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You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you'd made that gash a little deeper. Or how different yours would be if I'd vaulted myself off a roof nine years ago. Do you ever think
about things like that? Like, if either you or I wouldn't have made it, where would the other one be right now? It was something I thought about all the time: how death changes every remaining moment for those still living. — Tiffanie DeBartolo
I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? — Kim Harrison
Do you miss wearing your kilt?" she asked.
"In London, it caused more bother than it was worth. Ladies either found it indecent or intriguing. A fair few found it to be both. I was never quite sure whether it was indecently intriguing or intriguingly indecent! — Marguerite Kaye
It wasn't easy telling my family that I'm gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, 'Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?' She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed. — Bob Smith
Jackson was a little shocked at just how much her apology meant, and surprised them both by flipping his hand over so that they were palm to palm.
She jolted a little at the contact but didn't pull away. He didn't either.
He told himself it was just a friendly touch - a thank-you for being there. For being Mollie.
But there was nothing friendly about the way touching her made his pulse quicken and his cock harden. — Lauren Layne
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it. — Susan Orlean
My father then presented Honour with a cheque,
"This is from our family for you, only you. Put it in a bank and if my son ever treats you badly, use this to leave the idiot," he said.
I was laughing so hard I had tears in my eyes.
The haque mehr was traditionally given to the bride on the wedding day by the groom, it was an amount that would be hers for her lifetime to keep in case things went wrong and she needed to stand on her own two feet.
Dad had done his little trickery, and in his head and everyone else's, we had done all that was required from a nikah. — Ruth Ahmed
You don't need to be seeing someone to be in love with her. You can have lost touch with her, she can have hurt you, even inexplicably. If you ever felt that you really knew her and that it was what you knew that you loved, and if you remember what it was you once knew, why is it so crazy to retain that love still? — Elliot Perlman
You young folks today think you invented the world," Aunt Will said. "Still, a dash of unlawful scrumping might work for you. A lot more folks have tried that recipe than my own, even if we don't hear testimonials."
She chuckled naughtily at that suggestion. Jesse giggled a bit herself.
The important thing was that her aunt was nodding and smiling again.
"But beware, DuJess," Aunt Will told her. "Every cure has its side effects. It only seems fair to warn you. I suspect that a regular tonic of Piney Baxley can be potently habit forming. — Pamela Morsi
After I left here on Saturday, I decided never to see you again."
He was sliding the frittata under the broiler, so she could only see his profile, but damn if he didn't appear to be smirking.
"I know that, darling. It wounds my pride you won't go out with me, but I can console myself with the knowledge that when you do see me, you can't keep your knickers on for ten minutes running."
She threw her cookie at him, feigning indignation. "You bastard! Are you calling me easy?"
"I like you easy. Besides, you're not to blame. Who'd want to wear wet knickers? — Ruthie Knox
Mr. Gunt, Mr. Neal here is a street survivor. We at the airline are honoring the homeless this year, and it was our airline's privilege and delight to offer him the one remaining business-class seat as a token of our faith in the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. With the full authority of the EU air-system code behind me, I order you back to 67E. — Douglas Coupland
It was beautiful, and that is a word I would not need to explain to the girls from back home, and I do not need to explain to you, because now we are all speaking the same language. The waves still smashed against the beach, furious and irresistible. But me, I watched all of those children smiling and dancing and splashing one another in salt water and bright sunlight, and I laughed and laughed and laughed until the sound of the sea was drowned. — Chris Cleave
I no longer find such pleasure in that preeminently good society, of which I was once so fond. It seems to me that beneath a cloak of clever talk it proscribes all energy, all originality. If you are not a copy, people accuse you of being ill-mannered. — Stendhal
Westcliff sees an odd sort of logic in why you would finally be the one to win St. Vincent's heart. He says a girl like you would appeal to ... hmm, how did he put it? ... I can't remember the exact words, but it was something like ... you would appeal to St. Vincent's deepest, most secret fantasy."
Evie felt her cheeks flushing while a skirmish of pain and hope took place in the tired confines of her chest. She tried to respond sardonically. "I should think his fantasy is to consort with as many women as possible."
A grin crossed Lillian's lips. "Dear, that is not St. Vincent's fantasy, it's his reality. And you're probably the first sweet, decent girl he's ever had anything to do with."
"He spent quite a lot of time with you and Daisy in Hampshire," Evie countered.
That seemed to amuse Lillian further. "I'm not at all sweet, dear. And neither is my sister. Don't say you have been laboring under that misconception all this time? — Lisa Kleypas
Is it ... can we ... is it safe?"
Tub checked the lot but he seemed unconcerned.
"Coach Lawrence nabbed him for practice. We live to fight another day, soldier."
"No ... I mean, the thing ... is it ... ?"
Tub frowned.
"The thing. Hmmm. Can you be more specific?
I clutched at the bumper and raised myself to unsteady feet. I patted the truck bed, taking solace in the cake of dust. It was real; I was not caught in a nightmare. I smeared the dust with my fingers and smelled it.
"If you lick that, we're no longer friends," Tub said. — Guillermo Del Toro
She had realized something over the recent months: it didn't matter who you were or what you'd accomplished in life; none of that mattered when tragedy struck. You had no pull; no power. You had no choice. There was nothing to gamble with; nothing to do to put the odds in your favor. You were there and then you were gone, leaving those around you to realize how insignificant they all really were; leaving them to try to pick up the destroyed pieces. — Lindy Zart
I hadn't seen any novel make the statement that entering the workforce was like entering the grave. That from then on, nothing happens and you have to pretend to be interested in your work. And, furthermore, that some people have a sex life and others don't just because some are more attractive than others. I wanted to acknowledge that if people don't have a sex life, it's not for some moral reason, it's just because they're ugly. Once you've said it,
it sounds obvious, but I wanted to say it. — Michel Houellebecq
Look, I've been doing this a long time. If I'm honest with you, then yes. The Families could have done both. The car thing is absolutely their style, like you said."
Luc frowned. "But you don't think they did it."
David shook his head. "No. Because you're alive. The Families wouldn't screw up twice." He left, closing the door behind him.
"If that was supposed to make me feel better," Curtis said, "it needed way more puppies. Or something from the chocolate family. — Nathan Burgoine
Yakov spent the whole day playing his fiddle; when it got completely dark, he took the notebook in which he recorded his losses daily, and out of boredom began adding up the yearly total. It came to over a thousand roubles. This astounded him so much that he flung the abacus to the floor and stamped his feet. Then he picked up the abacus, again clicked away for a long time, and sighed deeply and tensely. His face was purple and wet with sweat. He thought that if he could have put that lost thousand roubles in the bank, he would have earned at least forty roubles a year in interest. And therefore those forty roubles were a loss. In short, wherever you turned, there was nothing but losses everywhere.
- Rothchild's Fiddle — Anton Chekhov
When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all. — Mark Lawrence
My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing - it was a wonderful, big mixing pot of all kinds of people - when you came home from school and your mum wasn't in, there were lots of people you could go to. — Peter Capaldi
