, and again he was leaning down toward her. "That actually might be quite close, though now the way that I care for my meals is on a slightly deeper level," he whispered, his face mere inches from hers, and his voice was seducing, enticing, Sierra's head spun as she tried to look away, but then he was kissing her. She gasped and tried to pull away, but there was nothing to pull away into, her head was against the bloodstained wall. He pulled away, leaving her gasping as he licked the corner of his mouth, his eyes laughing silently.
She tried to be mad, to be murderous, just plain hurt. But all she could think about was his lips warm against hers, his tongue sliding slowly over the curves of her own. If her face had not been red before, it was now. She brought a hand up to cover her mouth, as if he might strike again. He chuckled once more, his eyes showing his obvious delight at her reaction. "Who are you?" Sierra gasped. Dizzy and confused, somehow his face seemed familiar; she knew she had seen it somewhere before, a picture perhaps?
The demon smiled broadly, his razor teeth clearly visible in his delight. "Oh I think you know exactly who I am Sierra." He said, his voice rumbled with dark pleasure. Indeed, Sierra knew exactly where she had seen him now. "You," She gasped. "Phantomhive," He stooped down, fingering Elizabeth's golden tresses. Sierra felt sick, how could this thing be the person her mother had spoken so highly of. Capable and honest she had called him. "She always did enjoy taking pictures, I'm sure you've seen more than one with me in it." The girl was mute again, choked by the scream that cried to be set free. She nodded.
He looked her over, his face suddenly serious, then nodding, as though in acknowledgement. "Your hair is curly, like your mothers, you have her eyes too, but that color," He frowned, and glanced over at the other corpse that had gone ignored during the time she had seen him. "Your father?" he asked. She nodded stiffly as the scream redoubled its efforts. "You have his hair color." He murmured, half to himself and half to her.
She swallowed the scream, taking several deep breaths through her nose to make sure it was gone. The smell of the carnage around her no longer bothered her. "She never really got over you," She told the demon, her voice was hoarse, as though she had let the scream out. "That's why she married him you know," She said nodding her head towards her father. The demon looked a little surprised "Why him?" He asked her. "You must know he looks like you," She told him, her face a blank mask. "Is that so," The demon mumbled, a hand to his chin in thought.
"Will you answer my question now?" She asked him, her face calm, eyes set like frozen emeralds. "Ah, the one you interrupted me so rudely with?" The demon asked as he flicked a stray hair out of his eye. "Yes," She said stonily. He smiled. "Alright then," His eyes glittered in an almost sadistic manner. "You did my dear," He told her. She glared back. "I want the truth," She hissed angrily at him. He strode over to her, talking once more, his voice a low purr. "Oh but it is the truth," He told her, once more crouching down. "Why else," he gripped her hands tightly and brought them up to the level of her eyes. "Would your lovely hands be stained so much with the blood of your loved ones?" She made to protest, but the demon forced open a hand she had kept clenched without meaning to. A knife, glittering with crimson regrets, danced as it hit the floor with a musical sound.
The girl shook. It couldn't be, but there it was, and she remembered anger now, nothing but anger. Her mother always said her temper would get her in trouble. The girl screamed finally, all of the things she had swallowed down. She broke completely, beat her fists upon the floor, and called their names, though they could not hear. The demon stood back and watched mild fascination with the scene before him. But then he clicked his tongue regretfully and grabbed her flailing arms. "I would love to stay and comfort you, but really I am hungry." The girl shook terribly with grief and fear, but did not fight. She didn't want to. "Now hold still, and it may not hurt so much." He told her, then, he leaned in once more.


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The U.S. interior secretary defended a new policy that makes it harder to list disappearing species as endangered, saying on Friday the government needs to focus less on lists and more on helping wildlife populations rebuild and stay strong.
CANBERRA, Australia -- The U.S. interior secretary defended a new policy that makes it harder to list disappearing species as endangered, saying on Friday the government needs to focus less on lists and more on helping wildlife populations rebuild and stay strong.
"I think we need to put greater emphasis on recovery and efforts in that direction," Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne told reporters in Australia, adding that only one percent of the 1,500 species listed as endangered in the past 30 years had recovered.
As an example, he said the U.S. government was moving to improve the habitat of the sage grouse, whose numbers are declining, so that that bird is never listed as endangered.
"If we can do that more often, I would much prefer that to waiting until we simply list something and move on and list the next species," he said. "So we're going to get out ahead of this."
Kempthorne is under fire over the U.S. government's new interpretation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
The new reading of the law, proposed by the Interior Department, would enable the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to only consider areas where animals and plants are battling for survival when vetting them for endangered species status -- without taking into account areas where they have already been wiped out.
Critics say the new reading jeopardizes animals such as wolves and grizzly bears.
Kempthorne, in Canberra to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, said Friday he did not believe the new direction damaged his administration's environment credentials.
The new policy would give the department an excuse to avoid adding new species to the list, increasing the likelihood of extinctions, said Michael Nelson, an environmental ethicist at Michigan State University.
Interior Department Solicitor David Bernhardt's legal analysis was released in March. He said the department needed to reconsider its definition of "endangered" because federal judges had rejected its previous reading of the law in eight of 10 cases since 2000.
