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Based on the bestselling novel by Candace Bushnell, the HBO original series Sex And The City took the television world by storm following its release in the summer of 1998. Following the exploits of four young and educated female friends living and working in New York City, the show revolves around the various relationships and life problems experienced by each member of the group. Sporting an experienced and talented cast, the show has developed a strong, borderline fanatic following…

Sarah Jessica Parker (the de facto lead character of the show) stars as Carrie Bradshaw, a popular sex columnist for a local newspaper who travels in numerous Manhattan social circles. Carrie is engaged in a tempestuous on-again, off-again relationship with a mystery man always referred to as “Mr. Big”. The young urban professional shares her life with three best friends who have similarly interesting jobs - Miranda Hobbs (Cynthia Nixon), a lawyer tired of being single given the societal ramifications Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), a promiscuous publicist who enjoys non-exclusive relationships and Charlotte McDougal (Kristin Davis), an art museum curator who is relatively less open about her sexuality… Together, the women seek each other’s advice on the ever-present and varying predicaments in which they find their romantic relationships…

The Sex And The City DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the series premiere in which the four stars make a pact at Miranda’s birthday party that they will start having sex like men (i.e. without feeling or attachment). Charlotte is skeptical of the idea, but Carrie takes to the idea immediately by sleeping with her ex-boyfriend. Meanwhile, Miranda goes out with Carrie’s friend Skipper while Samantha and Carrie develop new relationships of their own… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “Bay of Married Pigs” in which Carrie is set up by her married friends with a man intent on getting married himself (meanwhile, all four women feel the societal pressures to get married), and “The Monogamists” in which each of the four women deals with personal issues involving exclusive/non-exclusive relationships of varying degrees…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Sex And The City (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (Sex and the City) Air Date: 06-06-1998
Episode 2 (Models and Mortals) Air Date: 06-06-1998
Episode 3 (Bay of Married Pigs) Air Date: 06-21-1998
Episode 4 (Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys) Air Date: 06-28-1998
Episode 5 (The Power of Female Sex) Air Date: 07-05-1998
Episode 6 (Secret Sex) Air Date: 07-12-1998
Episode 7 (The Monogamists) Air Date: 07-19-1998
Episode 8 (Three’s a Crowd) Air Date: 07-26-1998
Episode 9 (The Turtle and The Hare) Air Date: 08-02-1998
Episode 10 (The Baby Shower) Air Date: 08-09-1998
Episode 11 (The Drought) Air Date: 08-16-1998
Episode 12 (Oh Come, All Ye Faithful) Air Date: 08-23-1998

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a thedvdreport.blogspot.com movie review site where you can find more reviews like this one of the thedvdreport.blogspot.com/2006/02/sex-city-dvd.html Sex And The City (DVD) Review.

Such an ado was made at my passing from this life. Surely people knew that I was ready for the journey. Near the end, my memory failed, and my mind was not as keen and agile as it had been. I no longer wrote, nor could I converse with a degree of competency. Time had taken its toll, but I had been ready and I knew I was about to embark on another journey.

It had been an easy life that I enjoyed during the early times. Life was not complex. I came from a respected family, was fortunate to receive a good education, and had the benefits of good friends of intelligence.

As a young man I aspired to become a minister. I achieved that goal, but in time I determined it was not the life for me. My philosophies were not readily acceptable to the clergy. When I left the ministry, I embarked on a trip to England where I had longed to go to meet with men of literature. In my youthful mind, I believed this young country of America had no literary masters.

In years to come, I would know men such as Carlyle, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Dickens, who would become friends. I was privileged to dine with Tenneyson, exchange ideas with Macaulay, admire the inventiveness of George Stephenson, and the mind of Thackeray.

As I grew older and wiser, I admired and respected my countrymen: Bronson; Alcott; Henry James: Margaret Fuller Nathaniel Hawthorne, and my dearest friend, Henry David Thoreau, the young man I had taken into my home to assist me in my attempt at farming.

How grand and yet simple were his stories. His oneness with nature embellished all that he said and did. Well I recall helping to get him a scholarship to Harvard, and the joy I felt when he returned, still imbued with his love of nature, non plussed by the classic education.

What can I say of my life? That I enjoyed the company of all people? I was equally at home with the laborer as with the socially elite. I wrote my thoughts and feelings, and people invited me to speak them in public lectures. I was an admirer of the Plato philosophy, and a member of the Transcendentalist Society. My joy was exchanging ideas with anyone who cared to listen.

To be a poet of worth was my greatest aspiration, but it was not to be. My rhyme and verse were acceptable, but not of great literary value.

As a farmer I also failed. Hawthorne once wrote that my idea of farming was to lean on a hoe while Thoreau leaned upon a rake, and Alcott sat on the fence. It is somewhat true. We greatly enjoyed discourse over workhorse.

