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It is possible for the moon to have a cerulean hue

Wed, 2010-09-01 02:16

It is possible for the moon to have a cerulean hue
It happens only once in a blue moon -- and scientists say a blue moon is exactly what we'll see in the skies this New Year's Eve.
Don't expect an azure glow over our lunar satellite, however. The term "blue moon" simply refers to the second full moon in a calendar month, something that hasn't happened on a New Year's Eve for nearly 20 years, NASA says.
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"December 1990 ended with a blue moon, and many New Year's Eve parties were themed by the event," said Professor Philip Hiscock of the department of folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in Canada. "It was a lot of fun."
Most months have just one full moon, because the 29.5-day cycle of the moon matches up pretty well with wow power leveling the length of calendar months. Occasionally, there will be two full moons in a month, something that happens about every 2? years, NASA says.
But a blue moon on December 31 is rare.
Elvis Presley crooned about it when he sang the old Rodgers and Hart song "Blue Moon," in which he stood alone without a dream in his heart or a love of his own.
He struck a more hopeful tone in another tune, singing about his love returning to his arms "When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again." He also covered Bill Monroe's bluegrass classic, "Blue Moon of Kentucky."
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It is possible for the moon to have a cerulean hue, NASA says, but that's sometimes caused by fine dirt circulating in the Earth's atmosphere or the dark blue tone of the sky.
A blue moon hasn't always meant the second full moon in a month wow power leveling. Hundreds of years ago, it simply meant "never" or "absurd," Hiscock said. "The phrase 'blue moon' has been around a long time, well over 400 years, but during jiegueouysta that time its meaning has shifted," he said. "I have counted six different meanings which have been carried by the term, and at least four of them are still current today. That makes discussion of the term a little complicated."
When the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa erupted in 1883, it put so much dust in the atmosphere that the moon actually appeared blue -- an event so unusual that the term "once in a blue moon" was coined, according to NASA's National Space Science Data Center. The effect lasted for almost two years, Hiscock said.
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Full moons used to have 12 names, one for each month, such as "harvest moon," NASA said. The term "blue moon" referred to the 13th full moon in a year.
The term acquired its current meaning in the 1940s wow gold, after the Farmer's Almanac of Maine offered an astronomical definition of a blue moon "so convoluted that even professional astronomers struggled to understand it," NASA wrote on its Web site.
A writer at Sky and Telescope magazine in the late 1940s tried to explain the almanac's definition by saying it WoW Power Leveling referred to the second full moon in a month.
"That was not correct, but at least it could be understood," NASA wrote. "And thus the modern blue moon was born."



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Let Us Smile Folks understand what by a smile is meant

Wed, 2010-09-01 02:16

Let Us Smile Folks understand what by a smile is meant

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Love Your Life Love Your Family

Wed, 2010-09-01 02:15

Love Your Life Love Your Family

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it wow gold and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
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It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, wow gold even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring.
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I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as jiegueouysta in a palace. The town's poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any. May be they are simply great enough to receive without misgiving.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means. which should be more disreputable.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to WOW Gold get new things, whether clothes or friends, Turn the old, return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.



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How can you prepare for a baby?

Wed, 2010-09-01 02:14

How can you prepare for a baby?

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Statistics show that approximately 6 million pregnancies occur each year in the U.S. alone. With over 60 million women in child bearing years, only 64 percent use contraception, and over 450,000 babies are born to teenage mothers. Unexpected pregnancies become more common and the costs increase due to lack of planning and preparation. Planning and preparation, which could save young families hundreds, if not thousands of dollars each year, as well as reducing the psychological and educational costs involved.
1. Contraception is vital. If you’re not pregnant and not yet prepared to have a baby make sure that WOW Gold you are using an effective form of contraception. Condoms or the pill are a cheaper option compared with raising a child.
2. Get health insurance that covers you and your future baby. Check that all your costs are covered and you won’t be hit with an unexpected hospital bill reaching the tens of thousands once you’re home.
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He would commit suicide?

Wed, 2010-09-01 02:14

He would commit suicide?

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19 when he was on the world's highest peak, mount Everest, 21 years old, when he boarded the Alps, 22 years old, when he boarded Kilimanjaro; 28 years old, he almost all the world famous on the mountains of...

However, in the autumn, the 28 year he suddenly in the apartment has committed suicide.

Successful, he would commit suicide? Have the reporter understands, in his 11 years old when his parents in climbing Kilimanjaro wow power leveling misfortune avalanche killed when both. Parents before I leave, leave the young German a will, I hope he can like their parents, a way to connect a world famous mountains.
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The young German parents will strive for his life, when he all achieve jiegueouysta these goals, feels helpless unprecedented and despair.

In the field, people see the suicide, leaving his words: "these years, as a disabled created so much to conquer Runescape gold the world famous mountains feat, it's all parents will give me a belief of life. Today, when I climbed the mountain, I was doing nothing..."

