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Nandi people
|Total population
|(949,000 (2009)[1])
|Regions with significant populations
|Christianity, African Traditional Religion
|Related ethnic groups
|Kalenjin and other Nilotes
The Nandi are part of the Kalenjin ethnic group found in East Africa. They traditionally have lived and still form the majority in the highland areas of the Nandi Hills in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya. They speak the Kalenjin language.
- 1 History
- 2 Social Organization
- 3 Religion
- 4 Culture
- 5 See also
- 6 References
- 7 Bibliography
- 8 External links
Main Article: Kalenjin History
According to the Kalenjin narrative of origin, the Nandi section was formed from the separation of what had been a combined group of Kipsigis and Nandi. They had been living at Rongai near Nakuru as a united group for a century before they were forced to separate due to antagonistic environmental factors, notably droughts and invasion of the Maasai from Uasin Gishu.[2] The Kipsigis moved southwards, settling around Kericho while the Nandi moved west and settled at Aldai.[3]
The traditional Nandi account is that the first settlers in their country came from Elgon, and formed the Kipoiis clan; a name that possibly means 'the spirits'.[4] They were led by a man named Kakipoch, founder of the Nandi section of the Kalenjin.[5] They are said to have settled in the emet (county) of Aldai in south-western Nandi. Kakipoch's people were later joined by a few Kipsikis, who were then followed by people from the other Kalenjin branches.
One of the earliest districts (bororiet) was named after Kakipoch. The site of his grave is still shown on Chepilat hill in Aldai, and is marked by the stump of an ancient olive tree. The account of his burial is that his body was laid on ox-hide, together with his possessions, and left for the hyenas. [6]
Social Organization[edit]
Political Institutions[edit]
Main Article: Traditional Kalenjin society: Geographic Extent and Divisions
The traditional system of social organisation was broadly similar to that of other Kalenjin. [7] The Nandi territory was divided into six counties known as emet (pl. emotinwek). These were Wareng, located to the north, Mosop in the East, Soiin & Pelkut in the South, Aldai & Chesumei in the west and Emgwen in the center.[8]
The emotinwek were divided into districts known as bororiet (pl. borororisiek) and these were divided into villages known as kokwet (pl. kokotinwek). The Nandi administrative system was unique among the Kalenjin in having the bororiosiek administrative layer.[9]
Within the wider Kalenjin administrative system, the Kokwet was the most significant political and judicial unit in terms of day to day issues. The kokwet elders were the local authority for allocating land for cultivation, they were also the body to whom the ordinary member of the tribe would look for a decision in a dispute or problem which defied solution by direct agreement between the parties. Membership of the kokwet council was acquired by seniority and personality and within it decisions were taken by a small number of elders whose authority derived from their natural powers of leadership.[10][11]
Among the Nandi however, the Bororiet was the most significant institution and the political system revolved around it.[12]
The Nandi Bororiet[edit]
People of the same oreet were not necessarily restricted to one bororiet, people could and still change bororiet, due to migration, without necessarily changing their oreet. However, some families were advised, perhaps to avoid recurrent catastrophes, not to live in certain bororiet. For example, if one's family lived in one bororiet but was haunted by repetitive deaths that pointed to a curse, a ceremony reminiscent of 'Kap Kiyai' was performed to allow the family to change their bororiet by 'crossing a river' in the context of 'ma yaitoos miat aino' which literally means that death does not cross a river (body of water). This elaborate ceremony was called 'raret' (rar means trim or cut off). A family with a name Kirorei probably indicates a case of bororiet change which came about as a result of 'rareet' (chopping off). A case in point is the long-standing banning of Kap Matelong (and all Kipkenda?) from inhabiting Chesumei which is populated by the relatively obscure but conservative borioriosiek of Cheptol, Kapno and Tibingot.
Nandi major bororiosiek[edit]
- Kap Chepkendi
- Chebolool
- Sigilaiyekab arap Kerebei
- Chebiriir Katuut
- Muruto (Kap lolo)
- Kap Meliilo (mi kericheek ma, gotab ndasimiet)
- Kap Taalam (Che loklokianu ak gariik, che bo ma ki kiop ko somok, che bo arap Kuna)
- Kabooch
- Cheboing'ong ak lelwek
- Kosach nyiim kot koles
- Kaptumoiis
Nandi minor bororiosiek[edit]
- Koilegei (che ki sal Tabolwa, Che bo arap Manyinya)
- Kabianga
- Kapsile
- Kapno
- Cheptol
- Tibingot (Tebee ng'ot?)
- Murkaptuk
- Kap Siodoi
Clans (Oreet)[edit]
The Nandi account of the formation of their 17 clans is that four came from the Elgon and Lumbwa groups, viz. the Kipoiis, Kipamwi, Kipkenda and Kipiegen; one wholly from Elgon, the Kipkokos; five from the Elgon and Elgeyo groups, the Kipsirgoi, Moi, Sokom, Kiptopkei and Kamwaikei; four from the Lumbwa branch alone, the Tungo, Kipaa, Kipasiso and Kapchemuri or Chemur; and the commonly, but wrongly, called Elgoni. The plur. of this word in the Kony dialect is 't-Kony (a Masai form, where 'l=il, not el.) the remaining three from the Lo-'sekelae Masai, viz., Kipkoiitim I'partly also from Elgon), Talai, the medicine-men's clan, (partly also from Kamasya) and Toiyoi.[13]
The Nandi peoples have totems or oreet each identified by an 'animal' or tiondo, which no clan member could eat. The identification by Oreet helped prevent inbreeding since marriage within Oreet was largely not permitted. More details are published at Matelong Family Web. Clan symbols (tiondo) range from birds, wild animals, frog and snake to bees. Although the sun is not an animal, 'she' has oreet and is called 'tiondo' in the same sense as a lion. It is claimed that Kong'ony (crested crane) was the first animal allocated a family. Hence Moi (Kong'ony) is regarded as the 'leader' and in child stories this is shown as the source of babies in a family. The jackal (Kimageet, oreet of Tungo, korap oor) is claimed to have been the last tiondo to be allocated and comes along with several rules of favour (ostensibly to hide the fact that it was the last). Hence, even though the Nandi claim 'Cheptaab oreet age ne wendi oreet age' literally 'a daughter from one clan goes to another clan and belongs in the new clan', to mean a woman has no clan, the Tungo girls are permitted to retain their clan identity.
