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  Guri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guri is also the name of a Star Wars character.
Guri is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Guri is connected to Seoul via a commuter railway (Jungang Line).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guri   (164 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Guri
Guri says that his latest work is the culmination of three years of work and is the first attempt to assemble and describe blessings and curses (or good and bad wishes) as a genre of Yiddish folklore.
Josef Guri — a self-described "Yiddish addict" -- immigrated to Israel from Lithuania in 1957.
Guri points out that his latest book is intended not only for Yiddish lovers but also for those learning the language, for translators from Yiddish and for those interested in folklore.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Guri   (630 words)

  
 Guri - Star Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Although often terse, Guri exhibited a sometimes playful sense of arrogance; for example, when she massacred a group of Xizor's rivals, she took the time to allow one victim, knocked out in the initial fray, to regain consciousness so that she could have the last word before killing him.
Guri fatalistically (or perhaps merely realistically) declined, explaining that overcoming the controls implanted in her programming would be impossible for the resource-strapped Rebels.
Guri managed to evade Savan, and made her way to a droid programmer who was able to free her of some of her programmed constraints.
starwars.wikicities.com /wiki/Guri   (433 words)

  
 Guri Olsdatter Hytmo
Guri was confirmed in Everett the first year in the U.S. and lived in Washington for three years before going to school and working three years in Chicago and Wyoming.
Guri would buy fancy mittens from Nordstroms on approval, her mother would copy the pattern off over the weekend, and the mittens would be returned to the store on Monday.
Guri was employed at Swedish during the Depression and didn't want for anything; she had room, board and 75 dollars a month.
www.plu.edu /~archives/sie/oral/interviews/t001.html   (2281 words)

  
 A Galaxy of Possibilities: Guri's Tale
Guri programmed the ship to take a direct course for the planet where she could be repaired, but then her assassin programming advised her that it would be better if she hopped across the galaxy a few times to shake off any potential pursuers.
Guri saw it was a landing bay and she steered her ship into it.
Guri looked and saw that her escort had spoken to one of the diagnostic droids and then left.
www.geocities.com /kbrezovnik/guri.htm   (3822 words)

  
 Star Wars: Databank | Guri
Guri was a lethal assassin, capable of killing in the blink of an eye without even raising her ersatz heartbeat.
As the palace collapsed, and as Xizor died high in orbit under the guns of Vader's Super Star Destroyer, Guri escaped in a parawing glider and reclaimed her vessel.
Guri awoke from the reprogramming, and did something she hadn't done in over a decade of functioning: she smiled.
www.starwars.com /databank/droid/guri/eu.html   (1167 words)

  
 Campaign Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guri Shkodra is wise beyond his years, and for much of the past year he has been one of the more visible advocates in Prishtina.
Guri's profile has grown to the point where CNN was considering featuring him in a television series on local heroes in Kosovo.
Guri received a foretaste of this, when he discovered by accident that the environment department was the only one of the 20 transitional departments (ministries) still without a Kosovar co-head.
www.advocacynet.org /cpage_view/kosovo_gurishkodra_3_50.html   (1230 words)

  
 Guri Lake Peacock Bass Fishing
Guri Lake is one of the largest man made lakes in the world stretching approximately 175 km's long and 48 kms wide.
Guri was made by the damming of the Caroni River at the confluence of the great Orinoco River — this is known as the second largest hydro electric dam called the Raul Leoni Dam.
While flooding the area for the lake, much of the timber was left and still stand upright just under the surface and poking out of the water closer to the shoreline and hilltops coming up from the lake.
www.wheretofish.com /saranda1.html   (478 words)

  
 Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guri's group is one of the most determined new nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to emerge under UNMIK, and Guri has proved adept at exploiting the opportunities offered by the large international presence.
Guri has made a prudent choice in targeting the environment, because pollution is one of Kosovo's few growth industries.
When we met, Guri and his group were trying to put an end to a disgusting game in which children capture birds (which they find on the roofs) and cut their wings.
www.advocacynet.org /news_view/news_24.html   (5164 words)

  
 Lake Guri Peacock Bass
This was Lake Guri in southeastern Venezuela, Estado Bolivar.
The dark lake Guri water was surprisingly clear under the wind-chopped surface.
In no time at all he definitively proved that Guri peacocks are just as crazy as their Brazilian counterparts, with wrenching head-jerking runs and a showy gill-rattling jump.
www.acuteangling.com /Venezuela/VZart.html   (2014 words)

  
 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire - Evolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Xizor, the leader of the Black Sun organization, has been destroyed, and Guri, a human replica droid and Xizor's personal assassin, is left wondering what her future will hold now that she no longer has anyone to answer to.
Human replica droid Guri continues her quest to discover just how human she really is. She braves the dangers of the tropical planet Murninkam looking for the surgical droid known as Doc, who has been abducted by Spinda Caveel, a brilliant but more-than-slightly mad scientist, and his deadly cohorts, the Pikkel Sisters.
Xizor, the leader of the Black Sun criminal organization, has been destroyed, and Guri, a beautiful human-replica droid and Xizor's personal assassin, is left wondering what her future will hold now that she no longer has anyone to answer to.
www.wheelon.com /comics/evolution.htm   (627 words)

