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What's in a name? A lot, according to a new study from researchers at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto, both in Canada.

The study found that job applicants in Canada with Asian names — names of Indian, Pakistani or Chinese origin — were 28 percent less likely to get called for an interview compared to applicants with Anglo names, even when all the qualifications were the same. Researchers used data from a previous study conducted in 2011 where they sent out 12,910 fictitious resumes in response to 3,225 job postings. The previous study, also in Canada, similarly found that applicants with Anglo first names and Asian last names didn't fare much better than applicants with Asian first and last names.

"Some people still believe that minorities have an advantage," said one of the study authors, Jeffrey Reitz, a sociologist at the University of Toronto. "These studies are important to challenge that and show that not only is this kind of discrimination happening, but it's quite systemic."

Reitz, who completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees in the United States and has conducted numerous studies comparing race relations in the two North American countries, says this kind of discrimination is prevalent in the U.S. as well. "It's a very intense belief that we're a multicultural country in the way that the U.S. is not. But it's not terribly different in the two countries," said Reitz.

A two-year study published in the Administrative Science Quarterly Journal found that Asian job candidates in the U.S. were almost twice as likely to receive a call back if they whitened their resumes by changing their names and excluding race-based honors and organizations. (The same was true for African-American candidates).

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“Pulp-Era Science Fiction was about optimistic futures.”

Optimistic futures were always, always vastly outnumbered by end of the world stories with mutants, Frankenstein creations that turn against us, murderous robot rebellions, terrifying alien invasions, and atomic horror. People don’t change. Then as now, we were more interested in hearing about how it could all go wrong.

To quote H.L. Gold, editor of Galaxy Science Fiction, in 1952:

“Over 90% of stories submitted to Galaxy Science Fiction still nag away at atomic, hydrogen and bacteriological war, the post atomic world, reversion to barbarism, mutant children killed because they have only ten toes and fingers instead of twelve….the temptation is strong to write, ‘look, fellers, the end isn’t here yet.’”

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Many players would respond to any identification of its sexism with a shrug, as if to say, “It’s just Yakuza being Yakuza, what do you expect?”

The very fact that it’s so relentless and outrageous in its sexism comes to function as a defense, because to point out that sexism is to point out the blatantly obvious, and nobody wants to have the blatantly obvious pointed out to them. It seems condescending, insulting. We feel as if, because the sexism is so obvious, it’s also harmless. We can spend a while enjoying the idea that women are mere sexual objects, playthings and status symbols as a bit of goofy, lighthearted fun.

But it doesn’t actually work this way. Allowing misogyny to remain normalized or to be further normalized is dangerous. Misogyny has so much power in our culture largely because it has already been so normalized. It is seen as natural, just the way things are, just a reflection of the differences between men and women. It is what lets Trump get away with saying that his boasts about sexual assault are just harmless “locker room talk” and still go on to become president, when the sensible reaction to this would be universal disgust and outrage. Journalists covering presidential politics have a responsibility to not let Trump’s misogyny, his racism, and his fear-mongering become normalized. They have a responsibility to continue identifying these aspects of his rhetoric and his policy again and again and again and again and again and again and again, even if many people begin responding to these reports with a shrug, as if to say, “It’s just Trump being Trump, what do you expect?”

In much the same way, so do cultural critics have a responsibility to continue working against the normalization of sexism, racism, and the ideology of domination through violence in our mass media. But that work is complicated. It requires self-reflection, introspection, a willingness to think critically about our own feelings and desires as well as about the media we engage with. As a critic who is also a human being

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In China, there’s a high price to pay if a man wants a wife.

“The poorer the area is, the higher the dowry price,” said state mouthpiece People’s Daily today (Feb. 20) on a recent survey mapping the customary dowries paid by men across China.

The going rate of a dowry in some of the poorest provinces in China like Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia, is as high as 200,000 yuan ($29,000). Besides cash, some prospective brides also ask for “three-golds”—gold bracelets, a diamond ring, a diamond necklace—and “one auto,” reports (link in Chinese) the newspaper.

China has one of the worst gender imbalances in the world because of its decades-long one-child policy, which meant most families had a preference for boys over girls. In 2016, the country had 30 million more men (link in Chinese) than women, and the imbalance is more acute in rural areas. Zhai Zhenwu, director of population studies center at Renmin University in Beijing, told the People’s Daily that dowries in rural areas have been rising since the 1980s because of the scarcity of females.

Last week, a man in his 40s, Yang Ruiqing, reportedly spent half a lifetime and his life savings ($22,000) in search of a wife. Yang, who lives in impoverished Gansu province in the northwest of the country, is among millions of China’s “leftover men” competing for a wife—to no avail.

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South Koreans are used to hearing sentences that end in hadeora, a verb meaning “it is said that….” This particular way of phrasing is something of a cop-out, though. It conveys information without taking ownership of the fact. And given that Korean verbs do not require a subject, it is not clear most of the time whom the information is from.

“Actor X sexually assaulted a woman…hadeora.”

“The neighbor’s kid is winning all kinds of prizes without going to hagwon or getting private lessons…hadeora.”

“The president was meeting her lover on the day of the Sewol sinking…hadeora.”

(The last allegation, about the president, was eventually mentioned in the dailies Chosun Ilbo and Sankei – South Korean and Japanese newspapers respectively. But I first heard it from my mother, who in turn had heard it from her friends, before media reported it. That rumor, however, has not been substantiated.)

In all three cases the suffix –hadeora indicates that the preceding statement is hearsay. Yet the brevity of that important cue means that in the course of the conversation, far more importance is placed on the allegation itself than the unconfirmed nature of the story. Ask who the source of this news is, and the person is likely to say, “I don’t know, I heard it somewhere.” Whether a family member, a friend or the mother of one’s child’s classmate, that someone can end up being not so authoritative after all.

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Six women across six decades talk about how their sex lives and sensuality have changed, and what they’ve learned about the politics of pleasure

by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, Emily Witt, Clover Stroud, Mariella Frostrup, Penny Arcade, Marie de Hennezel

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South Korea's consumption of antibiotics edged down in 2015 but remained the highest among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the health ministry said Monday.

