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People of all ages wearing bright tank tops, T-shirts and yoga pants went to the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in La Vista on Sunday to raise money for victims of the typhoon in the Philippines.
The Filipino-American Organization of Metropolitan Omaha and Zumba Fitness sponsored Relief and Rebuild One Shake at a Time. All money raised will go to the Salvation Army for use in the Philippines.
Zumba is an aerobic fitness program featuring dance moves performed primarily to Latin American music.
Jennifer LaMontagne, one of the event's organizers and a licensed Zumba instructor, said two of her students suggested a dance party to support victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which struck earlier this month.
LaMontagne embraced the idea, and together they organized Relief and Rebuild in just two weeks.
"The Omaha community has always been supportive of the fundraisers we've had. ... I'm always so humbled by how much people want to help," said LaMontagne, who is Filipino.
Maria Anderson, one of the students who approached LaMontagne, was born in the Philippines.
"I know the Philippines is a hard country to live in," she said. "Seeing that tragedy was sad. People were already trying hard to live life and got hit hard by this."
For participants such as Arnel and Thea Ramos, Sunday's fundraiser was a good introduction to Zumba. They attended because they wanted to support the cause.
"It's exercise in a fun way. It's an alternative way to be in a gym," Arnel Ramos said.
A bake sale also was held at the event, an approach that organizers used at a previous fundraiser for Oklahoma tornado victims.
Food donations included Filipino desserts and egg rolls.
"Our culture loves to eat," Anderson said. "Our culture also loves to dance. We love to just get together and be a community.
"I think that's what's going to make this a success. Our community loves to come together to make a difference," she said.


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Thanks to the huge success of last year's RuneFest, we are proud to announce that we're back with RuneFest 2011! And in celebration of 10 years of RuneScape, this year's RuneFest will be bigger and better!
RuneFest 2011 will also be held over two days allowing you to completely immerse yourself in the experience and live RuneScape for a whole weekend. And for a truly memorable event, we've secured a stunning three floor venue in the heart of London overlooking the River Thames.
Each floor will be themed and feature an array of entertainment guaranteed to satisfy even the most ardent RuneScape fan. There are more new features than you can wave a bronze dagger at as well as some of last year's favourites: the Insider Sessions and the Golden Gnome Video Awards. The Gaming Area is also back and is bigger and better than ever with events galore, giveaways, more opportunities to play and slay the RuneScape team. This year, we've gone all out on some pretty special exclusive content for all RuneFest attendees.
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Is Libya an 'arms bazaar' for terrorists?
Counterterrorism chief John Brennan says it is now much harder for Al Qaeda to carry out an attack in the US. But he's keeping an eye on Libya's weapons stockpiles.
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- Praised Pakistan for its recent intelligence cooperation with the US, citing the counterterrorism relationship as a contributing factor in the killing in Pakistan last month of Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman.
- Cautioned that the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is taking advantage of Yemen's continuing political instability, holding on to territory and transitioning into the role of a full-blown insurgency.
- Cited Saudi Arabia as a leading example of a broader international "sea change" since the 9/11 attacks in many countries' perception of and attention to terrorism.
- Insisted that closing the Guantánamo detention facility remains the goal of the Obama administration despite numerous "congressional roadblocks" that have slowed the effort.
Brennan also said the trove of materials seized in the raid of Osama bin Baden's compound in Pakistan revealed that the Al Qaeda leader was still bent on attacking the US. Some documents suggest Mr. bin Laden was having trouble accepting that mounting a successful attack had become more difficult.
"He was a little out of touch with just how debilitated his organization was," Brennan said. "His lieutenants were trying to tell him that."
If the materials seized at the Abbottabad compound held any surprises, he added, it was – contrary to what was "assumed all around" – that Pakistan did not have any "complicity" in bin Laden's ability to maintain a refuge in the country.
"I have not seen anything to suggest the Pakistanis were aiding his refuge in Abbottabad," he said. If there was any official complicity, he added, "I haven't seen it."
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After reading the reviews, I could not wait for my popcorn popper to arrive (I ordered two, one as a gift). I found the popcorn to be tasteless and I had alot of kernals left unpopped.
