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if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. aaa
John Green (Looking for Alaska)
Men exist because a vibrator can't fix a flat tire. On second thought, I should just buy a AAA card...
Jill Shalvis (Get a Clue)
There's no earthly way of knowing Which direction we are going There's no knowing where we're rowing Or which way the river's flowing Is it raining, is it snowing? Is a hurricane a-blowing? - uh! Not a speck of light is showing So the danger must be growing Are the fires of Hell a-glowing? Is the grisly reaper mowing? Yes! The danger must be growing For the rowers keep on rowing And they're certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowing! A-aa-aaa-aaaah!
Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1))
There should be a phone service that turns off your phone between midnight and six A.M. every night. And if you want to make a call, you have to pick up the phone and talk to an operator: Put me through to AAA. My car battery's dead. Yes, ma'am. Put me through to Pink Dot. I need vanilla Häagen-Dazs toute de suite! Yes, ma'am. Put me through to my ex-boyfriend... I'm sorry, ma'am, the operator would say. That would be a bad idea. Now you go to bed before you do anything stupid.
Kim Gruenenfelder (A Total Waste of Makeup (Charlize Edwards, #1))
This need for humans to enhance their capabilities to become AAA is relevant in the context of machines learning faster, with increasingly higher-level human functions.
Roger Spitz (The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption)
If she understood the difference between referring to me as "the gay guy" and using my name, the knowledge was lost between her vapid gaze and her single AAA-battery brain.
John Goode
I thought I'd go home and reread Sue Grafton. It's been a while since I last read the one about the topless dancer who gets poison injected into one of her implants." "'D' Is For Cup." "Right. Bern, you know what I wish? I wish she didn't have to stop at twenty-six. When the alphabet's used up, what happens to Kinsey?" "Are you kidding? She goes straight into doublé letters. 'AA' Is For drunks, 'BB' Is For Gun, 'CC' Is For Rider. There was a whole list in Publishers Weekly a few months back. 'PP' Is For Golden Showers, 'ZZ' Is For Topp- I can't remember them all, but it looks as though she can go on forever." "Bern, that's wonderful news." "You'll be reading about Kinsey fifty years from now," I told her. "'AAA' Is for Motorists, 'MMM' Is for Scotch Tape. You'll never have to stop.
Lawrence Block (The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams (Bernie Rhodenbarr, #6))
Zoey gasped then, putting a small hand against her negative 32AAA boobies. "No!
Mariana Zapata (Lingus)
Neither. He's a—a—a meat dog.
L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1))
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I’d come across a strap-on penis. It seemed pretty old and was Band-Aid colored, about three inches long and not much bigger around than a Vienna sausage, which was interesting to me. You’d think that if someone wanted a sex toy she’d go for the gold, sizewise. But this was just the bare minimum, like getting AAA breast implants. Who had this person been hoping to satisfy, her Cabbage Patch doll? I thought about taking the penis home and mailing it to one of my sisters for Christmas but knew that the moment I put it in my knapsack, I’d get hit by a car and killed. That’s just my luck. Medics would come and scrape me off the pavement, then, later, at the hospital, they’d rifle through my pack and record its contents: four garbage bags, some wet wipes, two flashlights, and a strap-on penis.
David Sedaris (Calypso)
So now as always you could get AAA ratings, not for subprime mortgages, obviously bad, but for submarine mortgages, clearly much better! And the fact that all submarine properties were in some sense extremely subprime was not mentioned except as one aspect of the very lucrative risks involved.
Kim Stanley Robinson (New York 2140)
Neither. He's a--a--a meat dog," said the girl.
L. Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1))
If she’d kept up her AAA membership, she would have called them, but after the divorce, she’d had to cut some things out. Roadside assistance was one of them. Aargh.
Melody Snow Monroe (Craving Candy (The Callens #10))
Siz, size cinsel özgürlüğünüzü bağışlayacak öncü kurbanlar istiyorsunuz. Ortaya öyleleri çıkınca da, aaa, o kadın düşmüş, bu kadın orospu, diyorsunuz ama! Hiçbir şeyi göze almadan, bedavadan kurtulmak. Oysa özgürlük, en pahalı şey!
Adalet Ağaoğlu (Üç Beş Kişi)
- Şi-mi pare rău pentru faza aceea. De fapt nu chiar, pentru că a căzut din senin. Bine, nu în întregime, din moment ce am simţit ceva pentru el când mă aflam sub capotă. - Capotă? Poftim...Aaa, maşina. Doamne numai cineva care te cunoaşte de-o viaţă ar putea înţelege jumătate din ceea ce spui.
Nora Roberts (Bed of Roses (Bride Quartet, #2))
I drank some of that lake! I might have choked on a fish or a frog or a...a...a turtle!" "It is wisest to keep one's mouth shut while sifting." She skewered him with a frosty stare. "Now you tell me." Damn the fairy, anyway. There she stood, feeling ragtag and bedraggled, and he only looked more beautiful wet, all drippy and shimmery gold-velvet, his hair a wet tangle to his waist. "Come Gabrielle," he said, extending his hand, "we must keep moving. They can track me by what little magic I'm using to sift, but only to a general vicinity. We need to keep sifting, to spread out their search." "Is there anything else it's wisest to do that I should know about before we just pop off again?" She tucked her hands behind her back so he couldn't grab her and just sift rather than answering her. Besides, she needed a minute to brace herself for the next bout of traveling in a manner that defied all the known laws of physics. "You might try kissing me. Better my tongue than a frog, no?" Dark eyes sparking gold, he reached for her. "Close contest.
