Top R&B Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 11, 1997. p.32. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved November 18, 2023. Twelve years ago, after obtaining my Green Card, I moved to San Diego, USA. I speak fluent English on a daily basis, and I now consider English to be my second language. However, when I have to present a report to the investors of my start-up, I always have a little anxiety that my English writing is not as polished as my spoken. I'm often afraid that I’m not using the right legal terms or that I've used expressions that are too colloquial. Sometimes I inadvertently use British English spellings or phrases that look strange to my American investors. The Billboard 200". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. October 11, 1997. p.106. ISSN 0006-2510 . Retrieved November 18, 2023.

Araucaria is a PINE, and TAR is a word for a sailor or “Boatman”– this is another reference to two Guardian setters The first I saw of this movie was a poster of it in a magazine that boasted it was 'one of the few films in recent years to achieve an 100% British grade' and that we should 'do our part to keep the British film industry thriving' and see it, even though I can't name a single cinema it was released in. In other words, the BFI is in such a bad state it's now trying to make us feel we have a duty to go out and see whatever rubbish it's responsible for! In these post Sex Lives of the Potato Men days though, I suppose that's something you could believe... STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning As for Sony, the Japanese firm had its own long series of battles for the soul of PlayStation and how it related to the rest of Sony's content and hardware line-up. That only really came to an end when PlayStation effectively consumed the rest of the company from inside out, with the promotion of Kaz Hirai to CEO in the early 2010s. In the United States, the album peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200 and number 4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on November 17, 1997 for selling 500,000 copies. It also reached number 100 on the UK Albums Chart and number 14 on the UK Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart.There's nothing in the DNA of these companies which actually lends itself to making great games. That's something you can bootstrap by importing great talent and experience from the games industry, sure, but the strongest seeds can still wither in barren soil. Coming at the whole notion of game and service development with the attitude that you merely want a product that fulfils a completely different corporate need is a surefire way to a pretty barren harvest. MUG = “Dope” + UP = “finished”. I made a mistake here by putting in GEN UP, which I think does work, strictly speaking, though not quite as well. MUG UP: I also entered GEN UP at first and agree it satisfies the clue, but MUG is better as its meaning is not related to the def. In French, the word changed its meaning by the 1930s to mean a light course of eggs or seafood, essentially taking on much the meaning of earlier terms like hors d’oeuvres or entremets. The change was presumably helped along by the fact that the literal French meaning (“entering, entrance”) was still transparent to French speakers, and perhaps as more speakers began to eat multi-course meals the word attached itself more readily to a first or entering course. So both French and American English retain some aspects of the original meaning of the word; French the “first course” aspect of the meaning (which had actually died out by 1651) and American the “main meat course” aspect. Ask yourself, “What have been my past responses to crucible moments? What actions did I take to move myself and my team forward?”

I used to have a close friend help me by reading and correcting everything. Sometimes there were common grammar mistakes in my texts, and sometimes the writing style was not appropriate. Even when I did get it right, I felt bad for making my friend spend all that time helping me with it. When my brother-in-law told me about TextRach, I decided to give it a try before handing the next file to my friend to correct. An editor based in the US corrected my file, and my friend was amazed at how accurate and ready-to-publish the file was! Since then, I’ve been relying on TextRanch to correct my writing errors and improve the quality of my documents. Now I’m the one recommending TextRanch to all of my ESL friends. " The album marks the reunion of the group after five year disbandment, when the pair had broken up due to money issues. [4] [7] Critical reception [ edit ] We know that we can’t simply hunker down and wait for storms to pass us by. Adapting and adjusting successfully in times of crisis is a process, a marathon that requires resilience on our parts. The important thing to remember is that we develop that resilience in our daily practices as much as in our crucible moments. The problem is that that's not a reason to make games; it's an end that they think games could fulfil. The games themselves are just a means to that end, which makes it entirely unsurprising when the games and services birthed from that philosophy aren't actually appealing or interesting to consumers. They're not designed from the outset to appeal to consumers; they're designed to connect a few things together in a corporate planning flowchart. Crisis, in any industry, demands more from us as leaders. We have to be willing to ask more questions of our team and our partners than ever before, questions like:

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Alan B, I seem to recall that a certain amateur setter once brought a puzzle to an S&B that also had the clues full of the names of Guardian setters.

Note that your etymonline definition doesn’t actually contradict this: the entrée comes before the main course (ie the roast) but that doesn’t make it the first course – as per my previous comment, the entrée is traditionally preceded by the soup and fish. In fact, in a really elaborate banquet, you could well have several entrées, one after the other. But people’s dining habits have changed somewhat since 1759, and meals typically comprise fewer than seven courses these days, which is why the meaning of the term has become confused. A great fun solve with lots of references to Paul’s fellow Guardian setters in the surface readings. Thank you, Paul! We connect you with native English speakers who will review your writing to find and correct any spelling and grammar errors you make.POSTER: I set as Sphinx before that one did … but in a publication with a circulation of about 500, not in a national newspaper with a puzzle linked to a TV programme broadcast nationwide the same day (see SH@39) 🙁 The word entrée originally (in 1555) meant the opening course of a meal, one consisting of substantial hot ‘made’ meat dishes, usually with a sauce, then evolved to mean the same kind of dishes, but served as a third course after a soup and a fish, and before a roast fowl course. American usage kept this sense of a substantial meat course, and as distinct roast and fish courses dropped away from popular usage, the meaning of entree in American English was no longer opposed to fish or roast dishes, leaving the entree as the single main course. I also looked up what Alan Davidson has to say about the matter in his wonderful Oxford Companion to Food, and he proves to be as wise on this as he is on everything else:

Re ENTRÉE – there’s a very informative and thorough explanation here of how and why the American usage diverged from the French. I wholly agree with him. The plain English terms starter and main course are perfectly good descriptors and much less likely to cause confusion. Entrée, entremets, a couple of French terms which no doubt retain interest for persons attending hotel and restaurant courses conducted under the shadow of French classical traditions, but have ceased to have any real use, partly because most people cannot remember what they mean and partly because their meanings have changed over time and vary from one part of the world to another. Forget them.” Cryptic definition: the “top” of a hill might be its “brow”, so a LOW BROW would be a top brought down. Philistine is another Guardian setter. The film was entirely British made, then, and I guess it shows all the way. Indeed, the film does look very cheap and the low budget is clear for all to see. And then there's the cast. Martin Kemp with a Cambridge accent?!? I struggled to keep a straight face through-out. I don't know if that's how Chris Barrie talks in real life, but I found it very annoying anyway. Then there's some ex-Hollyoaks actor who looks like he's wondered right out of panto which only adds to the cheapness of it all and as for Joanna Taylor, one of the things I learned from the film Shoot 'Em Up is if an actress isn't giving a particularly great performance it always helps if she has a nice pair of breasts to stare at instead of her face and, well, that works here. And finally, Dennis Waterman ('I could be so good for...a disgruntled ex police-man!!!') Apparently he gets annoyed at them taking the p!ss out of his voice in Little Britain but it sounds very weird here, like he's put a funny twang on it that makes it sound rather peculiar and unsettling indeed.At their heart, though, both Sony and Microsoft currently make games because they see them as a pillar of their business -- or at least, enough people in senior decision-making roles see videogames as a pillar in itself, rather than a means to support other business ventures. That allows the freedom to make creative decisions and take risks based on what people who really understand video games think will entertain and delight their audiences.