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HOUSTON — What will the Oakland A's roster look like come Friday, 24 hours after the trade deadline has come and gone.
Manager Bob Melvin said he'd be more than OK with things staying as they are, but he knows general manager Billy Beane well enough that anything could happen.
The A's are looking for help at second base primarily, but another outfielder and/or starting pitcher wouldn't go amiss.
"I don't try to get too high or low about it,'' Melvin said. "If you get too high about it, you get disappointed (if nothing happens). And, again, I feel like we have a really good team. So if nothing happens, I'm absolutely fine with that.
"If Billy feels like he has something to improve our team, I'm all for that, as well.''
Asked if he expected the A's to field the same team Friday against Kansas City in Oakland, Melvin was to the point, saying "I don't know.''
When exactly Crisp, who hasn't played since Saturday and who has missed time off and on with neck problems since the initial injury on May 7, will be back in the lineup the club can't say.
Melvin did say Crisp is being treated with anti-inflammatories and that the club hoped to have an idea when he might return to action after seeing him on Friday. Crisp flew back to the Bay Area after the Rangers series Sunday rather than come with the club to Houston.
But Melvin told Burns, promoted to the big leagues when Craig Gentry's broken right hand forced the backup center fielder on to the disabled list, before the game to discount most of the hubbub.
"One of the reasons I put him in the leadoff spot is that's where he's comfortable,'' Melvin said. "I debated where I would hit him in the lineup today, but this is the same thing as we did in the spring. We put him in the leadoff spot and let him go out and do his thing. That's what we're going to do today.
"You don't want to put too much pressure on a guy and say he expect too much out of him. I just want him to go out there and have some fun. It can be a little overwhelming that first big league game. I can tell you that from experience.''
Burns led the team in plate appearances this spring, and for that reason he knows most everyone on the roster from having played with them. Melvin said that's important for Burns to be able feel at ease. And Burns having gotten his first big league at-bat out of the way in a pinch-hitting situation Monday factors in as well.
"It was key that we did give him that first big league at-bat the other day,'' Melvin said. "Get that out of the way. So now he can go out there and do his thing. And that's what I told him. `I've got you leading off. I'm going to give you the same reins in spring training. It's the same game, it's the same dimensions, don't put too much pressure on yourself. You've got a lot of guys behind you. Don't feel like you have to overly go out there, and we're relying on you to be productive.'
"It helps (he played in spring training). Spring training is a little bit different. But it's a fact that he's comfortable around the guys and we have a loose clubhouse, and they make him feel comfortable in there. It all goes into trying to make a guy at ease before his first big league start.''
For more on the A's, see John Hickey's Inside the A's blog at ibabuzz.com/athletics. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/JHickey3.


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The victim and his alleged attacker in a Wednesday afternoon incident gave Terrebonne Parish sheriff's investigators similar accounts of what happened but disagreed about the weapons involved.
Officers found the victim sitting in a lawn chair in front of a Babin Street residence, bleeding from his forehead.
He reportedly told them he had been approached by Ashley Williamson, 28, 505 Paris St., Houma, who asked why he had disciplined her child and hit him in the head with a fist-sized ball of coins inside a sock.
His injuries reportedly required 10 stitches and resulted in a skull fracture. He told deputies he had Williamson's permission to discipline the child.
Williamson, located Thursday at Colonel's Truck Stop, told investigators she heard the victim had beaten her child and confronted him. During the argument when he picked up a brick, she struck him twice in the head with her right hand, on which she wore two large rings, she said.
Williamson was jailed on charges of aggravated battery.
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BAIDOA, Somalia Nov 30 (Garowe Online) – The governor of a region in southwestern Somalia said on Friday that Al-Shabaab militants are organizing themselves and preparing for attacks on government targets in his region.
Mohamed Abdi "Tall," the governor Bakool region adjacent to the Ethiopian border, said intelligence reports have indicated that well-armed guerrilla fighters are regrouping in Abalow village, a remote area etched between Bakool and Bay regions.
Senior Islamic Courts defense officials are among the fighters being organized in the village, according to the governor.
The governor's claim could not be independently verified.
Unconfirmed reports said the Islamists' former deputy defense chief, Mukhtaar Abu Mansur Robow, was among guerrillas reported to be in Bakool region.
Abu Mansur is now spokesman for the Al-Shabaab fighters, the military wing of the Islamic Courts movement that began a bloody insurgency in January after Ethiopian troops backing the interim Somali government captured the capital, Mogadishu.
Bakool Governor Mohamed Tall said his weak administration lacks the resources to challenge the Al-Shabaab fighters and expel them from the region.
Military sources in Baidoa tell Garowe Online that extra Somali and Ethiopian troops have been stationed at new locations throughout Bay region, a precaution aimed at disrupting the insurgents' logistics.
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During Coachella, you're going the distance. Three days of nonstop party-til-the-blisters-stop-you action can take a toll on any festival superhero. Between acts, you'll need to refuel in order to get right back into the marathon of music.
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Unfortunatly for the Cotto fans. This is going to happen to him a lot in the fight...
Ok, here's a good one. Oscar is working the body, but hits nothing but pure wind when he triest to go upstairs. Floyds taking those body shots but dammit those were hard and I know he was feeling them.. It's almost ****ing impossible to hit the dude in the head. I don't even think anyone has a punchers chance against the guy. Damn, I'm trying to hype myself up into thinking COtto has some sort of shot
This is what happens when you have no speed. Floyd doesn't even need upper body movement to avoid this snail shots. He can easily see the punches a mile away and avoid them.
This has to be very fustrating for Floyds opponents.
Aight, buzz fading, time to lay it down.We gotta keep this thread live up until the fight though,
Whoever's advice it was for Pavlik to go up in weight to fight B-Hop...that was just simply a horrible idea
I'm in - I'm basically waiting for the inveitable interview with that old guy (forget his name now and can't be bothered to Google) who threatned him after sucker punching whats his name in his last fight. Either way, all Money has to look forward to afterwards is 3 months inside


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Trolling for Kids: The Empire is Using Hard Times to Help it Recruit More Imperial Troops and Cannon Fodder
By Dave Lindorff
In the militarist society in which we live in these latter days of American Empire, all soldiers are "noble heroes" who have signed up at "great personal sacrifice" to "defend our freedoms," and we are all expected to pay homage and a great deal of our hard-earned money to support them, both in their brutal efforts to subjugate people in desperately poor parts of the world, and (when they leave the service, either to take jobs in the private sector or to live out broken lives if they were wounded) as veterans.
But let's be honest about all this.
Yes, The 99% Spring Is A Fraud
By Charles M. Young
With hindsight gained by googling "MoveOn" and "co-opt" after the fact, I can't claim that nobody tried to warn me. Many websites with left and even liberal politics had said in so many words, "Be wary of this organization called The 99% Spring. It is a Trojan horse for the Democrats." I just didn't read that anywhere in a timely fashion. I've had a lot of stuff on my plate lately. That's my excuse. And in my ignorance, I responded to some spam about "nonviolent direct action training" organized by MoveOn and got invited to this 99% Spring thing on April 10 at the Goddard Riverside Community Center in Manhattan. Somebody even called me all the way from San Francisco to make sure I was a sincere seeker on the left and would be attending, along with 120,000 others in training sessions around the country.
The Killers All Around Us
By Dave Lindorff
I've often wondered why so many innocent people who are shot by police end up dead.
Granted that police officers spend a fair amount of time training with their service revolvers, and are thus likely to be better shots with a pistol than your average gun-owner. But even so, in so many cases where some unarmed person is shot by police, the result is death, and it makes you wonder how cops, often in the dark and on the run, manage with their notoriously hard-to-aim pistols to hit a vital organ with such depressing regularity.
