The primary objection advanced against Bible codes of the Drosnin variety is that similar patterns can be found in books other than the Bible. Although the probability of an ELS in a random place being a meaningful word is low, there are so many possible starting points and skips that many such words are expected to appear. Responding to an explicit challenge from Drosnin, who claimed that only the Bible could yield ELS, Australian mathematician Brendan McKay found many ELS letter arrays in Moby Dick that contain ELSs related to moder ...

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Long ago in a post-ice age land when mammoths still live, there are three brothers named Kenai, Denahi, and Sitka. Denahi, the middle brother, and Sitka, the oldest, work hard. They think Kenai should work more and play less. Kenai, the youngest, hates bears because they fight for the same food, overtake the land, ransack his village and ruin his coming-of-age ceremony. Each brother is given his own totem: Sitka, the eagle of guidance; Denahi, the wolf of wisdom; and Kenai, the bear of love. Kenai scorns the totem he has been given, belie ...

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2002 - January. January 1 - The Republic of China officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei. January 1 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters in to force. January 5 - Charles Bishop, a 15 year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. January 9 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a c ...

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1932 - January-February. January 3 - British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 - In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees January 12 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate January 14 - Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (Ravel) debuts with piano soloist Marguerite Long and Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra January 15 - Pierre Laval f ...

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The plot for Arrested Development revolves around the members of the Bluth family, who generally lead excessive lifestyles. At the center of the show is the relatively honorable Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman), who strives to do the right thing and keep his family together, despite their materialism, selfishness and manipulation. His teenage son, George Michael (Michael Cera), has the same qualities of decency, but feels a constant pressure to live up to his father's expectations, and is reluctantly willing to follow his father's p ...

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The term dropout has the following meanings: A momentary loss of signal in a communications system. This is usually caused by noise, propagation anomalies, or system malfunctions. A failure to properly read a binary character from data storage. This is usually caused by a defect in the storage medium or by a malfunction of the read mechanism. In magnetic tape, disk, card, or drum systems, a recorded signal with an amplitude less than a predetermined percentage of a reference signal. Source: fro ...

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For more deaths see: Deaths in 2002 2002 - January. January 3 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch-born beer magnate (b. 1923) January 8 - Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) January 8 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932) January 12 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911) January 12 - Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917) January 13 - Ted Demme, American film and television direc ...

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The primary method by which purportedly meaningful messages are extracted is the Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS). To obtain an ELS from a text, choose a starting point (any letter) and a skip (a number, possibly negative). Then, beginning at the starting point, select letters from the text at equal spacing as given by the skip. For example, the bold letters in this sentence form an ELS for the word SAFEST. (The skip is - ...

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Arrested Development - First season. George Bluth Sr., patriarch of the Bluth family, is the founder and former CEO of the Bluth Company, which markets and builds mini-mansions, among other activities. George Sr. is arrested by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for defrauding customers and gross spending of the company's money for "personal expenses". His wife Lucille becomes CEO, and immediately names as the new president her youngest son Buster, who proves ill equipped. Seeing no other options, the fa ...

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2002 - August. August 2 - Kara Hoffman, American actress August 2 - Shelby Hoffman, American actress 2002 - December. December 6 - Sophia Rosalinda Bratt, daughter of Benjamin Bratt and Talisa Soto ...

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KFC employs a high proportion of young and unskilled workers, and frequently pays at or just above minimum wages. Most KFC workers are not unionized. In New Zealand, KFC youth workers earn NZ$7.13 an hour. Staff at the Balmoral, Auckland store went on strike for two hours on 3 December 2005 after Restaurant Brands, the franchise holder, offered no wage increase in contract negotiations.[4] ...

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On October 16, 2003, Playboy model and actress Pamela Anderson joined PETA in their animal rights campaign against KFC urging consumers to boycott the franchise until better treatment of its chickens is ensured. On June 3, 2004, the FTC and KFC came to a settlement regarding KFC's advertising campaign claiming that "fried chicken can, in fact, be part of a healthy diet." The terms of the agreement were not disclosed; however, the T ...

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Canada has a thriving stage theatre scene, especially in Southern Ontario and in Quebec. Theatre festivals draw many tourists in the summer months, especially the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Ontario, and the Shaw Festival in Niagara On The Lake, Ontario. The Famous People Players are only one of many touring companies that have also developed an international reputation. Canada also boasts the world's second largest live theatre festival, the E ...

