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Get Lifestyle Lift Updates I decided to get a facelift after seeing photos from my 40th HS reunion. Lifestyle in Denver offered an additional discount on the procedure because I took an appointment time that had been cancelled by another client. I love a bargain! I look easily ten years younger. Everyone has noticed how... Read more I have been waiting and waiting tor the 'tightening' tht Dr. Dahiya said would occur - this after the THIRD procedure within 18 months for the exact same Lifestyle Lift procedure on my lower face, chin and neck. The first procedure was at LSL in Reston, VA in the spring of 2011; the 2nd... Read more As a cancer survivor with a double mastectomy, I needed something to bring up my self esteem. I saw a commercial for Lifestyle lift and thought that might be what I needed. I setup an appointment. My consultant Farah Carrington showed me before and after pictures and just like in the commercials... Read more I am 61 years old as of Oct. 31, 2012, and had a Lifestyle Lift on Oct. 6, 2012 in Independence, Ohio. I had a simple goal: to eliminate the loose skin on my neck after loosing 35 pounds and after undergoing a serious round of radiation therapy following breast cancer surgery (which really did a... Read more It is the night before my procedure and I am somewhat nervous. I had my consultation with my Doctor and I am confident in his | OP | OP RV | 4,787 |
creative mind, whereas the slave is inert like matter. That legitimates unquestioned political power of those on the right side of the New Science's dichotomies. - You might also appreciate Latour's Laboratory Life, Feyerabend's Against Method, and Segerstrale's Defenders Of The Truth, which look at scientific work as social, communal work. Kuhn's watershed work The Structure Of Sci. Revolutions and the work of Polanyi also explore the sense in which good science is not just controlled empirical experiments but also the paradigms and conceptual schemes that are socially transmitted. - It's not just that a non-specialist won't be able to understand the complex math involved in some more complicated math. It's that even the specialist relies on and builds off of the accumulated work of the tradition. Descartes wanted each scientific theory to come from the work of one individual from the ground up in order to avoid precisely this situation, because he was worried that error and doubt would creep in somewhere in the community. But that's not how the society of scientists functions: Any given scientist will have repeated some experiments, especially those that are significant and not too difficult to repeat, but will certainly not have rebooted from the ground up. Any given scientist didn't re-invent the bunsen burner, the methods of controlling lab conditions, and certainly not the superstructure from which new work draws. This example isn't from science, but: Leibniz missed a necessary pair of parentheses in a momentous mathematical proof that wasn't noticed until | OP | OP RS | 3,198,067 |
more. Players take any tile and try to connect it to the Tantrix. There are no turns! Players have to place all their tiles as quickly as possible. Tiles can only be connected to the Tantrix if they touch at least two other tiles and all touching colours are matching. When a tile is gobbled, the player shouts "Gobble!" and offloads one tile to any opponent. Players should shout "OUT!" as they play their last tile and the first player out wins. Other players should continue until all finish. GOBBLE SOLITAIRE Begin with all 56 tiles in the bag. Take two tiles at random and place them together in the middle of the table with colours matching. Continue taking one tile at a time from the bag and joining it to the Tantrix on the table. Joining tiles must always touch at least two other tiles and all touching colours must match. If a tile can not be added to the Tantrix, it must be placed face up on the penalty stack. When a tile is gobbled, then the top tile from the penalty stack can be removed and returned to the bag, or played straight away. The objective of Solitaire Gobble is to finish the game with no penalty stack after all 56 tiles have been played. More Info There are no restriction rules, so blocked gobbles are common. Tiles in penalty stacks must always be kept face up to differentiate them from the player's pile. Tiles given from | HI | HI HT | 1,788,900 |
precious than money, so government's responsibility to spend our freedom wisely and frugally is even greater than its responsibility to spend our money thus. Governments must never put the publishers' interests on a par with the public's freedom. Not "balance" but "trade-off" The idea of balancing the readers' interests against the publishers' is the wrong way to judge copyright policy, but there are indeed two interests to be weighed: two interests of the readers . Readers have an interest in their own freedom in using published works; depending on circumstances, they may also have an interest in encouraging publication through some kind of incentive system. The word "balance," in discussions of copyright, has come to stand as shorthand for the idea of "striking a balance" between the readers and the publishers. Therefore, to use the word "balance" in regard to the readers' two interests would be confusing. We need another term. In general, when one party has two goals that partly conflict, and cannot completely achieve both of them, we call this a "trade-off." Therefore, rather than speaking of "striking the right balance" between parties, we should speak of "finding the right trade-off between spending our freedom and keeping it." The second error: maximizing one output The second mistake in copyright policy consists of adopting the goal of maximizing -- not just increasing -- the number of published works. The erroneous concept of "striking a balance" elevated the publishers to parity with the readers; this second error places them far | IN | IN | 185,935 |
I looked at his earnings and thought that they were meager for our standards, but based on where he lives it is very important to him to have a marketplace like this for him to be able to live. | SP | SP IT | 3,269,760 |
supports concepts like family values, avoiding lies, fidelity, moral codes and the rule of law. Shermer also suggests that evolution gives more support to the notion of an omnipotent creator, rather than a tinkerer with limitations based on a human model. [ 67 ] A fundamental part of `Abdul-Bahá's teachings on evolution is the belief that all life came from the same origin : "the origin of all material life is one..." [ 68 ] He states that from this sole origin, the complete diversity of life was generated: "Consider the world of created beings, how varied and diverse they are in species, yet with one sole origin" [ 69 ] He explains that a slow, gradual process led to the development of complex entities: "[T]he growth and development of all beings is gradual; this is the universal divine organization and the natural system. The seed does not at once become a tree ; the embryo does not at once become a man; the mineral does not suddenly become a stone. No, they grow and develop gradually and attain the limit of perfection" [ 70 ] Evolutionary theory can be seen in a way which is compatible with Catholic dogma , according to the Church. On the 12 August 1950, the Catholic Church accepted that the theory of evolution was a valid scientific inquiry, stated by Pope Pius XII in the encyclical Humani Generis saying "research and discussions… take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution". In the same | IN | IN EN | 9,994,258 |
except my school told me that i can't do senior science since it clashes with the other subject timetables and they suggested that i can keep 3u maths. i want to keep ipt and physics. im doing bad at maths but i dont want to drop 2u maths. im ranked 6/30 in sdd but i was planning to drop it in the middle of the year if it got too much for me. i actually cant program at all and im scared if i have to do a major or something that programming gets involved and i wouldnt be able to do anything, especially projects. right now im thinking maybe i should drop sdd and pick up senior science but im not sure if that's a wise move... is there someone from past experience that can give me any advice? im really struggling to decide what to do... Re: what to drop :( , i want to do 12 units drop senior science "All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity." - James F. Cooper Re: what to drop :( , i want to do 12 units Definitely senior science. And don't worry about SDD, I can't program for shit, but the major seems easy enough. It's mostly just documentation which is REALLY easy. Programming is really insignificant in the major work | ID | ID DF | 3,289,926 |
a sleeper berth in a 2 or 4 berth sleeper compartment. Couples can request berths in a 2-berth compartment, though this can't be guaranteed. Bookings open 90 days in advance. Bedding (sheets, blankets, pillow, made up for you by the train attendant) is an extra 40 rand (3.50) or so per person, paid on the train. Children in tourist class sleepers aged from 0 to 9 pay half fare, 10 and over pay the adult fare. This arrangement was introduced in 2009. It seems harsh to have to pay half fare for a 3-month old baby, but remember how cheap the fares are to start with. Children in economy class seats aged under 5 travel free, children aged 5 to 9 (inclusive) travel at half fare, children aged 10 and over pay full fare (note that these child age limits were changed in early 2008). Return fares are twice the one-way fare. There may be further reductions for students & seniors in off-peak periods, so ask when booking. Sleeping-cars: The sleeping-cars have 4-berth rooms called 'compartments' and smaller 2-berth rooms known as 'coups'. The berths convert to seating for daytime use. Each compartment has basic leatherette bench seats which convert to bunks at night, and a washbasin with hot and cold water. Bedding is provided for a small extra charge (40 Rand, about 3.50) and expertly made up for you in the evening by the train attendant. Each sleeping-car has a hot shower at the end of the corridor, with | IN | IN IB | 346,283 |
Yes yes, landlords will take a loss in your world. Every month. MAGIC. You insist that people who don't believe in your magic and don't watch trash youtube propaganda are "foolish". Newsbot9 Guessing? I'm reading the study. You're pushing MAGIC losses as good for landlords. Newsbot9 2. The Landlord passes the LVT onto the tenant. 3. Under the proposal which doesn't exist. And the Landlord can't afford to take the loss you're telling him he is. You are saying he MUST take a loss under a LVT. "Market Forces"? Ah yes, you can be homeless. Great alternative! There won't BE cheaper places to live, especially as land passes into the hands of a few under your proposal, as you raise tax on the poor dramatically. Newsbot9 No, energy efficiency isn't the concern of the landlord, he's not the one who pays it. Your LVT WILL throw millions out of their homes, and Harrisburg's social cleansing is a great example of it. LVT is a revolution, right, and like all such it will kill a noticeable part of the population and eat it's children. The bodies get stacked up, every time. You are saying that there will be enough casualties to mean there's a house for everyone, I see. That's a lot of dead bodies. I don't see mass murder as easy. "Planning laws will also protect green gardens, etc." So property will have even larger mandatory tax bills, ensuring that many of the lower middle class will have to die | IP | IP | 3,100,035 |
over the terran with 20 ultras. Ultralisks are good against that specific combination if there is a low tank count, which is why terrans will still be making marauders for the follow-up tech switch, or just go mech where every unit except the hellion beats ultralisks per supply. Symbol also made good use of them in ZvP alongside infestors and banelings. Ultras crush FFs, fungal holds things still, banelings kill everything. Care to post those games? I've never seen ultralisks do well in high-level ZvP. The problem is that there are very few units which actually do lose to ultralisks per cost or per supply. Immortals crush them, as do colossi, chargelots, archons, etc. I think the only units that actually do lose to them are high templar (unmerged) and mass sentry. I could point to the jjakji vs puzzle GSL matches to say "the thor kills everything TvP!", but realistically most of the time the thor is going to lose to just about anything the toss throws at it. Ultralisks are good against that specific combination if there is a low tank count, which is why terrans will still be making marauders for the follow-up tech switch, or just go mech where every unit except the hellion beats ultralisks per supply. | ID | ID DF | 571,338 |
and the wandering male trapdoors have little 'boxing glove' shaped ends to their palps (the little leg like structures either side of the mouth. The photo in the tree, however, looks a little unusual. Is it possible to take a more detailed close-up of these tree entrances and send it again? There is a tree dwelling close relative of the funnelwebs but your photo looks a little different to the typical form of the burrow entrance. @Glen86: the lack of extra webbing/silk triplines at the hole entrance suggests that this burrowing spider is not a Funnel-web species, but without seeing the spider it would be hard to hazard a guess - most likely some kind of Trapdoor (not all species make the 'trapdoor'). Even if it was a Funnel-web, I would suggest leaving it alone - spiders really don't bother us unless we bother them! If someone was to garden in this location, sturdy gloves, covered shoes and a spade would be the best idea in any case. @vikrmac: the spider does look like a species of huntsman, which come in a range of sizes - there are several species with striped legs, plus one with a marking on the underside of the abdomen (the Badge or Shield Huntsman). We hope to put more images up soon on our Huntsman Spiders page , but there is some information there already about different species. Hi, I was wondering if you could assist me. I recently spotted a spider crawling across the | IN | IN DT IB | 572,129 |
While Harper claims that so-called "Islamicism" is the biggest security threat facing Canada, it is in fact his government's policies that are the bigger threat. Harper's support of war and occupation, his reckless support of Big Oil which is causing climate change and his austerity agenda are all creating greater inequality and insecurity both abroad and at home. The Harper government and its supporters have often sought to denigrate Islam, painting all Muslims with the brush of criminality or terrorism in an attempt to divide Canadians and to justify the government's wars of aggression. This is nothing new. For centuries, nations have tried to characterize certain groups as less than human to provide an excuse for slavery and murder. Harper also wants to resurrect draconian security laws that will suspend charter rights for Canadians. These laws create a legal system that allows people to be thrown in jail without charge or warrant, based on suspicion rather than fact. This is a threat to the freedom of all Canadians and must be stopped. Ten years ago, on September 26, 2001 thousands marched in Toronto against the impending war on Afghanistan. To challenge the climate of fear and racism, we carried placards that read "Islam is Not the Enemy - War is Not the Answer". Ten years later we need to revive that slogan. Download the window sign and print extra copies for friends, family and co-workers. We need to paint this country with symbols of peace and unity. embedded_video Comments Submitted | IP | IP PA | 523,010 |