Those rulings came after environmentalist groups sued the wildlife service for refusing to add species such as the flat-tailed horned lizard and Florida black bear to the endangered list.
The debate centers on a provision in the Endangered Species Act of 1973 requiring the government to list any plant or animal "in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range." The new reading would not include areas where a species had been wiped out as part of the range.
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Bible: Revelation 3:14-20
To the Church in Laodicea
3:14 "To 1 the angel of the church in Laodicea write the following: 2
"This is the solemn pronouncement of 3 the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the originator 4 of God's creation: 3:15 'I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. 5 I wish you were either cold or hot! 3:16 So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I am going 6 to vomit 7 you out of my mouth! 3:17 Because you say, "I am rich and have acquired great wealth, 8 and need nothing," but 9 do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, 10 poor, blind, and naked, 3:18 take my advice 11 and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me 12 white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness 13 will not be exposed, and buy eye salve 14 to put on your eyes so you can see! 3:19 All those 15 I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent! 3:20 Listen! 16 I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into his home 17 and share a meal with him, and he with me.


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Passion is one of those free-radicals in life that is hard to define, and even more difficult to harness. It is often the reason, the why, behind what makes something that is great, great. While it might be hard to explain, we know it when we see it.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters is one of the biggest names in the third wave of coffee, and they are unquestionably passionate about what they do. But passion isn't derived from a business as a whole, it comes from each individual person.
Stumptown released a video where they highlight just that: the people that make them who they are. Each person tells their story of why they love what they do, and why they think it's important to the coffee process as a whole. Katie Berstein, a barista at Stumptown, gives a particularly powerful quote that she got from her dad. "How you do anything is how you do everything." Check out the full video below.
STUMPTOWN from Stumptown Coffee Roasters on Vimeo.
And that's it, isn't it? Coffee is worth being passionate about because in all the details about roasting, brewing, grinding, tamping, and pouring it becomes clear that this process is a reflection of a much larger lesson. Working with others to create something beautiful is a part of the human experience that makes living truly worth it. It connects us all.
The next time you purchase some coffee and brew that first drip or take that first sip, take a moment to appreciate the many individuals that went into putting that cup together. That coffee has been hard-earned by the passion of many sets of hands.
The Coffee Guy


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Want a free in-camera photo class with built-in examples of all the settings? Press the < i > button twice. Select a setting with the Up/Down/Left/Right button and press OK. You'll see photo examples as you change most of the settings.
Many of these menu options are shown only after you select the FULL MENUS option in the Setup Menu and are often deactivated in anything except the P, S, A and M modes.
This menu really should be called the Film menu and shown with an icon of a roll of film. More camera settings, like autofocus, flash and timers, are set in the Custom Settings Menu, shown by a pencil. This is Nikon's mistake; don't penalize yourself if the menu names and icons make little sense at face value.
How to Get There
Press MENU, click left and then up and down to select the camera (shooting) menu. You'll see "SHOOTING MENU" on the top of the LCD monitor.
What it Sets
It sets parameters related to what film used to do. The Shooting Menu sets ISO, grain, contrast, color and a zillion other critical things that set the look of your images.
The shooting menu would make more sense if it were called the Film menu, since many other menus also affect shooting.
The D40 appears to have all the custom image tweaks of the D2Xs and other Nikons. I can't see anything missing except the high ISO NR strength. The D40 does have selectable dark-frame subtraction noise reduction!
What I Change
I change a lot here. This is where I get the wild colors I love from my D40.
This is where you set the look of your image, like the saturation I love.
These choices are art. There is no right or wrong if you know what you're doing and know what you want.
I'll tell you what I use. Ignore me and Be Yourself if you prefer a different look.
Preset Choices
There are six fixed preset modes. They cannot be altered. They are:
N Normal
SO Softer
VI Vivid
VI* More Vivid
PO Portrait
BW Black-and-White
You might think I would use Vivid or More Vivid, except that they crank up some of the contrast and sharpness settings and leave them there. I want vivid colors, but leave the contrast and sharpness on Auto. This way as subjects get contrastier I don't have to stop and turn the contrast back down. In VI* you can easily blow out a slightly high-contrast scene.
Therefore I use the Custom (pencil icon) setting:
Custom (pencil icon)
This is where Nikon hides the critical adjustments other camera makers make more obvious.
Canon lets you define many of these and recall them easily. Nikon only gives you one setting. Canon also gives you a wider and more precise range of adjustments, and therefore it's easier to make bad mistakes with Canon. The extreme settings here aren't very extreme. Play to your heart's content and see what you prefer.
"Done" is the most important Custom Optimize Image menu item. If you forget to select it and then click to the right to select OK it forgets everything! Always remember to select DONE and OK after you change any of the settings below, otherwise they will be ignored.
Image Sharpening
I leave mine on AUTO. I've never messed with the manual settings. Sharpening is an artificial effect not to be confused with sharpness. When I first got a digital camera I thought: "cool, I'm cranking this to 11," and realized my error. Don't turn it up for no reason, since the image can start to look artificial. Play with it if you want. I've played with it out of curiosity, and always leave it on AUTO.
