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I was visiting a friend who had just got a sewing machine so we made cushion covers for a laugh. I reproduced the pattern at home to test out my 'new' sewing machine.
Some green embroidered fabric we picked out for the original. Blue ends of fabric for my version.
Aisha, whose idea it was to make them and picked everything out (well, she was paying for it all too!)
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In this video segment, adapted from a student video produced at Northwest Indian College in Bellingham Washington, Native American elders discuss the impact of climate change on salmon populations and the importance of restoring balance in the natural world.
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This three-panel figure is an infographic showing how carbon and oxygen isotope ratios, temperature, and carbonate sediments have changed during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. The figure caption provides sources to scientific articles from which this data was derived. A graphic visualization from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows the rapid decrease in carbon isotope ratios that is indicative of a large increase in the atmospheric greenhouse gases CO2 and CH4, which was coincident with approximately 5C of global warming.
This activity introduces students to global climate patterns by having each student collect information about the climate in a particular region of the globe. After collecting information, students share data through posters in class and consider factors that lead to differences in climate in different parts of the world. Finally, students synthesize the information to see how climate varies around the world.
Citizen scientist Anya, an indigenous Siberian girl, witnesses the changes in her community as a result of climate change after working with Woods Hole scientist Max Holmes' research team aboard her father's ship. She gets involved in collecting water samples to learn, and teach her schoolmates about, global warming.
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Seventy two institutions have joined Blackboard in a beta program for xpLor™, a cloud-based learning object repository that will be the industry's first to support multiple learning management systems (LMS), Blackboard Inc. announced today. The beta is the largest ever offered by Blackboard, and includes the participation of institutions using Blackboard Learn™, ANGEL, joule® from Moodlerooms and Sakai.
By supporting multiple LMS systems, xpLor aims to make it easier for educators to manage and share rich content regardless of what system they are using or their institutional affiliation. xpLor would also make it easier for educators to collaborate in – or crowdsource – the development of course materials.
"Just as learners need to collaborate to be successful, so do content authors and course builders," said Stacey Fontenot, Vice President of Product Marketing at Blackboard. "xpLor plans to let users create, share, and deliver content in an utterly new way, and to collaborate regardless of what learning platform is being used."
Content in xpLor could include materials created by individual instructors or shared by institutions and foundations. Users would be able to create or import any type of content supported by the IMS Common Cartridge standard, including rich documents, discussion boards and assessments. Content could be tagged and rated, making it easy for users to find items that their peers found to be valuable. Using the IMS LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) specification, grades could be synchronized with the LMS gradebook and activity is recorded when items are used in a course.
xpLor also plans to offer content authors a variety of choices to apply rights and permissions, from All Rights Reserved to Creative Commons open sharing to enable crowdsourcing collaboration and remixing of content.
The design team working on xpLor includes some of the most experienced developers in the LMS space who have deep expertise in building and improving commercial and open source systems. To support the delivery of content to different LMS systems, xpLor is being developed with an emphasis on open standards, especially IMS LTI and IMS Common Cartridge.
Beta program participants include K-12, higher education and professional education institutions that will provide feedback on the system's design and functionality prior to its release. The beta program is expected to run through December.
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Gowron asked:
When can we expect to see a galactic campaign?
There is no specific release date for the Galactic Conquest and Ground mode yet. But we're working hard to get it done as soon as possible. ;)
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Will you put a pegasus conquest only as the ancients/wraith/asurans?
As it's quite difficult to implement more than three fractions this is currently not planned but we're toying around with this idea for a while now so maybe this will change at some point in the future but not for the first release for Galactic Conquest and Ground mode.
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#1 What's the status of the ground part of the mod, if that's hard to answer how much percent is done for ground?
Some aspects of the ground mode are nearly done like the Wraith soldier, some are just concepts like the Goa'uld hover tank.
#2 When can we expect the GC with both space and ground, even if it's alpha?
