...sudden her rubbing and moving around brings a genie to life. He says, “Wassup youngin’ man you’ve done me a stack, being in here ain’t easy.” With fright, Reina drops the lamp and pants nonstop. Once again the genie speaks and says, “Ok now you need to calm it down, it’s not that serious I’m just here to help you out.” She replies, “You? Help Me? How?” The genie then tells her to rub the lamp once more to see what happens. When...
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...You innocently amble into the kitchen, hoping for a meal that you didn’t have to make. You’re texting one of your friends about the class you share when you’re noisy mother comes into view. “Who are you texting?” she inquires. “A friend,” you respond, only half paying attention to her as you try to avoid clumsy thumbs. “A booooyfriend?” she digs. Then, you make the mistake, you can’t backtrack, no do overs or rewinds. You fall into the deep pit, unable to pull yourself up. You reply, “No, just a boy in my class.” You look up just in time to see your younger brother’s head pop up and a wicked simile cross your mother’s face. You said the word, pinned down a gender, set the course of the conversation for the rest of the night. Exasperated...
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...Once in awhile, I would think about how kids nowadays aren’t spending their childhood correctly; I view childhood as a time for fun and games. However, I had never considered the thought that childhood has become endangered. The idea that TV may really be making us into mindless blobs reminds me of all those times I asked students who I really looked up to, “how are you so smart?”, and they would annoyingly reply “I READ”. (As if I’ve never read a book in my life. Sheesh.) Postman proposes a practically perfect proposition that is backed by a number of legitimate points - ranging from clothes to food; many of which I can relate to; but there are a few assertions I find debatable and can’t identify with. For one, I wonder if Postman’s definition...
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...HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL 9-501-038 REV: OCTOBER 14, 2005 LUC WATHIEU MICHAEL ZOGLIO "Look at these guys ...Thetj decide what we watch and when we watch it. ..." "Network programmers-who needs them? Program your own network. TiVo. TV your way." Between these two lines, the TiVo commercial showed a pair of burly men throwing a TV network's chief programmer out of the window of a tall office building. Brodie Keast, TiVo's vice president of marketing and sales, had replayed the ad a dozen times on that morning of May 2000, and he still found it to be as hilarious as the first time he saw it. The TiVo digital video recorder, beyond its many advanced features, made a big idea real-if you owned the TiVo black box and subscribed to the TiVo service, you could really control what you watched and when you watched it. TiVo's marketing team intended to get that big idea across through a catchy communications campaign, with a boldly humorous tone that would help consumers envision how TiVo restored the fun of television. Fourteen months into the launch, TiVo had signed up 42,000 subscribers, with a current rate of 14,000 new subscribers per quarter. With 102 million TV-watching households in the U.S., that was only about .04% penetration, despite availability in most major consumer electronics stores across the nation. Yet everyone who owned TiVo seemed satisfied with it, with 72% of owners even claiming that...
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...ability to stay competitive in the market for an extended period of time. The rapid growth of this industry is also creating increased competition for Tivo, and it seems the management of Tivo will be left with some crucial decisions to make if they are to continue to survive in this industry. Currently, Tivo develops DVR software and stand-alone units with a selling focus towards television viewers seeking an improved and interactive viewing experience. A DVR unit is a set-top box that performs three different main functions: 1. Tivo and live television – Tivo allows the viewer to pause and rewind live T.V. programs so they don’t miss a moment of their show. No longer does a trip to the bathroom or the refrigerator keep the viewer from watching their entire program. Tivo also automatically records the show you are watching as you are watching which allows you to rewind it as far as fifteen minutes into the past. This means if a friend walks in the room and didn’t catch the first ten minutes...
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...the late 1970s and 1980s. Some companies still use their VMX systems. DEFINITION: “An electronic communication system in which spoken messages are recorded or digitized for later playback to the intended recipient; also : such a message” OR “A system in which caller can leave a recorded messages for you over the telephone” FEATURES OF VOICE MAIL: Some features of the voice mail system include: Out-of-Office Greeting * You now have the ability to set TWO out-of-office greetings. Your second greeting plays in place of your standard greeting when enabled. Your standard greeting is unaffected (not deleted) and resumes playing when your Out-of-Office Greeting is turned off. Reply or Call Back * While you are listening to a voice mail message, you can now reply to the sender and go directly to their voice mailbox without talking directly to the person, or you can call the person back without having to hang up and dial the number. Message Identifier * At the beginning of each voice mail message, you will hear the date and time the call came in and the phone number of each call, even outside calls. Bookmark * You can "mark" a position in a message by pressing a number...
