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Malgketa ...Burkina FasoAgricultureFunding via Micro Start/AFD
Wezenidibam...Burkina FasoFoodFunding via Agence Communautaire pour le Financement de la Micro Entreprise (ACFIME)
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Update on Bao Beoneere GroupMr. ZAKARIA is the official of the group BAO BEONEERE. He is doing well and has even had a second baby. He is married and the father of two. The oldest is 4 years old, and the youngest is 6 months. He has three persons to support.
Mr. ZAKARIA has had a store for two years. He gets his supplies from the Sector 21 market. His customers include both men and women.
He wants to purchase 10 sacks of rice, 3 containers of oil, and 5 boxes of spaghetti. He wants to reinvest his profits. He would like to expand his business and to take better care of his family.
Mr gère une boutique depuis 02ans. Elle s'approvisionne au marché du secteur 21. Ses clients sont les femmes et les hommes.
Elle veut s'acheter 10sacs de riz, 03bidons d'huile et 05cartons de spaquetti.
Mr veut réinvestir ses bénéfices. Elle souhaite étendre les limites de son activité et mieux s'occuper de sa famille.
Previous Loan DetailsMr. ZAKARYA is the leader of the group BAO BEONEERE. He is a married father of a 3-year-old child who does not yet go to school. He supports three people. Mr. Zakarya has been selling foodstuffs for two years. He buys his merchandise at the market of sector 10 and in downtown Sankariyaré. His ... More from Bao Beoneere Group's previous loan »
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About Micro Start/AFDThis loan is administered by Micro Start/AFD, Kiva's first Field Partner in Burkina Faso. Micro Start/AFD's mission is to improve families' living conditions in general, and those of women in particular, by facilitating access to financial and non-financial services.
Micro Start/AFD is a professional microfinance institution offering financial services, advice, and training. One of the organization's principal aims is to collect obligatory and voluntary savings that foster clients' financial independence. Micro Start/AFD also focuses on building female entrepreneurs' skills in management and business administration and improving the living conditions in its clients' communities. More information can be found on Micro Start's Kiva Field Partner Page.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 8 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Jun 14, 2013
- Listed
- Jul 14, 2013
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Jan 17, 2014


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Since its birth, cinema has made a paradoxical demand on its viewers: to consciously suspend their disbelief. This remains a preoccupation for contemporary artists who have grown up exposed to an intense flow of still and moving images. The film and video works in this exhibition focus on the tension between image, narrative and the viewer's perception.
Together they expose the fracture between what we are shown on screen and what we see. Borrowing from various cinematic conventions, as well as formats including lecture, documentary, rehearsal and found footage, they examine the limits of our imagination and credulity. With a variety of approaches, their references move between the black boxes of movie theatres and the 'black mirrors' of our TV screens, computers and smart phones.
The exhibition blurs the boundary between depiction and deception and questions the logic of storytelling. Does the illusive charm of the moving image undermine its authority as a visual record? And what role does the viewer's imagination play in constructing a narrative?
Artists: Herman Asselberghs, Manon de Boer, Sherif El-Azma, Patricia Esquivias, Lars Laumann, Maha Maamoun, Ján Man?uška.
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WASHINGTON — Stung by a South Carolina setback that capped a bad week, Mitt Romney said he would release his tax returns Tuesday in hopes of ending a campaign distraction while revived rival Newt Gingrich said he was the strongest Republican to go "toe to toe" with President Barack Obama.
Rick Santorum, third in the South Carolina vote, maintained he was the lone "consistent conservative" left in the race and pledged to keep campaigning in Florida, next on the calendar with its Jan. 31 primary, and beyond.
The newly scrambled presidential contest shifted to Florida after Gingrich stopped Romney's sprint to the nomination with a convincing victory in the first-in-the South primary. For now, that removed the air of inevitability that surrounded Romney's candidacy. But Florida is larger, more diverse and more expensive, and brings new challenges for Gingrich. Once again, he must show he can overcome financial and organizational disadvantages, as he did in South Carolina.
"One of the reasons I think people in South Carolina voted for me was a belief that I could debate Obama head to head, that I could convey conservative values," said Gingrich as the candidates made the rounds of the Sunday talk shows.
"I think we had better be prepared for a tough campaign, whoever we nominate," the former House speaker said. He added, "I can go toe to toe with President Obama on big things. ... I think you can draw a very strong case that in the end the dynamics of a Gingrich/Obama fight are much better for Republicans than the dynamics of a Romney/Obama fight."
Romney said it was "not a good week for me" and cited all the time he had spent talking about his tax returns as his rivals pressed him to make them public before his promised date in April.
After months of resistance, Romney had said last week that he would release tax information for 2011, but not until close to the tax filing deadline. That also was seen as a time, before the South Carolina race rattled his front-runner status, when the GOP nomination might have been decided.
"I think we just made a mistake in holding off as long as we did. It just was a distraction. We want to get back to the real issues of the campaign: leadership, character, a vision for America, how to get jobs again in America and how to rein in the excessive scale of the federal government," said Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and venture capitalist.
Romney disclosed last week that, despite his wealth of hundreds of millions of dollars, he has been paying in the neighborhood of 15 percent, far below the top maximum income tax rate of 35 percent, because his income "comes overwhelmingly from investments made in the past."
"Given all the attention that's been focused on tax returns, given the distraction that I think they became in these last couple of weeks," Romney said Sunday he would release his 2010 returns and estimates for his 2011 returns at the same time "so there's not a second release down the road."
"We'll be putting our returns on the Internet, people can look through them," Romney said. "It will provide, I think, plenty of information for people to understand that the sources of my income are exactly as described in the financial disclosure statements we put out a couple of months ago.