According to the ministry, the country's antibiotic use was tallied at 31.1 defined daily dose per 1,000 people, meaning 31.1 out of 1,000 people were prescribed antibiotics a day.

The prescription of antibiotics, which stood at 26.9 DDD in 2008, topped 30 DDD in 2013 and peaked at 31.7 DDD in 2014 before the moderate fall in 2015. This marked the first decline in the use of antibiotics since 2008, when the authorities started to compile data for consumption of medical goods.

South Korea's antibiotic use, however, is the highest in the OECD. South Korea and Italy topped the list with 31.1 DDD in 2015, trailed by Slovakia with 26.8 DDD, Luxemburg with 26.3 DDD and Israel with 24.9 DDD.

Among OECD countries, Sweden and Estonia prescribed antibiotics the least, with 13.9 DDD and 14.1 DDD, respectively, which are less than half of South Korea's antibiotic use.

A ministry official attributed the fall in the growth of antibiotic use in 2015 to strengthened control on antibiotics. (Yonhap)

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Some 800,000 small businesses open shop annually, but about half of them go bankrupt within two years, statistics showed Monday.

A report released by Statistics Korea said that among businesses that started in 2013, 62.4 percent were still in operation a year later. The rate fell to 47.5 percent two years later, and further dipped to 38.8 percent after three years. The third-year tally placed South Korea 25th among the 26 member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that were surveyed. The three-year survival rate was 75 percent in Sweden, 59 percent in Britain, 58 percent in the United States, 54 percent in France and 52 percent in Germany.

Lodging and restaurant businesses were among the quickest to shut down, only about one-third of them still in place three years later. The rate isn’t much better for wholesale and retail shops (35 percent), while manufacturing (49.8 percent) and transport (51 percent) were relatively better.

An earlier report from the Small Enterprise and Market Service (SEMAS) in 2013 gives an idea of why so many shops close down. A survey of 10,490 businesses across the country with 10 or less employees showed that they on average make 1.87 million won (US$1,626) in net profit a month. The amount is about three times the 649,000 won in minimum living cost per person.

Their debt on average was 53.08 million won, far more than what they make a month.

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Nearly half of South Korean households with one young person living alone are spending more than 20% of income on rent and other housing costs, while over one in ten live in an environment that does not mean minimum residential standards, a study shows.

The situation for young people was cited as a factor in the number of so-called “kangaroos,” “salmon,” and “scrums” who continue living with their parents even after graduating university or marrying.

A study titled “Policy Ideas for Customized Residential Support to Alleviate Youth poverty” published on Feb. 16 by the team of Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA) researcher Lee Tae-jin showed 47.03% of households consisting of a single person aged 19 to 34 as of 2014 falling into the “excessive rent burden” category, with rental costs constituting 20% or more of income. The percentage was slightly higher than the 46.73% rate for all households.

The rate of single young person households living in environments that do not meet the government‘s own minimum residential standards was also found to be 14.17%, a higher level than the 13.88% for all households.

“In addition to suggesting that the residential ladder from monthly rents to key deposits and home ownership has collapsed, this situation for young people shows that their difficulties are being passed along to their parents,” the report said.

Indeed, the report said parents were covering rent for 49.4% of single young person households and 80% of university student households.

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my name is Roberto Cattaneo and I am a journalist at PC World Italy working with Alfredo Distefano, Editor in Chief.

We have selected Pidgin as one of the most interesting shareware/freeware, and we really would like to include it on PCW's covermounted discs (CD and DVD) and in the download area on PC World site (

In order to grant us the authorization to include your software into the next issues PC World's covermounted CD/DVD, you just need to respond to this e-mail. Your software will be included in each monthly issue (CD and DVD) of PC World Italy, until you stop the authorization to publish it.

We are also open to collaboration on covermounting for other your products.

Looking forward for your kind answer.

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Egg Cone

Today… getting early and made Rawon, east java black soup. Delicious homemade soup, like I ever post here. Just blend all ingredients, stir it and use pressure cooker, so I can leave it 🙂 Very fast dish.

After it, I plan to make potato bread like before, using half of doughnut dough that I already made yesterday.

But unfortunately, the dough has fermented to long, it’s come stinky when I take it out from the refrigerator. Getting confuse of what will I made for Adib’s school snack, since today his schedule is swimming, So I have to make something He like.

Suddenly, I saw those cone, and I think , I can made something with it 🙂

Egg Cone

3 Cones
3 Eggs
spinach, chopped
30gr cheddar cheese, grated
30gr Mozzarella cheese
Tomato sauce

How to:
1. Mix eggs, spinach, cheddar and pepper
2. Pour into each cone until almost full, add tomato sauce and mayonnaise at the top and sprinkle with mozzarella
3. Baked on 150dC for 20 minutes

Enjoy 🙂

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Meaning of “air” - Learner’s Dictionary

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a gust of airair pollutionPlants help to purify the air.The air quality in this area is terrible.She noted a distinct chill in the air.
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A2 the mixture of gases around the Earth that we breathe:

He went outside to get some fresh air (= clean, cool air).
the air

B2 the space above and around things:

He fired his gun into the air.

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air safety
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He has an air of authority.
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to be broadcasting on television or radio

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PG certificateThe Glass Mountain is a Film programme that first aired in 1949 and has been classified a PG certificate.

The Glass Mountain is a 3 star programme

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The Glass Mountain (1949)

An aspiring composer, in the British air force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to write an opera and aware that he's fallen in love with his rescuer.

Genre: Film

Running Time: 150 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1949

3/5 Stars

Classification: PG Certificate

Production Country: Italy/UK

Filmed in Black and White

When is The Glass Mountain next on TV?

It's next showing on Talking Pictures February 28th, 4:00pm. See more...

