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He resorted to public assistance dollars to survive.
Think of the joy and success they bring to you and your loved ones.
Right now.
More than 100 were homeless.
And, with your assistance, Goodwill can help employers develop resources to keep workers on the job.
The biggest tragedy is that the problems don't go away; they only grow.
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There are thousands more.
These are special children.
No matter the size of the donation, please know that your gift will be appreciated and make a difference.
June 1, 1998 BOYS & Girls Club OF INDIANAPOLIS
February 26, 1999
That's where the Boys & Girls Clubs of Indianapolis come in.
Money for programs, for equipment, and for repairs and improvements to club facilities.
Saturday, September 20,1997, from 2:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., marks a special day, as Jameson Camp will hold its first ever Jameson Grill.
Jameson is a not-for-profit agency established in 1928 to serve the youth of central Indiana who have special needs.
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Dear Name,
And we're just getting started!
A five day camp, J.C. juniors introduces at-risk children to Jameson two years earlier than we could previously reach them.
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As a team, these three organizations are working with neighborhood youth and adults to build a "Caring Neighborhood with Youth" , mobilizing the assets of young people and adults as partners to build a better neighborhood for all.
McCoy invites the support of The __ Company Foundation in the amount of $10,000.00 to support such activities as:
---- the facilitation of ongoing discussions regarding effective and efficient youth service delivery;
Thanking you in advance for your support, we remain,
July 28, 1999
We are seeking to build partnerships between businesses and our not-for-profit agency.
But caring adults like you can reach out and help.
When young people don't have that support, they need other resources for encouragement to guide them along the way.
We go to movies, dinner, concerts, and other stuff like that, but I have also been able to participate in charity events and fundraiser type things.
To receive an application form, check the NAP box on the enclosed pledge card or call us, (317) 634-6102, ext. 20.
We often hear about economic poverty, but what some of these young people are growing up with is emotional poverty-they have often given up on hope and the possibility of a successful future.
Iraq says it has done so and has barred inspectors since late 1998.
Rep. Tony Hall, D-Ohio, did not call for a lifting of sanctions imposed on Iraq for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait, but said the United Nations should make sure that sanctions do not hurt innocent Iraqis.
"always felt"
It was kids shooting kids.
"I had a young man come up to me three years ago and say, 'Mr. Starke, I'm tired of going to bed at night with a Tech-9 gun under my pillow."'
He played for George Allen, Jack Pardee and Joe Gibbs.
So, Starke matched a problem with a problem and found a solution.
"wherever."
I'm grateful to George Starke to have had the vision to set something like this up, not just for me but for all the students.
"The monies we receive will go toward helping to pay down the debt and to fight the war on terrorism."
"because it is one of a kind, it is beautiful and it has a great story."
The committee criticized Torricelli for maintaining a "personal and official relationship with Chang under circumstances where you knew that he was attempting to ingratiate himself, in part through a pattern of attempts to provide you and those around you with gifts over a period of several years."
New Jersey has not had an execution since 1963.
During a 14-hour standoff, she killed a patrolman and an investigator from the Camden County prosecutor's office.
Ibrahim, who holds dual United States and Egyptian citizenship, is 63 years old and ailing.
We also agree that the law needs streamlining.
The ethics panel also criticized Torricelli for taking two bronze statues on loan from Chang.
Moving quickly to make a campaign issue of the Senate letter, Bill Pascoe, Forrester's campaign manager, said the findings were evidence that Torricelli had undertaken an "extensive campaign of misinformation and deceit," and called on him to release the sworn testimony he gave to the panel.
Pascoe said, "Only then will New Jersey voters be able to decide Torricelli's fitness for office."
But at a news conference in Singapore, Powell hinted that the Bush administration was ready to discuss resuming military cooperation with Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation and a sometimes reluctant partner in the efforts to crack down on militant Islamic groups.
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"Fuck you"
This is one valid criticism, but far from the deliberate distortion you make it out to be; rather, it is an example for how the facts can sometimes be easy to miss with Moore's fast pace editing.
Unfortunately, because the zooming is rather fast, it is easy to miss the rest of the sentence, so as you correctly note, some viewers got an incorrect impression.
"before he came to Flint"
The claims of deliberate distortion don't hold up when viewing the whole scene, though -- as "Hanlon's Razor" states, one should never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
You use standard filmmaking technique as a basis to construct bizarre conspiracies which sound plausible to the gullible reader, without ever providing any evidence for the implicit or explicit claims of fraud and distortion.
