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"It's all good." Back then all they did was keep asking me to take something off. Now I'm just waiting for them to start telling me to put something back on. [Laughs.] Virtuosity (1995) -- "Madison Carter" KL: That was such an interesting experience. I learned so much from that movie. First of all, the Denzel Washington part was a role that written for Mel Gibson, and it was a romantic role. He played a character who was in prison for many years, and he gets out and hooks up with this computer forensic specialist who finds bad guys on the Internet, and they pursue this guy who's a virtual-reality kind of creation. And Denzel decided... Well, we all had to audition with him, which they rarely do anymore. They just usually put the two biggest actors available for a part in the movie together, whether or not they really have any chemistry, and if you find out on day one that they don't, then it's like, "Whoops!" But for Denzel and I, it was very charged. It was really great. We really connected. It was really sexual, funny, we connected intellectually... Everything was working. They were thrilled. And it was a wonderful script. But when we showed up for rehearsal, Denzel... [Hesitates.] We had kind of an inexperienced director [Brett Leonard], who I think had only done a few movies before that and really didn't have much experience with big movie stars. And when actors feel like there's not | SP | SP IT | 3,225,871 |
2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Black & White, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Nick Robey (John Garfield) is a down-on-his-luck two-bit hood, fast on his feet but a little slow on the uptake. His running buddy, Al Molin (Norman Lloyd), does most of the thinking for him, which includes a payroll heist that goes horribly wrong when a cop spots them just as they've slugged the man with the cash. Al is wounded and caught, but Nick manages to get away, shooting the police officer in the process. He remembers Al's last instructions, to act calmly and melt into the crowd, but Nick isn't quite able to do that -- he hides out at a public swimming pool, where he meets Peg Dobbs (Shelley Winters), a nice but shy working girl, and convinces her to let him take her home. Once there, he tries to spend a normal evening, as though he were on a date, while her mother (Selena Royle), father (Wallace Ford), and younger brother (Bobby Hyatt) go out to a movie. But he can't relax, and their return rattles Nick enough so that he pulls his gun and reveals who he is and what he's done. This is one of several miscalculations that Nick makes in the course of holding the family hostage over the next two days. He initially plans on leaving in the morning, but when he discovers that the police officer whom he shot has died, and that they know who he is, he has | IP | IP DS | 323,821 |
in different areas of life and SkillsYouNeed has sections covering many of these. However, the foundation for many areas of our lives are good interpersonal skills since these are relevant to our personal relationships , social affairs and professional lives and are the basis on which we can develop other life skills . Unlike specialised and technical skills (hard skills), interpersonal skills (soft skills) will be used every day and in every area of our lives. Here, you can find out how to develop specific interpersonal skills including: Learn to Listen Listening is not the same as hearing. Take time to listen carefully to what others are saying through both their verbal and non-verbal communication. (More on Listening Skills ) Choose Your Words Be aware of the words you are using when talking to others. Could you be misunderstood or confuse the issue? Practise clarity and learn to seek feedback to ensure your message has been understood. Encourage others to engage in communication use appropriate questioning to develop your understanding. (More on Verbal Communication , Questioning and Effective Speech ) Understand Why Communication Fails By learning about the various barriers to good communication you can be aware of - and reduce the likelihood of - ineffective interpersonal communication. (See Barriers to Communication ) Be Positive Empathise Understand that other people may have different points of view. Try to see things from their perspective. You may learn something while you gain the respect and trust of others. (More on Active Listening | HI | HI HT | 389,700 |
live Chorus Ooo the music's in the grove, It's the rap that makes you move 'Cause LakeSide show-ed^ up at the party Ooo the music's in the groove, It's the rap that makes you move Coolio show-ed^ up at the party Chorus This ain't Penny Hardaway or Kareem Abdul It's Coolio in the house but you can call me cool An' I gotta keep it real for my peeps on the street you can fill it in your feet or bump it in your Jeep From sea to shinning sea the rows of century Bend under Sicily I put it down for the G Feel the fire, feel the funk An' you better clear the lane when I'm goin' dunk I ain't looking for protocol, got sumpin' for all o' y'all To make you get your back up off the ball Just put your head to the sky, if you wanna ride and keep you eye on the flies 'cause it's live Chorus Please Click here to submit the Corrections of It's All The Way Live Lyrics | LY | LY SL | 23,660 |
Moving Long Distance Moving Across the Country Moving across the country is an adventure. It can also be daunting. Here are some helpful tips to walk you through your jaunt across the country. Pick a Place, any Place Well, not quite just like that, but this is the first and most important step. The choice of location can depend on myriad factors. Are you relocating for reasons of work? Perhaps you are looking for a more affordable city to live in? While your head is figuring this out, do not forget to consult your heart. Remember, this is where you will live . Go with what you love. Are you a warm climate person? A beach type or a mountain type? Do Due Diligence Crossing bridges as they appear may be fun in a nature hike, but a trip of this magnitude demands a bit more foresight. Do you have a place already rented or bought that neatly coincides with your move-in date, or will you be considering short term housing ? I recommend renting before deciding on a home purchase. This will allow you to take your time to discover your new destination before actually putting down roots. All the research in the world cannot tell you as much about a place as actually living there for a period. Mode of Travel Flying is obviously the fastest mode of travel if you're in a hurry, but unless you're planning on starting all over without possessions, this may not be | HI | HI HT | 568,011 |
initial production of Houston ore targeted for 2014. Infrastructure costs for the first phase of the Houston project are estimated to be approximately $37 million, with an additional approximately $20 million of mine development costs now planned for 2014. Planning is well advanced for the second, wet process phase of the project. LIM plans to evaluate various potential credit facilities and/or strategic partnerships or off-take arrangements to fund these Houston development expenditures. 2012 Exploration Program As of the end of September 2012, approximately 9,400 m of RC and core diamond drilling had been completed in the 2012 exploration program. The 2012 exploration budget was reduced to $5.3 million from the $8.6 million originally budgeted. Although exploration spending has been reduced, the overall 2012 exploration program is expected to achieve approximately 13,500 m of drilling (from the planned 10,000 m) as a result of cost efficiencies and improved productivity. The drill programs have focused on Houston, Malcolm, James North, the James South extension and historic stockpiles near Silver Yards. As at the end of September, 5,600 m of RC drilling had been completed at Houston, Malcolm and the historic stockpiles and 3,300 m of diamond drilling had been completed at Houston and the James South extension. The main purpose of this drilling is to generate further technical information for more detailed mine planning of these deposits. LIM had also completed 500 m of diamond drilling at the James North deposit for geotechnical purposes. In addition to this drilling, a bulk sampling | IN | IN TR | 360,872 |
misogynistic, rather than just labeling them so and expecting others to piece the definition together post-hoc. I certainly agree, but, again, I see the "you're calling me a mean name!" meme applied to basically deny us the vocabulary necessary to discuss this stuff at all. If one is dealing with someone arguing in good-faith, then certainly it's worth the time to undertake an explanation. I just also expect that were you to convince everyone to stop calling anyone "a misogynist", then the people who are responding negatively to the label would simply switch to responding negatively to the labeling of their behaviors/ideas as misogynist, at which point we'd need to come up with another vocabulary, repeat ad infinitum. I decided it was a better use of my time to try to convince people to stop internalizing descriptors as essential identities. I think I have been misrepresented here. I am not saying that we should do it to spare the feelings of people who have misogynistic positions. I am saying that we should do it because it orients our attention and focus to the BEHAVIOURS, rather than conflating the messenger with the message. Racism, for example, can be perpetrated in the absence of any malice or indeed even the intervention of a human mind. Systems themselves, institutions, anything really, can have a racially disadvantageous posture. By making "racism" the fault of "racists", we excuse not only the behaviour of those things we fail to see, but indeed ourselves. My entire thesis | OP | OP OB | 3,175,976 |
Latest News Chimaira's Mark Hunter Shows Off His "Huge" Royalty Check 10.26.12 at 2:25pm Posted by wookubus Chimaira vocalist Mark Hunter has shown off his royalty check in a photo which can be viewed below. The image was posted with the caption: "Another huge royalty check. #nofilter" You may recall Trivium vocalist/guitarist Matt Heafy making a similar post last year. His check however was later revealed to be erroneously issued from a streaming music site and not from Roadrunner Records . It was not specified which label/company cut Hunter 's aforementioned check. The shit they did before signing with RR was phenomenal. Once they got there, it was some over processed something that wasn't that built them a fan base. It sucked. I had the first 2 albums off RR of theirs, the second one was better but nothing ever came close to the EP and their first LP. Sorry it is what it is. Thumb it down all ya want. ^ They didn't even RELEASE an LP before signing to Roadrunner Records. And this "their first demo r00lz, dude -- after that they just went downhill!" crap has been / is / will forever be the dumbest shit you can possibly say. Also, if you only had the first two albums they released on RR, you missed four albums you obviously don't know shit about. The more these rockstars keep bitching about money, the more inclined people will be to not show a single goddamn interest in their music. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,274,507 |
Azealia Banks got too nervous to freestyle in front of Kanye West August 9th, 2012 Azealia Banks doesn't have a problem speaking her mind and starting Twitter wars with fellow musicians, rappers and people in general, so it definitely means something when she gets too nervous to do something in front of someone. In a recent interview with VIBE Magazine, Banks recalls the time she hung out with Kanye West. "He hit me up like, 'You're mad talented. What do you eat for breakfast?' The whole conversation was pretty dense -- two Geminis in one room. So it was so many ideas flying," explains Banks. "We spent the whole day together, but the best part was dinner. We're eating out the same plates with chopsticks, and he's freestyling for me. I was like, 'Oh sh-t, this is real!' You know how you smile so much your face hurts? And you just feel so busted like...[screeches]." So when asked if Banks returned the favour and freestyled for him, she immediately responded with an abrupt "No!" "I was so nervous like, 'Oh my God, I don't want to say anything wack.' Like, I start rapping and he looks at me like, "Nah, bitch, chill, this is my show.'" | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,338,228 |
interested in fellowship and Jewish cultural enrichment, regardless of religious affiliation. We meet every Thursday during club hour in B-321. For more information, contact club advisors Prof. L. Delitsky at 516.572.7008 and Prof. A. Mantell at 516.572.8092. The Knit and Purl Club welcomes all students who would like to learn how to knit, improve their basic skills, or work on a project they have already started. Those who crochet are encouraged to join us as well. We may occasionally meet at a craft or yarn store, so that club members can select yarn and needles for their projects. Many of the beautiful patterns that are seen in scarves, hats, or other knitted garments are made up of knit and purl stitches! A beginner project might be a simple scarf done in all knit stitches; a more advanced project might involve knitting in the round (using circular needles and double pointed needles), or combining knit and purl stitches to make patterns. Handouts for a variety of skills will be available, as well as information about knitting/yarn websites to subscribe to, and you-tube videos that demonstrate knitting stitches. Individual help will also be available. Meetings will be on Tuesdays during club hour (11:30 a.m.). Additional meetings (such as trips to yarn stores, or extra help with a project) can be arranged as needed. For more information, contact the club's faculty advisor, Prof. Helene Guttenberg-Menco, at 516.572.9682 or Helene.Guttenberg-Menco@ncc.edu . LAMBDA EPSILON CHI Lambda Epsilon Chi (LEX) is a national honor society club | IN | IN DT | 13,277 |
work activity until the hazard is eliminated. Promulgated information incident An incident that involves significantly incorrect, inadequate, or misleading information promulgated in any aeronautical information publication, map or chart. Proof load The total load that any lifting appliance or loose cargo gear is subjected to under test. Proper shipping name In relation to dangerous goods, means the name given as the proper shipping name for a substance in: (a) New Zealand Standard 5433:1999, Transport of Dangerous Goods on Land; (b) United Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods; (c) International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code; (d) Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of Dangerous Goods by Air of the International Civil Aviation Organisation; (e) Dangerous Goods Regulations of the International Air Transport Association. Propellant explosive substance A substance that deflagrates (i.e. is capable of a steady high rate of production of gas sufficient to generate a force capable of producing movement or physical change, the rate of gas production under confinement is able to result in a detonation). Propeller A device, for propelling an aircraft, that has blades on an engine-driven shaft and that when rotated produces by its action on the air, a thrust approximately perpendicular to its plane of rotation. It includes control components normally supplied by its manufacturer, but does not include main and auxiliary rotors or rotating airfoils of engines. Prophylaxis Treatment or action adopted with a view to warding off disease. Propping A system of temporary supports to prevent movement or unintended collapse. Prostitution The | IN | IN OI | 1,774,893 |
