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button There are a number of stages to this part of what you need to do. Don't worry about the fact that you are creating a button for now. All will become clear in just a few minutes. Make sure you select Subscriptions from the drop down menu. Then complete the rest of the fields with your payment parameters. You can ignore the "Customize button" section. Make sure to insert the correct Tax rate if you are charging VAT/GST or any tax. Also do you need to charge your client for shipping? If so make sure to add a shipping price in to the field. Step 5: Check other parameters There are two other sections (step 2 and 3 in the diagram below) where you can configure a number of different options. I didn't have to change anything in those sections when I was setting up my payment link however I would recommend you look over them to see if there is anything that is relevant to your business. Then click the "Create Button" button. Step-6: Grab your email link On the page that loads you'll find two tabs one for your website button and one for the Email equivalent that PayPal has generated for you. Click the Email tab and then copy your email link (that's the bit of text in blue as per the diagram below: Hey Presto! Paste that link into the body of your email message and your recurring payment administrative headache is a thing of | HI | HI HT | 3,100,757 |
of many people that AIDS in Africa will soon be brought under control. Until then the people of Africa will have to be better educated about AIDS and what it can do to a person. Until this happens, AIDS will continue to plague the continent for years to come. | IN | IN DT | 789,001 |
(no, wait -- I think it already exists as a future person). So as long as the newborn in front of me was one of the future persons that I thought about nine months ago before getting pregnant, then it can't be harmed since it was going to exist as a person when I thought of it. Now, since this article has forced me to think about all future persons (whoever they may be), I can't justify harming/killing any of them, since I would be killing persons. Therefore people not reading this article can kill any newborn (and maybe any sleeping philosophers), but those of us who have read it are doomed to preserve the lives of all future generations -- after all, they'll be persons. It makes perfect sense. Now, is this engagement reasoned enough to pass peer review at JME? ttp://www.facebook.com/karl.johnsen Karl Johnsen You got some abusive emails??? Poor dears .... Does baby need a cookie? Grow up. seeker A defender of filthy perverts is a pervert himself. Dala The subject is interesting, but the paper is playing with semantics and deliberately using inflammatory language. Basically, the argument is false equivocation, shown here: "Both a fetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons, but neither is a 'person' in the sense of 'subject of a moral right to life'. We take 'person' to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of | OP | OP OB | 611,513 |
frequently plunged into darkness, creating feelings of both repose and mystery. The pictures are arranged into five chapters called Desert, Ocean, Mountain, Forest and Polar, but these subjects often creep from one chapter into another. What is more interesting is when Wolfe presents a series of pictures, often on facing pages, that look at the same subject in different light, or different subjects in the same light. This allows us to explore the subtle differences between the pictures and come to a deeper understanding of Wolfe?s art and the subject. Technical data and Wolfe's commentary on the circumstances of the taking of each picture are in the back of the book, where they do not detract from the optical feast, but are available to those who may be interested in these details. Beginning each chapter is a short essay by Art Davidson that is well written and has some relationship to the subsequent photographs. Such essays have become mandatory but, like the ones in this book, they often seem to have a life of their own that does not really illuminate the pictures. Perhaps I?m asking too much, but I have the example of photographer Galen Rowell?s book "Alaska: Images of the Country" in which Rowell quoted selected passages from author John McPhee?s book "Coming into the Country" to give us a strong but intimate view of that place. Speaking of Rowell, one of his most famous books was "Mountain Light" where he showed photographers how to capture mountains in | IP | IP DS | 504,601 |
all the town was lost, forever and forever. And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him. He believed he had taxed the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result. It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and ammunition to kill a bug with a battery of artillery, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunderstorm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself. By and by the tempest spent itself and died without accomplishing its object. The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform. His second was to wait? for there might not be any more storms. The next day the doctors were back; Tom had relapsed. The three weeks he spent on his back this time seemed an entire age. When he got abroad at last he was hardly grateful that he had been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was. He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird. He | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 368,576 |
for it. ttp://www.facebook.com/lindaf3 Linda Fox They're not even trying to hide it. Bet this does NOT make the news. RedGA When you have a guy who rarely speaks to the media they have to work together to pry anything out of him. This has more to do with Romney just not giving anyone access than anything. This happens at all levels of media. Even all the right wing bloggers met with Rove and the White House when Bush was in office. Stop looking for a conspiracy every time the wind blows. Good God people. Can't we beat a guy on issues without having to look like nutjobs every day? ttp://twitter.com/antistuff Antistuff This! I probably don't agree with you on issues of policy, but my goodness this was a great comment! ttp://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1\\... Joe Mammy This is nothing new, nor is it sinister. It's simply a press pool doing what it always does, which is to make sure that the "high points" are covered, which they can then do a story about. WordsFailMe Dont you have something to do somewhere else? keyesforpres It would be one thing if it was a question that truly needed to be answered, but this question was not designed to get the truth out there....it was designed to cover onumbnut's behind and to ignore the 4 murders. You mean Nancy Cordes who, like Obama, grew up in HI and graduated from Punahau School? Karla1953 Not surprised at all/sadly though a large number of voters will never even | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 758,023 |
Talk About The Weather/Paint Your Wagon - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry UNFORTUNATELY THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK. Cherry Red Records apologises for the unavailability of this album, however if you would like to be notified when it is on sale again then please email matti@cherryred.co.uk . Thanks. Both of these albums reached the top of the independent charts in the mid 80s and are here on one CD for the first time. 18 tracks including the indie chart singles Hollow Eyes, This Today and Walking On Your Hands. The booklet includes the original artworks for the albums and all their singles. Sad Lovers and Giants originally formed in 1981 and produced 'classy alternative pop music', a psychedelic post punk sound. The guitars chimed above atmospheric keyboards held together by a rock solid rhythm section underpinning very accessible song writing and the strong haunting voice of singer Garce. Think Chameleons, early Cure and latterly bands like Interpol. After their initial split in 1984 interest in the band grew at home and abroad prompting them into reforming in the late 80's and producing several more great albums but 'Epic Garden Music' is the starting point. Released 20/07/2009. Sad Lovers and Giants first full album, a brilliant atmospheric post punk album, elements of Joy Division and The Chameleons and more tellingly of bands that followed. Recorded in 1983 Feeding the Flame showcases the original line up at their very best. Just completed successful European dates more in the pipeline. Not available | IP | IP DS | 609,979 |
haven_T checked my e-mail I_Tll lose my job okay get written up but both are bad news! As a sales assistant it_Ts required to handle all emergencys no matter what time of the day - 3. Do not agree to meetings or calls with no clear agenda or end time GREAT one again! Have an agenda even if it_Ts just bullet points! 4. Do not let people ramble I love the I_Tm in the middle of something to go out what_Ts going on! 5. Do not check e-mail constantly_"_obatch_? and check at set times only as number 2 states I have to check e-mail for packages coming in I forgot to add if I don_Tt response the AE will come up to me asking me if I got the e-mail and if I could check it to print there document! I so wish I could only check e-mail 1 time an hour! 6. Do not over-communicate with low-profit, high-maintenance customers they just talked about this! You got to be greedy here! Great call! 7. Do not work more to fix overwhelm_"prioritize lol maybe that_Ts why everything is urgent! Lol the joy of radio! I have a hard time prioritizing I even have my boss help me it_Ts all important to me.. it_Ts the little thigns that get looked over and that causes issues in the long run! ! 8. Do not carry a cellphone or Crackberry 24/7, seven days a week lol maybe I should carry one or at least | OP | OP AV | 442,554 |
them, so the mistakes aren't really fixed, then they show up in the worst place possible: the performance when we are under stress. So take the time to make mistakes, find out where they are, acknowledge them without judging and then fix them. Stand on one foot, do something odd to get out of your comfort box and distract Self 1 and see what happens. Feeling your feet is also another way to stay connected with our bodies as we play. Whenever I play now, I am keenly aware of every part of my body; how I'm standing, how I'm moving, if I have excess tension anywhere, etc. This proves invaluable because without that self awareness, I would not notice the pains beginning in various places because of extra tension. I wouldn't notice my posture had deteriorated to a hunched position, etc. This allows me to correct it before it can become a problem. It also allows me to fully use my whole body freely as I play, instead of staying wrapped up in my head. If you would like more information on this topic and several of the techniques I discussed, some books I suggest are: A Soprano on Her Head by Eloise Ristad The Perfect Wrong Note by William Westney The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Galloway Body Learning by Michael Gelb Awareness Through Movement by Moshe Feldenkrais The Use of Self by Matthias Alexan Angela McCuiston holds a MM | OP | OP AV | 1,752,747 |
had happened before in our country, in the late 1830s, late 1870s, and mid-1890s. However the event we now know as the 'Great Depression' lasted longer than any other and came as a great shock because the twenties had been such a boom time. Kennedy traces the source of the severity of this depression to the international factors that emerged from World War I. In this analysis, Herbert Hoover had been more of a victim of events than the cause of them. Nevertheless, Hoover no longer had the public's trust nor confidence and the electorate turned him out of office in 1932. What I learned from this book was how the Depression came in waves. That it was not right after the stock market crashed that things went bad, but a series of events that continued to torpedo the U.S. Economy until it collapsed. When Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor move into the White House, the President brought with them Harry Hopkins and Frances Perkins. While in Washington they begin to set up the New Deal. Kennedy spends a great deal of time discussing the New Deal and its impact. The New Deal benefited and continues to benefit the nation. Its immediate impact with programs like the Civilian Conservation Corps provided the unemployed temporary employment. The New Deal continues to impact us today with Social Security, banking reforms, a minimum wage, and safety regulations for workers. Kennedy explains clearly that the New Deal did not end the depression. | IP | IP DS | 722,804 |
Tell me Frank, how many times has The Board of Regents lowered our Standards of Education? ...now tell me what the ramifications of this just might be...or the brain-deadening drugs introduced in the 60's...would brilliance be the result? Wake up...we've been throwing our freedoms away for a very long time and the signs have all been right in front of us (too numerous to list here). Gerhard J. Pasek | 11.20.09 @ 4:21PM Citizens for Justice | 11.21.09 @ 10:20AM Frank, Obama was elected because the Rebublicans made such an incredibe mess of this country in the last 8 years and offered no other viable alternatives. Republicans still offer no viable alternatives. Ben's article above is full of inaccurate statements and untruths. It is intended, like most conservative doctrines, to scare people. Americans are really tired of the politics of fear. HA HA HA, blame Bush when you have no facts. Right out of the Democraps playbook. Jimmy Carter started it, and Clinton accelerated it, and the Democratic run Congress made sure it was implemented by forcing it on all the financial institutions and Wallstreet. Go do some homework instead of the worn out 'blame it on Bush' crap. (without specifications) DJ | 7.18.10 @ 11:20PM I agree with JR, all the bank mess started in the Carter administration and fully implemented during Clinton's administration. Bush inherited a mess. Granted he didn't do enough to fix it, but he was not the author--Democrats were. Fed-up | 12.14.09 @ 9:32PM obama | IP | IP | 186,900 |
key Windows security updates, so you don't have to download them again after reinstallation. There are still potential dangers -- RT Seven Lite is a beta, so it will contain bugs -- but we think they're minimal and worth it, especially if you regularly install Windows 7, would like to make it easier or fancy creating a lighter version for low-end hardware. If you want a 100 per cent guarantee of safety, RT Seven Lite isn't for you. But if you're willing to take a small risk for a very significant payoff then it's well worth putting an evening aside to give the program a try. Choose the installation Launch RT Seven Lite, click 'Browse | Select OS Path' and point it at your Windows set-up files. If you have a Windows 7 DVD then just browse to the root directory of that. If you don't have a DVD then the files are probably stored on your hard drive: check your PC documentation. When you locate them, copy the folder structure somewhere, then point RT Seven Lite at the new location (don't use your original folder). If you've chosen a DVD then RT Seven Lite will complain, because it needs the files to be located on your hard drive. Click 'OK' to confirm that you're happy with this, then make a new folder somewhere convenient and RT Seven Lite will copy the files over. Once everything has been transferred, choose the Windows 7 edition you'd like to configure. Make sure | HI | HI HT | 1,477,952 |
