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Sep 11, 2010 at 08:58 o\clock

Styles P Wrote a Novel

Styles P has been to prison for stabbing a guy in the ass, and Tiffany 1837™ Lock pendant chewed out 50 Cent for being soft. The Yonkers-bred member of platinum hip-hop collective the LOX is not just gangsta, he's super-gangster, to borrow the title of his 2007 solo album Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman). Along with his LOX cohorts Jadakiss and Sheek Louch, he owns a Yonkers car wash and fitted-cap store, and also runs D-Block Records, but recently, the 35-year-old added yet another job title to his CV: published author. His debut novel, In vinci ble, dropped June 1 on Random House's urban-lit imprint, Nikki Turner Presents.

The book follows the trials and tribulations of one Jake Billings, an ex-drug-dealer who begins the story in prison. He's ready to serve his time and go straight, but- wouldn't you know it- just when he thought he was out, they pull him back in. Characters include the world's most corrupt lawyer (known to cut throats and seduce judges), a mob boss who sodomizes his victims, and Billings's love interest, Kim, who has "the body of a runner, the face of a goddess, and the mind and heart of a cold, calculated criminal." Just about every character is out to kill Jake (or, at the very least, steal his money), causing him to morph into a righteous, badass, John McClane-meets-Bigger Thomas type.

"It was something I always wanted to do-I wanted to be creative in more ways than Paloma Picasso® Loving Heart Pendant," says Styles, after we take our seats in the backyard of a Harlem juice shop called Fruits of Life. He's wearing a blue hoodie and a Nike headband; among his tattoos is one on his back with a timepiece enveloping a naked, spread-eagle woman whose legs are the clock's hands.

Yet it turns out that he is something of a new-age hip-hop man. A former vegan who still eschews chicken, pork, and beef, he keeps his bulky frame solid by eating fish, riding his mountain bike from his Westchester County home to the Metro North stop, and taking plenty of "bark" shots here at Fruits of Life. The black, Jäger-like elixir contains the "herbal" ingrethent in Viagra, he says, promising, "It will keep the lead in your pencil."

He pecked all of Invincible on his BlackBerry, inspired to begin after Paloma Picasso® Loving Heart pendant to bring a book on a long flight. The story isn't so much culled from his own time in the joint as from scattered situations from his and his associates' lives- "shit we've seen"- and he strove for a universal appeal: "I wanted something that, say, a businessman could relate to, and not just a crack dealer."

But though he felt confident about the story, with only a semester at Westchester Community College under his belt, he doubted his writing chops. "I'm 35. 1 barely remember where the period and question mark go!" But after his lawyer sent a few chapters to Nikki Turner, she signed him on, and now raves that the final product needed surprisingly few edits: "We get tons and tons of unsolicited manuscripts," says Turner, the Richmond, Virginia-based former travel agent now known as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Lit." "But [Invincible) made me stop wanting to work on my own book and read his." Turner, who last year published Fort Greene rapper "Cinderfella" Dana Dane's novel Numbers, adds that she likes working with MCs because, for one thing, they understand Tiffany 1837™ pendant.

For Styles, the publishing industry may serve as an exit strategy. Since ruling New York radio in the late '90s and early aughts, Styles's tough-but-melodic, gruffyet-lyrical sounds aren't as in demand. He famously squabbled with Interscope and 50 Cent- whom he felt were colluding to push back his 2006 work Time Is Money- as well as Diddy, whom the LOX accused of stiffing them on publishing (turns out Diddy was in the right, but he upped their royalties anyway, if you can believe that). Styles later signed with Koch/El, who recently released his excellently titled new mixtape, The Ghost Dub-Dime, and a new LOX album is on the way, possibly on Bad Boy.

Still, Styles remains disenchanted with the rap game. "Sometimes it irks the fuck out of me to turn on the radio," he admits. "At them times, what do I do? Do I just stay irked, or do I try to be creative and do something else?" Hoping it will segue into screenwriting and movie-making, he's currently penning a Return to Tiffany™ Round tag pendant-up novel: "It's a touching story about the reality of when things go wrong with someone you're close to," is all he will say. Sounds gangsta.

