text:
Start by taking a peek at the uncommon amount of gore: Bodies explode when they impact the ground, like enormous water balloons filled with blood. A belt made of human flesh shows up on a subway platform. Limbs and heads are everywhere. This is not a film for the faint of heart.
Continue reading: Suicide Club Review
Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino has stunned the world with his latest video 'This Is America' which blends comedy and dance with flippant violence.
On the road to promote their much-acclaimed 13th album, which was a place shy of topping the UK charts, Manic Street Preachers showed they are far...
That final battle scene? Yeah, it was a poo-poo. Whatever that means.
Slavery is a choice and Trump has dragon energy...
Corgan took to Instagram to confirm rumours of new Pumpkins material, saying the first songs could arrive as early as May.
A group of 54 Tokyo schoolgirls lock hands and happily leap in front of a...


text:
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
There's no place like home
"Oh, but anyway, Toto, we're home! Home! And this is my room -- and you're all here! And I'm not going to leave here ever, ever again, because I love you all! And -- Oh, Auntie Em -- there's no place like home!"
There are days where I cling to those lines and want to cry out, "I'm not going to leave here...because I love you all!" Durham/Chapel Hill has been a rich, rich place of community and family for me. My mom grew up in Durham. I grew up visiting my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins here and in smaller towns nearby. I had four glorious years at UNC-Chapel Hill. I found new friends and an extended family in them as I planted deep roots first in Chapel Hill, and in the last few years, in Durham. I've been part of two churches that have nurtured and encouraged my heart. I am by all accounts a Carolina girl, tried and true. North Carolina is home.
Or at least I thought.
Because right up against all of this is my ecstatic desire to be with Jason and to be his wife. This new adventure of marriage is one that I have looked forward to my entire life. This weekend, I will get to spend more time getting to know his family...my family, really. And I love that! I love that I'll have more sisters, and finally brothers, and nieces and a nephew. I personally think, the more family the better!
The question for me these days is, where is home? There's a constant tension in my heart between longing for Jason and Texas, and grieving the loss of friends, family and North Carolina.
In an offhanded remark in her email, a friend set me at ease,
"I remember when I moved > 1000 mi from home. See, 'home' is wherever the two of you decide to be. I"d go anywhere, as long as my husband was there. I'd wither and die without him. At least I feel like I would."
So there it is. Words for what my heart has been seeking. I still agree with Dorothy. There certainly is no place like home. It just looks like this is a season where I'm going to leave one to find another. And then I'll have two. How lucky am I?
3 comments:
I like to think that home isn't something that is replaced, but rather expanded. Michigan will always be one kind of home to me, after all, that's where my mighty Wolverines are, my hometown, my family, my childhood home. Home is also in deep conversations with friends who know me to the core. Like you pointed out, home is also in the familiar embrace of your love. No doubt where Alex is is my home, but I like to think that with every city I live in, every friend I make, I create an even larger home in the world.ReplyDelete
Ah, a question that I'm familiar with...Jason is in a job and a place that he is committed to for the next few years. I'm completely supportive of this and eager for the new adventure that awaits me. Still, doesn't make the leaving any easier.ReplyDelete
And I'm asked that question at least once a day by parents at my school :)
Love me some comments! If you don't have a Google/Gmail ID, please make sure you leave your name and/or email. Also, I moderate my comments so don't be alarmed if it doesn't show up right away. Thanks, y'all!

subset: commoncrawl


text:
A great time as always!!!!
Norwegian Star Cruise Review to Mexico
Sail Date: October 18, 2008
Ship: Norwegian Star
Cabin Type: Oceanview
Traveled As: Couple
Reviewed: 9 years ago
Review Summary
Overall I did like the ship. It was very clean and the public restrooms were easy to find. ( I have sailed on a ship that seemed to have limited public restrooms ) The water slides were alot of fun but they take away from the limited space in the pool area. The casino is large and has some great promotions! The staterooms have the largest bathrooms I have ever seen on a ship!!!!
Ship Experiences
Food and Dining
Service and Staff
Ship Quality
Cabin / Stateroom
Pros: Freestyle, great service
Cons: Too many restaurants that charge a fee
Recommends Norwegian Star? Yes!
Be the first to comment
Leave a Comment
Remember: Be polite and respectful. Our diverse community is home to members with different opinions and a broad range of cruise experiences.


text:
Church Horsted Keynes
Church in Horsted Keynes (Results 1 - 2 of 2)
- St. Stephen's ChurchHAMSLANDRH17 7DX Horsted Keynes 01444 450139Closed
... church
- The Sower TrustSTROUDS, CHURCH LANERH17 7AY Horsted Keynes
... Real Estate Investment, Religious Organizations, Religious Organisation, church
More results nearby from the Churches & Temples category
- All Saints ChurchTHE VICARAGE, LEWES ROADRH17 7ER Danehill 01825 790269
... Places Of Worship, worship, Faith, religion, church, God, place of worship, prayer, praying
- St. Raphael's ChapelChurch LaneRH17 7EZ Haywards Heath 01444 450139Closed
... Parish Church, Chapel, Nursing Home
- Ardingly Congregational ChurchTHE MANSE, STREET LANE, TWINEHAMRH17 6UB Ardingly 01444 892221
... WORSHIP, Places Of Worship
- Lindfield Parish Church122-122A High StreetRH16 2HS Lindfield 01444 482405
... places worship, Places Of Worship, prayer, Faith, place of worship, God, praying, worship, worship...
- Lindfield United Reformed Church50 High StRH16 2HL Lindfield 01444 482098Closed
Visit www lindfieldurc org uk for up to date information on the life of Lindfield United Reformed Church, High Street Lindfield, West Sussex, UK.
- Clairview Books LtdRusset, Sandy Lane, West HoathlyRH19 4QQ West Hoathly
Clairview Books - Publishers of books on modern spirituality and personal development. Book descriptions and on-line sales.
- St. Margarets ChurchNorth LnRH19 4PP West Hoathly 01342 810757
Church has been the focus of Christian worship for the communities of West Hoathly and Sharpthorne for over 900 years. Nourished by scripture, prayer and shared discipleship, we of this generation...
- Clairview BooksHILLSIDE HOUSE THE SQUARE LEWES ROADRH18 5ES Forest Row 01342 824 000
Clairview Books - Publishers of books on modern spirituality and personal development. Book descriptions and on-line sales.
- St Peters ChurchRECTORY, CHURCH LANERH17 6UR Ardingly 01444 892332
... religion, Places Of Worship, worship, place of worship, God, prayer, Faith, church, praying
- St. Peter's ChurchCHURCH LANERH17 6UR Ardingly
... Christian Churches, bible study, church community, Sunday School
Searches related to Church Horsted KeynesAdvanced Search: Church Horsted Keynes
Search filters
Companies with:
- Website (1)
- E-mail (1)
- Opening Times (1)


text:
When celebrities SNAP: Cameron Diaz & Justin Timberlake battle midget paparazzi!
(click pic for larger image of paparazzi staring at JT's weiner)
Poor paparazzi, getting the bumrush from Cameron Diaz AND passing up an unbelievable opportunity to cockpunch Justin Timberlake. Click the links below for larger pics:
- Cameron D. shaking paparazzi guy like a cheap maraca
- Justin Timberlake gets all up in midget paparazzi guy's grill
- Tearful paparazzi, realizing he's just been pwnd, now is either chasing Cameron Diaz to get camera back or wants her god awful yellow shoes
Other popular links at Snarkyspot:
Babe Peeing in Urinal
Hot Sisters
Anna Kournikova in a yellow bikini plays crotch peekaboo
Babes of the Goose: adriana lima victorias secret christmas 2004
Snarkybabes Pics: Britney Spears
Keira Knightley photos
Jessica Alba pics!
Chopper babe - Photos of a bikini girl on a motorcycle at Flickr
Yummy! Two Girls Kissing
Team Photo: Sheer Perfection
daedalsobriquet: so last night i saw motley crue
Scary women of bodybuilding
Yamaha causes 'bumpy irritation'? or "Mama, it burns!!!"
Guy tries to launch bottle rocket from clenched buttcheeks
Twenty Underused Yoga Positions
Hot babe + man boobs = best radio stunt evah!
Black guy's ninja skills are both questionable and painfully funny
White boy rappin': Horrible and funny (mp3s available)
Nympho robot takes political action (stinky Flash anim?)
Hippo eats dwarf
What the hell is wrong with people?!?
Wigger Comix!
Japanese chicks slap the taste from each other's mouths!
My new fighting technique is unstoppable!
Prison Survival Guide
God loves... the gays?
Punch yourself in the face!
When celebrities SNAP: Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake battle midget paparazzi!
Biker Fox is ready to come to work!
Stick figure vet loving up on a cow
EA Games management motivational posters
What the hell is wrong with this picture?
Food chain sells 6 lb. hamburger
Spongebob Squarepants pukes!
Who does this baby belong to?
The New Yorker Spins Senate Antics Old Skool


text:
Zoe is unrecognisable after her unbelievable 52kg weight loss!
Zoe has lost an ENORMOUS 52kgs with the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenges and we can't believe how amazing she looks! That's right…52kgs, half of her starting weight!
Zoe is unrecognisable after her unbelievable 52kg weight loss!
Zoe says, "52kg gone- half of me then what I was. Have gotten to where I wanna be now just the toning stage.
Gave myself a better healthy lifestyle then what I had and I am so glad that I jumped on The Healthy Mummy products and got the results I wanted. It's all about still enjoying life and having stuff in moderation, which I still have to learn cause I never "treat" myself much. But here I am today- happy, healthy and thank you to Team Healthy Mummy! Now the toning journey."
You're incredible Zoe! We can't wait to hear how your toning goes!
Did you know mums have lost OVER 3 million kg with us?
The Healthy Mummy exists to help tired, busy mums like you SHIFT THE BABY WEIGHT and REACH YOUR GOAL WEIGHT.
The 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge is an affordable, breastfeeding-friendly and realistic program that helps mums tackle their diet and improve their overall health through weekly (and customisable) meal plans, at-home exercises and 24/7 social support.
Our Challenge entails:
- 28 days of at home exercise routines (no gym needed) – with video instruction
- Customisable and breastfeeding friendly meal plans
- Time-efficient exercises for busy mums – under 30 mins
- Challenge combines Pilates exercises with interval and circuit training (HIIT)
- Suitable for basic to advanced fitness levels
- Home to thousands of EASY-TO-MAKE recipes!
To find out more on the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge click here.