- Kipkenda Maimi
- Segemiat (bee)
- Kiboiis
- Lelwoot
- Solopchoot (coackroach)
- Mooi
- Kong'oony (Crested Crane)
- Soeet (Buffalo)
- Kergeng, Cheptirkiichet (Dik-dik)
- Kipkamoriet
- Kogos, Chepkogosiot (Eagle)
- Kipsirgoi
- Toreet (palee kut ak kutung')
- Kipamui
- Kergeng (Antelope)
- Sogoom
- Chepsirereet (Eagle)
- Talai
- Ng'etuny, Lion (Kuutwo, Talai Orkoi)
- Ng'etuny, Lion (Talai Nandi)
- Kipoongoi (che kwees tibiik)
- Taiyweet
- Kibiegen (kap rat setio let)
- Moseet (Monkey)
- Muriat (rat)
- Kipaa (koros)
- Ndareet (Snake)
- Tisiet (Baboon)
- Toiyoi (moriso)
- Ropta (rain)
- Birechik (Safari Ants)
- Kap Oiit
- Beliot, kiramkeel koe mooi (Elephant)
- Kipleng'wet (rabbit)
- Kipasiiso (Kap koluu)
- Asista (Sun)
- Kuchwa
- Mororochet (frog)
- Tungo (korap oor)
- Kimageetiet (Hyena)
- Kiptabkei
- Chereret (vervet monkey)
Social Institutions[edit]
Age-set (Ibinda)[edit]
The Nandi traditionally practiced circumcision of both sexes, although female circumcision was abandoned as a rite of initiation into adulthood. Boys' circumcision festivals took place about every seven and a half years, and boys circumcised at the same time are considered to belong to the same age set; like other Nilotic groups, these age sets (called ibinda, pl. ibinweek) were given names from a limited fixed cycle. Each age set is further subdivided into a subset (siritieet, pl. siritoiik). About four years after this festival, the previous generation officially handed over defense of the country to the newly circumcised youths. Girls' circumcision, took place in preparation for marriage.
The Nandi social organisation centres around the age-set, or ibinda. There are seven age-sets (ibinwek) which are rotational, meaning at the end of one ageset new members of that generation are born. The order is roughly as given below. Among the other Kalenjin peoples, an age-set called Korongoro exists. However, among the Nandi, this ageset is extinct. Legend has it that the members of this ibinda were wiped out in war. For fear of a recurrence, the community decided to retire the age-set. Ibinda was given out at initiation and by simple arrangements, there ought to be one ibinda between a father and a son. For example, a Maina cannot beget a Chumo. The Nandi don't consider a woman to have an ageset, hence she can marry any ageset except that in which her father belongs. The Nandi say "ma tinyei ibin gorgo" which means a woman has no ageset.
- Maina
- Chumo
- Sawe
- Kipkoimet
- Korongoro (not in Nandi)
- Kaplelach
- Kipnyigei
- Nyongi
Age sub-set (siritiet)[edit]
In each age-set, the initiates were bundled into siritiet or what can be understood as a 'team'. There are four 'teams' or siritoik in an age-set (ibinda) namely:
- Chongin
- Kiptaito
- Tetagaat (literally cow's neck)
- Kiptaruiyeek - Kiptoiinik (literally young calves)
Like other Kalenjin, the Nandi traditionally worshipped a supreme deity, Asis (literally "Sun"), as well as venerating the spirits of ancestors. Their land is divided into six "counties" (emet): Wareng in the north, Mosop in the east, Soiin/Pelkut in the south, Aldai and Chesumei in the west, and Em-gwen in the center. The Orkoiyot, or medicine man, was traditionally acknowledged as an overall leader. The Orgoiyot led not only in spiritual matters but also during wars, as evidenced during the war between the British colonials building the railway and the Nandi warriors. The leader at that time was Koitalel Arap Samoei who was killed by Richard Meinertzhagen, a British soldier. In pre-colonial times, they also enjoyed a fearsome reputation as fighters; Arab slave-traders and ivory-traders took care to avoid the area, and the few that dared attempt to traverse it were killed.
The Nandi have also produced great scientists and academics like Dr.rer.nat.habil. Dr Seronei arap Chelulei Cheison (Matelong), a top protein chemist at Mars Inc, Prof. David Kimutai Some of Moi University, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Paul Ndalut(deceased) of Chemistry and Biochemistry department at Moi University, Dr Fredrick Sawe(Director Walterreed, Owner-Nursing home Kericho), Dr Saisi Mayo(Dean College of Engineering, Moi University), Dr Noah Kiptoo Tenai (a distinguished Researcher of note, based in Cape Town, South Africa), Dr Cosmas Kipkurgat Ronno of department of Education Science University of Eldoret and Prof. Chelagat Lelei and Prof. Isaack Kosgey, the Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture at Egerton University among others. Prof Mengich(Moi Referral Hospital) Dr Cheruiyot S Lagat of Masinde Muliro University, Dr. Felix K Ngetich, Agriculturalist, Kenyatta University, Dr. John R. Busienei, Ph.D (Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi). Among the leading lawyers from the community are Lawyer Paul Birech of Eldoret, Lawyer Paul Lilan of Nairobi, Lawyer Julius Kipkosgey Kemboy of Nairobi and retired judge Barabara Tanui, Dr. John Rugutt,Statistic,Faculty of Education, Illinois State University, USA. Among the leading medics from Nandi are Dr.med. Elly Kibet Cherwon of Heidelberg, Germany. Elly also deputises the head of the hospital. Dr Vincent Komugor Kiprotich (Makerere university) There is also Dr. Kirongo (Psychiatrist Moi Referral Hospital),Dr Geoffrey Kiprotich Yebei Ngeny MD (Geriatric Medicine-Internal Medicine) of Pittsburg University, Dr Mark Kiplagat Rotich (Internal Medicine, Geriatrics medicine and Emergency Medicine) of Marion Illinois. Dr Andrew Kibet Cheruiyot (Consultant Trauma KNH), Dr Franklin Rono,Dr Eliud Kireger, Managing Director, Tea Research Foundation of Kenya and former Dean School of Natural Resource and Environmental Management, Kabianga University.Dr slyvester Kimaiyo ( MTHRH). Dr Lawrence Tanui
Like other Kalenjin, the Nandi have produced a number of notable Kenyan athletes. These include great distance athletes like the legendary Kipchoge Keino (Kip Keino), a gold medalist at Mexico (1968) and Munich (1972) Olympic games and Prof. Mike Boit, a Bronze medalist at Munich 1972 Olympics. Others include Peter Koech, Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat who represents the USA and Wilson Kipketer who ran for his adopted home of Denmark. Current world beating athletes like Pamela Jelimo, Richard Mateelong, Wilfred Bungei, Janeth Chepkosgei and Super Henry Rono, United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Peter Rono, Tecla Chemabwai, Kenya Paralympian Henry Kirwa among others are Nandi. The father of Kenyan Steeplechasers Amos Kipwambok Biwott comes from the community.
