[Share these lyrics on Facebook!] I heard that you're settled down That you found a girl and you're married now I heard that your dreams came true Guess she gave you things I didn't give to you
Old friend, why are you so shy? Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light
I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded That for me, it isn't over
Never mind, I'll find someone like you I wish nothing but the best for you, too Don't forget me, I begged, I remember you said Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead
You know how the time flies Only yesterday was the time of our lives We were born and raised in a summer haze Bound by the surprise of our glory days
I hate to turn up out of the blue, uninvited But I couldn't stay away, I couldn't fight it I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded That for me, it isn't over yet
Never mind, I'll find someone like you I wish nothing but the best for you, too Don't forget me, I begged, I remember you said Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead, yeah
Nothing compares, no worries or cares Regrets and mistakes, they're memories made Who would have known how bittersweet this would taste?
Never mind, I'll find someone like you I wish nothing but the best for you Don't forget me, I begged, I remember you said Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead
Never mind, I'll find someone like you I wish nothing but the best for you, too Don't forget me, I begged, I remember you said Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead

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In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. (opening line)

    I passed through many streets and distraughtly walked by the rabble who, with greedy faces, were in pursuit of money and lust. In fact, I did not need to see them to know them; one was enough to represent the rest. They were all like one big mouth leading to a wad of guts, terminating in a sexual organ.

    I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.

    In this mean world of wretchedness and misery, for the first time I thought a ray of sunshine had shone on my life. But alas, it was not a sunbeam, rather it was only a passing gleam, a shooting star, which appeared to me in the likeness of a woman or an angel. And in the light of that moment, lasting only about a second, I witnessed all my life's misfortunes, and I discovered their magnitude and grandeur. Then this beam of light disappeared again into the dark abyss into which it was bound inevitably to disappear.

    I was not in full control of myself, and it seemed that I knew her name from before. The evil in her eyes, her color, her scent and her movements were all familiar to me. It was as though my souls, in the life before this, in the world of imagination, had bordered on her soul and that both souls, of the same essence and substance, were destined for union. I must have lived this life very close to her. I had no desire to touch her; the invisible beams that emanated from our bodies and mingled were sufficient for me. Isn't this terrifying experience which seemed so familiar to met quite the same as the feelings of two lovers who feel that they have known each other before and that a mysterious relationship has previously existed between them? Was it possible that someone else could affect me? The dry, repulsive and ominous laughter of the old man, however, tore our bonds asunder.

    I was growing inward incessantly; like an animal that hibernates during the wintertime, I could hear other peoples' voices with my ears; my own voice, however, I could hear only in my throat. The loneliness and the solitude that lurked behind me were like a condensed, thick, eternal night, like one of those nights with a dense, persistent, sticky darkness which waits to pounce on unpopulated cities filled with lustful and vengeful dreams.

    What relationship could exist between the lives of the fools and healthy rabble who were well, who slept well, who performed the sexual act well, who had never felt the wings of death on their face every moment—what relationship could exist between them and one like me who has arrived at the end of his rope and who knows that he will pass away gradually and tragically?

    What is love? For the rabble love is a kind of variety, a transient vulgarity; the rabble's conception of love is best found in their obscene ditties, in prostitution and in the foul idioms they use when they are halfway sober, such as "shoving the donkey's foreleg in mud," or "putting dust on the head." My love for her, however, was of a totally different kind. I knew her from ancient times—strange slanted eyes, a narrow, half-open mouth, a subdued quiet voice. She was the embodiment of all my distant, painful memories among which I sought what I was deprived of, what belonged to me but somehow I was denied. Was I deprived forever?

    My life appeared to me as unnatural, uncertain and incredible as the design on the pencase I am using at this moment. It seems that a painter who has been possessed, perhaps a perfectionist, has painted the cover of this pencase. Often, when I look at this design, it seems familiar; perhaps it is because of this design that I write or perhaps this design makes me write.