We try to release the first version of the GC as bug-free as possible so hopefully it will be better than an Alpha. As this takes a lot of time to archive there is no specific release date yet.
Titan.cb asked:
Is it possible to make the Tau'ri rely less on Asgard ships and put more Tau'ri ships in, maybe make the Asgard as a Supergate ability or there own separate race?
Our goal is to create a Stargate game as close to the series as possible. As the Asgard and humans worked together in the series and non of them have enough ships to exist as it's own faction we thought it would be the best way to merge them into on faction. But also we're not doing a 1:1 copy of the series as we need some selfmade ships to make e.g. the Wraith playable.
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I was told about Anthralin cream & Clobetasol. Would either or both be a possibility for treatment for her at her age? She is presently on Diphenylcycloprop 0.25%. It seems to work a little but does not seem to work consistantly. Patches will grow in but others will pop up. We are just trying to find some other routes that may work for her, ones that will be more permanent.
My daughter is 7 and has been diagnosed with alpoecia areata since she was about 3 years old?
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Both topical corticosteroids (eg clobetasol) and Anthralin are used for treating alopecia areata in children with varying success.
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the card looks alright i am looking forward to the noon vs edwards fight and seeing diaz and rua, i am surprized kala hose is on the under card he is the icon champ.
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This should of been the CBS card, give or take a couple fights. Much better showing by putting Yves Edwards, Diaz, and Ninja Rua out there.
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Crowdsourcing, or the sharing of information between people, can also lead to regional quality of life improvements. For instance, a group of Carnegie Mellon University (@carnegiemellon) faculty and students has created a crowd-based application called Tiramisu (an Italian word that means "pick me up") that enables Android and iPhone users to share bus and transit information in Pittsburgh, PA. The application provides passengers with real-time transit information shared by fellow riders, including information about the next buses or light rail vehicles that are expected to arrive at their stops as well as the occupancy levels of those vehicles.
These types of tools are also helping to improve the quality and delivery of healthcare in developing nations. For instance, D-Tree International, a non-profit organization committed to changing the way healthcare is delivered in developing countries, recently received a grant from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation to help scale up a mobile phone-based decision support application that helps healthcare workers in Zanzibar, Tanzania identify and treat children with severe acute malnutrition.
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An apparatus for decanting pulverulent product (Q) into a receptacle (50) made of deformable material which receptacle is arranged in a container made of rigid material and is temporarily placed upstream of a lock system containing so-called glove boxes, a shaft (64) is rotatably mounted at a distance (n) from an adjustable base (B), on which shaft at least one hood designed as a glove box, at least one hood trough (80) made of metallic material, preferably of stainless steel, is fixed; at least one support plate (78) for the rigid container is attached to length-adjustable piston/cylinder units (76) at an adjustable distance from the shaft (64), the support plate being parallel to the shaft longitudinal axis (N), and the rigid container is sealingly connected at the other end to a connecting tube (34.sub.a) which projects into the hood or the hood trough (80) or the hood system.
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NASA's TRMM satellite captured an image of rainfall occurring in Tropical Cyclone Colin on Jan. 13 at 0753 UTC. The bulk of Colin's rainfall was west and south of the center.
Image Credit: NASA/JAXA/SSAI, Hal Pierce
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite is managed by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. TRMMM captured an image of rainfall rates occurring in Colin on Jan. 13 at 0753 UTC/2:53 a.m. EST.
TRMM Precipitation Radar showed that the bulk of Colin's rainfall was west and south of the center and there were some isolated areas where rain was falling at a rate of up to 2 inches/50 mm per hour.
Tropical Cyclone Colin is the eighth tropical cyclone in the Southern Indian Ocean cyclone season this year. It also has a separate designation from La Reunion Island, where it is known as "06/2013/2014."At 0900 UTC/4 a.m. EST on Jan. 13, Colin's maximum sustained winds were near 80 knots/148.2 kph/92.0 mph. Colin was located about 938 nautical miles/1,079 miles/1,737 km south of Diego Garcia, near 23.1 south and 75.0 east. Colin is moving to the south-southeast at 14 knots/16.1 mph/25.9 kph and over cooler sea surface temperatures that will cause it to weaken.