September 15th, a few days after the attack on the World Trade Center. Since September 11th, I had been going to the local fire station on East 85th Street to talk to people and do whatever grief or trauma counseling was even possible. Nine of the firemen, including the captain that I had known, died in the collapse of the World Trade Center. The fire station had become a shrine of mourning: Each evening 85th Street was closed to traffic as mourners gathered by the hundreds with candles and bunches of flowers. They prayed silently or sang a few songs like "Amazing Grace" or "America". Signs of tribute to the dead firemen covered the front and sidewall at the fire station. Amidst our collective grief there was still some hope on that Saturday -- the rescue workers had found some people still alive. The fire station no longer served it's original function; the two fire trucks were crushed in the rubble of the collapsed buildings. The firemen that had been off duty on Tuesday morning were now pressed into around-the-clock rescue service. Several of the firemen had been called out of retirement to attend the station house and to receive the condolences of the mourners. The retired firefighters were functioning more like chaplains than firemen. That Saturday night, near midnight, I was inside the fire station talking to one of the retired firemen when Hector began to call out the names of the lost firemen. Hector was drunk. He had | IN | IN RA | 609,592 |
will say to them: 'We swear by Allah that you have been increased in beauty and loveliness since leaving us.' Thereupon they will reply: 'We swear by Allah that you have also been increased in beauty and loveliness since we left you." [Muslim]]. Commentary: Bazar refers to a place of gathering, where everything will be available, free of cost. Similarly, Jumu'ah means that people will gather there for a time period equal to that of Jumu'ah , as there will be no sun, nor night and day. Another speciality of Jannah is that the beauty and charm of men and women will go on increasing and so the love and affection between husbands and wives will also keep on progressing and increasing. It will be just the opposite of what happens here in this world. Sahl bin Sa'd, may Allah be pleased with him , said that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's peace and blessing be upon him , said, "The dwellers of Jannah will see the upper abodes of Jannah as you see the stars in the sky." [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] Commentary: See the commentary above to the hadith , "The dwellers of Jannah ... " Sahl bin Sa'd, may Allah be pleased with him , reported that he was in the company of the Prophet, may Allah's peace and blessing be upon him . The Prophet gave a description of Jannah and concluded with these words, "There will be bounties which no eye has seen, no ear | OP | OP RS | 1,428,012 |
see more mental health specialists working in teams with GPs, nurses and carers. We need to look at extending personal health budgets that enable patients to select the best combination of services and treatments for themselves. Both mental and physical. We also need all health professionals to see promoting good mental health and spotting signs of mental ill-health as part of what they do. So we should ensure that the training of doctors, nurses and all professional staff who work in the NHS includes mental health. So a One Nation solution to the challenge of mental health starts with our National Health Service. Beyond the NHS But fully to rise to that challenge, we need also to look beyond the NHS itself. Too often we act as if the answer to our health crises starts and stops with new government programmes. And we don't ask enough of others in our society. Thinking of the service provided by government as the answer on its own misses the point of how we can succeed as a country. Mobilising the contribution, the talent, the expertise of the patient, the parent, the carer, and changing the way our wider society works, is as important in determining whether any public service can succeed in its intentions. Good mental health doesn't start in hospital or the treatment room. It starts in our workplaces, our schools and our communities. So the task falls as much to organisations like British business and the CBI as it does to | SP | SP FS | 3,139,727 |
this feels like a Taylor Swift moment when I'm thinking 'yes, how did you know?' I think the issue of teenage girls and their romantic feelings are always overlooked by boys - it's as if they ignore it and pretend it isn't happening. Reading this brings back memories of the anxiety I had at even making eye contact with these boys! I'm curious to know how old you are - I was fourteen when I began this sort of stuff Rating /100 1 Week Ago Thank you! That's funny you say that because I am fourteen :) And YES I completely agree with you about our feelings being sort of ignored by boys!!! It sucks! Thanks again! 1 Week Ago You're welcome! No need - as long as you keep writing interesting, honest material I will be happy to read. Here's a way to solve the problem GET A BOYFRIEND TO MAKE THEM JEALOUS or if you're like me, you can't and you just keep hoping! Hehe! 1 Week Ago Thanks! And hahaha I'll work on it! Haha that's hilarious!! :) 1 Week Ago You're welcome and yes it's true. So is there one boy you like or multiple? I was wondering from what Krista said 1 Week Ago When I wrote this I thought I was starting to like someone else but I realized I still liked the same guy haha So yeah there's only one :) And I still like him! 1 Week Ago Aw so cute! I | LY | LY PO | 3,280,667 |
No space to type the details but its true. 4) DON YOUNG IS AN OIL WHORE AND A TRAITOR! HANG HIM ALONG SIDE FAT DRUNKEN TED!" Me think johnb is back LOL get a job little boy. I have a feeling you are one of those peace, love and hump a tree fairbanks rejects from cali. who has no clue about Alaska or anything else pertaining to the State. And I am an independent! I have 2 brothers both abled bodied and young who are on social security. They lied and convinced the government they were disabled mentaly and now one of them just got a check for $50k, and the other has been getting $600+ a month for the past 3 or 4 years. It really sickens me, not only from the fact that they are getting the money, but what it is doing to their lives. I get raises that are larger than what they are limited to making total in a year for the rest of their lives and they don't want to work because they are going to lose a measly $12,000 a year or so. Rikki I empathise with you, one of the rarer more deserving beneficiaries of a flawed system. Ignore the fools who try to insult from both sides. I think we are all sleeping in a bed we have made, and noone has the guts to stand up and make a change. I voted for Bush both terms, but come this election | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 751,921 |
Reviews The grass may be greener in the country, and the carpets softer in the city, but--as the two amiable mouse couples in Brett's rich interpretation of the timeless fable finally resolve--``There's no place like home.'' Brett's ( The Mitten ; Trouble with Trolls ) version of how they arrive at their wise conclusion serves up a sumptuous visual feast. The art on each double-page spread (alternately devoted to urban and rural settings) is brimming with droll details; exquisite patterns appear on clothing, china and rugs; and imaginative borders range from silk cord to pottery shards to dandelions. The text also conveys the culture gap between the city and the country mice with a good deal of humor. When she feels a raindrop on her head, the city-mouse wife asks, ``Is the bathtub leaking?''; and her natty husband proudly dons a new jacket (``so colorful and eye-catching''), not realizing that it will indeed catch a creature's eye--that of a large owl whose greedy clutches he barely escapes. Bound to be a standout among the season's picture book offerings. Ages 4-8. (Sept.) K-Gr 3-A new spin on the familiar fable. A mouse couple living in a town are enchanted by the simple life of the country, and, while on a picnic, meet a pair of local mice who long for the luxury and convenience of the city. Homes are swapped, but they find that reality is different from their expectations. Both couples end up fleeing from unfamiliar, predators-a cat in town | IP | IP DS | 1,752,454 |
key factors that constrained the pre-Sky television revenues of the Football League ( LRB , 30 August ). The first was the collusion between ITV and the BBC in refusing to bid against each other, such that the Football League never received more than 3.1 million a year for TV rights. It was British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB), not Sky TV, which broke up this cosy cartel, persuading all but one of the 92 league clubs to sign an exclusive deal in 1988. The absence of the final signature -- Liverpool's -- gave ITV a chance to appeal to a meeting of the whole league, offering to match the BSB price, and to support it with cash guarantees (something BSB's parent companies had declined to do). The BBC refused to join ITV in defence of their joint rights; indeed, it offered to work with BSB, just as it later agreed to bring back the Match of the Day highlights format in support of BSkyB's successful bid for live rights in 1992 (BSkyB was the entity that resulted from the 1990 merger of BSB and Sky). The second constraint was the league's insistence on protecting attendances at Saturday matches. The 44 million deal signed with ITV in 1988 allowed just 18 league matches a year to be televised live -- none on a Saturday. This contract covered all 92 league clubs. The present Premier League deal provides for 154 live matches each year, while the lower divisions have their own TV deals, | NARRATIVE | null | 68,915 |
family. This 88-minute presentation features great music and puppetry, a healthy dose of humor, and a wonderful message about diversity and collaborative effort. (Ages 4 to 9) --Tami Horiuchi Product Description Disney's legendary group comes alive as The Country Bears star in their first feature film. Chronicling one of the most heartwarming family adventures ever, The Country Bears is packed with hilarious comedy, fantastic fun, and foot-stomping music for the whole family. For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near foreclosure. Beary hightails it over the river and through the woods to get the Bears in the Band back together for an all-out reunion concert to save Country Bear Hall. And on the way to find his place in the world, Beary learns that true families are made up of those people who love you the most! When I found out there was going to be a film based on the now defunct Disney attraction I was looking forward to it. After reading media reviews, however, I was certain this movie was going to be a certifiable dud. Which only proves you should never listen to the media critics. The movie is about a young bear whose favourite band (something like a cross between the Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead, but all bears)has been disbanded for 10 | IP | IP DS | 626,155 |
votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence; from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage." Pingback | 7.27.09 @ 2:05PM Featured Articles -- July 27, 2009 : The New Nixon: News and Commentary about the President, his Times, and his Legacy Subscribe to the Feed Exclusive Coverage Nixon In The News Top Picks The Soundtrack Of Our Lives By Frank Gannon More On The Ticket... Bless Ben | 7.27.09 @ 2:07PM Thank you for saying what so many are thinking, and have been thinking since this guy got on the national scene. Mark | 7.27.09 @ 2:08PM I love how right wingers say that private health insurers could never compete with the gov't. Just like FedEx and UPS can't compete with the US Post Office, right? Don't confuse keeping private insurers honest so they stop ripping off policy holders to make billions with an inability to compete. Only a moron like Ben would do that. Pingback | 7.27.09 @ 2:09PM ...of Comcast's services. You remember him from "Ben Stein's Money" or "Ferris Bueller." And | IP | IP | 186,900 |
Jane Campion Mulls More Minis Director Jane Campion is no stranger to Cannes, but she's usually here for the film festival. In town for Mipcom this week, she's here in support of her BBC/Sundance Channel limited series Top Of The Lake . The six-hour drama is produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning ( The King's Speech ) and stars Elisabeth Moss . The move to longform TV 20 years after leaving the medium put Campion in a new environment where she "really gained a lot of respect" for folks who work in the business all the time. "It's so different to map out six hours; we were shooting a feature ever four and a half weeks," she says. Undaunted, Campion and her co-writer Gerard Lee tell me they're already thinking about doing another similar project that would be set in Thailand. Top Of The Lake , set in Campion's home country of New Zealand, centers on a female detective (Moss) investigating the disappearance of a 12-year-old pregnant girl, who is the daughter of a local drug lord. Campion's The Piano star Holly Hunter also appears as a sort of enlightened woman that Campion says she based on a man she once knew. BBC Two and Sundance will sked the series for next year. 'Defiance' Finds Canadian Home Shaw Media has acquired Syfy's Defiance for broadcast on Canada's Showcase. The deal was made with NBCUniversal Television Canada on the future-set series. Showcase will air in the spring. Defiance introduces a | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,235,422 |
have learnt is not to jump to conclusions but to search for those alternate explanations, those confounders which deepen understanding and should inform public health policy and practice. My perspective lies in the clinical and public health realms. My concern about well intentioned skeptics is that what seems a compelling argument to them (and some other people) may be confounded. If I had an injury involving a severe laceration/amputation of a finger, I would much prefer a hand surgeon to neurosurgeon; both are highly trained and very much of it is overlapping, but at the end of the day I want the expert who does hand surgeries every day to look after me -- he or she knows more about the topic and has the practical expertise. I, as a doctor, am vaccinated against H1N1 2009 so that I am protected and do not pass on the infection to vulnerable patients. The vaccine is safe and effective. My nearest and dearest have been vaccinated too. Why not you?" Declaration: Prof Robert Booy does not hold shares in vaccine companies and does not accept payment from them for consultation. For some years he has produced educational material for the public and health professionals on a pro bono basis. He does vaccine research trials with government and industry. He has been a vaccine researcher for over 20 years, the last 10 focussing on influenza. He is the author of over 25 scientific publications on influenza and a member of national committees | IP | IP | 631,976 |