    Finally I realized that I was a demi-god and that I was beyond all the low, petty desires of mankind. I felt the eternal flux within me. What is eternity? Eternity for me was playing hide-and-seek with that whore on the banks of the Suren river; it was a momentary closing of my eyes when I hid my head in her lap.

Its beemn years that this weblog is filtered  I'm never tired of hoping that one day it's gonna be unfiltered

They want to be caught

Women in unhappy marriages or relationships can use infidelity as a way to escape the long-term relationship.Psychologists call it a relationship affair “output.” ”There are very unhappily married women, particularly married mothers, who would feel too guilty if they might be those who would say” Honey, can not stay with you. “So it will have a reason, says Wallace.

Because men do not really forgive infidelity almost certainly will be the ones to break the relationship, thus taking on the shoulders of his wife guilty of being shattered family. In addition, it gives women an affair will certainly not be alone after the breakup of their marriage. ”Women enter into an adventure as to who is going to have time to finish her marriage will fall apart.’s Next step for her,” says Saltz

They relive the past

When the relationship is going through a difficult period, she can call on a former lover for consolation.”Sometimes, frunzarirea page book with a former boyfriend can be an easy way for a woman to find a sexual partner to do it temporarily feel better,” says Seth Meyers relations expert psychologist.

Often this type of infidelity is not related to the renewal of feelings for her former lover, but with her desire to be again the woman who was at the time her relationship with that man. ”Returning to the days of youth makes her feel alive again, younger, carefree, sexier and more appealing,” says Weil.

Maria Schneider (27 March 1952 – 3 February 2011) was a French actress. She was best known for playing Jeanne, opposite Marlon Brando, in the 1972 film, Last Tango in Paris.

Career

Schneider performed several nude scenes in Last Tango in Paris, which was controversial at the time. In an interview in 2007,^[1] Schneider described Last Tango in Paris director Bernardo Bertolucci: "He was fat and sweaty and very manipulative, both of Marlon and myself, and would do certain things to get a reaction from me." As for her working relationship with Brando, she said that, while their relationship on the set was paternal, it was Brando who came up with the "butter scene" and it was only known to her just before filming it:

"I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can't force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn't know that. Marlon said to me: 'Maria, don't worry, it's just a movie,' but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologise. Thankfully, there was just one take."^[1]

She and Brando remained friends until his death, although they did not speak of the movie "for a while." She also said that her experience with the film – and her treatment as a sex symbol rather than as a serious actress – motivated her never to do films with nude scenes again. Schneider also appeared in films such as Antonioni's The Passenger and Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre

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Anthony Perkins (April 4, 1932 – September 12, 1992) was an American actor, best known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and his Oscar-nominated role in Friendly Persuasion (1956).

Personal life

On August 9, 1973, Perkins married photographer Berry Berenson. They had two sons: actor Oz Perkins (b. February 2, 1974), and musician Elvis Perkins (b. February 9, 1976).

He once said he felt too nervous around women, and resisted actresses Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot, who had tried to seduce him during his youth. He was a very shy actor, especially in women's company.^[6] He reportedly had affairs with actors Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale prior to marrying Berenson. He lost his virginity at the age of 39 while working on the 1971 film The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean to an actress who also appeared in the film. According to an interview with People magazine Perkins declined to identify the actress, but "other sources" have identified her as Victoria Principal.^[6]

Perkins died on September 12, 1992, from complications of AIDS. He was cremated, and his ashes were given to his family. His widow, Berry Berenson, was killed on American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.^[7]

(CNET) -- Google TV has the network television industry's attention.

Certain television shows on the Web sites of broadcast networks CBS and ABC are currently being blocked when Google TV users try to access those sites.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that NBC confirmed it was blocking streams to Google TV users, although CNET was able to view shows on NBC.com using Google TV. (CBS.com is published by CBS Interactive, which also publishes CNET.)

The decision to block the programs only seems to affect full-length episodes available on the Web sites of those companies, and it began in earnest this week, according to a source familiar with the situation.

