i posted this yesterday but only got 2 great answers. hopefuly ill get a little bit more today.

more often than not, people tend to narrow the definition of sweet science to " hit and not get hit ",, its indeed a thing of beauty how boxers like willie pep, pernell whitaker, nicolino loche, wilfred benitez and floyd mayweather elude, slip punches and make opponents look silly with their awesome defense. people call it art. people believe it takes skill to do that. i completely agree but there are some things some completely forget. first off, it isnt about skill alone. its about what gift the fighter has. some are blessed with brilliant reflex allowing loche to offer his head to his opponents and still make them miss as they always anticipate when the punches will come. do we call that talent? technicaly not, natural ability will define it more appropriately. now how about rolling your shoulder, slipping punches, moving in and out, counter attacks and everything that makes defense? is it all about skill? no again, natural ability greatly impacts on how poor or great can you be but studying it and practicing it to perfection is what made these boxers legend.

ok now how about swarmers, brawlers and sluggers? you cant teach power and speed yes but to execuate an awesome talent, you gotta do the same things defensive masters do. study it and practice it to perfection. a combo isnt just thrown because you’re fast and powerful. fighting machines usualy have their own deadly set of bombs they master through the years. moving in and out is studied and does come naturaly. power will be useless too if you dont know how to hit your opponents and what people sometimes forget is that, fighting machines got great timing and reflex too allowing them to unleash bombs that would hurt their foe and would disect each opponents weaknesses too, allowing them to win fights by fascinating kayoes.

lets have duran and pacquiao as examples. roberto and manny to regular fans are simply brawlers but what some fail to see is that these boxers are actualy brilliant counter-punchers. would you believe that, that KO of hatton was a counter? sometimes i get to thinking that boxers more often than not go where they’re comfortable at. some lack power and will be greater defensively and some people just really dont wanna get hit. some takes it like "hit me and ill hit you harder",, some love defense, some love offense,, gentlemen this is just my opinion and id love to hear yours. so how about you? thanks and you all have a great day.
@slick daddy
nice answer sir, thanks

@normen
great answer as always sir but no i do not consider roberto duran a typical brawler or a regular fighting machine. i see him as a brilliant masterboxer, an awesome counter puncher. i only used him as example because its what most people see. they look at duran more of a fighting machine than a technician mostly because of the action he brings and the fascinating kayoes he had in his great career. thanks
@martin
i completley agree bro, great answer and thanks for the link!

if you are mainly asking about the origins of the name, this is interesting reading…i think the definition can apply to all fighters, but only at certain times maybe? you mention manny pacquiao, and yes, he has become more well rounded over the years, but i still don’t think of manny (or even duran) when i think of the term "sweet science". that’s not a knock on those great fighters, it’s just that guys like cassius clay, leonard, robinson and a few others come to MY mind when i think of that term. as for duran, yes, he showed he is a good boxer also, but i think his brawling, and his low blows, his intensity, how he would insult opponents, etc kind of took away the "gentlemanly nature" that i think should also be associated with this term.

NicknamesSugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard both received their nicknames from the phrase “sweet science.” Both fighters used technical, adroit strategies to outclass opponents. Ray Robinson’s trainer, George Gainford, gave Robinson the nickname when he was an amateur. Gainford said Robinson was “sweet as sugar.” The nickname stuck and was subsequently used to describe the other Ray (Leonard) when he arrived on the boxing scene.

Modern UsageBoxing’s popularity has fallen in the last several decades, but the skills and heart displayed by the best in the world remain the same. The most successful boxers are tactical, yet tough. No other phrase depicts this image better than the term coined by Egan in the early 19th century, “The Sweet Science of Bruising.”

Yes, I need the FULL advert of Estee Lauder’s High Projectionist Volume Mascara, with the picture and text, just like it would appear in a magazine. I can’t find it ANYWHERE in the net. If you could find it, or have it and make a scan-in for me, that would be BRILLIANT.

I have this mascara in my room, i’ve got the box set… If you want i can take a pic of it and send to you? Like the outside of the box then the inside, it contains the mascara the white stuff you put on before the mascara and the eye curlers??