otherwise provides, but subject to this constitution, the laws in force in each State, for the time being, relating to elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of the State shall, as nearly as practicable, apply to elections of senators for the State. 11. The Senate may proceed to despatch of business, notwithstanding the failure of any State to provide for its representation in the Senate. 12. The Governor of any State may cause writs to be issued for elections of senators for the State. In case of the dissolution of the Senate the writs shall be issued within ten days from the proclamation of such dissolution. 13. As soon as may be after the Senate first meets, and after each first meeting of the Senate following a dissolution thereof, the Senate shall divide the senators chosen for each State into two classes, as nearly equal in number as practicable; and the places of the senators of the first class shall become vacant at the expiration of three years, and the places of those of the second class at the expiration of six years, from the beginning of their term of service; and afterwards the places of senators shall be vacant at the expiration of six years from the beginning of their term of service. The election to fill vacant places shall be made within one year before the places are to become vacant. For the purpose of this section the term of service of a senator shall | IN | IN IB | 188,666 |
a stance best defined as "tool." Anyways ... "Enforcing federal marijuana law against the states is purely a matter of prosecutorial discretion." The "take care" clause of the Constitution has SOME content. It is perfectly fine to say that they shouldn't target small personal possession though if they are investigating a serious crime and the pot will get them an "in," they very well might do it. But, take CO: Even here, there are horror stories, but putting aside Grandma having her home taken away since sonny has a few pot plants cultivated, it is quite another thing for the administration to not target large scale for profit "retail stores" and so forth. Particularly for purely recreational use. & what JFL etc. said about how "doing nothing" is actually "something" in reality. In my dreams, Obama says that he'll be happy to take up the extra judicial burdens associated with WA and CO state legalization the moment Congress allows him to fill all the federal judicial vacancies. | OP | OP OB | 512,228 |
If the court does overturn the mandate, it's going to be hard to know how to react. It's been more than 75 years since the Supreme Court overturned a piece of legislation as big as ACA, and I can't think of any example of the court overturning landmark legislation this big based on a principle as flimsy and manufactured as activity vs. inactivity. When the court overturned the NRA in 1935, it was a shock -- but it was also a unanimous decision and, despite FDR's pique, not really a surprising ruling given existing precedent. Overturning ACA would be a whole different kind of game changer. It would mean that the Supreme Court had officially entered an era where they were frankly willing to overturn liberal legislation just because they don't like it. Pile that on top of Bush v. Gore and Citizens United and you have a Supreme Court that's pretty explicitly chosen up sides in American electoral politics. This would be, in no uncertain terms, no longer business as usual. I read that and I think it's 2003 all over again. Back then, I couldn't believe that people whose opinions I respected were still struggling with the question of whether the Bush administration was making a wise move by going into Iraq; now, I can't believe that people I respect are still asking, "Could it be? Is it really conceivable that the Supreme Court is highly politicized?" Kevin Drum himself came around on the Iraq War a week | OP | OP OB | 241,548 |
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As I Lay Dying Interview We recently caught up with As I Lay Dying frontman, Tim Lambesis, whilst they were touring the UK with Trivium. Following the release of their recent studio release, Awakened, the band are currently touring Europe with Florida metallers, Trivium. OMG: Summer 2012 had some pretty awesome highlights, namely the Mayhem Festival tour and playing Download 2012 in the UK, were there any other highlights that I've missed, and what was your favourite moment of this summer? TIM: It's all a blur because there's been so much travelling; it's hard to remember real specifics but the Mayhem Tour was a good experience for us because it's that festival atmosphere every day, but we get to re-live it 40 days in a row, so that was pretty exciting. OMG: So you've just released "Awakened," how do you write a song, do you have a specific method and process or is it different for every track? TIM: It's a little different for each track, the general idea is that five of us will start working on individual ideas and start emailing each other those ideas, for everybody in the band we'll program some basic drums, and start layering guitars over it. In some cases the ideas being emailed back and forth are pretty much completed songs, and in other cases they're just a collection of riffs that we finish as a band when we get together in a traditional rehearsal environment. Instrumentally when we're happy with the song, | SP | SP IT | 3,040,275 |
Clayton. I completely agree with John Lennon's assessment of drugs and the drug culture (from the 1980 David Sheff interview, taking about his song Cold Turkey): "They're so stupid about drugs! They're always arresting smugglers or kids with a few joints in their pocket. They never face the reality. They're not looking at the cause of the drug problem. Why is everybody taking drugs? To escape from what? Is life so terrible? Do we live in such a terrible situation that we can't do anything about it without reinforcement from alcohol or tobacco or sleeping pills? I'm not preaching about 'em. I'm just saying a drug is a drug, you know. Why we take them is important, not who's selling it to whom on the corner." Why we take them should be a topic valued higher than persecution of the people peddling them. If we want the sickness to go away, we have to go to the root. Why are people so upset that they inject poison into their veins? Reality doesn't suck - something makes it suck. Let's find out what that is, together. The fact that people break the current laws and get themselves into serious trouble is not an indicator that the laws should be dropped. Rather, I think a mandatory death penalty for those guilty of trafficking drugs - with a very zealous and well funded enforcement would be a better solution. I completely agree with John Lennon's assessment of drugs and the drug culture (from | ID | ID DF | 1,404,214 |
regulation in this task... "The activation of ventrolateral, but not dorsolateral, PFC [pre-frontal cortex] indicates that Acheulean toolmaking is distinguished by cognitive demands for the coordination of ongoing, hierarchically organized action sequences rather than the internal rehearsal and evaluation of action plans. "The increasingly anterior and RH-dominant frontal activation during Late Acheulean toolmaking reflects the more complex, multi-level structure of the task (figure 3), which includes the flexible iteration of multi-step processes in the context of larger scale technical goals. "Archaeological evidence of ESA [Early Stone Age] technological change thus traces a trajectory of ever more skill-intensive, bimanual toolmaking methods that overlap functionally and anatomically with important elements of the human faculty for language." In short, we can be sure that Late Acheulean tools (dating from 500,000 years ago) required rationality to make them. Whether early Acheulean tools (dating from 1.8 million years ago) required rationality in order to produce them is less certain at this stage. 5. I am amazed that you don't see much of a difference in the "yuck factor" between incest and bestiality. One involves mating with a human being which is forbidden because the ties of blood are too close; while the other involves mating with a sub-rational animal. There's simply no contest. Bestiality is much, much more disordered as an act. Kemp fails to recognize this point. Discussing the mating that would have occurred between Adam and Eve and other non-human hominids, he writes: The sin involved would be more like promiscuity -- impersonal | OP | OP RS | 779,105 |
The American Society of Hematology (ASH) invites you to Atlanta for our 54th annual meeting. This event offers invaluable benefits for all attendees, including: The opportunity to grow professionally: Hematology is a constantly changing field, and ASH's Education and Scientific Program can help you stay up-to-date on the latest research, therapies, and tools you need to succeed. The meeting offers many networking events that will allow you to connect with colleagues and interact with leaders in the field to learn and share your ideas. ASH Exhibit Hall Join nearly 300 pharmaceutical companies, medical suppliers, clinical diagnostic and research-based companies, publishers, and nonprofit organizations as an exhibitor at the 2012 ASH Annual Meeting. The state-of-the-art exhibit hall will feature the latest technology and research as well as a wide range of products and services. ASH Annual Meeting Group/Exhibitor Housing Options If your group consists of two (2) or more persons and you would like to obtain a block of rooms for the 2012 ASH Annual Meeting please proceed to Create a Block by selecting the appropriate link below. Once you create your room block, you will be sent via email a room block agreement. Please sign and return the agreement within three (3) business days to confirm your room block. Your group will be sent via email a block contact ID and password, you will be able to start managing your room block online Wednesday, August 8, 2012. | IN | IN DT | 65,846 |
I am everybody And everyone that I know is me Everyone that I know won't see I could have been a dreamer I could have been a shooting star I could have been a dreamer, yeah I'm another number And you know the numbers must agree But everytime the wind blows I can't fly - why? We take away tomorrow And never see the end of today Lock it up and send it away - forever [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/d/dio/i\\... ] I could have been a dreamer I could have been a shooting star I could have been a dreamer Cause dreams are what we are I could have been a dreamer Running with the wolf pack Feel like I'm never coming back But maybe that was sunshine That I saw I've heard about a rainbow I've heard it makes you crazy I think I'm goin' crazy Crazy cause I see I could have been a dreamer I could have been a shooting star I could have been a dreamer Cause dreams are what we are I could have been a dreamer I could have been the one to fly I always could have been a dreamer Cause dreamers never die, no! I could have been a dreamer Dreamer I could have been a dreamer Dreamer I could have been a dreamer Dreamer I could have been a dreamer | LY | LY SL | 165,393 |
parents. I am an overweight adult of healthy eating, healthy weight parents. Although they divorced when I was very young, both remarried healthy, thin people as well. I grew up in a home where we had water or milk with meals. No juice, no soda. My mom regularly cooked with whole wheat pasta, ground turkey, spices and LOTS of VEGETABLES. My dad's biggest indulgement was steak and spaghetti at my grandma's house on Sundays. My friends had Lunchables and Twinkies in their lunch bags. I had tofu & carrot sandwiches with an apple. I always felt deprived. When I moved out on my own, I felt free to buy whatever I wanted at the grocery store. And to eat fast food, which I RARELY had growing up. My bad eating habits have continued. I am married to a man who is not overweight but does not have very good eating habits. And I now have 2 young children, the oldest will usually name a restaurant when you ask him what he wants for dinner. I know we ALL need to make some big changes. All this to say that your relationship with food can be bad even when your parents have been the very best models. For the cooks out there, when did you first learn to appreciate preparing nutrition meals for yourself or your family? I grew up in a home with average to slightly overweight parents. They both worked full time and my mom was in graduate school. | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 771,155 |
who enjoy the freedom these individuals ensure is maintained, we should be honored to help assist our military families and welcome them to our communities while their spouses are away. We don't have a draft in the United States. Military members are doing a job for a paycheck and very few, relatively, are in combat or in danger -- if they think being deployed to a relatively safe job is a hardship, well, they should've selected a different occupation and/or put off marriage/children until after the obligation to service was met. Furthermore, there are many people who consider subsidized travel -- complete with housing, commissary privileges and other perks -- to be a blessing, not a curse. Those who dislike it are free to select a different line of work, particularly in America. As for those who claim they can't support their families on military pay and benefits, it's a ridiculous whine. We wouldn't expect a McDonald's fry flipper to support a family of four kids, or a car wash attendant, or a receptionist in an insurance agency -- so why do these people think they can support huge families on entry-level (or barely above entry level) jobs? It's surely not difficult to predict one's career path and pay progression before one makes the choice to join the armed forces. This list is a joke! There is no way this can be serious. Anybody who actually tries to get people to do even one of the items on this list | OP | OP | 50,004 |
designated the Alamo chapel as an official Texas State Shrine. The Alamo is now "the most popular tourist site in Texas". The Alamo has been the subject of numerous non-fiction works beginning in 1843. Most Americans, however, are more familiar with the myths spread by many of the movie and television adaptations, including the 1950s Disney miniseries Davy Crockett and John Wayne's 1960 film The Alamo. The Emily Morgan Hotel in San Antonio +1-800-230-4134 705 East Houston St., San Antonio, TX 78205 (Downtown-City Center) Built in 1929, this neo-gothic building has been a hotel since 1985 and, most recently, a 4-diamond boutique property since 2002. Emily features 177 rooms, some with jacuzzi tubs and some overlooking the Alamo. Oro Restaurant/Bar offers 24-hour room service, pet menu and $2.00 martinis for lunch Tuesday's and Friday's. Emily's banquet space totals just under 6,000 square feet with four separate rooms and a full banquet menu. Attractions : The Alamo, The Riverwalk, Market Square, King William District, The Zoo, Six Flags, Sea World, Ripley's believe It or Not, Reservations Meeting Space San Antonio Group Rates Map ~0.07 miles from The Alamo The Historic Crockett Hotel in San Antonio +1-800-997-5148 320 Bonham St., San Antonio, TX 78205 (Downtown-City Center) Celebrating 100 years of continuous service to the San Antonio visitor, the Crockett is a beautiful boutique hotel, operating next door to our famous neighbor, THE ALAMO! Built and first operated by a fraternal group in 1909, the Crockett has always been in the center of | IN | IN | 478,613 |
bands as well. They don't take no for an answer which we like. The last gig we went to was 'White Rabbits' at XOYO. We loved their last record so it was good to catch them. They were loud. What shows do you have lined up for the upcoming months? We have our single launch tonight (4th July) at the Shacklewell Arms in Dalston, a small show at Power Lunches on the 10th July and the Notting Hill Arts Club the next night on the 11th. Next big London show beyond that is KOKO on the 7th of September. Born Blonde will play a show at London's Power Lunches on 10th July. Their new single, 'I Just Wanna Be', is out now. Click like to get the latest music news, hottest tracks and more via Facebook. | SP | SP IT | 723,368 |
