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...thing quite like this. I’ve been amazed at what I’ve learned by getting the “big picture.” On Day 17, I was struck by Judges 3:1-2. I felt like the Lo... ...s life. All of us have a huge collection of rejection letters, including the big name authors always on the Best Sellers Lists. And actually, a writer... ...vel will be published in a few months, which is very nice, but it’s not that big a deal. What is a big deal is that I’ve dusted off those pompoms. I’m... ...houghts and emotions. I felt like smacking myself for trying to be a one-man band. As writers we don’t see all sides of the business and it’s easy to ... ...to my heart (and skin) are those “custom-made” pieces, my plain gold wedding band with the words ‘I Love Y ou’ that my husband had engraved inside thi... ...hrist the chairman of my tribe. (And for those whose spouses aren’t on their bandwagons, Wilson suggested staying for the next conference: a marriage ... ...arden, FL.. She also plans travel for the Lake Highland Prep School Academy Singers of Orlando and writes creative entertainment programs for Family ...

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...d never received flowers in my room; that was always for the chorus girls or singers. I was merely the horse woman and not sought after by admirers,... ... but first I needed to change into more practical attire. I cross-tied the big horse and ran up the brief flight of stairs to my room. Inside, I ... ...approval.” He opened the box to show me two pieces. One was a simple gold band, clearly made to fit Erik’s hand. For me, Erik had selected a gold ... ... to select our wedding supper?” He extended his left hand to me. The gold band shone proudly on his finger. 48 “I would be delighted,” I responde... ...ed me,” I responded as I stepped out of the shadows. I drew Erik’s wedding band from my reticule then. He slipped a trembling left hand through th... ...ed the nightclubs of Monmartre. I had never been to a follies and seen the singers and dancers there. Again, no one seemed at all shocked at a wom... ...dame LeMaitre. She is going to ride out for a while.” Once I was up on the big mare, it was as though a burden was lifted from my heart. I asked h... ...arden for the opera on Christmas Eve. It’s a mixed program, and one of the singers is from France. She thought that you might enjoy it.” She drop... ...et you to the corset-maker soon, Ma’am Claire. This French one is just too big now.” She made a pretty moue. It was my favorite China-blue silk; I ...

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...re—the mix of earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to t... ...y produce a high-quality prod- uct, or a reliable cheap product, and build a big market share if a free rider could wait until people liked the produc... ...ces in the next chapter.) They will argue, and again I agree, that there are big differences be- tween the three fields I have described. Should we not... ... to produce the next beach novel, the next academic monograph, the next teen band CD, the next hundred-million-dollar movie? But this mistakes my sugg... ...t was neither comfortable nor noble, and certainly not very egalitarian. The big point about the enclosure movement is that it worked; this innovation... ...he VCR, the Napster service had sub- stantial noninfringing uses. It allowed bands to expose their music to the world through the “New Artists” progra... ...bout peer-to-peer systems? We talk about “cheap speech” on the Internet, but bandwidth is actually expensive. If one is talking about music or video fi... ...east till he figures out how to get his own shit together. T oday I hear some singers who I think sound like me. Joe Cocker, for instance. Man, I know ... ...ms that there was a different source, a mysterious song by the Bailey Gospel Singers, or the Harold Bailey Gospel Singers, called “I’ve Got a Savior.”...

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...t on top of the condescending tone, the guy kept staring at him with these big cow eyes, like he was looking at one of them anorexic supermodel bitche... ...ppening. This wasn't happening. They'd made a mistake. Somebody had made a big mistake. "Are you all right?" "Y—no..." "You're not going to pass out o... ...d wanted to protect his privacy. Okay, so he'd sold weed, even some crack. Big deal. What homeboy nowadays didn't? Not too many that Kelly knew. "Next... ...stoop and collapsed onto the bottom step. His legs felt like frayed rubber bands, whole body shaking as if he had the d.t.s; his heart trembled and sw... ...ed. Dagny shrugged, reached for her juice glass and Tyler noticed the gold band on her ring finger. He caught her by the wrist and pulled her close. "... ...y the wrist and pulled her close. "What's this?" "It's ... it's my wedding band. Isn't it?" "Why are you wearing it?" "What kind of question is that?"... ...dows to better hear the dreamy violin strains backing the harmonizing male singers as they belted out a pure song with deep sentiments of being inside...

