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Youth For Tomorrow - Bristow, VA. Thinking about going to a private high school in Bristow, VA? There are choices to be made if you’re thinking of studying in Bristow. We’ve broken down some information about Youth For Tomorrow as well as some high school demographics in order to make your decision a bit easier. Private high schools in the USA are privately-funded and an alternative to the public education system. Some schools have a particular religious or language affiliation, and may offer boarding or day-only programs. Many others, however, are focused on particular educational methods or philosophies that differ from the public system. Private high schools are, like public schools, regulated by the state governments, but have more freedom to choose particular approaches or include instruction in multiple languages.

Private high schools may have also specific admission requirements, such as high grades, high scores on an entrance exam, or a special assessment. Enrollment Characteristics Enrollment by Race/Ethnicity. Video: Paul Newman at Democratic Convention 1968. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Aztln. Game description from the publisher: In the mythical land of Aztlán, four tribes strive to survive and prosper under the scrutiny of the gods themselves.

Peaceful coexistence brings wealth and prosperity to all, but the fearsome Aztec gods favor those who are mighty in war and bring to them their subdued enemies as cruel offerings... Only one of the four tribes will be granted the right to stay in this blessed land when the Time of Exile comes at the end of the Fifth Age of the Sun. Guide your tribe to build the mightiest empire through the Five Ages, win the favor of the gods, and become the greatest ruler in the land of Aztlàn. Aztlán can be played by three or four players (or two players with the "Aztec Gods" variant). If a territory is disputed by several players, the strongest tribe may defeat the weaker ones – but war is not the only path to victory and peaceful coexistence with the other tribes sometimes brings greater rewards. The flat-out paranoia of the NRA and Wayne LaPierre.

Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, gave me a call at home the other day. In the taped message, my friend Wayne warned me that unless I and other patriotic Americans stepped forward to stop it, the dastardly United Nations, with Iran, China, North Korea and other evil countries behind it, would soon come into our country and into our very homes, strip the Second Amendment out of the Constitution and “take away every pistol, and rifle and shotgun” that we owned. Riiiggghhht. I just have one question though: How is the UN going to accomplish this?

Are they going to import little bulbous-headed men from Mars toting rayguns to take away our weapons? If so, I’m clinging to my copy of Slim Whitman singing “Indian Love Call” and you can’t have it until you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Nosireebob. Look, I recognize that the boundary between serious and seriously crazy has shifted considerably in recent years. Money is part of the reason. Flavorwire. NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre literally ... Inc - Contact Support | DecisionPro Inc. BustVideo :: NRA EVP and CEO Wayne LaPierre - Speech to CPAC ... Stuff for Smart Masses. Orlandoweekly.com - NEWS+FEATURES: Guns N' Moses.

In case you hadn't heard, the National Rifle Association dropped by the Orange County Convention Center April 24. About 50,000 members attended the 132nd-annual meeting and show. They came to pay tribute to outgoing NRA president Charlton Heston, select a new president, wave the flag, pat themselves on the back for getting George W.

Bush elected and check out some guns. Lots and lots of guns. What follows are the scribblings of a reporter who spent three days embedded with the NRA and is now in recovery in an undisclosed location. Thursday, April 24 12:30 p.m. The NRA's National Urban Affairs Committee is holding its first meeting at the Orlando convention, and I'm on the guest list. A woman with the NRA named Sue Ann or Sue Ellen is obviously uncomfortable that I'm here. The Urban Affairs Committee is charged with increasing NRA membership among minorities. But this right here is a very diverse group of blacks, whites and Hispanics. Does he really advocate arming airline passengers?

Designing a Dumb Flying Robot That Can Safely Crash Is Easier and Cheaper. Wayne LaPierre Obama Speech Video - The Lies of Wayne LaPierre. Math Dice Tournament Kit: Toys & Games. Married to the Market. To the alarm of Central Park’s bird-watchers and pigeons alike, nine moms in sweats and sneakers, accompanied by their personal trainer, raced down the path toward the Alice in Wonderland statue on a recent morning, pushing baby strollers -- not three-wheeled jogging strollers but careening Maclarens and polka-dotted Peregos. “Think of a dirty toilet seat,” the trainer barked as they hit the statue and started hopping up and down its steps, their incredulous babies arrayed in a semicircle around them.

“You can’t sit on it, so you’re going to squat.” The moms dutifully visualized a dirty toilet seat -- they had to look no farther than the ladies’ room at the boathouse just across the model-boat pond -- and squatted. “Listen to me,” their commander instructed after a dozen or so squats -- barely enough to break a sweat. “You’re going to leave the babies here. You’re being released from bondage.” “Up and down,” their trainer ordered. In another minute, they were off. Smart Mouth - Marbles: The Brain Store. What Einstein Told His Cook: Kitchen Science Explained: Robert L. Wolke: 9780393011838: Amazon.com: Books. Memberdrive to Deliver Customized Content via New BackWeb Shadow -- re> SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 12.

