Like all Texans, they grew up surrounded by Barbeque and sticking to hand-crafted custom formulas that indulged their families for generations. In order to share and gratify the DFW region with the best flavors and hospitality around, this meat-lovers paradise began as a small shop outside Dallas in the suburb of Pleasant Grove. BBQ catering has been booming ever since so people can have their smoky-meats for every event!

They stuck to tradition and smoked their meats for hours upon hours, and made it a point to follow their families recipes to the T. They nourished their meats the extra flavor and love to set them apart from other traditional Bar-Be-Que spots. they quickly rose to fame, which made the opportunity available to expand. Because all North Texan’s deserve to have great Barbecue in a convenient location, they have developed further to 15 other restaurants in Allen, Cedar Hill, Forney, Garland, Greenville, Hurst, Lancaster, Mesquite, Quinlan, Rockwall, Royse City, Terrell, Van, and Lewisville.

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For 42 years and counting, this home-style haven has been the quintessential meat with all the fixin’s institution that customers always come back to. They were developed with family in mind, and the customers are welcomed no differently. Inside every restaurant, the diligent and enthusiastic staff want their customers to feel appreciated and at home stepping into every restaurant. Posted on the wall of every store is their winning recipe: Great Bar-B-Que, Great Service, and Great GOD! (Romans 7:25). The combination of their popular Texan fare and Southern hospitality is what has made them a unique institution that grows stronger every year. Because these meat geniuses have made their food a top priority, they have mastered every meat to appease any appetite.

So they can cut the meat just how the customer wants it, their meat can be ordered “lean” or a little extra ‘flavor”. Meat options include beef, chicken, ham, turkey, pork, sausage, ribs, and hot links. Their menu offers the staples of delicious BBQ, such as pulled pork sandwiches and ribs. Their classic sides are sure to impress, from macaroni and cheese to piled-high barrel potatoes. Not only do the folks at bbq restaurants use their most popular family recipes, but all of their mats and sides are prepared and cooked in every restaurant. This guarantees that the food is not only made the authentic way, but that the customers get the freshest plates they possibly can, no different than home.

Never stingy with their portions, they want their customers to feel every bit at home and welcome as they deserve while also impressing with value and price. This is why customers have continued to come back for decades. Their local hospitality of its neighbors hasn’t changed since day one.



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Friday, January 15, 2010

Haiti was hit by a heavy earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 on Tuesday, killing an unknown number of people, and destroying up to ten percent of buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

No official death toll has been released as of yet, although the United Nations says that up to fifty thousand people may potentially have been killed. An estimated 300,000 more were left without homes.

In a special photo report, Wikinews looks at the extensive damage caused by the disaster.


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Thursday, September 15, 2005

In the aftermath of the disaster in New Orleans, questions have arisen as to whether the Bush administration withheld the deployment of troops and other assistance pending an agreement by the Louisiana Governor, Kathleen Blanco, to authorize the invocation of the Insurrection Act, which would have legally allowed Bush to declare martial law and take control of the rescue and rebuilding effort.

The NY Times on Sept. 8 reported that “As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana’s governor asked for 40,000 soldiers, President Bush’s senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control of the hurricane relief mission from the governor.” But how this step would have improved the response time is not clear.

It is also unclear as to why such a move would be considered at all as no legal requirement was at issue, leading to the question of whether this was what some fear to have been a political power grab.

The same Times article quotes unnamed official(s) saying that “no active-duty forces could have been sent into the chaos of New Orleans on Wednesday or Thursday without confronting law-and-order challenges.” But though the law does bar US Military forces from law enforcement duties absent a declaration of martial law, there are no restrictions on their use in other capacities. Bush authorized more than 7,000 additional active duty troops on September 3 to join the more than 21,000 National Guard troops and more than 4,000 active duty forces deployed to the ravaged gulf region on September 1st and 2nd, law-and-order challenges taking a back seat to the urgency of the rescue mission.

Navy helicopters were over the city on August 30th and landing craft busy the following day. More than 400 members of the Army Corps of Engineers were on site, working to repair the levee system in New Orleans and removing floodwaters from the city. By September 2nd, 113 DoD helicopters, about half from the National Guard and half from active-duty Navy, Army and Air Force units, were continuing to support search and recovery missions.

The National Guard, which remains under the authority of the Governor of the state, are legally authorized and trained for law enforcement duties and the Times article goes on to say that “Pentagon officials said even the 82nd Airborne, which has a brigade on standby to move out within 18 hours, could not arrive any faster than 7,000 National Guard troops, which are specially trained and equipped for civilian law enforcement duties.”

The Louisiana National Guard was conspicuously absent following the flooding and four days passed without relief. Several states offered emergency supplies, equipment and units from their National Guard. “New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state’s National Guard on Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn’t come from Washington until late Thursday.”

