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The process of buying a car is both exciting and stressful. Research will help you find the best deal. Use the advice that follows to make a great choice for your car-shopping endeavors.
Figure out the financing before shopping for a car. You can accomplish this through your bank or nearby credit union. You might get a much better deal through your bank than through the dealer.
If they say no, go to another dealer.
When you're making a vehicle purchase, think about how the fuel economy can affect you. You may feel the need to buy a big V-8 that can use to tow things.
Shop for a car near the end of a month. Most salesmen have a certain quota for the number of vehicles they've sold.
Bring a friend with you on your car shopping trip who isn't personally affected by your decision.They will stop you from making an emotional based on emotion. They are unbiased and will tell you to point out issues they notice.
If you are extremely interested in a vehicle, be sure you are confident in your decision.Look for external scratches and dings on the exterior of the vehicle.Look on the inside for carpet stains or damaged upholstery. Keep in mind that the car is yours when you buy it. This means to look for any damage
Not all salespeople or dealerships are the same way. Although car dealers possess a reputation for pushy salesmanship, this tactic is not as popular as it once was. Many dealerships are now using a more subtle approach in order to entice repeat business.Do not fear walking away from an overbearing salesperson.There are a lot of nice salespeople that will be more than happy to assist you.
Never agree to an As-is warranty if you purchase a used vehicle. This is a decision that you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. You should get at least a two or three month warranty with your purchase.
Don't buy a new model of car as soon as it is released for sale. You will pay more based on how new the car is. Give it a while so that all the hype to ease up then go looking to buy one.
Incentives need to be understood before negotiations start.You should be aware of trade-in values, warranties, trade-in values, bank fees, and other incentives. You can haggle much better if you know what they're offering before going to the lot.
A car that seems affordable might turn out to be too expensive if insurance premiums for this make and fees. You want a car that has reasonable insurance rates as well as a balance between cost of the auto itself.
This will help you should expect from the price of the new one.
You need to test drive before you buy anything. You can't get a feel for the car if it has anything wrong with it. Test it out as much as possible so you truly feel confident in your purchase.
Look at "hidden" costs involved with buying that car. Different cars have different costs in maintenance, fuel efficiencies, resale values, and insurance costs. Look into the gas requirements, specialty oil change requirements, along with gas requirements. These hidden costs can tremendously impact your actual cost of a car.
Do your homework before you visit a dealership. Look at places online and places like magazines to find a vehicle that meets your needs. You will also be able to see what the vehicle is as well what features they offer. This will save you vital information to help you get the best deal.
If the bank offers you a good interest rate on a car purchase, use it towards buying a car. The bank will make you paying minimum interest in comparison to them.
Always test drive a car you purchase it. You need to actually drive the car test driven so that you're purchasing in order to see what it drives like to you. If you cannot drive that car, visit a dealership that does have one for you to test drive.
Know your budget when buying a vehicle. Jot down how much you can afford to spend; then begin the search. Failing to do this can cause you in a bad deal.
If you are thinking of buying a used car and it needs cosmetic fixes or minor repairs, figure out what that will cost you before making an offer on the car at that time.
Don't bring kids with you to the dealership.Having children in tow makes the car buying process that much more frustrating.You may feel pressured for time and buy a car that you can take your child home.
Always take a used vehicle a test drive. You can research vehicles all you wish to, but nothing will help you figure out if a car is right for you unless you take it out on the road. This trial time will also lets you see if everything is in working order.
Do not be conned into purchasing add-ons that you do not need. Most of these aren't worth the money or can be purchased at a later date.
Purchasing a car can be fun, but it can also be stressful and financially tiring. But, spending some time to learn how things work can help you have some fun and get the right outcome. Remember the information you have gleaned from the article above, and you will be prepared to get the most out of your experience.


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A Saskatoon woman has been sentenced for helping a man who allegedly stabbed her friend during a meth-fueled argument over a phone chip escape.
Court heard Nicole Ashley Paddy, 28, had been using drugs the night Rocky Genereaux was attacked in his bedroom in the 400 block of Avenue I South on March 12, 2015. He later died from his injuries. While she did not participate in the stabbing, Paddy told the people who were in the house "you better not tell anyone or say anything" before her and the accused killer took off. The pair were out on parole at the time and police issued a Canada-wide warrant for their arrest.
The accused man thought Genereaux was responsible for either breaking or stealing his phone chip, the Crown explained during sentencing. An argument broke out and Genereaux was stabbed in the stomach.
During the 9-1-1 call, the victim could be heard saying he knew nothing about a stolen phone chip.
On Monday, Paddy pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to aggravated assault at Saskatoon's Court of Queen's Bench.
"The facts as alleged by the Crown have it so that Rocky Genereaux was still alive at the time that Nicole Paddy fled the residence, which meant that she couldn't be an accessory after the fact to murder because the victim had yet to die," prosecutor Melodi Kujawa said outside the courthouse.
Genereaux died in the hospital, and the man who allegedly stabbed him is still before the court charged with second-degree murder.
Justice Ron Mills accepted the Crown and defence joint-submission of 15 months time served, tacking on nine months of probation with conditions that Paddy not have contact with any of the witnesses who are scheduled to testify at the accused killer's trial in June.
Paddy's lawyer said her client has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings while in custody and has reached out to community support groups like the Elizabeth Fry Society. She said Paddy's criminal record is related to drug and alcohol abuse, and while "criminality was normalized behavior" in her family, the offender wants to be a contributing member of society.
Standing up in the prisoner's box, Paddy asked for forgiveness for the role she played in the stabbing-turned-murder.
"I hope you don't hold a lot of hate and anger towards me," Paddy said to Genereaux's family and friends, many who wore white T-shirts with a picture of the 42-year-old victim, before addressing the judge. "I'm really trying to move forward from this."
Victim impact statements from Genereaux's family members were filed with the court but were not made available to the media over concerns that they contain details that could affect the accused killer's right to a fair trial.