Tone Compensation (Contrast)
Nikon meant to say Contrast. I always leave mine set to AUTO. In AUTO the D40 automatically applies the Zone System and adjusts contrast to match your subject, for each and every shot!
If Nikon's marketing department was paying attention, they would promote this as Automatic Dynamic Range Optimization, since that's what it does and Canon has nothing like this.
The D40 automatically lowers contrast and increases dynamic range for very contrasty subjects, and cranks up contrast for dull subjects.
Saturation also varies with this setting. If you crank it to + it looks vivid and bold for flatter subjects, but when you have a contrasty subject it's too much and blows out. Leave it in AUTO and you won't have to piddle with it.
Avoid Custom tone compensation. Most people call this a custom curve. I've never used it. To use it you have to buy Nikon Capture and create a curve. You then use Nikon capture to load it into the D40. Once you've done that you select it here. If you haven't loaded your own custom curve and select this you get the default Normal curve. Custom curves are way beyond anything with which I want to bother. The curves in the camera are the best ones anyway. Real photographers pay more attention to their subject's lighting.
Color Mode has three settings:
Color Mode Ia (one-a, sRGB) is boring.
Color Mode II (two, Adobe RGB) gives dull colors. Don't touch this unless you really know what you're doing and print your own work. See Adobe RGB vs. sRGB.
Color Mode IIIa (three-a, also sRGB) gives bolder colors. I use it all the time. Its the default.
I have no idea how Nikon cooked up these numeric designations.
This sets the vividness (strength) of colors.
A Auto: This is the default, which presets the color settings to follow the preset scene modes on the top dial. I prefer always to have my saturation cranked up.
0 Normal: For normal people shots you're probably better off with 0.
- Moderate: tones down the colors, which I've never liked. "Moderate" sounds like British understatement. In America we call this "dull and boring." Personally I want colors so bright you have to put on sunglasses, or I go directly to B/W. Your interests and taste will differ.
+ Enhanced: I prefer violent color, so I crank it up to +. I'd use ++ or +++ if my D40 had it, but that's me.
Hue Adjustment
Don't touch this! This rotates all your colors to different spots around the color wheel. If you use this to fix one color it screws up all the other colors. God only knows why this adjustment is here.
This selects the kind of file (raw, JPG or both), and the size of the JPG file (FINE, NORMAL or BASIC).
I always use JPG, never raw. (see JPG vs. Raw.)
I usually use BASIC JPG and sometimes NORMAL JPG.
BASIC JPG looks almost the same as NORMAL, unless you're making six foot wide prints. It also makes a file half the size of Normal, which speeds up everything and saves space on my hard drives and backup CDs.
I never use FINE; it looks the same as NORMAL and wastes space. Feel free to use any settings you like; that's why they're here.
You can see examples from my D200 at D200 Quality Setting Examples.
This selects L, M or S image (pixel) size for the JPG images. I always use L.
I print L BASIC JPG files at 12 x 18" (30 x 50 cm) and they look great.
I might use M if I'm shooting many hundreds and hundreds of images of something I don't expect to print larger than 8 x 12" (20 x 30cm), like sports, weddings and parties.
I leave my WB at AUTO. See also How to Set White Balance and White Balance Examples.
Trick: to fine-tune (make warmer or cooler) each setting individually, after selecting it in the menu, press OK (or click right) to get to the +3/-3 trim setting. + is cooler (bluer) and - is warmer (more orange). This delicate, but critical, adjustment is missing from the D50, and it was my biggest complaint about the D50.
The WB settings are:
Auto (A): I use this all the time. It makes its best guess for WB. It's usually very good. Indoor tungsten can be too orange unless you have some bright tungsten light also in the image. If you do, it removes the orange and compensates completely. If not, the D40 only partly compensates and you get a nice warm image instead.
Tungsten (hanging light bulb icon that's easy to confuse with the sun icon): This makes the picture very blue. Use this only for deliberate Arctic freezing effects, or under conventional tungsten light bulbs.
Fluorescent (glowing tube icon): Used to make crappy fluorescent light look less crappy. These settings rarely work; use the preset setting for better results.
Direct Sunlight (sun icon): Use this in direct frontal sunlight. Use other settings for shadows or indirect sunlight.
Flash (lightning bolt): I never use this. It's almost the same as direct sun. I'm told it's really for studio strobes, since the Auto mode compensates magically for flash if you use it on-camera. The reason to use this is if you use a different trim value for your strobes than you do for sunlight.
Cloudy (cloud): Warmer (more orange) than the sunlight position. I use this in shade, too.
Shade (house casting a shadow): very warm (orange). Use this for sunset shots and deep shade.
Preset (PRE): You use this setting with a white or gray card to get perfect color matching.
I use this in bizarre artificial light that I wish no make look natural, or to get exact color with my studio strobes. An Expodisc makes this easier, but even without an Expodisc or white card I shoot off anything neutral, like a piece of paper or a T shirt.
Any light weird enough to need this setting won't care about small inaccuracies in the neutral reference.
To set this:
1.) Ensure your card or other neutral object is in the light representative of the light on the subject.