text: [[quoteright:250:[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squid_a_3471.png]]]][[caption-width-right:250:Before...]][[quoteright:250:[[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/squid_b_823.png]]]][[caption-width-right:250:... and After.]]A character is delighted at some job or performance he's been assigned and jumps into it with a bright beaming smile.A series of repeating short scenes show the various tasks as they go by.But as the montage repeats, the pace of the character's work begins to slow, the music tempo falls to a crawl, the happy smile becomes a scowl and with a final *clunk* the character stops what they're doing and yells "I can't take it anymore!" or words to that effect.The repetition of the job has finally overcome him.Common and easy to do in animated shows since the character animations can be recycled over and over to instantly create the effect.Often involves the character's face holding in place (and slowly changing expression) while everything else happens around it. For added hilarity points, a character may look up at the clock after boredom has set in to see that a very short amount of time has passed.Compare WritersBlockMontage.----!!Examples[[foldercontrol]][[folder: Comic Books ]]* In a DCAU comic book, ComicBook/BlueBeetle Ted Kord is on overnight monitor duty in the Watchtower. We see him pass the time by raiding the fridge, trying on other heroes' uniforms, and searching for himself on "Yahoogle".[[/folder]][[folder: Films ]]* In ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'', the three employees of Mushnik's flower shop sitting around bored to show a complete lack of business. Then suddenly Audrey gets the idea of Seymour displaying his plant (Audrey 2) out the windows, and cash pours in by customers who feel obligated to fund the store for housing the unique plant, despite how sickly and small the plant was. * The opening number of ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' is both this and an IWantSong, showing Rapunzel's frustration after being stuck in a tower for her entire life up to that point.* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Shrek Forever After]]'' has a montage of Shrek getting increasingly agitated and annoyed with the things that go on in his life now that he's settled down with a family. It gets ''so'' redundant and irritating that Shrek regrets ever having a family. * General Zod and his cohorts easily take over the White House with brutal force in ''Film/SupermanII''. They soon realize that VictoryIsBoring and decide to take down Superman in order to escape their boredom. * In ''Film/SpiderManHomecoming'', Peter gets locked in a high-security warehouse and decides to wait until morning and slip out during shift change. Then he [[BlessedWithSuck realizes]] that his [[BulletTime accelerated perception]] makes [[YearInsideHourOutside thirty-seven minutes feel like thirty-seven hours]]. He'd never noticed before because he always had stuff to do.[[/folder]][[folder: Live Action TV ]]* The ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Window of Opportunity" has Jack and Teal'c caught in a GroundhogDayLoop where the only way out is to translate the writing on the device causing it, and the only ones who can do it are Jack and Teal'c since they're the only ones who'll remember. As they sit listening to Daniel try to teach them Ancient, a series of loops are shown with Jack getting more and more bored with each one, making paper balls, spinning his chair around...in one loop Daniel looks back to see Jack and Teal'c both juggling. It got to the point that they took some loops off to play around just to maintain their sanity [[spoiler:and for Jack to kiss Carter.]]-->'''Daniel''': Guys are you getting this, because this it important?* The episode [[Recap/OnceUponATimeS2E17WelcomeToStorybrooke "Welcome to Storybrooke"]] from ''Series/OnceUponATime'' has this montage for Queen/Mayor Regina. On the first day, she's high on her victory at "winning," due to finally being able to cast the Curse. However, because of the Curse, every day in Storybrooke is so similar it's effectively a mundane version of a GroundhogDayLoop. By day three, she's bored enough to run to Mr. Gold to complain about not being happy.* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Pirate Solution", Sheldon and Raj have one while the prologue to ''Eye of the Tiger'' is playing, as they are stuck trying to solve a gamma ray equation. [[/folder]][[folder: Western Animation ]]* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'':** In "Space Case", after aliens kidnap Dee Dee, Dexter's newfound joy of being able to experiment without interruption gradually fades as guilt sets in.** "Dee Dee and the Man"; after Dexter "fires" Dee Dee, we see him repeatedly going through his routine in the lab with manic glee that gradually fades to despair when he starts to miss Dee Dee's antics.* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', "Squidville": Squidward moves into a new neighborhood where everyone has the same interests and hobbies as he does, and gradually gets sick of it.* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'':** "Schnit-Heads": Heifer joins a sausage cult and started eating nothing but delicious sausages. At first he enjoys it but then he gets bored.** In "Old Fogey Froggy," Ed is seen happily going through life back in TheSixties as a handsome, young, newlywed go-getter. In TheNineties, he's slowed down and become unhappy. It's implied that these are the BookEnds to such a montage, wherein Ed becomes more dissatisfied with life.* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Rainbow Dash goes through one of these in "Read It and Weep" while stuck in the hospital recovering from an injury. Subverted when she glances up at a clock, showing that the montage ''wasn't'' a montage - everything we just saw happened in real time.* In ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' episode "Camp Keep a Good Mac Down", Bloo has one when he's put in charge of fishing but he's not having any luck. He then hoists the fishing duty on Coco, and she immediately catches a huge salmon. (Or techincally, the salmon caught ''her''). * When WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain begin a seven-month submarine journey, Pinky doesn't take it so well. The montage could have accounted for more than half the time, but it turns out to be only 15 minutes.* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Francine is shown performing the same cooking, cleaning and other mundane daily activities repeated over several days, to the tune of ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky". Her expression changes from her usual perky self to completely bored and deflated. Also her cooking gradually 'deteriorates' as she loses her enthusiasm to the point where she is cooking ''zucchini slice''. Horror ensues.* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Frybo", this happens to Peedee when he rides the seahorse at the arcade. When his face goes in and out of camera range, his expression slowly changes from excitement to boredom.[[/folder]]----


text:
Forum free : This is a Grand Theft Auto style roleplay. If youve ever played the games, (Ill kill you if you havent) then youll kinda know the actions that come from playing this Roleplay.
Free forum : Discuss all about your favorite TV show & movie with other users, this forum to let you post any news of entertainment world, Join this forum and enjoy
entertainment, fourm, movie, television, celebrity, gossips, movies, shows, forum
Free forum : Enroll at Hogwarts or apply for a Wizarding job. Be a Muggle or Wizard or even a Centaur - whatever you fancy. This is an RPG after all.


text:
Financial Advisor
He'd hoped that would be the end of the conversation, but she followed him into the study. Too bad. He'd been hoping to have some time alone tonight -- the new issue of American Rifleman had arrived today, and there was an article on the Ruger that had caught his eye -- but apparently his wife had other plans.
"And another thing," she said, signaling that there was indeed to be another chapter of the current tirade. Joy. "I know you got a raise at the plant last week, because Caitlyn Marsh told me her husband got one too, and don't think I haven't noticed that you're not actually bringing home any more money! I suppose you're spending all the extra at that little club you and your friends go to." He started to protest, but she rolled smoothly on. "Well, I expect that to stop! It's bad enough you spend any money at all there, when it's such a dirty, sinful habit, but you won't be lying to me on top of it! You bring that money home!"
"Now, hold on!" he interjected. He scrubbed a palm over his face. "Look, Lonnie Marsh got his raise last month because he's on the floor, and all the floor workers got their raises last month. Us guys in shipping are in for a raise, but it doesn't actually start until next year." He sighed, knowing it was useless to try reasoning with her, but forging ahead anyway. "I bring home every penny that I make -- yes, every bit, don't tell me I'm lyin' about this because I'm not -- and I reckon I don't waste nearly as much at the Flamingo as you do on your lottery tickets and your goddamn church bingo."
The color drained from her face, and she gasped as if slapped. "That's the Lord's name, mister! You watch your language!"
"Fine," he replied, irritated. "I'll watch my language in here, and you," he pointed out at the hallway, "go watch something else out there." As she turned and began to stalk away, he called after her, "And next time you hear something from Caitlyn, try makin' sure she knows what she's talking about before you come yell at me!"