Relevant offers Roading contractors working on a New Plymouth street fell foul of New Plymouth's resident clamper yesterday. The contractors found their work truck clamped up, after they moved it into a car park at the request of a shopkeeper. Miss Paisley, owner of antique shop Fourtyseven, on the corner of Egmont St and King St, said she had asked the contractors to move the truck from the loading zone outside her shop as there was little other parking in the area at the time. "When I came back they had moved and were being clamped," she said. The contractors were obviously their doing a job and it was ridiculous that they had been clamped. The contractors had parked on the left side of the gravel lot between Judd Opticians and Fourtyseven in King St and were working less than 10 metres away when their truck was clamped by Egmont Security's Daniel Clout. Andrew Judd of Judd Opticians said though the truck was illegally parked, the contractors would have been fine if they had parked it on the other side of the lot where the clamper was not contracted to monitor the parking. The contractors had an arsenal of tools which could have been used to remove the clamps, including a concrete saw. They considered using a digger to shift the truck to the other side of the car park but were too worried about the legal ramifications of such a move. Senior Constable Toni Haggart showed up and told | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,797,906 |
experiment to direct my own writing for the first time. I think as a director that you need to be a very good reader -- of texts and actions and people. You need to be able to read between the lines. You also need to engage with the mechanics of each writer's style. I'm always concerned with how each writer's particular grammar and punctuation contains a world view. I enjoy uncovering that. I'm curious to know how the task of directing my own writing will reveal my play. Theatre-making is always a meeting -- of director and writer, of character and actor, of players and audience. It's messy, vulnerable, gut wrenching and sometimes glorious. I'm grateful for this opportunity to meet my own play in the Upstairs Theatre. What influences or inspires your writing and direction? I've spent the last 15 or so years directing plays by great writers -- Sarah Kane, Shakespeare, Marius von Mayenburg, Martin Crimp, Anton Chekhov, Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Tennessee Williams, Bernard-Marie Kolts, Samuel Beckett and Caryl Churchill, to name a few. These writers and their plays have been great teachers about art, life, and the craft of theatre-making... I have never directed the plays of Harold Pinter, but when I was a teenager his writing, along with Beckett's, showed me the possibilities of theatre. In both writers, I found a deep sense of place (at once concrete and metaphoric), and silence as an invisible substance -- the structuring principle which underpins all utterances... | SP | SP IT | 3,285,568 |
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? Aug 18th, 2012 (OTTAWA PREMIERE) Synopsis: Do You Really Want to Know? is a documentary about the complex emotional, ethical and psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing. The film follows three families who have been confronted with the difficult decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntin g ton's disease -- a degenerative neurological illness that is akin to having ALS, Schizophrenia and Al z heimer's, and one of the first diseases people could be accurately and conclusively tested for, before the onset of any symptoms. As scientists discover more ways to identify diseases before we know we have them, "do you really want to know?" will be a question more and more of us will face. | IP | IP DS | 285,786 |
let us say that you purchased your car for $25,000. A few years later, it is now only worth $15,000. If you're still paying off your car loan by then and you still owe more than what the car is worth now which is $15,000, then you are definitely upside-down. Being upside-down on a car loan can also happen in other ways: If you pay a very small down payment for the car or no down payment at all. In this case, you'll be paying a lot more in interests and guaranteeing that you pay more than what the car is really worth. If you buy a car without doing your research. It's easy to overpay for a car if you don't know its true value. You may purchase a car for $25,000 when in truth it's now only worth $20,000. The chances of this happening are even bigger if you happen to deal with a particularly unscrupulous car dealer. If you add too many options to your car. No matter how many fancy features you add to your car these don't add to the value of the car, they only add to your expense, thereby increasing the chances of turning you upside-down. If you're already upside-down on one car loan and are planning on getting another one for another car. Most dealers will just roll the amount you owe on the old car over to the new one without even telling you. Being upside-down on a loan is quite | IP | IP DS | 261,155 |
Broadband access for the developing world was a key topic at the Third Global Knowledge Conference , held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in December 2007. Attendees there called for action items to to bring underdeveloped nations - including populations sometimes referred to as "the next billion" - into the connected world. Broadband services are an important component in the United Nation's Millenium Development Goals and have been identified as essential for social and economic development. Without broadband, PCs are useless. Without PCs, broadband is less needed. In this video podcast: broadband provider Alcatel-Lucent and chipmaker Intel forge a partnership at the GK3 Conference to help bring connectivity and PCs to the developing world. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett is traveling this week in Africa, as part of an ongoing effort by the United Nations, the International Telecommunication Union and private enterprise to improve Africa's Information and Communication Technology, or ICT infrastructure. Barrett, who heads up the UN's Global Alliance for ICT and Development (UN ... Broadband, connectivity, Wi-Fi, accessibility and education efforts are all priorities for the ongoing efforts in developing nations and regions around the globe. Intel, along with the United Nations and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), among others, is participating this month in the Connect Africa Summit, which aims to bring together human, ... Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world's health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been | IN | IN DT | 193,543 |
single controlling power producing simultaneously a hundred different effects. There were men enough to do everything, and all at once ; but the ship's company of the merchantman were always too few for her. A mercantile sailor is expected to do the work of two, and, at a pinch, of three and even four. When one job is done he has to spring to another. There are 'stations' indeed in such manoeuvres as tacking or wearing; but when, for instance, it comes to shortening sail in a hurry, or when the necessity arises for a sudden call for all hands, the merchant sailor lays hold of the first rope it is necessary to drag on, and when he has ' belayed' it, he is expected to fling himself upon the next rope that has to be pulled. Here we have the secret of the usefulness of the working song. Let the words be what they will, the melody animates the seaman with spirit and he pulls with a will; it helps him to keep time too, so that not so much as an ounce of the united weight of the hauling and bawling fellows misses of its use on the tackle they drag at. I have known seamen at work on some job that required a deal of heavy and sustained pulling, to labour as if all heart had gone out of them whilst one of the gang tried song after song ; the mate meanwhile standing by and encouraging | ID | ID DF | 3,037,219 |
think about analysis and projection of requirements, and that the reservation of IPv6 address space for different economies in APNIC would be a good thing. Again, we didn't reach consensus. We have gone back to the mailing list with this. In a sense, the last three proposals are different viewpoints on the somewhat similar problem. We are not ready to make those decisions yet, I think we are still talking about that. That's all I have for you. Any questions? No. Thank you. APPLAUSE Maemura Akinori: The next speaker is Izumi Okutani. Izumi Okutani: My name is Izumi Okutani, I would like to briefly introduce what we discussed in NIR SIG for this meeting. We had the session the first thing in the morning for an hour and a half and attending were roughly 30 people, mostly NIRs, but it was also open to non-NIRs as well, so we had a few non-NIR attendees as well. The main purpose of the SIG is to exchange operational issues or activity of NIRs. This time, we had four presentations, which are listed here, and also election of Chair and Co-chair positions. The election was very smooth because we just had one candidate for each position. As the Chair, myself from JPNIC, was re-elected. The Co-chair, Jessica Shen, who is not in the meeting right now, but has replaced Wendy Zhao, as the Co-chair position. I would like to thank Wendy for serving as Co-chair until today. The current Chair and Co-chairs are, | SP | SP TA | 457,405 |
Stefanie Ayoub is a talented, Toronto-based fashion design gem. With a family background peppered with artistic types, the young designer started off at an arts high school with dreams of becoming a fine artist. While illustration was her first love, she soon realised that her drawings tended towards clothing, and she made a natural transition into fashion design. Ayoub graduated from Ryerson University studying Fashion Design and also spent six weeks studying with the Arts of Fashion Foundation at the Muse des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris. Joel Yum spoke to Ayoub recently about her inspirations, discovering creative freedom in Paris and her plans for a no-rule future. Joel Yum: I imagine that studying fashion in Toronto is quite different to studying it in Paris - how did the two experiences differ? Did it make you reevaluate your outlook on fashion - life, even? Stefanie Ayoub: Ryerson, and Toronto in general I think, takes a very practical approach to design. It's really all about being an apparel constructor. Considering I didn't know the first thing about sewing, Ryerson gave me all those crucial technical tools. But a lot of the time, I felt like I was missing out on the creative process. There were so many rules about what you can and can't do, what's practical, what's marketable. When I went to Paris, I learned the value of having a completely open mind to the vastness of possibilities in designing. First ideas are never the best ones and designs should waver | SP | SP IT | 265,094 |
The group performed at the 2003 Zee Bollywood Awards in New York, where they received the Project IMPACT Award for Outstanding Contribution to the South Asian-American Community. Another notable Penn Masala performance was at the 2009 White House Diwali celebration and signing of the Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders , which addressed "issues concerning the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community." And did we mention they've been on BOCA CDs and the soundtrack for the 2001 movie American Desi? Yeah, we'd say they're pretty good. 4. The Sil'hooettes (University of Virginia) The Sil'hooettes are the epitome of a cappella girl power. These singing superstars have won multiple Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards and have been featured on BOCA CDs and Voices Only, a compilation of the best a cappella songs in the nation. They have performed at places such as the Kennedy Center, Boston Red Sox baseball games, and Baltimore Orioles baseball games, and they have also opened for Ben Folds and Girl Talk. While their cover of "Idioteque" by Radiohead landed them on the most recent BOCA album, the Sils also do an amazing job covering female vocal powerhouses such as Lana Del Rey . About the author Michelle Lewis is a rising senior at UNC-Chapel Hill double majoring in journalism and French. Last semester she studied abroad in Montpellier, France, where she bought too many pairs of shoes and ate way too many pastries. At UNC, she writes for The Daily Tar Heel, blogs for | OP | OP RV | 3,245,326 |
Thierry Henry, Christian Karembeu and Lilian Thuram are just a handful of players who hail from various French Outre-Mer's ( overseas departments and territories) but have gone on to represent Les Bleus, often with great success, at international level. These islands and regions are, in the main, on the international side-lines with limited or no recognition from FIFA. However in 2008 the French Football Federation created a tournament which brought these remote teams to the Paris suburbs for a week in order to challenge for the Coupe de l'Outre-Mer, which is held every two years. Seven sides contested the inaugural edition with Runion, from the Indian Ocean, defeating the Caribbean island Martinique 1-0 in the final in Crteil. The tiny islands of Saint Pierre et Miquelon boosted the number of teams to 8 in 2010, but the outcome was familiar, only this time Martinique gained revenge on 'Club R', winning on penalties after a scoreless draw. The other territories that enter the competition are FIFA members Tahiti and New Caledonia from Oceania, Indian Ocean islanders Mayotte and CONCACAF associates French Guiana and Guadeloupe. The 'Gwada Boys', as the Guadeloupians are known, are one of the strongest sides in the Caribbean but are slightly hindered at the Outre-Mer as only home-based players can be selected. These eight teams gathered in the outskirts of Paris at the end of September to compete for the third edition of the games. Group A looked the toughest with Runion, French Guiana and, many people's favourites, | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 3,028,727 |
Important: Your credit card will NOT be charged when you start your free trial or if you cancel during the trial period. If you're happy with Amazon Prime, do nothing. At the end of the free trial, your membership will automatically upgrade to a full year for $79. Book Description Release Date: April 8, 2003 Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O'Connor's family and early life, her journey to adulthood in the American Southwest that helped make her the woman she is today -- the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America. In this illuminating and unusual book, Sandra Day O'Connor tells, with her brother, Alan, the story of the Day family, and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B ranch in Arizona. Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day family, and everyday life on the Lazy B, are the lessons Sandra and Alan learned about the world, self-reliance, and survival, and how the land, people, and values of the Lazy B shaped them. This fascinating glimpse of life in the Southwest in the last century recounts an important time in American history, and provides an enduring portrait of an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America. Now, for the first time in paperback, here is the remarkable story of Sandra Day O'Connor's | IP | IP DS | 694,259 |
