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Sandy • Nobody questions whether Jordan can hit the ball. Indeed, the Beetdiggers are one of the most dangerous offensive baseball teams in the state, as they have proven many times over the course of the regular season.
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Bingham 9, Copper Hills 5 • The Miners followed up a blowout win over Hunter with a solid second round outing.
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- 11-16-2012, 03:07 AM Thread Author #1
I call this (BS but) "positive bashing"
Of course, I do not agree ... my 9900 is STILL my device of choice for whatever I have to do with.
But, read it full. Now the main argument is BB10 coming Jan 30. No appl or droid comparison.
Here we go, Joes will start to salivate.
Edit : while it's not the purpose of this post, you may want to go threw the black lsit ... http://www.businessinsider.com/worst...ia-lumia-820-1Last edited by Superfly_FR; 11-16-2012 at 06:21 AM. Reason: link added
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- 11-16-2012, 03:26 AM #2Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and good with ketchup
Re: I call this (BS but) "positive bashing"
I just bought 3 for my daughters and a spare for myself. Granted I didn't pay full retail as I bought them at auction as reconditioned. Great deal IMO.
We will all be getting BB10s at launch as well.Do those who protest the loudest or longest have a lock on the truth? - 11-16-2012, 05:05 AM #4
I've had my 9930 for about a month now. I still get that candy store feeling pulling it out.
So I went and found the add and read it, it seems to me that it's all biased and what not. It's probably biased towards one of the two companies not on the list Scamsung and iPhone. I personally though that the Bold 9900 and the Droid Razr X or whatever it is were beautiful looking phones that stood out from all the others.
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I had a 9900 and 9930. I got my 9900 from Indosat as a gift 1 year ago (nov 2011). 9930 I bought in used condition for about 6 months ago. I do love Monza. But actually, I miss my Dakota. It's stunning. The keypad is above all. No Blackberry can match Dakota, IMHO. Now, I wait for BB10 first, and then, purchase another Dakota for my 3rd or 4th or 5th phone Right now, I have 9020 (9700 EU with trackball, not trackpad), 8800 (my old and humble blackberry), 9360 (coming from my office), samsung galaxy Y, samsung Galaxy Nexus, and iPhone 4.
If I buy London and 9900, I will put my 8800 and Samsung Galaxy Y back to their box and safe it to my cabinet.sent from anywhere
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9380, Black and White Z10, LG Nexus 4, Nokia Lumia 520 - 11-16-2012, 11:54 AM #9
Yeah, I dont get the 9900 bashing. Its really the BEST blackberry out right now. You really cant go wrong buying one now.
Classic blackberry form, thin, light, touchscreen + keyboard + trackpad combo. Its the best! - 11-16-2012, 12:10 PM #10
Sorry, but separating fact and logic from emotion, I would have to agree that buying a 9900 is a poor investment decision. It may in fact be the best Blackberry out there, but the OS is going to be EOL'd after BB10 comes out - perhaps not right away, but it will happen. There is no backwards compatibility with BB10 and the number of apps for OS7 is shrinking every day. So unless there is a heavy, heavy discount involved, if I were a new smartphone user, why would I invest in the device with a shrinking present and no future? Why wouldn't I look first to the other devices?
Seriously, not hating, just applying cold logic and coming back to the "Osborne Effect". I'd be very interested in the - logical - responses.
I get your point, but I still feel that its not a bad idea. Especially if you can get the 9900 for a low price.
OS 7 app are shrinking, i guess, but if you want your typical Blackberry device for communication, size, email, or whatever you cant go wrong. We dont really know what BB10 will be all about. Its too early to tell. There are people who prefer their OS 5/6 device even though OS 7 is available. - 11-16-2012, 06:00 PM #12sent from anywhere
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9380, Black and White Z10, LG Nexus 4, Nokia Lumia 520 - 11-17-2012, 04:50 PM #13
I'm pretty much convinced BB-10 will be a game changer. That I have no doubt, but at the present I use what works for me and that is the OS 5 BB 8530. Really, I cant speak highly enough of it. Sure the browser is slow but in my job and social life I dont need the latest and greatest. Cell phones do not "define" me. Living and loving my family "defines" me. As a communicater, the phone I use cant be beat, and that is what I use it for. It fits good in my hand and the OS 5 is flawless in both performance and function to the point that it has spoiled me. I will not use any other OS but maybe in the future I'll go with BB-10.
$399 on Mobilicity, no contract...Rogers has some lower promotional pricing, some expecting it to come down as we get closer to BB10.
Mobilicity — Phones — BlackBerry® Bold - 11-20-2012, 09:02 AM #17
I call this (BS but) "positive bashing"
Article is total BS, don't even want to give any details why it's BS, because it's BS
About good deals for 9900. I got mine from Toronto's craigslist week after iphone 5 release. Very good condition... 205$. I consider this is pretty much good deal.