Karen Marie Moning (The Immortal Highlander (Highlander, #6))
One day about a month ago, I really hit bottom. You know, I just felt that in a Godless universe, I didn't want to go on living. Now I happen to own this rifle, which I loaded, believe it or not, and pressed it to my forehead. And I remember thinking, at the time, I'm gonna kill myself. Then I thought, what if I'm wrong? What if there is a God? I mean, after all, nobody really knows that. But then I thought, no, you know, maybe is not good enough. I want certainty or nothing. And I remember very clearly, the clock was ticking, and I was sitting there frozen with the gun to my head, debating whether to shoot. [The gun fires accidentally, shattering a mirror] All of a sudden, the gun went off. I had been so tense my finger had squeezed the trigger inadvertently. But I was perspiring so much the gun had slid off my forehead and missed me. And suddenly neighbors were, were pounding on the door, and, and I don't know, the whole scene was just pandemonium. And, uh, you know, I-I-I ran to the door, I-I didn't know what to say. You know, I was-I was embarrassed and confused and my-my-my mind was r-r-racing a mile a minute. And I-I just knew one thing. I-I-I had to get out of that house, I had to just get out in the fresh air and-and clear my head. And I remember very clearly, I walked the streets. I walked and I walked. I-I didn't know what was going through my mind. It all seemed so violent and un-unreal to me. And I wandered for a long time on the Upper West Side, you know, and-and it must have been hours. You know, my-my feet hurt, my head was-was pounding, and-and I had to sit down. I went into a movie house. I-I didn't know what was playing or anything. I just, I just needed a moment to gather my thoughts and, and be logical and put the world back into rational perspective. And I went upstairs to the balcony, and I sat down, and, you know, the movie was a-a-a film that I'd seen many times in my life since I was a kid, and-and I always, uh, loved it. And, you know, I'm-I'm watching these people up on the screen and I started getting hooked on the film, you know. And I started to feel, how can you even think of killing yourself. I mean isn't it so stupid? I mean, l-look at all the people up there on the screen. You know, they're real funny, and-and what if the worst is true. What if there's no God, and you only go around once and that's it. Well, you know, don't you want to be part of the experience? You know, what the hell, it's-it's not all a drag. And I'm thinkin' to myself, geez, I should stop ruining my life - searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts. And, you know, after, who knows? I mean, you know, maybe there is something. Nobody really knows. I know, I know maybe is a very slim reed to hang your whole life on, but that's the best we have. And then, I started to sit back, and I actually began to enjoy myself.
Woody Allen
Honestly, yes.” I nodded heartily. “I like Dr. West. It’s like having a—a—a relationship coach. Or a good mechanic on staff, keeping our engines cool and well oiled.” Shelly’s
Penny Reid (Beard in Mind (Winston Brothers, #4))
These senior claims were supposed to be very low-risk; after all, how likely was it that a large number of people would default on their mortgages at the same time? The answer, of course, is that it was quite likely in an environment where homes were worth 30, 40, 50 percent less than the borrowers originally paid for them. So a lot of supposedly safe assets, assets that had been rated AAA by Standard & Poor's or Moody's, ended up becoming "toxic waste", worth only a fraction of their face value.
Paul Krugman (End This Depression Now!)
Some have asked whether a language can communicate complicated information with only eleven phonemes. A computer scientist knows, however, that computers can communicate anything we program them to do, and that they do this with only two “letters” — 1 and 0, which can be thought of as phonemes. Morse code also has only two “letters,” long and short. And that is all any language needs. In fact, a language could get by with a single phoneme. In such a language words might look like a, aa, aaa, aaaa, and so on.
Daniel L. Everett (Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle)
How old was Jem when he finally learned to tell jokes? You remember how he got the form of jokes but didn’t really understand the idea of content?” “What’s the difference between a … a … a button and a sock?” she mimicked, catching Jem’s breathless excitement to a T. “A … BUFFALO! HAHAHAHAHA!
Diana Gabaldon (The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander / Dragonfly in Amber / Voyager / Drums of Autumn / The Fiery Cross / A Breath of Snow and Ashes / An Echo in the Bone)
Since most users choose a password that is either a name or a simple dictionary word, an attacker usually begins by setting 10phtCrack (or whatever program he’s using) to perform a “dictionary attack” — testing every word in the dictionary to see if it proves to be the user’s password. If the program doesn’t have any success with the dictionary attack, the attacker will then start a “brute-force attack,” in which case the program tries every possible combination (for example, AAA, AAB, AAC ... ABA, ABB, ABC, and so on), then tries combinations that include uppercase and lowercase, numerals, and symbols.