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Vintage-style beauty products we love
Here at Beauty Bombshells we love a product inspired by a time gone by. We'll keep bringing you our favourite vintage-style products from time to time. For now, here are five gloriously retro beauty musthaves….
Boots Original Bergamot and Clary Sage Bath Foam,£8, www.boots.com, relax in this gorgeous scented foam that is made to the original formula, and the apothecary style glass bottle is just beautiful on any bathroom shelf.
Paul & Joe Nail Enamel Remover, £9.75, www.asos.com, is possibly the prettiest nail polish remover on the market. Glorious pink colour, in a simply stunning vintage style glass bottle. No need to hie this essential product away in a bottle like this.
Guerlain Rouge G lipstick Gala, £21, is a bold true red, which any Bombshell should be wearing, and the fabulous mirrored flip-top case it comes in is divine.
Benefit Kitten Classic, £19.50, www.benefitcosmetics.co.uk, is the perfect dusting powder for vintage fans – so kitsch and cute and worthy of a place on your dressing table-top.
Chanel No5 50ml, £55, is the only perfume permitted on that dressing table, n'est ce pas? Classic, timeless style in a bottle – and a certain Miss Monroe's essential nightwear…


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The Serranía de Hornocal in Argentina displays vibrant hues and unique geological patterns that have made them a must-see destination for adventurous travelers willing to go off the beaten path. The mountain range is a part of the Quebrada de Humahuaca valley, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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I'm finishing my visit to Saudi Arabia where I attending the opening race for the 2019 Formula e Series.
Before the trip I was able to visit Medain Saleh, which is a World Heritage Site in the north of the country. It is very similar to Petra in Jordan and was built by the same Nabatean people. It has been high on my list of world heritage sites to. Is it for a long time.
I'll be posting a very long article on my thoughts on visiting Saudi Arabia on Facebook. I will provide a link and notification when it is up over on my Instagram Stories.
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A couple of nights ago in a remote corner of the Death Valley, California, one of the driest places on the planet and a vast Dark Sky Park, where natural night is protected from light pollution. Stars of Orion, the Hunter, are the icons of the winter sky, next to Sirius, the brightest star in the Earth night sky. The yellow glow on the horizon, from the surprising distance of 150 miles, is the light of Los Angeles.
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Bulletin Athletes of the Week: Woodbury's Ben Donnelly
Woodbury's Ben Donnelly wanted a shot at redemption. He got it - and stepped up. Donnelly, a sophomore wrestler ranked sixth at 132 pounds, captured fourth place at this year's state tournament. After losing his first match last year and being unable to place, Donnelly returned to state for a fourth straight time and captured his second all-state honor. Donnelly also won both his matches in the team competition for the Royals.


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6 Late-Round Sleepers Who Would Be Perfect for San Diego ChargersJanuary 28, 2014
6 Late-Round Sleepers Who Would Be Perfect for San Diego Chargers
In the past five years, the San Diego Chargers have drafted seven players in Rounds 5-7 that are still on the roster to this day, and five have garnered major playing time (Stephen Schilling, Andrew Gachkar, Cam Thomas, Johnnie Troutman, Tourek Williams).
A sixth-round pick by Tom Telesco last year, Tourek Williams played in 13 games last season and started six of them when the linebacking corps was hit with injuries. Nobody could have predicted that Williams would become such a valuable asset in the later rounds, but that's why general managers and scouts do extra research to find value.
Which players will hold the most value for San Diego in Rounds 5-7 in this year's draft? Here's six late-round sleepers to keep an eye on.
Brandon Coleman, WR, Rutgers
Brandon Coleman is projected as a fourth- or fifth-round pick by CBSSports.com in a deep receiver class. He leaves Rutgers tied for career touchdown receptions in school history with 20 and started all 13 games in 2013.
Coleman hovers around 6'6" and has a muscular build, making him a mismatch for most defensive backs.
The Chargers receiving corps suffered two major injuries last season, paving the way for Keenan Allen. Danario Alexander is a possibility to return from a torn ACL in the offseason, and Malcom Floyd wants to continue his career following a major neck injury, per Michael Gehlken of U-T San Diego.
Should any setbacks occur in their recoveries, however, the Chargers may want to brace themselves with another big body in the passing game.
Devon Kennard, OLB, USC
A pass-rusher will be among the Chargers' top needs in the draft, but everyone tends to forget about the importance of a run-stuffer on the outside. Jarret Johnson has done a solid job filling that role the past two seasons in San Diego, but the 11-year veteran cannot go on forever.
Devon Kennard is a projected fifth- or sixth-round selection by CBSSports.com and could come in handy on a defense that was missing all four of its starting linebackers at one point or another. Johnson, Manti Te'o, Donald Butler and Dwight Freeney were hit by the injury bug in 2013, which opened up opportunities for late-round selections like Gachkar and Tourek Williams.
Kennard could be the next guy up to get early opportunities if injuries persist in the linebacking corps.
De'Anthony Thomas, OW, Oregon
In Telesco's season-ending press conference provided by Ricky Henne of Chargers.com, the first-year GM noted that he'd like to infuse some speed offensively during the offseason. De'Anthony Thomas, a projected sixth- or seventh-round pick by CBSSports.com, racked up more than 5,000 all-purpose yards in his career at Oregon and did so with speed.
Telesco didn't specifically point out where he'd like that speed to come from on offense, but that's the glory of a player like Thomas. The former Duck lined up as a receiver, a running back and was a dangerous return man in college.
Dri Archer, OW, Kent State
Continuing along the lines of speed, Dri Archer is another player that could provide San Diego with the speed it wants on offense. He tallied nearly 5,000 all-purpose yards at Kent State with 40 touchdowns in his collegiate career.
Just like Oregon's De'Anthony Thomas, he needs the ball in his hands to be effective and specific plays tailored to his strengths. CBSSports.com views Archer as a possible seventh-round pick that could potentially go undrafted depending on how things play out during draft week.
Aaron Colvin, CB, Oklahoma
Aaron Colvin's draft stock plummeted when his agent confirmed on Twitter that his client had in fact tore his ACL during a Senior Bowl practice, per Chase Goodbread of College Football 24/7. Initially a second- or third-round pick, Colvin finds himself as a projected sixth- or seventh-round prospect, according to CBSSports.com.
Prior to his injury, Colvin was having arguably the strongest showing in Mobile, Ala. and was considered a top-50 player by Bleacher Report's Matt Miller. The Chargers will more than likely address needs in the secondary early in the draft, but Colvin could warrant a late-round selection.
Assuming San Diego takes a corner early on Day 1 or Day 2, Colvin could be selected late and focus on recovery during the offseason with no added rush to be ready Week 1.
The injury, though serious, shouldn't scare off every team. Keenan Allen was in a similar position last year with a predraft injury but ended up becoming a steal during an impressive rookie campaign.
Shamar Stephen, DT, Connecticut
Shamar Stephen is a former teammate of Chargers defensive end Kendall Reyes—the highest drafted defensive lineman in Huskies history. Following a similar path, Stephens was named a team captain in his senior season and had a productive year at defensive tackle and end with 60 tackles, 10 for loss and three sacks.
Stephen's versatility along the defensive front is a trait defensive coordinator John Pagano would welcome in his scheme, considering the success he's had with Reyes. CBSSports.com projects Stephen as a sixth-round pick in this year's draft.