text:
Just got finished with American Idol in Jacksonville, FL. I know a few of my peeps in AR missed it because their power was out due to the blanket of ice they're buried under. But I gotta say, you didn't miss much. In fact, I am about ready to quit watching until the Hollywood shows start.
In Jacksonville which any of us with a brain know was NOT named after Randy thanks AI for insulting the intelligence of your viewers, they gave out 16 Golden Tickets from a crowd of roughly 12,000. They made their intro playing Journey music and hyping Randy's stint in their back up band.....we knew this was coming. I like Randy, in fact he's one of my faves. But, has he no shame? It's like going home for Christmas and your Mom dragging out all your ribbons and trophies from Junior High to show all of your family and friends.
The first two contestants absolutely stunk. And, I might mention, they got golden tickets. This season is so confusing.
First was Joshua Ulloe, he was entertaining at best. Simon said he was like Inspector Gadget. He was all over the place. So many runs and and turns it was crazy. Then he threw in a little beat boxing, rap, and just general screeching. If he makes it past Hollywood I'll be shocked!
Golden Ticket
Then came Sharon Wilbur. The most memorable thing about her was her cute dog Sasha. Simon liked the dog. She had one of those voices that screams "three packs a day." Randy and Simon voted yes on the cute factor alone. Pauler obviously had a few refills on her "water" because she did the back of the hand kiss with Kara. What is up with these people? Somehow she got through.
Golden Ticket
Dana Moreno was willing to accept any direction they might want to give her....and Simon directed her right out the door. Honestly, how do these people make it in there?
Then there was Kannesswa Finne. Her mother actually had her convinced that she was the best thing goin'. People, please don't lie to your kids! You're not helping them out, you're just settin' up for heartache.
Julissa Veloz. The creepy nervous laugh was too much for me. She made me think Titiana TuTu girl last week, with the giggle. She sang Whitney though which usually fails miserably, and it wasn't that bad. At least by the standards they had thus far set this evening she certainly deserved to go through, and she did.
Golden Ticket
Then there were several flops, Darin Darnell and his friend Devin, were horrendous. And what about Naomi Sikes? Please. This woman cried when she was turned down, as if she actually expected to make it through. Even her chubby friend perched on Randy's lap had a look of terror on her face while she sang. Then when it was said and done, she stated that she actually thought she did a good job on the song "THIS TIME." Wow, I'm glad we didn't hear it the other times, 'cause I think my ears would have bled.
DAY TWO in Jacksonville brought out Jasmine Murray. She was from Starkville MS....woohoo....only about an hour from here. She was GOOD, and her sweet family made me smile. All her sisters, and her Momma coming to support their sweet girl. She's only 16, but has a strong voice.
Golden Ticket
George Ramirez....was obviously supposed to be in the competition for facial hair and took a wrong turn. DUDE! He is only 18.YEARS.OLD. He made me think of the guy that's in every one's high school yearbook that looks like he is faculty when he's really a senior. You look back 15 years later, and say "oh that was Mr.....no, no, that was George!" No fake I.D.s ever needed for this guy. But please, just DON'T sing. EVER!
Okay. I don't know what you thought of Anne Marie Boskovich, but I thought she was good. I was insulted that they even felt they needed to offer her a second chance when they asked her to come back in a bit with more confidence. After the talent challenged people we've seen put through tonight alone? I almost turned off the T.V. They put her through with the words, "she deserves a second chance".....at our household she is the favorite so far. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out she has had a previous deal somewhere though.
Golden Ticket
Then came T.K. Hash. He was pretty good. He was returning for a second audition after not making it through last year. Simon said no automatically, but it was three to one, so he's headed to HW. I didn't care for him. He sang Imagine by John Lennon, and it was so over sang it was just sad really.
Golden Ticket
Michael Perrelli wound it up, and down for that matter. He was young, 18 I think. He wanted his guitar, and kept it with him like a security blanket it front of him. He is one of those people that is probably not going to be bad, but he NEEDS a band. Simon gave him good advice, to have a normal life and get a band together in his spare time. He needs to grow up a little anyway. He cried like my four year old when she loses her blankie when they told him he couldn't play his guitar in the audition....my question is, "has he never seen this before?"
That wraps up Jacksonville. I was let down with the lack of talent that was aired. They are clearly only showing us the junk and holding out the goods for Hollywood week. Let's hope tomorrow is better.


text:
gastromatic is a web application streamlining the process of the stuff planning in gastronomy. The customer benefit arises through the substantial time saving in the personnel planning.
Our goal is to become innovation as well as market leader for web-based personnel planning software in gastronomy.
The backend of our software is written in JavaScript. The data are managed by a MongoDB database. To accelerate the development process and to ensure a good functionality, we use the framework Bootstrap. In Addition, we extended the system by AngularJS.
We see challenges particularly in the marketing and distribution, since they are very time and personnel consuming and the customer have to be convinced to replace well-tried planning strategies by a software solution.
Lessons Learned
A good communication with pilot customers is the basis for an adequate and useful web application.
Business Model
For the usage of gastromatic we charge a monthly fee that depends on the number of locations and employees.
Team Members
- Peter Macherey
- Dominik Kantner
- Florian Klima
- Patrick Pötzsch
- Tristan Reifert
- René Galle


text: Coal of Africa, the coal developer, said yesterday it expects its acquisition of the Chapudi coal project to be finalised by the end of April next year. The original fulfilment date was first set at 1 August and earlier this month extended to 12 August. The firm is buying the Chapudi coal project and related exploration properties in South Africa from joint ventures held by Rio Tinto and Kwezi Mining for $75m (£45.8m).


text:
81 - 92 of 92 Comments Last updated Jan 28, 2013
#90 Jul 30, 2012
Listen people......If you have something to say go to a council meeting and speak your problems and issues about the problems in Stanhope. You have no problem saying it on topixs! The mayor and council don't know what the problems if you don't bring them to the floor!
#91 Jul 31, 2012
That's not how I operate. I'm a chicken sh** who likes to hide behind a keyboard.
#92 Jul 31, 2012
Wow, still sad how someone keeps posting using Citizen.
The Topix site has a lot of positive information about your town. Then you get some just trying to personally say things hurtful. I'm just posting information about the business's in the town.
Take a few minutes and read the other topics posted. There is a pattern of some trying to move forward and others living in the past.
#93 Aug 22, 2012
Not being a Stanhope resident but have ties to Byram, Netcong, Andover and Stanhope cant go to meetings. I do attend meeting where I live. Business requirements have me coming to these locations. Over the years the Stanhope strip from Ted's Deli
to Acorn light on 206 has been revitalized. The homes and businesses have all shown a great interest in cleaning up and looking like true concerned citizens.
Except! the location with the Citgo sign,(not on their web site) seems to have kept up with the others. The cars and commercial equipment are either for sale or just left. The people I know are still concerned of retribution from the old guard. I have always wondered why from Teds thru Stanhope the residents seem to care and go to the meeting. From Teds to Acorn it is another world.
Again, my friends living here have lived with it and I wonder how it effects the tax base? Came to visit today and still see his vechicles at Gyro Bobs. Sorry to say more of his vechicles then customers.
Stanhope cared about his other location which he left, but still bears his name. Posiible tax base question.
#94 Sep 15, 2012
3 hrs ago | TheAlternativePress.com
Borough of Stanhope Swears in New Council Member and Discusses Renovations
The cleanup of Jimmy's and Gyro Bob's is hopefully going to start.
#95 Oct 3, 2012
Leaves coming down, eye sore more visible.
#96 Jan 1, 2013
Happy New Year....
Came to visit and looks worse then 2012. Trucks cars and stuff all parked on the Gyro Bobs lot. Also in the house that looks abandoned is a sign to rent??? Well auto repairs, possibly abandoned vehicle's and a restaurant with non plated vehicle's in front and back of the building. The Black Forest customers are really in for a visual treat through the winter season.
Good Luck to residents and business owners.
#97 Jan 2, 2013
It's the new year I'm still drunk and I'm still an a-hole!
#98 Jan 2, 2013
As before the impostor is more concerned with making fun of me then the mess called Jimmy's.
Lets see what becomes of the stuff across from the Black Forest Inn.
#99 Jan 3, 2013
FYI, I'm actually the owner of the Black Forest Inn. Just thoughh I should come clean.
#100 Jan 27, 2013
As before the impostor thinks he is fooling anyone.
Unfortunately Gyro Bob's has been closed do a family illness.
How long will the vehicles behind the building and in the parking lot going to be abandoned in the restaurant lot? Someone told me the location may possibly up for sale, has anyone else heard?
#101 Jan 28, 2013
I smoke crack!
Tell me when this thread is updated:Subscribe Now Add to my Tracker
Add your comments below
Hackettstown Discussions
|Last By
|Szechuan Royale traditional Chinese food
|Apr 27
|Long Valley girl
|Hackettstown life (Mar '11)
|Apr '18
|'Everyone knew Connor': Belvidere HS students m... (Mar '16)
|Apr '18
|Contractor sent home from Mars Chocolate plant
|Mar '18
|Kabler becomes Robin Williams
|Mar '18
|william kirchenbauer
|Review: Haze, John J DDS - John J Haze DDS (Jul '09)
|Feb '18
|Owner of Albanese Sports Gallery in Belvidere a... (Jan '09)
|Feb '18
Find what you want!
Search Hackettstown Forum Now
Copyright © 2018 Topix LLC


text:
Reunite lover psychic
.My Specialty is Reuniting soulmate I GUARANTEE LOW PRICE FOR.
"1OO% PREDICTION TURU PURE REUNITEING READING" I use various modalities of reading such as Psychic Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and Clairsentience. I offer accurate, practical and compassionate Psychic Readings, Spell Casting Along with Love Counseling. Soul mate love reading, psychic love reading, spiritual love reading, magic love reading, connection love reading, heart and heart love reading, mind and heart hiding feelings reading, Specializing in viewing the Hall of Souls, Akashic Records, Soul mates/Twins, Finance and Life Issues; amongst many different areas. Compassionate counseling from a serious parapsychologist Empowering advice for women to help them understand the dynamics of their relationships with men Help for men in understanding how to be enlightened and evolved in their relationships with women Answers on love and relationships, career and financial outlook, and life path from a natural clairvoyant and expert diviner I Ching readings ~ Tarot readings ~ Rune casting
Post-graduate studies in parapsychology, religion, and gender studies. Natural clairvoyant I am psychic medium and spiritual healer. I am here to create difference and peace. I am honest, direct and straight forward. I am naturally born psychic and counselor. I am psychic advisor, intuitive consultant and life coach. I am 3rd generation born psychic.
Looking for help with all of life's questions?I am not a Gennie in the bottle, so I cannot grant wishes, only God I am a Psychic Clairvoyant who can HELP! If you need to make the right decision on love, Relationships, Finance, Career, Soul mate connections CALL ME TODAY! for Advice. I have been helping many happy clients since many years. My answers are truthful, and accurate according to how I am seeing and feeling things at the time of our reading. I will not sugar coat or withhold anything I feel you need to know, or just tell you what you think you would like to hear
426 Reviews: 330 Excellent 47 Satisfactory 49 Unsatisfactory
excellent chat
Helped me so much gave me true clarity
Just fabulous reading, so accurate she really was, hightly recommend
Sorry hun i out of founds, I want leave here a review about this woman, she's perfect, she knew everything without I tell her a world, she care, she's real, she knew so much without I tell her woww she's really have a gift and understood all my situation so fast, she connect fast, she types fast, she's really the best, thank you so much I will be back soon


text: 6 G1223 On account of G3778 this, G2400 behold, G4198 they are gone G1537 from G5004 the misery G* of Egypt, G2532 and G1551 [2shall look out for G1473 3them G* 1Memphis], G2532 and G2290 [2shall entomb G1473 3them G* 1Machmas]. G3588 G694 Their silver -- G1473 G3639 ruin G2816 shall inherit G1473 it; G173 thorn-bushes G1722 in G3588 G4638 their tents. G1473


