simply hang ur hat/trusts over the lappy@Government.
I've got good grades in art, English and science. I failed maths. That makes things difficult, that's what everyone looks at – maths, English and science. I've had quite a few jobs. I've worked in Hobbycraft, Asda, an optician's. I found I was mistreated a lot because I didn't have good grades. They thought I was thick. I'm not, honest. I've been unemployed a year and five months. It's horrible. I can't do anything, I can't go on holidays. I live in a council flat but I haven't got much of a life. I stay at home, watch TV, talk to neighbors.
That's it. It gets boring. I get depressed. I'm on tablets for being depressed. I'd like to get into care work. I've been trying but nobody wants anybody at the moment. You have to save for a month to go out. I get $156 a fortnight and I have to pay part rent out of that. After I've bought my food, gas, water, electricity, television and water there's nothing. I haven't been to the cinema for years. I'd only go to McDonald's if someone else is paying for me.
I can't get a job in town because I couldn't afford the bus fare and you get paid a month in hand so I couldn't get a job away from here without getting in debt. It's catch-22. To be honest if I got a job after paying full rent I wouldn't be better off anyway because I'd lose part of my rent and tax benefit.
Boy No 2 - G Aherne 17
I got kicked out of school three years ago. I had to go to a different place and I've got no qualifications. Over the past year I've been doing courses – level-one painter and decorator, level-one construction. But that hasn't led to any job. I get $30 a week. It doesn't go very far – just on fags and stuff like that. It's hard.
There's nothing going on. We go and try to find work but there isn't anything around and that's very frustrating. When we go to college they just get you to fill in forms but it doesn't come to anything. Last Christmas, I worked in Home Depot for two weeks. I'm hoping to be able to do that this Christmas again but I don't know if there'll be anything in between that. It's just boring. I think the government should make sure there's more for young people like us to do.
The ILO ( International Labor Organization) data shows that the employment rate of 16 and 17-year-olds dropped to 28.6% in April-June from 34% a year earlier, while the rate for people aged 18 to 24 dropped to 59.8% from 64.1%.
These Boys (and even more out there)and girls wants to be employed. But the mechanisms create by both government are not effective and only targeting on certain individual. The mapping is somehow turn blue and thus providing dilemma among teenagers.
The Academic skills and technical skills mapping should be implement, thus creating balance in workforce. We understand in reality that not everybody is good academically, some are created to be technically savvy.
These two-pillar (as we often said in education world) need to be revised during recession period. Remember that our youth is our future. Thus, for these 2 lads not to choose wrong career (if you know what i meant-i.e pornography-drug-gangster)
i offered to both of them to work at the cafe belong to Steve's Uncle! include with lodging At least that will help these 2 to start with their life and be able to coop with their technical learning. I learn this by observing the Chinese community lives in Chinatown. The wealthier will provide protection, works, lodging, foods and all necessary support to the newbie, and this has been practices long ago.
My point is, there is so many individual out there who need our helps and supervision. This technique will ensure our future generation will live in better place. Now ask your good self, will you do this?...
Here are the top movie ticket sales Friday through Sunday, with estimated weekend receipts, and total receipts since the movie opened. The number of weeks opened is in parentheses.
from boxofficemojo.com. ok peeps, i am not goin to watch this avatar movie, yeah blue peeps and war with alien!, we have more important issues like illiteracy, malnutrition, war and instability among human nation. Come on they could create things even better than all these...
Jay! u'll better let us in for free, i have put this in my blog
Merry Christmas! Today we're marking this happy holiday with a look at a few adjectives of joy.
We begin with merry, a very old coinage still used to describe something marked by festivity or gaiety. Merry, which shares ancestral linguistic relations with the Germanic word for short, once meant "giving pleasure or causing happiness"; "agreeable"; "amusing"; "delightful"; "sweet." That sense is now archaic, but merry still suggests gay, cheerful, or joyous uninhibited enjoyment.
Compare the merriment of merry with the joys of jolly. Jolly can be synonymous with jovial; since the 14th century, jolly also has been used to mean "full of high spirits"; "joyous"; "cheerful." On another winter program, we talked about how the word jolly comes from the Old Norse jol (or /yol/), which once named "a pagan midwinter festival" and which also gave our lexicon (and the season) the term Yule.