Kevin D. Mitnick (The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers)
In the case that upheld the second AAA, Wickard v. Filburn, (1942), a farmer had been fined for planting 23 acres of wheat, instead of the eleven acres the government had allotted him—notwithstanding that the "excess" wheat had been consumed on his own farm. Now how in the world, the farmer wanted to know, can it be said that the wheat I feed my own stock is in interstate commerce? That's easy, the Court said. If you had not used your own wheat for feed, you might have bought feed from someone else, and that purchase might have affected the price of wheat that was transported in interstate commerce! By this bizarre reasoning the Court made the commerce clause as wide as the world and nullified the Constitution's clear reservation to the States of jurisdiction over agriculture. The
Barry M. Goldwater (The Conscience of a Conservative)
‎-aaa! siz demek gerçekten de korkağın tekisiniz, ferdinand! bir lağım faresi kadar tiksindiricisiniz… - öyle büsbütün korkağım, lola, savaşı ve içinde ne varsa hepsini reddediyorum… ben savaş var diye üzülmüyorum… ben kaderime razı olmuyorum… ben bu konuda sızlanıp durmuyorum… onu olduğu gibi reddediyorum, içindeki insanlarla birlikte, onlarla, onunla hiçbir alışverişim olsun istemiyorum. isterlerse dokuz yüz doksan beş milyon kişi olsunlar ve ben tek başıma kalayım, yine de haksız olan onlar, lola, haklı olan da benim, çünkü ne istediğini bilen bir tek ben varım: ben artık ölmek istemiyorum. - ama savaşı reddetmek olanaksız ferdinand! vatan tehlikedeyken savaşı reddetmek için ya deli ya da korkak olmak gerek… - o zaman da yaşasın deliler ve korkaklar! ya da daha doğrusu bir tek deliler ve korkaklar yaşayabilecek! örneğin yüz yıl savaşları sırasında ölen askerlerden bir tanesinin bile adını hatırlıyor musun, lola?… bu isimlerden bir tanesini bile öğrenmeyi denediniz mi hiç?… hayır değil mi?… asla denemediniz? onlar sizin gözünüzde şu önümüzdeki herhangi bir eşyanın sıradan bir atom zerreciği kadar adsız, önemsiz, hatta daha bile meçhul, sabahki dışkınızdan bile değersiz… gördüğünüz gibi, lola, boşuna ölmüşler! bir hiç uğruna ölmüş o salaklar! iddia ediyorum! kanıtı ortada! tek değerli şey yaşamdır. bahse girerim ki on bin yıl sonra, bize ne kadar mükemmel görünürse görünsün, bu savaş tamamen unutulmuş olacak… olsa olsa bir avuç malumatfuruş, bu savaş ve onu süsleyen belli başlı katliamların kesin tarihi konusunda sağda solda kapışırlar, o kadar… insanların birkaç yüzyıl, birkaç yıl, hatta birkaç saat mesafeden birbirleri hakkından anımsanmaya değer buldukları biricik şey budur… ben geleceğe inanıyorum lola…
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night)
Czas wolny: a co to jest? Aaa, to wtedy, gdy mogę się powoli koncentrować na nauce!
Marcin Rzeczkowski (Biały kruk)
Toilet training by 8 months and Elimination communication. My parents used the so-called “Elimination communication” method. It means that parents use timing, signals and cues to eliminate waste and can do that either from birth or later. In Russia, they start at 2- 3 months by holding the baby in squat or ‘potty’ position above a small basin, a toilet or a waterproof fabric. The position is very comfortable for babies. Parents always say “pees-pees” or “aaa-aaa,” so the baby learns these words very early. Usually, by 7-8 months, when a child can sit firmly, they introduce him to a potty. By that time, the kid really knows what “pees” and “aaa” mean and give signals to parents. One of the most detailed descriptions about EC is written by Ingrid Bauer in her book Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene. The secrets of this method are: 1. Learn baby’s cues and schedule. Daniella either freezes or loudly calls before she poops now, when she is 12 months. Before, her signals included pausing in the middle of activity, turning red, a sudden cry, staring or mimicking straining. If she is sleeping, she arches or gathers in her stomach when pees. These are very common signs for babies. Also, it is usual for them to go soon after waking up or eating, and sometimes after walks. 2. Teach baby to know your cues. As mentioned earlier, create some sound signals each time baby goes. It can be anything. Most common are “psss,” “pees,” “aaa,” “fuuu” or whistling. 3. Be persistent and punctual. As soon as you feel, see or hear the signals that baby needs to go, take him, hold him and let him ease himself! 4. Encourage! Make a big deal about correct signals by applauding. Little babies love applause. 5. There will be accidents. Whatever you do, there will be misses. From the child’s viewpoint, your baby will feel much better wearing cotton undies and escaping diaper rash. He will finally be potty trained much earlier.
Julia Shayk (Baby's First Year: 61 secrets of successful feeding, sleeping, and potty training: Parenting Tips)
Roosevelt secured passage of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), which levied a new tax on agricultural processors and used the revenue to supervise the wholesale destruction of valuable crops and cattle. Federal agents oversaw the ugly spectacle of perfectly good fields of cotton, wheat, and corn being plowed under. Healthy cattle, sheep, and pigs by the millions were slaughtered and buried in mass graves. Even if the AAA had helped farmers by curtailing supplies and raising prices, it could have done so only by hurting millions of others who had to pay those prices or make do with less to eat. Perhaps
Lawrence W. Reed (Excuse Me, Professor: Challenging the Myths of Progressivism)
Life is the ultimate gift of experience and if you are not impressed by the blessing the Lord has given you every awaking day to make a difference, I say your stuck in the mud and you need to call AAA which is code for "Say A Prayer" and get pulled out. Love life and create positive SYNERGY with others while you can before this chapter closes.