Similarly, FEMA has been roundly criticized for its own failure to fulfill its emergency command and control mandate during the same period of time. Though on-site before the hurricane struck, many stories of manpower, equipment and supplies being refused have surfaced. Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard has accused FEMA of cutting their local communication lines in the midst of the crisis. FEMA chief Mike Brown was ultimately removed from his post on Friday Sept. 9th.

Also on Friday National Guard units arrived in force and brought food and water, medical personnel, and quickly quelled the rampant looting that had beset the city during the previous days.

Without a full investigation, it is impossible to say what caused these delays. This disaster was unprecedented in scope and hit an area long known to be exceptionally vulnerable to catastrophic damage from a hurricane. But the length of the delay and the breadth of the failures have been widely condemned and demands for an explanation have come from both sides of the political aisle.

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GSM Technology

by

Rohit Nath

GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communications. Just like computers, cellular telephone have developed over time. There were first generation cellular phone in the 70\’s, there are 2nd generation cellular telephone in the 80\’s and 90\’s, and now there are 3rd gen phones which are about to enter the Indian market. GSM is named a 2nd generation, or 2G communications technology.

GSM or global system for mobile communication is a digital cellular system. It was originated in Finland Europe. however now it is internationally. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) accounts for 80 % of total cell technologies market. There are over more 3 billion users of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) now. GSM technology got its level of popularity, when people used it to consult with their friends and relatives. The use of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is possible due to the SIM (subscribers identity module) GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is easy to use, affordable and means that you can carry your cell phone everywhere. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) is a 2G technology. There are many frequency ranges for GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) however 2G is the most used frequency. GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) offers restrained security. It allows for encryption between the end user and the service base station. The use of various forms of cryptographic modules is part of GSM technology.

GSM makes use of two principles :.

Time division Multiplexing.

Therein multiplexing, the radio frequency say 890 Mhz is shared by different users in time. This means if user A, B, C and D all talk at the same time. You assign the 890 Mhz frequency to A for some time and allow him to talk, then you assign 890 band to B for sometime to speak, then to C, and finally to D, before return to A. So the process continues in a round robin fashion, as long as A, B, C, and D want to talk. This way many users talk at same time on the same frequency. This has to be done, because as we now frequency or Bandwidth is a scarce resource and is not available in plentiful, so it must be shared.

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Frequency Division Multiplexing.

Therein multiplexing, users A, B, C and D, all use different frequency say 890, 900, 910, 920 for their respective communications. A very model of this is Radio broadcasting. Because all the radio operators like Rad FM, Go FM, Radio Mirchi want to operate in the same area, they use different frequencies for communication 91.0 FM, 93.5 FM, 94.6 FM, 108FM. So to listen to different communications, you have to tune in the receiver set to different frequencies.

GSM uses a combination of TDMA and FDMA. This means that users A and B are not only sharing the channel in time but also frequency. This means that user A is on the channel 890Mhz for 2 seconds, then jumps to 900Mhz channel for the next to seconds, then jumps to 910Mhz for the next 2 seconds and so forth… Thus, each user is uses a different frequency at different time slots. This is called Frequency Hopping.

Shortly we can say :

1. GSM stands for Global System for Mobile Communication and is an open, digital cellular technology used for transmitting mobile voice and data services.

2. The GSM emerged from the idea of cell-based mobile radio systems at Bell Laboratories in the early 1970s.

3. The GSM is the name of a standardization group established in 1982 to create a common European mobile telephone standard.

4. The GSM standard is the most widely accepted standard and is implemented globally.

5. The GSM is a circuit-switched system that divides each 200kHz channel into eight 25kHz time-slots. GSM operates in the 900MHz and 1.8 GHz bands in Europe and the 1.9 GHz and 850MHz bands in the US.

6. The GSM is owning a market share of more 70 percent of the world\’s digital cellular subscribers.

7. The GSM makes use of narrowband Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technique for transmitting signals.

8. The GSM was developed using digital technology. It has an ability to carry 64 kbps to 120 Mbps of data rates.

9. Presently GSM support more one billion mobile subscribers in more 210 countries throughout of the world.

10. The GSM provides basic to advanced voice and data services including Roaming service. Roaming is the ability to use your GSM telephone number in another GSM network.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2005

A National Academy of Sciences report (.pdf) last year said that while the milk and meat from cloned animals would not likely make anyone sick, more research should be performed. Now, a new US-Japan study published in the April 11 online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that milk and meat from cloned cattle does indeed appear to meet industry standards and appears to be safe for human consumption.

As BBC News reports, the scientists, led by Professor Jerry Yang from the University of Connecticut, compared the produce from two beef and four dairy clones, all derived from a single Holstein dairy cow and a single Japanese black bull, with the produce from normal animals of similar age and breed.

