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Suzuka International Racing Course (Suzuka Circuit for short) is a co-host of the Formula One Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix, and is one of the oldest and most famous motorsport race tracks in Japan. It is located in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture and is owned by Honda Motor Co., L
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Istanbul Park (Turkish: İstanbul Park), also known as the Istanbul Racing Circuit or initially Istanbul Otodrom, is a motor sports race track in Akfırat County east of İstanbul, Turkey. It was inaugurated on August 21, 2005. It has been called "the best race track in the world" by Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone.[1]
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the commercial with Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld is such fail
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The Rŭngrado May First Stadium, or May Day Stadium, is a stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, completed on May 1, 1989. Its names come from Rungra Island in the Taedong River, upon which it is situated, and May Day, the international day celebrating labour and particularly celebrated among communists. Its scalloped roof features 16 arches arranged in a ring, and it is said to resemble a parachute or a magnolia blossom. It is not to be confused with the also large Kim Il-sung Stadium.
The stadium can seat 150,000[1][2], which is the largest stadium capacity in the world. It hosts events on a main pitch sprawling across over 22,500 m² (242,200 ft²). Its total floor space is over 207,000 m² (2.2 million ft²) across eight stories, and the lobes of its roof peak at more than 60 m (197 ft) from the ground.
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The Lexington Horsemen are an af2 team based in Lexington, Kentucky. They play their home games at Rupp Arena. They began as a 2003 expansion member of the National Indoor Football League, where they were successful. After defeating the Sioux Falls Storm to win Indoor Bowl IV, the Horsemen decided to join the new United Indoor Football (UIF) as a charter member, where they made the playoffs, yet ironically lost to the Sioux Falls Storm (the team they beat in their last year in the NIFL). They made the playoffs again in 2006 and made it all the way to United Bowl II; but they, again, lost to the Sioux Falls Storm.
During the 2007 season the Horsemen finished with an 8-7 regular season record and then advance through the playoffs to United Bowl III where they faced none other than their longtime playoff foe the undefeated Sioux Falls Storm they lost the game 62-59 after Collin Barber missed the potential game tying field goal as time expired. The game was Head Coach Mike Zuckerman's final game.
The team's official mascot is Spike, a hero-like horseman.
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First National Bank Stadium (FNB Stadium or Soccer City) is a stadium located in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located next to the South African Football Association headquarters (SAFA House) where both the FIFA offices and the Local Organising Committee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup is housed. [4]
A football-specific stadium, the FNB Stadium currently seats 78,000 people in plastic bucket seats. The stadium has the third largest capacity in Africa. Most of the largest football events in South Africa are played at the FNB and the venue is better suited to these events than nearby Ellis Park, where the final for the Rugby World Cup in 1995 was held. Soweto and the National Exhibition Centre in Nasrec are nearby.
[edit] 2010 World Cup
The stadium will hold the opening match, four more first-round matches, one second-round match one quarter-final and the final.
The Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg is to undergo a major upgrade for the 2010 tournament, with a new design inspired by traditional African pottery. The upper tier will be extended around the stadium to increase the capacity to 94,700 [5] with an extra 99 Executive suites, an encircling roof will be constructed, new changing room facilities will be developed and new floodlights will be installed. The R1.5 billion [5] tender to upgrade the stadium was won by Grinaker-LTA.[6] Soccer City is scheduled for completion in 2009. On January 19, 2007, Grinaker-LTA issued a press statement that mentioned the beginning of the constructions within two weeks.
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The Chevrolet Cruze is an upcoming compact car that General Motors plan to introduce around the world in 2009. It will replace two unrelated cars, the Daewoo Lacetti — which is sold in badge-engineered variants as the Chevrolet Lacetti in Europe, the Chevrolet Optra in Mexico, and the Holden Viva in Australia and New Zealand — and the Chevrolet Cobalt sold in the United States and Canada.[1][2]
According to GM, the Cruze "was developed by a global design and engineering team and will be built in multiple locations around the world" and is underpinned by the GM Delta II platform.[3] Such locations include Bupyong, South Korea and Lordstown, Ohio,[4] where GM is investing more than US$350 million.[5]
The first renderings of the Cruze were revealed by GM at a press conference on July 15, 2008.[6] GM released the first official images of the Cruze on August 21 at GM Lordstown Assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio
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Red Bull is banned in Norway, Uruguay and Denmark because of health risks listed on its cans, but the company last year sold 3.5 billion cans in 143 countries.
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A compact (North America), small family (European) or c-segment car is a classification of cars which are larger than a supermini and smaller than a large family car.