text:
Sage increases influence in Europe
Sage's share price rose this morning with the news that the accounting software giant had completed the purchase of French rival Coala.
Sage's share price rose this morning with the news that the accounting software giant had completed the purchase of French rival Coala.
Sage offered Pounds 7.8m for 59% of the company plus a further 19 euros per share for the remainder of the business. The total value of the acquisition is equal to Pounds 13.2m.
'Industry-specific acquisitions such as Coala enable Sage to drive growth by offering more products, services and support to our customers,' Sage chief executive Paul Walker said in a statement.
'Of all industry-specific markets, the market for professional accountants is the most attractive to us, since professional accountants are key influencers of their customers' software purchase decisions,' said Walker.
A spokesperson said Sage was 'sticking to the knitting,' implying the company was carrying on its strategy of growth by acquisition. 'The deal marks an entry into the accountants' markets in France as the company has done in the UK over the last two years with acquisitions such as CSM and Hartley,' he added.
And analysts backed the move with one telling Reuters it was a 'sensible continuation' of Sage's trend of buying small business.
Coala's accounts production software is used by more than 1,300 professional firms of accountants in France and is likely to be integrated with Sage's own software.
For the year to 31 December 2001, Coala revenues are expected to be in the region of Pounds 7m, and operating profit is expected to be in the region of Pounds 1.1m.
Sage's price was up 10.5p at 203p at time of going to press.
Management jobs under threat at Sage
IT spending: To buy or not to buy…


text:
It was certainly a good year for the Saints.
An argument could be made that no area athletic program matched the success of Santa Maria High School in 2017.
In fact, no story from the year beat out the one coming from Santa Maria High, according to the Lee Central Coast Newspapers sports staff at least.
Santa Maria's run to the CIF Southern Section Division 6 baseball championship has been voted the No. 1 story of 2017 by the LCCN staff, just edging out the No. 2 story, which also involves the Saints in a CIF title game.
Underdog Santa Maria defeated Moreno Valley 8-0 in the Division 6 title game on June 3 in Riverside, playing just 10 minutes away from Moreno Valley's campus.
Santa Maria junior Trevor Garcia threw a complete game shutout in the title game. Garcia said after the win that he wasn't fazed by the importance of the game. He coolly limited Moreno Valley to just four hits while striking out seven and walking one.
"I can't let anything affect me out there and if I do I just have to let it go," Garcia said after the win. "I've never really reacted much. I've always been kind of a calm guy and easygoing."
After Garcia induced the final out, the Saints rushed the mound to pile on their pitcher, celebrating the school's first CIF championship in baseball since 1957.
But Santa Maria didn't just grind its way to a CIF title. The Saints did it in dominant fashion, outscoring their six playoff opponents 66-12.
Santa Maria had to play six playoff games because it entered the CIF Southern Section playoffs as a wild card team. The Saints went 15-11 in the regular season and 12-9 in the Los Padres League, just narrowly qualifying for a playoff spot.
Santa Maria's run ended in dominance, but the Saints limped through the regular season, struggling to find consistency against LPL competition, culminating in a three-game sweep to Santa Ynez in the middle of April.
But the Saints began May with a pair of shutout wins over Templeton and ended the regular season with a 5-1 win over Nipomo to start the postseason with some momentum.
The Saints then began the Division 6 playoffs at home against Santa Monica New Roads. Santa Maria won that game 14-1.
The Saints didn't have to travel very far for their first-round game. They played at Dunn in Los Olivos and roared past the Earwigs 13-4.
Then it was onto the second round, where Santa Maria again hosted a playoff game, this one coming against Ventura's Foothill Tech. The Saints had their toughest challenge of the postseason in that one, fending off the Dragons 4-2 and moving on to the quarterfinals.
Santa Maria hosted Big Bear then and cruised into the semifinals with a 16-4 victory. The Saints had to hit the road for the semifinals and did so with ease, playing Southlands Christian near Rowland Heights and winning 10-1.
Then came the title game, where Garcia was untouchable on the mound. Offensively, Santa Maria relied on a multitude of players to scratch across runs, a trend that lasted throughout the playoffs.
In the win over Moreno Valley, Tommy Herrera, then then Saints' sophomore catcher, went 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI. Slim Lopez, who will be back in 2018, finished up 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI and Boogie Rodriguez, who has since graduated, finished up 2-for-2 with a pair of runs and an RBI.
Bobby Ruiz, the No. 8 hitter, sparked Santa Maria's offense against Moreno Valley, lacing a two-run single to give Santa Maria its first lead, which the Saints never relinquished.
The Saints had eight players who were juniors or younger on the 2017 team and could once again be placed in Division 6, though the Saints do lose 2017 All-Area MVP Paul Navarro, who has since graduated.


text:
Hunnings to take charge as Oakham's fourth manager of the season
Oakham United have appointed their fourth manager of the season following the resignation of Joe Featherstone on Monday.
Number two Ryan Hunnings has taken over as boss of the United Counties League Division One club.
Coventry-based Featherstone had only taken charge of two Division One games and, following a changing room bust-up after Saturday's 4-2 defeat at Burton Park Wanderers, Hunnings will now take sole charge.
The former joint boss of Huntingdon Town is relishing the challenge of leading Oakham for the first time in Wednesday night's home match with Pinchbeck United.
Hunnings said: "I'm really looking forward to it and wish it was Wednesday already."
Full report and reaction in Thursday's Rutland Times.
Register or log in via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ or your Iliffe Media account to post comments.
Iliffe Media does not moderate comments. Please click here for our house rules.
People who post abusive comments about other users or those featured in articles will be banned.
Thank you. Your comment has been received and will appear on the site shortly.
Terms of Comments
We do not actively moderate, monitor or edit contributions to the reader comments but we may intervene and take such action as we think necessary, please click here for our house rules.
If you have any concerns over the contents on our site, please either register those concerns using the report abuse button, contact us here.


text:
tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.comments2012-04-27T10:44:56.800-07:00Off Track - Jumpin' the RailsLarry Johnsonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-60661473243777350472012-04-27T10:44:56.800-07:002012-04-27T10:44:56.800-07:00A great story about Randy Austin and the Chuckwago...A great story about Randy Austin and the Chuckwagon in the Deseret News
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865554652/Free-Lunch-Ten-grand-and-a-wrong-exit-leads-to-good-people-and-happy-times.htmlLarry Johnsonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-10246473787041713512010-03-04T11:30:39.876-08:002010-03-04T11:30:39.876-08:00An online memoir titled "Briefs In the Life o...An online memoir titled "Briefs In the Life of Ephraim P. Pectol" states that he and his wife "owned and managed the Wayne Umpire Mercantile Business from 1910-43."
http://www.covingtonshappyvalley.com/pectol-ephraim.htmlLarry Johnsonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-40925093902713576102009-12-06T11:16:48.209-08:002009-12-06T11:16:48.209-08:00Leigh, Enjoyed reading some of your recent posting...Leigh,
Enjoyed reading some of your recent postings and about your UT adventures at the blogsite. Next time you are in the region, stop by our home - - we have guestroom. Near end of scenic hwy 12.

We will see you at ISTE next year.Larry Johnsonhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-86404493926752012632009-12-05T00:30:48.021-08:002009-12-05T00:30:48.021-08:00Wow, Larry. You and Annette have a wonderful life...Wow, Larry. You and Annette have a wonderful life. Traveling the land and living in places like Estes in your RV and now it looks like you have moved into a nearby heaven in Wayne County.

Last June I came to Zion and Bryce Canyon for 4 days of mountain biking and it was incredible.
http://tinyurl.com/offthegridz

Even here in Cedar Falls, Iowa, is urban compared to some of the places that we visited. If you can find a place where you can fit in with your neighbors, you can be quite happy. This is especially a great place for you two since you love the outdoors so much.

Congrats on finding your new home and I look forward to seeing you when I come to Colorado next June.

Leigh
http://drzreflects.comDr. Zhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-37747857920026186712009-11-04T10:48:09.516-08:002009-11-04T10:48:09.516-08:00Bob, I'll look for that photo, next time they ...Bob, I'll look for that photo, next time they let me back in the Chuckwagon.Larry Johnsonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-87465060241637568712009-11-04T06:00:09.346-08:002009-11-04T06:00:09.346-08:00Larry, I saw that picture in the other blog too, d...Larry, I saw that picture in the other blog too, didn't realise it was the Chuckwagon until I stood outside the building. There is another picture of The Umpire inside the store above the entry, of course they are now closed until April so you will have to wait a while to look at it.

Bob Palin
Torrey, UtahKillerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-54546840253124768772009-05-26T18:43:41.102-07:002009-05-26T18:43:41.102-07:00Y'all need to watch The Unforeseen. It's about the...Y'all need to watch The Unforeseen. It's about the real estate development and environmental issues surrounding Austin, Texas (scope of about 30 years). However, the story is universal (as discussed by Robert Redford... one of your Utah residents.)Arrionhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-10428555767494324032009-05-26T17:05:38.790-07:002009-05-26T17:05:38.790-07:00Great blog so far Larry!!Great blog so far Larry!!Allisonhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4872483549368738819.post-75797694941563713282009-05-26T09:10:07.816-07:002009-05-26T09:10:07.816-07:00Very nice Larry, think you captured the essence of...Very nice Larry, think you captured the essence of the place well.