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Is there a handy tool to draw transparent icons for an iPhone app?
I know PhotoShop can do this, but I prefer a simple one.
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Pixelmator is simple, quite cheap and popular on the Mac.
I find it too simple and prefer Gimp, which is nowhere near as simple to use, but is very powerful and free.
If you are looking for free image editors, I recommand you to follow this link.
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Jeffrey Lurie fired Reid this morning. He will give a presser at noon eastern.
"Andy Reid won the most games of any head coach in Eagles history and he is someone I respect greatly and will remain friends with for many years to come," said Lurie. "But, it is time for the Eagles to move in a new direction. Coach Reid leaves us with a winning tradition that we can build upon. And we are very excited about the future."
"The search for the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles will begin immediately," said Lurie.
Adam Schefter reporting that the Bears are sending out consent forms to interview head coaches. Haven't seen any official word on Lovie's status
I like Jax and Jets cutting their GMs. The coaches may follow because new hires like their own men. But clearly the problem with each franchise is a lack of talent and that isn't the doing of the football coaches.
Interesting that Woody Johnson praised Rex Ryan. He didn't have to. I like Ryan, he's not the problem, But Johnson's words make life a wee bit harder for the next GM.
Yes, the number of coaches who are good general managers is limited. You mentioned Walsh; there's Belichick, too, a few others I suspect if I thought about it long enough. We'll have to see what role the coach has in talent evaluation before we say much more, but there are a lot of different models in the league. Carroll seems to have a very active role in talent evaluation in Seattle; I wonder how much of a role Payton plays in New Orleans.
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Drivers in Inverness postcode area worst in Scotland for racking up drink or drug-driving convictions
MOTORISTS in the Kirkcaldy (postcode KY), Aberdeen (AB), Dundee (DD) and Galashiels (TD) areas also feature in a UK-wide top 20 list of shame.
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Father keeps an online diary of his daughter's inspiring recovery from near death after a Thanksgiving crash with a DUI driver that killed his wife
A father has been documenting the inspiring recovery his 12-year-old daughter has made from near death after an alleged drunk driver crashed into their family car, killing his wife.
Steve Nevil, his wife Katy and their two children, Lauren and Will, nine, were driving from Franklin, Tennessee to Arlington, Texas for Thanksgiving celebrations last year when they hit by the car.
The impact sent their vehicle crashing into trees along the highway near the Texas state line, immediately killing 38-year-old Katy and gravely injuring Lauren.
She was airlifted to hospital, where doctors learned she had suffered a traumatic brain injury, a broken femur, three broken ribs, a collapsed lung and damage to her foot that cost her four toes.
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Support: Steve Nevil has been documenting his daughter Lauren's amazing progress after they were in a car crash last Thanksgiving which claimed his wife's life and left Lauren severely injured
But amid losing their beloved mother and wife, the Nevil family has pulled through to show amazing determination, buoyed by communities in Texas and Tennessee, the Star Telegram reported.
Steve Nevil, 41, has focused on the needs of his son and his seriously hurt daughter, and now documents Lauren's startling recovery for their 180,000 supporters on Facebook.
He has shared videos of her sitting up unassisted for the first time, enjoying a few sips of a cherry-flavoured slushie and opening a Valentine's gift surrounded by her family and friends.
There have also been updates of her medical condition, from operations to her diet, to how she has slowly but surely regained normal sleeping patterns and her speech.
Tragic: An alleged drunk driver hit the family's car, forcing it into trees and Katy Nevil, 38, died instantly
Torn apart: Steve, his wife Katy and their children Lauren and Will were on their way to Thanksgiving dinner
'She laughed and smiled yesterday (day 71) for the FIRST TIME SINCE ACCIDENT!' Steve wrote on January 27, admitting that the moment moved him to tears.