Never mind that they did so not out of some humanitarian motivation, but because of the Taliban's violent enforcement of the ban on opium poppies.
Statistics are Moore's weakest point, and it is surprising that his critics don't dwell on them longer.
In fact, Moore mentions several counter-examples, and more such counter-examples can indeed be cited.
You write: Bowling shows Moore casually buying ammunition at an Ontario Walmart.
If anything, it is his own failure that he did not clarify what he meant with "having a more mixed ethnicity".
Heston's answers in the interview were evasive and unhelpful.
It is not a flawless diamond -- the "48 hours" scene in particular suffers from bad editing, the statistics are suboptimal, and Heston gets a bit more bashing than he deserves.
Other than towards the NRA, the movie tries hard to avoid simplistic conclusions, and comes up with some thoughtful answers.
It is unlikely, however, that the unfair attacks against him will have much of an impact.
Critics like yourself claim that Moore has massively distorted evidence to support his point that Charlton Heston has effectively insulted the victims of the Columbine tragedy by holding a rally in Denver shortly afterwards.
Agree with the previous two comments.
It may also be that I remember the scene of their writing, which would have been in the old apartment, i.e. the place I barely remember ever having lived in anymore.
That I can access detailed information about events I have no right remembering in detail is another matter entirely.
I didn't remember that I remember that, but now that I do, I do.
Having given up on watching the actual sport, mention of baseball now only sparks memories of The Old Man and the Sea and the old time baseball writers.
The Behavior
The following global variables will be used throughout the pseudocode, and are compiled here for ease of reference:
Science fiction writers have been anticipating humanoid androids that could pass a Turing Test for years.
For a simple start, the forward cruise function will merely take in a double integer representing a speed and cause Antie to move forward at this speed.
The behaviors of the sterile workers may be divided into several subcategories: brood care, nest maintenance, patrolling and foraging.
This object detection process will be activated when the front bump sensor is stimulated or when both sonar detectors are stimulated.
The code will be similar to the object identification subroutine and may look something like this:
Younger ants work more inside the nest, and older ants work more outside the nest.
A program encoding this behavior might look like this:
This behavior will be implemented in two parts, with a task-switching algorithm based on age.
To control for this behavior, Antie’s explore subroutine will display a preference for exploration in places where there is a low gradient of nestmate pheromones.
In order to inform itself about its environment, Antie will need a number of sensors.
The locations of the rest of these sensors will depend on their function.
All of our frantic preparations may have had some effect in preventing small-time casual attacks, but they cannot stop a serious planned attack, any more than a mere door lock can stop a serious robber who really wants to get into your house.
The moral and religious theories which support terrorism are quite faulty and erroneous.
If we eliminate the legitimate grievances, we have eliminated much of the motivation.
Example 9 reproduces the chords, and Example 10 rewrites them in a meter that is more consistent with their rhythmic pattern.
Immediately following the arrival of E♭ in the bass, C♯ (D♭) is established as the tonal center for the final transition to the second theme.
The trombone motive in measures 134-141, shown in Example 12, is the subject of the fugato section in part 3 of the development, although its importance is downplayed here.
In measures 91-95, the bass descends F-E♭-D♭-C, which might seem to support C’s functioning as structural dominant.
The return to B in measure 210 is also filled-in in this way by F♯ in measures 208-209.
Paul Wilson points out that “[i]n substituting for F within an analogous structure, B receives confirmation at this point as the crucial interior center of the movement.”
“[i]n substituting for F within an analogous structure, B receives confirmation at this point as the crucial interior center of the movement.”
As tempting as this interpretation may be, this observation is relegated to the notes section because it constitutes a horrible abuse of terminology—there is only so far that such tonal analogies can go before they begin to hide any true analytical insight behind misused terms.
As previously mentioned, this motion constitutes the initial ascent to what will eventually be a whole-tone descent from F to F.
The white of the walls intensifies the color of what is set before them.
“Intelligent beings have a language represented by articulate sounds; organized beings, like all animals and vegetables, express themselves by cries or forms, contour or carriage.
Avant guard at the time was considered to be true art, while this kitsch was simply pure imitation.
Many actually complained with the invention of color in movies that this stunted the mind since one was forced to look at the garish colors placed before them.
This is apparent through Japanese haiku as well as the art of ink painting in both China and Japan.
colorlessness needs color in order to for the full aesthetic experience to take place.