2.) Select PRE via the menu button (or the Fn button and spinning the dial).
3.) Press OK (or click to the right).
4.) Select Measure and click OK (or to the right). (The Use Photo option is a backwards bow to Canon's convoluted setting method. Canon Jihadists used to brag about this. It does the same thing, but requires twice as many steps. Ignore this option.)
5.) Select YES.
6.) Point your camera at the card or neutral colored thing and press the shutter.
7.) If the LCD says "data acquired or the viewfinder flashes "Gd," you're set. Shoot away!
8.) If the display flashes "unable to acquire" or the viewfinder flashes "no Gd" then repeat from step 2.).
I usually set my ISO to 200 and let the D40's Auto ISO adjust as needed.
Auto ISO makes all the ISO adjustments for you. I always use Auto ISO since it's as smart as I am.
Firmware Defect #1: the Auto ISO options are hidden in the Custom Settings Menu, where I explain them in depth.
Firmware Defect #2: The Auto setting in this ISO menu refers instead to letting the D40 preset the ISO as it guesses appropriate to the preset scene modes (sports, portrait, macro, etc.) as they are selected. This Auto setting isn't Auto ISO, and it isn't available in the P, S A and M modes I use.
Higher ISOs can give sharper images in dimmer light because they let the D40 shoot at faster shutter speeds or smaller apertures, but they also can add more grain (noise) to your photos.
ISO 200 gives the cleanest images, but the most potential for blur in dim light.
ISO 400 and ISO 800 are perfect for outdoor sports.
ISO 1,600 gives the noisiest images, with the least potential for blur. ISO 1,600 still looks pretty good if you need it, but I only use it indoors.
ISO 3,200 is for use as a last resort. It is grainy, and lets you shoot in the dimmest light without flash.
Auto ISO selects magically among all these (except for ISO 3,200) so you and I don't have to worry about it. See Auto ISO.
Hint: ISO goes from 200 to 3,200. Nikon code-names ISO 3,200 as "HI 1" to scare amateurs away from using it, because these same amateurs would clog up Nikon's (800) NIKON-UX support lines complaining about grainy photos.
Hint: If you've set AUTO ISO ON, Auto ISO turns off if you select ISO 3,200. Auto ISO come back on when you set a lower ISO.
Noise Reduction
This is short for Long Exposure Dark-Frame Subtraction Noise Reduction.
It doesn't reduce noise or grain. It will eliminate the occasional hot pixel, and correct purple fog around the edges of insanely long astronomical exposures.
OFF: Default. Leave it here.
ON: Don't use this. If you do, the D40 will double the amount of time you have to wait around for time exposures of a second or longer. You people who need this know who you are, and even for you I suggest trying the D40 with out NR first. it may save you a lot of time waiting around out in the cold.
I have details with examples from my D200 at D200 Dark Exposures.
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CHAMPLAIN - The history of the town and village of Champlain has been shared through pictures in an annual calendar for the past seven years. In honor of the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain's exploration of the region, next year's calendar will offer an even broader look at the way things once were in the North Country.
David Patrick of Colchester, Vt., has completed his seventh calendar featuring historical black and white photographs taken from his family archives. Patrick began the annual projects in 2002, utilizing photographs and papers handed down to him from his great-grandfather's brother, Hugh McLellan. The artifacts, which have been preserved at Special Collections at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh's Feinberg Library and Clinton County Historical Association, include papers dating back more than a century. The documents include writings from Pliny Moore, the founder of Champlain, who is Patrick's and McLellan's common ancestor.
Originally, Patrick wanted to compile a book of the documents, but instead opted to create a more functional item - a calendar.
When planning his 2009 calendar, Patrick had intended to continue his focus on the town and village, but was contacted by former county legislator Celine R. Paquette, who serves on the Champlain Quadricentennial Commission.
"[Paquette] suggested that I focus on the 2009 quad celebrations," Patrick said. "I thought about this and realized it was a perfect fit for my calendar series and that it was now or never to work on it."
The project had even more meaning in the new direction as McLellan was also the architect for the two Champlain memorial monuments at Crown Point and Plattsburgh, built from 1911-1912. Both memorials were built in response to the 300th anniversary celebrations in 1909 of Champlain's arrival.
"What a great coincidence, especially to have a Champlainer who designed two very famous memorials," said Patrick.
The process to create the calendar took several months of research and approximately six weeks to compile and complete, said Patrick. The photos extend far beyond the realm of the Northern Tier, though the Champlain monument at St. Mary's Church in the village of Champlain and several others are among those featured. In the end, more than 90 images of the memorials and dedications were compiled for the calendar.
"I found I had many never before seen photos of the building of the memorials," said Patrick. "Some were owned by my grandmother, whose father was brother to Hugh. Other photos were at the Special Collections and [Clinton County Historical Association]."
Patrick said he is particularly proud of the calendar's cover photo, an image of the dedication of the Crown Point Memorial Lighthouse in 1912 in honor of Champlain.
"I found that in one of her photo albums," Patrick said of his grandmother's collection.
In addition, a historical essay of Champlain included in Patrick's previous calendars was expanded to 15 pages in the new calendar, in honor of the quadricentennial, he said.
