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8th of December 2009 1:53 BERRY NICE BUSH  Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red'. Native deciduous holly. Berries are vibrant, and show up nicely against our green house.
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8th of December 2009 1:51 CHRISTMAS CHEER  Hammamelis vernalis 'Christmas Cheer.' Hammamelis vernalis is native to the Ozarks, and blooms in December. Its blooms are smaller than other species, but its blooms have a scent redolent of orange blossoms and jasmine. Gorgeous fragrance. Most witch hazels bloom around Valentine's Day, and so it's a great time to pick one out for your garden. A witch hazel festival may be taking place again at Rarefind Nursery in February. Keep checking their website for more information.
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8th of December 2009 1:31 Plot of "English Movie": Monty and Happy are two bright young things in love. Actually, Monty is tired of enduring love. (Love's not always a 24 hour party, people.) Keeping mum, he fails to keep Happy in the loop. Finally she gets the scoop, and tells him to go shag some ladies in lavender. She's really had it up to here about a boy. Happy is not sure if it is 28 days later or 28 weeks later. (It is called a calendar, girls.) Now she is an English patient having work done on her iris, wah-wah. She almost dies, then she is almost dead again. She is on ghostwatch. Monty is eating his breakfast on Pluto with the girl in the cafe and Peter's friends. Full, Monty decides he needs atonement for what he flushed away. Happy goes lucky when Monty revisits her brideshead in Gosford Park, Notting Hill, and various other locations in and around the greater Britain area. There are more notes on a scandal, but I won't bore you with threads. It's December, boys. ***** This is pretty much all I did today, even though I have several papers to finish this week. I am terrible.
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8th of December 2009 0:08 Latin tattoo Help Hello, I want to get a tattoo in Latin saying, 'Respect what Destroys You.' I've never taken Latin, but I want it to be accurate. Can someone translate it for me? thanks for whatever help you can provide, Dannielle |
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7th of December 2009 22:43 TV Clips to Laugh By If you didn't catch this bit by Andy when it aired, you should give it a go. It's uber-funny. Look at me, I'm all thinkin' about it months later! And one from last week's SNL. Pretty funny and Rihanna's good. |
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7th of December 2009 22:25 dear life, what is it with you and medical things? even the minor ones are enough to wear some of us out! and then the surprise ones ... uncool. even when they are tiny insignificant things. it would be so nice if health went in a better, more hopeful direction. the fact that it doesn't makes it very easy to catastrophize, to think negatively, and to waste too much time focusing on it. like i said, even the minor things.
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7th of December 2009 22:26 I'm writing a seminar paper on the laws concerning women in the fueros of Spain, and I've come across a bit of vocabulary that has me stumped (and the usual Latin references aren't clarifying things for me any further.) I was hoping someone with more experience either in Spanish history or in legal history in general might be able to help me. Here's the problem: I've come across the word calonia/caloniam a few times in my readings, and I can't figure out what exactly it means. The context of the word is here: "Et si aliquis eorum cum aliqua muliere, excepta maritata, fecisset fornicationem voluntate mulieris, non habuisset caloniam." My best guess is that it's an idiosyncratically Spanish orthographic variation on calumnia and so has something to do with bringing false charges against sometime (which makes sense because the next line talks about the penalties if the woman does not consent.) My own searches for the word seem to indicate that it only appears in a few Spanish law codes, so I think that if it's not an orthographic variant, it must be very particular, local term. It's my first time really dealing with Spanish Law, so I was hoping that someone else here might be able to either verify this or shed some light on it? Maybe point me out to a reference book I may have missed? Thanks!
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7th of December 2009 21:55 dream up dream up let me fill your cup    this shit's getting serious   grow up my pretties  & i will plant you on the cliffside  where you might take in a bright new world view  put on every good luck talisman  because we're going swimming  keep good company
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7th of December 2009 19:11 The people to whom this is addressed will know who they are: I have a friend whose academic credentials are top notch, whose intellectual honesty I respect, and who is not a partisan fanatic. He is thus much like you. However, he disagrees with you about climate change. What, in your opinion, is the one question that I could put to him that would help him understand his error (assuming he is in error).
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7th of December 2009 18:26 now accepting applications for imaginary friends
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7th of December 2009 17:09 The calls that my mouth make a habit of turn varicose then lefty loosey until Detroit peels away from its priors, its edible wingspan, falls from the factory body and becomes an umbrella dancer. Anyone who has ever opened a jar inside the house knows danger when they puncture it. The kink in the insulation that becomes you buttered up, becomes sort of post- fig. Anyone who has ever chosen to sleep with Detroit will probably want them some eggs afterwards. And for an eclipse to upright them and for you to name the bird.
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7th of December 2009 21:53 Translating jobs Most people have told me that if I wish to get a job in translating, I should gain qualifications in things such as business, law, science etc -- some form of specialised thing. Now I don't think I could dedicate myself to such topics, so does anyone else know what else would be a beneficial thing to study? I hope this makes sense. Current Mood: |
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7th of December 2009 16:32 when in doubt, fall back on Pamela Colman Smith The centenary (finally) of the Waite-Smith Tarot provides an excuse for a brief exercise in literary history. ( here )
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7th of December 2009 21:41 Hi everybody, I'm writing a presentation letter in english for a scholarship. (Very short) Would you please check it out and mark the language mistakes you find? Thanks! I am very pleased to support in any way I can XXX’s application for the scholarship you offer. I have known XXX for the last 4 years, during which time she has successfully completed her degree in Foreign Languages at the University of YYY. Even though she majored in Chinese Language, she has always had a great interest in the German language. She has taken German laguage classes at the University of YYY and wishes to continue, because learning a new language would be very useful for her future career in the translation field.
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7th of December 2009 11:52 dominoes dominoes, n. pl. [dom-uh-nohz, dŏm-ə-nōz] -There's a lot of uncertainty in the etymology of dominoes, a game played with tiles (called dominoes), the faces of which are divided in half, with the halves either blank or decorated with a certain number of dots. In English, this word for the tiles first appears in 1801, borrowed from French domino (a singular noun first recorded in 1771). It's at this point that scholars seem to hit a dead end. To date, the only known possible trail leads to the black cloak and hood worn by priest as a symbol of their calling and also worn as a veil by women in mourning. In this use, domino ultimately comes from Latin domino, the dative form of dominus 'lord, master,' used in religious services as a name for God. The only link scholars can come up with between this hooded cloak and the game tiles are their coloring and design, as the tiles are separated in the middle with black dots on either side, similar to a black robe being tied at the waist. 
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7th of December 2009 20:30 Good morning, akachan! Kahimi Karie -- musician, singer, blogger, essayist for Mayonaka (she has a text in the current issue), star... and now mother! At the end of last week Kahimi (who earlier this year married tap-dancer Kazunori Kumagai) gave birth to a baby daughter.  On our way to eat with friends (a big group of Malaysians and Japanese, plus one Malaysian-Japanese baby) at an Okinawan restaurant in Osaka last night, we saw copies of the new Crea magazine, hot off the presses, and featuring these photos of Kahimi pregnant. The pictures (by Mika Ninagawa) join images of Nobuko Hori and Isshiki Sae as compelling visions of Japanese fertility at a time when the nation's birth rate is sputtering. They're also deeply beautiful. Later, when we all got a bit merry at the Okinawan restaurant and started singing karaoke, it seemed completely appropriate for me to pick this hit song I wrote for Kahimi in 1995. Good morning, akachan!
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7th of December 2009 13:09 ICE BOG 
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