Lawyers Guild Expects More Documents: Evidence Homeland Security Coordinated Occupy Crackdown
By Dave Lindorff
If you want to know where the real government of the United States is located, just check out one of the documents received by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund in response to their Freedom of Information Act request to the Dept. of Homeland Security relating to surveillance of the Occupy Movement. That document, from the Secret Service, dated September 17, 2011, the day the Occupy movement began on Wall Street, from the US Secret Service Intelligence Division, titled Prism Demonstrations Abstract, list the location as "Wall Street Bull" -- a reference to the bronze statue of a bull on Wall Street in front of the
New York Stock Exchange, and the "protectee" as "The United States Government."
Unemployment Mumbo-Jumbo and Rank Propaganda
By Dave Lindorff
The US stock market jumped up today on word that the number of new unemployment applications fell to the lowest level in four years.
Sounds good, right? It's meant to sound good, but if you look at the number, and if you think about what it really means, it's not good news at all.
What the US Labor Department reported was that new unemployment claims filed for the week ended Feb. 24 totaled 351,000, which was slightly lower than the 353,000 new claims filed the prior week. "Slightly indeed! a better term for this 0.57% decline is "statistically insignificant!
The idea that such a "drop" in new claims would spark a jump in the Dow or the S&P shows how completely divorced from reality investors really are.
This Land is Your Land...Or is It?: Occupy Oklahoma City Sues in Federal Court to Fight to Keep the Commons
By Lori Spencer
Having spent the better part of two months as an embedded reporter with Occupy OKC's camp in Kerr Park (aka Poet's Park) I have often praised both the city and police department. Oklahoma City's occupation has so far managed to avoid the mass arrests and police brutality seen in other cities around the nation. In my opinion, this is largely due to the group's respect for the park and city ordinances, as well as the city's respect for the First Amendment. I frequently pointed to OKC as a model city, setting an example for how a local government and occupiers can peacefully coexist.
Better than Obama: Why the Establishment is Terrified of Ron Paul
By Dave Lindorff
It's fascinating to watch the long knives coming out for Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul, now that according to some mainstream polls he has become the front-running candidate in the Jan. 3 GOP caucus race in Iowa, and perhaps also in the first primary campaign in New Hampshire.
Iraq War Protest Legacy to Arab Spring to Occupy
"We Are Many" shows how mobilization in 2003 set stage for Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street
Dec 8, 2011 - On Feb. 15, 2003, the planet experienced the greatest single non-military mobilization of humanity in the history of the world. People in 800 cities (and Antarctica) marched to voice their opposition as George Bush's countdown clock ticked away the days toward the threatened U.S. invasion of Iraq. Estimates of the total numbers of protesters vary widely but it seems plausible that 15 million took to the streets.
Spies and Provocateurs: Police Spying on Occupy Movement not Likely Limited to Los Angeles
By Dave Lindorff
Word that the Los Angeles Police, who sent in 1200 officers in riot gear to violently rout a few hundred Occupy Movement demonstrators from their LA encampment last week, had earlier sent 12 undercover young officers into the peaceful occupation camp to spy on the activists should come as no surprise.
We Need a 'Rout' of Wolves to Evict the 'Stench' of Skunks Occupying Washington
By Dave Lindorff
The US Congress is such a craven bunch that you really have to turn to Olde English to aptly describe them.
Consider that yesterday, by a vote of 93-7, the Senate approved a National Defense Authorization Bill that effectively defines the US "homeland" as a war zone, and that allows for the indefinite incarceration without trial of anyone, including US citizens and Green Card holders, without trial, in blatant violation of the Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution and of fundamental international judicial standards.
13 Hours in the Hole: Occupying an Oklahoma Jail Cell
By Lori Spencer
This is Part II of a series of reports from our traveling correspondent in the American heartland. Part Icovered the arrest of 10 Occupy OKC protesters as they "mic checked" a local Walmart on Black Friday. Part II takes them through 13 hours in an Oklahoma jail. Part III will culminate in the occupiers' final standoff against police as they face a forceful eviction from Poet's Park.
General Strike Rocks Nation: Workers Across Britain Confront Conservative Austerity Demands
By Linn Washington Jr.
London -- Standing on a picket line in front of her work place at a world renowned heart-lung hospital in London wasn't Jeanette Anderson's first choice for how to spend her day.
Arrested for Supporting Local Business: Occupying Black Friday at the Big Boxes in Oklahoma City
By Lori Spencer
Oklahoma City – In the early morning hours of Black Friday, 10 members of Occupy OKC discovered that chanting "Buy local!" in a crowded Walmart is an arrestable offense in the United States of America.
National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown
By Dave Lindorff
With Congress no longer performing its sworn role of defending the US Constitution, the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee and the Partnership for Civil Justice today filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA and the National Parks Service to release "all their information on the planning of the coordinated law enforcement crackdown on Occupy protest encampments in multiple cities over the course of recent days and weeks."
Trade Unions Give Occupy Philly An Offer They Can't Refuse
By John Grant
With a $55 million construction contract "imminent" for Dilworth Plaza -- home since early October for Occupy Philadelphia – the city trade unions and those in Occupy Philly determined to hold-out in the Plaza have come to a showdown.
Everything in life is a dialogue with something, and that goes for the bottom-up/top-down dialogue known as the Occupy Movement. The Philadelphia Police are the well-armed arbiter in the middle of this dialogue with the city. The dialogue, however, just got more complicated with the entrance of the job-hungry trades union.
Rebellion in the Air: Quan's Quackery and Bloomberg's Bullshit
By Dave Lindorff
The scripted excuses provided by mayors around the country to justify their police-state tactics in rousting peaceful occupation movement activists from their park-based demonstrations now stand exposed as utter nonsense, and, given their uncanny similarity in wording, can be clearly seen as having been drawn up for them by some hidden hands in Washington. the same can be said of the brutal tactics used.
Eviction and Enlarged Freedom
By Charles M. Young
After watching the Packers beat the Vikings on Monday Night Football, I had insomnia, so it was kind of an accident that I checked my email at 2 a.m. and discovered the police were clearing Zuccotti Park. Everyone had been expecting an eviction since it all started on September 17, but not expecting it at that particular moment. On my cell phone, there were several frantic texts from Occupy Wall Street begging for community support. So I hopped on a slow subway and arrived at Chambers Street about 3 a.m.
Police State Tactics: Signs Point to a Coordinated National Program to Try and Unoccupy Wall Street and Other Cities
By Dave Lindorff
The ugly hand of the federal government is becoming increasingly suspected behind what appears to be a nationwide attempt to repress and evict the Occupation Movement.
Across the country in recent days, ultimatums have been issues to groups occupying Portland, OR, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, Dallas, TX, Atlanta, GA, and most recently New York, NY, where the Occupation Movement began on September 17. The two most recent eviction efforts, in Oakland and New York, have been the worst.
Penn State's 1st Amendment Victims: We Need Freedom of Speech on the Job Too, Not Just at Home!
By Dave Lindorff
The real story of the Penn State child abuse scandal and coverup is not Joe Paterno or Penn State, or even the abuse of children, as vile as what happened to them is. What it's about it the lack of basic freedom for workers in the United State of America to speak out.
On paper, we have one of the freest societies in the world. The First Amendment to the Constitution would appear to be pretty damned unequivocal, when it states:
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Bribing the Poor to Win Votes: We Could Use Some of This Kind of 'Corruption' in American Politics
By Dave Lindorff
What a devilishly sneaky guy that Jose Danial Ortega Saavedra is!
Why this president of Nicaragua, and former leader of the Sandinista rebels in their successful 1979 overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, in order to win re-election this fall, as he appears to have done, according to the New York Times, "shrewdly adopted policies aimed at pleasing his base of poor and working-class Nicaraguans, including supplying them with government-donated food"!