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...was easy, because there were large trees nearby. The pillars were made of big treetrunks, but the walls and floor were still made of bamboo. Why... ...lump affected everything? What could be done to improve the situation? How big is your factory? have two children, and I send them money constantly f... ... of progress and development has taken place. In those days, lots of great big trees grew here, so you couldn't see from one house to the next, and ju... ... o'clock, when others also share a meal. The most affluent may also hire a band for the occasion. After the monks have departed, the guests sit at tab... ... houses, nor paintings - the walls are hung with pictures of the king, pop singers and film stars, and calendars, but some have acquired carved teak p... ...rs; music is a part of youth culture, and pupils in schools have their own bands as they do in Western countries. In the 1980s, video rental and sales... ...xpensive. When I was a child, we'd play a coin tossing game or with rubber bands, we either blew them or tossed them. We also used to play at shops a ... ... Ordinary Thai faces are only seen occasionally on TV news. Neither do pop singers on TV sing like people in Thailand used to sing. Their voices do no... ...le is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same style as pop singers on all the world's televisions. In Thailand, lightening shampoos, l...

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...erse 1 How the Universe Came into Being. In order to understand how the Big Bang happened, some basic facts must be established. Two basic fa... ... established. Two basic facts about the emergence of the Universe before the Big Bang are: Two pre-existing basic conditions existed before the ... ...ausal Dynamics responsible for the explosion can be traced back to before the Big Bang because the Condition of Causality existed before the Big Ban... ...ed. Fire replaced both the center and the defensive outer rim of the tribal band; it replaced the living center of the band: weakest-youngest in t... ...replaced the living center of the band: weakest-youngest in the center of the band, it also replaced the most powerful-bravest defenders outside on ... ...t also replaced the most powerful-bravest defenders outside on the rim of the band. It replaced any need for using defensive weapons at night aroun... ...; that features ordinary people trying to mimic-duplicate famous entertainers-singers. The premises… the assumptions… the norms, the normality, the... ... is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain popular recog... ...e to compete at all… no matter if they happen to be ten times better than the singers who do compete… then they automatically lose. And are conside...

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...persuasively that humans could not have developed such disproportionately big brains without having lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants fr... ...nformation technology. Mnemonics skills that once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irri... ...tained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits, and instituted the use of paper money. Safe transit of goods a... ...ower cases, clicked them into his printer‘s stick, and then inserted space bands between groups of letters to create words. He had to justify each... ...letters to create words. He had to justify each line with smaller space bands so that it filled exactly the allotted space between column margins,...

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...persuasively that humans could not have developed such disproportionately big brains without having lived primarily on aquatic animals and plants fr... ... information technology. Mnemonics skills that once worked well for poet-singers‘ stories failed to meet the needs of an economic species that irri... ...tained post stations, lowered tolls and taxes, protected caravans against bandits, and instituted the use of paper money. Safe transit of goods and... ...ower cases, clicked them into his printer‘s stick, and then inserted space bands between groups of letters to create words. He had to justify each l... ...f letters to create words. He had to justify each line with smaller space bands so that it filled exactly the allotted space between column margins,...

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..., what is this that can happen to a man? Why has it happened? His arms in bandages, his eyes forever bandaged by the dark. “Alcaeus...” He heard m... ...fifty of us. Hands resting on a table, arms healed and ringed with copper bands, he leaned forward, waiting for silence. His hair had been freshly c... ...is hand swept sideways, spread flat. “Oh yes, coral...and plenty of fish, big ones. I swam halfway down to the city, but there was no air in me to s... ...s best I could, both of us splashing, falling, the surf rising around us, big. He fell on the beach and I ran for help but before I could find help ... ...ing and snapping till almost noon, the little turtle brought a fly to the big turtle. Finding the big fellow asleep, the little one had to cuff him. ... ...seemed mortuary. Yet, I saw no dead, only the injured: Libus helped them, bandaging, talking: I gave wine and water, afraid: he was annoyed by my fe... ... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ...