If I do anything, I have to start over, but all I have is fragments of ideas. Just pieces. Like a germ of an idea for this, and a germ of an idea for that. Nothing whole or concrete" - Violet
" 'Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.' Pearl S. Buck. Maybe a germ is enough. Maybe it's all you need. We can start small. Open up a new document or pull out a black piece of paper. We'll make it our canvas. Remember what Michelangelo said about the sculpture being in the stone - it was there from the beginning, and his job was to bring it out. Your words are in there too" -Finch — Jennifer Niven
I watched you fall in love with me. I saw the smile cross your lips when it happened. I remember that day. I was the first day I knew I had no heart. — Tara Brown
If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around. — Howard Schultz
I thought it was over, all I could think was I never told you I love you. What an idiot. — Nora Roberts
Also, unless you critique moralism, many irreligious people won't know the difference between moralism and what you're offering. The way to get antinomians to move away from lawlessness is to distinguish the gospel from legalism. Why? Because modern and post-modern people have been rejecting Christianity for years thinking that it was indistinguishable from moralism. Non-Christians will always automatically hear gospel presentations as appeals to become moral and religious, unless in your preaching you use the good news of grace to deconstruct legalism. Only if you show them there's a difference - that what they really rejected wasn't real Christianity at all - will they even begin to consider Christianity.2 — Tullian Tchividjian
One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms drops and his sword thunks to the grass like a lead weight. The angel stares at his blade uncomprehendingly.
Another sword drops.
Then a whole bunch, until all the other unsheathed swords fall, thudding on the grass like subjects bowing down to their queen.
The angels stare at the swords at their feet in utter shock.
Then everyone looks at me. Actually, it's probably more accurate to say they're looking at my sword.
"Whoa." That's about the most intelligent thing I can say right now. Did Raffe say something about an archangel sword intimidating other angel swords if she could gain their respect?
I swivel my eyes to look at the blade in my hands. Was that you, Pooky Bear? — Susan Ee
By Annie Wilkes ...
If you can get into that chair all by yourself, Paul, she said at last, then I think you can fill in your f******* n's.
She then closed the door and locked it again. Paul sat looking at it for a long time, almost as if there was something to see. He was too flabberghasted to do anything else. — Stephen King
I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin. — Kevin Eubanks
I thought killing was easy for you," said Laurent. His voice was rather quiet. "I thought you did it without thinking."
"I'm a soldier," said Damen, "and I have been for a long time. I've killed on the sawdust. I've killed in battle. Is that what you mean by easy?"
"You know it isn't," said Laurent, in that same quiet voice. — C.S. Pacat
The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - "
"When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like this was delightful information. "Augustus commissioned it."
"Yes," Zia said.
"Fascinating," I murmured. "Would you two like to be left alone with a history textbook? — Rick Riordan
Don't look so worried. I've sailed the seven seas, and I've never had an unsuccessful adventure yet!"
"Really? You've sailed all seven seas?" asked Darwin admiringly.
"Every last one!"
"What are the seven seas? I've always wondered."
"Aaarrr. Well, let's see ... " said the Pirate Captain, scratching his craggy forehead. "There's the North Sea. And that other one, the one near Mozambique. And ... what's that one in Hyde Park?"
"The Serpentine?"
"That's the one. How many's that then? Three. Um. There's the sea with all the rocks in it ... I think they call it Sea Number Four. Then that would leave ... uh ... Grumpy and Sneezy ... "
Darwin was starting to look a little less impressed.
"Would you look at that big seagull!" said the Pirate Captain, quickly ducking into a beach hut. — Gideon Defoe
Drawing his sword, he gazed down at the gleaming blade. 'I pledge you to the destruction of Sparta,' he whispered. Raising the weapon high he pointed it to the south-east and, though the city was far beyond his range of vision, he pictured the sword poised above it with the sun's harsh light turning it to fire. — David Gemmell
After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place. — Tori Spelling
Love you ... God, finally accepting it was as bad as dying. — Joey W. Hill
I know about an actual murder over a watch, it's in all the newspapers now. If a writer had invented it, the critics and connoisseurs of popular life would have shouted at once that it was incredible; but reading it in the newspapers as a fact, you feel that it is precisely from such facts that you learn about Russian reality. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that even if you wrote about butterfly collecting, you used another name. — John Le Carre
As an exercise, can you recall the last time you saw someone whose gender was ambiguous? Was this person attractive to you? And if you knew they called themselves neither a man nor a woman, what would it make you if you're attracted to that person? And if you were to kiss? Make love? What would you be? — Kate Bornstein
I was rough before. I'm sorry."
The apology, so quiet and unexpected, embarrassed her. "Forget it." She shifted away, drained her cup, set it aside.
"I won't forget it; neither will you." He took her hand, lifted it to his lips. Nothing could have pleased him more than the quick suspicion on her face. "You won't forget me, Eve. You'll think of me, perhaps not fondly, but you'll think of me."
"I'm in the middle of a murder investigation. You're part of it. Sure, I'll think of you. — J.D. Robb
Zoroastrianism? Oh, there's never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that's it. The one true faith. If you're not a Zoroastrian, I'm afraid you are bound for Hell."
The man looked stunned and shocked. "It's not fair."
The demon gave a mirthful laugh. "Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn't it? — Steven L. Peck
it doesn't matter how old you are, how old your child was when he or she died, or the particular manner of your child's death; the hole in your heart never heals over. You can function in life, but you are doomed to fall far short of that contentment which had once been available to you. Soon — David Bagby
It seems like he's keeping my foot within his grasp for longer than necessary when I see his eyes wander up my legs again. I tingle in every spot his gaze touches.
His voice sends shivers up my spine when he asks, "Have you ever been fucked, Eve?"
My eyelids flutter and I let out a small surprised gasp at his question, breath gushing from my lips. I'm not exactly a virgin, not too far off though, and I can safely say that I have never been fucked in the way that Phoenix is insinuating. Most of the sex I've had has been the fantasy kind. Our eyes lock and he moves his hand from the heel of my foot up along the back of my leg, massaging my shin.
I actually moan when his fingers press in, releasing the tension from a knotted muscle. His mouth opens as he watches me.
"I don't think that's a very appropriate question to ask of a friend," I finally manage to croak out.
He smiles darkly. "I told you I was bad news. — Raine Anthony
I didn't say, "I'll call you." I didn't hug her because of the wet clothes. Just a quick kiss. Then I turned and left. I made my way quietly down the hallway to the stairwell. I could tell she thought she wasn't going to see me again. I had to admit she might be right. The knowledge was as damp and dispiriting as my sodden clothes. I came to the first floor and looked out at the entranceway of the building. For a second I pictured the way she had hugged me here. It already seemed like a long time ago. I felt an unpleasant mixture of gratitude and longing, streaked with guilt and regret. And in a flash of insight, cutting with cold clarity through the fog of my fatigue, I realized what I hadn't been able to articulate earlier, not even to myself, when she'd asked me what I was afraid of. It had been this, the moment after, when I would come face to face with knowing that it would all end badly, if not this morning, then the next one. Or the one after that. — Barry Eisler