the suspicion that perhaps one reason they were chosen was because a more representative sample wouldn't have produced quite the results she wants. One of the most egregious examples of this arises in her chapter on the "balanced" see-saw marriage of the educated class. Steven, the male half of the example, is still trying to figure out how to complete law school in his late 30s and is a stay-at-home-dad - and his interpretation of the latter role seems to include letting his child smear feces on the wall until his wife comes home to clean it up. There are tens of millions of alternating dual-career couples who have been a lot more successful in balancing things out, millions of stay at home dads who raise children more conventionally, and a decent amount of academic work on how they do so; surely one or two of them could have been found to be brought into her narrative. Ms. Rosin's choices repeatedly smack of selection bias for even those otherwise sympathetic to her overall point, and it's a real disappointment. This is probably linked with the book's final problem. As Ms. Rosin admits in the introduction, she started out with the belief that "womanly" traits were becoming more important in this new era than "manly" ones, but found this answer wasn't supported by what she'd researched. Despite this, Ms. Rosin clearly struggles with the temptation to try to push her original thesis. Many problems arise as a result; the weak chapter | IP | IP DS | 282,809 |
a preprogrammed image surrounding the target - it is similar technology to the DSMAC in the BGM-109 Tomahawk. EU sources claim this guidance package can hit completely hidden targets providing their location is well known relative to visually prominent features surrounding the aimpoint. It is likely the bomb needs to be programmed on the ground, although this is apt to change now with the added computing power in recent Su-30 variants. Multiple rounds can be released in a single pass at multiple aimpoints, not unlike the JDAM. While EU sources speculate on the existence of a thermal imaging variant, its existence cannot be confirmed as no photographs are available showing the Zinc Sulphide or Fluoride glass nose windows required. As Russia's industry is now experimenting with QWIP Focal Plane Array imaging chips, a day/night thermal imaging variant is a likely future prospect. The design changes would be in a revised gimbal with a cooling assembly and an IR transmissive window. The most recent variants are the KAB-500S-E and KAB-1500S-E, equipped with a satellite/inertial guidance system analogous to the US JDAM weapons. Their production status is currently unclear, but trial drops are known to have been performed. The 3,000 lb (1,500 kg) class KAB-1500 bombs are the heavyweights, with blast, blast fragmentation and subcalibre bunker busting warhead options, the latter claimed to be capable of penetrating up to 20 metres of soil and 2 metres of reinforced concrete. The 1,000 lb (500 kg) class KAB-500 bombs are GBU-16/32/35 equivalents, with blast, | IN | IN | 1,397,663 |
a fault of their own, it is a lack of finding the answers to, WHY IS THIS HAPPENING TO ME? What your past, present, and future depends on when you are in this situation, is SOMEONE WHO CARES, someone that has been there, done that, and someone that understands where you've been and where you're wanting to be in life.The right person to confide in is someone, that is not just book educated, not someone interested in making big bucks, it is definitely someone who cares. Someone with a passion, someone with a past record of helping ability, I can sing your praises Larry because I know what your abilities are, and how you have a special gift to care enough, to genuinely help others.Your calling and passions are proving this as we speak. For the answers of life issues that may help, people can always take a look at Healthy Lifestyles Living a wealth of FREE information, that just may offer the Missing Pieces in THEIR LIVES! THANK YOU LARRY! Coming Soon to Healthy Lifestyles Healthy Lifestyles Living specialises in Personal Development and Stress Management. We are expanding into other areas of Healthy Living and we are proud to anounce we will be adding the following sub sections to Healthy Lifestyles Living very soon. Give Yourself A Boost About Healthy Lifestyles Living Welcome to Healthy Lifestyles Living -- a community for people who are passionate about becoming, healthier, fitter, happier and ultimately taking their lives to a more satisfying | OP | OP AV | 208,520 |
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 |
How to create a CCK formatter Categories CCK formatters are pieces of code that allow you to render a CCK field content how you want. In Drupal 6 this basicaly means a theme function. As an example, we will build a formatter for the field type 'nodereference' . This type of field, which is part of the standard CCK package, allows you to "reference" a node inside another. The formatter that nodereference has by default, prints a standard link to the referenced node. We are going to give the users other options, allowing them choose if they want the link to open in a new window or, if they have the popups module activated, that it opens in a jQuery modal window. Let's call our module 'formattertest' . Step 1: Declare our CCK formatters <?php /** * Implementation of hook_field_formatter_info(). * * Here we define an array with the options we will provide in display fields page * The array keys will be used later in hook_theme and theme_ */ In this function, you have to return an arrays of arrays, that define each formatter that the module provides. label: The name that the user will choose in the display fields configuration page field types: an array with the types of cck fields that the formatter supports. It's important to remember that the array keys you use, in our case 'newwindow' and 'popup' , will be used later on to construct our functions hook_theme and theme_ . Note that in | HI | HI HT | 172,554 |
tricky, tricky (Tricky, tricky) Huh When I wake up people take up mostly all of my time I'm not singin', phone keep ringin' 'cause I make up a rhyme I'm not braggin', people naggin' 'cause they think I'm a star Always tearin' what I'm wearin', I think they're goin' too far A girl named Carol follows Daryl every gig we play Then D dissed her and dismissed her, now she's jockin' Jay I ain't lyin', girls be cryin' 'cause I'm on TV They even bother my poor father 'cause he's down with me It's tricky to rock a rhyme To rock a rhyme that's right on time It's tricky (How is it?) Tricky, tricky (Tricky, tricky) It's tricky to rock a rhyme To rock a rhyme that's right on time It's tricky, tr-tr-tricky (Tr-tr-tricky) Tr-tr-tr We are not thugs, we don't use drugs but you assume on your own They offer coke and lots of dope but we just leave it alone It's like that y'all, but we don't quit (Y'all) You keep on shock, 'cause this is it (Rock) | LY | LY SL | 434,799 |
My name ain't up in lights, But I'm a hero in this bar. An' I play four big shows a night, With just me and my guitar. I don't make a lot of money, An' I don't have a lot of gear. I don't sell a lot of records, But I sure sell a lot of beer. Whoa, c'mon now, sing it up. If you wanna hear Bob Dylan, Then I'll play "Like A Rollin' Stone." If you wanna hear Bob Wills, I'll sing "The Rose Of San Antone." I'll even play "Happy Birthday", If that's what you wanna hear. 'Cause I don't sell a lot of records, But I sure sell a lot of beer. I wake up every Sunday mornin', So I can go to church and pray. But after some of my Saturday nights, Things just don't turn out that way. I think even the Good Lord, he understands, That I'm at that point in my career. They I don't sell a lot of records, (No I don't, tell 'em.) But they sure sell a lot of beer. | LY | LY SL | 524,165 |
the phallic) context made clear in the final line. And there are other correspondences. "Candlemaker" immediately follows "When She Was Nine," an account of a girl "slumped in her wedding dress, / half a woman, / the swellings of her breasts / not quite swellings yet" watching the ritual sacrifice of a goat. Her perspective is obliquely yet graphically rendered: "She cried under the white net / of her wedding veil over the slaughtered goat / at her threshold, the blood staining its hairy throat." Also, the Rumi excerpts that begin this section further complicate "Candlemaker's" tone: "When lovers moan, / they're telling our story. Like this. . . . When someone asks you what there is to do, / light the candle in his hand. / Like this." "Dates," which opens section three of "Sleep," is again a treat for the ears with its unassuming, precise language. It's amazing how Atefat-Peckham milks music from so many monosyllabic words: "Three days and they wrapped / his washed body in muslin, / no lumbering sounds of coffins / carried, only the white ripple / of cloth." However, what most intrigues me about this poem are its twin ambiguities of religious and secular mystery, realized in image and metaphor: ". . . the woman / with dates walked the aisles / offering the shriveled skin / and its sweet stench on a silver tray, / . . . Somewhere under / Iranian earth, seamless cloth lay / on its side, a turned | IP | IP DS | 781,324 |
literally be a new 'earth' only it will be a completely different planet. Meanwhile, when earth graduates, it will move upwards in dimension and create the 5d earth everyone is talking about. 4d earth already exists, it is the earth in the astral, which is somewhat like a mirror image. I'm not interested in fighting the dark, because I view both the dark and the light as the exact same thing. The people who are fighting for their freedom and those who take it away in the name of freedom, are all part of the same thing. Addiction on body experiences and a focus on the aquisition of power and manipulation over themselves and others in the 3d galaxy. There are other ways of looking at things, and one of those ways is the perception you have while spiraling out of the game and taking a step back and merely observing what is taking place. Watching is not the same as observing. You watch a football game, but you want someone to win. If you observe a game, you have no interest in either side and recognize them as being part of the same thing. Incorporating balance is something which always trumps polarities. I am not saying that your ideas are flawed, nor do I think they are right or wrong. It's just your way of going about with your experiences, and I support whatever it is YOU want to do with your life. The only reason I commented here, | ID | ID DF | 545,488 |
I tried to explain how an EROEI deficient well making me $1000/month should be plugged immediately, let alone what the owner would say to such a ridiculous idea. Just because you didn't make this calculation doesn't mean that society shouldn't consider EROEI when evaluating various routes forward. Money has whatever value society puts on it which can obviously change a lot and quickly, so it is not necessarily a good tool for comparing various energy sources at various times... Just because you didn't make this calculation doesn't mean that society shouldn't consider EROEI when evaluating various routes forward. Money has whatever value society puts on it which can obviously change a lot and quickly, so it is not necessarily a good tool for comparing various energy sources at various times... Society should consider all sorts of things when evaluating routes forward....and doesn't. Some of those at least make sense, racial equality, health care for all, education for those who want it, etc etc. EROEI doesn't qualify. Some country with stranded natural gas can make the investment to convert natural gas to liquids for the next century and make money on an EROEI<1 process. Whereas Japan might save the 40% conversion loss and simply produce hydrates into regular NG transmission lines and pipe it to the mainland...not because of EROEI, but because they already have an economy and infrastructure built to accomodate natural gas and can use it more efficiently by avoiding the conversion loss. Money works great for what it | ID | ID DF | 3,274,218 |
sun bits :D ) The question - what do you use to combat the midgies up there, other than the garlic and vits? I had a MASSIVE reaction to them in Darwin (didn't have an issue for the previous 4 months anywhere else, sob), to the point I said I don't think I could go back (almost put in hospital bad), despite using a cocktail of bug sprays, covering up, taking vats of vegimite/pills etc, keeping in as much as possible (bearing in mind we live out of a campervan, so not as easy as being in a house situation) and doing everything you are meant to. Any recommendations on specific bug sprays or other home-brew type things? My legs were the most disgusting thing you have ever seen after three weeks up there lol. Cheers if you've got any thoughts on that one... I little advise with regards to the mosquitos in Darwin....for those of you who don't already know they don't just come out at night, they are out all day in Darwin and tend to be worse just before a full moon. Apparently mosquitos don't like quinine which is an ingredient in tonic water. Its worth taking every precaution there is in Darwin to avoid getting bitten as there are a lot of mosquito boune diseases in that area (Murray Valley, Ross River, Kunjin and Barmah Forest viruses). I personally knew a few people in Darwin who had contracted Ross River virus and its not something you | ID | ID DF | 1,471,426 |
Farmers urged to think about new land management scheme A UNION has warned Welsh farmers to look more closely at the Glastir land management scheme or face losing out financially. The Farmers Union of Wales (FUW) believes farmers coming to the end of their transitional agri-environment agreements would be wise to take another look at what is on offer. Rhian Nowell-Phillips, FUW's deputy director of agricultural policy, said: "To ensure they are not left in a vacuum after the ending of their existing contracts, farmers should be starting to consider whether they need to obtain an application form, or book a consultant to visit the farm, to help assess the necessary points required to enter the new scheme. "Farmers who wish to be considered for the Glastir advanced element, in addition to the basic scheme, should ensure their applications are submitted as early as possible in 2013 to allow time for the necessary farm visits and contracts to be drawn up. "There is likely to be great demand for the services of farm consultants next year as many farmers come to the end of their transitional arrangements. "Now is the time to think ahead and contact Farming Connect or their own advisers to make sure they are able to submit their applications in sufficient time." Readers' comments (1) will never use a consultant or harper grade type!! | 29 October 2012 11:54 pm being farming on own acount 3 decade after a spell farm foreman masstock saudi arabia. please stop | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 744,614 |
language is not the only thing that breaks Added! About this book In this extraordinary debut poetry collection, Proma Tagore's language is not the only thing that breaks explores the junctions between migration, race, the body, and desire. The poems in this book offer spaces to reflect on a variety of interlinking issues: the routes and brutal legacies of European colonization and imperialism; the interrelations between different experiences of migration or displacement and attendant geographies of water, land, place, or home; the politics of globalization, capitalism, settlement, and war; the real and symbolic maps of our many dislocations and journeys and, consequently, our multiply layered memories, dreams, and desires. Amidst the ongoing everyday realities of racism and war that have resulted from long-standing histories of colonization, language is not the only thing that breaks offers small, delicate moments of being?a personal and moving response to a world where many people experience profound levels of dehumanization. november 14 ?for Reena Virk I am working out the vocabulary of my silence. ?Muriel Rukeyser, ?The Speed of Darkness? in places where memory is impossible, your story lives resilient and gives me new breath, and your telling shatters the grammar of my silence, as we begin working out the vocabularies and pathways of voice. in the unforgetting, our rage will hold, our words will refuse to be kept, and i will not be consoled tonight. Reviews Proma Tagore's politically minded debut, language is not the only thing that breaks , is an act of | IP | IP DS | 576,498 |