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As far as is known, the 13th-century Spanish Rabbi Bachya ben Asher was the first to describe an ELS in the Bible. His 4-letter example related to the traditional zero-point of the Jewish calendar. Over the following centuries there are some hints that the ELS technique was known, but few definite examples have been found from before the middle of the 20th century. At this point many examples were found by the Slovakian Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandl and published by his students after his death in 1957. Nevertheless, the practice remained kno ...

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Besides the short ukulele-based theme song composed by David Schwartz, which is also used as Lindsay's cell phone ringtone, a couple of other songs are featured prominently in Arrested Development. GOB uses Europe's 1986 hit single, "The Final Countdown" in his magic acts, attempting to increase the audience's excitement through improvised dancing and rapid-fire magic tricks. The dramatic, synthesized chords, combined with GOB's high energy and overacting are a clear parody of modern magic acts. "The Final Countdown" is also GOB's ringtone. To add to this, on the season 2 finale, he sings a rendition of another 80's era song, B ...

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Arrested Development - First season. George Bluth Sr., while retiring as CEO of the Bluth Company, is arrested by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for defrauding customers and gross spending of the company's money for "personal expenses". His wife Lucille becomes CEO, and immediately names as the new president her youngest son Buster, who proves ill equipped. Seeing no other options, the family turns to Michael, the middle son, giving him control of the company. To keep the family together, Michael convinces his son and twin sister Li ...

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The first season of Arrested Development premiered in the U.S. on November 2, 2003, on Fox. The time slot has been repeatedly changed in attempts to increase its ratings. Three seasons, totalling 53 episodes, have been produced. The final 4 episodes of season 3 of Arrested Development will be shown back-to-back in a special two hour block on 10 February 2006 from 8pm ET/PT on Fox. The series also airs in Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, among others. In Canada, the show airs Mondays at 8:00 p.m. ET on either Gl ...

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The first season was released on DVD on October 19, 2004. Extra features include the unaired, extended pilot episode, commentary by creator Mitchell Hurwitz and other members of the cast, and various behind-the-scenes featurettes.[4] The second season was released on DVD on October 11, 2005, and includes such featurettes as commentary, deleted scenes, bloopers, and the campaign videos featured in the episode titled "The Immaculate Election".^{See also:}

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Aside from the United States, Wendy's has opened restaurants in Aruba, Canada, El Salvador, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Panama. Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers didn't last long in Australia. Nine restaurants were picked up in Victoria by Hungry Jack's in 1986 after the Wendy's Hamburger Chain went bust. The Hungry Jack's Story explains in limited detail about the Wendy's Hamburgers acquisition. Stores in Australia called Wendy's are an Australian ice cream franchise which is unrelated to the ...

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Starting on January 9, 1984, elderly actress Clara Peller was featured in the successful "Where's the Beef?" North American commercial campaign for Wendy's. Her famous line quickly entered the American pop culture (it was even used to devastating effect by Walter Mondale in defeating Gary Hart in the Democratic primary election) and served to promote Wendy's hamburgers. Peller, age 84, was dropped from the campaign in 1985 because she performed in a commercial for Prego spaghetti sauc ...

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After Dave Thomas' death in 2002, Wendy's has been struggling to find another proper form of advertising, since Dave Thomas had done nearly every Wendy's ad made from 1989 to 2002. They first just did conventional ads describing the food they serve, but later in 2004, they tried using a character they made called "Mr. Wendy" who claimed to be the unofficial spokesperson for the chain. Wendy's, on the other hand, was worried that the commercials focused more on the character of Mr. Wendy instead of Wendy's food, and in less than 7 months, Mr. ...

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The show focuses on the tension that developed between the members of the Bluth family, primarily from their diminished spending power. Each show pulls from a serpentine mix of sibling rivalries, unresolved oedipal conflicts, sexual incompatibilities, personal identity crises, adolescent trauma, aging, pride, miscommunication, lying, guilt, subterfuge, determination, manipulation, mutilation, social status anxiety, incest taboo and countless other themes. Much like other dysfunctional-family comedies such as Malcolm in the MiddleSee also:

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