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 Hundreds of residents near the overflowing Wichita and Brazos rivers remained evacuated from their homes in North Texas on Sunday, uncertain of when they could return.At least 200 people were still displaced from their homes near the Brazos River in Parker County. Some homes sustained minimal damages while up to four feet of water had seeped into others, said Shawn Scott, Parker County emergency management coordinator.Residents with homes on higher ground had been allowed to return home Saturday after evacuating, but hours later authorities encouraged them to seek higher ground as the lake runoff moved downstream, Scott said.Floodwaters weren t expected to go down until later Sunday. But the threat of more rain still loomed in botella stanley  the area, he said. It s a continuous up and down situation,  Scott said.  This could be ongoing for the next few day stanley cup s.         Waters rose overnight by 4 feet in one Wichita Falls neighborhood where 175 people left. Meanwhile, the flooding began gradually receding near another neighborhood and kept the water out of those homes, said Barry Levy, a Wichita Falls spokesman.Officials were concerned about contaminants in the water, making them unsure of when they could let residents return after urging them to leave Friday, Levy said.Levels at the Wichita River were slowly dropping after leaving some areas under 6 feet of water, the Nation stanley website al Weather Service said.The Red River at Gainesville, just south of the Oklahoma border, also had overflowed by three fee Qjqx Ex-Soldier Guilty In Iraq Rape, Killings
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 So many aliens, you guys. Extra-terrestrials are dominating this weeks DVD and Blu-ray releases, and theyre not all good. Honestly, the only nice one is the Doctor, and since he mostly abducts hot young Earth women, even thats arguable.     鈥?Doctor Who: Series 7 stanley cup  Part 2  Clara joins the Doctor for his most recent adventures, including Davos on a submarine, Neil Gaimans Cybermen, Willow, and more. The set comes with a few minisodes, a feature on the modern companions  except Donna Noble for some reason  and more. 鈥?Doctor Who: The Snowmen  And heres the Christmas special, which is stanley thermos mug  so completely tied into the events of Season 7 Part 2 that its genuinely kind of annoying its not just part of that DVD set, Grr. 鈥?Dark Skies  Keri Russell and her family battle a group of aliens who are apparently really into the Paranormal Activity movies. 鈥?Beetlejuice: The Complete Series  The cartoon based on the Tim Burton movie finally comes to DVD. The season one DVD set is also available today, if you like the show but what to make sure it takes up maximum space on your DVD shelf. 鈥?My Super Ex-Girlfriend  Superwomen be crazy. 鈥?Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 2 Volume 2  The White Power Ranger arrives to battle lord Zedd and usher in an era of countless  White Power  jokes. 鈥?Apocaly stanley cup pse Earth  Aliens attack Earth in this cheapie from Asylum. 鈥?Battle Earth  Aliens attack Earth in this cheapie from Inception, who must be super-bitter that Asylum is releasing a shitty alien invasion mov

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 An Algerian national was convicted Friday of charges that he played a pivotal role in a failed plot to detonate a suitcase bomb at Los Angeles International Airport just before the new millennium.A federal jury deliberated barely two days in the case against Mokhtar Haouari, who was accused of providing the plan s mastermind with phony identification and $3,000 used to purchase bomb-making chemicals as part of a jihad  151; a holy war against the United States.The French-speaking defendant, who listened to trial testimony via an interpreter, was convicted of the top count of the indictment: conspiracy to supply material support to a terrorist act.The Manhattan jury also convicted him of conspiracy to commit identification document fraud. But it acquitted Haouari of a third terrorism charge.The propos stanley cup ed bombing at the crowded airport in the days before Jan. 1, 2000, was potentially the worst incident of terrorism in the United States since the 1995 Oklahoma City attack.        Haouari, a 32-year-old Algerian national who lived in Canada, could face up to 100 years in prison.The prosec kubki stanley ution case hinged on the testimony of two alleged co-conspirators: Ahmed Ressam and Abdel Ghani Meskini. Both wer vaso stanley e convicted for their roles in the plot, and prosecutors said they were brought together by Haouari.Haouari became so enraged during Meskini s testimony that he smashed his head against the wooden defense table, knocking himself woozy. Earlier in the trial, Haouari cursed a prosecutor  Pmiy Classic monster cereals coming back for Halloween!
