How to Be Polite
When you are at a party and are thrust into conversation with someone, see how long you can hold off before talking about what they do for a living. And when that painful lull arrives, be the master of it. I have come to revel in that agonizing first pause, because I know that I can push a conversation through. Just ask the other person what they do, and right after they tell you, say: “Wow. That sounds hard.”
NEVER EVER EVER ASK SOMEONE WHAT THEY DO ... I NEVER HAVE ANYWAY; IT'S GOING TO BORE THEM AND YOU
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Plus-Plus – Simplistic shape. Endless possibility!
MAKE SURE IT'S NOT MADE IN CHINA
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Macro photographs of insect eyes by Yudy Sauw
NEAT
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How to eat sushi
JING TAUGHT ME LONG AGO
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The Strange Tale of the North Pond Hermit
NO SINGLE PAGE VIEW?
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Should You Rent From a Friend? – Zillow Blog
NOT IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN FRIENDS
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1811 Sagamore Rd, Raquette Lake, NY 13436 is For Sale - Zillow
"Completed in 1895 by William West Durant" ... MUST BE 100s OF THESE STYLE CAMPS IN THE ADIRONDACKS
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241 Clinton St, Watertown, NY 13601 is For Sale - Zillow
"a wedding gift by New York Gov. Roswell Pettibone Flower for his daughter in 1895" ... LOOKS A LITTLE LIKE TIANDERAH
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How Your Neighbors Can Help — or Hurt — Your Home’s Sale
"Offer to pay for improvements (but don’t try to control them)"
HEE HEE THAT'S GOING TO GO OVER WELL WITH JETHRO
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Sushi Tsushima: deeelicious nigiri and soba - what shi eats
"Part of why I love Manhattan is even though it’s pretty tiny, turn a corner and you can be in a completely different world."
THANK YOUR PARENTS FOR PAYING FOR YOUR STAY
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Philly Cheesesteaks @ Tony Luke's: Whiz or Real Cheese? - what shi eats
We got the classic cheese steak: steak, caramelized onions, and cheez whiz. We also added mushrooms. The steak at Tony Luke’s is thin cut rib-eye (never chopped, they say) and the whiz is Kraft Cheez Whiz. Branded stuff here. It still tasted pretty great, but really feels like a Kraft Mac ‘n Cheese version of real macaroni and cheese. .... peppers were an essential palate cleanse
THIS IS WHY YOU ARE FAT ... I ASSUME HER BOYFRIEND LAW IS CHINESE AMERICAN
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Why Are Chinese Millionaires Buying Mansions in This L.A. Suburb? by @KYWeise: businessweek.com/articles/2014-… Where "naked officials" go: Arcadia
SUNNY CA
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Where China and Kazakhstan Meet : Image of the Day
WORTH RE-CACHING
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Absurd APEC Schedule
1. Our Beijing office will be closed on 10 and 11 November (Monday and Tuesday). These will be swapped with 2 November (Sunday) and 15 November (Saturday), which will now be working days for Beijing ...
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"The Singing Detective" Lovely Days (TV Episode 1986) - Soundtracks - IMDb
Paper Doll
I Just Called Broadway Sue
Lili Marleen
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow
Deutschlandlied
Do I Worry?
