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Career Services > Frequently Asked Questions > Parents FAQs
1. How can my student get a job on campus?
Please direct your student to the following link: Finding A Campus Job
2. Why should my student use Career Services freshman year?
Most students start college unsure of their major and/or career path. Therefore, it is important for all freshmen to work with a career counselor who can help them learn more about how their interests, skills, personality, values and passions fit into a potential career.
3. Will you help my student get an internship?
Yes! Career Services works closely with faculty and employers to help students gain essential work experience while they are still working on their degree. Statistics shows that graduates who have had at least one internship find employment faster and at a higher salary. Another great reason for securing internships is it allows the students to try out and question a potential career path.
4. What should my student do with Facebook pages or other social media sites?
Using a Social Network is a great way to connect with friends. However, if you have never seen your student's social media profiles and pages, ask your student if their pages are appropriate for a potential employer to view. An increasing number of employers check social networking sites before the interviewing process.
5. How are career centers different than they were 15-20 years ago?
In past generations, many of us received no direction and consequently did no career planning. Some of us took employment based upon the pressures and demands of our culture. Today, career centers work with students from freshmen year on to help them find a satisfying career, to learn more about the different careers that fit, and finally, to assist them with the job search. Graduates today are looking for a satisfying career and Career Service professionals help to make this a reality. Additionally, we educate students on the job search process so they can replicate this in the future.
6. What can my student do with a liberal arts degree?
Liberal arts majors are sought after by many employers. These multi-potential degrees give students the transferable communication, interpersonal and creativity skills that employers are seeking in candidates. A career counselor can help your student determine which careers fit with the skills learned in the major and through experiential education and activities. Because liberal arts majors do not connect specifically to a future career, it is important that the student work with their career counselor early so they understand how to optimize networking to a career.
7. My student is a senior and does not know what he/she wants to do. How can you help?
Although we advocate working with career services beginning in freshman year, it is never too late to evaluate one's career path. Students can work one on one with a career counselor to determine their career path and then move into a job search strategy.
8. What if my student no longer likes his/her major?
A majority of students change majors at least once. Encourage your student to make an appointment with a career counselor as soon as they express doubts or if they express an interest in other areas.
9. Can I come to the career fair or other Career Services' events?
While we understand that parents have a genuine interest in their students' lives, it can undermine their career development process and the impression students make to potential employers. Lend moral support, but do it from home.
10. My student just started talking about graduate school. Do you help with this process?
Yes! There are lots of issues to be discussed prior to deciding on a graduate program, so it is important for the student to talk to a career counselor to set goals and discuss whether or not it is appropriate for their career path.
11. My son did not get into his graduate program. What now?
Your student might benefit from meeting with a career counselor to discuss other options.
12. Will my student have a job after graduation?
While we do not place students into jobs, we do have a database with over 5,000 employers and we work to help students develop a job search plan, and learn how to network, create winning application materials, and interview well. In addition, we have opportunities throughout the academic year for students to connect face-to-face with employers in a variety of ways.
13. How does your office help students looking for opportunities outside of the St. Louis area?
There are several services our department offers to assist with finding employment outside the St. Louis regional area. We currently subscribe to GoingGlobal which helps students with information on finding a job internationally, as well as highlights some of the large cities in the United States. SLU is a member institution of the Call to Serve initiative which informs and provides information to students on how to find internships and entry level positions in the federal government. Our on-line database, Handshake, has a search tool that allows students to look for jobs nationwide.
14. How does your office address issues of diversity and social justice?
Through internships and experiential education, students can get connected to a wide range of opportunities. Career Services is pro-active in our ability to collaborate and provide experiences for students to gain experiential knowledge in diversity and social justice.
15. What is career counseling?
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I am in KC. I'll be posting thoughts from today's press conferences and interviews from time to time here today. Also, follow me on Twitter @ChrisMWilliams for thoughts and updates too. All of this coverage is courtesy of Wilson Toyota of Ames. Have a great day fanatics.
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FYI - Fred Hoiberg will take the stand at 8:15.
No experience back at Oklahoma State but "It is the most athletic team I have had" says Travis Ford.
The Mayor is is on the stand. JVP and Diante Garrett here too.
"They came in with the right mentality." -- on the first week of practice
"I am excited about what I have seen."
Says that he anticipates Diante having a "breakout year."
"A lot of ball screens for Diante."
Says that JVB is "shooting the heck out of the ball."
Says that Scott Christopherson will be back practicing from his back injury on Friday.
CFH says that he's been talking with and learning from Johnny Orr a lot.
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Says that he anticipates Diante having a "breakout year."
"A lot of ball screens for Diante."
what is this 'ball screens' you speak of?
Carrying the banner for ISU.
No updates on Royce White. Hoiberg says that they will know something in the next couple of weeks.
"It is out of our hands."
Originally Posted by Palmer
what is this 'ball screens' you speak of?
Um, every single play last year. We did tons of on ball screens. None that were off the ball unfortunately
Hoiberg gives props to Dan Beebe and calls the new look Big 12 the "toughest in the country."
CFH also mentions that he's spoken with Tim Floyd a lot and mentions that they are very close to this day.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- An Orlando man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in a drug robbery in Tallahassee that left his cousin dead.
A Leon County judge sentenced 20-year-old Denzell Billings-Harrison this past week. He was convicted in May of second-degree felony murder and two counts of armed robbery.
Court documents show that Billings-Harrision and his cousin, Jamal Kee, attempted to buy marijuana in February 2012 from three other men at the Shaker Heights Apartments. After the men realized the cousins were trying to pay with counterfeit money, a fight broke out.
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We've been battling with trying to get Activesync to work with the Outlook connector (and Outlook 2003) for the last few days on multiple machines (including clean XP installs) and have not had much luck. The connector works fine with Outlook until you dare to try to sync your PDA. The following has been our experience:
If Outlook is open when you do the sync, the data syncs into outlook, then outlook promptly crashes. Subsequent attempts to run Outlook get you in, but it crashes again within about a minute (probably when it attempts the Zimbra sync.)
If you sync with Outlook closed, Activesync looks like it is working, but in the end says that every item is unresolved, kicking out an error code 8007000E generally on each item. If you open Outlook at this point, it says "..../Zimbra.zdb is already in use by the maximum number of applications." You then remove the PDA, reopen Outlook, and get the same behavior as above (crashes in about a minute.) The only difference is that this time, none of the data is synced.
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SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) - Prosecutors say an 11-year-old girl charged with manslaughter of an infant remains incompetent to stand trial.
The Morning Sentinel reports that a judge's order this week is expected to say the Fairfield girl's detention and conditions of release are unchanged, pending further discussion of her ability to stand trial.
William Stokes, chief of the criminal division at the attorney general's office, said the girl has undergone recent forensic examinations. He said the sense is that the girl, Kelli Murphy, will become competent for trial over time.
The baby died last summer while staying at the home of Murphy's mother, who was babysitting her.
The infant's mother was told her daughter died from suffocation and that she had trace amounts of a medication that Murphy was taking at the time in her system.
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It's still a little frigid here in Kansas City and, more than likely, it's not warming up outside anytime soon. All the more reason to start thinking about Spring Training in Surprise, Ariz.!
The 2008 Spring Training tickets go on sale Saturday, Jan. 5 at 9 a.m. (CT). Tickets will be available through the Royals website, in person at the Surprise Box Office or by phone at (480) 784-4444 or (520) 321-1000.