Why of all the nerve! What a crook and a scheister! Imagine catering to the needs of the poor in order to win an election. How low can a politician stoop?
When It Comes to Jobless Figures Dishonesty and Propaganda Reign
By Dave Lindorff
Once again we got a cheery report from most of the media about employers hiring, albeit "not enough," and about the jobless rate falling, albeit "it's still too high."
The proximate cause of this latest round of propaganda from the corporate media is the latest monthly jobless figure reported out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which said that employers had added 80,000 net new jobs (actually they found that private sector employers had added 104,000 jobs while public agency employers had pink-slipped 24,000 people), and that the official unemployment rate was 9.0 percent, just a notch lower than last month's 9.1 percent figure.
A Movie For The Movement: "Heist: Who Stole The American Dream?"
As the Occupy Wall Street movement pushes forward, evolving daily in mission and meaning, its cinematic companion has arrived on the scene. Heist: Who Stole The American Dream? is the latest socially and politically relevant documentary executive produced by Earl Katz, President of Public Interest Pictures. Heist will soon premiere as the fundamental primer on the historical and present-day inequities which gave rise to the Occupy Movement. From its 1930s depiction of Depression Era breadlines to Wisconsin Governor Walker's current assault on Collective Bargaining, Heist tells the story of America in decline due to the excessive greed of corporate executives and politicians bent on destroying the middle class.
$1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11
Nov. 2, 2011 - A new study suggests that defense hawks are crying crocodile tears over planned cuts to Pentagon spending.
Capitol Hill conservatives and Pentagon brass fighting cuts to defense spending have argued that the military is limping off the battlefield with decrepit hardware. It's quite the sob story: At a hearing last week, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the chair of the House armed services committee, cut his remarks short to literally sob for "these young men that are going outside the wire over in Afghanistan, every day on patrol."
Occupying in the Shadow of Frank Rizzo
By John Grant
The people, unfortunately, are still very ignorant, and are kept in ignorance by the systematic efforts of all the governments, who consider this ignorance, not without good reason, as one of the essential conditions of their own power.
-Mikhail Bakunin
It was 10:30 pm on Dilworth Plaza, the concrete apron around Philadelphia City Hall that's home for over 100 tents in the Occupy Philadelphia movement. The air was clear and the temperature was pleasant.
On War: AMEN, Rachel, AF'inMEN!!!
Oct. 28: Rachel Maddow expresses exasperation that Paul Wolfowitz is still treated by the media as if he has credibility on foreign policy matters despite his infamous history of disastrously poor judgment.
Flushing Out the Corporate Corruption: Occupy Government
By Linn Washington, Jr.
They worked many late night hours since this past spring creating a unique vehicle – part grassroots initiative and part cutting-edge technology – for countering the most corrupting force in American politics today: corporate dominance now controlling too many elected leaders on Capitol Hill.
Months before the Occupy Wall Street movement captured attention, inspiring millions across America while alarming this nation's political/corporate class, they began fashioning plans to enable honest people to run for elected office.
Occupying America: Sowing the Seeds of a Second American Revolution
By Lori Spencer
"There are combustibles in every state which a spark might set fire to."
-- George Washington's letter to General Henry Knox concerning the
Shay's Rebellion, 1786
One month ago, a group of some 1000 demonstrators gathered in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park to protest the pillaging of the nation's economy by powerful corporations and international houses of high finance. While these young activists were entirely peaceful, they also made it clear that this would be no hippie-dippy flower-twirling love-in, sit-in, teach-in, or even a camp-in; this was an occupation. The demonstrators announced that they intended to Occupy Wall Street 24/7, stayinguntil hell freezes over if need be.
The New York City police welcomed them warmly with pepper spray and more than a few violent smack-downs, even going so far as to arrest some 700 protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge who werelured into a position where they could be charged with blocking traffic.
All Hail the Unknown Organizer!
By Charles M. Young
Liberated Autonomous Manhattan -- In a century, community organizers will still be debating what to call Zuccotti Park/Liberty Plaza/Liberty Square. The surrounding skyscrapers will be covered with luxuriant tomato vines hanging from rooftop organic gardens. Electricity will be generated by solar panels and fermenting compost. Inside, the skyscrapers will be humming with intense conversation at the Occupy Education Graduate School of Revolutionary Studies, open to anyone willing to teach everyone wanting to learn.
Visitors to the park will meander through meticulously maintained sidewalks that wind in fractals through authentic tarps and wet sleeping bags from the early 21st century. Scent generators will alternately waft herbal cigarettes, sandalwood incense and mildew into the breeze.
Thugs on the Job: The NYPD, Protecting and Serving...Wall Street
By John Grant
At the end of this chaotic YouTube video, made at the end of a huge victory by the activists occupying Wall Street, and their thousands of supporters, one of many outraged demonstrators is heard hollering: "He ran over his fuckin' leg!"
Well, I've looked at the video three times and that seems a pretty accurate description of what this cop did.
At first, the scooter's front wheel seems to be in front of the young man's leg. The guy, by the way, is a clearly legal observer wearing an official National Lawyers Guild yellow observer hat. He seems to be in serious agony at this point. So it seems likely he has already been run over once.


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There's the old saying, if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen....These days, heat is the least of Tim Durning's concerns. He recently bought the Crosscreek Grille in Tallahassee and in this down economy, many wonder why?
"I didn't plan that part."
Durning has been an executive chef for 23 years so it's no surprise that he's behind the grille at Crosscreek. But while food is his job, his passion is in the gym.
Everyday from 2-4, you can find Tim at the gym. He's 45 years old and already won two masters competitions this year beating guys half his age. He leads a manic schedule, but when you're training for nationals, it's what you have to do.
"It's a dream to set foot on the stage. If you could have seen me eight years ago, before that. There was no hope at that time."
Eight years ago, Tim Durning was addicted to drugs and alcohol. His life was in shambles and he was on a downward spiral.
"There's a saying, you can only keep what you have by giving it away."
So Tim kept his new life, by giving away his old one. And in doing so, he went from 160 pounds to this:
Tim is a perfectionist. Every meal needs to look perfect, every set has to be perfect. Because that's what you do when you know that one mis-step is all it takes to lose everything.
"I'm completely blessed. I can't believe I'm here right now. I can't believe I'm talking to you right now. I'd been in my skin the whole time, I know how bad it was. I know how good it is now."
And he knows how good it will be if he wins nationals on July 15th. Tim says his drive is evidence of a mis-spent youth. And it's that drive that keeps him alive, and striving for perfection at the restaurant...and in the gym.
Tim won the Masters Over 40 Class at the Shannon Dey Classic in Panama City held on May 15 through May 16.
He most recently competed in the Steele World Bodybuilding championships on May 30, 2009 in Mobile, AL. He won the Masters Over 40 class, the Open Light Heavy Weight Class and won both the Overall Masters and the Overall Bodybuilding Championship.


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For those who can't decipher the hieroglyphs on clothing care labels, now there's one that suggests a helpful alternative.
En detalj som fÃ¥r mig att le – är det viktigt? [Henrick's TankegÃ¥ngar]
For those who can't decipher the hieroglyphs on clothing care labels, now there's one that suggests a helpful alternative.
En detalj som fÃ¥r mig att le – är det viktigt? [Henrick's TankegÃ¥ngar]
it will be nice if that site was in ENGLISH!!
Ah! Yes! I got really excited to decipher my H & M clothing labels :(
Google chrome will translate automatically
machine wash warm, no bleach, medium iron, dry clean OK (do not use trichloroethylene), do not tumble dry, dry flat.
I'm not sure, is this irony? Irony police around?
medium irony, dry flat
"Sexist…" – David Brent
Instructions for balancing a checkbook:
Take your statement balance, subtract debits not yet cleared, and add deposits not yet credited. This should match the balance in your ledger.