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Santiago Outpoints Khalidov at SRC 12
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TOKYO -- Jorge Santiago avenged his November 2009 loss to Polish MMA standout Mamed Khalidov in the main event of Sengoku Raiden Championship 12 on Sunday, retaining his middleweight title after a close five rounder.
The explosive Khalidov started out by attacking the incumbent champion with a barrage of high-flying, high-risk maneuvers such as superman punches and high spinning back kicks. Santiago evaded or blocked all of the strikes to steal the first round by controlling the standup and securing top position.
Khalidov took over in the second and third periods. He took Santiago to the mat, where he tried to finish in style with lunging punches into Santiago's guard and spinning back stomps. Outside of several kimura attempts and a tight omaplata in the third round, Santiago had little offense in rounds two and three.
Santiago reasserted control in the fourth and fifth frames, however, taking advantage of Khalidov's fatigue. Though in danger from Khalidov's savage ground-and-pound toward the end of the fourth period, Santiago still threatened with submissions from the bottom. As this was Khalidov's first time going beyond the 15-minute mark in a fight, his final burst of offense toward the end of the fourth round left him completely spent. Santiago took it to him on the feet in the final round, opening a cut over the inside of the challenger's right eye with two knees to the face from the clinch.
Judges Ryogoku Wada, Gen Isono and Tenshin Matsumoto scored the bout 48-47, 48-47 and 49-47, all in favor of Santiago.
In the co-featured bout, UFC and Pride veteran Akihiro Gono played it safe against Sweden's Diego Gonzalez. Stating in his blog weeks earlier that he had found difficulty in obtaining footage on his opponent, Gono approached the first two rounds against Gonzalez tentatively, snapping off single punches and low kicks. Gono also landed cutting knees to the face of Gonzalez in the third period, then stepped up his work rate in the standup to put his stamp on the fight. Judges Matsumoto and Masanori Ohashi scored the bout 30-27 for Gono, while judge Isono also ruled the bout for Gono, 30-29.
Maximo Blanco and Chang Hyun Kim's lightweight meeting promised violence, and they delivered in spades. Both fighters flew at each other with windmilling punches and flying knees in the first half-minute. The end came when "Maxi" drove forward with a flurry and connected with a lunging right hand. As Kim swayed from the blow, Blanco lifted his left leg and punted him in the face to fold him flat on the canvas. Referee Wada then jumped in to restrain an ecstatic Blanco, ending the bout at 1:10.
In perhaps the evening's biggest mismatch, Sengoku featherweight grand prix semifinalist Marlon Sandro destroyed Tomonari Kanomata. After evading an early Kanomata barrage, the Nova Uniao product returned with two hooks and a right uppercut to Kanomata's chin, knocking him out cold. Sandro then followed up with a big right hand to the prone Kanomata's face that caused the downed fighter's feet to convulse. Official time was nine seconds.
Though Yoshihiro Nakao didn't plant any kisses on Henry "Sentoryu" Miller, he did plant many punches on the former sumo wrestler's face. In the two rounds that the fight lasted, Nakao pinned Miller with a crucifix while raining down punches. With Miller offering no defense, referee Wada was forced to call the bout at 3:27 of round two.
King of the Cage Canada bantamweight champion Nick Denis played the antagonist in his bout against Cage Force featherweight champion Yuji Hoshino. He pressured the Japanese champ on the feet and landed more punches than Hoshino from the bottom in guard. Despite pushing the pace, Denis got caught when Hoshino jumped into a guillotine while pressed against the ropes in the clinch. Unable to pull his head out, Denis tapped 47 seconds into the second frame.
Leonardo Santos made quick work of K-1 Hero's veteran Kiuma Kunioku, taking him down after catching a knee in the clinch. Santos then effortlessly moved from side mount to mount and then back mount to sink the rear-naked choke for the tap at 3:06 of the first round.
In the opening featherweight bout, Shigeki Osawa outpointed Kyung Ho Kang. Kang threw up several submission attempts from bottom, but it proved little match for Osawa's overpowering wrestling. Three suplexes and plenty of top-position grinding punches later, Osawa walked away the 30-28 winner on all three judges' cards.
During the evening's intermission, SRC lightweight champion Mizuto Hirota announced that the mending of his right arm -- broken in a fight against Shinya Aoki at Dynamite 2009 -- has been proceeding well. However, given the fact that he suffered a loss to Aoki and that he would likely not return to fight, let alone defend the title, until September, Hirota relinquished the belt. This was followed by Hirota petitioning to FEG boss Sadaharu Tanigawa -- who was in attendance and sitting ringside -- for a rematch against Aoki at the next Dynamite event.
SRC also announced that its 13th event will be held once again at Ryogoku Kokugikan on June 20 and will feature a featherweight title bout between Masanori Kanehara and Marlon Sandro.


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The break-up had been messy. He wanted to stay together. She didn't. So when he called months later pleading to see her, she agreed, mostly out of guilt and sadness and pity.
When she entered the apartment, she immediately knew something was wrong. Her ex-boyfriend was bolting the door shut. And when she turned around, he had a knife in his hand.
Robin Warshaw thought she was dead.
Instead, she was raped, the knife held to her face, his arm pinning her to the bed.
At dawn, he released her. She was alive, but all she could do was feel angry and frightened and betrayed. For months and even years after, she kept asking herself:


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Aviemore Sports Centre Project
Welcome to the Aviemore Sport Centre Project
Our objective is to build a community owned and operated sports centre accessible to all. The community aspiration is to develop the centre to include tennis facilities, ice rink and sports hall which will accommodate spectator seating during competitions. The facility should also include a café/bar, changing and storage facilities, fitness suite, sports physio rooms, specialist video analysis room, meeting/board rooms and a crèche. Each page in the website gives more in depth information to how the project has been developed, where the project is currently at, upcoming events, news and how to get involved and support the project. We welcome your comments, so please have a look around the site and get in touch with us if you want to know more, become a volunteer or have any questions.
Encourage healthier lives and wellbeing for the Badenoch and Strathspey community through a sustainable community owned and managed sport facility which will encourage regional prosperity and employability while promoting a healthy working environment, promoting sustainable and low carbon design and supporting social capital and inclusion.
Aims of the Project
- Develop an inclusive sustainable community owned sports facility.
- Increase economic sustainability and support for local rural businesses
- Support strong and inclusive community pride and empowerment while providing employment opportunities
- Promote long-term environmental sustainability through building design, green energy and limiting the impact of distance from services in remote and rural locations.
- Provide better life choices supporting community health and wellbeing.
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"Why do you linger here, little one?"
"The priests came to speak their prayers and give their orders."
"You don't like them?"
"I'd do anything to be rid of them. But I haven't the power. Why doesn't the Dreamer come for them, Valakash?"
"He will."
"Why hasn't he already? Why were they allowed to take over the village? Why does he let them change all the old ways?"
"Patience, little one. He will come for them."
"How do you know?"
The wizened old hermit smiled. "Because I know how much he hates them. I know how much he hates their gods. I know he won't rest until they're all destroyed."
The Whorl spread out before Garlon. Mindfog clung around the gnarled, moss-laden trees that surrounded him, as it always did in the dream realm. Light seeped in from all directions, as if intrinsic to the mist. He felt the damp ground under his feet, yielding slightly beneath his weight. His shaven face remained blank, set in determination.
He moved forward through the fog and the trees, seeking. The heavy armor on his torso clanked with each step, its thick scales rattling. He made no attempt to dampen its clamor; in fact he reveled in its repetitious beat. To him, the sound represented his inexorable advance, the unstoppable approach of death itself.
A long black rope of flowing slime curled around a nearby branch and grew eyes to look at the newcomer. Garlon looked away. He knew enough to avoid provoking any entities with which he had no mission. The long scar on his shoulder itched under his armor, as if to remind him of the consequences of becoming distracted in the Whorl.
He kept the image of his target clear in his mind: the robed form of the High Priest of Nykan. A man usually addressed by his title, but which Garlon also knew bore the name Artaxiad. The priest had a white beard, dark eyes and a thin nose.
Cognizance of the target kept him locked on. Wherever his feet fell he would near the high priest as long as this picture remained fixed in his mind. He stepped around trunks and over twisted roots. The clinging mindfog never relented; it bordered anyone's view in the Whorl, where nothing existed without an entity to form substance from the ether.
The warrior tramped on, thinking only of his target, and found himself walking in a bog. Rather than look down and succumb to the sense of panic that demanded his attention, Garlon continued to move his legs mechanically. The muck rose up to his knees, his pumping legs driving him further into the bog. Garlon closed his eyes and concentrated on Artaxiad. He saw the priest in his mind, saw him giving speeches, collecting tithes, and ordering his acolytes about on temple business. This was his goal. The threat of the consuming mud beneath him fell from his mind. He paid the mud no attention.
Garlon's feet found steady ground again, shedding the sludge that had clung to them moments before. Whatever lurking evil that had attempted to divert him had given up, seeking easier prey. Once again he moved through the Whorl toward the spirit of Artaxiad.
After a few more minutes of determined travel he sensed a thinning of the mindfog ahead. This usually signaled that he neared his target. The smooth domed roof of a formidable stone temple broke through the nebulous mist.
He took a moment to regard the massive construct through the slits of his helmet. It resembled many other temples: an impressive structure, reaching towards the sky with three majestic towers of the purest white stone. Garlon ground his teeth at the sight. Men always built such monuments to add grandiosity to their groveling before the gods. And their giant temples often came with them into this place, because it was a part of their psyche, as if these men had nothing of their own to bring. The true priests, like Artaxiad, allowed their devotion to their lords to consume them, leaving them pathetic empty husks.
Garlon brought no temples of his own into the dream world, no graceful towers or massive pillared halls to surround and comfort him. He brought only his armor, his weapons, and his hatred.
Garlon tramped up to the building, his armor announcing his presence. The mist broke and revealed the temple walls, carved in foreboding designs that hinted at sinuous cloudlike beings watching him with tiny hollow eyes. A wide set of low steps rose gently up to the raised floor of the structure. No doors barred the way into the interior.
The intruder reached over his shoulder and unlimbered his broad-headed spear. The spear had a short haft with an oversized diamond-shaped head. He held the spear more like an axe, feeling the heft of its wedge-like end in his hands. Soon it would taste blood as it had many times before. Garlon's massive arms, even larger here in the Whorl than back on Mitris, handled the weapon with ease.
Garlon took the low steps two at a time, eager to begin now that he neared Artaxiad. He stepped through the entranceway and saw a deserted room of worship: empty stone benches arrayed around massive columns of stone, with a giant statue of a stag-horned god towering towards the ceiling at the far end.
A red stone dais dominated the floor at the base of the statue and there Garlon spotted his victim, Artaxiad. Garlon pointed his weapon at the priest before him. Huge muscles bulged as Garlon moved closer.
Artaxiad faced the intruder, alerted by the noise of his armor or perhaps simply the malice that the assassin radiated. The high priest looked the same as last night, and the night before, a fit graying man in a simple blue robe. The man's features were delicate but Garlon knew he possessed a reasonable strength of will. Not that it would save him, when the time came.
"This time I'll stop you," said the priest. His hands began to weave an intricate pattern in the air before him.
"Your magic will not work here, priest."
"You mean here in my dreams?" Artaxiad demanded, fear lacing his voice. "Are you a spirit? An auvayni? What do you want?" The man's hands stopped moving as he sensed the futility of his attempt. He gazed forward through widened eyes as Garlon neared the dais.
"Your destruction," Garlon answered simply. His oversized spear thrust with tremendous force into the belly of the priest, easily penetrating the flimsy robe and the man's flesh. Garlon's muscles flexed, causing the massive wedge of metal to inflict more damage. He picked up the impaled priest and tossed him aside easily. The man grunted and writhed on the stone floor. His death would be slow and painful.
Just as each time before.
Garlon watched while his victim struggled, trying to mouth questions with no breath to emit them. He stared until the glaze of death took the eyes of the priest. He felt no pity for the man. The priest was a tool of the gods; his fate had been set from the day he was born.
Garlon stood from the tree stump that had supported him in repose. Draped on the moss-covered side of a great tree, his armor awaited him. It appeared just as in the Whorl: massive black plates of iron, overlapped like the scales of a serpent.
He retrieved the armor and inspected it with great concern. The black coating seemed to protect the metal from the bite of the wet air. His weapon fared less well. Small patches of rust had materialized on the iron, creeping toward the taper of its sharpened edge. Garlon would have to see to it before he acted.
The stout warrior retrieved an abrasive stone from his pack and began to scrape away the rust. His hand worked in practiced, smooth strokes as he sharpened the spearhead. In Garlon's skilled hands, the weapon could be used as a spear, its sharp tip thrust into enemy vitals; or as an axe, its honed edge swung into a mailed arm; or as a mace, its heavy head smashed down onto an enemy's helm to extinguish life forever.
When he finished, he brought out a horn filled with translucent grease and used the substance to coat the honed edges of the weapon. Then he gathered everything together, donned his armor, and re-slung his pack. He was ready to move.
Once again he stepped into the forest. This time, although the priest remained in his mind, his steps were chosen with care. As always, a journey in the waking world required attention to his route. There might be very real dangers here that could not be ignored, and his path would not be certain; if he became lost he could not find his way instinctually. If he slid off a cliff, got ambushed by a jungle cat, or got dragged into the water by a reptile, his death would be real.
Garlon tromped through the undergrowth for the better part of a day before breaking to assuage his rising hunger. He ate a chunk of bread and a handful of nuts in silence. His mind drifted to the past, to a young child in a village that seemed several lifetimes away. He remembered an old man who taught the ways of the Dreamer.
The reverie ended when an orange bird alighted upon his weapon, pecking curiously at its shiny edge. Garlon realized he had been as still as a statue as he considered events long past. He reached for his weapon, startling the creature to flight. He resumed his tread and made it to his target within a few more hours.
This Nykan temple existed farther west than any other. It was the newest in a plan to advance across the rest of the continent. Just finding ground solid enough to lay its foundations must have been difficult; the town nearby contained dozens of households built on stilts. The people there lived in harmony with the spirits of the marsh. The priests of Nykan would change that, if he let them.
The towers of the real temple were smaller, less pure, and crafted more poorly than the structure he had seen in the Whorl. Unlike those of the gods, the accomplishments of men were often less impressive than their dreams. Garlon did not care much for the effort such a temple must have taken to erect; he felt only pleasure that he had reached his goal, and that this would be the last time he sought Artaxiad.
He knew the encounter would not be without its dangers. Even though he had conditioned the priest by subjecting him to many defeats in psychic combat, eroding his confidence and building up the fear in his target, this man could still perform many miraculous feats, drawing upon the power of his deity. Garlon would have to strike quickly and rely on his real combat prowess. Although he wielded more power in the dream world, Garlon remained a force to be reckoned with at home on Mitris. His muscles were stout, if not as spectacular as they appeared in the Whorl.
He would dispatch this man, as he had many others.
The steps rose humbly to the entrance, a crumbling stone arch with old red curtains covering the opening. Garlon drew one aside with his weapon. Seeing no threat, he stepped inside.
The interior had been decorated with colored stones and artifacts, forming crude images on the walls. A ten foot statue stood looking down on the interior hall, a representation of Artaxiad's god. The imposing stone figure bore ornate robes and held both its arms high in a posture of triumph.
Garlon saw three other men inside, wearing robes. He saw no weapons in their hands or armor on their bodies. It seemed that they had not guessed a real assault was imminent.
Garlon felt the hate rise in his heart as he looked upon the acolytes. He despised the priests with their prayers and spells. They had arrived from the East and they brought their rules and their rituals with them. The marsh people would be stifled beneath their tithes. Many would work to maintain the temple or lay down their treasures for the greedy ones who lived inside. Those who refused to cooperate would be banished or killed by the soldiers who would follow the priests to this new temple.
He would cut open their bellies and free their gold. Then he would leave the people to their own devices. There would be other priests for him to hunt down. There always would be, for the gods were many. The people always flocked to them, begging for their many secrets and their divine power.
The armor-clad warrior strode forward loudly. He charged the men. His oversized spear came up to strike.
"What do you want?" asked the nearest godservant, backing away in fear.
Garlon answered only with a savage yell. He slashed sideways at the unarmored man. His weapon bit into the side of the victim's neck. The knife edge of the wicked tip cut the flesh and continued on with great momentum. Garlon waded through the blood spray as the acolyte fell.
Another of the robed men yelled a warning and came toward Garlon with a long staff at the ready. The third man turned and stared at Garlon. In an instant they recognized each other. It was Artaxiad. He looked at Garlon as if seeing a specter of death and froze. Then the acolyte attacked with his staff and Garlon had to break his gaze and fight.
The staff whirled out. Garlon stepped forward, moving inside the range of the swing. Instead of using his own weapon, Garlon released his spear with his right hand and embraced his opponent, slipping his leg between the acolyte's. He sent the man to the floor with a trip and a shove.
Garlon heard Artaxiad's voice droning loudly in the background. Garlon knew the high priest worked to summon the power of his deity; if Garlon did not finish him soon, things would get much more dangerous. He stomped onto the head of the man below him and brought his spear around, finishing the acolyte with a thrust downward into the man's heart.
Garlon looked up, searching for Artaxiad. A loud groan sounded from somewhere, accompanied by a shudder in the ground. Garlon swept his gaze back and forth, searching for the source of the noise. His saw movement from above—from the huge statue of Nykan!
The statue stepped forward ponderously, its blazing eyes following Garlon. The assassin felt his heart skip a beat, as if the god's magic reached out and clenched his chest tight with its awesome power. Then the moment passed and Garlon leaped forward, swinging his spear-axe high. His hand let the haft slip almost to the end to get the range he needed. The metal wedge flew to the side of the golem's throat.
The steel flashed and struck, chipping away a chunk of white stone from the thing's head. It bellowed in rage, a sound like massive boulders grinding together, and swung a mighty clawed hand at Garlon. The Dreamer ducked low to avoid the blow and turned the move into an offensive one, thrusting his weapon into the foot of the statue-god.
The end of the appendage crumbled, leaving the foot to spin across the floor. Garlon realized he had picked the wrong side of the statue to move toward as the thing toppled in his direction, its arms outstretched. He dove forward to avoid its crushing embrace. He reveled in success as he narrowly escaped from under the monster. Then a second later he felt a terrible pain in his own foot, and realized that it was being crushed in a giant stone hand.
Garlon let out a cry of pain. He twisted around and thrust his spear into the arm that held him, but it struck without much effect. He could not generate enough power from his awkward position. He dropped the weapon and twisted around, desperate to escape. The massive statue sat up, reaching for him with its other hand.
The boot slipped from his bruised foot and Garlon escaped. He snatched up the weapon and stood back out of reach of the god's automaton. Garlon realized the thing could not stand or pursue him. It should not distract him from Artaxiad.
He found his target abased before the altar, executing a ritual of some kind with shaking hands. The priest turned to face the armored intruder.
"Your magic will not work here, priest," Garlon said. He always enjoyed delivering the a line again and watching remembrance cross the face of his victim. The man remained paralyzed with fear, recalling the other times they had met.
"I am dreaming—" stuttered the priest. "This is not real."
Garlon's weapon struck. The head of Artaxiad fell away from his severed neck, releasing a geyser of blood.
Garlon smiled then, for he understood what the priest did not, for all his spells and prayers.
This was no dream.
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As mentioned in the previous post about OneNote Class Notebook Creator, a group of educators in the Netherlands worked with the product briefly, and came up with some interesting questions. One of these concerned the support for multiple languages. Some schools are international by their nature, and offer instruction in more than one tongue. Many other schools have foreign language departments, and may wish to provide advanced students a class notebook in the language of instruction for these lessons.
It is straightforward to install the app directly in the school's Office 365 native language and start using it immediately. The key to multilingual use is SharePoint's support for multiple sites and subsites within a Site Collection, a logical grouping designed to help structure and administer multiple teams or groups within a larger organization. Different sites can use different languages, and yet all install a single local copy of the OneNote Class Notebook Creator app. In the example to follow I've created the initial Office 365 domain in English and created a subsite in Dutch, but the concept applies to any combination of supported languages, and is not limited to two languages.
The first step to making the OneNote Class Notebook Creator available to all the users within a single SharePoint site is to download the SharePoint app from the Microsoft store to an App Catalog, a special site collection you can create from the SharePoint admin page.
Once the app is installed there, even if downloaded in one language, it is available with full language support for all the sites and subsites in the school's SharePoint domain. The steps to add OneNote Class Notebook Creator to your app catalog are simple, as shown in the screenshots below.
1. Download the app to the App Catalog by using the "add an app" button
2. Search for OneNote in the provided search box, and follow the link to the SharePoint Store
3. Select the OneNote Class Notebook Creator from the listing.
Note that the OneNote Staff Notebook for Education is also available; this is designed for school administrators and teaching staff to collaborate, without student involvement, but is otherwise similar.
Once the app is available in the App Catalog, you can install it from your main SharePoint site by going to the Site Contents page and using the same "add an app" interface. A list of locally available apps will appear, labeled "Your Apps". Click it, and it becomes an installed app in your site and can be used by teachers or other users to create notebooks, as described in OneNote Class Notebook Creator installation guide for IT administrators.
From the same Site Contents page you can then click the "new subsite" option to create a subsite that specifies a different default language. Here we'll choose a subsite in Dutch.
From this point, the installation of OneNote Class Notebook Creator to the Dutch subsite is the same as in the previous case, but you need to recognize that Inhoud van site is equivalent to Site Contents. In other words, it would be very helpful to understand Dutch, or whatever alternative language you've chosen that differs from your primary school site. Again, the steps are:
1. Add an app
2. Click on OneNote Class Notebook Creator
3. Verify that you trust it.
4. It will transition from Installing...
5. ...to Installed...
6. ...and then you can run it to create new class notebooks.
In the end, you'll have a class notebook ready for the students to use.
Once set up in this fashion, you can run OneNote Class Notebook Creator in one language on the main site, e.g. MySchool.sharepoint.com/, and in a different language in a subsite, e.g. MySchool.sharepoint.com/nederlands. Note that your primary site might be contained within a different site collection, if your SharePoint site is highly structured, and the URL may then be of the form MySchool.sharepoint.com/sites/nederlands.