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 |
How to make fondant fancies -- top 10 tips Since fondant fancies were featured in this year's Great British Bake Off final, everyone seems to want to know how to make them. Easily adaptable, perfect for decorating, fondant fancies are a realistic contender to be ' the new cupcake '. Less obvious than cupcakes, fondant fancies are a definite crowd pleaser. When writing fondant fancy recipes for my book last year, there was very little information on the web about them. Fondant fancies have a reputation of being a faff to make yourself. But they're not hard to make, just a less familiar process. After much experimentation, here are my top 10 tips on how to make fondant fancies: 1. Forget Mr Kipling French Fancies. His exceedingly good cakes look identically perfect because they're manufactured. You're unlikely to achieve domed buttercream tops at home since the warm icing melts when you dip the sponges. (Although do try it with the Squires icing -- see below). 2. Forget so-called fondant icing sugar For that smooth shell-like finish, supermarket 'fondant icing sugars' fail to set properly. Squires Kitchen instant fondant icing mix comes in ready flavoured and coloured sachets; it works very well and since it's cold you won't need a sugar thermometer and it won't melt buttercream. However it's pricey and the bags do not yield enough icing to dip whole batches easily. 3. Make home made fondant icing... Making your own fondant icing is easy in a saucepan; you need | HI | HI HT | 3,007,193 |
which they post on face book. Their boyfriends whisk them away on romantic trips randomly. Even on TSR a lot of people seem to have these amazing relationships. I don't have a relationship like my friends' have and thus feel I'm selling myself short. At the same time it's not as bad as the relationships my relatives have had and I feel I am expecting too much. Therefore I just don't know whether to judge if i have a good relationship or not...which I know must sound incredibly stupid. At times I feel happy but most of the time I'm unhappy....but I feel this is because i don't know what my expectations should be. | ID | ID DF QA | 596,857 |
The initial reaction is I understand lines being drawn or being connected. I get that. I understand it because it's a simple thing to do. The fact is in my four years here I have never, ever made a decision on which players will be inactive, who gets playing time, who doesn't get playing time, who is going to be the starting quarterback or the starting safety. That is not my role as the general manager. "Coaches make those decisions." "There's never been a time in my four years here or anywhere else where I made a demand or suggestion as to who should play which position That's not my job. That's the coaches job." On drafting a quarterback: (Not a direct quote): Pioli said that the Chiefs haven't had a good opportunity to draft a quarterback that they like. "I think it's a critical part of the job. Getting a quarterback and building the right team. I still believe in that. I've been fortunate to be part of successes, not just at this level, at other levels and you see that the quarterback position is critical but there's also this big picture idea that you have to build a team." Random: Pioli didn't know there was a presidential debate last night. He does not dress up for Halloween but was recently told he was masquerading as a general manager. On Eric Winston: "When we were recruiting Eric to be a free agent, the reason Eric was in this building | SP | SP IT | 3,225,120 |
sphere of influence. Quote: Originally Posted by lordzoma If you want to live out in the wild away from everything, why bother even incarnating in this time period? It's alongside technology and the major media that we are able to even make observations about what's happening on this planet in the first place. I never said do away with technology or media. Nature, the forest, universal laws. It's real, is proficient, is advanced, it's superior. You ain't gettting anywhere without nature. I dont know why I incarnated in this time period. I have little idea why I am here. All I do know is what is the correct way. Which is not giving your rights up. If you have not got your freedom what do you have? Why are we even debating that? I'd rather have more life by having the freedom to choose than accepting an imaginary rule that some other thing wants me to follow for it's own purposes. Just because things seem a certain way doesn't mean you have to follow like a sheep! I don't care about the rights that are being taken away or the 'box' that has been pushed down. Unlike a lot of people who are here on this forum trying to 'fight' and push back against what's taking place, I am most certainly not doing that. I am observing what's taking place and simply commenting on it. I am in 'observer' mode. The 'box' that exists is what is known as the | ID | ID DF | 545,488 |
If you select "Keep me signed in on this computer", every time you visit WebMD.com you won't have to type your email address and password. This means that a cookie will stay on your computer even when you exit or close your browser which may reduce your levels of privacy and security. You should never select this option if you're using a publicly accessible computer, or if you're sharing a computer with others. Even if you select this option there are some features of our site that still require you to log in for privacy reasons. "For every one person who lives a long life of unhealthy choices, there are countless others who die prematurely because of them," says Robert Schreiber, MD, physician-in-chief at Hebrew SeniorLife, an elder health care provider and affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Betting that you will be one of these people is playing a game of Russian roulette, Schreiber says. The seeds for illness in many of Schreiber's patients in their 70s and 80s were sown in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, he says. "Probably 50% of cases of the most serious conditions -- heart disease, diabetes, stroke, many forms of cancer -- are related directly to lifestyle and behavior," Schreiber tells WebMD. No one is guaranteed a life free of disease or injury. As we age, many of us will face at least one of these common health problems. But certain lifestyle steps can help forestall illness and sometimes prevent it altogether. They can | IN | IN IB | 258,926 |
the runway to be met by Mr Bush, his wife Laura and daughter Jenna. On Wednesday, the Pope will pay a formal call upon Mr Bush at the White House. During the flight from Italy, he said he would talk to Mr Bush about the plight of some Hispanic immigrants in the US, our correspondent says. The US Church has been changing in recent years with the arrival of millions of new Latino immigrants. The Pope also paid tribute to the fact that there was no state religion in the US, adding that a secular state where all religions can be welcomed is a positive model from which Europe can learn, our correspondent adds. During the visit the Pope is due to celebrate two huge Masses at baseball stadiums in Washington and New York, as well as praying at Ground Zero, the New York site where the World Trade Centre was destroyed on 11 September 2001. Birthday dinner Although there have been 24 previous meetings between a sitting US president and a Pope - and Benedict XVI's predecessor, John Paul II, visited the White House in 1979 - there will be numerous firsts during this visit. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement The Pope spoke about the church sex abuse scandals in the US A crowd expected to number 10,000 will gather on the White House's South Lawn on Wednesday to mark his official arrival. The unprecedented crowd, even larger than the 7,000 who greeted Queen | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,424,858 |
Baby Baby, All The Time Lyrics - Nat King Cole Once I had a gal, As sweet as she could be. Once I had a gal, And she was right for me. Kinda sandy hair, Eyes so soft and blue That you couldn't help but care When she looked at you. She called me "baby"... "Baby", all the time. She said, "Baby, can't you see? "Baby, understand "Baby, you're for me, Won't you take my hand?" But I pushed her away, Wouldn't let her near Pushed her far away Now I'm wishing I could hear her Call me "Baby"... "Baby", all the time. ~interlude~ It's so lonely through the day, Lonely through the night, Lonely, lonely hours Without that gal I held so tight. Lord, I pray that You Will listen to my plea. Keep her close to You So she'll come back to me, And call me "Baby"... "Baby", all the time. Baby... Baby, all the time. Please Click here to submit the Corrections of Baby Baby, All The Time Lyrics | LY | LY SL | 345,015 |
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Dennis. And here's another good tip. Keep watching the action from the Crucible. Like those dark clouds you can probably see lingering overhead, there's still plenty more where that came from. WEDGIES Tuesday morning on BBC2 and it was the baffling, bungled hour of fish bowls, Spice Girls and sound lapses that was the Olympic football draw draw. Even if Gary Lineker's mic had been working, we still probably wouldn't have been able to make sense of it. His joke with the punchline 'two Peter Crouchs' may never be fully explained. Tuesday evening on Sky Sports and one of Chelsea's Nou Camp heroes Branislav Ivanovic has his night of triumph brought crashing down by reporter Geoff Shreeves in a post-match interview. 'You know that means you don't play in the final now', prodded Shreeves. If there weren't tears before... Wednesday night on ITV and there seemed to be a surprise substitution on the cards during extra-time in Real Madrid and Bayern Munich's Champions League semi-final. An anxious looking Mark Austin was glimpsed fiddling with his jacket buttons on the touchline in the News At Ten studio. Friday night on Sky One, and a League Of Their Own is back. And even though the show boasted all-star teams, F1 action and even Usain Bolt, it was all about Peter Crouch 'breaking out the robot' once again to the strains of Harold Faltermeyer's 'Axel F'. | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 424,710 |
that is hard to imagine. Today they are avenues that connect people, businesses and ideas in ways never before possible. New Zealand is no exception. The rise of TradeMe has been just as dramatic. It is difficult to imagine any other area where a business can go from anonymity to global recognition in such a short period of time. It's also pretty evident that predicting the future is a dangerous business, particularly where technology is concerned. However, it is safe to assume that the influence of the internet is only going to grow. The constant innovation in and around the internet has changed the way we live. And it is a revolution still gathering steam -- or more appropriately, megahertz. Today, these innovations are also changing the economy and creating enormous opportunities for a small and geographically isolated country like New Zealand. But let's also be realistic about at where we are today. For many people right now, life is really tough. Most people would tell you that they've never been working harder than they are right now. But the hard truth is that unless we make really significant changes, as tough as it is now, it's going to be vastly tougher two decades on from here. In the words of the late Sir Paul Callaghan, we have chosen to be poor. We're not doing nearly enough to change that. And people aren't nearly aware just how big a problem that could be for us. We are thin on the | SP | SP FS | 1,781,416 |
sheltered young Manuela comes to believe that traveling troubadour Serafin is in reality "Mack the Black," a notorious pirate. Serafin realizes that the surest way to win Manuela's heart is to impersonate the romantic buccaneer, and this is what he .. read more The Clock (1945) Starring: Judy Garland , Robert Walker , James Gleason Director: Vincente Minnelli Certificate: Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. In this short time they find themselves falling in love with each other, and they decide to get married before Joe has to return to camp Meet Me in St. Louis on DVD (1944) Starring: Judy Garland , Mary Astor , Lucille Bremer Director: Vincente Minnelli Certificate: Watch now: Unavailable Vincente Minnelli's classic romantic musical about a well-off family, the Smiths, in 1903 St. Louis. As the two oldest girls fret about boys and love, a darker, more serious cloud appears on the horizon: their father is being transferred to a job in far-off New York City just as the World's Fair is .. read more | IN | IN DP | 1,463,411 |
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Theatre: Be part of the cast of You Me Bum Bum Train The waiting list to see the current production of this immersive theatrical experience that whisks you, a single passenger, through a down-the-rabbit-hole series of 3 minute nightmare/dream scenarios, is reportedly 80,000 people long and counting. Which is why the only way to see it (well, a version of it) is to volunteer to become part of the 300-strong cast for an evening. We did exactly that and can't recommend it highly enough. The show, devised by energetic duo Kate Bond and Morgan Lloyd and which has been going since 2004, leads individual audience members through squirm-inducing scene after squirm-inducing scene where they take centre stage. It's heart-stopping, hilarious and discombobulating. This might (but won't, since these are examples taken from past, never-to-be-repeated shows -- each year the 'train ride' is made up of entirely new scenes) involve emerging through a trapdoor into a boxing ring -- ready to fight; presenting your own chat show in front of a live audience; giving a pep talk to your own American football team or having to translate the speech of an African politician for a hoard of mike-clutching journalists. To take part in this journey as an audience member is a surreal experience of one kind, but to actually be a part of one of those scenes is another. Bond and Lloyd have said that past passengers have emerged from previous rides and variously come out of the closet, bought a | IN | IN DT | 3,059,307 |
I don't speak that language of youth And hey, oh not the one that speaks truth And hey, I lay in this world for a while When all is lost just smile Postcards (Ed Sheeran 2006) Face me, are you tired of living? Replace, she was so unforgiving And I'm so frustrated, so dilated And she's telling me I've wasted my time And I'm running back like, just to face the facts right To tell me your voice takes me through the night Your smile and your memory Simply eases me to sleep In my ear while the whispering Melts my heart on every beat Still you're singing lullabies and postcards to this place And we're asking for so much more Now you're bringing smiles and laughter to this face While bad memories are in pieces on the floor Face me, are you tired of living? Replace, she was so unforgiving And I'm so frustrated, so dilated And she's telling me I've wasted my time And I'm running back like, just to face the facts right To tell me your voice takes me through the night Time past, heal this broken heart Pulled away that sellotape Take your time, 'cos I won't mind I doubt if I even know that I'm awake And still you're singing lullabies and postcards to this place And we're asking for so much more Now you're bringing smiles and laughter to this face While bad memories are in pieces on the floor Two Blokes and | LY | LY SL | 83,871 |
