The Channel Tunnel, also widely known as the Chunnel, is a tunnel located underneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover which links England and France since May 6th, 1994. ... In November 1973, the project of the construction and the operations of a railway tunnel under the Channel Tunnel Study Group was launched at Chequers by Edward Heath, British Prime Minister, and Georges Pompidou, French President, when a Franco-British Channel Tunnel Treaty was signed (Rosenberg, n.d.). ... Even though with both sides agreeing on the link across the English Channel would benefit both of the cou...

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Baseball in Canada couldn't have been better, all the support for the Blue Jays and the Expos; who weren't to shabby either. ... The CBC or Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was the viewed by everyone in 1992 and 1993 during the Blue Jays run to the World Series. Expos and Blue Jays games were played weekly on the CBC and many people all across the country tuned in to watch them play. ... With Rogers taking over, only people with extensive cable packages or satellite could watch the Blue Jays. ... " This destruction of the CBC was crucial in the downfall of media coverage of bas...

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In addition, television can influence growing children in a positive way by watching programs that are geared toward growing children such as Sesame Street and shows that are featured on the Discovery Channel and TLC. ... also becoming more common on television on shows such as Cops and NYPD Blue, where violence is the theme of both shows. ...

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The great white has three different colors; on its back its gray, on the sides is some times blue and its only white part is the lower part of the stomach. ... They have different types of hunting strategies, once I saw in the discovery channel that thy will strike a sea lion from the bottom and jumping out side of the water so they can also hit them with their tale, if in the first try they did not kill their prey. ...

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Although some people do believe that television shows like Boomtown, NYPD Blue, and Law in Order depict what is really going on in today's world, I believe that watching these shows makes people numb to when things like murder and someone being raped actually happens. ... All anyone has to do is turn on the TV and flip through a few channels and there is always someone making out or talking about the last time they had sex, by doing this the television industry is making it sound like it's okay to have one night stand, creators of these shows have a way of making it seem funny and no...

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There is a Spanish channel on television. The Spanish channel is for the Hispanic people to enjoy their own language on television. ... Some of his famous paintings are the Old Guitarist and the Blue Nude. ...

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Although Bluetooth technology has been around for a while, I am curious about the long-term usefulness and practicality in the computer and technology fields. In a December 1999 article, Heidi Monson described Bluetooth as " An eighteen wheeler screaming down the pike, carrying the future of comp...

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The features which seem to capture the crucial nature of language include use of the vocal-auditory channel, arbitrariness, semanticity, cultural transmission, spontaneous usage, turn-taking, duality, displacement, structure-dependence, patterning and creativity. ... An example could be - [THE YOUNG BOY WHO WAS WEARING A BLUE JUMPER] [HE] [GAVE THE DOG A BONE] these groups or chunks can be rearranged to [A BONE] [WAS GIVEN TO THE DOG] [BY THE YOUNG BOY WHO WAS WEARING A BLUE JUMPER]. ...

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NYPD Blue is among the top rated shows on television today. ... But there is a choice, through remote lockouts or just by not ordering channels such as Showtime, Playboy and HBO. ... If a person does not like what they see on cable or a network station, they have the right to turn off the television or change the channel. ... People, when they order cable channels such as HBO, Playboy and other premium channels know from the get go what they are getting into. ... You're paying extra for the channel which in return should be a guaranteed form of free speech. ...

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It was not the perfect weather, or the stunning landscape that had a tinkling sensation running throughout my body, but rather it was the cool color blue which stupefied me the most. ... Different channels, such as The Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, allowed me to browse for educational programs whose content involved any kind of creature that populated the cosmic oceans. ...

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Some of my nephew's favorite shows are Arthur, Blue's Clue's, Sesame Street, he's even at an age now where he will tell me to change the channel when it's time for Arthur to come on. ...

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A scene in which warm colors (red, yellow, orange) are used to suggest passionate emotions i.e. love, aggressiveness, fear; while cool colors (blue, green, and purple) suggests the happier emotions i.e. peace, love, tranquility. ... In this particular example the shots of the Jewish residents fleeing like rats to save their lives seem less like a piece of a movie and more like stock footage from the 1940's you"d see on the History Channel. ...

