Twitter. Watch your language: Common usage isn’t always correct usage. February 1, 2011 Several years ago, when I was coaching my oldest son’s youth baseball team, one of the team members fretted about facing a wild pitcher. “I don’t like this guy. He almost beamed me last time,” he said. “Beaned,” I replied. “Not beamed.” “What do you mean?” “It’s a bean ball,” I said. “No, it’s beam.” The pregame degenerated into a debate over usage, etymology and culture with a bunch of 11 and 12 year olds. The term “bean ball” is just one victim of a culture in which metaphor and symbolism are often passed on through images and sound rather than through reading. Like bean ball, many of our expressions come from the past and might contain words or objects that are rarely used today. What follows is my list of today’s 10 most commonly misused and misunderstood terms and metaphors in the media.
And, of course, these mistakes — and many more — proliferate on the Internet. Assuage [a person]. Mr. Find Happiness Through Compassion « The Art of Relationships. Comstock Images At this time of year, the cold weather (for those of us in the cooler climates) forces people to huddle together. The result is sometimes a kind of edgy parody of a Norman Rockwell picture with families holed up together, perhaps in front of a roaring fire with snow-covered trees outside — meanwhile everyone is getting a bit ‘stir crazy’ and short on patience. What’s needed to get people through times like these (aside from a warm smile from Mother Nature) is compassion. I am reminded of when I saw the Dalai Lama speak at Rutgers Stadium about five and a half years ago. The Dalai Lama explained that when people are upset, their distress interferes with them being able to think clearly.
According to the Dalai Lama, the way to maintain happiness in your life is through compassion; a sympathetic perception of others that makes you want to heal or ease their pain. Compassion is sometimes easy, like when we see a heart-broken child crying over her lost doll. Seven Tips for Creating a Healthier Home in 2011. Roswell, GA (PRWEB) January 5, 2011 - By now, the champagne glasses have likely been washed, the confetti has been swept away, and the black eyed peas have long been eaten. As Americans usher in the first week of 2011, they also embark on new journeys toward fulfilling their New Year's resolutions. For many, 2011 resolutions involve a commitment to leading a healthier lifestyle. Sylvane, an online supplier of air treatment solutions that promote healthier indoor air, reminds consumers that a healthy lifestyle often begins by creating a healthier indoor environment.
"Along with the tried-and-true strategies of regular exercise, eating right, and getting ample sleep, a healthy home made possible by better indoor air quality will contribute greatly to a healthy lifestyle," says Steven Hong, president of Sylvane, which has been offering effective and reliable solutions for air treatment at affordable prices for more than 10 years. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. January is National Radon Action Month. 7. 25 essential BlackBerry tips and tricks. You probably bought a BlackBerry for the keyboard and fantastic battery life but there's more to it than that. You can just pick a BlackBerry up and start using it, because all you need to do is press the Menu key to get the main options on every screen - but the BlackBerry OS hides a huge number of clever tricks and shortcuts that make it faster and simpler to get things done.
There are some tips you won't need often - like pressing Alt, Del and the right-hand Caps key at the same time to reboot instead of just restarting; others you'll use all the time, like pressing the red 'hang up' key to get back to the home screen and clicking the spanner icon on the home screen to open Options. Here are our top 25 Blackberry tips. 1. BlackBerry has always had a QWERTY keyboard and you can type everything out in full - but you can save time with the built-in shortcuts. AUTOTEXT: Speed up typing by creating your own abbreviations and corrections 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.