... access to the Civilian Service Medal 1939 -- 1945 (established as part of the Australian Honours System in 1994) AWLA veterans and their supporters continue to campaign for recognition, and the Australian Government is currently considering ways to further recognise the service of AWLA members on the occasion of its 70th anniversary in July. The sinking of the Montevideo Maru On 1 July 1942 an unmarked Japanese transit freighter, the Montevideo Maru, was taking 1051 Australian soldier and civilian prisoners of war to Hainan Island. Most of those on board had come from Rabaul. The vessel was torpedoed and sunk by the American submarine USS Sturgeon on that day, and there were no Australian survivors. This represents the greatest loss of Australian lives at sea in either war or peace. The story of the Montevideo Maru has been covered in some detail in a previous Parliamentary Library Background Note. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the Montevideo Maru a new memorial to the tragedy will be dedicated at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Anzac Day 49 Battle of Milne Bay The August-September 1942 Battle of Milne Bay is regarded as the first time a Japanese land operation was decisively defeated during the Second World War. Australian infantry and American engineers began building airfields at Milne Bay, on the south eastern tip of Papua, in June 1942. Expecting a Japanese attack, the airstrips were protected by 9000 Allied troops, including the 7th (Militia) and | IN | IN | 781,389 |
more energetic waves simply have shorter wavelengths. dean: If the sun explodes into a supernova , and a black hole appeares in the centre of the solar system, all planets will be sucked into it ? Ezequiel: well, first, when the black hole goes supernova it will not create a black hole... it is just not massive enough. But... Let's assume that for some reason the sun turns into a black hole with the same mass... Turns out that the orbits of the planets will not be changed, will remain exactly the same... Of course, for life on Earth it will be the end... ayz: do black holes last forever? or do they have finte lifetimes like the stars which created them? Kevin: In theory black holes can evaporate via Hawking radiation but this process is very VERY slow. The age of the universe wouldn't be ebough to make even a dent in a supermassive black hole Jason (moderator): Every wanted to see a black hole? Check out some of these images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/categor\\... vdls612: What happened to all those giant early black holes? They were destroyed/transformed? Are they still here? Kevin: They keep growing and merging and end up as the monsters at the centers of massive galaxies in the nearby Universe. Janus: This is unrelated: Many scientists say that the universe is infinite. However, they also say that it has a "shape." How can something infinite have a shape? Ezequiel: It is infinite in | SP | SP | 61,093 |
words, particularly 'aluminum'. It has has four syllables. I agree on the patriotism bit. Also, we're sorry about country music. Not all of us are that dumb. If Americans are in the U.K., we have an accent. If you're in the U.S., you have an accent. ZUmber Actually if you go 20 miles in any direction in the UK and you'll encounter a different accent. I can't agree with the aluminium though. Aloominum doesn't sound right to me. Jonathan O'bryant The only thing I agree with is the spelling of words, like honour, colour,ect. For some reason I've always spelled like that, (parents are from Ireland) Given to light I am Irish, I've heard nothing but bad things about the brits.... It's common in Ireland and the U.S... Just stating. While I am an animal lover, I completely agree with the pet thing. My ma tried to tell me my dog was like my brother once... I told her to shag off. The only thing pretentious is your god awful attitude, and us Americans are PERFECTLY HAPPY not living in a social nanny state. I have an accent, it's mixed, but I don't mind when people compliment it. Turkey is good if you know how to prepare it, but i wouldn't want to make it a steady diet. How's this for over zealous patriotism? Kiss my American ass and get me a beer Marlene i love the brits but we some how are always doing wrong and they say we | OP | OP OB | 660,523 |
might be left with my hair but you'll have your mother's eyes I'll hold your body in my hands, be as gentle as I can But for now you're a scan of my unmade plans A small bump in four months you brought to life You're just a small bump, I know you'll grow into your skin With a smile like hers and a dimple beneath your chin Fingernails the size of a half grain of rice And eyelids closed to be soon open wide A small bump, in four months you'll open your eyes And I'll hold you tightly and tell you nothing but truth If you're not inside me, I'll put my future in you You are my one and only And you can wrap your fingers round my thumb And hold me tight You are my one and only And you can wrap your fingers round my thumb And hold me tight And you'll be alright Then you can lie with me, with your tiny feet When you're half asleep I'll leave you be Right in front of me, for a couple weeks So I can keep you safe 'Cos you were just a small bump unborn for four months, then torn from life Maybe you were needed up there but we're still unaware as why. This (Ed Sheeran 2011) This is the start of something beautiful This is the start of something new You are the one that will make me lose it all You are | LY | LY SL | 83,871 |
right. How are these kids supposed to deal with REAL life if they can't discuss REAL problems in school? Some of them get nothing from home. Where are they going to learn about sex, drugs, etc -- from their VERY WELL INFORMED FRIENDS AND UPPER CLASSMEN? Seriously? Let's not educate, so these kids can grow up to be totally ignorant and yes, stupid. jeff miller I grew up in public schools not far from N.Y.C..in Pa. We never thought that words on a test where anything but that. We had just ended the Vietnam War. Life was tough with economic depression, drunk parents, race riots, bullying and everything else. We did not have time to worry about this. Growing up was difficult enough. Being a non-christian the "Pledge of Allegience was difficult but I survived and am fine. Children learn to survive better than adults give them credit for and to hide things from them just makes them less capable to cope. This project is not good. ttp://johnmanjaybee.wordpress.com Prince of Peeps Somewhere a village is missing their idiot. Please fire whomever came up with this crap and send them home. Mrilyn I think people in the world have gone completely crazy. So glad my Children are grown, I do feel sorry for my grandchildren. Hope NYC doesn't rub off on Missouri. Perdurabo0 The scientific definition of theory is not the same as the common use of the word. A scientific theory is a VERIFIED hypothesis. d This is a joke | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 725,376 |
Tire Swing lyrics Kimya Dawson Tire Swing lyrics I took the Polaroid down in my room I'm pretty sure you have a new girlfriend It's not as if I don't like you It just makes me sad whenever I see it 'cause I like to be gone most of the time And you like to be home most of the time If I stay in one place I lose my mind I'm a pretty impossible lady to be with Joey never met a bike that he didn't wanna ride And I never met a Toby that I didn't like Scotty liked all of the books that I recommended Even if he didn't I wouldn't be offended [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/k/kimya\\... ] I had a dream that I had to drive to Madison To deliver a painting for some silly reason I took a wrong turn and ended up in Michigan Paul Baribeau took me to the giant tire swing Gave me a push and he started singing I sang along while I was swinging The sound of our voices made us forget everything That had ever hurt our feelings Joey never met a bike that he didn't wanna ride And I never met a Toby that I didn't like Scotty liked all of the books that I recommended Even if he didn't I wouldn't be offended '?wouldn't be offended Now I'm home for less than twenty-four hours That's hardly time to take a shower Hug my family and take your | LY | LY SL | 562,748 |
world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace -- the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living -- the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women -- not merely peace in our time but peace in all time. I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age where great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age where a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by all the allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn. Today the expenditure of billions of dollars every year on weapons acquired for the purpose of making sure we never need them is essential to the keeping of peace. But surely the acquisition of such idle stockpiles -- which can only destroy and never create -- is not the only, much less the most efficient, means of assuring | SP | SP TA | 735,671 |
the Jacuzzi, a quick blast in the steam room and a brief swim I felt fantastic and ready for not only golf the next day but the evening ahead. Along with Celtic Manor, this was the best spa I have been to. A great addition to a weekend golf break! She Says: There is a good range of facilities and the treatments are wonderful, but my favourite part is the fact that thanks to a glass partition by the pool you can have your lunch in your robe if you don't want to change which means you can really relax and have a proper spa experience. Again, in the summer you can also eat outside which is lovely provided the weather behaves! How was the golf course? He Says: It is certainly not the longest golf course but the layout provides a number of entertaining challenges that will appeal to a range of golfers. Our group included players ranging from a guy off plus two to a guy struggling off 23 and everyone enjoyed the course which says a lot. The best holes are towards the end of the course and while it is not a mind blowing golfing experience it is an enjoyable parkland test that is ideal for a leisurely weekend break. The Bid Dipper is a great hole! She Says: The view is all about the golf course and a number of the hotel rooms have terraces as well, so you have a sense of being in | SP | SP IT | 3,027,800 |
passed. When a new database partition is created, Websense software automatically configures reporting tools to use the new partition. NOTE If the rollover begins during a busy part of the day, performance may slow during the rollover process. To avoid this possibility, some environments choose to set the automatic rollover to a long time period or large maximum size. Then, they perform regular manual rollovers to prevent the automatic rollover from occurring. Click Save Now to implement the change. Under Maintenance Configuration, you can specify that older database partitions be deleted after a certain period of time. Mark the Automatically delete partitions... check box, and then specify how old (in days) the newest record in the partition must be to trigger the deletion. The default value is 365 days. Click Save Now to implement the change. How to reduce size of the Websense Log Database At times, you may see the transaction logs (.ldf) grow unexpectedly, filling up a server's hard drive and resulting in an out of disk space error: Notes & Warnings For version 7.6, the default directory for 'new' installs is C:\Program Files\Websense\Web Security\ (32-bit machines) or C:\Program Files (x86)\Websense\Web Security\ (64 bit machines). The directory for upgrades to v7.6 is C:\Program Files\Websense\ . If you see the actual database partition size on the SQL server is larger than the partition rollover set in the TRITON Web Security Log database settings than enable auto re-indexing in the log database settings. The above procedures can be done to | HI | HI HT | 797,465 |
Samuel Muston The 10 Best mulled drinks A glass of something spicy -- whether it's boozy or soft -- will get you in the mood for winter. Just add a roaring fire... | OP | OP RV | 238,351 |
will, left to mop up the mess and told to keep your stupid little mouth shut. http://cardsforjustice.wordpress.com/ But they never mentioned his name on newsnightvor the BBC did they? SM never officially said it either, so no matter how many times they went over it it wouldn't have changed things, especially if it WAS him and SM was got to in the last minute So again, it's down to the police, who named him to SM and have been silent about this since, I've not read that in the MEM either. X LNH They didn't mention him but apparently they revealed enough for those who know anything about him and the political scene to know who they meant. They might have been able to brazen it out but for Steve Messham making his statement - he shouldn't really have done that and must have only done so when leaned on, I think. Or bought off, possibly. The fact is, Lord McAlpine's name wouldn't have ended up all over Twitter if Newsnight hadn't launched their ridiculous and inept investigation against him. Thus, it's all their doing, IMHO. But no one has yet asked why he wasn't devastated, shocked, and seeing legal recourse during the almost 20 years that similar allegations were doing the rounds. I still think he's potentially "self libelled" himself. His name only "officially" came out because he allowed it to when he issued a statement to the press denying everything and confirming once and for all that it | ID | ID DF | 292,590 |
in the works. On June 5-6, 2012, Venus swings to inferior conjunction and sufficiently close to its descending node to present the last transit of Venus until December 11, 2117. Bottom line: Here's everything you need to know about the last transit of Venus in this century on June 5-6, 2012. The exact date will depend on your hemisphere on Earth. During the transit, Venus will appear in silhouette as a small, dark dot moving in front of the solar disk. The next transit of Venus won't be until December 11, 2117. This post has times of the transit, and links to tips for safe viewing and more. Lol I dont know what 'nibiru' is but venus is wonderful...the planet of the goddess of love & beauty!! And values along with your personal money, but because it is crossing the Sun 'planet of leo the creative one, the lover, fun & joy, actually its in conjunction so it will affect everyone differently. it really depends on the placement of venus in your chart...Overall its a beautiful energy!! : ) loving it so enjoy!! [...] A Mayan Talisman for Venus Transit over the Sun. Today! one of the rarest Astronomical/Astrological events of our time! Venus will transit the face of the Sun, physically appearing inside its flames! This is the last time we will witness this event in our current life time, next time it will happen will be on 2117!! Me and astrologer Michael ofek, have decided to make two | IN | IN | 241,774 |
same two cowboys with no jobs to go to join the police force "you wanna know where Broad Street is? well, what for at this time?" oh god only knows the installation of this ignorance the soap shy jokes jokes oh god only knows the reasoning of this ignorance nothing but trouble imperialist cowboys ordinary and remarkably unhealthy shout in given accents bigoted claptrap, Radio One speak of smells and uses and hair color and sporting miracles all the cause for the cowboys to think twice in one day minds occupied by don't start that lying down blocking my way I understand the dream of safety have common sense as regards the future that of rearing children, et cetera but in this fib of peace time, "to be ok pal, protest and survive" patronize time, entertain the mind with video games, but there's your reason a progression, the one step too many so come the day all nations agree to get Paul Daniels on the job worldwide disarmament is a meanwhile relief reconstruction no problem, we have the technology don't begin to call me paranoid I'm smiling now at a speck on the horizon have common sense as regards interaction and of course I love my mother but in this fib of peace time with a told need to protect and survive that in itself says we've come too far we're careless of consequence and of others feelings just rocking and a reeling, can't sit still but come the day | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
Excuse me? Excuse me, yes? Is that the way you look? Is that the way you look? Is that the way you look? Is that really the way that you look now? Oh darling, darling, is that the way you look? Is that really your eyes, is that really your hair? Is that really the way you walk on by, are those the clothes you wear? Oh darling, darling, is that the way you look? Woh, baby, oh baby. Woh, baby, baby, baby, I got the question for you Woh, baby, oh baby. Woh, baby, baby, baby, tell me now is it true? Is that the way you look? No, no I mean is that the way you really look? Is that the way you look, is that the way you look? Baby, maybe I'm dreaming, but I'll be bound- whoever wakes me up, I'm going to knock him down. Oh darling, darling, is that the way you look? Well I rubbed my eyes and I pinched my leg. And I asked my friend and I shook my head, But baby, is that the way you look? | LY | LY SL | 182,648 |
