Back in the fall of 2000‚ I learned first-hand that very proverbial lesson that the grass is not always greener on the other side. I had finished my first year at a northern PC(USA) seminary and it hadn’t gone all that well. Academically it was fine‚ but there wasn’t‚ at least for me‚ a sense of community among the single students‚ the housing was pretty rough‚ and having just come from the sunny beaches of Florida‚ the weather left a whole lot to be desired. So‚ I went to visit a seminary back in
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The saying‚ the grass is always greener on the other side‚ applies to real life because people are always comparing their current lifestyle to better ones‚ longing for improvements. Carleton Noyes once said‚ "The human heart has ever dreamed of a fairer world than the one it knows." In other words this means that human desire to want a better life. Even if their life presently is better than average‚ they always look for something more – for that dream world. This statement is valid found in both
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How I plan to make the earth greener Everyday we hear about environmental degradation‚ ecological imbalance‚ global warming etc and related grave issues which pose a threat to our very existence. The world today is playing a blame–game trying to accuse each other for these problems. But what is the point in holding international conferences when nothing is being done at the ground level?? It is us who have to make a difference. “WE ARE APART OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND NOT A PART FROM IT.” In school
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RECALL No 16 – Consumers‚ Convergence‚ Connectivity‚ and the Cloud Tuning in: TV equals telcos’ “triple value” 59 08 Tuning in: TV equals telcos’ “triple value” Once considered “yestertech” by the industry‚ television is now becoming the central element of many telco strategies. Operators in mature and emerging markets alike are benefiting from the revenues and new customers TV attracts‚ making this a must-have element in any telco’s product lineup. Digital television is rewriting the rules of
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Hilton Hotels: Building Sustainability with a greener world. STREAM 1 - GROUP 4 Date: - 29.11.2010 Executive Summary The report examines sustainability in hotel industry‚ as how important it has become‚ for a firm or organisation to become environmentally sustainable in today’s world. After global warming‚ everyone has become more cautious about environment‚ more organisations have realised responsibility towards environment. Since‚ hotel industry and tourism industry are inter-linked
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December 10‚ 2010 The Grass Seems Greener inside Stanley Prison When I walked into Stanley Correctional Institution (prison) for the first time there were so many mixed emotions running through my body. Part of me was scared for my life and the other part of me was trying to be brave. As I walked past the base security into the facility‚ there was a lot of fencing as well as a lot of prison guards. The prison guards looked extremely intimidating which made me feel a bit more comfortable subsiding
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PressReleasePing Shipbird‚ A Crowdsourcing Delivery Service‚ Offers A Greener Option for Businesses Shipbird‚ a delivery service that allows users to employ ?on your way? technology‚ offers a cleaner‚ more environmentally-friendly option for businesses to distribute packages throughout the Bay Area. SAN FRANCISCO‚ CA‚ June 19‚ 2014 /PressReleasePing/ – Shipbird‚ a delivery service that allows users to employ ‘on your way’ technology‚ offers a cleaner‚ more environmentallyfriendly option
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The Grass is always greener on the other side. Right now the United States is spending over 50 Billion dollars on the war on drugs including over 3 billion just to incarcerate drug offenders. The black market for narcotics in America is over 28 million people. The UN estimates illegal drugs are 8 percent of international trade compared to automobiles only 5.3 percent. The first prohibition had no scientific evidence. Paper companies wanted marijuana illegal because of plant hemp
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Towards Sustainable Tourism Development in Zambia: Advancing Tourism Planning and Natural Resource Management in Livingstone (Mosi-Oa-Tunya) Area. Floyd Misheck Mwanza Department of Landscape Studies‚ College of Architecture & Urban Planning‚ Tongji University‚ 1239 Siping Road‚ Post Code 200092‚ Yang Pu‚ Shanghai‚ P.R. China. Tel: +86 1312 0894 802 ; Fax: 0086 (0)21 6598 0600 E-mail: floydmwanza@gmail.com Abstract Over the last few decades‚ development policy has been dominated by mainstream
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DiGi Telecommunications Sdn. Bhd.‚ DBA DiGi‚ is a mobile service provider in Malaysia. It is owned in majority by Telenor ASA of Norway with 49%. On 24 May 1995 DiGi became the first telco in Malaysia to launch and operate a fully digital cellular network. They were also the first to offer GPRS (2.5G) and later EDGE (2.75G) in Malaysia in 14 May 2004. DiGi primarily uses the 1800 MHz band for GSM with the network code of 50216. DiGi is listed on the Bursa Malaysia under the Infrastructure category
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