"Since this was a project that was only relevant to 2009, I wanted to include as much information as I could as I would not be doing it for any later calendars," said Patrick.
The 2009 Champlain Quadricentennial Calendar, which is sold for $15, may be purchased at several locations in the Champlain area including Kinney Drugs at the corner of State Routes 9 and 11; the Village of Champlain Office, 1104 State Route 9; the Town of Champlain Office, 729 State Route 9; Champlain Memorial Library, 148 Elm St.; and Paquette's Insurance Agency, 1033 State Route 9. The calendar is also available at Cornerstone Drug and Gift, 72 Champlain St., Rouses Point, and Conroy's Organics, 8173 State Route 9, Beekmantown. In Plattsburgh, the calendar may be purchased at the Corner-Stone Book Shop, 110 Margaret St.; Kent-Delord House Museum, 17 Cumberland Ave.; and the Clinton County Historical Association, 98 Ohio Ave.
Proceeds from calendar sales will benefit the Glenwood Cemetery Association in Champlain, which is working to relocate and restore the Pliny Moore Gazebo.
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The net profits of Al-Shams Housing and Development totaled 8.04 million Egyptian pounds ($1.73 million) in the financial year 2001. This constitutes a 25 percent drop compared to the EP10.79 million posted the previous year.
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What does earwig mean?
Definitions for earwigˈɪərˌwɪg
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word earwig.
Princeton's WordNet
any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.
To fill the mind of with prejudice by insinuations.
To attempt to influence by persistent confidential argument or talk.
To eavesdrop.
Origin: From erwigge, from êarwicga.
Webster Dictionary
any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera
in America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus
a whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor
to influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk
Origin: [AS. erwicga; ere ear + wicga beetle, worm: cf. Prov. E. erri-wiggle.]
Earwigs make up the insect order Dermaptera, found throughout the Americas, Africa, Eurasia, Australia and New Zealand. With about 2,000 species in 12 families, they are one of the smaller insect orders. Earwigs have characteristic cerci, a pair of forceps pincers on their abdomen, and membranous wings folded underneath short forewings, hence the scientific order name, "skin wings." Some groups are tiny parasites on mammals and lack the typical pincers. Earwigs rarely use their flying ability. Earwigs are nocturnal; they often hide in small, moist crevices during the day, and are active at night, feeding on a wide variety of insects and plants. Damage to foliage, flowers, and various crops is commonly blamed on earwigs, especially the common earwig Forficula auricularia. Earwigs have five molts in the year before they become adults. Many earwig species display maternal care, which is uncommon among insects. Female earwigs may care for their eggs, and even after they have hatched as nymphs will continue to watch over offspring until their second molt. As the nymphs molt, sexual dimorphism such as differences in pincer shapes begins to show. Some earwig specimen fossils are in the extinct suborders Archidermaptera or Eodermaptera, the former dating to the Late Triassic and the latter to the Middle Jurassic. Many orders of insect have been theorized to be closely related to earwigs, though the icebugs of Grylloblattaria are most likely.
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The numerical value of earwig in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
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The numerical value of earwig in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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- ابو مقصArabic
- щипалкаBulgarian
- papaorelles, tisoretaCatalan, Valencian
- škvorCzech
- ørentvistDanish
- Ohrwurm, Ohrenkriecher, OhrkneiferGerman
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- tijeretaSpanish
- pihtihäntäinenFinnish
- tvístertaFaroese
- perce-oreille, forficuleFrench
- foarkestekkerWestern Frisian
- gailseachIrish
- gollageManx
- fülbemászóHungarian
- 挟み虫Japanese
- ყურბელაGeorgian
- 집게벌레Korean
- OuereschlëfferLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- matā, hiore kakatiMāori
- чихүүр хорхойMongolian
- oorwormDutch
- saksedyrNorwegian
- jee'iighááhNavajo, Navaho
- zausznik, skorek, szczypawkaPolish
- tesourinhaPortuguese
- urechelnițăRomanian
- уховёрткаRussian
- strižavka, uholažaSerbo-Croatian
- ucholakSlovak
- tvestjärtSwedish
- แมงคาเรืองThai
- 蜈蚣Chinese
- umkhothaneZulu
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Fake Problems Reveal New Album, Tour, Give Free MP3
By Staff on August 19, 2010
Naples Florida is normally a vacation spot for tourists to see the Everglades and a place to retire, but today we will call it home to the indie-punk group Fake Problems.
These youngsters are set to release their sophomore album, Real Ghosts Caught On Tape, this September. Even more exciting than that, is the tour they will be embarking on with The Gaslight Anthem!
The new record is said to draw influence from a wide variety of indie rock, 60's girl-groups, and Phil Spector's 'Wall of Sound production style (interesting).
To give you a little taste, Fake Problems have offered up their first single, "Soulless", from the new album which you can get for free with your E-mail address or Facebook!
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Real Ghosts Caught On Tape drops September 21st via Sideonedummy.