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My Dating Life as an Eritrean-American

Wed, 2010-08-11 19:59
By Semhar DebessaiSilly me. Single, and just days into my 27th year, you’d think that my biggest dating fears would have been overcome by now. I—at the very least—thought I was sure of how the story began: boy meets girl, girl likes boy, boy and girl attempt to have a not-too-awkward first date. But it only took a couple of weeks in my hometown of Seattle to realize that even this chapter in the book of courtship had been accepted, on my part, in error.I should explain first that I am a 1st generation, American-born woman of Eritrean descent (Eritrea is the farthest, eastern corner of Africa). And like many 1st-gen’ers of non-Western roots, the pressure to marry someone with the same cultural make-up hovers obtrusively over your prime dating years. Quickly, you realize that there’s no such thing as “casual” dating. Instead you have a population of young kids weened on the “Don’t forget where you came from” rhetoric of their melting pot-averse immigrant parents.Continue reading here.
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Rebel Music: African Reggae

Wed, 2010-07-21 20:04
   This week we are celebrating African Reggae, with artists representing the entire continent – from Mauritania to Ethiopia to South Africa.  If you are looking for sweet sounding reggae…free from the effects of Autotune…check out Sydney Salmon’s roots music or Sheba’s Ethio-infused lover’s rock.  Or to get a full sampling of reggae from all over Mama Africa….look no further than “African Rebel Music.”  If Dub is your thing, you MUST listen to how Tommy T and Akale Wube weave together jazz and reggae into an awe-inspiring musical tapestry.  And to get the 411 on Dancehall, our man Eddie "STATS" Houghton's regular column for Fader Magazine is your source.1)  Various: African Rebel MusicPresenting hits from 10 countries ‘African Rebel Music - Roots reggae and dancehall’ gives insight into the new reggae dancehall movement in Africa. 2) Sydney Salmon: Ethiopia is CallingStraight from Shashemane, Ethiopia….Syd is a musical virtuoso with a big voice…and big heart!  Check out his new CD – produced and recorded in the land of Lucy and Selam – “Ethiopia is Calling.” 3) Sheba: Love this Lifetime ft. Bounty KillerLovers rock – known for its dedication the universal theme of “amor” – takes on a new dimension when Sheba and Bounty Killer team up for “Love this Lifetime.” 4) Akale Wube: Kokob / Meche Deresche ft. Haile SelassieThese guys are musical geniuses!  Their ability to capture the essence of Ethio Jazz, overlayed with Dub sensibilities and the voice of H.I.M is brilliant!  This song will always remain a classic! 5) Tommy T: The Prester John SessionsTommy T defies categories…and so does his music.  But his homage to reggae is undeniable in “Oromo Dub.”  Check out the man and his music!  Tommy T is one of our staff picks…which means that you won’t be disappointed. 6) Addiis Calling: Reggae from EthiopiaOne of our favorite Blog-o-meisters…Eddie “STATS” Houghton…writes about Ethiopian reggae for Okay Player.  Also, make sure to enjoy his insight into the dancehall scene for Fader Magazine in his regular column “Ghetto Palms.” 
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Love Letter to Teddy Afro

Thu, 2010-07-15 16:43
My Dearest Teddy:We never officially met but I feel like I have known you my entire life. Although you probably have heard this many times before, I am your biggest supporter and your biggest fan. I was there at your first performance in New York and felt chills as you sang Abugida. That was the start of my admiration for you and while it has been tested, it only grows deeper with each passing day.Several years later, you brushed past me before taking the stage in Boston. I tried to speak but being so close to you left me in awe. Years later during your performance in Washington, D.C., we locked eyes and those short seconds were the most intense that I have ever experienced. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder if my face has ever reappeared to you. Maybe in your dreams, or perhaps during long days when you have some alone time reserved? If the answer is yes, then did you wonder long enough to give me a name? Perhaps I even inspired you to write a love song? See, to my friends I may be crazy, obsessed or just delusional but I mean it when I say I feel an undeniable connection to you.Continue reading on TsehaiNY.com here.
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Review: Akale Wube Releases Self-Titled Debut CD