In another upbeat post, he describes her drinking from the slushie and how everyone in the room at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth anxiously waited for her to react.
'It was kind of an awkward 10-15 seconds,' he wrote on a video. 'The room was dead silent as we were hoping the drink would go down fine without incident.
'Then in a very soft, subtle & sweet voice we hear - "man, that is really good." We all cracked up laughing and exhaled a sigh of relief! I say YouHooo.'
He has also written entries from his daughter's point of view, painting an emotional picture of her struggles and excitement at her progress.
Fighter: Lauren suffered a brain injury, a broken femur, broken ribs, a collapsed lung and lost four toes
Best care: She was transported to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth in December
'As of last night, daddy was able to use a "real" toothbrush and "training" toothpaste (that is okay to swallow),' he wrote on January 26 in his daughter's voice. 'It was so amazing how the smallest things makes the biggest difference & makes me feel so much better at that particular time.'
In response to the entries, friends, relatives and strangers have posted their own comments of well-wishes and encouragement to the family.
Last month, they held a fundraiser inspired by Lauren's nickname - Lolo Palooza - and 550 people helped raise $24,000 at the Grease Monkey in Arlington.
'I hope to keep this going for years to come because Lauren will need help for a long period of time to heal with her injuries,' said organiser and family friend MK Davis.
Friends have also helped organise fundraising walks in Dallas-Fort Worth and Franklin, where the family has become well known and well-liked.
Progress: Steve has documented Lauren's operations, her first smiles, meals and words since the accident
Upbeat: The community has also rallied around the Nevils, who had just moved states before the accident
'You instantly felt like you'd known them your entire life' Mark Moorman, a friend of the family, told ABC. 'They were very welcoming, warm, loving people.'
Katy Nevil's brother, Jimmy Brimson, said the family is encouraged and supported by the community.
'It's mind-blowing to see all of the cards and notes from people not just in the U.S. but from all over the world,' he said. 'It's easy to be cynical in today's world, but this outpouring of love, prayers and support makes you realise that there are still a whole lot of good people in this world.'
Mr Nevil said he believes people have been so generous thanks to his wife's contagious positivity.
Missed: Mr Nevil said he believes the community is being so generous as his late wife's positivity was infectious. Katy Nevil is pictured left with her husband and right with Lauren
Looking forward: Steve said he is now focused on his daughter's recovery and making sure his son does not grow up too quickly following their family's tragedy
'Katy always, always, always, without question, always helped whoever she could,' he said. 'She relentlessly cared for other people. I truly think that passion she had in her heart is being reciprocated.'
He added to the Star Telegram that he finds it ironic that he is doing so much writing on the Facebook group as his wife, a certified teacher, always handled business or correspondence.
He said that he is unsure about his daughter's long-term prognosis, but he's staying positive - as his wife would wish.
'When I'm alone, it's easy to ask, "Why me?"' he said. 'But I know that's not how Katy would see it.'
For more information, visit the family's Facebook page.
VIDEO: On the 93rd day after the accident Lauren sits up in her hospital bed
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One Direction talk friendship, fashion and girls!
12:00AM, Jan 22 2013
Sitting down for a chat with Elle Girl Japan, One Direction spilled on friendship, success and what attracts them to a girl.
The boys Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan and Liam Payne opened up about how they've developed as a band, saying that there's "a new level of understanding among [them] now."
"We kind of understand each other's boundaries a lot more now," Zayn revealed. "If somebody's a bit tired [we know] not to annoy them, or if somebody's a bit upset you might need to speak to them."
Harry went on to reveal how they've managed to stay such good friends, saying: "We built the relationship the right way when we first got together. We had this time when we had like a week together to practice. I think we sang for like, an hour.
"I think the rest of the time we just played football and ran around and watched films... that was kind of it."