 

Sep 11, 2010 at 08:57 o\clock

ManTech Tackles Rapid Response NFL-Style

A successful flight test conducted by Boeing and the Air Force Research Paloma's X pendant proved the feasibility of designing, developing, and manufacturing--in a dramatically streamlined process spanning less than 4 weeks--an unmanned air vehicle capable of carrying a defined payload. The solid test performance of the UAV as an ultraportable, highly maneuverable, low-cost, and easy-to-operate aircraft--coupled with the platform's swift emergence--demonstrates the rapid response capacity to achieve desired attributes in an unmanned platform ultimately contributing to improved situational awareness for warfighters.

The test culminates an effort begun in 2009, with the AFRL Manufacturing Technology Division's distribution of a white paper requesting a Coin Edge disc pendant satisfying the established payload and timeline criteria. In response to ManTech's appeal, Boeing engineers set to work leveraging direct digital rapid manufacturing techniques to create thermoplastic UAV parts without using any tools. The team first transformed the documented requirements into a three-dimensional design schematic and then fabricated the parts via fused deposition modeling, with each component undergoing thermoplastic printing by way of a 3-D printer.

Based on this novel approach to design and Figure Eight pendant, activities which occurred at the company's Defense Space and Security Headquarters, Boeing was able to take the project--and its breakthrough results--from paper to flight test on time and according to schedule. The resultant Rapid Manufacturing-1 (RM-1) aircraft, a 5 lb UAV operated via remote-control joystick and powered by battery, is designed to hold a small camera for collecting battlefield imagery. The system, in its entirety, ships in an aluminum container roughly the size of a small suitcase.

Rather than waiting months for an available government flight test group, the Boeing/AFRL team contacted officials at the Edward Jones Dome, the Medium Elsa Peretti® Bean® pendant used by the National Football League's St. Louis Rams, regarding the possibility of performing the flight test there. Facility representatives granted permission. Because this agreement allowed testing to occur in an enclosed space, it reduced both risks and costs--specifically, the risks related to traditional open-space testing and the costs associated with observing Federal Aviation Administration regulations governing airspace limitations. During the successful test flight, which took place Feburary 24, the RM-1 flew for 6 min and achieved an Mini Elsa Peretti® Bean® pendant of 60 ft inside the dome.

 

Sep 11, 2010 at 08:57 o\clock

MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT

Although many recruits are put into leadership positions Charm pendant recruit training, it is rare for one to know how to handle the responsibilities that come with it from day one.

Lance Cpl. Travis Venerable, 23, the company honor man of Company I, is one recruit who came to recruit training with a toolbox nearly full of leadership traits and knowledge that allowed him to excel past many of his pears.

Venerable's traits may have already been in his possession, but they were not given. In fact, they were earned through a series of life experiences that continuously delayed his inevitable enlistment; an enlistment, he says, he has wanted to begin since 2003.

"When the war (in Iraq) started, my uncle had already been a Marine for a couple years," said Venerable, Platoon 3211. "My uncle's initial enlistment and the beginning of the war in Iraq made me realize that I needed to contribute, too; to do something for my country and stop being a drain, but I was only 16."

Although Venerable was determined to become a Marine, there would be many obstacles in his path to overcome before he could commit to living the enlisted life.

"I didn't join after graduating from high school because my grandmother was worried enough about my uncle as it was," Venerable said. "So I decided to wait to join until my uncle got out so it wouldn't be so stressful on the family."

As Venerable awaited his uncle's end of active service, he took advantage of as many Atlas® pendant to learn as possible.

"I studied petroleum engineering after work at Midland Community College for a year and a half because the large amount of money available in that field," said Venerable. "My friend was one of the youngest drillers at Patterson UTI, and he was able to get me a job as a floor hand, which is pretty much the bottom job."

