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[Shanita Balke]

A pioneer in the natural hair movement, Diane Bailey is still educating and inspiring countless women to leave chemicals behind and embrace their own textures. This exclusive interview

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[Khalid El-Amin]

Children killed and media centres hit in Palestinian territory as Israel keeps up bombardment for fifth straight day.

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[Carl Culture]

About Erica:

Erica Williams is an artist who lives and works in Minneapolis, MN. She is known for her attention to detail, macabre tendencies, and subtle romanticism with nature and lore. Being mostly self-taught she strives to incorporate elements of fine art and design into her illustrations. Most often she is influenced by art nouveau, traditional printing methods, street art, and typography. Recently Erica has been creating screen printed posters and apparel, letterpress prints, and work for group exhibitions.







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[NASA]

How massive can a normal star be?




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[Adolf Hitler]

Forum: Newslinks & ArticlesPosted By: AronditePost Time: 11-18-2012 at 11:21 AM

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[Georgie Thompson]

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has revealed he will not make wholesale changes to his squad during the January transfer window, but will try to bolster his striking options.

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[NASA]

According to CRISM multispectral data, the exposures of light-toned materials (on small hills and between darker dunes) shows a strong iron-magnesium phyllosilicate signatures in this area. Phyllosilicates, or sheet silicates, are an important group of minerals that includes the micas, chlorite, serpentine, talc, and the clay minerals.

The existence of clay minerals is especially interesting on Mars since we want to know under what conditions these minerals formed. Could it have been the presence of water?

This image is a new one for HiRISE, since we have no previous observations of this area. With our camera\'s resolution and data from CRISM, we might be able to determine if these particular phyllosilicates are actually present here.

Written by: HiRISE Science Team

Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona


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[NASA]

Luminous galaxies glow like fireflies on a dark night in this image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The upper central galaxy in this image is a gigantic elliptical galaxy designated 4C 73.08. A prominent spiral galaxy seen from \"above\" shines in the lower part of the image, while examples of galaxies viewed edge-on also populate the cosmic landscape.

In the optical and near-infrared light captured to make this image, 4C 73.08 does not appear all that beastly. But when viewed in longer wavelengths the galaxy takes on a very different appearance. Dust-piercing radio waves reveal plumes emanating from the core, where a supermassive black hole spews out twin jets of material. 4C 73.08 is classified as a radio galaxy as a result of this characteristic activity in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Astronomers must study objects such as 4C 73.08 in multiple wavelengths in order to learn their true natures, just as seeing a firefly\'s glow would tell a scientist only so much about the insect. Observing 4C 73.08 in visible light with Hubble illuminates galactic structure as well as the ages of constituent stars, and therefore the age of the galaxy itself. 4C 73.08 is decidedly redder than the prominent, bluer spiral galaxy in this image. The elliptical galaxy\'s redness comes from the presence of many older, crimson stars, which shows that 4C 73.08 is older than its spiral neighbor.

The image was taken using Hubble\'s Wide Field Camera 3 through two filters: one which captures green light, and one which captures red and near-infrared light.

Credit: ESA/NASA/Hubble


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[PokerNews]

A look at the week's top poker news stories including a hearing between the Poker Players Alliance and the Department of Justice about Full Tilt Poker refunds, a petition to ban Howard Lederer from a poker room in Las Vegas, and more.

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[Adolf Hitler]

Forum: Classified AdsPosted By: GetSome88Post Time: 11-19-2012 at 12:11 AM

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