  
 Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guri’s book is one of a rapidly growing number of works on this theme and on a language many people believed dead.
Guri, a professor emeritus of Slavic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, acknowledges that he stands on the shoulders of earlier scholars, including the late Nahum Stutchkoff, compiler of the “Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language” and author of radio dramas that reflected life in New York tenements in the 1930s and ’40s.
But Guri’s work is unique in alphabetizing the curses, organizing them by category and offering translations from the Yiddish to English, Russian and Hebrew.
www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=9496   (1327 words)

  
 Bass N Mexico - Guri Lodge, Accomodation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peacock Bass Fishing at Guri lake has been acclaimed by some avid and "Dyed in the Wool" Peacock Bass Fishermen as "The best Peacock Bass Fishing on earth!" It has been my experience that they could be right.
The Peacock Bass Fishery at Lake Guri has existed since the damming of the Caroni River, at a point 100-km upstream from where it flows into the mighty Orinoco.
It was at Guri Lodge during In the mid to late 1980's, when Jacob Elias, a Venezuelan with German ancestry, introduced the PEACOCK BASS for the first time to numerous anglers from throughout the globe.
www.bassmex.com /guri_accom.htm   (1351 words)

  
 The Inner-net: Nipun and Guri's Walking Pilgrimage
Guri and I are walking "South" from the Gandhi Ashram, in search of the "good".
In April 1999, Guri and I were part of a four-person experiment in service.
Primarily, this was done to keep our friends and families posted with our experiences; but we are delighted that our family has grown to include many others around the globe.
nipun.charityfocus.org /about/walk.html   (1359 words)

  
 SOTE Guri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guri was Xizor's human replica droid, a costly rarity in the Star Wars universe.
Privately, Guri was the closest thing Xizor had to a friend.
Guri's lack of emotion, unflinching loyalty, and directness appealed to Xizor's own reptilian demeanor.
www.paralada.org /Estonia_self/Estonia_htm/SWgeekhtm/Xizor_htm/Xizor29.html   (135 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Waiting for him at the side of the Virago is Guri, a beautiful blond woman who somehow seems strangely unnatural in both her beauty and her graceful movements.
GURI: Chewbacca, your disguise is that of Snoova, a well-known Wookiee bounty hunter.
GURI: A freighter matching the Millennium Falcon’s description is reported hidden in a warehouse in the Hasamadhi district.
www.theforce.net /timetales/ep5a-se.doc   (17361 words)

  
 The better way to tell someone to drop dead | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Instead, wit is the essence of the Yiddish curse, said Guri, author of the newly published "Let's Hear Only Good News," a dictionary of Yiddish blessings and curses.
Guri, a professor emeritus of Slavic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, acknowledges that he stands on the shoulders of earlier scholars, including the late Nahum Stutchkoff, compiler of the "Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language" and author of radio dramas that reflected life in New York tenements in the 1930s and 1940s.
But the Jewish society in which these curses developed was not as aggressive as it is now, said Guri, a soft-spoken, gentle soul who removed a mention of the Messiah from the cover of his book because he feared it would offend some people.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040401/news_1c1yiddish.html   (897 words)

  
 The Inner-net - Between Guri and God
Guri and I exchange glances, a bit nervous if we will live up to the expectations.
Guri's fan club brings her all kinds of things from hand-made boquets to peacock feather "lucky charms" to hand-plucked fruits.
You go back and can be with Guri and have God in your heart and mind or stay and the possibilities tthat come with that.
nipun.charityfocus.org /blog/ar/pilgrimbaroda/000611.html   (1428 words)

  
 Kids Domain - Review - Guri and Gura's Spring Cleaning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guri and Gura's Spring Cleaning is a story about two little field mice who turn a big and boring job into a fun-filled blast!
When the mice open up their windows to let the first light and smells of spring into their closed-up-for-the-winter home, they realize how messy their house has become and decide it's time for a good scrub down.
Guri and Gura then discover that their duster, mop and broomstick are so worn out that they can't use them -- but this is where the fun begins!
www.kidsdomain.com /reviews/product.php?pid=519   (289 words)

  
 Bass N Mexico - Guri Lodge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Peacock Bass are what we call them in America and they are one of the hardest-hitting fish on the planet.
The Peacock Bass has attracted adventurous fishermen from all over the world to Lake Guri in Venezuela because of it's fierce top water strikes and tackle busting power.
Peacock bass are one of the big attractions to the lake, as 3 different pure strain varieties - speckled, butterfly and royal, are present in Guri waters.
www.bassmex.com /pages/guri.htm   (806 words)

