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The Liberty men's and women's tennis teams are both coming off highly successful fall seasons. Members of both teams, along with the coaches, recognize that success on the court is not the sole purpose of being a part of the Liberty tennis program. The teams recognize that giving back to the community and sharing their gifts and abilities is also vitally important. Both squads recently exemplified this belief, as they held their annual clinic for Lynchburg homeschool students on Dec. 2-5 at the Sports Racket indoor tennis facility. This year marked the 11th year that Liberty has hosted the event.
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During the daily two-and-a-half hour sessions, participants were divided into groups based on experience. Each group was put through drills and exercises by members of the men's and women's squads. Following the conclusion of each session, Johnson brought all of the students together for a final motivational message before dismissing the students.
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|Scientific Classification
"Anteaters eat ants."
"What is it anteaters eat?"
The Anteater is a strange-looking creature believed to be mammalian. It is the only creature on earth that actually eats ants (besides aardvarks, which also eat cheeseburgers). I like burning ants with a magnifying glass, but eating them?
Apparently, the guy who discovered anteaters was too lazy to give them a better name. This was probably the same person who named the grasshopper and the woodpecker. On the plus side, this makes it easy to know what anteaters eat. If you don't know what anteaters eat, you're mentally retarded. If you're mentally retarded, read this instead.
A typical anteater is covered with fur. An anteater also has a long curved head with a tube-shaped snout, which many people wrongly think is a trunk. As a result, anteaters are usually drawn to look like elephants, which they are not. At the tip of the snout is the anteater's tiny mouth opening. Though anteaters are toothless, they are well known to have freakishly long tongues that are used to catch ants.
Anteaters are part of the eater family. Also in this family are Stuffeaters, thingeaters, Gangstaeaters, and <insert name here>eaters. The rarest member of the eater family is the Flying Purple People Eater, which is severely threatened from climate change. Many people mistake the aardvark to be related to anteaters, but they're not. Nobody knows where aardvarks come from. If you ask me, they are just anteater rip-offs that crawled out of a dark hole somewhere.
Anteaters are found exclusively in the rain forests and grasslands of Mexico, Central America, and South America. They commonly inhabit areas in or near places with a high ant population, such as picnic sites and your kitchen floor.
Some lost, cold, hungry anteaters have occasionally been found in Antarctica. This is probably due to it having the word ant in its name. I would have renamed it Penguinarctica or Penguinland, because there's lots of penguins there. Why the hell would they name something with ant when it isn't at all involved with ants whatsoever?
Why anteaters only eat ants[edit]
Anteaters evolved from animals called candyeaters. As their name suggests, these animals used to eat candy and other sugary treats. As the animals kept eating candy, they became morbidly obese. They became an endangered species due to being poked by sticks, targeted by skinny people, and suffering from heart failure. Charles Darwin said "Unless they can find an alternative food source, the species will kill itself off''.
In an attempt to stop the species from killing themselves, scientists tried to feed them vegetables. Like most fatasses, the chubby fat animals did not like being forced to eat vegetables and would rather have guns pointed into their mouths. This further endangered the species. With the species now on the brink of extinction, the scientists needed to come up with a fool-proof solution. One of them thought to feed the animals something that is both delicious and good for you at the same time. Since no kind of food like that actually existed, the scientists decided to use their technology or something to create it. So they tried to do it, only to kill themselves in a firey explosion. Meanwhile, a candyeater ate a group of ants thinking they were black sugar with legs. Thus, the species evolved into anteaters.
Due to their nutritional requirements, anteaters can only eat ants. If an anteater were to eat anything else, it would go Ape-Shit Crazy, shoot blood out of its mouth, and jump off a cliff. If an anteater does not not eat a required daily number of ants, it will most likely asplode. However, at rare times, anteaters get a tendency to lick things. Everyone likes to lick things. Things are good to lick.
A hungry anteater will approach an anthill and wait for the right moment to attack (whenever it feels like it). Once that moment comes, the anteater will bust into that anthill like the Hulk and slurp up those little bastard ants with that looong tongue. Any ant caught by the tongue will be pulled into the anteater's stomach - which is actually a black hole that leads into another dimension. Where does it go? I have no idea. I'm not an ant. If I were, I still wouldn't know because I would be dead.
The anteater will then move to the next closest anthill. An anteater can eat like, a million ants in a single day. This is probably because ants are tiny. Let's see them eat a million waffles in a single day...oh wait, they CAN'T!
A fully-grown anteater has few natural predators. Their most frequent predator is the Anteater-eater, a large carnivorous mammal which can easily Pwn and kill an anteater. Anteater-eating anteaters can also be a problem in some areas. Anteaters avoid anteater-eating ants, most likely because the whole goddamn food chain would be reversed. Chuck Norris also kills anteaters on occasion, but rarely eats them (unless he has to). The anteater-eating burrito, which was hunted to extinction last week, also used to be a threat. Other than these, anteaters don't have much else to worry about... except terrorists.
Man-eating anteaters[edit]
Man-eating anteaters are yet another monstrosity set upon the world by mad science. The scientists apparently wanted to create a new type of animal to make up for their last mistake. After collecting some DNA, they put it into some sort of machine. After a while, out of the machine came the world's first man-eating anteater. Before the scientists could get rid of it, the creature ripped their heads off and flew out the window. Professor Farnsworth once owned a pit of man-eating anteaters. Unfortunately, he fell into the pit and was eaten alive. His last words were "You killed me"!.
Man-eating anteaters look very identical to ant-eating anteaters. If you come accross an anteater that you think is a man-eating anteater, you could try throwing a porterhouse steak in its face. Usually, it will run away crying. If by chance it eats it, it's a man-eater and you should either run, beat it to death with a baseball bat, or, the best option, call your neighbour: You may have a chance to escape while your neighbour gets eaten instead.
The future of anteaters[edit]
People are becoming increasingly aware of anteaters. Due to the growing number of ant infestations, more bug repellent, exterminators, fumigators, and magnifying glasses are being purchased in an attempt to wipe ants off our planet forever. But we are forgetting that anteaters depend on ants for survival, if we kill off the ants, we will also kill off the anteaters.
"Each time you don't kill an ant, you also don't kill an anteater...Peace out, Man!"
However, with the increasing infestations, people are also buying anteaters as pets to rid themselves of ants. And also because anteaters are Cute. Taking care of an anteater takes a lot of responsibility. You have to feed it lots of ants, take it for walks, feed it lots of ants, comb its fur, feed it lots of ants, clean up its crap, feed it ants, give it plenty of baths, what else? Feed it lots of ants...
Many people do not realize the work it takes to care for anteaters, so the animals are left on the streets to die or get abducted by rapist hobos. If you want to save the anteaters, there are some steps you can take. You could learn how to actually care for a pet anteater. If you can't do that, the next thing you can try is LEAVING THE ANTS ALONE!! Throw away those magnifying glasses or the anteaters will die because of you.


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In a case that's been closely watched by the insurance industry, Washington's State Supreme Court on Thursday affirmed that insurers are liable for the illegal actions of their agents.