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 |
heart, and confirming them to the soul. It was the same Spirit which inspired the prophets which conveyed those truths to the souls of the early Christians, and which discloses them to true believers in every age. Compare John 16:13-14 ; Acts 2:4 ; Acts 10:44-45 . The object of Peter by thus referring to the prophets, and to the interest which they took in the things which those to whom he wrote now enjoyed, seems to have been, to impress on them a deep sense of the value of the gospel, and of the great privileges which they enjoyed. They were reaping the benefit of all the labors of the prophets. They were permitted to see truth clearly, which the prophets themselves saw only obscurely. They were, in many respects, more favored than even those holy men had been. It was for them that the prophets had spoken the word of the Lord: for them and their salvation that a long line of the most holy men that the world ever saw, had lived, and toiled, and suffered; and while they themselves had not been allowed to understand the fall import of their own predictions, the most humble believer was permitted to see what the most distinguished prophet never saw. See Matthew 13:17 . Which things the angels desire to look into - The object of this reference to the angels is the same as that to the prophets. It is to impress on Christians a sense of the | OP | OP RS | 746,080 |
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the sense that it has no boundary, but it can have a shape... Actually, it is the space itself that has a shape... We now know that it is basically flat. William: can a black hole swallow another black hole? Ezequiel: sure! And we think that it happens, when two galaxies merge. Bernard: Do you hope to find the origin of the black hole, by looking at the first 'seeds' ? riyanatarajan: Yes indeed. To figure out how the first black holes formed in the early Universe we need to see as far back into the Universe as we can. Deeper views of the Universe with more data from say the Chandra satellite will help us track down the first ever black holes to form Jason (moderator): Want to learn more about the Chandra X-ray Observatory? See the latest news, learn about the spacecraft and find lots of other related information at http://www.nasa.gov/chandra Jason (moderator): We're working to answer your great questions. Keep them coming! To submit your own question, please type it in the box at the bottom of the window and click the 'Ask' button on the right side of the box. Thanks for your patience as we answer your questions. MooCow: do black holes power quasars? Kevin: Yes, quasars are massive black holes feeding on gas. amanning: What do the jets that extrude from the center of a black hole consist of,... possibly photonic energy? riyanatarajan: The jets we see often consist of energetic particles electrons, positrons | SP | SP | 61,093 |
So I stuck to that, and thought of ways to ground that idea with something that still felt mysterious but also real and relatable. 06. How was it to work with the only 18-year old French producer? Its amazing, age aside, I still think he is one of the best producers I've ever heard, let alone worked with. But even outside of music, he very intelligent and extremely well spoken. So there's never any trouble for us understanding each other even though French is his first language. I'm extremely proud and excited to be a part of his journey. 07. Are there any other producers who you would like to work with in the future? Tons! Always really wanted to work with Benny Blanco, Teddy Riley, Babyface, Justice, Daft Punk, deadmau5, Danger Mouse, Timberland.... to name a few off the top of my head...I'd like to somehow mix all of those production styles together! Thad be cray! 08. You also have a solo album coming up, what can you tell us about that? I Do I do! Well Jarrad (Kritzstein) and I have been working on it for the last 8 months or so, taking a little break to start shooting a music video for the next single and then getting back to it! Aiming for January release..next single will be out in october though! 09. What inspired you when writing the tracks for the album? Oh man...so much...I'd say when we started this record I really wanted to just | SP | SP IT | 3,021,064 |
cuttin' a rug 'til the sun comes up She's a little slice of heaven, hell on heels And never gonna walk the line Oh, but she's the kind of that I don't mind | LY | LY SL | 482,816 |
from 14.9% with regular clients in Chitoor, to 99% with occasional clients in Thane brothel-based sex workers. In cases where 2001 rates are low, steep increases in condom use rates over time are seen -- for example, in Bellary, Dharmapuri, East Godavari, Guntur, Mysore and Visakhapatnam ( figure 1 ). 'Inflection points' -- points (years) at which the slope of the curve changes quite sharply -- can clearly be seen in figure 1 , for Bellary and Visakhapatnam in 2002, for Dharmapuri and Mysore in 2003, and for Guntur in 2004. In some cases, such as in Bellary and Dharmapuri, rates of increase begin to level off in more recent years, from 2005/2006 onwards, whereas in other cases, such as Guntur and Visakhapatnam, rates appear to still be increasing quite steeply. In other districts -- exemplified by Mumbai and Pune in figure 1 -- 2001 rates were already relatively high, and relatively small increases over time are seen, with quite a flat curve. IBBA rates of condom use with occasional and regular clients tend to be similar, and reconstructed rates to follow similar patterns, with somewhat lower rates for regular clients ( figure 1 , table 2 , left-hand portion). As discussed above, while in some cases the graphs in figure 1 and Web Appendix figure 1 show clear 'inflection points,' in other cases, this is not clear. In order to provide an objective measure of the rate of increase in consistent condom use rates pre- and post-Avahan implementation, we | IN | IN RA | 1,427,859 |
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day, or that something is depressing him. So he needs his escape. What makes this song amazing is that often times it is within the song where these people who affect us are able to live; the song keeps them alive and is meant for that simple escape. I'm sure the singer knew well that he could not keep her and is the entire point... However, imagine if "Marianne" were to "communicate" her affections back. I'd surmise that he would have much difficulty letting her go and allowing her to live in his dream and song. And that's my $0.02. Song Meaning: Awesome tune! Boston's greatest, hands down. I thinks it's about how a song can bring back bittersweet memories & help us escape reality at the same time. Whenever I hear it, I think of a girl I had a crush on many years ago. (Her name wasn't Marianne, but that's beside the point.) I was too shy at the time to even ask her out. She started dating someone else & she eventually married him. Last I heard, she was still married to him. "...And dream of a girl I used to know/ I closed my eyes and she slipped away/ She slipped away/ She slipped away" Yep, she slipped away from me. Well, life goes on. General Comment: I loooove this song, that guitar solo makes me want to learn the guitar even more. ive been planning on buying myself a guitar and learning to play it | LY | LY SL | 593,610 |
John Legend to preview "Love In The Future" Grammy-winning crooner John Legend will spend some time this fall touring North America in support of his forthcoming new album, "Love In The Future." The Ohio native kicks off the excursion with an Oct. 16 performance in Clearwater, FL, followed by casino and theater shows across the continent through late November. The 23-date outing, which includes one Canadian stop Nov. 3 in Toronto, concludes Nov. 21 in Oakland, CA. Legend is slated to release "Love In The Future" in the coming months, though an exact drop date has not been announced. The forthcoming effort, which is co-produced by Legend, Kanye West and Dave Tozer, marks the R&B performer's fourth studio album and the first since 2008's "Evolver." That gold-certified collection peaked at No. 4 on The Billboard 200 and at the top of the magazine's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Fans can catch previews of new tracks via Legend's website or by following him on Facebook or Twitter. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 5,252 |
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. As far as i know phat is over with now is it not? The orgainiser fuckerd up budgets or something like that. Iv a few connections of still rather underground dub, grime and dubstep d.js from when swim rolled the club scene a few years back. Between the four of us we had a venue and lights/sound setup nearly every weekend. As does happen tho all venues got thrashed too often and in its wake we attracted a lot of policee attention due to underage drinkers and dutch courage heros and naturally ran out of lowkey enough places to go for jyst mate partys. Around this time me and flatmate both traded in for vans and between them had a dj setup, lights and 3 generators. It isnt that hard if your really commited to it and in all honesty i did it purely for the memorys and the music. I pulled out tho after having bourbon tipped all over my 6 vhannel mixer and 2 amps by people i didnt even know who kept trying to request songs wile i was mid set. Of the four of us im the only one not in australia but would deffinatly start | ID | ID DF | 1,792,510 |
energy-bonded systems, laws of classical physics govern the relationships among the elements. Passive and predictable functioning of parts is a must, until a part breaks down. An automobile yields to its driver regardless of the driver's expertise and dexterity. If a driver decides to run a car into a solid wall, the car will hit the wall without objection. Riding a horse, however, presents a different perspective. It matters to the horse who the rider is, and a proper ride can be achieved only after a series of information exchanges between the horse and the rider. Horse and rider form an information-bonded system, in which guidance and control are achieved by a second-degree agreement (agreement based on a common perception) preceded by a psychological contract. The members of a sociocultural organization are held together by one or more common objectives and collectively acceptable ways of pursuing them. The members share values that are embedded in their culture. The culture is the cement that integrates the parts into a cohesive whole. Nevertheless, since the parts have a lot to say about the organization of the whole, consensus is essential to the alignment of a multiminded system. | IN | IN RA | 383,479 |
and bushwalk through native forests and over white sand beaches. Snorkel and dive in protected, temperate waters on the world's southernmost coral reef. You'll find more than 50 sites teeming with fish, colourful coral and green turtles. On World Heritage-listed Lord Howe Island , bicycles are the best way to get around and there's no mobile phone reception. Even better, its unspoilt beauty is less than two hours' flight from Sydney. Silverton, NSW Outback Visit the world's oldest ceremonial burial site at Mungo National Park in the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area. Stay underground in the quirky opal mining town of White Cliffs or see where exquisite black opal is mined and meet eccentric locals in Lightning Ridge. Discover distinctive light, desert landscapes and an oasis of lakes around Broken Hill, the former mining town known as Silver City. Don't miss the characters, history and horizons of the New South Wales outback. Snowy Mountains, NSW Snowy Mountains Hit Australia's highest ski slopes at Charlotte Pass and climb Mt Kosciuszko , Australia's tallest peak. At the top you'll find a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve with 20 species of plants found nowhere else in the world. In winter, carve up the snow at fields such as Thredbo and Perisher Blue. In summer, take in the trout-filled streams and wildflower-coated plains going cycling, caving, rafting, kayaking, four wheel driving, horse riding and hiking. Whatever the season, the Snowy Mountains has endless opportunities for outdoor adventure. Murray River, NSW Country NSW South of the Queensland | IN | IN DT | 518,642 |
At least you're honest. This negotiation is all about taking anything and everything they want. Why do the players have to yield on their rights? To play? I thought the NHL only wanted to get to 50/50. The NHL wants a CBA that's more favourable to them and more likely to see more teams profit. If the Last CBA was even in the first place and didn't see over half the teams losing money (or at the very least, struggling to break even if not losing money) there'd be a better argument to 'but the players aren't gaining anything in return.' The owners aren't perfect and they've played their fair share of hardball too but you seem to buy right into the whole 'but the owners won't give up contract rights' as if its contract rights that are holding up a deal. It's still the HRR split holding up a deal. NHLPA gives up on de-linkage, the NHL will be more likely to give up some of the contracting rights issues. But they aren't just going to keep sweetening their offer while the NHLPA keeps throwing the de-linked proposal in their face over and over and over again. It's called a negotiation, both sides have to give up something at least for it to be a negotiation and not an extortion. Obviously the players have to give up a lot more than the owners since the structure (57-43 on HRR and 27-7 FA rules with no contract length restrictions) still | ID | ID DF | 162,515 |
the Henley-on-Todd Regatta (a boat race in the dry river bedding of the Todd River which gets cancelled if the river happens to have water at the time of the event), Beanie Festival (people exhibiting and selling beanies - soft material hats) and the Finke Desert Race (motorbike, buggy and quad bike race through the desert attended by international and national participants alike). As you can see there is so much to say about Alice Springs and all the experiences you can have in our small town in the middle of the beautiful Australian countryside. I will leave it there for now.... However if there is more that you would like to know, please do not hesitate to make contact me as I will be more than happy to answer your questions and provide you with the information you desire. View over Alice Springs from Anzac Hil Have a great day and I hope to see you one day soon in "The Alice"! * Swag is an Australian bedroll comprising of a mattress within a large canvas sleeping bag witha zipper from top to bottom. In this swag you can put a sleeping bag or blankets and pillows and you lay these on the ground to sleep in. There is also an extra piece of canvas attached to the top of the swag, which can be used to cover your head just in case of wind or rain * Ute is a pick-up truck * Dingo is a free-roaming wild | NARRATIVE | NA TB | 1,736,415 |