You'll be cheered to know jovial traces back not to jol but to jove. That Latin-based name for Jupiter, the ancient Roman god of the sky, lives on in both the interjection by jove (used to express surprise or agreement), and also the adjective jovial, meaning "marked by good humor, especially as exhibited in mirth, hilarity, or conviviality." Jovial describes something convivially jolly, or someone who takes a high pleasure in good fellowship, while jolly may suggest the abundant high spirits that go with laughing, bantering, and jesting.
I Dream of Satay (Thanks kak Tini)
Happy Many Returns!!!
Shower Me With Your Love
Surface
My heart is filled with so much love
and I need someone I can call my own
To fall in love that's what everyone dreaming of
I know this feeling oh so strong
Life is too short to live alone
Without someone to call my own
I will care for you
You will care for me
Our love will live forever
Chorus
Shower me with your love
Shower me with your love that I look for
Shower me with your love
Shower me with your love I've been waiting for
I close my eyes
And pray all my wishes come true
Everynight I go to sleep
Until you're mine I'll wait for you endlessly
Can't you see
Everyday I through sometimes come true
If you believe it could happen to you
Like the stars that shine
Way up in the sky
Our love will live forever
most-gay-friendly-employer95 years later, with federal monetary policy still a hot topic, we're banking on the idea that looking at the various sorts of banks in our lexicon still holds interest.
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'Various sorts'? That's right. The bank that names "something piled or accumulated in the form of a mound" is considered, by linguists, to be distinct from the bank where money is stored. And those banks are different, according to lexicographers, from the banks that refer to "sets of elevators or any other groups of objects arranged together in rows or tiers."
The bank referring to "a river bank," "a fog bank," "the steep slope," or "the lateral inward tilt of a surface along an airplane" are all believed to have a Scandinavian origin. The earliest version of this bank entered Middle English in the 13th century.
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Two centuries later, the bank naming the establishment concerned with the exchange, custody, issuance, and loan of money was borrowed into Middle English from either Middle French or Old Italian.
And two centuries after that, in the 17th century, the bank meaning "a group of objects arranged together" made its way into English from Old French.
But where do these banks arise from? Believe it or not, they all harken back to the Germanic word for "bench."
I'm always looking for personal finance lessons in the lives of celebrities, since we mere working-class mortals often idolize their fame and fortune. In the last two weeks Tiger Woods'life has been one large lesson that money can't buy you love -- or keep your secrets.
Let's recap. The world's best golfer, a husband and father of two small children, crashed his car late last month. That accident opened the door to allegations that he's had affairs with at least 10 busty bombshells.
What has followed is a lot of commentary on what we can learn from Tiger's admitted "transgressions."
Tiger's troubles provide the perfect cautionary tale for young girls and boys who yearn for the fame, but sometime forget the 'bitter' that comes along with it, Terrence Samuels of The Root writes in The Tiger Woods Lesson: Do You Really Want to be Rich and Famous?.
A panel of experts at the Post's new On Success Web feature weighed in on Tiger's travails.
"We just expect more of people who are well-known because we secretly want them to pay a price for their fame and money," wrote On Success panelist Garrison Wynn, founder of Wynn Solutions.
Another panelist, Celeste Owens, a motivational speaker and licensed psychologist, wrote: "Being a public figure has its advantages (e.g., endorsements, huge signing bonuses) and disadvantages (e.g., being held to a higher standard/role model) -- one cannot divorce the two. Like it or not, to whom much is given, much is required."
"Tiger Woods has certainly profited from his fame, therefore I have little sympathy for the costs he simultaneously incurs from this notoriety," wrote Catherine H. Tinsley, associate professor at Georgetown University's business school and the executive director of the GU Women's Leadership Initiative.
Tinsley went on to say: "He has earned this money not just through his sports winnings but also from all his endorsements and sponsorships. Thus, he reaps profit now because he is famous, because people look up to him, model after him, and want to be him. I might also add my speculation that his sexual attractiveness is heightened by his fame -- because people look to him and model after him, women want to be with him."
"My simple answer is 'yes,'" If your earning is as big as a ship, so goes with your dick!"
luciana serra as Queen of the night
interracial sex is so sexy - any takers
the deadliest of all lethal weapon-women
Take deadly, for instance. Deadly is the adjective used to describe an established or very likely cause of death (a deadly disease); it was born of a Germanic word meaning "dead." Mortal, which implies that death has occurred or will occur soon (mortal wound), comes from Latin. Remember the Latin mori, meaning "to die"? In addition to developing into mortal, mori also breathed life into the terms mortuary and moribund.