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On the first channel I selected, the first words I heard were, "Next, exclusive footage captured by amateur photographer George Holliday". ... While channel surfing I came across the movie, Gone With The Wind. ... In a desperate need for entertainment I thought the cartoon network would be the channel of choice. ... The first scene I observed were these cute little bunnies all dressed up in brilliantly colored clothing, with enormous sparkling blue eyes, and their fur so fluffy and white you could just bite them. ... I was unable to get away from the violence televised on every channel I c...

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In order to do that, s/he is supposed to stand in front of blue screen, on which every visual effect scenes are shot. ... For this purpose, the foreground object is usually shot against a plain blue screen. The blue area is later erased from the frame making the area transparent. ... Then, why blue? ... Red, green, and blue channels have all been used, but blue has been favored. ...

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Inflight entertainment consists of 24 channels of LiveTV, an in-air satellite system by Direct TV that David Neeleman owns. However, it is not available for the New York to Puerto Rico flight ("Jet blue: flying", 2002). ...

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Was a mere fable in unconfirmed belief and surprisingly believed all over the world (Discovery Channel, On The Inside of ATC, 1999). ... Proven less efficient, however by far safer (William Roper, Discovery Channel, On The Inside Of ATC, 1999). ... The controller working the equipment was under qualified for the advanced equipment he was using, causing yet another mid-air disaster (On The Inside of ATC, Discovery Channel, 1999). ...

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Pin assignment twisted pair color 1 TX Data+ 2 White/Orange 2 TxData- 2 Orange 3 RxData+ 3 White/Green 4 - 1 Blue 5 - 1 White/Blue 6 RxData- 3 Green 7 - 4 White/Brown 8 - 4 Brown Standard Modular Wiring Patterns - 8 Position (image) 10Base-T Crossover (similar to Null-modem) Connector 1 Connect...

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It was the perfect summer day; the sky was blue with strokes of clouds here and there, a light breeze so you don't sweat, and a roaring sun to fill the land, yet I was stuck at home watching TV. ... I arrive at the hidden site that only a few knew about, the trees curved over the channel of cold glistening water on one side and tall forest green cat tails on the other. ... Where in daylight the sky is a purply, blue; and at night the open, large sky twinkles with thousands of diamonds. ...

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Glaciers form lakes in two ways; Glacieral till or deposits of sorted sediments from melt water sometimes piling up in low-lying river channels and other areas. ... Also, glacieral ice can often appear blue because ice absorbs all other colors and reflects blue. ...

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Behind the bar where the less important things are occurring everything has a blue tint. The blue shades off most of what is occurring, allowing the reader to know that is not what the focus is on. ... The energy drink stands out with its bright colors of blue, green, and pink. ... On the first page the picture of the drink is displayed in blue and on the second page it is green. ... For example in my ad the TV in the background has the wrestling channel turned on. ...

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Functionality: Aesthetic: the web site has white background and uses all shades of blue for text and graphics, as it is the official colour of Peugeot. ... New sales channels In this web site you cannot order a car on line yet but it looks as this is going to be their next step. 3. ...

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Nothing was visible from our campsite along the Brownsville channel but sand, water, a few lonely desert plants, and numerous small desert buildings. ... A most amazing sight drew me back from my tranquility, a family of dolphins meandered their way in and out of the water, puffing water out of their blowholes like small geysers blasting water into a bright blue sky. ...

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Most children are raised with the belief that girls are pretty in pink and boys are rough in blue. ... In present time, there is a whole channel devoted just to women. ... Yet there is no men's entertainment channel. ... If there were a channel made just for women, what excuse would they have for not watching it? ...

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In the opening scenes he is Thomas more's steward and then the boatman, who are figures of low class who come to say some very profound statements, (boatman speaking to more in response of More's question of the silting up of the river channel) "Not in the middle, sir. There's a channel/there getting deeper all the time.... "scarlet for the Cardinal, grey for More, gold/for the King, green for the Duke, blue for Margaret, black and pinstripe/for the administrators Rich and Cromwell, and so on.... Margaret was dressed in blue with reference to 'blue stockings...

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