Bob Palin
Torrey, UtahKillerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Richard Prince
- Autor:
- Rosetta Brooks (veja mais livros deste autor)
- Editora:
- PHAIDON PRESS INC.(veja mais livros desta editora)
Em 2x de: R$ 96,75 No boleto: R$ 183,83Comprar
- 1x de R$ 193,50 sem juros
- 2x de R$ 96,75 sem juros
Richard Prince (b.1949) emerged in the 1980s as one of America's new, highly innovative artists working with the margins of America's subcultures and visual debris. The appropriation and re-presentation of highly idiosyncratic subject matter - such as one-line jokes, off-colour cartoons, cowboys ('borrowed' from Marlboro ads) and motorcycle gangs - are essential to his work. In the late 1970s Prince was working for the cutting services of Time Life publications in New York, where he had access to thousands of cut-up magazines in which only the advertisements remained intact. He began to re-photograph the advertisements and compose his own pictures from this highly familiar imagery, updating 1960s Pop art's homage to consumerism and its icons. Decades later, his career took an unexpected turn, and the artist emerged as a consummate painter, producing some of the most unusual and intensely admired works in the current painting scene. Prince is one of America's best known artists and in 1992 was honoured with a one-person retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Other museums that have held solo shows of Prince's work include the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, IVAM in Valencia and the Haus der Kunst in Munich.Prince's highly readable Interview with Jeff Rian ranges in its subject matter from rock and roll to folk art, from criminals to celebrities, as well as his experiences and history as an artist. In her Survey, Rosetta Brooks examines the variety in Prince's art through two key themes: the notion of artistic authenticity and the artist's construction of his own beguiling personality. Renowned photography critic Luc Sante takes a close look at one of Prince's best known and most disturbing series, Girlfriends, a confounding combination of sexiness and sexism. For his Artist's Choice Prince has selected the lyrics from "Fallen for You", a 1992 pop song by singer/songwrite
Ficha técnica
- Código de barras:
- 9780714841649
- Dimensões:
- 29.00cm x 25.00cm x 1.00cm
- Marca:
- Idioma:
- Inglês
- 9780714841649
- Número de páginas:
- 160
- Peso:
- 0.99 kg
- Encadernação:
- Brochura


text:
Detailed Notes on hbr case analysisSamsung has out there assets in method of labour. The corporation lately reassigned three hundred engineers from semiconductor unit inside the organization. This reassignment resulted t enhancement of products of top of the range and previously mentioned competition technological know-how (Michell, 2010).
Handle your data development more efficiently—StorSimple can mechanically archive inactive Main data from on-premises into the cloud to develop effortless potential expansion. Take out the necessity for individual backup infrastructures with cloud snapshots that give off-internet site details protection, and get rid of the necessity for distant replication of information to your secondary datacenter with cloud storage. Change your target from capacity purchases and infrastructure maintenance to meeting organization needs.
. Explores two contrasting sights: does meta-analysis give "objective, quantitative techniques for combining proof from different but comparable reports" or merely "statistical methods which make unjustified assumptions in making oversimplified generalisations out of a fancy of disparate experiments"?
Some of these chemical synonyms are benign-sounding extracts and oils that may alter a buyer's threat perception.
When the Board gains no or minimal compliance within the principals from the non-public secondary educational institutions, then the Board must impose sanctions on them.
Mentor aims are to reveal (1) the challenges and best process in handling NPI productively (two) the intricacy of working with an overseas arrangement maker as A necessary partner in NPI and (three) the method to relieve risks in the quantity chain of a fresh product or service.
Sony, Japanese corporation is effectively recognized for its World-wide-web advisements, integrating PDF files to reinforce purchaser recognition. Sony Corporation is well known for its Sony Bravia, that's a right here 3D Television and sells for 2999 dollars. Bravia has similar features as its competition although it takes after the developments of Samsung.
A meta-analysis of these types of expression profiles was performed to derive novel conclusions also to validate the regarded results.[70]
Curriculum is usually a auto through which education and learning is attained. The secondary college curriculum as presently executed is far from obtaining the targets of secondary educational method. The curriculum was well structured as well as the contents have been sufficiently defined though the implementation requires query (Uchegbu C.
Offered the size of the dataset, it is actually infeasible to examine just about every datum for correctness. Consequently, Repeated place checks of random samples have been accustomed to validate and refine Every phase of knowledge processing. On the other hand, even further validation was done prior to the ultimate tabulation of results. Validation of brand and item names was performed by guide inspection of one hundred randomly selected products and solutions to verify that the mandatory knowledge was the right way extracted with the Uncooked HTML. Accuracy was one hundred% (i.e., each manufacturer and products name from the sample was right). Processing from the component strings was validated by randomly selecting 100 solutions for guide inspection. Parsed ingredient lists were being when compared to the Uncooked ingredient strings to verify that component names and accompanying parenthetical text are effectively extracted.
During the sphere of knowledge techniques (IS) research, the case study methodology is usually a terrific offer much more experienced than in Laptop software engineering.
^ Jones 1978: A spokesman for NHTSA stated that his agency and Ford commenced a "means of negotiation" right after May eight that triggered Ford's announcement in Detroit yesterday.
Distinct large throughput tactics for instance microarrays are actually used to be familiar with Gene expression. MicroRNA expression profiles are already accustomed to determine differentially expressed microRNAs in particular mobile or tissue style or disease disorders or to check the effect of the therapy.
Slideshare utilizes cookies to improve features and overall performance, and to offer you relevant advertising and marketing. If you continue browsing the positioning, you conform to the use of cookies on this Site. See our Consumer Settlement and Privacy Coverage.


text:
Friday, August 14, 2009
Walmart: Free Ringtone w/ Listerine Purchase plus coupons
Walmart has a promotion going on right now through December 31st, 2009 for a free ringtone download when you purchase any Listerine Smart Rinse OR Cool Blue Mouthwash.
You can go here for the details.
To help you out...they have also offered 2 printable coupons for $1 off of each product!
Tip: If you are not a fan of Walmart and would prefer the CVS route...My CVS store had the Listerine Cool Blue mouth wash marked down to 75% off. With this coupon it would make it less than $1 each!
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Ceòl Cholasa is usually held the third weekend of September each year, and for 2018 the dates will be 13th to 16th September.
13th to 16th September 2018 will see Colonsay celebrating its 11th Music Festival. Over the past decade, thanks to the hard work of the Islanders and the generosity of the artists Colonsay has consistently managed to attract Scotland's finest musicians to the smallest (and we think best) festival in the land. It's a tribute to Colonsay's charm that busy musicians are willing to take a weekend out of their touring schedules to come and make music with us.
Please visit the Ceòl Cholasa website for further information and updates on the lineup... being updated but it gives you the idea!
The very latest availability charts for 2018
September for Ceol Cholasa, Music Festival, and then the October Festival of Produce
Marriages can take place in the Registrar's Office or elsewhere by arrangement
Web design and hosting lanetech.co.uk