Donavan Nelson Butler
Back then, when the culture was still building, people were loyal to stores, brands, and the cause. The style was retro-nineties, loud colors, vector or photographic driven, skinny jeans, selvage denim, lots of Japanese brands, and hip-hop/street culture content. There was also a political aspect to streetwear. Speaking for myself, I was sick of rocking logos for people. What people started printing their own shirts on AAA or American Apparel blanks, we got to rep the culture through the clothing. In the post-9/11 era, a lot of the more powerful messages about individuality, free speech, and what it was to be American manifested themselves in streetwear. (215)
Eddie Huang (Fresh Off the Boat)
Excess contaminated the best of America. Caltech churned out brilliant students, yet too many of them now went not to science but to Wall Street to create financial gimmicks that paid off handsomely and produced nothing. Exorbitant salaries, meanwhile, were paid to Wall Street and corporate executives, no matter how poorly they did. Banks packaged rolls of bad mortgages and we believed Standard & Poor's when they called them AAA. Well-off parents no longer asked their children to work when they became teenagers.
Sam Quinones (Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic)
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Christoph Marzi (Heaven)
To measure the yield curve I use Moody’s Aaa Corporate Bond Yields as the long-term rate, and six-month commercial paper rates as the short-term rate. You can find these figures in government publications, Barron’s, and other financial periodicals.
Martin Zweig (Martin Zweig Winning on Wall Street)
Misty 2” was Bill Douglass, the operations officer and a laconic fellow who became famous for consistently neglecting marking rockets in favor of pointing the snout of his F-100 at a AAA battery and boring in with guns chattering.
Robert Coram (American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day)
Folks gut t’know each other that way in the Army,” John said. “In the war.” Aaa-my. And war too Yankee for representation. “Way it always is when the chips’re down, I sh’d judge.
Stephen King (The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7))
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But three flaws still existed. There was no regulation. With all the growth in the market, there were no calls to regulate Repo financing, securities dealers, or government bonds. The securities rules set up in the 1930s mainly targeted individual investors, the stock market, and banks. For years, there was never an outcry to regulate the government bond market. Large, sophisticated investors buying and selling AAA-rated, risk free, government bonds was not high on the to-do list. And free markets were much more a rallying cry in the 1980s than it is today. Then, and this is a big one, it was still market convention to price Repo transactions without including the coupon accrued interest. Accrued interest was basically just ignored by the Repo market. Third, there was uncertainty in terms of the legal status of Repo. What happened if a Repo counterparty went bankrupt or became insolvent? Was Repo a secured loan or a sale with an agreement to repurchase? No one really knew and it was never tested. Even the bankruptcy court was unsure whether a Repo was a collateralized loan or a sale and buy-back.
Scott E.D. Skyrm (The Repo Market, Shorts, Shortages, and Squeezes)
An early prototype laser-guided bomb (LGB) with steerable tail fins, tested on an F-105 during Rolling Thunder. Thunderchiefs flew 113 sorties against the Thanh Hoa bridge in 1966-68, facing 300+ AAA guns and 109 SA-2 missiles. On 13 May 1972 the colossal bridge was finally dropped by F-4s armed with Paveway I LGBs (USAF)
Peter E. Davies (F-105 Thunderchief Units of the Vietnam War (Combat Aircraft Book 84))
On August 5, the Standard & Poor’s rating agency—citing, among other factors, the prospect of future budget brinkmanship—downgraded U.S. government debt to one notch below the top AAA rating. The rating agency had made an egregious error that caused it to overstate the estimated ten-year deficit by $2 trillion, which the Treasury quickly pointed out. S&P acknowledged the error but asserted that the mistake did not affect its judgment of the government’s creditworthiness. I had the feeling that S&P wanted to show it was not intimidated. The episode highlighted the odd relationship between governments and rating agencies: Governments regulate the rating agencies, but the rating agencies have the power to downgrade governments’ debt.
Ben S. Bernanke (The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath)
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Behruz Mamedov
One of the misconceptions in minor hockey is a belief that players have to get on “big city” teams as young as possible to gain exposure when being identified by major junior clubs. For example, the Greater Toronto Hockey League (GTHL) has long been considered a strong breeding ground, with three or four elite AAA teams each year producing some of the top players for the OHL draft. However, on the list of players from Ontario since 1975 who have made the NHL, only 16.8 percent of those players came from GTHL programs while the league itself represents approximately 20 percent of the registered players in the province—that means the league has a per capita development rate of about –3 percent. What the research found was that players from other Ontario minor hockey leagues who elevated to the NHL actually had an edge in terms of career advancement on their GTHL counterparts by the age of nineteen. Each year several small-town Ontario parents, some with players as young as age eight, believe it’s necessary to get their kids on a GTHL superclub such as the Marlboros, Red Wings, or Jr. Canadiens. However, just twenty-one GTHL “import” players since 1997 have played a game in the NHL in the last fifteen years. This pretty much indicates that regardless of where he plays his minor hockey from the ages of eight through sixteen, a player eventually develops no matter how strong his team is as a peewee or bantam. An excellent example comes from the Ontario players born in 1990, which featured a powerhouse team in the Markham Waxers of the OMHA’s Eastern AAA League. The Waxers captured the prestigious OHL Cup and lost a grand total of two games in eight years. In 2005–06, when they were in minor midget (age fifteen), they compiled a record of 64-1-2. The Waxers had three future NHL draft picks on their roster in Steven Stamkos (Tampa Bay), Michael Del Zotto (New York Rangers), and Cameron Gaunce (Colorado). One Waxers nemesis in the 1990 age group was the Toronto Jr. Canadiens of the GTHL. The Jr. Canadiens were also a perennial powerhouse team and battled the Waxers on a regular basis in major tournaments and provincial championships over a seven-year period. Like the Waxers, the Jr. Canadiens team also had three future NHL draft picks in Alex Pietrangelo (St. Louis), Josh Brittain (Anaheim), and Stefan Della Rovere (Washington). In the same 1990 age group, a “middle of the pack” team was the Halton Hills Hurricanes (based west of Toronto in Milton). This club played in the OMHA’s South Central AAA League and periodically competed with some of the top teams. Over a seven-year span, they were marginally over the .500 mark from novice to minor midget. That Halton Hills team produced two future NHL draft picks in Mat Clark (Anaheim) and Jeremy Price (Vancouver). Finally, the worst AAA team in the 1990 group every year was the Chatham-Kent Cyclones—a club that averaged about five wins a season playing in the Pavilion League in Southwestern Ontario. Incredibly, the lowly Cyclones also had two future NHL draft picks in T.J. Brodie (Calgary) and Jason Missiaen (Montreal). It’s a testament that regardless of where they play their minor hockey, talented players will develop at their own pace and eventually rise to the top. You don’t need to be on an 85-5-1 big-city superclub to develop or get noticed.
