Archive for March, 2011

skype

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Get Skype on your mobile and you can take Skype with you wherever you go. [1]

Teachers can use the tool to collaborate with other teachers, and find partner classes and guest speakers. [...] LUXEMBOURG, March 30th, 2011 - School teachers and students everywhere now have an easy way to find each other for collaborative projects and shared learning through a new online platform provided by Skype. [2]

Skype users made 95 billion minutes of voice and video calls in the first half of 2010, approximately 40% of which was video. [3]

The new app enables individuals to stay connected with friends and family through video calling, video messaging, and video sharing. [2]

Free video calling makes it easy to be together, even when you’re not. [4]

Skype is owned by an investor group led by Silver Lake and which includes eBay Inc, Joltid Limited and Skype founders Niklas Zennstr?m and Janus Friis, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz. [3]

Let friends leave voicemail messages when you’re busy. [5]

Try Skype out today and start adding your friends, family and colleagues. [3]

LUXEMBOURG, 23 March 2011 - Today Qik, mobile video software recently acquired by Skype, launched a new iPhone app called Qik Video Connect. [2]

If you pay a little, you can do more things, in more ways, with more people ‘ like call phones, access Wi-Fi or send texts. [3]

Skype in the classroom is a free global community created in response to, and in consultation with, the growing number of teachers using Skype to help their students learn. [2]

Founded in 2003 and based in Luxembourg, our purpose is to break down barriers to communication. [3]

Answer phone calls on Skype with an Online Number. [5]

Skype had an average of 124 million connected users per month in the second quarter of 2010. [3]

Sources:
[1] Get Skype - Download for free
[2] About Skype: Press Releases
[3] About Skype: What is Skype?
[4] Skype - Free Download and Free Calls and Internet Calls
[5] Skype sign in - Sign in to your Skype account

hello goodbye

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Hellogoodbye is a pop band, formed in Huntington Beach, California in 2001. [1]

A lot has happened to Hellogoodbye since the Huntington Beach, California-based act released their breakthrough album Zombies! [2]

Hellogoodbye is a power pop band that was formed in Huntington Beach, California in 2001 by singer Forrest Kline. [3]

In the US, the song was also included on the Magical Mystery Tour album released three days later, but the song was not made available in the UK on an album (or in stereo) until the release of the 1973 compilation album 1967′1970. [4]

With two or more songs you get the Playlist Player. [2]

With the aid of fellow student Jesse Kurvink, Kline started recording synthesized power pop songs on his computer, which originally only served the purpose of entertaining their friends. [1]

During the “Sounds of Change Tour” with An Angle, Socratic, and Steel Train, Hellogoodbye flipped and totalled their van and trailer after Cole dozed off behind the wheel while driving through Pennsylvania on October 22, 2004. [...] The album was released in the United Kingdom and European Union by LAB Records on the 14th March 2011. [3]

Though California indie label Drive-Thru Records signed Hellogoodbye in January 2004, everything the band does is still entirely done by themselves, ranging from recordings and album artwork to posters and merchandise designs. [1]

Over the past four years the band have parted with their old record label, retooled their lineup, released a handful of EPs and performed everywhere from the Philippines to living rooms. [2]

“Hello, Goodbye” is a song by the English rock band The Beatles. [...] The song was released as a single in November 1967, and topped the charts in the United States, UK and Norway. [4]

Our new album Would It Kill You (Deluxe Edition) is out now in Europe and the United Kingdom. [5]

The first Hellogoodbye song ever written was Kurvink’s “Bonnie Taylor Shakedown 2K1″ which later appeared on their debut self-titled EP. [3]

After further overdubs of bass guitar and viola, recording was completed on the 2nd November, and mixing on the 6th. [4]

Sources:
[1] Hellogoodbye Music Videos , Pictures and Photos including
[2] hellogoodbye | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos
[3] Hellogoodbye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Hello, Goodbye - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Hellogoodbye ‘ Free listening, videos, concerts, stats

dawn

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

A first appearance; a beginning: the dawn of history. [1]

Dawn, as a mission belonging to NASA’s Discovery Program, delves into the unknown, drives new technology innovations, and achieves what’s never been attempted before. [2]

During dawn (and dusk) it is usually possible (provided that the sky is cloud-free) to see approximately in which direction the sun is (though it’s below the horizon). [...] Dawn should not be confused with sunrise, which is the moment when the leading edge of the sun itself appears above the horizon. [3]

