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bond was unbreakable, they were each others best friends. Theirs' was a classic love story for all the ages. My Grandparents story. My inspiration. What are the scarves made of and how do you decide on the collection's colour palette? Each style is a different fabric content . They range from acrylic and wool, to cashmere and silk blends. I like to offer classic foundation neutral colors like peaches and creams, as well as bold and bright jewel tones. There is a little something for everyone. What are your top three favourite pieces from the fall collection and why? The OLIVE style is a staple. It's a core piece that is in the collection every fall/Winter. It is a pashmina cashmere blend. It is my 'go to' and I never leave home without it. The OLIVE can also be purchased with a lace feather trim detail to add some boho flair! I love the EMMA for it's over sized cozy winter feel. I just want to curl up in it. It hasn't hit the stores yet, but the COCHELLA scarf is a must have. I love the hippy fringe detail, and you can't go wrong with an infinity circle scarf! What are some of your favourite ways to style your scarves? All my scarves are over sized. For fall I love wearing them wrapped around my neck three or four times so it's really full and luscious! The spring collection can be worn wrapped around your neck as you would | IP | IP DS | 3,747,928 |
players at United." In that Rooney must now take responsibility not only on the pitch, but off it where injuries and concerns over fitness have too often disrupted a career blessed by unlimited natural talent. Nor has the former Everton forward found Cantona's consistent brilliance, or iconic status -- the ability to inspire a generation and lead a team to greater glories. If Rooney is yet to match Cantona's legend, he is increasing mirroring the Frenchman's role on the pitch, becoming the creative focal point in Sir Alex Ferguson's team. On Saturday Rooney shadowed Robin van Persie at St. James' Park, drifting between the lines as United's iconic number seven did in 185 games for the club. This is a role Rooney is likely to replicate for the national side this week, with expectations of an English victory high and Rooney determined to finally excel on the international stage. Manager Hodgon says Rooney's time is now. "Every time Wayne Rooney goes on the field people expect him to be magnificent," said Hodgson. "We all know he is a magnificent player but football doesn't give you the opportunity to be magnificent every time you step onto a football field. I'm looking forward very much to the next couple of years with Wayne, he's going to be an important person as each team needs that person up front who can make a difference, who scores the goals or sets them up." United's number 10 is also likely to reprise Cantona's role as | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 3,142,802 |
Very few people are aware that the government gives us a choice as to where some of our NI contributions should go. Anyone who is resident in the UK and who pays NI can opt to rebate some of their contributions. Why Claim your NI Rebate? Should foreigners residing in the UK decide to return home, their NI contributions will remain in the state pension where they will not be able to touch their plans until the age of 68. Even worse, this benefit is frozen and doesn't accumulate growth with inflation i.e. over time the real value is lost. For individuals planning to leave the UK in the future, transferring their NI contributions into their personal pensions will present far greater value. This will allow the invested money to grow as well as create increased flexibility to transfer the funds to different countries, and on the whole increase future wealth. | IN | IN DT | 1,435,184 |
Stuff them with lots of cheese; soak in batter and then deep fry. Anaheim peppers can be roasted on an outdoor grill. Peppers should be turned for even cooking. However if cooking on an open flame check peppers frequently. Anaheim chilies can be stuffed with Mexican cheese. Roll stuffed chilies in beaten egg and flour and fry in pan until golden brown. Cook up a stew with potatoes, zucchini, ground beef, and Anaheim chilies. Anaheim can be used to make creamy chili pepper sauce to add flavor to meat and or cheese dishes. Incoming search terms: anaheim peppers Harry Hey I am a reviewer at Stuff I Review and you can be too. If you agree or dis agree with any of my reviews then please leave your version in comment box and but forget to grab your "StuffIReview" badge to show the world. I you have something you would like to be reviewed then contact us or leave a comment or even register and add it yourself :) Share your honest review with the world here it's Free to join. Stuff I Review We bring you honest Reviews by you the people. Here anyone can write a review on pretty much anything. If there is not a category for you review no problem suggest one :) Grab your STUFFIREVIEW badge to show off your critics skills you family and friends, display it proudly on you websites. | HI | HI HT RE | 3,126,652 |
More to read The internet, with its sprawling applications, can be confusing -- whatever your age. For those in their seventies and eighties it can particularly alienating, as their children and grandchildren increasingly communicate on a medium they may struggle to use. Sydney-based start-up Tapestry hopes to fix this problem with a primarily tablet-based application that simplifies email, photo sharing and internet browsing. It also has a weather feature. "Everyone has a grandmother or parents who struggle with technology," Tapestry founder Andrew Dowling says. Tapestry's philosophy is to simplify programs, remove functions that are not in use and make the digital interface more user-friendly, with larger fonts and less cluttered design. The business began in 2010, based in Dowling's house, and now has a team of five based in a co-working space in Ultimo. Tapestry's software opened to the public last week, following trials with senior users. Seven senior residents of the Carlingford Wesley Mission, aged 74 to 83, were selected to trial the software for six weeks, finishing in August. "Not a single one of them felt that they were comfortable with technology," Dowling says. After the trial, four of the group went on to buy tablets and subscribe to a monthly Tapestry plan, the costs of which range from $5 to $15 per month. One of them, Shirley, 83, began the trial saying she had poor internet skills. But she was soon using the program to email her family and receive photos. She even became something of an | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 18,738 |
events to global warming, which by the way is another emerging scientific consensus that will be waiting for you when you wake up from the half-sleep you're still in), the labels you still don't like (such as "climate change"), and the environmental advocates who still rub you the wrong way (Gore). And, the classic apex of your post, that the left should not attempt to make political hay out of this, because it puts people like you right off. This is all beautiful. It's like an evolution denier (OOPS I said the word) who finally accepts the evidence, then blames their long ignorance on the fact that Richard Dawkins is really mean to religious types. Well, grow up. And stop calling yourself a "skeptic". Nearly all scientists are skeptics. People who ignore scientific consensus because it means they'd have to change their worldview are NOT skeptics. They're just pigheaded. @ianholmes-if I had spent the entire day formulating a reply to this blog entry, I would consider it a day well spent if it even came close to what you wrote, which happens to be a perfect summary of what I thought after reading the blog entry. There is absolutely nothing new here...I mean I'm glad an individual was able to re-package the information so another stubborn (read: not skeptical, but stubborn) fool believes AGW is real, but it's almost becoming embarrassingly comical to hear personal reflections of becoming a "believer" in AGW. They may as well confess to finally believing | OP | OP OB | 486,561 |
specific investment which really underscores the zero-sum hedge fund nature of participating in financial markets. Positive returns are alpha, not beta. I think that ought to significantly reduce the appeal of leverage which could be an important factor in protecting us from general asset bubbles. Borrowing, as we currently see it, which involves shorting the future value of real goods, would hopefully be seen as the fairly odd inflation index derivative contract that it is. Keep in mind that there exists no asset that transports a fixed quantity of consumption into the future. Any contract that guarantees future consumption, necessarily requires someone else to short it. So if we don't define money relative to the value of real goods then I'm hoping that we will no longer have a significant demand for fixed future consumption (currently government bonds) which can only be met by someone else shorting future consumption (e.g. a leveraged investor borrowing to buy capital assets.) So I am hoping that by breaking the anchor of money illusion to a consumption basket, that a conservative investor would simply be content to be guaranteed a fixed portion of the value of all capital assets (i.e all future consumption assuming fixed share of taxes and wages) and that the consumption basket would disappear as a relevant reference point. As far as more specific bubbles go, I think 401k's played a major role in fueling the dot com bubble. From 1990 to 1998 the size of 401k's grew from $380bn to | OP | OP OB | 336,134 |
and they know it! I am so disgusted and if they think there making money off this?!?!? What kind of karma are they reaping? The wife used to be a really good person but money can corrupt people so fast. As for the husband saying something is giving him too much he deserves no words except shame on you! I see big dogs in tiny kennels that cannot be right?? Is it? The dogs are kept in very small spaces but they have their papers and that's what's scary. And that's why they can't be shut down. In my opinion the only way to stop this is to find out if the papers are real or are linked to mills. I want them shut down as much as anyone but as long as they have the documents they can stay in business. I'm beyond sickened and saddened when I see that place. I hope for the animals that the truth will be revealed and their greedy business is shut down! | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,203,570 |
By contrast, around 70% of the historically used calving grounds are currently associated with some form of infrastructure, including Twofold Bay (the only known historic calving ground in NSW), now the site of major industrial and shipping activity (Pirzl 2008). 17. Other potential threats to the Southern Right Whale include ingestion of marine debris such as plastic, and acoustic pollution (e.g. noise from marine vessels and seismic survey activity) which affects cetacean reactions, and may also disrupt the connectivity of coastal habitat, but the impact is not well researched in Southern Right Whales (Richardson et al . 1995; Smith 2001; DEH 2005). Hunting may pose a future potential threat to the species given the current pressure for the resumption of commercial whaling and/or the expansion of scientific whaling. 18. Climate and oceanographic change may affect habitat and food availability for the Southern Right Whale. The Southern Right Whale is most likely to be affected by climate change through the changes in sea ice extent and duration, which will subsequently affect the distribution and abundance of their main food source, krill and a rise in sea level may result in loss of coastal habitat such as nursery grounds and sheltering areas (IWC 2009). 'Anthropogenic Climate Change' is listed as a Key Threatening Process under the Threatened Species Conservation Act 1995. 19. Although commercial harvesting of the Southern Right Whale has ceased, and populations both globally and in south-western Australia appear to be stable or increasing, the south-eastern Australian stock of Southern | IN | IN RA | 30,115 |
Our short stay was perfect, it couldn't have been improved. We were kindly upgraded to the Mews cottage room which was lovely, there was a variety of choices for the delicious breakfast and local knowledge was great which really helped us plan our time. Thanks! M & A Glasgow May 2012 "Cottage lovely, comfortable and clean... Everything you may need is provided. Coldingham was a perfect place to unwind. There are lots of lovely walks with beautiful scenery - the beach was outstanding... one of the best... Would recommend this cottage." A & P Morpeth, Northumberland June 2012 "Very comfortable and well equipped cottage; good time had by all. We particularly enjoyed our visit to Paxton House... & the New Inn where the food was very good." B Family North Lanarkshire July 2012 "This is our first stay in the cottage which we have found very comfortable... Coldingham is a great base with Berwick-upon-Tweed only 15 mins drive. We enjoyed a morning in Coldstream where the museum is worth a visit. We hope to return next year. Thanks to Susie and Andy for their help..." W Family Perth July 2012 "A lovely week in a delightful part of the country. Our days have been very full & enjoyable. The cottage is well situated for exploring the area & is comfortable! Many thanks!" J & S Essex August 2010 | IN | IN | 1,442,568 |
normal, I get it's age-appropriate and boy, do I love that kid. But I won't be a martyr to her all my damn life. My husband died about 4 and a half months ago (and it is NOT that - she's absolutely fine, was just 3 when it happened). But the point is, I need my evenings. I need some life. When in hell's name am I supposed to get out if by 8 I feel like it's getting on and I can't really summon up the energy after sitting in the dark for 45 minutes being uber-patient (oh I get it, I'm meant to be so consumed by my biological callings that I only care about her needs). I don't give one what the reasons she's playing up are for - sure that it's habit, sure it's age-appropriate, nursery, whatever. The point is, it's not ok and it f*cking well upsets me. I end up screaming at her and I NEVER wanted to do this! I just want her to go to sleep. We have routine etc. There has to be another way! TO NOT be a SLAVE to my child! I DO ENOUGH dudes, I do enough! And every day I read articles that send me in to further confusion about how I shouldn't sit her on the step (when she hits me in the face - well thank you!) because it will lower her self-esteem and then god well I wouldn't want that because then she'll end | LY | LY PO | 3,129,008 |
system that our own single payer monopsony would bring us. Single payer activists, don't give up. As President Obama said in his press conference this week, "persistence!? Universal healthcare is okay for a small country or organization like Switzerland, Canada, or the Veterans Administration, but it wouldn't work when scaled up to meet the needs of a large country like the US Medicare is a national program that works reasonably well. There isno reason whatsoever that would make it hard to scale up. Indeed, Medicare was initiated (and administered for tens of millions of enrollees) before computers became available - scaling it up 7 or 8 fold should not prove difficult. In Canada, health care is administered at the provincial level. The Ontario Health Insurance Program, which includes the city of Toronto as well as rural areas, is a good example. Since much of the program we envision would be regionalized, with regions similar in size to Ontario, that program seems a sound indication that scale should not be problematic. Some conservative opponents of single payer health reform have been claiming that new research proves that Canada's single payer national health insurance program has performed poorly, and that projected savings on administration are illusory. In the commentaries below we analyze the two most prominent examples of this new research a paper by June and Dave O'Neill ("Health Status, Health Care and Inequality: Canada Vs. the U.S. ") and a report by Bejamin Zycher ("Comparing Public and Private Health Insurance: Would | HI | HI FH | 570,618 |