Or give it to your father. He knows how to do it.
Why is one acceptable and the other not?
That's not acceptable either. They're both sexist.
One is blue collar and the other is white collar.
Too bad he quoted the boss from the British version of The Office. David Brent is like Michael in the American version of the show, only even more lacking in common sense, self-awareness, or empathy. I think agent 47 was being "ironical", only his reference material was a little obscure for the non-BBC-watching crowd.
I caught the reference. I read it as a sarcastic claim of sexism. But I have not seen the British version (I knew of the characters), so my interpretation might be off.
I commented because I thought the joke could be construed as sexist. I don't have thin skin when it comes to such jokes. I have an issue with the double standard of acceptance.
I'd say your example is sexist because it assumes your father is the one balancing the checkbook. My mom does the checkbook and my dad does the laundry.
Honestly, that's pretty funny, unless your mother is dead.
Or mentally incapacitated, or physically disabled to the point where she couldn't do this, or abusive, or if she abandoned you.
Or if you have two fathers, or you're an orphan, or if you lack a sense of humor for jokes that most people will get.
Or if you don't have a mom or if your mom is just bad at doing laundry.
That's about right… I hate laundry…. I just toss everything in at once…. pull it out, toss it in the dryer, high heat for like… an hour… pull it out, throw it on the chair for later use.
Laundry. LA LA LA LAAAUNDRAY.
that is kind of me; I separate roughly by "light" "dark" and "bright" … though I tend to dry on medium-low heat. I air-dry only a few things, like the shirt I am wearing now… because it is a complicated garment of multiple layers and weirdness, and if I stick it in the dryer, it becomes ridiculously tangled and impossible to wear.
Does it look sort of like this?
I jam everything in the washer and dryer, break them, then use the microwave to dry it, when I'm not interrupted by my cougar neighbor.
Ok, so you wash this garment in hot water, you can iron, and you can also park on it without getting a ticket.
But what the hell do the pyramid and boxes mean?
Well the box thing means you can't stick it in the dryer, I think. The pyramid definitely means that you can't wear this if you are Pyramidhead.
Pyramid Head would have to wear cardigans because he could never get that thing through a crew neck.
Is the triangle (2nd to left) a drying rack?! yes?
One of those means that you should totally wear it to a Hollywood premiere; those are searchlights, right?
OT but I love your avatar.
The triangle is for bleach and the box is for drying.
So for the tag in the photo, do not use bleach, do not machine dry, dry flat. Having an X-ed out box is redundant: the box with the line through it which indicates dry flat also means don't machine dry.
+1 truthiness
Damnit, I saved this into my favorites on my RSS reader before realizing that it was pretty much a joke picture.
wash all clothes in cold water, dry only old clothes and preshrunk clothes everything else hang dry.
use very little detergent. Double Rinse for towels.
Been doing laundry since I was 12. My mother always shrank my clothes, so she told me "if you don't' like it do it yourself"
I had a similar experience except for that when I was roughly 11 my family moved in with another family and their daughter was a plumper young girl, but somehow wore a lot of the same or similar clothes as me, and my mom would mix them up and then when my stuff got back to me it was all stretched out. So I started doing it myself to keep my own clothes. Besides, someone else wearing your underwear is really creepy.
Laundry related – anybody use that new Shout product, "Color Catcher", yet? I saw an ad on TV that says you throw one in, and don't have to separate whites and colors. If it's true, I put it right up there with fire and the invention of the wheel. However, I'm assuming the "too good to be true" rule has to apply here.
It's not new. I use one or two when my wash includes new things with strong colors (I don't separate whites/colors usually, and newer items have a stronger tendency to bleed). Seems to work alright.
Cool, thanks! I saw it advertised on TV this week, and assumed it was new. I think I'm going to give it a try.
yeah your mother really knows how to do it! OH!
The symbols, the text on the label, that's all fine. I just kinda had a problem understanding "En detalj som fÃ¥r mig att le – är det viktigt?"
While funny…it's also quite a nice portrayal of how we learn and function in America. Unless it's a prepackaged food, hardly any of us could Feed ourselves either (save the hunters).
Joke's on us, America.
yep… that's probably why they are listing the temperature in CELSIUS!
"It is better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"
I have a MTV shirt, and on the tag is says "Don't be a hippie, wash your shirt".
Or, you can give it your wife, like this tag says.
Yeah, cos we can all read fucking Swedish. At least I think that's Swedish. :-|
It's for yarn but the same symbols are used for fabrics.
Thats useful, thanks.
I learned to do my own laundry as a kid after it became clear that my mother never bothered with little details like water temperature and proper dilution of bleach. Made for a lot of new clothes, anyway!
Same here. I did my own wash starting at about age 14 because I couldn't take the bleach marks
There's was another one like this:
Tested on animals. They didn't fit.
Lessee… Use 40 cups of detergent, Stop Aliens from landing on pyramids, Also watch out for Aliens peeking, Parking Allowed, Stop Aliens from making crop circles too, and… Have no idea what the last would be.
Watch out for alien examination tables, of course!
This is a better resource: http://www.textileaffairs.com
I found the "Give it to your wife, it's her job" one far more offensive.
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Few things are as thrilling as the gobble of a wild turkey, and few places can rival Mississippi for thundering long-bearded gobblers. Mississippians have a rich tradition of chasing wary spring toms, and over the last three decades the state has consistently boasted one of the largest turkey populations in the country. With over a quarter of a million birds from the Delta to the Gulf, hunters should have no problem finding a gobbler in the Magnolia State.
Today, wild turkeys are abundant across the state of Mississippi, but that hasn't always been the case. During the early 1900's, due to neglect for conservation turkeys were nearly hunted into extinction. Lack of game laws left turkey populations exposed to year-round hunting by both locals and market hunters. To make matters worse, much of the state's forests were in poor condition because of early over-harvest and misuse of timber resources. During the first 5 decades of the 20th century, the springtime woods across most of the state were void of the sound of wild turkeys. However, the tides began to turn for turkeys by the 1950's. At the request of the concerned sportsmen, natural resource professionals began to trap turkeys from isolated pockets of habitat that still contained intact populations and move them to other regions of the state. Their efforts were successful, and over the course of the next few decades, turkey populations exploded, peaking in the late 1980's. Today, the return of the wild turkey to Mississippi and much of the rest of the eastern United States is considered one of wildlife conservation's greatest success stories.


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Poor poor angry g @ y failed Daddy failed Grand Daddy! Are you ALWAYS ETERNALLY going to obsess g @ yly over that man while you ignore your neglected daughter and let the state and some strangers raise my out of wedlock crack baby Osborne? You WILL won't you! You will.
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Thibodaux Police training K-9 units
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Rico, a 4-year-old black Belgian Malinois, appeared to be restrained by an invisible leash, forcefully barking but not advancing on a police officer dressed in a padded vest.
But a simple one-word command freed the dog to pounce, and Thibodaux Police Lt. Eddie Rodrigue quickly found himself on the wrong end of Rico's mouth.
That exercise will be repeated dozens of times over the next four weeks as Rodrigue puts on a training academy for four dogs who will work for the Lafourche Sheriff's Office.
"They're pretty much green when the come to us," Rodrigue said of the dogs. "They know how to walk on a leash and play with a tennis ball. That's about it."
Training dogs with little experience takes about a month, he said.
Police use K-9 units to conduct weapons and drug searches and to apprehend suspects who resist arrest.
Thibodaux Police's K-9 dogs and handlers found about $120,000 to $140,000 in street-level narcotics and apprehended 23 suspects last year, Rodrigue said.
Rodrigue is a handler certified by the National Narcotic Detector Dog Association, a national nonprofit that certifies K-9s for law-enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal level.
Rodrigue offers training services to law-enforcement agencies throughout the region, including the Lafourche Sheriff's Office, Houma Police and the Assumption Sheriff's Office.
