In other words, I had " a monkey on my back".not-always-upright companions are parts of our Journey to the West, the Chinese television series with personality. We know that only through teamwork English subtitles (字幕) that was on show in 1986, has been can we get through the ...
When we came to the final waterfall, Jeremy beached our raft on the shore and asked us to get out of the raft to observe the waterfall before we decided whether or not we wanted to do it. He said it would be okay if all refused, all agreed, or some refused. He would make provisio...
Think of what we’ve been taught about the “Seven Deadly Sins.” Tradition has it that they’re pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, sloth, and gluttony. None of us wants to acknowledge that such forces are inevitable parts of our personalities. So, we spend a great deal of time pretendi...
And if you further assume that bigger cities will see a larger share of the revenue – as PINF argues that reader revenue models are there to be developed to underpin this model – you quickly have a very similar challenge to the one all existing publishers face: How do you make local j...
(i.e, 3 Zn-polar and 3 O-polar faces). In other words, according to ZnO Pourbaix diagram, the pH of POM solution (~2) allows the dissolution/chemical etching of zinc oxide106,107,133. The observed immediate increasing in pH (reach ~5 within 2 minutes) prevents further etching or ...
A play upon words; a figure by which the same word is used in different senses, or words similar in sound are set in opposition to each other, so as to give antithetical force to the sentence; punning. paronychia noun (n.) A whitlow, or felon. parousia noun (n.) The nativity of...
"But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
I have the best words. —Trump, December, 2015 My Takeaway Philippians 2 could not be more strongly worded. Paul is saying that if someone wants to claim to be a Christian in any way, shape, or form, then you have to follow Christ not in all ways, or many ways, but in this one...
A grand takes more room than an upright, but those who purchase grands anyway decide that the improved tone is more than a fair trade-off. Just because the piano is a grand, though, doesn’t mean its tone is superior to all uprights! Excellent uprights are head and shoulders (tone, ...
FWIW: Despite pundits’ best efforts to coax this year’s categories into wire-to-wire finishes (as they are prone to do), I suspect this is one of those Years of Foregone Conclusions as far as handicapping Oscars is concerned. In other words, chalk is your wisest investment. The past ...