treatment for life. The late Mr. Arthur Henderson, who was a real Labour leader, moved in 1907 that the other place represented interests that were opposed to the general well being, that it was a hindrance to national progress, and that it ought to be abolished. This was moved 40 years ago, and here we are playing about and tinkering with this thing by means of a two Clause Bill. [HON. MEMBERS: "Hear, hear."] The best reply that I can make to those "hear, hears" is to ask: If this were moved today would it receive the support of hon. Gentlemen? The Prime Minister of the day moved that the final decision of the Commons should prevail. That was carried by 432 votes to 147. That was 40 years ago. Today we listened to some extravagant language from the Leader of the Opposition. He must have forgotten "The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill." He must have forgotten that the greatest orthodox economist of this country at that time wrote that book, and in it is one of the greatest indictments against any living man. In that book it is stated that the then Chancellor of the Exchequer had as his object to bring down the wages of the working people of this country. His approach to the problem was, first, to take us off the gold standard which sent up securities in the City of London but sent down the wages of the industrial worker. If the right hon. Gentleman | SP | SP IT | 466,997 |
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In The Morning Lyrics J. Cole [J. Cole] Baby you summertime fine, I let you get on top, I be the underline Im trying to get beside you like the number 9, dime You fine as hell, I guess I met you for a reason, only time can tell But well, Im wondering what type of shit you wantin' Do you like the finer things or you a simple woman Would you drink with a n-gga, do you smoke weed Don't be ashamed, it aint no thing, I used to blow trees Gettin lifted, I quit but sh-t, I might get high with you Its only fitting cause Im looking super fly with you A flower, you are powerful, you do something to me cause girl I caught the vibe like you threw something to me So i threw em back, now all my n-ggas hollerin, who was that Oh boy, she bad n-gga, what you bout do with that I'm finna take you home, just sip a little patron Now we zonin', baby you so fine [Chorus] And can I hit it in the morning And can I hit it in the morning And can I hit it in the morning The sun rising while you moanin' And can I hit it in the morning And can I hit it in the morning And can I hit it in the morning The sun rising while you moanin' [Drake] Uh, baby you winter time cold The night is still young, | LY | LY SL | 512,083 |
confining themselves to commenting on what the MSM deigns to have noticed. My original post today was intended to highlight what appears to be a particulary egregious attempt by CBS to time the airing of their "explosives bombshell" to occur at a time when it would create maximum heat -- for Bush, without regard for whether it also created any light -- for voters. Nothing you say has addressed this directly, except possibly the obscure reference to Arnold. My recollection is that the LA Times worked on that story for many months, and then "suddenly" got the right anonymous source lined up to run the harrassment claims in the final week before the recall election. Their long-running support for that idiot, Gray Davis, had nothing to do with that story, I am sure. And by the way, we could argue all day about the facts of this lost weapons story, and while I suspect it is largely overblown (a view strengthened by the fact CBS did not want to run it when a reasoned rebuttal might have a chance to get on the air before it had its' desired effect on the election), I do not beleive you or I -- or even Josh -- have enough data yet to get to a clear picture. Your absolute certainty about the perfidious motives and character of anyone with whom you disagree is a serious character issue. It must be lonely to be so rightous... Thanks for the well reasoned reply. You | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 424,555 |
by requiring payment for prescription medicines. The resulting scenario is familiar to any Spanish citizen over the age of 50. In all of the above examples, Spain has seen it before. Under Franco there was neither a national health service nor social security, abortion was illegal, and all teaching programmes and the selection of teachers were under Government and the Church's strict control. A woman's place was firmly in the home. It is only 34 years since Spain became a constitutional democracy (December 1978), a form of government which is beginning to look increasingly fragile. Spain's conservative right is taking the opportunity of being in power at a time of economic and financial crisis to revive its historic determination to suppress women's reproductive rights, putting the clock back nearly 30 years, when abortion was first decriminalised. A law passed in 1985 by the then Socialist government legalised abortion for the first time under three major conditions: to preserve the physical and mental health of the mother; if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest; if the foetus was likely to suffer mental or physical abnormalities at birth. There were various restrictions as to time limits and the necessity for doctors' agreement, and young women under the age of 18 needed parental permission. It was very restrictive compared with many other European countries at the time but a major break through for women in Spain. In 2010, stimulated by the European proposals on abortion laws in 2008, the Socialist | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 485,181 |
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Assembly, although they have been able to participate in these U.N. world conferences and most of the special sessions of the Assembly. Apart from that, there are other ways in which they can participate -- mainly in the economic and social sphere - either as associate members in the regional commissions as I just described, or through a number of U.N. specialized agencies like UNESCO or FAO. There is also UNDP which provides assistance to many of them through regional programmes. On the political level, those which are listed as non self-governing can address the Decolonization Committee and the Fourth Committee, but this is more limited than the kind of participation provided in the economic and social level. US Virgin Islands Minister of State for External Affairs addresses United Nations World Conference on Sustainable Development (2002) The 2012 Decolonization Process CAR The Fourth Committee Decolonization Committee will shortly consider the report on decolonization and adopt various resolutions in this area. Any thoughts on this year's process? CGC Well, as you indicate, a number of resolutions will be considered on various aspects of the decolonization process. The resolutions are similar to previous years' texts, and address important elements of the decolonization process. At the Decolonization Committee, resolutions were adopted on economic activities in the territories, and the right of the people to own their natural resources. These resolutions also called on the administering powers to ensure that the exploitation of these resources does not adversely affect the interests of the people | SP | SP IT | 3,197,685 |
either! Unfortunately, the ability to get along with others and communicate well is something vital to most jobs. Extreme introverts, those with various disabilities, and so on may not do this well. We can't make this a fair world. The best I can suggest is looking into careers in the technical arena where this is not such a large issue. I am sorry that the economic times are effecting you so much, and wish you the best. John, you are assuming that all people with Aspergers Syndrome are "good" or desire to work in IT or in other technical stuff. You know what happens when you assume, right. You can't assume this. I do want to work with people and I do get along with people. Not everyone with AS has a temper. What I do not want is a position in sales or something like a bank teller when people constantly come to you (perhaps 14 customers an hour). That is very draining. Please, do not assume again. That is like saying all people with AS should be accountants. I'm looking into Human Resources since it is not customer service. In that profession, you deal with poeple, but not the general public where everyone and their brother comes for help. All valid points. What a depressing, harsh article. The interview system and job market is broken because there is no better alternative. Unemployment is not natural. Everyone who wants a job should be able to find one. People who | OP | OP AV | 10,602 |
a sugar thermometer (preferably digital). Take care not to over heat; when ready it quickly sets hard on the probe. As the fondant icing cools it becomes too thick to dip the cakes but you can gently warm it again. Cooling and reheating it too much make the sugar structure change; it goes grainy. So pay attention to that thermometer! My fondant icing recipe is also available on Stitch Craft Create . 4. ...and make plenty of it Dipping fondant fancies in a scant quantity of icing is fiddly. With a generous amount it's easier to dip in a saucepan. You can use forks to turn fondant fancies on each surface although over handling them can make them crumble (or fall in!). For more satisfying finish, dip them into the icing whole. 5. Use marzipan instead of buttercream Buttercream melts when dipping in warm icing so top fondant fancies with marzipan. White marzipan is best for pastel fondant fancies other than yellow. For other colours tint the marzipan with gel food colouring to get a deeper colour on top. 6. Freeze your sponge cake squares You can get individual silicon fondant fancy moulds -- however it's easier to make one large square cake cut into squares. Get a neater finish when cutting the cake by freezing it for 30 minutes first. Cut the edges of the square so you have a level surface and then cut into 25 smaller squares (5 x 5). For the book I used a ruler | HI | HI HT | 3,007,193 |
entrepreneurs. They're small business owners. They're not interested in working for one company until they can collect a pension and gold watch, unless it's their own company! If you're still interested, please keep reading. Step 2: Create/build/fake/imitate -- confidence. Since copywriting was the field I was entering, it was important that each pitch sold my services. If I effectively show you how writing can compel you to buy my services, chances are you're going to be convinced that my writing will help sell your services. The more I wrote, the more confident I became, which brought new, and better, jobs. Step 3: The answer to "how're you doing?" is always good, great, or exceptional. Nothing less. When you make the transition from corporate drone to freeminded entrepreneur, your friends, family, business associates, and everyone else will ask you how you're doing, how your business is doing, and if you regret jumping ship. Nobody is going to give you new business or refer you to anyone if you're moping around, complaining about projects going overseas and how the economy is in the toilet. There's the old saying -- if you want something done, give it to the busy person. see step #1. Step 4: Network. Lots. If you've still got a fulltime job, network as much as possible. Make contact with the people that might be potential clients. Find out what they need, learn about their business, and listen to them. Do.Not.Pitch.Them . Use this time to figure out what they | HI | HI HT | 3,339,971 |
James: I'm sorry PeterM, you are incorrect there. There were death threats. Maybe the disconnect is in our definition of "death threat". I presume you have seen the letters? Would you not have taken them to police and considered them a death threat? If not a death threat, what kind of threat? As for the timing of the ANU move, this had nothing to do with whether there were death threats or not. That's more to do with a detail that the ABC got wrong and The Australian took on trust without checking the story themselves. Not the first time, of course, that The Australian took something on trust without checking the details. Just look at its coverage of the Iraq war, for instance. gnome: Ravenred: 14 Jun 2012 9:54:36am The scientists were moved in person due to appearances in person by angry Climate Change deniers. The Australian misunderstood (or misrepresented) the original Canberra Times article in relation to the emails. Go watch the episode again, it's a generally fact-based examination of the matter. gnome: Bighead1883: 14 Jun 2012 8:21:53am Clearly put,thank you Mark.Just like our diets we need diversity of product.The main stream media run the same stories.Media monopolies have to be broken up,otherwise totalitarianism ensues and delivers a singular ideology.Also as with the lease expiring on the American Federal Reserve on 21/12/2012,why have we not seen Hong Kong lease expire stories?.Not even one journo has quoted Woodrow Wilson about it.Surely in this massive GFC this is the biggest | SP | SP FS | 24,011 |
marginal note of Gray, it was "omitted in 1753." Mason explains the omission by saying that Gray found it formed "too long a parenthesis in this place."The epitaph is not in the early Eton manuscript of the poem. Back to Line Comments Critics have spent entire books interpreting Gray's "Elegy." Is it ironic, as Cleanth Brooks would have us believe, or is it sentimental, as Samuel Johnson might say? Does it express Gray's melancholic democratic feelings about the oneness of human experience from the perspective of death, or does Gray discuss the life and death of another elegist, one who, in his youth, suffered the same obscurity as the "rude forefathers" in the country graveyard? Should Gray have added the final "Epitaph" to his work? Readers whose memories have made Gray's "Elegy" one of the most loved poems in English -- nearly three-quarters of its 128 lines appear in the Oxford Book of Quotations -- seem unfazed by these questions. What matters to readers, over time, is the power of "Elegy" to console. Its title describes its function: lamenting someone's death, and affirming the life that preceded it so that we can be comforted. One may die after decades of anonymous labour, uneducated, unknown or scarcely remembered, one's potential unrealized, Gray's poem says, but that life will have as many joys, and far fewer ill effects on others, than lives of the rich, the powerful, the famous. Also, the great memorials that money can buy do no more for the | LY | LY PO | 599,815 |
there is in the Irish Home Rule Bill a 1808 Clause which says that any enactment adopted by the Imperial Parliament shall be adopted by the Irish Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS: "No, no."] That is what the Solicitor-General said, and he can contradict me if I am wrong. I will read the Sub-section: -- "After three years from the passing of this Act ....the Irish Parliament may alter as respects the Irish House of Commons the qualification and registration of the electors who vote at elections, the constituencies, and the distribution of Members of the House among constituencies." No, that is not it, but the whole point is the three years. Until the three years have elapsed the Irish Parliament is bound by this Parliament. [HON. MEMBERS: "That is not the point."] It is very much the point as to what would happen in the three years. The Under-Secretary for India said that hitherto the word "Parliament" always meant the one Parliament. Then he went on to say that if there was any intention to establish a Welsh Parliament or a Scottish Parliament the proper time to discuss whether this was to be extended to the Welsh Parliament or the Scottish Parliament was upon the Bills creating those Parliaments. He left the Irish Parliament out entirely. The Bill creating an Irish Parliament has already passed many stages this Session during which we were not allowed to have any discussion. Why did the hon. Gentleman leave out the Irish Parliament? Because he | IN | IN LT | 1,421,611 |