It does not affect the viewing of those shows through the broadcast TV part of Google TV, just the streaming of those shows to Google TV.

Google declined to comment on the matter beyond a prepared statement.

"We're in the early phases of Google TV and already have strong partnerships with Best Buy, Logitech, and Sony, among others. We are excited about the opportunities our new platform creates for both established media companies like Turner and HBO, and tens of thousands of content creators large and small.

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ای دوست بیا تا غم فردا نخوریم

ای دوست بیا تا غم فردا نخوریم		وین یکدم عمر را غنیمت شمریم
فردا که ازین دیر فنا درگذریم		با هفت هزار سالگان سر بسریم

559 - 530 BC

Cyrus the Great was the first Achaemenian Emperor. He founded Persia by uniting the two original Iranian Tribes- the Medes and the Persians. Although he was known to be a great conqueror, who at one point controlled one of the greatest Empires ever seen, he is best remembered for his unprecedented tolerance and magnanimous attitude towards those he defeated.     In the 19th century, archeologists in Egypt discovered an inscription by Darius commemorating the completion of the Canal: I am a Persian. I commanded to dig this canal from a river by name of Nile which flows in Egypt... After this canal was dug, ships went from Egypt through this canal to Persia, thus as was my desire. Darius revolutionized mankind's economic activities by introducing one of the earliest (certainly the first on such a massive scale) forms of common coinage in history, the darik. This initiative, along with the standardization of weights and measures and the codification of commercial laws, stimulated world trade and elevated the Persian Empire's economy to new levels of prosperity. Persepolis, the capital of the Persian Empire.

The tomb of Cyrus the Great

یک مامور قطار مشهد - تهران از دستشویی های زنانه قطار شرکت رجاء دوربین فیلمبرداری می کرد.

به گزارش خبرآنلاین، مامور قطار شماره 343 سه شنبه ساعت 21:45 دقیقه که مشهد را به مقصد تهران ترک کرده بود، پیش از ورود هر خانم به دستشویی وارد سرویس های بهداشتی می شد و دوربین موبایل خود را به گونه ای جاسازی می کرد که از استفاده کنندگان از دستشویی ها فیلمبرداری کند.

این فرد هنگامی که قصد داشت برای چندمین بار این حرکت را تکرار کند، از سوی یکی از مسافران مورد ظن قرار می گیرد و هنگام استفده از سرویس بهداشتی متوجه دوربین در حال فیلمبرداری می شود و این اتفاق را به رییس قطار گزارش می کند.

ظاهرا رییس قطار نیز با دستگیری این فرد وی را به حراست شرکت رجا تحویل می دهد.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was an Indian/Muslim politician and statesman who led the Muslim League and founded Pakistan, serving as the first Governor-General of Pakistan. While celebrated as a great leader in Pakistan, Jinnah remains a controversial figure, provoking intense criticism for his role in the partition of India. As a student and young lawyer, Jinnah rose to prominence in the Indian National Congress, expounded Hindu-Muslim unity, shaped the 1916 Lucknow Pact between the Congress and the Muslim League, and was a key leader in the All India Home Rule League. Differences with Mohandas Gandhi led Jinnah to quit the Congress; he then took charge of the Muslim League and proposed a fourteen-point constitutional reform plan to safeguard the political rights of Muslims in a self-governing India. Disillusioned by the failure of his efforts and the League's disunity, Jinnah would live in London for many years. Several Muslim leaders persuaded Jinnah to return to India in 1934 and re-organize the league. Disillusioned by the failure to build coalitions with the Congress, Jinnah embraced the goal of creating a separate state for Muslims as in the Lahore Resolution. The failure of the Congress-League coalition to govern the country prompted both parties and the British to agree to partition

SINGAPORE (AP) -- Oil prices rose above $82 a barrel Wednesday in Asia after a report showed U.S. crude inventories grew less than expected last week.