Rodrigue said not every dog is cut out for police work. Herding breeds, such as the German Shepherd and Belgian Malinois, are dependable police dogs because of their strong builds, speed, agility, intelligence and loyalty, according to the American Kennel Club, a national dog registry.
"We can't just take any dog off the street," he said.
Throughout the course, the dogs and trainers work 8-10 hours each day at the Thibodaux Firemen's Fairgrounds. Some exercises teach the dogs to sniff out and locate narcotics and bombs. Other exercises teach the dogs how to apprehend suspects.
While Rodrigue was strapped into a padded suit, he shouted and fired blanks while Rico grappled with him — an exercise designed to ensure the dog will not be afraid of the noisy chaos of real-world arrest scenarios. Rodrigue said he has been training dogs for the police since 1998.
The dogs are expensive. With the price of training included, Rodrigue said police K-9s generally cost around $15,000 each.
The units are an invaluable resource to police departments, Silverii said. Training dogs in other departments will ultimately help Thibodaux Police too, he said.
"We'll get the residual benefits," he said. "They will be available to us."
Dogs grow close to their handlers. The pair will often spend hours together walking beats or driving in the cruiser.
Thibodaux Police Cpl. Derland Alleman adopted Kim, his former Hungarian-born German shepherd partner, after severe arthritis and hip dysplasia forced the dog to retire.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Levi Johnston - The Worst Ex-Boyfriend EVER
There is something seriously wrong with this young man.
Levi Johnston continues to bash the Palin's. Levi has been selling himself for anyone who takes a wad of cash out.
To cash in on his relationship with Bristol and her family, Levi is willing to jeopardize his future relationship with his son and the mother of his child. What a slime ball.
Below I am posting Levi's latest accusations in the Vanity Fair that hit the news stands in New York today. Yes, the same Vanity Fair that trashed Sarah with anonymous sources from the McCain campaign a few months back.
I will understand if you don't read any further. Understand that Levi is saying anything for the cash. The juicier he makes the story, the better his chance of getting a book deal.
Also, he seems to have a lot of detail for a 17 year old boyfriend of Sarah Palin's daughter. Do you talk about these kind of details with whomever your teenager is dating? None of it seems to ring true - but here it is.
Levi to Vanity Fair about the Palin house:
The Palin house was much different from what many people expect of a normal family, even before she was nominated for vice president. There wasn't much parenting in that house. Sarah doesn't cook, Todd doesn't cook—the kids would do it all themselves: cook, clean, do the laundry, and get ready for school. Most of the time Bristol would help her youngest sister with her homework, and I'd barbecue chicken or steak on the grill.
Levi to Vanity Fair about Bristol's Pregnancy:
Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn't have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging—she wouldn't give up. She would say, "So, are you gonna let me adopt him?" We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn't want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.
Levi to Vanity Fair about Sarah Palin after the National Campaign:
Sarah was sad for a while. She walked around the house pouting. I had assumed she was going to go back to her job as governor, but a week or two after she got back she started talking about how nice it would be to quit and write a book or do a show and make "triple the money." It was, to her, "not as hard." She would blatantly say, "I want to just take this money and quit being governor." She started to say it frequently, but she didn't know how to do it. When she came home from work, it seemed like she was more and more stressed out.
Vanity Fair has a comment section and you can tell them how you feel about their campaign against Sarah Palin by clicking here.
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Would YOU let your daughter date this guy? Nice parenting Palins.
- September 2, 2009 at 5:31 PM
- Free American Citizens said...
Article appears to be written in such a way as to inflict personal damage towards Gov. Palin. We all have a desire to make more money; it's called the American Dream.
Be more….do more….live life to the fullest…. Reach for the stars… these are words of encouragement in a Free Enterprise System.
- September 2, 2009 at 6:26 PM
- Michael April said...
Sentenced to death by the NHS
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors warn today.
By Kate Devlin,
Medical Correspondent
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.
Published: 10:00PM BST 02 Sep 2009
- September 2, 2009 at 7:23 PM
- Michael April said...
The idiot is 17 years old, the minute he realized his 'johnson' could be used for more than pissing with; it got him in trouble.
Levi and his 'johnson' are a nonstarter.
- September 2, 2009 at 8:18 PM
- September 2, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Michael April: A useful rule of thumb--if you hear something from Rush, Hannity, Palin, Cheney, Rove, etc., believe the opposite.
It's very reliable!
Even if they say, "The sky is blue," check it out, cuz there's probably a tornado on the way.
- September 2, 2009 at 9:11 PM
This is the same guy that Sarah wanted her daughter to marry! Good judgment there Gov.
- September 3, 2009 at 4:48 AM
Levi sure has become sexier. I would buy his nude centerfold.
- September 7, 2009 at 8:45 AM


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Life is so short, but that does not seem to stop most of
us from rushing around as if we are trying to cross some
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But there was one thing Assad had not factored into his plans. He was dealing with an Irish woman, and an Irish mother at that. He did not anticipate her resolve to rescue her only child.
"Every fear and every dread I ever had came to life that day," Monaghan says. "I can't describe to you the shock and terror I felt when I realized May was gone."
Knowing her ex-husband, she realized the only way to see her child again would be to play his game and appease him, hard as that would be.
"He had kept his cell phone and I realized that would be the only line I had to her. I told him I would join him in Syria and live as a Muslim wife," she says.
"I don't know where I found the resolve. It was just there. When I went inside myself to find it I found it."
At great danger to their life and limb, Monaghan traveled to the Syrian border accompanied by her sister. "My sister had never experienced Islamic life and she was just astounded. How repressed they were, how backward things are, the chaos and the smells," she says.
At the border things were even worse. White refugee tents were everywhere. Children ran around barefoot, people cooked meat in the streets and the stench was overpowering. More refugees were arriving by the hour with all their worldly possessions on their backs.
When she reached the huge iron gates that divided Turkey from Syria she drove toward what everyone else was fleeing. Her ex-husband lived 30 minutes from the Syrian border and he was persuaded to meet her because she had convinced him it was in his best interests.
"He handed me a hijab and said, 'That's what you're wearing from now on.' Then he drove me to his village and I met my daughter for the first time in six days," Monaghan recalls.
"She was already changed. I knew I was in deep trouble."
Unknown to Assad, Monaghan and her sister had arranged with Turkish smugglers to have her daughter and herself spirited away in the dead of night. To distinguish the right house she hung a white sheet on the roof on the designated night.
But the plan fell though and Monaghan realized she would have to be her own rescue party. "I had to get us out. After two weeks the opportunity arouse," she said.
"He kept telling me that May would never leave Syria. He would repeat this like a mantra. On the day he had to take me to town to renew my visa he left us in the car for three minutes. I grabbed her hand and ran."
They caught a taxi. May threw herself onto the floor terrified and crying. The taxi driver asked the little girl where her father was and she replied he was dead. He instantly refused to take them out of the town.
They found another taxi driver. This time Monaghan called her friend who spoke Arabic and she arranged with the driver for him to drive them to Damascus.
It was the start of their harrowing escape, but it would take weeks, living on their nerves, to make it out. The new book tells her shocking story.
"Now I sleep with one eye open," says Monaghan, who has since returned with May to Cyprus. "I have no faith in passports and watch lists, since my ex-husband abducted May and she didn't even have a passport.
"I want to work now to prevent other parents from going through what I did. I want to get the word out. This happens all the time. More than 200,000 children were abducted by a parent in the U.S. last year. It can't be allowed to go on."


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Military Sealift Command accepted delivery of dry/cargo ammunition ship USNS Richard E. Byrd in San Diego. The ship was built by General Dynamics NASSCO.