“That is to say, under the total absence of color, there is a vague reminiscence of all colors that have been “killed”
White and black stand out because of color, and color stand out because of white and black.
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I put in 1+ decades in trade coursework, and several branches of the industry.
If it were effective, wouldn't you already see it virtually everywhere?
If I as a resident of Ohio want to purchase a bottle of Californis wine on line and have it shipped to me in Ohio without interference from anyone else.
It sounds like you would prefer you government welfare to go there instead?
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And what's worse, the wholesalers knew this when they wrote this.
It overrides it entirely.
Language that bars facial discrimination is included in the bill to codify this prohibition" I have great faith in the wholesalers' ability to mislead.
It appears that wholesalers don't like the courts involved when the decision don't go their way.
Both the Las Vegas Aerial Gunnery School (which became Nellis Air Force Base and the Nevada Test Site) in the north, and Basic Magnesium in the nearby town of Henderson, arrived in the early 1940s as a result of America’s war effort.
Frank Sinatra, Wayne Newton, and Louis Prima each arrived with mediocre status and suddenly found themselves with names as big as the marquees on which they were written.
Other Hollywood stars came as well, simply because Las Vegas was the place to be.
The growth that has characterized Las Vegas for nearly a century may be facing a roadblock.
From Mailmen to Mormons
Through 1905, Helen Stewart expanded the ranch to 2000 acres (810 hectares), making quite a bit of money in the process.
By this time, the valley was in much the same geographic state as it exists in today, with one exception — the presence of artesian springs that bubbled to the surface in several areas.
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The state legislature helped as well, by legalizing gambling in 1931 and thus solidifying the future of the town, though legislators and residents could never have known this at the time.
It didn’t take long for the city to establish itself as a wild-West town with an “anything goes” attitude.
Though he has “always kind of fantasized about getting married [to a female],” these feelings come from his “romantic side, which is different from the sexual side” (Woods).
According to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the advantageous traits are passed on, while the disadvantageous ones eventually die out.
Still more would claim that it is a mental illness that can and should be cured.
“the Rosa Parks of the gay movement”
4. He's put himself in a position where if he leaves Cleveland, every other city (and Cleveland) will be rooting against him
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New construction is everywhere, the streets buzz, traffic is increasingly congested, and in the frenetic pace of rush hour everyone in Dublin seems intent on changing places with everyone else.
The river forms a natural line between the north and south sections of the city.
O’Connell Street, the city’s grand boulevard, leads north to Parnell Square.
At night the streets are crowded with people bent on having a good time.
It’s an ideal way for the visitor to reach outlying sights and villages.
However, young and old, stranger and Dubliner rub shoulders quite happily.
Hong Kong has long been China’s handiest window on the West, and the city is unrivaled in its commercial know-how and managerial expertise.
The effect of not being on vacation in Italy on a man with a tall stack of papers to grade.
But if she were really an ideal wife, why could she not live happily with her human mate?
Toyoo, her human lover in “Lust of the White Serpant” cannot shake the image of her beauty from his mind and dreams of her, and finds himself “disturbed and agitated” by her “ethereal beauty”.
“he was so distracted that he could not concentrate on doing business.”
“Eternal Prisoner under Thunder Peak Pagoda”
In both stories, Madame White Snake’s secret is uncovered and a monk comes to exorcise her, and she is eventually rendered powerless and trapped under a pagoda.
“Eternal Prisoner,”
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Building on our success of reintroducing the gray wolves to Yellowstone National Park by expanding gray wolf recovery into suitable habitat in the United States.
Sale and Pelletier declined to comment on Wednesday.
She later recanted and said that Canadian officials had pressured her.
But when Gailhaguet sought guidance from a French government official, he was told that "Tokhtakhounov's money is bad," the affidavit said.
Also on Feb. 12, a week before the ice dancing finals, Tokhtakhounov told Anissina's mother in a telephone call that the Russian federation official "had called me from America" to assure that "we are going to make" Anissina "an Olympic champion."
The factory is highly automated and designed to shift flexibly to produce many different kinds of chips to suit demand.
"Peyton came to practice this spring," Cutcliffe said, "and he said he felt like he was having an out-of-body experience."
You're a focal point, and people are looking at you, but it's a team game, and you depend on your team 1,000 times more than that billboard to get you the Heisman."
HOW TO SELECT As the gourd ripens, its color changes from near white-pale green to vivid green, often flecked with yellow, and eventually bright orange.