When I think back about my immediate reaction to that redheads girl, it seems to spring from an appreciation of natural beauty. I mean the heart pleasure you get from looking at speckled leaves or the palimpsested bark of plane trees in Provence. There was something richly appealing to her color combination, the ginger snaps floating in the milk-white skin, the golden highlights in the strawberry hair. it was like autumn, looking at her. It was like driving up north to see the colors. — Jeffrey Eugenides
It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out. — William Goldman
My mother was not educated but she was the best teacher I've ever had in my entire life. She had what it's called natural wisdom, bless her precious soul. Here some of her teachings: Human Values:
Love: Learn to love because everything that's based on love has a deep rooted foundation.
Kindness: Be kind all the time but never let anyone take advantage of your kindness.
Peace: Learn to have peace with yourself when the world turns against you because it starts with you.
Honesty: Be honest to yourself and then to the others.
Respect: Respect others and they will respect you.
Openness: Be always transparent especially when you are hurting. Never pretend that it's all okay.
Loyalty: Always be loyal to your family and make sure your family comes before anything else.
She taught me to learn to compose myself when life gets tough and unfair to me.
I love you mama & Happy Mothers Day — Euginia Herlihy
I think a lot of people are very good, but I don't think anybody could do my rhythm. I was thinking, "If you want my rhythm" - and when I was writing, I was writing them for myself - "why am I watching another actor doing what I should be doing?" It was just a really unpleasant experience. — Jake M. Johnson
Are you sure you're not looking for an excuse to stay in the smokestack with me?"
"If we attempt to check on the weapons now, in daylight, we may be spotted."
"Don't worry. You don't have to say it. I know." Amarante patted him on the chest. "It was good for me too. — Lindsay Buroker
For our ancestors music was something that you sat down to listen to, or which you made for yourself. It was a ceremonial event, in which you participated, either as a passive listener or as an active performer. Either way you were giving and receiving life, sharing in something of great social significance.
With the advent of the gramophone, the radio and now the iPod, music is no longer something that you must make for yourself, nor is it something that you sit down to listen to. It follows you about wherever you go, and you switch it on as a background. It is not so much listened to as overheard. — Roger Scruton
While Diana finds the monarchy as presently organized a crumbling institution, she has a deep respect for the manner in which the Queen has conducted herself for the last forty years. Indeed, much as she would like to leave her husband, Diana has emphasized to her: "I will never let you down." Before she attended a garden party on a stifling July afternoon last year, a friend offered Diana a fan to take with her. She refused saying: "I can't do that. My mother-in-law is going to be standing there with her handbag, gloves, stockings and shoes." It was a sentiment expressed in admiring tones for the Sovereign's complete self-control in every circumstance, however trying. — Andrew Morton
Thank you," she whispered, sending up a quick prayer for his continued recovery.
"You're welcome," Marcus murmured.
Honoria let out a little shriek of surprise, jumping back nearly a foot.
"Sorry," he said, but he was laughing.
It was quite the loveliest sound Honoria had ever heard.
"I wasn't thanking you," she said pertly.
"I know." He smiled — Julia Quinn
Well, Nero," Genghis said, "I just wanted to give you this rose-a small gift of congratulations for the wonderful concert you gave us last night!"
"Oh, thank you," Nero said, taking the rose out of Genghis's hand and giving it a good smell. "I was wonderful, wasn't I?"
"You were perfection!" Genghis said. "The first time you played your sonata, I was deeply moved. The second time, I had tears in my eyes. The third time, I was sobbing. The fourth time, I had an uncontrollable emotional attack. The fifth time-" The Baudelaires did not hear about the fifth time because Nero's door swung shut behind them. — Lemony Snicket
One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills. — Cat Deeley
Ronan: I miss your taste. Come over.
Her reply was almost immediate.
Annie: I'm working. You'll see me tonight.
Oh, no way was she getting off that easily. I went into full-on sext mode.
Ronan: I want to make you come with my mouth.
Annie: Ronan! I'm at the office and Gerta is RIGHT BESIDE ME!
Ronan: Gotta say, that kinda makes it hotter. — L. H. Cosway
Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was storing words. In fact, what was being created was what we call a 'gevaisa', a tomb of living words. — Terry Pratchett
Wasn't that what Jesus said: do what I do? He was here as an example for us to follow. Same with all prophets. Didn't the prophets tell us to be like them? That's what's wrong with Christianity. They make Jesus and the prophets into icons, take them off of earth, and put them in heaven to worship them, so they're no longer accessible. You've taken a reality and made it into a worthless idol. Christians talk about the idolatry of other religions, but when they no longer live principles and just worship the people who taught them, that's exactly what they're doing. — Daniel Suelo
Her armpits were still slightly wet & she examined them one by one. No hair. This was one of her greatest assets over her sister who had underarm hair.Her slender arms & long legs were also free of hair. She had only a little bit of pubic hair, she noticed. It must be terrible to have lots of ugly underarm & thick coarse arm & leg hairs that you had to shave off daily, she thought. A bit more pubic hair, she wouldn't mind, she decided. But they tended to tickle men's nostrils & make them sneeze.[MMT] — Nicholas Chong
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it. — Robin Williams
The first thought was this: that he was a foolish old man, because all his life he'd been looking for something and it was only when Anna joined him in the bar that evening that he realized that home is not something you find outside yourself; home is something you carry inside you, and it's made from the memories of the people you love, and the people who have loved you. — Marcus Sedgwick
The music defied classification. If I had been writing a
review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive,
guitar-driven rock 'n' roll. But the guitars made sounds guitars
didn't always make. Symphonic sounds. Sacred sounds.
The music dug in so deep you didn't hear it so much as feel
it, reminding me of a dream I used to have when I was a kid,
where I would be standing on a street corner, I would jump
into the air, flap my arms, and soar up into the sky.
That's the only way I could describe the music.
It was the sonic equivalent of flight. — Tiffanie DeBartolo
They don't go into what is the cause of goodness, so why of the other shop? If lewdies are good that's because they like it, and I wouldn't ever interfere with their pleasures, and so of the other shop. And I was patronizing the other shop. More, badness is of the self, the one, the you or me on our oddy knockies, and that self is made by old Bog or God and is his great pride and radosty. But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self. And is not our modern history, my brothers, the story of the brave malenky selves fighting these big machines? — Anthony Burgess
Except I was hoping someday to see you standing on a ship's deck in your shirtsleeves with a cutlass between your teeth."
"Maybe it can be arranged — Melanie Dickerson
Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love? — Jennifer Echols
Moved on ... " he said. "Rusted nuts! You can do that?"
"Certainly."
"Huh. You think ... I should ... you know ... Ranette ... "
"Wayne, if ever someone should have taken a hint, it was you. Yes. Move on. Really."
"Oh, I took the hint," he said, taking a swig of sherry. "Just can't remember which jacket I left it in." He looked down at the jug. "You sure?"
"She has a girlfriend, Wayne."
"'S only a phase," he mumbled. "One what lasted fifteen years. ... — Brandon Sanderson
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library. — Alberto Manguel
It was so easy to defy once you got started. The first step was the only one that really counted. — L.M. Montgomery
I don't believe we need a good conservative judge, and I don't believe we need a good liberal judge. I subscribe to the Justice Potter Stewart standard. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. And he said the mark of a good judge, good justice, is that when you're reading their decision, their opinion, you can't tell if it's written by a man or woman, a liberal or a conservative, a Muslim, a Jew or a Christian. You just know you're reading a good judicial decision. — John F. Kerry
