Farther Along
 

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Harlan-the-Mixed-Breed
 

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Harlan's mom (a mastiff) was about to be adopted from a rescue group when the vet told the new family that she going to have puppies! The rescue group agreed to keep her until her pups were old enough to be adopted. She had eleven mastiff / Lab puppies, and Harlan is the pick of the litter. He is twice as big as his brothers and sisters, and his paws have grown much faster than the rest of his little puppy body! Harlan already knows to sit and fetch, and loves his squeaky toys. He gets the hiccups whenever he gets excited, and loves to take naps.



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Al Qaeda Confirms bin Laden's death
 

Filed under: News, President Obama, Race and Civil Rights


From CNN:

Al Qaeda released a statement on jihadist forums Friday confirming the death of its leader, Osama bin Laden, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors Islamist websites.The development comes days after U.S. troops killed bin Laden in a raid on a compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.

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The statement, translated by SITE, lauded the late militant, threatened to take action against the United States, and urged Pakistanis to "rise up and revolt."

Bin Laden's death will serve as a "curse that chases the Americans and their agents, and goes after them inside and outside their countries," the message said.

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Beryl
 

Location: Keene, Virginia, USA

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This is my girl Beryl as a kitten. After losing my 16 year old Calico Babs. Beryl is now a four year old, 10 pound kitten. She loves to crawl under the covers and sleep with me.



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Blessa - May 06, 2011
 

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Blessa
BlessaKitty's Mom says: Blessa is a beautiful five-month-old Maine coon. She came into our family recently and we fell in love instantly. She is extremely personal and loves to interact with you, whether through playing, talking, snuggling, etc.
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'Jumping the Broom': It's like a Madea movie, only classier
 

"Jumping the Broom" is like a Tyler Perry movie with polish. The ensemble comedy is about a wedding involving a bride from a family of wealthy African-American professionals and a groom from a family of working-class Brooklynites. It is well-cast, well-played...(read more)http://blackamericans.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=276670

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AL Qaeda confirm Bin Laden was killed
 

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Grant ignoring consequences
 

Avram Grant is keen for all connected to West Ham to stop speculating over the consequences of relegation.

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Martian 'Freedom 7' Crater 50 Years After Freedom 7 Flight
 

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded this view of a crater informally named "Freedom 7" shortly before the 50th anniversary of the first American in space: astronaut Alan Shepard's flight in the Freedom 7 spacecraft. The image combines two frames that Opportunity took with its navigation camera during the 2,585th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (May 2, 2011). Shepard's suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes on May 5, 1961. The crater is about 25 meters (82 feet) in diameter. It is the largest of a cluster of about eight craters all formed just after an impactor broke apart in the Martian atmosphere. By taking advantage of seeing many craters of diverse ages during drives between major destinations, the Opportunity mission is documenting how impact craters change with time. The cluster that includes Freedom 7 crater formed after sand ripples in the area last migrated, which is estimated to be about 200,000 years ago. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Exploration Rover Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

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Cut Off by Shadows
 

Shadows cast by Saturn's rings darken the southern hemisphere of the planet and give a truncated appearance to the bottom of this Cassini spacecraft image. Saturn's moon Tethys (1,062 kilometers, or 660 miles across) is part of this scene on the right. The smaller moon Epimetheus (113 kilometers, or 70 miles across) completes this composition and can be seen below the center of the image. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane. Lit terrain seen on Tethys is on the area between the trailing hemisphere and anti-Saturn side of the moon. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on March 8, 2011 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of visible red light centered at 619 nanometers. The view was obtained at a distance of approximately 3.2 million kilometers (2 million miles) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 87 degrees. Scale on Saturn is 19 kilometers (12 miles) per pixel. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

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