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It's unbearable to think any young person should feel there is no other option but to end their life because of bullying on social networking sites.
Claire Lilley— NSPCC safer technology expert, quoted in BBC News, "One in five children bullied online, says NSPCC survey", August 11, 2013.
Wahabbis think that holy sites are a manifestation of polytheism . They deem anyone who opposes them to be polytheist. They believe Shias, Sunnis, and the Islamic world are polytheist.
— Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri, Iran says Saudis can curb divisive religious statements, Mehr News Agency, 22 July 2007.
HISTORICAL SLUMMING: the act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villageslocations where time appears to have been frozen many years backso as to experience relief when one returns back to'the present'.
Douglas Coupland— 1991Generation X,'Our Parents Had More'.
Bullying behaviour can be communicated via text, mobile phones, internet, social networking sites, forums. But we can't limit it because these messages are then reinforced by television which glamorises yelling, swearing and vulgar behaviour as the way to walk the red carpet of acceptance.
louise burfitt-dons— Speech, Tackling Bullying Conference, London (2008-02-27)
The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
judith butler— "Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time" (1997), which received first place in the Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing Contest
Collective intelligence. Think of how Wikipedia works, how Amazon harnesses user annotation on its site, the way photo-sharing sites like Flickr are bleeding out into other applications... We're entering an era in which software learns from its users and all of the users are connected.
tim o'reilly— When asked "What innovation will most alter how we live in the next few years, as quoted in TIME magazine (24 October 2005)
This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean
najib razak— Quoted on BBC News, "Flight MH370 'crashed in south Indian Ocean' - Malaysia PM", March 24, 2014.
Unlike any other player on the board, the press has no oversight, no mandate, few penalties, and even fewer consequences. Because there are not enough reporters on the ground, too many bureaus have outsourced both their reporting and standards to third party stringers whose spectacular videos of explosions and inflated body counts have shown up on both jihadist recruiting sites and American television screens, simultaneously.
matt sanchez— Kelly, Jack (July 6, 2007). "Tale of two atrocities: Iraq reporting rife with errors". Bucks County Courier Times: p. A5.
Wahabbis think that holy sites are a manifestation of polytheism. They deem anyone who opposes them to be polytheist. They believe Shias, Sunnis, and the Islamic world are polytheist.
mohammad-ali taskhiri— Iran says Saudis can curb divisive religious statements, Mehr News Agency, 22 July 2007.
I'm on it pretty much all the time. I edit Wikipedia every day, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, I'm reading the news. During one of the US elections, I actually went through my computer and I blocked myself from looking at the major newspaper sites and Google News because I wasn't getting any work done.
jimmy wales— The Independent, October 23rd 2011
The school was nothing but reminiscence — of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.
Edmund White— Chapter Six (p. 145)
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies. (Alternative models include the hundredth dune after the death of all camels, or the thousandth crevasse following the demise of all sled dogs.)
stephen jay gould— p. 65 (Wonderful Life (1989))
Thank goodness for social networking sites like this and new media sites which have allowed us to get around the "lamestream" media and present the facts.
sarah palin— "Is It Any Wonder Why We Call Them “Lame”?", Facebook, 2010-06-01
Aussi, les demeures disposées des deux côtés du chenal faisaient penser à des sites de la nature, mais d'une nature qui aurait créé ses œvres avec une imagination humaine.
Marcel Proust— In this way, the mansions arranged along either bank of the canal made one think of objects of nature, but of a nature which seemed to have created its works with a human imagination.Ch. III: Venise
Well, what if you said something like if this happens in the United States, and we determine that it is the result of extremist, fundamentalist Muslims, you know, you could take out their holy sites.
tom tancredo— [1] (July 16, 2005)
The architect should also have a knowledge of the study of medicine on account of the questions of climates, air, the healthiness and unhealthiness of sites, and the use of different waters. For without these considerations the healthiness of a dwelling cannot be assured.
vitruvius— Chapter I, Sec. 10
From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 10
After Mumbai , Chennai is India’s second most populous destination for investment. During the 1990s, domestic, foreign, and multinational corporations...opened production sites and offices in or outside Chennai.
— Mary E. Hancock, quoting N. Bajpai and N.Radjou in “Raising the Global Competitiveness of tamilnadu’s Information Technology Industry ”, in p.224
Within the city are a number of places to visit, which include Wards Lake, Lady Hydari Park, Sweet Falls, and the Shillong 18 Hole Golf Course, which is one of the oldest in the country. Other Tourist sites around the city are the Crinoline Swimming Pool, Mattilang Park, Air Force Museum, Upper Shillong, Don Bosco Centre of Indigenous Cultures, the Butterfly Museum and Jaya Kalra's Art Gallery.
— The Official Web Portal of Meghalaya, in "Meghalaya".
The architectural views of Srinagar...fed into an increasingly interested appreciation of Kashmir’s pre-Islamic past. In 1898, Maharaja Pratap Singh converted the Ranbir Singh in Srinagar into the Pratap Singh Museum. Today, in the first gallery of the dusty and neglected State Museum, statutory form Kashmir’s Buddhist and Hindu sites is still prominent,
— Ananya Jahanara Kabir, in "Territory of Desire: Representing the Valley of Kashmir", p.74
MediaWiki is the most popular opensource software used for creating wiki sites.
— Mizanur Rahman (2007). MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide. Packt Publishing. ISBN 1904811590.
First released in 2002, MediaWiki is one of the top wiki engines and runs most of the wiki hosting sites. The name was a play on “Wikimedia,” and many people find it to be annoyingly confusing.
— John K. Waters, John Lester (2010). The Everything Guide to Social Media. F+W Media Inc.. p. 166. ISBN 1440506310.
This is a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean
— Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia, quoted on BBC News, "Flight MH370 'crashed in south Indian Ocean' - Malaysia PM", March 24, 2014.
We do not copy Google's search results. We use multiple signals and approaches in ranking search results. Opt-in programs like the toolbar help us with clickstream data, one of many input signals we and other search engines use to help rank sites.
— Harry Shum, vice president of Bing, quoted on BBC News, "Google accuses Bing of 'copying' its search results", February 2, 2011.
From food and water, then, we may learn whether sites are naturally unhealthy or healthy.
— Chapter IV, Sec. 10 (Book I)
A historical city known for its rich culture, architecture and built heritage situated on the bank of Mandovi estuary, Panaji is the important centre in terms of Indo-Portuguese cultural heritage, having a number of natural, built, tangible and intangible sites and monuments.
ahmed sheikh— Shaikh Ali Ahmed and Dr. B. Shankar, in “Challenges of Planning for Heritage Areas in Panaji City (Jan Feb 2012)”, p.546
Described by The Atlantic magazine as 'The Playboy of the Internet,' Bomis provided the peer-to-peer technology to link together sites about Pamela Anderson and Anna Kournikova.
— Andrew Keen (2008). The Cult of the Amateur. Random House. pp. 41-42. ISBN 0385520816.