Ken Campbell (Selling the Dream: How Hockey Parents And Their Kids Are Paying The Price For Our N)
If your name is Alex Andrew Aaron, and you are a straight-A student, is it because your initials are AAA, because your first middle, and last names are all first names, or because a business named after your initials offers 24-hour roadside assistance? Most likely the answer is none of the above, and in all likelihood you are a cheat and a fraud. Your last name couldn't possibly be Aaron, because I don't believe you have a last name. And not only do you not have a last name, but I seriously doubt whether you even exist.
Jarod Kintz (This Book is Not for Sale)
You can make it to AAA ball on talent only. It's difficult but it can be done. But to make it to the big leagues, you HAVE to be coachable. You have to stay coachable.
Dale Murphy (Ask Dale Murphy)
Affilato come il fendente di una spada, il suono di un corno taglio' l'aria. La sua voce era squillante e malefica, un grido caldo che fece vibrare le ossa degli uomini li' presenti. L'urlo aleggiò nell'aria umida del mare: aaaRREEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Tutti gli sguardi si voltarono verso la fonte di quel suono. proveniva da uno dei meticci di Euron, un uomo orribile con la testa rasata. Aveva le braccia adornate di bracciali d'oro, giada, ambra nera. Sul petto aveva tatuato un rapace, gli artigli che grondavano sangue. aaaaRREEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Il corno che stava soffiando era nero, lucido e ricurvo, più alto di un uomo, tanto che lui lo reggeva con entrambe le mani. Era tenuto assieme da strisce d'oro rosso e acciaio scuro, decorato con gli antichi glifi di Valyria, fregi che sembravano diventare incandescenti con l'aumentare del suono. aaaaRREEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Era terribile, un gemito di dolore e furia che pareva ardere le orecchie. Aeron Capelli Bagnati se le coprì con le mani, invocando il Dio Abissale che sollevasse una grande ondata per ridurre quel corno al silenzio, ma l'ululato proseguì. "È il corno degli inferi" voleva urlare Aeron, ma nessuno lo avrebbe sentito. Le guance dell'uomo tatuato erano così gonfie da sembrare sul punto di esplodere e i muscoli del torace si contraevano, dando l'impressione che il rapace tatuato stesse per staccarsi dalla pelle e spiccare il volo. I glifi sul corno erano ardenti, ogni lettera e ogni riga scintillavano di fuoco bianco, Il suono continuava a diffondersi, riecheggiava nelle tetre colline alle loro spalle, fino alla parte opposta delle acque della Culla di Nagga, andando a infrangersi contro i monti di Grande Wyk, e ancora oltre, fino a riempire tutto il mondo terracqueo. Quando parve che il suono non avrebbe mai avuto fine, cessò. L'uomo era rimasto senza fiato. Barcollò e rischiò di cadere. Il prete vide Orkwood di Orkmont afferarlo per un braccio per tenerlo in piedi, mentre Lucas Codd il Mancino gli toglieva dalle mani il nero corno ritorto. Un sottile filo di fumo usciva dallo strumento. Il profeta vide sangue e vesciche sulle labbra dell'uomo che lo aveva suonato. Anche il rapace che aveva sul petto sanguinava.
George R.R. Martin (A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4))
Shitload said, “His name is Korrok the Slavemaster from the eighth plane, also known in some realms as Baa’aaa’aaa’aab and in others as the Lord Zanthk All-Bzzki’l Shadd’uuul’l L’luuu’ddahs L’ikzzb-lla Khtnaz.
David Wong (John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End #1))
My car broke down. Instead of AAA, I called AA by mistake. They could only move my car twelve steps.
Jerry Snider (Buddy Bloom Wildflower: A Tale of Struggle and Celebration)
The Hawaiian language is quite unusual because when the original Polynesians came in their canoes, most of their consonants were washed overboard in a storm, and they arrived here with almost nothing but vowels. All the streets have names like Kal'ia'iou'amaa'aaa'eiou, and many street signs spontaneously generate new syllables during the night.
Dave Barry (Dave Barry Talks Back)
You certainly wouldn’t want to go on vacation to the same place every single year, so why would he.