During 2010 and the first nine months of 2011, the Romney family had at least $9.6 million in income, according to a financial disclosure form submitted in August.
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Assassin's Creed III Ubiworkshop Edition Bundles Pages Galore
Written Thursday, May 31, 2012 By Richard WalkerView author's profile
If you don't fancy the standard, Special Edition, 'Freedom Edition' or 'Join or Die Edition' of Assassin's Creed III, then Ubisoft has yet another option for you to add to the array of previously announced editions of the game.
This one's called the Assassin's Creed III Ubiworkshop Edition, and bundles the game with the 336-page hardcover Assassin's Creed Encyclopedia Second Edition and the 208-page softcover Assassin's Creed: Subject 4 graphic novel, which contains the entire run of Daniel Cross/Nikolai Orelov comic book stories, covered in AC: The Fall and its sequel AC: The Chain.
You can pre-order the Assassin's Creed III Ubiworkshop Edition from the Ubi Store for the special price of $99.99 until July 4th (US Independence Day), after which point it'll cost $109.99. Assassin's Creed III is out on October 30th, 2012. Check out the AC III Ubiworkshop Edition in the image below.


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Holley's Bracket Racer Ignition System - The Strip AnnihilatorWritten by on June 1, 2002 Holleys Bracket Racer Ignition System
We arent going to kid youthe Holley Strip Annihilator ignition, as its name implies, isnt for the average guy looking for a hotter spark for better cruise night shenanigans. Its a serious drag racing ignition control system intended for the regular bracket racer. In addition to the expected high spark intensity, Holleys PN 800-210 Strip Annihilator includes the following race-only user-programmable features:
Burnout rev limiter to prevent destructive valve float and connecting-rod strain in the bleach box
Staging rev limiter to set engine rpm when the trans-brake button is depressed and the gas pedal hits the floor
Main rev limiter to prevent engine overspeed damage in case of a missed shift or driveline breakage
Dual rpm-activated switches to control the on/off function of things like air shifters, nitrous solenoids, and shift lights
Each rev-limiting function is programmable within a range of 0 to 16,000 rpm, sufficiently broad coverage for practically any engine this side of Formula One. The severity of the ignition interruption is also programmable between random and sequential settings. The random pattern drops spark to all cylinders until the engine speed falls below the preset limit and is recommended for engines larger than 500ci or more than 700hp that may not respond quickly enough to a less drastic ignition cutoff. The sequential pattern drops ignition in a predetermined pattern, while not totally eliminating spark, until the engine speed falls to a safe level. The sequential pattern can be programmed for mild to aggressive spark interruption, all the while preventing the accumulation of unburned fuel, and is recommended for engines under 500ci or less than 700hp.
But multiple rev limiters are only part of the story. The Strip Annihilators fully programmable ignition timing curve lets you design your own custom advance curve in 500-rpm increments ranging from 500 to 9,500 rpm. No more vacuum canisters, no more juggling advance springs and weights, and no more soldering and brazing to come up with the right balance of initial and total spark advance. Just disable (lock out) your distributors vacuum and centrifugal advance mechanisms and then use the handheld Quickshot push-button programmer to create the perfect ignition advance curve for your particular engines needs.
While it takes awhile initially to set and learn the controls, we found the programmable timing curve the best feature, and practical for street cars. If youve got high compression, retard timing a few degrees at the bottom of the curve to limit cylinder pressure when cranking, making it easier for the starter to spin the motor. Got a motor that likes to rev, a loose converter, and steep gears? Dial up a more aggressive curve that brings total timing in sooner. Thatll light the mixture faster and increase peak cylinder pressure for better torque. On the flipside, if your mill is prone to momentary pre-ignition at a particular rpm point, say during the upshift into Drive, isolate the engine speed where the rattle takes place and try pulling out a few degrees of timing. The point is, the Strip Annihilator gives you unmatched flexibility to sculpt a perfect advance curve. Just remember to play it safe. Give your motor all the octane it needs, follow the instructions to the letter, and be sure you have a firm grasp on the hows and whys of ignition timing to avoid engine damage. We asked Turbo Joe Morgan (see his Focus wagon in the Featured Cars section) to walk us through the finer points.
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The 800-210 Strip Annihilator ignition system comes with everything shown here (except the coil at top left). The wiring harness is long enough to allow the ignition control module (and plug-in programmer) to be mounted under the hood, in the passenger compartment, or in the trunk. The wires are neatly twisted around each other and must be left that way to prevent electrical interference and malfunction.The weatherproof digital control module contains a microprocessor, a capacitor, a transformer, and a charging circuit that generates 135 mJ of energy at 525 volts. We mounted it on the inner fender, close to the distributor and a good 12-volt power supply from the starter relay to keep wire routing hassles to a minimum.The Strip Annihilator is a capacitive discharge ignition system, and stock coils from inductive ignition systems won't work. We used an 820-100 Holley Laser Shot Pro Coil mounted to the firewall.The handheld Quickshot programmer has a 5-foot cable that plugs into the control module. Here the main over-rev limiter is being set to interrupt the ignition at 6,500 rpm. Read the instructions thoroughly (then make sure not to lose them), and the initial setup and subsequent fine- tuning operations are easily performed thanks to simple codes that appear on the LED readout. Adjustments can be made with or without the engine running, but to prevent possible circuit damaging voltage spikes, the Quickshot programmer should never be connected or disconnected when the ignition is hot.High-quality Packard connectors seal out moisture and make it possible to swap the Strip Annihilator system from one car to another. Give it a quick re-programming and it's ready to go. If the control module's two-wire power harness, main harness, or auxiliary harness are not fit for swapping, Holley offers replacements. Just call the tech line at 270/781-9741.Though Holley recommends a crank-trigger ignition for maximum results, conventional points and electronic distributors are easily adapted by locking out the vacuum and centrifugal advance mechanisms. A timing tape or degreed harmonic balancer is required for proper crank, reluctor, and rotor phasing. After we gutted our pricey Mopar Performance small-block distributor, we discovered that a distributor from a late-'70s Lean Burn-equipped small-block is already locked out. Before you permanently alter your distributor, check to see if there's an '80s-vintage EFI lock-out distributor for your application.