See more news releases in Computer Electronics | Electronic Commerce | Multimedia & Internet Memberdrive to Deliver Customized Content via New BackWeb Shadow Leading Marketing Agency for Associations and Affinity Groups to Enable Partners to Push Rich-Media and Time-Sensitive Content to 34 Million Members SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- BackWeb Technologies (Nasdaq: BWEB), a leading provider of push communications infrastructure for e-business, today announced that its new BackWeb(R) Shadow proactive desktop portal has been adopted by Memberdrive, an online and offline direct marketing agency that commercially represents leading national affinity groups. With BackWeb Shadow, Memberdrive can enable the delivery of specially targeted content to 34 million donors and members of large non-profit and special interest groups. Featured Video Journalists and Bloggers Visit PR Newswire for Journalists for releases, photos, ProfNet experts, and customized feeds just for Media.

DataRecovery. Deleted or lost files can sometimes be recovered from failed or formatted drives and partitions, CD-ROMs and memory cards using the free/libre software available in the Ubuntu repositories. The data is recoverable because the information is not immediately removed from the disk. Follow these steps to recover lost data.

You should NOT write to the failed device, as it can worsen a hardware failure, and overwrite existant data in case of lost files . Shut down the affected machine as soon as possible, and restart it from a LiveCD or LiveUSB. Guidelines The following software will passively try to recover your data from failed or failing hardware. If your device is damaged, it is advisable to image the device and work on the image file for data recovery. To recover data from a failed device, you will need another device of equal or greater storage onto which to save your data. An Ubuntu Desktop CD will work fine. Lost Partition GNU Parted sudo swapoff -a sudo parted /dev/sda rescue START END or.

H&R Block screws NRA and gun owners [Archive] - The FAL Files. Moderator, Please don't move this. It needs the WIDEST publication. Thanks. Press Release For Immediate Release March 12, 2002 Contacts: Julie Bernstein Kristin Becker membercenter@gunindustrywatch.org H&R Block Severs Ties with National Rifle Association Washington, D.C. "Let this send a loud message to other corporate partners of the NRA," said Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron. "The termination of this agreement is a tremendous victory for everyone who was outraged that a reputable business like H&R Block would support an extremist organization like the NRA," said Michael D.

"Corporations doing business with the NRA should be very concerned by the large efforts of hundreds of gun safety activists that came out in defiance of H&R Block's agreement with the NRA," said Bryan Miller of the Mid-Atlantic Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. H&R Block had entered into an agreement with a marketing company called Memberdrive to market its products and services to NRA members. American_Liberty : Message: (fwd) Marketing Initiative for the NRA Buckles Under Antigun Pressure. Message Forums. Groups Setting New Sights on Gun Industry Protecti Printed from: GunBroker.com Message Forums Topic URL: Printed on: 04/21/2014 Topic: Topic author: Josey1 Subject: Groups Setting New Sights on Gun Industry Protecti Posted on: 04/11/2002 06:14:16 AM Message: Groups Setting New Sights on Gun Industry Protections4/10/2002 Feature Storyby Dick Dahl (Second of a two-part series on special protections enjoyed by the gun industry and how some groups are responding.)

The gun lobby has been successful in convincing legislatures across the country to erect statutory barriers to protect the gun industry from legal action and from the efforts of local governments to enact tough gun-regulation ordinances. Combined, these uniquely protective industry-protection laws comprise a formidable obstruction standing in the way of citizens who would like to hold the industry accountable to some degree for the ongoing toll of gun violence in America. NRA's $100 million Deficit? Costly legal, legislative and political battles in the last decade have left the National Rifle Association with a $100 million deficit, reopening a bitter debate within the group about how it manages its money.

In the past decade the group's efforts have helped Republicans win the White House and Congress and led to laws in more than 30 states banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers. In the last year the N.R.A. helped pay for a losing legal battle against campaign finance legislation, which the Supreme Court upheld this month. But through many of those years, according to Internal Revenue Service and N.R.A. records, the organization spent more than it took in. Even in 2000, when gun owners helped elect George W. "The victories we have delivered have been costly, cutting deeply into the N.R.A.' That is partly because membership usually rises in election years and ebbs thereafter. But falling membership is also a result of complacency among gun owners, gun rights advocates say. Mr. Mr. Flashlight :: Case No. 1:02-cv-00829-CMH: Memberdrive.com, et al v. HRB Management, Inc. NRA Raises $200 Million as Gun Lobby Toasters Burn Logo on Bread.