Benchmark crude for April delivery was up 55 cents to $82.25 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

The contract rose $1.90 to settle at $81.70 on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said it plans to hold interest rates at record lows.

Crude inventories rose 400,000 barrels last week, the American Petroleum Institute said late Tuesday. Analysts had expected an increase of 1.9 million barrels, according to a survey by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.

Inventories of gasoline and distillates fell, the API said.

The Energy Department's Energy Information Administration is scheduled to announce its supply report later Wednesday.

Leaders of the 12-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have signaled they don't expect the group to change production quotas when it meets Wednesday in Vienna.

Despite sluggish oil demand from developed countries, some analysts expect growing consumption in Asia to help push prices higher.

"Asia is where all the demand is coming from," said David Carbon, head of economic research at DBS bank in Singapore. "The outlook for commodities like oil just has to be moving up."

Carbon said he expects oil prices to rise about $10 a barrel a year for the next four years.

In other Nymex trading in April contracts, heating oil rose 0.93 cent to $2.124 a gallon, and gasoline gained 1.5 cents to $2.29 a gallon. Natural gas jumped 1.9 cents to $4.366 per 1,000 cubic feet.

In London, Brent crude was up 55 cents at $81.08 on the ICE futures exchange.

By Oren Yaniv
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 4:00 AM

Get ready to just dance and alert the paparazzi - Lady Gaga is going on a summer tour, with at least one show in the city.

The pop princess announced Monday that her Monster Ball Tour will make stops in 31 North American cities - including a July 6 concert in Madison Square Garden - as fans were going gaga over her sexy new video featuring Beyoncé.

Gaga left an unusually long window between the New York City concert and her next gig, hinting that more dates may be added if that show is sold out.

"It has a New York theme," the singer said of the tour in a recent interview. "It's a story, and the story is that me and my friends are in New York, and we're going to the Monster Ball, and we get lost."

The 23-year-old performer also is set to play at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on July 4.

Tickets go on sale Friday.

Gaga's latest sensation is a 10-minute music video for her new single, "Telephone," in which she and Beyoncé engage in lesbian prison sex and poison customers at a diner. The clip has attracted more than 15 million views on YouTube since Thursday.

His first book, Dubliners, was rejected 22 times and sold fewer than 400 copies (120 of those to James Joyce himself) in its first year. Yet Joyce went on to simultaneously define the Modernist novel and Dublin in the early 20th century. Although Joyce lived most of his life in Paris, Trieste, Rome and Zurich, it was in his native Dublin that his characters and stories found life.

With the assistance of the poet and critic Ezra Pound, Joyce set the Modernist novel in motion with his own library of work—Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. Praised as a Modernist masterpiece, Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through an ordinary Dublin day, using inventive storytelling techniques including stream of consciousness and prose richly layered with puns, parodies, allusions and humor. In 1999, the Modern Library ranked Ulysses first on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.

The First Parade

The first St. Patrick's Day parade took place not in Ireland but in the United States. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 1762. Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers reconnect with their Irish roots, as well as fellow Irishmen serving in the English army.

Over the next 35 years, Irish patriotism among American immigrants flourished, prompting the rise of so-called "Irish Aid" societies like the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick and the Hibernian Society. Each group would hold annual parades featuring bagpipes (which actually first became popular in the Scottish and British armies) and drums.

In 1848, several New York Irish Aid societies decided to unite their parades to form one New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade. Today, that parade is the world 's oldest civilian parade and the largest in the United States, with over 150,000 participants.

Each year, nearly three million people line the 1.5-mile parade route to watch the procession, which takes more than five hours. Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Savannah also celebrate the day with parades involving between 10,000 and 20,000 participants.

No Irish Need Apply

Up until the mid-19th century, most Irish immigrants in America were members of the Protestant middle class. When the Great Potato Famine hit Ireland in 1845, close to a million poor and uneducated Irish Catholics began pouring into America to escape starvation. Despised for their religious beliefs and funny accents by the American Protestant majority, the immigrants had trouble finding even menial jobs. When Irish Americans in the country's cities took to the streets on St. Patrick's Day to celebrate their heritage, newspapers portrayed them in cartoons as drunk, violent monkeys.