longstanding bilateral relationship with Fatah. In Jordan and Iraq, non-state actors' strategies had to be understood in order to negotiate with them to gain access to vulnerable populations without compromising the security of MSF teams. Engaging elites in the Middle East in a constructive debate on the impact that humanitarian medical action can have on their societies is also important. Humanitarian principles need to be explained and demonstrated operationally. However, it is also important to explain to the wider public the reasons behind operational and programming choices. For example, some have questioned MSF's neutrality because it does not have medical activities in Israel. The reality is that MSF does not need to intervene in Israel, where medical needs are already met by a sophisticated healthcare system. This also requires improving our knowledge on how to intervene effectively in urban settings. In fact, Palestinian camps in Lebanon or in the Gaza Strip and IDPs in Northern Iraq are challenging contexts partly due to their urban settings. In 2008, but published in 2011, MSF conducted research on perceptions of the agency in the region. [6] From the research it was clear that, while MSF's identity as a health organisation is recognised and valued, most people were not aware of the high proportion of independent funding MSF has at its disposal. In the Middle East, several criteria are used to judge the effectiveness and coherence of an organisation: its public position towards the conflicts in the region, its sources of funding and its | IN | IN RA | 441,666 |
if he did, why Liverpool? He's ambitious, he'd go to a bigger team. | ID | ID DF | 546,812 |
Rizpah W AILING , wailing, wailing, the wind over land and sea -- And Willy's voice in the wind, 'O mother, come out to me.' Why should he call me to-night, when he knows that I cannot go? For the downs are as bright as day, and the full moon stares at the snow. II. We should be seen, my dear; they would spy us out of the town. The loud black nights for us, and the storm rushing over the down, When I cannot see my own hand, but am led by the creak of the chain, And grovel and grope for my son till I find myself drenched with the rain. III. Anything fallen again? nay -- what was there left to fall? I have taken them home, I have number'd the bones, I have hidden them all. What am I saying? and what are you ? do you come as a spy? Falls? what falls? who knows? As the tree falls so must it lie. IV. Who let her in? how long has she been? you -- what have you heard? Why did you sit so quiet? you never have spoken a word. O -- to pray with me -- yes -- a lady -- none of their spies -- But the night has crept into my heart, and begun to darken my eyes. V. Ah -- you, that have lived so soft, what should you know of the night, The blast and the burning shame and | LY | LY PO | 796,270 |
single soul needs a little realeasin' the stereo bumpin till the sun goes down, and I only want to hear that sound And that's the sound of sunshine coming down And that's the sound of sunshine coming down And now say You're the one I want to be with, when the sun goes down. You're the one I want to be with, when t esun goes down Sing; You're the one I want to be with when the sun goes down. You're the one I want to be with when the sun goes That's the sound of sunshine coming down And that's the sound of sunshine coming down | LY | LY SL | 495,917 |
In search of a lost world In this country everything is vivid. Superannuated American school buses come south a uniform shade of murky yellow. In Guatemala they are set back on the road transformed, belching black fumes still, but with their flanks striped with tinsel-bright chrome, every inch of their chassis painted with flames or flowers or wild zigzags. These are the 'chicken buses', in which the people of the southern highlands take themselves and their livestock to market. Cemeteries glow from the hillsides, the house-sized tombs painted in dazzling mauve or rust-red or green, the colour of hope, not the quiet retiring green of British front doors but luminous shades of lime and aquamarine and emerald. The homes of the living are even brighter. The architecture of village houses is simple - cube-houses of breeze-block and plank - but their colouring is extravagant. Yellow and orange. Turquoise and maroon. Watermelon-pink and purple. Nature adds its notes to the visual cacophony. In towns mauve jacaranda petals lie in carpets on red earth. In the countryside sulphur-yellow, white and coral-red blossoms flame from the edges of the maize-plots. The people dress up to their setting. Townsfolk speak Spanish and wear Western clothes, but in the villages the language is Mayan and the costume is sumptuous. Life isn't easy. Small, stocky men trudge by with loads of firewood on their backs. The women chatting in the streets carry plastic urns of water on their heads. But however hard they may have to | IN | IN DT | 106,557 |
Lighthouse This kind of love Is more than a lifeline For a man as weak as me Who has no self belief This kind of love Is more than amazing For a man who lost his way Who thought it was too late How did the sea How did the sea How did the sea get so rough I would've drowned I would've drowned If you hadn't given me your love You're the light in the dark You're the seat in the park You're the lighthouse You're the lighthouse That I need You're the key to the door You're the Port in the storm And I need to find a shore When I can't swim anymore You always guide me back to solid ground You're my lighthouse This kind of love Is more than a feeling For a man who rarely tried I get all choked up each time You say you love me You could've walked away Could've give my problems back Could've left You took the chance How did the waves How did the waves How did the waves get so high I would've died I would've died If you hadn't loved me just in time You're the light in the dark You're the seat in the park You're the lighthouse You're the lighthouse That I need You're the key to the door You're the Port in the Storm When I need to find a shore Cos I can't swim anymore You always guide me back to solid | LY | LY SL | 56,010 |
hey... Yeah, yeah...eah...yeah...ooh... Play it easy, play it easy Keep it right there, keep it right there, keep it right there Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah What are you gonna say It's alright, it's alright Ooh, baby, it's alright, it's alright Alright now Keep it right there, keep it right there Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It's alright, it's alright Ooh, baby, it's alright, it's alright Say it's alright, it's alright Say, ooh, baby, it's alright, it's alright Alright now Eah... L-l-l-l-love Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Eah...ooh...ooh...yeah...hea... Say it's alright, it's alright Ooh, baby, it's alright, it's alright Alright now Alright now I used to be sad But now it's alright, it's alright Ooh, baby, it's alright, it's alright Alright now I wonder, I wonder Where are you again tonight Are you holdin' someone else real tight I wonder, I wonder, I wonder | LY | LY SL | 1,405,765 |
working on improving their client reporting services in these unsettled market conditions? What are the key ingredients of a successful and well-organized reporting operation? A One big challenge is to ensure we're building a sustainable, forward -looking solution and not just reacting to the issue du jour. It's important to strike a balance between being able to meet the specific needs of specific clients with the need to efficiently manage a suite of reports for the full client base. It's also important for the whole organization to understand that the client reporting process is primarily a delivery mechanism and it takes participation from all areas to produce high-quality client reports. For example, in unsettled market conditions, many people are looking for deeper explanations/assurances, not just numbers. It's reasonably easy to include commentary into client reports, but someone needs to commit to creating/providing the commentary on a consistent basis. Q Global financial organizations' client reports now need to be translated into multiple languages and sent seamlessly around the world. What are the challenges in delivering a cohesive global distribution and client service strategy? A I've found that, given the relatively complex and specific terminology that is used by financial organizations, it is not enough to perform 'basic' translations; you really need people who understand the content and the details of the industry, the business, the product, to ensure the translations are appropriate. The other main challenge is with the different cultures in different parts of the world; different formats/styles work in | SP | SP IT | 3,063,619 |
enough not to "fall into temptation" . It was really funny and boy, I bad goosebumps all over me while I was watching. I plan to watch this again with my husband and I am really excited! Please plan to have a movie date with yours! I don't have much time to write today...but hope to again soon as there have been some changes in my situation. But I did want to let you know to the above statement "what if he gets custody of my children because of my stupidity?"... that I was worried about the same thing and talked with a very experienced lawyer and others who have been involved in the situation and was told that this had no effect on custody...unless the other person puts the kids in danger, etc. or if you did stuff like "screw in front of the kids." That it would have to be pretty extreme for it to make any difference. My lawyer even said that it could actually show the court how my husband was so oblivious to my needs and feelings for me to want to have an affair. Talk to you all soon! Renee Emily, Hope you are out there. Having a really awful day. Just been to Relate and I thought it went well but husband did not and has stormed out. Half of me wishes not said anything but the other says, no, you needed to as had an affair for a reason which needs to | ID | ID QA | 1,428,393 |
main aim in this case isn't maximising the number of kilowatts installed but finding a way to give huge numbers of parents, friends, family members and neighbours a positive first experience with low-carbon energy, at the same time as kick-starting a broader environment effort in the schools and their communities -- something that worked brilliantly in the pilot scheme . (Full disclosure: I developed this project in its early days .) But community-owned energy isn't only about the small-scale. Also bubbling up are projects such as Trillion Fund , which expects to launch soon and plans to create "new source of funding for renewable energy projects worldwide". Its name hints at its level of ambition. Then there's Oxford-based EnergyBank , brainchild of Tim Helweg-Larsen, who has been working away behind the scenes for a couple of years on a project that could eventually drive huge sources of cash into offshore wind -- the vast but largely untapped energy resource that Helweg-Larsen mapped out in the Offshore Valuation Report . His vision is a world in which large-scale energy installations such as offshore windfarms are "owned by the people and businesses that use them". None of this, in itself, is going to solve climate change. But community energy definitely has a role to play. For example, in the case of onshore wind, it can help build local support for planning applications -- which will be crucial if the technology is ever going to gain a real foothold in the UK. A | OP | OP OB | 3,008,355 |
inhibition as well as how to play and have fun. And no one, even an experienced dog trainer can teach the puppies better than their own mother can. Hence, it is important that you bring home a Boxer puppy only after it is about 8/9 weeks old (or even later). Food habits Choosing the right dietary regimen for the puppy is another crucial Boxer dog information that you should have a firm grip on. Ideally you should feed your Boxer three times a day up till they are 6 months old. Give him excellent quality food that is high on essential protein, carbohydrate, vitamin, calcium and minerals. Ideally he should be given meat as the primary ingredient. It's okay to feed him table scraps occasionally, but ensure that you put those on his own dog-bowl rather than feeding him from the table. Personally I don't like this idea. A dog should not be encouraged to be near the table during meal times or think that it is eating your food. Also, you must feed him only after eating your meal first -- after all this is how canines reassert their dominance on their packs. Diseases For us -- the dog lovers, it's hard to see our four legged buddies in pain or sickness. That's why you must always keep a constant check on your Boxer puppy's health as just like most other breeds of dogs, Boxers are also vulnerable to various kind of diseases during their first few months. Some | IN | IN DT | 3,736,146 |
2 Comments General Comment: Yeah, it's about JFK and I've heard Dylan had a song with the same title as well. Grateful Dead do as well, though the lyrics are very different. Cat Power has a song by the same title, and some of the lyrics are very similar, but I think it's kind of a half-cover or something. This is the only song by the Byrds that I really like, mostly because of its topic. It's really good, though. General Comment: I think its kind of obvious that this song is about the JFK assassanation. I'm pretty sure Dylan had a song titled the same, but I think it had different lyrics. Either way, this is a great song, and even though its about a very sad thing, it still sounds happy. | LY | LY SL | 439,420 |
total of 86 days (from July 22 to Oct 16 1944), although it actually involved 43 days of actual sailing. That certainly sounds like it was more straightforward and sounds like it may have involved steaming through an ice-free Passage, doesn't it ? Well, the reality is rather different. The description again is of heavy, tightly-packed ice and atrocious weather - so much so that the only really fine day was actually noted in the account. Again, most of the open water they experienced consisted of leads between the ice, which they had to follow as far as they could before anchoring on the ice to shelter from the persistently bad weather. It was reported by Larsen that that particular season was "the worst in years." Again, hardly ice-free by any description. In fact, as Larsen himself later acknowledged , the only reason the voyages were attempted had nothing to do with any widespread opening-up of the Passage and everything to do with WWII and Canada's determination to re-iterate its sovereignty over the Northwest Passage, and its concern to show that there were no physical obstacles to prevent it defending its territory. And compare those 1940s conditions with those more usual now : such as 2007 , when the Northwest Passage demonstrably opened up for the first time officially recorded; 2008 , when both the Northwest and Northeast Passages demonstrably both opened up at the same time for the first time officially recorded; 2010 and 2011 , when the Northwest | IN | IN | 768,883 |
known some of them but I felt like I had no connection with them. So I went "yeah, it'd be great to be able to start that connection between Darwin and Timor. Lets get some artists to Darwin and see what spirals out of this projects!" Do you have any advise for young people wishing to pursue similar careers to yourself? Yeah, do everything else first. The only way that I became a producers was because I started as a actor, then became a director, then I became a writer, then I was a dram terd*, then I started producing work, both mine and other peoples. I think to be a good producer you need to know what everyone else working for you does. You need to know what a production manager does, what a stage manager does. You need to know a bit about lighting design and sound design and how all that works. You need to know how to cut a promo video, how media works, how schedules run how to pay people properly. There are things you get exposed to and explained to you on the way. I think its very difficult to just go yep, I want to be a producer straight a way. I think its good to have a go at everything else, because you might realise your really enjoying lighting design or actually you're an amazing set designer and your career might suddenly go down that path. I think theatre is one of | SP | SP IT | 408,689 |
