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• Un voyage

  
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• Evocation

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 131
  "Great Spirit, protect me, lead me to that magical destination Permit me to have the voice and the words that others will listen to Allow me to be your tool there, Lead your people to the success they deserve, through me I am your servant, I ask only for a happy life I ask for fulfilment and an ascension on the wheel ...
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• The Shining Sun

  
  A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS — Authority: 131
  The time comes like destiny in its finest hour The guardians of the sacred veil sense the fresh air The mountain way becomes shrouded in white ... Magical, billowing, white mists of time. The Traveller realises his eyes are not playing tricks on him For he sees mystical figures advancing forwards Floating above the ...
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• What Is the International Community?

  
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  Despite the frequency with which the phrase “international community” is invoked, its precise meaning – like its origins – is difficult to discern. And, as France’s recent intervention in Mali has shown, this ambiguity lies at the root of many of today’s most urgent foreign-policy problems. For some, an ...
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• Inflicting context

  
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  As is often the case, the  opinion in a recently-decided legal case (Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Phillip Abawa) turned on the meaning of a word: “Inflict” is a narrower term than “cause.” Here, while in federal custody, Phillip Zabawa assaulted a federal law enforcement officer. The officer ...
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• Stinky Portmanteaus

  
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  A semantically spot-on portmanteau - Spotted on If Companies Had Realistic Slogans at BuzzFeed.
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• Vacancy at King’s College London: Research Associate (Digital Preservation)

  
  archaeoinaction.info — Authority: 142
  Contribution: William KilbrideName: William KilbrideURL: link to the original postEntry: http://www.dpconline.org/newsroom/vacancies/1021-vacancy-at-kings-college-london-research-associate-digital-preservationLanguage: EnglishFormat: text/html... This is a content summary only. Visit ArchaeoinAction for full links, ...
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• Someone Please Resolve the “Geek”/”Nerd” Semantic Rivalry Before We Start Stabbing Each Other Over It

  
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  This book came close to changing my mind. So, so close. The following entry is unapologetically subjective, will be unhelpful to most readers, and represents no definitive settlement of the matter for anyone except possibly myself, and I may even be wrong about that. Though I’m codifying my stance for the sake of ...
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• The West is not Judeo-Christian; it is Judeo-Catholic

  
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  Tuesday 12 Apr 2011 THE WEST IS NOT JUDEO CHRISTIAN;  IT IS JUDEO CATHOLIC … Issue on Whether Knights of Malta is a Christian or Catholic Order Do not be deceived a mango seed produces mango fruits.The so-called Knights that were set up for the Catholic church remain the property ...
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• St. George? Total legend.

  
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  Marcus Lodwick’s The Gallery Companion: Understanding Western Art describes Saint George as “a totally legendary saint whose existence has been in doubt since the fifth century”. The flavours of both totally and legendary have – for me at least – shifted markedly through informal usage, interfering ...
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• "…to help them avoid staying out of jail"

  
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  From an email solicitation for an "Electronic Evidence Workshop", run by "E-Discovery Training Solutions": What process do you have in place that will protect your clients [sic] privacy on their smartphones or from electronic discovery in general? Your clients are relying on you, as their counsel, to help them ...
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• Grammatic innovation, dramatic pronunciation

  
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  At Macmillan Dictionary Blog I have a couple of new posts to report. First up, LOL slash grammar, knowmsayin? looks at recent innovations in how people use LOL  and slash , among other terms: Sometimes . . . existing words get repurposed, switching grammatical classes or incorporating new ones: verbs and ...
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• Come In, Be Productive, or Just Relax

  
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  My sister Ellen got married this past weekend, and we’re all happy for her. (You know, the one whose father read to her when she was young , who was subjected to stupid linguistic humor from her brothers as a girl, who graduated from UTexas , earned her MD , and is now doing her residency ?) One thing I’ve ...
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• "Legal if not arcane"?

  
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  Gigi Douban, " Tim Cook goes to Washington ", Marketplace Morning Report 5/21/13, commented on Apples tax-avoidance techniques (basically stashing profits overseas and arranging to pay no taxes on them, by transferring intellectual property assets to an paper subsidiary in Ireland and then paying extensive ...
  3 weeks ago

• Philosopher Discovers Rhetoric

  
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  From: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-relentless-naturalist/ read more
  3 weeks ago

• A reactive defence of ‘proactive’

  
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  What is it about proactive that people hate so much? Some object to it on the grounds of superfluity, arguing (incorrectly) that it does nothing active isn’t already doing, um, actively. Others revile it as management speak, a corporate buzzword like leverage , synergy and incentivize (Boo, hiss! etc.). ...
  3 weeks ago

• On Metadata and Help Content

  
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  At the recent Drupalcon conference , Karen McGrane gave an awesome keynote titled  Thriving in a World of Change: Future-friendly content with Drupal . (Although I didn’t attend the conference, the talk and her slides are online.) In her presentation, Karen emphasized the need to transform content management ...
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• Metaphor explained

  
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  “According to him [ Mac Cormac ], the cognitive process of creating new metaphors produces new expressions of experience. The process is almost inexplicable, but at least the following things are obvious in this process: one has to have a motivation to create a new insight by means of a metaphor; one has to ...
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• A few comments on grammatical terminology old and new

  
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  I know its regularly said by those whose background is in classics and the tradition of classical philology that much of linguistics today and its own set terminology creates a sort of ivory tower situation, where it is almost impossible to follow a discussion as an outsider. And I certainly do not doubt that this is ...
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• EPISODE 258 – dick-adjacent

  
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  Hello listeners, Sound the sirens – today, in Answer Me This! Episode 258 , we address a VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. One of those questions that completely reshapes your neural pathways, redirects your chi, repapers the hallways of your spiritual palace. Get ready: What is a dickbag? A bag OF dicks, a bag FOR ...
  3 weeks ago

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