However, the Irish soon began to realize that their great numbers endowed them with a political power that had yet to be exploited. They started to organize, and their voting block, known as the "green machine," became an important swing vote for political hopefuls. Suddenly, annual St. Patrick's Day parades became a show of strength for Irish Americans, as well as a must-attend event for a slew of political candidates. In 1948, President Truman attended New York City 's St. Patrick's Day parade, a proud moment for the many Irish whose ancestors had to fight stereotypes and racial prejudice to find acceptance in America.

Researchers say blueberries contain a wealth of phytochemicals that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. In addition, animal studies have shown that the polyphenols found in blueberries, anthocyanins, have been shown to increase signaling in brain centers associated with memory as well as improve how the brain gets rid of glucose, all of which may help slow memory decline.

In the study, researchers looked at the effects of drinking wild blueberry juice on memory decline in nine adults in their 70s who were experiencing age-related memory decline problems, such as memory lapses.

The participants drank about two and a half cups each day of blueberry juice made from commercially available frozen wild blueberries for 12 weeks. A comparison group of seven older adults drank a similar amount of placebo non-juice beverage for the same time period.

Researchers conducted memory tests, such as word association and list learning and recall tasks, at the beginning and end of the study.

The results showed that those who drank blueberry juice showed significant improvement on learning and memory tests compared to the placebo group.

Researchers say there were also trends suggesting reduced symptoms of depression and lower glucose levels among the wild blueberry juice drinkers, but further research will be needed to confirm these results

 

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Dream was narrowly eclipsed by Taylor Swift's Fearless. Both sold more than 3 million copies in the Nielsen SoundScan tracking year that ended Sunday; final figures will be released today. Fearless, with sales to date of 5.3 million copies, arrived in 2008, so Dream is the top-selling 2009 release.

The Scottish singer, 48, whose audition on Britain's Got Talent launched her Cinderella odyssey, had been galloping toward Swift since Dream's release Nov. 23.

After entering Billboard with 701,000 copies, the year's highest entry and the biggest debut for a female artist since SoundScan began tabulating sales in 1991, Dream racked up more than 500,000 copies in each of the next four weeks, a feat achieved by only four albums, according to Billboard. (The other three: The Beatles' 1, the Backstreet Boys' Black & Blue and Garth Brooks' Sevens.)

"If the record wasn't great and Susan wasn't special, we couldn't have done this," says Columbia Records chairman Steve Barnett.

"Even eight weeks out from the street date, we saw an incredible response," he says. "Amazon preorders were the biggest in their history. QVC gave us a shot, and it was phenomenal. The real challenge was convincing retail to buy enough CDs. We had an incredibly aggressive campaign that didn't go by rules normally associated with the record business. Then it became self-perpetuating, a record everyone wanted to give to their mom, their auntie, whomever."

The Boyle juggernaut demonstrates how in the past year "the music industry has become more proficient at marketing through all channels," says Eric Weinberg, president of Nielsen Entertainment. "At a time when there's such emphasis on digital (sales), this was almost a pure CD artist, marketed through word of mouth, TV and the Internet. Labels are challenging tradition and creating new opportunities, looking at each album as unique and tailoring campaigns accordingly."

Boyle triumphed "because everyone knew Susan. And we're in a period in this country when everyone wants a great story."

Barnett isn't disappointed that Boyle, who placed second to a dance troupe on the British talent show, landed behind Swift in the 2009 album race.

"She's done things that have never been done," he says. "And at a time people are questioning the future of CDs, she proved there is a future."As for Boyle's future, Barnett says, "It's an open sketchbook. She can do whatever she wants."

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Our Nerd President brandishes a lightsaber after a fencing demonstration on the White House lawn today during a photo op to promote Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic Games. (Bonus, green-screen-challenge-ready shot after the jump