I haven't really used the corn popper yet as we consider popcorn more of a cool weather treat and we haven't really had much cool weather yet.
I am wondering how the lid will stay put when the corn is popping since it appears to be loose. Maybe it is supposed to fit loosely.
I bought one for myself, and 10 others for Christmas Gifts. I'm going to give the bowl with popcorn kernals!! I tested it myself and it was soooo easy and yummy!! I did add a couple tablespoons of bacon grease with salt!! The bacon grease I learned as a child and always wanted that taste again!! And to my amazement I have the taste back again!! My family also loved the taste!! Thank you for a product so healthy (depending on what you add to it!!) and easy to use!!
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I LOVE this popcorn popper!! It couldn't be any easier! No oil required, so you get super healthy popcorn - as long as you don't put tons of butter on it afterward - and all you have to do is put it in the microwave. For $10, this popper lasts me a long time, and it's just so simple!
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I have used the popper serveral times. On my first time with the popper, I burnt the corn and next batch adjusted time and it has come out better. I also wasn't expecting the bowl to be so hot and needed to use hot pads to remove the bowl. Since I like to eat hot popcorn, I also can't use the actual bowl to eat out of, unless I wait 5 minutes for it to cool off.
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I have only use once, but was very happy with its performance. Much better than my air popper.
This product is the answer to my prayers for a fat-free, chemical-free way to enjoy popcorn. Had a similar product many years ago that simply wore out. So much easier and produces better results than an air-popper. Plan to give one for a Christmas gift!
Pops enough for 2 people for a snack. When I need more I make another batch when the bowl is cool. My microwave is old so I do get some unpopped kernels but putting them back in the microwave for a couple of minutes will get me another handful or so.
Great for my Grand kids to use.
This is, without a doubt, the best popcorn popper I have ever used--including other microwave ones and the electric ones that need oil. This popcorn popper pops the most popcorn, leaving no or only 2-3 unpopped kernels, and oil is not needed, which makes this a very healthy snack! For the price I could get this for gifts and include some popcorn too! It is also great to not have those unhealthy ingredients of the packaged microwave popcorn in stores.
I LOVE popcorn and this the best microwave popcorn popper i've ever had. I pop popcorn in the morning to take as a snack to work. Takes just a few minutes and much healthier than the microwave bagged popcorn. Great for the price and I would buy this again!
this popper is fantastic...very roomy , easy to clean and good buy . I bought this so I could enjoy a healthy snack, save calories and keep the sodium count down . It's fast, easy and delicious popcorn in a snap !
I bought this to replace one I had because the top melted in the dishwasher. Do not put the top in the dishwasher. It works great. I make popcorn without any added oil.
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As a kid, one of my favorite activities was target shooting with a BB gun (remember, I'm a rural girl at heart). I actually got pretty good at knocking the blocks down — five bullets, five blocks.
But, today, guns scare me. It's not that I'm not anti-gun, but rather I'm anti-shooting the gun. My dislike has nothing to do with politics, but fear.
I'm afraid the gun will backfire.
Or discharge.
Or a bullet will ricochet and hit me in the eye.
But I also know the best way to conquer a fear is to have skill, or knowledge (CIP: I used to be terrified to inline skate down a steep hill, now it's my favorite part of rollerblading), so I want to learn to shoot.
Thing is, I can't shoot in my backyard (I don't have a pistol permit, or a pistol) and I could really use a lesson — or three. I've contacted a few law enforcement friends and even some shooting ranges but, it seems, you need to have a membership to a gun club to shoot (unless you're a Kardashian, apparently).
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And I called the gun shop on Central.
I'm willing to drive to Massachusetts if it was a weekend class.
So I turn to you for help/suggestions on where I could go to learn how to properly load, shoot and even care for a pistol. And, let me be clear and compare this to learning to drive. I'm not looking to sit in a classroom five hour course-style, but get right to driver's ed where you're behind the wheel.