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Dennis Potter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BORN 1935 ... TRUMAN PREZ 1945–1953 ... YOUNG PHILIP 10 OR 11 IN THE SERIES
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Songs from the Singing Detective and more: Amazon.co.uk: Music
Disc: 1
1. Peg O'My Heart - Jerry Murad and The Harmonicats
2. Ambrose - Limehouse Blues
3. Blues In The Night - Anne Shelton
4. Dry Bones - Fred Waring
5. Rockin' In Rhythm - Duke Ellington
6. Cruising Down The River - Russ Morgan
7. Don't Fence Me In - Bing Crosby
8. It Might As Well Be Spring - Dick Haymes
9. Paper Doll - The Mills Brothers
10. Lili Marlane - Anne Shelton
11. I Get Along Without You Very Well - Lew Stone
12. Do I Worry - The Ink Spots
13. Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive - Bing Crosby
14. You Always Hurt The One You Love - The Mills Brothers
15. After You've Gone - Al Jolson
16. It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow - Jack Payne
17. Into Each Life Sone Rain Must Fall - Ella Fitzgerald & the Ink Spots
18. The Very Thought Of You - Al Bowlly
19. The Teddy Bear's Picnic - Henry Hall (vocal Val Rosing)
20. We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn
21. The Umbrella Man - Flanagan And Allen
22. Copenhagen - Earl Hines
23. I'll Just Close My Eyes (And Make Believe It's You) - Anne Shelton
24. Ole Moses Put Pharoah in His Place - Fred Waring And His Pennsylvanians
25. Stop Crying - King Oliver (vocal Ward Pinkett)
Disc: 2
1. The Three Caballeros (Ay Jalisco No Te Rajes) - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters
2. That's For Me - Dick Haymes
3. I'll Be Around - The Mills Brother
4. Sing, Nightingale, Sing - Lale Anderson
5. There's Something Wrong With The Weather - Lew Stone (vocal Sam Browne)
6. Java Jive - The Ink Spots
7. There's A Fellow Waiting In Poughkeepsie - Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sister
8. Till Then - The Mills Brothers
9. Chinatown, my Chinatown - Al Jolson
10. Let The People Sing - Evelyn Laye
11. I'm making Believe - Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots
12. Little Dutch Mill - Al Bowlly
13. Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes The Bogey Man - Henry Hall (vocal Val Rosing)
14. Later On - Vera Lynn
15. Bird Song At Eventide - Ronnie Ronalde
16. Pennies From Heaven - The Street Singer (Arthur Tracy)
17. Did You Ever See A Dream Walking? - Bing Crosby
18. Let's Face The Music And Dance - Fred Astaire
19. Painting The Clouds With Sunshine - Jack Hilton
20. Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries - Rudy Vallee
21. Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep - Bobby Howes & The Carlyle Cousins
22. I Want To Be Bad - Helen Kane
23. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie - Vera Lynn
24. Love Is The Sweetest Thing - Al Bowlly
WONDERFUL COLLECTION
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358 Townline Rd, Ithaca, NY 14850 is For Sale - Zillow
WEIRD PLACE IN SOUTH HILL ELEM DISTRICT? NEWFIELD SCHOOLS MEANS IT'S A NO-GO
Wicker Stephen B
Wicker Wendy L
"Stephen B. Wicker is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, and a member of the graduate fields of Computer Science, Information Science, and Applied Mathematics. He teaches and conducts research in wireless information networks, cellular networks, packet-switched computer networks, and digital telephony. He currently focuses on the interface between information networking technology, law, and sociology, with a particular emphasis on how design choices and regulation can infringe the privacy and speech rights of users."
CORNELL PROF OF COURSE
PREVIOUS OWNER:
Sale Date Price Property Class Sale Type Prior Owner
8/26/2002 $750,000 242 - Rurl res&rec Land & Building Platek, Richard
Value Usable Arms Length Deed Book Deed Page
Yes Yes 2510 1288
PLATEK A MATH PROFESSOR AT CORNELL, I GUESS HE BUILT THE PLACE
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11 ALL TIME HIGHS 2014 10 15
Xcel Energy Inc
Dte Energy Company
Domino's Pizza Inc
Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc
Csr Plc
Qualys Inc
Safety Insurance Group
Mimedx Group Inc
Eros International Plc
Straight Path Communications In
Pfenex Inc.
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896 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206 is For Sale - Zillow
MAMET DAUGHTER'S PLACE IN BROOKLYN, TRYING TO FLIP FOR 600K PROFIT
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The Charges Are...
寻衅滋事
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This is What A $95-Million Apartment Looks Like In New York City (Photos)
NOT AS NICE AS MARTY'S PLACE ... THOSE 10X10 FOOT WINDOWS ARE SWEET THOUGH
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富臨集團 - 主頁
WORKING WITH THESE GUYS ON THEIR IPO WHICH IS TAKING ME AWAY FROM MY FULL TIME JOB OF DICKING AROUND ON TWITTER ... YEUNG FAMILY
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NUS 10Q
As of June 30, 2014, working capital was $327.4 million, compared to $341.5 million as of December 31, 2013. Cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, 2014 and December 31, 2013 were $219.5 million and $525.2 million, respectively. The decrease in cash and cash equivalents reflects lower than anticipated revenue growth in Mainland China, and cash payments for inventory and accrued selling and other expenses. ... As of June 30, 2014, we were in violation of our restricted payments covenant under our amended and restated note purchase and private shelf agreement...