Dulcie Gray...Anne Wilder
Michael Denison...Richard Wilder
Valentina Cortese...Alida Morrosini
Sebastian Shaw...Bruce McLeod
Tito Gobbi...Tito Gobbi segment 'Antonio' in opera
Elena Rizzieri...Elena Rizzieri segment 'Maria' in opera
Antonio Centa...Gino Alida's boyfriend
F. Terschack...Sandro the doctor
Arnold Marlé...Manager of Teatro La Fenice
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On the road with Greg Callaghan

With the first round of the all new Enduro world series taking place as we speak this weekend in Italy, Dirt Norco Enduro Team rider Greg Callaghan describes his lead up to this event. Greg’s 2013 Enduro season started with the first Irish Gravity enduro race and he has been on the road ever since. After a strong start to the season and a 9th place finish at Metabief last weekend against some big names, Greg has shown he has good pace. Greg is a hard worker and a top guy so we are all rooting for him this weekend.

Greg Callaghan:

“For me it’s 6 races in 6 weeks throughout April and May to start the season, with the new team, bikes and everything else I have been pretty eager to get racing. With it being the first year I have fully committed to Enduro I was coming into it relatively blind as to where I would fit into the results, just have to give it the beans and hope we’d come out in a good position.

I got the Range Killer B built up the week before these races and got out on it a few times to get the hang of it. It’s a 650B bike which I feel is definitely the way to go for enduro. It just carries speed so well yet it doesn’t feel any bigger or harder to move around. It’s a no brainer really that these bikes will be all over the enduro scene in no time. It’s the best of both worlds between big noodle 29ers and oldskool 26ers.

It started with the first Irish Gravity Enduro in Carrick where I had a pretty good day with some mistakes to put me in 2nd, a solid start to the year. The craic was had and the trails and organisation were awesome, it’s pretty cool to have one of the most respected enduro race series in Europe being run so close to home, pretty much all the races are within an hour of Dublin, where I live which is pretty handy.

So after a week of panic and stress to get everything ready, it was onto the first stop for the Transit, the UK Gravity Enduro in Innerleithen. I arrived on Friday evening to snow and hail… great, it was going to be another one of those wet and muddy weekends, as you’d expect to see in May… sure it’s only meant to be summer!

I got a practice lap in on the Saturday followed by seeding late Saturday afternoon on stage 5.I got pretty smoked on this one which put me in a bad starting place for Sunday. Thankfully the guys seeded ahead of me were really good at letting me by whenever I did manage to catch them on a stage, so fair play to them for that. A few of my stage times from the day turned out to be good ones, with a couple of them cracking well into the top 5 I was happy. The seeding stage was repeated on the Sunday again, with a crash and not a great run it didn’t help my result. I finished up in 8th overall for the weekend but was really happy with my stage times which showed I had the speed to run with the top boys.

After a spin around the Golf Course trails in Innerleithen on Monday with Scotty Laugh-land and a lap of Glentress on Tuesday it was time to start trucking South to the Alps. I picked up Jimmy Mac (2007 British pitbike champ, yeah, kind of a big deal) in Milan and off we went to Riva Del Garda for a round of the German Specialised/Sram series, where we met a load of other Irish riders.

What a place Garda is, unbelievable views, gnarly as hell trails and brutal climbs. The transitions for this race were huge with over an hour of pushing hard in first gear to the first stage and 1600m of vertical climb in 31km, although it was worth it for the reward of the fast and rough stages. The bike was loving the rough stuff and the moderately big wheels were just bounced through the rock gardens. It’s always good to come to a race like this and know that you have the right bike for the job, that was definitely the case here and there were plenty of other Norcos around the place too.

The event itself was pretty relaxed, with no start times for the stages it meant that there was plenty of time for hanging out with friends and enjoying the views.

Having arrived at the race a bit late, I only got to ride 5 of the 6 stages once. Stage 4 was the stage that I raced blind, and funnily enough it was my best stage of the day. Stage 5 was probably the wildest run I have ever had on a bike. Not knowing it too well meant that by the time I had realised I needed to slow down for a section, it was too late and all I could do was hang on for dear life! This caused me to have a crash and lose some time, but with the tracks being as rough as they were, a few mistakes were inevitable. Nearly 6 hours in the saddle meant that we were well spent by the end of it all, it was easy to spot the Irish lads at the finish, we were the gang with our tops off looking pasty white with a beer to celebrate the days craic.

There were only a handful of riders missing this weekend from those will be at the first round of the Enduro World Series in a couple of weeks, so the results were a good indication of how people are shaping up for that one.

Once everyone finished we got the results and I had finished in 13th place, only 1:30 off the win which was taken by Fabien Barel. That was pretty much as good as I could have hoped for with the lack of practice I had compared to others who had been shuttling the stages for a few days prior to the race. I know now where I lost out and what to work on for Punta Ala.

The race was on a Saturday which meant we had the rest of the weekend to chill out and recover which was pretty sweet. Although we did get some rain which wasn’t ideal, the sun came out at times so we could enjoy the scenery.

After a quick stop in Chamonix for some instagraming, wifi and a bike ride, it’s onto Metabief in France for the Kali open enduro, with Punta Ala the following week and Hamsterly UK Gravity Enduro on the way home for a few weeks break.

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The Washington Post pays its respects: Emigdio Vasquez

Artist Emigdio Vasquez in 2005. (Rosemary Vasquez-Tuthill/Via Associated Press)
It's not everyday that an artist whose work hangs at Irvine Valley College is noticed in the pages of the Washington Post.  It is today though.  In the nation's capital, the newspaper of record pays its respects to Emigdio Vasquez.

