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Logical Problem 4

I see, you all like logical problems. Here is a more difficult one!Last Saturday, four neighbor boys found that work goes more quickly when friends help friends: each of the four had found a job one of the neighborhood adults, including Mrs. Wilson, needed done, and the four worked together to make fast work of the chores, one of which was cleaning a car. Given the following clues, you should be able to decide which job each found and for whom the work was done.1. Three of the friends are Alex,
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Phantom of the Opera

In sleep he sang to me,in dreams he came ...that voice which calls to me and speaks my name ...And do I dream again?For now I find the Phantom of the Opera is there - inside my mind ...Sing once again with me our strange duet ...My power over you grows stronger yet ...And though you turn from me,to glance behind,the Phantom of the Opera is there - inside your mind ...Those who have seen your face draw back in fear ...I am the mask you wear ...It's me they hear ...Your/My spirit and my/your voi
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My friend

I visited an old friend yesterday .it's a bit far from Ningbo .about 2hours by train.5:25is her birthday ,we had a very nice day.
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ESL EFL TESOL certification

I will be spending my next 3 weekends in Plano, Texas (part of the Dallas metroplex) taking a course by Oxford to gain certification to teach English as a foreign language or second language. It should be an interesting 6 days (3 Saturdays, 3 Sundays).I have already taught English as a foreign language in Mexico for 13 months. Now I will have an opportunity to pair academics with that real life experience and hopefully learn what I did correctly and where I goofed :)I am already thinking about w
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To get your presentation you created in Google docs to your page in MyEc. U need to cahnge the embed code, genertaed by Google docs. Google docs offers you iframe, but iframe don't work in MyEc. U need to change it to object. Here's how:Google docs offers you something like this:
<iframe src='http://docs.google.com/EmbedSlideshow?id=dgjdcbmm_11fwjxtxdk&size=l' frameborder='0' width='700' height='559'></iframe>
You have to change it, into something like this:
<object type="text/html" data="http://do
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Both Friends Will Think The Other Is BusyAnd Will Not Contact Thinking It May Be DisturbingAs Time PassesBoth Will Think Let The OTher ContactAfter That each Will Think Why I Should Contact First ?Here Your Love Will Be Converted To HateFinally Without Contact The Memory Becomes WeakThey Forget Each Other.So Keep In Touch With All And Pass This TO All Your Friends...I Don`t Want To be One Of This Kind.So Here I Am sending this To Every OneTo Say

I Am Fine Here
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What are the differences ?

Hallo all ,I'm a new member and I would like to share in this great website . As we know that we are from different counties and different culture .It could be sometimes different cultures in one country for instance , there are some festivities just in the city where I'm living in Holland and that unusual for me.I presume that we would like to know more about each other , so I would like you to tell us about your own culture and the things which may be other people finding them strange .Thank y
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Kiev Day

Each Ukrainian city has its City Day, the day when the city was founded. Kiev Day is usually celebrated at the last weekend of May although nobody knows when it was really founded. The reason for choosing this time is obvious for Ukrainians, so, let me explain it to you. Starting with Orthodox Easter, which is usually in the middle of April, each weekend is this or that holiday here. So, Kiev Day is the honorable end of so called May holidays. During three days various performances of popular ac
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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, BASIC USE OF SOME & ANY ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,SOME and ANY go before a plural or uncountable noun,example:there was a bowl and SOME cornflakes on the table, but there wasn't ANY milk.we can also use SOME and ANY without a noun,example:trevor wanted SOME milk, but he couldn't find ANY,we normally use SOME in positive sentences and ANY in negative sentences or ones with a negative meaning,POSITVE & NEGATIVE:EXAMPLES:1, there's SOME milk in the fridge, 1, i havn't ANY milk ( = i have NO
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Logical problem 3

The problem about cats seems to be incorrect. So, I want to post the new one which has the right soulution and doesn't need knowing math. This one is like the riddle about a fisherman but easier. I believe you will cope with it. Good Luck!Thanksgiving DinnerSusan has invited her family to Thanksgiving Dinner. As her plates are not the best, Susan wants to buy new plates – one for each person at her Thanksgiving Dinner.There’ll be a grandfather, a grandmother, two fathers, two mothers, four child
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Life-changing moments

to my friends and everyoneSometimes we live for several years following the routine without anything special

but suddenly our life can be changed in a momentWhat life-changing moments have you had in your life?
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One more logical problem

Randwick CatsIs your knowledge of math as good as your English? Find out how many cats there are in Randwick.In Randwick, the cats, I declare,They numbered one third of a square.If a quarter did roam,Just a cube would stay home.How many, at least, must be there?Vocabularysquare - x²cube - x³
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I saw,in secret to dameHow little Cupid humbly came.And said to her:"All hayle, my mother!"his face with bashfull blood did flame.Not knowing Venus from the other ."Then ,never blush,Cupid ,"quoth I,"For many have eer'd in this beaty."
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these day

We have so many exams in the following weeks.There is no doult that I can pass them .But that isn't my goal.I want a good mark.
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Jump out of the plane

Jump out of the planeAn Englishman, Frenchman, Mexican, and Texan were flying across country on a small plane when the pilot comes on the loud speaker and says " We're having mechanical problems and the only way we can make it to the next airport is for 3 of you to open the door and jump, at least one of you can survive"The four open the door and look out below. The Englishman takes a deep breath and hollers "God Save The Queen" and jumps.The Frenchman gets really inspired and hollers "Viva La F
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Food one-liners " just a Joke"

The snack bar next door to an atom smasher was called "The Fission Chips."On April Fools Day, a mother put a fire cracker under the pancakes. She blew her stack.A new chef from India was fired a week after starting the job. He keep favoring curry.A couple of kids tried using pickles for a Ping-Pong game. They had the volley of the Dills.The four food groups: Fast, Frozen, Instant, and Chocolate.A friend got some vinegar in his ear, now he suffers from pickled hearing.Overweight is something that
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