Current compact cars are between 4,100 mm (161 in) and 4,450 mm (175 in) long if they are hatchbacks, or between 4,400 mm (173 in) and 4,600 mm (181 in) if they are cabriolets, sedans or station wagons. Multi-purpose vehicles and sport utility vehicles based on small family cars, which are called compact MPVs and compact SUVs respectively, have become popular since the early 1990s.
Common engines are 1.5 to 2.4-litre straight-4s, either petrol or Diesel, with a range between 100 bhp (75 kW) and 170 bhp (127 kW). Some models also have economical 1.3 or 1.4-litre units. High-performance versions, called hot hatches or sport compact sedans, may have turbocharged 2.0 or 2.5-litre engines, or even V6 3.2-litre units, ranging maximum outputs from 170 bhp (127 kW) to 300 bhp (224 kW). Small European family cars include the Ford Focus, Opel Astra, Peugeot 307, Renault Mégane, and Volkswagen Golf. Japanese branded examples include Honda Civic, Mazda 3, Subaru Impreza, and Toyota Corolla. The Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion are an example of a compact made in the United States.
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Saarlouis (pronounced [zaːrˈlʊɪ] in German; French: Sarrelouis) is a city in the Saarland, Germany, capital of the district of Saarlouis. In 2006, the town had a population of 38,327. Saarlouis, as the name implies, is located at the river Saar. It was built as a fortress in 1680 and named after Louis XIV of France.
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Nathaniel Burleson (born August 19, 1981 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is an American football wide receiver currently playing for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He went to the University of Nevada, Reno, from which he was drafted in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. Nate is the younger brother of former Charlotte Bobcats guard Kevin Burleson. Known[clarify] off the field for his style, Maxim Magazine named Burleson the best dressed player in the NFL in 2006
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Nathaniel Burleson (born August 19, 1981 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada) is an American football wide receiver currently playing for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He went to the University of Nevada, Reno, from which he was drafted in the third round of the 2003 NFL Draft. Nate is the younger brother of former Charlotte Bobcats guard Kevin Burleson. Known[clarify] off the field for his style, Maxim Magazine named Burleson the best dressed player in the NFL in 2006
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The Montreal Alouettes (French: les Alouettes de Montréal) are a Canadian Football League team based in Montreal, Quebec.
The current incarnation of the Alouettes moved to Montreal from Baltimore, Maryland, in 1996 where they had been known as the Baltimore Stallions. The CFL considers all clubs that have played in Montreal as one in their league records, including those of the original Alouettes (1946–1981), the Montreal Concordes (1982–1986) and the Baltimore Stallions (1994–1995). The Alouettes, however, do not recognize the Baltimore franchise, or its records, as part of the official team history. All incarnations of the franchise have won the Grey Cup a total of five times, excluding the Stallions who have captured a championship as well, giving them six overall.
The Alouettes' home field is Percival Molson Memorial Stadium for the regular season and Olympic Stadium for the playoffs.[2] The Alouettes will host the 96th Grey Cup at Olympic Stadium on Nov. 23, 2008.
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French (français, French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃sɛ]) today is spoken around the world by 65 to 80 million people as a native language, and by about 190 to 200 million people as a second or third language,[5] with significant speakers in 54 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France[6], where the language originated. Most of the rest live in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland, Francophone Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, or in the United States.
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A first language (also mother tongue, native language, arterial language, or L1) is the language a human being learns from birth.[1] A person's first language is a basis for sociolinguistic identity.[2]
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Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used. Sociolinguistics overlaps to a considerable degree with pragmatics.
It also studies how lects differ between groups separated by certain social variables, e.g., ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, age, etc., and how creation and adherence to these rules is used to categorize individuals in social class or socio-economic classes. As the usage of a language varies from place to place (dialect), language usage varies among social classes, and it is these sociolects that sociolinguistics studies.
The social aspects of language were in the modern sense first studied by Indian and Japanese linguists in the 1930s, and also by Gauchat in Switzerland in the early 1900s, but none received much attention in the West until much later. The study of the social motivation of language change, on the other hand, has its foundation in the wave model of the late 19th century. Sociolinguistics in the west first appeared in the 1960s and was pioneered by linguists such as William Labov in the US and Basil Bernstein in the UK.
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currently watching Dazed and Confused
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In sociology, a group can be defined as two or more humans that interact with one another, accept expectations and obligations as members of the group, and share a common identity. By this definition, society can be viewed as a large group, though most social groups are considerably smaller.
A true group exhibits some degree of social cohesion and is more than a simple collection or aggregate of individuals, such as people waiting at a bus stop. Characteristics shared by members of a group may include interests, values, ethnic or social background, and kinship ties. According to Paul Hare, the defining characteristic of a group is social interaction
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