From "Emigdio Vasquez, pioneer in Chicano art movement, dies at 75" by John Rogers:

Emigdio Vasquez, whose bold use of color, exacting brush skills and uncanny ability to capture everyday people in dramatic moments made him one of the most influential pioneers of the Chicano art movement, died Aug. 9 at an assisted-living home in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 75....
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From the Los Angeles Times, May  1991:

Irvine Valley College will observe Cinco de Mayo with a multimedia presentation Sunday evening in the college's courtyard and Gallery Hall. An exhibition by Emigdio Vasquez, "Treinta Anos de Trabajo," covering 30 years of the artist's work, will be on display through May 17. A new issue of The Elephant-ear, the college's journal of art and writing, featuring Vasquez' work on the cover, will be distributed. Gallery events begin at 6 p.m. with music starting at 8 p.m., performed by the jazz group of Strunz and Farah. The event is free.
Wow - remember those days?  Art, literature, music, culture.

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Anonymous said...

His IVC mural used to hang in the Student Services building then they moved it. I think it would be fitting for the college to say a few words in his honor. I expect they will. I hope the Lariat covers it as well. He was/is a pretty big deal. Kudos to the Washington Post. Rest in Peace, Mr. Vasquez.

Anonymous said...

I remember those days as if they were yesterday. A big deal, indeed.

Anonymous said...

WaPo - "newspaper of record." Is that supposed to be a joke?

Roy Bauer said...

If you have a point, make it clearly, and then defend it.
This isn't Fox News.

Anonymous said...

I happen to agree with 2:46, that to claim WaPo is a "newspaper of record" is laughable. Further, if the blogaderos happen to disagree with a posted comment, they attempt to disqualify it by saying there was no point made. In contrast, if they happen to agree with someone's comments where no point has been made, nothing to backup assertions, bad grammar & spelling, they let all that stuff slide. Bunch of big babies!

Roy Bauer said...

4:16 (and 2:46): the Reb was suggesting only that the Washington Post is a very large and respected news organization--something, therefore, that might be regarded as authoritative. That's what it means to say that such-and-such is the "paper of record."
You focus on this entirely incidental remark about the Washington Post; and you fail to respond to the substance of this post: that Emigdio Vasquez was an important artist and, given that IVC owns one of his murals, the college should make some mention of his passing and its continued possession of this work of art. (At the time of this post, the college had utterly failed to do so.)
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  3. Connect the Aim Offset as shown below, then Right-click on the Yaw and Pitch pins and Promote to Variable and name them Aim Yaw and Aim Pitch.

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  4. In the MyBlueprint panel, jump over to the EventGraph.

  5. In the EventGraph, locate the Sequence node within the Movement portion of the script.

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  6. From the MyBlueprint panel, hold down Alt and drag in both the Aim Yaw and Aim Pitch and connect to Sequence node.

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  8. Drag off the Get Control Rotation node and add a Delta(Rotator) node.

  9. Connect the Get Actor Rotation to the Delta(Rotator) B Pin, then off the Return Value add an RInterp To node (and swap the connection from Current to Target).

    You can hold Ctrl and Left-click on the Current pin to drag its connection to the Target pin.

  10. Drag off the Current pin of the RInterp To node and select Make Rotator.

  11. From the MyBlueprint panel, hold Ctrl and drag in the Aim Pitch and Aim Yaw variables and connect them to the Make Rotator node's Pitch and Yaw.

  12. At the start of the Movement script, find the Event Blueprint Update Animation node and promote Delta Time X to a variable called Time and connect as shown.

  13. Back on the RInterp To node, connect the new Time variable and set the Interp Speed to 15.

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  14. Off the RInterp To node, add a Break Rotator and Clamp Angle of Pitch and Yaw with min/max angles set to -90 and 90 respectively.

  15. Connect the Clamp Angle from the Pitch to Aim Pitch and the Yaw to Aim Yaw.

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Title: A multilevel approach to research ‘Obscure’ innovation processes and practices
Authors: Chatzakis, Emmanouil
Smith, Neil
Bohemia, Erik
Keywords: Activity theory
New product development
Analytical methods
Organisational agility
Issue Date: 2016
Publisher: Design Research Society
Citation: CHATZAKIS, E., SMITH, N. and BOHEMIA, E., 2016. A multilevel approach to research ‘Obscure’ innovation processes and practices. IN: Lloyd, P. and Bohemia, E. (eds). Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society, Future-Focused Thinking. 50th Anniversary Conference of the Design Research Society, 27th-30th June 2016, Brighton, 4, pp. 1883 - 1903, DOI 10.21606/drs.2016.371
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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hanging out with Douglas Ray (pictured to the left– please note what you can’t see is the margarita in his hand) and his partner Gordon.  We did our part to support the National Flag Football League of Atlanta–or as the kids on the street call it, the NFFLA– at a St. Patty’s Margarita Bust at Zocalo’s.  It was good times all around.

Douglas and I each have a poem in Michael Montlack’s Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses.  Douglas’s muse is none other than the fabulous Dixie Carter.  In honor of our good times I want to share an excerpt of his fabulous poem, “Designed Diva.”

When Julia told Ima Jean, in essence,
to screw herself, for thinking the boys
dying og AIDS in the 80s were deserving
victims, I wanted to be her, to walk
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I wanted her words, her deep fried
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EG Robotics has a small favor to ask.

Subject: Class is better with friends!

Hi {{parentname}},

We hope {{studentname}} is as excited about Rescue Bots at {{schoolname}} as we are! You will be surprised at the knowledge and skills your student learns in this course. We can’t wait for you to see how the robot turns out – their most advanced robot yet! If you haven’t already, please check out the Rescue Bots Course Outline to see exactly what the class will be learning and doing each week.

If your child enjoys our classes, and you value problem-solving, critical thinking, and engineering skills, we have a small favor to ask of you. We need a few more sign-ups to continue to hold great classes year-round, develop and improve our curriculum, and keep tuition as low as possible. You can help get us there! Mention our program to someone, or share a quick email, post, or text with your friends. We have added a share feature on each school sign up page. From there you can easily choose how to share from the icon bar. We really appreciate your support and teamwork!

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Send out an Email to all current students in a class where it is not full to see if they would invite a friend a week late and earn 5000 AMP Dollars.

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We are wondering if your school has any events coming up where we could setup an interactive table to teach students how to build circuits. The students have a great time making circuits with LEDs, Wires, Resistors, Capacitors and more! Sometimes even parents join in and learn to build circuits as well!