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You have no idea what our furniture is like. Oh, it's bad. And so I looked around for some ideas of what we could do to change it in any way. Some ideas are good, some not so much. Now I like bright colors. Our house could use some since it's pretty dark with the very dark wall paneling. I should probably think of changing that first. And then I got this wild and crazy idea to take a look at Moroccan furniture with all the colors in it. I am not sure how comfy they might be but it looks good.
Normally that is not my style, if I have one. But I do like this furniture. It looked well worth the time and money to try it out. My husband said "Well, I don't know. Moroccan furniture? Do you really like the idea?" and I said yes. So at some point, we will be pursuing the possibilities. That was really all I asked. I really love sturdy furniture and that looks really sturdy.
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By Amanda García. May 11, 2012
On personal and irrelevant anecdotes: I have moved house ten times. Ten times I have packed my books: they are all heavy, I had to leave a few on the way hoping to find them again someday. Others, with a lighter paper (recommendation to editors: weightless paper) are still with me. I don't know accurately which have been with me since the beginning, I'm only sure about one: Boring Postcards. And that's because it is indispensable for me, I turn to it every time I have a creative block. It's not my source of inspiration; it's more of a source of consolation. It shows me that I am not alone, that many of us can have boring ideas. I spend many hours imagining what could have crossed the photographer's mind to decide for that non-framing, the one that doesn't say anything.
And bad ideas are even worse, like the image of a clever man that picks up a little boy and takes him to school. Who could be interested in receiving such a scene in the mail? Which, in fact, could be any other scene: it really seems like that man is very happy to share a poem straight from his hand with those who are with him, who obviously force a smile to avoid spoiling the man's excitement. It could be. Another terrible one is the image where we can see some sort of old paper, damp and dirty, unclear among a group of ordinary rocks. The believed paper is really a famous crystal cave, unflattering by photographic art. Also, the image of a girl who clearly isn't enjoying herself as she observes the scientific item placed in front of her doesn't seem to be good advertising for the science museum.
But I am the one who would be interested in receiving that postcard with the forced scene of the man with his paper, with the lady and the boy each with their own papers. Not only because I take delight in other people's failures, but because images-nothing, or bad communication, in the end do give me ideas. Creativity comes when we can make the most of mistakes, accidents, of what shouldn't have happened, comedy. I wish I received bad postcards, selected specially to elude all interest, but to offer me mistakes. While I keep on waiting for them, I can find some consolation in Bad Postcards.
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Nokia holds a 40% stranglehold on the global mobile phone market share. Living in North America however, you would have no idea. Partly, it is because many North American carriers want special features, and some want less features. The bottom line is North American carriers tend to be a little finicky. Another disadvantage for North America is it uses different GSM and W-CDMA bands than the rest of the world, further complicating the process of bringing a phone over here.
Nokia is looking to solve these problems on their end. It seems they are sick of not being dominant here, and are going to start getting proactive. Nokia is going to start to bend to the will of the carriers here, to make sure that their phones meet the expectations and needs of the network operators.
"We are literally repositioning our entire approach to the US," -Mark Louison, North American Chief
This comes as great news to the Nokia faithful. Nokia is known for their simple user interfaces, effective designs, and good build quality. Many Nokia smartphone users swear by S60. One of the largest and most loyal fan bases, belong to Nokia.
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By posing a question to the students, several "good" things happen:
- Focuses students' attention on (what you consider to be) the important ideas,
- Allows students to try applying ideas they just heard or read about,
- Allows students to build or make connections between ideas or representations,
- Gives students an opportunity to analyze a (new) situation or context, and
- Gets students thinking about how to ask questions (that is, it explicitly models the process of analyzing ideas or conclusions by asking questions and figuring out the answers).
- Prepares them to learn. Schwartz and Bransford2 have shown that when a person tries to answer a question on a topic they do not know, even when they are quite unsuccessful in obtaining a correct answer, they subsequently learn much more from an explanation of the topic than if they hear the same explanation without preceding the explanation with a question they attempt to answer. This means a clicker question can be valuable when it precedes discussion of a topic.