Poema - Feel the same way lyrics There's something in the way you say my name That makes me sure that The feelings that you're feeling are the same As the ones that I have for you I adore you The times we spend together never last As long as I'd like And everyday the sun goes down too fast Sit here for as much time as you can get You and me watching the sunset 'Cause every time I see your face My heart leaps and I melt inside And every time you talk to me I have a hard time seeing past those eyes And all I want is for you to say "Darling, I feel the same way as you" There's times when you don't feel like talking on the phone But still you listen and You walk me to my door when you take me home You lean closer and then you kiss me And say that 'til tomorrow you'll miss me 'Cause every time I see your face My heart leaps and I melt inside And every time you talk to me I have a hard time seeing past those eyes And all I want is for you to say "Darling, I feel the same way as you" Sit here for as much time as you can get You and me watching the sunset It can't get much better than this 'Cause every time I see your face My heart leaps and I melt inside | LY | LY SL | 748,314 |
fair. I often hear from suppliers that wedding fairs don't work. A wedding fair is just an oppourtunity, much like a job interview, and is what you make of it so make the most of it! 29 comments, so far... We had so much fun doing the Alternative Wedding Fair! I just wanted to mention that it was equally great to meet other fantastic industry folk there as well! Heidi organised a get-together for the exhibitors the night before and we all had a nosh and a gab and it was so great to go into the fair the next day already seeing friendly faces. The cut outs in the pics that we used on the day at the Alternative Wedding Fair were so popular with our brides and grooms that Matt has made many more of them and we offer them as part of a photo booth service to our clients. (We call them Cutout Capers). People love a good cut-out! A good post, Kat -- and I do agree with you about wedding fairs generally. I'd like to add something to your advice (which is really good, as a supplier I think it's really useful). Your first paragraph includes "Often they simply sit at their stands with a 'take it or leave it attitude' or they'll just thrust leaflets and samples at me like they're going out of fashion. This is both annoying as hell and a little bit terriflying." I think there's a lot to be said | HI | HI HT | 608,410 |
How to create a CV: Part Two: Education and Work Experience Two key sections of your CV are your education and work experience. If you don't get these right then your CV will go in the bin immediately. This article will help you to write these sections and sell yourself effectively. General rules: A CV should not contain details about everything you have ever done. Think about what is relevant for THIS job. For example, if you have many degrees and postgraduate qualifications and the job for which you are applying is very senior, there is no need to include details of your O Levels or GCSEs. When writing your employment history only include jobs that will be relevant, either in terms of skills, knowledge or experience to the job your are currently applying for. Do not have large gaps in your employment history. If there are months or years where you were without a job then make the reason clear on your CV. No need to go into detail about your circumstances; interviewers will question you about this further if necessary. List both education and employment achievements with the most recent first. This is because your recent attainments are likely to be more relevant and you will impress the employer more by doing this. Try not to write long sections of prose. Stick to bullet points. Interviewers will ask you to elaborate; you don't have to say everything on your CV. Education: List your qualifications in order of the | HI | HI HT | 700,411 |
it to the connecting wire. That was the job of the salt water, the other plate and the connecting wires above. One way of doing this is to press a metal mesh against the cuprous oxide (see diagram below.) Some sunlight will get through the holes in the mesh to the cuprous oxide and cause the electrons to move to the surface to the mesh. The mesh is conductive and will carry the electrons to the connecting wire. This will be less efficient though, since you are blocking some of the cuprous oxide with the mesh. Also, you will pick up only the electrons from the cuprous oxide that are near the mesh wires. Another possible way is to use a glass that has a transparent, electrically conductive coating and press this conductive side against the cuprous oxide (see diagram below.) Since the glass and its coating are both transparent, the sunlight will not be blocked. The coating may still cause some loss in transmission of sunlight, but it will still be better than the mesh approach. An example of this glass is the tin dioxide coated glass used in modern flat LCD computer screens. I haven't tried this method myself but if you do, please let me know how it works out. If you take a picture or video then I will include it here. | HI | HI HT | 76,697 |
Bruins Nation, a UCLA Bruins community Bruins Nation Community "A lot of people talk about the offensive line and there are worries and all this stuff, and yeah, I take that personally knowing that people are doubting our unit," he said. "The offensive line wants to be strong. We want to be the power of the team, but we're going to work on it and I'd love to get there. I think we can, we have the potential. | OP | OP OO | 3,229,230 |
The Value of X ( 2003 ) (A book in the John Rickey and Gary 'G-man' Stubbs series) A novel by Poppy Z Brite New Orleans native Brite has a number of horror novels to her credit and is a minor cult figure in goth kid circles (she is also the author of Courtney Love: The Real Story). Her latest novel is a rose-tinted gay coming-of-age story set on the mean streets of New Orleans' rundown Lower Ninth Ward. The son of hardworking blue-collar Catholic parents, 16-year-old Gary Stubbs is growing increasingly troubled by his sexual feelings for John Rickey, his best friend since childhood. Rickey, living with his divorced mom, takes the realization that he himself is gay in stride, but he is afraid his feelings are not reciprocated by Gary... Brite's novel is clumsy feel-good pulp, but its artless sweetness is a welcome respite from more jaded gay genre fiction. | IN | IN DT | 597,561 |
schools for electrical engineering to do stuff related to music or audio it was not considered a worthy academic pursuit. Thankfully, that has changed now. At the time, the emphasis was on physical modeling of musical acoustics at CCRMA. I was into audio processing devices, speakers, and microphones. All of the other students were doing physical modeling of musical acoustics. I thought - why can't you do physical modeling of audio effects processing? It made me want to do the kind of emulations we do here at UA. How did the first UA plug-ins came about? Back '95 or '96, I was talking to my friend Dave Berners at CCRMA. I had brought along schematics of the LA-2A, and some other compressors, like the DBX 160 . We ended up talking about using physical modeling to simulate the characteristics and essence of these devices. This kicked off an ongoing discussion starting at Stanford in the mid-90s up until 2000. At this point time, the UAD-1 was on the drawing board and we needed to come up with the first set of plugs that would come out and make the UAD a viable product. So we started with the 1176, the LA2A, and a couple channel strips and other more generic stuff. We felt that magnetics were going to be one of the harder things to model on the digital side so one of the first things we did was put a transformer model together. We found my father's notes on | SP | SP IT | 184,806 |
is masculine and strong, and according to the might of his strength he draws it back with a rein, and in like manner it is driven forward and disperses amid all the mountains of the earth. And the spirit of the hoar-frost is his own angel, and the spirit of the hail is a good angel. And the spirit of the snow has forsaken his chambers on account of his strength -There is a special spirit therein, and that which ascends from it is like smoke, and its name is frost. And the spirit of the mist is not united with them in their chambers, but it has a special chamber; for its course is glorious both in light and in darkness, and in winter and in summer, and in its chamber is an angel. And the spirit of the dew has its dwelling at the ends of the heaven, and is connected with the chambers of the rain, and its course is in winter and summer: and its clouds and the clouds of the mist are connected, and the one gives to the other. And when the spirit of the rain goes forth from its chamber, the angels come and open the chamber and lead it out, and when it is diffused over the whole earth it unites with the water on the earth. And whensoever it unites with the water on the earth... For the waters are for those who dwell on the earth; for they are nourishment | OP | OP RS | 1,756,222 |
long, before serving out the set. There was real power and purpose to Djokovic's game now and he pounced on a rare loose service game from Murray to break for a 2-1 lead in the decider. | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 64,782 |
WELCOME TO THE DRAYTON BIRD BLOG - Commonsense about marketing, business and life Leave now if easily shocked or politically correct. Otherwise, please leave your comments. Statements such as "brilliant", "hugely perceptive", "what a splendid man" and "can I buy you dinner at the restaurant of your choice" are all greeted with glee. If you like, I'll e-mail you each new dollop of drivel when I publish it. Just click here to subscribe. If you want to succeed faster, get my 101 helpful marketing ideas, one every 3 days. People love them - maybe because they're free. Go to www.draytonbirdcommonsense.com and register. You also a get a free copy of the best marketing book ever written Tuesday, 31 May 2011 My partner often accuses me of writing the copy then looking at the brief. She is right. It's amazing that I ever produce anything that works. A good example has come up in the last week. A lady asked me to write a piece for a fundraising magazine. I normally write for money, but as it was fundraising I did it for nothing. This was a mistake, as the publishers are very wealthy. But anyhow, what I gave them was not what they really wanted. They wanted a "toolkit" -whatever that is. I think it's a "how to" piece. What they got was this. It may not suit them, but it might suit you. My title was What makes a good newsletter? Lessons I learned the hard way and it | IN | IN | 450,962 |
assembles this wholly original text, full of children talking, mystical insight, the history of cosmetics, sublime etymologies, and big mirrors that someone attached to the sides of the NYC sanitation trucks. Look out. Here comes the aquarium." -- Coleman Barks, author of A Year with Rumi "Subtle and complex, these more-than-clever gems become addictive once you begin reading." -- Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle "The Qualities are wise and express truth in a personal way." -- Jean Bolen, author of Goddesses in Every Woman "The very act of reading Notes on the Need for Beauty will change the way you see things. It will awaken you to notice beauty, to make beauty, to remember beauty. And this is a cause for celebration." -- Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom "Through Gendler's work, you see beauty in an entirely new way." -- Valerie Geller, Creating Powerful Radio , international radio consultant "Who does not have a thirst for more beauty in their life? Who has provided themselves with the necessary time to savor the beauty that already surrounds them. Ruth Gendler's book, Notes on the Need for Beauty , is studded with wise counsel and crafted prose coaxing us gently, to turn from our current ways to better witness and so be nourished by the infinite beauties of the world--just as it is." -- Peter London, author of No More Second Hand Art About the Author J. Ruth Gendler is an artist, writer, and teacher. She is the | IP | IP DS | 149,836 |
and narrative approaches for research or therapeutic work through a process of self study. Course work will involve class discussions of narrative writings and a major personal project. Students will undertake an indepth self-exploration through personal narrative combined with intensive imagination, art work, or meditative practice. The final report will include reflection on the personal change process experience. . . AEC3131 H Special Topics in Adult Education: Bell Hooks and Adult Education This course is a systematic reading of the major works by black feminist scholar and pedagogue, Bell Hooks. While Bell Hooks' extensive publications are well read by feminist and black scholars and students, they are not usually examined from the perspective of adult education. Through the lens of transformative learning, a sub-field in adult education, this course reviews five to six of Bell Hooks' major books and examine their pedagogical implications for adult educators. AEC3131 H Special Topics in Adult Education: Personal Values and Organizational Transformation The integration of personal values is a key component in the process of change. Students will have the opportunity to explore the nature of personal values and their relationship to institutional development and transformation. Course work will include the analysis of students' practicum experiences. . AEC3131 H Special Topic in Adult Education: Indigenous Research Methodologies Can research contribute to strong indigenous communities? This course will provide an overview of indigenous methodologies and an introduction to planning research projects that are relevant, respectful, responsible and reciprocal to indigenous people and communities. Students will | IN | IN DT | 88,808 |
First, a note of caution. To slice up fiction into categories such as "plot", "voice", "point of view" or "character" is to risk presenting it in a way that neither writer nor reader normally experiences it. The suggestion might seem to be that the writing of a story or a novel is a strongly segmented or layered activity, something orderly, dry and technical. But stories, when they come, come in organic gobs, as though gouged out of the living fabric of world -- character tangled with plot, plot with setting, setting with scraps of language embedded and so on. But laying that aside, that large proviso, there are a few remarks that might be usefully attempted under the heading of "character". First off (and at the risk of being punched in the face by some follower of the nouveau roman school), let it be loudly asserted that character, strong characters, are at the heart of all great literature and always will be. Plot, even in detective fiction, is a very secondary matter. Not many readers could outline the plot of The Sign of the Four but no one has any difficulty bringing Holmes and Watson to mind. A writer who does not create convincing characters will fail. A writer who creates thrilling, troubling, seductive, insistent characters need not worry too much about any other aspect of writing. You do not need to know how to spell. You do not need to know much about grammar. You do not even need | HI | HI HT | 613,982 |
resentment. The writer of Hebrews has something pertinent to say about this. " See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many " (12:15). Harbouring grudges only causes troubles and defilement. These are only too obvious in this present world. The antidote is an abundant supply of grace. Like a weedkiller, it goes to the root of bitterness and destroys its power. It is our responsibility to see that we don't fall short of it. One of the great stories of forgiveness in the Bible is that of Joseph's forgiveness of his brothers, in Genesis 37, 42-47 and 50. Terry Virgo, in God's Lavish Grace , [1] says of this story: No Egyptians were in danger of hearing from Joseph how wickedly his brothers had treated him. He gave them such honour and received them with such evident and unmixed joy that no suspicions arose. He had obtained grace and God's grace was sufficient for him. Before moving on, I would like to share two real-life stories that illustrate how our sharing of undeserved grace can impact people's lives. The first is told in The Human Journey by Bruce Wilson concerning a small aboriginal schoolboy who lived in the north of Australia. His white schoolteacher took out her racist feelings on him, constantly beating and berating him. One day he reached breaking point. Tearfully he ran from the classroom and crawled under the | OP | OP RS | 1,745,877 |