by Voters Oh god I hate to say this, but you're stereotyping. It doesn't matter if he likes anime & WoW. Just because he loves these things DOES NOT mean that everyone who likes them is like him too. He's just one out of the many people in the world, and you can't base an opinion on certain people from just one person. However, I love to say that all the anime fans I've met in RL and online are extremely nice(Nicer than other people I should say >.>) Something about anime makes people see the world in a brighter, more open perspective, and that makes anime fans much more optimistic than most. I know this sounds corny, but that's how I feel :) Anime is my obsession, and I'm proud to say that. (I wouldn't consider myself smart-smart though. I do get C's sometimes, and got a D once. I don't do drugs or alcohol either. That's for retards. I'm also.......not what you'd call........"nice" XD ) EDIT: Yes, stereotyping. I said this once, and I'll say/type is again- You can't base an opinion on an entire group of people on just ONE single person. That is a stereotype. Not a bad one, mind you, but still a stereotype. No they're just Asian and it's in their culture to drill books all the time to know more. Asians are typically very smart people. However, there's a difference between being smart (knowing lots of stuff) and being wise (applying your knowledge) | ID | ID QA | 1,726,804 |
already having problems, however, it is true that if the clutches are already metal to metal, the dirty fluid will provide the needed friction to keep it going. Save the old fluid if it makes you feel better. I have been using the 'special' specific fluid when under warranty, but my trans guy says that's BS to sell you expensive fluid. Depending on how hard it gets used or abused, change the fluid often and you will get close to a 100% exchange. Actually, a lot of modern transmissions do not even have a filter anymore as I found out when I had a transmission fluid change on my 07 Saturn Aura XR (6 Speed auto)at 100k. A Lot of shops advertise a trans flush, don't know what the real difference is other than giving the impression that a 'flush' does more than a 'change' That is absolutely untrue. The 6T70 transmission in that car definitely has a filter. I know, I worked on that trans at GM and pulled apart a lot of them. The problem is, the trans has to come out of the car to change the filter. I have a 2008 Pontiac g6 and a 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan, both do not recommend fluid changes unless you are under severe service like police or taxi cab use or towing. In fact, the Grand Caravan has a dipstick that says "Dealer Only" on it, so you can't even check the level. Problem is, what does lifetime fluid | ID | ID | 3,274,942 |
optimal subsidies and see how they compare to current policies such as impact fees on new development. Here are a few words about optimal subsidies: There are several interesting implications of the optimal tax in City 1. First, if there is only one neighborhood, then optimal decisions get made for the whole city, and there is no need for a subsidy. Second, the larger the number of neighborhoods, then the larger the subsidy...must be. If there are a large number of jurisdictions able to make their own decisions about development density, then the private market outcome is likely to be farther from the optimum, and any subsidy will have to be larger. However, even with large numbers of neighborhoods, it is possible to offer a subsidy to the neighborhoods that will make each better off. One of the interesting things about development decisions is that community outreach and discussion is often focused at a very local level. Hearings are held in the neighborhood, only the local ANCs (here in DC) are asked to weigh in, and the local Councilmember is given particular deference in forming a decision to approve or deny or amend a development plan. But this strategy makes life much easier for NIMBYs than would a decision process oriented at the city-wide level. Yglesias often argues that one way to address local residents opposing development because they're worried about, say, parking, is to simply guarantee those residents parking -- say that they can have on-street parking permits which | IN | IN | 734,439 |
force paint through a small tip very quickly. Home Improvement Glossary alignment and depth control device A device that helps you to eliminate squeaks in floors by placing nails at the right depth and breaking them off below the floor's surface. Home Improvement Glossary alkyd paint A paint that has an oil base. Alkyd paint is extremely durable and easy to clean; however, it requires mineral spirits to remove. Home Improvement Glossary American Country American country style that stresses antiques and folk art, basically pieces and fabrics from America's past. Home Improvement Glossary American Southwest The Southwest look blends the colors and styles of the Native American cultures and the west. Home Improvement Glossary Americans with Disabilities Act ADA The ADA is a law signed in 1990 that requires buildings and businesses to provide equal accessibility for individuals with disabilities. Home Improvement Glossary analogous color schemes A color scheme using colors that are located next to each other on the color wheel. Home Improvement Glossary anchor bolts A type of bolt used to anchor or mount something securely. Home Improvement Glossary angled sash brush A narrow paintbrush that is angled to allow more control in corners and other tight areas. Home Improvement Glossary armoire A wardrobe that has drawers and shelves. It can be used for either clothing or as an entertainment center. Home Improvement Glossary Art Deco The Art Deco Style (1918-1939) is fashion-oriented and influenced by primitive art and cubism. Home Improvement Glossary Art Nouveau The Art Nouveau | HI | HI HT | 351,947 |
is much smaller than for income tax and other production-related taxes. 3. With LVT, the national economy stabilizes and no longer experiences the 18 year housing boom and bust cycle. 6 aspects affecting LAND OWNERS 4. LVT is progressive, the owners of the most potentially productive sites pay the most tax. 5. The land owner pays his LVT regardless of how the land is used. When the land is leased to tenants most or all of the resulting ground-rent is the tax. 6. LVT stops the speculation in land prices because any withholding of land from proper use is too costly. 7. The introduction of LVT reduces the sales price of sites even though their value (or potential usefullness) may continue to grow. 8. With LVT, land owners are unable to pass the tax on to their tenant renters, due to the competition for land use. 9. With the introduction of LVT, land prices will drop. Speculators in land values will tend to foreclose on their mortgages and to withdraw their money for reinvestment. LVT should be introduced gradually. It allows investors sufficient time to transfer money to company-shares where their greater use will meet the increased demand for produce (see below) . 3 aspects regarding our COMMUNITY 10. With LVT, there is an incentive to use land for production, rather than it laying idle or being partly used. 11. With LVT, greater working opportunities exist due to cheaper land and a greater number of available sites. Consumer goods become | IP | IP | 3,100,035 |
drugged from too much summer. If they were to waken to the quick licks of light playing on the walls, they would find him hip-deep in the sea, listening to the bell tolling from its buoy, marking the first leg of his journey. He turns and waves to the empty windows, ignoring the pain lumped hollow under his arm. He takes a last look along the shore and sets out through water colder than the lakes he grew up in, thicker somehow and darker, even the sand ribbed like a washboard seems closer as it deepens, his long arms churning the surface as though he were back home in the faculty pool, matching stroke for stroke with his office mate, far more than the game of it pushing them on to the tiles and back, head over heels in turns, neither admitting to keeping score; his record growing worse during the last of winter and all of spring. He can't help looking back and sees the roof silent and dry, its shingles shrunken now to one, suggesting the pace he has set for himself; he slows and stops, allowing his legs to settle beneath him, the buoy in sight, a few more football fields away. He imagines throwing a pass and watches it sail the distance before striking the bell, breaking the steady beat of it, the gong making the water tremble; he feels it across the shoulders and down through the groin. The water on his lips tastes more | LY | LY PO | 337,812 |
link to the blog. But in my case I linked to the Profle page and it works. You can go to www.dreisner.com/blog and see how this works. So this creates a triangle. Each blog post points to the DNN profile page which points to the Google+ account, which points back to the DNN Profile page. Google's thought is that you have to be in control of each of these accounts to be able to add the required rel="me" and rel="author" tags and so this allows Google to more accurately determine and attribute content to the correct author, which solves the big problem they were having with people stealing and reposting content. You can go to www.dreisner.com/blog and see how this works. You can see that Posted By Dr. Richard Eisner on each blog post that links to the Profile page, which then links to the Google+ account, which links back to the Profile page. Search for a blog post title like "Is it Time for LASIK? Take This Quiz to Find Out." and you will see the blog post show up at the top of Google with his picture. I plan to do a post on my new blog site as well with some images that will be helpful. When I did this last year it was not a requirement to use the Google+ account. You could use another online profile account. But it looks like this might have changed to require a Google+ account. @cliff thanks for your comment. | HI | HI HT | 3,319,903 |
Nothing To Do lyrics Song information Lyrics I'm finding my feet Absolutely midseason mediocre street I got nothing to say Want nothing to do With people like you There's nothing to see You see there's nothing like a good time Well I remember I heard it on the radio And then i Read it in a magazine Steppin' on the same shoes And I've got nothing to do 'Cept turn over stones And head for home Or someone like you I stare at the ground And wear out my shoes The shoes with nowhere to go And nothing to do Oh, read it Read it in a magazine Watch people on the t.v. set Watch lovers on the movie screen Produce a mix in stereo Turn on the radio for Something to do And still there's nothing to do There's nothing like a good time And there certainly isn't anything new Oh, honey, oh baby Nothing true [Chorus] Read it Read it in a magazine There's nothing like a good time I'd have a better time A so much better time An even better time With nothing to do | LY | LY SL | 402,857 |
need not be anomalous. We should be striving to replicate its success -- Germany has proven that solar power isn't just some daydream, but an engine that can power the world's most industrious and advanced nations. Evergreen PV is one of the UK's largest importers and distributors of solar PV kits. Based in Oxfordshire, and founded in 2010, Evergreen PV has spent the majority of the last two years sourcing the world's best quality solar products and bringing them to the UK market. For more information visit www.evergreenpv.co.uk or phone 0843 289 6636. Welcome Nowhere is sustainability more important than in our growing metropolises. In this column we will be bringing you views and up to the minute news from experts and leaders in the field. If you would like to contribute please contact newsdesk@worldarchitecturenews.com | IN | IN IB | 571,237 |
The Holy Trinity Titans' grip on the Halton junior girls' Tier 1 basketball title was slipping away, and there wasn't anything Ema Brazdeikyte could do. Stuck on the bench because of foul trouble, Brazdeikyte was forced to watch helplessly as the St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders erased a 12-point deficit to tie the championship game with less than four minutes to go Friday at Sheridan College. Once Brazdeikyte got back into the game, however, she quickly reversed the tide. The Grade 9 forward scored three baskets in the final two minutes of regulation, lifting Trinity to a 45-40 victory and spoiling an impressive 31-point effort by the Raiders' Melody Wyslobicky. "I was so nervous. We'd worked so hard and if we didn't win, we'd be so upset. We wanted to go back in and try our hardest," Brazdeiykte said of her mentality in the fourth quarter, when teammate Tayania Siwek-Smith was also on the bench with four fouls. "I was trying to (support) my teammates... but I just wanted to be out there and help them." The offensive rebounding of Brazdeikyte and Siwek-Smith, the two tallest players on the court, was what had given the Titans their big lead in the first place. The two combined to score 10 points on put-backs as Trinity built a 34-22 advantage early in the fourth quarter. "(Rebounding is) something we've been developing throughout the season. It was not a strength at the beginning," said Titans coach Christina Nayyar. "It's something they finally understood the | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 3,372,281 |
flopping over deep, dark eyes. "The British have always had this policy of invasion and elimination. Certainly they are going to be fascinated by what is happening here." This would be a good place to explain just what is happening in Bolivia, but a little history and geography first. Bolivia, a landlocked country, is bordered by Brazil in the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile and Peru to the west. Two-thirds of its almost nine million inhabitants are indigenous Amerindian Aymara and Quechua, approximately 1% are African descendants of slaves brought over for mining, and the remainder are descendants of European settlers, primarily Spanish. The conquistadores arrived early in the 16th century and extracted metal resources, mostly silver and tin, for all they were worth, ruthlessly exploiting the indigenous population and creating in the minds of most Bolivians a terrible suspicion of foreign exploitation of natural resources. The conquistadores and their mixed descendants, the minority mestizo, had clung to power for 500 years until Morales's victory in December. He was installed as president on January 22. Immediately, there was consternation in the northern hemisphere, especially in Washington. Morales's party, MAS (Movement Towards Socialism), a loose conglomeration of leftist unions and social interest groups, had campaigned on a ticket of decriminalisation of coca cultivation and nationalisation of natural resources. What, outsiders wondered, would this mean for the US's war on drugs? What, too, would it mean for international mining, oil and gas companies that had ploughed | NARRATIVE | NA MA | 701,854 |
