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any -- professional people at all. There were lots of people who looked homeless -- unbathed and dirty. Those who could not read or write and those that did not speak enough English to understand. Not that poverty should deny a person the right to serve, but there was a scarcity of suits, ties, and college graduates. I lived in the same county for 15 years (as an adult) and never got called. I was involved in a lawsuit with the city and my name popped up several times for several years. There were about 30,000 adult registered voters in the county. Supposedly, all names were put in a hat (so to speak) and about 100 were chosen at random. 15 years, zip. 5 years, 10 times. Random? I don't think so. From the time I was called the first time until the end of the 5 years, I went back to college and earned 3 degrees. At the end of the 5 years, I had been "promoted" from county court to regional court (whatever it is called) and sent a summons. Interestingly, they sent a questionnaire with the summons. I filled it out -- including my 3 college degrees -- and I've never heard from any of them since (and that was 15 years ago)!!! Since I got my degrees and moved into a professional position, I have NEVER known of a co-worker who was called. I don't mean to insult anyone without 2 or more college degrees, but | HI | HI HT | 167,513 |
It will be better than being sold out. Milton Snavely Hershey [On closing his business for the third time. Being bankrupt but not altogether lacking in assets, paying creditors forty cents on the dollar] I'll be back some day and pay the remaining sixty cents. Milton Snavely Hershey [On succeeding the forth time he tried at the age of 35] What success I've had I owe to you Aunt Mattie. Milton Snavely Hershey [On paying the remaining sixty cents on the dollar owed to his creditors] Maybe they weren't surprised when I handled them the money. They never expected I'd make good my promise to return and wipe the slate clean of my indebtedness. I feel much better since that matter has been taken care of. Milton Snavely Hershey [On his Aunt Mattie passing away] Many a time I've wondered what would have become of me if she hadn't given me a helping hand. Milton Snavely Hershey [In 1901] Some day I may want to go into the chocolate business, for I believe it has great possibilities. Milton Snavely Hershey [In 1901 to his solicitor Mr John E Snyder who said that the board of directors of the American Caramel Company would pay $1,000,000 for his caramel company after being told they had offered $250,000 which Milton considered a fancy (high) price] If you get $1,000,000 for the business it will be the biggest surprise of my life. But I'd advise you to get a certified check for the full | SP | SP OS | 708,091 |
would grab a dictionary and open it to any page, then he would read each word and state its definition. If he could not say the meaning of the word he would read the definition a couple of times through, remembering it as best he could then flip to a new page and start anew. Prior to reading your article, I successfully used -- and continue to use -- a similar pattern; it at least corroborates your apposite recommendations. In addition to your outline, I recommend studying logic, rhetoric, and Latin -- three subjects nonpareil in motivating one's study of grammar and vocabulary. Memorizing and applying every rule in Strunk and White's masterwork, The Elements of Style, sways every spoken and written word to the better one. Also, Merriam-Webster freely offers their dictionary app in the Andriod and Apple marketplace; the greatest feature is the 'Synonym Discussion', and it is indispensible for developing a practical and nice vocabulary. Great Post! I would have to say reading and writing down words you're unfamiliar with is the most effective way to expand your vocabulary. One step closer to a living life to full potential and expressing yourself to the best of your abilities. | HI | HI HT | 471,792 |
we've had" is saying that we're still human too, even if we just have different tastes in relationships than you do. Even if we're not attracted to who society says we should be. That we don't deserve the pain and suffering. That's basically the Pirate to Modern translation for everyone. That does still exist today. Hiding who you are so that nobody treats you differently. General Comment: Personally I think this song applies to any group peer pressure situation and it talks about perserverence. Take, for example, high school. Many people get teased throughout high school for their sexuality or any number of reasons and I think this song has just put it into the context of pirates. It urges someone to stay true to what they believe in or what they want because although others may persecute for you, this person or thing brings you joy and that is the most important thing in life. Eventually there will be an end to the torture or pressure and until that time you need to stay true to yourself and life will throw obstacles at you but your job is to think of your love and passion and persevere through the torment. I think, although it is seemingly shallow, quite a lot can be read into this song. My Opinion: My take of this song. There are two gay pirates on a ship. They have to hide their affection, but the crew finds out. They torture, torment, and abuse the one | LY | LY SL | 566,777 |
The open and breezy format adds accessibility, with each spread offering one or two of the terse verses offset by Cordell's humorous art, monochromatic, wittily scrawled images often containing their own exclamations or sound effects." ? Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Praise for A Tale of Two Castles: "A thoroughly delicious romp from the author of Ella Enchanted. The plot is winningly unpredictable, the characters easy to relate to, the humor subtle and the action well-paced. Newbery Honor-winner Levine has once again breathed new life into old stories." ? Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Praise for A Tale of Two Castles: "Readers are certain to be pulled, like Elodie herself, right into the midst of the rich and swirling life of Two Castles." ? School Library Journal Praise for Writing Magic: "Levine encourages readers to take their work seriously while remembering to have fun. An informative and encouraging must-read for young writers." ? School Library Journal (starred review) Praise for Writing Magic: "A veritable treasure trove of advice and guidance for writers across a range of ages." ? Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Praise for Writing Magic: "Writing Magic is a great introduction to writing for children. The "voice" is upbeat and not condescending. It is clearly written, and includes examples when they are needed. As far as I know, there is nothing else like this available." Ever Falling in love is easy . . . . . . for Kezi, a beautiful mortal, dancer, and rug | IP | IP DS | 755,065 |
world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace -- the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living -- the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women -- not merely peace in our time but peace in all time. I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age where great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age where a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn. Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need them is essential to the keeping of peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles -- which can only destroy and never create -- is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring | SP | SP TA | 735,671 |
of a butcher, he proceeded in search of him. Many days elapsed before he could find him, but at length meeting with him, he rushed at him, and presenting a pistol at his head, called upon him to surrender himself a prisoner. Banks appeared astounded at this salutation and made no resistance, but exclaimed, "I am a dead man." On his person being searched, a loaded pistol was found in his pocket, and on his back was a coat, which was a part of the produce of a robbery in which he had been recently before concerned, in the house of Mr. Campion, at Waltham Cross. The other prisoners were apprehended nearly at the same time; and Potts was proved to have pawned a pair of shoes which had also been stolen from Mr. Campion's. Upon their examination before the magistrates at Bow-street, Banks' participation in both burglaries was clearly proved, and he was committed for trial. Both Mr. and Mrs. Warrington identified him as one of the persons who had entered their house, but pointed him out as having acted with some degree of humanity, strongly protesting against the exercise of any cruelty by his companions. Banks alone was committed for trial upon the charge of burglary at Mr. Warrington's, the evidence against the other prisoners not being sufficiently conclusive to warrant their being indicted, and was found guilty, and sentenced to death at the succeeding Surrey assizes. After his conviction, he professed himself to be perfectly willing to | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 706,827 |
force you sometimes have to exert it might come up and strike you hard around your facial region. If the agitator either has never been lifted off or a long period of time since it was then you may have to "wiggle" the agitator whilst attempting to lift the thing of the drive shaft. Once you have removed the agitator clean and re grease the splined drive shaft with suitable grease, not too much only a smear as too much will melt and leach into the bowl and hence you'll have greasy marks on the washing. Clean out the female splined section of the agitator and again a thin film of grease should be rubbed on the female splines. Replace the agitator on the shaft and make sure it's fully the length of the shaft as it will ride up and attempt to come of the drive shaft whilst the machine is operating if it's not seated correctly. If you think there are / is foreign objects beneath the agitator that seldom happens but sometimes it can with small articles. The problem of noisy agitators can be caused by worn bearings in the drive gear box which in turn allows the agitator to move sideways a bit and that then can grind on the bottom of the bowl under the agitator or even allow a small piece of cloth to get under the agitator etc. I doubt the unit would be driven by a belt directly connected to another pulley | ID | ID QA | 620,912 |
as we are called, in our culture, in our time. Food is one of the most precious human activities, in most cultures an intimate sharing amongst relationships and demonstration of compassion to strangers. 'There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread' Ghandi said in defense of his nation's poverty: so that maybe should be the Jesus food in church? "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." Jenny makes a good point that there is a huge conversation yet to begin about the concept of 'sacred' in our culture. And where food fits onto it -- Christians of course have eat/drink built into the centre of our understanding of sacredness, but how does that connect with ordinary/non-ritual eating? Apparently that is suddenly very different when it's a biscuit in the nave rather than a wafer in the sanctuary ten minutes before! It seems all contributors think it's unacceptable to suck on coffee during the Eucharist, or indeed to bring coffee into contact with the eucharistic space itself after the service, but why do we feel this way? What aspects of our cultural background has fed into this for Pakeha christians? And without knowing quite where the unease comes from, can we judge if it's a healthy impulse or otherwise? What does it say about our attitude to our bodies? | OP | OP OB | 3,870,146 |
crossed quills over a book encircled by the Garter surmounted by a crown. The badge for Garter Principal King of Arms is the royal arms impaled with St George's Cross encircled by the Garter and surmounted by a crown. The badge for the usher is a knot (like those on the collars of the companions of the order) encircled by the Garter and surmounted by a crown. The badge for the secretary shows two crossed quills in front of a rose and encircled by the Garter surmounted by a crown. [ 21 ] The chancellor carries a purse, which is embroidered with the royal arms impaled by the Cross of St. George. The purse contains the seal of the Order. Garter Principal King of Arms carries his baton of office. The usher carries his staff of office, the Black Rod . [ 21 ] Garter stall plates are small enamelled and engraved brass stall plates located in St George's Chapel as memorials to Knights of the Garter. They are inscribed with the knight's name, and generally with his titles, offices, and motto. In most cases his heraldic achievement is depicted. Coat of Arms of Henry III of France as King of France and lifelong King of Poland with chain of Order of the Garter Members are assigned positions in the order of precedence , coming before all others of knightly rank, and above baronets . The wives, sons, daughters and daughters-in-law of Knights Companion are also assigned precedence. Relatives of | IN | IN EN | 9,995,499 |
don't necessarily think we have. We've just refined it... Obviously, the first EP was kind of a stab at doing something and then as you go through you're trying to hone it, and I think that's what we've done. TH: You're trying to get your idea across more clearly. JA: Yes, just communicate better! You have got something to communicate, so you're literally trying to say it as succinctly as possible. With us, we've got quite a few reference points that are dear to us, but at the same time we have this intention not to just ape something. It's almost like a Rubik's cube attitude where we piece it all together. In terms of understanding what you want out of something, we have had times where that Rubik's cube has lasted for months and months! [laughs] The record was more fluid because, hopefully, we were a bit more in control. That ties into my next question - do you see Quarter Turns Over A Living Line as a culmination of all those previous records, and that you've been building up to this point? TH: I think it gave us a bit more freedom to open up a bit more. The previous record, Hennail , was a lot more percussion-driven, a lot more clenched. We felt with this, there's less percussion, more space and more tracks to get different sentiments across. When you're putting out two tracks, you're trying to say a lot in those two pieces of work. JA: | SP | SP IT | 3,052,972 |
I was sitting in a cafe -- one of those generic pain au raisin and latte joints, with an earnest singer-songwriter soundtrack to boot -- when a kid to my left piped up: "My school gym is like literally 500 years old." His friends nodded with conviction. They understood. They felt the appalling deprivation of it all. A 500-year-old cross-trainer just isn't any good to anybody. But I wasn't going to underestimate my table-neighbour just yet. I couldn't give up on him like that. After all, I appreciated the subtle contradiction of that "like", poised on the edge of potential simile, and that bold, indicative "literally", ready-armoured for its grapple with hard fact. But then, a couple of sentences further into their criss-crossing conversation, he said: "I'm literally gutted that I failed my English mock." Ah, well, yes, quite. The country is literally going to the dogs. Actually, I rather enjoy it when people force a "literally" where the antithetical and more pretentious "figuratively" would do -- would, in fact, be more literal. But I have my limits. If you literally spray me with your false statements, do I not drown? If you literally press it upon me that the impossible has indeed happened, do I not recoil? However, one needs to be careful in diagnosing such linguistic ills. Nobody likes the queasy pedant creeping up with cold fingers, ready to clip our wings. (He tends to sit on his own in the corner of generic pain au raisin , | OP | OP OB | 645,979 |