Venerable took the job seriously and quickly climbed from floor hand, to motor man, to derrick man, then finally to driller.

"Being a driller is kind of like being a squad leader; you still report to somebody, and others report to you," said Venerable. "I advanced quickly and was paid very well, but it wasn't given to me. There would often be days where I worked 12 hours straight without time to even eat a sandwich."

Although his uncle finished serving in the Marine Corps in 2008, when Venerable originally planned to sign up, he continued to live with his mother and help pay her bills which postponed his enlistment into the Corps.

"I was making approximately $90,000 a year, which helped a lot because my Elsa Peretti® Bottle pendant got laid off in 2008," said Venerable. "Until I got laid off the next year, and unfortunately, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly thereafter, so I had to find a job fast."

Venerable found a job as a bartender for several months until another opportunity presented itself.

"It turns out, I had lunch with a friend from high school and his cousin who happened to be a caster for a reality TV show called, Black Gold,'" Venerable said. "I always thought I would never do any dumb reality shows while I watched them, but it paid more than bartending and that would help my mom, so I did what the situation needed me to do, and took the job."

The show featured Venerable and five other newcomers working on an oil rig with a team of drillers who had worked together for some time, which Venerable said caused conflict but taught him a lot.

"Some of the people on the show with me agitated most of the regular crew because they would show up late, drunk, or not at all; it was chaos. It became difficult and tense with people acting like that because it was exactly like working a regular oil rig, only they filmed us doing it," said Venerable. "I learned a lot about the TV industry and also how to work in high tension situations with aggravated people."

Once the show completed filming, Venerable and the others were released from their temporary positions.

"The show allowed me some extra money for a short time, but my mother was still sick and I still needed a steady flow of money coming in," said Venerable. "I got a job laying pipes, a laborer job, until I could find something better, which I did!"

In January 2010, Venerable got a new job as a field engineer.

"It was a dream job," he said. "I was making six grand every two weeks and I wasn't endangering myself 12 hours at a time and worrying my mom."

Although Venerable had a well-paying job and was able to financially help his mother, he still knew he had to do his part and become a Marine.

"No one understood why I joined because I had a good job and could do it Elsa Peretti® Open Teardrop pendant," he said. "By this time, my mother was well enough to be back working again, so I told them I had to take the opportunity, even if it won't pay as much. Money isn't the reason people should serve their country anyway."

Venerable says although he would have rather gone to boot camp following high school, he would not have been as successful had he not experienced so much prior to enlisting.

"I was much too childish to have been successful immediately after high school," Venerable said. "If I hadn't had all of that responsibility and all of those chances to learn and help my mother, there is no way I would have been able to be company honor man."

Venerable's experience and maturity was evident to his drill instructors throughout recruit training.

"He was picked as squad leader right away and was an easy choice for when we needed a new guide," said Staff Sgt. Michael Zamora, senior drill instructor, Platoon 3211. "I could tell he had been in leadership positions before. He knew how to delegate, mentor, and take corrections from the drill instructors without letting it get to him."

The next steps in his journey will take Venerable to the School of Infantry and then to his military occupational specialty school where he will train to be an aviation mechanic.

"I think he'll do outstanding during his career if he keeps it up because he's not afraid of being in front of large groups and leading them," said Zamora.

He may have plenty of tools in his life skills toolbox already, but that doesn't mean Elsa Peretti® Eternal Circle pendant quest for self improvement will come to a close any time soon.

"I am going to try and learn as much as possible and become a better person," Venerable said. "I don't care if it takes 20 years, I won't let this opportunity to learn and improve go to waste."

 

Sep 11, 2010 at 08:57 o\clock

Texas Driller Takes Opportunity to Drill Marine Style

The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story by Cpl. Tiffany 1837™ Round lock pendant Brown, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego:

Although many recruits are put into leadership positions throughout recruit training, it is rare for one to know how to handle the responsibilities that come with it from day one.