by IBM. Nor was there evidence SCO actually owned any of the copyrights it sued over. Certainly, justice delayed is justice denied . There is more. US court proceedings are well known to regularly bankrupt the innocent with no recourse. The whole concept of patent trolls is only possible in a system with punitive and statutory damages and no provisions for reclaiming costs for unjust suits. Given the level of dangerous non-sense that is printed in product ads, I am in favor of some regulation in principle. The only regulation I want to see is about full disclosure on what's in the thing, and any information about materials that are known (by the state of California or otherwise) to be dangerous. All the other marketing claims will sort themselves out in the market. That the UK libel laws are equally dysfunctional is no excuse. I have never defended the way the courts go over here. To the contrary, I am vocal about how they are fucked up. It's just your supercilious attitude that "blah, blah, Europe better, blah, blah" that simply isn't always true in the general case of court laws. I find it rude and condescending to say "we're better" rather than to focus on the problem. The problem isn't that Germany "was better" in the case of SCO; the problem is that the US is bad. Likewise, the problem isn't that the US is better in the case of libel than the UK; the problem is that in | OP | OP OB | 335,334 |
Victoria's police chief, Graham, that the RCMP deletes the material collected by Victoria police on law abiding citizens. Chief Graham is no stranger to Vancouver citizens. One has to wonder about a person who leaves a shooting range target full of bullet holes on the City Manager's desk. While on Graham's beat in Vancouver 60 affidavits of officer misconduct and subsequent allegations that Graham obstructed the RCMP investigation over the allegations ended up with an independent report concluding that he did commit, "through his inaction, the Code of Conduct offence of Discreditable Conduct." This is rather perplexing given Graham's 34 year service in the RCMP prior to becoming both Vancouver's and now Victoria's police chief. Graham needs to review both Canada's and BC's Privacy Acts, which are law, and end his practice of surveillance on law abiding citizens. Police have sufficient powers to deal with criminal activities without using tools that capture us all in their web of dubious lawful data collection. Time for Victoria residents to head to police HQ and in writing ask for access to all information and data collected on them. If 5,000 residents mailed a simple request to Victoria Police this would give a strong message to those who tend to circumvent the laws of the land. To a few of those who made comments on this article, please read Canada's Privacy Act, passed in 1983 before providing excuses for another of Graham's over-extension of police powers. No best comments selected by an editor for | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 120,263 |
Be FireReady This Summer Fire Danger Rating (FDR) Every day during the fire season the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) forecasts an outlook of the fire danger by the predicted weather including: temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and dryness of vegetation. The Fire Danger Rating (FDR) for each weather district is then forecast by BoM in consultation with fire agencies. Victoria is in one of the most fire-prone areas in the world. The following information will assist you to be FireReady this summer. For more detailed information, please visit www.cfa.vic.gov.au or call 1800 240 667 for a free FireReady Kit. Before the fire season Many homes in high risk bushfire areas are not built to withstand bushfire and survival must be your main priority. To find out more, use the CFA's Household Bushfire Self-Assessment Tool or book a free CFA site visit online at www.cfa.vic.gov.au or call 1800 240 667. Even if you plan to leave well before a fire threatens, you may not be able to. A well-prepared building can shield you from radiant heat, which can kill you. Clean your property. The 10/30 rule has been extended for another 18 months in certain areas to allow clearing of vegetation from around your home without a permit. Visit www.cfa.vic.gov.au to find out if this applies to your municipality or shire. Prepare a Bushfire Survival Plan and consider the needs of the elderly, people with special needs, children, pets and/or livestock. Obtain a FireReady Kit from www.cfa.vic.gov.au or call 1800 240 | OP | OP AV | 3,329,820 |
aross to me as though you did a recipe test from their respective recipe books rather than an actual side by side test with the same recipes. Fantastic comparison Shellie, I have had a TM for 18 months and love it. I have come to the conclusion that those people that purchase a Thermochef ultimately want a Thermomix but may not be able to afford it . Your review will encourage people to save save save and get the real deal. Substitutes are disappointing and never measure up to the expectations of the real deal. Thankyou for being unbiased. I think you did a fair comparison and people will be entitled to their own opinion. Those people who love the Thermochef will obviously not like the comparisons you have done, but they should be happy with their choice. I guess the big price difference is going to a huge factor in whether someone chooses a Thermomix or Thermochef. April@MyFoodTrail recently posted.. Tefal Fresh Express I'd like thermomix better because it works so silently.. Thermochef creates so much noise.. Btw. some yummy meal pictures up there.. You seem like a great cook.. Why not to publish some unique recipes? lol Just the type of review I was looking for! I have just returned from a 9 day stay with my sister. We fed a minimum of 9 people 3 healthy meals per day plus morning and afternoon teas using her Thermomix. We made everthing from scratch (even butter) and yet didn't | OP | OP RV | 38,548 |
the Middle East, they've proved their point?" Alongside the French and Italians "flirting with Communism" and "our huge grain sales," Frankel said, "We've virtually signed, in Helsinki, an agreement that the Russians have dominance in Eastern Europe," adding, "Is that what you call a two-way street of traffic in Europe?" Dominance, domination. Always remember, when debating, that your plays on the language of the questioner may be played back without the question. (The same is true of interviews on fake-news shows .) At the same time, Frankel's question was forceful and full of specifics. After a detailed reply about missile launchers and corn and wheat, Ford talked about how the Pope was just fine with the Helsinki accords, which basically said (among other things -- they were the beginning of a discussion about human rights) that postwar European borders shouldn't be changed with more wars. Mr. FORD: I can't under any circumstances believe that the -- His Holiness, the Pope would agree by signing that agreement that the thirty-five nations have turned over to the Warsaw Pact nations the domination of the -- Eastern Europe. It just isn't true. And if Mr. Carter alleges that His Holiness by signing that has done it, he is totally inaccurate. Now, what has been accomplished by the Helsinki agreement? Number one, we have an agreement where they notify us and we notify them of any uh -- military maneuvers that are to be be undertaken. They have done it. In both cases where | HI | HI HT | 169,200 |
back to time and time again, for a recipe, technique or inspiration. My top five include: Baking with Julia by Juila Child, Ratio (still my favorite book of yours), Tyler Florence's Real Kitchen, Dungess Crabs & Blackberry Cobblers by James Hibler (no pictures in this one), and The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen which I picked up in a second hand store. Each of these taught me something new about food or technique and they are all stained, tattered with many notes in the margins. I am not much of a recipe follower but each "showed" me a better way to do something. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I self-published a cookbook with my office staff to give as gifts to my clients (not an inexpensive proposition) and they were a huge success both in the appreciation from our clients and the satisfaction of creating a unique and personal gift. Let me preface my response by stating that I'm assuming that the so, so, so many people that ask Michael Ruhlman about cookbook advice are not accomplished, professional chefs and icons in the culinary world, but rather your (maybe above) average weekend/weekday warriors that have the ability to put together a meal that people enjoy. These are the kinds of people that cook for their friends, have a 'signature' dish or three, and consider cooking a hobby. An infatuation even. These are the kind of people that don't have the ability, or desire, to hack it in | HI | HI HT | 478,414 |
(mick ralphs) [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/mott+the+ho\\... ] It would be a pleasure just to know just a little bit moreoh oh I could grow quite fond of your acquaintance Of this I'm sure The time will open up so many doors for you and me I could spend my days in sweet surrender Knowing you the way I do Lady look at me so warm and tender Yes, it's true, happiness only shared by two, just me and you | LY | LY SL | 200,351 |
racist, it is very tolerant to racism as long as it is aimed against Jews and Israel. Afetr all, when duty calls, nothing else matter. ----------------------------------------\\... toniburtoni "If you don't like this forum, don't read it!! It is quite simple." ----------------------------------------\\... I dont like it and I will read it and I will make sure to point out the biased nature of this board and the newspaper which sponsored it whether you like it or not. If only these pesky Zionists would hand over Israel to the Arab Palestinians... with the excellent Palestinian leaders - envied in the whole world - in power over Israel, we would finally live to see a model state in the region, the shining star of the Middle East, a thriving democracy in which there would be no Jew nor Arab, no male nor female, no Christian nor Muslim, only a community of happy, peaceful people striving together, under wise leadership, for the betterment of their exemplary Great Palestine. I wonder why these Zionists don't cave in the greatness of my vision for a better Middle East. "It must be a good and warm home for Jews who are not Israelis, as well as for Israelis who are not Jews." seems to admit that it is not " a good and warm home...for Israelis who are not Jews." Does the track record suggest any sincerity here? "...for Jews who are not Israelis..." has a familiar ring to it. Just more nauseating humbug. I've just returned | SP | SP FS | 407,552 |
important as putting up food or prepping gear and get it done. If you are making or have made the commitment to pay off your debt -- say so in the comments below! Encourage others and let others encourage you, being the only one of your friends to be paying off their debt can be a lonely adventure -- since it usually mean you are staying home saving money while they go out. We can help each other out just knowing there are others out there. If you are already in a good place debt wise and would like find some ways to increase your wealth and find some more money for prepping -- stay tuned! This series of articles will cover those subjects as well as many others. Needless to say -- there is nothing like paying off debt to free up money for your emergency preparedness plans. In fact, my next financial article I will touch on how to free up some money in your budget! I love Dave Ramsey's program to financial peace. After seeing the ins and outs of the financial industry for 7 years, I can vouch for its effectiveness -- and for Dave's wisdom. It really does work, and in my opinion is the best program out there, and neither APN nor myself receives any compensation to say that. While not a prepper himself, Dave's program is right in line with the principles and values of preparedness . This series of articles are presented | HI | HI HT | 3,151,351 |
Jones, for example, received approximately $19 million worth of research grants between 2000 and 2006. That's six times greater than he received for the entire decade of the '90s. Bear in mind that UN bureaucrats, egged on by the some of the members -- not to mention the most ardent environmentalists -- kept sounding the alarm that icebergs were melting, sea levels would rise and we would all fry within a few years. Their motivation? An international treaty that would bind the industrialized nations to sharply reduce industrial production while forking over billions of dollars to non-industrialized ones. All these grand conferences are intended to produce that result. It's social engineering on a worldwide scale. The state of the climate is only a vehicle to achieve it. Ms. H-P. I hadn't thought of it that way. When I first observed that the sky was falling, I contacted a scientist friend who said I might be on to something. He'd noticed that the average temperature that year was up a little and he thought there might be a correlation. He spread to some of his colleagues and it caught on. Why one of them, James Hansen of NASA, became a regular Paul Revere sounding the alarm. During the George W. Bush Administration he claimed he was being muzzled, but he managed to give 1,400 interviews and turn out many alarming NASA press releases. Now it looks as if the temperature data he was using was wrong. Us: Don't forget John Holdren, | SP | SP IT | 307,534 |
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Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which is being reviewed by Congress this year, is that states must provide every student with a highly qualified teacher in all core courses. Proposals on improving teacher quality could thus not be more timely. The purpose of this policy brief is to review the evidence showing the importance of teacher quality and then, drawing on articles published in the latest volume of The Future of Children and other recent proposals, to outline a plan that Congress could adopt to substantially improve teacher quality over the next decade and beyond. Our plan also emphasizes closing the gap in achievement between middle-class students and their poor and minority peers. Research Activities About Brookings The Brookings Institution is a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions. For nearly 100 years, Brookings has analyzed current and emerging issues and produced new ideas that matter -- for the nation and the world. More > | OP | OP | 794,912 |