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Across the humanities, but especially in English and combined English/foreign language departments, the professoriate at four-year colleges and universities is evolving into a part-time workforce. During the 2006–2007 academic year, only 38 percent of faculty members in these departments were tenured. English departments had the greatest proportion of non-tenure-track faculty (49 percent).
When minors are included, undergraduate participation in humanities programs is about 82 percent greater than counting majors alone would suggest. For the 2006-2007 academic year, 122,100 students completed bachelor's degrees and 100,310 completed minor degrees in the three largest humanities disciplines – English, foreign languages, and history.
Reflecting the demands of a global economy, student interest in foreign language is strong – during the 2006–2007 academic year, foreign language departments awarded 28,710 baccalaureate degrees and had the largest number of students completing minors (51,670). Yet investment in a stable professoriate to teach and study foreign languages and literatures appears to be declining, with a significant reduction in recruitment of full-time faculty members (39 percent fewer recruitments for full-time positions in 2008-2009 than hires for 2007-2008) and fewer total graduate students than faculty members, the only surveyed discipline for which this was the case.
Turnover rates among humanities faculty were low (only 2.5 percent of humanities faculty left the profession through departure, retirement, or death during the two academic years preceding the survey). Combined with recently instituted hiring freezes on many campuses, career opportunities for the next generation of scholars (there were approximately 84,000 graduate students in the surveyed fields during the 2006–2007 academic year) are limited.
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New York Giants' LB Jon Beason will sit Sunday against the Falcons due to a foot injury.
New York Giants' LB Jon Beason will sit Sunday against the Falcons due to a foot injury, according to NFL Network's Kim Jones.
Beason tore a ligament and fractured the sesamoid bone in his right foot in an OTA practice in June, but opted against surgery. He reaggravated the injury in New York's Week 2 matchup against the Arizona Cardinals, and has missed the last two games.
"He'll probably have to fight through something like this for the duration, let's put it that way," Giants' head coach Tom Coughlin told the New York Post back in September. "Here's a guy that's tough and gritty, and he'll go out there as soon as he can."
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A new poll shows that longtime Sen. Chris Dodd could face a serious challenge from a Republican in 2010.
The Connecticut Democrat and chairman of the Senate Banking Committee trails former Rep. Rob Simmons by a margin of 43 percent to 42 percent in the latest Quinnipiac University poll.
"These numbers have to worry Sen. Dodd," Quinnipiac polling director Douglas Schwartz told The Hill newspaper.
"The good news for Dodd is that this is the first poll in a long time where Dodd's job approval hasn't dropped."
The poll showed Dodd — who first took office in 1981 — with an approval rating of 49 percent. In an October 2008 poll by the University of Connecticut, only 42 percent of voters approved of his job performance, while 48 percent disapproved.
But the poll results are "particularly ominous" for Dodd, because more than half of respondents say they don't know enough about Simmons to form an opinion, "yet he is still neck-and-neck with the well-known incumbent," The Hill observed.
Dodd has drawn criticism over a "VIP" loan he received from embattled Countrywide Financial Corp. that has been scrutinized as a possible trade-off for political favors.
Dodd in his role as chairman of the Banking Committee proposed a housing bailout in June 2008 that would assist troubled subprime mortgage lenders such as Countrywide.
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17+2 weeks now!!! Yay!! Only 2 weeks till my 20 week scan and I'm starting to worry that something will be wrong. I really wish all this worry didn't happen after a miscarriage but it does and it's hard to just get on and be positive! The last few weeks I've been pretty good but it's hit me again. I've been too worried to make an announcement on Facebook but I think tonight I might finally do it. Pull the band aid off as hubby calls it.
I had a gender scan the other week and bub want cooperating. Sitting on it's bottom not moving, crossing legs the works, nothing would move it. I went back a few days later and this time success! She did make a comment that fluid levels looked good this time and bub was moving great so of course I now think did something not look right the other time? Over analysing at its best!! She did say she tells everyone to keep receipts in any clothing bought etc till the 20 week scan confirms gender. Ahh my brain over thinking is going to annoy me!
In good news we are having a girl!!!! I'm over the moon! I always said I would be happy having a second boy but this is amazing and I'm pretty excited 🙂