This same measure of ambient light can be used to determine, conversely, the instant of dusk. [4]

N) the sun does not set at all at the summer solstice. [3]

In Dawn’s case, it is orbiting one member of the main asteroid belt, Vesta, before heading to gather yet more data at a second, Ceres. [...] Dawn’s goal is to characterize the conditions and processes of the solar system’s earliest epoch by investigating in detail two of the largest protoplanets remaining intact since their formations. [2]

This period of “bright nights” is longer at higher latitudes (further north). [3]

Under the instruction of the owner, Mr.Jinnah, it became the official organ of the Pakistan Muslim League in Delhi, and the sole voice of the Muslims in English language, reflecting and espousing the cause of the Muslims of India. [5]

The angular radius of the polar circle is equal to the angle between the plane of Earth’s equator and that of the ecliptic. [3]

Dawn is Pakistan ’s oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper. [...] “The Dawn will mirror faithfully the views of Hindustan’s Muslims and the All Hindustan Muslim League in all its activities: economic, educational and social and more particularly political, throughout the country fearlessly and independently and while its policy will be, no doubt, mainly to advocate and champion the cause of the Muslims and the policy and programme of the All Hindustan Muslim League, it will not neglect the cause and welfare of the peoples of this sub-continent generally”. [5]

During the summer of 2011, Dawn begins exploring new worlds at its first target, Vesta. [...] Visit often to see the latest news and data as we journey to the beginning of the solar system. [6]

Sources:
[1] dawn - definition of dawn by the Free Online Dictionary
[2] Dawn Mission: Mission
[3] Dawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] dawn: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
[5] Dawn: Information from Answers.com
[6] NASA’s Dawn Mission

kansas city

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Kansas City is a thriving cultural and economic center at the heart of the United States. [1]

Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. [2]

The largest city in Missouri, Kansas City is the center of a bi-state Metropolitan Statistical Area composed of 15 counties: Platte, Clinton, Caldwell, Clay, Ray, Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, and Bates counties in Missouri and Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Johnson, Franklin, Miami, and Linn counties in Kansas. [1]

The city is part of the “Unified Government ” which also includes the cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville. [3]

The city’s municipal water was recently rated the cleanest among the 50 largest cities in the United States, containing no detectable impurities. [...] Walnut St., Downtown Kansas City, Mo. [2]

Location in Wyandotte, County in the state of Kansas. [3]

Further spurring Kansas City’s growth was the opening of the innovative Country Club Plaza development by J.C. Nichols in 1925 as part of his Country Club District plan. [2]

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 127.8 sq mi (331.0 km?). [3]

It is officially nicknamed the City of Fountains. [2]

First a trading post and river port settlement, the city developed after the Civil War as a link in the intercontinental railroad network, which led to prosperous grain, livestock, and meat-packing industries. [1]

The first city election was held October 22, 1872, by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District, and resulted in the election of Mayor James Boyle. [...] As of the 2010 census, the city population was 145,786. [3]

By that time, the Town of Kansas, Westport, and nearby Independence, had become critical points in America’s westward expansion. [2]

The four Industrial art works atop the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center (Bartle Hall) were once the subject of ridicule but now define the night skyline near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place (the tallest office tower structure in Missouri), the KCTV-Tower with its hundreds of lit bulbs (the tallest freestanding structure in Missouri), and the Liberty Memorial, a WWI memorial and museum, which flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the night skyline. [1]

Sources:
[1] Kansas City: City Guide, weather and facts galore from
[2] Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Kansas City, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

sears parts

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

Sears parts are available to you through APpliancePartsPros.com, the web’s leader in appliance parts! [...] If you need parts for your Sears washer and dryer, Sears refrigerator parts, or you need parts for any other Sears appliance, we have them! [1]

Then you redeem those Points online or in store at Sears, Kmart, Lands’ End, the great indoors, Sears Home Services, Sears Auto and mygofer. [...] Check out our new beta social shopping site where you can follow fellow shoppers, see ratings & reviews, create a public profile, and get everything you want easier and quicker than ever before. [...] Our most popular searches include tools, power tools, appliances, dishwashers, refrigerators, toys, video games, pressure washers, fitness equipment, clothing snowblowers and tires. [...] As a Shop Your Way Rewards customer you earn Points when you buy the things you want and need. [2]

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Sources:
[1] Sears Parts and Sears Repair Help from AppliancePartsPros.com
[2] Sears
[3] sears parts tractor from Sears.com