We love to show students and parents what we teach in our program and give them a real experience with making electronics.

If no events are coming up soon, please keep us in mind for any future events!

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Now that we are a couple weeks into the course, we would love to get some feedback from you.  Do you have any suggestions, comments or concerns?  How do you feel our EG Robotics teacher is doing?

Please go to our Survey and fill out the form, we would love to get your feedback in order to continue to improve our program! You can always call and talk to us about it too! Our office number is 971-266-3654.

If {{studentname}} is enjoying {{oldcoursename}}, you can sign up for the next course – {{coursename}} – right here!  We want to give current students a chance to join the next course before we send out flyers to new students.

{{coursename}} {{schoolname}}
Dates: {{classdates}}
Time: {{classtime}}
Cost: {{classcost}}
Sign up here:{{schoolid}}

Let me know if you have any questions!

Zayne Mayfield

Record Invite Email

Record which schools you sent the invite email to. Since the schools get off by a week or two making sure you record which ones sent is crucial. Record information  in the Advertising/Retention Sheet under Invite Email Record tab.

Call Parents

under Format: select CSV –> Click Go. Open CSV file in excel. Write notes on each call on the row.”}” data-sheets-userformat=”{“2″:4480,”10″:2,”11″:4,”15″:”arial,sans,sans-serif”}”>Go to EGR Login Page and click Phone Call Report. Enter username and password for login and password. Click Export –> under Format: select CSV –> Click Go. Open CSV file in excel. Write notes on each call on the row.

Call all Monday parents on Tuesday. Tuesday parents on Wednesday and so forth

Phone Call Script

Hi my name is ____ with EG Robotics.

I’m calling today with 2 quick questions. Do you have a minute? Great. We are always working on developing and making out classes better and we would really appreciate your honest feedback.

How do you feel the class is going?

Great – I really appreciate that. 2nd, we would like to give our current students the first opportunity to sign up for the next class – Going Green – before we send out flyers and the class fills up. Would you like me to sign (student name) up?   ———-YES – awesome, you will receive a confirmation email shortly confirming enrollment.

Do you have any questions at this time? Great, we look forward to having (student name) in Going Green. Have a great day.

———-NO – No problem, if/when you decide you are ready, you can sign up via our website,, or just call me back. Also If you would prefer, I can also set a reminder for a follow up call with you.

Do you have any questions for me?

Great, thank you for your time and have a great day!

Distribute Flyers

Distribute the schools out on Monday and Bring the candy to give to the office.

Record Flyers Delivered

Record all of the delivered flyers in the Advertising/Retention Sheet under the Flyers Distributed tab.

Banners and Posters

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Get posters and banners hung up.

Email to PTA

Email the PTA where school attendance is low to ask if they would help spread the word.

PTA Email Template

Hi {{schoolname}} PTA/PTO,

We are so excited to be starting our next robotics course –  {{coursename}} for all 3rd-5th grade students! Currently we are close, but have not quite hit our student minimum for the class to go through. We are hoping with the help of the PTO we can spread the word about our classes and make sure every parents is aware of our program.

Email lists, FaceBook page, school website, or any other means that you may have available would be great! Also, If you have any after school activities coming up soon or PTA meetings, we would love the chance to give a demonstration and bring in some fun parts and circuits for kids and parents to check out. For your convenience I have attached the flyer for {{coursename}}, and hope you can distribute it to the parents of {{schoolname}}.

Thank you!

Student Handout for Next class

Print out the student handout for the next class for them to bring it home and give to their parents to sign up.

Last Chance

Subject: Friendly Reminder

Hi {{parentname}},

We know life can be very busy!  We just wanted to send you a quick reminder that the next EG Robotics class – {{coursename}}  at {{schoolname}} will be starting next week and you can still sign up!

Simply sign up online, by calling us (971-266-3654), or just reply to this email and we will take care of it for you!

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Man jailed for posing as deputy to get free rent

San Antonio — Bexar County authorities Monday night arrested a man accused of posing as a sheriff’s deputy in order to live for free at a Northeast Side apartment.

Joe Luis Gonzales, 46, was being held without bail in Bexar County Jail on one count of impersonating a public servant and another of contempt of court for failing to pay child support.

Authorities said Gonzales filled out an application March 6 for a courtesy officer position and signed a lease to live rent-free at the Artisan at Salado Falls Apartments in the 3700 block of Binz-Engleman Road. It’s a common practice for deputies and officers to pay subsidized rent or none at all in exchange for performing security duties, according to authorities.

Gonzales wore a sheriff’s office uniform, carried a gun and had a deputy’s badge when he applied for the apartment, according to an arrest warrant affidavit…

Deputy Chief Dale Bennett said it didn’t appear the apartment complex called the county to confirm Gonzales’ employment. Recently, a resident attempted to file a complaint against him with Bexar County, Bennett said.

We realized that this guy’s not an employee of ours,” he said.

Not a bad deal for coppers in South Texas. As long as someone checks to see if they’re real.

The Afghan women jailed for having bad character

We are sitting in Badam Bagh, or Almond Garden, Afghanistan’s only prison for women in the capital Kabul.

The prison is a window on a world where, outside these walls, women are constantly judged against a standard that makes many of their stories difficult to fathom.

Sixteen-year-old Sabera, with a pretty yellow head scarf, frets that she is missing school.

“I was about to get engaged, and the boy came to ask me himself, before sending his parents. A lady in our neighbourhood saw us, and called the police,” she explains.

She was sentenced to three years but, in an act of mercy, it was shortened to 18 months.

Fellow inmate Aziza was accused of running away from her husband. She says she was acquitted two months ago, but still languishes in prison.

A senior official in Afghanistan’s Ministry for Women’s Affairs told a recent UN workshop that about half of Afghanistan’s 476 women prisoners were detained for “moral crimes”. That includes everything from running away from home, refusing to marry, marrying without their family’s wishes, and “attempted adultery”.