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The Royals complete Spring Training schedule can be found here. And – just in case you haven't put these dates down on your calendar yet – pitchers and catchers report to Surprise on Wednesday, Feb. 13, workouts for pitchers begin the following day and the first full squad workout is Tuesday, Feb. 19.
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The sooner spring comes, the better. The offseason is so boring (and FREEZING).
Speaking of pitchers and catchers, do you see them inviting anymore catchers to spring training?


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Date: May 14, 2012
To: NSF Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Grantees
From: Grace Wang,
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Katherine Jean Denniston, Acting Division Director
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The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs in the Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP), in collaboration with the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) invite all active SBIR/STTR Phase II grantees to participate in a supplemental funding opportunity. The supplements for research teams are intended to foster partnerships between Community Colleges (CCs), which educate large numbers of underrepresented students, and the small business community. NSF is seeking to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in both academic and small business research by encouraging careers in science and engineering.
Through this supplemental program, small businesses will gain access to faculty and students capable of contributing to the scientific research conducted by the small business, while faculty and students will gain experience by working on research projects that lead to commercial products and processes. It is anticipated that this research collaboration will lead to continued partnership between the academic institutions and small business firms, which represent the largest employer of scientists and engineers.
The Small Business Community College Research Teams Supplement (henceforth referred to as SBIR/STTR Phase II-CC) will award research supplements to existing SBIR/STTR Phase II grantees that are able to host a research team from a Community College. This supplement opportunity is intended to further SBIR/STTR Phase II research and facilitate progress toward their grant goals while providing a substantial scientific research experience for the community college research team.
Faculty at community colleges interested in identifying SBIR/STTR Phase II grantees should consult the NSF interactive award search system (http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/). In the text box labeled Search Award for enter "SBIR Phase II" or "STTR Phase II" and check the box for Active Awards Only.
Organization Limit: Only companies with an active NSF SBIR/STTR Phase II award are eligible to submit requests for supplemental funding under this initiative. SBIR/STTR Phase II awards under a No-Cost Extension are not eligible for this supplement.
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One man has no problem sleeping every night. He's a grandfather, walking over 8,000 miles, all in the name of "at-risk children".
Monday Norman Ball walked through Meridian. He's trying to raise awareness and money for children who go hungry.
"We sold everything," said Ball. "The van's donated. We knew something had to be done and you look around and you're the only one there to do it."
Ball received a proclamation at city hall Monday. So far, he's traveled close to 7,000 miles through the U.S. and Canada.
For information his Web site is www.walkofhope.org.
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The movement to deport Justin Bieber just got a high-profile supporter. Senator Mark Warner told radio show host Rick Rumble of FM99 in Norfolk, VA that he would sign a petition to remove the singer from the United States. When asked about his stance on the matter, the Virginia democrat said, "As a dad with three daughters, is there someplace I can sign?"
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Looks good to me.
How did you create the trees?
I'm trying to develop my own style, and would appreciate some criticism. I know it's not much, but I have grand designs for an ultra-large online webgame. This image would be the first of 256 game tiles. Before I get too far along, I wanted to get some criticism. Text has been intentionally omitted.
This update adds the 3rd and 4th tiles, and my first attempt at mountains. I've also included a thumbnail of the tiles glued together.
The final product will include 256 tiles, each at 4096x4096 px. The tiles I'm presenting are reduced in size and quality.
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Looks good to me.
How did you create the trees?
I built a photoshop brush, and then turned on jitter for size, angle, spacing, and color of the brush. Then I placed the trees on 2 different layers (for depth) and applied a drop shadow to both layers.
For the hills, I'm playing with shaded relief just a tad. But I'm not good at it yet, so I'm starting with one of my flatter areas. There should be a hint of hills via shaded relief.
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I looks cool. But something I think would REALLY make it pop, is if there is a way to make a few other layers, because when the trees join together, they blend, and lose the individual 'definition'.
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Yeah, I think it looks good. But as you requested criticism, I would smoothen the coastline a bit. In some places it doesn't look natural.
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I really like the trees. I'm going to try it out and play around with it in my current project. I think they look a little too blobby and blurred in some places.
The coast line could use some smoothing in some places but also some fine detailing in others. If you got the layers set up nicely tou should just be able to go over it with a fine hard edged eraser.
I'm my self trying to learn the art of ground relief and you done a good job, better than mine!
You should add some texture to the gound thou. Maybe some sandy shore, cliffs, muddy areas or different hues of grass.
Can't offer many more critiques other than what the rest have already said.
I think you've got a pretty good handle on the shaded relief for an early attempt. That's not something I've tried as of yet. Did you follow a tutorial somewhere? I wouldn't mind having the link to it if you did.
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looks good
Aside from the above critiques, I would only add that the the hills under the trees to the north are only visible where the trees are not. As you are trying your own techniques here, I would suggest finding a way to give the trees over the hills some impression of height or elevation. I have no suggestion as to how to go about it except maybe through shading and lightening the trees on the hills somehow.
All I would do is make the trees a bit darker...they look quite bright.
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My suggestion is to put some noise in the sea to make it a little less 'flat'.


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ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Rollergirls 2013 season kicked off Saturday with a rowdy, high-scoring match-up.
The first game of the Dirty South Derby's home opener was a bout between the Denim Demons, defending Atlanta RollerGirl Champions, and the Toxic Shocks.
The raucous match ended with an upset: Demons 146, Shocks 280.
PHOTOS | Denim Demons vs. Toxic Shocks
The Rumble Bs faced off against the Ft. Myers Derby Girls in part two of the double-header, beating them 185-166.
The next bout in Atlanta takes place March 23.
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|Law flexibility allows Holyoke School District Re-1J to reconsider zero tolerance policies
|Written by Brenda Johnson Brandt
With the recent discipline bill that removed zero tolerance policy requirements in the State of Colorado, Holyoke School District's Board of Education is taking a look at local school district policies.
Six policies involving a zero tolerance philosophy were reviewed by Supt. Bret Miles at the Sept. 18 meeting of the Board of Education. They will return to the Oct. 9 meeting for further discussion.
The Colorado Association of School Boards (CASB) has recommended removal of all language reference to zero tolerance, but pointed out the local board has some discretion as to whether they retain zero tolerance.
Miles recommended the CASB language as it allows the district more flexibility in choosing appropriate consequences.
For example, he cited a situation of a young girl who inadvertently has a knife in her lunch box to be used solely for lunch. With a zero tolerance policy, it's mandatory expulsion for her for bringing a knife to school.
Removing zero tolerance from school policy allows administration to use common sense in checking out such a scenario and to determine if there's a threat to safety.
Zero tolerance in sale of drugs even has its situations that are innocent—a young child exchanging his Ridalin for a toy, for instance. That's nowhere close to a teenager selling marijuana. Removing zero tolerance allows administration to look at the particulars surrounding the situation before making a determination on expulsion or suspension.
Board president Jeff Tharp said the policy reconsideration is basically mandatory versus nonmandatory and is a matter of having confidence in the administrative team to make those decisions.
Kris Camblin likes the idea of putting more common sense into such decisions regarding expulsion or suspension.
Linda Jelden said there's missed opportunity to investigate and get the whole story when a zero tolerance policy is used. Michelle Van Overbeke added that policies can sound good until an actual situation arises.