The meat was analysed against more than 100 physiological, tissue and cellular components, while the milk was analysed for protein, fat and other variables. No significant differences between the produce of cloned and normal cattle were found. Higher levels of fat and fatty acids were found in the cloned cow meat, but they still fell within beef industry standards.

While the study showed the cloned produce to be within the range approved for human consumption, the scientists stressed that the research was still in its early stages. Their findings, they said, provide “guidelines” for further research with larger numbers of clones from different genetic backgrounds.

Cloning livestock may one day increase yields by copying those animals that are especially productive and especially resistant to disease.

“The milking production levels in the US are three to four times higher than levels in China; maybe even five times or more compared to cows in India and some other countries,” Professor Jerry Yang told BBC News. “Therefore cloning could offer technology for duplicating superior farm animals. However, all the products from these cloned animals must be safe for human consumption. …and it is a major issue for scientists to provide a scientific basis for the data and information to address this question.”

As USA Today reports, there is currently no law governing the sale of meat or milk from the estimated 1,000 to 2,000 cloned farm animals in the USA. But since 2003, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has asked producers to voluntarily keep the meat and milk of these animals, and that of their offspring, out of the food supply.

Wired News reports that companies like ViaGen and Cyagra, which offer livestock-cloning services, have also been waiting for several years for a final say from the FDA.

“For the United States agricultural industry, (cloning) can reduce the number of cows necessary for milking,” said Jerry Yang “They can have a pleasant environment and produce even more milk.” He also said that cloning cattle from the United States, where genetic breeding is more advanced, could save developing countries 50 years of breeding.

The idea of cloning animals for human consumption is not without its critics. First, there are the welfare concerns, as most cloned animals do not make it to term before being born, and many of those that do are born deformed or prone to illness. The Humane Society of the United States has asked for a ban on milk and meat from clones for just this reason. Second, there is still the concern that healthy clones may have subtle defects that could make their food products unsafe to eat.

As the Washington Post reports, some critics are asking why it is necessary to clone cows that produce huge amounts of milk when surpluses, rather than shortages, are the main problem facing the U.S. dairy industry today.

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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

A Scottish woman who set out before Christmas to purchase a turkey finally made it home on Monday, after being cut off by snow for a month. Kay Ure left the Lighthouse Keeper’s cottage on Cape Wrath, at the very northwest tip of Great Britain, in December. She was heading to Inverness on a shopping trip.

However on her return journey heavy snow and ice prevented her husband, John, from travelling the last 11 miles to pick her up. She was forced to wait a month in a friend’s caravan, before the weather improved and the couple could finally be reunited.

They were separated not just for Christmas and New Year, but also for Mr Ure’s 58th birthday. With no fresh supplies, he was reduced to celebrating with a tin of baked beans. He also ran out of coal, and had to feed the couple’s six springer spaniels on emergency army rations.

“It’s the first time we’ve been separated”, said Mr Ure in December. “We’ve been snowed in here for three weeks before, so we are well used to it and it’s quite nice to get a bit of peace and quiet.”

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Thursday, May 7, 2015

On Tuesday, the New Zealand government announced the start of a public process to suggest designs for a new national flag, and determine whether their citizens would prefer a different national flag over the current one.

The current New Zealand flag is partially based on the United Kingdom’s flag; the new one would be unique to New Zealand. The government’s Flag Consideration Project has planned a number of conferences and roadshows as part of this process, with the first meeting set to take place in Christchurch on May 16. According to the New Zealand Herald, Emeritus Professor John Burrows, the chairman of the project’s panel of twelve, said New Zealand’s flag has never before been open to public choice.

Professor Burrows also said resources and kits would be accessible for schools and communities, “For example, schools can run their own flag discussions and referendums to mirror the formal process as part of their own learning exercise”. People were encouraged to submit their designs online at www.flag.govt.nz and suggest what the flag should mean on www.standfor.co.nz. Names of participants would be engraved, at their option, on a flag pole monument to be built in the nation’s capital, Wellington.

New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key said he believes redesigning the flag now has a “strong rationale”. Mr Key promoted the campaign for a unique New Zealand flag on Waitangi Day — February 6 — this year. Of the public process, he said, “In the end I’ll have one vote in each referendum just like every other New Zealander on the electoral roll”.

The New Zealand government intends to hold two referendums to reach a verdict on the flag, at an estimated cost of NZ$26 million, although a recent poll found only a quarter of citizens favoured changing the flag. This is a decrease from the year before, when it was forty percent. The first referendum is to be held from November 20 to December 11, selecting a single new flag design out of about four finalists. Voters would then choose between the new flag and their current flag early in 2016.