In many cases women run away because they can’t bear the domestic violence and then they are picked up and taken into custody for a long time,” explains Nader Nadery, a commissioner at Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission…

About 40 young children also share their mother’s fate, living in Badam Bagh…

Prison authorities say children are taken away to a boarding school after the age of five.

Regular readers know I generally support other nations’ independence from the rule of Western ideology and so-called morality. We usually can figure out how to be as corrupt and inhuman as anyone else on the planet – given the opportunity.

I also have a measure of confidence in commerce being likely to move reactionary nations forward to some better place on the planet. If people can learn to deal with each other in the course of making a living – we might be less likely to kill each other.

But, that friendly support for commercial interchange doesn’t mean avoiding criticism of folkways and mores, the delightful tidbits of stupidity and anti-human behavior left dangling from many religions, many cultures, like political dingleballs. My old business acquaintances in China, Taiwan, Japan, Iran, Philippines and on and on – would know exactly what I mean.

Treating women as chattel is over, folks. Lose the stupid hangups!

Gene leads to longer shelf life for tomatoes – and more

A Purdue University researcher has found a sort of fountain of youth for tomatoes that extends their shelf life by about a week.

Avtar Handa, a professor of horticulture, found that adding a yeast gene increases production of a compound that slows aging and delays microbial decay in tomatoes. Handa said the results…likely would transfer to most fruits.

“We can inhibit the aging of plants and extend the shelf life of fruits by an additional week for tomatoes,” Handa said. “This is basic fundamental knowledge that can be applied to other fruits.”

The organic compound spermidine is a polyamine and is found in all living cells. Polyamines’ functions aren’t yet fully understood. Handa and Autar Mattoo, a research plant physiologist…and collaborator in the research, had shown earlier that polyamines such as spermidine and spermine enhance nutritional and processing quality of tomato fruits.

“At least a few hundred genes are influenced by polyamines, maybe more,” Mattoo said. “We see that spermidine is important in reducing aging. It will be interesting to discover what other roles it can have.”

Savithri Nambeesan, who was a graduate student in Handa’s laboratory, introduced the yeast spermidine synthase gene, which led to increased production of spermidine in the tomatoes. Fully ripe tomatoes from those plants lasted about eight days longer before showing signs of shriveling compared with non-transgenic plants. Decay and rot symptoms associated with fungi were delayed by about three days…

“Shelf life is a major problem for any produce in the world, especially in countries such as in Southeast Asia and Africa that cannot afford controlled-environment storage,” Mattoo said.

Maybe this is what’s keeping Ozzie on stage so long?

More to the point, there are a couple of ways to go about extending knowledge gained from this research. Gene splicing – or what was the modern route of testing cultivars containing some greater amounts of Spermidine. The latter is now “traditional” – mostly to appease those who fall apart over suggestions that modifying DNA can produce anything other than Frankenfood.

When they start growing and consuming only heritage varieties of everything from eggplant to cows, send me a penny postcard. Maybe throw in growing their own flax and weaving linen underwear, too.

Fundamentalists with 14th Century minds feared Burpee’s hybridization techniques when they came along. Feared the same disasters – cripes, even made the same monster movies to hustle those fears.

Parking lot attendants training to fight terror

The next time you pull into a parking garage and the attendant gives you the once-over, he or she may be taking note of more than just the shiny rear spoiler on your new car. As part of a new government initiative, parking lot attendants and other transportation workers are being trained as the next line of defense in the fight against terrorism.

The First Observer program was introduced to parking lot professionals at a Las Vegas, Nevada, convention in May, days after a vendor in New York’s Times Square spotted a suspicious vehicle and helped thwart what could have been a deadly terrorist attack…

“No matter how banal it seems, if something seems different to you or suspicious, we want you to report it,” said Jeff Beatty, a former CIA and FBI agent.

And our government will tell you what is suspicious!

Beatty led the First Observer program’s pilot training session Monday in Atlanta, Georgia. He and a team of Transportation Security Administration officials trained some 60 parking lot officials and representatives on how to spot suspicious vehicles carrying hazardous materials or other activity that may signal the planning phases of a terrorist attack…

The training is part of a $15.5 million program funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and administered by the Transportation Security Administration…

“We like who you are as parking lot professionals. We want you to ‘observe, assess and report.’ ”

Any innocent act can be deemed suspicious in the eyes of a bureaucrat governed by fear. Fear of terrorists, fear of people who look different, fear of people whose thinking doesn’t fall into official pattern recognition.

Our federal government is incapable of understanding the difference between neighbors keeping an eye on things next door when the family is away for a picnic – and spying on a garage band that dresses funny. That’s not especially new. Governments seem to have that problem forever.

What stinks is when paranoia becomes institutionalized. When peering under your bed at night becomes part of education, law and policing.

Is it your cell phone that’s killing bees?

A new study has suggested that cell phone radiation may be contributing to declines in bee populations in some areas of the world.

Bee populations dropped 17 percent in the UK last year, according to the British Bee Association, and nearly 30 percent in the United States says the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Parasitic mites called varroa, agricultural pesticides and the effects of climate change have all been implicated in what has been dubbed “colony collapse disorder” (CCD). But researchers in India believe cell phones could also be to blame for some of the losses.

In a study at Panjab University in Chandigarh, northern India, researchers fitted cell phones to a hive and powered them up for two fifteen-minute periods each day. After three months, they found the bees stopped producing honey, egg production by the queen bee halved, and the size of the hive dramatically reduced…

But the UK’s Mobile Operators Association — which represents the UK’s five mobile network operators — told CNN: “Research scientists have already considered possible factors involved in CCD and have identified the areas for research into the causes of CCD which do not include exposure to radio waves.”

Norman Carreck, Scientific director of the International Bee research Association at the UK’s University of Sussex says it’s still not clear how much radio waves affect bees.

“We know they are sensitive to magnetic fields. What we don’t know is what use they actually make of them. And no one has yet demonstrated that honey bees use the earth’s magnetic field when navigating,” Carreck said.