When posing a question you might experiment with different ways of providing the answer choices. Often it can be good to have the students think about the answer before the answer options are revealed to them. This can discourage them from using test taking strategies to eliminate possible multiple choice options, rather than reasoning through the question as you intended. We have observed in some cases that not seeing the answer possibilities results in students using their notes and making more of an effort to connect the question to prior material. It can also be a good opportunity to make them practice drawing or diagramming something before presenting them with drawings to choose from. Also, listening to student discussions before possible answers are revealed can sometimes provide additional insights on student reasoning and/or confusion.


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Jews and Arabs and the occasional Roman have held competing claims to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, otherwise known as the Noble Sanctuary, for several millennia. The hill is thought to be the spot where Abraham bound his son Isaac, where the First and Second Temples stood and where Mohammed began his ascent to heaven. The Wailing Wall is on the Western side; the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock sit atop the platform.
In all, it may be the most highly contested 324,000 square cubits on the face of the earth.
The site is controlled by the Israeli government and administered by an Islamic council. And the mayor? As of this writing, that would be Ariela Ross, a 24-year-old "4Sq fiend" and "political and cultural advocate," as she is described on her Twitter page. Ross is a user of Foursquare, the location-based social networking app, which enables users with smartphones to "check in" at various locales, letting friends know where they are. The user with the most check-ins at a given spot becomes the mayor. Ross is also mayor of the Damascus Gate, the Christian Quarter, Dr. Calderon's Dental Office and a number of local watering holes, including Jabotinsky, Egon, Madness and Paparazzi. She holds 43 mayorships in all.
Ross has also unlocked 20 badges, including "Crunked" (four or more check-ins in a night) and "Overshare" (a suspicious 10 check-ins in an hour).
In a recent piece in the Jerusalem Post (behind a paywall, but accessible here), Sharon Udasin detailed the Foursquare battle between Ross and other early adopters in Israel. The application seems to have relatively few users there-which explains how Ross captured the mayorship of the Al-Aqsa mosque with just nine check-ins.
Ross, editor of a geek culture website called Walyou, says she discovered Foursquare when she lived in San Francisco and uses it to "see who's in the area and what there is to do." When she returned to Jerusalem in September, she decided to become mayor of as many of her favorite haunts as possible. "I thought for sure I'd be fighting forever, but since it's barely catching on and data plans are very expensive here, it was easy," she told The Observer.
She did have one rival, David Abitbol, who runs a website called Jewlicious. He was briefly mayor of Al-Aqsa, before Ariela "told me on Twitter she was going to 'steal' it," he wrote in an online chat. "The whole concept is weird. I check in because I want to let my friends know where I'm at. Not for the mayorship. I mean, what does that get me?"
Jewish law expressly prohibits Jews from walking on the Temple Mount, due to the possibility of treading on the remains of the ancient Temple, though many nonreligious Jews do visit the site (Ariel Sharon famously went there shortly before the beginning of the Second Intifada).
"I'm bad," Ross said of having broken the rule. She visited the mosque at the invitation of the mother of a Muslim boyfriend, a Bedouin Israeli, but she admitted that many of her check-ins were not strictly from within the mosque itself. "Usually I'm sitting right outside of it," she said, "but I didn't see any reason to create a new location" on Foursquare.
As for Abitbol, he frequents the Temple Mount because "it's really pretty, the workmanship on the mosques is remarkable, the views are great and, most importantly, it is the holiest site in Judaism."
While he would like to see the Jewish Temple rebuilt one day, he said, he expects the restoration to happen by divine intervention—"not by man."
Abitbol was asked if checking in at Al-Aqsa is a way of laying claim to the site.
"Well, obviously," he replied. "4square and its mayorships are the equivalent of marking one's territory."
"It's not about religion or politics for me," Ross said. "It's just the technological realm. I could imagine, if they make a version in Arabic and Hebrew, people maybe wondering, 'How is it possible this Jewish girl is mayor of Al-Aqsa?' But I'm kind of an anomaly. I have a lot of types of friends—Arabs, religious Jews, soldiers, police…"
Despite being "very open-minded socially," however, Ross—who is above draft age but still applied and "would drop everything" to serve, considers herself right-of-center when it comes to defense. "I'm cool with everybody but don't mess with my nation. As long as you don't try to kill me or my people, I'm okay with you."