Dennis Herman pointed out that it's not a black and white world, there is gray all around.
Currently, the expulsion/suspension authority lies with the superintendent rather than the board. Miles recommends it remain with the superintendent, as the decision can be appealed to the board if the person is dissatisfied.
If the authority was with the board, the appeal recourse would be legal action. Not having a second opportunity to be heard is a disadvantage for citizens, said Miles.
It was a consensus of those present at last week's board meeting to go with the CASB suggestions and remove zero tolerance references.
However, since two board members were absent, it was agreed to bring the six policies in question back to the next meeting for further review before deciding how discipline will look in Holyoke with the changes in the law.
Those six policies involve code of conduct, drug and alcohol use by students, suspension/expulsion of students and grounds for suspension/expulsion.
Thirty-two policies were introduced for changes, with many of them involving a mere one-word change. These will return to the next meeting for approval on first reading.
Other policies which were previously introduced for review on Sept. 4 were approved on first reading last week.
District Accountability Advisory Committee members sought
Seven people were appointed to the 2012-13 District Accountability Advisory Committee (DAAC). Supt. Miles pointed out they're still wanting two more parents from K-6 and two from grades 7-12 to serve on the committee. Anyone interested should contact him or one of the principals.
Those who were appointed to the DAAC were D.J. Shafer, Jeannette Knutson, Julie Elliott, Pam Vieselmeyer, Susan Ortner, Summer Maloney and Kimberlee Bennett.
Security/internet upgrade complete
After Supt. Miles' construction update report, the board approved the certificate of completion for the upgrades to the security system and internet.
The project work was performed by Computers Etc. and its sub-contract, with the total project cost being $132,962.
With regard to the roof project in the construction, Miles said the gym rooftop unit has been balanced and is running, but still needs some adjustments.
Gas valves for the high school science labs were to be installed last week. A final building inspection will occur soon, and a date for owners training is being set.
In other improvement areas, Miles noted the door hardware for the old gym restroom project was to arrive last week, missing light fixtures should be on site by mid-October and elementary toilets in the kindergarten classrooms and second-grade restrooms will be changed out.
Other business
In other business Sept. 18, the Re-1J board:
—changed its Oct. 2 meeting to Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. due to the conflict with the Young Americans program.
—acknowledged several gifts/donations. Rusty and Sandy Triplette and Aaron and Pam Worley donated sweet corn to the FFA for a fundraiser. The Lillis Fund made a donation to support students in need of financial assistance for school supplies or fees.
Additionally, PC Telcom donated high-quality hand radios for use at the elementary school. Principal Kyle Stumpf said PC Telcom personnel assisted in research of radios, as well as assistance with set-up.
—reviewed the timeline and process for the superintendent's evaluation and held a 40-minute executive session for an informal evaluation of the superintendent at the close of the meeting.
—heard a Challenge Day recap from JR/SR High Principal Susan Ortner from the Sept. 5-6 activity. She said the real work begins now, keeping the momentum from the event rolling forward to make a change in the culture rather than letting it be a one-day experience.
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CONYERS, Ga. -- It was a first for the City of Conyers. Two women were cited for running an illegal spa under a new Spa Ordinance that went into effect Oct. 1, 2012.
Conyers police said they were concerned about the number of massage businesses moving into the city. "We are trying to get a head of the complaints," said Lt. Jackie Dunn.
Lt. Dunn said police have been conducting inspections at the city's roughly 10 massage businesses. The first business found in violation was Spa World on West Avenue.
What police found behind closed doors there may go far beyond the new ordinance. Hyeon Ju Kim, 58, of Stockbridge was issued a citation for operating without a massage therapist license. She was also cited for keeping an ordinary bed inside the business, failure to provide new employee information, locking of access doors inside the location, and failure to maintain records.
Seri Wilkens, 57, of Stockbridge was cited for operating without a massage therapist license and providing services with improper attire. "She was dressed in what might be described as a little bit more provocative," Lt. Dunn said. "She was wearing a spaghetti strap dress and the side of the dress had slits all the way up the side close to the hip."
According to a police incident report on the arrests, an officer wrote: "The dress was low cut with the upper portion of her body exposed."
Police said a male customer ran out of the spa when they arrived. "The male did leave and leave part of his clothing behind as he left," Lt. Dunn said. In the incident report, the officer wrote "I observed a pair of boxer underwear lying on the floor underneath the bed."
No one answered the door at Spa World on Thursday and neighboring businesses said they have not seen anyone at the business since the police came on Tuesday.
Oz Deas owns a hair salon business in the same strip mall as the spa. He said the spa has only been open a short time. "I would say half a year, and I've never seen anybody go in and out," he said. "I'm pretty street-knowledgeable and I haven't seen any activity myself."
The citations may not be the end of Spa World's troubles. Conyers police used a search warrant to get the company's video surveillance DVR, its computer and customer logs. Depending on what they find, there could be criminal charges with penalties much more severe than the new ordinance.
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Tabletop planter from Japan doubles as emergency earthquake helmet
May 12, 2016, 3:25 p.m. by Matt Hickman
It helps to be near your houseplants when disaster strikes.
Earthquake-proof bed looks more terrifying than the Big One itself
December 21, 2015, 1:41 p.m. by Matt Hickman
But hey, at least your being devoured by a mattress and not the Earth?
Stepping inside the nuclear red zones of Fukushima
October 1, 2015, 6:30 a.m. by Catie Leary
An eye-opening photo essay documents the haunting towns that were forcibly abandoned following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
Why these gravity-defying rocks don't fall
August 10, 2015, 10:40 a.m. by Elizabeth Goldbaum, LiveScience
The delicately balanced rocks are able to remain standing even during earthquakes.
Mega-quake: The 'big one' could happen soon, but probably not where you think
July 24, 2015, 3:32 a.m. by Bryan Nelson
The Pacific Northwest might be where the next huge tremors happen, say seismologists.
Humanitarian architect to reuse Nepal's earthquake rubble
July 22, 2015, 6 p.m. by Matt Hickman
Leave it to Shigeru Ban to breathe ingenious new life into the painfully abundant remains of a major catastrophe.
Nude tourists accused of causing deadly Malaysian quake
June 9, 2015, 7:30 p.m. by Matt Hickman
A word of advice to future climbers of Mount Kinabalu: Please keep your pants on.
The science behind 'San Andreas'
May 28, 2015, 3:09 p.m. by Gerri Miller
Caltech seismologist Jean-Paul Ampuero separates fact from fiction in this fun but faulty movie.
Nepal's UNESCO-recognized architectural treasures shaken, destroyed by earthquake
April 29, 2015, 5:15 p.m. by Matt Hickman
A look at the Kathmandu Valley's World Heritage Site-listed monuments in better days.
Bigger earthquakes likely on Nepal's terrifying faults
April 28, 2015, 10:30 a.m. by Becky Oskin, LiveScience
The quake didn't release all the pent-up seismic pressure between the Indian and Eurasian Plates.
How to help the victims of Nepal's earthquake
April 27, 2015, 12:12 p.m. by Jenn Savedge
A magnitude-7.8 earthquake rocked Nepal over the weekend, killing thousands.
NFL fans will help test earthquake warning system
January 12, 2015, 11:47 a.m. by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience
Not only will researchers study the effects of when fans get excited, but they'll try a 'Early Football Rowdiness Warnings' to anticipate when fans will rattle the stadium.