hierarchy. The Chinese centres of Shanghai and Beijing stand out for their remarkable progress. Shanghai is on the verge of becoming a global business leader, forecast to be the world's 3 rd wealthiest city by 2025 , with world-class performance in foreign direct investment and financial asset management. Beijing is gaining considerable political and intellectual influence, enjoying remarkable growth as an academic and research hub . Together the pair galvanise mainland China's international urban renaissance. Behind them a cluster of regional centres, headed by Seoul and Kuala Lumpur, show steady progress, with demonstrable success in R&D, real estate, international connectivity and multinational firms. However, India's main hope, Mumbai, is beset by critical weaknesses in R&D, cultural provision and transport. All high-population Asian cities -- except Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore -- continue to struggle in indices of liveability, environmental progress, cultural-historical kudos and health. North American cities have, on the whole, weakened. With the exception of New York, all six North American cities have lost ground in the Global Power City Inde x . The trailblazers -- Boston , Seattle , Vancouver , Austin and Portland -- have excelled on environmental and entrepreneurial measures, successfully nurturing innovation and creativity . These cities have illustrated the benefits of compactness and a local governance framework responsive to future economic and social trends. Intellectual assets and knowledge economy talent remain the key differentiators for urban success in this region. A wide divergence of long term fortunes is also manifesting itself in Europe . Barcelona, | IN | IN IB | 1,415,815 |
current situation in the web design industry? If you are trying to make it better then the article should be there to prove that there is no sexism, rather than highlight that there is and then create some yourself by only interviewing females, and then focusing on things only females should know. How are you going to help the problem by only focusing on what you claim is the minority? Surely by doing this you are putting yourselves in the minority of your own accord? This isn't a personal attack on the writer nor the designers "showcased" but on the situation in general. Showcase away, get these people out there but for the right reasons. Do it because they are good at what they do, they have some good experiences to share. It wouldn't have mattered if they were all female if you didn't push the point you were interviewing females because there is sexism in the industry. If hope this has cleared up for some people what the argument was about and why people are so passionate about it. Maybe a new article show casing some well known and not so well known men would be a good next step. Just make sure you don't ask them if they have "Ever Experienced Any Negativity or Sexism Being in This Industry?". For God's sake, its just an interview! The designers can answered what they liked and the interviewer can ask what she want. I don't see any harm in knowing | SP | SP IT | 3,259,252 |
on the bench swap tags by the gallery. Street tapestries: an outlawed masterpiece. Kids playing ball don't give a fuck about gravity. Nah, they stay up and stay high, some struggle and stay stuck, and some buck to stay fly. There's more hands up in the club than up in the classroom, handing off drugs then they head to the bathroom. Single mother of three (pain is kept under wraps,) bread, mayo, tuna (fiver should cover that.) Standing in the check-out line to an Usher track, daughter loves BET but TV don't love her back. Eventhough Daddy ain't around no more, they found strength in eachother and are bound to grow. 'Cause some role models will drink the whole bottle. That cat you look up to might be shook-up too. Sometimes two wrongs can equal one right, and some trees fall so the seeds can see light. I've been blessed with this marvelous night. Star shining on horizons all smiling as they start to ignite. The doggy sleeps in the yard in the dark with the bikes. The whole fam's rolling deep through the park getting nice. Now Julie had Bobby, and Bobby had Julie. Julie had school, and Bobby had an uzi. So this dude with a toolie and a beauty dipped in jewelery were spooning on a tuesday while listening to the Fugees. Shit was Cooley High speaking smoothly with ruby smiles. At two to nine the two decide to slide to movie night. They hopped into the | IP | IP DS | 177,191 |
at the age of 35 when you have a family history of breast cancer. Hank W | 12.17.09 @ 9:19PM To Jerry who wrote, "Jerry| 9.23.09 @ 12:40PM Frankly, Ben. I'm not sure that very many Americans really care what some lawyer from Beverly Hills and Malibu really thinks about what is good for the working and middle classes of this country" I say, Jerry, frankly I'm scared about what a lawyer from Chicago by way of Harvard and who-knows-where else thinks is best for my counbtry. The man was elected based only on the hatred of the previous adminisrtation and a stupid slogan. He had no resume that qualified him to run anything and his first 11 months in office show how totally incompetent he is. Who appoints the first several members of the advisory council?? You guessed it - Obama. Now, with Obama using that Chicago-style politics of threats, blackmail and bribery .. do you think anyone is going to be able to act on their own accord? Also, the office for this Healthcare takeover is to be in the Executive Branch (already initiated by Obama with March Executive Order). By having in the Executive Branch, it circumvents any checks and balances by Congress. Scott | 12.23.09 @ 3:33PM I think we all wanted change in the direction America was heading. But the change we or most of us wanted is not what we are getting. If you look at the latest approval ratings for Obama, the lowest | IP | IP | 186,900 |
Just one of them days when i wanna be all alone Dont take it personal i just wanna be all alone when you think I treat you wrong I wanna take some time out to think things through I know it always feels like im doing you wrong but im So in love with you So understand that im only in love You're the only one i need so have no thought that i want To leave and baby trust me please Chorus 1: Just one of them days, that a girl goes through when im angry Inside don't i wanna take it out on you. just one of them daysdon't Take it personal i just wanna be all alone, when you think i Treat you wrong, dont take it personal baby baby baby baby Dont take it personal I sit and think about every thing we do and i find myself in Mysery and that ain't cool. kay now i really wanna be with youthe Whole way through. but the way you make me feel inside Keeps me confused. As i swing back mood to mood its not Because of you. i never want you to be insecure so won't you Understand that im only in love you're the only one i need I'll be there for you when you need me boy so baby dont you Leave Chorus 2: Just one of them days that a girl goes through when i'm angry Inside dont wanna take it out | LY | LY SL | 297,977 |
paper) in the MLB would be my focus as GM. So let me play GM for a moment as well as LADODGERTALK geekster. I'd give up both Gordon AND Ethier and maybe even a good prospect arm to get Price. I'd re-sign Victorino and hope that Crawford is healthy and back to form. I'd go with that outfield of Kemp, Crawford, and Victorino hoping that Puig can be Vicotrino's eventual replacement. Kershaw and Price would be the best 1-2 punch in baseball -- better than what the Giants have or any other team. We'd have great team speed with Crawford and Victorino and ouldn't have to worry weather Ethier can hit lefties (not to mention that he is not the speed guy that Victorino is). Ellis could stay at second, Ramirez at SS, and Cruz at third without wondering what to do with Gordon. However, who's arm would replace Ethier's? Who would fit best in RF, Crawford or Victorino (until hopefully Puig becomes the guy in a couple of years)? Would the Rays even want Ethier and his contract? Maybe Gugg$ and Co. can send enough $ to the Rays to make it happen. After seeing what was pulled off with the Redsox, I can't help but wonder about such a deal. Can any of you? Dave, to me that is an excellent idea from all angles. Kershaw and Price would be absolutely filthy at 1 & 2 at the top of the rotation. Losing Ethier would hurt but Victorino | LY | LY SL | 3,251,290 |
the fun of the century/No more glistening wet poems in your honour, captain of alienation, New York, money, compassion HALFWAY THROUGH (Words - GA Johnson) My youth, I could not drag it I could not bring it with, so I ended up without The house was razed, the spark was dowsed The looks have gone but I soldier on I'm halfway through I'm halfway through Oh, where to go and what to do? Well, I came of age then I withdrew Well, I came of age, then hitherto Halfway through Halfway through Oh, where to go and what to do Now everything is overdue? The mirror needn't bother For I'll never know tomorrow Well, I came of age then I withdrew Well, I came of age, then hitherto Halfway through Halfway through Oh, where to go and what to do Now everything is overdue? HALLOWEEN BOAT (Words - GA Johnson) I'm in my Halloween boat with a hole in my heart the size of a girl/Pacific postman, 30 West by 50 East on a black sea that joins up countries/My life is one second slow ' says here on my watch ' that's how I know/I'm a map-pin on a dead sea marking out 30 West by 50 East on the off-chance that anyone should wish to know. A trail of letters waltz on the tide back to Maritime Plaza from my Halloween boat/And it's so cold, you can hear the moon/My life is one second slow ' says here | LY | LY SL | 21,312 |
a big decision. The risks were legion but the stakes needed to be high. The film's structure is slight. Our constant fear was that the climax would not be climactic enough. But here is something Colin doesn't understand. On the first day of shooting, I had an extraordinary experience. We had to set the level of the stammer. When I pushed Colin towards making his stammer more severe, I was profoundly moved. It was intensely dramatic and powerful. I knew we were not running the risks we had envisaged. We had looked at archive footage from the 1938 Glasgow Empire exhibition -- a long clip with decent close-ups of the King. What was so moving is that you can see the King wants to do the right thing. There is hope in his eyes. There is nothing subversive about him. And he keeps hitting these silences in which he starts to drown, then pauses, recovers himself, goes again... and drowns again. I had tears in my eyes at the end of the five-minute, juddery clip. I thought: my God, if it can be this emotional and we can somehow catch the spirit of this, we are not going to have a problem. Was the King's stammer as calamitous as the film makes out? TH: I think so. We don't know what he was like in private. CF: And we don't have recordings of what he was like before he met Lionel Logue. But we do have accounts of his Wembley | SP | SP IT | 336,898 |
Explaining Campaign 2012: How To Talk To Your Kids About Republicans Because sooner than later, they are going to form their own opinion By Abe Sauer 9/20 4:50pm Julia Ewan/The Washington Post/Getty Images Truth is, your kids may be experimenting with it long before you as a parent are ready to have "the talk." Four years ago, maybe the only thing you associated with "hope" was the hope of three hours of uninterrupted sleep. "Change" was most commonly followed by "diapers." But it's 2012, and your children are older and dangerously vulnerable: science has demonstrated that children begin toying with Republicanism far earlier than previously thought. Thanks to technology, cable news, and a trend toward increasingly uninhibited (if not unhinged) political expression, children are regularly exposed to the kind of extreme views once associated only with Thanksgiving dinners and "that uncle." Fortunately, parents can use a number of early strategies to ensure their children are politically balanced and do not fall victim to the simple-minded seduction of the far right. Just as Joe Camel once enticed children into tobacco addiction, the two parties' cartoon mascots are an early gateway. With its kid-friendly (if lumbering) elephant, the GOP has the edge over the Democrats' donkey. Your kids will view Republicans as the party of Babar and Dumbo: joyous orphans who faced the hardships of life on their own, without assistance from any central authority. Meanwhile, the only donkey in most kids' lives is Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh's compatriot who never stops | OP | OP OB | 312,534 |
business on the scale that Martin had in mind. Cut to Hollywood, 1946. Martin's sitting at the Cock 'n' Bull pub in Hollywood, commiserating with its owner, Jack Morgan. Morgan, you see, had been bottling this nice, spicy ginger beer that nobody wanted to drink. The deal was done: Smirnoff, Cock 'n' Bull ginger beer, and half a lime (swiped, no doubt, from the Cuba Libre), dumped into a special copper mug -- sourced by yet another friend with business problems -- and stuck with a meaningless but catchy name. The Moscow Mule. A little careful promotion, and wham! Vodka's breakout cocktail. Professional bartenders hated it, but the suckers bit. At least the Moscow Mule is easy (your dog could make one), smooth, and refreshing. Taken by itself, it does no harm, and compared to so much that has followed, it's practically elegant. | HI | HI RE | 112,229 |
be the case when he was president of Shell Oil Co. "One of the biggest obstacles is educating everyone to come to a fairly comfortable level of knowledge and understanding of what it's all about," he says. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. All rights reserved. This article is adapted from HYPERLINK "http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine\\... "Does Sustainability Change the Talent Equation?" by Leslie Brokaw, which appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review. The complete article is available at http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 484,212 |
damage restoration services who will know what to do in these kinds of situations. 3. Contact a water damage restoration services if the damage on your home is too much for you to handle. Newer Articles Highlighter: Heavy Floods Require Serious Water Removal (1) To start with your water removal venture, do a quick inspection of your home for you to know where to start and which part of the house is in need of the most attention and immediate water removal. Document Drying Services: Dealing With Water Damaged Documents (2) 4. Dehumidification is an added alternative to expensive document drying services. Sheets of paper could be dehydrated on shelves while the dehumidifiers draw moisture from the air. Books, paintings, and framed pictures could be left exactly where they are and let the dehumidifiers do their job (this is its primary advantage). Do-It-Yourself Water Restoration (4) Topics: Do-It-Yourself, Water, Restoration Some jobs, like water restoration, feel too complicated. But it need not be. A lot of the things that can be done inside the home to prevent manage and repair water damages are simple and easy to implement. Water Damage Restoration: Be Calm And Save Your Stuff (5) Even while the water was ravaging into your home, you probably might have been in the process of saving them already. In the process of doing water damage restoration however, you should always remember that your safety should come first. Types Of Sewage Damage And How To Deal With Them (6) They | HI | HI HT | 3,336,394 |