author, you've written about the gritty underside of the Regency period, taking risks by depicting characters normally shunned by respectable society -- prostitutes, for example -- with depth and compassion. What led you to write those kinds of stories? Diane: The dark, gritty side of the Regency really captures my imagination. There is something that captivates me about the contrast between the wealth and beauty and privilege of the aristocracy and the darker side of war, gambling, prostitution, poverty. I think there is more emotion and potential conflict in the darker sides of the Regency, as there always is in places of suffering. I also love to give characters who ordinarily wouldn't have a happy ever after their happy ever after. Pamela: How do you research those parts of Regency history and culture? Typically speaking, history favors recording the lives and actions of the powerful, not the marginalized. Is historical research something you enjoy? Diane: I am surprised how much I love the research! I've amassed a whole library of research books and I have become rather skilled at researching online. Information about the darker side of the Regency is harder to find, but there has been a great deal written about the Regency and a lot of primary sources still available, both in print and online. One of my favorite sources is the Annual Register , thanks to my friend, Kathryn Caskie who found two shabby sets of the books for the years 1810 to 1820 and sold one | SP | SP IT | 135,556 |
back to TV, because between Get Smart and Show of Shows , I was fine. I didn't need this movie business. I thought I've had enough because they don't get me." In the end, Brooks persevered and continued to make movies -- from send-ups such as Spaceballs and the fart-filled Blazing Saddles , to more serious fare that doesn't even bear his name for fear of alienating the audience. "I am an artist!" says Brooks in answer to a query about his comfort level with the term. "I was always an artist. I am a great artist, a profoundly talented artist," he says, chuckling with a sweet dollop of self-effacement. "But I did have to jump back from my own name when I was producing movies such as Frances , the movie about Frances Farmer (starring Jessica Lange) and The Elephant Man , or The Fly with Jeff Goldblum, or My Favorite Year with Peter O'Toole. I produced all of those movies, but my name is not on them because the Pavlovian response would have been: 'Oh, The Elephant Man -- that sounds funny!'" Brooks doesn't mind hidden chapters of his creative output. He says it keeps things Kosher -- comedy and drama served on separate plates. "I had a long talk with John Hurt about it and he said they should all go to hell, and that I should write and direct the picture ( Elephant Man ). But I found a director, a pretty talented guy named David | IN | IN DP | 155,388 |
and the global environment and where individuals and enterprise interact with each other, just like nature. She aims to work with communities, public bodies, private companies and other Social Enterprise Companies and the Voluntary Sector organisations to deliver projects and programmes that bring abut concurrent social economics and environmental benefits. Westmill Solar Co-operative owns and operates the first community owned solar farm in the UK -- hopefully of many to follow -- and we believe we are the largest community owned solar project in the world. We have brought shares, and fullly support Westmill Solar Co-operative The solar farm is rated at 5MW, located on the Oxfordshire/Wiltshire [...] We know things are changing -- faster than we would like. Climate change, peak oil, resource depletion, population growth, technology changes economic booms and bust, all contribute to a less than certain age. Many of these challenges seem beyond our control. However, the way we think about them and how we react as individuals, groups, organizations [...] Our Services The aims of the Pilgrim Centre project are to: 1. Provide a research library, museum, small astronomic observatory, meditation room, small bookshop, cafe sitting room and large central circular space for gatherings ceremonies & Celebrations. 2. To provide simple floor accommodation where the spiritual & research pilgrims to Stonehenge & its wealth of surrounding [...] We EAPP believe localisation of energy production can be made economically feasible by building low-cost Biogas Plants to my designs. Small- an medium-scale Biogas Plants have been developed | HI | HI HT | 3,695,526 |
Turning Tables Lyrics Adele Close enough to start a war All that I have is on the floor God only knows what we're fighting for All that I say, you always say more I can't keep up with your turning tables Under your thumb, I can't breathe So I won't let you close enough to hurt me No, I won't ask you, you to just desert me I can't give you what you think you gave me It's time to say goodbye to turning tables, to turning tables Under haunted skies I see Where love is lost, your ghost is found I've braved a hundred storms to leave you As hard as you try, no, I will never be knocked down I can't keep up with your turning tables Under your thumb, I can't breathe So I won't let you close enough to hurt me, no I won't ask you, you to just desert me I can't give you what you think you gave me It's time to say goodbye to turning tables, turning tables Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior When the thumb that cost me Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior Standing on my own two feet I won't let you close enough to hurt me, no I won't ask you, you to just desert me I can't give you what you think you gave me It's time to say goodbye to turning tables, to turning tables Turning tables, yeah, | LY | LY SL | 30,449 |
did a U-TURN and published incorrect information regarding aspartame! WHY we must ask? In view of the undeniable mountain of evidence against aspartame, it is beyond our comprehension how the Daily Mail could print such sludge. If this were not such a serious matter, one would find what they have printed laughable. However, it can never ERASE the truth. The perpetrators of aspartame have infinite support for their heinous crimes against the public and continually present false information through the media. This stance is maintained by beings that are within the corridors of power. Read John Swintons address to the Free Press from 1880 in News Not In The News There is no longer an online petition website for Diane because it was ineffective. Names of petioners were collected sometime ago and given to the Prison Governor, who to date has made no response. If you can think of anyway to help Diane, we implore you to do so. Follow the links in this article, do whatever additional research you feel is necessary and help us to obtain a release for Diane. By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. more information Accept The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this. | IP | IP PA | 45,107 |
blue as your background layer. Set the size at 24pt. Type out the different buttons for your site. For our clothing site, we will choose Home, Men, Women, and Clearance. Space them equally apart. Next, download this leather texture from here . Place it in your document and lower the size until it is around 2/5 the width of your content area. Next, select the Type Tool again and create some sales promo text. Stack it on top of each other. Then, double-click the text layer to bring up the layer styles options. Choose Bevel & Emboss. Select Inner Bevel and set the depth to 100%. Set the direction to down and the size to 5px. Next, select Inner Shadow and set the distance and size to 5px. Hit OK. Then, on the type layer, lower the Fill to 5%. Download the jeans model image from here . Place it within the canvas so that her entire body fits nicely within the vertical space provided. Move the leather and the model layers just above the white content layer and clip them to it by Alt/Option-clicking between the layers. Next, our menu needs some help. Download the jeans tag image from here . Place it within the image. Use the Quick Selection Tool to select the white areas. Click Refine Edge and choose Smart Radius. Set the value to around 8-10%. Click ok. Then, hit Command/Ctrl + T to transform the tag and scale it to be the same width as | HI | HI HT | 3,242,280 |
and then use that URL to add the link. Or maybe that happens when people remove the access to the original image so it can't happen again? The reality is that if somebody has the "no pin" code installed and somebody pins an image from that site they should have no problem having it removed from Pinterest if they serve the relevant notice. Overnight Flickr has announced their updates blocks Pinterest pins of copyrighted images on their site. http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-medi\\... To Grandpa Jerry - Maybe you don't earn your living from your images, and so want to share them with all and sundry? But those of us who earn our keep from the publication and other sales of our images are not keen to have them stolen. Everybody's entitled to an opinion - so long as it expressed in a civil way The opinions I listen to are those by people who know what they're talking about and relate to the context I'm operating in. I don't have to agree with them. This blog is about visual art and issues which are of interest to visual artists and those who like art. That includes matters relating to art business and earning an income from what you create. It's generally agreed it's not a good idea to give it away for free - except in the context of some sort of marketing campaign. By and large those who think Pinterest is a good thing seem to be those who think people are | HI | HI HT | 1,424,197 |
the Prime Minister pointing out the repeated inaccuracies within his argument. The fourth pillar of the Protestant Reformation was ' Sola Fide ' - by faith alone. According to Martin Luther, justification by faith alone is the article on which any church stands or falls. In order for a sinner to be declared to be righteous before God the sinner needs the merit of Christ reckoned to their account. This fourth pillar deals with how this is done. How does the righteousness of Christ be reckoned to a sinner's account, thus removing their guilt and condemnation and declaring them to be righteous before a holy God? The Reformers at the time of the Reformation went back to primitive New Testament Christianity and said that this is done solely by faith alone, without any works on the part of the sinner who is being declared righteous. Thursday, 8 November 2012 This third pillar of the Protestant Reformation emphasies the meritorious basis upon which God's grace flows toward an undeserving sinner. The favour of God has to be purchased. The Reformers in holding this position sought to remove the claim of anything and anyone other than Christ as being the meritorious cause of salvation. I. It is through Christ alone that salvation is purchased for the sinner. There is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 1 Timothy 2:5 . As John Calvin said in the Institutes of the Christian Religion said: Christ stepped in, took the punishment upon | OP | OP RS | 310,755 |
being in the PATH. These dlls (usually libeay32 and ssleay32) are generally found in your base php directory, and the modern windows installers add the base php directory to the PATH so that you don't need to worry about it. However, if when installing earlier versions you decided on moving libeay32, ssleay32 et al to C:\Windows\System32 instead of changing the PATH, then php will still end up with the old versions and the out of date versions will cause the same error as above. Don't fall into the trap like I did. Installing PHP extensions for IIS for the first time is sort of a baptism by fire -- you will get your hands dirty, and other suitable metaphors of nastiness. Hopefully, you won't have to spend too many days googling around fora and restarting IIS 10 million times as I did until I finally realized both what was going on and what crazy things I'd done wrong. THIS (peter)guy really goes into terrific detail and troubleshooting, (with very good reasons and explanations of extension dependencies not listed on the current php page you're now reading): The main problem I'd been butting my head up against was extensions being reported as not found, even though the .DLLs were definitely in C:\PHP\ext, and my PATH env var was setup correctly. The error messaging during dynamic loading of implicitly-linked libraries should be more specific, telling you that in fact it is a particular dependency of a dependency which is missing -- usually | HI | HI HT | 423,989 |
the scene. It meant we had to buy new vehicles as our delivery weight now doubled overnight. They offered the best system, but plastics had arrived, and the bottle was being pushed aside by the 'throw away' brigade. The business made us a good living, but the constant seven day working week was too onerous. So after eight years we sold up, and looked for new careers. | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 1,794,557 |
Selling and Buying When you are a Seller and a Buyer How to take control of selling one home and buying another an extract from "REAL ESTATE MISTAKES -- How to avoid them, how to save your money, and live happily ever after." by Neil Jenman Most buyers one day become sellers. And most sellers buy again. This is why it is important to have systems where everyone wins - sellers and buyers. It is not much good winning as a buyer and then losing as a seller. The best situation is to win in all situations. Winning in real estate does not mean someone has to lose. It means doing the best for yourself without hurting someone else. The best agents do not have any losers - either sellers or buyers. The best agents get the best prices for the sellers and the best homes for the buyers. Do You Sell First or Buy First? If you want to sell your home and buy another, which comes first - selling or buying? There seem to be dangers whatever you choose. The advice you receive from agents is often the advice which is best for the agent. The agents will tell you to sell first if they are going to be the selling agent or, if you are thinking of buying from them, you may be told to buy first. If you sell first, you have nowhere to live. If you buy first, you may not be able to sell | HI | HI HT | 1,747,085 |
Who are you lying by my side? It's been seven years and oh the time flies by Where am I in this crazy life? I got lost among the things I am running from But I don't know who I am without you. Maybe there's a way out of this without hurting anyone Tell me how I start to tell him I have fallen out of love I once knew you with the whole of my heart Fingertips on skin in the dark Routine and moving, drifting apart The water is deep and the distance is far WHAT I'M MISSING I thought I was going steady I thought I had it under control I thought that I needed nothing And I knew everything I wanted to know But then you, you came along And I knew I had everything wrong And I know how I'm feeling when you're laying with me I need to say this so listen you are what I'm missing I know how I'm feeling when you're laying with me I need to say this so listen you are what I'm missing When you put your arms around me I can feel my whole world change Baby when you kiss me slowly Nothing even looks the same If I show you who I really am will you Do 'most everything you possibly can will you Love me with your soul heart and more No second guessing you have got to be sure Cause baby I'm not asking | LY | LY SL | 213,441 |