My thoughts and philosophies were not new. They had been the filtration of wisdoms from earlier times. I embraced the thoughs and beliefs of master before me, then reconciled them with my own intuitive spirit. In my essay, “Fate”, I wrote:

“No one can read history of astronomy
without perceiving that Corpernicus, Newton,
Laplace. are not new men, or a new kind of men,
but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Emp-
edocles, Aristarchus, Phythagora, OEnipodes,
had anticipated them;”

Did not Socrates and Plato come before Immanuel Kant? And before Moses, Confucius and Pythagoras? When people today speak of New Thought, compare it to ancient wisdoms, and you will find that nothing new exists under the sun that has not been envisioned by another.

How do I apprise myself as a writer? In my essay on beauty, I stated:

“It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way,”
or,
“To clothe the fiery thought,
In simple words succeeds,
For still the craft of genius is
To mask a king in weeds.”

I believe that we could learn much from the laborers who work close to nature. Watch a man build a bridge, see a woman tend her garden, observe the tin maker crafting his
wares, and you see nature in her finest hours.

If we are true to our nature, open our minds to the voice of the universal spirit, allow the will of fate to guide our actions, break no law of nature, then we have lived to the fullest measure of our being. To that end, I hope I achieved a modicum of success.

Mary Bradley McCauley is a writer in no particular genre. Her articles, short stories, essays, poems, travel bits, and ‘thinking about’ series have been published and well received.

Her metaphysical novel, “The House of Annon” has been one of her writing highlights.

After the nomadic life of the military with it’s countless moves, and a career in travel taking her to the Bering Sea in Alaska, the Opera House in Sydney, most of the major islands in the Caribbean as well as several trips to Europe, Ms. McCauley recently moved from Florida to Franklin TN.

A former Army Brat, Army Wife and Group Tour Travel Advisor, she claims her first love is being with her grandchildren and second is communicating in any way, shape, or form.

Freeroll poker tournaments are daily events that happen on a lot of the best online poker websites. Freerolls are much loved by the poker playing community as they offer the poker players the chance to win some real money without losing any. The entry to these freerolls is – as the name suggests – free and prize money can range from a few dollars for a placing to hundreds of dollars for winning the big freeroll Texas Holdem poker tournaments.

So why do the poker sites have freerolls? Is it because of their extremely generous nature and the fact that they make vast sums of money so they feel a moral obligation to give some of it back?

What do you think!

No of course it isn’t, the reason that the big poker websites offer freerolls is to attract people to their site.

Here’s the theory in a nutshell – You hear that a site has a great freeroll, it costs you nothing to enter and you can win $100. You think “Great!” and you go along to the site and get registered as a member so that you can play the freeroll. You play and finish early and are annoyed because you feel you should have done better, or you go close to winning and so you’re looking for some more action. What do you do? You spend some money at the site and play another poker game!

Always check the freerolls for cash-out requirements, you will nearly always need to play some hands for real money before they let you take the money out. Often this is on a 1=1 basis, so if you win $20 at the freeroll poker tournament you will need to have played for $20 in real money in order for you to be able to withdraw the money.

Article by Ian McIntosh of Love-Texas-Holdem.com Love-Texas-Holdem.com. Check out the site for all the latest information on Texas Holdem freerolls and tournaments.

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Video editing used to be reserved to professionals. Now, YOU can edit your own videos, and on a small budget. And I’m going to guide you and tell you what you need.

Basically, the equipment you need is:

- a recent computer
- a camcorder
- video editing software

You can find a camcorder for any type of budget. We recommend getting a digital camcorder if you’re a beginner. It will be much simpler. An analogue can be good too, but you will need a converter.

Most computers will work, but it has to be somewhat recent. A Pentium III 600 with 256 Megs of RAM would be the minimum, and we would recommend having more RAM than that. Your PC will have to contain a capture card so you can transfer your footage directly from your digital camcorder to your computer. Film takes a lot of space on the computer! Consider having at least 80 or 120 GB. If you don’t, you can always get an external drive. Also you might want to have a good video card and sound card.

Now we get to the fun part: the video editing software. Adobe Premiere Elements is one of the most popular. But not necessarily the one you need. I have written different reviews on my film making website. Also, you might want to consider getting a guide on how to use the software if you want to avoid ending up using only using the basic features of the software.

Now, get started, get creative, add all sorts of different special effects, arranging your footage into multiple sequences, creating transitions and adding a soundtrack. Anything is possible! Whether you are editing your family videos, or trying to make a short video clip to put online, professional software and equipment is available to you on all sorts of budgets.

Sebastien Desria has been in the film making industry for over 15 years. He also occasionnaly writes on a 123filmmaking.com film making website and forum.

Two of the leading issues needing urgent attention in our world are the environment and proper communication between two major opposing cultures. From these dual problems stem many other concerns.