for my small garden. He is always in sight of death Lifting high each careful unwebbed foot. I notice -- I cannot help it -- how It's all to one purpose, this killing machine With its concentrations of stillness. Thoughtful he seems, thought-heron Who is everything brought to a point. He is a finished thing While, being here busy with language, I feel like the old man I saw in the street Both hands on his stick and entirely Preoccupied with his walking. I open the door, heron turns To look at me for a moment -- What is it he recognises Before going back to his island In the reservoir? It's a mile or so from here Where he nests untidily in the trees And the frog he lets fall when I startle him -- The mangy fox, brush gone to a piece of string, Arriving later will hold it Sideways in his jaw, twisting and snapping. But heron -- just watching one, It can start to make you feel good Before he unhurriedly lifts and floating away Goes into a fold in the air, A substanceless sign. So how did he learn To be so alone in the sky? As upwards he sails, breasting my thought The play of him will continue In here to enlarge my mind As if I imagined mornings When he and I might breakfast together. 3. JARDIN DES PLANTES THE ICELAND POPPIES are on the march bright white day all the things we | LY | LY PO | 3,696,587 |
900,000." It seems that not enough research has been done into the most cost-effective way to carry out a cull, but also that spending money on an ineffective cull would be a disastrous step in the battle to control TB. If the Government were to redirect those resources into further research and the development of alternative options, such as a vaccination, they would get far better value for taxpayers. Let me turn to public opinion. It is obvious to most that the vast majority of the public are against the cull, as is evident from the e-petition. The Government seem to have lost sight of public interest and have developed the cull, which seems to be attractive only to understandably desperate farmers. It seems unfair to present those farmers with a quick fix that has no hope of a sustainable or successful future and to entice them with it. The responsible thing to do would be to back down from the cull altogether and explore the alternatives, to which I will now turn. Of course, vaccinating cattle is the obvious solution to the problem. However, until we can develop a test that can distinguish between vaccinated and infected cattle, there is no hope of getting EU law changed, although some people contend that there has been a major breakthrough even in this area -- an argument that others will no doubt pick up. In the meantime, we could start a badger vaccination programme. We have been vaccinating badgers since 2010, | ID | ID DF | 476,316 |
Original Lyrics Performer: Anna Rossinelli Song title: In Love For A While Song writer(s): David Klein Song composer(s): David Klein I looked into your eyes, And when I saw your smile I knew right from the start, Life is good for a while. Romance comes and goes, But a love like ours is here to stay Each lovely night and sunny day. I love everything about you, I couldn't do without you Whenever you're near me All my days are on the bright side But when I'm not around you I have to find the way to be with you Each night and every day. Na nanananana, na nanananana na Na nananana... And as time goes by And we've seen stormy weather I know that you and I, Were only getting better. But when I'm not around you I have to find a way to be with you Each night and every day I love everything you do I couldn't do without you, I love everything you do I have to find a way to be with you I know you and I, are in Love for a while. | LY | LY SL | 177,234 |
posted in this chain as well that you have not responded to. I do understand that you are busy and do not expect a response to everything, so I appreciate any opportunity to interact as I believe the framework you have laid out is very effective in understanding monetary policy. I would be happy to take this to a different forum if that makes it easier on you. As you wish. Martin, imports are a benefit at full employment. Otherwise, the importing nation is exporting jobs, as your example notes, so that the real terms of trade may be even or negative considering the output gap. The point of MMT is that a monetarily sovereign government issuing a nonconvertible floating rate currency like the US can run full employment with price stability using the principles of functional finance. In fact, it is imbecilic not to do so, because falling short of full employment implies an output gap that represents foregone opportunity. Therefore, MMT concludes that the government should run full employment along with price stability and not be concerned with the level of imports. If there is a CAD and the private sector wishes to save, too, then the government just runs an offsetting deficit. If inflation should threaten, then taxes are raised to withdraw enough nongovernment net financial assets to cool the economy without leading to unemployment. Warren may have a different answer for you, but that is how I understand it. sorry again. please repeat and I'll now | IP | IP DS | 266,529 |
clearly isn't a historical text I feel fully justified laying into it! As a lay person with an interest in Military History I do like to see a few references in a book. They add weight and substantiation to the work and more importantly they direct the reader to other sources and books for further reading. This work does neither and as such lacks any credibility as a serious piece of historical research. I have now posted my review on the Amazon webpage for the book (it may take a couple of days for the review to be moderated and posted). Other reviews for this book range from "5 stars" where the reader bought the story hook,line & sinker through to "1 Star" for those that read it as a complete work of fiction. I tend towards the latter and have given the book 1 Star. If it had been presented purely as a Novel rather than a non-fiction History book I would have given it three stars, purely on its entertainment value. Thanks for that. When I last checked there were about twenty reviews split roughly half and half between the two viewpoints. Unfortunately Amazons system seems to automatically rank the positive reviews first! Great post. Very interesting. It is a worry that if enough media says the book is true that eventually the STORY becomes accepted as true. Fortunately folks like you help contribute to the discussion. Cheers I've got nothing against historical fiction, but I do hate | OP | OP RV | 62,108 |
experiences were a long time ago, and I doubt if a primagravida would be allowed to spend as long in labour as I was with my first. But I am glad that nothing was done to speed things up. My wife (I'm a bloke, not really called Betty) is due to give birth for the first time in a few weeks. She is more relaxed about the pain than I am! I am in absolute awe of her and all the other women who go through this. A baby's head? Out of that tiny gap? That's basically like squeezing a tennis ball out of the end of my [inappropriate word deleted], and there's no way on EARTH that I'm ever going to be doing that. I'd be screaming for the epidural before you could say "hole to hole ripping." To hell with nature. Basically, if I'm allowed to take a car to a man-made hospital rather than wander to a forest somewhere and give birth there then the nature ship has already sailed. But apparently my wife is all for it. She is fine, I am terrified. God, I don't even like thinking about it. The poor woman. This is less a comment than a rambling rant because I can't actually mention my horrific fears in front of her in case they destroy her Zen-like calm. This is the only chance I have got! But, honestly, there in the delivery room I will neither be use nor ornament as I | HI | HI HT | 339,213 |
necklace. I wear it with an olive green velvet ribbon. Your blog is lovely and this post is very helpful for vintage beginners. Love and kisses Miss Maple Such a great post! So great to have someone else put down in words what my style is! I am so glad to finally have a defined style! :) That is a combination of modern with a vintage twist and total immersion. Thanks, Susanne Brilliant Charlotte! What a great post! If you could talk about hair as well that would be great- I am rubbish at stylising my hair in any way what so ever! Oh and I saw your comment on bright young twins- there's a place in Penge that does swing dance each week (south London) or in Holborn on Tuesdays and Thursdays, there's somewhere near Marble Arch on a Wednesday- they usually teach a cycle of 10 lessons beginner, then 10 weeks of intermediate etc so you learn different steps each week- if like me you can't make a regular committment, this proves a little problematic! But check out the London swing dance society website for specific details. Oh and you rotate, so you don't dance with your own partner that much during the class, it's to make sure everyone gets to try it with different people as that's the way people learn different lindy-moves apparently! What a great post. I'd love to add more vintage to my everyday clothing and will be following along with interest. I've always | HI | HI HT | 3,008,377 |
Id like to see some effort going into making sure its not all just "cover based" combat. Even with the missions being littered with cover, the game did too much to force you into it to boot. So a bit of thought into "how can we make this play like it isnt just gears of war all the time" would be a welcome improvement. I also liked the mako, so a return would be nice. The hammerhead was complete crap, but the environment they crafted on overlord was quite nice. Maybe mixing something like that with my earlier "big mission" requests would be pretty cool. I just hope if they have a new vehicle it isnt made of tissue and just spams crappy missiles. The carchase in LotSB was nice too. Cliche, but at least it broke up the usual monotony of cover shooting everywhere all the time. More things like that would be cool too. More squad interaction would be my final request. ME2 absolutely SUCKED for character interaction and squadmates interacting with eachother, and for a game some people like to wank on as being "character driven", I wonder how they could ignore such a thing. No more "romance only characters", they suck. No more "3 conversation romances", they suck too. No more "crappy specific locational interjection" either, because they suck as well. Bring back elevators, and add some good banter, and generally bring back ME1s take, where characters chipped in more. ME2 had more characters saying less, | OP | OP OB | 126,884 |
Resolved Question Can I return shoes that have been worn once but damaged at river island? I bought shoes for my prom and not only were they uncomfortable but after wearing them for 7 hours the strap that slings around the ankle split, making it dificult to walk. If I return them to the store, could I get a refund or exchange the shoes? I have my receipt and bought them on Thursday Best Answer - Chosen by Asker yes you can worn shoes have to show to have a defect or faulty and "not fit for the purpose intended" your shoes are clearly not "fit for the purpose intended" as you have worn them once only and now can no longer wear them do not let them fob you off, you are entitled to a full refund shoes are supposed to be worn more than once without breaking Other Answers (6) yes yo can take them back using they are not of " merchantably Quality", they must give you a refund by law, if they refuse, contack consumer advice, their address is on the internet or phone your local council. | ID | ID QA | 681,954 |
it's pretty unavoidable, when you spend months and months totally, intensely immersed in the lives of your characters, that the process starts seeping into your pores and taking over your life. It's one of the occupational hazards of writing -- there is no factory whistle to set you free at the end of a day's work. You're on duty 24/7. I very often find myself dwelling on Ben and his variable fortunes over dinner, all through the evening and into the night when thoughts of plots and subplots and twists and all kinds of maddening details can start to invade my dreams. I sometimes wonder whether this is partly why writers have traditionally been more prone to depression and suicide than most normal folks -- maybe carrying a headful of characters and storylines around with you all the time is enough to drive you completely around the bend! These days I'm careful to take more time out for myself, to unwind and detach my mind from it all. Ironically, that's often when the best ideas strike me, and I find myself getting drawn right back in again... Ben Hope has been the main protagonist of your novels for several years now, The Sacred Sword being his seventh outing. How much would you say the character has developed over the years? Do you see him any differently now than when the series began? Yes, Ben's been part of my life for a while now. Even though I can't quite visualise him | SP | SP IT | 3,104,940 |
Project "If you laugh at me again, I'm going to punch you in the speech hole." -Stephen Harper (OK, not really, but he probably thought it). These may be dire times, but there's comedy gold in them there hills! Are we going to stand here and let the Yanks take all the satire glory? We say no. We say it is time to match the 24-hour news cycle with a 24-hour satire response. That's why we're excited that the crack team of comics at The Satire Project is going to partner with rabble.ca to whip our democracy back into shape. From laugh out loud videos, to political cartoons, memes and blogs, The Satire Project will be Canada's hub for the best political mockery and comedic commentary from around the web. What's that? You can't wait? Well you're going to have to. But just a little bit. Contrary to popular belief comics do need to eat (perhaps not bathe, but that is another issue) and The Satire Project needs your support to launch this thing. Donate $10 and you get a shout out on social media from The Satire Project, plus they throw in a happy dance. Donate $25 you get a cartoon leader button of your choice (we like the "Robo-Harper"). Donate $50 and you get a stress ball with Stephen Harper's face on it. For real. Plus a cartoon leader button of your choice. Other perks include a personal video featuring finger puppet Stephen Harper, signed prints, your name | IP | IP DS | 3,354,382 |
said "Cool!" Denise Okuda : We were very, very excited. It was a lot of fun! TrekCore: Do you know if they're going to be coming back to help with future seasons? Denise Okuda : We really don't know. If they came back, we would be thrilled again. Both the artists and the folks at CBS Digital and HTV, we have a great working relationship. We enjoy the enthusiasm. Mike and I feel so fortunate to be on this project and part of the team. Mike Okuda : If we were fortunate enough to work with them again, we'd be thrilled. TrekCore: Mike and Denise, it's been great talking to you again. Thanks for all your continued hard work, and we look forward to Season 2! With just over a week to go until release... be sure to pre-order Season 2 below so you get it on release date in your country. All Amazon stores have significantly discounted the title - at the time of writing it's under $80 in the U.S. , 47.00 in the U.K. and under 57,00EUR in Germany ! | SP | SP IT | 3,686,938 |
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