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Engineers have developed a smartphone case and app that could make it easier for patients to record and track their blood glucose readings, whether they're at home or on the go. Read more at the UC San Diego News Center.
Unique 3D printer creates realistic model of patient prostate, aims to vastly improve surgical outcomes
Participant in NIH-funded study of spinal cord injury surprises team with ability to briefly stand unaided
A stem cell-derived in vitro model displays key small intestine characteristics including innate immune responses, according to a new study. Read more at Science Newsline.
A newly developed microscope is providing scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neurological disorders such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease affect neuron communication. Read more from the Optical Society.
A novel technology enables the modeling of human liver transplantation in an experimental setting. Read more at Phys.Org.
A new method for delivering chemotherapy nanodrugs has been created that increases the drugs' bioavailability and reduces side-effects. Their study shows that administering an FDA-approved nutrition source prior to chemotherapy can reduce the amount of the toxic drugs that settle in the spleen, liver and kidneys. Read more from Carnegie Melon University.
The small but growing do-it-yourself (DIY) microscopy community has flourished as researchers strive to overcome the limitations of current microscopic technology. Numerous researchers, including US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute cell biologist Clare Waterman, who is known for using new camera technology to develop a technique called fluorescent speckle microscopy4. Biophysicist Hari Shroff of the US National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Section on High Resolution Optical Imaging has contributed to free microscope configuration resources for use by fellow scientists. Read more in Nature.