Aug. 15, her actual birthday, will see her in Maine at an annual gathering of nieces, nephews, their offspring and friends, who for many years have rolled a joined birthday celebration for several members of the group into a jolly reunion.
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Atlantic halibut with flavored butters
Julia Child doesn't have much use for fads and trends -- never has.
However, an active woman all her life, she is aware of the need to keep ones weight and fitness in mind.
Contrary to what some restaurants and retailers tell their customers, the U.S. government does not consider the Chilean seabass to be endangered.
"I am concerned that nonmedically trained people as legitimate prescribers of drugs will not be accepted by the American public," says psychologist Gerald C. Davison of the University of Southern California.
They believe that if prescriptive authority becomes the norm, biomedical requirements will inevitably seep into the psychology curriculum, at the expense of traditional psychological science and methodology.
RxP opponents charge the APA with pushing its prescription-privileges agenda without adequately assessing support for it in the field.
"We were not bloodthirsty guys,"
"On Tinian, and probably elsewhere, the Seabees were building enormous hospitals while we were there," he said.
In his heart, he holds the unshakable conviction that the mission he helped organize saved America from disaster.
Karnes, 87, is a retired history professor who lives in suburban Austin with his wife, Virginia, who also worked for the 509th as a civilian bookkeeper for six months.
Karnes has never spoken publicly about his role as Tibbets' right-hand administrative aide.
Tibbets had just been ordered to organize a combat force to drop a bomb being developed by a secret enterprise known as the Manhattan Project.
Karnes handed out bunk assignments, choosing the mess officer, Chuck Perry, to share his tent.
Ninety seconds from the bomb drop, Tibbets put the plane on auto-pilot.
"Who says this?" another commanding officer asked Karnes.
When the bomb exploded as planned 1,890 feet over Hiroshima, Tibbets' mouth tingled, and he tasted the lead fillings in his teeth.
"We were all appalled,"
Back on Tinian, Karnes had gone to bed.
"Tibbets is going to be landing in three to four hours, and I want to give him the Distinguished Service Cross, and it is your job to write up the explanation."
Something in his tone couldn’t be disbelieved.
Their bumpers looked ready to drop off, and their paint was half smog.
“are you sure that we should be going this way?
Someone standing just in the lip of an alley glared at me with gleaming eyes.
“Nice, my man,”
That’s why we came here.”
“Oh, totally,” said the hunchback.
He had some rings, too.
“What do you think?”
Here, let me write down how to find him.”
He gave me a half-hearted wave that made me wonder what exactly we were chasing, and whether I should be wearing body armor.
“Okay, Nathan.
East is that way.”
On the bed was a small, ratty man.
Frankly, I don’t know if we can even doing anything against a vampire.
Sails of obscene orange and a green that insulted springtime hung draped across reds that might have been sensual elsewhere but here were only offensive.
“Why, the merchandise, of course,”
Nepthys turned to me.
“As if I wanted it,” interrupted the woman.
“One half-pint of human blood, willingly given, and his fine head of hair for the stone.”
Nepthys slapped me on the back.
“I think that our world is a reflection of yours, or yours is a more boring reflection of ours.
“I am glad to be out of the favor-trading scene for half a minute.
“If the tree isn’t around, the dryad isn’t around.
Sure, I miss having a place to settle down, but it’s better than waiting to get dammed.”
After she paid the driver, she grabbed my arm, laughing, and we ran down the street.
…I thought as much.
“You idiot,”
“Night comes quickly here,” said Nepthys quietly as he came out behind me.
The man closed his eyes.
A moment later, he opened them again and stepped aside to let us in.
“It’s been years since I’ve seen you.
“This man is here in search of his lover, who was stolen from him in the human world,” said Nepthys, ushering us toward the woman in silk.
“I have a feeling that she was worth the trade,” I added.
Nepthys could hardly believe her.
“It is.
She sat up, running her hands along her pale, round thighs.
She didn’t shed a bead of sweat, and I didn’t even see her draw a breath, but the glow around her hands shuddered like a stubborn candleflame.
I haven’t had a vampire here since you and – ” Nepthys shot a wicked look at him.
He didn’t look very surprised.
I slipped past the waving monstrosity that had blocked my view before, a mountain of wet, veined flesh, and had almost passed through the crowd when a clawed hand grabbed my arm.
I turned to keep going, but he caught my arm again.
He shot back up, hardly touching the ground, and I kicked him back.
