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nathan jackson

The History of Football is Alive and Well Online | EPL Talk - 0 views

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  • nathan jackson on 08 Dec 08
     
    I had two fascinating interviews during the past 12 hours with Peter Lupson, author of the new book entitled Thank God For Football -- and Andy Sloan, author
Jilliane Velazco

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digital online music album

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  • 51 per cent of its earnings over the past year came from digital sales.
  • falling CD sales and illegal downloading.
  • "Some fans only want to buy the physical disc, some only want to buy a ringtone and a T-shirt, others just want a concert ticket, others want to buy a digital album.
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  • worldwide sales of digital music grew by 40 per cent last year
  • CDs would continue to narrow.
  • "Record labels are continually diversifying and moving away from CDs because they know that fans have completely changed the way they are buying music.''
  • Jilliane Velazco on 08 Dec 08
     
    fans buy different things of music: physical discs, ringtones and a t-shirt, a concert ticket, or a digital album; worldwide sales of digital music grew by 40% last year
Jilliane Velazco

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  • after a devastating fall in CD sales over the past several years
  • Digital downloads are spurring growth at Universal Music and had its parent company recently crowing
  • Digital downloads are spurring growth
Sylvia A

Bats In The Desert Southwest - 0 views

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bat desert

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  • Bats are often thought of as flying mice,but they are more closely related to primates, including humans, than they are to mice.
  • the bat's body is covered by hair, with the exception of its wings.
  • Vampire bats don't suck blood. They make a small incision and lap up the blood of their hosts.
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  • A bat will eat half its weight in insects in a single night.
  • Fewer people have died from bat rabies during the past 40 years than have died from dog bites or bee stings in a single year.
  • Although the bat is not blind, its eyes are best adapted to seeing in the dark, and see in only black-and-white.
  • The thumbs of the forefoot are small, equipped with sharp claws and not connected to the membrane.
  • Bats are very shy creatures and like most wild animals, avoid contact with humans while going about their business of eating, reproducing and avoiding predators.
  • When a bat returns to its roost for its upside-down sleep, it will spend as much as 30 minutes cleaning itself before settling down to sleep.
  • Some species of bats prefer to live alone in trees.
  • Nearly all bats that live in the United States feed on insects.
  • Mating may occur two or even three times a year
  • Bats have many natural enemies and large numbers of them die while still young.
  • The most significant causes of premature bat death, however, are the activities of people.
  • Bat droppings (guano) support entire ecosystems of unique organisms, including bacteria useful in detoxifying wastes, improving detergents and producing gasohol and antibiotics.
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Bad, Terrible & Pathetic Songs - Poll - 0 views

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      SO FAR THESE ARE THE WORST SONGS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS
  • 24%  Ricky Martin - She Bangs   18%  Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby   11%  Limp Bizkit - Rollin'   10%  Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time     8%  New Kids On The Block - Hangin' Tough     8%  Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight     8%  Starship - We Built This City     7%  Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy     4%  Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's     2%  Huey Lewis - The Heart Of Rock & Roll
Janina Jose

Kids Search - powered by EBSCOhost: HAPPY NEW YEAR - 0 views

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  • Section: Festival The Lunar New Year is the most important festival of the Chinese year. It is the celebration to welcome the start of a new year and a festival of family reunion. Families who live apart come together to celebrate. Although outside the Chinese-speaking world (China, Taiwan, Singapore, and some parts of Malaysia) Chinese New Year is not a public holiday, people still celebrate with a family get-together and a special meal, either on Chinese New Year's Eve or on the first weekend after the Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is a family celebration that takes place in the home. The Chinese place particular importance on caring for the family. This is particularly true at the New Year Festival when the very young are treated specially because of their importance for the future, and the old are honored for their connection with the past. Public celebrations of Chinese New Year happen all over the world; cities with Chinese communities celebrate with Lion and Dragon Dances and parades with traditional costumes. They also welcome the new year with firecrackers. In China many places have traditional celebrations that last for several days. ~~~~~~~~By Sarah Moyse This article is copyrighted. All rights reserved.Source: Chinese New Year (0-7613-0374-X)
elizabeth murphy

Meteorites, Meteorites and Impacts - 0 views

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astronomy

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      meteorites past, present and future
Sara Espinosa

In Pictures: The 10 Biggest Cities Of 2025 - Forbes.com - 0 views

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future

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  • Tokyo, Japan Current Population: 35.2 million Projected 2025 Population: 36.4 million Annual Growth Rate 2007 to 2025: 0.11%
  • Tokyo is a major global financial center. Its rail system, the largest in the world, is clean and efficient.
  • Tokyo's water and electricity capacity is in fine shape for a growing population, experts say
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  • but industrial and household waste removal is a growing concern. Per
  • capita tonnage has doubled in the past 20 years, and finding urban space to build more processing plants has been a challenge.
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    future
Christina T