was last modified at 19.12 EST on Friday 11 January 2008 . It was first published at 18.46 EDT on Sunday 15 July 2007 . Finally, Mr.Peres, what gave the non-Palestinan Jews the right to murder and chase the native Palestinians out of their homeland? Do you think that killing innocent people, chasing them from their homeland is just and moral? Is this what Jews are all about to murder the innocent and weak people and chase them out of their own homeland so that you could illegaly create a Jewish country? Do you think you can easily wash the blood of innocent Palestinians, Lebanese and Syrians off of your hand by your hollow statement and false promises? President Peres: I wish you the best of luck in your quest. The people of Israel and the jewish people as a whole are lucky to have you. Whether the rest of the people of the world realize how lucky they also are to have you, remains to be seen. From the few answers on this blog so far, many persons who have the gift of sight, are nevertheless blind. Mr.Peres, It's a shame that someone with your stature write for this board. The cif is a popular meeting place for one sided mediocre writers, anti-semites and Israel haters. This board is used for denying the Holocaust, for promoting the destruction of Israel and for denying Jews to national identity. It is the garbage dump of the British left and their Islamist | SP | SP FS | 407,552 |
stay true to yourself. If you are going to exaggerate anything make sure it is something you posses - you'll get found out pretty soon or even worse get pretty miserable pretending to be something you aren't Hi Jamie. 3 months of solid experience is usually what we look for as it gives candidates a chance to get stuck into projects rather than spectating on the sidelines. It also depends on what you are doing in your placement. We value experience over grading. With growing amounts of competition for graduate positions at large companies, seek less competitive opportunities online, through Twitter, LinkedIn or even the street - I wrote down Tangent Snowball in a notebook after walking past and then sent my cv through the next day! When phoning for general recruitment enquiries, be yourself and show your best qualities as everything you say counts and is judged - nobody likes receiving cold calls. Persistence is important to show you genuinely care - create a timetable for yourself to keep track of who you've called an when. During your holidays, you should line up (beforehand) work experiences/internships. Contact friends, family and put the word out. Liaise with the careers rep at your University, look online and apply. Try harder. Spend your summer gaining essential work experience in your target sector. Frankly, if an employer cannot elicit sufficient insight from the citation of any Marketing Qualification, be it an undergraduate degree, or postgraduate degree, perhaps the key issue to address is | IN | IN DT | 520,733 |
open to anonymous and collaborative editing , so assessments of its reliability usually include examination of how quickly false or misleading information is removed. An early study conducted by IBM researchers in 2003—two years following Wikipedia's establishment—found that "vandalism is usually repaired extremely quickly—so quickly that most users will never see its effects" [ 12 ] and concluded that Wikipedia had "surprisingly effective self-healing capabilities". [ 13 ] A 2007 peer-reviewed study stated that "42% of damage is repaired almost immediately... Nonetheless, there are still hundreds of millions of damaged views." [ 14 ] Several incidents have also been publicized in which false information has lasted for a long time in Wikipedia. In May 2005, in the Wikipedia biography controversy , a user added several false and defamatory statements to the biographical article John Seigenthaler . [ 15 ] The inaccurate information went unnoticed until September 2005, when they were discovered by a friend of Seigenthaler. After the information was removed from Wikipedia, it remained for another three weeks on sites that mirror Wikipedia content. [ 16 ] A biographical article in French Wikipedia portrayed a "Léon-Robert de L'Astran" as an 18th-century anti-slavery ship owner, which led Ségolène Royal , a presidential candidate, to praise him. A student investigation later determined that the article was a hoax and de L'Astran had never existed. [ 17 ] Wikipedia editing model The Wikipedia model allows anyone to edit, and relies on a large number of well-intentioned editors to overcome issues created by | IN | IN EN | 9,996,033 |
Not only is Disney Cruises adding stops at their own awesome island Castaway Cay AND one day at Walt Disney World to some of their Galveston, Texas itineraries, they are making it even better value by offering a "kids sail free" promotion on select cruises from Galveston. Very cool! Kids Sail Free on Select Cruises from Galveston Kids ages 17 and under can sail FREE on select 6-night and 8-night Disney Cruise Liner sailings from Galveston. With the new 8-night Bahamian itinerary sailing from Galveston, you can visit the Walt Disney Worldr Resort and Disney's own private island paradise, Castaway Cay. Included in the cruise fare on this itinerary is a 1-Day Magic Your Wayr Ticket with Park Hopperr Option for each Guest and complimentary round-trip transportation between the ship and the Resort. Also available are exciting 6- and 8-night Western Caribbean cruises with scheduled stops in Grand Cayman and Cozumel. Offer Details: To take advantage of this offer, kids must travel with two full-fare Guests in the same stateroom in categories 4A -- 11B on select cruises from Jan. 4 -- March 1, 2013. Government Taxes and Fees are not included and are as follows: approximately $52 per person for 6-night Western Caribbean cruises, $66 per person for 8-night Western Caribbean cruises, and $84 per person for 8-night Bahamian cruises (all amounts subject to change). Travel Window: Most sail dates Jan. 4 -- March 1, 2013 Additional Details: Must mention booking code KFO at time of booking This offer | IP | IP DS | 346,318 |
I Don't Know How To Love Him Lyrics I don't know how to love him. What to do, how to move him. I've been changed, yes really changed. In these past few days, when I've seen myself, I seem like someone else. I don't know how to take this. I don't see why he moves me. He's a man. He's just a man. And I've had so many men before, In very many ways, He's just one more. Should I bring him down? Should I scream and shout? Should I speak of love, Let my feelings out? I never thought I'd come to this. What's it all about? Don't you think it's rather funny, I should be in this position. I'm the one who's always been So calm, so cool, no lover's fool, Running every show. He scares me so. I never thought I'd come to this. What's it all about? Yet, if he said he loved me, I'd be lost. I'd be frightened. I couldn't cope, just couldn't cope. I'd turn my head. I'd back away. I wouldn't want to know. He scares me so. I want him so. I love him so. | LY | LY SL | 737,486 |
wonder with dignified resentment why her Jubilee year should be saddled with the grisliest, most inept, inexperienced yet pompous, and thoroughly dislikeable Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minsiter and Leader of the Opposition in their island's history, or that they should preside over the most foolish, unprincipled, careerist and easily-herded crowd of MPs since the passing of the 1832 Reform Act. She might want to look at her nation's cultural health and wonder, too. There may be an almost reassuring continuity in the observation that her left-wing intellectuals are wetting themselves with rapture over a book of thuddingly crap Taliban poetry, just as they used go schoolgirl crushy-crushy for Stalin and Hitler. But what might she have made of this , though? (Follow the link and see if you are able to beat my record of looking at the accompanying photograph for three heroic seconds before vomiting up your small intestines.) And it's possible she will note a certain tapering off in the aspirations and breadth of outlook displayed by our public intellectuals. In the fifties, the radio programme The Brains Trust could hardly find a table big enough for the nation's genuinely popular, genuinely insightful commentators to fit around. Who would be there now? The obvious answer has surely occurred to you while you were still reading the question: buffoonish, foie gras-eating windbag Stephen Fry: for many, a walking definition of erudition and cultural attainment, God help us. Our literature and drama remain mired in an undergraduate fantasy world where | OP | OP OB | 3,056,374 |
a go and see how your son deals with it. Find out the sleeping arrangements to make sure that your ex is within earshot if there is a problem. This may be good for your son providing that your concerns are addressed. Talk to your ex calmly and ask for some reassurances. Best Regards Harjit Q. If I was to leave my partner (not married) and move to another city in the UK with our baby, would I be violating the law? My child and I have Spanish nationalities, although I have been in the UK for over 15 years. A. Hi there No you would not be violating the law by moving to another city in England unless there is a court order preventing you from doing so. If your Partner has parental responsibility for your child (if his name is on the birth certificate and born after 1.12.2003 ) then you will need his consent to move aboard. Not having consent from him or the court is child abduction. Your Partner may apply to the court for an order to prevent you moving to another city in England or, apply for an order for you to return. The court can find your address from the authorities and summons you to court. Unless there is a risk of harm, you should try to discuss the move with him and agree on a contact arrangement because it is your child's right to maintain a relationship with father unless doing so | ID | ID QA | 537,582 |
And it's cold outside, again And we're still so high We could fly to Berlin, Tokyo or Jamaica We can go where you want Say the word and I'll take ya But I'd rather stay on the sofa On the sofa, with you And it feels like I'm flying And it feels like We could go to Berlin, Tokyo or Jamaica Through the streets of New York That is where I will take ya Paris, Rome, to Rio Passing through Las Vegas We can go where you want Say the word, and I'll take ya But I'd rather stay on the sofa On the sofa On the sofa, with you One Night (Ed Sheeran & Jake Gosling 2010) Lying in a bedroom Lighting up a Benson Face hair is growing So I cut with a vengeance Hey, did I mention As she makes an entrance Said I had a tendency To finish off a sentence Oh well, she's a local girl No make-up Cos she knows me well Hair tied up in elastic band With a kiss on the cheek For her one-night man Is it fast food I'll regret it after And I needed money But I'm too shy to ask her So she buys me chips and cheese And I tell her I love her And she's all I need I take it with a cold glass Of the fruit and the barley She's still a sucker for the Apple and Bacardi Heading to the party Sitting in | LY | LY SL | 83,871 |
On John Ashbery, The Couple in the Next Room THE COUPLE IN THE NEXT ROOM She liked the blue drapes. They made a star At the angle. A boy in leather moved in. Later they found names from the turn of the century Coming home one evening. The whole of being Unknown absorbed into the stalk. A free Bride on the rails warning to notice other Hers and the great graves that outwore them Like faces on a building, the lightning rod Of a name calibrated all their musing differences. Another day. Deliberations are recessed In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon On which we wore things and looked well at A slab of business rising behind the stars. (from Houseboat Days , 1977) Reading this poem, whatever you take from it, I think you would agree that what happens happens in the sentence beginning "A free / Bride on the rails..." Just prior to that, the word "stalk" spits at us with a sudden brassiness, displacing the ambling narrative of the opening. Before we have time to think about what this image is doing, the epic sentence hits us. It may be signalled by the word "great", but what makes it stand out is the difficulty of "free", "rails" and "Hers". (Ashbery loves to use his unfashionable capital letters to provoke syntactic uncertainty.) The last line of the poem is mainly there to hold in check the elegy that would effloresce in our minds if the poem ended "that | LY | LY PO | 549,746 |
our physicians in primary care. Only 20 percent of internal medicine graduates become general internists, and most pediatric graduates go into sub-specialties. (Bodenheimer, T. Primary care -- Will it survive? N Engl J Med 355 (9):861, 2006). Primary care has been declining in this country for many years, as a result of multiple factors, including more attractive lifestyles and reimbursement on the non-primary care fields;student perceptions of the demands, rewards, and prestige of generalist practice; and uncertainty of the health care environment. The American College of Physicians in 2007 declared that: "Our primary care infrastructure is at grave risk of collapse". What is a Voucher Plan? What's Wrong With It? A Voucher Plan is a version of health reform that seeks to provide a simplified means for individuals to purchase health insurance, while retaining the private insurance system intact. The principal advocates of this plan are Ezekiel Emanuel, a bioethicist now serving as one of President Obama's principal advisors on health care reform, and Victor Fuchs, a retired economist from Stanford University. Under this plan, individuals would be given a health care certificate, an insurance "voucher," which would entitle them to enroll in a private health plan of their choice. Employer-based insurance would be eliminated. The vouchers would, under the Emanuel-Fuchs plan, be paid for through a value-added tax (VAT), essentially a sales tax on all manufactured goods and services. This is a highly regressive way of financing such a plan, since low-income people spend a much larger percentage of | HI | HI FH | 570,618 |
existence. These timely meditations by one of the most perceptive social thinkers of our time will appeal to a wide range of readers. Hardcover Status Available Edition First Edition ISBN 9780745655697 ISBN10 0745655696 Publication Dates ROW: Jan 2012 Publication Dates US: Mar 2012 Publication Dates Aus & NZ: Jan 2012 Buy from Wiley Format 239 x 160 mm , 9.40 x 6.30 in Pages 216 pages Paperback Status Available Edition First Edition ISBN 9780745655703 ISBN10 074565570X Publication Dates ROW: Jan 2012 Publication Dates US: Mar 2012 Publication Dates Aus & NZ: Jan 2012 Buy from Wiley Order exam copy* Format 229 x 153 mm , 9.00 x 6.00 in Pages 216 pages * Exam copies only available to lecturers for whom the book may be suitable as a course text. Please note: Sales representation and distribution for Polity titles is provided by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. CONTENTS SEPTEMBER 2010 On the sense and senselessness of diary-keeping; On the usefulness of fighting windmills; On virtual eternity; On farming words; On superpower, superbroke; On averages; On multi-tasking; On the blind leading the impotent; On Gypsies and democracy; On fading trust and blooming arrogance; On the right to be angry OCTOBER 2010 On the right to get richer; On many cultures, and one cover-up; On don't say you haven't been warned; On the quandaries of believing; On Cervantes, father of humanities; On one more war of attrition, A.D. 2010-? NOVEMBER 2010 On why Americans see no light at the end of the | IP | IP DS | 359,373 |
in his Emerald City glasses -- just because I couldn't decide if I should consider this for the most ridiculous prop or the most sublime costume. The Wizard of Oz runs from November 1 -- November 17 at the Scarborough Village Theatre. Performances are Thurs-Sat at 8PM with a 2PM matinee on Sundays. A special sing along performance will be held on November 10 at 2PM. | OP | OP OB | 3,335,339 |