An interesting question or two are raised by the study: If correct, would people stop using cellphones? Or would lobbying be next to change the frequencies to something less lethal? A question raised in the article.

Poisonally, I think it’s a lousy experiment. It’s like the studies done every decade or so “proving” that consuming an excess of water can “poison” you. An excess of anything can kill you. It’s all proportionate.

I set up camp one night after dark – after hiking the day along the beaches out at the easternmost tip of Long Island, New York.

I was dismayed the next morning to see I’d been sleeping directly in front of an enormous military radar antenna beaming out into the Atlantic defending American from invaders of one or another flavor. I was lucky I didn’t glow in the dark.

Grayheads watch more TV than younger people – enjoy it less

ESPN plans on the World Cup starting the spin for 3D TV

We usually scold our children and teenagers for watching too much TV. It turns out that their grandmas and grandpas spend even more of their time watching TV, and it is not good for them either, according to researchers…

In a study published online in advance of publication…UCSD researchers examined television use in a large, nationally representative sample that was collected by the Center for Health and Well Being at Princeton University. Using an innovative, diary-like assessment strategy called the Day Reconstruction Method, study participants were asked to measure how they spent their time and describe their experience of everyday activities.

“We found that older people spent a great deal more time watching TV than younger people did, yet they enjoyed the experience less,” said first author Colin A. Depp, PhD…“What the study underscored is that alternatives to television as entertainment are needed, especially in older adults…”

The authors were surprised to find that older adults experienced TV watching as less enjoyable than younger people. “It is reasonable to expect that older adults may enjoy TV more than younger ones do, because they have fewer demands on their time. Prior studies also suggest they may use TV to regulate negative emotions,” said co-author Dilip V, Jeste, MD…

“Yet, our study indicates that older adults report lower levels of positive emotion while watching TV when compared to other activities – which is not the case in younger adults.”

The researchers concluded that increasing public awareness of alternatives to TV watching and reducing barriers to alternative activities that are more socially and physically engaging could reduce TV use in older people and diminish the potential for associated negative health effects.

I fit the profile for more TV watching since I retired. The extra is sports and movies.

Accessibility to movies has increased with the addition of high definition quality. My favorite sport – proper football – has three channels dedicated to the task on DirecTV with ESPN adding more every season.

I think I balance much of the viewing time with dedicated walking, tightly scheduled exercise. I try.

My first reaction to the article only concerned the paucity of content for a proper news junkie like me. Since CNN disappeared into the maw of Time-Warner, there is damned little of interest or accuracy or need to watch TV news. DirecTV and their peers still lack the courage to open viewership to worldly sources like BBC World or AlJazeera English.

Do I enjoy it less? Well, it pisses me off more. The content that is.

Google negotiates rerouting in their China conflict

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Google is tweaking its China website in a last-ditch effort to save its search business in the world’s largest Internet market after butting heads with Beijing over Web censorship.

The search site will stop automatically redirecting users to Google’s uncensored search portal in Hong Kong — instead, visitors will be required to click a link to access the Hong Kong site…

“It’s clear from conversations we have had with Chinese government officials that they find the redirect unacceptable, and that if we continue redirecting users, our Internet Content Provider license will not be renewed,” Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond wrote on the company’s corporate blog.

“Without an ICP license, we can’t operate a commercial website like so Google would effectively go dark in China,” he wrote…

The website tweak is Google’s latest attempt to strike a delicate balance between standing up to China’s policy of Internet censorship while maintaining a presence in a market considered key to its future growth…

Google, which battles Baidu for China’s 380 million Internet users, said in January it might quit the country over censorship and after it was hit by a hacking attack that it said came from within China.

But after keeping its promise to end self-censorship by automatically rerouting users to its Hong Kong site, Google now seems reluctant to abandon the Chinese market entirely…

China’s foreign ministry on Tuesday declined to comment on Google’s decision to end automatic rerouting, but Drummond said he hoped it would be acceptable to the Chinese government…

I don’t recall all of the chronology; but, I recall an interview on Chinese TV with one of the founders of Baidu. He’d been involved with folks from Yahoo and borrowed start-up money from them. When he went to pay it back – I believe it was a million dollars – he offered them cash or stock in Baidu. They took the cash.

About right for Yahoo.

Disclaimer: I own enough BIDU to get a couple of good Chinese meals if I sell it.

Darwin Award – Ukrainian style

Three members of a Ukrainian family have died from carbon monoxide poisoning after an attempt to exterminate rats in their basement using a car’s exhaust fumes.

A couple in their 70s and their granddaughter died in the incident, while another granddaughter is said to have been lucky to survive, Pravda reports.

The three were found dead in the basement of their home in Dnepropetrovsk, on the Dnieper River in the east of the country. It transpired that the grandfather, 71, had attached a hosepipe to his ZAZ Zaporozhets car’s exhaust pipe and put the other end through the window of the family basement, and started the engine.

After retiring upstairs for some time, he came downstairs to see whether any rats had died. However, the concentration of carbon monoxide in the basement’s atmosphere caused him to lose consciousness.

When he failed to return, his wife, 77, followed him to see what had happened, and also fainted. The same later happened with their 29-year-old granddaughter.

The three bodies were found when a second granddaughter went to investigate. Authorities said she was herself lucky to survive.

I suppose the only one who deserves – and gets – the Darwin award is grampa. Does he get extra credit for taking out a couple of innocent bystanders?

Oil broker banned for drunk trading binge

Britain’s financial regulator has fined and banned a former broker for manipulating oil prices by buying more than 7 million barrels while on a drinking binge.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said it fined Steven Perkins, a former employee of PVM Oil Futures Ltd, $108,000 and banned him from working in financial services for at least five years for carrying out trades without the authority of clients or his employer.

