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Culture Watch - Exploring the message behind the media
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What is the real nature of the prejudice against ballet shown by Billy's father and brother? What other examples of prejudice are there? To what extent are these prejudices still alive and well in our society? Which are we guilty of?
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Discussion Questions for Billy Elliot (Stephen Daldry, 2000) « Ali Nihat Eken Blog
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How would you describe Billy in the film?
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Party Songs
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1. Macarena - Los Del Rio
2. YMCA - Village People -
2. YMCA - Village People
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23. La Bamba - Los Lobos
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6. I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
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21. Macho Man - Village People
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24. Night Fever - Bee Gees
25. Dancing Queen - ABBA
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Astronomy Cast - Ep. 18: Black Holes Big and Small
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Pamela: There are also things called "supermassive black holes"that are somewhere between hundreds of thousands and tens of billions times bigger than our Sun.
Fraser: What percentage of the mass of a galaxy is that? There must be a big chunk of a galaxy just in that black hole.
Pamela: It's a huge amount. These things form the core of galaxies, and the mass of a supermassive black hole in the centre of a galaxy is actually related to the size of the halo of a galaxy and how fast the stars within the galaxy are moving. These are basically the angry monster sitting at the core of every galaxy just waiting to feed on in-falling material.
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Humans Predicted to Make Contact with an Extraterrestrial Civilization Within Two Decades
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"That's 500
billion planets out there, and bear in mind there are 100 billion other
galaxies. To think this [the Earth] is the only place where anything
interesting is happening, you have got to be really audacious to take that
point of view."Seth Shostak, SETI senior astronomer
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"That's 500
billion planets out there, and bear in mind there are 100 billion other
galaxies. To think this [the Earth] is the only place where anything
interesting is happening, you have got to be really audacious to take that
point of view."
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Google Reader
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"That's 500
billion planets out there, and bear in mind there are 100 billion other
galaxies. To think this [the Earth] is the only place where anything
interesting is happening, you have got to be really audacious to take that
point of view."Seth Shostak, SETI senior astronomer
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What is a Neutron Star? | Universe Today
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Neutron stars are formed when large stars run out of fuel and collapse. To get a neutron star, you need to have star that's larger than about 1.5 solar masses and less than 5 times the mass of the Sun.
If you have less than 1.5 solar masses, you don't have enough material and gravity to compress the object down enough. You only get a white dwarf. This is what will happen to our own Sun one day.
If you have more than 5 times the mass of the Sun, your star will end up as a black hole.
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50 funniest Homer Simpson Quotes
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- Bart, with $10,000, we'd be millionaires! We could buy all kinds of useful things like...love!
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When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!
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- [Meeting Aliens] Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!
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I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!
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irish quotes
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"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
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"Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse."
- George Bernard Shaw
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What does the NYT Style Guide say about "UK" vs. "England" | Ask Metafilter
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You are assuming they're the same thing. They're not.
England is country in the United Kingdom.
The United Kingdom contains England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Great Britain is the island containing England, Wales and Scotland.
The full name of the UK is 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'
Which name you use is not a matter of style but of what you're talking about.
If you're talking about the nation as a whole, 'UK" is correct.
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-ish - Definitions from Dictionary.com
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“having the characteristics of,” “like”
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Tending toward; preoccupied with: selfish.
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Optimize Vista by Disabling Unused, Unneeded or Unnecessary Windows Services » My Digital Life
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'Lost': Deja vu all over again | LOST | Doc Jensen | TV | Entertainment Weekly | 3
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I know some of you don't buy my theory that the smack-stuffed Virgin Mary idols were an encoded reference to Karl Marx's critique of religion as the opiate of the masses. But what do you make of the golden Jesus statue belonging to Hurley's mom — the one he almost employed as a club in last week's episode? According to a simple Google search, ''Golden Jesus'' happens to be street slang for heroin.
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I know some of you don't buy my theory that the smack-stuffed Virgin Mary idols were an encoded reference to Karl Marx's critique of religion as the opiate of the masses. But what do you make of the golden Jesus statue belonging to Hurley's mom — the one he almost employed as a club in last week's episode? According to a simple Google search, ''Golden Jesus'' happens to be street slang for heroin.