Fri, 2010-06-25 18:12
 by Nadia Ghanem The all instrumental French quintet Akale Wube was born in 2008 from the magnificent thigh of Ethiopian musical legacy – well almost, at least born from the eternal love for Ethio Jazz - the Ethiopiques collection awoke.  They have now released their 12-track album 'Akale Wube' on Clapson, inscribing their five-branch mark onto Ethio Jazz's wall with tributes to all the crowned "negast," from Alemayehu Eshete to Muluqen Melesse, Mahmoud Ahmed and of course Mulatu Astatke.  One of the most interesting aspects of all instrumental bands is how creative they get at transposing and reinterpreting the sung parts of a composition, and Akale Wube's repertoire is naturally based on songs.  It is on this line of audio-pleasure that they strike: Alemayehu Eshete's voice is metamorphosed into a flute in Ayalqem Tedengo, in essence wood instruments and they fit Eshete's voice so ably - for his was, to my sense, soft and bendable like a reed.  Your ears will meet in translatio-notation Muluqen Melesse's electrifying vocal leaps (in Djemeregne) now a flute and the tickle of guitar melodies. These transpositions and instrumental perceptions of Ethiopia's massive body of music, is really what makes this album stand out: in the midst of claps in verdant 'Bazay', originally by Tsehaytu Beraki, Akale Wube's flutist plays his flute like a trumpet  and Mulatu Astatke's Metche Dershe becomes a raggae wink.  Jawa Jawa conjured up Jacques Dutronc for me, but then I was in French mode, and it may be due to a serious groove of sax and trumpet. If a track defines an album I could not name one as each and all represent what Akale Wube has set out to achieve, but Metche New, orginally by Mahmoud Ahmed, stands in a class of its own.  It is a hypnotizing track and by far my favourite.  The discreet line of the electric guitar announces from the start that this is about to blow into a wicked riff of bass grit, percussions and sax, witness to the tears of the flute, which although wordless, cries and calls, explains in crotchets all the sadness and injustice it has known.  I think this rendition was the furthest departure from the original and the most creative in conjugating yesterday with today.  It is a track that puts to the fore Akale Wube's own originality and it definitely sets what these musicians can reach independently from their inspirations.    Nadia Ghanem is a UK-based writer and poet currently researching Ethiopian legends and lore.  Follow her on Twitter: (twitter.com/ayatghanem)  
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Azmari Singing - the Original Hip Hop

Wed, 2010-06-09 01:00
A couple of years ago, I discovered a documentary filmmaker (actually, he calls himself an ethnographer) from Japan – Itsushi Kwase –  who has an interest in Ethiopia.  I find his short films compelling because it’s as if he allows his subjects to tell their own story.  There is no commentary and no messages telling the viewer how to interpret what they are watching.  That is left for you to determine.  I find it refreshing that someone is giving me a chance to form my own opinions for a change. In one of his films, "Kids Got a Song to Sing," he follows two kids who are becoming skillful Azmari singers.  For those of you not familiar with the Azmari singing tradition, it's akin to singing freestyle while playing either a masinko or a krar.  Look out Mos Def, some of these kids got skills!!!  In a sense, this tradition of lyrical gymnastics and improvization is just like hip hop.  Watch the trailer for Itsushi's film below and get a musical "gursha" (or taste) of Azmari singing.  Also, check out Yezina Negash on AddisTunes if you are really into Azmari singing.  She recently showcased her talent on the Mulatu Astatke / Heliocentrics collaboration.  O.k…roll the tape. 
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Black People Like T-shirts Too

Fri, 2010-05-21 20:51
I love t-shirts.  I’ve always loved t-shirts.  I mean, when I was a kid and my father would take business trips…he better have had a t-shirt for me as a souvenir!  For some odd reason, my procivity for collecting t-shirts from distant places still continues.Recently, while reading the wildly popular site "Stuff White People Like", I was relieved to discover that I’m not the only one who likes t-shirts.  Apparently, it’s #84 on the list of things enjoyed by our brothers and sisters of European descent.  According to the website’s founder, Christian Lander (for the purposes of full disclosure, we must point out that Mr. Lander is also white), “The t-shirt is one of the most complex and expressive items in their entire wardrobe.”  Whewww…I thought it was just me.But wait…this raises another concern…I’m not white!?!?!  Maybe it’s some residual genetics from an unknown European ancestor that fuels my passion for t-shirts?  Will I have to cancel my NAACP membership?  (Well, I'm not actually a member...but I'm just saying.)  Can I still read Word Up Magazine?  (Then again, I never have - but I've seen them from a distance at the barber shop when I was a kid.)  Or, unbeknownst to Mr. Lander…o.k…let’s just call him Chris…is it possible that the external expression of one’s individuality through t-shirts is not the sole province of white people?Well…to test our hypothesis…we turned to the creative minds of Bernos, who are celebrating their 4th year anniversary as purveyors of African-inspired t-shirts. That’s right…black folks like t-shirts too – just ask Beshou of the wildly popular Bernos. Better yet, check out a recent interview she did with one of our favorite sites – TsehaiNY.com – and celebrate this precious freedom of expression through t-shirts with Bernos on Saturday, May 29th in D.C. with the insanely popular Meklit Hadero, Bsheba, and Munit at the Warehouse Loft.  (Click here for details)  And make sure to load up on more t-shirts – whether you’re black or white…enjoy weather, the holiday, and the freedom of expression through t's.
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Happy Birthday Malcolm X

Wed, 2010-05-19 14:38
Today is Malcolm X's birthday.  This is one of those times where there really isn't much to say that hasn't been said.  Sometimes reflection is better than discourse. Here's a great song by Myriam Makeba and Mbongi Makeba from their album "Myriam Makeba et Bongi" recorded in Guinea in 1975.
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