"The ruling is a big win for consumers," said Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, whose decision the case was challenging. "If you allow someone to do business on your behalf, it only stands to reason that you can be held responsible for what they do."
The case involved violations of the state's insurance laws in 2006 and 2007 by an insurance agency appointed by Chicago Title Insurance Company. That agency, Land Title Co. of Kitsap County, Inc. repeatedly offered illegal inducements to get business. The violations included illegally "wining and dining" real estate agents, builders and mortgage lenders with free meals, donations for a golf tournament, monthly advertising, and Seattle Seahawks playoff game tickets.
Although Land Title was Chicago Title's exclusive agent in the Washington counties at issue in the case, Chicago Title argued that it was not responsible for its agent's actions. In a consent order signed in 2009, the company agreed to pay a $48,334 fine if it did not prevail in court.
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|Posted: September 10, 2008
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|(Nanowerk News) Hailed as the worlds most powerful transmission electron microscope, TEAM 0.5 is living up to expectations. Using TEAM 0.5 (TEAM stands for Transmission Electron Aberration-corrected Microscope), researchers with the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced stunning images of individual carbon atoms in graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon that is highly prized by the electronics industry.
|These first time ever images were recorded at Berkeley Labs National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM), a DOE national user facility that is a premier center for electron microscopy and microcharacterization. TEAM 0.5, its newest instrument, is capable of producing images with half-angstrom resolution, which is less than the diameter of a single hydrogen atom.
|This image of a single suspended sheet of graphene taken with TEAM 0.5, shows individual carbon atoms (yellow) on the honeycomb lattice.
|Simply put, TEAM 0.5 is the best transmission electron microscope in the world, representing a quantum leap forward in instrumentation, said physicist Alex Zettl who led this research. Having the ability to see, basically in real time, each and every individual atom in a sample is unbelievably useful and the images we can now see have been jaw-dropping for even the most seasoned electron microscopists. TEAM 0.5 is pushing transmission electron microscopy to a new level.
|Zettl holds joint appointments with Berkeley Labs Materials Sciences Division (MSD) and the Physics Department at the University of Californias Berkeley campus, where he is the director of the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems. Collaborating with him on this graphene imaging project were Jannik Meyer, also with Berkeley Labs Materials Sciences Division, and Christian Kisielowski, Rolf Erni and Marta Rossell of NCEM.
|Their results were published in the journal Nanoletters, in a paper entitled: Direct imaging of lattice atoms and topological defects in graphene membranes.
|The properties of solid materials stem from the arrangement of their constituent atoms in the solids crystal structure. While technologies such as electron and x-ray crystallography can reveal the atomic geometry of a crystal, they do not identify the precise location and position of each individual atom. When the dimensions of a material shrink to the nanoscale, the location and position of each individual atom becomes critically important, as Zettl explains.
|Think of the steel re-bars on a three-dimensional structure, like a jungle gym, he said. If a small piece of re-bar is rusted out somewhere in the center of the gym, it wont likely have much affect on the overall properties of the structure. In a two-dimensional structure, however, a rusted out segment becomes a much bigger problem, and in a one-dimensional structure, i.e., a single re-bar, a rusted out segment can be catastrophic, causing the entire structure to fail. On a nanoscale crystal, one missing atom or some other defect in the arrangement can result in catastrophic failure.
|Graphene is especially sensitive to defects in its atomic structure. Consisting of a single-layered sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons, like a sheet of chicken wire with an atom at each nexus, graphene features extraordinary electrical, mechanical and thermal properties that could enable it to serve in a broad array of carbon-based electronic devices. For the enormous promises of graphene to be fulfilled, however, scientists need a much better understanding of how specific types of defects in the crystal structure, including those that change location over time, affect its properties.
|Theorists are currently making all kinds of predictions about the properties of graphene for different local atomic configurations, but until TEAM 0.5, we did not have the ability to actually see and study these configurations in real time, Zettl said.
|TEAM 0.5 features state-of-the-art technical advances including an extremely bright electron source, ultra-stable electronics to reduce drift and, perhaps most importantly, the ability to provide optical corrections for spherical aberration (blurring). By making points of light look like disks, spherical aberrations have been the prime limiting factors in the resolution of transmission electron microscopy.
|Says NCEM principal investigator and collaborator on this study Kisielowski, TEAM 0.5 allows for the detection of every single atom from the Periodic Table provided that the sample under investigation can stand the radiation damage (TEAM 0.5s record-setting half-angstrom resolution was achieved with an electron beam that was 300 kilovolts (kV) in energy.)
|Correcting spherical aberration makes it possible to use the TEAM 0.5 not only for broad-beam wide-angle images but also for scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), in which the tightly focused electron beam is moved across a sample as a probe. In this mode, TEAM 0.5 is capable of performing spectroscopy on one atom at a time an ideal way to precisely locate impurities in an otherwise homogeneous sample, such as individual dopant atoms in a semiconductor. Aberration correction also enables TEAM 0.5 to produce high resolution images at relatively low electron beam energies. Because of their longer wavelengths, lower energy electrons are more difficult to focus than higher energy electrons. Aberration correction overcomes this problem.
|Using TEAM 0.5, Zettl, Kisielowski and their collaborators were able to obtain images of graphene membranes - crystalline foils one atom thick at a resolution of one angstrom using electron beams of a mere 80 kilovolts (kV) in energy.
|The low voltage was crucial for the stability and study of these graphene membranes which are much too fragile to be imaged at the higher energies required for conventional transmission electron microscopy, said Zettl. That we were able to detect and resolve every individual carbon atom in these foils at 80kV is relevant for future studies of organic materials where low-z atoms dominate and higher energies are damaging to samples. TEAM 0.5 provides fantastic resolution at low electron energies, which is the best of both worlds for organics.
|Added Kisielowski, This is not even the end of the story. We have since made improvements to further boost signal-to-noise ratios and already have new and even better images. There is much more to come.
|TEAM 0.5 was designed and constructed through a collaboration led by Berkeley Lab and including DOEs Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, the Frederick Seitz Materials Laboratory of the University of Illinois, and two private companies specializing in electron microscopy, the FEI Company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and CEOS of Heidelberg, Germany.
|Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California. Visit their website at http://www.lbl.gov.
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|An advanced copy of the paper ("Direct Imaging of Lattice Atoms and Topological Defects in Graphene Membranes") is now available on-line in the journal Nano Letters.
|To learn more about Alex Zettl and his research group: http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/
|To learn more about TEAM 05. and the National Center for Electron Microscopy: http://ncem.lbl.gov/
|Source: Berkeley Lab
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Average Hong Kong resident consumes double our planet's capacity
Posted on 15 January 2011
A new WWF report shows that Hong Kong people are living well beyond the Earth's limits, consuming over two times our planet's capacity to sustain us.Hong Kong, China - A new WWF report shows that Hong Kong people are living well beyond the Earth's limits, consuming over two times our planet's capacity to sustain us.