Still, past assholes could make a person feel skittish. You had to be careful. It could all suddenly be different than you thought it was. A big possible mistake could be hidden anywhere, ready to blow up everything, same as stepping on a land mine. — Deb Caletti
When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic
I think no-one was surprised to hear that Janis Joplin was dead. She seemed to be living up all of her energy that she had to give in just a few years. Now you listen to covers of her songs by various women, and it's pale in comparison. — Michael Wadleigh
[T]he more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn't training us for a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we need to be clever. He was training us for a situation that was fucked up on all sides. Well, we're in it, and I say we're equal to it. I don't need to be reminded that we're up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we're the gods-damned sharks."
"Right on," cried Bug. "I knew there was a reason I let you lead this gang! — Scott Lynch
Surrogacy used to be difficult, because the woman that was carrying the child was biologically related to the child. And sometimes you can still do it that way, but you do not have to do it that way anymore. — Joan Lunden
The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. — Steve Jobs
With a dreamy sigh, I prop my chin on my fists. "Who knew that one day I'd be on a date with the lead singer from a famous boy band?"
He scowls. "Infinite Gray was not a boy band."
"Were there any girls in the band?"
"That makes you a boy band."
"It made us an all-male rock group."
I bite back my smile. He's so cute when he's irritated. "Right, like 'N Sync."
He winces. "Not like 'N Sync. Jesus, watch where you hurl those things. Words hurt, Maggie. — Lexi Ryan
It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try. — Joseph Stefano
Where are you going?" Millie whispered, although why she was whispering was a bit of a mystery since the sound of yelling, along with a lot of cursing, was flowing into the house. "I'm not just going to sit here while everyone else is fighting my battle." She made it all the way to the door, crawling on her stomach, no less, before she was forced to stop when she encountered a pair of shoes. They were nice shoes, a little dusty, and unfortunately, they belonged to none other than Bram. "You weren't trying to sneak out to help, were you?" he asked, squatting down next to her. "I might have been." "There's no need. Silas has been secured." Lucetta frowned. "He came down here on his own?" Holding out a hand, Bram helped her to her feet before he smiled. "Apparently, yes. I imagine those women he hired weren't too keen to travel the country with him. Aiding and abetting men on the run usually results in a stint behind bars, and they must have decided he wasn't worth that." "I — Jen Turano
I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard. — Drew Bledsoe
The sorrow of war inside a soldier's heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia, like the immense sadness of a world at dusk. It was a daness, a missing, a pain which could send one soaring back into the past. The sorrow of the battlefield could not normally be pinpointed to one particular event, or even one person. If you focused on any one event it would soon become a tearing pain. — Bao Ninh
I never thought I'd say the sentence 'It was a real honour' - because that implies that you've done something pretty special. But now I've done that several times. Yesterday I was in Buckingham Palace - I actually met the Queen yesterday and that was an honour. I never thought I'd do something like that. — Ellie Goulding
Diamonds are held under tons and tons of pressure, extremely high temperatures of fire and shuffled under shifting of tectonic plates, for a long, long time! Yet when they come out from there and are put on display for their beauty; does anybody stop to evaluate the diamond based upon all the shit it's been through and say "Remember that disgusting hole it used to be in? I bet it was hell in there!" No, people don't remember where a diamond has come from; they just see the beauty of it now. But it wouldn't have become so beautiful, you know, if not for all of that! So why should we look at other people, or at ourselves and evaluate them/ourselves based upon their/our pasts? Shouldn't we forget that? And only see the beauty that is in front of our eyes? Whatever it was, it made you beautiful! And that is what matters! — C. JoyBell C.
Everybody was in tears. You turned on the radio or the television, and it was nothing but Gainsbourg. With typical British music journalist disdain, I just figured it was a testament to how poor French pop was if there was this much fuss about a guy who had one hit record, 'Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus)'. — Sylvie Simmons
When we encounter unexpected obstacles in finding out something which we wish to know, there are two possible courses to take. It may be that the right course is to treat the obstacle as a spur to further efforts; but there is a second possibility - that we have been trying to find something which does not exist. You will remember that that was how the relativity theory accounted for the apparent concealment of our velocity through the aether. — Arthur Stanley Eddington
Why are there such long words in the world, Miss?' enquires Sophie, when the mineralogy lesson is over.
'One long difficult word is the same as a whole sentence full of short easy ones, Sophie,' says Sugar. 'It saves time and paper.' Seeing that the child is unconvinced, she adds, 'If books were written in such a way that every person, no matter how young, could understand everything in them, they would be enormously long books. Would you wish to read a book that was a thousand pages long, Sophie?'
Sophie answers without hesitation.
'I would read a thousand million pages, Miss, if all the words were words I could understand. — Michel Faber
It looks like an asylum landed here," Andrew quipped, poking his head out of Oliver's pocket. "Ooh, I spot an ass-shaped tent."
"What? Seriously?" Sophie said, surprised. However, she was quick to look away. "Oh. You meant that kind of ass. Jeez, Andrew. — Zeinab Alayan
I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem. — Emma Forrest
Great! I hope different police officers are here this time."
"Might be, but we're in the same police jurisdiction. I'm certain from the last time you were here, they probably have a record about you. What was it you said? You were playing some game re-enactment the last time you were injured?"
"Yes. How did your brother come up the idea of a paint-ball game? That's a good one."
"He's played them here before. He would like to bring the game back to our world, but we fight for real. — Terry Spear
So let me get this straight." ... "He threw the note at Tommy and then told him to fuck off? Or do I have it backwards?"
"I'm detecting some sarcasm."
"And then got himself sent the principal's office because he was ready to defend your honor?"
"Quinn."
"Her friend waved a hand. "No, I think you might be on to something. This is clearly an elaborate plot to screw with you. He asks you out, he defends you from that meathead - what next?" Quinn's eyes flashed wide in mock surprise. "Crap, Bex, do you think he will do something truly horrible like buy you flowers? — Brigid Kemmerer
I have a black-belt in self-pity. I was an expert in the field. Still am. It's a skill you never forget. — Katja Millay
How much did he charge you?" he asked, intending to add that amount to her allowance.
"Originally he wanted $1,000 whether he finds news of Robert or not. But I offered to pay him twice his fee if he's successful."
"And if he isn't?"
"Oh, in that case I didn't think it was fair that he receive anything," she said. "I persuaded him I was right."
Ian's shout of laughter was still ringing in the hall when they entered the drawing room to greet the Townsendes. — Judith McNaught
I said he had called them because it was from his mind that we drew them, seeking those who hated him, or at least had reason to. The giant you saw might have mastered the Commonwealth, had Severian not defeated him. The blond woman could not forgive him for bringing her back from death. — Gene Wolfe
Who told you it was too late? And more importantly, why did you choose to believe them? — Richelle E. Goodrich