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06 - Winnipeg, MB - Burton Cummings Theatre (All Ages) #
08 - Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Event Centre (All Ages) #
09 - Calgary, AB - MacEwan Hall (All Ages) #
11 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom (19+) #
13 - Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo (All Ages) #
14 - Portland, OR - Crystal Ballroom (All Ages) #
16 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot (21+) #
18 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave (All Ages) #
19 - Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre (All Ages) #
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This investigation was carried out to examine the characteristic changes in aged dogs, and the physiological role of docosahexaenoic acid to brain function in animal models.1.To investigate the diagnostic value of electroencephalography (EEG) in aged dogs with several degrees of clinical symptomatology, EEG power spectral analyses were carried out on eighteen dogs in aging from 11 to 18 years. The resting EEG in the moderate and severe cases had striking abnormalities such as accentuation of delta, decreasing of fast activities and asymmetries. Consistency was demonstrated between the clinical- and EEG-diagnosis in the aged dogs, showing decreased total powers.2.The effect of supplementation with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in (n-3) deficient rats on learning ability was also studied in a model of learning, active avoidance test, after wearing. Although the percentages of avoidance in the (n-3) deficient rats (saline group) were constantly 20% or less until the 3rd session, the percenta
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"The consequences of play deprivation are profound — a growing crisis that threatens children's health, fitness, and development. As free, outdoor play declines, fitness levels decline, waistlines expand, and a host of health problems follow, including obesity, heart disease, rickets, and a spiraling upturn in emotional and social disorders. The solutions are complex and require massive, coordinated action."
We talk about the perils of play deprivation here, but I tend to focus on the benefits of play and time spent outdoors in nature. But play deprivation is is real, has long-lasting consequences, and it is utterly preventable.
Learn more about play deprivation and get involved in some of the great work that is going on across the globe. The following is a list of some of the groups working on play and related issues. If you know of others, please leave them in the comments section.
HSBS Center for Physical Development & Outdoor Play
International Play Association (and IPA USA)
National Association for the Education of Young Children
The Association for the Study of Play
The National Institute for Play
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I have looked at most of these sites on the net. If you would like to read my opinion about them you can go to the DotMath for kids web site and look under the conflicts tab. Most of the text books and programs are ok but not complete. No text book can be all things to all students so I think the teacher should use the best resource material available. I have been able to find some that are very good and they get a good review on my site. The DotMath for kids web site is at: http://dotmath.tripod.com/ This link should take you to the site. If this does not work it may be that your settings need to be changed on your computer to allow you to go to the site. If you are not able to find the site you can email me and I will help you if I can. Owen
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NBA to bring All-Star Game back to Houston in 2013
NBA bringing All-Star festivities back to Toyota Center
After hosting '06 game, city getting return engagement with '13 contest
Published 5:30 am, Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The NBA plans to bring its All-Star Game and weekend-long festivities to Houston for the third time in 2013, two people familiar with the situation said Wednesday.
The game will be played Feb. 17 at Toyota Center, which also hosted the 2006 game.
"It's a done deal," a person familiar with the bidding process told the Chronicle on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. "We're just waiting for the NBA to make the announcement."
There is no timetable as to when the NBA might formally award the game to Houston, although an announcement could be delayed until the end of the labor lockout, the person said.
The Rockets, who would host the game, were unavailable for comment Wednesday.
The All-Star Game also was held at the Astrodome in 1989.
Toyota Center will be the site of All-Star festivities leading to the showcase event of the league's top players, including the Rookie Challenge and the 3-point shooting and slam-dunk contests.
The All-Star Jam Session, an interactive fan experience, will be held a few blocks away at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
The last time the All-Star Game was here it had an estimated economic impact between $80 million to $90 million. In the 2006 All-Star Game, then-Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James scored 29 points and had six rebounds to become at 21 the youngest player to win the MVP Award.
Tracy McGrady, who joined Rockets center Yao Ming in the starting lineup, had a game-high 36 points for the Western Conference in a 122-120 loss to the East.
Karl Malone was MVP of the 1989 game at the Dome, which drew a then-record crowd of 44,735 that stood until 108,713 attended the 2010 game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.
During the past decade, Houston has been host to some of the country's top sporting events, among them Super Bowl XXXVIII and Major League Baseball's All-Star Game in 2004, the NBA All-Star Game in 2006, NCAA South Regionals in 2008 and 2010 and the Final Four this past April. Reliant Stadium, home of the NFL's Texans, also will host the 2016 Final Four.
The 2012 All-Star Game will be played at Amway Center in Orlando, Fla. If the lockout continues through December or January, NBA officials have said the game could be canceled.
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Thanks for replying.I haven't the foggiest idea where the Oakley family might have been, I only know the location of their tombstones.I actually posted on every single county in AR to see if anyone might have some tidbit of info.
Thankyou again, I have copied your information and am putting it into a file especially for Oakley's.Any information is better then none.
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Google Removing Sites and Engaging in Censorship
Are you a website owner who had a website which used to show in google's search results but now it's nowhere to be found, yet your site is still on page 1 of Bing & Yahoo? If the answer is YES, your not alone.
In 2017, Google began removing independent sites & blogs from their index while primarily showing Big Business Corporate sites in their search results.
This is Freedom of Speech Censorship and Small Business Discrimination.
Small Business owners are being squeezed out by large corporate sites like Walmart, eBay and Amazon.