away and I could end up right where I came from. I have a lot of people keeping me grounded: my wife, my mother and my friends. Is it difficult to not spoil your kids? It is and I do spoil them to a certain extent but they also understand that not a lot of people have this life. My kids like giving back. My daughter's always telling me: 'Pop, I'm going to take these toys to the hospital for the sick kids and the less fortunate.' They still live in the real world but it's a fine line. I certainly want my kids to have everything that I never had but you also want them to appreciate the value of things. How do you instil decent values? They work really hard to succeed at the things that they're interested in, whether it be sports or skating. But, yeah, it's a weird thing. Nobody in my family, my parents or their parents, had money or success. I worked hard to get what I have and I still work hard every day. How fit are you? Do you have a rigorous workout schedule? Only if I'm working. If I have to put on weight or lose weight or be in shape or be out of shape, then I'll do it for a film. But for this movie everyone was complaining that I was out of shape because, after I did The Fighter, I didn't want to workout any more. When I | SP | SP IT | 715,887 |
have picked up on "Underground". Nestled deep on his debut album Between The Lines, it's a mid tempo moment of undiluted psychedelic-tinged house goodness that sings volumes to heads of all ages with major evangelical appeal. Throw in a remix by the legendary Dennis Ferrer and you've got yourself a bona fide treat that's likely to appeal to dancefloors from the underground upwards. Review: It's a bit of a surprise to see Italian nu-disco heavyweight Bottin pop up on Dave "Joey Negro" Lee's Z Records label. Then again, "Sage Comme Une Image" isn't your average Bottin production. Featuring tongue-in-cheek French vocals from Jupiter, it sounds like an authentic '70s disco production - all clipped guitars, walking bass and summery grooves. You can see why it appealed to Lee, a man who has spent years laying down revivalist disco, soul and funk with his Sunburst Band project. Remix wise, there's a couple of loopy disco-house thumpers from Spiller, but the best revision comes from Bottin himself. His dub - faithfully groove-obsessed and laden with tape echo - is the package's stand out moment. Review: Quick question... When was the last time you put your hands up? I mean right up. Up so high people could come up and tickle your armpits but you really wouldn't care because the tune you've just raised them to is the bomb! We're talking real rush-numbers here, ones that stink of every floaty synth under the electronic rainbow. Ones that will have the dancefloor shivering in | IP | IP DS | 1,461,513 |
on February 5, 2011 7:06 pm How many of you share this pet peeve of mine? -- people who say "mature" as ma -- tour. I have heard enough educated people say this, and dictionaries DO list both pronunciations, so it is evidently considered a "correct" pronunciation. But it's not the way I am used to, and to me, it sounds like an affectation. After all, how many of you would pronounce the following words with the "tour" ending instead of a "choor" ending? Tony Learn: The Oxford Dictionary of English says the t in 'often' can be silent or pronounced. It may not be easy on your ear but its legitimate. Michael on February 5, 2011 8:53 pm Tony Hearn: The Oxford Dictionary of English says the t in 'often' can be silent or pronounced. It may not be easy on your ear but its legitimate. abby: Not sure I'm with you entirely. Some on your list would receive a somewhat more crisp pronunciation from yours truly. At least, I wouldn't say the full 'ch' sound but somewhere between there and a 't'. venqax: My colours are still flying from your mast. Michael on February 5, 2011 8:54 pm Apologies for the repetition. 'Smart' phone. Michael on February 5, 2011 10:59 pm Venqax: I've encountered more than a few of Canadian 'leftenants'. Seems to be standard pronunciation for 'lieutenant' in the Canadian Forces. Good point abby. I think it falls under the general rule, again, that English has rules, | OP | OP AV | 504,110 |
Lucid dreaming is essentially the state of being aware that you are dreaming while the experience takes place. This absorbing field of discovery began in France in the latter 19th century, when the Marquis d'Hervey de Saint Denis wrote the book Dreams and How to Guide Them. The term "lucid" was first used by Frederik van Eeden, a Dutch writer who in 1913 submitted a paper about this type of dream to the British Society for Psychical Research, and it has stuck ever since. Until the 1970s, mainstream science had dismissed lucid dreaming as either a fantasy or just a "micro-awakening", an odd phenomenon in which an individual is awake for a very brief period while believing they are asleep. However, more recently, the objective reality of lucid dreams has been successfully validated. In 1978, UK experimenter Alan Worsley pioneered the use of eye movement signals to communicate to the outside world the fact that he was in a lucid state. To ensure these were not mistaken for random eye movements, Worsley moved his eyes to the left and right eight times in succession. In other laboratory tests, he was able to provide accurate estimates for the lengths of whole dreams and for parts of dreams. A second research pioneer, Stephen LaBerge of Stanford University, moved his finger in front of his eyes during a lucid dream while being recorded successfully by measuring instruments. The use of eye movements greatly limits the extent of possible communication, but at present it's | HI | HI HT | 136,723 |
was horrendous. She should have stuck to her loyalties....the QP. Her biggest mistake was to approve of getting rid of Dan with Frank. Dan is one of the greatest players in BB history, she should have known he would made a last ditch effort to save himself. Good luck Brit! I wish you the best and have lots of mini-Brits in the future. izzy miss brit terribly, she was very entertaining and witty, love her diary room sessions and she doesn't look at herself in the mirrors every waking moment, like someone else -- Elijah Price Shane, you dirty dog. If BB's portrayal of how Joe would have done whatever he wanted him to do, then Shane could have saved his coach with a 3-2 vote. But what did he do? He chose to save the girl who has been playing him for a fool. Danielle's loyalties are with herself, first, then Dan, and then Shane. I think he made a big mistake. ttp://profile.yahoo.com/N4KGUOHJSYIH2VG\\... wendy Shane put a pageant wanna be before Brit because he knew the stalker would fight dirty to keep him in the game. I don't know this may come back to bite him in the ass any thoughts on how far Shane will go? Elijah Price The way things change all the time, I'm not sure how far he'll go. Right now, Frank, Dan and Ian are all determined, so it wouldn't hurt if he started winning again after they get done duking it out. I | SP | SP IT | 3,264,467 |
boat. It's an all weather, offshore lifeboat, which due to the nature of the coastline where it is stationed, needs to be launched and recovered from a beach at all states of the tide.. " "SYBARITE - That's not what the RNLI management say nor posters on here. They say that the jets are designed for shallow water operations." The fact does remain that the Shannon is an expensive boat - but it does both the job of the French RIBS which you are using as the solution to shallow water and Offshore All-Weather Boats, it is truly dual purpose where the French would need to use two boats to achieve the same purpose (Shallow water launching of an All Weather rescue capability) - The French don't seem to have a boat which can do both jobs to the best performance, and so the cost, it would appear, is justified. Will you PLEASE clarify that you admit the Shannon is a dual purpose boat, and not designed solely for shallow water rescue - as this has been your apparent position so far? I did ask you to do that previously and you said I was talking at cross purposes without answering the question... __________________ My postings are my own opinion and do not represent GaelForce Group unless stated. Also, the sort of places where they use a carriage launched boat tend to be drying harbours. So actually, they're saving lots and lots of money, because the only other way to | ID | ID DF | 342,170 |
Farmville: Prospect updates; Former Bruin charged in shooting death Welcome to Farmville, a weekly feature that'll recap the happenings and progress of the Boston Bruins' prospects. Varying from the AHL to the deepest corners of the KHL, we'll touch on it all. In Boston, the future's so bright, we gotta watch hockey with shades. Or something like that, I guess. For the Providence Bruins, the pedestrian start (and I think I'm being nice here when I call it that) to the 2012-13 season seems to indicate that it'll be more of the same for Bruce Cassidy's beleaguered hockey club. Now in his second year with the P-Bruins, and on the heels of a 35-win, 77-point season last year, the club's fewest since a 75-point season back in 1999-00, it's been a disastrous run for a Providence club that entered the year expected to contend (and then some) in a lockout-bolstered Eastern Conference. Yet, perhaps at the core of the P-Bruins, a club that's scored the second fewest goals in the entire East with 23 tallies, just one more than equally terrible Albany Devils, that's the problem. With four wins and nine points on the year, there's been little to celebrate when it comes to the progress (or lack thereof) of Cassidy's squad through over a month of hockey. 2009 first rounder Jordan Caron , a skater that's traveled between Boston and Providence more than just about anyone I can think of, has struggled outside of a hat trick early in | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 546,988 |
there too far gone to try and hear the open gob that smells of beer but it all falls into place in the end, you know this kind of stuff so ponder, ponder what you've heard the big dilemma's mighty words "between you and me and I'm serious there's an ospreys nest in our back garden I'm well blown by this fact but worried stupid bout the eggs I think why our garden of all places I wonder sometimes if it's true urban ospreys sounds quite fascinating but how can I put it into use?" rayers answered with our wonderchart fool mothers and daughters and the pounds will look after themselves allow your viewers the thought that you think them intelligent the climate is dull - use it keep harping on about the recession no one will really give a damn in a year or two so there's nothing to lose ere's another soul sick drone born and bred in a great British home another slice of half-baked ideas to amuse your gramophone the climate changes to suit the weather but I don't know, don't know whether music is just another term for noise i'm told it's all about expression so express yourself boys i give a percentage of my earnings to the publicists strike fund there's something admirable about a thief they're searching out fragile hearts selling the blood of foreign parts to Better Badges for the fans to keep 'em happy and clapping their hands and we can | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
oldest minority groups? While the details remain contested, it is now broadly agreed that Europe's Roma and Gypsy populations can trace their origins back to an Indian diaspora in the tenth century, with 'Egyptians' arriving in Britain by the early 16th century. Despite persecution, Gypsies established themselves, finding niches in both town and countryside, sometimes being protected by landowners who found them useful as a supply of casual labour, for entertainment and sometimes simply by the inconsistent application of the law. Their treatment reflected majority society's deep ambivalence about the presence of Gypsies and a nomadic way of life. On the one hand it symbolised freedom from the responsibilities and duties associated with settled lifestyles -- typified in folk songs such as 'The Raggle-taggle Gypsy'; on the other it provoked an almost visceral hatred, a suspicion that Gypsies could evade the law and the codes of behaviour that bound settled society to a place and a parish. Rather than being polar opposites, however, we might understand these stereotypes as two sides of a coin -- as the product of a tendency to view Gypsy lives through the lens of the preoccupations and assumptions of mainstream society -- rather than being grounded in reality. Whether articulated positively or negatively these stereotypes stem from the assumption that Gypsies were irredeemably separate from the rest of the population. Yet, contrary to these stereotypes, Gypsies and Travellers traded with, worked and lived alongside the rest of the population: an analysis of the traditional songs | NARRATIVE | NA HA | 118,058 |
AFTER * And as the night came down and fell onto the ground It paused to make a sound especially for you Just as I stopped myself from reaching off the shelf A tonic for my health, I fell in love with you And happy ever after, moving the earth and laughter All that did ever matter, I wanted it for you All gossip column fare, the lowest scum was there A dull and boring pair, well I blame it all on you A diamond is forever, a friend will leave you never If I was half that clever I'd still be there with you And happy ever after, moving the earth and laughter All that did ever matter, I got it all from you The drugs and waste exploded, got sick upon the roses Observers held their noses in reverence to you The cack, the path I trod, treated you like a God And once I'd got the nod I fucked it up with you Well happy ever after, moving the earth and laughter All that did ever matter, I wanted it for you But there before I's fate, I would have missed the date Discretion breeds with hate when I'm in bed with you I almost blew my lid, came close to getting rid Ah, what I nearly did, yeah it all comes back to you And that happy ever after, moving the earth and laughter All that did ever matter, I blame it all on you I | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
vote, do not work for animal rights, do not be a vegetarian, do not read commentary, do not work to better your community because that would be a judgment that it needed bettering. In fact, do nothing. Do not participate in life on any level. That would truly be non-judgment. However, if you maintain that non-judgment is the way to go, then do not, DO NOT, be judgmental about the writing of others. You see, the non-judgmental thing works both ways. Well said Michelle. It seems way too easy these days to discern who has any actual understanding of yoga beyond the western interpretation of "making funny shapes with your body exercise routine" when issues of viveka are on the table. Only in America would one be ridiculed for pointing out that yoga not does translate to "doing whatever, whenever and however makes you feel good." IMHO, your piece is quite congenial and liberal. Personally, if I knew an individual was "altered" in one of my classes, the next thing s/he would see would be the door. What again is the point of saying yogis in CO don't shower? You have made a name for yourslelf as a sarcastic writer. This piece seems to be bringing out more negative criticism to your judgmental and sarcastic fingerpointing. Having a student with the wrong leg forward is a much different distraction than having one using a cellphone in class. The lack of common sense and hurtful comical writing is yours and causes | OP | OP AV | 564,626 |