a combination of today's photography equipment and the newer trend of smiling for personal portraits that most of what we see now are smiling portraits. I'm glad others commented on this too because I was wondering if I'm the only one who noticed this. ttp://www.peggywiltzphotography.com Peggy My comment is in reference to the comments below on the facial expressions. I am a photographer and I agree that it was easier to hold a straight face as opposed to a smile because of the long exposure of that type of photography. You can tell even when they are not looking at the camera they are standing still because of the water running in some of them. It is flowing and they are still, not caught in action like we can do today. They would be very blurred if they were moving like the water. But I have seen some photographs of this time period where the people are smiling. If you look at the painted portraits before cameras, almost all are not smiling. The Mona Lisa is famous because she is 'almost' smiling. Today in my photography I am amazed at how many people just don't like to smile for a portrait. When I am doing a business head shot, most don't smile. I think it is a combination of today's photography equipment and the newer trend of smiling for personal portraits that most of what we see now are smiling portraits. I'm glad others commented on this too because I | NARRATIVE | NA HA | 712,801 |
to be the abuser. what is paedophilia you ask? i consider it to be coerced sexual activity with children, the stuff with savile seems to have involved a lot of coercion. i wouldn't consider a 15 year old and 17 year old in a relationship to be paedophile by nature. i think people like glitter should get a minimum life sentence without parole at the least. "1. Our sense of morality, i.e. paedophiles being a bad thing, is false because "it's the result of peer pressure from social workers Morality is a somewhat arbitrary and changeable rule set, and I think the loading was incited by vested interests. I am trying to assess what should be our normal thinking, becaause the present blacker-than-black or whiter-than-white emotive stuff is insane! "2. Because fear has such a negative effect we should stop exposing the "paedophiles in the elites No. Expose - and I think the David Icke website is doing a superb job on that. Also something came into view as I wrote my post - that the dragons are not fear, they are, whats the word, memes? They are constructs in our minds that we charge with energy. And what worries me about them is that those dragon demons can guide people to harm the innocent, going on personal experience. "3. We should feel sorry for the paedophiles because their actions are "obviously the product of childhood abuse The books say there are two causes - innate, and contagion of aberration | ID | ID DF | 153,981 |
was quite good at cross country and athletics and he picked me out. I'd seen rowing and through it'd be pretty cool. WR: Being from Picton (a small sea-side town), where would you train? JS: When I was a novice we would train on the harbour and get swamped all of the time by fishing boats. Then we started training on a nearby river, the Wairau River, about half an hour away. WR: You've called yourself the 'smallest heavyweight in the world'. What are your vital statistics? JS: I'm 182cm and 82kg. WR: Have you ever been pushed to become lightweight? JS: No, it's never been an option and I never wanted to, even at high school. I always rowed against the heavyweights. WR: Where do you think your strength in the sport lies? JS: I don't know! [Laughs] I'm a bit stubborn. People have always told me I'm too small and I like to prove people wrong. WR: Is there something that you can outdo your teammates in? JS: Not really. I'm the slowest in the team on the erg and I can't lift as much [weights]. WR: You're a similar height to Nathan [doubles partner, Nathan Cohen] how was it when you first started rowing with Nathan? JS: It was good getting in the boat with Nathan. We balance each other out. Where he's weak I'm strong. He's got a longer stroke and is more consistent through a race. I'm more a starter and a finisher. WR: Both | SP | SP IT | 1,796,268 |
far a persecution because of religion can be accepted here. It is difficult to see any connection with the religion of the women who are been maltreated. 2.4 Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main ? 9. Kammer [9] In a verdict of 1999 the 9th chamber of the Verwaltungsgericht Frankfurt am Main also affirms the political persecution of women from Cte d?Ivoire because of threatened genital mutilation. 10 However this decision is particularly interesting because the court applies the above described concept of political persecution as persecution by the state only on the right of political asylum in accordance with article 16a GG but not on the right of political asylum in accordance with the Geneva Convention (article 51 AuslG). Therefore it would be expected that the court would deal with the question of the substantial Convention ground in this decision. Unfortunately, this question is not addressed. The court affirms the asylum claim in accordance with the Convention alone because a life-threatening intervention threatens the plaintiff which she cannot escape in her own country. 2.5 Verwaltungsgericht Trier [10] Opposite to this jurisprudence the Verwaltungsgericht Trier denies that threatening genital mutilation in Nigeria is relevant persecution but mentions that the "Convention ground of membership of a particular social group" comes into consideration. 11 [11] The 10th senate of the HessVGH has inferred due to the fact that homosexual intercourse and the repetition of other homosexual practices in Iran are punished with death that homosexuals in Iran represent a social group according to the | IN | IN LT | 1,778,750 |
that you were beginning to ask the right questions. "To know what to ask is already to know half." (Durant summarizing Aristotle) Philosophy is the one great conversation in your past that echoes in every conversation since. When will that time come again? "All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare." (Durant summarizing Spinoza) That phenomenon of wonder will return when you open the "Story of Philosophy". A further taste of Durant's warming liquor: "Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement." "How many a debate would have been deflated into a paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms." "Political science does not make men, but must take them as they come from nature." "The chief condition of happiness, barring certain physical prerequisites, is the life of reason--the specific glory and power of man." Durant's approach is linear in time, but immense in breadth. Beginning with Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, we are not only granted access to their treasure chests of wisdom, we are also given insights into the men. Durant introduces the era before he introduces the philosopher, for humanity inspires humanity, and these giants have benefactors of their own. Durant considers history as important an aspect of philosophy as metaphysics, and here he shines with a polished historian's touch (see Will Durant - "Story of Civilization"). "Athens became a busy mart and port, the meeting place of many races of men and of diverse | IP | IP DS | 58,207 |
Monday, October 08, 2012 Wk.40- I Wish I Was in the Land of Vika Why has Backspin come to love Vika Azarenka more and more? Let me count the ways... One - Because fans in Beijing can play "Tic-Tac-Vika" with placards emblazoned with her face. How can that NOT be great? ============================= Two - Because of the athletic strut. It's so... so... well, "Vika." ============================= Three - Because of the hoodie and earphones... just because so many other people DON'T like it. ============================= Four - Because of the gone-but-not-forgotten white shorts, of course. No self-respecting Belarusian-born world #1 should ever put them away FOREVER, though... no matter how much swag the sponsors provide. I have faith that they will return! One day. Not that the normally-hideous black leggings with black skirt and black top that Vika was seen sporting in Beijing isn't something that she -- and maybe ONLY she -- can pull off without looking like a tennis fashion disaster, mostly because she always tends to give off an air that she just put on whatever clothes were strewn around her hotel room before heading off to the court. Because, come on, they're just going to get sweaty anyway, right? ============================= Five - Because, on Sunday, Azarenka's total dominance of Maria Sharapova in the Beijing final sort of made Tennis Channel commentator Lindsay Davenport sound more-than-silly for having noted that in "the WTA pecking order," first comes Serena Williams (no argument there), but that second came Azarenka's Stuttgart "bump-mate" | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 3,222,263 |
Hitchcock were rather grim, with his films making very few waves or receiving little critical success. By the mid-60s, with both Marnie (1964) and Torn Curtain (1966) proving rather unpopular with critics and audiences alike, Hitch turned his attentions to a film as dark as Psycho in its narrative, but far more experimental in its technical aspects. Kaleidoscope (which the director also considered calling Frenzy -- not to be confused with his 1972 film of the same name though!) was to bring the story of a serial rapist and killer to the screen. Envisioned as an almost prelude to Hitch's earlier film Shadow of a Doubt (1946, which was also his favourite project) this would have been an extremely dark film that was shot entirely from the killer's perspective. Conceiving the murderer as a vulnerable but attractive young man (who was also a closeted homosexual) the director believed that the 'everyman' image of his antagonist might prove a prospect too frightening for audiences! Whilst Kaleidoscope appeared to be a thoroughly planned project, MCA Studios who were backing the production decided to pull out on the basis of the fact that the protagonist was too ugly! This proved a major gripe with Hitchcock for the rest of his life, however MCA's decision was probably influenced more by the high risk nature of the project and the potentially financial loss that could come with the director's new style (including the use of hand-held cameras and natural light, mimicking the European wave of | OP | OP OB | 534,831 |
News and analysis of critical issues in homeland security November 9, 2012 In the twelve days since Sandy rolled up the Jersey shore and her winds tore across New York harbor people have died, families have lost their homes, and whole neighborhoods have been destroyed. The vulnerabilities of systems on which modern life depends -- especially power, communications, and fuel -- have been dramatically exposed. Mistakes have been made in responding to the crisis. There has been delay, confusion, and bad judgment. I have seen some of these problems up close and personal. I have made my own contributions. I have read of many more errors. Several examples have been sent to me by readers. I have also seen -- and heard reports of -- kindness, courage, and generosity. I have seen planning assumptions and preparedness exercises confirmed. I have seen professionals giving fully of their energy and intelligence to serve those in need. One night in New Jersey a huge caravan of enormous utility trucks passed me heading north. It occurred to me that the Interstate and Defense Highway System has never been needed to move tanks against an enemy, but it's sure helpful to move mutual aid... and food, pharma, and much more. At the very end of the caravan was a Red Cross ambulance with Texas plates. As traffic slowed, I read a sign on its side explaining it was a gift from the people of Kuwait to a community in Texas (Killeen maybe, I don't remember). | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 439,848 |
taxes payable in fiat currency are necessary for the public's acceptance of the same fiat currency for all other purposes? The account of the Lincoln era points to a moment in time when the USD became legal tender but I fail to see how its use for payment of taxes was more significant than its use for settlement of private debts. Alexander, what would constitute the proof of a theory. A theory is an explanation. theories are disconfirmed by counter-instances. There are no counter-instance disconfirming the state theory of money as far as I can see. Conversely, just because a theory has not been disconfirmed does not entail that it is confirmed. Only theories that don't fit the facts are ruled out. The various theories of money are attempts to explain a historical phenomenon in which controlled experiments are not possible and even facts are in dispute. It is possible that different explanations fit the facts. It is also possible that some combination of the present theories will turn out to be the optimal explanation, or that all of them will be disconfirmed and replaced by a better explanation. If economics were a hard science and the facts were agreed upon, then it might be possible to construct a theory that all experts would agree is optimal. That is just not the case, so you are barking up the wrong tree looking for a "proof" where one doesn't exist. The question is which explanation has the best rationale backing it | IP | IP DS | 266,529 |
AKS... You are right.. she has moved on, and I have to accept that. I talked to her last night, I sent her a desparate text telling her I needed to talk to her. And we talked, and I just said I am having a hard time understanding all of this, and that all I really want is to hear what she is feeling, to know what is going on in her heart.. and she is younger, and I dont think wants to commit to something like this right now... She was in a relationship when we started this, he lived there, and she went right from him to this, and she was saying that when she was with him, and unhappy for so long, she fantasized about dating, and being out there, free and open to experience new things... and I know that is where she is now, and I can't ask her not to explore that.. that would be insanely selfish on my part... it is all I want to do though, but that awould just make it worse... so, she has a huge mational meet coming up (she is a swimmer), and we are going to get together after she gets back and talk... share our feelings, because I do care about her, and I really do want to know where she is at... she is an amazing friend, and part of me does not want to lose that... plus, I think getting it all out would | ID | ID QA | 1,428,393 |
the polls and your singing a differant tune. i guess your off cnn/msnbc for now but fox will talk to ya. Pingback | 7.27.09 @ 2:25PM ...No name-calling or vulgar-language will be permitted. Obama Care the Obamanation Way Posted on July 27, 2009 by Quinn Hooks Here is the organizational chart for the proposed Obama health care program. Ben Stein has written about why Obama is in such a hurry to get his health care program passed. Filed under: News | Tagged: big government, health, health care, liberal, Obama, Politics Old Church... Bryan | 7.27.09 @ 2:28PM Race is beside the point when it comes to Obama's numbers. He is losing support in several states, including swing states like Ohio. His number won't be as high as 365 the next time out in the Electoral College (especially with the census coming up). He won in 2008 with 53% of the vote. If he loses just a few pecentage points, the other candidate will have to do very poorly for him to win re-election. Many people will continue to be disenchanted even if the economy eventually comes back within the next 2 years, giving him far less support in 2012. If he passes the heath care plan, that recovery won't happen. Any short-term bounce will be squandered by all the spending on that huge bureaucracy. Additionally, all this press about the "extinction of the GOP" is simply wishful thinking on the part of mass media types who want people to be | IP | IP | 186,900 |
'splain this for me: science question (Read 687 times) So, I am a halfling, and I frequently get comments like: "You have to run twice as far because your legs are so short!" I know this is not true. I am covering the same distance as everyone else. But explain to me what's different, if anything. Am I running more steps because I have a shorter stride? That doesn't mean I am working harder, does it? After all, I have less body to carry. Anyway, I was talking to a parent in our school's running club. He mentioned that his daughter (who recently did well at a 5k), was running so much more than her competition because she's so much smaller and has smaller legs. I wasn't sure how to respond. It seems to me that it would even out...say your legs were half as big as Slo-hand's, you would take twice as many steps with half of his stride length, but move half the bulk of leg that he has to move. For the record...I get beat all the time by people much shorter than me that run fewer miles than I do. sruiz, So if I understand the other parent was implying that taking more steps is equal to running more miles (if your short). I'd say flawed logic but running economy certainly has to come into play but I have no idea how. There is also the weight factor. I have more weight to throw and haul | ID | ID DF | 1,409,751 |
Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction. But over the long haul all that really matters is medical biotechnology: progress towards therapies that can repair and reverse the known root causes of aging. The sooner these treatments arrive, the more lives will be saved. Find out how to help Here is a framework for thinking about aging and longevity: various forms of low-level biological damage accrue as a result of the operation of metabolism, degrading organs and tissues and ultimately causing death. Where natural selection favors longer-lived individuals, mechanisms will evolve to repair, minimize, or resist the effects of this damage. So aging is driven by damage, but genetic programs interact with that damage, evolved to try to do something about it. In spite of exciting new insights into regulatory mechanisms that modulate the aging process, the proximal cause of aging remains one of the unsolved big problems in biology. An evolutionary analysis of aging provides a helpful theoretical framework by establishing boundary conditions on possible mechanisms of aging. The fundamental insight is that the force of natural selection diminishes with age. This does not preclude senescence (age-related decrease in individual fitness) from occurring in natural populations. Senescence can develop because some genes have non-separable, but typically different or opposite, functions in reproductive-age and in old individuals. Such genes, selected according to their "youthful" function, may thus impose a distinct senescent phenotype in old | IN | IN | 527,915 |
PIETER T - LYRICS PAGE - Life Love and Lessons Stay With Me Feat. The Truth Verse 1: Don't mean to get in your face, can i ask you where you been/ i only ask because your the woman i seen floating in my dreams/ didn't think you'd be real, but now i see it's you/ it's quite amazing really now i get to meet you/ i feel something different, don't get this everyday/ when looking at you my heart just seems to melt away/ you have that special talent, i can't describe in words/ you make it easy for me not to look at other girls/ Pre Chorus: Cause when i saw you i felt something in me explode inside/ but i have to say it didn't hurt it just felt good and i/ suspect it only happens when you are around me/ so what i'm asking you is will you please stay with me/ Chorus: stay, stay with me - i'll be everything that you desire/ i'll make sure you love me all the time/ i'll be yours if you just say your mine/ just stay with me babe, just stay with me/ its ok we only need each other/ we could be what they call perfect lovers/ long as its you know that i'm not bothered/ just stay with me babe, just stay with me/ Verse 2: don't wanna come off crazy, make you feel uneasy/ it's only me just talking if anything i won't be sleazy/ | LY | LY SL | 1,731,252 |
Lyrics i have heard so many talented singers sing,but no one beats celine dion.some of them may nearly sound like you but still your voice is nothing but unique and special.this song is one of my favourites. Good song | Reviewer: Music is life | 5/10/12 This song was not first recorded by Celine Dion. It was originally recorded by Roy Orbison, but was not released as a Orbison song until his death. Before it was released as a Orbison song, a legend by the name Cyndi Lauper recorded and released the song. Not trying to discredit Dion, but Credit should be given where it is due. And it's a wonderful song. Appreciation | Reviewer: Nkwegu sunday | 5/8/12 I say kudos to celine dion and the producer who made this album a reality. I drove all night is one of the best track by ceiline dion coz,it introduces one into the world of love. The music can help to perpetuate relationship. Iam madly in love with it. i love your song, your song is very touchable for my heart when i was listen to your song, especially when i was watching your movies(live song). I like it and i want to become your fan because i really like your song. celine Dion you are perfect, you make me see myself, when hear this song could see a new worl about love, i ask for god to give you along life. please coming to Africa. everybody want see you to | LY | LY SL | 556,313 |
of our Council OUT and getting responsible & trustworthy people in the seats that WILL really truly listen to the citizens of Hemet. Sending prayers that you get the answers you so desperately seek. Oakland North welcomes comments from our readers, but we ask users to keep all discussion civil and on-topic. Comments post automatically without review from our staff, but we reserve the right to delete material that is libelous, a personal attack, or spam. We request that commenters consistently use the same login name. Comments from the same user posted under multiple aliases may be deleted. Oakland North assumes no liability for comments posted to the site and no endorsement is implied; commenters are solely responsible for their own content. For concerns about comments posted to this site, please contact us at staff@oaklandnorth.net. Your email is never shared. Required fields are marked * Connect with Facebook Name * Email * Website Comment Search for: Election 2012: Complete Coverage Want to know who's running in Oakland, what the local issues are or get a good explanation of our state ballot measures? Check out our Election 2012 page! This Weekend in Oakland Looking for something fun to do? Community events and activities for the weekend of November 16-18, 2012. Advertisement Advertisement About Us Oakland North is a news project of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Our goals are to improve local coverage, innovate with digital media, and listen to you -- about the stories and features that most interest | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,196,306 |
sodium or the acetic acid that help relieve the cramp. But that's wrong. Instead, researchers theorize that ingesting these substances stimulates a reflex that originates in the region behind the oropharynx. This reflex inhibits the neurons that are causing the cramping muscles to contract and so the cramp releases. Now this isn't a proven theory but these researchers are definitely at a higher IQ grade than I am. Until someone comes up with a better explanation I'll go with it. The main point is that it isn't some nutritional component in the substance that causes the cramp to stop. This is pure speculation on my part but maybe there are other bitter tasting substances which could induce the same reaction by stimulation of the cramp inhibiting reflex. I can't see myself carrying around a bottle of pickle juice but maybe I'll pack some mustard packets for my next long race. 4. Hyperventilate One simple and easy method you can try to relieve a cramp is to take quick, deep breathes at a rate of 20 to 30 per minute. I have to caution this was a case study paper with only three subjects and they were testing this on exercise-related cramps that occurred several hours after exercise while sleeping. However one of the subjects did try this method at mile 67 of a 100-mile mountain bike ride and the cramps resolved within three minutes and didn't come back for the rest of the race. If you are doing this out | HI | HI HT | 442,180 |
name indicate that you have some accounting experience, yet you have difficulty accounting for the 15.3% of income that is paid as payroll taxes, leaving a range of 17.7% to 25.3% to be paid as income taxes. This is the percentage is paid by a "W2? earners with a salary range of $52k-$200k. Again, assigning a "W2? moniker to such a worker shows your disdain for the average American worker who apparently isn't smart enough to have investment income. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 8,734 |
OFFEND ON SOCIAL MEDIA MUNIRA MIRZA ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH ONLINE As prosecutors consider new guidelines on abusive tweeting, we have to act to protect freedom of speech, says London Deputy Mayor of Education and Culture Munira Mirza in the London Evening Standard . Until recently, optimists believed that social media would promote free expression. "With millions of messages texted, tweeted and emailed every day, we could reasonably expect the state to intervene only to prevent the gravest of transgressions" -- incitements to violence or terrorism. "That is how it should be in a mature democracy." Perversely, the opposite has happened. Hardly a month goes by without the arrest and even imprisonment of people who have expressed views deemed offensive to the majority in tweets or YouTube recordings. Even a bad joke can end in prosecution. But a free society has many ways of shaming or ignoring offenders. We don't need courts and authorities "to cover our ears as if we were children". FANTASY HISTORY IS FUN BUT DANGEROUS SIMON JENKINS ON HISTORICAL MYTHS The recent discovery of a papyrus fragment suggesting Jesus had a wife is certainly a good story, says Simon Jenkins in The Guardian , but was soon dismissed as no more than that. Then up pops Richard III's corpse in a Leicester car park to reopen "the oldest can of medieval worms". Was he a good king or a bad king? Did he kill children? Was the Leicester find, as some Ricardian apologists suggested, the apotheosis | OP | OP OB | 3,136,330 |
housing shortage. There may be other causes. There could be cultural factors. It may be that immigrant families are more accepting of providing a home for their married children. I don't know. The inclusion of civil partnerships as families will have a small effect as will other factors. But whatever the actual causes, the pace of increase is rapid and it provides yet more signs stress of caused by a lack of housing. I requested regional data from ONS and it was kindly and swiftly provided. The data is based on the Labour Market Survey and does tend to bounce about a bit when the sample size is reduced. So I used three-year averages for comparisons. The graphs show where multi-family households are more concentrated (middle graph) and the growth rates since the late 1990s (bottom graph). What is very clear is the relatively high proportion of multi-family households in London. The graph may well understate the true position, because there was a sharp rise in 2012. Using the 2012 data would put the number of multi-family households at about 25 households in each 1000. Looking at the growth rates in England at least there does seem to be a north-south divide. The increase in multi-family households is lowest in the northern regions and in the West Midlands. Meanwhile, Northern Ireland stands out as the only area to see a drop in the number of multi-family homes. This leads one to wonder whether this is down to a faster increase | IN | IN | 1,416,810 |
had got them. It would seem a little odd, to tell him the butcher had given them to her. Why should the butcher give her strawberries? Why strawberries? Why her? All things considered, it might be a bit awkward if he knew. Taken all round, it might be better for the strawberries simply to disappear. The best thing would be to burn the whole lot in the incinerator at home. They would make a bad smell, burning, but if she went home and did it quickly now, the smell would be gone by the time Hugh came home. She had got the knack of the incinerator now. You could be surprised, how often there was something that needed burning, what with one thing and another. Hugh might smell the smoke in his office at the bank, but he would never guess that it was coming from his own backyard. Burning was always the best idea. It tidied everything away marvellously. And ash could never create any kind of awkwardness. | NARRATIVE | NA SS | 328,164 |
Southwest Thailand , Aumnat Tongkaw , Trevor Wood-Harper In recent years there has been an increased emphasis on the use of technology to address developmental concerns throughout the world. The education sector has attracted a large part of this attention, which is centered on the use of information and communication technologies to address teaching, learning and administrative needs. Thailand has inappropriate ratio between schools and citizen and some part of Thailand also has a huge limitation about education resources. Especially, island schools are located very far away from the mainland.The Urak Lawai are indigenous people on the Adang Archipelago, India sea, South west Thailand.They are grouped together with the Moken and Moklen, sea gypsies or sea nomads. These people have distinctively different origins, cultures and languages. This paper explore multi perspective integrations of Information Communication Technology in island schools in developing countries. Data was collected by interviewing director of The Office of Satun Educational Service Area, master teacher, teachers, parents and students in island schools. The finding of study put in the context of the indigence for ICT in island schools as a utensil to reform as a entire. Outcomes of study are in the form of recommendations to assist processing implementations ICT of island schools environment in developing country. Bury the Archive: A Look into Analog and Digital Time Capsules , Sarah Toton This paper briefly examine two buried time capsules -- the 1939 and 1965 Westinghouse Capsule I and Capsule II -- and expands this notion of the | IN | IN RA | 547,165 |
merely a pretext and the real reason for the disciplinary proceedings was simply that Coulson wanted to "get shot" of him. In July 2006, Coulson wrote in an email to the deputy editor, Neil Wallis, that he wanted Driscoll "out as quickly and cheaply as possible". Driscoll, who joined the paper in 1997 and was promoted twice, was initially highly regarded, according to the tribunal ruling. That changed in August 2005 when Coulson turned against him for failing to stand up a tip that Arsenal were planning to play in purple shirts, a story that later appeared in sister paper, the Sun. The judgment singled out Coulson for making "bullying" remarks in an email to Driscoll after the first formal warning, letting him know that he thought he should have been sacked. According to the tribunal, the bullying continued after Driscoll went on sick leave. Senior management at the paper sent Driscoll a barrage of emails, phone calls and visited his home to demand that he see a company doctor, despite Driscoll's GP advising him to "distance" himself from the source of his stress. | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,454,881 |
Proponents of change insist that public opinion favours such a change. But public opinion probably would re-introduce capital punishment, too, and are we to suspend prudent judgement in that case too? And anyway, isn't the question, which is usually asked " do you want to die in dignity?" And who wouldn't answer yes to that? But to die with dignity we don't need doctors to kill us. Macmillan nurses, hospices, and palliative care give the overwhelming majority in Britain a dignified death which does not involve commissioning doctors and nurses as patient killers. When the physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient are met, requests for euthanasia are actually extremely rare. Rather than imitating the Dutch, we need to defend and care for the sick and elderly and put our energy into extending compassionate palliative care and hospice provision, and practical loving support -- let's demand " dignity in living" with the same fervour as those who want to license the routine killing of the most vulnerable in society. 'Helping someone to die' has come to mean helping to kill them, not asking them what help they need. Let me end by recalling a warning given at a parliamentary hearing by Dr Robert Twycross, Emeritus Clinical Reader in Palliative Medicine, Oxford University. He insisted that 'euthanasia must never become part of normal medical practice 'and that 'society must safeguard the right to life'. Dr Twycross said that 'if we kill voluntarily we will eventually offer involuntary euthanasia'. Euthanasia, then, | SP | SP FS | 3,016,428 |