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Introduced to KADET by a KADET staff member, Jane is applying for her first loan in order to buy seedlings and fertilizers for her farm. With the anticipated profit from the business she will venture into pig-keeping. Her dreams are to breed pigs in large quantities and be the distributor of pork in her home area so as to improve the living standard of her family.
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In baseball, the vast majority of damage a hitter does is by smashing a bad pitch.
The pitcher is trying to throw a ball past the batter. The batter is trying to hit it.
The worst pitch for a pitcher to make is sometimes called a "fat pitch" -- that's a very straight, relatively slow pitch in the middle of the plate and the middle of the hitter's power zone.
In Major League Baseball, almost every full-time player is going to hit the fat pitch hard. The majority of those hard-struck balls with turn into doubles and home runs.
But the majority of people in the world aren't able to hit the fat pitch in baseball, they'd probably have a hard time hitting a baseball at all.
Opportunities in life are something like that. The majority of even really-big opportunities will be missed and you'll face setbacks.
A few people through the ages seem to seize most of their opportunities -- Napoleon Bonaparte hit almost all of his fat pitches, which respectively made him Captain, General, First Consul, and Emperor.
John D. Rockefeller hit almost of all his fat pitches, going into oil in The Flats in in 1863, recruiting Samuel Andrews as chemist, buying out his partners the Clark Brothers for $72.5k at auction when they wanted out, starting Standard Oil and then buying 22 out of 26 Cleveland oil refineries in 1872, and even profiting from the breakup of Standard Oil in anti-trust litigation: many people don't realize his net worth rose 500% after the breakup of Standard Oil, with greater competition among his former companies leading to innovation and with him owning a piece of all of it.
You see this rare pattern in a few sorts of characters: Julius Caesar and his nephew Octavian, Genghis Khan and Subutai, Charlemagne .
But despite the utter rarity of this type of situation, something sets into the consciousness of people who read their stories. While this sort of leader often has reverses, he seems to seize and make the most of big opportunities.
Yet... it seems like the vast majority of people simply cannot do that for whatever reason, and moreover -- it's probably less necessary these days, because there's a greater proportion of pitches to hit.
In olden times, both time and geography worked against the majority of those who would do much in the world. Communications were bad, erratic, and unreliable -- and that was only within a hundred or two miles nearest you, past that there was nothing! Things developed slowly, but events came to a head just as quickly. In olden times, people had less experience needing to make rapid world-changing decisions, were less prepared for them, and the moment when a grand opportunity could be seized came once a decade -- at best.
Nowadays, if you're exposing yourself to lots of good information and interesting circles to run in, you might get a fat pitch to hit twice a year, or more. It's both aggravating and agonizing to miss one, but it's non-fatal. It's a signal that you need to build greater preparation, get your house in order more, and emphasize rapid effective decision-making.
There's no sense crying over spilt milk. If you keep immersing and exposing yourself to the winds of change, you'll find them blowing faster and harder than ever. Doing immense things might have once required catching the once-a-decade fair wind that gusted. Now, when you miss one, it's a reminder to get your house in order because the next will come at you shortly after.
How does a person increase the number of fat pitches thrown at him, starting from a position of relatively few pitches?
I imagine that building useful skills would be a good place to start. But I'd love to hear how others have done it.
For me it's been being more social and reaching out to people I otherwise wouldn't have. I try to come up with a question for every author of every book I've read and send them an email. I actively reach out to past clients to ask how their business is coming along. I make socialization a point, because in the end a lot of those opportunities will come from other people.
Building skills would certainly be useful, but I imagine the most important thing is simply to push the boundaries of what you're comfortable with. Put yourself out there, and the skills will likely follow.
Even if you a whiz at something, you're never gonna get a "fat pitch" if you don't go looking for them.
There's an abundance of talented people in this world; it's a willingness to do that separates the successful from the also rans.
That makes sense! But if I had an example from experience, it would be a lot more concrete.
Any chance someone can supply one?
Speaking from experience, many 'Fat Pitches' that came in my way began with simply saying 'yes' to many different opportunities. This was something I had to learn.
I've missed a few before (e.g offers for very good work positions) simply because I was too slow to respond, hesitant, or doubtful.
As soon as I made a conscious decision to say 'yes' to opportunities, no matter how small, I began to see more fat pitches being thrown my way. Simple things like taking the effort to reach out to your role models via email, accepting and arranging for coffee meetings with people you've never met, and being more aware of the type of information you are consuming and how much productive time you're spending in a day.
Initially, this will be daunting. Doing things like meeting total strangers in person pushes us out of our comfort zones, and we have to rapidly adapt when meeting people from different backgrounds, for example. It's a constantly evolving experience; i'm getting better at it every day, and there still is definitely much to learn, but the opportunity to learn begins with you being willing to in the first place.
This pretty much sums up what Sebastian meant by being able to hit these pitches - receiving fat pitches are useless unless you know how to hit em'. And in life, the more you learn how to hit them, the more fat pitches will come your way.
