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dot com and go – punteado y va

May 8, 2010 - 4:57 pm 1 Comment

dot com and go, the additional dots [puntos adicionales] are added at the bottom of the cell, giving a matrix from the back of the page, writing in mirror image, by hand. The dot combinations are the same as those used in traditional ASCII, except that the spacing between dots and cells is increased somewhat.com
punteado y va

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Blind Trip – parte do último episódio

May 5, 2010 - 2:26 am No Comments

Blind Trip – parte do último episódio – Multishow

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Princess Laurentien

May 2, 2010 - 1:34 am 5 Comments

Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Mrs. Van Amsberg (née Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst; born 25 May 1966.
Petra Laurentien Brinkhorst was born in Leiden on 25 May 1966, the daughter of the former Dutch minister of Economic Affairs, Laurens Jan Brinkhorst and Jantien Brinkhorst-Heringa. She has one brother. She is known by her middle name, Laurentien, a portmanteau of her parents’ given names.

Princess Laurentien started primary school in Groningen. Her family then moved to The Hague, where she completed her primary education. She spent four years at the Christelijk Gymnasium Sorghvliet, and a year at the Eerste Vrijzinnige Christelijk Lyceum, both in The Hague. In 1984, she passed the Baccalauréat A examinations at the Lycée français in Tokyo. Her father was working in Japan at the time, being the Permanent Envoy of the European Union.

Princess Laurentien studied History at Groningen University were she received her propedeuse in 1986. After this she studied at the University of London were she received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Political Science in 1989 and subsequently at the University of California, Berkeley where she obtained her Master of Journalism (MJ) degree in 1991
The engagement of Prince Constantijn and Laurentien Brinkhorst was announced on 16 December 2000. The civil marriage was conducted by the mayor of The Hague, Wim Deetman, in the Oude Raadzaal, Javastraat, The Hague, on 17 May 2001. The church wedding took place two days later on 19 May in the Grote of St Jacobskerk, with Reverend Carel ter Linden officiating.

Prince Constantijn and Princess Laurentien have three children
Her niece, Princess Alexia Juliana Marcela Laurentien of the Netherlands, second daughter of the Prince of Orange and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, received Laurentien as her fourth given name.

She is also the godmother of Leah Isadora Behn, the daughter of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway.

Prince Constantijn, Princess Laurentien and their children live in Brussels.
More recent, Princess Laurentien has become an advocate for the fight against illiteracy in the Netherlands, which is now to be considered an underestimated problem.

She also works to promote reading among children and young people.

Official duties:

Vice-President of Fauna & Flora International.
Chair of the European Cultural Foundation.
Chair of the Dutch Reading and Writing Foundation (Stichting Lezen & Schrijven)
Honorary chair of the Dutch Association of Public Libraries (Vereniging van Openbare Bibliotheken)
Patron of the Dutch language society Genootschap Onze Taal
Patron of the Netherlands Listening and Braille Library (Nederlandse Luister- en Braillebibliotheek)

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gamesguru – Queens Get The Money Freestyle – Back To The Basics [Lyrics + Download Link][HD]

April 28, 2010 - 10:13 pm No Comments

Freestyle over Nas Queens Get The Money instrumental by Jay Electronica.
Hot New Rap Freestyle Rap 2010 Guru Game gamesguru

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[Lyrics]
Symbollic rhyming, hyroglyphic ancient like lines/
long lasting, chronic life time/
imagery lyrically, wirting in brail, sight for the blind/
insight to the mind/
stacking milk cartoons in an algiment/
find lost family members on my never ending ascending climb to where heaven lies/
three dutch nos is the emrgency line you will find for britian for sirens/
Morning dialling, it’s time for a wake up call/
all the fuss and fighting, wronging and writing, wasting time then/
life ends, hence life becomes timeless/
sound proofed walls hiding a baby’s crying/
ignorance can’t be bliss, when this kid is seeing domestic voilence/
this wrong full of rightesouness/
grows up an intimidates it’s father, marries a women just to harm her/
she’ll say her eyes kisses doorknobs/
they do not, she does a wrong to hide his wrongs/

Demons bleeding teething problems into the street cement/
walking from A to B, trapped in a never ending life of fleeing/
Break the barrier, move from B to C/
fuck the colour that you that B, because C/
we are like the gathering of rainbow coloured Zebra/
no squablingpride in tact, in fact fighting for thier homeland/
don’t let the politicts detract from the pollen and weather/
racial equalitiy needs to be better, like crayons in a set together/

Radio airwaves, degrading us, sarcastic patronising tones/
hide at home all alone, ringtones set the tone, for the child you’ve grown/
singing about this and that, propaganda distracting us, turning us into bastards/
no longer are the days of opinion, tv full of sinful facts/
this and that, white and black, we go further than that/
we don’t want this life, motherearth you can have it back.