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This model demonstrates the Lithium-Ion Battery interface for studying the discharge and charge of a lithium-ion battery for a given set of material properties. The geometry is in one dimension and the model is isothermal. Battery developers can use the model to investigate the influence of various design parameters such as the choice of materials, dimensions, and the particle size distribution of the active materials, in this case carbon on the negative electrode and lithium manganese oxide (LiMn2O4) on the positive electrode. You can also benefit from simulating battery performance under different operating conditions and in different devices, for example, cell phones or laptop computers.


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LEESBURG, Va. (WUSA) - Aaron Thomas, 41, the so-called East Coast Rapist, pleaded guilty to raping and abducting a then-41 year old woman more than a decade ago.
The victim, who is now 52, was tied up, raped, sodomized and threatened with a screwdriver in 2001.
Thomas is accused of attacking and raping more than a dozen women up and down the east coast from Virginia to Rhode Island since the mid 90s.
Thomas was captured last year after a nationwide manhunt. After his arrest he admitted to raping the 41-year-old woman 11 years ago in her Leesburg apartment, telling police he worked as a driver for an Alexandria lumber company and attacked the woman after a delivery to her apartment building.
She sat in the courthouse for Thursday's plea deal, and the Commonwealth's Attorney thanked her for her courage.
Commonweath's Attorney Jim Plowman says 'we don't want her to relive the ordeal. This is about accountability and the step today moves the ball down the field.'
Thomas is expected to plead guilty on Friday in Prince William County to attacking and abducting three teenage trick-or-treaters on Halloween night in 2009.
Each count carries a life sentence.


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Aug 18 2005, 06:43 AM
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I copied these from somewhere else so I don't know if they are all true.
-Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
-A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
-People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
-When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
-Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
-Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
-Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
-The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
-The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
-The average housefly lives for one month.
-40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
-A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
-The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
-Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
-Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
-The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
-The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
-John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
-Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
-Most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
-Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
-The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
-Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
-Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
-If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green
Post some weird facts that you know.
Aug 18 2005, 06:47 AM
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some was true i think
eating a spider in your sleep is gross
oh yea.......mmmm....you cant sneeze with your eyes open
thx fugitive
QUOTE(Albino @ Feb 1 2006, 07:33 PM) [snapback]1082962[/snapback]
Will you do something retarded so I can ban you already?
QUOTE(Mr. J Blacc @ Feb 22 2006, 09:53 AM) [snapback]1101711[/snapback]
snowboy for topic killer '06! (until he gets banned that is)
Aug 18 2005, 07:26 AM
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Why do they add the color to Coke? How in hell can't you have a belly button? How in hell do you get injured by a toilet? Most hospitals make money because of our Capitalistic ways . Who gives a shit about the princes? The "royal" family is just for decoration, besides, shouldn't someone that important have a flawless airplane like Air Force 1?
Dancin' on a landmine baby one leg left, I can still crawl and I'm not dead yet. You better get a bigger gun, I'm not dead yet.
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Aug 18 2005, 07:56 AM
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QUOTE(ty-cartoon @ Aug 18 2005, 09:46 AM)
Why do they add the color to Coke? How in hell can't you have a belly button? How in hell do you get injured by a toilet? Most hospitals make money because of our Capitalistic ways . Who gives a shit about the princes? The "royal" family is just for decoration, besides, shouldn't someone that important have a flawless airplane like Air Force 1?
Everyone puts colourings in drinks.
I dunno how you can't have a belly button because it's where the umbilical cord is connected so like you wouldn't be alive without it unless you had it surgically removed.
Maybe they fell in the toilet? Or like walked into it or something.
Aug 18 2005, 12:40 PM
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The declaration of independence was written on hemp.
That's all i know.
Aug 18 2005, 12:40 PM
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How in hell do you get injured by a toilet?
Maybe the toilet seat fell down whilst having a piss... O_O
Who Do You Think We Are? We're Angels And Airwaves
Aug 18 2005, 01:56 PM
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im left handed
ive been sneezing a lot altely
i dont even want to think about the spider thing
cool facts. i dont kno any
Aug 18 2005, 02:19 PM
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-The first television show to show a flushing toilet was Leave It to Beaver.
-The Graham cracker was first used to combat alcoholism.
-Harry Truman was the first president to pardon a Turkey before Thanksgiving.
-India has 50 million monkeys
-More people are alive today, than have ever died.
-Toilet paper was invented in 1857
-Whitby, Ontario has more donut stored per capita than any other place on earth.
those are just some...
Redsox: 2004 World Champions!!!
Redsox: 6 World Series
Yankees: 21 World Series
We'll catch up
Aug 18 2005, 02:38 PM
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QUOTE(snowboy @ Aug 18 2005, 04:07 AM)
some was true i think
eating a spider in your sleep is gross
oh yea.......mmmm....you cant sneeze with your eyes open
thats not true. i've sneezed with my eyes open plenty of times, like 4 seconds ago
prop up custom for the avi
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oh aye,cause those two are upstanding citizens aint they <_<
Weren't you killed in a bus?
Aug 18 2005, 04:11 PM
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There are more telephones than people in Washington
There are more than 1,750 "O's" in a 15-ounce can of
There are more than 15,000 different kind of rice.
There are more than 50,000 earthquakes throughout the
world every year.
There are no living descendants of William Shakespeare
or George Washington.
There are no recorded human deaths from tarantulas,
piranhas or wolves.
There are no technical definitions for what makes a
body of water a pond, lake, sea, or ocean.
There are professional tea tasters as well as wine
There is a barn in Old Jordans, Bucks, UK, which is
built from the wood from The Mayflower.
There is a town in Sweden called "A" and a town in
France called "Y".
There is about 1/4 pound of salt in every gallon of
There is absolutely no documented proof that Betsy
Ross designed the American flag.
There is approximately one chicken for every human
being in the world.
There is no way to tell a moth from a butterfly.
Though there are differences of physiology and habit
between then, it is almost impossible to isolate a
single differentiating characteristic that applies
uniformly to both species.
Thomas Jefferson invented the dumbwaiter.
Though "Striptease", starring Demi Moore, flopped in
the U.S.A., it was a huge hit in Mexico, Italy, and
Germany. It made $70,000,000 it its first ten weeks
To help create her sexy walk, Marilyn Monroe sawed off
part of the heel of one shoe.
To make a one-pound comb of honey, bees must collect
nectar from about two million flowers.
"To prevent violence," it was at one time customary at
certain phases of the moon to chain and flog inmates
of England's notorious Bedlam Hospital.
Tongue prints are as unique as fingerprints.
Aug 19 2005, 01:43 AM
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Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
The Boeing 767 aircraft is a collection of 3.1 million parts from 800 different suppliers around the world: fuselage parts from Japan, center wing section from Southern California, flaps from Italy.
A man irate about his income tax paid Uncle Sam with a plaster of Paris check that weighed several pounds. He wasn't all that bright, because once the government cashed the check, it was returned to him and he had to keep it for five years for his records.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.
Calvin and Hobbes: Hobbes originally had pads on his hands and feet but Bill Waterson (the creator) found them too distracting and removed them.
It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write "War & Peace".
Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).
In the name of art, Chris Burden arranged to be shot by a friend while another person photographed the event. He sold the series of pictures to an art dealer. He made $1750 on the deal, but his hospital bill was $84,000.