The Nandi people have had remarkable political figures like Jean-Marie Seroney, the first MP for Nandi and Tindiret, Henry Kosgey, Kimayo arap Sego, Joseph arap Leting who first served as Head of public service then MP. Samwel Ngeny, Kipruto Kirwa, Stanley Metto and Ezekiel Barng'etuny, Dr Joseph Misoy and William Morogo Saina. Philomena Chelagat Mutai cut her teeth as a university student in the 1970s and remains one of the most celebrated of Nandi female political leaders.Gerald Nathaniel Kalya who was the first and long serving Mosop mp,Tamason Barmalel who was chepalungu MP, Dr Sally Kosgei former mp Aldai. William Samoei Ruto who is currently the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya.
Female-female marriages within the Nandi culture have been reported,[14] although it is unclear if they are still practiced, and only about three percent of Nandi marriages are female-female. Female-female marriages are a socially-approved way for a woman to take over the social and economic roles of a husband and father. They were allowed only in cases where a woman either had no children of her own, had daughters only (one of them could be "retained" at home) or her daughter(s) had married off. The system was practiced "to keep the fire"—in other words, to sustain the family lineage, or patriline, and was a way to work around the problem of infertility or a lack of male heirs. A woman who married another woman for this purpose had to undergo an "inversion" ceremony to "change" into a man. This biological woman, now socially male, became a "husband" to a younger female and a "father" to the younger woman's children, and had to provide a bride price to her wife's family. She was expected to renounce her female duties (such as housework), and take on the obligations of a husband; additionally, she was allowed the social privileges accorded to men, such as attending the private male circumcision ceremonies. No sexual relations were permitted between the female husband and her new wife (nor between the female husband and her old husband); rather, the female husband chose a male consort for the new wife so she will be able to bear children. The wife's children considered the female husband to be their father, not the biological father, because she (or "he") was the socially designated father.
See also[edit]
- ^ Ethnologue
- ^ Chesaina, C. Oral Literature of the Kalenjin. Heinmann Kenya Ltd, 1991, p. 1
- ^ Chesaina, C. Oral Literature of the Kalenjin. Heinmann Kenya Ltd, 1991, p. 30
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_102057_remarksuponthehistoryofthenand1927/No._28_3_1927_Huntingford_djvu.txt
- ^ https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=6tBL39ExqCIC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=kakipoch+nandi&source=bl&ots=-r8viAHCiV&sig=IzV7ig_eACYjnsrftSUDFpDrzXU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3PtFVeXvE8Xy7AadiIG4DQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=kakipoch%20nandi&f=false
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_102057_remarksuponthehistoryofthenand1927/No._28_3_1927_Huntingford_djvu.txt
- ^ Snell, G.S, Nandi Customary Law, (Kenya Literature Bureau: 1954), p.10
- ^ https://officeofthegovernor.wordpress.com/all-about-nandi-county/
- ^ Hollis A.C, The Nandi - Their Language and Folklore. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1909, p. 4
- ^ Snell, G.S, Nandi Customary Law, (Kenya Literature Bureau: 1954), p.10 - 11
- ^ Kipkorir B.E, The Marakwet of Kenya: A preliminary study. East Africa Literature Bureau, 1973, p. 5
- ^ https://officeofthegovernor.wordpress.com/all-about-nandi-county/
- ^ https://archive.org/stream/cbarchive_102057_remarksuponthehistoryofthenand1927/No._28_3_1927_Huntingford_djvu.txt
- ^ Oboler, Regine Smith (Jan 1980). "Is the Female Husband a Man? Woman/Woman Marriage among the Nandi of Kenya". Ethnology 19 (1): 69–88. doi:10.2307/3773320. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
- A. C. Hollis. The Nandi: Their Language and Folklore. Clarendon Press: Oxford 1909.
- Ember and Ember. Cultural Anthropology. Pearson Prentice Hall Press: New Jersey 2007.


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By the end of 2009, there will have been a 50% drop in the levelized cost–i.e. the lifetime cost per kWh before subsidies–of solar power, and a 10% reduction in the levelized cost of other sources of renewable energy sectors compared to the end of 2008. This prediction is a result of detailed quarterly research by New Energy Finance.
"So far this year, the steady decline in the cost of equipment in sectors like solar and wind has been largely offset by the increasing costs of financing," said Michael Liebreich, chairman and CEO of New Energy Finance. "By the end of this year, however, as capital markets loosen up and equipment prices continue their decline, we will see the levelized costs decline, finishing the year 10% below the end of last year across the board and far more than that in solar."
So begins a Monday news release from New Energy Finance, whose "global network of 125 analysts" provides "industry information and analysis to investors, corporations and governments in clean energy." I had reported a similar prediction back in August (see "Solar panels drop sharply in price"). Looks like solar PV is going to become competitive sooner than expected. Guess we won't need that massive government program to generate breakthroughs to make solar energy cost-competitive after all.