also think it's ridiculous that the supposed reason for removing baseball is because the MLB players aren't there. Wouldn't it be better for the Olympics if the playing field is a bit more level? You would think so, especially after seeing the 157-83 basketball debacle between USA and Nigeria yesterday. If the IOC is going to lie, they should just say that it's too cost prohibitive to build baseball stadiums in places where they don't have the facilities right now (and they won't be too useful to most host countries afterwards). The United States has hardly dominated baseball at the Olympics. They have won one gold (2 if you count 1984) and even failed to qualify in 2004. In softball it is a different story which was dominated by the US until 2008. So if anything the IOC is anti-Asian (japan and South Korea specifically) and Cuban. The Olympics were the only place that people cared prior to the WBC about Cubans beating the US in baseball, so it was an opportunity for them to shine and showcase players (who might later defect). The WBC is the answer to promoting the game internationally. The continued expansion of the WBC with qualifiers in the fall is great. Baseball needs to get some of the final rounds (like the Soccer World Cup we should now call the main phase of the tournament the finals) to be played in Europe. In the future instead of all-star teams baseball would benefit from a Heineken | OP | OP OB | 3,239,465 |
impossible to learn. I have always been a sucker for a challenge. Imagine if I had started to learn Braille today. I could learn on a brailler that talks to me. A nice gentle voice could encourage me and build my confidence. The new SMART Brailler r from Perkins Products makes me smile whenever I hear her talk to me. I have been listening to talking technology for longer than I care to talk about but somehow this is different. She looks like a standard Next Generation T brailler with an adjustable screen on the front above the keys. On either side of the screen, there are a few buttons that let you set the voice and text on the screen so it works best for you. Then as you Braille, she tells you what you have entered. Files can be easily moved to or from a computer. There are even lessons to help you through the learning process. This device will catch the attention of children learning Braille and keep them going until, suddenly, they are writing on their own. I might have been born a little too early; at least I get to share this product with other people. Careers We are always in search of energetic and talented individuals committed to helping children and adults who are blind, deafblind or visually impaired with or without other disabilities. Sound like you? Take a look at our career opportunities . | IP | IP | 569,484 |
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and impose more control over the interviews. Almost anyone could get an interview at that time. It was a free for all, and it hurt us. Q: Have you been jamming with anyone lately, and do you have any plans to make more music? A: No, I'm not working with anyone right now but I do have plans to publish more music. I released a record some time ago called 'Milk and Blood;' go to rotgrub.com and email the webmaster for details. Q: What do you think of the music FNM have created post you? And how do you feel when you see other guitarists belting out you licks? A: I remember hearing some of the music a long time ago but I didn't really study it. I remember thinking it was heavily reliant on Mike. As for other persons playing my music, I don't really believe anyone could book a show as FNM without playing my music. Q: Being one of the best shredders of your era/generation, and having rubbed shoulders with some awesome musicians in your time, have you never considered forming your own little "supergroup" to set the music word to rights!!?? A: Most of my associates have families and projects taking up their time, and I'm very consumed with the things I am doing. I hope I can get to a place where I'll be able to do something pretty soon. There are no specific plans at this time. Thanks for a great compliment. Q: Hey | SP | SP IT | 352,261 |
7.27.09 @ 4:50AM I have not seen so much drivel published as you have done so. As a Foreigner(an ally ,I might add) looking at the US for more years than I can remember the comments of the ultra far right are as expected. The US style of unbridled capitalism has damaged the country as a World Leader,espousing total greed as an almost(?) religion. The Country needed a change for obvious reasons. The rantings of your correspondants should not sway the Administration to continue it's rightful mission to run the country. Stein makes some valid points in the broader context of the standard neo-conservative agenda. That is to say, he does not have America's best interests at heart, as is evidenced by his referencing 'terrorists' and Iran's nuclear program. We only have a terrorism because of our support of Israel and Iran's nuclear program is no more problematic for America than India's, Pakistan's or Israel's -- for that matter. Stein's legitimate criticisms of Obama belie an agenda where ethnic loyalties trump all else. That's the heart of neo-conservatism: pursuing Jewish interests from the right. tc | 7.27.09 @ 5:32AM Ben: good column. Freedom and Liberty, as they have always been, are worth fighting for. Our cage is now duly rattled and the big dogs are up now. This half-student, half-lawyer, half-American, half-professor and leader in name only is in for a rude awakening. He is increasingly marginalized and it's showing. No longer will a speech carry the day but I | IP | IP | 186,900 |
picture. Eh, I've gotten over Santa and Jaweh. I'll deal with this, too. And no WAY am I unsubscribing and if you give a shit, neither will you. From my perspective, this a tragedy happening in slow motion. I understand that those involved and the "fans" of each position are overwhelmed with cognitive input and must, out of necessity, block out the majority so that they can focus on the crisis unfolding before their eyes. I'm rubbernecking. You people just happen to be atheists like me. That's why I have a greater interest in the horrible shit that's happening. I'm concerned but at the same time it's like cringing through a SAW movie. I hope I'm not the first to notice that there are two "Rebecca's" in play now. The first is notorious for bunches of (primarily) guys going nuts about elevators. The second is Brooks. From what I've seen just in the last few hours (I ditched cable tv over a decade ago, btw), the overused and broken "-gate" suffix requires something "News of the World",-ly. [...] times to re-access the private list. And he has already made the content of some of those emails public. (UPDATE: If you want to know exactly what thunderf00t did and how, Jason Thibeault has the [...] Nice post -- mostly agree with what is said there. But although I spend a lot of time on here taking the piss out of the anti-FtBs brigade I could not agree that *no* bullying comes | OP | OP OB | 3,215,836 |
will have a role to play against the Stokes and the like. I don't want him to leave and wish he could end his career with us. But as a big fan of Berbatov, the player and human being, I think it would be better for him to not take more dents on his confidence by moving to a place where the club and fans will actually appreciates his uniquenss. Excellent article, but I don't really agree. I thought Fergie made a huge mistake not having Berba even on the bench for the Barca match, while keeping Owen (whom I like, so don't get me wrong) who merely replicated Hernandez's role but in a less effective way, while Berba would have offered something very different.. What Berba gives is not just flair and creativity he also holds on to the ball all over the pitch better than anyone else in the team barring Scholes, who has of course now gone. If you watch what Berba's up to when he hasn't got the ball you'll see how much hard work he does, finding space, dragging defenders away, giving options. Overall he works far harder than he's credited for, including tackling and defensive headers at free kicks/ corners (It's an aside but if he'd been playing yesterday City would not have scored their first -- United had a terrific record defending set-pieces last season, some of which was down to Berba.) Of course I wouldn't hold onto Berbatov as a defender, but | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 700,059 |
top of the world We never had one girl at a time We always had seven eight or nine But now they're gone, but we don't worry ( at least not much ) 'Cause we're sittin' on top of the world I'm going to the station, way down in the yard Gonna catch me a freight train, work's done got hard And though she's gone, I don't worry 'Cause I'm sittin' on top of the world Among others versions, Jerry Garcia would almost certainly have heard the Bill Monroe version, which included the "Dallas/El Paso" verse that the Dead sang: It was in the spring one sunny day My good gal left me Lord she went away But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world She called me in Dallas, in El Paso Said come on, daddy, I need you so But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world Ashes to ashes, dust to dust Show me a woman a man can trust But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world The Mississippi River, long, deep and wide The woman I'm loving is on the other side But now she's gone but I don't worry Lord I'm sitting on top of the world [ the next two verses were not on all Bill Monroe versions ] You don't like my peaches, don't you shake my tree | LY | LY SL | 621,877 |
Guthrie came into existence. In the same manner, millions of acres of additional land was opened up and settled in the following four years. [ 128 ] Indian wars have occurred throughout the United States though the conflicts are generally separated into two categories; the Indian wars east of the Mississippi River and the Indian wars west of the Mississippi. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census (1894), provided an estimate of deaths: "The Indian wars under the government of the United States have been more than 40 in number. They have cost the lives of about 19,000 white men, women and children, including those killed in individual combats, and the lives of about 30,000 Indians." [ 129 ] The expansion of migration into the Southeastern United States in the 1820s to the 1830s forced the federal government to deal with the "Indian question." The Indians were under federal control but were independent of state governments. State legislatures and state judges had no authority on their lands, and the states demanded control. Politically the new Democratic Party of President Andrew Jackson demanded removal of the Indians out of the southeastern states to new lands in the west, while the Whig Party and the Protestant churches were opposed to removal. The Jacksonian Democracy proved irresistible, as it won the presidential elections of 1828, 1832 and 1836. By 1837 the "Indian Removal policy" began, to implement the act of Congress signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830. Many historians have sharply attacked | IN | IN EN | 9,990,510 |
any other crusty hardcore band would give their left testicle to make it -- the sludgy 'Coral Blue' is one of the most brutal yet oddly tender songs they've ever written and the scorching blast of 'Sparrows Fall' wouldn't look out of place on When Forever Comes Crashing -- yet comparison, as is so often the case, is the real killer. Ichabod - Dreamscapes From Dead Space (Rootsucker Records) And the prize for lyric of the month (yeah, I'm doing that now) goes to Ichabod, who, totally aside from the fact that they heavily reference one of the greatest westerns ever made, and the best film Val Kilmer's ever done, Tombstone , (C'mon, that Doors movie is a bit cack and you know it is) have crafted this gem of a chorus: "Tell them I'm coming, and hell's coming with me / Tell them the lord above ain't got shit on me." Fucking genius. Boston's Ichabod have actually be kicking around for well over a decade now but as with so many albums covered this month Dreamscapes... is undoubtedly their strongest, most expansive effort to date -- imagine Kyuss jamming with Hawkwind while Weedeater sit in a corner packing your favourite skull bong full of PCP laced weed, in the fourth dimension. Or something like that. Thanks to the wealth of huge stoner riffs, tranquil meanders and the vast, soulful range of John Fadden's vocals I've totally unexpectedly enjoyed this more than any other album this month. Over on the | OP | OP RV | 86,968 |
How Canada Helped Make Honduras the Violence and Impunity Capital of the World How Canada helped make Honduras the violence and impunity capital of the world There is no end in sight to violence and repression in Honduras. There is no end in sight to the impunity and corruption with which the powerful economic, military and political sectors act. There is also no end in sight to American and Canadian governments and businesses maintaining political, economic and military relations with the Honduras, empowering and legitimizing the regime. American and Canadian businesses and investors are, in effect, benefiting from the repression, violence, corruption and impunity. A human rights and security abyss Since the U.S. and Canadian endorsed military coup of June 28, 2009, that ousted the democratically elected government, hundreds of pro-democracy activists have been killed by the State or death squads. Honduras has become known as: In January 2012, the Miami Herald published an editorial, 'Central America's free-fire zone.' "[Honduras] is quickly turning into a disaster zone...To make matters worse in Honduras, there are indications that elements of the U.S.-backed government are complicit in the violence and criminality...The murder rate of 82.1 per 100,000 residents...gives Honduras the highest homicide rate in the world." On January 27, 2012, the New York Times published an op-ed piece, 'In Honduras, a mess made in the U.S.' Dana Frank writes: "It's time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June | IP | IP ED | 3,094,891 |
the honesty of Rogers Stevens, Christopher Thorn, Brad Smith, and Glen Graham you felt closer to them as well. They give valuable details of life in the band Blind Melon, everything from stories from the road to recollections of recording and some song meanings. A casual rock and roll fan will see from this book that Blind Melon was a band, and not just Shannon Hoon. Your heart really goes out to the people that were close to Shannon Hoon. People whose lives were touched very deeply for knowing him, and who had to deal with the pain of losing him. I extend gratitude to those willing to speak about those times for this project, and credit to the author for the Shannon Hoon quotes he chose to give the singer's perspective of that time in his life with his band. Strongest recommendation for anyone that is a fan of 90's music, and this is a flat out must read for any Blind Melon fan. 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful 5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing reading Feb 11 2011 By Joan Casalprim Busquets - Published on Amazon.com Format: Paperback I lived the rise and fall of Blind MElon in the 90's, I was in my teens then. Discovering this book and reading it has taken me back to that beautiful time. The book made me rush to the CD collection and listen again to all the Blind Melon production. As I was listening to the | IP | IP DS | 753,612 |
me overseas- and of course as you all know I am a massive believer in the universe and signs J Ok well that is it for now! I hope to see everyone soon and I will be announcing the international shows very soon (my UK visa just got approved- yay!) so look out for that update! Love love love love Me!! xxxxxxx February 2011 WOW!! HAPPY NEW YEAR! Can anyone else BELIEVE that is it already a week into Feb? I can't! Time is flying by as usual and I, of course, have been keeping very very busy. For me, January consisted of: booking gigs through to July, playing gigs in Melbourne, Perth and Tasmania, flying around the country, selling my car, moving house, finding potential tenants for my home, organising my national tour (yes you heard right) and saving my butt off for my return to Europe. Yikes! Busy month I'd say :) But, I do have a feeling 2011 is going to be a big one! So...I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas, I certainly did at home with my family and friends. Thank you to those of you who came out to my shows in Perth and Melbourne, and also to the lovely Tasmanians who showed up last week to the gigs in Launceston and Hobart- my absolute best Tassie shows yet! Some exciting news?? My new and fabulous booking agent, Big Tree Artists, secured a Don McLean support for me at Hobart's Wrest Point Entertainment | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 690,590 |