If not here is the pic of it on the website…

http://www.esteelauder.co.uk/templates/products/sp_shaded.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CAT1021&PRODUCT_ID=PROD73531

My company owns and runs blogs online (journalistic, reviews, etc.) and we’ve been asked by someone producing a press release for us, "What is the definition of your company? It’s clear you’re not a retailer, you’re more of a production company, but do you really even class as that?"

To be honest, I don’t know how to reply.
I’d like to call it a production company… But we don’t produce real media, just blog posts…

Some help would be brilliant. Thanks.

In my opinion your company could be classified under the service industry.
For better image, nothing wrong say it is under consultancy and marketing.

Greetings Everyone.

I am finding it hard to grasp the picture before me. I recently met up with very old friend of mine, whom I haven’t seen for over 8 years. I initially learned that he had intentions of finding me, after he learned that I nearly lost my life a few weeks ago in a horrific car accident, so at 1st this knowledge gave me the self-confidence that I so dearly needed, but than again it didn’t’t take me long to figure out that he has changed considerably. And according to me, not for the better.

Taking back all those years, we were both just little boys and a great team. He was slightly older than I and though at the time, I was still young too young to really appreciate his unique friendship, he had always looked out for me and kept me out of harms way. However, it was not his courage that I valued the most, but I was particularly fond of his sense of idealism and the wealth of understanding that he could bring to bear, so in a sense he was also my mentor.

Nevertheless just like all humans, he also had his many flaws. Yet to a certain extent I would often wonder how such a young person could be so assertive and not give into his weaknesses. However, deep down I always had this constant fear that 1 day his vices might dominate his spirit. (These were mainly his sudden rages, his tendency to blame others for his mistakes and his fondness for women.)

We eventually went our own separate ways due to school and other things. So somewhere inbetween the years that’s when the change came over him. When he came back to visit me, I was expecting to see the boy who had once hoped to archieve greatness by taking the most difficult path. However,little did I know about the bitter disappointment I was going to face. The boy I once knew was replaced by the worst monster imaginable. He has been to prison 38 times for all sorts of crimes raging from armed robbery and arson to gang violence.

It really broke my heart to pieces that a brilliant person could forsake his life in such a way, so to certain extent I am partially posting this story so as to hear my own thoughts about it and also to gain some serious input from you guys. I didn’t’t even see it coming, but the greatest friend I ever had in my childhood life had misled his own every soul in the intricacies of power, hate and the will to dominate others…so much that he arrived at such a high level of promiscuousness that he ended up impregnated 3 different woman. (Who nonetheless still managed to love him). I haven’t tried talking to him, for fear of offending him. Especially since despite this thing he has become, I’ll always respect him for the priceless friendship and childhood memories he gave me.

The relieving part of the story is that he hasn’t’t abandoned any of his kids or the mothers of his children, so do you guys suppose that’s a sign that his still a good person or merely a misplaced sense of self-righteousness?

Just because he went down a bad road doesn’t make him a bad person. Some of the sweetest people I know are the ones trouble always seems to find. It’s in their bravery and spontaneous behavior that leads them to destruction. They still possess all those admirable characteristics, but are using them the wrong way. Also years of built up fear, anger, depression that they never expressed can all just come out at once. Just because he went about life before as if nothing got to him before doesn’t mean it didn’t. I think its time to return the favor to him now and become his mentor. Show him the way back. It’s not too late.

what type of data they collect and qualatitive?? quantatitive??
i need to draw out the differences between the quantatative data used by the home office official statistics and the qualatitive data used by the british crime survey reports. what kind of data each definition relies on…..
i dont want all the answers but some good references would be brilliant,,
having a hard time with this stuff
CHEERS!!,,

Nobody is answering… Have a smile from an ignorant but friendly user

I will mostly be playing world of Warcraft and older pc games. Not like crysis or 2010+ games.

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Should play at high settings no problem.

All we needed was the spec’s. you didnt need to copy and paste 4 paragraphs of useless info.