text: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30611171912775697362018-03-06T11:05:02.628-05:00Tales from the MeleverseM. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-13483278516325580102010-05-23T08:22:00.002-04:002010-05-23T08:27:36.465-04:00Strangely ApproposAhhh... Dionne prior to Psychic Friends... and Bacharach. The best combination ever.M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-56782789056954200522010-05-20T15:03:00.005-04:002010-05-20T15:22:08.512-04:00Where I outbark the AardvarkWas yesterday an Aardvark fail?Or was I being particularly - and egregiously - obtuse?For the past four or five months, I've been answering random questions (they're only nominally reference-y in scope) on Aardvark - which Google picked up about a month ago. At first, it was really fun. Some of the questions were Yelp-like: best location for X in the City, doctor recommendations, etc... And M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-56389625869169649152010-05-19T11:50:00.004-04:002010-05-19T11:58:37.632-04:00[Not Quite New Music] Where Dan Seals is a ProphetI had the realization yesterday that Dan Seals is (was, apparently!) a prophet. And not the alien variety who inhabit the Bajoran wormhole.This might, topically, seem like blasphemy. Owning to Danny Wayland "Dan" Seals being a sweet, guitar toting country western star whose fame lay in the wasteland of the 1980s with no particular religious calling that I can discern. Which under normal M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-39811958680111142082010-05-18T16:30:00.006-04:002010-05-18T16:38:00.731-04:00[PoemADay] No. 5 (although this should be No. 18)I am the biggest slacker in the world. Thankfully, I'll just be minding one library as of next Monday. And maybe my thighs will recover from the AIDS walk NY last Sunday. Fresh from my crazy mind (and having read the Wikipedia entry for glitter (I was curious as to what it was made of):No. 5 [all that glitters...]my stupid heart hurtsthe part of me that wants to hear you say: stop! wait! I made aM. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-64886410592569152042010-05-07T09:34:00.003-04:002010-05-07T10:14:07.355-04:00[PoemADay] No. 4I realized recently that I completely suck at writing a poem-a-day. I'm already in debt for three poems as it's already the 7th and I only just wrote a fourth poem. I'm kind of in awe of my 17-year-old self who could toss out lines like nobody's business (of course that facility might have been predicated on dressing in black and reading Camus, smoking clove cigarettes and drinking vermouth - M. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-90954728539096554792010-05-04T14:52:00.001-04:002010-05-04T14:55:17.799-04:00[PoemADay] No. 3Bluebeard [No. 3]i was not always a laughing girl,pleased with the sun and skyand the brown silk of your skinfor i once had it in my head to marry a manwhose secrets were dark and deepthough I did not know it thenhe said,do not look into my closet, girland all that is mine will be yoursand i did not i wore the key to his house on my ringfingera wealth of emeralds and diamondstoo heavy for my M. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-10816216718949627502010-05-02T22:28:00.005-04:002010-05-02T22:48:35.834-04:00[PoemADay] Nos. 1 & 2My new initiative for the month of May is a Poem-A-Day. I was belatedly inspired by April being National Poetry Month. And the wonder of how likely most of these poems will be about zombies.These are going to be bad. They're going to be awkward and stumbling and first drafty. But I really need to be more creative and don't have time for writing more substantial pieces right now. Even if the M. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-46972888265589317422010-04-25T08:26:00.004-04:002010-04-25T08:35:54.863-04:00[Poetry Warp] Sunday, April 25, 8:35 A.M.So I woke up this morning after a particularly intense dream about my father. He was on the roof of the garage of our old house on Silman and was making something on the roof with rope. It was my Mom's name. At this point of the dream, the thought hit me (unwanted and rather rudely) that this could not be happening. Particulary in light of having been dreaming about kicking asses with strangeM. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-55612321251539004072010-04-22T15:08:00.002-04:002010-04-22T15:18:23.723-04:00[True Work Tales] The Case of the ID and the EyebrowI am a librarian. A librarian at a private medical affiliated college in the Metropolitan NY area. My students are awesome. But sneaky. This is a true story. As of March, I am officially in charge of the ID making machine for my (very small) college. At some point (probably during the massive overtime of accreditation), the ID Machine and I – not unlike King Arthur and England – became one.M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-86797051315994692352010-04-21T10:25:00.004-04:002010-04-21T12:47:23.420-04:00[32 Years] Day #1So, as of 10:53 AM today, I have been 32 for 24 hours. Personally, I'm kind of amazed that I – and most especially my body – has been around and functioning for quite this long. With normal respiration at 12 breaths/minute, I have taken 22,0752,000 breaths since my first. Equally, there have been 3,195,648,000 heartbeats between April 20, 1978 and April 20, 2010. 168,192,000 eye blinks. So M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-45447058686248756092010-02-22T22:05:00.007-05:002010-02-22T22:53:54.310-05:00[New Music] Too Much to Name, Part 2Back for Part Two, because I almost forgot about the Spoon Off!I have been doing a lot of crazy... oh, alright... normal things lately. Drunken martial arts (this is a bad idea!), fondling strange bear nipples, dancing about amai ebi in Brooklyn Heights, Pac-Mania, donating blood to my students... and most especially... participating in the first annual SPOON OFF.What is the Spoon Off, you ask?M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-87989632496887730122010-02-22T20:29:00.004-05:002010-02-22T21:40:30.577-05:00[New Music] Too Much to Name, Part 1Damnit Anna, don't you give me away ... You know very well you say you got a soul to sellbut if you want to meet the devil you've got to go to hell...Now that I've distracted you with the Morning Benders, who were going to be my birthday concert until I realized the Nurses and the Tallest Man on Earth were actually in town on my birthday (April 20) - perhaps you haven't noticed that I've been M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-60537959124009188242010-02-08T11:36:00.004-05:002010-02-08T12:41:07.193-05:00Good Crushes... and Bad (I didn't intend this to be about crushes at all)I want to start this blog entry with something incredibly mundane. I finished reading the second volume of Scott Pilgrim Cary loaned me on the train this morning. About the same time I realized I hadn't brushed my hair this morning. I would like to say these two things are mutually exclusive, despite being hallmarks of my semi-slacker lifestyle. I would also like to say that I don't very M. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-72098955065565928242010-01-20T10:16:00.003-05:002010-01-20T10:24:20.851-05:00Daring Glove Interventions!I have these gloves that are the textile equivalent of juvenile delinquents.They might also be running a fledgling anarchist ring out of my bedroom.They enjoy attention (alternating striping between lime and pea green. C'mon!), drink too much Blue Moon (or at least aid in the attempts at such) and most importantly attempt to run away from my tough love at every junction.First, they pulled a fastM. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-6254799469544862472010-01-19T19:22:00.002-05:002010-01-19T19:27:38.335-05:00[ChiNeYeRe] Update #1So, in keeping with my drive to accomplish my Chinese New Year's Resolutions - regardless of the fact that sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in Karo syrup, forcing one gigantic step forward after two or three or twenty tiny steps backwards - I called my brother.As for the necessary caveat: I am the worst correspondent in the world. Ok, I'll admit that's hyperbole. I know at least two other peopleM. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-12728241334034857462010-01-17T00:32:00.004-05:002010-01-17T00:46:44.909-05:00Grrrrr!!!A sort of cavalcade of my current mindscape (which is surprisingly alright - considering):(Although AC in sequin spandex is kind of awesome in it's own right, of course. And of course, I couldn't post that version).Crazy weekend so far. Of particular note the 1 am mochi run in Queens after quite a few more beers than was strictly necessary. And the introduction of my red patent leather heels.M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-89075903852952697802010-01-15T10:39:00.000-05:002010-01-15T10:40:46.872-05:00Burgled! The Amazingly True Adventures of a Casual BurglaryOk, the first thing I have to say is… Enough already! I know I am a smart-ass. I know my sarcasm rivals only my punnery, but seriously this is beginning to lose hilarity at an alarming pace. I know I said I like to do scary things that "Melissa Allen" (my alter-ego) would not do, periodically. I do. This is why I fell in love with judo (although the affection was not reciprocated to the M. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-5791124935667453742010-01-12T23:00:00.003-05:002010-01-12T23:24:17.176-05:00Chinese New Year's Resolutions**Understandably a bit early, but I'm being proactive here! As my official resolution deadline doesn't approach until the apocalypse… er… Valentine's Day, I thought I would start to sort out what exactly I was being so resolute in doing in 2010. Apparently 2010 is the year of the Tiger. A year whose mantra is "I win" and signified by the colors green and purple. It seems to share, at least M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-84554268410533505282010-01-11T10:47:00.003-05:002010-01-11T10:54:24.596-05:00Subway Poems & ChaosI was reading about Kinesics (the study of body movement) this morning in response to the black eye I narrowly missed when a woman tried to take out my eye with her computer bag. This is not the first time I've nearly or been slightly injured by random carried belongings of women who ride the subway. I was slammed in the head once with a purse - although I shared quite a laugh with the guy M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-76738626718531207952010-01-10T18:15:00.012-05:002010-01-10T19:33:14.871-05:00A Baguette's ProgressToday was a wonderful day! And that has nothing to do whatsoever with the fact that Amaretto+Melissa=Warmandfuzziness (and a liquor-painted blush)! (Although, it probably has something to do with exclamation point quantities...)After waking up around eight-ish, I picked up the Melepad and then bought foodstuffs. Glorious foodstuffs to the accompaniment of my friendly butcher (who recognized meM. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-2774929538713003962010-01-08T12:35:00.002-05:002010-01-08T12:37:14.409-05:00New Job! Happiness ensues!I am writing this post while I am at ... work! (Actually waiting for tech correspondence on exporting catalog into a hard copy when the web version is down and importing MARC records). Yes, I now have a full time job (along with my private cataloging gig in Manhattan) with a small medical academic college in New Jersey*. And like magic (really, it's real magic) new, strange, amazing, crazy M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-72777922604944105632010-01-02T08:22:00.003-05:002010-01-02T08:30:19.708-05:00Nerd Year's Eve! With Pictures!I am so tired this morning. I can't decide whether it's a serious lack of willpower or the inability to stop having a good time in the midst of having it (because you have to wake up early to take the train and bus to Queens for your car). It's probably a little of both. Pictures from New Year's Eve with the Nerd New York crew. I had so much fun I didn't get home until the wee hours of the M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-88453355019183958402009-12-19T15:15:00.004-05:002009-12-19T15:51:37.779-05:00Snowed In! The blogpostBecause I have been snowed out today - even before the snow came down - with a gallon of hot assam black and sushi I walked ten blocks for, I thought I would update my blog.Firstly, I am going to make a shirt that plays lip-service to the doomsayers of NYC:It is cold, though. And I've been warming up with Farscape - wondering what I was smoking in 1998 when I forsook that spectacular series for M. Spangenberghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-9946254422923152009-12-14T23:51:00.003-05:002009-12-14T23:58:30.913-05:00Harddrive Deaths & Other Mysteries of LifeEver since finishing NaNo on November 30th, I have been having inspirational deliriums that are seriously waking me up from a sound sleep! Or keeping me from sleeping at all. Dreams about a Fae named Arsar and souls caught to bodies and Restoration astrologers and Rune-Earls – seriously, I have no idea where this shit comes from. Probably the same place where Vamperace, the Vampire Liberace, M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3061117191277569736.post-34310770604765213332009-12-02T19:42:00.003-05:002009-12-02T20:03:35.512-05:00[New Music] The Republic Tigers & The Stereotypes & Rocky VotolatoRecuperating from NaNoWriMo (and having actually written 5K more words on a project I was on the fence about completing, *oh well*) and listening to lots of Pandora. Because I'm inundated with new music all the time, I thought I would throw up three of my latest finds so I don't forget about them (and hope to get an iTunes gift card for Xmas although I don't deserve one).Firstly, Toto-incarnate:M. Spangenberghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


text: /* Copyright (C) 2001,2002,2003,2004 Michael Rubinstein This file is part of the L-function package L. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Check the License for details. You should have received a copy of it, along with the package; see the file 'COPYING'. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #include "Lmisc.h" //inline Double LOG(double n) // Used for long //{ //if(n<=number_logs) return LG[Int(n)]; //else return log(Double(n)); //} //Double SQRT(double n) // Used for long //{ //if(n<=number_sqrts) return SQUARE_ROOT[Int(n)]; //else return sqrt(Double(n)); //}


text:
Just a few more days until we leave for Kentucky! Every year, my husband and I go on a trip for our anniversary. We met on July 25th and, three years later, got married on July 26th. We met while on a trip so it's only fitting!
This year we are driving to Lexington and Louisville. We're leaving bright and early Friday morning. Later that afternoon, we'll have a private tour at Three Chimneys Farm, where Smarty Jones stands. I'm very excited about this! We're also going to Pin Oak Stud that afternoon.
The Kentucky Horse Park and Old Friends Equine retirement center are planned for Saturday. Ogygian, the last great son of Damascus, lives at Old Friends. He's pretty much Limerick's uncle! I've heard he's a sweet old boy that you can feed mints and carrots to.
That night, we'll have our anniversary dinner in downtown Lexington.
Claiborne Farm and Adena Springs Farm are next on Sunday, then we will drive to Louisville and visit Churchill Downs on Monday morning before heading back home.
When I cleaned Limerick's stall yesterday, I put her in the outdoor arena so I could keep an eye on her. I caught her galloping about a couple times; I was very pleased to see this. She is slowly but surely gaining weight and is now at the "plumpest" she's been in almost a year. The psyllium, extra hay and grain, wearing her cribbing collar every night, and teeth floating seem to be doing the trick.
She looks lovely and is full of life, it truly makes me so happy to see this.