In Britains House of Commons, the government and opposition sides of the House are separated by two red lines. The distance between the lines is two swords lengths, a reminder of just how seriously the Brits used to take their politics.
The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
In the kingdom of Bhutan, all citizens officially become a year older on New Year's Day.
The diameter of the wire in a standard paper clip is 1 millimeter - or about 0.04 inch.
People generally say there are 365 days in a year. By a year, I mean this is the time period it takes the earth to travel around the sun: 365 days. Actually, however, it takes the Earth 365.25 days to make this trip. In other words, for every year we gain one-fourth of a day and every for years we gain an extra day. If nothing was done about this, our calendar would move backwards one full day every four years in relation to our seasons.
November 29 is National Sinky Day; a day to eat over one's sink and worship it.
Public typists work at typewriters charging about 14 cents per page. On a good day, a public typist earns about $3.50.
On average, there are 333 squares of toilet paper on a roll.
Halloween isn't an established holiday by law. It is traditional that Halloween is Oct. 31 no matter what day of the week it falls on. Halloween dates from 837 when Pope Gregory IV instituted All Saints or All Hallows Day on Nov. 1 to take the place of an earlier festival known as the Peace of the Martyrs. The day was set aside to honor all saints, known and unknown. Halloween then is a shortened form of All Hallows Eve - the evening before All Hallows Day. Certainly, you have a choice of celebrating it on Oct. 30, Saturday, if you wish. Many of the area parties will be held then rather than on Sunday. It's probably appropriate to say some people equate Halloween with the occult or Satanism and don't approve of it at all.
The numbers on opposite sides of a die always add up to 7.
In 1979, Namco released Pac-Man, the most popular arcade game of all time. Over 300,000 units were sold worldwide. More than 100,000 units are sold in the United States alone. Originally named Puck Man, the game was retitled after executives saw the potential for vandals to scratch out part of the letter P on the game's marquee, which might discourage parents from letting their children play. Pac-Man became the first video game to be popular with both males and females.
Elizabeth Goose, who lived in Massachusetts in the late 1600's, is credited by some with the nursery rhymes read to us as children. However, most of those rhymes existed before her time in the form of satirical poems and drinking songs. Some were based on actual events or characters. Charles Perrault, a Frenchman, published a collection of these rhymes in 1697 and an illustration accompanying the text showed an old woman telling stories, with the words "Mother Goose" appearing behind her. The book was eventually published in England and the United States and more rhymes were added with each new publication. It wasn't until the 1800's that a relative of Mrs. Goose claimed the stories originated with Elizabeth.
If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.
The St. Louis Gateway Arch had a projected death toll while it was being built. No one died.
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years. The concrete in it will not even be fully cured for another 500 years.
The "Calabash" pipe, most often associated with Sherlock Holmes, was not used by him until William Gillette (an American) portrayed Holmes on stage. Gillette needed a pipe he could keep in his mouth while he spoke his lines.
The Chinese national anthem is called "the march of volunteers."
"The Tale of Genji", a Japanese work from the early eleventh century, is considered by many scholars to be the world's first full novel. The novel was written by a woman: Murasaki Shikibu, or Lady Murasaki.
The reason wheels seem to spin backwards on a camera is because when you film something, you are really taking a series of still images and then replaying them so fast that the eye is fooled into thinking it is a continuous stream of images. The eye can see about 12-14 frames per second. Because of a physical law called the Nyquist Sampling Theorem you need to display frames twice as fast as the eye can see to fool it into seeing it as a continuous movie (Nyquist showed mathematically why that is true). So, imagine you have a wheel that is spinning exactly once every second. If you took a picture at the same rate, it would look like it is standing still. That's because it rotates exactly once every time you take a picture. Now take a picture just a little bit faster than 1 per second. Now every time you take a picture, the wheel has not quite made it all the way around; maybe it will have gone 350 degrees around, so it's 10 degrees behind the first frame. The next frame it will have gone another 350 degrees, making it now 20 degrees behind the first frame, and so on. When you play the film back, it will look like the wheel is moving backwards, even though you know it was going forwards. The opposite effect happens when you take pictures a bit slower than the rotation rate. It gets more complicated when the wheel does not rotate at a constant rate, like when a car accelerates. The next time you watch TV or go to the movies, watch the wheels as a car speeds up. You might see the wheel appear to go backwards, them stop, then go forwards, all while the car is moving forwards.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
In the UPC, the linesthe Universal Product Codehold 11 numbers, each of which is a code that describes the product. The size, weight, and manufacturer or distributor, for example, are each represented by a number. The numbers are in the form that computers can read, 0's (black lines) and 1's (white lines).
The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.
Eskimos never gamble.
20252 is Smokey the Bear's own zip code.
203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.
The external tank on the space shuttle is not painted.
If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
Zip code 12345 is assigned to General Electric in Schenectady, NY.
Success magazine recently declared bankruptcy.
The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913 in an American paper called "World." It was devised by its editor Arthur Wynne. It was of 32 words and diamond shaped. There were no black boxes in the puzzle.
Some 30,000,000 Americans slave over crosswords in newspaper, journals, and paperback books.
The hardest crossword puzzles according to experts appear in two British papers: "The London Times" and "Observer." Only few readers can complete these and it takes them 2 to 3 hours. The record time for completing a "Times" puzzle was an incredible 3 minutes and 45 seconds by a British diplomat named Roy Dean in 1970.
The largest crossword puzzle ever published had 2631 clues across and 2922 clues down. It took up 16 sq. feet of space.
The strangest crossword ever made was by a British writer Max Beerbohm in 1940. He called it the "Impossible Crossword" and issued warning to puzzlers so they do not go crazy trying to solve it, as the clues were nonsensical and the answers didn't exist.
George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the U.S as of a few years ago.
acetwothreefourfivesixseveneightninetenjackqueenking Excluding the joker, if you add up the letters in all the names of the cards in the deck (Ace, two, three, four,...,king). the total number of letters is 52, the same as the number of cards in the deck.
Did you play with LEGO blocks when you were a kid?
Since 1949, the LEGO company, based in Denmark, has produced more than 200,000,000,000 of the plastic elements that make up the Lego System.
There are 102,981,500 ways to combine six of the 8-studed bricks of one color.
The name LEGO did not come from the cry of an angry mother who couldn't get her kid to put down his toys and come to dinner: "LEGO of those bricks or I'll kill you!" It's from the Danish, "LEg GOdt," which means "play well."
The Statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide.
The father of the Pink Flamingo (the plastic lawn ornament) is Don Featherstone of Massachusetts. Featherstone graduated from art school and went to work as a designer for Union Products, a Leominster, Mass., company that manufactures flat plastic lawn ornaments. He designed the pink flamingo in 1957 as a follow up project to his plastic duck. Today, Featherstone is president and part owner of the company that sells an average of 250,000 to 500,000 plastic pink flamingos a year."I did it to keep from starving." - Don Featherstone (flamingo creator)
If China imported just 10% of it's rice needs- the price on the world market would increase by 80%.
Cleveland spelled backwards is "DNA level C".
When wearing a Kimono, Japanese women wear socks called "Tabi". The big toe of the sock is separated from the rest of the toes, like a thumb from a mitten.
The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.