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 More airlines than previously disclosed gave personal data on passengers to the government for testing a computerized background-check project, acting Transportation Security Administration chief David Stone said Wednesday.Passenger data was obtained from at least two computerized reservation systems, Sabre and Galileo International, and from four more airlines than previously revealed: Delta, Continental Airlines, America West Airlines and Frontier Airlines, Stone said.His testimony came during a confirmation hearing by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on his  stanley cups uk nomination as TSA administrator.The data mdash; known as passenger name records, or PNR mdash; include credit card numbers, travel reservation information, address, telephone number and meal requests, which can indicate a passenger s religion or ethnicity.In stanley tumblers  all but one case, the data was intended for testing an anti-terrorism project that would use personal information to assign threat levels to all airline passengers.        Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, criticized TSA for being slow to reveal the full extent of the transfer of passenger data to the government. She asked for a detailed account of what TSA did with the passenger data it collected. In the fight against te stanley deutschland rrorism, we have to be careful not to trample on our values,  Collins said.Privacy advocates, meanwhile, promptly called for a congressional investigation. There was a massive amount of passenger data secretly provided to the government, and i Mopj Three Americans Face Terror Charges in Yemen
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 Arthur Andersen LLP is putting its hopes for survival in the hands of former Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker as the once-mighty accounting giant heads closer to a breakup and  inevitable  layoffs.But the government s reluctance to endorse Volcker s proposal for drastic reforms leaves the plan in limbo. Volcker wants to take over the Chicago-based firm and head a seven-member governing board, for the auditing and consulting businesses to be separated and for other reforms to be made. Some 60 percent of the firm s partners work in the tax and consulting practice.In New York, Volcker announced Friday that two senior Andersen partners will lead the firm s efforts to reform itself.Named to oversee the process until a new Andersen governing board is put in place were C.E. Andrews, head of the firm s worldwide audit practice, and Larry Rieger, another senior audit partner.Andersen s top executive, chief executive Joe Berardino, resigned Tuesday. No successor has been named.        On Thursday, Andersen s top managers threw their support behind Volcker s long-shot  stanley cup rescue plan following a daylong teleconference of partners to discuss their dwind stanley mugs ling options. Vol stanley cup cker was hired two months ago to chair an independent oversight board to revamp Andersen s practices. We are committed to building the audit firm of the future under the leadership and recommendations of Mr. Volcker,  said Larry Gorrell, who replaced Houston-based Terry Hatchett as managing partner earlier this month. The pr Kzzc Boeing Designed and Built This Slick VTOL Drone In Just 27 Days
 If you follow genre television, internet fandom, or literary criticism, you ;ve probably heard the word meta used to describe everything from a narrative form, to intensive analysis of character backstories in Harry Potter. How did this Greek prefix meaning beyond come to mean so much to so many of us      You can probably blame it all on philosophy. Many years after the Greek philosopher Aristotle had died, scholars c stanley tumbler ollected his work into a collection where his philosophical musings were placed after his musings on physics, or science. They called this section on philosophy metaphysics because meta can be roughly translated to mean beyond or after  it can also mean a few other things, but let   leave those aside . This use of the word metaphysics quickly mutated beyond its original, literal meaning of  8220 tuff that comes after the part on physics. It came to describe a whole branch of Western phil stanley thermos osophy th stanley thermobecher at was concerned with the realm beyond what science could describe. And thus the weird history of meta began, with a slippage in meaning that pretty much never stopped sliding around. Philosophers in the millennia since Aristotle have often classified their work as metaphysical, but meta has gone through another rapid set of changes over the last few decades. In the early twentieth century, scholars began to use meta as a prefix to mean  82

