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Japanese Day tomorrow!
From Tokyoblog, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The preparations:Mary uses a hairdryer to smooth out the lanternsI helped Akemi hang this red and white banner from the staircase handrail. Red and white, she explains, means happiness. (Black and white is for funerals.) The koinobori (carp streamers) represent courage and strength (and are usually found flying all over town in honor of Boy's Day in May).Tomoko, armed and ready with the power toolsAll hands on deck to assemble the bamboo arch that will grace the main entrance to the...
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Toe Jam
From A JapanAmerican Family, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Everyone has a quirk. Some are weirder than others but not many are weirder than Maika's. I have no idea where she picked up this idea from but she does it quite often. She has developed the habit of checking for toe jam. Yep, that nasty junk that develops between your toes. She will not only check her own but will also check yours, and if she finds some she will remove it for you. It really is quite funny to see her so intently doing this.So happy to start the 'toe jam' checking.First,...
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Red Menace resurfaces
From Onemanbandwidth, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The Nation with the headline "Shopping malls beef up security in face of red menace". Last time, there was a red menace or red scare was as Wikipedia reports:
The Second Red Scare occurred after World War II (1939–45), coinciding with increased popular fear of communist espionage consequent to a Soviet Eastern Europe, the...
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Correction
From Onemanbandwidth, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
In a post the other day I incorrectely noted that Aussie blogger Scott Bridges was "missing in India". Bridges and his travelling partner have, in fact, returned to Australia due to a family illness....
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Japan dolphin hunt town shrugs off 'Cove' Oscar
From Onemanbandwidth, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The gala crowd in Los Angeles cheered as "The Cove" won the best documentary Oscar with its grisly portrayal of dolphin hunting. Half a world away, residents of the small Japanese village shown in the film abhorred the attention and said it won't end their centuries-old tradition.
In Taiji on the rocky coast of southwest Japan, residents gathered in whal...
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360 Smith Street Starting To Block The Sky And View In Carroll Gardens
From Pardon Me For Asking, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Before...Now..A view from First Place(photo credit: Tim)KSQ Architects' design for 360 Smith Street K.S.Q.Architects' rendering of new subway plaza Reader Tim posted the two photos above of Bill Stein's 360 Smith Street development on Pardon Me For Asking's Facebook page.He writes:"Just thought someone might like to see how our view has changed in three and a half months!"I feel his pain. Steadily, the steel has been going up, blocking the sky and sunlight at the corner of Smith Street and...
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Ending on a good "note"
From Worth your while, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I just finished off my day playing "Rock Band" with my parentals. Dad- lead vocals Mom- drums JM- guitarPretty sure we are going on tour soon. Now we just need a name! Oh yeah, and instruments that don't connect to Wii remotes. :)
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I'm A Celebrity.......No Really, I Am !!
From Retirement Rocks, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
When I shut the laptop lid last night (which drops it into sleep mode), I forgot that I've got it set to do a scheduled virus scan at 12:30am every Tuesday morning. As a result it decided to kick into life when I opened up the lid at 8:22am and trying to stop a scheduled virus scan is like getting an English speaking help desk person. It may be a possibility but not one I've yet come across.So as a scan takes 6 hrs and really slows down my system, I "took a hammer to the problem" and...
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Stuff
From Sietske in Beiroet, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
From a parking lot in downtown Beirut. They do valet parking, but they're not going to look after the 'stuff' in your car. That's your responsability.
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100308 Thaikarl - going home again, at last
From Thai Country Life, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
friends,finally got the funds together. i'm going home to thailand april 4th. i have a three month ticket, but if the cash runs out, i'll have to book back earlier. i've had a lot of things going on the last four months that enabled this trip. i am soooo looking forward to seeing my wife and her mother and her daughter, our house(s), and everything! looking forward to the HEAT- april is the hottest month in thailand, the food, showering outside, working on the house, going to town, going...
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Busan News for Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
From The Real South Korea, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
R & D District to be established in Busan for Materials Industry
The city of Busan has confirmed plans to construct a special district for research and development for the parts and materials industry.
The city is preparing to designate 57.4 square kilometers to the district from different western areas, including the Busan-Jinhae Free Economy Zone or BJFEZ, the ?? high-tech industry logistics city, ?? University, ?? University and the ?? industrial complex.The city is planning to set up...
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