According to the Hong Kong Ecological Footprint Report 2010, if everyone in the world lived a similar lifestyle to that of Hong Kong people, we would need the equivalent resources of 2.2 Earths. Hong Kong has the 45th largest Ecological Footprint per person compared to 150 countries with populations larger than 1 million people in 2007.
Compared to Mainland China, Hong Kong's Ecological Footprint is significantly higher, as 1.2 Earths would be needed if all people consumed like an average Chinese in 2007. Hong Kong's footprint is also slightly higher than China's major cities, Beijing and Shanghai (2.1 planets needed at Beijing's average and 2 at Shanghai's). All cities have service-based economies with the predominant businesses being finance, banking, and trade, but Hong Kong's population is smaller.
Ecological Footprint
The Ecological Footprint measures the extent of human demand for the regenerative capacity of the biosphere. Both quantities are expressed in units of global hectares (gha). Hong Kong has an average per person Ecological Footprint of 4.0 gha, which is more than double the 1.8 gha of biocapacity - the area actually available to produce resources and absorb CO2 - available per person globally.
Reliance on imports, high carbon footprint
Hong Kong's excessive reliance on imported resources such as crops, meat, seafood and timber makes it most vulnerable to a changing world.
"While it is unrealistic to think that Hong Kong could ever be self-sufficient in terms of renewable natural resources, Hong Kong has become excessively reliant on the natural resources of the rest of the planet," notes Dr Andy Cornish, Director, Conservation at WWF-Hong Kong.
"This reliance has not caused Hong Kong significant difficulties so far, but the increasing global ecological overshoot will inevitably mean more global competition for natural resources and is changing the rules of the game – rules that Hong Kong must adapt to. Extreme weather events will be more common as the climate changes, making it even more urgent that we reduce our excessive reliance on imported resources."
Hong Kong's carbon Footprint is significant, representing 60 percent of its total Ecological Footprint. While Hong Kong's per person carbon Footprint is excessive, having grown 24 times since 1962, in terms of proportion, CO2 emissions released in Hong Kong account for only 26 percent of the total carbon Footprint. The remaining 74 percent is embodied in imports, meaning that CO2 is emitted elsewhere to supply imports to Hong Kong.
"Hong Kong will have to seriously reduce its carbon Footprint to bring its overall Ecological Footprint down, and that will require a holistic and comprehensive climate and energy strategy," said Dr Cornish.
Seafood, timber from unsustainable sources
In addition, Hong Kong is still consuming seafood and timber products which are mostly from unsustainable sources, although a massive recent increase in Forest Stewardship Council paper providers is evidence of increasing demand for sustainable products. Increases in the consumption of beef per person are less positive, where the beef consumption per person has surged in recent years, contributing to the emission of greenhouse gases.
"We are in a new era where humanity's growing Ecological Footprint is outpacing what nature is able to renew. In such times of global overshoot, cities and countries that maintain high levels of resource dependence are putting their own economies severely at risk," said Global Footprint Network President Mathis Wackernagel.
"As a region particularly reliant on the ecological health of the rest of the world, Hong Kong stands to benefit from minimizing its resource dependence. The more it can provide a high quality of life for its residents on a smaller Ecological Footprint, Hong Kong will not only address global risks, but more directly, it will make its economy more resilient facing the future," he added.
Hong Kong businesses and individuals need to take action
WWF calls for immediate actions from Hong Kong businesses and individuals. "Consumers can demand that the seafood and timber products we consume are produced sustainably. In this way we can leverage Hong Kong's buying power and act as a regional catalyst to drive natural resource producers towards sustainability. In turn, this will create increased and reliable sources of sustainable products supply for Hong Kong," concluded Dr Cornish.
"The potential impacts of climate change overseas to the resources Hong Kong imports provide additional self-interest incentives to increase efficiency, reduce wastage and source sustainably. It is imperative to do so sooner rather than later," he continued.
In contrast to the rest of China, Hong Kong's Ecological Footprint per person has declined by 25% and levelled off since it peaked in the late 1990s. While Hong Kong is benefiting from some increased efficiencies in the city, the decline appears largely due to vagaries in the trade of the embodied carbon of goods and natural resources, and of cropland products. It is mostly not the result of sustainable development policies.


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Our Galactic Swami foresees good things in the future for Star Wars toys in 2004. Ready your wallets, because if you're a fan of the Original Trilogy, then you'll be spending plenty of dough indeed! Swami also tells us that the emphasis for 2004 are collectors and MAX articulation. Believe in the power of the Swami!
Basic Figures
Craving more Imperials for your collection? How about a first ever issue of Admiral Ozzel and a new Imperial TIE Pilot with improved articulation! If you've been wanting more characters from The Empire Strikes Back, you'll be happy to know that a long wished for Cloud Car Pilot, Leia Bespin Gown, Lobot, Dagobah R2-D2, and a new sculpt of bounty hunter Dengar are also planned.
Rounding out the OT figures are a Gold Leader X-Wing Pilot and a new Han Endor.
From the Prequels come new figures of Palpatine's aide Sly Moore, the Wookiee Senator Yarua, and duck-billed Jedi Pablo Jill.
Reissues of previously released figures are also to be continued. Now dubbed the "Hall of Fame" series, expect some form of Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and Princess Leia.
Ultra Figures
For those who love those furry creatures with attitude, an Ultra Ewok 2 Pack with Catapult is planned. Another set from Return of the Jedi featuring B'ommar Monk and Bubo are also in the works.
Vehicles, Exclusives, and the Rest
The Sandcrawler is coming to Target. But Swami sez you already knew that. But did you know that Target will also carry Star Wars drinking glasses packed with exclusive figures? Sounds like a neat concept.
A new TIE Fighter with more accurately scaled wings as well as new colored versions of the Y-Wing and X-Wing (Gold Leader) will be dogfighting as an exclusive for a retailer.
Multi-packs to be released include themes from Naboo Final Battle, Pit of Carkoon, and Jedi Council (with Shaak-Ti).
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Creating global-ready, internationalized applications requires many people: engineers, project managers, translators, and often in-country experts. If everything goes as planned, the final product is internationalized and localized to meet the needs of a specific market. The required teamwork is amazing, and sometimes the expense can be surprisingly large. The mistaken conclusion is that internationalization must always be expensive, and that the effort simply costs too much in terms of schedules, resources, and of course money. The worst part about the conclusion is that the expense can be minimized considerably by rethinking when and how internationalization is performed.
Two causes of expensive internationalization are the delays in actively thinking about it and thinking of it as a simple feature. Often product managers and engineering teams simply do not plan for localization from the beginning of their project's lifecycle. This is common in product teams that target English-only regions first. Unfortunately, engineers and product managers mistakenly think that they will be able to add the internationalization and localization "feature" at a later time when needed. This is an expensive mistake, and it comes from thinking of internationalization as a feature instead of an architectural and design style. The result is that the final product does not contain any framework for localization and has not been designed with internationalization and localization in mind. Ultimately, it is difficult and expensive to retrofit or "fix" an application that has a single language architecture and design. Internationalization simply touches too many areas of a product to be considered as a one-time feature that can be added to the product sometime in the future.