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SeaMobile Enterprises connectivity been awarded two major contracts by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). SeaMobile has signed a
Rolls-Royce announced the acquisition of U.S. naval architecture and engineering firm Seaworthy Systems Inc. to improve further its marine support services.
Dockwise Ltd., has been awarded a contract by U.S. Military Sealift Command for the use of one of its specialized open stern vessels for offshore operational design tests.
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Bayhealth's STEPS to Healthy Aging Program will welcome podiatrist Jeffery Barton, DPM, as the guest speaker at its monthly lecture series on Wednesday, September 4 from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in Kent General's General Foods Conference Rooms 3 and 4.
Dr. Barton's presentation, "Foot Health for the Adult," will focus on arthritis, heel pain, bunions and hammertoes, tendon dysfunction, peripheral artery disease, and the selection of proper running/walking shoes. Dr. Barton graduated with honors from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine. He is board-certified by the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons. He has privileges at Bayhealth Kent General.
Bayhealth's STEPS to Healthy Aging Program is a free program for anyone over age 50 living in Bayhealth's service area. The goal of this program is to help members be informed of the latest health information for healthy aging, make new health skills a priority and improve lifestyle, diet and attitude for healthy longevity. For more information about the STEPS to Healthy Aging Program, call Bayhealth's Education Department at (302) 744-7135 or (toll-free) 1-877-453-7107, or visit www.bayhealth.org/steps.
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|Hambidge, K. - UNIV OF COLORADO
|Huffer, J. - UNIV OF COLORADO
|Raboy, Victor
|Grunwald, G. - UNIV OF COLORADO
|Westcott, J. - UNIV OF COLORADO
|Miller, L. - UNIV OF COLORADO
|Dorsch, J. - FORMER USDA/ARS EMPLOYEE
|Krebs, N. - UNIV OF COLORADO
Submitted to: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: November 20, 2003
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
Citation: Hambidge, K.M., Huffer, J.W., Raboy, V., Grunwald, G.K., Westcott, J.L., Sian, L., Miller, L.V., Dorsch, J.A., Krebs, N.F. 2004. Zinc absorption from low-phytate hybrids of maize and their wild-type isohybrids.. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 79: 1053-1059. Interpretive Summary: Seed-derived phytic acid can contribute to mineral deficiencies, such as iron and zinc deficiency, in humans. When consumed in a food, dietary phytic acid binds to nutritionally important minerals like iron and zinc, reducing the utilization of these minerals. Excretion of minerals bound to phytic acid can contribute to mineral deficiency. This study showed that when volunteers consumed foods prepared with low phytic acid corn, retention of zinc from the food was increased proportionally to the decrease in phytic acid, as compared with retention of zinc from foods prepared with 'normal phytic acid' corn. This demonstrates that use of low phytic acid corn in foods might contribute to improved zinc nutrition in populations that rely on diets dependent on grains such as corn.
Technical Abstract: Background: The identification of allelic variants in a single gene that determine the phytate content of maize kernels and subsequent breeding of low phytate maize have facilitated studies designed to determine quantitatively the effects of a wide range of maize phytate on the


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All about fresh, flavorful food
by Susan Melgren, Web Editor
food, recipe, cod, fish, cooking, baking, blueberry, mango, salsa, summer, National Berry Month, Driscoll's
Cod with Warm Blueberry Mango SalsaMakes 4 servings
National Berry Month is coming to a close, so send it out with a bang! This recipe makes for a filling but light meal that celebrates the fruits of summer. The sweet flavors of the blueberries and mango contrast nicely with the spicy chipotle chili peppers and jalapeno peppers.
If you'd rather use a fruit that grows a little closer to home, substitute peaches for the mangoes. Another white fish such as tilapia or snapper can also be substituted for cod, depending on your region's availability. Whatever variation you use, enjoy this recipe, courtesy of Driscoll's!
Sauce Yield: 1 1/2 cups
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Enjoy the last days of July with this recipe for cod with warm blueberry-mango salsa! Photo Courtesy Driscoll's.
4 cod fillets, 7 ounces each
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground chipotle chili pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup diced red bell pepper
1 package (6 ounce) Driscoll's organic blueberries
3/4 cup diced fresh mango or peaches
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
1 tablespoon finely chopped seeded jalapeno pepper
1. Preheat oven to 425°F. Spray a 13x9-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
2. Combine cumin, ginger, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Brush fish with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Sprinkle both sides of fish with cumin mixture. Arrange fish in prepared baking dish.
3. Bake fish 10 minutes or until fish flakes easily with fork.
4. Heat remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add red onion and red bell pepper; cook 2 minutes. Stir in blueberries and mango; cook 1 minute. Remove from heat. Stir in cilantro and jalapeno pepper. Serve warm over fish.
Healthy Tip: Prepare the salsa just before serving to retain the fresh color and texture. Can substitute frozen cubed mango for fresh mango.
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Definición de help en inglés:
verbo[with object]
1Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering them one's services or resources: they helped her with domestic chores [with object and infinitive]: she helped him find a buyer [no object]: the teenager helped out in the corner shop
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Long-term funding is desperately being sought for a voluntary service that helps local victims of domestic violence.
- Well, I helped out then and Boris is helping me out now.
- Sometimes we were helped out by relations and friends with muscles and, of course, the boys chipped in.
assist, aid, help out, lend a hand to, lend a helping hand to, give assistance to, come to the aid of, succour, aid and abet;
be of service to, be of use to, be useful to;
do someone a favour, do someone a service, do someone a good turn, bail/bale someone out, come to someone's rescue, give someone a leg up;
cooperate with, do one's bit for, rally round, pitch in, chip in
informal get someone out of a tight spot, save someone's bacon, save someone's skin
British informal muck in with, get stuck in with
1.1Improve (a situation or problem); be of benefit to: upbeat comments about prospects helped confidence [no object]: legislation to fit all new cars with catalytic converters will help
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- I think the worst of the weather is over but the continuing rain will not help the situation and it is likely to get colder again.
- This situation is not helped by the predicament he has with his wide midfield players.
- I remain unconvinced that the occupation forces are really helping the situation, instead of continuing to antagonize large sections of the people.
1.2 [with object and adverbial of direction] Assist (someone) to move: I helped her up
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- The girl was beside the table before I could even move, helping me down slowly without really touching me too much.
- A police spokesman said the driver was helped out of the car by people nearby and that no-one was injured.
- The arena has emptied by the time the stricken fighter is helped out of the ring.
1.3 (help someone on/off with) Assist someone to put on or take off (a garment): she would help him off with his coat
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Then you've got to help him off with what's left of his shirt.
- He helps Justin on with his boots, and laces up a long black leather fingerless glove over Frankie's wrist.
- He is fun and opens door and helps me on with my coat.
2 (help someone to) Serve someone with (food or drink): may I help you to some more meat? she helped herself to a biscuit
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Everyone helps themselves to some juicy grilled hamburgers, some plump sausages and some plastic covered hotdogs.
- Dave pours another plastic cup of sherry and helps himself to his 173rd Cadburys bar while ignoring colleagues' pleas of 'Those were bought for the whole office, you know!'
- He always tries to eat my food and if we have visitors he often gets on to their chair and helps himself.
2.1 (help oneself) Take something without permission: he helped himself to the wages she had brought home
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Mum and Dad spent the next hour trying to explain that it was alright for them to take the money, that we hadn't just stolen the book and helped ourselves and then left an IOU.
- Now, whenever Grandma visits, Zack is careful to whisper for permission in my ear, before reaching out and helping himself.
- A postal worker who stole more than £25,000 by helping himself to pension and child benefit payments has been spared jail.
steal, take, appropriate, take possession of, 'borrow', 'liberate', pocket, purloin, commandeer, make free with, use without asking
informal swipe, nab, filch, snaffle, blag, walk off with, run off with
West Indian informal tief
3 (can/could not help) Cannot or could not avoid: he couldn't help laughing I'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience, but it can't be helped
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- As he got closer to Stuart, he couldn't help but laugh when he saw how filthy she was.