He bashed up a set of stairs set into the side of the wall, and we chased up after him, heading up a huge staircase that seemed to go up for more stories than the building could have held.
He tossed it to me, and I just barely had it open before I saw the vampire again, turning to face me.
Then he landed heavy beside me and I scrambled to stand.
He didn’t move, just stared and held his drink.
The next time I saw them, his mouth was moving.
My girlfriend has disappeared, I don’t even know where to start looking, and I need help!
“I’m in the car.
However, to American companies already suffering financial setbacks, outdated machinery, and fierce competition, this lack of demand was an inconvenience they could not afford.
Eventually, some religious leaders involved in the Ecumenical Coalition joined forces within community members and former steel mill employees to create the Save Our Valley Campaign.
United Steel Workers of America was the union representing the Youngstown steel workers when the closings hit.
Rather than sit back and wait for their jobs to be snatched away, the workers and local union members in the mills fought long and hard to be able to keep the factories open.
Therefore, they decided to withdraw support and let the local branch fight it out alone.
Hundreds more joined the unemployment lines, or even began living on the streets.
“to get up a petition to stop the shutdown,”
You want both tidiness and easy access.
Do it to see how it feels.
For example, make smaller wildflower seedbombs and carefully 'plant' them in a meridian by making holes in the ground with your heel and then gently tamping the dirt over them with your sole.
You will fuck it up .
Anyone who doesn't have a sweet tooth is bound to have a mean streak, and freegan chocolates are perfectly salvagable most of the time.
Thanks, MamaHun.
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He glared at Allan, eyes impaling him and demanding a response.
Allan cried out at last, stepping forward and casting his arms open, confronting Arthur with this demanding, pleading interrogation.
I must admit, this seems far-fetched, even by your standards – even your Nathan might have difficulty believing you."
With that, he tossed the papers at Allan and left the room.
He ran the last distance, crested the hill puffing to reveal Arthur below, walking to the carriage parked before Allan's house as two laborers wrapped a great saw in oilcloths and loaded it onto the vehicle's roof.
Rounding the corner, he saw a great bonfire.
Perhaps that would be more healthy for his mind.
There was hardly enough room for his slim frame between the trunks that overshadowed any fleeting mortal trespass.
Emerging from between the antediluvian trunks, Allan set his feet softly down onto the carpet of needles and stopped.
In the author's eye gleamed the lantern's reflection – or was it a reflection?
The next day, Allan sat on a florally patterned chair in a well-furnished parlor.
"Before that blasted impulse came over me and I started writing like Edgar Poe – though the most recent was not so morbid as my many others, thank Heaven."
"but how am I to do that?
"Perhaps you could make some headway if you denied your darker side the outlet of the colorful metaphors you so enjoy.
"that I would not dream of submitting one of these corruptions of literature to any publisher.
"You mean, finished another story."
When I visited the TBR shop, it was packed with frames, wheels, gears, chains, handlebars, kids, and anarchist art (the space is being donated by some supporters who are also anti-capitalist activists).
Bikes are cheap: you can get one at your local thrift store for $5-50.
Tell the store owner what you like, and see if he'll carry it.
"This is what happens,"
But haying had to happen regularly, says David: "There's so much oxygen in this soil, any added compost gets burned up in six weeks.
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He runs the Rock Spray nursery, a Certified Natural provider of evergreens and ornamentals.
Hong Kong has a vast range of the most high-tech audio-visual, sound, and screen equipment.
There are still a great many factory outlet stores with reasonable prices.
Be sure to get the manufacturer’s guarantee stamped or signed if you buy a watch.
Chinese Opera.
Hong Kong’s three professional dance companies — the Hong Kong Ballet Company, the Hong Kong Dance Company, and the newer City Contemporary Dance Company — perform regularly, often at the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts.
Many Hong Kong residents and visitors take the express train to Guangzhou to play at the Guangzhou Luhu Golf and Country Club (Tel. 2317 1933 in Hong Kong or 020-8350 7777).
Sailing.
The Rugby Sevens sees teams come together from all over the world for 15 matches in March or early April.
A ride on the Peak Tram is sure to provide a thrill, and in the Peak Tower they’ll enjoy the Peak Explorer ride and Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Ocean Park (see page 32) is popular with children of all ages.
The Science Museum in Tsim Sha Tsui East allows children to get their hands on over half of its 500 exhibits, while the nearby Space Museum has regular screenings on an enormous Omnimax screen in its Space Theater, making the night sky come vibrantly alive.