but also economically efficient. Okay, if you federalize you have two choices. First, you could turn it into social security, which pays out a return related to CPI which should have some relationship to US government bond prices. This would significantly decrease the value of the retirement account. Second, you could increase spending to "make the pension whole", which would add to price presures (in the future), Since these pensions have been built using relatively high expected returns. I agree that states should not use the same structure, the question is which of the two solutions above do you choose. The choices that are made in the present should with a view to increasing availability of real resources in the future to avoid problems in the future. Funding is never a problem operationally for a government issuing a fiat currency, which can inject and withdraw funds at will in a targeted fashion. Availability of real resources is the contraint. China and the US "Domestic credit creation is funding foreign savings. Assume you live in the US and decide to buy a car made in the China. You go to a US bank, get accepted for a loan, and spend the dollars on the car. So where do things then stand? You exchanged the borrowed dollars for the car, the Chinese car company has a deposit at the bank, and the bank has a loan to you and a deposit belonging to the Chinese car company on their books." You need | IP | IP DS | 266,529 |
on an external monitor doesn't mean anything. Use technology to your advantage . In one of my last jobs, the biggest responsibility I had was to stay on top of my inbox and fire off responses to critical questions when I had to. With a decent smartphone, I could do that just about anywhere, and anything I needed to get to a computer for I could always push off a few hours. Don't be afraid to work remotely -- use your phone or tablet to your advantage to check in and stay engaged enough that you look like you're working. More than once I was "working from museum" or "working from pub" when I was supposed to be "working from home" thanks to my smartphone and remote desktop. Again, don't abuse it and tread carefully -- the moment you get busted is the moment you ruin it, possibly for everyone. With practice you'll find that you have more time in your day, because you've mastered the subtle art of saying "no" even when you don't have wiggle room to say no. Your coworkers will come to understand that you're busy, but if you do this right (by which we mean with flexibility and a smile on your face) they'll understand and only approach you when they really need your help (and those things should go on the to-do list.) Bonus: you'll always be busy , but you won't always be stressed , which is a huge bonus. Be An Email-Responding | HI | HI HT | 547,661 |
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...I say -- there is a global battle out there to win jobs, orders, contracts... ...and in that battle I believe in leading from the front. To get our economy on the rise there's a lot more to do -- and frankly a lot more fights to be had. Because there are too many of what I'd call the "yes-but-no" people. The ones who say "yes, our businesses need to expand... ...but no we can't reform planning." It's simple. For a business to expand, it needs places to build. If it takes too long, they'll just build elsewhere. I visited a business the other day that wanted to open a big factory just outside Liverpool. But the council was going to take so long to approve the decision that they're now building that factory on the continent -- and taking hundreds of jobs with them. If we're going to be a winner in this global race we've got to beat off this suffocating bureaucracy once and for all. And then there are those who say "yes of course we need more housing"... ...but "no" to every development -- and not in my backyard. Look - it's OK for my generation. Many of us have got on the ladder. But you know the average age that someone buys their first home today, without any help for their parents? 33 years old. We are the party of home ownership -- we cannot let this carry on. So yes -- we're doubling the | SP | SP FS | 634,415 |
with rssfever via RSS... I believe the shark was jumped when the TelePrompter In Chief doubled over in front of the dictator of Saudi Arabia. All the America-hating of The Worlds Smartest Man -- the apologizing to the continent that gave us Hitler and Stalin, the assinine pursuit of "dialogue" with the Holocaust-denying nutjobs in Iran, the bailouts which turned Wall Street and GM into a welfare queens paradise at OUR expense -- it was all summed up in that one act of kowtowing. Seriously, WTF was he even thinking? Amor de Cosmos | 9.29.09 @ 11:35AM Michael L. Hauschild | 9.29.09 @ 12:32PM Barak Obama ran and was elected as a "Prom King" with no experience or concept of what the job of President entailed. The balloons are deflating, there is no more cascading confetti and Queen Pelosi's makeup has come off. Conservative Chick | 9.29.09 @ 12:44PM David Brooks, conservative NY Times columnist who runs to the left, described his first encounter with Obama in 2005, "I remember distinctly an image of--we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant, and I'm thinking, a) he's going to be president and b) he'll be a very good president." Yeah, just what I look for in a presidential candidate. Appleby | 9.30.09 @ 7:50AM Scott Martin | 9.29.09 @ 1:17PM Ronald Reagan looked great in blue jeans when he was working at his ranch. Of course, he knew how to | IP | IP | 3,208,530 |
Hundreds of high-risk prisoners, including one assessed as being likely to kill his original victim, have been released into the community as soon as they have served half their sentence, the probation union has warned. Many offenders in Britain were recalled to custody within days of their release because of the clear risk they posed to victims, The Trade Union and Professional Association for Family Court and Probation Staff (Napo) said. The union added that a change to the law six years ago means the Parole Board has no say over their release and prisoners are released automatically at the half-way point of their sentence, giving criminals no incentive for rehabilitation or reform. Released: Napo have warned that many high-risk convicts are only serving half of their sentences, and re-offending Harry Fletcher, Napo's assistant general secretary, said: 'It is scandalous that hundreds of prisoners are being released from custody automatically when they have completed half their sentence despite assessments that they are of high risk of harm to the public. 'There is evidence that this is putting the public at risk. The majority are recalled to custody because of threats to victims. There is clearly a need for the law to change.' Napo called for a discretionary system to be brought in for all prisoners serving two years or more so they would only be released if they no longer posed a significant risk. It comes after the union's members found a series of cases where high-risk offenders were automatically | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,443,839 |
wider international picture of early childhood education history. | IN | IN IB | 1,768,541 |
quite taken aback by the levels of stupidity displayed on this blog recently. There are some people on here who just don't seem to get it. I shall explain. The purpose of Alex's investigations are to find out just how one of Britain's best known and most successful clubs got into the state it now finds itself: in administration, under investigation for possible rule breaches and with a real possibility of liquidation. That club is Rangers, not Celtic or anyone else, just Rangers. To find out how Rangers got into this mess, all the strands -- of which there are many -- have to be considered. This is includes reckless financial mis-management, possible rule breaking, media compliance and the role of the governing bodies and their relationship to the club. It is not an attack on Rangers, if anything Rangers fans should be glad that someone is trying to uncover how exactly they are where they are. But instead all many of them on here want to do is say, "what about Celtic" (not any other club I might add). Celtic are not the story!Celtic didn't jeopardise their future for the sake of winning trophies. Celtic are not in administration, under investigation or likely to go bust. Is it that difficult to grasp? at, the EBT legality issue surrounding Rangers, which in turn spurred on the lunatic cheating allegations, stripped titles nonsense, etc, will also affect most major clubs in the UK, especially the top-tier of the English Premiership. This | OP | OP OB | 742,212 |
the answers! Thank you very much, Liz. Visit Liz's website at http://www.lizharrisauthor.com/ and follow her on Twitter @lizharrisauthor. Share this: 8 comments to Liz Harris's Road Back I really enjoyed reading the blog this morning with guest, Liz Harris, particularly as I know both of you. It's a smashing novel, Liz, and I'm looking forward to the next one. Thanks, Alison, for such a lovely interview. Many thanks for the interview, Alison. Several of your questions really made me think, and I'm still wondering how different the lives of Patricia and Kalden might have been had they lived in a different period of time. Glad you enjoyed the challenge! As you know, I'm very interested in alternative settings for characters and as your first timeline was on the threshold of the 60?s social revolution, it was too tempting a question to ask. | SP | SP IT | 3,001,444 |
If I Had A Million Dollars Lyrics Barenaked Ladies If I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars Well, I'd buy you a house I would buy you a house And if I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars I'd buy you furniture for your house Maybe a nice chesterfield or an ottoman And if I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars Well, I'd buy you a K-Car A nice reliant automobile And if I had a million dollars, I'd buy your love If I had a million dollars I'd build a tree-fort in our yard If I had a million dollars you could help It wouldn't be that hard If I had a million dollars Maybe we could put a little tiny fridge In there somewhere We could just go up there and hang out Like open the fridge and stuff And there'd all be foods laid out for us Like little pre-wrapped sausages and things They have pre-wrapped sausages But they don't have pre-wrapped bacon Well, can you blame them? Yeah If I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars Well, I'd buy you a fur a coat But not a real fur coat, that's cruel And if I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars Well, I'd buy you an exotic pet Yep, like a llama or an emu And if I had a million dollars If I had a | LY | LY SL | 791,351 |
a surreally sincere and often profane access to the characters' inner lives, and is the source of the show's most tender and funny moments. (For example, George's unvarnished and sexually explicit confessions of continuing love for his ex-wife from the first season.) The world of Bored to Death is a slightly pitched version of reality: hard-boiled New York City cops harbour SM fetishes, armed thugs quote Oscar Wilde, and writers for The New Yorker settle their differences in the boxing ring. As one might expect from an adaptation of a short story originally published by McSweeney's , the show can sometimes err towards the precious (especially with Jonathan's standalone storylines), but there are instances of sublime hilarity in each and every episode. Victor Rasuk and Luis Guzmn in How to Make It in America Bored to Death will be missed, but the loss of How to Make It in America -- well-cast, well-written, and full of heart and smarts -- is the more painful tragedy of the two. How to Make It in America tells the story of two longtime friends, Ben Epstein (Bryan Greenberg, One Tree Hill ) and Cam Calderon (Victor Rasuk, ER ), who launch a fashion line of vintage T-shirts and jeans to try to break free of their entropically degenerating lives. The main story arc of the series -- the struggles of Ben and Cam to make it in the fickle world of New York fashion -- is genuinely compelling, and as are the many | OP | OP RV | 298,813 |
next to you I need to be next to you Oh I, oh I Need to be, need to be next to you Share every breath of you I need to feel you in my arms, baby, in my arms baby I need to be next to you | LY | LY SL | 498,113 |
Does Google Make Us Stupid? Respondents to the fourth "Future of the Internet" survey, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center, were asked to consider the future of the internet-connected world between now and 2020 and the likely innovation that will occur. The survey required them to assess 10 different "tension pairs" - each pair offering two different 2020 scenarios with the same overall theme and opposite outcomes - and to select the one most likely choice of two statements. Although a wide range of opinion from experts, organizations, and interested institutions was sought, this survey, fielded from Dec. 2, 2009 to Jan. 11, 2010, should not be taken as a representative canvassing of internet experts. By design, the survey was an "opt in," self-selecting effort. Among the issues addressed in the survey was the provocative question raised by eminent tech scholar Nicholas Carr in a cover story for the Atlantic Monthly magazine in the summer of 2008 1 : "Is Google Making us Stupid?" Carr argued that the ease of online searching and distractions of browsing through the web were possibly limiting his capacity to concentrate. "I'm not thinking the way I used to," he wrote, in part because he is becoming a skimming, browsing reader, rather than a deep and engaged reader. "The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author's words but for | IN | IN RA | 445,115 |
New website-be st way to market? My name is Tracy and I'm the owner of a new retail website by the name of Kirk Consignment. I'm looking for a way to advertise my new site. I need something that is low budget. I have no client data base so basically I'm starting from scratch. Re: New website-be st way to market? Welcome to the Community! A great way to market your website is to use the tools that are free already! Like Social Media! Create a Facebook Page, Google+ Page, create a Twitter handle and get out there! Also, when you're sending out emails with us, make sure to always include a link to your website. Make sure to also cross-promote. Put your website on your Facebook page, Google+ Page, Twitter bio. And dont' forget to put a Join My Mailing List button on your website. Before you know it, you'll have some great traffic to your website and more customers to send emails to! To learn how to use Social Media to promote, check out our QuickStarter . Marissa Rogers Community & Social Media Support If you find my post helpful, and it answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution" Re: New website-be st way to market? And after you have finished doing what Marissa has said, you can then go onto Craigs List and post adverts all over the place. Incidentally, there are people that submit ads to Craigs Lists all over the place for | ID | ID DF | 427,900 |