Here's the rest of the release:
Solar: Photovoltaic (PV) module prices across the board have continued their downward trend, although the rate of decline has tapered. Thin-film remains the low-cost leader in solar with projects as cheap as $3/W, making thin-film projects 25% less expensive than crystalline silicon systems on a levelized basis. PV projects with tracking systems have seen the least reduction in costs due to the fact that costs for single- and double-axis trackers have remained buoyant relative to panel prices.
Wind: Although new transactions have been few, turbine prices have fallen to their lowest levels in several years at 18-20% below early 2008 levels. To date, this drop in equipment prices has mostly been offset by higher costs of financing. In the offshore market, costs continue to rise with projects moving into deeper waters, facing increasingly complex construction and capital costs. As capital markets begin to recover, both onshore and offshore projects should begin to see falling levelized costs.
Geothermal: Levelized geothermal costs are particularly sensitive to fluctuations in capital markets and drilling stage debt and equity has been in scarce supply through this year. Drilling costs fell by nearly 50% as drilling rigs flew into excess with a falling oil price, but these have recovered in the last quarter in step with oil. In the past quarter levelized costs have risen by 8-10% but should remain flat at year end.
I expect to see the same price drops in concentrated solar thermal electric power aka "The technology that will save humanity" aka baseload solar aka solar power when the sun goes down once a few GW are installed.
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8 Responses to New Energy Finance: Solar power 50% cheaper by year end, other clean energy sources drop 10%
Dear Joe,
This is very good news – distributed roof top solar has to be the long term solution iff the costs can be dragged down far enough.
At the utility level concentrated solar thermal, geothermal and hot rocks are the most hopeful.
Concentrated solar thermal is not only baseload solar. It is even better because it is dispatchable solar. Dispatchable, not base load, is the creme de la creme.
Kind regards.
Roughly a decade ago, Resources for the Future did a review of previous cost projections for renewables in order to determine why renewables had not displaced oil, coal, etc. The conclusion was that renewables had actually met the prior forecasts for declining prices, but prices for oil and coal had dropped as well.
Without government action (e.g., cap-and-trade or a GHG-tax to put a price on GHGs or a renewable portfolio standard), this same sequence is likely to retard renewables in the future. The fact is that coal and oil are cheap to produce and burn and the necessary infrastructure exists for both. They are made cheaper by the direct and indirect subsidies they receive and the fact that their prices do not compensate for the health and environmental damages they do. Any time demand is reduced by renewables, efficiency or a weak economy, the prices for oil and coal will fall until market share is regenerated. Further, massive investments in innovative ways to produce oil and coal at lower costs are made every year by those industries, often with government support (e.g., "clean coal" funding).
Thus, we should be glad that renewables are getting cheaper, but without government actions to restrain use of coal and oil, those dirty fuels will continue to pollute the planet at unacceptable levels. The market alone will not solve this issue. Without government action, we're toast.
When is this going to feed through to domestic scale installations though? There seems to be little sign of price drops over here in the UK even though people have been talking about significant drops in the wider market for a while now…
Hopefully the feed in tariff will kick the market into action.
@Scatter: Price drops are clearly substantial in those countries where installation of domestic solar installations is common practice. For example, domestic installation prices in Germany have dropped by 26% since last year: http://www.solarwirtschaft.de/preisindex.
FYI: A very good source for PV module prices, you can find here: http://www.pvxchange.com/en/index.php/preisindex_3.html
Prices are in euro and the language is German, but the diagrams should be clear to everyone.
One of the things that was keeping silicon PV prices high was a shortage of purified silicon. This is clearing up so we are beginning to see some of the benefits of scale in manufacturing as well as methods that use less raw materials. Thin film though has been a spectacular story and the US leads there. PV has further to fall and will cost less that concentrated solar thermal power in the long run.
This is very encouraging for all house owners who wish to go green. Solar and wind power is in fact getting cheaper but all the paper work and procedures necessary to go off-grid or at least partially still represent a major slowdown for green energy development. I've even heard that in some EU countries you have to be on a waiting list for months for your solar and wind power system to be approved. Too bad.
Although solar and wind are becoming cheaper we still fail to use the energy we produce.
energthroughmotion increases the outpt of any power generating dive by up to two thirds
I work with Sharp and Solar Panel Costs have come down a lot. It is a wonderful time to start thinking about changing your energy supply to solar. Added incentives right now include tax credits offered by the government and rebate offers from public utility companies.


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By the power vested in late night television, Jimmy Kimmel pronounced Matt Damon and wife, Luciana, husband and wife for a second time over the weekend.
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host, 45, officiated the sunset ceremony on Saturday in St. Lucia as Matt and Luciana renewed their vows 10 years after their first meeting, PEOPLE has learned.
The couple confirmed their commitment to each other in front of 50 guests, including their four daughters, Kimmel's fiancé Molly McNearney, actors Ben Affleck, his wife Jennifer Garner, Casey Affleck and Don Cheadle.
The source adds that with 85 degree weather and blue skies, "It was a beautiful and relaxing weekend for guests. Matt and Luci went all out. Guests were flown in to the tropical island via private jets and were treated like royalty. Everyone enjoyed the sun and water activities, including snorkeling and paddle boarding. Guests were also treated to local, gourmet food and drinks."
And just a day after the ceremony, the couple was spotted strolling on the beach.
"Matt and Luci seemed to enjoy a quiet moment together. They strolled on the beach hand-in-hand and looked like newlyweds. They were smiling and looked very happy together," says the source.


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WHITE DEER - Steven Dean McClendon, 49, died Monday, Nov. 12, 2001, in Pampa.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in White Deer United Methodist Church with the Rev. Toni Bailey, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in White Deer Cemetery by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors.
Mr. McClendon married Jody Parsley on July 6, 1974. He was part owner and president of Parsley's Roofing Co.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Darla Dawn Gaines and Rhonda McClendon, both of Canyon; two brothers, Darrell McClendon of Mangum, Okla., and Roy Lyn McClendon of Leedey, Okla.; and a sister, Patsy Tharp of Mangum.
The family suggests memorials be to United Methodist Church, 101 W. Eighth St., White Deer, TX 79097.