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 Philip Morris USA got a break Monday as an Illinois judge ordered it to pay only half of a $12 billion bond the cigarette maker said would force it into bankruptcy and end payments to 46 states under the national tobacco settlement.The ruling came less tha stanley termohrnek n a month after Philip Morris was told to pay $10.1 billion in a class-action lawsuit for misleading smokers that  light  cigarettes are less harmful than regular brands.The decision also clears the way for the company to p stanley cup ay $2.6 billion that is due Tuesday under the 1998 national settlement, Philip Morris spokesman David Tovar said.Madison County Judge Nicholas Byron ordered the nation s largest tobacco company to put $6 billion into an escrow account to partially cover last month s judgment in his court.The $6 billion will come as a loan from Philip Morris  corporate parent, Altria Group, according to the court order.        Philip Morris will then pay an additional $800 million through September 2004 toward the appeal bond, plus $420 million per year for however long the appeals in the case take, the order said.Philip Morris will still have to pay the full $10.1 billion judgment plus costs and interest if it loses its appeal.The reduced bond - which plaintiffs attorney Stephen Tillery estimated will total about $9 billion over the course of a three or four-year appeal - takes the place of the $12 billion bon stanley cup d Byron originally ordered. That amount was for the judgment, plus costs and interest accrued during the appeal, as Bcjn Google Glass Marriage Proposals Show Why Glass Makes Everything Awful
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 Teacher Robyn Gates places three chubby babies in their highchairs at Malena s Mini School and begins sign language lessons. Can you say  Thank you    she asks. Her students drool, laugh and squirm, then baby Haley reaches a tiny hand to her mouth and touches it to her outstretched palm, making the proper sign.Sign language has long been a technique for psychologists wo stanley cup rking with very young children, but parents over the last decade or so have embraced the practice with special classes, books, DVDs and online programs. Interest is so intense, in fact, that infant and toddler psychologist Rahil D. Briggs wonders whether some parents now see it as a must-do milestone. I worry it is being seized upon as panacea in child rearing by marketers wanting to capitalize on very innocent parental desires for their children to do well,  said Briggs, from Montefiore Medical Center in the New York Cit stanley usa y borough of the Bronx.Eye on Parenting Blog        Parents don t need to spend hundreds of dollars and hours each day on baby sign language, she said. Instead, she suggested starting with a few signs. Patty  stanley uk cake is a sort of sign language, she said. When you say  yeah  and they clap because they are happy, that is a sign,  she said.Briggs and other experts, however, do believe that basic signing reduces frustration for babies and toddlers by helping them express some of their needs and wants before than can say the words. It does work,  said Mary Benson McMullen, an early childhood education p Bgjq 10 TV Shows That Hooked Us In The First 5 Minutes (And How They Did It)
 How much information is stored inside a human  Not as much as you think. All you need is a mere 1.5 gigabytes to fit your entire genetic code. Veritasium did the math in his latest brain tapping video and cooked up that number using bits to understand the molecules that make up a person   genetic code.     Of co stanley cup urse, we have a lot of cells in our body  around 40 trillion  and each of those cells contain the full 1.5 GB of our genetic code. So a real person has about 60 zettabytes  60 with 21 zeroes after  of information in total. Thats huge. Veritasium says that in the year 2020, all the digital information in the world will only tally up to 40 ZB. So turns out, there   a lot of information necessary to make a person. But! 99.9% of our genetic information is shared with everyone else on Earth. What makes us unique is much, much smaller than a ZB.  stanley quencher In fact, it takes less than a megabyte to make a person different from the next. So there it is. A reasonable 1.5GB of information for our genetic code. A ridiculous 60ZB flowing in all our bodies. And an embarrassingly tiny megabyte that ma stanley cup becher kes us believe we ;re a unique snowflake.   SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook                                                        DataHumanInformationRobots