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Okay, fine: coincidence. But what about ''Oceanic 815''? Ever do research into that? ''Oceanic Feeling'' was Sigmund Freud's famous term to describe the (misunderstood) yearning for/belief in God. But almost as a parry to Freud's thrust, there's ''8:15,'' which correlates to the Bible's most famous oceanic survival tale, the story of Noah's Ark, in which God destroys the world, then rebuilds it through a ''chosen one'' and his family. The verse, Genesis 8:15, is famously one of the shortest in the Bible: ''And God said to Noah:''
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Taken together with ''Christian Shephard'' (Jesus) + ''Empty Coffin'' (Empty Tomb) – ''Christian Shephard was a boozy, emotionally abusive, untrustworthy, adulterous jerk of a man,'' and the sum total is a show that is supporting its ongoing thematic debate between science and faith with cleverly constructed symbols and allusions that mirror that discussion — and specifically grapple with the most critical, non-negotiable elements of the Christian faith: the claim that Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead.
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Into the Wild - Movie - Review - The New York Times
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An enthusiastic reader (with a special affinity for Tolstoy and Jack London), Chris is in many ways the intellectual heir of 19th-century writer-naturalists like John Muir and especially Henry David Thoreau, whose uncompromising idealism — “rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth” — he takes as a watchword. (Had he survived, Mr. McCandless might well have joined the ranks of latter-day nature writers like Edward Abbey and Bill McKibben.) His credo is perhaps most succinctly stated by Thoreau’s mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, who advised that “the ancient precept, ‘Know thyself,’ and the modern precept, ‘Study Nature,’ become at last one maxim.”
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Lost: A theory on time travel
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The Black Rock was a slave boat crossing the Pacific. The boat was transporting a large assortment
of metallic minerals, which were highly reactive to other forces of
magnetism. Unexpectedly, the boat
encounters the island of LOST. Being
that the island has unique magnetic properties, the magnetic materials on the
boat “react” with the magnetic forces on the island, and the boat is literally
hoisted onto the island. The boat,
having strong levels of magnetism, creates a hole in the invisible bubble that surrounds the island – this hole
is at coordinate “325”, or the “special location/coordinate” that Daniel’s team
travels through to get to the island.
Once the Black Rock crashes, the leaders aboard the ship, including Alvar Hanso, begin studies on the
magnetic aspects of the island. Their
descendents ultimately form the DHARMA initiative in the late 1900’s. -
At some point
during DHARMA’S studies, someone managed to leverage the magnetic properties of
the island to bend time and space – thus, a time machine was created. -
DHARMA chose to run tests on animals (namely, polar bears), as to
avoid creating any time-related catastrophes or paradoxes. -
They sent a polar bear back in time a few
years, and then changed its habitat to see if it could “survive.” DHARMA used the same type of mechanism to
work with polar bears that Daniel Faraday had discovered back in 1996. DHARMA saw that once polar bears had gone
back in time, they could survive off the island, and even in remote extreme
climates (such as deserts) -
Shortly after the experimentation with the polar
bears, DHARMA starts sending people back in time. -
the leaders of DHARMA find a group of
their own people to involuntarily become “test subjects” of their next
experiment involving time travel. This
being: can sending people back in time permanently cure them of a deadly virus?
Without proper warning, DHARMA releases
a virus in an area of the island that infects many of the “test subjects.” Then DHARMA claims that they can cure the
disease with this special “device,” that device being the time machine. -
The surviving test subjects who weren’t originally infected by the virus
become a faction of the DHARMA initiative, and are subsequently referred to as
the Others/Hostiles – Richard and Jacob are among that
group. -
Ben’s mother is
recruited by DHARMA to come to the island and work on this time machine. After several years of testing the time
machine, she too has given up on its abilities.