The FSA said Perkins bought huge volumes of Brent crude oil

in the early hours of the morning on June 30, 2009 after drinking heavily for several days and then lied repeatedly to his employer to cover up his actions…

The trades landed PVM with a loss of $10 million last summer. The company is the world’s largest independent oil broker, executing trades on behalf of clients but not carrying out trading for its own account…

Perkins’ unauthorized trading pushed the price of Brent crude oil futures up to almost $73.50 a barrel — at that point the highest level prices had hit on the InterContinental Exchange in 2009.

In the days leading up to the trades, Perkins had been drinking heavily at a company golf weekend and had carried on drinking on the Monday afternoon, the FSA said…

The ruling marks only the second action by the FSA against market abuse in commodities in London…

“I suspect they’re trying to seem tough, to look like they’re doing something,” one broker said. “I remain unconvinced they truly understand commodity markets or can get to grips with them.”

What do you think the odds might be, say, of the SEC walking into the NYSE some Monday morning and having traders pee in a cup – to check for cocaine?

New Australian prime minister is an atheist

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Julia Gillard, the new Australian prime minister, has said that she does not believe in God, but has “great respect for religion”.

Why? Hasn’t served much of a purpose since the Stone Age.

Ms Gillard, who replaced Kevin Rudd as leader of the country in a dramatic political coup last week, said she had been brought up in a Baptist family, but had “made decisions in my adult life about my own views”.

I’m not going to pretend a faith I don’t feel,” she said. Ms Gillard’s views on religion are in stark contrast to those of Mr Rudd, who was a regular at Canberra church services, and those of her rival, Tony Abbott, who once trained as a priest and is known as a devout Catholic.

Since taking over from Mr Rudd and becoming the country’s first female prime minister, Ms Gillard has presided over a lift in the polls for the Labour government.

The last Nielsen Poll on the topic found that 75% of Australians could care less if political leaders believe in God – or Yahweh – or Allah – or [cripes] even the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

Only a century or two ahead of American voters.


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    A quote From Dragon, " At this Potion Stand we prefer a more business style atmosphere than a chest shop. We do most of our business from orders and non-set prices. At this Potion Stand, instead of us having a set price, you pick the price! No this does not mean you get potions for one rupee. It means you would say the price you like i.e. 20r per say and we go from there. We will negotiate the price so that we each get what we want! To order, simply throw a book and quill or a written book into the hopper that is down the stairs behind you telling your Order and Your preferred price ( And Name if not a Written book ). From there I will contact you via forum private message or in game chat and we will finish the deal and get you your order! Also, if you see me online you can tell me what you would like to make an order and we will enter my office (Also behind you and down the stairs) We do orders for all potions and do the size from one potion to double chests (TBH how many DC's) You can also donate to as you see if you turn to your left to help us keep running! We also offer us some free potions in the building above. If you also turn around, we will also have some chest shops with a few different potions!!"

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CAIR Director Calls for Death Penalty for Blasphemers Against Islam

FrontPage Magazine - 21 February 2013 - From Daniel Greenfield

The most disturbing thing about this is that "Sharia law” prosecutions can only take place in the Muslim world. So this looks a lot like an attempt at intimidating and perhaps even causing the death of Atheist and Christian critics of Islam in the Muslim world.

Last August, the director of CAIR St. Louis, Faizan Syed, wrote about his ideas for monitoring social media titled Social Media Task Force. Syed wants to create a Muslim youth association who would aggressively monitor the media. What really stood out was this statement under the section "I have few suggestions to make in this regard” (5th bullet): (continue reading...)


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Definition of Susu in English:

  • 1A member of a West African people of NW Sierra Leone and the southern coast of Guinea.

    • ‘Over the next two centuries, the Susu gained control of the coast by building a series of small states based on clan and town affiliation.’
    • ‘The third largest group, the Susu, are concentrated in the west and along the coast in the areas around Conakry.’
    • ‘This small country includes the homelands of 20 African peoples, including the Mende, Lokko, Temne, Limba, Susu, Yalunka, Sherbro, Bullom, Krim, Koranko, Kono, Vai, Kissi, Gola, and Fula, the latter having the largest numbers.’
  • 2The language of the Susu, which belongs to the Mande group and has about 700,000 speakers.

    • ‘In these days, it was typical to see even obscure languages like Vai and Susu and Kpelle treated as sources for this word or that feature.’
    • ‘In Conakry, Susu is most commonly spoken on the streets and in the marketplaces, although in certain sectors Peul is more common.’

  • Relating to the Susu or their language.

    • ‘The Susu ethnic group accounts for 20 percent of the population; the Peul, 34 percent; and the Maninka, 33 percent.’

The name in Susu.


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Definition of bleeding in English:

  • attributive Used for emphasis, or to express annoyance.

    ‘the watch was a bleeding copy’
    as submodifier ‘she looks so bleeding bored all day’
    • ‘Then, with a small smile she said, ‘I don't give a bleeding damn, my dear sir.’’
    • ‘Whatever made that bleeding woman conclude such a thing?’
    • ‘It was only some people, like her bleeding boyfriend and father.’
    • ‘There were signs on Thursday that Shell's maddening myopia when it comes to the bleeding obvious is still not completely cured.’
    • ‘We had meandered off on a circuitous journey of legal ground-breaking to reach the bleeding obvious.’
    • ‘Why, oh why, can't they have separate queues for people who are going to take bleeding ages and those who are able to complete their transactions quickly and without fuss?’
    • ‘Online personality quizzes, jokey viral e-mails, and now a bleeding chatroom, of all things!’
    • ‘A very annoying problem and I gave him some leeway as he seemed fairly intelligent, and that's bleeding annoying.’
    • ‘Six bloody hundred and twenty-bleeding-eight people sunning themselves in Athens at our expense!’
    • ‘Why must we folk who live in mild old Britain have to put up with competing in every major bloody city during a bleeding heatwave anyway?’
    • ‘Scotland Yard has signed a deal with messaging outfit Buongiorno to state the bleeding obvious to the capital's residents.’
    • ‘You think Gordon Ramsay spends 14 hours in the operating theatre before he makes supper for a whole bleeding family?’
    damned, damn, damnable, wretched, accursed, rotten, horrible
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