the Geneva Bible. The KJV was too new and was approved by King James and the official church of England from which the Separatists wanted to separate. (I was privately much amused that the KJV wasn't the Bible of choice for the Pilgrims. My KJV-only parents would have been shocked!!!) I too would consider preaching to remain highly important in churches so that first point really doesn't make sense to me, unless the author is really not trying to accurately describe the past but is instead trying to indite today's Christianity by attacking the trend to put praise and worship as a prominent part of the service. Pilgrims and Puritans were two separate sects. My point is that if they were going to draw parallels, it would most certainly be with the Puritans, even by their own account outside of this particular bit of convenient rhetoric. The Pilgrims at Plymouth were a very small group, and they remained so throughout their short history. Plymouth Colony and the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony were separate entities until the 1690?s. The 1620 Pilgrims were a mixed lot at best. More than half came over for adventure or to avoid creditors rather than for religious freedom. I wonder how come the original Puritans (I assume he means the Puritans even though he says "Pilgrims." Those two groups would not be confused by any legitimate historian.) became heroes to David Beale, whoever he is. The Puritans were the ones who kicked out Roger Williams, who | OP | OP RS | 3,270,415 |
Look at a point in front of them and throw there. Throw to where they will be, not to where they are. This is called ?leading your receiver?. Start with short throws to a slow-moving receiver. Throw the disc in front of them. It is easy for a receiver to speed up to catch an overthrown disc. It is difficult for them to catch a disc that is behind them. Gradually increase the length of your throws and the speed of the receiver. | HI | HI HT | 717,111 |
excluding any non-soil surface treatment such as asphalt, concrete or aggregate; "soil" means, for the purposes of the definition of shallow soil property, unconsolidated naturally occurring mineral particles and other naturally occurring material resulting from the natural breakdown of rock or organic matter by physical, chemical or biological processes that are smaller than 2 millimetres in size or that pass the US #10 sieve, and includes a mixture of soil and rock if less than 50 per cent by mass of the mixture is rock. O. Reg. 511/09, s. 21. (2) A site specific risk assessment of a property as referred to in the Cleanup Guideline 1996 that was commenced, but not completed, before this Regulation came into force satisfies the requirements of this Regulation if, (a) in an appendix to the risk assessment report prepared and submitted in accordance with Schedule C, a qualified person certifies in writing that the components of the site specific risk assessment completed before this Regulation came into force meet the requirements of this Regulation with respect to a risk assessment, except that they were not completed by a qualified person; and (b) a risk assessment is completed that consists of, (i) a review by a qualified person of those components of the site specific risk assessment completed before this Regulation came into force, and (ii) the completion of those components required under Schedule C that were not completed at the time this Regulation came into force. O. Reg. 153/04, s. 44 (2). (3) | IN | IN TR | 675,456 |
try to replace your heart with hers Could we go back to when, when we we're friends and just begin again and baby ride til the end and stop all the drama stop with the arguin cut with the problems i really wanna said one day you'll see it (oh) said one day you'll feel it (oh) i'm trying find answers to my questions so i can learn from lifes love lessons | LY | LY SL | 1,731,252 |
this color range: beige, taupe, gray, light brown. It's supposed to disappear and not be offensive. There's something horribly ugly and really attractive at the same time about those colors. If you put that taupe next to this green paint, the green's afterimage reflects a little red onto it and it starts to get buzzy and sharp. Yet it's much different when it's next to the yellow woodgrain. Even though I haven't brought myself to make something that's all beige and taupe and gray, I enjoy pulling those colors into what I do. BLVR: As a writer, I have certain go-to words I use over and over. Do you have go-to materials? JS: That's an interesting comparison. I don't think there are as many materials in the world as there are words. I use paint all the time, and in the last ten years or so I use a lot of plastic. I use furniture a lot. But I don't feel that way about materials that I use. I feel that way more about how I use them. BLVR: It's more like go-to gestures. JS: Yes. I think the geometric structure of the paint I use is a way of orchestrating paint and shape I use over and over again. That might be analogous to using a word over and over. It serves me that those hard edges are related, and equivalent to, the hard edges of an object - the ladder. On the other hand, I try to bring | SP | SP IT | 1,738,202 |
what are the properties of a regular hexagon inscribed in a circle. If the radius of the circle is given then how to find the side of the regular hexagon Hi Vivek. If you draw a hexagon inscribed in a circle and draw radii to the corners of the hexagon, you will create isosceles triangles, six of them. With any isosceles triangle, the bisector of the shared vertex is a perpendicular bisector of the opposite side. So I can draw these as well, making twelve congruent right triangles: The side length of the hexagon is two of the short sides of the right triangle. The short side of the right triangle is opposite the angle at the circle's center. So if we know the measure of the angle at the center, we can use the sine function to find the side length of the hexagon, since the radius is the hypotenuse: | HI | HI HT | 516,512 |
The moment where she makes Harry write lines into his own skin with a pen that draws real blood, all the while smiling that fake and brittle smile. Then of course there is her interest in Muggle Registration, and protecting "pureblood" wizards from the dilution and compromise of human blood. Richard Mourdock or Abu Hamza? Spot the difference between the Christian social conservatives and the Islamic fundamentalists. This week, Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock became the latest in a string of Republicans to say really, really stupid things about women while campaigning for office in 2012. In a debate with Democratic opponent Joe Donnelly, Mourdock sought to explain his abortion stance by saying that "even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen." Prior to that, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Tom Smith compared rape to having a baby out of wedlock, saying if you "put yourself in a father's situation" it's a similar kind of thing. And we all remember Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin telling an interviewer "if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down." What do all these men have in common aside from the fact that they are GOP standard-bearers for the U.S. Senate? To one degree or another, they are Christian fundamentalists. The sheer number of these types of quotes that we've seen in 2012 got us wondering: Who says more antiquated things about women and families, Christian | OP | OP OB | 611,013 |
part of their introduction. Now imagine the same scene. Only this time you are expecting the call, you know what it is about and why it is relevant to you. However busy you are, you will be far more receptive to the caller and what they have to say. That is because they have been referred to you. In other words, a friend has recommended their services because they may be able to help you and you have agreed to accept their call. So, the first part of my answer is that you shouldn't give your friends' names out as leads without their knowledge. You can almost guarantee that you will upset more than one person that way. So, how do you overcome the problem of asking personal questions? The financial advisor you are trying to refer should be able to help you there. Ask him for examples of some of his typical clients and when they need his help. Not for the personal financial situation, but the general one. People look at their financial planning typically when something happens to change their situation. It may be that they are buying a first home, are expecting their first child, are planning to retire or a host of reasons. The examples above are all situations you could easily recognise in your friends. If the financial planner can explain why people in that situation need his help and the difference he can make to them, it should be easy for you to | HI | HI | 1,457,936 |
third decade, making him one of Egypt's most durable pharaohs. His succession plan is clear: Son Gamal tries to replicate Beijing's model of economic reform, forestalling political reform... American policymakers could soon face the same tough choice on Egypt that they once suffered with Iran's faltering Shah: Step in with maximum effort during a succession crisis or let the chips fall where they may. Washington's soft peddling of democracy hasn't moved the highly corrupt government toward any serious political reform, as the Mubarak's prefer Beijing's blueprint over anything we might offer. And, as the regime resorts to stoking anti-Western and anti-Semitic popular sentiment, it gets harder to imagine a path forward for U.S.-Egyptian relations as this global recession advances. All I can say, Mr. President, is that when you decide which major Islamic capital will be the venue for your much-anticipated address to the Muslim world, do yourself a favor and pass on restive Cairo, because you just might trigger more response than your administration can afford right now." --Professor Thomas P. M. Barnett, Naval War College "When it happens, it will rock the world..: octogenarian Mubarak, will leave office, either by his own decision or that of Providence, probably within the next three years. So far, few in the West have paid much attention. But Egyptians certainly are getting ready, and we should do so as well." --Georgetown University Professor Michelle Dunne, expert on Arab politics and U.S. policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace From the Inside | IP | IP DS | 617,226 |
to rethink how they analyze other data-driven issues like climate change? I'm not getting my hopes up. But events like Hurricane Sandy show that there are other ways that reality can start to pierce the denialist bubble. And as Democrats develop a new agenda for 2016, my guess is that climate change -- or at least a national renewable energy and energy efficiency policy -- will rise to the top. At some point, reality prevails. At least I hope it will. | NARRATIVE | null | 3,186,990 |
you're at the mercy of the market. Some trivial professions are grossly overpaid, while many other beneficial professions are grossly underpaid. Some professions have tons of demand, while others have very limited demand. It doesn't mean don't get that degree and don't aspire to that role, but don't be shocked if the job isn't there, and don't be shocked if it pays less than you hoped. You must create value Nobody owes you anything. Just because you have a degree doesn't mean someone is required to give you a job. You must demonstrate you can create value for people, or else they'll find another person or method to get things done. You must be adaptable. Technology makes it easier for companies to get more work done with fewer people. When this happens, jobs that were once essential become replaceable. If I make a living putting plastic things on the ends of shoe laces, and someone invents a machine that automates the process, and I subsequently lose my job, my company isn't evil. My company is maximizing shareholder value by creating efficiencies. Increasingly, the people who stick around are those who learn how to adapt. They don't lament when they sense the ground shifting beneath their feet. They learn new skills, figure out how to leverage the new tools or take advantage of the new realities. And, when the writing is on the wall and their days are truly numbered, they formulate a plan for landing on their feet. You must | OP | OP OB | 85,226 |
than seven hundred North American species, simply by downloading one of a number of smart-phone apps. Unfortunately, most of these apps don't come with instructions, so some novices will play the songs repeatedly until a bird appears for that perfect photograph or for checking off on a life list. And since birders tend to share hot spots and unusual sightings via the Internet, some birds may be blasted with the artificial calls over and over again. The problem is that if a call is overplayed, birds may become overly excited and quickly fly back and forth, wasting their energy. They may get distracted from crucial activities, such as feeding and nesting. When males hear another male's call, they perceive it as a threat. Those birds may then expose themselves to predators and leave their nests vulnerable. Recently, in fact, federal biologists scaled back the use of recordings in spotted-owl surveys after it became clear that the birds that "whoo"-ed in reply were subject to attack by the more aggressive barred owls. Both the American Birding Association Code of Ethics and National Park Service regulations disallow the harassment of wildlife. And most national parks (not to mention state parks and national wildlife refuges) regard the consequences of playback (heart-pumping anxiety, undefended nests and mates, and exposure to predators) as harassment, thereby prohibiting the use of birdsong playback by smartphone. In fact, on Yosemite National Park's website is the statement: "Refrain from using broadcast bird calls to elicit responses." You make the | OP | OP OB | 3,156,586 |
My My Kind Of A Girl Lyrics When I saw you on 8th street You could make my ife complete, baly Yeah, yeah, yeah You're my-my kind of a girl And when I saw you by The jukebox, ow-ow You put a quarter in and played My favorite song too, baby Yeah, yeah, yeah You're my-my kind of a girl I think we'd look pretty good together, Walking through a winter wonderland And this time I think it's forever I hope your parents understand When I saw you by the Peppermint Lounge You were lost but you've been found, baby Yeah, yeah, yeah You're my-my kind of a girl [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/r/ramones/my+\\... ] | LY | LY SL | 461,943 |
Passenger numbers soar 152 per cent Stone station has recorded the biggest passenger number rise in Staffordshire There has been a staggering 152 per cent rise in the number of passenger journeys from Stone railway station since trains started to call there again in December 2008. Figures from the Office of Rail Regulation reveal 76,346 outbound passenger journeys from the station in 2010/11, compared to 48,054 in 2009/10 and 12,018 in 2008/9. Train operator London Midland has certainly acted on the huge rise in numbers. Earlier this year, more Sunday services were added and London Midland also plans to extend its weekday services from London Euston to Stone later this year with extra trains out of London at 16.46, 17.24 and 20.13. The operator also installed electronic information screens last year, as well as new seating for platform 2 after an online campaign. Richard Stevens, who set up new group The Friends of Stone Station earlier this year, is delighted with the numbers. He wrote on his blog : "I've now got the email from London Midland stating that they have calculated that 76,500 passenger journeys were made from Stone Station in the twelve months to the end of March 2011. That's a fantastic figure and surely justifies the campaign we ran for several years to get the trains running again from Stone. "Informed estimates are suggesting that the figures for the following twelve months to March 2012 could well top 100,000 -- another great success story. London Midland are | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,414,522 |
