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• The Starting Five Interview With Trent Tucker – Part I

  
  The Starting Five — Authority: 115
  For eleven seasons Trent Tucker was a hired gun in the NBA, a first round draft pick of the New York Knicks Tucker spent nine seasons in a Knicks uniform before signing on as a free agent with the San Antonio Spurs in the 1991-92 season. At the start of the 1992-93 season, Tucker would sign with the Chicago Bulls ...
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• Hello Kitty in Thailand

  
  thaizer.com — Authority: 100
  I don’t pretend to understand the whole Hello Kitty phenomenon . I’m not exactly the target market, but in Asia and Thailand it can be surprising where the little cat mascot crops up. You’d expect to see it perhaps on young children’s school bags or notebooks, but maybe not on an adult’s t-shirt or ...
  6 days ago

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  Our Adventures in Japan — Authority: 457
  (photo from the internet) I told you about the pin, and about their shoes...Well, youll see young girls/women here wearing big bulky glasses, without the actual lens in them called "datemegane" (dah-tay-may-gah-nay). (Ive even seen guys wearing them too)They apparently wear them because they supposedly make their ...
  1 week ago

• Studying in China: Tips and Experiences

  
  Knowledge Must Weblog — Authority: 89
  You are thinking about going abroad, studying away from home for a few semesters? You are considering China among your choices? You want to know more about your chances and opportunities in China, which problems and difficulties you will have to deal with? China is the place to be. China makes a great place to study. ...
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• Our New Guide Book: "Work in China"

  
  Knowledge Must Weblog — Authority: 89
  We are happy to announce the publication of the latest addition to our guide book series "Work in China - A Guide by Knowledge Must", which is available for free download from our website. With this publication we offer you a complete resource on Chinas challenging job market for foreigners. In addition to answering ...
  2 weeks ago

• Saïd Sayrafiezadeh–”A Brief Encounter with the Enemy” (New Yorker, January 16, 2012)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 413
  SOUNDTRACK : ADELE-Tiny Desk Concert (February 17, 2011) (2011 ). Adele is one of the few pop superstars who I not only like but who I like quite a lot.  21 is a really great album.  And what this Tiny Desk Concert proves is that, whatever she is marketed as, she is not just a pop singer. Adele sings three ...
  3 weeks ago

• Korea Tip 124: Know Thyself

  
  Humble Future — Authority: 105
  Know Thyself.Plato often advised his students: “Know thyself.” But the phrase probably precedes him by many centuries. By Plato’s time, KNOW THYSELF was already etched in temple walls.This ancient wisdom takes on contemporary significance when we start jumping on planes and flying across oceans. Landing in a ...
  3 weeks ago

• David Foster Wallace–Girl with Curious Hair [audio book] (2010)

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 413
  [LISTENED TO: January 12, 2012] Girl with Curious Hair I saw a placeholder on Amazon for this audio book in early 2011.  And then I promptly forgot all about it.  My friend George just asked if anyone had heard it yet, so I decided to check it out.  I downloaded it through Audible.com. And here’s my two ...
  3 weeks ago

• Manufacturing Industry: Why China will win, hands down

  
  Professionally Speaking — Authority: 95
  I download podcasts and listen to them on my drive to work. Today, driving my 16-year-old car which has any number of replacement auto parts keeping it on the road, listening to a 3-year-old Apple iPod, I heard two stories which described how electronics and auto parts are manufactured in China and America. Apart a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Oh Hail No! Here We Go Again

  
  White Bhabi — Authority: 114
  So as I foreshadowed in my post yesterday Im going to be highlighting some things I have learned/discovered/found about food here in Amritsar. I say Amritsar but, according to the news, this sort of thing happens all across India and is an issue of concern these days. Today and tomorrow are bringing up some important ...
  3 weeks ago

• Re-Embracing My Own Culture

  
  y Travel blog — Authority: 455
  Re-embracing Australia again It’s been hard. Really hard. We returned to Australia 18 months ago after two years in the States. Before this we had 18 months back in Oz and fled after not coping. We didn’t cope because 5 years previous to that we had been honeymooning around the world. You know how you ...
  3 weeks ago

• What does humor have to do with mission?

  
  simplychurch.com — Authority: 103
  Photo credit: Gary Wilmore (Creative Commons) There is a saying that the British and Americans are two nations separated by a common language. That proved very true when we moved from the UK to the States in 1987.  We naively anticipated that with a common language, the transition would be an easy one. How ...
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• César Aira–Ghosts (2008) [written in 1987]

  
  I Just Read About That... — Authority: 413
  SOUNDTRACK : tUnE-yArDs-WHOKILL (2011). I bought this album because NPR was raving about it back in the summer.  When I first played it I was really disappointed.  rather than the interesting experimental music, it sounded like a kind of unpleasant R&B.  So I put it aside for a while.  And when I ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Posting: Worst Brand Name Award of 2011, by Alexandra Watkins

  
  Professionally Speaking — Authority: 95
  Alexandra Watkins is the Founder & Chief Innovation Officer at Eat My Words, a San Francisco based creative naming agency known for creating unforgettable brand names. The following post originally appeared in her blog and is reposted here with her express permission. Announcing the most frightful brand name of ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Do I Have to Come Back To?

  
  White Bhabi — Authority: 114
  Out of sheer selflessness my loving husband purchased a ticket for me to go home and visit family recently. We had been discussing it and we had both agreed that a few weeks to a month would be good so I could go see all and do all that I wanted to do and get some much needed relief from the complexities of life here ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to Overcome Procrastination in ELT

  
  David's ELT World — Authority: 92
  Procrastination is unfortunately something that many of us ELT teachers suffer from regularly, whether it’s just an occasional ‘put off ‘til tomorrow’ or a recurrent lack of drive and motivation. Procrastination can often hold us back from what we really want in life, and unfortunately, it’s something that ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ultram For Sale

  
  Popshifter — Authority: 105
  By Melissa B.How fortunate the New Orleanians are: Once Christmas and New Years are over, they get to move straight into Carnival season. Parades, food, music, revelry, and the finest of these things, Id wager, is the music.Ive often wondered how New Orleans can have so many obscenely talented, homegrown musicians. Is ...
  4 weeks ago

• A Traveler in the Foreign Service: Escape from a rock-star elevator in Skopje

  
  Gadling — Authority: 584
  Filed under: Europe , Macedonia Trapped in a private, "rock-star" elevator in a seemingly half-finished apartment building on my first day in Macedonia, I turned, in desperation, to a phrase book. I had spent the previous six months in language training at the Foreign Service Institute, studying full time in a ...
  4 weeks ago

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