Karlsson plans to head home The path is seemingly clear for Erik Karlsson to go back home to Sweden and receive the red carpet treatment, playing for as long as the National Hockey League lockout lasts. Karlsson wants to return to Frolunda, where he was a star for two seasons before going on to even greater fame here with the Ottawa Senators. Frolunda team officials want him there. The Senators no doubt want to see their 22-year-old Norris Trophy-winning defenceman playing in one of the world's top circuits until the squabble between NHL owners and players is resolved. And now that Sweden's competition authority has ruled that the Swedish Elite League's initial stance to not accept locked out NHL players is illegal, there are no hurdles keeping Karlsson from making the move. Except, of course, for the not-so-insignificant financial matter of insuring Karlsson, who signed a new seven-year, $45.5 million deal with the Senators in June. "They know I want to come home and I've been talking to them since the summer and now it's just a matter of getting a solution done and making it work for everyone," Karlsson said Friday following a workout at the Bell Sensplex. "I don't want to put them in debt or anything. I want to make them a better team if I come. I don't want it to be unfair for anyone." As is the case with Jason Spezza, who will leave Ottawa for Switzerland early next week and the start of a | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 641,380 |
did his dad, does this mean it only gets passed on through the males in my family or do i still have a chance if im a girl? Name: Kirsten Age: 15 Question: my dad has huntingtons disease and my grandad did and do did his dad, does this mean it only gets passed on through the males in my family or do i still have a chance if im a girl? Huntington's Disease is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. This means that each child of a person carrying the HD gene has a 1 in 2 or 50% chance of inheriting the gene. Men and women are equally likely to inherit the gene. The fact that your dad, grandfather & great grandfather all had HD is a fluke. That is, the women of the family have been lucky. You are at a 1 in 2 risk of inheriting the gene from your dad. So are your brothers & sisters. If you or one of your brothers & sisters has the gene all the otters are still at a 1 in 2 risk of inheriting the gene also. That is, the 1 in 2 risk applies to each child regardless of the gene status of other family members. My mother, elder brother and younger sister all had or have huntingtons. As I am 52 and show no signs can I presume I am free of the desease? The only way to be certain of your gene status and hence | ID | ID QA | 618,491 |
no God. Therefore, because I believe in a God, I am not an atheist, by definition. William Lane Craig addresses this statement here . The person who brought up the question curiously counters Craig by saying "That's semantics." Funny, considering that's what the atheists are doing: making up semantic word games. Redefine terms to win a debate: atheism at any cost. The Statement Is Irrational As I've argued elsewhere, the statement is simply irrational. The atheist is literally saying that the theist is an atheist: necessarily, for any human b , b is either theist ( T ) or ~ T . But Christians are T , therefore they are necessarily ~~T . In English, it is true that any human being is either an atheist or a theist. Christians are theists, therefore, they are necessarily not atheists. ( here ) But then what the atheist is saying is that the b who is T = ~T in regards to T`, T", etc. This is simply false, however, because the b who is T is necessarily ~~T . So the atheist is claiming that a contradiction is true. The Statement Proves Too Much Consider the following statement: there are a theoretically infinite number of possible answers to the equation "Two plus two," but only one actually true answer. To say that "Two plus two equals four" is to automatically make me an unbeliever in all the other possible answers. It's not rational, however, for the atheist to say, "Well I | OP | OP OB RS | 611,909 |
this 25-year setback. It placed a big judgment call on [the gay club scene]. Suddenly, there was a big, 'Oh, you had it coming.' I just started wondering where music was headed, where dance music would have headed, where all that would have gone. And Night Work is my hypothesis." The result is a noticeably harder and darker album than the family-friendly dancefloor euphoria associated with Scissor Sisters. It arrives wrapped in a sleeve featuring a taut pair of male buttocks, features a demonic Frankie-style voiceover from Sir Ian McKellen ("Did he nail it straightaway? Oh, yeah. You know what, even if he wouldn't have, what are you going to say? Sorry, you need to do that again?") and, in a metaphor you hardly need a degree in the semiotics of rock lyrics to decode, a song in which a serial killer stalks the dancefloor. With its fixation on clubland and hymning of a mythic, lost past, it's tempting to view Night Work as the product of a stadium-filling band pining for a time before the platinum records and Brits appearances, when they were famed only as a fixture in New York's more outr gay clubs, but Lynch looks a bit horrified at the suggestion: "Do I miss being a club band in New York? No! Fuck, no! We had a problem in New York that was very similar to the problems we had in America subsequently. The electroclash scene was going on, and we were a unicorn. It was | IN | IN DT | 71,189 |
Ha! 3. Bonny beat the Rooshins, 4. The Prooshians, and the Osstrians, 5. At the Battle of Marengo. 6. Bonny went to Moscow, 7. Moscow was o'foyre. 8. Bonny lost his army there, 9. Bonny retreated back again. 10. Bonny went to Elbow, 11. And soon he did come back again. 12. Bonny fought at Waterloo; 13. There he got his overthrow. 14. Bonny went a cruising, 15. In the Channel of Old England. 16. Bonny was taken prisoner, 17. On board the Bella-Ruffian {"Bellerophon") 18. Bonny was sent to St. Helena, 19. And never will come back again. Wae! Hae! Ha! [score] // // The following are both good capstan songs: HEAVE AWAY, MY JOHNNY. [score] As I was going out one day, Down by the Clarence Dock; Heave away my Johnny, Heave away... As I was going out one day, down by the Clarence Dock, Hand away, my jolly boys, we're all bound to go. 2. I overheard an emigrant conversing with Tap Scott I overheard an emigrant conversing with Tap Scott. 3. "Good-morning, Mr. Tap Scott." "Good morning, sir," said he. "Have you got any ships bound for New York, in the States of Amerikey?" 4. "Oh, yes! I have got packet-ships. I have got one or two, I've got the Josey Walker, besides the Kangaroo. 5. I've got the Josey Walker, and on Friday she will sail, With all four hundred emigrants, and a thousand bags o' mail." 6. Now I am in New York, and | ID | ID DF | 3,037,219 |
trying to go down with the ball, pops up, goes for a touchdown. There are things that are very uncharacteristic of us. We have a couple of miscues in the back end with coverage that leads to two touchdowns. It was just, it's so uncharacteristic that it doesn't happen, let's just put it that way. It doesn't happen and it actually did. On if he spoke to Woody Johnson after the game... Briefly. On if anything came out of their conversation... No. On if he's ever seen that many turnovers in such a short time in any football game at any level... I've never seen it. I can't recall ever seeing that. On where they have gone wrong... Again, I'm not going to say, well, it's this, it was that. It's been a certain number of things. It's just a number of things that, obviously, I never thought we'd be in this position, but we are. And I can't worry about it, we have to get better right now. We have to get better and that's why I'm confident we will. We have five games left in the regular season and I think that we will get better. I know we'll get better. On what gives him confidence... I saw us making strides up until this game. Even in this game, I think our offense is improving, I really believe that. I think we're running the ball more efficiently than we have. I think our protections are better. Obviously, it's | SP | SP TA | 1,407,512 |
cocktails may actually do more harm than good?Some AIDS treatment experts are now acknowledging that a part of the focus on early treatment may have been driven more by hype than solid science...? ? Matt Smith , SF Weekly Jan 3, 2001 ?47% (545 of 1160) of patients presented with clinical and 27% (194 of 712) with laboratory adverse events probably or definitely attributed to antiretroviral treatment. Among these, 9% (47 of 545) and 16% (30 of 194), respectively, were graded as serious or severe...? Lancet. 2001 Oct 20;358:1322-7 ? Fellay J , et al, Aids Researchers ??We?ve got to learn from what has happened here in the last 18 years and try not to repeat it, as we move into?Africa and Asia and India. I can?t overstate...how severe the problems are with the current therapies...People are dying from the effects of the therapies themselves in some cases...People are suffering from severe life-threatening complications of drugs. And a lot of them get to the point where they simply can?t use them anymore. So as we talk about bringing therapy to Africa, even if we can solve the problem and cost and infrastructure and delivery...are we doing the right thing with these drugs? Or are we unleashing another kind of epidemic over there of drug side effects as well?? ?[In this study on 55 healthy, uninfected, volunteers taking various combinations of the Protease Inhibitors Amprena | OP | OP | 551,758 |
layers of oil, how vulnerable the hairless human ear is to chill, the fragile pink fading to swollen grey, yellowish white. He sees a quarter-page photograph of himself in a ridiculous hospital gown, pillowed-up in bed, smiling faintly to his left; again the visor shoveling snow high against the wind, leaving only his door open a crack to keep the lock from freezing; back inside he flicks on the dome light and breaks The rearview mirror with pliers, close at the edge so it splinters, giving him three thin blades to strip the ceiling, allowing the tire's heat to come in; he slashes holes in the back seat, enough for feet and hands, another for shoes and socks; he waits until he warms, pleased with everything he's done. But he knows there must be more to do; he studies every inch of his room, trying for the extra touch that will give the newspaper boys a headline, a handle for a feature; he smiles and begins ripping, wielding the glass like a scalpel: Floor mats, lining, seat covers -- and fashions a suit of clothes: mittens and hat, scarf and shawl, pants, boots, all jammed full of seat stuffing, tied loose with seat belts and shoelaces; he will explain he was about to make a pair of snowglasses out of the back directional cups but they found him too soon. He dresses and goes outside, removing his hand-guards to feed the fire another slab of cardboard, recalling the way he | LY | LY PO | 337,812 |
sharply are we not at risk of loss? Let's keep in mind we need to pay our bills to others as well. Will they continue to accept our word that we are good for the invoice or should we not be showing evidence of solvency via a backing mechanism whether it be oil, corn or metals? Gold as a first order is proof to others that we can collateralize and meet our obligations when necessary. From this perspective it becomes easier to understand why China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and many others are in the process of bolstering gold holdings. This is no casual event. Billions upon billions are being spent by the various nations on an object with no intrinsic use. Now why would they be doing that? Furthermore, why would they be doing so in such numbers and volumes? Part of the answer of course is that gold makes up for deficiencies in other areas of their respective economies although that is really a topic for another day. It should be clear though that Gold has been the object of serious interest to some CB's for a number of years now and that this interest is growing as global currency uncertainties evolve. At some point though there will not be adequate sources of supply for all CB's with a desire to accumulate and this is where the rubber hits the road. Confiscation is all but assured on this basis although where it happens first is unclear. It is worth | IP | IP PA | 3,689,821 |
has really opened my eyes to just how little you need to add to these wartime recipes and they taste delicious. Yes, those who had chickens and an allotment or garden, were the lucky ones, and eggs became valuable currency! Karen You seem to be doing remarkably well, helped in part by Mrs Patten and her way with a ration book. War or no war the hot pot looks delish. Beetroot does seem an unusual partner to some eyes, but you and I both love our root crops and I for one eat beetroot with all manner of unlikely things (pizza!). Great effort, and very informative too. Thanks Kellie, I am doing well and I am NOT hungry either....the thing is, is that even when meat was used in these wartime recipes, it is a very small amount, such as this recipe, which feeds 4 and only has 225g of meat in it, very thrifty and just as flavoursome as dishes with lots of meat. Beetroot is one of my favourite veggies, as you know, and it did go very well with this dish, like pickled red cabbage I suspect too. Karen Hi Karen, That hotpot looks delious, for the non meat eaters you could swop out the blood pudding and sub lentils. The spice cumin can be used to trick the mind, that you are eating more meat than you are. During the war in London, all left over food i.e., peelings, were dropped in the "pig bins" placed | HI | HI RE | 3,099,570 |
stopped cold by his armor. He growled menacingly, the not fully restrained wolf within raging at the man who had dared to bump into one of the chosen of Russ. Watching the guardsman back away slowly and rejoin his comrades, Hrodgeir clenched his fist around his chainsword. He hated being paired with these scared little men, and was insulted that their skills were not thought of as adequate to take whatever was thrown at them. Before he could continue his train of thought, they arrived at a stairwell. He could smell the blood of the corpses around them, but this stairwell smelled much worse. Snarling, it took all of his restraint not to charge into the darkness howling like an animal on the hunt. He could almost picture the muzzle flash of his pistol in the darkness, the sound of his chainsword growling low as it tore through flesh and bone. Words from Iorek in their native tongue snapped him from these thoughts. "My soul longs to hunt through the darkness with bloodied blade drawn yet we are not alone Sons of Russ and enough human blood has stained the soil today. And I will not have more on my watch." " I was not chosen by the Wolf Priest to babysit these whelps " Hrodgeir spat in Fenrisian, jutting his jaw out at the guardsmen who were even now following Iorek's orders. " If this plan of yours does not work brother, then we hunt." he snarled, thumbing the | ID | ID DF | 682,630 |
found my fat fingers are a little bit clumsy, especially when trying to select some of the smaller icons or hyperlinks, so a stylus would be a good idea. However, you CAN zoom in on the screen to make these targets bigger and easier to hit. An inbuilt gyroscope allows you to rotate the tab through 360 degrees and view the screen in portrait and landscape mode. I have found it a little slow to respond - although it's more of an irritation than a real failing. You can also interface via Bluetooth. Now, I was having a terrible time trying to get this to work - try as I might, I couldn't get my laptop or moby to send a file TO my Galaxy - for some reason the sending device kept complaining that the transfer had failed or couldn't be honoured, despite the fact that the device could SEE the Galaxy. Then I discovered that I could send a file FROM the Galaxy TO the device with no probelm, and that miraculously cleared the pipeline and allowed 2-way traffic. Sorted! Screen & Speakers ================================ The 10" 1280x800 screen is crystal clear and the colour and resolution are impressive - very impressive. This is demonstrated by Samsung's default wallpapers which are vibrant, sharp and colourful. I've recently been using the Tab to watch movies in bed. Great! You can scroll between five 'virtual' screens which maximises your workspace and you can personalise it with your own wallpaper or Samsung's | IP | IP DS | 1,433,914 |
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