The environment is a dilemma, about which we can all do something; we just need to curb our greed and laziness. British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has promised to spend up to $3 billion over the next 10 years on projects aimed at tackling the environmental problem. This is a significant gesture and the publicity alone is valuable in focusing our attention on the issue.
The great gift the media has, is the constant ability to shine a light on aspects of our lives for good or bad. This is definitely one for the good and Sir Richard’s gesture may prod others to follow suit.

The other issue is more complex and is based largely on the economics and power games of man’s ambitions.

Just three weeks ago the actor, Mr. George Clooney addressed the United Nations Assembly on the tragedy in Darfur, which is growing into a runaway catastrophe. As ever, this is a man made disaster made from different tribal/religious/power factions reminiscent of Nazi Germany, determined by a better equipped, more powerful section of the region to annihilate a weaker group, who have the same human rights to live peaceful lives without fear or hunger, as their oppressors.

Mr. Clooney warned the UN that this tragedy “would be on their watch”; this is a very powerful phrase and I wondered how it translated into the other languages of the listeners. Would it lose some or much of its strength in its interpretation by the very detached and unemotional renditions by the UN interpreters? If only we spoke the same language, would we be able to communicate as powerfully as is often necessary to get the message across?

Two weeks ago US President George Bush and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad each individually addressed the UN, regarding Iran’s position on nuclear development. What if President Bush spoke Farsi and President Ahmadinejad could or would speak English and they sat down together and communicated with each other properly. Naïve, you may say. But maybe not, after all they are only men, human beings like the rest of us and if they could communicate and
languagejob҂u.com/ speak each others language, maybe they would find the humanity in each other.

The more we speak to each other, in the other’s language and acknowledge and respect each other’s culture, the safer our little planet will be.

Jane Merrow - owner of languagejobs4u.com languagejobs4u.com

Show-shine Boy

I’m warm

Safe

Surrounded by books

Under my heart beat

Resides a phantom

—an old drunk

On the long walk

From 12 to 58

I never forgot

The Shoe-shine Boy

In me!!

I never ran out of polish—;

When I looked into my shine,

As now, I do, into my poems

Saying: “What’s next?”

Unhurried, unfurled

I ended up here—

Here, writing this poem

It cleverly fits

Into my life, so nice

I drink my latte

Here at the B.N., Café—

(a stir-stick, in hand)

Somehow I feel, really feel:

This is just the beginning—

#934 11-22-05

Fear’s Intentions

Fear, O fear, go to sleep
Undiscovered—so you creep

Repulsive, at its very least!
You shall not mould me in my
Sleep!…

And when he has gone, far away
Awkward things, seem to stay

Like plastic clay, I seem to be
Waiting for fear, to return to
Me!…

#932 11-22-05

The Balconies of Lima, Peru

—how swift: I step from one to one!

A moment out of the day

The winds upon my brow

A breath taken away; away by
The balconies of Lima, Peru

(Most beautiful in the world!)
Here is where, within the shadows

Of the Plaza de Arms

Is where kings and conquerors

Once ruled…

—here! …here the air is still,

Warm as the orchards in spring
Warm as the Sacred Valley’s afternoon.

Here is where the balconies sing…!
With a ghostly fragrance in the air,

Here along the streets of Lima, Peru—
Here, here is where they sing, sing

Of the long lost folklores,
Of long ago…

Note: I have traveled the world over, in Spain, Lisbon, New Orleans, etc., and I’ve yet to find any balconies equal to Lima’s; even in Italy, and 59-other countries. #929 11-19-2005

See Dennis’ web site: dennissiluk.tripod.com dennissiluk.tripod.com

Where are the best poker freerolls? It really depends what you’re looking for, do you want a Texas Holdem freeroll that has a large prize pot with a small chance of winning, or would you settle for a lower prize that you might have a realistic chance of winning?

The best poker freerolls for one person might not be
the most suitable for the next guy.

Some of the daily poker freerolls have a huge number
of entrants, all hoping to scoop the prize. You need
to decide whether it is worth the time and effort to
play these tournaments, knowing that the odds are
against you with such a high number of poker players
up against you.

A site which has one of the the highest prizes for a
regular daily poker freeroll is Poker Room, which
offers prize money to the top 45 placed finishers in
the tournament, with the top prize currently $100. Now
to be honest it is very hard to win the freeroll at
Poker Room as there are 2400 places available for each
freeroll. Out of this number, a lot will be first
timers or rank amatuers but there will be a good few
skillful players in there as well. $100 may not sound
much to some people but it is a lot of money to others
and people are prepared to fight hard to win the
prize.

There is also the time factor to be taken into
account, with 2400 people playing it is going to take
over 3 hours to complete the tournament so you need to
have good powers of concentration and be able to
sustain them over long periods.