You can save yourself the expense and difficultly of retrofitting or fixing an English-only product by thinking of the internationalization step as an architectural element rather than a feature. A feature can be readily added to a product often because it has limited scope within the application or has few dependencies. A new feature is often "low-touch" or only lightly coupled with other features or areas of a product. Internationalization, however, often affects all aspects of an application. Areas of the product that involve number, date, time and currency formatting can cut across many areas. Internationalization is a "high-touch" activity that affects most areas of an application because user interfaces, strings, icons and colors, numbers, dates, and time values are used throughout an application. Finding and fixing those areas so that they are internationalized and localizable is an onerous task once the product already exists and is in production.
If you architect your product from the beginning so that localizable elements are isolated from core business logic, you make the localization task easier later. How can you think about internationalization as an architectural task rather than as a feature?
First, understand that internationalization will affect many aspects of your system. Think about all the areas that utilize strings and other localizable resources. The list may be bigger than you first imagined.
Secondly, after identifying those areas, extract those text strings and other resources so that they can be translated independently without touching your application's source code. Every programming platform has a means of isolating resources from the core application. Learn about that mechanism and use it. Think of this step as creating the generic, language-neutral scaffolding upon which the rest of your application will be built. You want to create a core set of business logic and user interface layout that is independent from language and culture. Later, the language-specific elements can be translated and added onto this core architecture.
Lastly, architect your application to load needed language modules at runtime rather than having them hard-coded into the application. Placing the right internationalization architecture in the product from the beginning costs little in terms of time lines and resources, and it pays off significantly over time when product teams discover that their "English-only" application is now desired in new language markets.


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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Conspiracy by Onyx. Please check back for more Onyx lyrics.
Conspiracy Lyrics
Artist: Onyx
Album: Shut 'Em Down
featuring X 1 Clay the Raider
[Sticky] Yo yo but that shit ain't mine nigga
[copper] You know what? Get on the floor alright
[Sticky] Yo man get the fuck off me
[copper] Get down on the ground and spread em out alright
[Sticky] Yo aight aight man!
[copper] Get the fuck down on the ground man!
[Sticky] Aight man!
[copper] Now keep your ass on the floor..
[Sticky] Yo who the fuck can I trust man?
[devil] You can trust me man
[Sticky] Everywhere I turn there's danger God!
[devil] Ah-hahahaha
[Sticky] Yo I feel like the walls is closin in on me man!
[devil] Ay, I am Stress
[Sticky] Buggin man.. ARRRRGH!
[devil] Yeah, I got you where I want you
[Sticky] Word up man
[devil] Hehehe
[Sticky] Ain't got nowhere to go Son
[devil] No you don't
Chorus: Onyx
These streets is tryin to kill me
My best friend, could be my worst enemy, this game is deadly
This ghetto might murder me, or lock me up
Twenty-five to life, throw the key
Verse One: X-1
Yo, yo
You know what happens in the actions of the inner city tale
When your thoughts fail and have you scared to death
biting off your fingernails, not enough, numbers on the weight scale
Got, niggaz cuttin throat just to make sales
Even if it take the last of me I'ma fill my pockets to capacity
Anything that takes cash, fuck job huntin
Put on a face mask kid, I'm out to rob sum'in
If you home or not, I put the chrome to your knot
One shot to the side of your face, let me up inside of your place
Gimme the funds up out of the safe
Hit the fire escape, high-divin gates
Flyin from Jakes, I'm dyin for paint
Verse Two: Sonsee
Yo, I'm caught up, stuck in the tangled web
Where they'd love to see me dead, mail my mom's my head
So the tricolored silenced Rugar stay off safe
To take off a face, just in case, a quiet lace
Plottin, for your knot-and, your spot-and, your block-and
anything else, you got-ten, hopefully you snake and rotten
So eyes open, don't sleep
Cause once you do you goin deep, mo' money mo' heat
Police, wanna brutalize me to death
And my foes wanna see me lose all my breath
Maybe friends, come wanna merk me for my beans
And bitches that gave me skins, wanna watch my end
Cut open my chest, and see my heart
pump the last ounce of life -- for livin, it's a price
Til then, when it's over, kamikaze
Strictly, I'm takin all you motherfuckers with me!
Verse Three: Clay the Raider, Sticky Fingaz
When I die, I don't want none of my niggaz to cry
Just dress me in a black suit, and a black tie
Pass me by to the darkest cloud in the sky
No time to waste, we got the drugs in the briefcase
We stickin up the whorehouse, we takin everything
We want the pussies to the diamond rings
You want the sun to shine? We want the rain to pour
Official Nast' to put your body on the floor
OH SHIT I'M HIT! I'M HIT! They just shot me in the stomach!
UNNNGGGGGGHHHHH! *BLAM BLAM BLAM* *BLAM BLAM* Who want it who want it?
Niggaz trying to kill me, and they caught me by surprise
That's when I blacked out, my life flashed before my eyes *glass breaking*
[Sticky changes to a narrator voice]
My whole life I ain't never give a shit
My mentality was *clip cocked into gun* get shot or gimme a gam
If the gun ain't jam, I woulda bust you
I don't trust my own mother, how the FUCK I'ma trust you?
I did some things that I sorta regret
But I can't bring them niggaz back kid they already wet
As a kid I went to jail cause I sold crack
I'm holdin trial in the streets cause I ain't tryin to go back
[Sticky switches back to panicked voice]
Oh SHIT! What happened?! Wait, now I 'member!
And where my gun??! I musta dropped it when I jumped out that window
*broken glass* Ahh, my stomach, where them niggaz I don't see em
I gotta make it to the B-M, and try to stop this bleeding
I ain't trying to die, I got mad blood spilt
("Aiyyo there that nigga go! Kill him!") Oh shit! *BLAM*
[Sticky narrates as a ghost]
I left behind a widow and a bastard kid
The streets was tryin to kill me, and it did
Verse Four/Modified Chorus: Fredro Starr
These streets is tryin to kill me
That's why I keep a Mac-Mil this shit is real to me
This shit is deadly, this ghetto might murder me
or lock me up for twenty five to life throw the key, I'm low key
So niggaz don't notice me, a half a key is worth
more than a pound of weed, I die for my seed
Kill for my family, fuck this world
cause this world don't understand me, I'm sick mentally
I'm drinkin Hennessy, mixed with Tennessee
Shit is stressing me, niggaz praying for the death of me
But til they bury me
When sixteen shots enter me
Remember me your worst enemy
Onyx Lyrics
Onyx Shut 'Em Down Lyrics
More Onyx Music Lyrics:
Onyx - All We Got Iz Us (Evil Streets) Lyrics
Onyx - Face Down Lyrics
Onyx - Onyx is Here Lyrics
Onyx - React Lyrics
Onyx - Shout Lyrics
Onyx - Street Nigguz Lyrics
Onyx - Throw Ya Gunz Lyrics
Onyx - What's Onyx Lyrics


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Cirque du Soleil has attracted tens of millions of visitors from every continent to its shows, which present performers in every circus discipline. Cirque du Soleil is more than the sum of its shows, however. It is also the thousands of employees and technicians, originators, costumiers, props designers, accountancy acrobats, marketing jugglers and management trapeze artists who travel the planet, developing their evolving mission as creators, performers and global citizens.