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...Michael Kropac Dalit Empowerment and Vocational Education An Impact Study © 2006 by Michael Kropac Winkelriedplatz 2 4053 Basel, Switzerland 0041 (0)61 361 36 03 Mail: kropac@gmail.com For all people of Navsarjan who resolutely follow their ideal of an egalitarian society Preface and Acknowledgements Preface and Acknowledgements The present work is based on my thesis submitted to the University of Basel (Switzerland) in December 2005. Ever since I have started to study Geography, I wanted to write a thesis that would be read by more people than only my supervisors and would prove to be useful in some way. A traineeship during my studies as well as various projects and a general interest to discover the ‘mystery’ called India had brought me to the subcontinent several times since 2002, and it was soon clear to me I would focus on a topic in the Indian context. Even before I visited India for the first time I knew that it was not only about the Taj Mahal, tigers and finding enlightenment in some yoga class, but also about development, poverty and caste. Once in India, the contrast between vibrant economic development and widespread poverty became more than obvious, but the idea of caste remained somehow ambiguous. As foreigners are often only able to speak English, they can only communicate directly with those strata of society who also speak this language – most often these are not the poor or deprived of the Indian society, but those at the ‘upper’...
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...A transcript of the apology by Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd to the Forgotten Australians and former child migrants on 16th November 2009 at Parliament House, Canberra. Today, the Government of Australia will move the following motion of apology in the Parliament of Australia. We come together today to deal with an ugly chapter in our nation‟s history. And we come together today to offer our nation‟s apology. To say to you, the Forgotten Australians, and those who were sent to our shores as children without your consent, that we are sorry. Sorry – that as children you were taken from your families and placed in institutions where so often you were abused. Sorry – for the physical suffering, the emotional starvation and the cold absence of love, of tenderness, of care. Sorry – for the tragedy, the absolute tragedy, of childhoods lost,– childhoods spent instead in austere and authoritarian places, where names were replaced by numbers, spontaneous play by regimented routine, the joy of learning by the repetitive drudgery of menial work. Sorry – for all these injustices to you, as children, who were placed in our care. As a nation, we must now reflect on those who did not receive proper care. We look back with shame that many of you were left cold, hungry and alone and with nowhere to hide and nobody to whom to turn. We look back with shame that so many of you were left cold, hungry and alone and with nowhere to hide and with nobody, absolutely nobody, to whom to turn. We look back...
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...Veiled in the Secret of Humanity Publishing Information First published in Pakistan in 2012 by The Sapphire Publishing Group A division of Atlas Group (Pakistan) Inc., Lahore. The paperback edition published in 2012 by Ali Books Reprinted 2012 (three times). Copyright ©2012 by Zubia Malik Except for Veiled in the Secret of Humanity copyright ©2012 by Zubia Malik All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior permission in writing of the publisher nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the Jinnah Library. ISBN 687-2-7052-9242-1 Papers used by Ali are natural, renewable and recyclable products sourced from well-managed forests and certified in accordance with the rules of the Forest Stewardship Council Dedication To my Lord Almighty, the Beneficent and the Merciful and His last Prophet Muhammad PBUH Table of Contents Acknowledgement Preface Article 1 Love for the Messenger (P.B.U.H.) 2 Short Stories 10 Internal...
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...Adventures with God Real Life Inspirational Stories 37 Allan David Weatherall Contents Introduction:.......................................................................................... i Chapter 1: Random Acts of Kindness....................................................1 Chapter 2: What is Eritrea? . ............................................................... 4 Chapter 3: The Power of Faith & Hope ............................................. 11 Chapter 4: Hey, Chuck Norris! . ........................................................ 14 Chapter 5: We’ve Been Expecting You! ............................................ 18 Chapter 6: On the Road to Jerusalem ................................................ 24 Chapter 7: Jerusalem . ........................................................................ 28 Chapter 8: But, I’m not a Catholic .................................................... 32 Chapter 9: America... here I come ...................................................... 37 Chapter 10: My Friend, John . ............................................................41 Chapter 11: Finding God in the Storm . ............................................ 45 Chapter 12: Trusting God in the War Zone ...................................... 49 Chapter 13: Jahzal . ............................................................................ 52 Chapter 14: The Steadfast Faithfulness of God ................................. 57 Chapter 15: Confrontational Love in the...
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...2nd Edition Hacking the art of exploitation jon erickson PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION OF HACKING: THE ART OF EXPLOITATION “Most complete tutorial on hacking techniques. Finally a book that does not just show how to use the exploits but how to develop them.” —PHRACK “From all the books I’ve read so far, I would consider this the seminal hackers handbook.” —SECURITY FORUMS “I recommend this book for the programming section alone.” —UNIX REVIEW “I highly recommend this book. It is written by someone who knows of what he speaks, with usable code, tools and examples.” —IEEE CIPHER “Erickson’s book, a compact and no-nonsense guide for novice hackers, is filled with real code and hacking techniques and explanations of how they work.” —COMPUTER POWER USER (CPU) MAGAZINE “This is an excellent book. Those who are ready to move on to [the next level] should pick this book up and read it thoroughly.” —ABOUT.COM INTERNET/NETWORK SECURITY ® San Francisco HACKING: THE ART OF EXPLOITATION, 2ND EDITION. Copyright © 2008 by Jon Erickson. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher. Printed on recycled paper in the United States of America 11 10 09 08 07 123456789 ISBN-10: 1-59327-144-1 ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-144-2 Publisher:...
