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  • Massive pension spiking uncovered at Contra Costa County


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    Massive, systemic miscalculation of employee pension benefits over decades may have been uncovered at Contra Costa County’s Retirement Association . A ReedSmith report to the board of the Contra Costa Retirement Association (CCCERA) has found that “inadequate reporting systems” may be “enabling overstatement ...
    3 hours ago
  • Contra-Life 2


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    Or Half-Contra 2? Whatever way you spin, it’s contra rebuild in a 3D mix with Half-Life 2, complete with music and sound effects! Clique aqui para assistir o vídeo inserido. Awesome! Made by M0rtanius with Machinima. Source: TechEBlog Related Posts: Half Life 2 Series - Escape from City 17: Part One ...
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  • Frustrations from the Front: The Myth of Theological Liberalism


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    Last week nearly 10,000 people invaded the French Quarter of New Orleans for a three-day conference. It wasn’t a convention of Mardi Gras mask-makers, a congregation of Bourbon Street miscreants, or an assembly of Hustler devotees. No, this was the combined annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. ...
    2 days ago
  • Contra Costa pension costs to climb 77 percent or more


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    Happy Thanksgiving. Be thankful for the County government we have today because it may not be there next year. Halfway To Concord has learned that…For every dollar Contra Costa County spends today to support already unsustainable employee retiree pensions costs, over at least the next six years, taxpayers will be ...
    3 days ago
  • Capilla Abierta / Open Chapel


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    Catedral de Cuernavaca / Cuernavaca Cathedral 16th century International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women Womens activists have marked November 25 as a day against violence since 1981. On December 17, 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day ...
    3 days ago
  • Original NES Contra Remake to 3D FPS Style


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    Remember the good ol’ Contra shoot em up on the NES? Here’s how it looks like remade into a 3D FPS format with the help of a Half-Life 2 mod, resulting in this awesome video by M0rtanius of Machinima. The video shows the run-through entire first level remade using the Half-Life 2 game engine.   This post was ...
    4 days ago
  • Contra Level 1 remade in Half-Life 2


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    See the first level of the side-scrolling-shooter Contra as a first-person-shooter via Half-Life 2 created by M0rtanius. Click here to watch the video Share this:   Related posts Yobo NES Clone (4) This is Not a Pipe – ...
    4 days ago
  • Contra Dance with Contrapasso and Sarah VanNorstrand!


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    Hands Four Contra Dance with Contrapasso and Sarah VanNorstrand Saturday, Dec. 5, 8-11 pm Beverly J. Martin School, 302 W. Buffalo St., Ithaca   Even if winter blows into town by December, here’s an event to warm you: energetic caller Sarah VanNorstrand, who danced here while she was at Ithaca College and ...
    4 days ago
  • Editor’s Pick #225: Vampire Weekend Release Music Video For “Cousins”


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    New album Contra out Jan. 11 PREVIEW: WATCH Vampire Weekend’s  “Cousins” Unless you really have been under a rock for the past year or so, even if you don’t follow the indie music scene, chances are you have heard of Vampire Weekend. This extraordinary foursome released a self-titled  debut in early ...
    4 days ago
  • Contra Remade in Half Life 2


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    Holy crap, this is amazing! Half Life 2 modder M0rtanius recreated Contra in Half Life 2 with the Source Engine. I need to play this. Maybe I’ll have to go buy a new video card to make my gaming PC so I can get things up and running. Wow. Click here to view the embedded video.
    4 days ago
  • Thanksgiving Rant


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    Wherein I wish to rant about liturgy and charity, which I find annoying and amusing, respectively. First, liturgy. This morning someone asked me if Thanksgiving were a holy day of obligation. Of course it isnt, but the question reveals how far we have taken the canonization of the civil holiday into the liturgy. The ...
    4 days ago
  • The Wii Buyers Guide [Shopping Gift Guide]


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    With a new Super Mario Bros. title to tide fans over, and plenty of third-party software, this years Wii offering includes an eclectic mix of games. But which to buy? While the list below isnt a rundown of all of the reviews that ran this year on Kotaku, it is a fairly strong sampling. Use it to help you decide what ...
    4 days ago
  • “Dogs and Bullets” by Mikael “Orioto”...


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    “Dogs and Bullets” by Mikael “Orioto” Aguirre. This piece reflects just how bleak the beginning of Contra 3 is, though we may never think about it: War has broken out in the streets, leaving a city lying in flaming ruin, overrun by wild mutant dogs and alien troops. Although, in happier news, by Contra 3 , ...
    4 days ago
  • Día Internacional contra La Violencia de Género


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    ¡Hasta pronto, cómplice!
    4 days ago
  • First level of Contra gets remade into Half-Life 2


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    What is this video above and what the hell is with the title? The first level of the NES classic and you’re mosted hated game ever Contra gets remade in the first person Half-Life 2? Yes and yes. The first level was remade by those oh so clever modders that like to make things awesome (all the time). If you’ve ...
    4 days ago
  • Martinez mayor appointed to Bay Area water board


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    Schroder Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Martinez Mayor Rob Schroder to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board. He also reappointed to the board Lafayette resident Shalom Eliahu, 82, who has served on the board since 2000. Eliahu is president of Solo Engineer Consulting and has also ...
    5 days ago
  • Impact of Pt Molate Casinos in Contra Costa


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    Below see a PDF of the Contra Costa Health Services Department, “Public Health Impacts of the Proposed Point Molate Casino.” The summary concludes that while counties with casino presence, gain some employment and tax revenue, they also suffer from higher rates of crime (aggravated assault and violent crime) and ...
    6 days ago
  • Video: Vampire Weekend – Cousins


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    Last month we got our first taste of Vampire Weekend’s sophomore effort, Contra, via a free download of the album’s opening track, Horchata. VW gives us another taste of the forthcoming record, which hits stores on Jan. 12, by releasing the video for the another Contra track. Here’s Cousins… Vampire ...
    6 days ago
  • Watch Chabelo y Pepito: Contra los Monstruos Movie Trailer Online


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    The Mexican film CHABELO Y PEPITO: CONTRA LOS MONSTRUOS dates from 1973. The story involves two young boys who ditch a group outing to have an adventure. But while exploring a cave for hidden treasure they run into Dracula, Frankenstein, the Werewolf, and all manner of other monsters, with hilarious results.
    6 days ago
  • Contra Sutra does Lake City


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    Contra Sutra Does Lake City from Doug Plummer on Vimeo. The hot contra dance band Contra Sutra plays at Seattles Lake City dance. This is another composition from the same footage from which I made the Nikon contest entry video....
    6 days ago

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