Asked whether she'd relinquish her Al-Aqsa mayorship if Muslims objected, she said, "They can just take it from me. If they go there often enough and join the website and check in, let them have it. But I'm not going to just give it up just because someone has a problem with it. My Muslim friends aren't offended. They laugh. It's like, 'Oh, Ariela…' That's just who I am. It's my personality to do things that are against the grain."
So far, the local Arab community has been slow to embrace the new platform—"I don't see any Arab-language locations on 4square in Jerusalem at all," Abitbol noted. Still, he said it seemed "inevitable" that the territorial disputes that have been ongoing in the region for so long would play themselves out on the new application.
In fact, the technology may well introduce some new areas of disagreement. "The obsessives cheat," Abitbol explained. He added that Ross had defriended him on Foursquare after he questioned several of her Al-Aqsa check-ins that he said occurred at times when the mosque was closed to non-Muslims. She says she removed him after a fight about her religious beliefs.
Still, Ross admitted to some minor fudging. She said her personal rule is that if she visited a location and couldn't get wifi, it seemed kosher to check in later that day. As to her disputed Al-Aqsa check-ins, she said she has a lot of friends on the police force in the Old City. "I can pretty much get into any location I want to at any hour, because of the people I know."
Interestingly, there's no word yet on whether the Israel Defense Forces have gotten hip the new application. Military authorities recently used Facebook to prove that nearly 1,000 women who'd avoided the draft by claiming a religious exemption were not as pious as they seemed-updating on Shabbat?-but "I doubt they have a policy on 4sq yet," Abitbol said. "Basically, if you're on a mission behind enemy lines, it'd be really dumb to check in."
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Overview (Masterplots II: Christian Literature)
In 1917, Robert Lowell was born into one of Boston's most prominent families, his relatives including the well-established Winslows and the famous poets James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. Robert Lowell's rigorous academic training included two years at Harvard; a transfer to Kenyon College, where he studied under poet-critic John Crowe Ransom; and postgraduate work at Louisiana State University under the tutelage of Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. The formalist influence of Ransom, Warren, Brooks, and their colleague Allen Tate shaped the style of Lowell's early poetry: Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary's Castle (1946). These volumes were widely praised by critics for the masterful use of formal meter and rhyme and for their intellectual intensity.
Lowell's conversion from an Episcopalian to a devout Catholic was another significant influence on his early poetry. The friendship between Warren and Lowell, their mutual appreciation for Italian Renaissance poet Dante Alighieri, and Lowell's admiration for Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins ultimately led to Lowell's conversion and baptism on the campus of Louisiana State University in 1941. Lowell practiced the Catholic faith strictly: He attended Mass each morning, read only religious books, and talked endlessly about the existence of God. Despite this initial passion, Lowell left the Catholic Church in 1946, simultaneously obtaining a divorce from his first wife of eight years, writer Jean Stafford. He returned to the Episcopal Church in November, 1955, but traces of Catholicism remained in his poetry.
Lowell was a victim of manic depression (bipolar disorder) and frequently experienced breakdowns but continued to write...
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Sources for Further Study
Axelrod, Steven Gould. Robert Lowell: Life and Art. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1978. Comments on movement between past and present; explores the poems as a sequence. Offers valuable contexts for title poem.
Fein, Richard J. Robert Lowell. 2d ed. Boston: Twayne, 1979. Surveys poems and remarks on animal imagery. Close reading of title poem.
Halpern, Nick. Everyday and Prophetic. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Addresses Lowell's use of the prophetic and everyday voice; highlights uneasiness in Lowell's use of religious voice.
Labrie, Ross. The Catholic Imagination in American Literature. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. Covers only literature that centers on Catholicism; devotes a chapter to Lowell's dedication to Mary and the darkness present in his poetry.
London, Michael, and Robert Boyers, eds. Robert Lowell: A Portrait of the Artist in His Time. New York: David Lewis, 1970. Contains criticism written in Lowell's time by his contemporaries, both poets and critics, focusing specifically on religious aspects of the poetry.