So Captain Jack's come a-courtin'." Her hands stilled on the basket. "Who?" "The tall Shawnee who come by your cabin." The tall one. Lael felt a small surge of triumph at learning his name. Captain Jack. Oddly, she felt no embarrassment. Lifting her shoulders in a slight shrug, she continued pulling the vines into a tight circle. "He come by, but I don't know why." "Best take a long look in the mirror, then." Lael's eyes roamed the dark walls. Ma Horn didn't own one. "Beads and a blanket, was it?" She nodded and looked back down. "I still can't figure out why some Shawnee would pay any mind to a white girl like me." Ma Horn chuckled, her face alight in the dimness. "Why, Captain Jack's as white as you are." "What?" she blurted, eyes wide as a child's. Ma Horn's smile turned sober. "He's no Indian, Shawnee or otherwise, so your pa says. He was took as a child from some-wheres in North Carolina. All he can remember of his past life is his white name - Jack. — Laura Frantz
He didn't operate on the same frequency as everyone else. On one hand, he was more dangerous than anyone I'd ever met.
He could slip into a room, kill you with a spatula, and be out of town before anyone knew about it. On the other, he was the most pure, untarnished soul I'd ever come across. It was an odd mix so uniquely Kale, and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world. — Jus Accardo
When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that. — Anne Heche
Clary raised her eyebrows at Jace. "You hate bergamot?"
Jace had wandered over to the narrow bookshelf and was examining its contents. "You have a problem with that?"
"You may be the only guy my age I've ever met who knows what bergamot is, much less that it's in Earl Grey tea."
"Yes, well," Jace said, with a supercilious look, "I'm not like other guys. Besides," he added, flipping a book off the shelf, "at the Institute we have to take classes in basic medicinal uses for plants. It's required."
"I figured all your classes were stuff like Slaughter 101 and Beheading for Beginners. — Cassandra Clare
It's just ... it's not every day someone comes along willing to take a bullet for your little sister."
I swallow back a laugh, try to lighten the mood. "Nah, I'm sure Hanson would've stepped up."
Daniel rolls his eyes, reaches for his drink. "I hated that kid."
"Jaden thought he was perfect."
"I think Jaden started to see a new kind of perfect when she met you. — Katie Klein
It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better as time went on. These moments are one of the rarest, most fragile things in the world. You have to seize the day; you have to recall all the rotten, dirty things you endured to earn this peace. You have to remember to enjoy each minute, each hour, because although you may feel like it's going to last forever, the world plans otherwise. You want to be grateful for every precious second, but you simply can't do it. It's not in human nature to live life to the fullest. Haven't your ever noticed that equal amounts of pain and joy are not, in fact, equal in duration? Pain drags on until you wonder if life will ever be bearable again; pleasure, though, once it's reached its peak, fades faster than a trodden gardenia, and your memory searches in vain for the sweet scent. — George Alec Effinger
It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way? — Richard Dawkins
I'm glad I found you," Kane said quietly, stepping back as Avery stood.
"I think it was more like me finding you, handsome." For Kane, the sentimental memories were so strong; all he could do was stand there as they held their babies, thinking about their lives, their future,and his love for Avery.
"I can't imagine my life without you," Kane proclaimed sweetly.
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That was Disney, honey,' Min said. 'It wasn't a documentary. — Jennifer Crusie
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How can puzzles help us be more mindful?
by Kathryn Wheeler on 31 August 2021 Read in
What is it that makes a simple jigsaw puzzle such an effective mindfulness practice?
It's the rainy day classic that became a lockdown essential, and while there's nothing new about puzzles (the first jigsaw is thought to have been created in 1762), many of us are just starting to realise the potentially mindful boost that comes with putting the pieces of a puzzle together.
Picture this: you've got the whole of the day ahead of you, no commitments, no meetings, no chores – the time is yours. So you sit down with a puzzle. There's no rush, no deadline and, piece by piece, a beautiful picture starts to form in front of you. It's a homey, mindful scene but, in lockdown, hobbies like puzzling took on a whole new meaning.
"I was furloughed in April 2020, and it struck me that I had all this extra time and nothing to fill it with," Jody Kenny tells us, as she reflects on when she discovered her passion for puzzles. "I hadn't long moved to a new town to be closer to work, but it meant I'd moved away from family – I didn't realise how difficult it would be to occupy every minute of the day."
Jodie started off with some jigsaw apps on her phone, before digging out some puzzles she'd had for years, but had never opened.
"I get deep into doing jigsaws, and time tends to fly. I hyper-focus on tasks because I have Asperger's, but the concentration needed specifically to complete jigsaws took my mind away from being alone," she explains.
"There's much more to those oddly shaped pieces of joy than meets the eye"
"The puzzle piece has long been used as a symbol of autism, but it doesn't have positive connotations in the autistic community, because it's thought that autistic people are puzzles that need to be fixed," Jodie explains. "Doing jigsaws has re-wired my brain into believing that the puzzle isn't broken because it's not complete, but rather it's one small piece that makes up the whole. Jigsaws have helped me to accept myself."
Piece & Quiet puzzles
Echoing the wellbeing benefits of jigsaws, James Edwards, co-founder of Piece & Quiet puzzles, is passionate about their holistic value. "Jigsaw puzzles are making a comeback, and there's much more to those oddly shaped pieces of joy than meets the eye," he says. And that comeback is taking place on a huge scale, with the Guardian reporting that UK sales of jigsaws totalled £100 million in 2020, up 38% on the previous year. So what's behind the draw to simple pastimes like puzzles? James thinks he knows and, here, he breaks down some of the major wellbeing benefits:
1. Improving brain function and memory
The oh-so-satisfying act of successfully placing a puzzle piece does more than just get you one step closer to finishing your piece of art. It actually encourages the production of dopamine, a chemical in the brain that contributes to learning, brain health, and memory.
2. Time away from screens
An article in the Independent investigated the time an adult will spend looking at screens in their lifetime, and it doesn't make for good reading. They found that, on average, British adults were spending more than 13 hours a day looking at screens – that equates to more than 200 days a year. We are huge advocates for anything which helps to get this number down, and that gives us the opportunity to take the time to be present in the moment, and what better way to do that than with an artistic jigsaw puzzle?
3. Increased cognitive ability
Jigsaw puzzles are proven to exercise the mind, boosting cognition and visual-spatial reasoning, but they've also been shown to increase creativity and productivity. The science behind why jigsaws are so effective at kicking your brain into gear is that they engage both the left (analytical) and the right (creative) side of the brain.
4. Reducing stress and anxiety
Exercising both sides of the brain simultaneously has other benefits too. It allows brainwaves to move from a 'beta' state into an 'alpha' state – the same state activated for dreaming, and where our subconscious comes into play – in other words, the mindful side.
When times get tough, it's remarkable what taking things back to basics can do for our mindset, and the rise in the popularity of jigsaw puzzles is the perfect example of this principle in action. So, whether you're ready to dive into a 1,000-piece whopper, or want to start simple, it could be time to pick up the pieces of good wellbeing.
For more information on mindfulness and how it can benefit your mental wellbeing, visit counselling-directory.org.uk
Kathryn is the Head Writer at Happiful magazine.
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Q: Unity mesh collider raycast not working I can not seem to get the raycast to hit the mesh collider. I need this to get the texture uv coordinates.
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{
    var ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
    RaycastHit hit;
    if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out hit, 100f))
    {
        // We've hit this mesh b/c its the only one we have ...
        var texture = meshRenderer.material.mainTexture as Texture2D;