Paul Allen Pearce (Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Training AAA AKC: Think Like a Dog~But Don’t Eat Your Poop! Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever Breed Expert Training.: TRAIN Your Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever)
In gorillas’ winner-take-all approach to mating, males compete to see who gets all the booty, as it were. So, although an adult silverback gorilla weighs in at around four hundred pounds, his penis is just over an inch long, at full mast, and his testicles are the size of kidney beans, though you’d have trouble finding them, as they’re safely tucked up inside his body. A one-hundred-pound bonobo has a penis three times as long as the gorilla’s and testicles the size of chicken eggs. The extra-large, AAA type (see chart in Chapter Fifteen). In bonobos, since everybody gets some sugar, the competition takes place on the level of the sperm cell, not at the level of the individual male.
Christopher Ryan (Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships)
AIG was looking worse and worse. It had a trillion-dollar balance sheet, 115,000 employees, and a slew of solid insurance businesses. But a hedge fund-like subsidiary called AIG Financial Products had put its franchise at risk, selling insurance against the risk of a housing slump. It had exploited the strength of AIG’s traditional businesses and AAA credit ratings
Timothy F. Geithner (Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises)
The basic task performed by the credit rating agencies was to strip derivatives of their individuality. Whether it was David Bowie pioneering securities derived from the perpetual value his music had created or a 30-year conventional mortgage, once a credit rating had been assigned, investors were agnostic. Bowie’s AAA-rated royalties and the AAA mortgage on the house next door were interchangeable, or as Gorton said, “informationally insensitive.
Danielle DiMartino Booth (Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America)
Of course! I’m far more used to working with a … a … a Nimbus 2000.” Trish peers at me in surprise. “Isn’t that the broomstick out of Harry Potter?” Damn. I knew I’d heard it somewhere. “Yes … it is,” I say at last, my face flaming. “And also a well-known ironing board. In fact, I think the broomstick was named … er … after the ironing board.
Sophie Kinsella (The Undomestic Goddess)
OZAWA: Hmm, how can I put it? If you sing a-a-a, it’s all vowel. But if you add consonants to each of the a’s, you get something like ta-ka-ka or ha-sa-sa. It’s a question of which consonants you add. It’s easy enough to make the first ta or ha, but the hard part is what follows. If it’s all consonant—ta-t-t—the melody falls apart. But the expression of the notes changes depending on whether you go ta-raa-raa or ta-waa-waa. To have a good musical ear means having control over the consonants and vowels.
Haruki Murakami (Absolutely on Music: Conversations with Seiji Ozawa)
He's got a car bomb. He puts the key in the ignition and turns it—the car blows up. He gets out. He opens the hood and makes a cursory inspection. He closes the hood and gets back in. He turns the key in the ignition. The car blows up. He gets out and slams the door shut disgustedly. He kicks the tire. He takes off his jacket and shimmies under the chassis. He pokes around. He slides back out and wipes the grease off his shirt. He puts his jacket back on. He gets in. He turns the key in the ignition. The car blows up, sending debris into the air and shattering windows for blocks. He gets out and says, Damn it! He calls a tow truck. He gives them his AAA membership number. They tow the car to an Exxon station. The mechanic gets in and turns the key in the ignition. The car explodes, demolishing the gas pumps, the red-and-blue Exxon logo high atop its pole bursting like a balloon on a string. The mechanic steps out. You got a car bomb, he says. The man rolls his eyes. I know that, he says.
Mark Leyner (My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist)
He laid out the draconian media policy that he would maintain for the nearly thirty years he ran the totalitarian HIV/AIDS empire in a brief piece he wrote for the AAAS Observer on September 1, 1989.
Charles Ortleb (Fauci: The Bernie Madoff of Science and the HIV Ponzi Scheme that Concealed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic)
Because PERLS were complex foreign exchange bets packaged to look like simple and safe bonds, they were subject to abuse by the cheater clients. Although many PERLS looked like bonds issued by a AAA-rated federal agency or company, they actually were an optionlike bet on Japanese yen, German marks, and Swiss or French francs. Because of this appearance, PERLS were especially attractive to devious managers at insurance companies, many of whom wanted to place foreign currency bets without the knowledge of the regulators or their bosses.
Frank Partnoy (FIASCO: Blood in the Water on Wall Street)
even Salant and his troops faced major obstacles to completing the Banamex transaction, the first of which was convincing someone to buy the Ajustabonos. Mexican buyers were out of the question; they, like Banamex, were trying to unload the bonds. Many buyers in Europe were suspicious of Latin America generally and were unwilling to take on Mexican risk. Although some U.S. and Asian buyers were willing to buy into Mexico, they needed bonds that were both rated investment-grade (BBB or better, on a scale from AAA down to D) and denominated in U.S. dollars. Unfortunately, these two qualities didn’t coexist. All the Mexican investment-grade bonds, including Ajustabonos, were denominated in pesos; all the Mexican bonds denominated in U.S. dollars were below investment grade. To sell Mexican bonds to U.S. buyers, Salant and his army of “rocket scientists” would need to find the holy grail of Mexican bonds: an investment-grade-rated Mexican bond denominated in U.S. dollars. The challenge was difficult, but if DPG could create such a bond, it could establish a new billion-dollar market.