Many stores will pack and ship purchases.
Major shopping areas are Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon, especially along Nathan Road; Central on Hong Kong Island, particularly for upscale designer goods; Causeway Bay for slightly better prices; and the Hollywood Road area.
Bargain, and carefully examine any merchandise you buy here.
Hollywood Road in the Mid-Levels above Central is the most famous antiques street in Hong Kong.
Photo buffs know that Hong Kong is the place to buy some of the world’s most advanced photographic equipment, and there are some real bargains around.
However, be sure you compare prices and models before buying.
Every August young women convene to light joss sticks and some even climb the nine-meter (30-ft) rock to pray for good husbands.
The busy night-and-day crowds make this area vibrant and lively.
On Connaught Road Central, you’ll find one of Hong Kong’s curiosities, the 244-m- (800-ft-) long Mid-Levels outdoor escalator.
It’s so attractive and so easy to reach that it’s packed with sunbathers all summer long.
The waterfronts at Repulse Bay and Stanley are lined with good cafés and restaurants.
Its futuristic dome design is striking; inside are interactive exhibits, including one in which you can experience weightlessness.
Birds are favorite pets in Hong Kong, valued for their singing rather than their plumage, and here you’ll find all kinds of birds for sale as well as elaborate teak and bamboo cages.
These pleasant, but expensive, outings can lay the foundation for your own explorations aboard the cheap but usually comfortable ferries used by the islanders themselves.
Behind the church is the 1917 French Mission Building, now used as the Court of Final Appeal.
Entry procedures are similar to those in Hong Kong — most nationalities need only a passport to enter Macau.
Upon arrival in Macau, be sure to stop by the Macau Government Tourist Office for a map, brochures, and directions.
The fort, built by the Jesuits in the 17th century as a defense against the Dutch, was largely destroyed by the same fire that burned St. Paul’s.
The Handover Pavilion was meant to be a temporary structure, but public outcry ensured its preservation (located on Xian Xing Hai; open weekdays 10am–6pm, until 10pm weekends).
Look for jewelry shops along Avenida do Infante D. Henrique and Avenida de Almei­da Ribeiro.
Guangzhou, like Hong Kong, is primarily Cantonese-speaking, but many people also speak Mandarin.
Actually a five-story pavilion on a hilltop, it contains a fine collection of historical exhibits.
An architectural wonder, it is itself a beautiful piece of craftsmanship with its sculpture and carved stone balustrades.
A former Confucian temple is presently the home of the historic National Peasant Movement Institute, where the Chinese Communist Party trained its leaders in the 1920s.
At the upper terminus there is a four-level shopping center, the Peak Galleria, and the Peak Tower, which resembles an airport control tower and has shops, entertainment, and restaurants.
The Foshan Art Porcelain Factory has traditional designs, but also some attractive modern pieces.
Conflict between cultures arise as cosmovision is rediscovered and developed, often by native shamans in tandem with indigenous leaders aided by outside researchers and non-governmental organizations.
Many native peoples in Colombia are monolingual Spanish speakers, raising the question of the practicality of indigenous language use.
A further complication is the necessity of establishing authentic “Indianness”, both in the eyes of fellow indigenous peoples and the outside Spanish culture.
The ONIC of Colombia lacks legitimacy precisely because it is perceived as not “Indian enough”; it embraces the use of Spanish and Western discourse, leading to distrust among indigenous peoples (Jackson 2002: 85).
Conflicts arise due to internal differences and the ever-persist problem of defining indigenous identity and authenticity in a pluralistic linguistic environment.
This is similar to the situation of Guatemala: the government felt it needed to battle communism, an “armed and dangerous menace within”, plunging the country into civil warfare in the 1960s and continuing through the 1980s (Warren 1993: 25).
Pan-Mayanism has succeeded in part due to its focus on issues of ethnicity; it largely avoids specifically political overtones, instead concentrating on the development of the reemerging Mayan culture (England 2003: 734).
It therefore often invokes the banner of indigenous rights in its own discourse .
This reflects a desire among the peoples themselves to maintain distinct ethnic identities, both from the Spanish Colombian population and each other.
They are ruled by the cabildo, local governing boards formed of community leaders (Gow and Rappaport 2002: 51-52).
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Astro was wagging his tail.
And we don’t stop there.
At least Astro could drink water from a puddle near the stake he was chained to.
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We discussed the foundations: the Three Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma; the four noble truths; karma; defilements; the six perfections.