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Azealia Banks unveils studio version of 'ATM Jam' featuring Pharrell Williams - listen
'212' rapper originally performed the new song at Glastonbury
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Azealia Banks has premiered the full studio version of 'ATM Jam', which features Pharrell Williams.
She originally debuted the track during her Glastonbury performance on Saturday (June 29). The track is the second to be taken from Bank's delayed debut album 'Broke With Expensive Taste' which was originally due out in 2012. Announcing the news on Twitter, she wrote: "Single #2 is called "ATM JAM" and it's featuring ?@Pharrell ! !"
In May of this year, the rapper unveiled the intense video for her new single 'Yung Rapunxel'. The promo, which was directed by Jam Sutton, features owls, mouths for eyes, riot police and a mechanical bull – watch it below.
Earlier this year, Banks wished death upon The Stone Roses, claiming they deliberately sabotaged her set at the Future Music Festival in Australia. Both acts were on the bill and Banks claimed the Manchester band loudly soundchecked behind her stage as an act of revenge for a friend. "Big apologies on behalf of the stone roses to my fans at the festival today," she wrote on Twitter. "My ex tour manager made a pact with the stone roses saying they'd sabotage my set because I fired him and they decided to check their equipment behind me during my set."
She then fired off a series of angry messages aimed at the band, including one which read: "Fuck those old saggy white niggas stone roses. I wish them nothing but excrement and death."


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Bucs fans will provide atmosphere that Arrieta won't mind
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There's a gameplan to beating Arrieta
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Melancon spends season erasing all doubt
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Innovation for all sizes
Forsyth County News Wins 2016 Mega-Innovation Award
The Forsyth County News (Cumming, Ga.) was the recipient of the Mega-Innovation Award presented Wednesday at the Key Executives Mega-Conference.
Finalists were:
Forsyth County News Publisher Vince Johnson says that when he came to the paper a couple of years ago, it had a rule about social media. Only one article was posted to Facebook each day, at 6 a.m.
In his entry form for the Mega-Innovation competition, Johnson noted that rule officially died on Jan. 20, 2014. Since then, the paper has increased its social media following by more than 1,000 percent.
That's just one example of how the Forsyth County News, described by Johnson as "wildly traditional" not so long ago, has changed.
The 100-year-old three-day-a-week newspaper is based in Cumming, Ga., north of Atlanta. The county is fairly affluent and its residents are attuned to new ways of communicating and receiving information, Johnson said.
|Vince Johnson, publisher of the Forsyth County News, and Carol Hudler, Mega-Conference program coordinator.
"I feel like in this competition we certainly represent the small- and medium-sized newspapers and how you can innovate in an area and a place where you don't have tons of resources, and you're not a huge corporation or anything like that," he said.
"There are about 15 of us that run around here and try to do as much cool stuff as we can do and figure out a way to make money off of it."
About half the staff turned over in the first year, with some layoffs and new job descriptions, Johnson said, but these days morale is higher than it's ever been. The FCN emphasizes cross-training of staff and teamwork between the editorial and advertising sides.
"We needed to change the momentum quickly, and we did. We have," Johnson said.
Among the changes are:
* Studio Forsyth, the video component of the website with sponsored local shows, commercials, stories and event coverage.
* The Best of Forsyth contest, which drew 70,000 votes in its first year and 140,000 in the second, and offers aggressive print and digital sales packages for advertisers. The FCN uses Second Street's platform for contests and sweepstakes, and Best of Forsyth won "Best Metro Ballot" in the 2016 Second Street Awards.
* Own the Day, exclusive advertising space offered daily at a premium rate. It includes a full-page print ad as well as prime space on the website and top space on the paper's Top Stories email.
* The Grind, a player-of-the-week platform for print, digital video and social media that is aimed at engaging high school students.
* A modified new subscriber and retention program that includes substantial rate increases, that Johnson said have been accepted with little protest.
What Johnson calls the FCN's audience has doubled and tripled in the last two years. "We push our stories out a lot more. While in the past they might have sat statically on our website, now we're sending out multiple emails daily to different groups, and we're putting it on Facebook, and tagging different groups to Twitter. It's just a more proactive way to push content, which is the way the world works today."
News media companies must find the best ways to communicate and be sustainable financially, Johnson said.
"I think the message we can send is that anybody can innovate. Anybody can do great things, and find products and people that connect with other people and that build a great business. And it doesn't necessarily have to look like a newspaper looked a century ago or a decade ago.
"More people care about information and more people are consuming information in today's world than ever before. And it's just up to us to be a part of that growth."