Lance Cpl. Travis Venerable, 23, the company honor man of Company I, is one recruit who came to recruit training with a toolbox nearly full of leadership traits and knowledge that allowed him to excel past many of his pears.

Venerable's traits may have already been in his possession, but they were not given. In fact, they were earned through a series of life experiences that continuously delayed his inevitable enlistment; an enlistment, he says, he has wanted to begin since 2003.

"When the war (in Iraq) started, my uncle had already been a Marine for a couple years," said Venerable, Platoon 3211. "My uncle's initial enlistment and the beginning of the war in Iraq made me realize that I needed to contribute, too; to do something for my country and stop being a drain, but I was only 16."

Although Venerable was determined to become a Marine, there would be many obstacles in his path to overcome before he could commit to living the enlisted life.

"I didn't join after graduating from high school because my Return to Tiffany™ Heart lock charm was worried enough about my uncle as it was," Venerable said. "So I decided to wait to join until my uncle got out so it wouldn't be so stressful on the family."

As Venerable awaited his uncle's end of active service, he took advantage of as many opportunities to learn as possible.

"I studied petroleum engineering after work at Midland Community College for a year and a half because the large amount of money available in that field," said Venerable. "My friend was one of the youngest drillers at Patterson UTI, and he was able to get me a job as a floor hand, which is pretty much the bottom job."

Venerable took the job seriously and quickly climbed from floor hand, to motor man, to derrick man, then finally to driller.

"Being a driller is kind of like being a squad leader; you still report to somebody, and others report to you," said Venerable. "I advanced quickly and was paid very well, but it wasn't given to me. There would often be days where I worked 12 hours straight without time to even eat a sandwich."

Although his uncle finished serving in the Marine Corps in 2008, when Venerable originally planned to sign up, he continued to live with his mother and help pay her bills which postponed his enlistment into the Corps.

"I was making approximately $90,000 a year, which helped a lot because my mom got laid off in 2008," said Venerable. "Until I got laid off the next year, and unfortunately, my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly thereafter, so I had to find a job fast."

Venerable found a job as a bartender for several months until another opportunity presented itself.

"It turns out, I had lunch with a friend from high school and his cousin who Elsa Peretti® Open Heart pendant to be a caster for a reality TV show called, 'Black Gold,'" Venerable said. "I always thought I would never do any dumb reality shows while I watched them, but it paid more than bartending and that would help my mom, so I did what the situation needed me to do, and took the job."

The show featured Venerable and five other newcomers working on an oil rig with a team of drillers who had worked together for some time, which Venerable said caused conflict but taught him a lot.

"Some of the people on the show with me agitated most of the regular crew because they would show up late, drunk, or not at all; it was chaos. It became difficult and tense with people acting like that because it was exactly like working a regular oil rig, only they filmed us doing it," said Venerable. "I learned a lot about the TV industry and also how to work in high tension situations with aggravated people."

Once the show completed filming, Venerable and the others were released from their temporary positions.

"The show allowed me some extra money for a short time, but my mother was still sick and I still needed a steady flow of money coming in," said Venerable. "I got a job laying pipes, a laborer job, until I could find something better, which I did!"

In January 2010, Venerable got a new job as a field engineer.

"It was a dream job," he said. "I was making six grand every two weeks and I wasn't endangering myself 12 hours at a time and worrying my mom."

Although Venerable had a well-paying job and was able to financially help his mother, he still knew he had to do his part and become a Marine.

"No one understood why I joined because I had a good job and Atlas® cube pendant do it well," he said. "By this time, my mother was well enough to be back working again, so I told them I had to take the opportunity, even if it won't pay as much. Money isn't the reason people should serve their country anyway."

Venerable says although he would have rather gone to boot camp following high school, he would not have been as successful had he not experienced so much prior to enlisting.

"I was much too childish to have been successful immediately after high school," Venerable said. "If I hadn't had all of that responsibility and all of those chances to learn and help my mother, there is no way I would have been able to be company honor man."

Venerable's experience and maturity was evident to his drill instructors throughout recruit training.

