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Christina Aguilera eloquently touches on insecurity in the Jonas Åkerlund-directed “Beautiful," as the dark-lit scenes underscore the decimation that occurs when someone is ostracized for being less than perfect: too fat or skinny, ugly, gay. Alone in a sparsely furnished room, Aguilera zeroes in on songwriter/producer Linda Perry’s affirmation that everyone is beautiful, no matter what people say. “Words can’t bring me down,” she sings as the video’s characters conquer their insecurities: one woman bashes in her mirror, another tosses beauty magazines into a fireplace while a gay couple publicly kiss and hold hands. The video won a GLAAD Media Award for its positive portrayal of gay and transgender individuals. – GAIL MITCHELL

Poor Cherry Picker It’s not my claim or claims Feldman et al measured the downwelling IR (as well as some others with less sophistication) Satellites still monitor and take the spectra of the outgoing longwave infrared The Nimbus measure and report the spectra of that outgoing radiation – again, noting the characteristics of several greenhouse gases So simple, accomplished facts Again, word salads and wishful fantasies don’t change the physics, chemistry, or the data

“Barbie Dreams,” the viciously funny third track on Nicki Minaj’s fourth album, Queen, was the one that got everyone talking. The song was inspired by the Notorious B.I.G.’s raunchy “Just Playing (Dreams),” from his debut album, 1994′s Ready to Die. Nicki’s song features the same hook and James Brown “Blues and Pants” sample, but while Biggie’s ran through all of the R&B females he wanted to sleep with, Nicki uses her verses to roast some famous rappers (and one football player). “Drake worth a hundred milli, always buying me shit/ But I don’t know if the pussy wet or if he crying and shit,” she spits, before going after Meek Mill, Lil Uzi Vert and many other collaborators and contemporaries. Diss track? No, sayeth the queen, though whether or not that lessened the sting of the slaps she delivered is still up for debate. – CHRISTINE WERTHMAN

I was prepared to give them the benefit of doubt and open-minded to even like this new start, but all things considered I have to come down squarely in the middle of it. I didn’t get what the negative Vulture review meant by “too much lightness” when reading it but it became very obvious over the course of this hour.

Wielicki, 2005: ”The global CERES observations show a small decrease of ~2 W per metre squared, in shortwave reflected flux, equal to an albedo decrease of 0.006.” Wielicki, Bruce A., et al. 2005 “Changes in Earth’s albedo measured by satellite.” Science

How to use it: The best part of owning a rotary eraser is knowing it will only remove as deeply as you set it, and the removal pattern will be bevel-edged since the stripe will be pushed aside and not into the surface. The rotary eraser abrades and scrapes markings off the surface like a polisher, and when you properly use one, you’ll meet all DOT non-scarring requirements.

Scott Bamsey, a councillor who works at the plant, said: "Tata got a lot of flack during the summer for quite a poor performance.

Look, Hamster, you are obviously not interested in a rational discussion. Your technique gives you away.

Yeah, I agree somewhat, but many people actually said they wanted a show to reflect a less advance time when you didn’t know if the engines were going to give out or not after warp 8 and not have mcguffins like a spore drive flashing you out of danger to another part of the galaxy in literally seconds.

Yeah, so my original point still stands: Discovery’s biggest weakness lies in expository dialogue. However, it’s nowhere near as bad as the first minutes of “The Vulcan Hello”: “Hey Captain Philippa Georgiou, with whom I have a very cordial relationship, may I explain our mission to you, even though we have been on it for several hours by now?” – “Of course, ambitious Commander Michael Burnham, who has been serving under me for seven years now. I’d appreciate if you’d also reiterate the purpose of Starfleet for me (since it’s not a “peacekeeping and humanitarian Armada”, as that other guy once said in a different universe).”

However, I don’t think they need to have holographic images of people sitting on desks or walking around rooms as if they are there. Even on DS9 the holographic tech didn’t have people’s images interact with objects on another ship. You can still do cool stuff for the show to feel updated but not so wildly futuristic that you literally have no idea what century its suppose to take place in.

In March 1967, steel outlined a multistory addition to the State-Planters Bank of Commerce and Trusts headquarters at Ninth and Main streets in downtown Richmond. The addition was part of a multimillion-dollar expansion of the bank’s facilities. The bank, which dated to 1865, eventually became Crestar Financial Corp. and then was acquired by SunTrust Banks.