to what we imagine the fate of light once it enters the event horizon. For example, if I get sucked into a black hole once I cross the event horizon you will not be able to hear me scream and I will pulled out and stretched out like spaghetti! natasha_qurban: how we can detect blackholes? Kevin: There are two basic ways we can tell whether there's a black hole. Black holes are of course dark by definition - not even light escapes them! atci: Several studies have estimated the size and mass of the Andromeda Galaxy. When The Milky Way and Andromeda collide, what situation is likely to occur between the two centers? Ezequiel: That's a great question. What we think that will happen is that once Andromeda and the Milky Way start colliding, the gas that is floating around in both galaxies will start falling to the center and eventually falling onto the resulting black hole. So, while the andromeda's BH is ~10 million solar masses and the milky way's 4, the resulting BH after the merger sequence can be 100 million solar masses or larger. Nathan: When a black hole is described as being so many solar masses, is this referring to the mass of the singularity? riyanatarajan: Solar masses is a unit of measure of the mass content of the black hole. NaVaM10: Speak spanish or no? Ezequiel: Yo hablo espaol... alguna pregunta? Saludos! natasha_qurban: what is black hole? Kevin: The first way we detect black holes | SP | SP | 61,093 |
you may be able to get living away from home allowance or the doll, it is bugger all but provides enough to survive with no luxeries. I was in a little bit of a better position because I got a small compensation payout when my mother was charged and my friends helped me with accomodation and getting a job. It's a very horrible learning experience you are going through but you have to learn to stand on your own feet. You have to ask for help(like you have here). Good luck and hang in there. Get a job. After that, you'll have money to move out, or like what happens to some kids, now you have income you'd be invited to stay as long as you pay board. My parents wanted me out, then when I got a job, they really really wanted me to stay, pay $100 p/w board and help with house work. I moved out as soon as a could, but getting a rental and sharing with strangers or friends sucks more! edit: Are you getting any payments from the gov directly, or is your mum getting anything? Maybe you aren't getting any money, and she hasn't on your behalf ever since you passes 16 y/o and finished school. It was a long time ago for me and I don't know what you are able to claim, or if you are getting anything. But I think that was the reason why my parents wanted me out, but | ID | ID DF QA | 515,875 |
the hybrid. The car is a bit over a year old and I am really enjoying it. I wish we had the time to drive it to go visiting but not this trip. I can't wait to see Kahnya and the Twin Cities. Too cold in the winter and too expensive to retire to but just right for visiting beloved offspring. Life is settling down somewhat. I can't say the sadness is gone and be honest but we are doing well. I have to work at being the one everyone asks about how the spouse is doing. I've had to deal with being 'only' the stepmother so many times. This time is a bit harder but doable. It's a beautiful day here. Warm but not humid, a nice breeze...and the sun shines. Hug your loved ones and have a beautiful day. *Hugs and Muffins* Chin up, Faythe! Mocha Latte's are good for the soul! Oh yeah,..I hear oatmeal is good for the body! For myself, I have bubble tea. Tomorrow I get to drive around the city areas with a coworker and visit open houses( apartments). Show him the neighborhood,..get a sense of where is good and 'bad' . Then hopefully end the day off with an awesomely bad movie like Resident Evil or Dredd Still working on putting stuff away and getting things organized at home. i look at it this way. Because of what my niece did in this place while I was gone, and because of my | ID | ID DF | 3,175,267 |
of the world and I say that the overwhelming majority that I know of have a Second Chamber, mostly with lesser powers than the popular assembly and with a different outlook and function. By the way, all this insistence on Norway or Queensland by the other side of the House illustrates 211 and proves my point that it is single-Chamber Government which hon. Gentlemen opposite seek. I do not give way unless I think it worth while. Some of the foreign countries arrive at the two-chamber system by a proportion of members retiring every two years or every year; some by a franchise based on a higher age limit; some by the influence of local authorities standing on a different foundation; and some, like the Canadian Senate, are nominated for life and retire gradually by the effluxion of time. In some there are joint sessions where a majority decision decides in case of deadlock. I remember in 1910 we worked in the hectic interval between the two Elections of that year in conference with the Opposition but it broke down as so many other things do, on figures. But all these constitutions have the same object in view, namely, that the persistent resolve of the people shall prevail without throwing the community into convulsion and disorder by rash or violent, irreparable action and to restrain and prevent a group or sect or faction assuming dictatorial power. Single-Chamber Government, as I have said, is especially dangerous in a country which has | SP | SP IT | 466,997 |
counterparts. In any event, the close association of male bonding ceremonies with forbidden sex eventually became too much to overlook as ever more severe sodomy laws were put into place. Such same-sex unions -- sometimes called "spiritual brotherhoods" -- forged irrevocable bonds between the men involved. Often they involved missionaries about to set off on foreign voyages, but lay male couples also entered into them. Other than the gender of the participants, it was difficult to distinguish the ceremonies from typical marriages. Twelfth-century liturgies for same-sex unions, for example, involved the pair joining their right hands at the altar, the recital of marriage prayers, and a ceremonial kiss. So maybe same-sex unions are nearly as "untraditional" as their opponents think they are. 1 As noted in the comments, this may not be true. Nonetheless it is beyond dispute that women's rights in marriage were fairly limited well into the 20th Century. About Doug Mataconis Doug is an attorney in private practice in Northern Virginia. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University and J.D. from George Mason University School of Law. He joined the staff of OTB in May, 2010 and also writes at Below The Beltway . Follow Doug on Twitter | Facebook This is why the government doesn't need to be in this business. Let the churches and religious organizations have this one. Most of the courts seem to feel that if a couple have been together a certain amount of time, then property ownership is | OP | OP OB | 70,805 |
the only one, so with this in mind we've made a tutorial, teaching you to handcraft a sexy pair of boxer shorts for your man. It is quick and easy, and [...] Thank you for posting this tutorial! These pants are the first piece of clothing I have managed to make, from start to finish...and the first thing I have successfully made on my sewing machine!! Husband is very pleased with them!! Bethany I'm so happy to hear that the tutorial was useful to you, congratulations on your first finished project on your sewing machine, and on making your first piece of clothing!! I am really glad you enjoyed it, and that your hubby likes the pants! Thanks so much for the great feedback xx Zelph Hello, thank you for the great tutorial, and I can't wait to try this soon! May I ask one question, though? If I would like to increase this by a size, where exactly do I add the 2.5 cm to in the pattern? Really appreciate this! =) ttp://www.bethanyeowyn.wordpress.com Bethany Eowyn Hi Zelph, if lay out the pattern as shown in this image: http://blog.tokyotextiles.com/wp-content\\... you need to divide the 2.5cm by 2, so that's 1.25cm, and then add an extra 1.25cm to both pieces along the left hand side. Add the 1.25cm evenly along the whole edge to keep the shape the same. I hope that makes sense! This will add 2.5cm to size of the garment. Show us a photo when you've made the | HI | HI HT | 547,668 |
security and Id have a huge spenddown. So I get no dental and also no vision care. My eyes and teeth have serious issues, and places in my area have waiting lists and or funding issues. Vision and dental need to be part of Medicare. I agree. The government won't pay for cheap preventative work like cleanings and fillings but will foot the bill for expensive ER visits or even several days of hospitalization due to a life threatening abscess! Does anyone else think that the government creates so much red tape for someone to obtain medicaid or ssi in order to actually prevent access to benefits? One reason I'm wary of becoming a dentist is because I don't want to be greedy--I don't want to turn patients away because of insufficient funds. The Bible says that it's harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle. What I guess I'm saying is that I'd rather be a teacher and make an honest living than be a rich dentist who can't sleep at night due to the guilt of only treating those that can pay for it. in response to CATLUV... I forgot to add that when we try to "spend less" we ultimately end up spending many times more to fix things. Another local example in my city was the construction of the new jail, they decided to spend less, cut corners and forego the | ID | ID DF | 253,056 |
-- it is coming -- shaking the walls -- Willy -- the moon's in a cloud -- Good-night. I am going. He calls. | LY | LY PO | 796,270 |
the third movement Beethoven meant to show us a rustic knees-up without patronising the yokels. Most popular on the Guardian Today in pictures After advising tourists against travel to the cities of Jammu and Srinagar for nearly 20 years, the Foreign Office has lifted its guidelines after a fall in violence. So, Dal Lake and part of the Valley of Kashmir, one of India's most beautiful regions, are once again open to visitors | OP | OP RV | 104,930 |
having goals and acting upon them are all aspects of identifying and translating what matters to you most into daily activities. It is beyond this article to go into every aspect. On my blog I focus on this aspect and provide ways of identifying what matters to you. In my opinion knowing who you are and what you want are the most important aspects of productivity. They provide the background against which you can start with simplifying your life aligned with what you want. Efficient time: do things the easy way One of my guidelines is: Simple is always better than complex. There are a lot of ways to do things more efficiently and most of them fall into one of these categories: Do things only once One of the things our brain does is re-remember things that haven't been done yet and have/could/should be done. This is a waste of time. Use methods like GTD to overcome this behavior. Do things smarter Almost every single task has been done by someone countless times before. A lot of people are looking to do things easier, faster and better in less time. Look around on the internet (and certainly around Zen Habits) and you'll find smarter ways of doing what you need to be doing. Automate things Using software to do tasks for you is the common idea when we think about automation. But integrating efficient behavior in everyday habits is also a way of automating things. You could call it | HI | HI HT | 250,674 |
the deposit payable? The deposit is payable to the vendor or the vendor's agent. If the The vendor wants it, the agent wants it more and the buyer cannot find it. Is it important? If the agreement is conditional, then, under the Auckland District Law Society standard agreement (the ADLS form), the vendor or the real estate agent holds the deposit until the agreement becomes unconditional or is avoided (avoided means that the contract does not proceed because its conditions have not been satisfied). It is always preferable where an agreement is conditional for the deposit to be paid to someone else (a "stakeholder") such as the vendor's real estate agent or solicitor rather than directly to the vendor. If the agreement is validly avoided by the buyer then the stakeholder must return the deposit in full to the buyer. If the agreement becomes unconditional, then the stakeholder will pay the deposit to the vendor and it will be credited as part of the purchase price. When is the deposit payable? Under the ADLS form of agreement, the deposit is payable immediately both parties sign the agreement unless the agreement states otherwise. It is quite common for the agreement to state that the deposit is not required until the agreement becomes unconditional. This is inserted for the benefit of the buyer. From the vendor's point of view, such a clause is not recommended. It means the vendor will have little recourse if he or she believes the buyer is not | IN | IN | 1,746,828 |
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the box. Thanks for your patience as we answer your questions. mkjohnst: I've been reading about how scientists like you can use gravitational lensing to weigh clusters of galaxies, and that the lensing effects indicate a lot more matter than is visible, apparently evidence for dark matter. But how do you distinguish between dark matter and black holes in exercises like this? riyanatarajan: The distribution of dark matter that is inferred from gravitational lensing studies suggests that it is distributed quite smoothly throughout a galaxy - from the inner regions all the way to the outskirts or the halo. While black holes might constitute one form of dark matter, they cannot account for all the dark matter in the Universe (90% of all the matter in the Universe is dark) or even what is inferred in individual galaxies. Mr.Nice: how big is a black hole itself?and how big is the event horizon...generaly speaking Ezequiel: It depends on the mass of the black hole. For example, for the mass of the sun, the event horizon is 3 kilometers. And then, the size of the event horizon is proportional to the mass of the black hole. Kevin: There aren't any black holes that we know that are anywhere near being dangerous. Jason (moderator): For a good primer on the basics of black holes, check out: http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/foc\\... MooCow: what are the chances of the Voyager 1 and 2 being eaten by an undiscovered black hole? Kevin: Very very VERY low... Jason (moderator): Do | SP | SP | 61,093 |
doing any number of things, Larry. It was not a surprising occurrence, because I had to reconcile that in my mind when I left. Probably no one is going to be stupid enough really to take care of him as selflessly as I did for so many years and to keep him alive at my own expense. Linda Thompson: You know, he had a tremendous impact on my life, my perception of life, my perception of love and what romance and marriage and family should be, could be. So, yes, I think of him even in subliminal terms sometimes. He influences my music and lyrics, as do all the people that I have loved in my life, from my mom and dad to other people that I have loved. Video Preview: Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD Tupelo's Own Elvis Presley DVD . Digipack with a 16 page booklet. Never before have we seen an Elvis concert from the 50's with sound. Until Now! The DVD Contains recently discovered Unreleased Film of Elvis performing 6 songs, including Heartbreak Hotel and Don't Be Cruel , live in Tupelo Mississippi 1956. Included we see a live performance of the elusive Long Tall Sally seen here for the first time ever. This is an excellent release no fan should be without it. The 'parade' footage is good to see as it puts you in the right context with color and b&w footage. The interviews of Elvis' Parents are well worth hearing too. The afternoon | SP | SP IT | 238,964 |