My friend and I are arguing about the gender of the Yugioh card mentiond above. I say he is a guy, and he says she is a girl. This has become a contentious issue. WAR is the potential outcome. Here is a link
http://images.wikia.com/yugioh/images/9/9b/TheAgentofJudgment-SaturnAST-NA-UR-1E.png

Arguements for a guy:
Roman God of SAturn was identified asthe Greek God Cronus and was married to the Greek Goddess Ops.
Is a man in a priests robes
To jacked to be a women
Is the GOD (male) of agriculture in many cultures
Is wearing a helmet

Arguements for woman:
In many cultures, Saturn is senn as the heigher being of agriculture. Te harvest, of fruit. And woman bear fruits for they are girls.
Purple is a feminin colour as its definition is brilliant and gorgeious. And guys are ugly
her headress is not a helmet, but a hat
she’s wearing long hair and a gown (cause you wouldn’t wear a helmat with cloth u dumbass)
and woman can be that jacked, but not as much as men. the agent of force MARS is a jacked man.

Looking at the link of the female cards in the game, Agent of Judgment Saturn is not on the list. Therefore, my conclusion would be that it’s a guy.

Okay here’s a definition of the character.

Long, brown hair, with one long streak of red in it. She’s not very verbal, almost never talks, but she is brilliant and headstrong. I’m looking for a futuristic name, you can make it up or it can be a very under used name, but a unique name would be nice. She’s from the future.

Descriptions.Do.Not.Matter. They didn’t name a newborn baby on what they thought she would grow up to be like.
Okay; futuristic. That’s what I’m going to base it on;

Venika.
Skylar.
Saskia.
Kimberly.
Belle.
Tigerlilly.
Raven.
Nina.
Misha.
Tamryn.
Natalya.
Annika.
Tatyana.
Tasha.
Alloura.
Luna.
Celeste.
Pandora.
Felicia.
Seraphina.
Calliope.
Thora.
Phoenix.
Alexis.

Hope I helped. : )

Great Orators of the Democrat Party

"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The buck stops here." - Harry S. Truman
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy

And, from today’s genius Democrats…

"It depends what your definition of ‘Sex’ is?” - Bill Clinton

"That Obama … I would like to cut his NUTS off." - Jesse Jackson

"Those rumors are false … I believe in the sanctity of marriage." - John Edwards

"I invented the Internet." - Al Gore

"The next Person that tells me I’m not religious, I’m going to shove my rosary beads up their ASS." - Joe Biden

"America is … is no longer, uh, what it … it, uh, could be, uh, what it was once was … uh, and I say to myself, ‘uh, I don’t want that future, uh, uh for my children." - Barack Obama

"I have campaigned in all 57 states." - Barack Obama (Quoted 2008)
"we live in the greatest country in the world, HElp me CHANGE it" Barack Obama

"You don’t need God anymore, you have us Democrats." - Nancy Pelosi (Quoted 2006)

"Paying taxes is voluntary." - Sen. Harry Reid

"Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he." - Hillary Clinton (Quoted 1998)

"What this economy need is a 3 letter word…..J..O..B..S.. Joe Biden

And the most recent gem of wisdom from the "Mother Moron":

"We just have to pass the Healthcare Bill to see what’s in it."

- Nancy Pelosi (Quoted March, 2010)

HOW LUCKY CAN WE BE - TO HAVE SUCH BRILLIANT MINDS IN CHARGE OF OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY?

”Life’s tough … it’s even tougher if you’re stupid.”
- John Wayne

Go green - recycle Congress in 2010!

Here’s a quote that the people of America need to stop and consider every day, especially with the people we have in charge now…

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free." - Ronald Reagan

Is there any technique for photoshop or to obtain pictures like these?
I am talking about the post production: light and colours are particular, warm and brilliant at the same time, and with high definition of details. I am quite an expert with photoshop, but I couldn’t find a way to post produce pictures like this, because really I can’t understand exactly what is that makes the picture so particular.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoitpaille/5062632824/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoitpaille/4481644052/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/benoitpaille/5062492831/

There are some excellent tutorials on Calvin Hollywood’s blog that will help you get similar results…

http://www.calvinhollywood-blog.com/2009/05/31/the-first-english-video-and-more/
http://www.calvinhollywood-blog.com/2010/07/21/new-tutorial-contrast-bleach-bypass-look/

Also, if you wanna splash out, there is a order section with many more tutorials:
http://www.calvinhollywood-blog.com/trainingtutorials/

I’m also gonna start putting more tutorials on my blog, here is one for colour adjusting:
http://www.12orchards.com/blog/?p=91

I suppose a combination of all of the above will give you the look your after. I also recommend getting more familiar with the ’selective colour’ adjustment layer - if you haven’t already.