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Sports betting is a blend of two of mans paramount interests: sports and betting. Its definitely no surprise that the two pastimes function so well together. Any time a band of sports fans are found together, the excitement leads to shouting and bets are placed. In every sport, there are always some games that are thought to be the most crucial of the season and the tension grows as the date of the game approaches. Concurrently, the bets start to pile up.

Since no one knows in advance how the game will turn out, it is always a matter of educated guessing as to which team will be victorious and by how many points. Sports betting might appear to be addictive and, although, for some, it can be, for nearly all people its just for entertainment and a lot of fun it is! It gives you a more stimulating way to interact with your comrades about a subject in which you have a lot in common. Since the final score can not be known until the end of the game, having a bet made makes the thrill last all the way through the game.

While there is generally informal betting between friends, most wagers are made through what is known as a sports book which is an entity that accepts sports betting, In the US, there are only 4 states where sports betting is legally allowed. Elsewhere, you need to deal with a bookie and to make a bet you have to be over the age of 21. Some of the sports you can bet on are horse racing, dog racing, professional hockey, professional baseball, and professional and college football and basketball. In truth, sports betting is placing bets on anything that is a recognized sport. You can wager on the final score of a game, how many points by which a team will win, who will win a boxing match and in what round they will be declared the winner. The only thing that is known in advance is the odds which is the statistical likelihood of winning or losing a particular bet.

A bookie will indicate what the odds are at any particular moment to help you choose how to lay down your wager and for how much. A point spread is like a handicap given to what is thought to be the weaker team so as to equalize the likelihood of gambling either way. A gambler might bet on a losing team and still win provided that the team loses by a precise number of points. You might be required to enter your bet a bit higher than what you could be expected to win. The remainder goes to the bookie as his or her way of earning money on the wagers you enter.

It can seem a bit complicated for a beginner. There are a number of different kinds of bets including over/unders, teasers, parlays and straight bets. The most usual and easiest to learn is the straight bet on a team you think will win or lose. You can lay a wager on the combined number of points scored by both teams. These bets are labeled over/unders. Combined bets on many games are called parlays. You can add or subtract points from the spread to make a stronger bet in a teaser which is similar to a parlay. All of these betting styles are created to make sports betting more interesting and challenging.

Those are the fundamentals of sports betting should you wish to try your luck and have some fun. Remember to keep your bets small. In this way, it will always be fun. If you lose a trivial amount, you can live with that and recover from it smiling. If you get carried away and bet the farm, it will be a calamity when you lose and that cannot be much fun. Only an addicted gambler would ever bet the farm.



Monday, February 18, 2013

Venezuela’s government has opened a granite processing plant in the state of Bolívar, with the intention of providing about 25% of the granite required nationwide.

Ricardo Menéndez, vice president of the Productive Economic Area, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has yearned for the creation of this project to empower Venezuelan construction. Granito Bolívar is reportedly the most modern Venezuelan granite plant, not consuming community water or electricity, and is also the largest, with a daily capacity to supply enough material for use in construction of about 820 houses.

Menéndez said, “These granite blocks are the natural resources of our country, are the wealth we have as a country and often [some] simply decided to remove this richness from our country and take them to other countries” ((es))Spanish language: ?Esos bloques de granito son la riquezas naturales de nuestro país, son las riquezas que tenemos como patria y que muchas veces sencillamente esas riquezas decidieron sacarlas de nuestro territorio nacional y llevarlas a otros países.

According to Menéndez, with the help of a state plan, Venezuela intends to exploit its 40,000 million cubic meters or more of granite reserves, generating a set of factories. “[T]he central theme is that these plants, all these factories, are for the construction of socialism; that means using our potential, develop the value chain within the country and of course that yields benefits from the point of view of the production system’s organization…. [Granito] Bolívar is not only the vision that historically we had of exposing richness, but the industries, basic industries we have, that level of our workers in the basic industries and in addition the development of the potential we have in the state” ((es))Spanish language: ?el tema central es que estas plantas todas estas fábricas son para la construcción del socialismo, eso significa utilizar nuestras potencialidades, dessarrollar la cadena de valor dentro del país y por supuesto que eso genere beneficios desde el punto de vista de la organización del sistema productivo … Bolívar no solamente es la visión que históricamente se tuvo de exponer las riquezas, sino que son las empresas, las empresas básicas que tenemos, ese nivel de nuestros trabajadores de la empresas básicas y adicionalmente el desarrollo del potencial que tenemos en el estado.

For the construction of the plant, supplied by 23 quarries, the government of Bolívar provided about 30 million bolívares (US$4.7 million) and the national government €2.3 million (US$3 million). Bolívar reportedly has reserves of about 40,000 million tons of red, black, pink and white granite, sufficient for domestic demand for 200 years.

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