http://clipmarks.com/popular/date/2007/5/29/http://rss.clipmarks.com/popular/date/2007/5/29/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D091A0A4-EB5D-40D3-BF2F-1515D23EE124/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/gingembre/">gingembre</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Your house as seen by: you, your buyer, your lender, your appraiser, and your tax assessor. Rueful LOL. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://gingembresplace.blogspot.com/2007/05/your-house-as-seen-by.html" title="http://gingembresplace.blogspot.com/2007/05/your-house-as-seen-by.html">gingembresplace.blogspot.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><DIV>Your House As Seen By:</DIV><BR /><BR /><BR /><DIV>Yourself...</DIV><BR /> <A href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluCzpKv5II/AAAAAAAAAH8/K_efkNwO-54/s1600-h/house+you.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069789629271499906" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluCzpKv5II/AAAAAAAAAH8/K_efkNwO-54/s320/house+you.jpg" /></A><BR /><BR /><BR /><DIV>Your Buyer...</DIV><BR /> <A href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluDP5Kv5JI/AAAAAAAAAIE/Xq1Nq_ccEFA/s1600-h/house+buyer.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069790114602804370" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluDP5Kv5JI/AAAAAAAAAIE/Xq1Nq_ccEFA/s320/house+buyer.jpg" /></A><BR /><BR /><BR /><DIV>Your Lender...</DIV><BR /> <A href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluDfZKv5KI/AAAAAAAAAIM/y-epUeSY_KU/s1600-h/house+lender.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069790380890776738" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluDfZKv5KI/AAAAAAAAAIM/y-epUeSY_KU/s320/house+lender.jpg" /></A><BR /><BR /><BR /><DIV>Your Appraiser...</DIV><BR /> <A href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluD9ZKv5LI/AAAAAAAAAIU/inbYNhbLYig/s1600-h/house+appraiser.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069790896286852274" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluD9ZKv5LI/AAAAAAAAAIU/inbYNhbLYig/s320/house+appraiser.jpg" /></A><BR /><BR /><BR /><DIV>Your Tax Assessor...</DIV><BR /><A href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluK9pKv5NI/AAAAAAAAAIk/AYR2pXZbKac/s1600-h/house+tax+assessor.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5069798597163214034" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_iC0vvkSZPy4/RluK9pKv5NI/AAAAAAAAAIk/AYR2pXZbKac/s320/house+tax+assessor.jpg" /></A></P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/humor/" rel="tag">humor</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/house/" rel="tag">house</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/perspective/" rel="tag">perspective</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/funny/" rel="tag">funny</a></div>http://gingembresplace.blogspot.com/2007/05/your-house-as-seen-by.htmlTue, 29 May 2007 03:14:50 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/B7E30D1C-9E94-475C-86EE-49644D2C601F/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/karokan/">karokan</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://science.readigg.com/description/16193.html" title="http://science.readigg.com/description/16193.html">science.readigg.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H2 align="center">Chernobyl. 21 years later...</H2></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">The terrible disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant took place 21 years ago. We will not describe the already known facts from the official sources, but we’ll have a different look at it, from the direction of common human lives, with the eyes of ordinary people... + photos of Chernobyl and the town of Pripyat in 2006</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/7A0AC279-77A3-4C44-ABC7-B2CD03CE5873.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/495F2205-210A-4F51-A054-B66D5C38CCB5.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/22445A0A-4766-430D-A0DC-D95B3340C659.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/CD73F6EE-EF30-4DD6-8494-BC5B60931D3B.jpg" alt="" /><br 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src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/646E5873-75B0-49BA-B83C-9BC70ECDC970.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/A13C0122-1BDB-4A69-A761-796AF5FF1529.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/8186EC8F-D446-4A86-BD51-CA03E848EBC7.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/90EDC2A0-24B5-4967-82B5-2677EE255352.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/219F953C-2711-4467-9C00-6EACAB417C0A.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/702418D8-377E-40FF-8FEC-564908F040D2.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/E14C25C0-A211-44A7-AC04-14FD5934D091.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/29C61499-6C80-46CD-9C21-0F40B278B818.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/image_cache/karokan/512/656232EC-CF79-4710-ACE6-56CCAF08743E.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/photos/" rel="tag">photos</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/nuclear/" rel="tag">nuclear</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/disaster/" rel="tag">disaster</a></div>http://science.readigg.com/description/16193.htmlMon, 28 May 2007 19:08:52 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/05B66EB2-9CCF-4171-B7DB-A17BD581C833/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/debbyski/">debbyski</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> I'm not sorry I read them that book, that chapter, those words. Knowing that term isn't going to hurt them. And now, no one will ever laugh at them for not knowing it. When it comes to introducing adolescents to the realm of the sexual world — whether in books, or movies or life — it seems like one person's discomfort is another's salvation. No one has ever died from discomfort. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-miller29may29,0,1110736.story?coll=la-tot-opinion&track=ntothtml" title="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-miller29may29,0,1110736.story?coll=la-tot-opinion&track=ntothtml">www.latimes.com</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV> IWAS HIRED BY one of those after-school enrichment programs in Los Angeles — I think there are about 14 million of them — to help Korean American kids improve their verbal skills. "Their parents want their kids to get very high test scores and to make their language more sophisticated," the school director told me. It was a simple enough directive. </DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">One afternoon, I was reading along when it dawned on me that I was about to get to a section in which sheltered young Marcus is cruelly mocked by his classmates for not knowing a common euphemism for fellatio.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">I was prepared for the fact that this two-word term was going to flip them out. What I had not considered — and what ended up being the case — was that they had no idea what it meant. </div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Six weeks later, the program director told me two kids had quit the class, so she didn't need me. I pressed a friend who worked there and got the truth: A parent had complained, and I had been let go for saying "inappropriate things."</DIV></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/words/" rel="tag">words</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/meanings/" rel="tag">meanings</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/sexual/" rel="tag">sexual</a></div>http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-miller29may29,0,1110736.story?coll=la-tot-opinion&track=ntothtmlTue, 29 May 2007 12:14:23 GMT