So if you're ever in a position of low fat pitches, begin by saying 'yes' to any kind of pitch. Build yourself up, and constantly be on your feet for when a fat pitch does come your way. It's a self-reinforcing mechanism, so being proactive is definitely the way to go.
--Nietzsche, Zarathustra
Modafinil isn't the biggest gain I've made towards peak experiences -- that'd be just basic exercise. It's not the largest gain towards general well-being, which is just a cleaner diet and very good hydration. It's not even the biggest no-brainer of a nootropic, the honor of which probably goes to Piracetam.
But with that said -- wow. It's some pretty amazing stuff.
In this post, we'll cover: 1. The effects and subjective experience, negative and postive, of Modafinil. 2. The routine I built around taking it, through trial and error, for best performance. 3. Some jumping-off points for further research.
I attended last year's FounderConference, which was at MSFT's Mountain View campus, and captured the content of the event. I also took a panoramic shot that Alain used for the 2011 conference, and in exchange he comp'd a ticket for me to attend this year.
As part of my goal to help entrepreneurs worldwide be more successful (i.e., my fundraising manifesto), I've captured the content of this year's Founders Conference below. This year's event was much larger than 2010, at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts, with about 500 people attending.


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Directed by David Terry Fine and based on the essay "Seeing at the Speed of Sound" by Rachel Kolb, who narrates this short film.
Directed by David Terry Fine and based on the essay "Seeing at the Speed of Sound" by Rachel Kolb, who narrates this short film.
Brendan Chilcutt's Museum of Endangered Sounds preserves the sounds made by "old technologies and electronics equipment." Read the rest
Last Friday evening, numerous people in Jakarta, Indonesia reported and recorded mysterious, low trumpet-like sounds in the sky. Listen for yourself below. Scientists often try to explain away these strange noises as "Earth sounds" caused by shifting tectonic plates, atmospheric phenomena, geomagnetic activity, or the like. But we all know it's really the trumpets of the apocalypse.
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Need to spice up your next meeting or school presentation? Dave Pedu created this handy button to play the now-ubiquitous musical sting! Read the rest
433 Hz. Now you know. Read the rest
Aeroacoustics expert Nigel Peake of Cambridge University leads a group of engineers mimicking owl wing feathers to reduce noise on wind turbines. Read the rest
The voice you can hear above is Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Bell's voice, not likely heard anywhere since he died in 1922, was retrieved from a wax-and-cardboard disc recorded on April 15, 1885 and recently "played" for the first time in more than a century. That's the disc above, looking strangely similar to a CD. The recording was identified and digitized by a team including researchers from the National Museum of American History, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Library of Congress. In the clip above, Bell says "Hear my voice, Alexander Graham Bell." You can listen to nearly five minutes more of the recording session below. (via Smithosnian and The Atlantic)
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When I go to science museums, I like to press the buttons. I'm convinced this is a special joy that you just do not grow out of. Hit the button. See something cool happen. Feel the little reward centers of your brain dance the watusi.
But, as a curmudgeonly grown-up, I also often feel like there is something missing from this experience. There have definitely been times when I've had my button-pushing fun and gotten a few yards away from the exhibit before I've had to stop and think, "Wait, did I just learn anything?"
Science museums are chaotic. They're loud. They're usually full of small children. Your brain is pulled in multiple directions by sights, sounds, and the knowledge that there are about 15 people behind you, all waiting for their turn to press the button, too. In fact, research has shown that adults often avoid science museums (and assume those places aren't "for them") precisely because of those factors. Sound Uncovered is an interactive ebook published by The Exploratorium, the granddaddy of modern science museums. Really more of an app, it's a series of 12 modules that allow you to play with auditory illusions and unfamiliar sounds as you learn about how the human brain interprets what it hears, and how those ear-brain interactions are used for everything from selling cars to making music. Read the rest
My new ambient-sound-while-working internet radio jam: Brazilian Birds.
(Photo: Toucan eye, a Creative Commons image from doug88888's photostream) Read the rest
Anechoic chambers are pretty damn awesome. Basically, they're rooms designed to be sound-proofed against outside noise, while, inside, sound is prevented from bouncing off the walls. There's no echo. There's a number of ways you can build this, but one system at the University of Salford in England, is actually a room within a room, with the innermost chamber actually mounted on springs, rather than the floor of the outer room.
Anechoic chambers are often used to test out audio equipment or to get accurate audio measurements on systems that are supposed to operate very quietly.
Minnesota Public Radio recently went inside the room that holds the title for world's quietest—an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis.
To get into the anechoic chamber, you go through two bank vault-like doors. The floor in the room is mesh like a trampoline so there's nothing on the floor for the sound to bounce off of. The walls are lined with sound-proofing wedges that are a meter long so they absorb the sound.
...A typical quiet room you sleep in at night measures about 30 decibels. A normal conversation is about 60 decibels. This room has been measured at -9 decibels.
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Read about the history of anechoic chambers.
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Re-creation of Jurassic Cricket song, from Bristol University in the UK by qparker
Listen to this recording. It sounds a little like Sputnik, but it's actually a noise that's not been heard in 165 million years.
This is the song of an extinct species of bush cricket, the fossils of which have been found in China's Inner Mongolia region. Researchers recreated the sound by studying the fossil remains of the crickets' sound-producing organs. From the BBC:
A "plectrum" on one wing was dragged along a microscopic comb-like structure on the other. This produces a continuous "chirp" as the male insects rub, or "stridulate" their wings in a scissor-like motion. Dr Zapata described this stridulation as similar to playing a tiny violin.