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For Community Information, see Norwich on JCR-UK. Norwich Synagogue, 3 Earlham Road Norwich NR2 3RA
Jewish Encyclopedia. Jewish history. [Mar 2013]
"British Jews to bury medieval massacre victims." Jerusalem Post. 03/19/2013. Remains of seventeen bodies discovered at bottom of well in Norwich in 2004 given a Jewish burial; evidence points to violent deaths. BBC 2011 article. [Mar 2013]
Cemetery history: The Hebrew Congregation Cemetery adjoining Talbot Square is the earliest surviving Jewish cemetery in Norwich at northern city center. Located in the Church of England parish of St Martin at Oak, the construction of the Inner Ring Road in the late 1960s effectively cut off the Jewish cemetery from St Martin's so it fits within the St Augustine's area. In 1813, Norwich's small Hebrew Congregation leased a small plot of land in the Gildencroft for a cemetery, the second known Jewish cemetery in the city, succeeding a now lost burial ground in Mariner's Lane, a hillside road off Ber Street to the south of the city center. The Gildencroft plot was acquired in the names of four local Jews: Barnett Crawcour (a Norwich dentist), Henry Carr (a Norwich merchant), Israel Jacobs (a Norwich optician), and Colman Michael (a merchant from the market town of Wymondham in Norfolk). Then, no road or track to the plot was wide enough for a cart or hearse, so coffins had to be carried on the shoulders of pall-bearers down a narrow path from St Martin's Lane. Later this path, known as Quaker Lane because it leads to the Quaker Meeting House and Burial Ground in the Gildencroft, was widened to allow wheeled biers access to the grave side. Probably, bout thirty interments in this cemetery were made during the forty-year period of its use. Interments in the Gildencroft plot ceased in 1854 when a new Burial Act forbad burials in churchyards and cemeteries within the City walls. A new Jewish cemetery was opened in the City Cemetery off Bowthorpe Road in 1856. Although no longer used for interments, a local man employed by the Hebrew Congregation was gardener and caretaker until the 1940s. Now overgrown, it contains the graves of 19th-century Norwich Jewish community's leadiers including Barnett Crawcour, the dentist, who died aged 50 in 5595 (1835 CE), Simon Aaron, a jeweller of Elm Hill, and Lyon Mordecai, also known as Judah Lieb Ben Mordecai, a licensed kosher butcher, who died aged 60 in 5604 (1844 CE)/'.[Mar 2013]
Henry Levine, The Norwich Hebrew Congregation 1840-1960: A Short History. (Published 1961. The Millennium Library's Local Studies Centre at the Forum in Norwich has a copy as rare book) .[Mar 2013]
A Jewish Cemetery in Norwich, not far from the ancient synagogue, was in use from some time after 1177 until 1290.The following is the text of a letter to the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle, published on April 22, 1842: .[Mar 2013]
"As an Israelite, I deem it my duty to call your attention to a subject, as I trust by giving publicity to it in your valuable paper, it may be the means of accomplishing the object I have in view. I do not know whether you are aware that in Norwich there are two burial grounds belonging to the Jewish nation, one is the property of the congregation; the other situated in Mariners' Lane is a very ancient one, and was granted by the corporation of the said city, about a century and a half ago to Mr. Solomon Levy and his heir, upon payment of ten shillings per annum to the said body. It appears that the last of the family interred there, was a Mr. Lion Levy, and that was about sixteen years ago. The annual quit rent, small as it is, has been neglected by the family - the ground has been recently let to a gardener, who has already taken down several grave-stones and made steps of them for his door. My reason for making this appeal, is merely to state, that if the ground is not shortly reclaimed (the payment would not amount to more than ten pounds), the bodies, at least eight hundred in number, will be disinterred. I dare say your readers are not aware that this place was the burial ground, until within the last half century, for all the Eastern counties, and I consider that its desecration would reflect a lasting disgrace upon our nation; I trust that this may meet the eye, not alone of some of the descendants of the possessor, but of the leading men of our community in the metropolis. I am, Yours respectfully, A.A. Levy, 29, Red Lion Square, Spitalfields." [no email. date?]
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prevent interior fogging of the windshield
Posted 06 March 2011 - 11:07 PM
Finally ran the racecar at in the rain at Infineon today and the inside of the windshield completely fogged up in 1 lap and after 2 laps I could hardly see the car in front of me. I made a "rag on a stick" but that didn't help much (not to mention it's rather distracting). Got a wopping 4 laps in. Awesome.
How do people handle this? Anti-fog coatings? Little fans that blow air across the windshield?
How do people handle this? Anti-fog coatings? Little fans that blow air across the windshield?
Posted 07 March 2011 - 12:25 AM
there's some anti-fog solution that you can "clean" your wind shield with. Also, i'm assuming you ran with your windows down, right? I've never had problems with fog on the wind shield in the rain while the windows are down. It's when I put them up that I have problems. In any case, your best solution would be to run the defogger (fan only if you still have it - since i'm assuming the AC compressor etc. etc. has been removed) and/or coating the inside of your wind shield with anti-fog (kind of like rain-x, except for the interior and designed for fog).
Posted 07 March 2011 - 02:35 AM
i think you can make a window heater kit, it's just a metal strips on glass heated.
Posted 07 March 2011 - 03:33 AM
for snowboarding, we use a product called "cat-crap" on the inside of our goggles whenever it gets too foggy. The only other cure is better ventilation.
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"You can drive in six inches of snow if you have even a modicum on ability and aren't a numpty." -gt750boy
Posted 07 March 2011 - 02:01 PM
The car has no windows (gutted door shells) and no HVAC plumbing at all.
Posted 07 March 2011 - 06:01 PM
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Crazy Substitute Teachers
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Hey did you
did you make those on flash or draw them out and scan them into the computer
because those where really good 5/5 i like the hair
the drawings could be a little better
I did a little of both, a lot of story boarding and scanning, thanx for the review!
Very nice character models
Great anime styled art, altho the lack luster animations didnt seem to fit with it.
good high quiality sound with minimal load times,
overall it was very good.
Though u may want to do more work with onion skinning...
PS: the few scenes you DID onion skin were great. (fight scene)
thanx, I will keep trying to keep my animations smoother
great job...
that was very good great graphics and nice animation looking foward to the next one.
thanx for watching man !
Very, Very good!
Great music for the fight scene, but i would have that music you had at the end playing for the fight scene. But that's just personal taste. Only thing i would change is the mouth movements, they don't always align with the words being spoken. Also, what happened to the subtitles? I dunno if i hit something by accident, but they went away after the battle. Look into those things for me; I can't wait for episode 3. I'm seeing great things coming from you ahead.
I got a bit lazy about the subtitles, but thats something im going to add later, thanx for the comment man!
thank you!
ive been waiting to see this since Bleed: vampire Awakeing and im glad that you finialy got it out
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The PC? That Old Thing?; An Industry's Founding Father Has Better Things to Do
Published: August 19, 2001
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Like so many scientists, physicists and mathematicians who fell into computing in the 1950's and 1960's, Mr. Roberts found the computer tools compelling and abandoned his intended field. He went to Oklahoma State University and graduated with a major in electrical engineering. In the mid-1960's, Oklahoma State was one of the few universities that gave undergraduates direct access to the school's mainframe computer, instead of making them submit programs to white-coated operators who were the only ones authorized to touch the precious machines.
The open policy at Oklahoma State, Mr. Roberts recalled, was ''really a bold idea at the time.'' He programmed engineering problems in Fortran on an I.B.M. 1620, and the power of computing ''opened up a whole new world,'' he said. ''And I began thinking, 'What if you gave everyone a computer?' ''
It would be years before microprocessor technology made that goal attainable. But Mr. Roberts said his vision at MITS, beyond survival, was always that ''if you give bright people computers, some amazing things are going to happen.''
