Great definition. How often do you get to say that?
shoppe Pronunciation: /ʃɒp, ˈʃɒpi/ Definition of shoppe noun a shop with spurious old-fashioned charm or quaintness: the mishmash of the usual Tourist Gift Shoppe.
Definition of shoppe in Oxford Dictionaries (British & World English)
Education at Sydney University and in the United States
I fear Sydney University has forgotten the mark of a good teacher. Last year, many of the staff found their jobs under threat; only those who had published four research projects in the previous three years were safe.
How To Dip Without Breaking The Chip : NPR
In which NPR talks to a structural engineer to work out what is the best way to dip a corn chip in guacamole.
The Roast (Episode 159) | Disney buys Star Wars
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| The Atlantic: | It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case. |
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| Junot Diaz: | I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry. |
The next morning I was in the studio, on East 58th Street between First and Second Avenue, and had the feeling that it wasn’t going to work out. Then my assistant came in and said: “Ormond, you’d better get the camera up on the fire escape. There are people filling up the windows and more coming in taxis.” All of a sudden it was happening.
Juice bar owner suspected of backing Assad 'forced to sell'
A shopkeeper was allegedly extorted, threatened, firebombed, bashed and eventually forced to sell his Bankstown juice bar for a pittance because a gang of Sunni Muslims suspected he supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
In a glimpse of how far tensions in Syria can affect life more than 14,000 kilometres away, Ali Issawi was subjected to a two-week campaign of threats and violence when his business was placed on a ”boycott tyranny” list on Facebook.