What day is it? Why did I eat so much? I once had a friend tell me she had to undo the top button of her pants after a plentiful Thanksgiving dinner. At least I'm not there yet. Right? The term "food coma" gets thrown around pretty loosely these days, but I think what I experienced was a full-blown Thanksgiving overthrow. The past few days I was lost in family, food and "Call of Duty" tactics from my younger brothers. A house full of eight people, two dogs and an ever-present aroma of delicious foods cooking is never an ideal atmosphere for writing. Do you know how long it's been since I smelled chocolate chip cookies bake? Yes, these are all just excuses for why the Rah Rah concert review is going up today, and wasn't up on Wednesday, Thursday, Black Friday or Saturday. For many writers, including myself, writing is synonymous with isolation. Now that I'm back in my small bedroom in Milwaukee, I have no more excuses. I've productively written in this room before so I always tell myself I can do it again. And even though I know leftovers are lurking in the fridge, I promise to finish this review before the relapse. Canadian Thanksgiving was on October 8 th this year, so the Saskatchewan-based band had their holiday festivities behind them when they rolled into Chicago Tuesday night. The show was at the Double Door and Rah Rah was the top billed of a four band | OP | OP RV | 3,685,465 |
publish yet another study that shows decriminalising personal use would be a good idea, and expert evidence on the efficacy of a rehabilitative as opposed to punitive model for prisons and sentencing is ignored time and time again. Policy is made on the basis of how it'll play in the tabloids, and nobody could get out more than two sentences of a reasoned, sensible, evidence-based policy on decriminalising drug use or rebalancing our approach to criminal sentencing and rehabilitation without being shouted down by a hail of hysteria in the red-tops. The official line, which is easier to digest and appeals to sub-editors at Tomorrow's Chip Paper Inc, is 'just say no' and 'prison works.' Anybody suggesting otherwise will be hounded as a drug-pusher and tarred with that most devastating of political brushes, 'soft on crime.' Game over. ##. If however you decided to beat the person you were arguing with senseless that would be - rightly so - and you should be facing prison. ## My point was that you were suggesting deterence is a factor in not committing crime. I didnt kill anyone for many reasons but going to jail was not one of them. I worked with young offenders and I cannot remember any of them ever worrying about consequences . .## If he's sitting in a jail cell he can't very well be out offending can he? ## I know people who will commit offences .Should we start locking them up before they commit crimes..that would | OP | OP OB | 61,406 |
Amazon's Queen Store Music Photos Biography English rock band Queen were one of the most popular bands in the world, and have sold an estimated 300 million records internationally. Known for their theatrical style, and the flamboyant showmanship of lead singer Freddie Mercury, the band built a reputation through the 1970s with million-selling albums and emphatic live performances. The album starts well with Highlander theme Princes Of The Universe, then gets going with a terrific bass line from John Deacon on A Kind Of Magic. Pain Is So Close To Pleasure almost sounds like Diana Ross, with Mercury excelling at falsetto while the guys ham it up in a tribute to Motown. Friends Will Be Ffriends is an anthem which now seems to rival We Will Rock You; Queen said this was written to thank fans for being their friends. Who Wants To Live Forever was premiered as being Mercury & May rather than Queen at their 1986 concerts, and featured Brian at the organ. It starts as a melancholy song then soars into the stratosphere thanks to Freddie's powerful vocals. Gimme The Prize and Don't Lose Your Head are more Highlander tracks, rockier than most on this album, which ends with the Live Aid inspired One Vision. The only criticism I have of this album is that there isn't enough of it! Nine tracks just isn't enough! Nevertheless I saw Queen's last concert at Knebworth in 1986 and these songs were the flavour of that concert. This album will | IP | IP DS | 25,505 |
Above and 2 photos below: The model is carefully disassembled in preparation for the massive cleanup work and paint stripping required. Above is the front cage section. Note the bulkhead hatch which fits up to the back of the nosecone. To do the job properly would involve dismantling large sections of the model, a task that would have scared me to death a few years ago, but having done a similar job on the Overlander from Terrahawks I felt that I was on familiar ground, although this was going to be a lot more daunting. Luckily the job was made easier because the Eagle can be quickly broken down into a number of sub assemblies. The nosecone unplugs and splits in two, the passenger pod is just held in place by two screws and then comes apart, the shoulder pods simply pull out and the long top frame (spine) unbolts. The Engine section did unplug originally but the modifications for series 2 permanently joined it to the rear cage. Each of the two cage sections are in two halves with no direct connections, they are held in line by the spine and the central corridor detailing. The first job was to strip down the spine and solder the joints that had come apart. All of the pipes across the bottom had come apart, five were missing altogether, so it was only held together by the pieces across the top and several of those were either working loose or misaligned. One | HI | HI HT | 452,296 |
pig-sty to the dull facade And the tombstone. And what you thought you came for Is only a shell, a husk of meaning From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled If at all. Either you had no purpose Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured And is altered in fulfilment. There are other places Which also are the world's end, some at the sea jaws, Or over a dark lake, in a desert or a city? But this is the nearest, in place and time, Now and in England. If you came this way, Taking any route, starting from anywhere, At any time or at any season, It would always be the same: you would have to put off Sense and notion. You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity Or carry report. You are here to kneel Where prayer has been valid. And prayer is more Than an order of words, the conscious occupation Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying. And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. Here, the intersection of the timeless moment Is England and nowhere. Never and always. II Ash on and old man's sleeve Is all the ash the burnt roses leave. Dust in the air suspended Marks the place where a story ended. Dust inbreathed was a | LY | LY PO | 123,903 |
(Vinni) Plus this liquor got me feeling nasty, ask me? Its just one of them days. (Vinni) I met up with Moe the maroccan, took a minute name-dropping Ran some telephone numbers, planned the marihuana-shopping. And last nights bottle-popping is still stressing me On days like this ecspecially, its a necesessity To have the accessories - the chocolate High like a rocket sh DISCLAIMER : You must agree to the following statement or leave this website. All Paperboys - One Of Them Days lyrics , artist names and images are copyrighted to their respective owners. All Paperboys - One Of Them Days song lyrics might be restricted for educational and personal use only. | LY | LY SL | 260,011 |
of the work that needed to be done, we chose the latter option, which left us on the hunt for a new car. As we looked around and weighed up our options, we began to think about the life of the 3-year finance plan and what those next 3 years may bring. And the weirdest thing? It didn't freak me out at all. It suddenly seems perfectly natural to be sitting here thinking about needing to buy a car that was big enough to fit a large quantity of filmmaking gear in as I develop a plan to increase the amount I'm producing. It suddenly seems fine to buy a car that's got great fuel economy to get us good mileage around the country on our mini adventures we're wont to take. It suddenly, and strangely, feels fine to know that we can happily start a family without needing to upgrade the car to fit in car seats. And I cannot tell you how odd it feels that none of that feels odd. Five Years Gone Time flies, they tell you, when you're having fun. And how the last 5 years have flown. I've had my ups and downs, sure, but none of it would have been possible without the generosity of my donor and the courage of their family. You'll hear more from me on that subject next week, no doubt, but for now suffice it to say that every time I start thinking forward, start planning ahead, start | IN | IN IB | 3,047,429 |
me young, or at least makes me feel younger. I want to report the good news about our students and I believe our county patrons enjoy reading about our young people. I also believe Wabash College is a jewel in the middle of our community. Providing quality competition at the NCAA Division 3 level is the norm on the Little Giant campus. Men from all over the country become a part of Montgomery County as they represent what is good about college athletics. I have always admired Little Giant student athletes because they meet the demands of rigid academic requirements and also find the time to be a part of a collegiate athletic team. And, I can honestly say, I have never met a Little Giant athlete that did not represent himself as a gentleman. The Little Giants deserve their stories to be told. Montgomery County is also a place with great youth programs and adult sporting opportunities. There should never be a lack of material to report and I hope to bring you all the sporting news we can fit into our newspaper. With all this said, for me this is still a new job. I hope to pass the challenges of being the voice of sports in the Journal Review. Am I a little nervous about starting a new career? Absolutely! But, with the reasons I have stated above, it is a journey I look forward to and I hope I can make my home place proud. Phone: | NARRATIVE | null | 404,312 |
are subtle, difficult to see or to capture. But a poem stands or falls on these rhythms. To what extent is your work an expression of your personality, sense of humour and world-view, or is fiction not about expressing the author as an individual? I honestly don't know. I just want to write good books. I want people to think that they are well written, not to go searching for me in my books. If there are readers who think that something I've written is all right, then I've succeeded. If all they take away from the book is a sense of what kind of a person I am, then that's a failure. In theory, I'd rather be anonymous. If I could create things that people enjoy, and take pleasure in that without attention, that would be great. There would be no need to say who wrote them, or who they belonged to. I have reservations about the capitalist commandment that 'private property is inviolable,' and about individualism. Universal principles like these are not applicable to achievements on the level of culture. Artistic wealth should be owned and enjoyed by all humankind. Once a work is finished, its link with the author is only needed to ensure copyright and royalties. There is no need to demand any other kind of connection. ? | SP | SP IT | 3,714,435 |
relative safety. I've heard about many such safe spots from other players, including the areas on both sides of the temple, as well as other crannies and boulders around the arena's perimeter. One player was even able to get up onto the ledge opposite the temple (i.e., at the edge of the GREEN VALLEY area, described above, overlooking the arena where you'd normally fight the T. rex ). I wasn't able to do this. Another player managed to defeat the T. rex several times by standing beneath and slightly behind it and shooting from below. I couldn't manage that either, but maybe you'd like to give it a try. So far have only found one safe spot that works consistently for me every time. This is described on a separate page with screenshots . Second interactive cut scene: When you've beaten the T. rex using either the regular or alternate method, the huge beast makes one last angry charge at Lara. Use the controls indicated on-screen to evade it. When you press the correct buttons, the Tyrannosaurus smashes into the temple creating a gaping hole in the wall. If you fail, Lara dies and you must try the cut scene again. The correct sequences are: Windows & Macintosh PCs: Down then Up PlayStation 2: Circle, R1 PSP: Circle, Square Xbox 360: B, RT Nintendo Wii: First, hold the nunchuk and remote level and thrust forward. Second, alternately raise and lower the two controllers. THE KING IS DEAD: After the interactive | HI | HI HT | 61,312 |
colder [Chorus] [Hook:] Why does it seem (Like the hours are much longer, like the day just wont be over- Tell me why) Why do they fly (When you least expect them, always you can never breathe in those days) | LY | LY SL | 720,094 |
might soon be the only one still living living at home. Amy got in a plug for Roloff pumpkin season which is currently taking place on the weekends. She added that she wanted to let everyone know that traffic is not as bad as it was during the height of the show when traffic used to be backed up down Highway 26. Amy insists that it's a great family time. There was no mention of the "new series" "Wedding Farm" or any Roloff Wedding business. The Starpulse Blog also has an article about the new series: " The couple will tackle one of their biggest challenges ever -- working together to make other couple's dreams come true. From refurbishing a historic barn to helping plan every perfect detail, the family will battle everything from uncooperative weather to cake catastrophes. The new series will also feature the family's their day-to -- day lives, including Molly preparing to leave for college, and Matt & Amy's impending 25th wedding anniversary. Friday, September 28, 2012 We have been receiving some inquiries from people who say they have been reading comments over the internet that allude to Jeremy Roloff and his reputation with animals. They were asking what happened? So we've decided to dedicate this item to outlining some of the incidents that people mention. From 5 years ago to within the last year, from Oregon to California, to a new set of friends, one thing has followed Jeremy through it all -- and that's | NARRATIVE | NA NE PB | 1,393,750 |
bit of a whim after hearing a few of the tracks on the radio. I wasn't disappointed! Kings of Leon combine a unique lead singer with a band that packs a punch, and as a result this album has made it onto my ipod favourites! Heaps of respect to these guys! i really love how kings of leon have really matured in sound. although i loved their previous albums and their fun, catchy indie rock style, because of the times seems alot more mature, it's a classic. some great songs on here, and the vocals sound amazing. great band, my favourite album from them yet. You can earn a 5% commission by selling Because of the Times * CD on your website. It's easy to get started - we will give you example code. After you're set-up, your website can earn you money while you work, play or even sleep! Authors/Publishers Are you the Author/Publisher? Improve sales by submitting additional information on this title. | IP | IP DS | 1,752,491 |
with Lego together . Aside from the fantastic ideas posted, what about targeting a particular gendered product then bombarding it with negative reviews, like those hilarious pink biro reviews on Amazon. I would enjoy writing some for sure. That isn't the way boys and girls just are though. That is how we socialise them. And, it isn't about assuming children are stupid. There is real research into how harmful this idea of girls playing with dolls, playing with cars is. There is real research into the idea that boys and girls are inherently different which demonstrates just how harmful and WRONG that stance is. Where do I sign?! And can I add a PS to my signature that genderised toys are generally extremely ugly ? It's as though they rely on pink or explosions (or that smug, rude jackass Lightning McQueen) to stand in for aestheyic and ergonomic value, not to mention workmanship (after all, after they've paid the Disney licensing fee, there's less left for other qualitative aspects). "Children are educated well enough to know that just because girls like dolls and boys like cars that these aren't the rolls they have to fill when they reach adulthood. Like I already said, give them some credit, they get it." So many things wrong there. - I know plenty of boys who like dolls and plenty of girls who like cars. And I suspect there'd be a lot more if society didn't think it ok to sneer at those kids. | ID | ID DF | 1,466,404 |