Dr Zapata then set out to calculate the frequency of the tone, which denotes how high- or low-pitched it sounded. To to this, he simply compared the size and shape of its music-making or "stridulatory" instruments to those of living cricket species
There are modern bush crickets, but their songs are played at a higher pitch. The low tones produced by this extinct cricket imply that it might have been best adapted to do its singing on the ground, rather than elevated on branches or tall stalks of grass. Lower pitched sounds travel further from that elevation than a high-pitched one would.
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Los Angeles area radio station KPCC produced this lovely video portrait of designer, educator, and media artist Alex Braidwood. His work "explores methods for transforming the relationship between people and the noise in their environment." In the video, you'll see Alex wearing what I believe may be his Noisolation Headphones, "an invention for mechanically transforming the relationship between a person and the noise that immediately surrounds them." His video about that project is below.


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The current population of Sawyer County is 17,546 with the median age of 48. Sawyer County's median household income is $39,661, and the average household net worth is $296,072.
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Age distribution represents the distribution of the population in Sawyer County by age group. In Sawyer County, the male-to-female ratio is 8,851:8,695, which is 3% higher than the ratio of Wisconsin, which is 2,866,617:2,906,549. Age demographic data is sourced from census, 2015.
Crime rate index represents the average crime rate for a local area in comparison to nearby areas and the national average. A crime index of 100 represents the national average. Sawyer County, has 42% more property crime than Wisconsin, and is 18% above the nation's average. Sawyer County, has 14% less personal crime than Wisconsin and when compared to that of United States, Sawyer County is 49% below the national average.
Marital status represents the percent of residents in Sawyer County that are single, married, widowed and divorced. In Sawyer County, 76% of people are married and 24% of people are single. The percent of people married is 1% lower than the ratio of Wisconsin, which is 77%. Marital data is sourced from census, 2015.
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|Aug 10, 2010
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|Oct 12, 2007
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|Oct 12, 2007
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|Hsin-Hui Lee, Mirng-Ji Lii, Chien-Hsiun Lee
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|Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (9), Referenced by (5), Classifications (38), Legal Events (2)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates generally to integrated circuits, and more particularly to the packaging of integrated circuits.
With the evolving of semiconductor technologies, semiconductor dies are becoming increasingly smaller and thinner. As a result, the packaging of the semiconductor dies becomes more difficult, adversely affecting the yield.
Package technologies can be divided into two categories. One category of packaging is referred to as chip level packaging, in which dies are sawed from wafers before they are packaged. Advantageously, only "known-good-dies" are packaged. Another advantageous feature of this packaging technology is the possibility of forming fan-out chip packages, which means that the I/O pads on a die can be redistributed to a greater area than the die, and hence the number of I/O pads packed on the surfaces of the dies can be increased.
The other category is typically referred to as wafer level package (WLP), in which dies on a wafer are typically packaged before they are sawed. The WLP technology has some advantages, such as greater throughput and lower cost. Further, less under-fill or molding compound is needed. However, WLP suffers drawbacks. Typically, wafer level packages are formed in a bare-die form as shown in
In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a method of forming a package structure includes providing a plurality of dies; attaching the plurality of dies onto a heat-dissipating plate; and sawing the heat-dissipating plate into a plurality of packages, each including one of the plurality of dies and a piece of the heat-dissipating plate.
In accordance with another aspect of the present invention, a method of forming a package structure includes providing a wafer; applying a wafer-size glue layer and a dicing tape onto the wafer, wherein the wafer-size glue layer adjoins both the wafer and the dicing tape; sawing the wafer and the wafer-size glue layer into a first plurality of die units, each comprising a die and a glue layer attached to the die; detaching the dicing tape from the first plurality of die units; attaching a second plurality of die units onto a heat-dissipating plate, wherein the second plurality of die units comprises at least one die unit in the first plurality of die units; filling encapsulation materials into spaces between the die units; mounting solder balls over and electrically connected to bond pads of dies in the second plurality of die units; and sawing the heat-dissipating plate into a plurality of packages, each comprising a die unit and a piece of the heat-dissipating plate.
In accordance with yet another aspect of the present invention, a package structure includes a heat spreader; a die over the heat spreader, wherein the die has a first surface, and a second surface opposite the first surface; a glue layer adjoining the first surface of the die to the heat-dissipating plate; and an encapsulation material over the heat spreader and encircling the die. All edges of the encapsulation material are co-terminus with respective edges of the heat spreader. A bottom surface of the encapsulation material adjoins a top surface of the heat spreader. The package structure further includes a plurality of conductive connectors on the second surface of the die, wherein the conductive connectors are selected from the group consisting essentially of solder balls and conductive bumps.
In accordance with yet another aspect of the present invention, a package structure includes a heat-dissipating plate; a plurality of dies over the heat-dissipating plate; a plurality of glue layers, each adjoining one of the plurality of dies and the heat-dissipating plate; and a plurality of conductive connectors on the plurality of dies.
In accordance with yet another aspect of the present invention, a package structure includes a heat spreader; a die over the heat spreader; a thermally conductive glue layer between and adjoining the die and the heat-dissipating plate; a first encapsulation material over the heat spreader and encircling a lower portion of the die; a plurality of conductive connectors on the top surface of the die; and a second encapsulation material over the first encapsulation material and encircling an upper portion of the die. A top surface of the first encapsulation material is lower than a top surface of the die. A top surface of the second encapsulation material is higher than the top surface of the die and lower than top surfaces of the conductive connectors.