going. My answer is a truthful answer. We have to get back. We have to improve ourselves. We have to go back and it's through hard work. That's how you get it done. If it was just a magic deal, then yeah, I'd search and say this is the magic play, but it's not. I've been around this game for too long. I know how you pick yourself up and that's believing in each other and getting after it. It's working hard, and it will pay off for you in the end. There's no shortcut to success. You have to work and for us to do that, that's what we're going to do to get back. I do see improvements in some areas of this team. It might be hard to see from the outside, but I see it here. That's why I'm confident we'll finish strong these last five games. On why it took 10 days to diagnose Tebow's injury... I will say this: My understanding is that guys have played with this injury. Regardless of the position, guys have played through cracked ribs. Again, I'm not a doctor. He was cleared to play. Let's make sure we understand that. He was cleared to play. On if he feels like the gap between the Jets and Patriots is too great to ever win the division... No, please. I'd never say that, ever, no way. Yeah, look, they took us to overtime, we got beat by them at their place | SP | SP TA | 1,407,512 |
I use 'collaborations' to support our local designers here. The local designers need to be able to sell their collections the larger mass market retail chains who give them volume I cannot. However they all want to also sell in our stores. They believe, right or wrong that our stores deliver a platform for their brands that is aspirational and ultimately beneficial. I cannot ask the young designer (nor would I)to stop suppling the chain who provides them the orders which allow them to continue their passion. So our solution is a 'collaboration'. A seasonal collection by the young designer for our stores that it exclusive to us, they can experiment with a broader variety of fabrics that would normally be out of reach, explore new ideas and have the collection run through by experienced buyers at development stage who give them commercial guidance on their creative concepts. The 'collaboration' then also allows a person who aspires to shop in our stores but for economic reasons cannot the opportunity to do so. The result of this 'collaboration' is: -A happy mass market chain of stores -A thrilled to pieces young designer -A proud me -A person who normally cannot, having the experience of shopping in a luxury department store. So I guess my point is please dont throw the notion of a Designer Collaborations out the window because used properly they are good things. this was an extremely well-written article. i was very impressed... until i got to the end, | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,230,129 |
that's my number one job: To be loved and adored by the Father. My days are filled with ... discovering more ways to connect with the heart of my Papa, laughing out loud, singing/praying (all the time), dreaming with God, brainstorming creative ideas on releasing goodness and hope to this world, interviewing folks for my radio broadcasts/anything brilliant, stopping for "the one," going on "treasure hunts" (finding people whom the Lord highlights in my heart) and smearing love on them ... HAHAHA! I wish ... I had more time to tell you of the many stories of His goodness. I could know God for other people. I could bottle up hope and give a dose to everyone in the world. Today I give myself permission ... to breathe to be still, to be at rest to be childlike in my awe and wonder to receive even a greater dose of His affection to take pauses throughout the day to intentionally praise Him to speak life to others to listen and draw out people's stories to laugh out loud -- even more (especially in the face of challenges orproblems). ______________ About Christina: Christina Crook is founder of SeekingEve.ca : a perpetual search for honest faith. Christina grew up inside an art gallery and is sister to seven wonderful far-flung siblings. She is a core contributor to UPPERCASE, a magazine for the creative and curious, and Contributing Editor at Geez magazine. In January 2012 she turned off the Internet in all its | SP | SP IT | 3,356,341 |
The third and final presidential debate happened last night (you were all watching along with me, riiight?) with President Barack Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney talking about foreign policy. Well, the time of debates has passed and it's now exactly two weeks till election day (WTF, really?!?), and Jared Leto wants to make sure you get out and vote! Yeah, Twitter lit up with political Tweets last night as the debate started, and those Tweets are still going strong. (Need I say that talk about " bayonets and horses" is trending with a passion and replacing " binders full of women "?) Many celebs are Tweeting their opinions, including Jared, but then he gave a general shoutout about the importance of voting: Jared's a busy dude (we're still waiting for that fourth album from his band 30 Seconds to Mars!) but he's making time to vote and wants you to do the same. Some states allow early voting, and for the rest of us, mark November 6 nice and big on your calenders. You've watched the debates, but it's also important to buff up on your knowledge of the candidates: what they say, what they stand for, what they've done in the past and what they say they'll do. 'Course, we want to make it easy for you, and that's why we've got Power of 12 to answer all your political questions, from where the candidates stand on issues important to you to details on how to vote. Last | IP | IP | 3,149,939 |
and has worked at the Niagara College Brewing Program . You can follow Oast House Brewers on Facebook and Twitter. Niagara Oast House Brewers will soon open on Niagara Stone Road. Wine country tasting events October and November, Tuesday to Sunday : Taste the Town . A 2.5-hour walking tour to sample some of Niagara-on-the-Lake's yummiest eats, and learn more about the history and culture of this charming town. November weekends: Taste the Season , featuring a seasonally-inspired VQA wine and food pairing at each of the 28 member wineries. Touring passes you can use on any weekends during November are now on sale. A portion of the proceeds goes to Newark Neighbours. And don't forget to ask your Niagara B&B hosts to dig into their goody bags for guest coupons that you can use in various places around town. Posted by E. Lisa Moses This is the one and only official website of the Niagara-on-the-Lake B&B Association. Members listed on this site have undergone health and safety inspections, are legally licensed to operate as a B&B and meet all the required standards set out by the association. If you prefer to book online, this option also ensures that commissions go back into the association's coffers for the benefit of all members of the not-for-profit association and not other, unrelated, commercial entities. I'm pleased to report a noteworthy development on the Niagara B&B scene -- the Heritage Ambassador program. Spearheaded by the Niagara Historical Museum (niagarahistorical.museum), this is offered exclusively | IP | IP DS | 762,789 |
responsibility too. I once inherited an employee who had a six-month backlog of stuff he was in charge of processing. In a month, his replacement had cleared out the backlog and was totally caught up. (More evidence for why it's so important to hire right.) So yeah, it really does depend on who the "one" is! That said, of course there are unreasonable employers and good employees who are given work that even a super star couldn't handle. And when that's the case, that's when you do what Jamie talked about. And if your boss won't budge, then you leave. But in my experience, if you have a track record of being good and you're able to explain the situation in terms of its impact on the business (which is where a lot of people fail in this situation), most -- not all, but most -- managers will work with you on how to prioritize, etc. The only effective way I've ever found to refuse work is to present the case to your boss as to why it's better for the business that you not do it (and even then, the result you usually get is not so much a removal of work but a reprioritization): "Boss, if I take on Project X, I won't have time to finish Project Y on time." "Boss, if I take on Project X, I can't give Project Y the time it deserves. I'm afraid something might slip through the cracks, and we all | ID | ID | 346,364 |
for those who might be entitled or feel they wish to be involved, is judging when that mass has been achieved? My worry would be that the existence and use of forums such as this on the net -- perhaps even more so ConHome with the Tories, is that those who may wish to trigger may get a false impression of support levels from the sometimes OTT discussions. Your answer demonstrates just how difficult it is. Although, for the record, I suspect that it will be the Parliamentary Party in the Commons that decides, and they'll take soundings within their own patches before acting. @Dave W don't let facts get in the way of attacking somebody you want to disagree with, will you? Reading back I can't quite see where I passed an opinion about whether the Conservatives have a majority, probably because it isn't a matter of opinion. So your reasoning is unfounded. FWIW I'm not particularly bothered about who our PM candidate is, I'm confident whoever it is at any given time is the best available person for the job (though that in itself is a comment on the level of talent in the Parliamentary party). So I'm more interested that we get more MPs elected, and that they are of a higher overall standard. Ideally then to be in a position to form a Government of our own. Until that point in time, this question is more of a non-sequitur. Thanks for your response. I will withdraw | OP | OP OB | 3,100,418 |
it's up to them if they apply this learning and be better people or simply say "that's life" and stay forever in "self-searching" mode and be all philosophical and stuff without doing anything significant at all. not all are fairly smart. it's not even fairly smart, the person is just being sarcastically philosophical. i'm not stereotyping. but people who do watch anime have deeper sense of self. im the total opposite. though i do have a passion for anime, im not so obsessed with it that it controls my life. i hang out with my friend mary-jane everyonce in awhile, if you know what i mean. i love getting into trouble both during and after school. sometimes i get good grades, sometimes i dont. it all depends if i get it or not. or if i care. like what stellar said bout that kid, i too am a martial art student and i have a couple of anime "role-models" i look up to. some for strength and some for wisdom. im not couped up in my room all the time and i get out out of the house whenever i can to hang out with my friends. so the answer to your question: not every anime freak is like that. sure there are some exactly like yer bro but the majority of us arent. we like having a social life. we like going out and hanging with friends. we like enjoying life the way it is. so tell yer bro | ID | ID QA | 1,726,804 |
What rivalry do you think a Taurus born in May Vs. a Gemini born in May be similar to? What rivalry do you think a Taurus born in May Vs. a Gemini born in May be similar to? A. July Cancer Vs. July Leo B. November Scorpio Vs. November Sagittarius C. September Virgo Vs. September Libra D. April Aries Vs. April Taurus E. September Virgo Vs. February Aquarius F. January Capricorn Vs January Aquarius 9 Responses to What rivalry do you think a Taurus born in May Vs. a Gemini born in May be similar to? I am a November Scorpio (November 16th) and I am certainly not a bitchy, revengeful, jealous person. I am an honest and caring person and I detest bitchiness, fake people, arrogance, ignorance and dishonest people. I would like to think that I am a nice person and although I can be slightly jealous at times and have a very bad temper, I keep it under control and don't let it get the better of me. I totally agree. I have an October born Scorpio friend, and she's really promiscuous and charming like regular Scorpios, but she's incapable of holding grudges or really bitching about people. I like to piss her off just to see how long she can be angry at me for. You are right because I have a particular affinity for those revengeful, jealous and bitchy people because they are raw and heartful and if you are with them, got your back | ID | ID | 3,205,514 |
2 Answers It is indeed an "adjustment" of English grammar having to do with the complications of time travel. When causality in the future has its effects in the past, conditional statements become complicated. Perhaps the best comedic exploration of the effects of time travel on language was by Douglas Adams in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe : One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-mided and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is also no problem about changing the course of history -- the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end. The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations . It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in | ID | ID QA | 270,811 |
said she couldn't remember agreeing to it. While playing Scrabble with his aged mother who was in hospital, he hypnotised her and a nurse into thinking 'cupboardy' was a real word, however after thinking he'd successfully hypnotised her, the nurse soon said to his mother "you're right Mrs Craig, he can't really do it!". He crashed his car into another one, and hypnotised a security guard, a witness and the car owner, to make sure he wasn't seen. He also hypnotised an unfortunate passer-by at a car boot sale, forcing him to buy the complete series of Blackadder (although the third series was missing) and Red Dwarf series 1 on video, neither of which his victim had any intention of buying. However, after trying to convince him to buy Paul Merton's version of The Blood Donor, the man simply replied "yeah, don't push your luck mate". He seemed to hypnotise his mother into bringing him snacks and drinks as he watched TV (saying "You may be old and recovering from double hip surgery but you're still more than capable of bringing in the sugar bowl") and then allowing him to watch Thundercats when she wanted to switch over to Songs of Praise . Then, when she told him to get off the sofa because she was going to have her friends over, he tried to hypnotise her again - but she asked him to wait for her to put her glasses on, so that it will work properly this time. | IN | IN DP | 1,423,825 |
go through the rubbish-heaps and find rings and scissors and broken noses buried in the huge past and try to piece them together while the colt gallops round the field, the woman fills her pail at the well, and the donkey brays. But we tire of rubbish-reading in the long run. We tire of searching for what is needed to complete the half-truth which is all that the Wilkinsons, the Bunburys, and the Maria Allens are able to offer us. They had not the artist's power of mastering and eliminating; they could not tell the whole truth even about their own lives; they have disfigured the story that might have been so shapely. Facts are all that they can offer us, and facts are a very inferior form of fiction. Thus the desire grows upon us to have done with half-statements and approximations; to cease from searching out the minute shades of human character, to enjoy the greater abstractness, the purer truth of fiction. Thus we create the mood, intense and generalised, unaware of detail, but stressed by some regular, recurrent beat, whose natural expression is poetry; and that is the time to read poetry... when we are almost able to write it. Western wind, when wilt thou blow? The small rain down can rain. Christ, if my love were in my arms, And I in my bed again! The impact of poetry is so hard and direct that for the moment there is no other sensation except that of | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 42,249 |