''It proved to be true,'' he said.
When Mr. Roberts sketched out his design for the Altair in the summer of 1974, MITS owed about $300,000 to its creditors, having been battered by the boom-and-bust cycle in the electronic calculator business. When he took his personal computer idea to his bankers, they were skeptical but advanced him $65,000 more. Their reasoning was that if MITS could sell 200 Altairs, the bank could recoup some of its original loan. After it went on sale in 1975, orders for thousands streamed in.
Mr. Roberts wanted the Altair to be expandable, so more memory and other hardware could be added. To make that possible, he and a colleague, William Yates, designed the machine's ''bus'' -- which acts almost as a highway system, with 100 separate channels, or paths, for data to travel. The Altair bus, later known as the S100, became the industry standard, allowing others to add innovations but also opening the door to competitors.
''The Altair really had an open architecture, and in that way it set the stage for the I.B.M. PC,'' said Paul Freiberger, a consultant at McKinsey & Company and co-author with Michael Swaine of ''Fire in the Valley'' (McGraw-Hill, 1984), which chronicled the PC's early days.
With the wisdom of hindsight, the business mistake Mr. Roberts may have made was to try to navigate in a brand new industry with a strategy of control that seemed borrowed from the old mainframe days. Such tactics, some former colleagues and industry observers say, included trying to have stores sell Altairs exclusively and trying to curb Microsoft's freedom to sell its version of Basic to other computer companies. ''Ed Roberts couldn't control the field, a field that was just beginning,'' Mr. Freiberger said.
In 1977, Microsoft won an arbitration case in a contract dispute with MITS and Pertec about the sales and ownership of the Gates-Allen version of Basic -- a judicial error, Mr. Roberts says, while Mr. Gates says it was foolish for Pertec and MITS to pursue the case in the first place. It had the effect of breaking all ties between Microsoft and MITS. Mr. Gates and Mr. Allen left for suburban Seattle, while Mr. Roberts soon departed for Georgia.
IN Cochran, where he has been a physician since 1989, Mr. Roberts appears to have a flourishing general practice, which supports 10 employees. His clinic has a modern laboratory. He has written specialized software for some of his clinical test equipment. Each of the several offices has a computer, all of them linked by a network that Mr. Roberts installed. He is a good customer for Microsoft's products. ''I do use the Netscape browser, though,'' he noted.
Mr. Roberts expresses no regret about his decision to walk away from the industry he helped create. ''I think I'm making a fairly substantial contribution here,'' he said. ''Maybe not to the wider world, but I think what I do now is important.''
As for Mr. Gates, Mr. Roberts said they met once a decade ago, at the wedding of a former MITS employee. ''And I had a nice long conversation with Bill,'' he said.
Mr. Gates recalled the wedding. ''I made a special effort to spend time with Ed and let him know how important his work had been,'' he said. ''Ed made an incredibly significant contribution to the industry and got the whole thing started.''
Photos: Ed Roberts, a PC industry pioneer and now a small-town doctor, once hired William H. Gates at $10 an hour. Behind Mr. Roberts is the Altair computer, which he designed in the 1970's.; Dr. Roberts with a patient at his office in Cochran, Ga. He has a modern computer in each examination room for taking notes and analyzing tests. (Photographs by Robin Nelson for The New York Times)(pg. 1); Andrew S. Grove, left, of Intel, and William H. Gates of Microsoft at a celebration earlier this month of the 20th anniversary of the I.B.M. PC, right. (Associated Press)(pg. 12)


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The people I know who have spent time in what was once Byzantium came away from the Met exhibition disappointed. Those of us who haven't visited Byzantium were spellbound. As I hastened through the last few rooms of the show just before closing time, a phalanx of guards tailing me, I wanted to hide behind an icon and stay all night.
"The Glory of Byzantium" is devoted to the "Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261." That is the period just after the Iconoclastic crisis, when the "restoration of images" by the Empress Theodora led to a profusion of religious art in the Orthodox world.
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Pogona vitticeps (AHL, 1926)
Can you confirm these amateur observations of Pogona vitticeps?
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|Agamidae (Amphibolurinae), Sauria, Iguania, Squamata (lizards)
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|E: Central Bearded Dragon
G: Bartagame, Streifenköpfige Bartagame
S: Dragón barbudo central
|Amphibolurus vitticeps AHL 1926
Amphibolurus vitticeps — COGGER 1983
Pogona vitticeps — MANTHEY & SCHUSTER 1999: 98
Pogona vitticeps — COGGER 2000: 350
Pogona vitticeps — WILSON & SWAN 2010
|Australia (New South Wales, North Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria)
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|Holotype: ZMB 30101.
|Adults of Pogona vitticeps are smaller towards the southern limit of the distribution of the species, the smallest animals occurring in the Big Desert in western Victoria. Females are not markedly smaller at sexual maturity than males, but males mature at a much smaller size. Data from P. barbata suggest that early male maturity in southern areas may occur also in that species. Relative growth and external morphology indicates that the Big Desert population is not taxonomically distinct from P. vitticeps. Factors causing the reduced size of animals in the population are unknown (WITTEN & COVENTRY 1990).
Trapp (2014) documented some of the color morphs available of this species.
Max. SVL: 25 cm, tail length: 30 cm (max. length: 60 cm).
Diagnosis: in Badham 1976
Longevity: Müller (2014) reports an animal that lived for 19 years and 5 months in captivity.
Genomics: this is one of the species selected by the Genome 10K consortium for complete genome sequencing.
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The Defense Department inspector general found contracting officer's representatives (CORs), who oversee a contract's performance on the contracting officer's behalf, failed to do adequate surveillance on 18 task orders on a Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) multiple-award contract. Auditors reviewed 20 task orders, worth $100.2 million, according to the report released Oct. 27.
The audit found the CORs did not understand quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP) requirements. They also failed to do onsite inspections, document the contractor's performance and note they had approved the deliverables. Auditors found $556,590 worth of unsupported payments, leading them to say the CORs did not review invoices.
The CORs told auditors that they were "not aware that a QASP was required, what a QASP was, or how it should be used," according to the report.