Frank Partnoy (FIASCO: Blood in the Water on Wall Street)
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so just linger, boy, keep on lingerin’. hang on by the rope you wrapped around your neck and don’t forget to breathe don’t sweat, just try your best to hover in the air as toes gently touch the grey dry and lonely land you go a a-a- a-a-a — stutter trip and giggle in the face of who you have become. make it bearable to live in this unbearable existence cram another piece of cake down your closing throat quickly! before gravity pulls you down and finally snaps your neck. click, click goes the clock hanging on the wall click, click goes your neck hanging by the rope.
Elliott Black (The Buzz)
Actually the one thing he did that was based on a very definite philosophy was the program that consisted of the NRA and the AAA. This was a plan to take the whole industrial and agricultural life of the country under the wing of the government, organize it into vast farm and industrial cartels, as they were called in Germany, corporatives as they were called in Italy, and operate business and the farms under plans made and carried out under the supervision of the government. This is the complete negation of liberalism. It is, in fact, the essence of fascism.
John T. Flynn (The Roosevelt Myth (LvMI))
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John Myers, who spent thirty-seven years at GE, ran its pension fund for years, and sat on the GE Capital board, explained to me the keys to the success of GE Capital: GE’s AAA credit rating, allowing it to borrow money very cheaply. “Banks weren’t even rated AAA at that time,” he said. “We borrowed money cheaper than anyone could.” GE could also use GE Capital to reduce the taxes GE would otherwise pay on earnings from its very profitable industrial businesses. Here’s how that worked: If, say, an airline bought a new jet, it would have an asset that would depreciate over time, and the airline could use the depreciation to reduce its taxable income. But, at that time anyway, most airlines didn’t make much money, if any, so the value of the depreciation deductions was of little use to them. But to GE, the depreciation—the tax deductions—would be very valuable as a way to reduce GE’s pretax income and therefore to pay less in taxes. With that logic, GE Capital would buy the jets, lease them to the airlines at commercially attractive rates, and then use the depreciation on the jets to reduce the pretax income at GE.
William D. Cohan (Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon)
‚Wa wa jadaka aaa ilan fa aghnaa‛
Maulana Idrees Varethi (The pious Wives of the holy prophet: Azwaaje Mutahhirat)
‚Wa wa jadaka aaa ilan fa aghnaa‛ i.e. ‚And He found you poor, and made you rich (self-sufficient with selfcontentment, etc.)?‛ of the Chapter ‚Wazzuhaa‛.
Maulana Idrees Varethi (The pious Wives of the holy prophet: Azwaaje Mutahhirat)
Los inversores protagonistas de su libro no entendían por qué se daban préstamos hipotecarios para comprar viviendas a personas que básicamente no tenían ingresos y era muy probable que dejaran de devolver el dinero en algún momento. ¿Por qué los bancos daban esos créditos? La respuesta, descubrieron, era porque no se quedaban con ellos, sino que luego los vendían a Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley y Wells Fargo, entre otros. Estas empresas creaban bonos hipotecarios juntando hipotecas de distintas calidades. En un bono había partes de hipotecas calificadas como triple A (de devolución segura), como doble A (de devolución casi segura) y así sucesivamente hasta hipotecas calificadas como B, mucho más arriesgadas. Si se compraban bonos formados solo por hipotecas AAA, se arriesgaba poco, pero también se ganaba poco. Si se optaba por bonos formados por hipotecas B, se arriesgaba mucho, pero se podía ganar mucho. Si se combinaban esas hipotecas de distintos riesgos y rentabilidades se lograba, simplemente, lo que pretendían los derivados: eliminar el riesgo. Era posible que alguna de las hipotecas que formaban parte del conjunto no se pagaran, pero ese riesgo quedaba diluido entre muchas otras hipotecas que sin duda se devolverían.
Ramón González Férriz (La trampa del optimismo. Cómo los años noventa explican el mundo actual)
When playing a bear market, the same rules hold: You want to diversify your risks, especially knowing that collapses move even faster than rallies. You need to decide how much safe cash or near cash you want to hold to sleep at night and to handle financial emergencies, like the loss of your job or your house. Then decide how much to put into longer-term high-quality bonds, like those 30-year Treasuries and AAA corporates, but I think it’s still premature to make this move at the time of this writing, in August 2017. Then decide how much you want to put into a dollar bull fund or the ETF UUP, which tracks the U.S. dollar versus its six major trading partners. If you’re willing to risk part of your wealth, you can also bet on financial assets going down—from stocks to gold. Stocks are the one type of financial asset that goes down in either a deflationary crisis, like the 1930s, or an inflationary one, like the 1970s. So shorting stocks is the best way to prosper in the downturn, either way. But don’t leverage this bet. The markets are simply too volatile. You can short the stock market with no leverage by simply buying an ETF (exchange-traded fund) like the ProShares Short S&P 500 (NYSEArca: SH). It’s an inverse fund on the S&P 500, so if the index goes down 50 percent, you make 50 percent. The ProShares Ultrashort (NYSEArca: QID) is double short the NASDAQ 100, which is likely to get hit the worst. If you make this play, just do a half share, to avoid that two-times leverage (hold the other half in cash or short-term bonds). Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3X ETF (NYSEArca: TZA) is triple short the Russell 2000, which is also likely to lead on the way down. So buy only a one-third share of this one, to remain without leverage. (That means the money you allocate here should be one-third in TZA and two-thirds in cash, to offset the leverage.) And unlike the gold bugs, I see gold collapsing. It’s an inflation hedge, not a deflation hedge. If gold rallies back as high as $1,425—on my predicted bear-market rally—then it could easily drop to around $700 within a year. Your last decision is whether to risk some of your funds betting on gold’s downside, for the greatest potential returns. You can buy DB Gold Double Short ETN (NYSEArca: DZZ)—double short gold—at a half share, to offset the leverage, or just simply short GLD, the ETF that follows gold. There you have it. How to handle the coming crash.