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... anything make the loudest political noises, whether it is people who own big businesses, labor unions, homosexuals or strongly conservative religio... ...s. But then as I think of it, even the strongly atheistic people can make big noises. A small part of that 5% of atheists want to maintain the separ... ... gas came from matter? Astrophysicists can only go back to just after the Big Bang. I have to go beyond time and space, and there we can say, ‗I don... ...re merely looking for the shock value of being counter-culture. Some rock bands fit this category. You also sometimes have murderers or child molest... ...e tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schools and hospitals? What about fitne... ...r frustration, like a recent teen suicide prompted when his favorite rock band cancelled a local concert. What could be more painful and 348 fru... ...omen of reproductive age. Thank goodness that most of the world is on the bandwagon to alleviate the suffering of poverty, illness and overcrowding....

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...es and those that grow from our malice. For in the latter we are directly bandied against the rules of reason, which nature hath imprinted in us; an... ...wels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps and buttocks, where when they eat th... ... lesser stature than himselfe, and tooke his coat from him, which was too big for him: our Master having made me judge of that difference, I judged ... ... as well when we have no hope of children, as when they are over-aged, or big with childe. It is an homicide, according to http://www.uoregon.edu/%7... ...t: and having the choice of it, if none compell us, we are very fooles to bandy for that partie which is irkesome unto us: and to give infirmities, ... ...ompositions to him that shall make head against it. A man must oppose and bandy against it. In recoyling and giving ground, we call and draw on the ... ...him, that it is a custome of popular or base men to call for minstrels or singers at feasts, and an argument they want witty or good discourses and p...

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... saw us as being in search of meaning in our lives. B. F. Skinner saw humans as primarily seeking rewards and avoiding punishment. And Albert Bandur... ...asted only three months in formal education. He was home-schooled by his mother who gave him the drive for success. ―Some of us have big hu... ...1920‘s songstress whose ample body produced the powerful tunes that rocked the speakeasies of the 20s. Sophie was one of America‘s most famous singer... ...ower to overcome one‘s inferiority. ―Bullying is getting worse as students‘ self esteem drops. And as with violent gangs, bullies often band t... ...ists and the business leaders, and have come closer to utopia than I had ever dreamed possible.‖ --―We have also used the approach of Albert Bandur... ...ary Poppins . . . practically perfect.‖ —―You illustrate our nearly universal opinions, that we don‘t make mistakes or misjudgments. The big mi... ... I‘ve rerun that instant in my mind, but it was definitely a peak experience. ―Another was approaching Saturn‘s rings. And one of the big on... ... largest stage spanning one end of the area and the giant Egyptian pyramid revolving above it, the unamplified voices of the world‘s greatest singer...

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... a swimming pool or use a great deal of water for landscaping, they pay a big premium for that. “We have improved on the machine that pulls wa... ...vior so we have no violent films. “We agree with your psychologist Bandura that much of children‟s behavior is learned by the behavior they s... ...ey all have positive moral lessons. Look at your favorite fairy tales—the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood; the wicked step mothers and step si... ...est that people accord such high status to watching people play? The rock band singer makes millions while he is damaging people‟s hearing by scarrin... ...tial. Salaries here are pretty much performance based. As we said earlier, singers, actors and professional athletes are paid little. They are superf...

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...uin and a slanting of the man's face as if he were ready to give Sang Huin a big fat kiss. Sang Huin picked up his book bag on the spare seat near the... ...t. You are surely thirsty." Sang Huin shook his head and laid it back on the big rock that he used as a pillow. "I came up here to ask you if you woul... ... meant water. What, he thought to himself, was the word for lake? "Kun mul? (big water)...no, that would never work!" Somehow he found it and got out ... ...he pothole-faced teacher with the aid of his rarely forsaken tools of rubber bands and quickly manufactured spit wads. His ethereal dreaminess, movin... ...e could remove the glass fragments from the exploding glass house of family, bandage wounded childhood, and could at last distance oneself from memori... ... there ﾁNYou left me positing the possibility of going there but now I am in Bandung Indonesia and planning to go deep into the jungles. My choice on... ...t to him as to other foreigners, "Taxi cab! Border line, Mister!"; mariachi singers; zebra wagons for tourist photos; Burger King; stores with rectan...

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... it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again ? there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don?t mean at sermon- time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, o...