A toaster that burns the National Rifle Association’s logo onto bread fetched $650 at an auction last month, just one reflection of the money-making power in the gun group’s brand. The NRA, which began as a grassroots organization dedicated to teaching marksmanship, enters the 2012 election season as a lobbying, merchandising and marketing machine that brings in more than $200 million a year and intends to help unseat the incumbent president. From 2004 to 2010, the group’s revenue from fundraising -- including gifts from gun makers who benefit from its political activism -- grew twice as fast as its income from members’ dues, according to NRA tax returns. More than 50 firearms-related companies have given at least $14.8 million to the Fairfax, Virginia-based group, according to the NRA’s own list for a donor program that began in 2005.

That same year, NRA lobbyists helped win passage of a federal law that limited liability claims against gun makers. Going After Obama Sources of Income. Tim Lambert Deltoid. UPDATED: The HB Gary Email That Should Concern Us All. As I wrote yesterday , there is a leaked email that has gotten surprisingly little attention around here. It's the one where Aaron Barr discusses his intention to post at Daily Kos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group.

But that's not the email I'm talking about here. As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HBGary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppets. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses. But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressive organizations, journalists, and progressive bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet.

Yes!!! In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas: Really? Link. Why Climate Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility - In One Pie Chart. Climate Science Legal Defense Fund Buy Stuff. PEER - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund. Watts Up With That? Is a popular blog run by meteorologist Anthony Watts. Sourced[edit] I believe that this whole global warming/climate change issue is no more than a monumental scam perpetrated by the affluent nations to protect their economic supremacy… WUWT guest contributor Will AlexanderYears ago I received a small stipend from The Heartland Institute to help cover the costs of writing articles regarding the global warming hoax, well before it was exposed in 2009 when emails between its perpetrators—the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—revealed the total lack of real science involved.

I have continued to expose the hoax without any support from Heartland or any other entity. WUWT guest contributor Alan CarubaThey [solar scientists] need to stop tolerating this crazy charade that allows the CO2 alarmists to ignore the impact of decades of grand maximum solar activity and misattribute the resulting warming to fossil fuel burning. Quotes about WUWT[edit] EDITORIAL: Climate-change crybabies. Liberals are hot under the collar, but this has more to do with the election than the planet warming up. The presidential candidates didn’t say a word about global warming during the debates, so advocates of that theory are looking for a bit of attention. Late last month, Penn State climate professor Michael Mann turned to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to sue several individuals who dared satirize his work. Mr. Mann became famous three years ago when leaked Climategate emails referenced Mr.

Mann’s “trick” used to “hide the decline” in global temperatures, inspiring countless parodies and scathing commentary. The global-warming proponent was particularly peeved at a National Review article by columnist Mark Steyn and a Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) blog post containing verbal jabs labeling his work as fraudulent. “It is one thing to attempt to engage in discussion about debatable topics,” wrote Mr. As truth is a defense to libel, Mr.

The Washington Times. Why Affirmative Action for Conservative Professors Is a Bad Idea. On Dec. 5, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly argued, perhaps somewhat tongue-in-cheek, that the solution to the extremely high number of leftist and socialist professors at universities across America is affirmative action for conservative professors. But then, on Dec. 13, self-proclaimed “devout Democrat and a frequent O’Reilly critic” New York University history Professor Jonathan Zimmerman agreed with the newsman in a Christian Science Monitor piece: Race-based affirmative action has made our universities much more interesting and truly educational places, adding a range of voices and experiences that hadn’t been heard before. Hiring more conservative faculty would do the same thing. … I am not suggesting schools should have any kind of numerical quota for conservative professors. … We should simply take political leanings into consideration, just as we do with racial background, when reviewing candidates for academic positions.

(Zimmerman’s) idea is well meaning, but is itself deeply flawed. Management consulting isn't a science, it's a party trick. Get Lost - Rich Lowry. Richard Littlemore | Heartland Insider Exposes Institute's Budget and Strategy. Climate change is not the biggest global health threat. Peter Gleick Admits to Deception in Obtaining Heartland Climate Files. Its a Wonderful Life : The Little Story That Did. Nobel Mann Takes On Revolting Peasants - By Mark Steyn.

Marketing Is Dead - Bill Lee. How to Browse an Old Version of a Website (with pictures) SLAPP Happy: Corporations That Sue to Shut You Up. Strategic lawsuit against public participation. SLAPPS Back At Climate Scientist Michael Manns Libel Lawsuit. There's More to Sex Than a Cum Shot to the Face: What Men Should Unlearn from Hardcore Porn. 10 Key Court Decisions That Prevent Right-Wing Christians from Controlling Your Sex Life.

Obama and Romney Fought Cleanest Fight in History. Quantifying Hate: The Evolution of German - Middlebury College.