'don't know about you, but when I pronounce it "yee oldee" it is feigned ignorance in order to draw attention to (and mock) the use of archaisms in signage. I also call the housing subdivision "providence pointee", and, will (when in the company of friends who know of my years living in Paris) frequently mispronounce pretentious "french" shop names.
I'm a Douglas Adams, but I find the Kennedy Airport Trans-World Airlines terminal to be pretty. The art-deco Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport is also pretty, if one looks past the dingy later additions to the splendid original.
So are you there for the knowledge, or the "credential"? I was a liberal arts major at a university best known for it's engineering school. There was nothing to stop me from fulfilling my science and math requirements by taking the same science and math courses as the engineering students, and nothing to stop me from filling up my "elective" options with the same engineering courses. Upon graduation, however, without the Engineering degree I was ineligible to sit for the FE exam towards professional licensure. But very few of my friends with the ABET accredited degree bothered to sit for the FE, they just got jobs and got on with life -- their employers were concerned with their knowledge and skills, not with their certifications.
My first job was quite literally a crappy one, as it involved cleaning lots and lots of toilets. I also was paid at the then "youth minimum wage". Looking back, there were times when I'm sure that my employer would have been more productive without me than with me, but in the course of that job I learned a lot about dealing with people, being responsible, and eventually as I neared the end of high-school, supervising others and getting the best out of them.
This crappy job also gave me something else, that proved to be the most valuable. The name and phone number of a previous supervisor that I could put on my resume. For every internship or summer job that I applied for in my college years, poor Dan got a phone call from someone asking if I showed up on time, was I responsible, did I show initiative.
In any place a poor supervisor can make life hell, and poor attitude can make any job hell. But a Walmart job needn't be crappy, even for a cosmopolitan aristocratic famous author: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_K8hD47GcZBkh1v3SjNYldI
But how could this happen? All of those knives were illegal for him to carry according to the Criminal Justice Act 1988, section 139. As was the hockey-stick, come to think of it, although an affirmative defense might be that he was on his way to an organized match.
When I went shopping for a world map two decades ago in the US, I was just happy to find one that didn't have the USA smack in the middle of the poster, with both China and Russia split roughly in half. How can a world map be good if Lhasa and mount Everest are on opposite edges of the poster?
Key phrase in the article: "About 1 in 4 buyers default" Whenever I see articles like this, my first reaction is "Oh no, some do-gooder wants to cut off one of the few remaining ways that poor people can access credit".
In the US we cannot do intercity travel by airline without "volunteering" to be searched. So if we want to travel between US states (a right firmly established in law and precedent), but not be searched, we have to use another form of transport. However, Janet Napolitano has made it quite clear that expansion of TSA searches to all common carriers including intercity rail and buses has been contemplated. There is also the TSA VIPR program - thousands of un-announced checkpoints set up each year at train stations, bus stations, ferry terminals... So if we don't want to inadvertantly "volunteer" for one of these administrative searches, our only option is not to travel. Not to travel even on city transit buses. So far, the courts have pretty much allowed the TSA to do what they want as long as the search is administrative (i.e.: to detect contraband that would compromise safety of the common carrier) rather than investigative.
Textbooks are expensive because the persons making the selection are not the persons paying the bill.
As the master said: "very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own".
When you are making the selection of something to purchase that benefits you, but the bill is to be paid by others, that causes quality to be weighted much more highly in the decision than price.
I didn't know that all "women who wanted to vote" were considered a threat to society. I thought it was just the ones that participated in destruction and violence. From a contemporary article, here is a list of what were considered "outrages" at the time, spanning merely the spring of one year:
Attacks on Works of Art
March 11 – National Gallery, ‘Rokeby’ Velasquez damaged.
March 16 – Birmingham Cathedral, Burne-Jones window defaced
April 10 – British Museum: Porcelain exhibits smashed
May 5 – Royal Academy: Mr. Sargent’s portray of Mr. Henry James damaged
May 13 – Royal Academy: Sir Hubert von Herkomer’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington damaged
May 18 – Royal Academy: Mr. Calusen’s ‘Primavera’ damaged
May 23 – National Gallery: Five Italian pictures damaged
May 25 – Royal Scottish Academy: Mr. Lavery’s portray of the King mutilated
May – 25 British Museum – Attack on an exhibit
Bomb Explosions
January 26 – Glasgow Kibble Palace (winter garden) partially destroyed by bomb
March 1 – Bomb explosion at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, SW
April 5 – Bomb explosion in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields
May 11 – Bomb explosion at the Metropolitan Tabernacle
May 24 – Attempt to wreck Glasgow aqueduct
Incendiary Outrages
February 5 – Three country houses in Perthshire burned – namely, Aberuchill Castle (partial), House of Roses and St. Fillans House – both completely destroyed.