Political blog owners are also noticing that google is removing their sites from google's index, thereby violating their freedom of speech while primarily showing large sites like Huffington Post, the Washington Post, MSNBC, FOX, CNN and the New York Times.
The Internet used to be a even playing field where anyone could express their point of view or sell their products online and be heard. Now, Google is putting their thumb on the scale in favor of Corporate Giants with deep pockets.
Since the public has been brainwashed into believing google is the best Search Engine, it gets the most traffic and visitors. Therefore, sites which google isn't showing in their search results receives less traffic and visitors. The public is also being negatively affected because they are being denied choices and access to information.
Google is NOT the Best Search Engine
The fact is that Google has always been a FLAWED Search Engine, which can be manipulated, and which doesn't always show the best and most reliant websites in it's search results.
Yahoo & Bing are much better search engines which shows more relevant sites in their search results which you won't find in Google.
Try running a search in Google, then do the same search in Yahoo & Bing and you'll find sites that you won't find in Google.
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I receive an average of 30 emails daily about my post-processing, so I'm going to show everyone just how I process an image from beginning to end. This Audi R8 will be taken from a fairly recent set I did for iForged Wheels which you can find here. Take a look at the image below, that's the final result. So follow along to see what I do behind every photo I open up in Photoshop. This is the world premiere of an image build by 1013MM. Enjoy!
Below is the image unedited straight from my camera which was a Nikon D700. This photo was shot with a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VRII lens at around 10am. The image was imported as a raw to Lightroom 3 to help me categorize into dated folders and export into JPGs and that's all I usually use it for. I know there are plenty of ways to import and export images, but this has worked for me since the beginning and I'm sticking to it. Is it the most efficient? No.
As you can already tell, no strobes were used since I am lazy and hate lugging lighting equipment around when I shoot solo. I could have gotten the same end result with lighting equipment. It's just personal preference, I'm not saying not to use lighting or over process. What I am saying use what best suits your shooting style and workflow.
You may have noticed that right off the bat there are a lot of things to clone out and so I duplicated a layer and began my cloning. Remember, always used new layers never flatten an image you're working on or only work on one layer, that's destructive workflow. Always keep in mind that you should be able to hide all the layers in your final .PSD file and you should be able to see the original raw file.
After the cloning, I added the moving train in. This was a little idea that popped into my head during the shoot when the train passed and I knew right then and there that it had to be in the final edit. I'm not going to go into too much detail here, but it's pretty obvious what I did. Sometimes ideas like this just pop into your head, so always be open minded when it comes to Photoshop. Think of a photo as an open canvas for you to "paint" and have fun with it. The bright yellow train really help to bring out the white car from the white/grey wall behind it which made the car blend in too much.
Next I added in the "lights" and brought out the front and wheels of the car. There are plenty of methods to do this and it is especially easier with a white or silver colored car.
Then I added in the color toning. I felt that a reddish hue would compliment the yellow, white and blue tones already in the photo itself. It helped to take out some of the greenish cyan tones which didn't really bring out the background buildings. After all, I wanted to show off the LA landscape a little too just to dramatize the overall image.
To finish off the image, I took out the power lines which were very distracting. Contrast and sharpening were also added to help make the final edit "pop".
There's more to it that just moving sliders, a lot of creativity and thinking is involved behind the scenes and I feel that some people just don't understand that. This particular image (not the full set) took 8 hours from beginning to end non-stop.
I hope this helps bring to light just some of the photoshop techniques I utilize when I edit photos. If you are interested in the full set click here.


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A lot of the encouragement I get from my family about trying to lose some weight involves reminding me I've done it before. After Jack was born, I not only lost the 25lbs I gained while pregnant, but another 25 lbs that I had packed on before getting pregnant. And yay me for doing that. My only question is, "does anyone remember how I did it?" Because I completely don't. I remember that I had a plan, and that it involved exercise and a focus on diet and healthier/lower calorie meals, but that's it. I don't remember ever feeling hungry or deprived or like I would kill someone for a cookie, but I also don't have a clue what it was I actually ate. So my chance of repeating seem slim given the fact that if I didn't KNOW I'd lost the weight I would never believe I had ever tried. And while I'm not looking for tips from anyone in general – do any of my family members who read this remember hearing about what I was doing when I lost weight? Cause I seriously can't remember, and I feel like I'm doing now what I would have been doing back then, but the weight is NOT coming off, so I'm wondering if the momentum and hormonal changes of just having a baby played a bigger role in my previous weight loss than I thought. Hrmmm.
update: I think this post is coming off like I am despondent or feeling hopeless about losing weight. So not true. Instead, it's more like I woke up thinking, "hey I can totally do this, I'll just follow the plan i used last time." and the HONESTLY HAD NO IDEA WHAT THAT WAS. it was only two years ago, how can my memory be eroding that quickly?


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AHOSKIE, N.C. (WAVY) — The hunt for the person who killed an elderly woman during a home invasion continues one month after her death.
85-year-old Ruby Baker was shot in the chest during a burglary in Ahoskie.
"This is the hardest thing I have ever had to face in my life," said Baker's daughter, Mary Lou Bryum, said.