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...nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again the... ... strain a Dirge and as he listened, Trotty heard his child among the singers. The Chimes Charles Dickens 43 ‘She is dead!’ exclaimed the o... ...your coming, my good friend!’ Before Will Fern could make the least reply, a band of music burst into the room, attended by a lot of neighbours, scre... .... ‘Please to play up there. Will you have the goodness!’ To the music of the band, and, the bells, the marrow bones and cleavers, all at once; and wh...

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...................................................................... 15 THE BIG DRUNK DRAF’ .............................................................. ...g afore he was as bright as a button again. He hed a way o’ flyin’ at them big yaller pariah dogs as if he was a harrow offan a bow, an’ though his we... ...eead o’ t’ one ‘at got lost so reg’lar, an’ was lost for good at last. THE BIG DRUNK DRAF’ We’re goin’ ‘ome, we’re goin’ ‘ome— Our ship is at the ... ...ey joined the low coast of Malacca away to the eastward. The voices of the singers at the harmonium were held down by the awnings, and came to us with... ...’s Lift on his bay’nit an’ swung a Paythan clear off his feet by the belly-band av the brute, an’ the iron bruk at the lockin’-ring. ‘“Tim Coulan’ll s... ... Ortheris calmly, ‘you’d look fine with all your buttons took orf, an’ the Band in front o’ you, walkin’ roun’ slow time. We’re both front-rank men, m... ...sez he to the Doctor, an’ Vulmea was made so for a warnin’. His big bloody bandages an’ face puckered up to wan side did more to kape the bhoys from m...

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... it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again --there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I don?t mean at sermon-time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, on...

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... nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again — there... ...nful strain — a Dirge — and as he listened, Trotty heard his child among the singers. “She is dead!” exclaimed the old man. “Meg is dead! Her spirit c... ...your coming, my good friend!” Before Will Fern could make the least reply, a band of music burst into the room attended by a lot of neighbours, scream... .... “Please to play up there. Will you have the goodness!” To the music of the band, the bells, the marrow bones and cleavers, all at once; and while th...

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...cular Intermediate happened to be empty till I reached Nasirabad, when the big black-browed gentleman in shirt-sleeves entered, and, following the cus... ... him, ‘He has gone South for the week.’ He’ll know what that means. He’s a big man with a red beard, and a great swell he is. Y ou’ll find him sleep- ... ...ers, petty contractors, and all that, and we have decided that India isn’t big enough for such as us.” They certainly were too big for the office. Dra... ...e before had I seen eyebrows that met over the nose in an inch-broad black band, but for the life of me I could not tell where. “I don’t know you,” I ... ...ide, his hat in his hand, quavering dolorously after the fashion of street-singers at Home. There was not a soul in sight, and he was out of all possi...

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... to conde- scend to follow and study him in his privacy. Ah, my dear, when big and little men come to be measured 5 Thackeray rightly, and great and ... ..., and disturb the sancti- fied dulness of the faithful;—quick! a couple of big beadles rush out and belabor the wretch, and his yells make our devotio... ...the coffin. During the embarkation, which the Prince directed himself, the bands played fu- neral airs, and all the boats were stationed round with th... ... opinion? For the same reason the Little- endians in Lilliput abhorred the Big-endians; and I beg you to remark how his Royal Highness Prince Ferdinan... ...neers, one of Infantry—little, alert, brown-faced, good-humored men, their band at their head playing sounding marches. These were followed by a regim... ...and the coffin was placed in the temple pre- pared for it. The six hundred singers and the fiddlers now com- menced the playing and singing of a piece...

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...nought is more mighty than man… . He masters by his devices the tenant of the fields. Sophocles. Who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Job. THE D... ...ed as a man living of his own free will in Le Monastier, when he might just as well have lived anywhere else in this big world; it arose a good deal f... ...ld bury myself in it up to the neck; for my head I trusted to a fur cap, with a hood to fold down over my ears and a band to pass under my nose like a... ... uncultivated, and but recently disforested from terror of the wolves. 19 Robert Louis Stevenson Wolves, alas, like bandits, seem to flee the travell... ...r I was goading Modestine down the steep descent that leads to Langogne on the Allier. On both sides of the road, in big dusty fields, farmers were pr... ... his head was solidly fixed to the yoke like those of caryatides below a ponderous cornice; but he screwed round his big honest eyes and followed us w... ...eading the insolence of a conventicle below his very windows, he ordered forth his soldiers to report. But the psalm-singers were already at his door,...