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Search continues for boater missing in Lake Waccamaw
LAKE WACCAMAW, NC (WWAY) — Divers are combing the waters of Lake Waccamaw after a boat was found circling the middle of the lake with no one on board yesterday.
"A call came in. They thought there was a gentleman slumped over in the boat," Lake Waccamaw Town Manager Darren Curry said. "It turned out that it was a life vest in the boat that they had seen. They then got a little closer, and they identified that there was nothing in the boat."
Family members confirmed that the boat belonged to Bunny Goldston of Lake Waccamaw. He took his boat out for a leisurely sunday ride, and never returned.
Divers spent Monday searching for his body just a few hundred yards off shore from the family's home.
"The boat was seen circling unmanned at the time, so we are searching in a grid pattern," Curry said. "Hopefully he is in that area, but we do not know how far the boat traveled before it was called in."
Water conditions in the 9,000-acre lake are further complicating the search for Goldston.
"There's a lot of debris in the water," Curry said. "There's a lot of christmas trees or other debris that it appears have been put in the water by fisherman."
Officials say that events like this highlight the need to wear a life vest while boating.
"Obviously if you're going out by yourself, it's extremely important. If there is nobody with you to help position a rescue, the lake is very large," Curry said.
Lake Waccamaw has been closed to boaters while crews search for Goldston.
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With the growing cases of social accounts Hacked every day, one must be careful on how they access their information. There is the need to ask "How do this Social Account Get Hacked?" Do you know you can contribute greatly to the Hacking of your account?
While a lot of people believe that it is only when a hacker knows the victim's password that an account can be hacked? This is not true. There are other was ways your account can be hacked. In this post, i am going to measure 3 vulnerable ways a Social Account can be hacked and this ways has to do with your negligence.
#3 Connecting Social Account with App:
Integrating app with an account is a cool way to make your social account more exciting to use. For Facebook, Apps like Birthday poster which saves your time & strength by automatically posting to your friend's wall cute birthday picture and Wishes whenever they have a birthday. While for twitter, apps like Unfollowers.me which tells you Who Un-followed you and how many followers you gain.
Despite the usefulness of integrated apps, do you know that some malicious Apps exist among them? The app after connected to your account might post "malicious link" on behalf of you without you knowing.
How to prevent this: Just be sure and conscious of the app you connect with your social account, as there are lots of walking dead apps out there waiting to infest your social accounts.
#2 Saving your Password on a Public Computer:
A public computer means a shared computer that is used by lots of people e.g. a Cybercafe.
On Social Network website whenever you wanted to log-in on the computer, there is a small square box usually below the login which says (Remember Password). This box when checked saved your password so that when next time you visit the website, you won't enter your login details again since it has automatically been saved.
How to solve this: Always remember not to use the "check box" when using a shared computer.
#1 Using a Too-Simple Password:
Some hackers actually do form or let me use the word "suggest" your password. When you use a simple password, hackers might guess it and get it right. Example is; in a case where your email is email@example.com and you use your password as lagbaja.
What to-do: Always do try to use a more complicated password which is going to be hard for others to guess. And I will suggest you change your password regularly.
Feel free to share your ideas & suggestions.


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TV Picks: Friday night (Jan. 16) is solid "Gold" on Discovery!
Last Friday's Gold Rush was the #1 program in ALL OF TELEVISION among men for the second consecutive week and the #1 cable program in its time period among total women viewers!
Tune in this Friday for:
Grandpa John
Colossal Clean Up
It's been a struggle all season for Todd Hoffman. His crew is 2/3 of the way through the mining season, but they barely have a quarter of the amount to reach their 1.2 million dollar goal. Will they hit the jackpot they've been looking for? Or will this be the season that Todd throws in the towel once and for all?
Discovery's ambitious gold miners are back at it again and the stakes have never been higher. Who's in and who's out? This season, everything has changed – new miners, new claims, new machines and new ways to pull gold out of the ground. Also catch the pre-show The Dirt, hosted by series executive producer Christo Doyle, at 8 PM ET/PT.
Returning this season is 20-year-old Parker Schnabel who proved himself in only his rookie season mining the Klondike – raking in over 1,000 ounces of gold worth 1.4 million dollars. Parker is taking off his "training wheels" this year, setting an unprecedented goal of 2,000 ounces worth more than $2.5 million dollars – double his take from last season. Parker re-invests every last cent in a mad scramble to get to good gold, asks more of his crew than ever before and manages to steal one of rival gold miner Todd Hoffman's top mechanics. If Parker can hit his lofty goal, he could be on his way to becoming a Klondike legend. If not, it will become clear that his first season was simply a stroke of good luck.
Last season, Todd Hoffman rolled the dice and fell flat on his face. He hit rock bottom after braving the jungles of Guyana, South America, in an attempt to make a fortune along with his father Jack, Dave Turin, Jim Thurber and the rest of the Hoffman crew.
This year, Todd is back at square one. His right hand man, Dave, has had enough, deserting Todd to mine with legends Freddie and Derek Dodge. Not only has Todd lost his land, most of his money, his crew, but worst of all, he has lost his dignity. His dream of mining in the jungle nearly destroyed him, but will he be able to rise from the ashes and turn things around? Or will this be the season that Todd throws in the towel once and for all? One thing is for certain — Todd will not go down without a fight.
Meanwhile, Tony Beets and his crew dive in full-time to take on the unthinkable. Tony, known throughout the Klondike as "The Viking," buys a million dollar, 75-year-old floating gold dredge. But to resurrect the gold catching monster, he needs to take it apart piece by piece.
The 210-foot dredge hasn't been used in over 30 years and is a risky proposition. Can The Viking resurrect the machine capable of pulling millions out of the ground or will he be left with a 1,000 metal pieces of junk?


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Portable generator gas tanks are frequently made of plastics similar to those used for portable gas cans, though some gas tanks are fashioned from metal. Large tanks are more likely to be made from metal, but the weight of metal tanks makes them less suitable for portable use.
Portable generator gas tanks typically range in capacity from 5 to 18 gallons of fuel regardless of the material from which they are made. In some cases, a larger 55-gallon metal drum may be useful as a portable generator fuel tank if it is possible to transport it with a vehicle along with the generator. All portable generator gas tanks must be compliant with Environmental Protection Agency guidelines to prevent spillage and reduce fire and explosion risks.