The same could be said for all of Baker's children. They knew someday they'd have to bury their mother, but not like this.
"It is something I've never been through," added son Billy Baker. "It will knock the wind out of you. I saw her in the back of a rescue vehicle with a bullet hole in her heart."
Baker was asleep inside her Parker Avenue home. It is the same house she's lived in since 1953. Someone came through her upstairs window and shot her.
"It just doesn't seem right," added daughter Linda Meeks. "No body believes it."
Baker died a short time after the home invasion. She had an alarm system, but it didn't sound until the suspect set off rushing out the back door.
"Mama was a beautiful southern lady," Meeks said. "She loved God. She loved her family."
"They could have just pushed her down, pushed her in a room and said 'stay there' and taken anything they wanted," Bryum added. "Shooting her was totally not necessary."
The pain felt by this family is only made greater because the person responsible still hasn't been caught.
"Somebody knows something if they would just talk, but to my knowledge, not too many folks are talking," Baker said.
"I'm still not mad at him and I don't hate whoever did it, but I want to know why," Bryum said. "I just want to know why, because I still can't comprehend and I don't understand why this happened to mama."
Ahoskie police are getting help from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations. Anyone with information may contact Lt. Jeremy Roberts with the Ahoskie Police Department at (252) 332-5012 or the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigations at (919) 662-4500.
A reward of $5,500.00 is being offered by the Baker Family and the Ahoskie Crime Stoppers.


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Moser: New Blood Needed in Organizations that Benefit Neighborhood
I once read a book by Seth Godin, titled "Linchpin-Are you Indispensable?" It was an interesting book that expounded on the idea of making oneself indispensable in the workplace and therefor, invaluable to the company. I think Godin was intent on teaching us self-worth and creating our own space in the world, but I thought that concept "indispensable" was not a great idea. After all, how do you take vacations if you're indispensable? What if you move? What happens when you die?
I've belonged to many great groups and organizations and I always try to get folks to plan ahead, get young, quick minds involved and folks who can physically meet the challenges of our obligations. It's important that we mentor and encourage the next generation to become involved in their community.
I wish I'd worked harder on that challenge to get new blood into a group, show them what we do and ask them how they could make it better. It would certainly make the contemplated move from Dale City to Fort Knox easier to bear if I knew there were folks ready to step in and take over some of the responsibilities.
Some of my organizations were self-generated, like Neabsco Action Alliance and the Lindendale Community Group. NAA does not have many people in the core group, but a lot of big ideas for the Neabsco District. We hosted cleanups, partnered with many other groups on a variety of activities, did publicity and promotions, networked with other civic associations, did courtesy reviews, and shared information across multiple social media platforms.
Bill, my husband, and I designed the web page and kept it and the event calendar updated. We hosted county staff to instruct us in topics like the budget, economic development, land use, transportation and more. I worked with Bill Golden on a video series that features good people with a story to tell in Prince William County.
My Lindendale group is 75 families on an email chain with a virtual neighborhood watch. We shared county news, crime prevention information, emergency awareness information and the occasional birth, death, illness or a community need like a lost dog or someone needing their sidewalk shoveled.
The Neighborhood Leaders Group (NLG) evolved to address issues in communities, and to provide input to county staff with ideas and legislative possibilities for improvements. Prince William County hosts NLG meetings on a monthly basis as well as a very popular neighborhood conference each year. We work very closely with Neighborhood Services Division planning neighborhood cleanups, sharing resources and fighting deterioration in our communities. Designed originally for non-HOA neighborhoods, NLG now includes HOA communities.
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Based on what I am reading here in HTML::Template Tutorial under Example 3, I think you are going to need to ensure that you are not getting duplicates while generating the array of hashes that gets passed to the loop. I don't see how the TMPL_LOOP combined with a conditional would allow you to do this in the template itself.
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4-VA, a statewide initiative that includes the University of Virginia, has been named a 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate and will be recognized June 3 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
4-VA, recognized in the category for collaboration, is one of 267 organizations and businesses from 29 countries around the world awarded in almost a dozen categories.
Now in its 25th year, the 2013 Computerworld Honors Program recognizes individuals and organizations around the world for creating and using information technology to promote and advance the public welfare, benefit society and change the world for the better.
A collaboration among U.Va., George Mason and James Madison universities and Virginia Tech, 4-VA is advancing several initiatives to increase the number of college graduates, especially in fields important to the state's economic development. Initiated by Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell in 2010, 4-VA is charged with increasing access to science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, courses for Virginia students. The program is credited with making significant headway on improving all Virginians' access to higher education.
Each 4-VA university reallocated facilities and technical staff to work with Cisco to implement two "TelePresence" rooms on each campus. This has enabled the universities' presidents, provosts, vice presidents of information technology and other research and instructional faculty to meet frequently in a virtual environment to evaluate proposals and select those best suited to achieving the goals of McDonnell's Higher Education Commission and his "Top Jobs" initiative.
Computerworld is part of International Data Group, whose goal is to serve the information and networking needs of senior information technology leaders.
"Computerworld is honored to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of the 2013 class of laureates and to share their work," John Amato, Computerworld's vice president and publisher, said.
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