My first Cirque Du Soleil experience was under the big top in Santa Monica in the early 90's. Nouvelle Experience was an eye-popping, awe-inspiring event that would change me forever. The bright, colorful, surrealistic costumes, the amazing aerialists, acrobats and clowns was something the likes I had never seen. My parents were visiting from the Midwest and that's all we talked about for the rest of their trip. From that moment on, when the Cirque was in town, I was there, like a kid in a candy shop waiting for the newest treat. It was with this great sense of excitement and anticipation that I went back to the Santa Monica Pier to see the newest Cirque Du Soleil show OVO. I had butterflies in my stomach. I was about to embark on another great new adventure that would transport me to another time and another world.
OVO is a new Cirque Du Soleil production, and is yet another masterful creation of theatrical storytelling. OVO is a headlong rush into a colorful ecosystem teeming with life, where insects work, eat, crawl, flutter, play, fight and look for love in a non-stop riot of energy and movement. The insects' home is a world of biodiversity and beauty filled with noisy action and moments of quiet emotion. When a mysterious egg appears in their midst, the insects are awestruck and intensely curious about this iconic object that represents the enigma and cycles of their lives. It seems oddly familiar, and yet a mystery at the same time. The name OVO means "egg" in Portuguese. This timeless symbol of the life cycle and birth of numerous insects represents the underlying thread of the show. Graphically, OVO hides an insect in its name. The two "Os" represent the eyes while the letter "V" forms the nose.
OVO features many acrobatic acts including a stunning Flying Act where six flyers fly as high as 14 m, making this act the biggest of its kind ever presented under a Grand Chapiteau by Cirque du Soleil. This act is the most difficult in the world to execute in terms of the distance between stations. It combines many circus disciplines, banquine, Russian swing and swinging chair. The finale features 20 artists running, jumping and leaping straight up an 8-meter vertical wall. Acrosport combines elements of dance, acrobatics, athleticism and sheer agility, five yellow and-red fleas fling themselves through the air and come together in graceful, perfectly balanced sculptural formations. The hardest working insects in the community are the bright red Ants. As soon as they're awake they spend their day gathering food. On the menu today is kiwis and corn. But it's not all work they play with their food too, with their feet in an astonishing display of precision juggling that climaxes with ants juggling ants, juggling food.
Next comes Creatura, part slinky, and part insect. The Creatura dances to a tune that is all his own. He's a bendy, twisty knot of stretchy limbs in constant motion. Every time the Creatura moves or folds into itself you're caught in complete amazement. How are they doing that? Once again Cirque has created an amazing character with a life all its own. Diabolos is a mix of high-speed diabolo and seemingly impossible juggling a firefly sends one, two, three and finally an astonishing four spinning spools arcing very high in the Grand Chapiteau and back to earth in perfect coordination. Up and down, round and round in a seamless choreographed juggling presentation.
Slackwire is a tour-de-force performance in which a spider defies gravity and physics in a succession of seemingly impossible feats of strength and balance as he traverses a wire that appears to give him no support. At one point he hangs at a 45-degree angle over the ground, some 15 feet below, and he tops that with an upside-down unicycle act. And the wire is in almost-constant motion up and down and swinging right to left, adding to the degree of difficulty. OVO's big finale is Wall, which features some 20 artists running, jumping, and walking across and straight up an 8m vertical wall without artificial support. Power track and trampolines give them the speed, lift and momentum to take flight. Their athletic ability, physical strength and team coordination take care of the rest.
The use of comedy improvisation has always worked well with the Cirque Du Soleil shows. They pride themselves on a healthy dose of humor, selecting unsuspecting audience members to incorporate into their comedic stylings. The problem with OVO is that since all the characters are insects, they can't talk, so the sounds and verbal communication is in Gibberish. This is mildly humorous for a short period time and then becomes monotonous. At certain points in the show, the main character actually says a few words in English. Huh? Some of these gibberish exchanges between the characters go on way too long, in fact, one bit takes up so much time in the show, they could easily fit another entire act and still have time left over for some comedy relief. That being said, it wasn't distracting enough to affect the show, it was just disappointing in the fact that most other Cirque shows pride themselves on the comedy element. In OVO, however it falls incredibly short.
Overall, OVO is an amazing live circus event that should not be missed. It brought me around full circle to when I went to the Cirque with my family for the first time. It always amazes me how the shows creators can keep coming up with new themes and ideas, but they do. The traveling show is sponsored by Infinity and offers patrons a free picture of themselves with one of the smiling Cirque characters. You can then access the picture online for free. Once again, Cirque Du Soleil has created a show that your whole family will enjoy. But don't wait, this incredibly creative work of gymnastic and acrobatic art will only be playing in Santa Monica until March 20th 2012. Get your tickets as quick as you can before OVO, Cirques insect themed infestation flies away for good. Once you've seen OVO and you get the bug (pun intended) to see another Cirque Du Soleil show, you can drive to Hollywood and Highland to catch IRIS: A journey through the world of cinema.
For more information or to see a glimpse of all the Cirque Du Solei shows at go to the website, www.cirquedusoleil.com


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Stefan Vaillant is CTO of Cumulocity GmbH, where he heads architecture and product management. Prior to that, he was Head of the M2M Create Program in Nokia Siemens Networks. Before that, Stefan held various technical and management positions in sales, product management, professional services and software development.


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|153 g [5.4 oz]
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|1 - USB-C multiport adapter
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If you disconnect a USB-C power adapter from the multiport adapter while transferring files to or from an attached storage device, it will stop the transfer and may cause file corruption. It is also possible that there will be a loss of function if the power adapter is removed from the adapter while it is in operation. It is important to always follow the disconnection steps listed below.
To discontinue charging the multiport adapter and/or to disconnect an SD card from the device, complete the following:
- Complete all data transfers over USB to and from the SD card.
- Disconnect the adapter from the host laptop.
- Disconnect your laptop's power adapter from the adapter.
- Disconnect the HDMI connector, eject SD card and disconnect any USB peripherals as required.
