Metaphors

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• Want to Make Your Writing More Vivid? Use Metaphors

  
  Professional Blog Service — Authority: 420
  If you want to add some life to your writing, to give it breath and a heartbeat, use metaphors. They’re the lifeblood of any vibrant, vivid writing, whether it’s fiction or nonfiction.I’ve used metaphors with great success in my writing over the last several years. It marks a significant improvement in the way ...
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• Long time, no run.

  
  Semper erit aestas. — Authority: 436
  Last week I received a couple emails inquiring after my recent dearth of running posts.After my...
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• Living Life

  
  Personal Development for the Book Smart — Authority: 100
  I received the following touching story in my email and I just wanted to pass it on… Enjoy! Photo by Jackie Richman I arrived at the address where someone had requested a taxi. I honked but no one came out. I honked again, nothing. So I walked to the door and knocked. ‘Just a minute’, answered a ...
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• Belated Happy Thanksgiving and Such

  
  The Doctor Isn't — Authority: 110
  Dear Readers, If, in fact, there are still readers here, I want to wish you a belated Happy Thanksgiving. As Ive probably said once or twice before, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, and this year I took a slight bit of techno-vacation with it. Why is it my favorite holiday? A story from this years dinner ...
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• Synesthetic Scene

  
  PonderAbout.com — Authority: 429
  after a haiku by Matsuo Basho
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• Forex Trading : The Miracle of Discipline

  
  Currency Forex Trading Blog — Authority: 155
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• Comedian Bhatti holds a spoof on inflation in Chandigarh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Chandigarh, Nov 29 (ANI): Stand up comedian; Jaspal Bhatti used the platform of a carnival here on Saturday (November 29) to poke fun at the government’s failure to control inflation. Bhatti set up a stall at the Chandigarh Carnival displaying the vegetables, pulses and vegetable oil and invited the onlookers to ...
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• day 102: sharp ice

  
  Kazzy's Ponderings — Authority: 129
  Tonight I hung lights around the front porch.  White, red. Some winding around posts, and others coming down from the top in small crooked white lines meant to resemble icesicles.  I have had some icesicles in my life.  They have also felt jagged and white cold.  And I have strung them up and looked at them as ...
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• It Kills Me Not To Know This

  
  Nothing Is What It Seems — Authority: 125
  So tell me now If this aint love then how do we get out? Cause I dont know Thats when she said I dont hate you boy I just want to save you while theres still something left to save Thats when I told her I love you girl But Im not the answer for the questions that you still have Savior Rise Against ...
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• "Memory" as Painting

  
  PonderAbout.com — Authority: 429
  after a line from a Eugenia Collier s Marigolds source of mashed graphics
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• Five Mistakes Filmmakers Make in Depicting Race

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Every so often, Hollywood produces a film about racial issues that is so honest, so truthful, so powerful that I wish every person could see it. Do The Right Thing (1989) is one such film. Crash (2005) is another. Its not that these are perfect films, just that they know how to deal with the racial themes they ...
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• Terrorized By The ‘War On Cancer’

  
  e-Patients.net — Authority: 550
  How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America’s Ability To Make Sound Healthcare Decisions with apologies to Zbigniew Brzezinski In his original article about the war on terror Brzezinsky argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a culture of fear deliberately because it ...
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• Its Kinda Sad

  
  Nothing Is What It Seems — Authority: 125
  and also makes you wonder why. He clearly doesnt care for her. in any way. its like hes just using her. so why is she with him? he def does not make her happy. or feel happy about herself. so seriously, why is she with him? she should have just gone with the one person who cares and makes her happy. its just dumb. ...
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• You’re Only As Faithful As Your Options*

  
  Fishing Jones — Authority: 113
    In the piscatorial sense, we are all whores. No one does right by any one place or species. We experience long stints of faithful behavior to certain waters, or intense periods of focus in pursuit of a single fish, and sometimes we believe in our hearts that we are true.We are not. “I wish it [...]
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• Trip to Holland?

  
  ED Bites — Authority: 128
  An interesting allegory is being passed around at the Around the Dinner Table Forum, about parents coming to grips with the fact that their childs eating disorder has changed the family. Its called " Welcome to Holland ," and it was originally written for parents of kids with disabilities. Basically, you plan on a ...
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• The Tradegy of the Commons

  
  Simon Whatley — Authority: 112
  The tragedy of the commons refers to a dilemma described in an influential article by that name written by Garrett Hardin and first published in the journal Science in 1968. The article describes a situation in which multiple individuals, acting independently, and solely and rationally consulting their own ...
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• Micah and Metaphors

  
  Cdero's Weblog — Authority: 110
  Lately I have been thinking about metaphors and scripture, namely metaphors of God. Are all references to God metaphoric? How do we know when a reference of God is a metaphor and when it is not? I had a discussion with a group of people about metaphors and gave them an exercise. We took the book of Micah and broke ...
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• BJP is not against minorities, says Advani

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L.K. Advani Sunday said his party was not anti-minorities and that he deeply valued Christrians’ contribution to freedom struggle and nation building.“I revere Jesus Christ for his message of universal peace, love and brotherhood. I deeply value ...
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• Thoughts in Tapdance

  
  banter and blah blah — Authority: 116
  You tiptoe in No stranger to my thoughts A smile you drop A whisper shuffles through Mind marauder Will you never stop? I dont muster the will To look through you Your courage always Willing me to fail Crumbling before the inevitable chase. We dance around Naïve, blissful fools I sigh content Never did unease ...
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• PDC 2009: Windows Server’s plan to move customers back off the cloud

  
  The Mobile Fun Blog — Authority: 146
  By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Much of the value proposition for Windows Azure — the star of the show Tuesday at PDC 2009 in Los Angeles — has been its ability to open up new business avenues for customers who had not been able to envision hosting high-intensity data center operations before. Azure could ...
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