right to say its not relevant. Barry Nice one Barry, it's good when a network Geek lets rip and give's us the inside info. The ispreview family needs clued up on UK bandwidth availability, one of the largest UK networks JANET http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET has a shit load of users and has upgraded their core network to 100Gbps not much at all when you think about it. So -- if you had any doubt about the capability of this project this interview should clear up the real understanding these folks have. I honestly don't think I've seen such a scary dismissal about the true costs and economics of operating a network as I have in this interview and the follow up. Of course there are contention ratios in local area networks! If I have 5 machines on a LAN with 5 1G ports and 4 machines all try to talk to one machine at the same time -- whats my contention ratio?! The same absolutely applies in any network, there is _always_ a contention ratio. In fact with switched LANs is the biggest danger! On the one hand, one talks as if bandwidth is magically added for nothing, on the other more clues are given but then the cost of adding 10G links, peering ports and transit are dismissed as if its not relevant then later "oh actually it is relevant". Caching server and cloud storage? Hmm let me see, what are you caching? is it Yahoo? or Google? Hmm -- how | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 784,473 |
Are We Going to Get Serious About Aviation Security? TSA has spent over $40 billion, yet amateurs are still getting on planes with explosives Since its creation in 2004, the Transportation Security Administration has spent $40 billion on aviation security. Yet an amateur terrorist succeeded in getting on board Northwest flight 253 with a well-known type of explosive concealed on his person. Two egregious security failures allowed this to happen. First, despite an explicit warning from the terrorist's father, his name did not get added to either of the TSA's lists -- the 4,000-name no-fly list or the 14,000-name selectee list. Had he been on the latter list, he would have been subjected to secondary screening at Amsterdam Schiphol airport, where a routine swabbing of his hands and/or carry-ons would likely have revealed traces of the PETN explosive. But even if this trace-detection had not been carried out, the PETN which the terrorist concealed in his underwear would have been detected had he been required to pass through one of the 15 of millimeter-wave body-scanners now in use at Schiphol. But airport officials there maintain that they are not permitted to use these machines for U.S.-bound passengers (though TSA has disputed that). Both failures reflect the flawed philosophy that underlies U.S. aviation security policy. For the most part, it continues to be fixated on keeping bad things -- as opposed to bad people -- off of airplanes. It also implicitly assumes every passenger is equally likely to be a terrorist, | IP | IP | 3,202,611 |
be slower and harder to track. During the week we spent on the HMNZS Otago, there was much note-taking, photographing and a lot of staring at the horizon. Without any co-ordinates, landmarks or familiar objects, the artists found themselves cast adrift in a new kind of space -- one that was at once overwhelming and full of imaginative potentialities. My own investigations amounted to a great many notes for poems and drawings, inspired variously by the omnipresent sea, the charts and electronic gadgetry on the ship's bridge, and such daily occurences as a pod of dolphins sighted off Little Barrier Island, a flying fish landing on deck, a succession of extraordinary dawns and sunsets and, on our last afternoon at sea, a mid-ocean swim for ratings, officers and seariders alike when we reached the Tropic of Capricorn. Having returned from the Kermadecs, the members of the artistic crew are now getting down to the next phase of the project. Adelaide-based Fiona Hall returned home via Wellington, where she continued working on the massive tapa cloth she had begun in Tonga. This work-in-progress brings together visual elements from the voyage, scientific subjects from the Kermadecs and some apposite political slogans. With Elizabeth Thomson, Fiona visited the NIWA base, at Greta Point, Wellington, where she studied and photographed numerous Kermadec life-forms. John Pule's time spent on the Raoul island headland has inspired a 12 part poem (complete with prologue and epilogue) titled 'Polynesian Station Pointer', which begins on a suitably operatic note: | IN | IN DT | 1,790,513 |
cry and came down flat on his face. 'What in the world?' said his friend coming up. 'A great string, of all things! What business -- Oh, I see -- belongs to that kite' (which lay on the grass a little farther up). 'Now if I can find out what little beast has left that kicking about, I'll let him have it -- or rather I won't, for he shan't see his kite again. It's rather a good one, too.' As they approached, a puff of wind raised the kite and it seemed to sit up on its end and look at them with two large round eyes painted red, and, below them, three large printed red letters, I.C.U. Mr Manners was amused and scanned the device with care. 'Ingenious,' he said, 'it's a bit off a poster, of course: I see! Full Particulars, the word was.' Mr Burton on the other hand was not amused, but thrust his stick through the kite. Mr Manners was inclined to regret this. 'I dare say it serves him right,' he said, 'but he'd taken a lot of trouble to make it.' 'Who had?' said Mr Burton sharply. 'Oh, I see, you mean the boy.' 'Yes, to be sure, who else? But come on down now: I want to leave a message before lunch. As they turned a corner into the main street, a rather muffled and choky voice was heard to say 'Look out! I'm coming. They both stopped as if they | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 297,045 |
Dealing with new liquidity rules The new Basel III liquidity requirements have been criticised in some quarters. Understanding them, and the framework that has been put in place to ensure stability, requires a little new understanding Liquidity risk has been studied for a long time. Gap analysis, for example, goes back more than 50 years. Many different ratios and indices have also been used in time, without any of them having been set as an industry standard. Liquidity is one of the most difficult risks to measure because of its complexity. Almost three years ago, in December 2009, the Basel III international framework for liquidity risk measurement was introduced, including new liquidity and leverage ratios meant to become standard benchmarks. Although during this period much of the implied disaggregation has been completed by banks and regulators of many countries, there is still a long way to go, and many problems yet to solve. The inclusion of two new liquidity ratios within Basel III has been the cause of some criticism, that ranges from arguing that banks are the natural transformation agents of terms and that liquidity gaps cannot be fully matched, to questioning the credit constrains that these measures could imply, or the economic impact of making long-term financing more difficult to concede, and rising the price of it. This might increase capital requirements, and restrict loans to some economic sectors, changing the role that banks play in the economy and passing some of the risks they take on to | OP | OP AV | 3,146,569 |
I don't know what's wrong with me. I've been so depressed. I'm jealous of everyone around me having great summers. I can't hardly go on facebook anymore because my newsfeed is full of people having a great time in Italy and Sweden and Hawaii and New York and London and Canada. I'm making people around me depressed. My mom is currently in the other room crying right now and I have a feeling its partly because of me. I just want a normal life with a normal family that actually have jobs and could pay for nice vacations and nice clothes. I always become good friends with people who have more money than me, who do get to go on nice vacations and buy nice clothes every month, who have parents with jobs. I know I should be grateful for what I have, but I can't help wanting what they have. There is little that could make me happier right now than getting a backpack filled with only the essentials (including a camera, of course) and hopping on a plane to Europe. I don't want to travel on a schedule; I just want to take the train all across the continent, get lost in the places I've never been, meet new people and listen to their stories, try new food and capture it all in my photos. I am (and probably always will be) consumed by wanderlust. | NARRATIVE | NA TB | 473,749 |
logged in user doesn't have permission to add new instances of the Author model from our previous example, it won't be listed in the types of pages that user can add when viewing the navigation tree in the admin. In conjunction with Django's permission system, the Page model also implements the methods can_add , can_change and can_delete . These methods provide a way for custom page types to implement their own permissions by being overridden on subclasses of the Page model. Each of these methods takes a single argument which is the current request object. This provides the ability to define custom permission methods with access to the current user as well. Note The can_add permission in the context of an existing page has a different meaning than in the context of an overall model as is the case with Django's permission system. In the case of a page instance, can_add refers to the ability to add child pages. For example, if our Author content type should only contain one child page at most, and only be deletable when added as a child page (unless you're a superuser), the following permission methods could be implemented: We've looked closely at the aspects of individual pages, now let's look at displaying all of the pages as a heirarchical menu. A typical site may contain several different page menus, for example a menu that shows primary pages on the header of the site, with secondary pages as drop-down lists. Another type of menu | HI | HI | 765,554 |
Chorus: I'm gonna keep the rocks silent One more day I'm gonna keep the rocks silent Oh, one more day I don't know about you, but I'll keep praising his name, and I'm gonna keep the rocks silent For one more day Verse: Well there's all kinds of trouble weighing me down, I hear the voice of confusion, trying to turn me around, but I'm bound and determine to see this thang through, until the end of my struggle Struggle, here's what I'm gonna do Chorus: Verse: Now I've been fighting a good fight, mile after mile, and my burdens is lifted after just a little while, see I'm bound and determined I made up my mine, I may not know the answer Answer, but in the mean time Chorus: Verse: Now I don't know much of nothing, about the end of my days, but I know a little something, about the power of praise, cause I've been bound and determine, right from the start, to keep a rock in my right hand Right hand, praise in my heart Chorus: Gonna, keep the rocks silent (Repeat) Ad-lib: Hey, yes I am, I'm gonna keep the rocks silent, oh Lord, I don't want no rocks, crying out for me, (One more day), I don't want no rocks, crying out for me, as long as I got a hand to raise, as long as I got a hand to raise, and a voice to praise, as long as I got a song | LY | LY SL | 581,719 |
All She Wants to Do Is Rock Lyrics Wynonie Harris Hold back the dawn stop all the clocks i just got the news that my baby wants to rock All she wants to do is rock (rock) All she wants to do is rock (rock rock) All she wants to do is rock (rock rock) Rock n' roll all night long My baby don't go for fancy clothes high-class denim and picture shows all she wants to do is stay at home and hoggle-buck(?) with daddy all night long All she wants to do is rock (rock) All she wants to do is rock (rock rock) All she wants to do is rock (rock rock) Rock n' roll all night long She doesn't like ride on airplane never had a trip on a street night train when it comes to loving she knows what it's all about and the way she hoggle-bucks(?) knocks me out All she wants to do is rock (rock) All she wants to do is rock (rock rock) All she wants to do is rock (rock rock) Rock n' roll all night long (All she wants to do is rock) Rock by my(?) baby (All she wants to do is rock) Rock my baby (All she wants to do is rock) She wants to rock with the clock but she don't know when to stop She gets her kicks everyday yes rocking her fine(?) subway she rocks in the basement she rocks upstairs i can't take | LY | LY SL | 563,021 |
How To Make The Best Use Of Do Not Disturb Feature in iOS 6 But one of our favorite features, which we've been using quite frequently is the Do Not Disturb feature. While notifications and alerts ensure we don't miss new information and events, there are times when we've felt the need to silence all the notifications and calls so that they don't disturb us. In this article, we show you everything one needs to know about the Do Not Disturb feature such as how to enable it, customize the settings, schedule the Do No Disturb settings and how to quickly find out if the Do Not Disturb feature is enabled, so you can make the best use of the feature. But, before we tell you how to enable, it is important to understand how it works. When the Do not Disturb toggle is enabled and the iPhone is locked , all notifications and calls are silenced expect for the alarm sounds. You will continue to get notifications and calls, iOS will also update the numbered badges, just that they will be silenced so you don't get disturbed by them when your iPhone is locked. It is important to note that when the iPhone is unlocked, you will get all the notifications and calls as usual (as if the feature is disabled). Enable Do Not Disturb: Launch the Settings app from your iPhone or iPad's Home screen. Tap on the Do Not Disturb toggle just above Notifications to turn it | HI | HI HT | 3,248,790 |
I wouldn't be surprised if that carrier and any staff involved would have signed Non Disclosure Agreements. Things don't get launched on a single day without lots of work before that. The iPhones have all launched simultaeneously in the past and there must have been mega work done in the background before launch. Just the hardware and software testing this forum loves to discuss we know has to happen. And, in the case of iPhone, for instance, there's a whole lot of other infrastructure going on. Yet NOBODY knew anything until the day it launched. There HAD to be people working on it. And you can bet they were bound nice and tightly by legal limitations to stop them telling anybody anything. It could be any of those things but given that not even Samsung has announced the launch of the 4G device, I don't see how there will be any extra available information out of Telstra. However, Australia's "4G" network isn't actually what is defined as 4G world wide. The reason being, the frequency in which our 4G operates. Similar to the iPad3, although the device is technically 4G compatible, it is the network frequency that is letting us down. So, why do we not we have many supportive 4G devices in this country? Because the standard bands used for 4G ( 700MHz and 2100MHz) are in use by other applications. Namely, analog TV (700mhz) and 2G networks(2100Mhz). Not so for the model that Samsung Australia has released locally | ID | ID DF | 721,160 |
(provisionally) 'final station' in Sein und Zeit . Lvinas' ontic misunderstanding of the ontological structure of care serves him only as a polemical foil to bolster his opposed claim that the "subject" or "human being" is not fundamentally full of cares but fixated on its own egoistic enjoyment (cf. Totality and Infinity II A 2 "Living off... (Enjoyment)" and II A 3 "Enjoyment and Independence"). vi) Beyond being If there is one single, decisive point at which the issue between Heidegger and Lvinas becomes abundantly clear, it is the issue of e)pe/keina th=j ou)si/aj . This famous phrase from Plato's Politeia which announces the beyond of being as the i)de/a a)gaqou= , i.e. the Idea of the Good, is cited by both thinkers, but whereas Lvinas, to my knowledge, is content to quote the phrase and interpret it immediately as the intrusion of ethics into (the 'ontological totality' of) being without taking the effort to provide even the skerrick of an in-depth interpretation of the relevant passages in Plato, Heidegger is at some pains to provide an ontological interpretation of the i)de/a a)gaqou= , (8) which he interprets ? via a translation into Aristotelean ou(= e(/neka ? as the "Umwillen des Daseins" (e.g. GA26:237, cf. the entire section GA26:237-252 "Die Transzendenz des Daseins"). Even in Lvinas' last major work Autrement qu'tre ou au-del de l'essence , (9) whose title plays on the Platonic phrase, there is no serious attempt made to interpret in extenso the phrase e)pe/keina th=j ou)si/aj in | IN | IN RA | 761,215 |