provoking factor. (However, a pregnant woman with a history of unprovoked thrombosis does not need testing as she needs anticoagulants anyway in pregnancy). If you have a family history of venous thrombosis in at least two relatives. If you have certain blood test results: an unexplained prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) - an abnormal result on a certain type of blood clotting test. Some people with other medical conditions: recurrent miscarriage or fetal death, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) - a condition affecting blood platelets, or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), also referred to as lupus - because these can sometimes be linked to thrombophilia. Even if there is a known thrombophilia in the family, you may not be tested for it if it is mild and you have not had a blood clot yourself. This is because you are asymptomatic (you have no symptoms) and knowing if you have this inherited defect will not change how you are treated - you probably won't need anticoagulants because it is not known how much your risk of abnormal blood clotting is increased. Use of anticoagulant medication has to be carefully assessed as there are also certain risks, such as bleeding, with its use. What is the treatment for thrombophilia? The first step is for you and your doctor to consider how much risk there is of you getting a blood clot. This risk depends on a combination of things, such as: What type of thrombophilia you have (some are more high-risk for | IN | IN DT | 510,778 |
to find a "voice" in this heavily competitive industry. Generally, females are (naturally) not built to have an "ego" and "show-off-y" kind of nature, they rely on their inner strength, talent and skills as a woman to survive in this world. Therefore you don't often see us (women) being "loud" on the web world and aggressively promoting ourselves as our male counterparts. This kind of articles is actually another platform for female designers to be known and recognized by this industry. Anyway, if you can see it from this point view you will understand that this kind of article is not promoting sexism or gender-based issues but it is trying to help leverage known and unknown female designers. Trust me, you won't see us (female designers) writing up articles on ourselves, just to stroke our egos, anytime soon... We are just not raised that way (disclaimer: this sentence is background specific). Therefore, this kind of article helps female designers to have a "voice"... So learn about them as you would learn about any designer out there. My two cents. Totally agree with you! I don't understand the reason of making this post controversial. It's just a post about the female web designers out there, a way to give them some recognition and a way to know them. That's all I got to say. Where is the platform for *quiet* male designers? There are males and females out there who are good at promoting themselves. However, it seems to be a | SP | SP IT | 3,259,252 |
their tails, instead of keeping them stiff and upright, &c ., because they knew that these movements stood in direct opposition to those assumed under an opposite and savage frame of mind. Again, when a cat, or rather when some early progenitor of the species, from feeling affectionate first slightly arched its back, held its tail perpendicularly upwards and pricked its ears, can it be believed that the animal consciously wished thus to show that its frame of mind was directly the reverse of that, when from being ready to fight or to spring on its prey, it assumed a crouching attitude, curled its tail from side to side and depressed its ears? Even still less can I believe that my dog voluntarily put on his dejected attitude and " hot-house face ," which formed so complete a contrast to his previous cheerful attitude and whole bearing. It cannot be supposed that he knew that I should understand his expression, and that he could thus soften my heart and make me give up visiting the hot-house. Hence for the development of the movements which come under the present head, some other principle, distinct from the will and consciousness, must have intervened. This principle appears to be that every movement which we have voluntarily performed throughout our lives has required the action of certain muscles; and when we have performed a directly opposite move- [page] 67 ment, an opposite set of muscles has been habitually brought into play, -- as in | IN | IN RA | 670,178 |
cannon in the region for almost 25 years. But he was one that Algeria's DRS had nurtured, financed, pandered to and, as Algeria's western allies might have reasonably presumed, brought under control in the course of its orchestration of terrorism in the region. The US, which has information gathering facilities in the Kidal region and has been complicit in turning the Sahel into the "Terror Zone" that the Pentagon first daubed on its maps of Africa in 2003, has been aware of Iyad's role in the complex Mali-AQIM-DRS tangle. The fact that he now appears to be "doing his own thing" and may even have out-manoeuvred the DRS in the cause of his own wider political ambitions is likely to raise concerns amongst Algeria's western backers that it is not as in control of the Sahel situation and AQIM as they had been led to believe. Algeria now has little choice but to try and negotiate a deal with both Iyad and the Tuareg rebels in order to calm a potentially explosive situation. This would almost certainly involve diverting further funds to Iyad Ag Ghali, guaranteeing (if possible) the substantial money being promised by the EU, as well as negotiating with Bamako a substantial degree of autonomy for the Tuareg. Such a deal could conceivably work out in Algeria's long-term interest, although reaching that point will be difficult. Adding to that difficulty is the fact that Algeria is now being perceived by its western backers to have got itself into | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,396,729 |
themselves. Sorry to disappoint, but I have to reiterate: you and Joe don't have any idea what you're talking about. You still misunderstand the while concept of executive authority. There are literally thousands of laws, on the state and federal level, that are never, ever investigated or prosecuted. As Paul pointed out in his article, no prosecutor can charge every violation of every law. For example, Adultery (a 15-year felony in Michigan) is still on the books in many states. Legislatures are always creating new criminal statutes -- hundreds of new ones every year. They do this without any consideration for the resources available to the agencies that will have enforce the new laws. But all these laws are only enforced to the extent that there is a compelling reason to do so -- that's the way it works. And what's more, if someone openly ran a bad check operation specializing in rent checks and loan checks, advertising it at such, renting out a storefront with a sign, etc., you bet that prosecutor would charge him, regardless of that policy. Safe in the hand of one disposing Pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear: Obama's always right. Are you talking about Michele Leonhart? She was eventually confirmed as Obama's appointment | OP | OP OB | 512,228 |
a winning political issue. So what first got you onto this? Joe Romm: Well, I didn't pursue this topic because I thought it was a political winner. I started when my brother lost his home in Katrina, he wanted to know if he should rebuild, so I talked to a lot of climate scientists. And then I realized, "this is more dire than I thought, and climate scientists are not doing a good job of communicating it." So it was the underlying reality that gave me an urgency to stop doing what I was doing -- clean energy consulting -- and start doing communications full time. I have talked to the leading social scientists over the years. If you talk to Jon Krosnick or Ed Maibach or Robert Brulle, they will tell you that this is an issue that the public broadly gets -- and that there is an underlying respect for science and scientists. And so there is a way to talk about this issue that does work politically. That said, there are ways to talk about it that aren't useful, and I think people have mistaken the blowback from bad communications for thinking there's no way to communicate on this issue. And I think that's just not right. CM: Do you think this has always been true -- that climate change has always been a potential political winner -- or has it become more true over time? JR: I think many climate scientists have gotten better at communications | SP | SP IT | 3,058,986 |
people communicate, how people create things. And then I think for young people, the digital media...they do offer this space of exploration and tinkering and remaking that in lot of ways they've been losing in the very structured nature of a lot of the activities and academic pressures that they feel. So I think the digital media for a lot of kids is opening up that space. And interestingly enough we are also seeing a resurgence of certain kinds of physical tinkering, DIY and make cultures that I think is the rise of those more long-standing forms of make culture is happening not coincidentally in tandem with the rise of digital remix culture. Antony Funnell : Broadly speaking, we're just under two decades into the modern digital era. Do our popular notions of creativity still hold up, or do they need adjusting? Mimi Ito : I think that we are starting to see a shift in what people think of as creative activity, creative work. I think that you're seeing that even within the domain of commercial media where you're seeing forms of media that are about remix, that are riffing on earlier media, that are referencing other media, that these forms of expression are becoming much more visible and part of our common idiom. At more of the populist or amateur layer, I think the positive dynamic is that we are seeing production, media production, curation, circulation really becoming something that people do on an everyday basis, it's not | OP | OP | 691,129 |
my children as much as possible and would like to know my rights regarding shared parenting and I have been told that she may have a right to stay in our house until the children are 16. Is this right? and if so how would that work as we have a very large mortgage and would struggle to get another house. If you could advise me on where to go for more detailed advice over the phone I would be very grateful. A. Hi there Where there are children, the court will always encourage parties to reach a financial settlement so that the children's housing needs are met. If it is financially possible to retain the house for their benefit then this may be done. It rather depends on the size of the matrimonial pot now and in the near future. It also depends on whether the children 'need' to be in that very house and at 2 and 10 months that doesn't seem to be the case. In many one income households, retaining the house is not possible because as you have said, you cannot finance a house for the next 14 years in addition to housing yourself on a single income. If your wife is working or has the prospect of getting a reasonable income in the next few years and if she can take over the running costs of the house without much assistance from you, it is a possibility. If the house is retained, you would | ID | ID QA | 537,582 |
you're an emergency highway wrecker clean up crew and you have a problem with one of your trucks (equipment) you use to clear the highways of wrecked 18 wheelers and it breaks down. You don't ignore the problem and just throw the truck away and pray the rest of your trucks can handle the load. You spend the money to fix it to keep your company profitable. You can't just cut/throw away -everything- and put a huge strain on the middle class completely crumpling it into the poor house to "fix" the multitude of problems facing Americans. The GOP's platform would do just that. Cut -everything- in sight that it deems unnecessary to save America. GOP: fixing America by crushing Americans. That's their platform quite to the point. If you can't see that then get a magnifying glass out and go read the fine print kiddies. TerryOtt Sometimes, Jason, it takes LESS money being spent for "problems to be fixed", an observation from my 70 years. Spending money you don't have and have no prospects for getting, or spending that is misdirected, is fairly likely to make any problem worse. That's something conservatives seem to recognize more than liberals do. ttp://twitter.com/#!/thehiredmind Hired Mind If they didn't have fore-knowledge of unrest in the area, then why did they issue an apology for the supposedly-offending video BEFORE the attack took place? When the head of an organization doesn't seem to care, then the people working under him will begin not to care. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 758,023 |
time of day the views can be genuinely breathtaking. Having a full 360 degree view of a beautiful island with the sun setting is reason enough to just sit at the top of the tower and watch the world go by. But there's too much to do to spend a lot of time gazing at the scenery. There are a huge number of main and side quests, as well as a series of individual challenges to complete which offer various rewards for their completion. There are areas where you can put a bet on you being able to complete a certain task, giving a nice risk/reward system into the bargain. If you want to take a break from the action, you can go hunting and crafting. Don't mistake this for a dull time-waster, chasing down various animals and killing them is crucial for crafting extra equipment to let you hold more weapons, more cash or other items. In addition to this, finding certain plants (thankfully marked on your map) let you create various things to drink which boost healing, stealth and various other elements of your character. Not enough? Well how about a huge skill tree, which lets you unlock new skills as you go, letting you learn some crucial (and often very cool) new abilities. With a keen lean towards stealthy gameplay, being able to drag bodies away after you've silently taken them out for example is a vital early addition to your box of tricks. The storyline in | OP | OP RV | 3,804,937 |
forcing Bonnie Prince Charlie to flee to the highlands. He eventually reached Europe where he died in exile (in Rome). In this song a young woman laments the failure of the uprising and her Jacobite lover's absence from Scotland. Pauline Mackay Themes for this song Selected for 17 March Ireland's 'Minstrel Boy', Thomas Moore, was much influenced by Robert Burns. Here, for St Patrick's Day, is a Burns song, unusually not about exile from Ireland but rather enforced emigration to the 'Emerald Isle'. The homesick migr whose lament this is suffers banishment as a defeated Jacobite and will never see 'fair Scotland's strand' or the woman he loves again. Others, as is customary every March 17th, will have more cause to celebrate Ireland and the Irish... This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so. | LY | LY PO SL | 247,643 |
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the world has ever produced. I suspect that Aquinas would have enjoyed Gendler's book since he was, contrary to the view of all too many "modern" philosophers, a most empirical and "down-to-earth" thinker who did not disdain nor dismiss the "beauty" which surrounds us in our most common, conventional, and everyday life. Finally, the media bombard us daily with the ugliness in the world: the useless deaths, the unnecessary destruction, the epidemic diseases, the multitudinous disasters, the unconscionable crimes of humanity. Now is the time to take some "time-out" and reflect on the beautiful, on those things, simple as they are, that make a full life worth living. Gendler's book is a good guide to doing just that. And that is why I highly recommend this work to all readers. This is a lovely book. It reawakens us to the real, uncontrived beauty all around and within us -- the kind you get for free -- and gently urges us toward awareness of how it can nurture us, if only we'd let it. Gendler's book is a meditation,a balm, a book to savor. Her quiet drawings match her gentle tone. Keep it on your night table. I am officially a huge fan of J. Ruth Gendler. This book, Notes on the Need for Beauty, is truly a treat for the senses. It mixes beautiful prose with keen observations about the notion of beauty, and how it is sometimes, construed as being extremely controversial. Women are often discouraged from viewing their | IP | IP DS | 149,836 |