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...Bienvenido Santos: The Day The Dancers Came AS soon as Fil woke up, he noticed a whiteness outside, quite unusual for the November mornings they had been having. That fall, Chicago was sandman's town, sleepy valley, drowsy gray, slumberous mistiness from sunup till noon when the clouds drifted away in cauliflower clusters and suddenly it was evening. The lights shone on the avenues like soiled lamps centuries old and the skyscrapers became monsters with a thousand sore eyes. Now there was a brightness in the air land Fil knew what it was and he shouted, "Snow! It's snowing!" Tony, who slept in the adjoining room, was awakened. "What's that?" he asked. "It's snowing," Fil said, smiling to himself as if he had ordered this and was satisfied with the prompt delivery. "Oh, they'll love this, they'll love this." "Who'll love that?" Tony asked, his voice raised in annoyance. "The dancers, of course," Fil answered. "They're arriving today. Maybe they've already arrived. They'll walk in the snow and love it. Their first snow, I'm sure." "How do you know it wasn't snowing in New York while they were there?" Tony asked. "Snow in New York in early November?" Fil said. "Are you crazy?" "Who's crazy?" Tony replied. "Ever since you heard of those dancers from the Philippines, you've been acting nuts. Loco. As if they're coming here just for you. Tony chuckled. Hearing him, Fil blushed, realizing that he had, indeed, been acting too eager, but Tony had said it. It felt that way--as...
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...Nokia N8–00 User Guide Issue 1.1 2 Contents Search in your device and on the internet Use your device offline Prolong battery life Personalisation Profiles Change your theme Home screen Organise your applications Telephone Call a phone number Search for a contact Call a contact Make a video call Make a conference call Use speed dial Use your voice to call a contact Make calls over the internet Call the last dialled number Record a phone conversation Turn to silence View your missed calls Call your voice mailbox Divert calls to your voice mailbox or another phone number Prevent making or receiving calls Allow calls only to certain numbers Video sharing Contacts About Contacts Save phone numbers and mail addresses Save a number from a received call or message Contact your most important people quickly Set a ringing tone for a specific contact 31 31 31 33 33 34 34 37 37 37 37 38 38 40 41 41 42 42 43 43 43 44 44 44 45 46 47 47 47 48 48 49 Contents Safety 5 Get started 7 Keys and parts 7 Change the volume of a call, song, or video 9 Lock or unlock the keys and screen 9 Insert or remove the SIM card 10 Insert or remove the memory card 12 Charging 13 Antenna locations 15 Attach the wrist strap 16 Headset 16 Switch the device on or off 16 Nokia account and Nokia's Ovi services 17 Copy contacts or pictures from your old device 17 Device set-up 18 Use the in-device user guide 19 Install Nokia Ovi Suite on your PC Explore Nokia's Ovi internet services Ovi by Nokia About...
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...First published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop, 2011 Copyright © E L James, 2011 The right of E L James to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part maybe reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental. The Writer’s Coffee Shop (Australia) PO Box 2013 Hornsby Westfield NSW 1635 (USA) PO Box 2116 Waxahachie TX 75168 Paperback ISBN-978-1-61213-028-6 E-book ISBN-978-1-61213-029-3 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the US Congress Library. Cover image by: © Papuga2006 | Dreamstime.com Cover design by: Jennifer McGuire www.thewriterscoffeeshop.com/ejames E L James is a TV executive, wife, and mother of two, based in West London. Since early childhood, she dreamt of writing stories that readers would fall in love with, but put those dreams on hold to focus on her family and her career. She finally plucked up the courage to put pen to paper with her first novel, Fifty Shades of Grey. E L James is currently working on the sequel...
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... Do not subject the device to severe impact or drop it from heights. Do not use the device in extreme hot or cold, dusty or damp conditions. Do not Avoid using the device near strong magnetic fields. Normal functioning of the product may be disturbed by ESD. If so, simply reset Safety Precautions expose it to direct sunlight. and restart the device following the instruction manual. During file transmission, please handle with care and operate in a static-free environment. Keep the device away from water and other liquids. In the event that water or other liquids enter the device, power off the product immediately and clean the device. Do not use chemicals to clean the device in order to avoid corrosion. Clean it with a dry cloth. Do not install this equipment in a confined space such as a book case or similar unit. The ventilation should not be impeded by covering the ventilation openings with items such as newspaper, table-cloths, curtains etc. No naked flame sources, such as lighted candles, should be placed on the apparatus. Attention should be drawn to environmental aspects of battery disposal. Use the apparatus in moderate climates. We are not responsible for damage or lost data caused by malfunction, misuse, modification of the device or battery replacement. Do not attempt to disassemble, repair or modify the product. This will invalidate the warranty. If the device will not be used for an extended period of time, please charge...
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