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Praise for Confessions of a Sociopath
"[A] gripping and important book…revelatory…quite the memorable roller coaster ride." —New York Times Book Review
"Fascinating…part memoir, part psychological treatise, and entirely not to be trusted." —Boston Globe
"The goal of Confessions is to redefine sociopathy—or at least to shake off the stigma associated with it. And Thomas accomplishes both. Through her honest portrayal of herself as a highly capable yet deeply flawed individual, she demystifies her disorder." —Scientific American
"Fascinating stuff, and Thomas delivers…riveting…chilling…Her incisive observations about human nature can be breathtakingly pointed." —Cleveland Plain Dealer
"An essential, unprecedented memoir…intelligent, measured…Her arguments against using the diagnosis as an indicator of evil or a pre-emptive reason to imprison are a slam-dunk. This is a critical addition to narratives of mental illness, deepened by the awareness that we're reading someone whose most intense motivation is 'acquisition, retention, and exploitation of power'." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Fascinating and compelling as well as chilling, Thomas' memoir offers a window into the mind of a portion of the population that usually remains shrouded in mystery and fear." —Booklist, starred review
"[Thomas] invites us into her courtroom, classroom and bedroom to witness how her behavior has stunted her work life and made her love life difficult…Much here is chilling, but there are also cracks that make you ache for her….A work of advocacy for greater awareness of sociopathy's reach and conduct." —Kirkus Reviews


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UH Board of Regents approves supplemental budget for fiscal year 2009 at its monthly meetingUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Associate Vice President
The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) held its monthly meeting at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo last week to take action on several items related to the management and operations of the UH System. Approvals were given for the supplemental budget package for FY 09, legislative proposals for the 2008 session, and the special report from the UH Community College system to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.
The supplemental budget for fiscal year 2009 was slightly modified from what was originally presented to the BOR at the informational briefing held in August 2007. The modifications included an increase from $30 million to $30.6 million in the operating budget and an increase of $359 million to $365 million in CIP funded by general obligation bonds.
Of the additional $600 thousand in operating funding being requested, $400 thousand reflects the president's desire to increase support for educational leadership in the public schools, and support for innovation initiatives. The remaining $200 thousand request is to fund 10 positions that will enhance access for Native Hawaiians.
The additional $6 million in the CIP request is primarily to assist with the planning and design funding for the $66 million College of Pharmacy building and some contingency funds for planning and design of the student housing at UH Hilo. The BOR's Biennium Budget request for operating funds totaled $39 million in fiscal year 2007-2008 (FY 08), and $58 million in fiscal year 2008-2009 (FY 09). The University received $26 million ($13 million less than requested) and $37 million ($21 million less than requested). The Board's Biennium Budget request for general-obligation-bond-funded capital improvement projects totaled $268 million in FY08 and $274 million in FY09, a total of $542 million. The University received $183 million in CIP funds in FY08, and $2 million in FY09, for a total of $185 million ($357 million less than requested).
More information about the supplemental budget can be found at www.hawaii.edu/budget/BP.html.
In other action the BOR, approved the 2008 legislative session proposals, which will generally seek to increase the University's fiscal flexibility. UH's proposals will now be submitted to the Governor for inclusion in the Administration's package of bills to the 2008 State Legislature.
A special report prepared by the UH Community College system was also approved by the BOR for submittal to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The report is in response to the Commission's recommendation to conduct a systematic evaluation to determine the effectiveness of the new community college organization and governance structure between and among the system and its community colleges. The report and related attachment is available at www.hawaii.edu/vpaa/system_aa/accreditation.html.


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Light by Luca Matta
Luca Matta Discloses The Light Game Light
Luca Matta, the designer of the highlighted design Award Winning Light Game LIGHT illustrates, memories, fun and games are the strong points of "light game". "light game" is a toy that long ago children made with a piece of paper, which children may not remember this game? i've just wanted to transform this wonderful game in a "easy" lamp. or better in a simple, useful, low cost and ecological the diffuser is composed by a lignin paper folded by press-formed, including some inserts which will contain the led lights placed in the inferior part inside the diffuser. .
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IBM is exploring the idea of a scale-out architecture for its SAN Volume Controller (SVC) with possible involvement of flash memory and Nehalem processor. FCoE support may come when needed.
The SVC (SAN Volume Controller) is a SAN virtualising controller attached to the Fibre Channel fabric linking application servers and block-access storage arrays. It virtualises the SAN storage into a single pool and presents it to applications. The SVC is the most popular device for doing SAN virtualisation with over 15,000 units in use by customers. Hitachi Data Systems' USP-V virtualising front-end drive array controller is in second place in the unit ship stakes.
The SVC is based on commodity hardware, with the current version using an xSeries server with a single quad core Xeon 5400, and all-IBM software. Will it use Nehalem, the 5500? Barry White, a chief inventor from IBM Hursley, said: "We use commodity hardware and tend to pick up the latest xSeries. Intel delivers the chips, System X puts it in a box for us, and the SVC uses the xSeries machine. The 5500 (Nehalem) would be the next logical progression."
The SVC was famously used in the QuickSilver project to deliver a million IOPS from data stored in Fusion-io ioDrive flash memory. Is the SVC getting SSD (solid state drive) support? Steve Legg, IBM UK's chief technology officer said: "It's a really good thing to put SSD in the virtualisation layer - but it can still go in a drive array to cut latency there."
White said that the QuickSilver project showed that monolithic and scale-up architecture storage, such as the DS8000, would always hit a performance limit: "Scale-out architecture, SVC and SSD are being explored. This is the way for next-generation use of SSD to go, instead of using SSD as a replacement hard drive."
Legg added that SSD was quite expensive and it was generally good "to use SSD conservatively".
White said that flash as a storage medium was not ideal and perhaps something else would emerge at some time as a storage layer between server DRAM and flash.
A scale-out architecture could imply clustering with linked SVCs co-operating in some way to work collectively rather than as stand-alone nodes. There could then be a failover arrangement to ensure operations continued if an SVC node failed, and load-balancing arrangements as well.
Neither IBMer was able to comment on the rumoured IBM DB2 Pure Scale device, the Oracle Exadata 2-like system.
Turning to FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet), the story is that IBM has no publicly stated commitment to adopting FCoE or bringing out FCoE product. However, White said of the SVC: "We could fit FCoE cards in it. As the need for FCoE SANs grows things like that are very easy to do in the FCoE world."
Legg said: "We have the luxury of doing it when the time is right. We don't have to do it now."
There are standardisation efforts with FCoE and data centre Ethernet afoot, and Legg added: "We prefer to build things to standard interfaces. Where they don't exist we'll encourage them to exist." If strong de facto standards emerge then IBM might support them, with Cisco's FCoE activities mentioned in this regard.