reason), and what you should do if you see someone hurting or abusing an animal. So when you go home today, I hope you will think about what I have told you, and you can give your own pet an extra pat or hug to show them how much you love them. Thank you for listening. 1 rating. Click to rate. Sign in to Rate Related Speeches Animal Abuse Close your eyes and imagine that you are at the most beautif... Leopard Geckos ?O my gosh they are so cute! Please ma please can I get one ... | IP | IP PA | 1,775,211 |
11.1.09 @ 3:32PM Jerry, you wrote: >>We've HAD "socialized" medicine here for years. Medicare, Medicaid, remember? We also have a lot of other SCARY "socialized" programs... like Fire Departments, Schools, Police, the Highway Department, SOCIAL Services. Have any of these programs denied you from exercising any of your "freedoms" ... BP | 11.2.09 @ 9:37PM Jerry, Frankly speaking, we are a Republic....Not a Democracy..Look it up Big Guy with the Big Words, the Big Answers, and all the where with all about everything! We learned what we are as a nation in H.S. government... Jeanne | 11.3.09 @ 10:59AM Hey Jerry, I care very much what this well-educated and thoughtful man has to say. So he works in the entertainment industry too. That means he has personal experience in business, which is more than most lawyers and politicians can say. What are your credentials? And if you don't care what Ben has to say, why are you reading his articles. Oh, I know. Because the spinmeisters on the far left are deathly afraid of intelligent conversation and debate on important issues. They foster a culture of dependency, not independence, because it is from that stupor of non-thinking reliance on the "government" that people like Pelosi, Reid, and Obama get their power. They are sucking the brains, heart, and soul from Americans. The health care system is in need of reform, but before the Lefties in Washington shove this bureaucratic boondoggle down our throats, let's try some of the simple fixes | IP | IP | 186,900 |
to people and why it is important for future generations. In the event unfortunately for the country that Mr Abbott were to win, contemplate then the challenges he is going to face. We will have carbon markets in a properly constructed legislative environment, private contractual commitments in place throughout the economy and it is a very difficult thing to unpick. You need a majority in both houses of parliament of course to make a change of this nature. I'm not too certain that would be the outcome either and given that everything here said about this issue, to be frank about it and so that you don't misunderstand anything I'm saying, has been complete bullshit. (Crowd applauding) Is he really going to go to a double dissolution election? SABRA LANE: On Channel Nine this morning, Today show host Lisa Wilkinson asked the Opposition Leader what other policies he'd promise to ensure that electricity prices would drop other than scrapping the carbon tax. TONY ABBOTT: We would have the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) out there making sure that businesses did not profiteer once the carbon tax was off. LISA WILKINSON: Okay but you still haven't answered my question, how much will you bring down energy prices beyond taking off the carbon tax? TONY ABBOTT: Well, we will do vastly better than the Labor Party Lisa, because there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead ? LISA WILKINSON: You're still not answering my question Mr Abbott. TONY | SP | SP IT | 33,895 |
yr too, and then Huberdeau was drafted as a center and may play there too. I think keeping Weiss would help all those prospects but if he's not willing to stay, there's a plethora of young guys ready to step in. Theodore isnt the be-all-end-all of starting goalies so replacing him isnt impossible. At least 3 starters would also be free agents after 2012-13 too (Backstrom, Howard, Smith) who could just as easily be a stopgap to Markstrom. Or if they go a different direction, then they could trade for Luongo depending on what the cost would be. Honestly, the only stat that should matter is the number of pts. Goal differentials, OTL, etc doesnt really matter how you get into the playoffs really. So long as you have more than the normal 92 pts, thats what is a playoff contender in my view. The Panthers are coming off a 94 pt season and I see zero reason why they cant reproduce that again...I've given plenty of reason why too. In terms of reaching the playoffs, points are indeed the only stat that matters (until you hit tie-breakers). In terms of predicting which teams will be good in future games (ie, what's happening right now), previous years' point totals aren't a great indicator. That's where these other stats can become very useful. And of course you see zero reason, you're a Panthers fan/homer. I saw zero reason why the Capitals couldn't reproduce their 1st place seasons of 2010 and 2011 | ID | ID DF | 101,314 |
The free essay examples that we publish on UK Essays have been submitted to us by students. These essays are not the work of our own expert essay writers. Thanks to all of the students that have submitted their work to us. READ MORE Share & download: The intention of writing this task is to research two organisations with different size, culture and structure. Research will highlight the relationship between strategic management and leadership in the chosen organisations. In order to highlight this, academic meaning and discussion of what strategic leadership means will be undertaken. Then using the two organisations the report will be written on how strategic management and leadership are inter-related. Finally in the 2nd task we will look at each organisations missions and objectives as this can identify strategic decisions taken by the leaders of these organisations, and finally an analysis of the impact of management and leadership styles on strategic decisions will be done. One of the many interesting features of modern business is that the distinction between management and leadership is becoming increasingly blurred. What was the conventional view? This view was that managers controlled employees. In vast comparison a leader has been seen as someone who gains the trust and support of other people; people follow the leader because they want to, not because they have to. Many companies today have attempted to bring these roles together and now present their managers as leaders. Rather than having control over employees, the new view of | IP | IP | 3,142,132 |
and given that the administration has staked its scientific interest on clean energy, what is the argument that you make for Fermilab? B.F.: One of the most important things that you didn't mention, that is actually very important for the Department of Energy's Office of Science [which funds Fermilab], is another problem that it inherited from a previous administration, namely the cost overrun on ITER [the $23 billion international fusion experiment under construction in Cadarache, France]. That is going to put tremendous stress on the Office of Science, and this is something that was more or less imposed politically. And we have to understand if there is a political solution for the added stress of having to deal with the ITER cost overrun. It's not clear what is going to happen to the European and Asian funding and what the real timescale of the project is. How does that play out into the Office of Science budget? That's one of the biggest elephants in the room. Q: But what about the really fundamental physics, which, to be honest, may have little direct technological payoff? Obviously, Fermilab spun off the superconducting wire industry, and that's tremendous. But that is also in the past. And yes, there will be spinoffs from developing advanced detector technology, but it doesn't seem to me that you can really ... B.F.: There's a large class of research that you do either because of very long-term, very speculative payoffs, or because it's what they call curiosity-driven research. | SP | SP IT | 154,982 |
of junior personnel, analysis, design and implementation of the interfaces as well as the databases, as well as deployment and maintenance of system. After our second daughter was born, I decided to investigate a career as academic. I went to Unisa as a senior lecturer in several subjects and completed a Ph. D. degree in Semantic Web technologies (2007). During that time I joined the IEEE, and with one of my Ph. D. supervisors, Professor Alta van der Merwe, we established the IEEE SMCS Chapter in South Africa. I enjoyed academia and research and when the CSIR decided to place more emphasis on research excellence, I joined CSIR again for the third time. I helped with the formulation of research strategies for some of the core groups, as we created our group in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning at the CSIR, as well as the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR - see http://www.cair.za.net/). At present I am principal researcher in knowledge representation and reasoning at CSIR, as well as in CAIR. I am also chair of the IEEE SMCS chapter in South Africa. I find ontologies and modeling interesting, and my research focuses on the development and application of models, specifically formal ontologies using DLs (Description Logics). In addition, my years as system developer and technical project leader, as well as my research colleagues lead to an interest in software and systems architectures and software engineering. This interest grew to a additional research focus in enterprise architectures and enterprise engineering | IN | IN | 169,197 |
but most of the books I get come from shops that are not owned by Amazon. Does Harriet Harmon want them put out of business as well? As someone who makes a living out of advising people with money on how to legally avoid taxation in all its forms I have some interesting (I hope to readers?) comments and anecdotes to add.... You are right to highlight that the political class are the problem; as they seek to find ever more ingenious ways to milch ever more from us (we the great unwashed) to fund the largesse and nonsense they are responsible for, whilst pandering to the nepotism and cronyism of vested corporate interests. HMRC is in a total mess, not only is it infected at the top by leadership that cosy's up to vested corporate interests and lets off the 'Big Boys' but it's also in total chaos at the coalface so to speak with morale, lack of training, short staffed and utterly clueless staff navel gazing in between the occasional heavy handed forays into the real world in pursuit what it feels its owed. That doesn't stop it pursuing however the little people for the chump change in comparison with the Big Corporates it feels its owed using tactics that would be more at home from a shady inner city back street loan shark for non-payment of ridiculously small sums! Add to that the countless mistakes, lost paperwork, claims, incompetence and sheer utter 'computah says NOooo' attitude of | OP | OP OB | 3,003,518 |
Instructions The Sidecar is often singled out as the only good cocktail to come out of the long national nightmare that was Prohibition. And when you're sipping one, you almost think it was all worth it. The luminous, golden-straw color, the perfectly controlled sweetness, the jazzy high notes of the citrus against the steady bass of the brandy. This is a drink whose suavit is beyond question -- it's the Warren Beatty of modern mixology. It's so easy, in fact, to be seduced by this clever old rou that a word of caution would not be out of place here. These gents have a way of stealing up on you and -- bimmo! Next thing you know it's 8:43 on Monday morning and you're sitting in the backseat of a taxi idling in front of your place of employ. In your skivvies. While unanimity prevails as to what goes into a Sidecar, there's considerable dissension about the proportions. The so-called French school holds to a Trinitarian philosophy -- three equal parts. We like more of the Holy Ghost in ours. | HI | HI RE | 765,040 |
How to use Preference Tool to sell a service to a specific type of customer (Insurance) With financial products, like insurance or a loan, the most important issue is the type of customer. If an advertiser simply shows an ad to everyone aged 18+, the most impulsive (and risky) consumers will be most likely to sign up. But by refining your targeting groups by personality, using Preference Tool, you can segment your audience by personality type - in this case, the personality who is most likely to be a good insurance risk. Tip: These generic services are likely to be potentially interesting to everyone, and so they are the most difficult to target on Facebook using conventional methods. Where it is possible, like in search marketing (just targeting people searching for "insurance" - duh), it's usually very expensive due to massive competition. In this insurance example, after logging in at PreferenceTool.com , instead of searching for a keyword, go straight to the Profiles tab. Drag the slider for the Conscientiousness personality trait to 100%. Conscientiousness distinguishes people who are impulsive and cognitively flexible from those who prefer to plan things in advance and are organized. Research has showed that those high in Conscientiousness are more likely to consider that repaying a loan is a high priority, so they are perfect targets. At the time of writing, the most Conscientious keywords are Yolanda Adams, Speaker Education Project and Talbots: You'll notice that all of these keywords are relatively unpopular (see their | HI | HI HT | 442,600 |
the web Promote your brand, products or services Create contests Instant photo/voice messaging between iPhones Narrate the story behind a special photo Talking Photo Facebook status that plays right in Facebook Twitter updates Adding a visual element to your poetry or music Q. Does Fotobabble support Mac and PC? A. Fotobabble is completely web-browser based, requires no software download and runs on PCs and Macs. Q. Why use Fotobabble instead of YouTube? A. While YouTube is an excellent platform for sharing video, creating and sharing Fotobabbles is much easier and much faster to do. You can use photos you already have. A still image combined with audio can be powerful, entertaining, memorable and viral. Creating and Sharing Fotobabbles Q. How come I can't record? A. If you are having trouble recording, please make sure you update your version of Adobe Flash. http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. After updating Flash you may need to restart your browser. On the record page, make sure you click Allow when the Flash Settings come up. If you do not get the Flash Settings box on the Record screen right-click (ctrl-click on Mac) on the photo, select Settings and make sure Allow is checked. Click the microphone tab to check your mic settings. Q. Can I upload photos I find on the web? A. You can save photos from the web to your computer by right-clicking and clicking "Save As." Then you can select the photo from that location when creating your Fotobabble. Keep in mind photos on the | HI | HI | 1,753,032 |