Japan - THE ARTS - 0 views

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japanese art

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  • The introduction of Western cultural values, which had flooded Japan by the late nineteenth century, led to a dichotomy between traditional values and attempts to duplicate and assimilate a variety of clashing new ideas
  • Japanese aesthetics provide a key to understanding artistic works perceivably different from those coming from Western traditions.
  • Within the East Asian artistic tradition, China has been the acknowledged teacher and Japan the devoted student.
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  • Japanese painters used the devices of the cutoff, close-up, and fade-out by the twelfth century in yamato-e, or Japanese-style, scroll painting, perhaps one reason why modern filmmaking has been such a natural and successful art form in Japan.
  • The calligrapher--a member of the Confucian literati class, or samurai--had a higher status, while artists of great genius were often recognized in the medieval period by receiving a name from a feudal lord and thus rising socially.
  • Artists divided into two main camps, those continuing in traditional Japanese style and those who wholeheartedly studied the new Western culture.
  • After World War II, many artists began working in art forms derivied from the international scene, moving away from local artistic developments into the mainstream of world art.
  • Two terms originating from Zen Buddhist meditative practices describe degrees of tranquillity: one, the repose found in humble melancholy (wabi), the other, the serenity accompanying the enjoyment of subdued beauty (sabi).
  • The Cultural Affairs Division is concerned with such areas as art and culture promotion, arts copyrights, and improvements in the national language.
  • A new generation of the avant-garde has broken with this tradition, often receiving its training in the West. In the traditional arts, however, the master-pupil system preserves the secrets and skills of the past.
  • Another seminal center is Tama Arts University in Tokyo, which produced many of Japan's late twentieth- century innovative young artists
  • In 1989 the fifth woman ever to be so distinguished was cited for Japanese-style painting, while for the first time two women--a writer and a costume designer--were nominated for the Order of Cultural Merit, another official honor carrying the same stipend.
  • The Cultural Properties Protection Division originally was established to oversee restorations after World War II.
  • During the 1980s, many important prehistoric and historic sites were investigated by the archaeological institutes that the agency funded, resulting in about 2,000 excavations in 1989.
  • A 1975 amendment to the Cultural Properties Protection Act of 1897 enabled the Agency for Cultural Affairs to designate traditional areas and buildings in urban centers for preservation.
  • Individual artists and groups, such as a dance troupe or a pottery village, are designated as mukei bunkazai (intangible cultural assets) in recognition of their skill.
  • A growing number of large corporations join major newspapers in sponsoring exhibitions and performances and in giving yearly prizes.
  • A number of foundations promoting the arts arose in the 1980s, including the Cultural Properties Foundation set up to preserve historic sites overseas, especially along the Silk Route in Inner Asia and at Dunhuang in China.
  • After World War II, artists typically gathered in arts associations, some of which were long-established professional societies while others reflected the latest arts movement.
  • By the 1980s, however, avant-garde painters and sculptors had eschewed all groups and were "unattached" artists.
Carlen Hodgson

Summer Workouts For Perimeter Players - Basketball Coaching - 0 views

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  • If you’re serious about coaching basketball, you need to develop an off-season workout for your players.
  • t is vital to your team’s success that your players come into the season fit.  Before the AAU or summer leagues start, you should meet with your players individually and evaluate their play during the past season. At this time you should also give your player a written list of things they need to concentrate on during their off-season workouts.
Kate L

Alternative Fuel Sources - Cheaper And Eco-Friendly - 0 views

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energy alternative eco-friendly

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  • The conventional and traditional fuel sources are becoming more and more expensive to extract and their indiscriminate use in the past century has resulted in their depletion.
  • natural fuel sources will reach critically low levels and precipitate a crisis much earlier than we think.
  • promising discoveries
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  • mankind would have perfected and commercialized alternate sources of fuel that will be eco- friendly and affordable too.
  • Bio-diesel is one such alternate fuel source that is extracted from plants.
  • E 85, bio-diesel
  • Its contents of 15% gasoline and 85% ethanol mean that it is at least better than using pure gasoline.
  • uch alternate fuel sources like E 85 score above gasoline, they still pollute and require a vast amount of corn to be grown
  • translates into availability of lesser land for growing food for people.
  • electric cars seem to be the best alternate fuel source that we have
  • conserve our natural fuel sources.
  • efficient because all of the electricity that they need can be generated at one central location.
  • much better option than consuming petroleum derivatives and polluting more by using small and inefficient combustion motors.
  • Electricity
  • produced in any manner that suits the needs on a particular location depending on the resources it has
  • coal, hydro-electric or wind to produce this electricity that is required for electric cars.
  • Kate L on 01 Dec 08
     
    alternative fuel sources
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