my friends with how to do it. Thanks for inspiring me to do this! (Even though my parents were pretty shocked! Haa :) ) Thanks for this post, I hope that I can visit your blog every day but unfortunately I can't do that. By the way, can you have a review about google +1 effect ? I just want to know it better. Thanks again! :) I want to do this with my hair so badly, i've went through the faze of dying it blonde from it being dark brown, but i wanted to do it like this before hand and never went through with it. does it take it long, and does it ruin your hair? and if your dying your hair back to brown from the top down should you die it first and then bleach those bottom bits, or do you think that you would be able to just dye the parts you want brown, brown? i love love love your hair. i was wondering if you had any tips for blondes going ombre. i recently had my hair dyed in a salon. it's dark blonde with light blonde highlights throughout. since my hair grows back in fast i'm debating on what i should do. since there are few helpful videos on how to achieve the look going from blonde hair, i'm concerned it won't come out how i'd like. the look i'd like is what you have in the first picture, when you got strawberry | HI | HI HT | 3,148,094 |
the judicial system failed me miserably. The reasons? Money and votes. I have been screwed multiple times and now am getting screwed again because I'm REQUIRED to be there. I have read every post here and I'm going with my right as a christian to exercise jury nullification. I cannot stand cops, court, and anything that remotely resembles any of them because of me being railroaded by them every chance they could. Dear Lord, please let me be excused. Wow! I don't know where you guys are getting paid 35-40 bucks a day, but where I am from they only pay you 9 bucks a day for county court. There is no way I can pay my bills on 9 bucks a day, especially when my place of employment won't pay me for being there.It is a financial hardship. My problem with jury duty is when the lawyers would start asking you questions..question that sometimes you just don't know how to answer...I know I'm not dumb, but I would blackout and my anxiety attack takes over..I been through it 2yrs ago and it scared the crap out of me and I never wanna go through it again..plssss someone help me!!!... | HI | HI HT | 167,513 |
doubt that this will pose a challenge for all of us living on the west coast. But we are actively planning; we are working with volunteer groups. Anyone who finds any tsunami debris can go to our webpage, Ministry of Environment, and can register the material...We coordinated that response, and we will be ready when the majority of that debris arrives on our shores in 2013," responded the minister. However, Coons wasn't happy with that answer, and says the committee formed has been largely ineffective. " Here in B.C. the draft meeting minutes from the March 19 Japan tsunami debris coordination committee, which the minister talks about, noted that neither the terms of reference or the proposed organization structure was ready yet. On Haida Gwaii last night, Masset and Old Massett held a joint council meeting. Ken Rae, chief councillor of Old Massett, asked why the province still hasn't provided any direction. He has a quote: 'What is the holdup? Why hasn't the minister begun coordinating with First Nations and coastal communities to start the cleanup process and deal with landfill issues?'," he said. Noting discussions taking place with Washington State, the Federal Government and First Nations, Minister Lake said it was important to ensure the situation was handled properly. " Despite what the member opposite may believe, we are coordinating this effort. We are working very closely with all the members of our team, and we do realize that this will take a huge effort on the part of | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 164,238 |
probably a short one (compare 1Co 16:7); and attended with pain and humiliation (2Co 2:1; 12:21), occasioned by the scandalous conduct of so many of his own converts. His milder censures having then failed to produce reformation, he wrote briefly directing them "not to company with fornicators." On their misapprehending this injunction, he explained it more fully in the Epistle, the first of the two extant (1Co 5:9, 12). That the second visit is not mentioned in Acts is no objection to its having really taken place, as that book is fragmentary and omits other leading incidents in Paul's life; for example, his visit to Arabia, Syria, and Cilicia (Ga 1:17-21). The Place of Writing is fixed to be Ephesus (1Co 16:8). The subscription in English Version, "From Philippi," has no authority whatever, and probably arose from a mistaken translation of 1Co 16:5, "For I am passing through Macedonia." At the time of writing Paul implies (1Co 16:8) that he intended to leave Ephesus after Pentecost of that year. He really did leave it about Pentecost (A.D. 57). Compare Ac 19:20. The allusion to Passover imagery in connection with our Christian Passover, Easter (1Co 5:7), makes it likely that the season was about Easter. Thus the date of the Epistle is fixed with tolerable accuracy, about Easter, certainly before Pentecost, in the third year of his residence at Ephesus, A.D. 57. For other arguments, see Conybeare and Howson's Life and Epistles of St. Paul. The Epistle is written in the | LY | LY PR | 439,137 |
in which case the transfer will be processed on the next bank business day. Transfers from your ANZ Credit Card will be treated as a cash advance . | HI | HI FH | 89,402 |
guess I'll put that one forward, if only because it's the one time I remember successfully nominating something for the sidebar. (Also it's fucking hilarious). posted by mannequito at 12:52 AM on November 17 Where the heck is that Greg Nog comment about dressing dogs up in clothes? Also, although this makes me look like a shameless log-roller, I read MonkeyToes' description of life with turkeys when I need a quick cheer up. And, yes, I realize that that is two favorite comments, and I have defied the spirit of the thread, but here I stand. I can do no other. God help me, as Martin Luther, theologian, reformer, and constipation sufferer, once said. posted by GenjiandProust at 6:57 AM on November 17 Or is alleged to have said. Or is said to have been alleged to have said (but in German or maybe Latin) but probably didn't. All of which seems appropriate to MetaFilter. posted by GenjiandProust at 7:08 AM on November 17 [ 1 favorite ] Sleep is where I'm a Viking. (An Actual literal Viking with a horned helmet and everything.) posted by capnsue at 8:49 AM on November 17 [ 1 favorite ] There are many comments that I have found insightful and hilarious and thought-provoking, but if I had to narrow it down to a single comment that within its context remains amazingly moving, it would be " I have them ". I wasn't even part of that thread as it was happening, and that | ID | ID DF | 3,190,647 |
Making Time: With Maxabella Lots of people I know save their pennies and get some help around the house. So do I, but it's not a cleaner that I save for -- it's a gardener. Our gardeners come only once a month, but what a difference they make to our quality of life. I mean that sincerely. Having a well-tended garden is such a daily delight. It makes me happy just looking at it and even happier being out in it. See, I've never quite understood the cleaner thing. To me it's lots of money invested in creating clean surfaces for my children to instantly mess up again. They still mess it up when it's me doing the cleaning, of course, but at least then it doesn't feel like they're taking $20 bills and ripping them up before my very eyes. No, when they mess up my own cleaning it only feels like they are ripping up my heart... um... note to self: reinvestigate reasons for not wanting a cleaner! Anyway, gardens are a lot of work so my once-a-month gardener indulgence isn't quite enough to keep everything looking glorious. That's why over the years I've discovered some tried and tested ways to get that 'well-tended' look, without the well-tended time commitment. The more time I save in the garden, the more time I have for relaxing in it with a nice cold glass of aaaaah-that's-better. 1. Install a drip irrigation system on a timer This is possibly the best | HI | HI HT | 3,732,641 |
amino acids may also have critical roles. Rats fed an isocaloric low protein diet have offspring whose pancreatic islet cells have impaired insulin release. However, supplementation of the maternal low protein diet with taurine alone restored the insulin secretion of the fetal islets. 84 It seems likely that other specific amino acids are important in particular phases of organ development in different tissues, but this has not yet been explored in detail. Glycine, for example, appears to be a conditionally essential amino acid for a number of important metabolic compounds including nucleic acids, collagen, haeme and keratin. 85 Marginal glycine insufficiency appears to be common even in pregnant women with otherwise adequate diets, so that in some pregnancies the ability of the mother to provide glycine for herself and the developing fetus is marginal or inadequate. 86 This marginal insufficiency can be exacerbated if the dietary methionine content is increased, apparently because glycine is consumed in detoxification of the excess of methionine. 87 From these examples it is possible to see that the balance of protein and carbohydrate in the diet, and the balance of different amino acids, can have critical effects on fetal growth and thus may be important nutritional programming influences which have yet to be explored in detail. Fluctuations in nutrient supply to the fetus may also have important effects on fetal growth and the programming of later disease risk. Maternal diabetes in pregnancy is a relatively common cause of altered fetal nutrient supply, with increased glucose | IN | IN RA | 196,167 |
stood up but your legs aren't moving again, but all your wasted time goes to show that your just not giving up | LY | LY SL | 99,692 |
enough) it's the way you hold me yeah (i just can't get enough) it's the way you love me, baby love me baby ( i just can't get enough) Verse 1: i love the way you look at me / when i get home late from work / you don't how that makes me feel / that's how i know how much your worth / and i love the way your hair falls down your face / when you lean in close to me / can't get enough of who you are / to me your my only one / Pre Chorus: i just can't get enough / i can't live without your touch / i know that your the one / cause you set my heart on fire / people say what they say / but they don't know you or me / let them do what they do / cause i can't stop loving you/ Verse 2: said i love the way you hold me close / when we're making love / nobody compares to you / i cherish what we've got / and i love the way you close your eyes / when you kiss me there / something magic between us / i feel it in the air / Pre Chorus: Chorus: Bridge: baby, i know your there's no-one for me but you / my heart it tells me so / the way you kiss me, way you touch me / when you tell me there's | LY | LY SL | 1,731,252 |
Bastides: Medieval planned towns The "Bastide" towns of southwest France are a growing tourist attraction, and comprise one of the largest collections of well-preserved mediaeval townscapes to be found anywhere in Europe. Obviously, the built environment of the more important bastides has been significantly modified since mediaeval times, but in many of the more rurally sited bastides, the layout of streets and buildings has remained virtually unchanged for over six centuries, if not longer, and many of today's buildings have walls, if not much more, that date back to the early days of the town. There are said to be some 500-700 bastides in France, depending on how wide the definition is extended. Most of these are the southwest, and the majority of them were built in the two centuries from 1200 to 1400. At the time, the southwest of France was a frontier region, belonging partly to France, and partly to the kings of England. It should be remembered that until the mid fifteenth century, when the "English" were to all intents and purposes driven out of France, the kings of England, French-speaking, were actually Angevins, one of the four great French dynasties, who had moved their power base from Angers (in the Loire valley) to England, but still had large possessions in France, notably Aquitaine. The large number of bastides in the southwest of France were set up in order to establish a more modern society in what was, at the time, a rather wild and inhospitable part | IN | IN DT | 668,014 |
Out On The Streets Lyrics Twisted Sister I walk alone through sleepless nights I'm just another number Somethin' just ain't right Searchin' for something In this human zoo Kaleidoscope of faces Maybe, maybe it might be you I feel like I lost my way Things get darker everyday that I stay You're out on the streets Livin' on your own You're out on the streets So far from home When you're out on the streets You can't understand what's goin' on You're out on the streets Your heart's your only home The mind, it wanders Through shattered dreams Hours pass in seconds And my heart, it screams I can't fight the past I force back all of my tears 'Cause there ain't no turnin' back Minutes, minutes turn to years Someone listen to my prayers Can't help feelin', no one cares, no one dares You're out on the streets Livin' on your own You're out on the streets So far from home When you're out on the streets You can't understand what's goin' on You're out on the streets Your heart's your only home Maybe there's a place for me Is my dreaming to be free, fantasy You're out on the streets Livin' on your own You're out on the streets So far from home When you're out on the streets You can't understand what's goin' on You're out on the streets Your heart's your only home You're out on the streets You're livin' on your own You're out on | LY | LY SL | 471,307 |
half the stuff that comes out of Hollywood is lifted from some other country and 90% of it as been so rewriten to make it acceptable for an American audience, that it's now only bearly just about reconisable by audiences in the country from which it came. AZryan Holy cow, you're illiterate. (learn to spell some of the simple words you messed up, ok??). Milne, who created W. the Pooh, sold the rights to another guy for MONEY. Then 30 YEARS later, that guy sold the rights to Disney for MONEY. You're insane to complain about what the creator and following owners did with what ISN'T YOURS in any way!? Try making up your own thing if you're so offended. If you like W. the Pooh so much...well, DUH...that's WHY Disney bought it! Personally, I give Disney as little of my money as possible, but I don't say that can't do business. And Barrie donated the rights to Peter Pan to the Great Ormond Street children's hospital, NOT the one you mentioned!? They owned those rights for 70 YEARS, until it fell into the public domain in 2007. That's just the LAW. The dispute is 'IF' it remains under copyright in America (but not Europe) until 2023. The dispute was over one little book sequel by Hyperion (a Disney-owned publisher) written by two people who just wanted to make a story to make kids happy, and thought Peter Pan was in the public domain (because it appeared to BE). It | OP | OP OB | 660,523 |