Moreover, contracting officers misinterpreted the internal contract administration policy and put single CORs in charge of entire contracts rather than dividing them among task orders. That led to situations such as one case where one COR was in charge of 91 task orders with work being performed worldwide.
The acquisition director at the warfare center will work with other officials to correct their policies so contracting officers appoint a COR to each task order, instead of an entire contract. The director will also make sure task orders will have quality assurance plans, with metrics for measuring a contractor's performance, clear responsibilities for CORs, and specifics on documenting inspections on deliverables.
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This looks like to me that the only problem is with the personnel hired (COR) who knows nothing per his/her job position requirements.
Again this is where failure to find the right personnel ot oversee these Task Orders and the responsible party for hiring must have hired on of their friends into this position.
When you have qualified personnel such as my self sitting around trying to find these positions it is always the "other kind" that is found. This would have never happened on my watch, but then again how can you get a job when only friends hire friends.
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A scan from Lawrence Threadgold's Beginning Picture Marquetry shows what I will hopefully end up with. The artistic process begins with the selection of the veneer. Included in this work are Mohogany, Maple,Bloodwood, Zebrawood,Walnuts, and others selected for their color and grain pattern.
Once the veneer is selected, it is assembled into a packet which will be cut by hand using a 00 jewelry blade on the chevalet.
Here is the reverse pattern that I will use to help assemble the picture once the individual pieces are cut.
Here is the front pattern which gets glued onto the front of the packet and gets cut up during the cutting process.
Coming along nicely, pieces which are part of the picture get placed in position on the reverse pattern.
All the other pieces which were cut at the same time but are extra are put off to the side. There are a lot of pieces which are left over. Keeping track of what pieces are needed and which ones are extra is important!
Cutting the packet on the chevalet. Starting the center and working out to the edges keeps the packet stable and the veneers in their correct locations.
Finished cutting. Took a few hours and was very enjoyable. Since all the pieces were cut at once on the chevalet, and the chevalet is properly adjusted to keep the blade at 90 deg to the packet, all pieces fit together exactly with just a very small kerf around their edges.
The gaps you see here will be closed up when the picture gets glued down to the panel. I have not yet decided what I am going to do with this piece. I may just frame it and hang it on my wall, or incorporate it into a box or serving tray design.
Lots of little small pieces of veneer left over from cutting, I am going to keep these as you never know when a small piece will be needed for a future project.
At the end of the cutting, nothing but the edges of the packet remain on the chevalet.
Picture assembled from the back with Scotch Blue tape - the delicate surface type is best for this work
Assembly complete after Marquetry tape applied to the front to hold it all together and blue tape removed.
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The Yankees are limping into Florida tonight to take on the Marlins. The Yankees were embarrassed at home by the lowly Nationals and will try and right the ship. Peter Abraham has the pregame notes and lineup, this is also the start of 9 straight games with national league rules meaning the pitcher bats. A-rod is out today and tomorrow due to fatigue, I think the Yankees screwed this one up, he hasn't had any days off since coming back from hip surgery. They said at first he would probably get a day off a week but he said he was ok and wanted to play so who knows. The Yankees are facing a losing team with a pitcher they never saw before, if the trend continues they are in trouble. The Yankees are 4-5 against the NL this year, and 14-13 over the last 2 years. They are 24-21 over the last 3 years and 34-29 over the last 4 years. They clearly aren't taking advantage of the NL like they used too. The pitching has done a better job in the last 4 games pitching 35 innings, 27 hits, 9 earned runs, 14 walks and 34 strikeouts. The relievers have given up 9 hits in the last 14 1/3 innings with 1 earned run, 3 walks and 16 strikeouts. Yankees lineup: Jeter(SS) Damon(LF) Tex(1B) Posada(C) Cano(2B) Swisher(RF) Cabrera(CF) Berroa(3B) Pettitte(P)
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I love that shadowy face-up *w*
His eyes look nice!
Really, I love you Ren!!!! *-*
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Cool headphones, too.
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those eyes~! <3
Yep, those eyes lol
i especially like how his faceup makes him look almost coy in this one :3 or almost like he's daring someone to refute him.
oh he's so pretty T3 T


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I checked The Master List of Rooting Techniques, and found nothing. This XDA thread looked promising.
To root a Nook HD or HD+ you can use Clockworkmod (CWM) Recovery, a tool to install modifications to an Android device.
Follow the instructions on this XDA thread to create bootable Micro SD from one the provided images.
I used Win32DiskImager on a Windows XP net-book with a built-in card-reader to burn a SD with the NookHD-bootable-CWM-6025-for-emmc-stock-small-rev2.zip image. And I copied NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev1.zip into it.
Once I could boot my Nook from the CWM SD I made a backup and used "install zip from SD" to apply the NookHD-HDplus-Universal-Root-rev1.zip
More information and tips to be found at the XDA thread


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Natural Look
Ideal as a secondary sink, Blancorondo, from Blanco, is made from Silgranti, which is 80-percent natural granite, mixed with acrylic resin, offering the look and feel of natural stone. The surface is scratch and heat-resistant. It's nonporous nature makes it resistant to stains as well.
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What do you mean by Atomic instructions?
How does the following become Atomic?
int TestAndSet(int *x){
register int temp = *x;
*x = 1;
return temp;
From a software perspective, if one does not want to use non-blocking synchronization primitives, how can one ensure Atomicity of instruction? is it possible only at Hardware or some assembly level directive optimization can be used?


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??????Diamond 16u is having open try-out in Anaheim, CA Saturday Dec 17 . We are looking for athletes who have strong desire to work hard and earn a scholarship. The team is coached by former college softball players who will push their players and teach them the importance of mental part of the game. We will carry a small roster to allow a lot of playing time. Every position is earned. We have a very competitive Summer Schedule that will consist of the Colorado Sparkler Showcase, JO Classic, Surf City Showcase, and qualifiers for PFG Nationals.
Location: 8268 Monte Vista Rd, Anaheim, CA 92807 (Sycamore Park)
Time: 10am to 1pm (Check in at 9:30am)
Day: Saturday Dec 17, 2011
If you have any questions please email, call or text
Tiffani Jackson
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