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Top 10 Reasons Why There Couldn't Be a
Filipino-American US President by David Letterman
10. The White House is not big enough for in-laws and extended relatives.
9. There is not enough parking spaces at the White House for 2 Honda Civics, 2 Toyota Land Cruisers, 3 Toyota Corollas, Mercedes Benz, BMW (Big Mean Wife), and MPV (My Pinoy Van).
8. Dignitaries generally are intimidated by eating with fingers at State dinners.
7. There is too many dining rooms in the White House - where will they put the Last Supper picture?
6. The White House walls is not big enough to hold a set of giant wooden spoon and fork.
5. Secret Service staff won't respond to "pssst...pssst".
4. Secret Service staff are uncomfortable driving the Presidential car with a Holy Rosary hanging on the rear view mirror or having the statue of the Santo Nino on the dashboard.
3. No budget allocation to purchase karaoke machines in every White House room.
2. State dinners do not allow "Take Home".
AND THE NUMBER 1 REASON WHY THERE COULDN'T BE A FILIPINO-AMERICAN US PRESIDENT IS....
1. Air Force One does not allow overweight Balikbayan boxes!
In 1990 the first successful trial run of the system which eventually became the World Wide Web was conducted. It would change our lives forever. Above is a photo of the first www setup.
Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, the World Wide Web was started in 1989 by the English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and later by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a network, and released that web in December. Connected by the existing Internet, other websites were created, around the world, adding international standards for domain names & the HTML language. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web.
The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularizing use of the Internet. Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. The Web is an application built on top of the Internet. (Information is from Wikipedia.)
I seldom miss trade shows when they come to my favorite mall. Besides the products they are featuring, I enjoy looking at how well the displays are put together and how effective they are in arousing interest.
Even companies on a small budget should use good trade show displays to focus on their products and services. Having nothing more than a representative for prospective clients seems like a significant waste of the cost of having a booth at the trade fair. A display that gets noticed is sometimes as effective as having a rep at the kiosk.
Of course, simply having a display is hardly sufficient. The quality of printing and the message on the printed materials is more important. The impact of the canvas printing should be positive and eye-catching. Color and quality of the image help draw attention to the booth and to the company's message.
Then, simply propping a poster against the wall is hardly professional. Good support of the well-designed display materials is another issue. The banner stands need to provide not only good support but need to be such that clients will not trip over them. The stands and accessories that help to present the display materials usually do not get much notice. They are, however, a vital part of any trade show display.
I watched as I went to a home decor trade show last weekend in one of the malls in town. Some companies had many prospective clients in their booths while others, usually those with poor display materials, had representatives just sitting and hoping someone would show interest in their products.
I have been slow in writing more short stories for this blog. Forgive me for that, please.
However, I do have some articles on the Internet which may be of interest to readers of this particular blog. I wrote all of them and have sent them out for readers outside of Orble. I wonder, though, if my Orble readers may wish to see them. They are shorter than my short stories
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Most of us hate to get older. Still, in my mind, it is better than the alternative, which is to die younger. Look at some of your favorite people in BEFORE and AFTER shots.
Val Kilmer
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“Mary, would you stop singing and help me with the cleaning.” It was Martha speaking to her younger sister.
“All right, Sis,” chimed the cheerful sister. She was three years younger than Martha, which entitled Martha to ownership of the humble house after their father had died. I am well able to work and sing at the same time, though.” She picked up a cloth for dusting the sand and dust from some shelves in the house as she more quietly went over the words in Psalm 75. Sometimes, as she was doing now, she changed some words in the Psalms to make it more personal. “Unto thee do I give thanks,” she began.
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Here is a poem I had to learn in high school, along with many others. Most were by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Today is the 234th anniversary of Paul Revere's famous ride.
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