Mariani, Paul. Lost Puritan. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994. This in-depth biography discusses how religious conversion affected Lowell's poetry.
Mazzaro, Jerome. The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1965. Traces major themes of Christianity, mysticism, free will, sin, salvation, and morality through explication of the poems.
Procopiow, Norma. Robert Lowell: The Poet and His Critics. Chicago: American Library Association, 1984. Chronological review of criticism on Lowell that discusses trends centering on Puritan and Catholic themes.
Rudman, Mark. Robert Lowell: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983. Argues that the poems "progressively" darken, that the subject of the book is "pain."
Yenser, Stephen. Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert Lowell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. Finds Lowell's poems sometimes "excruciatingly introspective." Comments on most of the poems.


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Tip #2: Notts County to come from behind and win or draw @ 4/1 with WilliamHill.
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A glance at the accompanying table shows that, for the five-year period ended 2003, the average fiscal deficit was around 5.7%. This period also was prior to the implementation of the FRBM Act. Post-2003/post-FRBM, there are two distinct trends. First, if we identify the five-year period leading up to the 2008 crisis, the average fiscal deficit revealed a significant improvement to 3.6%. However, post 2008, the average deficit went up to 4.2%, a slippage of 0.6% from the earlier period. Remarkably, the fiscal consolidation plan envisages exactly a 0.6% reduction in deficit every year till 2017 (when the deficit touches 3%). Thus, based on data trends, the fiscal consolidation plan looks creditable and achievable!
Next, looking at the tax receipts over the comparable period shows the buoyancy in tax revenue was driven primarily by direct taxes doubling their share in GDP from an average of 2.8% to 5.7%. Clearly, plugging the loopholes, increase in effective tax rates for individuals and corporates, expanding the tax base and improving tax administration (tax refunds has increased by 30%) has yielded rich dividends. Alternatively, given the increase in direct taxes, it may not be prudent to think of imposing a new tax on super rich in the forthcoming Budget, as the incremental benefit of such may be limited.
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Capri Anderson knows what it's like to go a little crazy in a strange hotel room -- because back before she met Charlie Sheen, Capri was in a "Girls Gone Wild" video ... and she was even featured in a national commercial.
Back in 2009, Capri dropped her drawers for GGW's "The Hottest Girl in America" video ... and after that, she became a finalist in GGW's "Search for the Hottest Girl in America" TV show that aired earlier this year on HD Net.
Now, with Capri's newfound notoriety, we're told Girls Gone Wild is going back to the Capri archives -- and has already released a fully nude tribute to Capri on its website.
Surely isn't hard to dig up stuff on this predatory witch, is it. Wait until she gives the watch to some friend to sell or pawn. It's going to all hit the fan.
A source says Charlie was coked out. Dee Dee Russell just believed it. Anyone can state anything but unless it's a reputable source, it's BS. RADARONLINE is aka the National Enquirer. Get it? One of the worst sources EVER. They post lies like this every day. It's so bad they contradict their own lies in the end.
1) She's a glorified hooker
2) Her 15 min of fame should be up soon
3) No one really gives a rat's a** about her
4) That's an awfully small "censored" sign on her micro-chest
5) What exactly DID she do to get tabloid attention??
6) My dog has a higher IQ than her.
GGW is nothing... I just saw one of her being eaten out. Now that's something her parents should see
Yeah yeah yeah so she's a glorified hooker, porn actress, adult entertainer - so was my ex-wife and yes - I will be the first to say it... IT WAS A VERY GOOD LIFE.
Get over it folks.
Here's the only problem I have with it.
This chick isn't even remotely attractive. She clearly has to resort to sneaking in and out back doors to find her way into a party. Cuz lord knows... she would never be invited to any party that I ever attended. But we always founnd men AND women like her "lurking" around and trying to get scooped up into some drug and boozed up afterparty... which would explain how she "hooked up" with Charlie.
Charlie is having a good time... and 99% of the time - I ASSURE YOU - he is indeed having a good time.
But that 1% that goes south???
Really sucks.
Thank you.
This has been a public service announcement by Uncle Fred.