144:3.23 When Jesus spent whole nights on the mountain in prayer, it was mainly for his disciples, particularly for the twelve. The Master prayed very little for himself, although he engaged in much worship of the nature of understanding communion with his Paradise Father. (1620.22) 144:4.1 For days after the discourse on prayer the apostles continued to ask the Master questions regarding this all-important and worshipful practice. Jesus' instruction to the apostles during these days, regarding prayer and worship, may be summarized and restated in modern phraseology as follows: (1621.1) 144:4.2 The earnest and longing repetition of any petition, when such a prayer is the sincere expression of a child of God and is uttered in faith, no matter how ill-advised or impossible of direct answer, never fails to expand the soul's capacity for spiritual receptivity. (1621.2) 144:4.3 In all praying, remember that sonship is a gift. No child has aught to do with earning the status of son or daughter. The earth child comes into being by the will of its parents. Even so, the child of God comes into grace and the new life of the spirit by the will of the Father in heaven. Therefore must the kingdom of heaven -- divine sonship -- be received as by a little child. You earn righteousness -- progressive character development -- but you receive sonship by grace and through faith. (1621.3) 144:4.4 Prayer led Jesus up to the supercommunion of his soul with the Supreme Rulers of the universe | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 786,975 |
her claims saying that "the gospels were written in Greek and they always use the male pronoun [to] refer to Jesus. Not once do they use the equally available feminine or neuter pronouns." He also notes that the gospel writers seem to have assumed that Jesus was a man, "and if masculinity is recognized by particular characteristics, there is a pretty huge pile of circumstantial evidence. In the infancy stories, Jesus is referred to as a male child. On his ritual pilgrimage to the temple when he was twelve, he is described as a boy." Chris Rosebrough, apologist and host of Fighting for the Faith, tackled Cornwall's claims as well on a recent radio broadcast. He said she rejects sound doctrine in her paper. Rosebrough also turned to Scripture for the matter, citing the third gospel where Luke begins the story of Jesus by noting that the account he is writing comes from eyewitnesses. He says Luke got some of his information directly from Mary, and when the angel of the Lord appeared to her, he told her she was going to conceive and bear a child who would be called "the Son of the Most High." Rosebrough went on to show that in the first chapter of Luke any references to Jesus are made using male-gender pronouns. The radio host's final point on the matter of Jesus' maleness was the fact that on the eighth day of his life he was taken to the temple and circumcised. Rosebrough said | OP | OP RS | 1,409,117 |
the liberal hacks screeching at him on MSNBC and in the New Republic. That was always a fait accompli. If he was going to vote to uphold for that reason, he would have been a solid yes from day one and the conservative opinion here would have looked very different. Exit quotation from Romney's website : "As president, Mitt will nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito." Breaking on Hot Air Blowback Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege. You should point out that the SCOTASS is different from all other courts in that it can do whatever the hell it wants. It is distinctly different in this respect, since it is the highest court and cannot be appealed, so it is free to do anything. It operates under no law, really. The only restriction on the SCOTASS is Congress impeaching the f@#kwads when they do stuff like this (even though they only have to consider them failing "good behavior" which this decision clearly violates) ... but that never happens. Bush the RINO that just keeps on giving. Obviously Mrs Roberts told her husband that she enjoys going to those elitist parties and he | IP | IP | 156,091 |
During 2011-2012 Ms. Brant served as a member of the Academic, Student Affairs and Advocacy Committee. She has been involved in Education for twenty-five years at the Quinte Mohawk School, as an Educational Assistant, and retired from that position in 2009. Ms. Brant is an honours graduate of Humber College, Developmental Services Worker Program and graduate of Laurentian University, 1993, First Nations Program for Aboriginal Educational Support. She has been the co-coordinator of the Quinte Mohawk Dance Program for 17 years, Secretary/Treasurer of the Woodland Cultural Centre Board of Governors since 2005. Ms. Brant is a founding member of the Tyendinaga Territory Food Bank, Certified Coach for Athletics, and community member of the Chief Earl R. Hill/Douglas E. Maracle Board. She considers herself a learner of the 'Original First Peoples of the Americas Traditions' and has studied under Tyendinaga Chief Earl R. Hill, Wolf Clan, Mohawk Nation; Mrs. Lorraine Hill, Bear Clan, Mohawk Nation; Council of Education Douglas E. Maracle, Wolf Clan, Mohawk Nation; Grandmother Sara D, Smith, Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation; and Gerald E. Hill, Bear Clan, Cayuga Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy League of Nations. She is the owner of The Dream Ways, which is a vehicle for cultural enrichment bridging cultural uniqueness between nations. For the 2012-2013 term Ms. Brant will serve as a member of the Academic, Student Affairs and Advocacy Committee. Governor Ross Danaher, Belleville Elected as Administrative Representative in 2012. Mr. Danaher is Director, Library and Research Services. He joined the College in 2004 | IN | IN DP | 43,815 |
Jakarta raised concerns about the killing with Indonesia. Even so, it's little comfort to the independence leaders in this divided and dangerous province. They have little faith that the world really cares about their plight. VICTOR YEIMO: Australian Government - also American government - they are actors of violence in West Papua because they fund them, they train them, and then with the gun they kill people. They kill us like animal. CONSTANT KARMA, SECRETARY OF PROVINCE OF PAPUA: What I know is that the police were at that incident but whether they were normal police or Densus 88 I don?t exactly know, but there were police from Polda Papua there, the Papuan Police Force. HAYDEN COOPER: Is any investigation being conducted into the death of Mako Tabuni? CONSTANT KARMA: There is an investigation by Polda Papua and they are tracing in the police area. HAYDEN COOPER: So the police are investigating? CONSTANT KARMA: Yes, at that time there was observation by the Papuan Police. CONSTANT KARMA: There are actions being taken by local police against the KNPB because they have been doing things that the Government don?t wish to continue. HAYDEN COOPER: Is KNPB a violent organisation? CONSTANT KARMA: Their principle is peaceful means but in reality they have also committed acts of violence. HAYDEN COOPER: Have you ever seen Detachment 88 or been aware of them operating in West Papua? CONSTANT KARMA: I don't really know about West Papua but in the Papuan Police (Polda Papua) there are | SP | SP TA | 211,010 |
copy of "Any Glass With Wine In It Is a Wine Glass" , open up your favorite bottle of wine, sit back and enjoy! Reviews of "Any Glass With Wine In It, Is a Wine Glass" ... "How to look like you know wine in 15 minutes or less!" "How many times have you broken out in a sweat when your well meaning friends hand you the wine list and stare at you expecting you to know what you are doing?... Its a great read. Nick is very amusing which makes it that much easier to get through... Thank you for writing this book, buy it, read it, go drink some wine. "Educational and Humorous" "This is a great book that quickly gets to the most pertinent questions about all things "wine"... Loved the humor and practicality of what is typically a very stuffy/snobby topic. Read this book before your next dinner party or group outing!" "Now I can impress my date! :)" "This is exactly what I've been looking for! ... I was a bit of a wine dummy. Got tired of trying to fake knowing what I was talking about and found this awesome resource! Now I have a better understanding and can determine which wine to ask for... the book flowed smoothly, just like a nice bottle of wine should! Highly recommend. More Information ... "I'll order the wine!" will be your favorite statement when dining out! You'll laugh as you read this lighthearted book as well | IP | IP DS | 350,922 |
of clothes for each of your family members, copies of insurance documents, personal hygiene items (toothpaste, shampoo, etc), comfort items for children, a first aid kit, and flashlights. Know what resources are available in your area Be aware of what emergency mental health resources are available in your community during an emergency or disaster situation. If you are evacuating, find out what hospitals are nearby and how to get to them if needed. In the United States, the American Red Cross often has disaster mental health personnel available after a disaster has occurred. You may also be able to access resources through Employee Assistance Programs or local mental health organizations. If you are followed by a case worker, make sure you know how to contact them in case of an emergency. Don't forget, these preparations should supplement your general emergency preparedness plans -- for example having a sufficient food and water to take care of your family for several days. General emergency preparedness tips and recommendations are available from various agencies, including the Red Cross , FEMA , and the Government of Canada . Post navigation One thought on " Emergency preparedness for people with a mental illness " Great reminder D! I had never thought about this. I function well when on adrenaline, but don't know how well I'd function as the dust settles and the lengthier waiting period sets in -waiting to be allowed to return home or waiting for a place to live, which can last days | OP | OP AV | 3,745,241 |
You're thinking of Deion Sanders but... Unless I'm mistaken (which is always possible), this question has no answer. Because the only man to play in both a Superbowl and World Series is Deion Sanders. But Sanders did not play in both an NFL game and an MLB game on the same day. He *tried* to, but his baseball manager refused to play him... On October 11 [1992], Sanders played for the Falcons at Miami, then took a charter flight to Pittsburgh for the Braves' playoff game that night, hoping to become the first athlete to play in two pro sports the same day. But Braves manager Bobby Cox didn't play him. Broadcaster Tim McCarver criticized Sanders and, three days later after Atlanta won the NLCS, Neon Deion's response was to dump ice water on McCarver. Nobody has actually PLAYED in both on the same day. On October 11, 1992 however Deion Sanders played for the Falcons against Miami in the NFL and was on the roster and in the dugout for the Braves in their NLCS game against Pittsburgh but he never actually entered the game. prime time? mm...thats a good question my guess is deion sanders. I know he played for the Braves in '91 when they went to the world series and of course everyone knows he was one of the greatest cornerbacks of all time on the Dallas Cowboys when they had their Superbowl runs. | ID | ID QA | 330,016 |
Via bondidwhat's Flickr We've all felt it prick the back of our necks, especially when we seem to be having a lousy day. The worst is when we're mid-sentence in a passionate debate over the merits... more > gary burke's flickr It seems strange on a day like today to reminisce on winter, and the fact that it was only two months ago that we were dealing with blizzards, snow piles and slowdowns. But... more > Over the weekend Patti Smith and Jonathan Lethem went face-to-face in the Great Hall of Cooper Union to discuss, you know, stuff. The Q&A format had Smith on the receiving end of questions from the author... more > AP In an agreement announced yesterday, the city will assume full control of Governors Island from the state, enabling the Bloomberg administration to move forward with a $41.5 million plan to give the island a face... more > It's open! After more than two decades of planning and dreaming, a part of Brooklyn Bridge Park is open to the public. Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. Paterson -- who had squabbled over control of the planned 85-acre waterfront parkland... more > Since the city assumed control of the unfinished Brooklyn Bridge Park project, there's a chance the controversial plan to fund park operations by building condos inside the greenspace might be scrapped. The Bloomberg administration has said... more > Photo by Jake Dobkin/Gothamist The state has reportedly withdrawn its control of Brooklyn Bridge Park and given the cash-strapped | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 738,131 |
play. This explains why this ludic aesthetic has a noticeably unfun or stressed-out layer to it. Contemporary zaniness is not just an aesthetic about play but about work, and also about precarity, which is why the threat of injury is always hovering about it. An assortment of Atari 2600 games, left to right from top left: Combat (1977), Frostbite (1983), Defender (1982), Kaboom! (1981), Frogger (1982), and Pole Position (1983). What is the underlying connection between affects and aesthetic experience? I think Gerard Genette is right to say that all of our aesthetic predicates are "objectifications" of feeling. To make an aesthetic judgment, with all its necessary claims for universality, is to project one's feelings onto the object in such a totalizing fashion that the "actually subjective" basis of the judgment of aesthetic quality ends up being somewhat incidental to how we experience or understand that quality. Does this mean there is a one-to-one correspondence between the minor affects and marginal aesthetic categories? No. The former are sort of like raw materials for the latter, which are both descriptive and evaluative. In fact, and this is part of what intrigues me about them, aesthetic judgments like the ones in my study revolve around multiple and even conflicting feelings: tenderness and aggression, in the case of the cute; fun and unfun, in the case of the zany; interest and boredom, in the case of the interesting. I should stress that these aesthetic categories are trivial , but not for all that | SP | SP IT | 479,238 |
all, Excuse me for Valentine Sinitsyn (not verified) - February 10, 2009 @ 6:47pm Hi all, Excuse me for rushing into the dialog: I'm not a reader of Linux Format as you now it, but I'm the editor of the very same magazine in Russia. :) Just wanted to say we've tried a thing similar to what Hudzilla has suggested when converted our PDF archive into Wiki. It worked well although it tooks some time. So my two cents are it's worth trying. It's worth a go. Presumably Rhakios (not verified) - February 10, 2009 @ 6:53pm It's worth a go. Presumably a similar method to avoid replication of work will be used as for the community conversion project. I did a similar thing Gurrier (not verified) - February 15, 2009 @ 10:30am I did a similar thing recently with an ISO standard for IT Security which was in PDF format with a short expiry. While it was possible to save the whole file to text but the layout was crap. After some fiddling about, I ended up with a relatively simple shell script (mainly using sed) which removed all the line-breaks, then put in new line-breaks to separate sections and then inserted formatting markup for our wiki layout. Worked a treat and I would be happy to pass on the script and to help. If you do get this done, how do you intend to keep it going? Will there be a constant reliance on the same community to | HI | HI HT | 702,115 |