But the interview wasn't all about how much they like each other (good to hear their bromances are blossoming though!). The band also talked about some other stuff like becoming huge stars, their fave fashions, and what they like to see girls wear.
A simple dress paired with Converse sneakers seems to be a winning look for the 1D boys, especially for Harry, who seems particularly fond of a dressed-down girl.
"I really love that girls wear a dress and Converse," he said. "That is so hot, when she's just casual."
And what about you, Louis? "A slightly quirkier dressed girl is much fitter I think."
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To mark IDC Herzliya's 20th anniversary, we spent a day following Prof. Uriel Reichman, IDC's founder and president, and Jonathan Davis, VP for External Relations, around its delightful campus.
When he was in office and responsible for protecting us, Al Gore was absent from the war on terror.
As vice president, he was part of an administration that failed to respond to the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993; that cut and ran when Al Qaeda ambushed US Army Rangers in Mogadishu; that called for regime change in Iraq when Saddam expelled the UN weapons inspectors but then failed to remove Saddam or to get him to allow the UN inspectors back in; that failed to respond to the murder of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia or the attack on an American warship in Yemen; that reacted to the blowing up two U.S. embassies in Africa by firing missiles at an aspirin factory in the Sudan and empty tents in Afghanistan; that refused to kill or capture Osama bin Laden when it had a dozen chances to do so; and that did not put in place simple airport security measures, its own task force recommended, that would have prevented 9/11.
In short, to every act of war against the United States during the 1990's, the Clinton-Gore response was limp-wristed and supine. And worse. By refusing to concede a lost presidential election, thereby breaking a hundred-year tradition, Gore delayed the transition to the new administration that would have to deal with the terrorist threat. As a result of the two-month delay, the comprehensive anti-terror plan that Bush ordered on taking office (the Clinton-Gore team had none) did not arrive on his desk until the day before the 9/11 attack.
Yet it is characteristic of Gore's myopic arrogance that he would wag his finger at the Bush administration for its failure to anticipate the 9/11 attack. "It is useful and important to examine the warnings the administration ignored," Gore writes in his self-referentially titled new book, The Assault on Reason.
Like his Democratic colleagues, Gore sees himself as a restorer of "reason" to an America that is on its way to perdition thanks to the serpent in the Rose Garden. According to Gore, Bush is the arch deceiver: "Five years after President Bush made his case for an invasion of Iraq, it is now clear that virtually all the arguments he made were based on falsehoods."
The First Big Bush Lie, according to Gore, is that the Bush administration went to war to remove Saddam Hussein's WMD or, as he puts it: "The first rationale presented for the war was to destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."
This familiar Democratic claim is itself probably the biggest lie of the Iraq War, rather than anything the president or his administration has said. In fact, the first – and last – rationale presented for the war by the Bush administration in every formal government statement about the war was not the destruction of WMD but the removal of Saddam Hussein, or regime change.
This regime change was necessary because Saddam was an international outlaw. He had violated the 1991 Gulf War truce and all the arms control agreements it embodied, including UN resolutions 687 and 689, and the 15 subsequent UN resolutions designed to enforce them. The last of these, UN Security Council Resolution 1441, was itself a war ultimatum to Saddam giving him "one final opportunity" to disarm – or else. The ultimatum expired on December 7, 2002, and America went to war three months later.
Contrary to everything that Al Gore and other Democrats have said for the last four years, Saddam's violation of the arms control agreements that made up the Gulf War truce – and not the alleged existence of Iraqi WMD – was the legal, moral and actual basis for sending American troops to Iraq.
Al Gore and Bill Clinton had themselves called for the removal of Saddam by force when he expelled the UN weapons inspectors in 1998, a clear violation of the Gulf truce. This was the reason Clinton and Gore sent an "Iraqi Liberation Act" to Congress that year; it is why the congressional Democrats voted in October 2002 to authorize the president to use force to remove him; and it is the reason the entire Clinton-Gore national security team, including the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence, supported Bush when he sent American troops into Iraq in March 2003.