- She did a funny little curtsy which Josh and Silver couldn't help but laugh at.
- I couldn't help but think that their owners would have felt considerable heartache.
be unable to stop, be unable to prevent oneself from, be unable to refrain from, be unable to keep from, be unable to forbear from, be unable to break the habit of
3.1 (can/could not help oneself) Cannot or could not stop oneself from doing something: she couldn't help herself; she burst into tears
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- We were laughing and laughing and couldn't stop, couldn't help ourselves.
- I knew I should've stopped there but I couldn't help myself.
- Then he couldn't help himself, couldn't stop his eyes from momentarily moving to the cemetery.
sustantivo[mass noun]
1The action of helping someone to do something: I asked for help from my neighbours
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- She gives advice, guidance, help, and motivation to her students at City College.
- All of you provided me with invaluable help and advice that aided me to gain my first year certificate with a Merit pass.
- The FBI has also been too reluctant in the past to accept help or advice from other security services.
1.1The fact of being useful: the skimpy manual isn't much help for beginners
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Thus annual measurement would be of little help in avoiding serious effects.
- He intends to run the 500 yards, but believes his strict fitness regime won't be much help.
- This is not much help for determining adverse effects if they aren't common and the trials aren't very large.
1.2A person or thing that helps: she's been given financial help with travel [in singular]: he was a great help
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- He was asked if the early poll which showed him losing his seat had in fact been a help.
- It would be a great help for both vendors and occupants or employees of the buildings.
- For most families with children it is a great help in their daily lives to have a car.
1.3 [count noun] A domestic employee: she has taught herself to cook since the defection of the last of the village helps
domestic worker, domestic help, domestic servant, cleaner, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, home help, maid, housemaid, housekeeper, servant, hired help, helper, assistant, employee, worker
1.4 [as modifier] Giving assistance to a computer user in the form of displayed instructions: a help menu
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- As a result the hardware maker agreed to change its source code, user manuals and help screens.
- There is a detailed help file and I have found email support adequate for my needs.
- When was the last time you used an online help system or opened a computer software manual?
Used as an appeal for urgent assistance: Help! I'm drowning!
a helping hand
- Assistance: she was always ready to lend a helping handMás ejemplos en oraciones
- She was a wonderful neighbour and friend and loved to lend a helping hand and words of encouragement.
- A good and kind neighbour, Josie always liked to lend a helping hand and sound advice.
- Billy and John are great supporters of the guild always ready to lend a helping hand.
so help me (God)
- Used to emphasize that one means what one is saying: if you don't get out, so help me I'll let you have itMás ejemplos en oraciones
- So help me God, if you stop any member of my staff one more time for another one of your needless questions, you will be dealing with me.
- When I put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not only uphold the laws of our land, I will swear to uphold the honor and dignity of the office to which I have been elected, so help me God.
- It may have deprived me of the full experience, but so help me, I just can't bring myself to watch the accompanying DVD.
there is no help for it
- There is no way of avoiding or remedying a situation: we'll be up all night but there's no help for itMás ejemplos en oraciones
- I'm never going to be able to look at her paws because she won't let me pick her up, so, if that's the case, there's no help for it except to go to the vet.
- 'Nobody knows how I hated to see the boys go to war,' Treadway mourned privately, 'but it seems there is no other way and no help for it.
- Should we have left the poor creature to lie there dying while marking time for these officials to arrive, finally for them to decide after a few days of waiting that there was no help for it but to shoot it and put it out of its misery at last?
Old English helpan (verb), help (noun), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch helpen and German helfen.
Old English help lies behind helpmate. This is found in the late 17th century as helpmeet which comes from Genesis 2:18 where Eve is described as 'an help meet for' Adam. 'Meet' means suitable, but as the word became more obscure in the early 18th century it was changed to mate.
Palabras que riman con helpkelp, whelp, yelp
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Archibald Thorburn
Archibald Thorburn (1860-1935) was undoubtedly the finest 20th Century British painter of birds.
He lived in Kelso (1880), Tonbridge Wells (1885) and London (1887). He painted in oils and watercolours and the originals are now highly valued and expensive.
He always showed meticulous accuracy and detail in the birds and animals he painted and mostly showed them in their natural habitat. He exhibited at the Royal Academy (21), the Royal Society of British Artists and the Fine Art Society.
The first print is from his famous series of books "British Birds", which was printed by Longmans, Green and Co in 1915. Behind glass it is impossible to tell that it is not the original watercolour. The £2000 difference in price should provide a clue!
The second print is from the same source and is signed by the artist on the mount and dated 1923, stemming from a period when he was in his prime.
"Crane, Bustards and
Stone Curlew"
"Partridges and Quail"
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to see an enlarged version
"Good art needn't be expensive ... bad art often is"
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California Said to Probe Effect of EMI Music's Sale
California Attorney General Kamala Harris is probing the planned purchase of EMI Group by Vivendi SA's Universal Music and an investor group led by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, two people familiar with the inquiry said.
Harris's office has contacted customers and competitors of EMI, Universal Music and Sony/ATV about the effect the deal may have on pricing, said the people, who weren't authorized to speak publicly about the probe. The state began seeking information in late February to determine whether the $4.1 billion transaction would violate antitrust rules, one of the people said.
The investigation adds scrutiny to a sale that's already under review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the European Union. Universal Music, the world's biggest record company, is buying EMI's recorded music unit for $1.9 billion. Sony/ATV, a joint-venture of Tokyo-based Sony Corp. and the estate of Michael Jackson, is purchasing EMI publishing for $2.2 billion and would become the world's biggest music publisher.
Lynda Gledhill, a spokeswoman for Harris, said yesterday the office doesn't discuss whether specific cases are being investigated, as a matter of policy.
Jimmy Asci, a spokesman for Sony/ATV in New York, declined to comment, as did Peter Lofrumento, a spokesman for Universal Music.
Beatles, Beyonce
Warner Music Group, owned by billionaire Len Blavatnik's Access Industries Holdings Inc., opposes the EMI sale, Warner board member Edgar Bronfman Jr. said earlier this year.
Universal Music would gain rights to albums from EMI performers including the Beatles, and Sony/ATV would add copyrights to songs and songwriters at EMI, including Beyonce and Jay-Z.
The Sony/ATV-led group offered compromises to European regulators examining the acquisition, according to a filing yesterday on the European Commission's website that didn't provide specific details. The commission extended its deadline to rule on the deal until April 19. The group also extended its review of Universal Music's EMI purchase.
Investigators and competitors have expressed concern that the combined companies will have too much control over prices and access to songs. Universal Music has 27 percent share of the recorded music industry, and EMI accounts for 12 percent, according to data from the IFPI music industry association cited by Sanford C. Bernstein analysts.
In publishing, Sony makes up 13 percent of the market and EMI 20 percent. Universal, which isn't buying publishing assets from EMI, is the dominant company with 23 percent.
Universal Music plans to sell three music-publishing catalogs to raise about $200 million to help finance its EMI acquisition, a person said this week. Universal Music hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch to sell classical, Christian and German schlager catalogs, said the person, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly.
Universal's parent, Vivendi, has said it will raise 500 million euros ($668 million) to finance the deal. Chief Financial Officer Philippe Capron said this month that the company plans to complete the divestments by the second half.
Vivendi rose 0.1 percent to 13.97 euros at 10:03 a.m. in Paris trading. The company, based in the French capital, has dropped 17 percent this year. Sony added 1.8 percent in Tokyo.
EMI, the 114-year-old music company that owns Abbey Road Studios in London, was seized by Citigroup Inc. in February 2011 after falling out of compliance with debt covenants, and subsequently sold.