In And Out Of Love Words and Music by Bonnar/Moat/Hayman I understand your meaning I take your point real good ?????? bad girl ?????? understood I don't control the system That makes your body sweat Oh, I want you to love me Every night everywhere (In and out of love) She told me she loved me (But love is not enough) Oh, lead me away (In and out of love) I've gone all to pieces She can't hear a word that I say (Nothing that I say) In and out of love (Nothing that I say) In and out of love I only wanted your body I only wanted to squeeze Oh I wanna be loved girl See some action with you I need a woman that's right, yeah So get down on your knees In the middle of the night You'll be begging me please (In and out of love) She told me to love her (But love is not enough) Oh, lead me away (In and out of love) I've gone all to pieces She can't hear a word, come on, come on, come on, yeah (In and out of love) She told me to love her (But love is not enough) Oh, lead me away (In and out of love) I've gone all to pieces She can't hear a word, nothing that I say (Nothing that I say) In and out of love, that's what I say (Nothing that I say) I've been in and out of | LY | LY SL | 1,470,095 |
Interview with Linda Thompson Linda Thompson was born May 23, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee. Linda won several beauty pageants, including the 1972 Miss Tennessee USA title. In July of that year she began a relationship with the recently separated Elvis Presley and immediately moved in with him at Graceland for roughly three and a half years. was born May 23, 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee. Linda won several beauty pageants, including the 1972 Miss Tennessee USA title. In July of that year she began a relationship with the recently separated Elvis Presley and immediately moved in with him at Graceland for roughly three and a half years. In 1981, Linda Thompson married former Olympic Games Gold Medalist, Bruce Jenner with whom she had two children. Bruce divorced Linda in 1983 and she appeared in a few motion pictures and made a number of guest appearances on different television series. In 1991 she married composer David Foster. With her new husband's help, she began writing lyrics for some of his compositions, notably the song ' No Explanation' for the 1990 film, Pretty Woman . In 1992 they were nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award for Best Song for their composition of the song 'I Have Nothing' sung by Whitney Houston in the 1992 motion picture, The Bodyguard . [Linda wrote poems during her time with Elvis and offered to hsave them put to music for him but he refused, thus sadly missing out on some good song contibutions.] Interview | SP | SP IT | 238,964 |
on the cutter bar, trapping the saw. Pinion The smaller of a pair of gear wheels. Pipe or tubing A tubular material made to dimensional specifications wherein a diameter is specified internally, externally or as a nominal diameter. Pipeline (petroleum) (a) Means: (i) Any pipeline that was authorised under the Petroleum Act 1937; or (ii) any pipeline or proposed pipeline likely to be permanent and used or intended to be used for the conveyance of any mineral, petroleum, geothermal fluid, natural gas, or any other fluid that, at ambient conditions, has inherent properties that may create a significant hazard; and (b) Includes any part of a pipeline or proposed pipeline, including (i) any directly associated fitting, pig launcher, or receiver; and (ii) any pressure vessel and its associated appurtenances, including any compressor, filter, separator, coalescer, or pulsation bottle; and (iii) any natural gas cooler associated with any pipeline compressor, pump, or tank; and (iv) any appurtenance required for the conveyance of the product or material in the pipeline or for its safe operation; but (c) Does not include (i) any bulk storage installation; or (ii) any pipeline wholly within the boundary of the plant that the pipeline is servicing; or (iii) any pipeline between a bulk storage installation and another form of transport that is not an extension of a pipeline as defined in these regulations; or (iv) any pipeline with a pressure of 2000 kP gauge or less under the control of a gas distributor and used to distribute | IN | IN OI | 1,774,893 |
Alice in the Cities: The Uses of Disorientation Brenda Austin-Smith This child is getting scared! The camera slowly tracks back The leaves tremble, the street is wet. -Wim Wenders, Emotion Pictures The enduring value of the scene, quite apart from its pedagogical value as a teachable segment or a thematic miniature, is its power to enchant, to inspire the kind of movie love that we call cinephilia. It is the scene that draws many of us back to film, "to the unique moment and to that special place-in short, to the quest for plenitude, envelopment, and enclosure [...] the enactment of a search for lost time" (Elsaesser 39). Whether re-attached to the larger work by scholarly interest or carefully preserved as a reservoir of intense experience, the scene is a privileged fragment, as likely to be fondly mis-remembered from the one-time screening, as it is to be stored and posted on a personal website for sharing, or for repeated and loving perusal. The scene I want to describe here is from the road film Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974). The scene does not do much straightforward narrative work in this languid film, but provides an example of what I can only call 'vertiginous cinema', film that dislocates us both emotionally and physically by representing experience in a way we can't fully explain, but are completely held in thrall by. This is not simply the dizziness we might feel watching a shot taken from inside a roller coaster, but | IN | IN | 499,504 |
the registry changes to test if this was the fix that did it: you may need a reboot (not just a service restart) because of some rather irritating persistencies. If you get errors like this: PHP Notice: Constant XML_ELEMENT_NODE already defined in Unknown on line 0 And many more complaining about XML constants, comment out the line: extension=php_domxml.dll in your php.ini. That extension seems to be compiled into PHP when you get those errors or something else is including the functionality before that dll. ...didn't export the $PATH change such that restarting the Apache service (in MMC) would pick it up. So I tested the working solution (adding PHP dir to $PATH), but it failed because of HOW I set it. It succeeded only when I REBOOTED after changing the $PATH. There may be an easier way that this, but I do not know it at present. == Comment Consider whether PHP dir should need to be in $PATH at all, when PHP.exe apparently was found and executes php pages in Apache, but php5apache2_2.dll failed to find whatever was needed to load the extensions. This should perhaps be addressed. Note that on a WAMP installation (W2K,Apache,MySQL,PHP), only PHP is required in $PATH. PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\\php\\ext\\php_mysql.dll' - The specified module could not be found.\r\n in Unknown on line 0 When PHP definitely should be able to find the module, it's fairly common knowledge that this error can also be caused by certain dlls not | HI | HI HT | 423,989 |
going. It also turns out that I've got about 3/4 of a tank to burn through before it'll get any really good gas. I threw in a couple gallons of premium (91 octane around here) and a can of SeaFoam to hopefully help though. @Jay - I was sort of wondering if that might cause some confusion, but figured the fairly clear context would resolve that. -- Iszi Mar 9 '11 at 4:03 Thinking about the guidance to ask questions for problems you're really facing, please tell us how long the vehicle has been stored, the climate, whether it was under a roof, and what steps were taken to put it away properly. -- Jay Bazuzi Mar 12 '11 at 3:26 @JayBazuzi - I'm hoping to leave this question open enough to be useful for many others, but in this particular case the vehicle has been sitting outside in Florida for about 9 months (June - March). It was not prepared for this, and probably has 1/4 tank or less of gas if I recall correctly. -- Iszi Mar 12 '11 at 15:37 3 Answers If you have one available, use a trickle-charger to bring the battery back up slowly, instead of jump-starting it. Check the tires. They are probably pretty low at this point. See if they are dry rotted (all cracked and ready to wear quickly). Check all of the fluids in the typical way. Note that it's okay if the oil shows a little low since it's | ID | ID QA | 1,391,030 |
habits because of lack of challenge, peer resentment of skills and achievement. Learning efficiency: Can process a great deal of information quickly; has rapid insight into cause-effect relationships; is very observant. Quick learners need an accelerated pace of instruction. Possible problems include dislike for routine and drill, frustration with inactivity, lack of challenge and absence of progress, and impatience with "waiting for the group". Intense curiosity: Questioning and inquisitive attitude; asks many unusual or provocative questions (not just informational or factual questions); interested in the "why" and "how" of things; concerned with what makes things right or wrong; has areas of "passionate" interest inside or outside of school. Educational needs include opportunities for active inquiry, and instruction in how to access information and conduct research. Possible problems include stifling of interests, lack of opportunity to pursue areas of interest, pressure towards conformity, perception by teacher as being "smart alecky". Originality: Ability to generate original ideas and solutions; can reason out problems logically; finds new and unusual ways to approach and solve problems; can analyse complicated material into component parts; enjoys difficult problems and puzzles. Instructional needs include opportunities to solve problems in diverse ways, to build skills in problem solving and productive thinking, to explore alternative ways of conceptualizing problems (for example, metaphorically or visually), to attempt solutions to real-life problems; and to develop tolerance for ambiguity. Possible problems include tendency to have a critical attitude towards oneself and others, poor interpersonal relationships with children of the same age, rejection | IN | IN IB RA | 1,754,256 |
The meteorologists were all very confused. They had anticipated darkness (because the first lesson of Meteorology 100 is that it's always dark at night, which tended to confuse the Alaskans), but most of them had only predicted light showers. Actually, none of them cared. VN:F [1.9.21_1169] Executing... Rating: 4.3/ 5 (15 votes cast) It Was A Dark And Stormy Night (Or "Meteorology 100: It's Dark At Night") , 4.3 out of 5 based on 15 ratings | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 3,021,287 |
that gifted children demonstrate better adjustment than their average peers when measured on a variety of factors (Baker, 1995; Freeman, 1979, 1983; Jacobs, 1971; Kaiser, Berndt & Stanley, 1987; Neihart, 1991; Ramaseshan, 1957; Scholwinski & Reynolds, 1985; Terman, 1925, 1959). For example, in Terman's (1925, 1935, 1947) longitudinal research he and his associates found that people of high ability exhibited a lower incidence of mental illness and fewer adjustment problems than average. Freeman (1983) found no differences in rates of emotional deviance when she compared 70 high ability children with two matched control groups. Beer (1991), in fact, found that gifted children are generally better adjusted than their peers of average and below average intelligence. Beer believes that gifted students overall are characterised by mental flexibility, emotional resilience and an ability to think positively, which may account for the better emotional adjustment. There are some criticisms concerning the validity of the research reporting gifted children as better adjusted than their non-gifted peers. Several researchers cite sampling shortcomings in many of these studies (Freeman, 1994; Gallagher, 1990; McCallister, Nash & Meckstroth, 1996; Olszewski-Kubilius, Kulieke & Krasney, 1988). Gallagher (1990) identifies sampling errors in the Terman study, which he believes was heavily biased by educational and economic factors. He suggests that these factors would more likely create an environment conducive to the superior social acceptance and emotional status of gifted individuals. McCallister, Nash and Meckstroth (1996) contend that 'research studies' show a mostly positive picture of gifted children, but reports based on | IN | IN RA | 1,754,257 |
certainly doesn't seem to be a stress-free place for you....do you combat stress with stress? I don't understand how having a stressful situation/having a bad day going on excuses rudeness and uncouth behavior, given that you aren't a 5-year-old...does posting here make you feel better? Oh my days Jasmin watch how this Maximus guys is trying to avoid your question you asked a perfectly reasonable question of "Why do you post here?" and he is giving you everything but the awnser he has taking derailing to a whole new place I never got that these people who supposedly hate black people spend all their time on the internet searching through blogs and videos and all that just to say they hate black people I will never get it some people need to get a life really it sounds very obsessive... There isn't a single non-white society that provides even a fraction of these things for their racial minorities. It is also no secret to many that all people's of this world are racist. Racism is practiced all over the world; it's not, and never has been, exclusively a white thing. This is why it is important to visit places like China and India, south America and yes, Africa, because of the complete lack of people there who give a sh*t about any racial grievance or sensitivity that you may have. It is only in white society where you can complain to the government and receive copious amounts government assistance and | OP | OP OB | 3,149,717 |
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the charts on gender issues. Not anymore. Now, we're at number 21, according to the latest figures from the World Economic Forum's annual gender gap ranking! Over orange juice, we listened to her explain how things have gradually shifted so that despite positive changes including women's increasing participation in the workforce and growing presence in academia, overall conditions have not improved. For example, while more women went to work between 1997 and 2007, the total income they were taking home wasn't matching the trend. In fact, they were working more hours, with the same level of unpaid work, with only some growth in incomes, somehow getting "stalled." The lack of an adequate childcare strategy helped explain part of that stall. So did the slashing of public programs and what Professor Lahey referred to as de-taxation (all of this before 10a.m., no joke). And since the mid-1980s, women's incomes have continually failed to keep up with men's. But the real zinger in her lecture was when she pointed out that public tax expenditures, which she described as "a giant machine running in the background," leads to 60 per cent financial rewards for men, and only 40 per cent for women. She argued that if Canadian laws were "100 per cent equal, men would be $8.4 billion poorer, and women $4 billion richer." Did I mention she's an expert on taxation and tax policy? The future isn't much rosier, concluded Professor Lahey, suggesting that Conservative plans on income-splitting will be devastating for | OP | OP | 3,354,396 |
your Equality Monitoring form? You can choose whether or not to complete an equality monitoring form, if you are sent one. They are optional and voluntary and will not affect your access to our service or the outcome of your complaint. Why do you need to collect equlaity and diversity data? As a public body dealing with individual complaints it is important that our service is open and accessible. Equality monitoring has an important role in achieving this. It tells us about who complains to us, in relation to which types of bodies and which types of public service. This data taken as a whole can tell us important trends about whether certain services are nationally failing certain types of people more than others, or are seen more negatively. It is also important to have equality and diversity data on what types of people use our services in order to better understand who are our user group is so that we can construct services accordingly. Collecting equality data is an important corporate objective for us, in order to find out if the groups monitored use our services in similar proportions to how those groups use local public services. It is also one supported by the Government in passing the Equality Act 2010. The Act includes a specific duty for public bodies over a certain size. This new duty further emphasises the importance of collecting equality data from service users, from which we will then be expected to set equality objectives. | HI | HI FH | 448,400 |