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An Intro to the Language of Flowers: The Deeper Meanings
An Intro to the Language of Flowers: The Deeper Meanings
by Amy Brecount White
Most people think of the language of flowers as primarily a Victorian phenomenon, but I think we have to look further back into human history to explore the relationship between us and flowers.
Let's try to imagine the first cave woman who stopped to look at and sniff a bloom. Human beings have an innate attraction to all things beautiful, and that's what must have stopped her in the middle of berry-picking as she went along her gatherer way. Surely, she must have wondered why this entrancing thing had appeared. What purpose could such delicacy, color, and fragrance serve? Then she probably tried to eat it.If she survived, maybe she took a few of the blooms back to her cave to brighten it up. Maybe she missed the flowers when their blooming days had passed.
As 21st-century dwellers, we know that the true purpose of flowers is to attract pollinators to perform various sexual functions inside their blooms. It's all about spreading the pollen, producing the seeds, and preserving the species. The more alluring the flower, the more visitors she will attract and the more of her pollen will be spread.
And what does this have to do with the language of flowers, Amy?
My point is this: Human beings can't quite believe that attracting the attention of insects is the only reason for the existence of something so lovely,ethereal, and fleeting as a flower. Surely, this beauty must have some higher purpose and meaning! [FYI, this is a stargazer lily; its sweet and heavy fragrance can scent an entire house.]
This desire to believe that flowers are something grander than their biological destiny led the Ancient Greeks to create myths of people becoming flowers. Think of Narcissus who was so beautiful he fell in love with himself, died, and turned into a flower, commonly called the daffodil. Pursued by a lusty Apollo, Daphne fled and her father turned her into a laurel tree to save her. (Thereafter, the victors in Apollo's games, a.k.a. the ancient Olympics, were crowned with laurel.) Adonis was killed by a boar's tusk while hunting, and a grieving Aphrodite turned his blood into red anemones, also known as windflowers.
About two thousand years later, Shakespeare revealed a similar fascination with floral meanings in many of his plays, particularly
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Shakespeare's meanings for pansies and rosemary are the ones most commonly assigned to those flowers, even now. In addition, many plants, such as poppies or foxglove, have medicinal, hallucinatory, or healing properties, which added to their fascination and mystery. So, for thousands of years, human beings have been interpreting blooms and assigning them meanings, which eventually evolved into the language of flowers.
One of the first Language of Flowers books was penned in France in 1818, under the pseudonym of Charlotte de la Tour. (She makes a cameo appearance in
!) This view of flowers, herbs, and plants as a secret, coded system of communication reached its peak later in the 1800s, particularly in Victorian England. Publishers all over England, France,and the U.S. churned out language of flower guidebooks and "translations." Writers on both sides of the Atlantic copied each other's lists and added their own meanings and local flowers. So, from a scholarly perspective, the language is something of a mish-mash.
But I am a geek, not a scholar.
Although I was familiar with the myths and Shakespeare, I stumbled across a language of flowers how-to book at Books & Co. while I was visiting family in my hometown of Dayton, Ohio. At the time my good friend, Susan, was battling ovarian cancer, so I gathered flowers from my backyard garden and made her a tussie-mussie—a symbolic flower bouquet—and included a card with the floral meanings. How I wished the messages my flowers—rosemary, peppermint, fennel, and borage—sent to her could come true!
And that, gentle reader, is when I begin to ponder and later write about the magic of flowers. The list of flowers you'll find in FHN and on my website is a fusion of meanings I've gathered. I also tried to choose common flowers that would actually bloom in the months of my novel. There is a dash of poetic license, but not much.
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One of the best recent deals I saw was for the Jawbone Jambox. If you aren't familiar with it, it's an overpriced ($199 retail, $150 commonly priced and ~$130 on sale) battery powered bluetooth speaker. Very popular. Anyway, Cricket Wireless, who apparently has retail stores in some states (whodathunkit) decided to stop sell them and put them on clearance for $50. Since most people don't live near a Cricket Wireless store, they went to Best Buy to pricematch. I got one using this method, but it was like pulling teeth. Others however picked up a TON. One guy got ~100. It helped if you actually lived near a store, since BB doesn't technically price match far away competitors. The deal got even better when Best Buy had some special "buy a Jambox get a $25 Best Buy gift card" promotion one week. They would buy it for the discounted $50 price, get a $25 gift card at check out, and then sell the device for $120-130 on eBay/CL. So, with $25,000 and a post-tax price of ~$53 (6% tax rate) and a modest post-fee sale price of $105.... You could have made about $24,492 in profit, plus $11,775 in Best Buy gift cards. If you used those gift cards to purchase even more Jamboxes, which would have yielded you even more gift cards back, your talking about closer to $40k in profit! |
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