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As the SaberCats silently streamed off the practice field Wednesday morning, players walked past three bouquets of flowers that had been placed at the team's Sunnyvale training facility.
It served as a makeshift memorial to Johnie Kirton, a 26-year-old fullback who was found dead in his Santa Clara hotel room Monday night.
While the team continues to mourn the loss of Kirton, who had joined the Arena Football League team earlier this month, the SaberCats tried to get back to work as they prepare for a game Saturday night in Milwaukee.
The practice was conducted in a somber atmosphere that included little of the usual football chatter.
"But I think it's a good thing to get on the field and get this out of their minds," said team co-owner and coach Darren Arbet.
Few details of what happened have been made public as the investigation continues. But Santa Clara police have said there is no reason to believe there was any foul play in Kirton's death.
His body was discovered by an unidentified teammate late Monday at a hotel on El Camino Real, where many team members live during the season.
"As far as we understand, it was natural causes," Arbet said. "That's what they're telling us. That's all we know right now."
The team still is coming to grips with the news. Players were not made available to the media Wednesday, but Arbet said the entire organization is devastated.
"It was shock," Arbet added. "You get this pit in the bottom of your stomach. It's just a tragedy, but especially for his family and friends. ... You're never prepared for anything like this. This is as tough as it gets."
Practice was canceled Tuesday, but the team still gathered and met with grief counselors. Players spoke to one another about a man whom Arbet described as a winner.
"He taught us a lot in the three weeks that he was here," the coach said. "He worked hard. He never complained about anything. All he wanted to do was get better. We sat around and talked about him, and that was one of the things that all the players said. He was positive."
The SaberCats acquired Kirton, a former University of Washington team captain and father of a 2-year-old daughter, from the Arizona Rattlers in a May 9 trade. In two games with San Jose, he scored five touchdowns. That included the game-winner in overtime Saturday at HP Pavilion against the Chicago Rush.
The team will attend services for Kirton -- an Everett, Wash., native -- once they are scheduled, Arbet said. The team also plans to wear decals of Kirton's No. 37 on their helmets Saturday night.
The SaberCats, who are tied with the league's best record at 8-3, are one of the arena game's flagship organizations with three league titles. Arbet was inducted into the league's Hall of Fame earlier this year.
But he never has had to cope with anything like this.
"We're just working through it," Arbet said.
Contact Mark Emmons at 408-920-5745.


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For one minute every hour, stop and focus on your intention. It works miracles.
Dave Buck
Contributed by: Tracy Phaup
When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
Source: PBS Special, "The Power of Intention"
Contributed by: Randy
Honor thy error as hidden intention.
Brian Eno
On the tightrope of life, only one thing allows us to move forward, and that one thing is balance. Without balance we fall into chaos, we fall behind, we miss out on what true choices we have in life. Balance is acheived through awareness. Awareness of what we have on our plate. What is working and what is not. What feels good and what doesn't. Where we are and where we want to be. With awareness, we have choice, the freedom to choose, free will. It is choice that gives us power. Power to choose. Power which is energy. Energy that allows us to move forward in alignment with our choices. We all want to live a full life, and the key to living a full life is finding the balance.
Laura Kangas
Contributed by: JoySeeker Laura
There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.
Grenville Kleiser (1868 - 1953)
Contributed by: jdp
It is said that if our intention is to help others--even if we are unable to follow it through--we will never have any regret. Regret is a result of trying to make "me" happy.
Sakyong Mipham
Source: Ruling Your World : Ancient Strategies For Modern Life, Pages: 60
Contributed by: Brian
When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.
Seneca (4 BC - 65 AD)
Source: Letters from a Stoic
Contributed by: Zaady
Our intention creates our reality.
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
William A. Foster
Power is the basic energy needed to initiate and sustain action or, to put it another way, the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it. Leadership is the wise use of this power: Transformative leadership.
Warren G. Bennis (1925 -)
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Definition of sermonize in English:
(also sermonise)
verb[no object]
1Compose or deliver a sermon.
Example sentences
- At the time of the framing, by contrast, preachers were instrumental in instituting the rule of law, sermonizing in favor of obedience to legitimately enacted laws.
- He was the son of a Baptist preacher who sermonized about the virtues of the free market.
- Millions of Muslims today go to their local mosques and hear their preachers sermonize from the Holy Koran.
2Deliver an opinionated and dogmatic talk to someone: they confidently sermonize on the fixed nature of identity
More example sentences
- But this is not the time for sermonizing or moralizing over US foreign policy.
- Though she is careful not to ever pontificate or sermonise, she believes that written works of fiction ought to convey some message.
- In their speech, there is a tendency to be rhetorical and instructive and school-masterly and sermonising.
- Example sentences
- And one of the main reasons for boardroom chicanery is that far too much of the 'money out' goes to governments, which may pay lip service to reducing taxes but, like the secular sermonisers of the left, talk a much better game than they play.
- If the broadsheets were badly written, if the sermonisers and pundits couldn't speak in coherent sentences, if you routinely turned the radio on to hear people not making any sense, it would all be much easier to dismiss.
- Yet although she clearly possesses both a vision of theatre's social role and an interest in the fate of those at the fringes of society, she is no sermoniser.
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Definition of wedgebill in English:
An Australian songbird of the logrunner family, with a wedge-shaped bill, long tail, and upright crest.
- Sphenostoma cristatum, family Orthonychidae.
Example sentences
- Seeing any of the whipbirds, wedgebills, and jewel-babblers can be a challenge to the observer.
- Australian whipbirds and wedgebills have eggs that are light blue with black scribbles very boldly marking them.
- More than 100 species of birds have been recorded here, including fairy wrens, finches, grass wrens and wedgebills.
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To the Editor:
On Thursday, July 24, at about 7:30 p.m., I was making my daily visit to Briarcliff Health Center to visit my 95-year-old mother, Lois Hyde. She has been at that facility for about 20 months as a result of physical and mental disabilities that rendered her unable to live alone and in need of specialized care that I could no longer provide.
She recognizes only immediate family members and not the nurses and nursing assistants that take care of her on a daily basis. She has severe short-term memory loss, not remembering what day it is, where she is, or what she had to eat only a few minutes before. She repeats questions concerning weather conditions, where she is, and how and she got there. She doesn't remember she has lost her father and her husband, and all of her siblings; asking repeated questions about me having talked to them on that particular day.
As I approached her I noticed that she had a round red, white and blue sticker on her blouse which read "I voted Today." Thinking it must have been some kind of joke, I jokingly asked the attending nurse where the sticker came from. She informed me that she had indeed voted that day. After a few phone calls, I confirmed that she had indeed voted.
How can this happen and how many others in Anderson County in her condition have "voted" also? I feel like this is election fraud and my mother was taken advantage of! The people of Anderson county deserve better! I might also add that mom had no picture identification, in fact she had no identification at all as I keep that information for her.
Robert "Bob" Hyde
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|Buckner, James
|Hagen, Marcia
Submitted to: National Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: November 27, 2001
Publication Date: December 8, 2001
Technical Abstract: The internal lipids (triacylglycerols and phospholipids) were extracted from silverleaf whitefly adults and nymphs by sonication in chloroform/methanol (2:1). Triacylglycerol and phospholipid fractions were recovered from solvent extracts using a silica gel column and fatty acids from the fractions were obtained by alkaline hydrolysis. Fatty acids were converted to methyl esters by reaction with methanolic HCl. Fatty acid methyl esters were analyzed, quantitated and identified by capillary gas chomatography (CGC) and CGC-mass spectrometry (MS). Intact triacylglycerols were separated by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and structurally identified by HPLC-MS. The characterization of internal lipids of silverleaf whiteflies provides useful information in regard to the lipid nutrient reward for whitefly predators and parasitoids.