How valuable is the penny you found laying on the ground? If it takes just a second to pick it up, a person could make $36.00 per hour just picking up pennies.
Carnegie Mellon University offers bag piping as a major. The instructor James McIntosh, who is a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and who began bag piping at the age 11.
The book of Esther in the Bible is the only book which does not mention the name of God.
The Douglas DC-3 passenger airplane was the first to make a profit carrying people.
There are 52 cards in a standard deck and there are 52 weeks in a year. There are 4 suits in a deck of cards and 4 seasons in a year. If you add the values of all the cards in a deck (jack=11 queen=12, etc.) you get a total of 365 the same as the number of days in a year.
The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
In 1982, the last member of a group of people who believed the Earth was hollow died.
A man named John Bellavia has entered over 5000 contests, and has never won a thing.
The famous painting of "Whistler's Mother" was once bought from a pawn shop.
Revolvers cannot be silenced because of all the noisy gasses which escape the cylinder gap at the rear of the barrel.
In 1961, Henry Matisse's painting Le Bateau hung upside down in New York's Museum of Modern Art. It remained upside down for forty-one days until someone noticed. It's estimated nearly 116,000 people passed in front of the painting before the error was noted.
The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in its name as its meaning.
A standard 747 Jumbo Jet has 420 seats.
According to Dennis Changon, spokesman for the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, Canada - if all of the commercial planes in the world were grounded at the same time there wouldn't be space to park them all at gates.
If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
In 1931, an industrialist named Robert Ilg built a half-size replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa outside Chicago and lived in it for several years. The tower is still there.
The first manager of the Seattle Space Needle, Hoge Sullivan, was acrophobic - fearful of heights. The 605 foot tall Space Needle is fastened to its foundation with 72 bolts, each 30 feet long. The Space Needle sways approximately 1 inch for every 10 mph of wind. It was built to withstand a wind velocity of 200 miles-per-hour.
The first revolving restaurant, The Top of the Needle, was located at the 500-foot level of the 605-foot-high steel-and-glass tower at the Century 21 Exposition in Seattle, Washington. It contained 260 seats and revolved 360 degrees in an hour. The state-of-the-art restaurant was dedicated on May 22, 1961.
The foundations of the great European cathedrals go down as far as forty or fifty feet. In some instances, they form a mass of stone as great as that of the visible building above the ground.
Police dogs are trained to react to commands in a foreign language; commonly German but more recently Hungarian.
The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.
The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels under the Hudson River connecting New Jersey and New York are an engineering feat. The air circulators in the tunnels circulate fresh air completely every ninety seconds.
The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska - Kool-Aid.
Ivory Soap was originally named P&G White Soap. In 1879, Harley Proctor found the new name during a reading in church of the 45th Psalm of the Bible: "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad."
Studebaker still exists, but is now called Worthington.
7.5 million toothpicks can be created from a cord of wood.
A McDonald's straw will hold 7.7ml, or just over one-and-a-half teaspoons of whatever you are drinking. This means that it would take 17,000 strawfuls of water to fill up a 34 gallon bathtub.
The original IBM punch-card is the same size as a Civil War era dollar bill.
BAND-AID Brand Adhesive Bandages first appeared on the market in 1921, however, the little red string that is used to open the package did not get added until 1940.
Jane Barbie was the woman who did the voice recordings for the Bell System.
Month after month, the little Bell Company lived from hand to mouth. No salaries were paid in full. Often, for weeks, they were not paid at all. In Watson's notebook there are such entries during this period as "Lent Bell fifty cents," "Lent Hubbard twenty cents," "Bought one bottle beertoo bad can't have beer every day."
When Bell's patent was sixteen months old, there were 778 telephones in use.
The first "Hello" badge used to identify guests and hosts at conventions, parties, etc. was traced back to September 1880. It was on that date that the first Telephone Operators Convention was held at Niagara Falls and the "Hello" badge was created for that event.
During the depths of the Depression, telephones in use fell from 16 to 13 per 100 population and by the late 1970's the number had surpassed 75 per 100 population.
Western Electric mass-produced color telephones for the first time in 1954.
In Japan, Western Electric first sold equipment in 1890, then in 1899 helped form the Nippon Electric Company (NEC). This was Japan's first joint venture with an American firm.
Northern Telecom, Alcatel N.V. and NEC all had roots in Western Electric.
The use of telephone answering machines became popular in 1974.
In the first month of the Bell Telephone Company's existence in 1877, only six telephones were sold.
In 1953, Sony Corporation obtained a transistor license from Western Electric Co. that led to its development of the world's first commercially successful transistor radio.
In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"
Sometimes, early telephone operators would get to know their customers so well, the customers would ask for a reminder call when it was time to remove a cake from the oven, leave the phone off the hook near their sleeping child when they left the house, hoping the operator would hear any cries of distress, request a wake up call before taking a long nap.
Just like today's computers, early telephones were very confusing to new users. Some became so frustrated with the new technology, they attacked the phone with an ax or ripped it out of the wall.
In the early 1880's some well-to-do telephone owners started the unusual trend of paying to have a theatre employee hold a telephone receiver backstage, transmitting live plays and operas into their living rooms.
The first transatlantic wedding took place on December 2, 1933.The groom was in Michigan. The bride, in Sweden. The ceremony took seven minutes and cost $47.50.
In the Catholic church, St. Gabriel, an archangel, is the patron saint of telecommunications.
The famous emergency hotline, whereby the President could have immediate contact with the Kremlin wasn't established until 1984. Prior to 1984, the only direct contact to the Kremlin was a cumbersome teleprinter link, supplying text messages that then had to be translated, responses drafted and sent back.
During President Lyndon Johnson's term, many people mis-dialed the White House number and instead reached the home of a New York housewife. Rose Brown had a near identical phone number. He wrote and thanked her for her diplomacy in receiving his highly sensitive calls and promised to return the favor when her friends and family accidentally dialed the White House.
A gator in the road is a huge piece of tire from a blow out on a truck, called a gator because the fly up when a truck runs one over and take out your air lines causing you to lose air and forcing your spring brakes to come on which causes a rather abrupt stop.
In 1997 a Menorah was built in Latrun, near the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway. It was more than 60-feet tall, weighed 17 metric tons, and took up an area of 600-square meters. A rabbi was lifted in a crane each night of the holiday to light the candles on the menorah, which was made of metal pipes.
Before settling on the name of Tiny Tim for his character in "A Christmas Carol", three other alliterative names were considered by Charles Dickens. They were: Little Larry, Puny Pete and Small Sam.
Kwanzaa has seven basic symbols, which represent values and concepts reflective of African culture.
- Mazao: Fruits, Nuts, and Vegetables
- Mkeka: Place Mat
- Vibunzi: Ear of Corn
- Mishumaa Saba: The Seven Candles
- Kinara: The Candleholder
- Kikombe Cha Umoja: The Unity Cup
- Zawadi: Gifts
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer was conceived by author Robert May in 1939. Two other names he thought of before deciding on Rudolph were Reginald and Rollo.
Electric Christmas tree lights were first used in 1895. The idea for using electric Christmas lights came from an American, Ralph E. Morris. The new lights proved safer than the traditional candles.
The name of the dog on the Cracker Jack box is Bingo.
According to Scientific American magazine: if you live in the northern hemisphere, odds are that every time you fill your lungs with air at least one molecule of that air once passed thru Socrates lungs.