February 24 – Whitekirk, Haddington, ancient parish church destroyed.
March 13 – Robertland House, Ayrshire, destroyed by fire.
March 28 – General McCalmont’shouse, Abbeylands, near Belfast, completely destroyed
April 10 – Orlands House, near Carrickfergus, burned down
April 18 – Yarmouth Pier destroyed
April 29 – Felixstowe: Bath Hotel burned down (damage, £23,000)
My suspicion is that it won't actually work for him except as a temporary measure, but it is still a win-win-win. He lives rent free for a while, the bank ends up with a house that is free from destructive vandalism, and the neighbors live next to a maintained house rather than an unmaintained eyesore. There are a couple of places near me that would do well to have such tenants.
Much like what you find when you search on Youtube for "Prairie Dog Vacuum"
Any mobile phone is regularly sending auto-registration signals even when the phone is in standby mode and silent mode.
A friendly notice that phones are prohibited, plus enforcement by the ticket-taker for noncompliant people as they pass.
I was a liberal arts major at a university best known for it's engineering school. There was nothing to stop me from fulfilling my science and math requirements by taking the same science and math courses as the engineering students, and nothing to stop me from filling up my "elective" options with the same engineering courses.
Upon graduation, however, without the Engineering degree I was ineligible to sit for the FE exam towards professional licensure. But very few of my friends with the ABET accredited degree bothered to sit for the FE, they just got jobs and got on with life -- their employers were concerned with their knowledge and skills, not with their certifications.
Looking back, there were times when I'm sure that my employer would have been more productive without me than with me, but in the course of that job I learned a lot about dealing with people, being responsible, and eventually as I neared the end of high-school, supervising others and getting the best out of them.
This crappy job also gave me something else, that proved to be the most valuable. The name and phone number of a previous supervisor that I could put on my resume. For every internship or summer job that I applied for in my college years, poor Dan got a phone call from someone asking if I showed up on time, was I responsible, did I show initiative.
In any place a poor supervisor can make life hell, and poor attitude can make any job hell. But a Walmart job needn't be crappy, even for a cosmopolitan aristocratic famous author:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_K8hD47GcZBkh1v3SjNYldI
"About 1 in 4 buyers default"
Whenever I see articles like this, my first reaction is "Oh no, some do-gooder wants to cut off one of the few remaining ways that poor people can access credit".
However, Janet Napolitano has made it quite clear that expansion of TSA searches to all common carriers including intercity rail and buses has been contemplated. There is also the TSA VIPR program - thousands of un-announced checkpoints set up each year at train stations, bus stations, ferry terminals...
So if we don't want to inadvertantly "volunteer" for one of these administrative searches, our only option is not to travel. Not to travel even on city transit buses.
So far, the courts have pretty much allowed the TSA to do what they want as long as the search is administrative (i.e.: to detect contraband that would compromise safety of the common carrier) rather than investigative.
As the master said: "very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own".
When you are making the selection of something to purchase that benefits you, but the bill is to be paid by others, that causes quality to be weighted much more highly in the decision than price.
Attacks on Works of Art
March 11 – National Gallery, ‘Rokeby’ Velasquez damaged.
March 16 – Birmingham Cathedral, Burne-Jones window defaced
April 10 – British Museum: Porcelain exhibits smashed
May 5 – Royal Academy: Mr. Sargent’s portray of Mr. Henry James damaged
May 13 – Royal Academy: Sir Hubert von Herkomer’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington damaged
May 18 – Royal Academy: Mr. Calusen’s ‘Primavera’ damaged
May 23 – National Gallery: Five Italian pictures damaged
May 25 – Royal Scottish Academy: Mr. Lavery’s portray of the King mutilated
May – 25 British Museum – Attack on an exhibit
Bomb Explosions
January 26 – Glasgow Kibble Palace (winter garden) partially destroyed by bomb
March 1 – Bomb explosion at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, SW
April 5 – Bomb explosion in St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields
May 11 – Bomb explosion at the Metropolitan Tabernacle
May 24 – Attempt to wreck Glasgow aqueduct
Incendiary Outrages
February 5 – Three country houses in Perthshire burned – namely, Aberuchill Castle (partial), House of Roses and St. Fillans House – both completely destroyed.
February 24 – Whitekirk, Haddington, ancient parish church destroyed.
March 13 – Robertland House, Ayrshire, destroyed by fire.
March 28 – General McCalmont’shouse, Abbeylands, near Belfast, completely destroyed
April 10 – Orlands House, near Carrickfergus, burned down
April 18 – Yarmouth Pier destroyed
April 29 – Felixstowe: Bath Hotel burned down (damage, £23,000)
May 18 – Birmingham Pacecourse grand stand burned
June 2- Wargrave Parish Church destroyed by fire