She has also met Richard, the leader of the Others,
and he tells her about the horrible experimentation that DHARMA did to his
people, resulting in the death of several of his friends. -
she decides to use the time machine to go back in time to the
point at which she came to the island. -
Ben’s mother has
traveled approximately 15 years back in time, back to 1970, where she finds
herself back in. She meets a great guy, marries him, and getsOregon
pregnant. But, she was childless in the
alternate future that she lived out on the island. Unfortunately for her, DHARMA had not yet
discovered that connections between the dying children/mothers and time
travel. (Remember when Juliet sees the xray of the woman who was only 26, but with a 70-year-old
womb? Apparently, a unique effect of
time travel is that your womb will always age, however, your body won’t
age). -
It’s not long
after Ben’s mother’s death that their good friend Horace recommends that they
go to the island. Horace is likely
affiliated with DHARMA, and was sent to investigate Ben’s mother. After finding out about her death, he sent
her husband and Ben to the island so that DHARMA could “contain” a potential
hiccup in time. When Ben and his dad get
to the island, we find out that Ben’s father was merely to become a peon for
DHARMA. Ben was the real reason that
they came to the island: It was Ben’s legacy to fulfill his mother’s
destiny. -
Shortly after Ben sees his dead mom, he
sees Richard in the jungle, who says “you’re not ready.” Richard is a time traveler - and a
DHARMA-hater. When Ben first encounters
Richard in the jungle, Richard has traveled back in time from the year 2007 to
1981. Thus, while Richard is working
with Ben, Richard is not aging. Why did
Richard go back in time to get in contact with Ben? To recruit him. Richard knew Ben’s mother in the alternate
timeline, so he knows that Ben is an incarnation of his Mother, and that he is
some type of prodigy on the island. From
there, Richard and Ben then spend their years plotting on how they will
ultimately bring down DHARMA, and use the time machine for tests that don’t
involve killing people. -
Rosseau’s crew was an opposing force to DHARMA. They weren’t affiliated with the Others;
however, they were going to the island to investigate “shady business
practices” being conducted by DHARMA - These business practices being the
releasing of the virus to the locals on the island. Unfortunately, at the point in time, other
Others and Ben hadn’t conceived their “master plan” to bring down DHARMA. However, they didn’t want to expose children
to the experiments of DHARMA. Once Rosseau lost her baby, she set up a looping signal. That ran for years on the island, but the
signal was being blocked by the looking glass. -
Ben grows up from
the age 10 to 37, planning with Richard and Jacob the “ultimate plan” to wipe
out DHARMA, the purge. In the mean time,
DHARMA continues to test other unique aspects of the island in order to see if
they can leverage the time machine for some other purpose. In the midst of this, DHARMA discovers the
magnetic anomaly in the island via the SWAN station. This magnetic anomaly is a bubble that
encompasses the entire island.
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Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity - Lifehack.org
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e. It allows you to organize and categorize your blurbs in a format similar to your bookmarks so that when it comes to creating a bibliography or works cited, you won’t waste any time.
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Jorge Luis Borges: Biography and Much More from Answers.com
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The Argentine author, Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), was one of Latin America's most original and influential prose writers and poets.
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Borges was named director of the National Library in Buenos Aires. In that same year his sight deteriorated to the point where he became almost totally blind.
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In 1961 Borges shared with Samuel Beckett the $10,000 International Publishers Prize, and world recognition at last began to come his way.
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From the 1920s on he was afflicted by a growing hereditary blindness.
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His blindness was total by the mid 1950s and forced him to abandon the writing of long texts and begin dictating his works.
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he has been considered one of the most outstanding figures in contemporary world literature. Most of Borges's stories belong to the genre of fantastic literature. He has borrowed a good number of stylistic traits from Edgar Allen Poe and Franz Kafka
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Borgès, Jorge Luis (1899-1986) Argentinian writer whose imaginative works often centred on philosophical themes of memory, time, authenticity, and fate. The first collection of these stories was The Garden of Forking Paths (1941) followed by Artifices and retitled Ficciones in 1944. Borges was a founding figure of the ‘magical realist’ movement in South American fiction, and of postmodernism in literature.
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His short stories were especially popular, combining metaphysics and fantasy.
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Borges was named director of Argentina's National Library, was a professor of English at theUniversity of Buenos Airesand was the founder of several journals.
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he became an exponent of ultraísmo, a poetic movement that followed the decline of modernismo after World War I. Ultraísmo advocated the use of bold images and daring metaphors in an attempt to create pure poetry, divorced not only from the past but from reality. Borges, who brought the movement to Argentina, never adhered strictly to its tenets. He helped to found three avant-garde journals and was director of the National Library and professor of English at the Univ. of Buenos Aires.
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In 1961, he received the first International Publishers' Prize Prix Formentor,
which he shared with Samuel Beckett. While Beckett was well-known and respected in the
English-speaking world, and Borges at this time remained unknown and untranslated, English-speaking readers became curious about
the other recipient of the prize.
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pois é meu bruxo...logo vi q estava bom demais.....vc conhece a tal da ki london???
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