Some people are of the opinion that the best poker
freerolls are those which you can actually win!

AbsolutePoker has 15 tournaments a day and
although the prize is only $50 you have a much greater
chance of winning.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

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I have a photo quality ink jet printer that can print very good colour photos, on photo style paper. I was intrigued when a number of well known retailers started offering to print digital photos for less than it costs me for the paper alone.

So, I ordered a group of 4×6 prints from one of them, by uploading the files to their website. If a store that does this is convenient to you, you can pick them up. If not, they will ship them for a small extra charge.

I ordered mine on a Tuesday, after supper, and they were delivered via regular mail that same Friday. I was impressed. That same store now has a walk-in 1 hour service for the same price.

To test the effect of extra pixels, I sent them the same photo 6 times. The only difference in the photos was the resolution:
- 150 dpi (600 pixels x 900 pixels)
- 200 dpi (800 x 1200)
- 250 dpi (1000 x 1500)
- 300 dpi (1200 x 1800)
- 350 dpi (1400 x 2100)
- 400 dpi (1600 x 2400)

The photo was a picture of a couple I know. One of them had highlights in their hair, and gel had been used, so hair was sticking out somewhat. When I looked very closely at the photos (naked eye only, no magnifiers) at fine details like the hair, I could detect a minor difference between the 150 dpi and the 400 dpi, (actually, there was even a bit of a difference noted between 150 and 200) but if the photos are destined for your photo album, you would never know the difference, in my opinion.

On a 4×6, lets say you go with 200 dpi just to be sure. That is 800 pixels by 1200 pixels. That is about 1 mega pixel. If you go to your local digital camera reseller today, you probably cannot buy a serious camera that is less than 2 or 3 mega pixels. A 2 mega pixel camera gives you almost 1200 x 1800, which at 200 dpi lets you print a 6 x 9 print. At 150 dpi, you can get an 8 x 10 easily from a 2 mp. (p.s. the store I used will NOT print anything less than 150 dpi)

Based on my tests, a 2 mega pixel camera can print a fair quality 8 x 10 print. If you just need 4 x 6 prints, you will get great prints from even a 1 mega pixel. Need I remind you that the current pricing is less than I pay for the paper alone.

Do I use my fancy photo quality printer anymore? Not very often.

Richard Killey is an amateur photographer who shares the love of his hobby with readers of his website. Visit photosbyrichard.ca photosbyrichard.ca to read other articles of interest.

I think a large part of my life consisted of philosophy hunting. It seemed that everyone I met was like a definite Existentialist, or a definite Daoist, or a definite Jedi-ist, and I needed to be definite something. I dabbled a bit in everything, and every one had parts I liked, and parts I didn’t like. It never occurred to me that I could have my own philosophy, compromised of everything I had learned in life. But that was exactly what I needed.

And it is what everyone needs. I think people who go around looking for that perfect philosophy or religion will be sadly disappointed by any one they try. It seems to me, that the only one philosophy that will work for everyone is their own. You are the only one who has lived your life. And you are the only one who truly knows what you want. So, why commit yourself to someone else’s ideals?

It seems to me, that the easiest way to develop a philosophy all your own, is to live life.

Learn.

Open yourself to new experiences.

Look at life from as many points of view as possible.

Read everything. You will learn something from everything you read. Or experience for that matter.

Interpret life.

Write down Everything that seems valuable.

Philosophy is the study of life. Don’t study Kierkegaard. Study Life. Kierkegaard is only a tour guide.

Plunge in head first into everything.

Ask. Don’t be afraid. Just ask.

Study other peoples life.

What I guess I’m trying to say is Grow.

Court Demone. Author of a Personal Development Blog called

Origin:
Merengue originated in the Dominican Republic. It is the national dance of the Dominican. There are a few stories describing how the dance originated. The most common one is that of the slaves who were chained together and had to move by dragging one foot at a time. Merengue as a two beat music and since the footwork is quite similar to walking, it is a very easy dance to learn.

Music:
Merengue is played in 2/4. The double sided drum is played on one side with a stick with a strong syncopation to mark the beats. Saxophones and guitars are also very popular instruments found in the music.

Dance:
Merengue footwork is extremely easy to learn as it’s a simple two beat movement (”left, right”) with the body weight being moved between the legs. The upper body stays fairly straight while the hips move with the weight change. The Merengue frame is much smaller (closer) in comparison to Salsa. Having said that, Merengue is often led with a single (right) hand on the back. But in open hold, arms are often completely extended out instead of maintaining a closer L-shaped frame.

Latinos NZ Popularity Scale: 8.5/10
Meregue is a very popular Latin American Dance in New Zealand, second only to Salsa. On an average night out in a Latin Club, as many as every second or third song can be Merengue.

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