        var pixelUV = hit.textureCoord;
        print("pixs uvs" + pixelUV.ToString());
        pixelUV.x *= texture.width;
        pixelUV.y *= texture.height;

        var position = new Position(pixelUV.x, pixelUV.y);
        print("Position: " + position.x + " " + position.y);

        texture.FloodFillBorder(position.x, position.y, fillColor, borderColor);
        texture.Apply();
    }
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My game object has this script with the update function checking for input, as well as mesh filter, mesh renderer, and mesh collider. The mesh is a simple quad made from unity's menu.
What am I doing wrong? I just do not understand why it is not hitting the mesh. The camera's z position is -10 and the mesh is at 0. Placing differently gives the same results.

A: You can check the Mesh component and see if 'IsTrigger' is checked but may i suggest something else?
Unity does whole this ray casting for you by default. MonoBehaviour class has functions such as  OnMouseDown() or onMouseDrag() etc. where a GUIElement or in your case an object with Collider component gets these events. So if your game object has a collider component just implement one of these methods and you are ready to go.
This may you can keep your update function clean.
Check: http://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.html

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Donlin mine enjoyed years of support in Southwest Alaska, but as the project becomes more real, that's changing
Krysti Shallenberger, Alaska's Energy Desk - Bethel
The Orutsararmiut Native Council in Bethel organized the first public march against the Donlin Gold mine in June 2018. ( Christine Trudeau / KYUK)
For the last two decades, mining companies have been working to develop the massive Donlin Gold prospect in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. And most of that time, the development has claimed support from neighboring communities. But that's changing. Tribes, organizations, and communities have begun opposing the mine development and organizing.
In June 2018, the Orutsararmiut Native Council organized the first public march against the mine. The final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Donlin mine had just been published a couple months before.
Peter Evon is ONC's executive director. He grew up in Akiachak, one of the villages along the Kuskokwim River more than 100 miles south of the mine site.
"You know, I was in junior high when I first heard about it. They were bringing in bikes, bringing in recycling programs, and handing out trash bags with Donlin Gold on them," Evon recalled.
The Donlin prospect has been around for decades, ever since the Calista Corporation and the Kuskokwim Corporation selected the site for development under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. Calista owns the mineral rights.
Read our continuing coverage of Donlin Gold in the Southwest Alaska
A company called Placer Dome struck a deal with Calista and TKC to develop the mine in the mid 1990s. After a series of business acquisitions, that venture became known as Donlin Gold.
Donlin has put a focus on what's sometimes called "corporate citizenship," investing in communities near the proposed development. In any village in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and in Bethel, you see Donlin Gold's logo in the schools: on sweatshirts and coats and hats. Donlin Gold has paid to remove waste from villages. It has rebuilt churches, and purchased scoreboards for village schools.
Evon says that the company knew those steps would be welcomed in one of the poorest regions in the United States that has some of the highest costs of living.
"So anything free is usually associated with something positive, and so they took that approach and that's all I knew growing up," Evon said.
But Donlin Gold spokesperson Kristina Woolston has said that it's the right thing for the company to do.
"It's important that, you know, that your neighbors show a vested interest, and this is something we are, you know, showing every day, year after year: that we're investing now, and we're investing in the future of these communities," said Woolston.
When the company signed the leases with the Native corporations that own the land and mineral rights, Donlin promised to prioritize jobs for their shareholders. There could be 800 mining jobs in the region once the mine is operational. Most of the time that the mine has been in development, it hasn't generated many headlines. People have spoken against it at meetings and hearings, but there weren't many organized, public protests.
In 2006, the Association of Village Council Presidents, a tribal consortium that represents 56 tribes in the region, passed a resolution supporting the proposed Donlin Gold mine as long as it was built in an environmentally-sound manner. Six years later, in 2012, Donlin Gold submitted an application for the environmental process. In 2018, the environmental review was finalized and published. Donlin also received a handful of major state and federal permits. That's when tribes began to object, and to organize.
"Well, we came together very recently as part of the Y-K River Alliance just last month," said ONC tribal member Danielle Craven in a 2018 interview.
Craven said that she knew and had concerns about the mine for years, but it wasn't until the final EIS was published that she realized how real it could become. Like many people in the region, Craven is concerned that a mine accident could destroy the fish in the Kuskokwim River, and that the extra barge traffic would damage the habitat of smaller fish, like smelt. Donlin Gold had to start from scratch to study the smelt, and opponents say that there is not enough data to show that barge traffic will not impact them.
"We became concerned that this was going to harm our way of life and living in the Delta, and so we decided to come together," Craven said.
Donlin has said that it will continue to montior smelt habitat.
Craven helped lead a grassroots effort along the Kuskokwim River during the summer of 2018, urging tribes to pass resolutions protesting the Donlin mine. Twelve did. Then the protesters turned their attention to the regional Native corporation, Calista, which owns the mineral rights. Shareholders staged a sit-in at Calista's annual shareholder meeting in Bethel in July 2018.
Then ONC turned its attention to rescinding the 2006 AVCP resolution supporting the Donlin mine. They teamed up with the Native Village of Kwinhagak at this year's convention. Darren Cleveland is the president of the Native Village of Kwinhagak.
"The tribes felt it was not worth it just for 30 years out of thousands of years that's always been there," Cleveland said.
Tribal delegates rescinded the 2006 resolution and passed an anti-Donlin resolution by huge margins. It marked a significant shift in the region: the Donlin Gold mine no longer enjoyed support from many villages. Now, at least 35 out of 56 tribes in the region were on record against the mine. KYUK sent multiple emails and followup emails to give Calista the opportunity to participate in the story, but Calista was not able to make anyone available. Donlin Gold says it will continue to build the mine as safely as possible, according to Woolston.
"Calista and The Kuskokwim Corporation selected the mine site with their lands specifically for the broad and significant benefits mining is able to provide to the region's residents. These benefits complement subsistence traditions and the very limited economic opportunities available now and in the foreseeable future. Donlin Gold is engineered with modern, sophisticated environmental safeguards, and the rigorous and comprehensive permitting process, which is largely complete, includes engineering, environmental and safety requirements to protect Alaskans."
In response to the anti-Donlin vote, Donlin Gold and Calista released a two-page statement detailing the hundreds of meetings that both companies have held with shareholders over the past two decades.
Tisha Kuhns is the vice president for public lands and resource development at Calista. In a statement to KYUK in September, she emphasized that mines can be developed safely.
"Calista's board will continue to review and manage any regional resource development on ANSCA lands with full awareness and active participation," Kuhns said.
Since then, Calista has intensified their marketing efforts, releasing opinion pieces statewide and a new promotional video. But as Calista promotes the mine, many of its shareholders want a vote on it. Some of them are against the mine. Others think the vote would ensure all shareholders get a say in whether or not the mine is developed. Calista has said that they are considering it.
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Otherwise known as the center of the world.
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I almost feel like it's easier to ask "what can't you do in New York?". Regardless of how epic/popular/boutique/off-the-beaten-path/cliché you want to be, there are PLENTY of options to choose from.
New York is just brimming with adventures and possibilities!
Everything from the obvious like the Statue of Liberty to the inspiring like The Met Museum to the casual walk down The High Line.
There's always something to do in NYC!
NYC is amazing regardless of the time of year you're visiting but it's an especially amazing place to visit for seasonal attractions.
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NYC is notoriously difficult to navigate. Traffic is horrendous, public transit useful but confusing to first-time visitors, and wild weather swings all make NYC quite a challenge.
But if you travel there prepared (especially for quick weather shifts) and with some patience, it's worth every bit of the trouble!
Like most large cities, NYC has plenty of options to choose from when it comes to getting around. There's always a bright yellow cab to take you where you want to go. Otherwise there are Ubers, the Subway, buses, bicycling, and -- my personal favorite -- walking.
NYC is lucky enough to have THREE airports servicing the city. LaGuardia is notoriously hideous and tiny but close to the city. JFK can be very crowded and expensive to fly into but has a convenient train you can take right into Manhattan which can help bypass traffic. Newark is west of Manhattan and also has a fast, convenient train right into Manhattan.
Since Hubby works a lot in NYC I've had the opportunity to travel to the Big Apple quite a bit since I began blogging. And it's inevitably led to quite a few blog posts about my adventures!


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Although Poseidon is beautiful in every shape in which it's offered, it is particularly stunning when featured on the Double Old Fashioned glass and the Kirschner Bowl.


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The former sportscaster's bold commentaries during the darkest days of the Bush/Cheney regime provided a rare counterpoint to the cheerleading not just of Fox News but of most networks. So stark was the contrast that MSNBC attracted a mass audience and was branded as an alternative to brain-dead media.
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in Chicago opened an exhibition of his photographs called "The Working-Class Eye of Milton Rogovin." Class was not merely Milton's subject; it was the optic through which he saw the world, something that distinguished his work from what the culture had expected of social documentary photography since the 1930s.
bare wall. "Who built the Seven Gates of Thebes?" Milton used to quote Brecht. Who made the world we know? Where did they live? What did they love? Milton read history and saw some of the people who made it in perspective. Like aristocrats, they posed for their portraits, without, as he said, any "monkey business" from him.
He made beautiful photographs, printed with great skill, but he was in his own little rivulet off the cultural stream. If he did not make people victims, neither did he make them heroes; nor were his shots grotesque, ironic, vulgar, stolen on the sly. Not quite a modernist, too aesthetically formal for the '60s, too direct for postmodernism, too gritty for the Salgado school of gorgeous misery, Milton was a man out of time.
He was 101 when he died: a '30s man who had worked as an optometrist; a rank-and-file Communist whose importance was inflated by the '50s witch hunt; an everyday man whose world of work collapsed when the government branded him a danger, and who started over by picking up a camera. Eventually he became important in the world of art writers, museum acquisitions and the Library of Congress, which holds all his papers, negatives and thousands of prints. Today the public can find a large selection of his photographs and other resources at miltonrogovin.com.
an affair with his police "close protection" officer. And then midway through Blair's evasions came the news that Andy Coulson, the Conservative Party's head of communications, had stepped down in the wake of an investigation into mobile phone hacking by reporters at the News of the World, where Coulson had once been editor in chief.
tions (Coulson left the News of the World in 2007 after the paper's royal correspondent admitted hiring a detective to intercept messages on Prince William's cell phone. At the time the paper's owner, News Corporation, claimed the incident was a rogue operation).
Which, for American readers, is where this starts to get interesting. When News Corporation paid more than $1 million to settle a single hacking victim's lawsuit, chair James Murdoch signed off on the settlement. Coulson's resignation brought James's dad, Rupert, to London—probably because he's worried about the scandal's effect on his plans to buy the 61 percent of British satellite broadcaster BSkyB he doesn't already own, giving him total control of the country's largest private broadcaster as well as three of its largest-circulation newspapers. Business secretary Vince Cable was widely expected to oppose the deal—until he was taped declaring "war" on Rupert Murdoch by two undercover reporters, and had his powers curtailed by current Prime Minister David Cameron. Who, it turns out, enjoyed a cozy dinner a few days later with James Murdoch and another Murdoch executive.