  
 Erikstormtrooper's Imperial Gallery: Guri
Below are the different "official" pictures of Guri I could find, each with a slightly different look.
Because of the thin-ness of the parts used in female figures, I've never actually used the boil and pop method on one.
All the pieces for Guri were separated by cutting.
www.erikstormtrooper.com /guri.htm?print=yes   (1015 words)

  
 Guri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guri Import Ltd has purchased the rights to manufacture, distribute...
Guri Import Ltd plans to issue shares on the TASE within a few months.
Guri is ranked 68th in Dun & Bradstreet (Israel) Ltd's list of...
hallencyclopedia.com /Guri   (289 words)

  
 National Geographic's Strange Days on Planet Earth . Predators . The Lake Guri Experiment | PBS
Their creation is the result of a large hydroelectric project which included the building of several dams to provide electricity for millions.
Every time ecologist John Terborgh visits Lake Guri, he and his team members, including César Aponte and Luis Balbás, document significant changes to the life on these islands.
Lake Guri presents a classic example of a top-down mediated system wherein the removal of top predators initiates a cascade of effects on other populations — mainly the prey species and their food supplies.
www.pbs.org /strangedays/episodes/predators/experts/lakeguri.html   (522 words)

  
 Guri dam... Guayana - Venezuela
The construction started in 1963 concluded the first part in 1978 and the second one in 1986.
A visit to the Guri Dam is an unforgettable experience, we highly recommend.
From Tuesdays to Sundays, there are four daily visits scheduled at 9:00 and 10:30 in the mornings and 2:00 and 3:00 in the afternoons.
www.venezuelatuya.com /guayana/gurieng.htm   (310 words)

  
 Prillar Guri Lodge #30, Daughters of Norway, Olympia, WA
Prillar Guri Lodge #30 was founded on October 30, 1985 in Olympia, Washington, the capitol city of the state.
Prillar Guri Lodge #30 meets most months on the third Monday of the month at 7 PM at the Church of the Good Shepherd at 1601 North St in Olympia.
Prillar Guri is also the motif on the Sel kommune (county) crest.
www.daughtersofnorway.org /dnPril30.html   (694 words)

  
 Guri (Gurine) TORBJØRNSDATTER
Guri was born Ølen, in the district then called Fjellberg, about eight miles from Etne.
Gurine emigrated to America when her son Johannes was very young, probably still a small child.
Because of a fire at the emigrant archive in Stavanger it is not even known when she left Norway.
homepage.mac.com /windh/genealogy/ps03_346.html   (493 words)

  
 Israel Business Today: Full marks for Chicco in Brazil. (Guri Industries & Export receives license for baby ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Guri Industries & Export has received an exclusive concession to import, distribute and manufacture Chicco baby Products in Brazil.
The concession gives Guri the exclusive right to open a chain of stores to be called Tutto Chicco.
Guri will own some of the stores and sell concessions for the rest.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:14702714&refid=holomed_1   (210 words)

  
 Lake Guri, Venezuela Peacock Bass, Payara fishing, On Lake Guri. Trips, Guides, Lodges
Lake Guri was completed to the last stage in 1986 through a cooperative effort between the Venezuelan and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Although no resident population of peacock bass existed in the Caroni River before impoundment, many farm ponds contained peacock bass,thus peacock bass were then introduced to Lake Guri in the mid 1970's when the farm ponds were inundated with the rising water of the rapidly forming reservoir.
Despite the fact that Lake Guri is the seventh largest reservoir in the world with 1800 square miles, it receives very little peacock bass fishing pressure.
www.peacock-bass-fishing.com /pcockprincess_fglake.asp   (288 words)

  
 The Tantive IV: Star Wars Customs-Guri   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is Guri, from the novel, "Shadows of the Empire".
Guri was made from a 6" McFarlane figure, Tenchi (see below for the original figure).
After slicing up the anime figure, sculpey was added for hair, top, gloves and boots (as well as some facial features to make her less "cartoonish").
home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~kuppem/customs/guri.htm   (107 words)

  
 globalinfo.org - Sep 20, VENEZUELA (#39325)
The hydroelectric complex in southeastern Venezuela is one of the world's largest, along with the Brazilian-Paraguayan Itaipú complex, which has a capacity to generate 12,600 megawatts of hydropower.
Construction began 42 years ago on the Guri complex, which is made up of several dams, as well as the 4,000 sq km Guri Lake formed by the flooding.
EDELCA is investing in the modernization of the Guri complex at a cost of $480 million, and the construction of the Tocoma dam, the fourth to be built on the Caroní River.
www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=39325   (942 words)

  
 A Journey
Nipun and I had stayed away from setting a destination for our journey (although it took a while for my Western-ized mind to get used to the concept.) We didn’t want to make it a to-do item, a goal to be reached, whose success is measured by the outcome and not the journey.
The next two months will be an intensive retreat so my blog updates won't be regular, but we'll try to share all the fruits of our journey as best we can.
Outside of the Himalayas, I thought India was a relatively flat land.
ajourneytoindia.blogspot.com   (4837 words)

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