Our take on this is that what we are looking at here is an SVC roadmap involving the incorporation of Nehalem processors with a consequent performance increase, the use of solid state memory as an integrated cache or storage tier, FCoE interfaces when the time is right, and a scale-out architecture where additional SVCs could be added to an initial node to scale performance and I/O bandwidth. ®


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That pretty well summarizes it! The sauce and mozzarella were sublime. The care and love that went into the pizzas was unbelievable. My chief complaint with the pizza was that the toppings overwhelmed the crust and made it immediately soggy. I never got the required crunch that I find to be absolutely neccessary in a great pizza. The outside crust was also a little dense and lacking any kind of air bubbles. Loved the flavor, didn't like the crust very much.ReplyDelete
Yeah, from what I hear, the pies at Di Fara are wildly inconsistent. One day the pizzas might be great, the next day less so. I'm glad I was lucky enough to catch him on a good (actually, GREAT) day!ReplyDelete
That review is so thorough! I just posted a review on my blog:
They were closed down by the health department several months ago for numerous violations.ReplyDelete
@Clay B: Yeah, I saw that. Luckily they're back up and running and making pizzas again! Wish I weren't 3,000 miles away.ReplyDelete
Good to hear. I thought it might be permanent.ReplyDelete


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COLUMBIA, S.C. – In its first NCAA Tournament appearance in 43 years, Maryland waited until its final at-bat to win its first tournament game since 1970. The Terps completed a come-from-behind victory with three runs in the ninth to walk-off against Old Dominion by the score of 4-3 in the opening game of the Columbia Regional Friday afternoon at Carolina Stadium.
Trailing by two runs in the ninth, Maryland (37-21) cut the deficit to one on a run-scoring single by Charlie White and proceeded to load the bases on a LaMonte Wade walk. Old Dominion's Brad Gero hit Brandon Lowe and Jose Cuason consecutive pitches to force in the tying and winning runs.
With the win, Maryland advances to the winner's bracket of the Columbia Regional and will face either South Carolina or Campbell Saturday at 7 p.m. It is the Terps' first NCAA Tournament victory since knocking off Mississippi State, 3-2, on May 28, 1970.
"I got to give our guys a lot of credit," said head coach John Szefc. "It wasn't a real pretty game for us particularly in the first two-thirds of it. [Jake] Stinnett made a very efficient start. He kept things close and gave us a chance to win late, which is all you can ask for in the NCAA Tournament.
"We had some opportunities late that we didn't take advantage of and made it a little harder for us late. At the end of the day, when you count up the runs, it's either a win or a loss and our guys did what they had to do late."
The Terps trailed by three entering the bottom of the eighth. Monarchs' starter Andy Roberts and reliever Ryan Yarbrough combined to shutout Maryland through seven innings stranding seven runners including leaving the bases loaded in the fifth.
In the eighth, Wade, Lowe and Cuas led off the inning with three consecutive singles to load the bases and put the Terps in position to cut into the deficit. Blake Schmit grounded into a double play, but the ground ball did score Wade and trimmed the Old Dominion (36-25) lead to 3-1.
Kyle Convissar started Maryland's come back in the ninth. The senior shot the gap in left center for his fifth double of the season to lead off the inning. After a ground out, Kevin Martir reached on a fielding error to put runners at the corners.
Behind 0-2, White flared a single to center to scoring Convissar and bringing Maryland within one. Wade then drew a walk to load the bases before the Terps snatched the victory on back-to-back hit by pitches.
"There is never a sense of doubt in the dugout for us," said Cuas. "We've been playing about as well as any team in the country in the month of May. We never doubt each other whether we are up or we are down. Our pitching staff settled down and we got big hits when we needed them."
Maryland received a solid start from senior Jake Stinnett. The Vista, Calif., native scattered six hits over eight innings giving up three runs while striking out seven moving him past Steve Schmoll as the Terps' single-season record holder. Stinnett has 130 strikeouts this season.
Tayler Stiles earned the win with a strong ninth inning. Stiles struck out two of the three batters he faced to improve his record to 4-2.
Old Dominion got on the board first in Columbia. With one out in the top of the third, Mike Perez tripled to the gap in left center. Tyler Urps got Perez home with a shot towards second that hopped over Lowe's glove to give the Monarchs the early advantage.
The Monarchs added to their lead in the fifth tallying a run on three hits. Ben Slaton led off the inning with a single and moved to third on a well-executed hit-and-run by Perez. With runners at the corners, Urps hit a dribbler just in front of home plate leaving Martir with only one play. Martir dove in an attempt to tag the runner, but Slaton slipped past to score Old Dominion's second run.
ODU continued to scratch out runs adding to its lead in the sixth. P.J. Higgins led off the inning with a single and stole second to put himself in scoring position. A long out to center allowed Higgins to move up and then score on a sacrifice fly by Josh Eldridge.


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Until later,
~Lea L.
Love the stars on the card! Totally like a star!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card, the colours are fab. Thanks for sharing with us at Crafty Ann's and good luck in the prize draw
Claire xx
Love the clean design of this card. Really wonderful.ReplyDelete
Fab masculine card, love the little window.
Thanks for making our Boys Dig It challenge so special.
Kasey ~ in Oz
Guest Designer @ 4CCC
Thank you so much for joining in the fun at Poodles Parlour..i love this card for its simplicity and also for its originality
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Cute card, thanks for playing along in PDS challenge...ReplyDelete
Lea, you have made a lovely card which fits our challenge well. Thanks for taking part in Crafty Ann's Challenge this fortnight and best of luck. We hope to see you back again very soon. Best wishes, Kym, Crafty Ann's Design Team xxxReplyDelete
Awesome CAS card, Lea! I love the red accents!ReplyDelete
Love it Lea! That opening with the stamped image looks great! Also love the red blings. :o)ReplyDelete


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Drag Racing T Shirts from Quarter Mile Addiction
Nostalgia Drag Racing T Shirts. Quarter Mile Addiction has revived classic drag racing commercials and news paper adverts, on their T shirts!. This is something quite unique.
You may well remember vintage TV and Radio drag racing commercials, bought to you by Jan Gabriel of "Sunday Sunday Sunday" fame.
Or infamous news paper ads announcing drag racing meetings at well known drag strips across America, as such as Lions Drag Way, US York 30 Drag Way, Smokers at Bakersfield (FAMOSO) and many many more.
There are many unique designs to suit the many different vintage drag racing classes from back in the day. Some of the classes covered include Super Stock, Pro Stock, Top Fuel Dragsters, Funny Cars, Hot Rod Gassers and Fuel Altereds.
You may also remember (or know someone that did) the Factory Hot Rods and Altered Wheelbase Wars of the early 60's from the "Big Three" auto manufacturers. The "Race on Sunday, sell on Monday" concept is where it all started, and the Factory Horse Power wars still rages on to this day.
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Working for a long long long time at this sim, for dorneyonline.com
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Steel Force Simulations Update: Progress continues 12.26.10
Recently via Twitter @themagical, there's still progress of the simulation but its been hard since under the weather of being sick and lack of free time due to work, family activities, and holiday celebrations.
We really appreciate your great patience with the team at Themagical and we are hoping to bring out the beta-ready preview.
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It's great to hear the feedback of being testers and to see how the progress that you've seen back in November of this year.
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Touristic objectives
Among others, Craiova town is considered to be also a prestigeous universitar centre, and a traditional comercial point. Out of the most important touristic objectives from Craiova, we can remind The Botanic Garden, The Art Museum, Oltenia's Museum, The Old Market and Constantin Mihail Palace. Also, in Craiova there can be found more old churches, built in an unique architectural style. Saint Old Gheorghe Church, Obedeanu Monastery, Saint Ilie Church, All Saints Church, Mantuleasca Church or Saint Nicholas Church are only a few of these.