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The Reliance Synergy Washer/Disinfector is a mechanical washer equipped with an Eagle 3000 Stage 3 control system. The washer/disinfector is designed with nine adjustable cycles. One additional cycle is available for customized programming to meet specific operating requirements. Three injection pumps are provided with a standard washer/disinfector. One enzyme pump, one detergent pump and one lubricant pump (for Thermal Rinse phase) increase the flexibility of the customized cycles. Up to five injection pumps can be installed. Each preprogrammed cycle is equipped with PreWash, Enzyme, Wash, Rinse and Thermal Rinse phases.
10 DIN trays Single-Chamber Double-Door Washer/Disinfector compliant withEN / ISO 15883.
Very good rack-to-chamber ratio of 96%(the closer to 100% the better the fit of the rack for the chamber).
On initial daily start-up, setting the POWER-OFF/STANDBY switch to POWER prepares the washer/disinfector for cycle operation.
Pre-Wash. Cold water enters the sump from the building supply. Once the sump fills, pre-wash water is recirculated and sprayed over the load for two minutes (factory-setting). On completion of the phase, water is sent to the drain. Recirculation time is adjustable from 15 seconds to 15 minutes.
Pulsed Enzyme. Hot tap water enters sump from the building supply, where a selected amount of enzyme detergent is added automatically. The load is sprayed with an enzyme solution for 4.0 seconds, then allowed to soak on instruments for 26 seconds. Spray/soak pattern is repeated for the selected time interval (4.0 to 15 minutes). On completion of the phase, the solution is sent to drain, and the load is rinsed with hot water.
Wash. Hot tap water enters the sump from the building supply, where a selected amount of detergent is added automatically. The detergent solution is heated and maintained at a temperature ranging from 140 to 180°F (60 to 82°C); the factory setting is 150°F (65°C). Once set temperature is reached, a solution is recirculated and sprayed over the load for the selected time interval (2.0 to 15 minutes). On completion of the phase, the solution is sent to the drain.
Neutralizer. Hot tap water enters the sump from the building supply, where a selected amount of neutralizing detergent is added automatically. The detergent solution is heated and maintained at a temperature ranging from 140 to 180°F (60 to 82°C); the factory setting is 150°F (65°C). Once set temperature is reached, the solution is recirculated and sprayed over the load for the selected time interval (2.0 to 15 minutes). On completion of the phase, the solution is sent to the drain.
Rinse. Hot tap water enters the sump from the building supply. Water may be heated and maintained at a temperature ranging from 110 to 180°F (43 to 82°C) for 15 seconds (factory-setting). Once the sump fills, rinse water is recirculated and sprayed over the load for the selected time interval (15 seconds to 15 minutes). On completion of the phase, water is sent to the drain.
Thermal Rinse. Pure water, or hot tap water, enters the sump from the building supply. Pure water rinse is recirculated, heated and maintained at a temperature ranging from 180 to 203°F (82 to 95°C). Once the set temperature is reached, rinse water is recirculated and sprayed over the load for the selected time interval (1.0 to 10 minutes).
In North American washing applications (60-Hz units), a lubricant is automatically injected during the Thermal Rinse at a concentration of 1/8 to 2.0 oz/gal (1.0 to 16 mL/L). On completion of the phase, water is sent to the drain.
HEPA-Filtered Drying. Hot air is recirculated over the load for 6.0 to 60 minutes at low temperature (180°F [82°C]), or 6.0 to 30 minutes at a high temperature (240°F [116°C]).
During the Drying phase, a small quantity of air (approximately 50 scfm) is exhausted through the building vent system, or through the condenser (non-vented system option) to reduce humidity. This exhausted air is replaced by HEPA-filtered fresh air.
The drying efficiency is enhanced by high convection of hot air through diffusers in the chamber and piping in the manifold racks.
On completion of daily usage, the washer can be placed in a STANDBY Mode by setting Power-Off/Standby switch to OFF/ STANDBY position.
Once the switch is set, there is a one-minute delay before the power doors automatically lock.


Call of Duty: Black Ops III ended 2015 at the top, and kicks off 2016 at the top. Activision and Treyarch's latest entry in the long running franchise remains a dominant force on the UK Charts, and will likely hold onto the top spot for the foreseeable future. With no physical releases until late January and early February, Black Ops III could hold the top spot for a very long time.
With no new releases, older titles battle for position within the Top 20. FIFA 16 finally broke through last week and took Star Wars Battlefront's second place. EA and DICE's shooter has to settle for third place this week. Grand Theft Auto V takes fourth place away from another open-world game, Fallout 4. Battlefield 4, now two years old, experience a surge and manages to re-enter the Top 10. This is mostly thanks to price cuts for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions, which accounted for 97% of its sales last week.


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Haplochromis bicolor es una especie de peces de la familia Cichlidae en el orden de los Perciformes.

Morfología
Los machos pueden llegar alcanzar los 15 cm de longitud total.

Alimentación
Come principalmente caracoles y  larvas de insectos.

Hábitat
Vive en zonas de clima tropical hasta los 12 m de profundidad.

Distribución geográfica
Se encuentra en el lago Victoria (África Oriental).

Estado de conservación
La introducción de depredadores, como Lates niloticus , y la sobrepesca parecen ser los responsables de la práctica desaparición de esta especie en los últimos años .

Referencias

Bibliografía
 Eschmeyer, William N., ed. 1998. Catalog of Fishes. Special Publication of the Center for Biodiversity Research and Information, núm. 1, vol. 1-3. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos. 2905. ISBN 0-940228-47-5.
 Fenner, Robert M.: The Conscientious Marine Aquarist. Neptune City, Nueva Jersey, Estados Unidos : T.F.H. Publications, 2001.
 Helfman, G., B. Collette y D. Facey: The diversity of fishes. Blackwell Science, Malden, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos , 1997.
 Hoese, D.F. 1986: . A M.M. Smith y P.C. Heemstra (eds.) Smiths' sea fishes. Springer-Verlag, Berlín, Alemania.
 Maugé, L.A. 1986.  A J. Daget, J.-P. Gosse y D.F.E. Thys van den Audenaerde (eds.) Check-list of the freshwater fishes of Africa (CLOFFA). ISNB, Bruselas; MRAC, Tervuren, Flandes; y ORSTOM, París, Francia. Vol. 2.
 Moyle, P. y J. Cech.: Fishes: An Introduction to Ichthyology, 4a. edición, Upper Saddle River, Nueva Jersey, Estados Unidos: Prentice-Hall. Año 2000.
 Nelson, J.: Fishes of the World, 3a. edición. Nueva York, Estados Unidos: John Wiley and Sons. Año 1994.
 Wheeler, A.: The World Encyclopedia of Fishes, 2a. edición, Londres: Macdonald. Año 1985.

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Bicolor
Taxones descritos por George Albert Boulenger
Animales descritos en 1906

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Civil and religious marriage in France: why do opinions and practices diverge across cohorts?
Population Association of America, communication, 2012,
The frequency of marriage has declined sharply in France, and the proportion of Catholic church weddings is decreasing likewise. But there is a large discrepancy between the marriage statistics of successive cohorts and the opinions on marriage expressed by these same cohorts recorded in 2005 (first wave of the French GGS survey). For example, the proportion of persons who consider that marriage is not an outdated institution is practically stable, whatever the age or cohort. In this study, we use regression techniques to show that, apart from religious practice, opinions on marriage depend on past conjugal history (whether or not respondents have previous experience of marriage or separation). We then link changes of opinion among respondents who participated in the first two survey waves to the family events that occurred between 2005 and 2008 to show that opinions about marriage are liable to change in response to life experiences.
@inproceedings{Prioux2012,
author = {Prioux, F. and Regnier-Loilier, A.},
title = {Civil and religious marriage in France: why do opinions and practices diverge across cohorts?},
booktitle = {Population Association of America, communication},
month = {Jun},
url = {http://paa2012.princeton.edu/abstracts/120700},
owner = {Barbuscia},
address = {Stockholm, Sweden},
abstract = {The frequency of marriage has declined sharply in France, and the proportion of Catholic church weddings is decreasing likewise. But there is a large discrepancy between the marriage statistics of successive cohorts and the opinions on marriage expressed by these same cohorts recorded in 2005 (first wave of the French GGS survey). For example, the proportion of persons who consider that marriage is not an outdated institution is practically stable, whatever the age or cohort. In this study, we use regression techniques to show that, apart from religious practice, opinions on marriage depend on past conjugal history (whether or not respondents have previous experience of marriage or separation). We then link changes of opinion among respondents who participated in the first two survey waves to the family events that occurred between 2005 and 2008 to show that opinions about marriage are liable to change in response to life experiences.}