First Bite Lyrics More Than a Thousand The world of the the dead Sings at your door That's why you can't sleep at night You've haunting this city for too long Hiding underneath the london fog You were bitten first on the darkest of nights. Now you'll be living this life forever And no one is ready for this, and no one is ready for this, But i'm not afraid to die ::::Refrao:::: It's in your eyes, under your skin and i don't understand up in the sky, on the blackest night come down and take my hand. Every minute you live someone dies I swear that I have tried Only to find that I am lost again :::::::::::::: Another night, The streets are filled whit filth and shit They smell like blood and cheap wine You live in the depths of forever but i will find you You live in the depths of forever but i will hunt you down You were bitten first on the darkest of nights. Now you'll be living this life forever And no one is ready for this, and no one is ready for this, But i'm not afraid to die It's in your eyes, under your skin and i don't understand up in the sky, on the blackest night come down and take my hand. Every minute you live someone dies I swear that I have tried Only to find that I am lost again Like an anchor, All i do is drag | LY | LY SL | 138,926 |
so much or a NASA facility, then there will be some interesting tradeoffs there. Everything will be on the table and it often crosses the boundary beyond science to other considerations. It's not too different from the way the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider [(SSC) in Waxahachie, Texas, in 1993] was viewed by many people as "Well, you can cancel the International Space Station or you can cancel the SSC." Very often there may be those sorts of tradeoffs that happen that will cross that boundary. Q: Will you be trying for a spot on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology? B.F.: I am going to be deciding that in the coming week, when I'm in Washington. At this point I'm still trying to hire a chief of staff, and usually committee decisions are downstream from that. I'm having a large number of conversations with members that I know about what life is really like in the minority. The committees that operate in a more or less bipartisan manner are much more attractive. B.F.: Yes. The chairman has a huge effect, especially for a member of the minority. Some work in a very bipartisan manner and some don't. Q: Will you know who will be chair in time for it to inform your decision? B.F.: Possibly, yes. The time scales, they're a little bit shuffled up. Right now the Democrats have delayed their decisions on leadership elections for a couple of weeks past what's traditional. But I | SP | SP IT | 154,982 |
This is a problem I would not have One of my favorite notes I took from a seminar this year . As in the typical seminar (or training class) way, everyone loves to ask "What if..." When given a response, they typically say "But, what if THEN...." and it goes on for quite a while. Guy Penning gives a great response and up front just says "This is a problem I would not have." And it's true. A lot of the challenges that a more novice trainer has are things that an experienced trainer just completely avoids. They see the early signs of a problem developing and address it then. Or more often, they anticipate the possibility of that type of error occurring and so create training plans for the problem to not even be able to happen. The whole benefit of experience is being able to learn from mistakes (or "less desirable choices"). Lucky people can learn from the mistakes of others. And everyone wants to prevent others from learning from those same painful mistakes. It's important for instructors to point out that given a fresh start, the preferred option would be to do XYZ, but given that the problem already exists, a different training plan may need to be utilized. Example 1: "My dog is stealing food off the table!" My advice: You have a lot of options. Dog with a busy toy during meals. Gated out of the room. Crated. Tethered. One family member practicing stays with | OP | OP | 3,150,303 |
pay he LVT, only the landowner. "3. You are saying that the landlord will eat the price of the LVT" He will. He also pays no Income or Sales tax either. "He can't. He literally can't afford to. He will pass it on, at a 1:1 value." Under full LVT the landlord pays no Income or Sales taxes. He can't pass LVT on to the tenant as that implies he was charging under the market rate before LVT, which they do not. If he attempts to pass it on market forces come into play and people will move to another cheaper place to live, then he has to keep the rent as it was. LVT will move housing more over to the private owner/occupier sector. JohnLVT What your warped analysis gave was quite the opposite what happened in Harrisburg. You are guessing. The points I gave came from the mayor of Harrisburg out of real world experience. It is best you attempt to understand LVT -- all you are doing is making yourself look foolish. JohnLVT Mark I have just concluded that in my last post. I think he thinks he knows all the answers. He is totally closed to anything his brain is pre-geared to. Sad I know. ttp://profiles.google.com/gmwadsworth Mark Wadsworth "I am pointing out that if you make it economically efficient for people to live in two adjoining houses to keep the "household" income down and minimise tax, then many middle class people will do so!" ??? You've | IP | IP | 3,100,035 |
skating duo. An Olympic special aired on 22 July 2012, before the London 2012 Summer Olympics . It featured medal-winning Olympic athletes. The one-off special featured the judges from series 7, with Phillip Schofield and Christine Bleakley returning as presenters. Torvill & Dean unveiled a new and specially-crafted performance. Head judge, Robin Cousins also performed a solo routine for first time in twelve years. A brand new spin-off show for the 2010 series of Dancing On Ice , appropriately called Dancing on Ice Friday , gave viewers the insight to the training of the celebrities over the last week. It was hosted by television presenter Ben Shephard and former contestant and Loose Women star Coleen Nolan . The show was broadcast from 8 pm to 8.30 pm on Friday evenings on ITV throughout the duration of the main shows season. Due to poor ratings, Dancing on Ice Friday was axed prior to the 2011 series. The show has been based in the George Lucas Stage at Elstree Studios since it began in 2006, with the exception of 2011, when the show was broadcast from Shepperton Studios . The original set was axed in 2011 following the move to Shepperton Studios , it was replaced by a much more modern design. When the show moved back to Elstree the new set also moved, using the same set in a new layout. The ice rink measures 30 × 15 m. There are several areas of the studio; The Tunnel , this is | IN | IN EN | 9,991,729 |
Posted on Sep 10, 2010 Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan? What's next -- David McCulloch on Bruce Springsteen? Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Rolling Stones? Garry Wills on Madonna? You have every right to pick up "Bob Dylan in America" with skepticism -- or at least you would if you didn't know how deep Wilentz's background in traditional American music goes. Given the seriousness and pretension with which so many rock critics write about their favorite artists, you might expect an academician to bury Dylan beneath mounds of stentorian prose. But Wilentz is no ordinary academic. For one thing, along with Greil Marcus, he edited "The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad." For another, he was practically born into the subject. His father, Elias, ran the legendary Eighth Bookshop in Greenwich Village, a store, he says, "that helped nurture the Beat poets of the 1950s and the folk revivalists of the early 1960s." (Elias also edited "The Beat Scene," one of the earliest anthologies of Beat poetry.) Sean Wilentz is surely the least pompous and most accessible of great American historians, a writer who can make 600 pages on "The Age of Reagan" into beach reading. In his book on Dylan, he succeeds in casting the same analytical eye on a cultural icon that he did on political figures such as Jefferson and Jackson, and he does it with the enthusiasm of a fan. "There is plenty of fascinating commentary on Dylan's songs," he | OP | OP | 3,276,583 |
cost of operations as well as management. The management costs of such a new breed of application delivery controller are inherently lower than a traditional application delivery solution, owing to its virtualized architecture and the ability for the device -- and IT manager -- to manage the system as a single entity rather than as individual blades in a larger system. This reduces the amount of management necessary, and in turn reduces the costs associated with managing the device. This is especially true as capacity is added, as it would require multiple legacy chassis-based devices to match the processing power of a single virtualized chassis-based system. Each added device must be managed, and adds to the amount of power consumed and BTUs generated, making it much more expensive to scale. Also having an impact are the BTUs generated by each device. There is a definitive cost associated with removing the heat generated by these devices in the form of cooling, so the lower BTU generation of the new breed of chassis-based solution is a definite boon both on the environment as well as on the budget. Conclusion It's rare that an environmental friendly movement such as Green IT results in reducing costs, especially in its early stages. And yet in the case of this new breed of chassis-based application delivery controllers, that's exactly the result. With the decreased management and power consumption costs and increased performance, these new application delivery controllers are both green as in grass and green as | OP | OP RV | 3,025,503 |
immense pride because it's overwhelmingly for the good. and when and if i am (as i was) ordered to do something blatantly wrong - i won't do it. the problem with your conclusion is that if GOOD men don't choose to put themselves in that position, is that a better option? I think it is. It will take too long to explain here and today in proper detail, but basically, if good people refuse to participate in flawed institutions, the flawed institutions become hated by the people and lose their power. Take the KGB, for example. I'm sure there were guys who entered the KGB for all kinds of honorable reasons. And, I'm sure the KGB did do some good stuff in catching serial killers. But much of what the KGB did to preserve the Soviet Union was pretty horrific, and drove people with consciences out of the system. Did their departure make the system less humane? Yes. Did their departure hasten the demise of the Soviet Union. Absolutely. I've taken too much time of of work today. I'll write up something more detailed and throw it up on the Liberty Papers one of these months. I'll let you know when I do so you can see the full argument. ok, i just don't buy this. sure, the justice system is flawed. ANY institution that has people in it will be flawed because people are flawed. i would WAY rather have good men working in a flawed system than only | OP | OP OB | 3,202,526 |
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1979 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1980 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1697; Statutes of Nevada 1979, p. 1941.] Sec.?8. Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions; jeopardy; rights of victims of crime; due process of law; eminent domain. 1.??No person shall be tried for a capital or other infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of the militia when in actual service and the land and naval forces in time of war, or which this State may keep, with the consent of Congress, in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny, under the regulation of the Legislature) except on presentment or indictment of the grand jury, or upon information duly filed by a district attorney, or Attorney General of the State, and in any trial, in any court whatever, the party accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in person, and with counsel, as in civil actions. No person shall be subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; nor shall he be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself. 2.??The Legislature shall provide by law for the rights of victims of crime, personally or through a representative, to be: (a)?Informed, upon written request, of the status or disposition of a criminal proceeding at any stage of the proceeding; (b)?Present at all public hearings involving the critical stages of a criminal proceeding; | IN | IN LT | 204,693 |
policy inherent in the very Constitution that draws These United States of America. We shall FIGHT to hold this Republic, purchased for us by teh blood of our father's fathers. Or as Churchhill put it: We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. AbleGoodman | 7.25.09 @ 12:00PM To the "I told you so crowd": yer lame. The reason Obama won was because W had already ruined the GOP brand of fiscal responsibility, and too tweaker, too-old, too McCain-Feingold, too pro-amnesty, too Gang of 14, too contrarian, too manipulative, too pain in the posterior, too you name it McCain was NOT an improvement. The wannabe-clever elitist control-freak W-enabling GOP establishment is SOLELY too blame for O's victory. It was not GOP voter ignorance. It was lack of viable options. O is a "default" Kenyan prez. Pingback | 7.25.09 @ 12:15PM ...Ben Stein on America waking up to President Barack Obama ... 12:15 pm At the American Spectator, Ben Stein (an RWB Q & A subject ) has a short and very to-the-point piece entitled "We've Figured Him Out." Stein asserts that Americans are beginning to wake up to the fact that Obama is basically a "super likeable super leftist." The American people have already awakened to the... Sheila | 7.25.09 @ 12:38PM W is partly responsible for Obama's | IP | IP | 186,900 |
The devastating wildfire sweeping through Arizona has become the worst ever in the state's history. The Wallow Fire has burned more than 600 square miles, 408,887 acres, and is now six per cent contained. At least 10,000 people have been displaced and m ore than 30 homes have been destroyed so far. Authorities said full containment is nowhere in sight, and power lines that supply much of West Texas and Southern New Mexico with electricity are also in jeopardy. Raging: The Arizona wildfires have now crossed into New Mexico Too close for comfort: A firefighter in Nutrioso, Arizona, as the containment efforts looked seemingly impossible Yesterday an absence of strong winds allowed firefighters to set preventive burns and cut fire breaks. The winds, however, are expected to pick up and pose more challenges to fire fighting crews. Last night the massive fire did cross the border into western New Mexico. More than 5,000 residences are threatened by the massive fire, officials said. Arizona cut $250,000 from the 2011 fire budget under the assumption that it would be a 'quiet' year for fires. This is now the third wild fire in Arizona this year. Next year the budget calls for $300,000 in cuts from the department. Full evacuations were still in place for Eagar, Springerville, Sunrise, Greer, Blue River, Alpine, Nutrioso and many subdivisions. Officials also say 24 outbuildings in Greer were destroyed along with one vehicle. On Thursday, more than 3,000 firefighters got a break from nature when high winds | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 328,951 |
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