"Psychologists,"
Ever since the 1920s, their science has been about observation of behavior, questionnaires, recordings of electrical brain activity.
But this doesn't mean that there isn't merit to such studies, nor that nothing of use can be learned in that way.
Another of the day's activities was making prayer flags.
It may not.
A good decision: I didn't return all chill and zen, as one friend told me his roommate had, but I certainly gained a few new ideas and approaches to mull over, and dipped my hand into a previously unfamiliar piece of the world.
Chad just hung his head.
Roy stepped around the edge of the building and out of sight.
"No time outs!" Tucker shouted and continued to climb down the tires.
Chad strained and pounded the rock into the iron hole until he could smell the dust.
You didn't fight!
It smelled like first grade.
Tucker made a grab for him but missed it, and Chad heard his shirt rip a little.
Roy stood expressionless as ever as Chad turned to look.
It was Roy, and when Chad looked up there was something like his brother there around the eyes.
Enough.
Future Self, you know our style well enough to tell that time has passed between the last sentence and this.
Tasha and I became lovers that evening, after a good dinner of paella at her apartment.
"What?"
"Do you?"
She smiled.
Tasha's told me much about you."
"Ah, she is wonderfully perceptive."
He lives around here somewhere.
Tasha said, "A little fellow with big, furry feet.
Be glad someone didn't toss that to you."
"Oh?"
"Never,"
If that was Malaquez's work, it was a very minor effort.
I blinked when I opened the door.
Now she will be."
In fine tourist tradition, most homes on Vega IV are named.
The rental agent, an attractive N'apulcan named Tasha Cortez, was not mood-sensitive either.
What could I do?
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We die in war to bring this to other countries?
Gratitude of a Free nation?
"green"
Raggedy Anarchy 24. Oct, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Salmon have forgot how to screw.
I was born in a suburb of Detroit and most of family still lives there.
Thanks Lump-man.
The taxes on my $140K house in an urban area of Mississippi are only $1500/year.
Detroit is a ghost town, and it's inhabited by ghosts: the only people left here are those who can't or won't leave.
DETROIT POLICE ARE WATCHING YOU!
People who live in this part of town are on their own.
And although I and many others would love to own even a fire-scarred, condemned building, the fact is that we wouldn't last a week here.
What's left behind when an economy collapses?
Truth is, any artist-type who moves into this part of Detroit is probably pretty handy with a pistol or a shotgun .
Within a hundred yards of each other.
Whoever took that stuff is probably using it in their own garden.
I've lived in the metro area my whole life, and there are areas (I can't call them neighborhoods) down there where I don't feel safe in daytime, much less at night.
1. Driving a Honda in Detroit right now probably isn't really going to get you welcomed with open arms.
"solidarity"
The markers are places where it's safe to come here and leave.
He took a sip and closed his eyes like the cheap cup of coffee was really something special.
I hadn't seen him since high-school, maybe twenty years before, and we were never buddies in the first place.
Fine.
Four Hundred.
One of my best tricks was pulling a knife out of thin air.
We took his rental car back to the motel where he was staying.
There was an ink drawing and writing in a tiny neat hand that I couldn't read from where I sat.
I learned this from a skull shard rongorongo, they aren't all writing language.
His hands were thin and huge knuckled with obvious callouses.
I didn't have much trouble duplicating his hand waving even though I hadn't paid much attention.
Now my guide dog, Franklin, walks me” says Sead.
I slowly returned my attention to the conversation and was pleasantly surprised to find that it had turned to a heated analysis of a recent abstract film—done in the style of old flatscreen movies—that I had seen during off-time at Geminia Station.
Twenty-four hours of silence (vacuum, remember); was I hallucinating noises now?
Regardless, when Adrienne asked what the ship's purpose was, we all gave it a measure of thought.
“I believe we'll see the end of the universe,” said Tiffany.
“Maybe the universe will end sooner than you think,” said Jefferson.
“New hypothesis,”
“New hypothesis,” suggested Kishori, slipping into the conversation.
“No one's immortal. In fact, the opposite: We're all going to die.”
Kishori gestured to the bar, the carpets, the paintings.
“All the luxuries money can buy.”
And accompanying the bell, I saw a light.
“Smuggling,”
“Renegade smugglers.
A chorus of good nights followed him out the door.
After the captain left, Zheng leaned in.
He had been at this savior business longer than any of us.
He sounded certain.