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Would You Freshen My Shirley Temple, Please?
March 7, 2012 October 11, 2014 Rick Laubscher
When Los Angeles Railway bought its first PCC in 1937, they pulled off a publicity coup by getting then-child star Shirley Temple to unveil it. Today, that first PCC has been fully restored by the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Riverside County, former Ambassador Shirley Temple Black lives in retirement on the Peninsula, and the spirit of that pioneering PCC is reflected in the F-line fleet by No. 1052.
It's just back on the street after Muni's shops gave it extensive roof and body work and a completely fresh paint job. Their attention to detail is fantastic. Paint crew leader Carole Gilbert noticed that the silver striping in the back didn't exactly match photographs of the originals she had obtained since the car was first painted in this livery in the early 1990s. She called us and asked if we would look at some alternatives with her. It's a bit of a tricky deal, because the original LA Railway PCCs were an early model with no "standee" windows above the main side windows, so the striping couldn't be precisely the same. But we found the closest approximation, and for good measure, the original "Railroad Roman" car numbers were applied, in the correct color.
These "tribute liveries" that are seen on the F-line can never be exactly right (except on cars that actually ran in the cities they portray) because Muni's fleet is standardized around three body types instead of the half-dozen or more variations of the PCC that were used in the car's 16-year production span. There are limits to the number of paint colors that can be stored as well. But once again, the Muni maintenance team has done two cities proud with its work — and we hope Shirley Temple Black has a chance to see it one of these days as well!
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It is good that these cars are getting their long-overdue overhaul. These cars have proven to be true workhorses in their third lifespan PTC into SEPTA to MUNI and Morrison Knudsen rebuild program to MUNI.
Rick Laubscher - Market Street Railway says:
Actually, this wasn't a complete overhaul by any means. It was more focused on body work, needed because the rebuilding done by Morrison-Knudsen left much to be desired in getting all the rust out of the cars…besides which, of course, that work was done almost 20 years ago now (as hard as that is for some of us to believe). A true general overhaul of the 1050 class of cars (plus the three original Muni double-enders in the original F-line fleet) is now being scoped. The work Muni has done on cars like 1052 will lessen the need (and cost) for parts of that general overhaul.


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Q: How can I return self and another variable in a python class method while method chaining? I understand what I am asking here is probably not the best code design, but the reason for me asking is strictly academic. I am trying to understand how to make this concept work.
Typically, I will return self from a class method so that the following methods can be chained together. My understanding is by returning self, I am simply returning an instance of the class, for the following methods to work on.
But in this case, I am trying to figure out how to return both self and another value from the method. The idea is if I do not want to chain, or I do not call any class attributes, I want to retrieve the data from the method being called.
Consider this example:
class Test(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.hold = None

    def methoda(self):
        self.hold = 'lol'
        return self, 'lol'

    def newmethod(self):
        self.hold = self.hold * 2
        return self, 2

t = Test()
t.methoda().newmethod()
print(t.hold)

In this case, I will get an AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'newmethod' which is to be expected because the methoda method is returning a tuple which does not have any methods or attributes called newmethod.
My question is not about unpacking multiple returns, but more about how can I continue to chain methods when the preceding methods are returning multiple values. I also understand that I can control the methods return with an argument to it, but that is not what I am trying to do.
As mentioned previously, I do realize this is probably a bad question, and I am happy to delete the post if the question doesnt make any sense.

A: Following the suggestion by @JohnColeman, you can return a special tuple with attribute lookup delegated to your object if it is not a normal tuple attribute.  That way it acts like a normal tuple except when you are chaining methods.
You can implement this as follows:
class ChainResult(tuple):
    def __new__(cls, *args):
        return super(ChainResult, cls).__new__(cls, args)
    def __getattribute__(self, name):
        try:
            return getattr(super(), name)
        except AttributeError:
            return getattr(super().__getitem__(0), name)

class Test(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.hold = None

    def methoda(self):
        self.hold = 'lol'
        return ChainResult(self, 'lol')

    def newmethod(self):
        self.hold = self.hold * 2
        return ChainResult(self, 2)

Testing:
>>> t = Test()
>>> t.methoda().newmethod()
>>> print(t.hold)
lollol

The returned result does indeed act as a tuple:
>>> t, res = t.methoda().newmethod()
>>> print(res)
2
>>> print(isinstance(t.methoda().newmethod(), tuple))
True

You could imagine all sorts of semantics with this, such as forwarding the returned values to the next method in the chain using closure:
class ChainResult(tuple):
    def __new__(cls, *args):
        return super(ChainResult, cls).__new__(cls, args)
    def __getattribute__(self, name):
        try:
            return getattr(super(), name)
        except AttributeError:
            attr = getattr(super().__getitem__(0), name)
            if callable(attr):
                chain_results = super().__getitem__(slice(1, None))
                return lambda *args, **kw: attr(*(chain_results+args), **kw)
            else:
                return attr

For example,
class Test:
    ...
    def methodb(self, *args):
        print(*args)

would produce
>>> t = Test()
>>> t.methoda().methodb('catz')
lol catz

It would be nice if you could make ChainResults invisible.  You can almost do it by initializing the tuple base class with the normal results and saving your object in a separate attribute used only for chaining.  Then use a class decorator that wraps every method with ChainResults(self, self.method(*args, **kw)).  It will work okay for methods that return a tuple but a single value return will act like a length 1 tuple, so you will need something like obj.method()[0] or result, = obj.method() to work with it.  I played a bit with delegating to tuple for a multiple return or to the value itself for a single return; maybe it could be made to work but it introduces so many ambiguities that I doubt it could work well.


For over three decades, the Brigham Young Cougars have been known to put a lot of points on the scoreboard. Just last season, Mitch Payne set a new school record for most points scored in a career—334. That record appears to be safe for the time being, but don't be surprised if a BYU Cougar achieves another scoring milestone in 2011. Looking back over the last 60 years, BYU football players have a propensity to reach high-water marks in scoring in years that end in 1 or 6.
Running back Roy Oliverson set a school record by scoring 90 points on 15 touchdowns (12 rushing, 3 receiving).
Running back Jeff Blanc finished his career as the BYU record holder for most points scored in a career with 174 points (29 touchdowns—21 rushing, 8 receiving).
Running back Waymon Hamilton broke Oliverson's 30-year old record for most points scored in a season by scoring 96 points on 16 touchdowns (14 rushing, 2 receiving).
Running back Lakei Heimuli finished his career by tying Hamilton's record set in 1983 for most points scored in a career with 192 points (32 touchdowns—30 rushing, 2 receiving).
Kicker Ethan Pochman shattered Hamilton's record for most points scored in a single season as he became the first Cougar to eclipse the century mark by scoring 123 points.
Running back Luke Staley made Pochman's 123 points look like child's play. Staley scored 170 points (28 touchdowns—24 rushing, 4 receiving—and one 2-point conversion) during the 2001 season. Not only was Staley's 170 points the most points scored by a BYU player in a single season, he was the nation's leading scorer in 2001.
Staley also finished his career in 2001 with the most points scored in a career by a non-kicker, 290.
Looking ahead to 2011, if a BYU player sets a new scoring standard, who will it be? Every player on this list, except one is a running back. From the pool of running backs, Joshua Quezada will probably score the most points. I am not sure if it will be enough to join this prestigious list. However, don't count out kicker Justin Sorenson. The offense, led by Jake Heaps, is poised to explode. Sorenson might be the biggest beneficiary and rise to the top of the single-season scoring charts.