The advantageous features of the present invention include improved thermal dissipating ability of semiconductor dies and reduced likelihood of die chipping.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention, and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following descriptions taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:
The making and using of the presently preferred embodiments are discussed in detail below. It should be appreciated, however, that the present invention provides many applicable inventive concepts that can be embodied in a wide variety of specific contexts. The specific embodiments discussed are merely illustrative of specific ways to make and use the invention, and do not limit the scope of the invention.
A novel package structure and methods of forming the same are provided. The intermediate stages of manufacturing a preferred embodiment of the present invention are illustrated. Throughout the various views and illustrative embodiments of the present invention, like reference numbers are used to designate like elements.
As is commonly known in the art, after the fabrication, semiconductor wafers typically go through wafer-grinding processes to reduce their thicknesses. The dies in the semiconductor wafers are tested. The semiconductor wafers are then diced (sawed), and only known-good-dies are kept for packaging.
Dicing tape 26, which may be the commonly known blue tape, is attached to the backside of semiconductor wafer 20 through glue layer 24, which has a size equal to, or even greater than wafer 20. Preferably, glue layer 24 has a high thermal conductivity, for example, greater than about 1.57 W/(m*K), which is close to the thermal conductivity of silicon at room temperature. More preferably, the thermal conductivity of glue layer 24 is greater than about 5 W/(m*K). The thickness of glue layer 24 is preferably between about 5 μm and about 35 μm. Thermal fillers may be added into glue layer 24 to further enhance it thermal conductivity. Semiconductor wafer 20 is sawed along scribe lines, and hence dies 22 are separated from each other. Blue tape 26 is then detached from glue layer 24. Since the kerfs extend into glue layer 24, wafer 20 and glue layer 24 are separated into die units 21, each including a piece of glue layer (referred to as glue layer 28) attached to one of the dies 22.
Referring to
Heat-dissipating plate 30 is pre-marked with the positions of dies 22, so that dies 22 may be accurately mounted on desirable positions on heat-dissipating plate 30. Glue layers 28 are used to join dies 22 and heat-dissipating plate 30. Spaces are left between neighboring die units 22.
Next, conductive connectors are formed on bond pads 36.
In alternative embodiments, as is shown in
Referring to
Next, marks (not shown) are made on the top surface of encapsulation material 42, and the structure shown in
The embodiment of the present invention can also be used on micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices. As is known in the art, MEMS are the integrations of mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a common silicon substrate through micro-fabrication technologies.
The embodiments of the present invention have several advantageous features. First, in the packaging process of dies, the dies are protected by encapsulation materials, and thus are free from chipping. Second, the use of heat-dissipating plates not only improves the handling of thin dies, but also provides a low cost thermal enhancement solution. In addition, the heat-disapating plates may have a same size as existing semiconductor wafers, and thus are compatible with the existing wafer testing equipment. The cost of wafer testing can thus be lowered.
Although the present invention and its advantages have been described in detail, it should be understood that various changes, substitutions and alterations can be made herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Moreover, the scope of the present application is not intended to be limited to the particular embodiments of the process, machine, manufacture, and composition of matter, means, methods and steps described in the specification. As one of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate from the disclosure of the present invention, processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps, presently existing or later to be developed, that perform substantially the same function or achieve substantially the same result as the corresponding embodiments described herein may be utilized according to the present invention. Accordingly, the appended claims are intended to include within their scope such processes, machines, manufacture, compositions of matter, means, methods, or steps.
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|May 1, 2001
|Aug 12, 2003
|Industrial Technologies Research Institute
|Method for forming a wafer level package incorporating a multiplicity of elastomeric blocks and package formed
|Mar 6, 2002
|Jun 21, 2005
|Micron Technology, Inc.
|Method for fabricating encapsulated semiconductor components
|May 16, 2002
|Sep 6, 2005
|Dow Corning Corporation
|Semiconductor package and method of preparing same
|Oct 15, 2004
|Aug 15, 2006
|Infineon Technologies Ag
|Wafer level packages for chips with sawn edge protection
|Jun 27, 2006
|Jan 13, 2009
|Infineon Technologies Ag
|Die configurations and methods of manufacture
|Apr 22, 2003
|Oct 28, 2004
|Tongbi Jiang
|Packaged microelectronic devices and methods for packaging microelectronic devices
|Oct 26, 2004
|Sep 29, 2005
|Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd.
|Semiconductor package with build-up structure and method for fabricating the same
|Jun 27, 2006
|Dec 27, 2007
|Kenneth Rebibis
|Die configurations and methods of manufacture
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|Die configurations and methods of manufacture
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|Powertech Technology Inc.
|Method for manufacturing dies formed with a dielectric layer
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|Feb 19, 2013
|Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
|Dummy wafers in 3DIC package assemblies
|Apr 14, 2009
|Oct 14, 2010
|Yu-Chieh Huang
|Method for manufacturing dies formed with a dielectric layer
|Dec 1, 2010
|Jun 9, 2011
|Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble) Sas
|Rebuilt wafer assembly
|Sep 8, 2011
|Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
|Dummy Wafers in 3DIC Package Assemblies
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|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Oct 12, 2007
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Village schools— 2020 plan takes shape
2011 Year in review: Village Schools
Conrad kept village schools in order
From the moment he started, Craig Conrad has loved his job; he seldom has the same day twice, and is kept busy with a wide spectrum of duties.
A budget for the 2020 plan
The Class of 2020 10-year strategic plan that the Yellow Springs school district began last year was officially approved by the school board at its meeting Thursday, Dec. 8.
Schools talk new tax levy
At their meeting Thursday, Dec. 8, Yellow Springs school board members and administrators initiated a discussion about options available to leverage income through new taxes.