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Summary: Set at the end of Two Towers, What happens when the fellowship finds surviving prisoners in Saruman's dungeon? Who are these strangers? What are these bizarre devices? And what doors was Saruman opening in his tower? Switches between canon and AU.
Categories: Movie-verse Characters: Legolas
Genres: Action/Adventure
Warnings: AU (alternate universe), Character Death, Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Completed: No
Word count: 15952 Read Count: 2433
Stories by d4rkd4wn
Every Wall is a Door by d4rkd4wn Rated: R [Reviews - 2]
Published: Oct 10 2011 Updated: Jan 13 2012 [Report This]


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Attention all 5th-8th Grade Girls!
SMS Girls' Chorus meets on Tuesday mornings in the band room beginning at 7:15 and continuing through their homeroom time. Rehearsals will start on Tuesday, September 10th.
If interested, please register using the following link: SMS Girls' Chorus Registration Link. All registrations and a $30 check to the St. Mary School Choral Program is due by Friday, August 30th.
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Definition of Family Juglandaceae
1. Noun. Trees having usually edible nuts: butternuts; walnuts; hickories; pecans.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Juglandales, Order Juglandales
Member holonyms: Genus Juglans, Juglans, Carya, Genus Carya, Genus Pterocarya, Pterocarya
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Juglandaceae
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1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"... L. Walnut family ( Juglandaceae ). Juglans; butternut; white walnut, Indigenous tree, 20 to i>0 feet in height, common in rich woods from New ..."
2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"1204. Order Juglandales.—Trees, staminate flowers in aments. The walnut family (Juglandaceae, examples: walnut, butternut, etc. ..."
3. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"WALNUT FAMILY. Juglandaceae. Trees with compound, alternate-growing leaves, and staminate and pistillate flowers occurring on the same tree. ..."
4. The Volatile Oils by Eduard Gildemeister, Friedrich Hoffmann (1900)
"The aromatic odor of the fresh leaves of Juglans regia L. (family Juglandaceae) is attributable to the volatile oil they contain. Upon distillation of 800 ..."


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Swim Suit Model Wallpapers
Use the thumbnails on the left to navigate. Click on the large slideshow image to download full-size wallpaper. Enjoy!
Lyndall Jarvis
Lyndall Jarvis is a South African model who was voted FHM South Africa Sexiest Woman in 2009. She has also notably modeled for Sports Illustrated South Africa.
Elbe Van Der Merwe
Elbe van der Merwe is a South African model who was born in Kroonstad in 1986.
Nicknamed Kudu, she won the Revlon Supermodel competition in 2006, and the South African Sports Illustrated 'New Model Search' in 2008.
Nicknamed Kudu, she won the Revlon Supermodel competition in 2006, and the South African Sports Illustrated 'New Model Search' in 2008.
Shane Van Der Westhuizen
Shane Van Der Westhuizen, is a South African model who has appeared most famously for FHM and in the Sports Illustrated South Africa Swimsuit magazine.
Kate Upton
Kate Upton is an American model known for her appearance in the 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. During the launch week in Vegas, Kate was named 'Rookie of the Year.' She was born in Melbourne, Florida on June 10, 1992. She has also modeled for Guess and Beach Bunny swim wear.
Catrinel Menghia
Catrinel Menghia (born October 1, 1985) is a Romanian model. She was discovered at the age of 16 on the street by a local agent who took her to Bucharest to meet Liviu Ionescu of the MRA Agency. Six months later, her parents allowed Menghia to move to Bucharest and start her modeling career. She participated in the Ford Supermodel of the World Romania contest in November 2001, where she won the second runner-up prize. Menghia now lives in Milan. She has done campaigns for major fashion houses and is the face of Giorgio Armani worldwide. She was also one of the new faces in the 2006 South African Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition and has appeared in FHM and Maxim. She has been the face of the French lingerie brand Lise Charmel since 2005. She is married to the Italian ex-footballer Massimo Brambati.
Melissa Giraldo
Melissa Giraldo is from Medellin, Colombia. Apparently she's quite popular in her homeland and had frequent campaigns for lingerie and swimwear companies, in particular she's done a lot of work for Phax Swimwear. In November 2009 she won the Miss Betus award.
Bar Rafaeil
Bar Refaeli (Hebrew: בר רפאלי, born 4 June 1985) is an Israeli model and occasional actress, most known for her modelling work and for her relationship with American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She was the cover model of the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Dominique Piek
Dominique Piek, 24, was born in Somerset West, South Africa. She has appeared in advertisements for Samsung and Speedo and was on the cover of the South African Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2007. This is her first US appearance in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Candice Swanepoel
Candice Swanepoel (born October 20, 1988) is a South African model best known for her work with Victoria's Secret.
Cintia Dicker Wallpaper
Cintia Dicker (born December 6, 1986 in Campo Bom, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) is a Brazilian model of German descent. She has appeared in many fashion advertisements including Ann Taylor and Yves Saint Laurent and has been on the covers of magazines ELLE, Madame Figaro and Brazilian Vogue/Teen Vogue magazine. She has paraded through many fashion shows including Gucci and Baby Phat. Her most recent campaign is the H.I.P. cosmetics line for L'Oreal Paris, and she is rumored to be one of the candidates to walk in the next Victoria's Secret fashion show.
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Elle Macpherson ( /ˈɛl məkˈfɜrsən/; born 29 March 1963) is an Australian model, actress, and businesswoman nicknamed "The Body". She is perhaps best known for her record six cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s. She is also known as the founder and primary model for a series of business ventures including Elle Macpherson Intimates, a lingerie line, and "The Body", a line of skin care products. According to Forbes, Macpherson possesses assets around $60 million. In 2010, she became the host and executive producer of Britain and Ireland's Next Top Model.
Esti Ginzburg
Esti Ginzburg, alternate spelling Ginsberg, Ginsborg, (Hebrew: אסתי גינזבורג; born March 6, 1990, Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli model and actress.


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-LIMITED EDITION 100 copies
After being an ominous presence within the Finnish underground scene for nearly three decades, DEATH TRIP will release their first full-length album, Madhouse, in 2017.
Hailing from the angst of northern Finland, DEATH TRIP are regarded as one of the most frightening bands in Finland, mainly due to infernal screams of the legendary vocalist Läjä Äijälä (Terveet Kädet, etc.). The intense bombardment of uncompromising distorted guitars provides a hypnotic melting pot for splatter/gore flicks and the spirit of Hawkwind and the Stooges.
Madhouse continues the ferocious noise of DEATH TRIPs early seven inches (Death Trip, Chainsaw Goddess, Please! Skin Me Alive) which had a huge impact on the Finnish underground scene in the early 1990s, contributing to the formation of bands such as Circle.
DEATH TRIP are:
Läjä Latex - Screams
Till Hell Drums
Maike Satana Bass
Bluedemon Guitars
Cosmic Len Electronics
Ektro Records / J. LehtisaloOtavankatu 15B24, 28100 PORI, FINLANDektro.records(at)dnainternet.net


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HANNA Instruments Water Analysis Division has released the C200 photometer. The meter measures up to 36 water quality parameters.
It is simple to use and instructions are given for the measurement of each parameter. All 36 parameters are preprogrammed and program numbers are listed on the front panel.
The LCD provides test results, selected program number, user-friendly prompts and auto-diagnostic messages. The timer function counts down the amount of time needed for the chemical reaction. The timer is preprogrammed with the optimum reaction time for each of the 36 parameters. Should the user wish to override this function read direct may be selected and the measurement is visualized in seconds.
The C200 has a built-in RS232 interface allowing for connection to a PC via the optional software and connection cable. It runs on two 9V batteries or mains power using the 12V dc transformer supplied with the unit.