In addition, we have approximately $80 million in debt that will become due in September. If we are not able to refinance or extend our current lines of credit in a timely manner, we may need to defer certain capital and operating expenditures, dividend payments and stock repurchases. The majority of our historical expenses have been variable in nature and as such, a potential reduction in the level of revenue would reduce our cash flow needs, although these reductions may not allow us sufficient free cash flow to pursue all attractive strategic initiatives. In the event that our current cash balances, future cash flow from operations and current lines of credit are not sufficient to meet our obligations or strategic needs, we are unsuccessful in obtaining additional financing, or we otherwise deem it appropriate to strengthen our balance sheet, we may raise additional funds in the debt or equity markets or restructure our current debt obligations.
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CREDIT AGREEMENT Dated as of October 9, 2014 among NU SKIN ENTERPRISES, INC.,
160 PAGES OF DETAILS
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Summary of NU SKIN ENTERPRISES INC - Yahoo! Finance
The term loan facilities were drawn in full on October 10, 2014 ... bear interest either (i) during any interest period selected by the Company, at the London interbank offered rate with a maturity comparable to such interest period ("LIBOR"), adjusted for statutory reserves, plus an initial spread of 2.75% per annum, subject to adjustment based on the consolidated leverage ratio of the Company, or (ii) at the greatest of
(x) the federal funds effective rate plus 0.50%, (y) the prime rate from time to time announced by Bank of America, N.A. and (z) LIBOR for a one-month interest period plus 1.00%, plus an initial spread of 1.75% per annum, subject to adjustment based on the consolidated leverage ratio of the Company.
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Nu Skin Enterprises Announces New Syndicated Credit Facility - Yahoo Finance
closing of a new $375 million syndicated credit facility ... Details of the new credit facility are available in a current report on Form 8-K
THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND THE DEVIL
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Goodyear Blimp | Home
LONG HISTORY
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BBC's English-language website blocked across China bbc.in/1vcV2jK pic.twitter.com/qB9nXpfQNg
BLACKING OUT TV IN GYM FROM TIME TO TIME
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4chan + Reddit = Hong Kong Golden, the website that's doing the protestors' dirty work for them: on.tnr.com/1w8foJ3 (Via @tnr) #OccupyHK
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RT @SteveChaoSC: #Singapore tightens control of its online media. hrw.org/news/2014/10/1…
BLOGGERS POSTING BOND IN SING, DISNEYLAND WITH THE DEATH PENALTY DOESN'T FOOL WITH DISSENT
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The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.
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Danielle Fong
left to find a better way, harnessing renewables (running off the nuclear fusion reactor in the sky, the sun) and storing energy with compressed air
COME AGAIN?
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The iPhone 6 Plus — Tools and Toys
Of course, the star performer of this show is that beautifully gigantic 5.5″ screen. I believe the specification goes something like “401 PPI”, which means sharp in English. Text floats microns under the glass and every bit of the screen is perfectly sharp. I’ve been able to find details in my photographs that I normally would only see on my Retina MacBook Pro. Reading text is so easy on the eyes. Colours pop even better than before. I could go on forever about this screen.
6+ IS A MINI IPAD MINI, VERY HANDY
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With This Tiny Box, You Can Anonymize Everything You Do Online | WIRED
The $45 open-source router automatically directs all data that connects to it by ethernet or Wifi through the Tor network, hiding the user’s IP address and skirting censorship. It’s also small enough to hide two in a pack of cigarettes. Germar points out that its rounded corners means it can even be stowed in a bodily orifice.
TIN HAT FOIL CREW
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The 21 games that should be installed on every iPhone | The Verge
NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THOSE ... YOU SHOULD HAVE FLOW FREE ANYWAY
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Bio | Insights by Danielle Fong
Until the present: Saving the world… (or dying trying!)
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Danielle Fong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"She is of Chinese extraction" ... THAT'S VAGUE? LOOKS LIKE A HALFSIE
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Danielle Fong: A Time for Urgency
STRANGE VOICE ... IS SHE A MAN? DANIEL? ... HALF CHINESE? LET ME GOOGLE A BIT ... NEEDS MORE PRACTICE WITH PUBLIC SPEAKING, THE SIGHING HAS TO STOP
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Christa Faust on Twitter: "The guy with the microscope is the most bad ass. http://t.co/toxiw9l7ZL"
JUST ANOTHER PHALLUS
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Ghostery 5.4.1 – Bug Fixing Goodness | The Purple Box – The Official Ghostery Blog
IF YOU DON'T USE GHOSTERY, YOU SHOULD ... CHAIRMAN RECOMMENDED