Capri just like vemon c-u-n-t name Okskank both whores seek actors out for fame and money and one of them decide to get pregnant on the spot so she used her baby daughter money for herself and the other whore got advice from OSkanka and Capri isn't that pretty she and Oskanks are degrading woman who only care money and nothing eles
12k for a night with that? LOL! Any guy who would pay 12 thousand for a night with her is the kind of guy who'd go out and get drunk and stoned while wearing a 150k watch, and lose it!
tierd of hearing about this broad
as porn stars go, she isn't even that hot
quit giving a whore face time
a not that hot whore
Let me clue you folks in.
Men will cash in their 401K plans to get with a woman they think is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
Sometimes it's worth it.
Sometimes it's not.
But when you make the big bucks like Charlie... there is no need to try and get free p ussy from some wannabee HOT chick from the midwest who is visitng Vegas for the weekend.
Sure it's free.
But who cares??? Once you have had it good... it's easy to turn down the free stuff.
Hooker, No Class, Just Looks and trying to squeeze it out of the successful since she cannot really do anything but lay on bedbug mattresses.
#4, Hadji, u r so right, i can imaging the "Proudness" of Martin Sheen and mom of charlie...i just shudder at the thought!!!!
Like u SAID tmz, back in 2009.....sadly for charlie, he was doping up and getting as many escorts, hookers and bookies, hey, he hasn't changed one bit.


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How Perseid meteor shower helps produce amazing images of galaxies
The Perseid meteor shower and its ilk provide the sodium atoms in the middle atmosphere that light up when astronomers tickle them with a laser – a key step in adaptive optics, which are used by ground-based observatories.
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With a new generation of large telescopes on the drawing boards, with light-gathering primary mirrors measuring 30 to 100 meters across, the technology has started to advance – from approaches that in effect manipulate light after it passes through the telescopes to manipulations of the large mirrors that gather light or of the secondary mirrors that take the light from the main mirrors and deliver it to instrument packages bolted to the backs of the telescopes.
Skip to next paragraphSmall, tightly packed actuators push and pull on areas of mirror perhaps 12 to 20 inches across up to 1,000 times a second to compensate for atmospheric wiggle, Dr. Wellnitz says. Each push or pull involves movements measured in a few tens of billionths of a meter. With high-speed computers coordinating the action, the movements needed to keep the images as distortion-free as possible in effect take place as the light from a star or galaxy arrives.
This activity comes on top of the action of other actuators that ensure a mirror keeps its proper shape despite the shape-shifting influences of gravity and changing temperatures.
Although adaptive optics can give ground-based telescopes optical properties that can rival those of space-based telescopes, each has a role to play, Wellnitz suggests.
Putting a telescope into orbit is an expensive proposition. Just ask the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which has been wrestling with the rising cost of its James Webb Space Telescope. The 6.5-meter infrared telescope is now slated for launch in 2018, even as ground-based astronomers are planning observatories with telescopes more than five times larger.
"On the ground, you can make much larger light buckets. Therefore, you can be more sensitive than space-based telescopes" to the faint light from distant objects, he says.
On the other hand, observatories are putting their ever larger telescopes in locations at high altitudes and in remote places to reduce the impact of weather or thickness of the atmosphere on observing. Many of these locations are tough to get to and work in.
In space, astronomers can get the most out of a space telescope's optics without having to go to adaptive optics. For some observations, such as those that require seeing objects via infrared light, space is the only place to be because the atmosphere is opaque to all but a few narrow bands of infrared light.
Weather, which can disrupt observations for ground-based telescopes, isn't an issue on orbit. Neither is a day-night cycle.
As ever larger telescopes are being built in ever more remote locations, usually with an eye toward reducing the thickness of the atmosphere, adaptive optics must be a key part of the system, says Chad Trujillo, who heads the adaptive optics program for the Gemini Observatory. The observatory built and maintains two eight-meter telescopes – one atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the other high in Chile's Atacama Desert.
"As telescopes get bigger they must look through a wider column of air," he said in a prepared statement. "The wider the column of air, the more turbulence in the air will distort the observed light."
Thanks to the sodium all those meteors leave behind, astronomers can throw that distortion in reverse.
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