Finally, there's fatal, which, like lethal and mortal, owes a debt to Latin. Fatal stresses the inevitability of what has in fact resulted in death or destruction (the consequences were fatal); the Latin fatum means "prophetic declaration"; "oracle"; "what is ordained by the gods"; "destiny"; "fate."
ooo i missed High Tea at Harrods-luvv the cucumber sandwishImagine a steaming cup of tea. Breathe deeply, inhaling the gentle aroma. Feel good? Calm and at peace? No wonder. Tea has been enjoyed for its relaxing, mind calming benefits for thousands of years.
Unlike coffee, which enjoys a fast-paced jittery cult of its own, drinking tea encourages us to slow-down, sit quietly and enjoy the moment. There is something elegant and refined about drinking tea, something we tend to associate with Asian cultures, intricate ceremonies and ladies in gloves.
But evidence mounts that those ancient tea-sipping civilizations knew something about the healthy benefits of tea. The relationship between tea and good health has been studied for several thousand years and research continues today. And as it turns out, tea is not only good for your state of mind. Its good for your body, too.
What we know as tea are the leaves of Camellia sinensis plant. Black, white, oolong and green tea are all made from varieties of this same plant. Although white and oolong tea have been enjoyed for centuries in Asia, Americans are most familiar with black tea and due to a large amount of recent scientific and media attention, green tea.
very cute & funny German stud of mine...A fellow passed along a German proverb "_Tote und Totgesagte_" with the literal translation: People said (or believed) to be dead live longer. In German, the meaning is clear: "a person who's been written off—say, a politician caught in a scandal—will return and progress even further in his or her field." In looking for English versions of this saying, he had come across three candidates: the condemned live longer; there's life in the old dog yet; and, there's no tonic like reading your own obituary.
Our correspondent asked if any of these expressions conveyed the same meaning as his German phrase. Does the condemned live longer suggest that the life of the condemned feels longer or that the condemned are invigorated by their death sentences? Does the reading of one's own obituary truly act as tonic, or is that comment a slap at poor journalism? And in the case of there being life in the old dog yet—we don't know that's the expression we'd use to talk about someone rising from the ashes. To us, it evokes a tired old hound who, when given the proper stimulus, can rouse himself.
What about that phrasing rising from the ashes? Mythology lovers know it originates in the story of the phoenix who, when it felt death approaching, would build a nest of wood and immolate itself, whereupon a new phoenix would arise from the ashes. It may not be the best translation, but it's a fine metaphor for resurrection.
The ways people try to make money never cease to amaze me.
Recently, the Kellogg Co. announced there will be a nationwide shortage of Eggo frozen waffles until next summer because of production issues. According to a report by the Associated Press, the public is already noticing near-empty Eggo shelves on the freezer aisle at many grocery stores.
And you know what that means, folks? The opportunists are already trying to cash in. There's talk on Twitter and Facebook that people are trying to sell their boxes of Eggos on eBay. Sure enough they're a few people trying to profit from the shortage.
One person is auctioning off a box of waffles for $49.99, another for $65. If you are a bargain shopper, you can grab a box of blueberry Eggo waffles from one seller for 99 cents. Last I checked, there were no bids for any of the sellers.
The Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, on September 6, 1620. Their destination? The New World. Although filled with uncertainty and peril, it offered both civil and religious liberty. For over two months, the 102 passengers braved the harsh elements of a vast storm-tossed sea. Finally, with firm purpose and a reliance on Divine Providence, the cry of "Land!" was heard. Arriving in Massachusetts in late November, the Pilgrims sought a suitable landing place. On December 11, just before disembarking at Plymouth Rock, they signed the "Mayflower Compact" - America's first document of civil government and the first to introduce self-government.
After a prayer service, the Pilgrims began building hasty shelters. However, unprepared for the starvation and sickness of a harsh New England winter, nearly half died before spring. Yet, persevering in prayer, and assisted by helpful Indians, they reaped a bountiful harvest the following summer.
The grateful Pilgrims then declared a three-day feast, starting on December 13, 1621, to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends. While this was not the first Thanksgiving in America (thanksgiving services were held in Virginia as early as 1607), it was America's first Thanksgiving Festival.
And in this year 2009, Thanksgiving is coincidentally celebrate a day before The Second Islamic celebrated day in Islamic calender " Aidul Ahda" or The day we remember prophet Ibrahim and his son Ismail for their scarification for Allah. So all eligible Muslim is require to perform Haj in Mekkah, Arab Saudi, as part of the very foundation of Islam.
