#pan

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#amendment #any #company #first #first amendment

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period. ↗

— Frances Wright

#expand #like #little #over #owners

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy. ↗

— Adachi Zenko

#culture #gardens #japan #art

As long as the food is well prepared and not overdone, I think it tastes good. It doesn't matter if it's Chinese, Japanese, anything. ↗

— Martin Yan

#chinese #food #good #i #i think

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. ↗

— Frederik L. Schodt

#culture #history #japan #performing-arts #art

When I got home, I took a bat and examined my back in detail in the bathroom mirror. This tattoo would be for myself and no-one else. It wasn’t just because I was about to end my relationship with Iro, it was because I wanted to make some serious changes deep down inside me… My torso - my back and front – and my shoulders, breasts, and upper arms were decorated with a vibrantly coloured work of art. I knew it had been the right thing to do… When I looked at that beautifully crafted tattoo, I was filled with a sense of total contentment I had never experienced before. I felt as though I had been set free. ↗

— Shoko Tendo

#self-care #self-fulfilment #tattoo #yakuza #art

But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#agenda #build-up #coming #companies #eventually

Titan considers it an unequivocal privilege to be affiliated with an organization which has an extensive and established history of furnishing the security needs for the Canadian residential and business market. Protectron was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. It employs a staff of over nine hundred industry professionals and is responsible for the monitoring of over three hundred and fifty thousand subscribers throughout Canada from its four monitoring centers located in Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa and Vancouver all of which are certified by Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada (ULC). Titan Alarm is looking forward with great anticipation to contributing to the extraordinary foundation and opportunities which Reliance Protectron has afforded through its innovative dealer program. Titan’s founder, Graham Woods, has over seven years of industry experience, the majority of which constitutes leading sales teams producing record sales figures particularly in the Canadian provinces. Approximately 300 of the sales representatives and technicians who worked for Graham at other security organizations have enthusiastically followed him to Titan Alarm to continue to benefit from his unique and inspirational leadership. Titan plans to operate in all provinces of Canada with the exception of Quebec. In addition to introducing an exceptional sales force, Titan will also employ a superior support staff to insure that its customers receive optimal customer service in every respect. Titan has also partnered with GE to deliver a state-of-the-art security system to its customers. The Reliance Protectron name is virtually synonymous with security in Canada as this organization purchased VOXCOM Security Systems in 2007 enabling it to expand its customer base exponentially. There can be no question that Reliance Protectron is an organization of unequivocal stability and the name “Reliance” is most definitely appropriate. Titan feels incredibly confident that it is able to rely upon the strength, history and solid industry reputation of Reliance Protectron as it embarks upon this exciting new partnership. ↗

— titanalarm

#titan-alarm-company #titan-alarm-dealer #titan-alarm-of-canada #titan-alarm-security-company #titan-alarms

Shin-shin-toitsu-do includes a wide variety of stretching exercises, breathing methods, forms of seated meditation and moving meditation, massage-like healing arts, techniques of auto-suggestion, and mind and body coordination drills, as well as principles for the unification of mind and body. These principles of mind and body coordination are regarded as universal laws that express the workings of nature on human life. As such, they can be applied directly to an endless number of everyday activities and tasks. It is not uncommon when studying Japanese yoga to encounter classes and seminars that deal with the direct application of these universal principles to office work, sales, management, sports, art, music, public speaking, and a host of other topics. How to use these precepts of mind and body integration to realize our full potential in any action is the goal. All drills, exercises, and practices of Shin-shin-toitsu-do are based on the same principles, thus linking intelligently a diversity of arts. But more than this, they serve as vehicles for grasping and cultivating the principles of mind and body coordination. And it is these principles that can be put to use directly, unobtrusively, and immediately in our daily lives. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#meditation #mind-and-body-unification #tempu-nakamura #yoga #art

The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#commodity #economies #financial #financial markets #global