Off the rails to make a killing By Mike Carlton March 15 2003 In 1914, for all the frantic diplomacy in the chanceries of Europe, the march to war became unstoppable when the German army mobilised by rail. It was impossible to turn back the Kaiser's troop trains. There is a similar, ominous inevitability about the coming war to remake Iraq in the image of Crawford, Texas. The United States has dispatched such colossal military force to the Middle East - with such deliberately noisy public spectacles as the detonation of the mother of all bombs the other day - that George Bush now has just two choices. He either pulls the trigger or he makes a humiliating backdown that would wreck his presidency. Guess which one he's gunna do. And John Howard will have us right in there with him. So war rushes in to fill the vacuum left by the catastrophic implosion of American diplomacy. This is a towering achievement for the Bush neo-conservatives who captured Washington, DC, with those few hanging chads in Florida. In the 18 months since September 11, their dazzling synthesis of arrogance and purblind stupidity has turned the civilised world's sympathy for America into fear of its power and distrust of its motives. Along the way, the Bush chickenhawks have managed to split Europe, to antagonise America's oldest ally, France, to wreck NATO, and to whip the British Labour Party into open revolt against the once-omnipotent Tony Blair. They are barely speaking to | NARRATIVE | null | 608,164 |
defend Western Europe and West Berlin, for example, stands undiminished because of the identity of our vital interests. The United States will make no deal with the Soviet Union at the expense of other nations and other peoples, not merely because they are our partners, but also because their interests and ours converge Our interests converge, however, not only in defending the frontiers of freedom, but in pursuing the paths of peace. It is our hope -- and the purpose of allied policy -- to convince the Soviet Union that she, too, should let each nation choose its own future, so long as that choice does not interfere with the choices of others. The Communist drive to impose their political and economic system on others is the primary cause of world tension today. For there can be no doubt that, if all nations could refrain from interfering in the self-determination of others, the peace would be much more assured. This will require a new effort to achieve world law -- a new context for world discussions. It will require increased understanding between the Soviets and ourselves. And increased understanding will require increased contact and communication. One step in this direction is the proposed arrangement for a direct line between Moscow and Washington, to avoid on each side the dangerous delays, misunderstandings, and misreadings of other's actions which might occur at a time of crisis. We have also been talking in Geneva about our first-step measures of arm[s] controls designed to | SP | SP TA | 735,671 |
Well, I think that when you guys first emerged, dubstep was pretty much on everyone's lips, so it was an easy connection to make, but to my mind you always seemed closer to industrial music and jungle, as you've mentioned. JA: It's difficult, because dubstep has now become a little bit passe as a term and if you go back to the beginnings, to those iconic labels like DMZ, the music was absolutely incredible. We'd never say that it wasn't an important part of electronic music, it's just that at this moment in time, it feels almost like a negative thing. TH: It's become so branched out that it's become a blanket term, so it's not really pinning anything down. JA: Our first influence was probably Mo'Wax, you know, DJ Shadow and trip-hop. When I was 15, I bought my first Mo'Wax record and was absolutely sold on it, man. It was just the coolest fucking thing I'd ever heard. And then we've just gone through everything: Detroit techno, jungle, house music... And then there's the flip side, which is all the sort of avant-garde, industrial and doom stuff. TH: Those things kind of came a bit later for us. JA: I think we're just hungry, and we get obsessed. Record collecting is still a massive part of our lives. How did you go about creating and recording the tracks on Quarter Turns Over A Living Line ? TH: We did a lot of recordings, by ourselves and with other | SP | SP IT | 3,052,972 |
ridiculous aggression. It is so telling that Jolie is so very jealous, by all reports, of any other woman. Rightfully so, she knows how easily Pitt is led astray, but this woman who casually talks about an open relationship and understandings is at heart a possessive hausfrau, lacking only the iron skillet to bash over her man's thick head when he comes home late. Ange prefers knives, which I understand she has thrown at Pitt on more than one occasion. That is scary for many reasons. Aside from the direct danger to Pitt, I cannot help but believe one or more of the children has at some point been witness to this insanity. Most probably Maddox, who now has a knife obsession of his own, as does Pax. I have strayed off topic, but ...knives. Threats. Duplicity piled upon duplicity. Complete lack of remorse over infidelity, hurtful actions. The list goes on and on, but it all adds up to a very ugly portrait of the "two most beautiful people in the world." I do not have a chateau, but I feel so very lucky. I know this is rambling, but there is so much to take in on this thread, it's hard to get it all expressed without an outline. | ID | ID DF | 597,842 |
wanted to point out that ebooks and gifts are not mutually exclusive. You really need a "Like" button for those of us who wish to avoid wasting space. Still, it is worth noting that reading your words is positive reinforcement, and I own a Kindle from my prior-to-sanity-days, so I would grab anything you wrote regardless of its repetitive nature ASAP .... Once I reach my no-stupid-emergency-debt mode in MAY of next year! Only six months away!!! When I was a teenager my church did a focus group about saving money in an IRA for retirement. They said that if you maxed out your IRA, you should be able to retire by the age of 40. They went into all these analyses of budgeting and figuring out how much you would need to retire. The problem is we were still living with our parents and had no concept of what our salaries would be or how much our costs of living would actually be. It was the right idea, but the audience was not at all prepared to receive the message, and I think that's something to consider when teaching kids about money. Teenagers have been through at least a decade of propaganda telling them that the only way to be a successful and respectable person is to get a job and love it. It's only after they've paid for college and been through several jobs that they realize life isn't all about work and developing a career. I don't | OP | OP | 3,255,993 |
Regional Council to get the ax? February 26, 2012 Lately BayBuzz been suggesting ( here and here ) that Local Government Minister Nick Smith is unhappy about the state of local government and might have a few 'reforms' to propose. Political commentator Jane Clifton, writing in the February 23rd Listener , puts it more sharply. Here's her story lead: "...in an unexpected lightning-strike on the sector, the Government is about to announce a top-to-bottom reform of local authorities, the principal aim being to restrict the ambit of council activities, their ability to borrow, and their ability to keep cranking up rates. Although Local Government Minister Nick Smith is keen to stress that he wants to work with councils, rather than against them, he has also made it clear radical change is on the agenda. Like abolishing regional councils, for example, and encouraging more amalgamation. Her article, Tackling our rising rates , is 'must-read' for anyone trying to sort out where the governance debate -- or non-debate , if you're a Napier mayor or councillor -- in Hawke's Bay is heading. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,742,403 |
creation? (or more appropriate perhaps, the private sector's credit destruction in this environment... of course this could later flip and we have the two working hand in hand but that's not the question I'm raising here). Also, I am not sure how we resolve prices using this piece, not just volumes? I appreciate the argument all that matters is volumes and that the rest is just a distribution issue, but I feel like I haven't quite mentally closed the circle on this yet and would greatly appreciate your thoughts on this. I also think about the regulation coming in -- if banks will be required to hold larger buffers what then for the magnification of this impact via fractional reserves ? Lastly, all this just my opinion of course, I thought the piece worked okay in an international perspective and you could see the Asian surplus dynamic which, via the FX pegs, ended up adding a lot of USD in USD banks etc but I found I had to suspend the behavioural element, ie. that there could be a run on the currency if policy gets too aggressive. Obviously this creates a big problem for the Europeans who cannot print. There really isn't any such thing as a "fractional reserve system". Loans create deposits, as a matter of accounting, and reserves adjust later. The "reserve requirement" is just a tax on banks, which (in the past, at least) required them to hold a certain amount of assets in non-interest bearing | IP | IP DS | 266,529 |
the day and night with W telling me what he's having for breakfast/lunch/dinner, what he's watching on TV, what he is doing next, etc., And now my phone is so quiet. It's been over 3 weeks and total silence. I don't even feel I need to hide my mobile phone anymore from my husband. I now leave it lying all around the house becaue I don't believe he will texts me again. Although sometimes I look at it hopefully and my heart aches a little. Lately I've been having flashbacks of scenes with him. I drove by the train station where we usually meet and I felt sad. I saw the same spot he stood there waiting for me and my heart really aches. I went shopping and saw the same lampshade he has in his bedroom and my heart aches too. I hear the same song on radio every morning which reminds me of him and that drags my mood down and saddens me. I read movie reviews about the last film we watched together and I feel sad. I lay on bed and flashes of his face over me makes me sad too. Can't believe it's all over for good. Once upon a time, we were so good. He was so romantic, loving and affectionate. Now he's gone quiet and I feel I do not know him anymore. Suddenly he is a stranger to me. I can't even log in my social networking site because that breaks my | ID | ID QA | 1,428,393 |
iFinity Blogs Getting your Author Profile to show in Google Results from your DotNetNuke blog Sep 4 Written by: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 10:55 AM You would have seen them by now -- little smiling photos of blog authors next to posts in Search Engine Result Pages. These are great additions in the world of the web, where personal brand and trust factors can be the difference between being heard or ignored. If you haven't gotten curious enough yet to look at how to do this, I'm here to tell you how to set this up on your DotNetNuke website, so your smiling dial appears next to your blog posts: Hey! That's me! How does it work, and what's it all about? Well, ostensibly, it all works through the technology of 'rich snippets'. Rich snippets are the Google terminology for web meta-data -- that is, data about the data on the web. Tim Berners-Lee -- he of inventing the world wide web -- started talking about this years ago, because so much data on the internet is context-less from a machine point of view. While you might look at the photo of me in the sidebar and conclude -- correctly -- that I wrote this blog post, it's much harder for a piece of software to deduce that correctly. He called it ' the semantic web ' back in internet pre-history of 2001. It sound complicated, but really, it isn't. We're all used to the concept that putting <i>around</i> a | HI | HI HT | 3,319,903 |
this case, I had to figure out the going rate for car rentals on a particular date and specific car size. Since we are bringing the two kids, we wanted something with a bit of luggage space. In my experience, Expedia usually has very reasonable car rental rates, so it's a good place to start. After that, I typically cross check the prices with the car rental company websites. It usually works out that Expedia is cheaper than the direct website. 2. Get Auction Prices As mentioned, we were looking for a particular size vehicle and in the city that we were looking, it meant only a couple of vehicle types to choose from. As we were comfortable with both vehicles (ie. luggage capacity with decent gas mileage) choices, auction sites like Hotwire and Priceline can work well in this situation. Hotwire works by offering the user a low price, but the user can not choose the company, just the vehicle size. I assume that the car rental companies bid their lowest rate to Hotwire on a daily basis. Knowing that, it's best to watch the vehicle rental price over a period of time as it will likely fluctuate daily. Before moving onto the next step, I usually wait until the car rental price has plateaued for at least a week. 3. Bid your Price! Now that you know the going rate, and the lowest price that car rental companies are willing to accept via Hotwire, it's time to use | IN | IN IB | 732,806 |
that nothing is going to make chocolate sauce a health food. Extra flavourings Nigel Slater recipe chocolate sauce. Photograph: Felicity Cloake I've avoided going too far down the flavouring road, because the possibilities are near infinite and how can one choose between a sauce gently spiced with cinnamon and chilli , and one laced with peanut butter ? Hobson's choice indeed. However, three of my recipes sneak in flavourings intended to subtly enhance rather than compete with the chocolate. Nigel boldly adds a couple of tablespoons of espresso for his "luscious, not-too-sweet sauce" in Real Food. I like it -- chocolate and coffee is a combination I enjoyed long before I ever actually drank anything as grown-up as an espresso -- but it's not the sauce I'm looking for here: even in such small quantities, the coffee comes through, muddying the chocolate flavour. The Weirs add a squeeze of lemon juice, which isn't really necessary unless your sauce is as sweet as theirs, and Alice Hart a generous pinch of salt, which she urges readers not to skip, because "just a touch will balance all that sweetness". She's right: as in so many sweet things the salt, although difficult to pick out, gives her sauce a more well-rounded flavour than the other stickies. Method Bill Granger melts his chocolate and cream together in a bain marie, which seems over fussy to me: as long as you keep your heat nice and low, and an eagle eye on proceedings you shouldn't | HI | HI HT | 552,384 |
thought-provoking architectural production of OMA, writing and research are central aspects of his practice. Among many books and collaborations with magazines, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978) and S, M, L, XL (1995) stand out as cult pieces on modern architecture and society. Koolhaas has won several international awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale. He is a professor at Harvard University where he conducts the Project on the City -- a hub for urban research of developing parts of the world. How do you think about architecture as the space of experience? In our work there is an underlying feeling that the subject should not spend all the attention in architecture but that there are other oppressing concerns that deserve attention. The subject can be inspired by serenity and regularity. Our architecture aims to deliberately reduce first degree excitement. It is about not having properties, as in Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften ( The Man Without Qualities , 1930) -- a very important book for me. How do you engage with other disciplines? I am deeply influenced by art. I read about it, I talk about it. I look and I listen. There are more literal forms of collaboration, such as having artists in the office to critique the things we are doing. We have worked with Carsten Holler to make things uglier and we have worked with Thomas Demand to make | SP | SP IT | 619,509 |
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