Road connections
Craiova is connected with the other towns of the country through european roads E79, E70 si E574, but also through other national and judetene roads. The road which conncts the town to the capital has a distance which can be crossed in aproximately 3 hours, and from Craiova to Tg Jiu, you can get in two hours and a half. Also, the road that leads to Drobeta Turnu Severin is crossed in an hour and a half, while to Slatina you can get in just an hour.
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The Arduino Mega click shield is an extension for the Arduino Mega and any other boards that share the same pinout. This simple shield has three mikroBUS sockets each of which allows you to connect any of more than 150 different types of click boards to your Arduino Mega. Quickly add functionalities like GSM, GPS, WiFi, ZigBee, Bluetooth, or thunder detection, proximity and color sensing and so on. All sorts of sensors, displays, wireless transceivers, connection ports, and encoders are available.
The package includes all necessary headers, which you may solder yourself if needed.
The image below shows the shield with headers soldered on and mounted on an Arduino Mega board, for demonstration purposes.


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Description: Create it for a best friend or make it with her. Make 8 unique pieces with BFF Jewelry and personalize each with metal charms and stickers for you and your friends! Each jewelry piece includes a clear epoxy sticker for a polished look. Everything is included in the jewelry craft kit to complete 2 BFF pendants (1 for each friend) and 6 name plate bracelets. Create braided bracelets with included colored cord. Over 100 sticker designs are include initials and cool words to layer on the metal charms every jewelry piece will be unique! For ages 7+
The BFF Jewelry craft kit includes:
2 BFF pendants (2 half hearts)
6 name plates
4 charms & buttons
2 ball chain necklaces
4 sets of bracelet closures
8 jump rings
colored cord
108 stickers
8 flat epoxy stickers
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SAN FRANCISCO– For long-term job security, a career in health care is hard to beat in California.
Employment demand for technical and college-educated health workers in the state is expected to grow by 26 percent over the next seven years, compared with an overall job growth of 16 percent, according to a study released Monday.
The report is a call for action to make policy changes to increase the number of health care professionals, said Edward O Neil, professor at the Center for Health Professions at UCSF.
Some of these shortfalls are so significant in the very near future that they re likely to endanger some dimension of every Californian s health, said O Neil, who also is a founder of Health Workforce Solutions, a San Francisco consulting company that conducted the study.
A dramatic growth in the number California residents, combined with an aging population and one that is increasingly plagued by chronic diseases, means more jobs are needed in health fields such as nursing, pharmacy, medical transcription and physical therapy.
Even as a critical shortage is projected in many of these jobs nationwide, California lags behind the country in the number of health professionals in proportion to the state s population and its ability to train enough people in these fields to meet demand by 2020, according to the study.
We re the largest state in the country, we re continuing to grow really fast and our population is so diverse, said Rebecca Hargreaves, an author of the report and senior consultant with Health Workforce Solutions. This is something we can design strategies to overcome … but there are simply not enough programs and not enough slots in those programs.
The report analyzed 15 of the more than 200 health professions that require at least a certificate or two-year associate degree, along with additional requirements such as state licensing. Most professions range in annual salary from about $30,000 to more than $100,000.
California produced fewer graduates than job openings in at least three-quarters of the analyzed occupations, which included licensed clinical social workers, medical radiographers and cardiovascular technicians.
According to the report, the greatest need for current demand was for clinical laboratory scientists, followed by physical therapy assistants, dental hygienists and pharmacy technicians.
Retirement of many professionals is expected to exacerbate existing shortfalls.
Projections indicate that dental hygienists will have the largest employment growth from 2004 to 2014, the study found. Other health careers expected to grow by percentages well surpassing overall job growth include physical therapists and assistants, diagnostic medical sonographers, registered nurses and emergency medical technicians.
Occupations experiencing shortages will need an average of 47 percent more graduates to meet demand.
The biggest factor limiting the number of health care professionals is the lack of capacity in community colleges and universities, said Abdi Soltani, executive director of the Campaign for College Opportunity, an Oakland coalition of business, education and labor leaders that commissioned the study.
The frustration over training capacity was echoed by directors of health professional schools at community colleges and universities.
When people ask me what will it take to increase any of your health care programs … I always start with faculty, said Linda Squires Grohe, dean of City College of San Francisco s School of Health and Physical Education. She said it s tough to attract nursing professors when nurses fresh out of school make at least $20,000 a year more than faculty members.
City College has 539 qualified applicants for 128 spaces in its 2008 registered nursing program. At Samuel Merritt College s Oakland campus, 341 people applied for 48 spots in the school s accelerated nursing program last spring.
We have the lowest ratio of registered nurses to population in the entire 50 states, said Audrey Berman, dean of nursing at Samuel Merritt College, which also has campuses in San Francisco, San Mateo and Sacramento. As the population grew, we didn t either expand our existing programs or create new ones. People just weren t paying attention.
The report, Closing the Health Workforce Gap in California: The Health Education Imperative, was funded by Kaiser Permanente and the California Wellness Foundation, a health care foundation based in Woodland Hills Los Angeles County. To read the full report, go to links.sfgate.com/ZBME.
Online resources
The following Web sites are online resources for finding out more about community colleges or universities that offer programs in various health careers:
For more information about careers in health, go to:www.choosenursing.com


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- 1 Bed
- 2 Full Baths
Property TypeResidential – Condominium
SubdivisionLion Square North
Listing Date12/02/19
Year Built1974
Lot Size0.02 Acres (871 SqFt)
ParkingUnassigned, Underground
Property Description
Get away in style with this spacious pied-a-terre in Lionshead's top location. Rarely on the market, these one bedroom residences are among the largest in Vail and the first on the market in four years! Best location in the building with private south-facing patio, ski slope views and no highway impact. Steps to the slopes with private parking garage and elevator access for the ultimate in ease and convenience.
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- Walk to Slopes
- Ski Slopes
- South Facing
- Cross Country Trails
- Golf-Public
- Hiking/Pedestrian Trail
- On Bus Line
- On Site Management
- Pool
- Cable Available
- Deck
- Elevator
- Fireplace - Gas
- Fitness Center
- Front Desk
- On Site Management
- Pool
- See Remarks
- Spa and Hot Tub
- Cable TV
- District Sewer
- District Water
- Electricity Avail.
- Natural Gas Avail.
- Phone Available
- Snow Removal
- Trash Pickup
- Baseboard
- Electric
- Natural Gas
- Ceiling Fan
- Common
Financial Information
About Lionshead
Adjacent to Vail Village alongside Gore Creek, Lionshead - named after a rock formation atop the mountain - also offers tremendous dining and shopping in addition to convenient proximity to the Eagle Bahn Gondola. Lionshead Village has undergone major improvements over the past decade including the development of the Arrabelle - housing a luxury hotel and condominiums as well as shops and restaurants. Lionshead, with its Alpine architecture and cobblestone streets is equally as convenient to winter and summer events and activities as well as being a charming pedestrian village.
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