14 October 2009 for the one who has everything The famous Neiman Marcus Christmas Book is back and since we are in a recession and all, they claim the majority of the gifts are under $250. Of course, that doesn't mean they dropped their "fantasy" category...not at all. Let's take a look shall we? For those who act like kids there is this: A cupcake car. Just what everyone needs. For only $25k it's a bargain! Don't worry if you are buying one for the kids, it tops out at 7mph. For the literati group we have a night at the Algonquin: An evening at the Algonquin with a group of selected authors could be yours for $200k. Don't worry though, the proceeds of this gift go directly to charity. You get an evening to remember while ensuring millions of children will learn to love the written word. Of course if you can't quite afford the price tag you can always donate whatever you can afford to First Book directly. And for those who can't stand traffic? Let's get them a plane: Why not, right? For $250k you can get a two seater "sports vehicle for the air" perfect for his & her. It can take off and land on water if needed and of course, you both also get lessons for your FAA license. | IP | IP DS | 3,102,039 |
worked really hard to get where the label is right now, and that all with signing music I love. If you keep it close to yourself and people love what you are doing you can't really go wrong. With all the online possibilities it's a total different world than 5 years ago but it's a new and fun way to promote records..." What are the next plans release wise for Revealed? "We've got so much more bangers coming! End of November I'll be releasing my new single called 'Apollo' which features the vocals of Amba Shepherd. So excited for this release as I've been testing this for a few weeks now and can't wait to put this out! Furthermore I just signed one of the biggest track ever to Revealed I think, can't give you more info at this point but sure this will be a huge track in 2013! For the coming months got releases planned for some up and comers but also some well known and respected names in the scene already." 2012 has been a stunning year for you - DJing at the best events and also bringing us some of the biggest tunes of the year. What is your personal highlight of 2012 so far? "It's hard to choose as this was a year full of highlights, but to pick two that made the biggest impression on me that would be two festivals Ultra Music Festival as it was my first time mainstage, and that energy | SP | SP IT | 3,077,846 |
Stanley having left for France, leaving Catharine as chaste as he found her. Finally, because those fantasies function at odds with the Catharine we meet, the aunt's imaginings also call the niece's supposed perversity into question and set into motion another set of visualizations about Catharine's sexuality, these more playful and appealing, the kind of normative expectations of much Romantic-era medical advice: "that love enhances bodily pleasure" (qtd in Sha, 11). Significantly, in the story Catharine can physically control manifesting her erotic desires, but her Aunt cannot control her own sexual fantasies. Austen thereby achieves the effect of normalizing heterosexual desire and pathologizing sexual repression while also expressing what must have been her poor opinion of the success such moral stories had in repressing women's sexuality or their desires. III. Women Steal it back again "But I kept my eye on it; and, as soon as I dared, caught it up, and never parted with it again from that moment." The Juvenila's heroines try to emancipate themselves by stealing "back" what their culture denies them. Whether they succeed or not, Austen herself succeeds in using their criminality to explore the violence of normative social relations during her era. Because these stories link theft and sexuality, they suggest that these women are indeed stealing in order to retain, express, or regain their libidinal powers, and this is a point Austen continues to pursue in later novels, especially in Sense and Sensibility and Emma. Lucy Steele's last name blatantly calls attention to | IN | IN RA | 598,869 |
though I told her when she came back that I would. I guess my inaction over two years made her doubt me. When I told her that she never really made me believe 100% either, she said "yes, but you're the man". I guess I was weak and scared and guilty, and... Of cours now I'm stuck in this inbetween state. She's gone, but I can't move on and therefore can't put 100% of my focus on my wife where I should have had it all along. Like someone (I think DS?) said, how can we really see if we aren't fully committed? Oh, and Emily, yeah, unfortunately guys "stalk" too! I'd been doing really well, but then once I logged back in here to see how everyone was doing, it all came rushing back and I realized I hadn't really moved very far along. Alright enough rambling. BB, good luck and keep us informed! Ivan - Just read your above and I agree with every single word. I havent got much time to reply in full but reading it was like looking at a mirror image of myself. I TOTALLY GET YOU... I am getting closer, however what seems to be my final hurdle is that money is a big big issue now. I started my business about 6yrs ago and from being employed earning an average wage I started earning very good money and being my own boss and in regards to my business plan things were looking | ID | ID QA | 1,428,393 |
all over again, I try to tempt you, You say im deluded, When will this foolishness cease, I attempted to snare you with old fashioned manners, But patience was never my thing, I said you were special, you know that I meant it, Now im all over the shop If you carry on like that you'll never make it, If you cary on like me you'll never make it, You'll never make it | LY | LY SL | 763,471 |
ensure the ongoing adequacy of household assistance. The household assistance package is described in more detail in Chapter 4 and in Appendix A. Supporting jobs Businesses will also be assisted in transitioning to a carbon price. To support Australian businesses to make the transition to a clean energy future, the Government has designed a number of assistance measures for the business community, from large industrial producers to small businesses. The Government will allocate around 40 per cent of carbon price revenue to help businesses and support jobs. The Jobs and Competitiveness Program will ensure that businesses that produce a lot of pollution and compete in international markets remain competitive, while still retaining strong incentives to reduce carbon pollution. Almost all emissions-intensive and trade-exposed activities are in the manufacturing sector. The Jobs and Competitiveness program will provide support to activities that generate over 80 per cent of emissions within the manufacturing sector. The food processing, metal forging and foundry industries will also be assisted to support jobs in these parts of manufacturing. More general assistance for small businesses and manufacturing industries will target improvements in energy efficiency. The Multi-Party Climate Change Committee agreed these measures. All of these measures have been carefully designed to avoid interfering with the purpose of the carbon price: creating incentives to reduce carbon pollution. These measures are discussed in Chapter 5. In addition to these measures, the Government has decided to provide a Coal Sector Jobs Package and a Steel Transformation Plan (see Appendix C for | IN | IN DT | 622,932 |
but Washington still wants him to end ethnic conflict and release all political prisoners. Some activists have warned that President Obama's trip risks rewarding a government that still has a poor human rights record. Human Rights Watch has called the trip "premature." Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip have hit a Hamas government building. The Cabinet headquarters was among targets hit early Saturday in Gaza. There are no initial reports of injuries. The strikes followed an exchange of rocket fire Friday between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza with one Palestinian rocket landing in a field outside Jerusalem. Air raid sirens wailed through Jerusalem Friday after the unprecedented attack on Jerusalem, but Israeli officials said there were no injuries or damage. Hamas claimed responsibility. Israel responded by calling up thousands more military reserves for a potential force of 75,000 reservists in preparation for a possible ground incursion into Gaza. It also shut down the main roads around the Gaza Strip. The situation between Israel and Hamas threatens to explode into all-out war. Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil visited Gaza, promising Egypt "will make sacrifices and every effort to achieve a truce." But in Cairo, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi lashed out at what he called unacceptable Israeli aggression. U.S. President Barack Obama telephoned the Egyptian president Friday to discuss the situation and commend Egypt's efforts to defuse the tensions. Mr. Obama also spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The White House says Mr. Netanyahu thanked the United States for | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 435,280 |
he made to try to cut off funding for the troops and I respect you for that. I don't know how you can defend that position now but I know that you know especially with your son in the National Guard and I have great respect for your family also and the honor that you show our military. Barack Obama though, another story there. Anyone I think who can cut off funding for the troops after promising not to is another story. IFILL : Sen. Biden? BIDEN : John McCain voted to cut off funding for the troops. Let me say that again. John McCain voted against an amendment containing $1 billion, $600 million that I had gotten to get MRAPS, those things that are protecting the governor's son and pray god my son and a lot of other sons and daughters. He voted against it. He voted against funding because he said the amendment had a time line in it to end this war. He didn't like that. But let's get straight who has been right and wrong. John McCain and Dick Cheney said while I was saying we would not be greeted as liberators, we would not - this war would take a decade and not a day, not a week and not six months, we would not be out of there quickly. John McCain was saying the Sunnis and Shias got along with each other without reading the history of the last 700 years. John McCain said | SP | SP TA | 247,603 |
or advised on any of these sites. | IP | IP DS | 3,104,716 |
a metallic, wooden or painted "cross" signs or object dangling on scene people's neck adoring some church buildings but the ways and means, denials, afflictions, rejections, sufferings, etc.) that God brings our way and we willingly accept them so that the "self" and its lusts can be dealt with for God's life to be released in and through us. Refer to Matthew 25:1-3, and note that what made the wise virgins wise was that they bought oil in their vessels (i.e. willingly paying price for the Holy Spirit to permeate and deal with their soulish/self-life). The foolish virgins did not consider this necessary though they had oil in their lamps (our spirit - Prov.20:27). However, they were all virgins (typifies Christians). Another scripture that shows us the mind of God in this area of dying to self is John 12:23-25. "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it..." Let me ask you now - since Christ has died for us, why is He still demanding that we die so as to bring forth much fruit (not just gifts). It is not spiritual death, or physical death that is required of us but to die to the self/soulish life so that the life of Christ can captivate our soul, and body also. Remember the transfiguration of Christ, and the face of Moses shinning when he came down from | OP | OP RS | 761,669 |
have thought about it in a way that has never crossed my mind ;-). As for right and wrong I rarely think of the posts here in those terms and I've never seen you make a post that I think is confrontational in anyway. Baseball is many different things to different people and many people in my own family look at it and enjoy it for different reasons. I will say the times that I'm the happiest about my post are when I might mention something and Mark later brings up the same or similar point. I then feel my observation skills are pretty good. I still get things wrong and many things still surprise me but I think that's why I still enjoy it after all these years. I know that I'm not that good at blogging, if that's what I'm doing, because many times it seems like the point I'm trying to make does not come across. I've agreed with people before and it has sent them off on a diatribe that usually I have to laugh at, I wonder what would they have written if I disagreed? I do think the medium does lend itself to be confrontational for some reason. I'm sure if I was at a ball game with most of the people here we could all talk baseball all night long. This biggest game of the year was the 2nd game of the doubleheader against the Braves with John Lannan pitching on July 21st. | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 3,256,802 |
Deaf musings, usually written from the UK A few random websites to look at... The Deaf Film and TV Festival has become Deaffest, and you can find info about that here . People keep emailing me about it so I thought I should blog it! There's an interesting interview with Sandra Duguid here . She's great in Playing God ... you can still catch a performance in London or Edinburgh, I think. The Manchester one was good! Finally, I would link to info about the BDA Congress, but I can't find any on their website. Even the BDA's events calendar says nothing is happening in August ! Not true. Here's the info (and no, I do not work for the BDA... I just think these things should be shared, and I am grumpy because the BDA hasn't shared it widely. I'll probably get into trouble for saying that. Whatever.): | OP | OP OB | 3,091,137 |
It was not so hard believing in the end as long as it remained abstraction, shadow the wind dragged through waist-high grass, a passage like the wave some philosophers say our lives are, a body stirred from nothing to brief crescendo, then dropped into nothing once more. Each one of us will take our turn crossing that field, far from the lights of cities, nameless under nameless stars. Alone in that emptiness, the small gears of civilization dither and lock, and the older, larger gears, the ones ever-turning and ever-silent, let themselves be heard for a moment, long enough to let us know the shadow on the edge of the field is no mirage. But we are not the wind. We have a choice which direction we take. You have to stand in that field long enough to realize there is a choice. You can turn and run, but the edge of the field grows wider, claims more of your life's real estate. You can walk into the shadow early, singing a song whose words you forget as they leave your tongue and believe it is courage, not fear, marching you forward. Or you can turn, leave the field deliberately, the great notes of the gears you heard still grinding, song you will keep yourself from swaying to as you turn from the dark to find a place that sells coffee paled with milk, where you can sit in soft light and read the day's temporary news, small matters made | LY | LY PO | 467,077 |
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