text:
Search this site
Book Now – Lord of the Deep- Weekend Workshop 2019
Find me on Facebook
Follow me on Twitter @SCVincent
Join me on Goodreads
Enjoyed the blog? Buy the books…All books available in Paperback and for Kindle from Amazon. Click the images to find out more...
With Stuart FranceThe Triad of Albion
- The Doomsday Series
- Lands of Exile
Graphic Novels
By Sue Vincent
With Dr G. Michael Vasey
Books by Stuart France
Silent Eye Workbooks
Copyright ©Sue VincentPlease respect the copyright of all original material and images on this site. You are welcome to use excerpts, reblogs and links as long as clear, named credit and appropriate links back to this site are used. Written permission is required for all other reproduction. Thank you.
Latest Posts
- Dark Lands of Wisdom – Alienora Browning
- Turrets – Noni #writephoto
- Kniveton – The little church that smiled
- Dressing the Stone?… Stuart France
- Transient #midnighthaiku
- Turrets – Willow Willers #writephoto
- Turrets – pensitivity #writephoto
- The Fireborn, on #LisaBurtonRadio
- The turrets of home – Iain Kelly #writephoto
- Amazing over 50s – Terry Tyler is Sam Smith's guest
- The Monastery – Fandango #writephoto
- A life on the scales
- …Head Stone… Stuart France
- Acrobatics #midnighthaiku
- Products – Reena Saxena #writephoto
- Decision – James Pyles #writephoto
- Jewels in the Claw (5) – Steve Tanham
- Barb Taub's #BookReview of Hundreds of Tiny Threads and The Howarth Family Trilogy by @JudithBarrow77 #Family #HistFic
- Thursday photo prompt: Turrets #writephoto
- Photo prompt round-up: Avenue #writephoto


text: OK as the topic states... I posted a few theme screenshots last week, and a few users asked me *how did i manage to gain so much free ram* (Galaxy Nexus) My answer is this : Weekly, i run a app called SD MAID which you can obtain from Google Play. I use this to clear app cache and system cache - gets rid of all the junk that hogs the rom/device. At the same time it free's up ram and keeps the rom optimal and consumes less battery life. Next i don't have one million apps running in the background on constant refresh.. to many of these is just not needed by anyone. No idea why people have more apps on their device than on the Google Play store.. Also you should clear the gallery thumbs from the MIUI Gallery app. Next and a very important one... The default MIUI launcher consumes FAR TO MUCH RAM maybe due to the ton of features and functions withing the default launcher, but imo its not healthy... also i am sure there is a hidden memory leak still present in the launcher...this will be fixed in the MIUI v5 as the launcher has been re-done! So i replace this with Nova launcher (you can use what you like) but ultimately it consumes less RAM.. and the result is :


text:
How Indian lakes differ from each other?
India has many lakes. These differ from each other in size, and other characteristics. Most lakes are permanent; some contain water only during the rainy season, like the lakes in the basins of inland drainage of semi-arid region. There are some of the lakes which are the result of the action of glaciers and ice sheets, while the others have been formed by wind, river action and human activities.


text:
If you're an optimist, you probably believe that humanity is inherently cooperative and willing to sacrifice for the greater good of all. If you're a pessimist, chances are you believe that, in the end, people will always do what is in their own interests.
But if you're Martin Nowak, you believe that the truth is: It's a matter of context.
A professor of mathematics and of biology and director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Nowak is the senior author of a new study that finds, across repeated interactions, the environment that individuals find themselves in can affect whether they act as partners or rivals. The study is described in a recently published paper in the journal Nature Human Behavior.
"Direct reciprocity is one of the main theories to explain cooperation among humans," Nowak said. "It's been studied for at least 50 or 60 years, but work over the last six years has allowed for a completely new look at this idea.
"What we're studying here is the emergence of so-called partner and rival strategies," he continued. "If you consider all strategies of direct reciprocity, a very small subset of them are either partners or rivals, but evolution always leads to one or the other."
To understand how different strategies can emerge, Nowak and colleagues Christian Hilbe and Krishnendu Chatterjee, both from the Institute of Science and Technology in Austria, began with a classic paradigm from game theory, namely the prisoner's dilemma.
The game works like this: When faced with the chance to interact, two individuals must decide whether to cooperate or defect. If both cooperate, both receive a reward. If one person defects while the other chooses to cooperate, the defector collects a larger reward, while the other person gets nothing. If both defect, both receive a reward, albeit one that is smaller than the reward for cooperation. If players behave in a purely logical fashion, the best strategy is to defect, because it is in their self-interest to try to maximize their reward.
"If you play the game once, there's no easy way to reach cooperation, because people, if they're rational, will always defect," Nowak said. "But if you play the game multiple times, there is a possibility of cooperation. If you defect against me in the first round, then I might defect against you in the next round, so you might realize that it's better to cooperate."


text:
There's more to motivating employees than providing them with a paycheck. Millions of people earn paychecks at millions of jobs, but what can transform a person from an average employee into a motivated, engaged member of a team is an … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Hiring
20 Creative (And Affordable) Ideas For Employee Recognition
Top 2016 Social Media Trends in Staffing and Recruiting
You work for your social media posts, but how hard do your social media posts work for you? If you're doing it right, social media should be earning its keep by promoting your business. One of the ways to do … Continue reading


text:
Jason Aldean
Latest Release
- Rearview Town
- April 2018
- • 15 Songs
Top Songs
|You Make It Easy
|Drowns The Whiskey (feat. Miranda Lambert)
|Dirt Road Anthem
|When She Says Baby
|My Kinda Party
Apr 2018 1 song
Mar 2018 1 song
Mar 2018 1 song
Popular On
- Central California's New Country
- Number ONE Country
- New HIT Country
Jason Aldean News
A Macon, Georgia-born singer/songwriter, Jason Aldean quietly turned into a genuine country superstar in the back half of the 2000s. His parents separated when he was three years old, and he spent his childhood with his mother in Macon through the school year while spending the summers with his father in Homestead, Florida. Early on, he fell under the spell of country music and made his first public appearance as a singer at a VFW hall in Macon when he was 14 years old. Soon he ... Read more


text:
The Watching documentary primarily is a detailed film looking into the opening title sequences of thriller films and what makes them interesting/relevent to the audience and story.
It was said by Thomas Sutcliffe "Films need to seduce their audience into long term commitment. While there are many types of seduction, the temptation to go for instant arousal is alomost terrible." What Thomas means by this is that the opening of a thriller movie needs to indulge the audience into immediate curiosity. This is so the audience are immediately "pulled" into the film thus causing the audience to keep watching to find out more.