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In the first half, host Rob Simone (email) welcomes author and researcher, Richard Thieme, who'll share his rigorous study of UFOs, and the official government responses to them since World War II. Followed by Mark Michaels and Patricia Johnson, devoted couple and Tantra experts, who address why loneliness is big business, and how we're being fed a bill of goods regarding relationships with so many on-line dating sites selling us the fantasy of true love.
6-10pm PT: Art Bell - Somewhere in Time returns to 2/23/99 when Jeanne Cavelos, an astrophysicist and mathematician, discussed our ecological situation, and biological warfare.
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Hosted by Richard Syrett
Guest(s): Jon Rappoport, Dr. Andrew Sullivan
Guest host Richard Syrett welcomes researcher Jon Rappoport in the first half, who'll share his critique of the cancer industry, which he characterizes as a multi-billion dollar profit driven business that lures people by using scare tactics to sell deadly and dangerous "treatments." In the latter half, Dr. Andrew Silverman, an expert on the Shroud of Turin, will discuss new and exciting evidence that takes the mystery to a new level.
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Hosted by George Noory
Guest(s): Ron Garner
Close friend to the late Dr. Roger Leir, and UFO researcher for over 30 years, Ron Garner will discuss the work of Dr. Leir, including little-known information about their contact with a Brazilian surgeon who was said to operate on a creature from the Varginha case, Brazil's Roswell. He'll also discuss his work researching Area 51, and its five subterranean levels, where an ET being was allegedly housed.
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Guest(s): Dr. Kelly Turner, Rob MacGregor
First Half: Researcher and lecturer in the field of integrative oncology, and the founder of the Radical Remission Project, Dr. Kelly Turner will discuss cases of cancer patients who experienced remission in the absence of Western medicine, or after Western medicine failed.
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Energy reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Russell Gold, will discuss his work covering the hotly contested subject of fracking. Everyday one hundred wells in the U.S. are drilled and hydraulically fractured - or fracked. He will examine both sides of the debate and explain how fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and global economy.
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Mac Davis is perhaps best known for his role in North Dallas Forty in 1979, alongside Nick Nolte. He also had his own TV variety show in the 1970's. He was born in Lubbock, Texas on January 21, 1942, where he was raised. As a singer/songwriter, he wrote "In the Ghetto" and "A Little Less Conversation", both made popular by Elvis Presley. His "I Believe in Music" is likely his most attributed song.Read More...
His most popular song may be "Texas in My Rear View Mirror" which is somewhat autobiographal since he was raised in Lubbock and left there to make it big, only to return later a much wiser man. "Watchin' Scotty Grow" was written for his son, and is better known in the recording made popular by singer Bobby Goldsboro.
Mac Davis was inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2006. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Goodie! Goodie!
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I am going to put this down under the "things I totally could've invented and cannot believe I didn't!" category.
These tins are the new gift basket. Â It sounds so simple. Â Goodie Tins has everything from Baby Tins for the newborn to a tin for coffee and tea lovers.
The great thing about reading blogs is that I get to sign up for giveaways just like you. Â I got this little bad boy thanks to Yadira over at El club de las diosas. Â I picked the Spa Indulgence Tin and tonight, I took a few minutes to do just that: indulge. Â Am I glad I did! I rushed out of the tub over to the computer because I had to tell you guys about it.
First of all, I got this in an adorable box that made me happy just seeing it on my doorstep:
And then what I found inside was just divine. Â A can?! Really? YES! It is genius and I love that unlike a basket, it's a neat way to ship things (Goodie Tins, I am totally going to start shipping things like this from now on, when I don't buy them from you, of course!).
Isn't this cute?! When I opened the box I saw pink tissue paper and it was like Christmas for this mami. Â Even before I opened the can I could smell the fabulous lavender. Â All I can say is: soothing!
Here's what was in my can:
- 2 Large organic lavender soaps
- 1 Travel organic lavender soap
- 1 Tin of premium lavender bath salts
- 1 Shea & cocoa lavender body butter lotion
- 3 Large lavender bath bombs
- 1 Bath gloves
- 1 Natural foam sea sponge
Where do I start?! The bath salts were not the zombie inducing kind. Rather, I felt the zombie easing out of me as I sat quietly in the warm tub. Â I think my favorite thing in there is the body butter. I have no words for it.
I want to write more about this lovely Tin but honestly, I'm a bit too relaxed to think straight at the moment. Â I am going to go chillax for the night. And you? You need to head on over to Goodie Tins and get your own!
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I love the tin too. It is so cute. 🙂
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U.S. Army Sgt. Richard Davis, top, with the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, grapples with Spc. Jacquay Jackson during a combatives tournament semifinal match at Fort Hood, Texas, Feb. 22, 2013. Jackson is assigned to the 4th Sustainment Brigade. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Bradley Wancour/Released)
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White Christmas? The top U.S. snow cities
There's something romantic about a white Christmas. Not only do I have to watch White Christmas every year (along with Holiday Inn), I love the song, too. My three favorite Christmases with snow were spent in Switzerland, not a bad place to be in December.
