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“My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”
.. On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”
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Source: www.forbes.com
Here’s another lesson I learned the hard way. If you are using a DSLR or other camera that doesn’t have the nifty Panorama Mode, you’ll want to set your metering mode to manual. Otherwise you’ll end up with an image like this.
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Source: www.digital-photography-school.com
Size represents the glass size. i.e. A 11x14 frame will fit a 11x14 print/photo exactly. All frames have a small "lip" which reduces the viewable area by about 1/4" inch on each side.
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Source: craigframes.com
Based on our experience and others, Apple's PR team does everything it can to hand out favors to journalists who write articles that it approves of and punish those who don't. This attempted manipulation consists of a variety of standard carrot and stick techniques, most of which are used to some extent by other companies as well.
The carrots include invitations to Apple's famous product launch events, flattery, and "exclusive" access to some of Apple's executives. The sticks include launch-event snubs, guilt trips, and the silent treatment.
So it would certainly be no surprise to us if The New York Times is now serving some time in Apple's penalty box.
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Source: www.globalpost.com
The new Cold Frame Single is in fact a miniature greenhouse that will allow you to get a jump on the growing season. Grow in your containers or directly in the soil. The clear, adjustable polycarbonate cover will provide maximum light and just the right amount of ventilation. Insulated polycarbonate sidewalls will protect your tender seedlings during cool nights.
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Source: www.gothicarchgreenhouses.com
Americans’ right to access fresh, healthy foods of their choice is under attack. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities and were forced to stop, sometimes through violent action, by agents of misguided government bureaucracies, and seeks to figure out why.
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Source: vimeo.com
I've just made an Phonegap/Android app that scans a QR barcode using the plugin here. Follow the instructions and you should be successful. It's possible that the plugin has been written since Kris's answer.
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Source: stackoverflow.com
Sorkin happily parrots the rather ridiculous Sifma number saying that the costs of the rule could reach $350 billion. “Even half that number has to be considered substantial”, he writes, as though the best way of making a ridiculous number accurate is to simply divide it by two.
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Source: blogs.reuters.com
Nicaraguan ceramic owl ocarinas from artisan group Oyanca Artesania come in assorted colors. When played, this ocarina sounds like an owl! The ocarina is a type of vessel flute. Ocarinas are different from whistles in that they have finger holes that allow them to make different pitches. Ocarinas are used throughout the Andes, and have their origin in pre-Colombian times. Ocarinas come in a variety of shapes and sizes. They are often used to imitate birds or to call livestock in the mountains.
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Source: www.tenthousandvillages.com
A remembrance of music legend Ray Charles with music producer Phil Ramone, musician Marcus Roberts, "Time" editor Christopher John Farley and "Rolling Stone" editor Anthony Decurtis.
The definition of soul (Ray Charles): "When someone listens to your voice and thinks you've been though the experience you're singing about (24:55)
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Source: www.charlierose.com
In golf, we just call these
[infractions] on ourselves; we don’t try to hold
or try to foul until the refs call it on us, like in
basketball. That’s not what our game is about. I’m
not saying that there’s not sportsmanship in other
sports, but it’s on a different level in golf. That’s just
the way I was brought up. That’s just the way I was
brought up. That’s the way golf teaches you to be.
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Source: www.howistheanswer.com
The qualities that many once thought of as “soft”—values, trust, and reputation—are now the hard currency of success and the ultimate drivers of efficiency, performance, innovation, and growth.
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Source: www.lrn.com
What follows is an attempt to tease out the many different worldviews Americans are referring to when they invoke the word conservative -- and then to figure out which of these worldviews best describe Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul, the choices before Republicans
5) An embrace of free-market capitalism, and a belief in the legitimacy of market outcomes.
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Source: www.theatlantic.com
Eric Fehrnstrom, senior adviser to Mitt Romney, responds to the controversy surrounding a new campaign ad consisting of a single clip from a 1997 Nightly News broadcast. Following a rally in Panama City, Florida, Fehrnstrom told reporters that the campaign has received a cease-and-desist letter from NBC's legal department, but that the ad will remain in rotation.
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Source: www.theatlanticwire.com
Mr. Lai’s college degree enabled him to earn a salary of around $22 a day, including overtime — more than many others.
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Source: www.nytimes.com
How ubiquitous is Nokia’s iconic ringtone? An easy — but not advisable — way to find out is to leave your phone’s ringer on during a concert recital and see what happens when a call comes in. Yes, it’s a major faux pas, yet you have to give credit to Slovakian violinist Lukas Kmit, when it happened in the middle of his solo performance! Watch and see how he handled it.
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Source: gigaom.com
Family life was unstable. They moved often, and by the time Gingrich was sixteen he had lived in Pennsylvania, Kansas, France, and Germany. Recently, at a campaign event organized by a Web site called CafeMom, he talked about living with his mother’s depression and bipolar disorder: “My whole emphasis on brain science comes, indirectly, from dealing, um . . .” He winced, and started crying. “See how I’m becoming emotional?” he said, with difficulty, then continued. “From dealing with the real problems of real people, in my family. So it’s not a theory—it’s, in fact, my mother.”
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Source: www.newyorker.com