It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
The U.S. Library of Congress has compiled a 232-source bibliography on the subject of when, properly speaking, centuries roll over. Almost all of the sources agree that the twentieth century will not end until December 31, 2000.
The Times Square "time ball" is named the "Star of Hope". It was specially made for this year and contains 504 glass crystals cut into triangles, 600 light bulbs, 96 big lights, and 92 mirrors.
The official time ball for the U.S. is on top of the U.S. naval Observatory in Washington, DC As early as 1845, the U.S. Navy dropped a time ball every noon from atop a building on a hill overlooking Washington, DC. People from many miles could set their watches at noon. Ships anchored in the Potomac River could check their chronometers.
Left-handed people are statistically more likely to be geniuses, and to be insane. Left-handedness is more common among writers and some kinds of artists. But lefties tend to be more accident-prone and on average don't live as long.
Did you know that Beetle from the comic strip 'Beetle Bailey' and Lois from the comic strip 'Hi and Lois' are brother and sister?
The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.
The earliest recorded case of a man giving up smoking was on April 5, 1679, when Johan Katsu, Sheriff of Turku, Finland, wrote in his diary "I quit smoking tobacco." He died one month later.
A lead pencil is good for about 50,000 words.
1960 was the last model year for Edsel and Desoto.
Woodbury Soap was the first product to show a nude woman in its advertisements. The year - 1936. The photo, by Edward Steichen, showed a rear full-length view of a woman sunbathing - wearing only sandals.
London's Millennium Dome, the largest of its kind in the world, is over one kilometer in circumference and covers over 80,000 square meters.
The Dome is supported by 43 miles of high-strength cable which holds up 100,000 square meters of fabric.
The translucent roof is 50 meters high at the center and strong enough to support a jumbo jet.
The Dome could contain two Wembley Stadiums or the Eiffel Tower on its side. You could even fit the Great Pyramid of Giza inside it.
St. Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
It's rumored that sucking on a copper penny will cause a breathalyzer to read 0.
According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
The car-making Dodge brothers Horace and John were Jewish, that's why the first Dodge emblem had a star of David in it.
Studebaker was the only major car company to stop manufacturing cars while making a profit on them.
The issue of leap year and the weirdness of February is always worth looking at because, coming so infrequently, who can remember the explanation for it from the last time? The earth revolves around the sun every 365.24 days, not an even 365. That produces an extra day's worth of hours every four years. We could distribute them as a bonus to everyone: a one-day time-out every fourth year in which the clock is stopped and we stay in bed all day. But we don't. Instead we add an extra day onto February.
Why February? It was originally the last month on the Roman calendar and a logical place to stick the extra day. But Julius Caesar changed the first month to January, stranding February and its little peculiarity in the second spot.
The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year - Charles Lindbergh in 1927.
Kate "God Bless America" Smith sold more U.S. war bonds than anyone else during World War II. She sold $600 million worth.
The Nike "swoosh" logo was designed by University of Oregon student Carolyn Davidson in 1964, four years after business undergraduate Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman founded the company they originally called Blue Ribbon Sports. Ms. Davidson was paid $35 dollars for her design.
If you need to dial the telephone and your dial is disabled, you can tap the button in the cradle. If, for example, you need to dial 911, you can tap the button 9 times, then pause, then tap once, then again.
Turning a clock's hands counterclockwise while setting it is not necessarily harmful. It is only damaging when the timepiece contains a chiming mechanism.
On June 10, 1958, a tornado was crashing through El Dorado, Kansas. The storm pulled a woman out of her house and carried her sixty feet away. She landed, relatively unharmed, next to a phonograph record titled "Stormy Weather."
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
The height and width of modern American battleships was originally determined by insuring they had to be able to go beneath the Brooklyn Bridge and through the Panama Canal.
Nobody knows where the body of Voltaire is. It was stolen in the nineteenth century and has never been recovered. The theft was discovered in 1864, when the tomb was opened and found empty.
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I used to read ALOT of these things like a year ago.
but I cant seem to remmeber any good sites.
if you search google you can find some.
Aug 19 2005, 01:59 AM
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wow... there are a lot of strange facts here!
Redsox: 2004 World Champions!!!
Redsox: 6 World Series
Yankees: 21 World Series
We'll catch up
Aug 19 2005, 02:15 AM
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heh yeah... hey im left handed . And i heard about that spider thing before too. I heard you swallow something like 7 i nyour lifetime.
Aug 19 2005, 02:17 AM
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You guys ought to look up how many bug parts/fecies are allowed in your food.....
Example: TOMATO JUICE
Drosophila fly (AOAC 955.46)
Average of 10 or more fly eggs per 100 grams
5 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams
2 or more maggots per 100 grams, in a minimum of 12 subsamples
The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
That would mean you spend over 2 hours a day waiting in line.....
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Aug 19 2005, 02:18 AM
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QUOTE(squirrelboy @ Aug 18 2005, 11:37 PM)
You guys ought to look up how many bug parts/fecies are allowed in your food.....
The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
That would mean you spend over 2 hours a day waiting in line.....
are you sure thats right?
Redsox: 2004 World Champions!!!
Redsox: 6 World Series
Yankees: 21 World Series
We'll catch up
Aug 19 2005, 02:26 AM
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let's see...
50/5=10 (in other words) 5 years = one tenth of his life.
I take a tenth of a day:
24/10=2.4 hours a day (2 hours 24 minutes)
That would be an average of 2 hours 24 minutes a day, btw.
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Oh dude I love these I read them everyday with my grandma(shut up shes tight! lol)
i love the nebraska one! im from NEBRASKA yay even though i hate kool aid
The official soft drink of the state of Nebraska - Kool-Aid.
Im gonan start buying more apples..i hate coffee anyway
Aug 19 2005, 12:23 PM
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G.O.L.F. originally stood for Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.
I guess gender equallity didn't mean jack back then huh?
Also, most body parts can be measured against other body parts, e.g. your foot (Without shoe) fits between the heel of your hand and your elbow or if you ball up your fists and then put your elbows and thumbs together (Kind of like praying), it's the size of your brain.
Another is, way back when companies relied on a better product to out-do their their competitors, there were two companies, "The Coca-Cola" company and "Pepsi-Co ltd", both had great products but for some reason could not out-do each other (Probably because they used the same basic formula). Anyway, to put a long story short, the Coke factory (Yes 'THE factory' they started out with just one) burned down. After a couple years of trying and failing to re-create their formula Coke gave up and made a whole new one. So if you really think about it, Pepsi is more Coke than Coke is. I'll still take Coke over Pepsi though, thats just how I was raised.
Oh yeh, 1 more. Coke used to have cocaine in it rather than caffine. Hence the name Coca-Cola. Damn drug laws .
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Every Year:
400,000 Americans suffer injuries involving beds, matresses and pillows
Thats 1,500 bed, matress or pillow injuries a day
50,000 Americans are injured by pens, pencils and other desktop equipment.
46,000 Americans are injured by sounds equipment, 44,000 by skateboards
30,000 Americans a year injure themselves with paper money and coins
263,000 Americans are injured by ceilings
142,00 Americans are injured by clothes
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|Boys' C ends with big win
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Holyoke boys' C basketball team came away with a nice victory over Akron Thursday, Feb. 16 to wrap up the 2011-12 season.