But where to go in the USA for the white stuff? According to the National Climatic Data Center, here's the probability for a white Christmas for selected cities in the U.S. The data was collected from 1998-2005:
Probability of snow on Christmas
Fairbanks, Alaska 100%
Duluth, Minnesota 97%
Anchorage, Alaska 90%
Marquette, Michigan 90%
Concord, New Hampshire 87%
Fargo, North Dakota 83%
Portland, Main 83%
Minneapolis, Minnesota 73%
Spokane, Washington 70%
Helena, Montana 67%
Cleveland, Ohio 60%
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 60%
Hartford, Connecticut 57%
Salt Lake City, Utah 53%
Denver, Colorado 50%
Des Moines, Iowa 50%
Detroit, Michigan 50%
Casper, Wyoming 47%
Omaha, Nebraska 44%
Chicago, Illinois 40%
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 33%
Boise, Idaho 30%
Charleston, West Virginia 30%
Boston, Massachusetts 23%
Topeka, Kansas 23%
St. Louis, Ohio, 23%
Reno, Nevada 20%
Washington, DC 13%
Louisville, Kentucky 13%
Nashville, Tennessee 13%
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 10%
New York, 10%
Seattle, 8%
Dallas, 8%
Oklahoma City, 3%
Little Rock, Arkansas 3%
Albuquerque, New Mexico 3%
Los Angeles, California 1%
San Francisco, California 1%
Phoenix, Arizona 1%
Charlotte, North Carolina 15
Portland, Oregon 1%
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Medical can describe the practice of medicine, or a type of illness or injury. If bright red spots have erupted all over your arms, you probably have some sort of medical condition, and it would be wise for you to visit a doctor.
Medical comes from the Latin word mederi, meaning "to heal," which is exactly what medical professionals such as doctors and nurses are trained to do. When you arrive at your doctor's office or local emergency room complaining of various medical conditions ranging from strep throat to a sprained wrist, doctors provide the necessary medical care.
Definitions of medical
adj relating to the study or practice of medicine
"the medical profession"
"a medical student"
"medical school"
adj requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery
"medical treatment"
"pneumonia is a medical disease"
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operative, surgical
relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine
happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation
happening or done after a surgical operation
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adj of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art
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n a thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person
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examination, scrutiny
the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes)


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Just over a month after winning the right to see details of Apple's licensing deal with HTC, Samsung is being forced to reveal some of its private data to Apple. Justice Koh has denied the Korean company's bid to keep detailed sales data private, according to Bloomberg.
Samsung wanted to know more about how HTC is licensing key patents from Apple to cover its Android phones. Apple wants to know exactly how many models of its many smartphones Samsung has sold in the U.S., which would of course have financial repercussions in the billion-dollar judgement that Apple won against Samsung almost half a year ago, and that Apple has been trying to increase ever since.
Koh's judgement means that Apple will get data on model sales, but will not see exact channel pricing or profit margin details. Interestingly, in October last year, Koh had granted Samsung to not only get data on model sales, but also the right to see key iPhone profitability data.
This latest round just adds to the complexity of the relationship between the two biggest smartphone manufacturers in the world. Apple and Samsung are enemies and partners, as Apple still sources some key components from the massive multinational manufacturer — such as the iPhone 5′s central processing unit and screens for some of its phones.
Since late last year, Samsung has alternately played hardball and softball, first saying that there was no way it would pay Apple royalties, and then unilaterally dropping patent injunctions against Apple in Europe.
With these two latest private corporate data reveals, this is turning into a unwilling corporate equivalent of an adolescent show-me-yours-I'll-show-you-mine. Meanwhile, the rest of the industry wishes Samsung and Apple would just get a room.
Which is precisely what Justice Koh called for in December, telling the two warring companies that "it's time for global peace."
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LYNCHBURG (WSLS 10) – Babcock and Wilcox will split into two publicly traded companies.
The power generation business will spin off into Babcock and Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. The company will be headquartered in Charlotte, N.C. The company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BW.
The company produces clean energy and environmental technologies for the power and industrial sectors.
The remaining company will change its name to BWX Technologies, Inc. and be headquartered in Lynchburg. The company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BWXT.
The company manufactures naval nuclear reactors for submarines and aircraft carriers, provides nuclear fuel to the U.S. government and assists governments in the operation of facilities.
Current stockholders will receive a dividend of one share of stock in the new company for every two shares of the current company. The tax-free distribution will occur on June 30, 2015.
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Adam Lambert came to prominence following his appearance on the eighth season of American Idol. Although he was runner-up, Lambert launched a succesful music career with the release of his first studio album 'For Your Entertainment' which debuted at number three on the Billboard 200, selling 198,000 copies in the US in its first week, and reaching the top 10 in several countries worldwide.


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NBC uses Rev for kite-cam in Lincoln City!
NCB sent a film crew for "Rock Center with Brian Williams" to Lincoln City (Oregon) for the annual Summer Kite Festival and joined forces with John Barresi, using a GoPro camera mounted on John's B-Series PRO to capture footage from above the event. ** Please be patient, video below may be slow to appear or.. read more →
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The designer of the Revolution, Joe Hadzicki is always looking for something new and interesting to do with a Rev and in the video below, he takes a tandem para glider flight while piloting a B-Series at the same time… We've never seen anything quite like this before, a stunning sight – no doubt a.. read more →
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Get an overview of this hotelNew Delhi hotel in Central Delhi, near Birla Mandir Temple
With a stay at Hotel Sun Village in New Delhi (Paharganj), you'll be minutes from Ramakrishna Mission and close to Red Fort.
This hotel is within close proximity of Lady Hardinge Medical College and Gole Market.
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Hotel Sun Village features tour/ticket assistance, dry cleaning/laundry services, and 24-hour room service. This New Delhi hotel also offers a porter/bellhop and an elevator (lift). The property has a 24-hour front desk.
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The only catch is that equipment would need to be provided. He wants to transition from mountain biking into road biking, and I don't want to make the investment in equipment until he decides if it is really for him.


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