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The Search For True Love: Five Qualities To Find In A Partner |
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Relationship
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Written by James Theo-Vialucci
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
The search for love has been played out in many Greek myths, mostly leaning towards pathos rather than celebration. One such myth is that when primordial man walked the earth, he was two entities in one, ergo keeping that person free from loneliness forever. Man having been given free will became selfish in his nature and gave into temptations and debauchery. The most powerful of all the Greek gods, Zeus, became angry and decided to punish man for this betrayal of the human body, so in a fit of rage he threw down thunderous bolts of lightning to the earth which split each man into two separate entities forever more, thus from that point on man would walk the earth with his inner nature always seeking to once again feel whole. This particular Greek myth took the view that love was in fact a punishment from the gods, as it is said that man from birth onwards would always feel alone until he found his other half (or soul mate if you will) I prefer to take the view that True Love (like anything in life) is a gift to start but to enjoy that gift it is something that must be worked at to be achieved fully. We can all find a partner and settle down with them but it is still quite rare to find two people truly in love with each other for the right reasons. Hugely important things for a lasting relationship... | | No comments for this item |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 03 July 2009 )
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The King of Pop Can Have No Heir |
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Culture
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Written by Erick Colman
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Friday, 26 June 2009 |
 Michael Jackson 1958-2009 When most of us recall June 26, 2009, we will remember a day we thought would happen decades from now. A day where a small, but important, feeling of joy in music won’t be there.
June 26, 2009 is the first day in four decades where Michael Jackson won’t be around to release new music, surprise fans with a performance alongside younger groups, or—perhaps mercifully—extend the national punchline he became in his later years.
I argue that when Michael Jackson died June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles, a new generation understood how it felt when John Lennon died in 1980. While many musicians have come and gone in between, both musicians’ deaths impacted the entire world.
You know where you were when you saw your first Michael Jackson video. Doesn’t matter which one it is. You know where you were when you first saw the Moonwalk. And there’s an old videotape of you as a kid floating around, trying to dance like Michael. |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 26 June 2009 )
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A Special Father's Day Rememberance |
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Relationship
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Written by Karolina Dembinska-Lemus
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Sunday, 21 June 2009 |
On June 22, 1999, my father was involved in a serious vehicle accident. This year marks the tenth anniversary of that fateful day. He was on a motorcycle, wearing a helmet, going the speed limit, when a woman in a station wagon allegedly didn’t see him and cut him off as she was turning into the Giant shopping center on the corner of Minnieville Road and Dale Boulevard, in Dale City, Virginia. She had a young girl in the passenger side with her. That is all I know of this driver.
My father was coming downhill and did not have time to stop or get out of the way. He hit the car, and the impact threw him off his motorcycle. Before hitting the ground, his helmet came off. After being medevaced to INOVA Fairfax Hospital, he spent 30 days in an induced coma in their intensive care unit, underwent multiple surgeries, followed by several years of assisted living centers, and ongoing therapy.
At the time of the accident, my younger siblings were 9 and 10 years old. During the three months it took me to be granted a hardship discharge out of the U.S. Army, my mother dealt with my father’s situation and maintaining a stable environment for their young kids alone. | | No comments for this item |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 20 June 2009 )
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Real Berlusconi Scandal Buried By Tabloid Journalism |
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Global Affairs
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Written by Nadia Di Martino
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Wednesday, 10 June 2009 |
 Silvio Berlusconi One must dig through the Internet to find information about Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s comment on immigrants. I refer to the comments as "Walking through the streets in the centre of a city like Milan, and I do, it does not seem to be an Italian or European city with the number of non-Italians, but an African city". Offending both Africa and immigrants in Italy, the Italian leader somehow got away with it while the international press desperately focused on the risqué photographs of him with several women, published in El Pais, a Spanish daily newspaper.
Niche websites like Adnkronos reported the Berlusconi’s outburst of racism, and rightly in the section ‘politics’. (http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=3.0.3397030373) The Guardian instead preferred to focus on ‘the tits’, with a passing mention on its Website June 5, concentrated in an 11 lines paragraph. Apparently one of the most discriminating and racist comments released by a government leader are not ‘sexy’ enough for The Guardian’s audience.
The same Guardian, on the printed edition of the day after, recycled the same article in its section ‘International’ on page 24. The article, written by John Hooper and Giles Tremlett, gives details (possibly more than necessary since the images are widely distributed) about the apparently scandalous pictures unmasked by El Pais. The Guardian is all juiced up describing the photos of ‘topless guests’, ‘one wearing a tanga’, ‘a naked man standing by a swimming pool in what appeared to be a state of sexual arousal’ , ‘Berlusconi ... pictured walking, fully clothed, with an unidentified young woman , also clothed, (...)’ and ‘ poolside statues of naked sirens’.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 June 2009 )
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The Strange Staying Power of English "Biz-Speak" |
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Business
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Written by Erick Colman
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Monday, 08 June 2009 |
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Chances are good that if you’ve ever worked in an office, you will have heard one or many boring, spine-tingling English words and phrases that won’t be heard anywhere else. Here’s an example: “We need to better leverage our platform.”
Typically, this sentence would come from a company manager or executive. In plain English, the above sentence can be said as: “We need to better use and promote our company strengths.”
It gets on my nerves that words like these are in active use, because the usage of these words actually detracts from the meaning. Whenever I hear these words said, I feel like railroad spikes are being driven into my ears. Words like these make the intended meaning more complicated than it needs to be.
I don’t know where “corporate speak” originated from, and I don’t expect it to go away anytime soon. But here’s the thing: if someone reads up about a company that offers “turnkey solutions,” why is it not easier just to say “working products and services”? In the end, that is a “turnkey solution” anyway.
So I thought it would be interesting to look up some of these bland buzzwords in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary and thesaurus, and see how their actual meaning converges (I mean, compares) to the business context.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 08 June 2009 )
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