The Dragons beat the Rams 49-17. They jumped ahead early and led Akron 11-4 after the first quarter.
Holyoke outscored Akron 13-9 in the second, 11-2 in the third and 14-2 in the final quarter to secure the lopsided win.
Matt Golden led the team with 16 points. Wyatt Powell had six, Daniel Bencomo, Ivan Millan and Kody Timm each had five, Jesus Martinez four, Zach Roll and Ramon Favela three and Chris Bieber two.
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Getting an Unhappy Birthday Surprise
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No, the question didn't work magic. It didn't totally suspend my fears. I was still scared, but I was determined to keep fear from obscuring my goal.
As I approach my 56th birthday I can't help but recall some unforgettable birthdays — like the surprise party my wife planned for my 50th or the dozen cupcakes I devoured and threw up just prior to my 7th birthday party.
But the birthday I'll never forget was my 45th birthday when my Air Force supervisor came into my office at Patrick Air Force Base, Brevard County, wearing a strained expression.
"I'm sorry to have to tell you this," he said, "but your name didn't appear on the Air Force promotion list to major."
I was unsure how to interpret the news. The pessimist in me said I'd just been fired. If my optimist was saying something, I couldn't hear it because the pessimist was screaming too loudly. I knew that I had only six months before I would be unemployed and stranded 3,000 miles away from my California home.
The only reaction I offered my supervisor was, "And this is my birthday."
It was about that time that a colleague presented me with a helpful book titled, "Who Moved My Cheese?"
The authors, Spencer Johnson, M.D. and Ken Blanchard, seemed to be proclaiming that change was the only certainty in life, so deal with it. The book uses a parable format to depict talking lab mice that work to outsmart the scientists who are constantly moving their cheese into an unfamiliar part of their maze.
Somebody had indeed moved my cheese and the military maze I'd known for eight years became an unfriendly place.
I spent the next hour hunting through the pages for help. Then about halfway through the book, I stopped, taken aback by a particularly evocative question that the mice characters found written inside their maze.
"What would you do if you weren't afraid?"
I stopped and looked away, paraphrasing the conundrum aloud in a slow and thoughtful repetition.
"What would I do if I weren't so afraid of change?" I asked myself.
It was abundantly clear what I normally did when I felt afraid. I got upset, I fretted, and then became a generally rude person toward those who loved me.
But the authors were insisting that I answer a very different question: "What would I do if I weren't afraid?"
I stood and went to the copy machine where I enlarged the quote into a mini poster that I placed above my desk.
A few weeks later, as fear melted from the equation, I came to know exactly what I would do. I would return to my California home and to the most rewarding ministry of my life — I determined to resume my previous career in hospital chaplaincy.
No, the question didn't work magic. It didn't totally suspend my fears. I was still scared, but I was determined to keep fear from obscuring my goal. I printed my resumés, scheduled hospital interviews and kept pressing toward the goal. Three months later, I had six job offers for hospital chaplaincies and I returned to part-time military life as an Air National Guard chaplain (twice since promoted.)
Eleven years have passed since that harsh announcement. But that day continues to remind me that whenever I'm uncertain, fearful, or just plain indecisive, I can reach into my resiliency repertoire for the refrain of that birthday question.
When I think about it long enough, the answer usually floats to the top.
"What do you do if it doesn't work?" you ask. That's easy. I eat a dozen cupcakes.
[ Norris Burkes is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and author. He also serves as an Air National Guard chaplain and is board certified in the Association of Professional Chaplains. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. ]
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4 at State Dept. resign after Benghazi report
Families of 3 San Diegans killed in consulate attack want more answers
Fault for the deaths of four Americans in Libya — including two former Navy SEALs from San Diego and a State Department worker with local ties — is falling partially on four State Department security officials who resigned under pressure Wednesday.
But families of the three San Diegans say they still want to know more, such as who killed their loved ones, if those people will be punished and why an American rescue attempt didn't come sooner.
The resignations came less than a day after a damning report blamed State Department management failures for lack of security at the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, where militants killed the U.S. ambassador and the others. Terrorists, still unnamed in this report, broke into and burned the diplomatic compound on the night of Sept. 11, then attacked a nearby U.S. security annex building early the next morning with mortars.
"The United States side of it obviously could have been a lot stronger in terms of being prepared for an attack like this," said Greg Doherty, brother of Glen Doherty, the former Navy SEAL from Encinitas who was killed in the Benghazi attack
"But the United States didn't commit this attack, so I still want to know about the other side. Who did it and what are we doing about them?"
Charlie Woods, father of former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods of Imperial Beach, questioned whether the unclassified report really gives the answers he craves, such as why a rescue force didn't arrive sooner.
"When a mission is compromised, within minutes — not hours — they extract them. Seven and a half hours, and they still have not extracted him," Woods said Wednesday.
"I have correspondence from people who are in the military, and they tell me extraordinary measures are always taken to rescue. And they didn't do that with Ty, and there's a reason why. We're not getting the truth from anyone."
Obama administration officials said those resigning were Eric Boswell, the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security; Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary responsible for embassy security; and Raymond Maxwell, the deputy assistant secretary of state who oversees the Maghreb nations of Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. The fourth hadn't been named, and officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss personnel matters publicly.
The decisions of these officials were criticized in the unclassified version of the Accountability Review Board's report released late Tuesday.
The board's co-chairman, retired Adm. Mike Mullen, told reporters that the board had not determined that any officials had "engaged in willful misconduct or knowingly ignored his or her responsibilities,"
But Mullen, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, added, "We did conclude that certain State Department bureau-level senior officials in critical levels of authority and responsibility in Washington demonstrated a lack of leadership and management ability appropriate for senior ranks in their responses to security concerns posed by the special mission."
Mullen said the mission's security fell through bureaucratic cracks caused in part because buildings were categorized as temporary. The report said that budget constraints had caused some officials to be more concerned with saving scarce money than in security.
Patricia Smith, of Clairemont, the mother of slain State Department information specialist Sean Smith, has been critical of the administration's handling of the Benghazi attack. She said the report and resignations have changed nothing.
"Nobody's admitting to anything," she said. "I see no difference whatsoever. It's all a big cover up. I'm not happy with it. It just does not seem right."
Panel co-chairman Thomas Pickering, a retired ambassador, said security precautions were "grossly inadequate" and the contingent was overwhelmed by the heavily armed militants.


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Courtney Love is in the early stages of turning her late husband Kurt Cobain's life story into a Broadway musical.
In a new NME magazine article to mark the 20th anniversary of the Nirvana star's death later this month, the rocker has revealed she and her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, have agreed to develop the project if they get the right people involved.
She says, "After being swarmed by tons of Nirvana fan mail and social media posts pushing for a musical to become a reality, both Frances and I have thought long and hard and agreed that if we can reach up to the highest shelf and select a team of the greatest and most respected writers, producers and directors, then a Broadway musical is very likely to happen."
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But the musical won't come together in a hurry.
Love adds, "There would have to be a story, and a great story, one that hasn't been told before. I would devote countless hours with an A-team to create a project that reflects Kurt in the most respectful but honest way possible, so that his story, his music and his legacy can be resurrected on stage for not only the world to see, but more importantly for our daughter to see.
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"I know her father's spirit will be on that stage, and sitting in that theatre with her will be the most emotional experience of our lives."
Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, Washington on April 8, 1994.