"He was picked as squad leader right away and was an easy choice for when we needed a new guide," said Staff Sgt. Michael Zamora, senior drill instructor, Platoon 3211. "I could tell he had been in leadership positions before. He knew how to delegate, mentor, and take corrections from the drill instructors without letting it get to him."

The next steps in his journey will take Venerable to the School of Infantry and then to his military occupational specialty school where he will train to be an aviation mechanic.

"I think he'll do outstanding during his career if he keeps it up because he's not afraid of being in front of large groups and leading them," said Zamora.

He may have plenty of tools in his life skills toolbox already, but that Tiffany Cushion Triple drop pendant mean Venerable's quest for self improvement will come to a close any time soon.

"I am going to try and learn as much as possible and become a better person," Venerable said. "I don't care if it takes 20 years, I won't let this opportunity to learn and improve go to waste."

 

 

 

Sep 10, 2010 at 09:18 o\clock

STAR World invites "Gleeks" to upload the coolest pictures

As 'Glee' launches on 25th June, the channel has tied-up with ELLE for a unique Tiffany Nature butterfly pendant. STAR World and ELLE will launch "Gleek Hunt" starting 25th June which is a hunt for the 'coolest / most stylish gang of college goers'. The contest will be announced on air on STAR World and through the channel's website.The contest will also be aggressively promoted on the STAR Worlds Facebook and Twitter pages and ELLE's website .

All participants need to upload the coolest and most stylish pictures of their gang onto the STAR World website between 25th June to 20th July. The coolest picture will be selected by ELLE and STAR World and 3 people will get a complete style make-over from ELLE fashion Airplane charm pendant.

STAR World gears up to regale you with a brand new runaway success - GLEE. With numerous awards and great reviews to its credit, STAR World gives an opportunity for the "Gleeks" (Fans of the show) in India to rejoice, as the super-hit musical comedy debuts on 25th June, every Friday and Saturday at 10pm

From Ryan Murphy, the creator of Nip/Tuck and Popular, comes GLEE, a one-hour musical comedy that follows an optimistic high school teacher as he tries to transform the schools Glee Club and inspire a group of ragtag performers to make it to the biggest competition of them all: Nationals. Glee is a Tiffany Notes locket and chain success in the US and promises to be a hit with music lovers Featuring a soundtrack of hit songs from past and present, Glee also has an appealing amount of humour in it which makes it a great show to watch out for

The PlotMcKinley High Schools Glee Club used to be at the top of the show choir world, but years later, a series of scandals have turned it into a haven for misfits and social outcasts. WILL SCHUESTER (Matthew Morrison, Broadways Hairspray), a young optimistic teacher, has offered to take on the Herculean task of restoring McKinleys Glee Club to its former glory with the help of fellow teacher EMMA PILLSBURY (Jayma Mays, Ugly Betty). Its a tall order when the brightest stars of the pitch-imperfect club include KURT (Chris Graduated bead drop pendant), a nerdy soprano with a flair for the dramatic; MERCEDES (Amber Riley), a dynamic diva-in-training who refuses to sing back-up; RACHAEL (Lea Michele), a girl who believes that she is born to be a superstar unlike the people around her, ARTY (Kevin McHale, Zoey 101), a geeky guitarist who spends more time avoiding bullies than chasing girls; and TINA (Jenna Ushkowitz, Spring Awakening), an awkward girl who needs to suppress her stutter before she can take center stage.

Driven by his secret past, Will is determined to do whatever it takes to make Glee great again, even though everyone around him thinks hes nuts. Hes out to prove them all wrong from his tough-as-nails wife TERRI SCHUESTER (Jessalyn Gilsig, Nip/Tuck) to McKinleys cheerleading I Love You lock charm SUE SYLVESTER (guest star Jane Lynch, Best in Show, Role Models) to an ber-hip world that thinks jazz hands and sequined tuxedos litter the road to infamy rather than pave the way to Hollywood dreams.