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Politics: President Obama has vowed to "punish" the GOP at the ballot box for thwarting his proposed 39% minimum-wage hike in Congress this week. All he's really doing is plugging Venezuela's banana-republic economics.
Lashing out against Republicans who filibustered a Senate bid to jack up the minimum wage to $10.10 on Wednesday, the president vowed to make it an election issue come November.
"If there's any good news here, it's Republicans in Congress don't get the last word on this issue," he declared. "You do. The American people. The voters."
And it's true — polls show that about two thirds of Americans do support raising the minimum wage.
While there's little doubt the president will try to milk that political momentum, he can't change the economic reality of a rising cost of living that is fueling the public perception that wages have to rise.
The only reason raising the minimum wage has any traction at all in the political sphere is that the cost of living has risen sharply in the Obama years. Obama likes to blame employers for not paying workers enough.
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The consumer price index suggests a 2% to 3% average annual rise in prices over the past decade. But the real picture is far worse.
Big-ticket purchases like homes are overcounted in our inflation data — while the mundane things people eat and wear each day are undercounted. Food, clothing, water, electricity, gasoline have all risen sharply.
The latter goods get lost in the averaging. But for some, they make up the bulk of their purchases. That's precisely why those at the lowest end of the pay scale — about 4% of American workers — are so severely squeezed in the Obama economy.
Combine all this with a record five-year buildup of public debt, and the net result is an incredible tax on the working poor to pay for big government.
Understandably, people want the lowest-wage earners to see some relief. But the private sector can't do much to alleviate this pain except lay off workers to pay for a wage rise. The Congressional Budget Office says up to 1 million workers will lose jobs if the minimum wage rises to $10.10. So much for worker solidarity.
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Another quick glimpse of how international social media are: Twitter grew 109% in the past year, comScore says, and "Indonesia, Brazil, and Venezuela led the surge. Indonesia was No. 1, with 20.8% of Net users there having visited Twitter in June. As for Venezuela's growth, it was "fueled in large part by President Hugo Chavez's decision to join Twitter in late April," comScore reports. Nearly half the world's Twitter users (44.5 million) are in North America and about a quarter in Europe, followed by Asia-Pacific (7.3 million), Latin America (3.8 million), and Middle East/Africa respectively (2 million). Interestingly, in terms of penetration (percent of Net users who are also Twitter users), the US, where Twitter is based, is 11th. [See also "Twitterers in US and Japan" and Pew/Internet on how Twitter is not particularly popular among US teens (only 8% of 12-to-17-year-old Net users in the US use Twitter.]
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SANDY — The 2014 Utah International Auto Expo brings four days and nights of new, shiny, high-tech and concept vehicles to Utah.
Crews have been working hard to bring in 300 cars and trucks inside the South Towne Expo Center. From plug-in electric vehicles to high-end vehicles and antiques, the auto expo has something for everyone.
Organizers say putting on such an event takes a lot of people.
"There are a lot of people here. It's a bit like a beehive," said Craig Bickmore, executive director of the New Car Dealers of Utah.
And the beehive has been humming for hours, as are the cars when they roll in.
"And then what happens is the different cars in different sections come in," Bickmore said. "They have to be checked to make sure they don't have too much fuel in them — a fire safety issue. It's a choreographed entry and a mad dash exit."
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As the 25th anniversary of the Brixton riot approaches, BBC News examines the significance of the events of April 1981.
The rioting which began in Brixton, in the south London borough of Lambeth, in April 1981 shocked the nation.
The rioting which began in Brixton, in the south London borough of Lambeth, in April 1981 shocked the nation.
For three days, rioters - predominately young, black men - fought police, attacked buildings and set fire to vehicles.
More than 300 people were injured and the damage caused came to an estimated value of £7.5m.
What was most shocking to many people was the unexpectedness of events. On the surface it seemed that black people were well-integrated into the fabric of UK society.
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