May we all blessed by god for everything that He gives to all of us.
Dear friends
say" no no no to little piggy"Today we look at the tale of the swine and the story of the pork. The words swine and pork don't resemble each other; they entered our lexicon hundreds of years apart, and yet the two words share similar definitions: pork names the "fresh or salted flesh of swine when dressed for food." Swine, of course, names the "omnivorous stout-bodied mammal with a long flexible snout."
The word swine, of Germanic ancestry, has been around as long as English itself. It entered modern English from Middle English, and a version of swine was familiar to speakers of Old English.
Then there's pork, which entered English from French in the 14th century. French is a Romance language, a language that developed from Latin. So if English speakers had been raising swine and consuming its flesh for a few hundred years, why, in the 14th century, did they begin using the term pork? As one word lover pointed out, it wasn't as if some 14th century peasant woke up one morning and picked out a Latin-based word to join the lexicon.
In fact, we can thank—or blame—the Norman invaders for the advent of pork. One result of the 11th century Normandy invasion was that French speakers became the ruling upper class. While the lower classes raised the swine, those to the manner born were served, at their request, pork.
Today, on the anniversary of his birth in 1765, we remember Eli Whitney, Junior, the inventor whose cotton gin revolutionized cotton harvesting in the antebellum South. The cotton gin—which separates the detritus from the desirable parts of cotton far more efficiently than hand-sorting does—increased the demand for slaves and helped strengthen the regime of King Cotton.
Whitney's invention brought him fame, if not fortune. He hadn't intended on the widespread sale of his cotton gin (Whitney and his partner had planned on making money by cleaning cotton for a share of the profits), but the drum's simplicity and utility helped breed infringement issues, legal wrangling, and near bankruptcy for its inventor and manufacturer.
Eli Whitney's cotton gin took its name from the gin that is short for engine; since 1796 (two years after Whitney's patent was granted), cotton gin has been used to name the machine that separates the seeds, hull, and foreign material from cotton.
But of course, that's not the only gin noun in our lexicon. The other gin, however, has a different derivation. The colorless alcoholic gin is a shortening and alteration of geneva, the term for a highly aromatic bitter gin originally made in the Netherlands. Geneva is itself a modification of the Dutch version of juniper, the berry which flavors gin.
A fellow asked if the usual and correct phrase is happy medium or happy median.
Happily enough, that's an easy question to answer. One early (and very old) sense of the word medium (which comes from the Latin medius meaning "middle") is "the middle way"; "compromise." A happy medium is a compromise that satisfies.
Median, meanwhile, which also counts that Latin medius as an ancestor, indicates a midpoint in position. When median isn't being used as shorthand for "median strip," it is used chiefly to indicate the point below which there are as many instances as there are above. For example, if the costs of five different lunches are $2, $2, $4, $20 and $25, the median meal costs $4.
Got that? Now let's look at a term whose meanings run the gamut: compromise. When compromise first appeared back in the 15th century, that term named "an agreement to refer matters in dispute to arbitrators." Compromise has an ancestor in a Middle English term meaning "mutual promise (from Latin com plus promittere) to abide by an arbiter's decision."
While a compromise can sometimes name a "happy medium"—the settlement of differences by consent reached by mutual concessions—it can also mean "a concession to something derogatory or prejudicial," such as a compromise of principles.
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Today is both the Feast Day of Saint Jude, the patron saint of hopeless causes, and it is also the date on which the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886. What's the connection? For starters, the efforts to find the funds to pay for the construction of the pedestal took close to a decade and came close to failing. In March of 1885, the project needed a final 100,000 dollars, and Joseph Pulitzer threw his newspaper, The New York World, into high gear. Over the next seven months, his committee collected 101,000 dollars from 121,000 contributors. 80% of those contributions were less than a dollar each.
Regardless of whether you believe Saint Jude intervened, the pedestal was completed, the statue put in place, and countless dignitaries attended the unveiling of the 151 foot tall statue on this day 122 years ago.
And although Emma Lazarus's poem The New Colossus had yet to be engraved in bronze and placed inside the immense structure on that date, we will close by commenting on the poet's choice of words. The original Colossus was a statue of the Greek god Helios. Originally, the word colossus named "a statue of gigantic size and proportions." It wasn't until the early 1600s that colossus came to name "a person or thing of immense size or power."
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