“If we last forever, if our eyes are the last eyes watching as the stars blink out, it won't mean a thing to us. We won't care that we're last and we won't care that there are no more stars. We aren't angels. We're just dumb and lucky.”
Traveling on this ship.”
I shrugged.
“How long have you been here?”
Some vital part broke, and...
I cut in.
she asked Adrienne.
Or where he went.”
The ship, it was odd and old, either so outdated or so heavily modified that I couldn't tell what make it was, and somehow, the crew standing around me fit the same description, a singularly atypical amalgamation of folk.
“but is it true? Would you be happy back in a normal life, working and living and crying in the drudgery of whatever the hell normal is these days?”
I inspected the arrays of entertainment options—abstract, old-style flatscreens, engrossing VR flicks and action games, a selection of quondam bestsellers and a few recently released novels hoping to gain popularity.
The next time the captain stopped by our group, Tiffany tagging along (pretending that she, too, was a social butterfly who could mingle equally well with everyone), we were ready.
It was a lie, but we needed information.
Adrienne steepled her fingers and studied my face.
“One hundred and forty-seven is a magic number,”
“If you dislike this place so much, why don't you do something about it?”
Everything to fade away, lost as dust and scattered atoms between the stars, and every one of us to be left as alone as the moment we were born.
The one thing that wouldn't change.
“So, I'm on a ship now? You do this a lot?”
The speed of sound in dry air at twenty degrees Celsius or sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit is three hundred and forty-three meters per second, or one thousand one hundred twenty-five feet per second.
A planet.
“You fit the bill. They didn't.”
No seventy-two virgins, but it would do.
Destination nowhere.”
I mean, sure, I'd had my moment of elation when I had first realized I'd been rescued, but it didn't sink in.
Cliques form in any decent-sized group of people.
Fact: If, before all the air is sucked out of the ship, a person is so lucky to have stuffed him or herself into a space suit, that person has less than twenty-four hours to live.
Kishori, petite, her hair strung out in a series of braids that reached nearly to her waist.
Still others are less obvious but just as horrible; dogs fighting to the death for the benefit of blood thirsty gamblers; baby calves confined and malnourished to provide “milk-fed” veal for the gourmet; and the “accidental” drowning of porpoises in the nets of tuna fishermen.
April 27, 2009 10:20 AM lessig: I favor a mandatory scheme -- internalize your externality.
At six foot two, she stood a full head taller than even her Arrallin first officer.
She watched the psi bob her head, unaware of the rest of the bridge, shaking blonde curls as she chattered away with the approaching psi relay on Mason's ship.
He says we should come through now, immediately, before the probe is reported late."
But think how much you -- and your loved ones who share this watery planet of ours -- stand to gain if you join.
“Invariably,”
First the holocaust survivor who said she was literally raised by wolves turns out to be just a regular, if depressed, person.
March 4, 2008 01:41 PM
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If you were off Zombies would you have gotten back on it time to publish NY Times bestseller Pride & Prejudice and Zombies ?
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The White House said Mr. Bush decided to grant duty-free status for 18 categories, but turned down such treatment for other types of watches "because of the potential for material injury to watch producers located in the U.S. and the Virgin Islands."
Montedison currently owns about 72% of Erbamont's common shares outstanding.
The company also adopted an anti-takeover plan.
The service -- which costs the caller from 30 cents to $25 a minute -- currently is dominated by celebrity chatter, horoscopes and romance lines.
Odd-year elections attract relatively few ballot issues.
Hot ballot topics are expected to be abortion, the environment and insurance reform.
Last year, DSM had 71 million guilders of extraordinary charges for the restructuring program and other transactions.
Travelers estimated that the California earthquake last month will result in a fourth-quarter pre-tax charge of less than $10 million.
Primerica, as expected, also acquired certain assets of the agency and assumed certain of its liabilities.
Peter Holland, 45, deputy general manager, becomes director of corporate affairs.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Reupke said his departure was for "personal reasons," which he declined to specify.
, a partnership of Unicorp Canada Corp.
First of America said some of the managers will take other jobs with First of America.
Already many foreign firms, especially banks, have their own cryptographers, conference speakers reported.
He said that Oliver North of Iran-Contra notoriety thought he had erased his computer but that the information was later retrieved for congressional committees to read.
The drug lords who claimed responsibility said they would blow up the Bogota newspaper's offices if it continued to distribute in Medellin.
They bombed the Bogota offices last month, destroying its computer and causing $2.5 million in damage.