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APH Braille / Print Protractor: Part 12, Labeling tactile angles drawn on the APH Draftsman

April 26, 2010 - 12:17 am No Comments

Susan Osterhaus, Math Consultant for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired’s Outreach Programs, gives a video tutorial for the series: American Printing House for the Blind’s Braille Print Protractor: Part 12, Labeling tactile angles drawn on the APH Draftsman

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Gamma (Voyager)

April 22, 2010 - 9:08 pm 25 Comments

Gamma was a band formed by guitarist Ronnie Montrose and singer Davey Pattison in San Francisco in 1979. They released four albums: Gamma 1 in 1979, Gamma 2 in 1980, Gamma 3 in 1982 (all on Elektra Records) and Gamma 4 in 2005. Their best known song is probably “Fight to the Finish” from their first album, but another popular song was “Meanstreak”.

[edit] History
Ronnie Montrose put the band together after having released a solo album (Open Fire) in 1978, after having disbanded the hard rock band Montrose in 1977. Gamma were a far more AOR-oriented band than Montrose, and used a lot of the latest keyboard technology in their sound.

Their debut album Gamma 1 was released in 1979 and reached #131 on the Billboard Album charts, totalling 17 weeks on the survey. Gamma scored a hit single with “I’m Alive” which got to #60 on Billboard’s Singles charts. The original lineup of Ronnie Montrose (guitars), Davey Pattison (vocals), Alan Fitzgerald (bass), Jim Alcivar (keyboards) and Skip Gillette (drums) recorded this album.

Gamma 2 was issued in 1980. Alan Fitzgerald (who later joined Night Ranger as their keyboardist) was replaced by bassist Glenn Letsch, and Denny Carmassi came in on drums. The album had a memorable cover design by Mick Haggerty, featuring 2 sharks with only their fins visible burrowing through a lawn that was being sprinkled. The album peaked at #65, and featured a heavier sound. (e.g. “Mean Streak” and “Cat On A Leash”). There was also a cover version of Thunderclap Newman’s classic “Something in the Air”. It was produced by Gary Lyons and Ronnie Montrose.

Jim Alcivar was replaced by Mitchell Froom and Gamma 3 was released in 1982. The album reached #72 and produced the single “Right The First Time” which reached #77 on the charts and #10 on Billboard’s Album Rock Tracks chart. In Canada, “Right The FIrst Time” peaked at #27, making the song the band’s only top 40 hit on a national pop chart. The album’s opening track, “What’s Gone Is Gone”, and tracks like “No Way Out”, were arena rockers, while others like “Condition Yellow” and “Moving Violation”, continued the odd writing style and sounds that the band started with on their debut album.

However, Gamma’s label Elektra Records never really promoted the band, and with only moderate sales, they disbanded.

Ronnie Montrose resumed solo activities, releasing a series of instrumental albums with little success, before reforming Montrose in 1987 with a new lineup.
Davey Pattison went on to sing for Robin Trower, and also sang on two songs from Ronnie Montrose’s 1990 solo album, “The Diva Station”.
Denny Carmassi went on to drum for over a decade with Heart, then played with Coverdale/Page and Whitesnake. In 2002 he joined Foreigner for touring duties.
Mitchell Froom went on to become a highly successful producer in the 1980s and 1990s, producing albums for Elvis Costello, Los Lobos, Crowded House, Suzanne Vega, Paul McCartney, the Del Fuegos, Bonnie Raitt, and many others.

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Uptight – Steve Wonder

April 19, 2010 - 8:40 pm No Comments

“Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” is a 1966 hit single recorded by Stevie Wonder for the Tamla (Motown) label. One of his most popular early singles, “Uptight” was the first Stevie Wonder single to be co-written by the artist.
The single was a watershed in Wonder’s career for several reasons. Aside from the number-one hit “Fingertips”, only two of Wonder’s singles had reached the Top 40 of Billboard’s Pop Singles chart, (”Workout, Stevie Workout” reached # 33 in late 1963 and “Hey Harmonica Man” reached # 29 Pop in the Summer of 1964) and the fifteen-year-old artist was in danger of being let go. In addition, Wonder’s voice had begun to change, and Motown CEO Berry Gordy was worried that he would no longer be a commercially viable artist. As it turned out, however, producer Clarence Paul found it easier to work with Wonder’s now-mature tenor voice, Sylvia Moy and Henry Cosby set about writing a new song for the artist, based upon an instrumental riff Wonder had devised.[2] On the day of the recording, Moy had the lyrics, but didn’t have them in braille for Wonder to read, and so sang the song to him as he was recording it. She sang a line ahead of him and he simply repeated the lines as he heard them. In 2008, Moy commented that “he never missed a beat” during the recording.[3]
The resulting song, “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)”, features lyrics which depict a poor young man’s appreciation for a rich girl’s seeing beyond his poverty to his true worth. A notable success, “Uptight” peaked at number-three on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in early 1966, at the same time reaching the top of the Billboard R&B Singles chart for five weeks.[4]. An accompanying album, Up-Tight, was rushed into production to capitalize on the single’s success.

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Communication cross-training

April 16, 2010 - 8:22 pm 1 Comment

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From screen writing to producing to editing and animation, April Tone explores the field of radio, television and film degree. She explains the importance of academic cross-training and building upon the expanding television and film market in Austin, Texas.

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Braille

April 13, 2010 - 7:08 pm No Comments

‘Braille’, an original poem by Amber Goodwin-Figes.

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Braille Tutor

April 10, 2010 - 5:18 pm No Comments

Documents a field study with the Mathru School for the Blind in Bangalore, India

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