text:
Theoretical Knowledge
Multiple Responses:
The Value of Theoretical And Practical Knowledge
Before anything else let me make it clear that I think knowledge is incredibly important to any career and life in general. In the signature to my email I add a line from a Bob Dylan song. Brownie points if you know the song.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
I use the quote as a reminder to always be learning something new and always striving to grow. The moment you stop doing either is the moment you stop being.
Theory vs. Practical
When it comes to knowledge there are different kinds of knowledge and different ways of acquiring each kind. On one side is theory and on the other side is the practical application of theory. Both types of knowledge are important and both make you better at whatever you do.
I think those who advance the furthest in life tend to be those who acquire knowledge at both ends of the spectrum and acquire it in a variety of ways.
Theoretical knowledge — teaches the why. It helps you understand why one technique works where another fails. It shows you the whole forest, builds the context, and helps you set strategy. Where self education is concerned theory prepares you to set a direction for your future education. Theory teaches you through the experience of others.
Theoretical knowledge can often lead to a deeper understand of a concept through seeing it in context of a greater whole and understanding the why behind it..
Practical knowledge — helps you acquire the specific techniques that become the tools of your trade. It sits much closer to your actual day-to-day work. There are some things you can only learn through doing and experiencing. Where theory is often taught in the ideal of a vacuum, the practical is learned through the reality of life.
Practical knowledge can often lead to a deeper understanding of a concept through the act of doing and personal experience.
Both of the above are important. You won't survive in any career unless you can bring results and to do that you need practical knowledge. There's no avoiding it.
At the same time learning how to solve a specific problem only teaches you how to solve that same problem again. Practice can only take you so far. Theory helps you apply what you learned solving one problem to different problems.
Formal Education vs Self Learning
Formal education tends to lean toward the theory side of the spectrum and teaching things to yourself tends to lean toward the practical. You can learn both through either method, but each tends to give you a little more of one over the other.
The key to getting all of the knowledge you need is to understand that whichever route you've chosen you've probably gained a lot more of one side of the knowledge equation and need to spend some time acquiring knowledge from the other end to balance your education.
If you go the 4 year degree route realize that many people in the work force can already perform the specifics of your job better than you can. It's up to you to put in the time gaining the practical experience you need to complement the theory you learned. While in school don't pass on opportunities to gain the practical. Apply for that internship. Try to get a summer job in your chosen profession no matter what the specific job.
If you skip school and go straight to the workforce, understand that you need to acquire the big picture view of what you're doing. Grab some books on the fundamentals. Audit courses at nearby colleges. Set a more formal path for your own education beyond the day to day. Be more active in understanding why different techniques work as they do. Devote some time to studying themes in your craft.
In the middle is the online education. Its formality offers a chance to learn theory, yet many online courses aim to get you into the workforce as soon as possible. They may not excel at either end, but they do offer you the balance in the middle.
Is That Piece of Paper Worth It?
The question above really depends on your specific goals and the path you plan on taking through your career. If your plan is to go into business for yourself then no, the paper that certifies you earned a degree is meaningless. I can tell you that none of my clients have ever asked to see my degrees.
Then again if my business was in an office that clients physically visited, I bet hanging a degree from a prestigious university behind me would help close deals.
If you plan on working for someone else the degree takes on more importance and the the larger the entity you want to work for the greater the importance of that degree. When you're beginning your career you have no experience. It doesn't matter whether you're 18, 22, or 50. You start without experience like everyone else.
Without experience it can be hard to find a job. That piece of paper with the degree on it, isn't experience, but it's a recommendation from a trusted source that says you have the framework in place to gain the practical experience. The degree tells others you have a strong foundation on which to build.
As I've said throughout this post and everywhere else I've ever talked about this topic, the education you get is more important than where you get that education. You can easily find examples of people who did and didn't go to school who went on to great success. You can equally find examples of people who did and didn't go to school who ended up as great failures.
There is a theoretical side and a practical side to knowledge and both are valuable. The true masters of any craft or discipline understand both ends of the spectrum. They put in the hours to acquire the practical techniques while also putting in the time to understand how those techniques fit into a larger context and tradition and why they work.
Whether or not you go to school or jump directly into the workforce is a personal decision that's based on a variety of factors. Do you need to start earning a living right away? How do you best learn? Will you be able to pick up the theory and context on your own? Do you need more time gaining the practical experience?
Only you can answer those questions and only you can determine which is the better path to start out on. However, focusing only on one side while ignoring the other will limit you in ways you may never even realize.
Theoretical knowledge vs practical skills
12 May, 2010
Two words that describe a person's competence are, knowledge and skills. Knowledge refers to learning concepts, principles and information regarding a particular subject(s) by a person through books, media, encyclopedias, academic institutions and other sources.
A skill refers to the ability of using that information and applying it in a context. But, which is more important, Theoretical Knowledge or Practical Skills? It is a question that has been discussed frequently.
"The obvious sources to increase one's knowledge are through reading books and through practical experience", says Sanjiv Kumar, Vice President & Group Head, HR, People Group.
"It's important to realise that in the workplace, what matters is not the amount of practical experience or theoretical background that an individual has. What matters is how much an individual is able to effectively deal with the realities around him. Theory and practical experience are just complementary means to that end."
Rohtas Goel, CMD, Omaxe Ltd explains, "Both practical and theoretical experiences go hand in hand and each has their own significance. At every level, in an organisation, where theoretical experience helps the individual to comprehend the basic notions, practical knowledge enables them to execute plans and strategies in the most effective manner."
A large number of companies in India are imparting practical training to job seekers as well as the existing employees. In Real Estate sector, Goel stresses the necessity for professionals like architects, strategists, urban planners and civil engineers to undergo specific training program to further refine their skills.
"Also, a focused approach for advertising, finance and marketing people would enable them to achieve goals in less time," he adds.
Few companies are very much concerned about the overall development. They have rigorous employee orientation programs, seminars & workshops for nurturing the talent. Some companies have the perception that the employees will learn to swim if he/she is thrown in the ocean. So they directly deploy the employees on the battlefield.
Jagdeep Shetty, HR head, Courtyard Marriott describes, "We give lot of emphasis on developing the industrial trainees, as they are the ones who would join us after passing out from the college. The objective is to create an experience for them through practical training, as they try to implement their theoretical learning in day to day operation. The fresher who joins the company gets practical cross, exposure training in other operations as part of the induction program."
The biggest disadvantage for a job seeker is either a lack of work experience/practical training or no work experience at all.
Anshul Dureja, President, Corporate Operations & Chief Green Officer, Greenply gives thumbs up to theoretical knowledge. "When companies go for on-campus/off-campus recruitments, they often look for multiple attributes, one of the major ones being strong theoretical concepts. Few of the other contributors, are your behavioural attitude, passion and intent. These all and some more contribute to enter into the corporate world without the practical experience," says Dureja.
"We rely on the Hotel management students, but when we hire a candidate the things that really matters is the attitude and how flexible he/she will be while performing the job. We hired an associate who are non, hotel background. We hired a driver for the waiter's position and who has now become an executive," adds Shetty.
Practical training is beneficial to both the employer as well as employee and it enables the latter to cope up with the work pressure in a better way.
The employer gets the skills which is the most important attribute of professionals, and helps it to use that for the growth of the Organisation and achieve its vision and mission. The employee benefits from gaining learning which helps in the overall grooming and development within the framework of an organisation.
Anshul Dureja clarifies about work pressure that need not be job related always; it could be the environment too in which a particular work gets carried which may also be resulting in a work pressure.
The practical training has two paradigms, one the job skill and second the culture of the organisation including the various cross functional roles. It definitely helps a lot in enabling employees understand the situations much better.
Ultimately, both theoretical knowledge and practical skills are required to master a field. Knowledge can be learnt whereas skills require practical exposure and can also be in-born. From a philosophical perspective, knowledge is intangible but skills can be made tangible by applying those skills to a context and getting the desired result.
Shetty avers, "It's good to have theoretical knowledge but, if you don't apply it in your day to day practice, the knowledge is waste."
In a New York Times Op-Ed, David Brooks poses the ultimate higher-ed question: What is a university for?
Brooks separates knowledge into technical knowledge and practical knowledge.
Technical Knowledge enables us to understand a field. These are basics like statistics or fundamentals of biology. You can find it in books. The faculty teaches it. In many cases, a MOOC or a robot could teach it. It's the mainstay on campus.
Practical Knowledge is about being rather than knowing. It can't be taught in the classrooms or books. You learn it through experience. You absorb it from your environment. You can pick it up from your communities of practice.
Examples of Practice Knowledge abound in Sheryl Sandberg's recent book, "Lean In." Says Brooks,
… tasks she describes as being important for anybody who wants to rise in this economy: the ability to be assertive in a meeting; to disagree pleasantly; to know when to interrupt and when not to; to understand the flow of discussion and how to change people's minds; to attract mentors; to understand situations; to discern what can change and what can't.
Brooks would have students master Practical Knowledge by leading the band or joining the debate club, something on campus. I think he's off. Back to his "What is a university?" For most of us, the answer is "Not the best place to master Practical Knowledge for the workplace."
What if we think of Technical Knowledge as explicit and Practical Knowledge as tacit?
- Technical Knowledge lays bare the intricacies of complicated concepts. It's the facts. It's clockwork models and the results they gin out time after time. Technical Knowledge deals with certainties and absolutes. In other words, it's often theoretical and "not found in nature."
- Practical Knowledge deals with complex, unpredictable, unruly patterns that emerge in real life. It is nature.
Caveat emptor. This next part is speculation on my part. I'm looking for corroboration.
The world is growing more complex. Outsourcing and automation have eliminated work that is merely complicated. The more interconnections in network, the greater the complexity, and the tendrils of networks everywhere are intertwining at a surreal pace.
Things kicked into high gear in the last twenty years of the twentieth century. Between 1980 and 2000, the value of the publicly traded companies flip-flopped from 80% tangible assets to 80% intangible assets.
This is an astounding change. Think about it. Most of a company's worth had been in hard assets: plant, equipment, and cash. Two decades later, most of a company's worth was in relationships, know-how, and secret sauce — things you can't even see.
Many managers haven't seen the light yet. Look at their allegiance to accounting measures that have less and less meaning in the real world. They righteously demand "hard numbers." Those are the numbers that don't mean to much any more.
As the world becomes more complex, are we not in the midst of another phase change? Might it be that the university heyday when explicit knowledge was king, is giving way to a new world where skills for navigating complexity rule?
If you can't increase your social intelligence at college, isn't it time to go somewhere else to get it?
The Times also reported that Essay-Grading Software Offers Professors a Break. Seems that elite MOOC consortium EdX is experimenting with automated essay grading. Skeptics of course came out of the woodwork. Anant Agarwal, the EdX chief, points out that the grading software begins by learning how professors would grade; then it gives students instant grades and an opportunity to improve.
That latter bit — instant feedback and opportunity to resubmit a stronger essay — has lots of promise.
The skeptics are fighting a pitched battle. Traditional grades, having to do only with Technical Knowledge, are not correlated to any measure of success outside of schools. A system can't do much worse than that.
There's also the myth of the learnèd professor working away into the wee hours marking papers. I'm sure this happens some places but it wasn't the way things worked at Harvard Business School when I went there. I have reason to know.
Several of my papers were rejected. These were WACs, Written Assessment of Cases. When I explained my logic to my professors, they said my arguments were brilliant and original. In fact, my ideas were so original that they didn't appear on the grading checklists given to the Radcliffe students who actually graded the papers. I'm not saying every prof did this nor do I know how it works today, but an automated system might be an improvement. #justsayin
What are some examples of the difference between practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge?
"Prac and Theor are best friends. They decide to learn swimming, as they want to go on an expedition.
Theor reads all the books on swimming and understand the basic mechanics of swimming thoroughly; he never goes to the practice sessions.
While Prac joins the swimming classes and goes there everyday after work, and practices it thoroughly. He understands different techniques and also just goes through the above books.
During their journey this happens,
Do you have an answer? Congo. You've understood the difference between practical and theoretical knowledge, at least basic difference."
"He again shouted at me today.
I shall find out what does that mean.
Opens google
"My husband shouted at me today. Why?"
Reads about 5 pages of search results.
Not satisfied.
Types her favourite e-commerce website.
Orders relationship dynamics, men psychology related books. About a dozen of them.
Reads them everyday.
She still couldn't figure out how to communicate to him effectively.
Totally distressed, she asks him, "I read so many books to know what can be the source of happiness to a man.
Whatever I have read seems futile, I still don't understand anything about you.
Sorry! But I am asking you directly as a last resort.
You have to forgive me for my ignorance.
Please tell me, what should I do to make you feel comfortable and at ease around me?"
He laughed heartily.
"Remember, first thing you have to do to make me feel comfortable and happy is-
She nodded eagerly
Ask me directly!", he said. "And spend more time with me than the books. You silly lady, I thought you were reading for your psychology exams & didn't disturb you for this long"
Hope this example summed it up.
Note: This is a true story."
"Theoretical knowledge — teaches the why. It helps you understand why one technique works where another fails. It shows you the whole forest, builds the context, and helps you set strategy. Where self education is concerned theory prepares you to set a direction for your future education. Theory teaches you through the experience of others.
Theoretical knowledge can often lead to a deeper understand of a concept through seeing it in context of a greater whole and understanding the why behind it..
Practical knowledge — helps you acquire the specific techniques that become the tools of your trade. It sits much closer to your actual day-to-day work. There are some things you can only learn through doing and experiencing. Where theory is often taught in the ideal of a vacuum, the practical is learned through the reality of life.
Examples are like : Reading romantic novels is a theoretical knowledge. Starting romance with a girl is a practical knowledge
2. someone who reads a book about how to run a restaurant and someone who learns how to run a restaurant by working in a restaurant have very different kinds of knowledge about how to run a restaurant."


text:
I am trying to get this pool ready for the 4th of July and I probably need to order parts. The single wheel on one side is working, the double wheel side is not. From reading similar posts from others, I'm thinking (and hoping) that if I replaced the two belts would that do the trick? What other possibilities are there? When this guy is working, he is awesome. Now, he often is laying on his side.
Also, there is one section of the hose that spurts some water. We have tried tightening and my husband who's a plumber put some goopy plumbing stuff on it.
I'd like to order everything I'd need so I can get this pool clean and dirt free. The water is clear, it's just the silt on the bottom of the pool that's hard to get rid of.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.