Harry S. Dent (Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage)
You gonna be okay with that idiot car of yours? ...” “I’ve got AAA. They’ll be here. Eventually.” ... “Well, if they don’t show, give the station a call and I’ll drive over and jump you.” There was a sort of strangled non-noise. “Jump your car. Jump-start it. The cruisers have incredible batteries.” She started laughing. “Is that a Freudian slip, or are you just happy to see me?
Julia Spencer-Fleming (Out of the Deep I Cry (Rev. Clare Fergusson & Russ Van Alstyne Mysteries, #3))
You haven't lived until you've been screamed at by an Elvis impersonator until AAA shows up.
Ben Folds (A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons)
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Magic Guidebooks (Magic Guidebooks Walt Disney World Guide 2020: Insider Secrets, FastPass+ Hacks, Disney Dining Guide, Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Disney’s Animal Planet, Hidden Mickeys)
Now, why do people separate games into AAA and indie titles in the first place? What is it that creates this two-way split between two seemingly arbitrary groups? Some people might think that it’s because the two have entirely different pricing models. However, some AAA titles are cheap or even free (Hearthstone, for example.)
Robert C. Matthews (Coding Games: A Comprehensive Beginners Guide to Learn the Realms of Coding in Games from A-Z)
My day just splits again, and I am at the table sitting with the girls, Jenny is hearing me say all this… I am saying at lunch to all of them not leaving out one gross detail- and Jenny said- ‘Damn I have loaded in my undies right now just leasing to this crap.’ Liv and Maddie are kissing like to ribbed- hot- b*tch dogs in heat over it, so yeah, it's hot. I said- ‘I am coming – OH-hh-Aaa- UM-mmm-COME-meeting!!!’ So loud that I know that the rooms in the apartments could hear me, one even said back to my god- yet Miss Wilddickersion is eighty-eight I know who you are… a girl over there, rolled my eyes feeling so award.’ I am so going to hell for this- I said out loud. Do you ever look back over the crap you say, and say what the freak was I thinking? I just had the thought of this crap I am saying. Jenny said- nope not really- my dad hears me coming all the time so- like last night he said- ‘Stop it! You’re going to go throw your bedroom floor girl, and it’s four in the morning! ‘Yet I hear their freaking headboard hitting my wall- but- but that’s okay?’ I said about to have the old b*tch over in the next apart room there getting off too- ‘We all do’ -said Maddie and Olivia. Have you ever had the cops come, over that crap? Jenny said- ‘Well- freak know- Maybe…? I’ve done an officer here at the school, said Jenny proudly, so the whole cafeteria could hear her. Hey- Jenny- no one cares to hear about you being a slutty ho,’ Said- Marcel, yelling it at a table or two away. Maddie- ‘So was it that good?’ ‘It’s good under the hood.’ Said Maddie, I said the same thing too, in a different way, I said- ‘If you know what you’re doing down there.’ Jenny- ‘I- am- the- one that showed you-you b*tch, and your sis too.’ It’s all good! I speak! Not sure if I am going to keep my nasty pizza down at this point really, I don’t want to have thoughts played around in my mind freaking and fingering my brain. I put my feet up all girly and per-die on the table, and he sits accused from me to check me out so why not give him what he wants, and I don’t give a crap if I am in a skirt, I spread them out sloughing like a dude, and Marcel turns bright red, I want him to see that, I was not wearing annoying underneath I know that someone took a picture of my p*ssy and all of his freaked-up face- yep jaw-dropping moments, good thing I shaved it! The teaching that was looking over us freaking fainted at the sight of my va-jay-jay, is that a good thing? Oliva was saying please don’t fart- please don’t fart- she had the set on the other side of me, yet she was all pressed up to Maddie, so I knew he could see all of this- YOU-NO! I said- ‘Dude shut up! You’re freaking me over, and I put my one hand down between my legs, and start to play with myself, caressing it all around, sometimes up and down or in a little circular pattern, making lots of sounds. I even put my long fingers down inside and feel all the wetness and wroth, and I hear voices coming out of me, so he could see the come on my fingers unstop of my dark purple nail polish, and I come right in front of everyone, but it was only for him to see.’ Jenny- ‘do I see a d*ick; you need one to freak that p*ssy? I said- ‘Nah- dude that’s just my heart throbbing clit, and I get written up by another old b*tch teach, that must have a hairy one, or something like that- she has always been up against my ass hole.’ ‘Sometimes you are as blunt as the butt end of a fork, freaking strapping you in the one boob!’ said- Oliva. I see Marcel in the lunch line making a cute almost kiss-ie face at me, and I rankle up my nose and turn my head off to the right side and shake it in a short fast yet deliberate quiver. I walk up to where more than friends and at this point, I hug him and the cafeteria gaps, he kisses me in front of everyone, and I look up before walking and saying with flirty eyes- (You’re such a weirdo!)
Marcel Ray Duriez (Nevaeh Dreaming of you Play with Me)
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Liesl Shurtliff (Red: The (Fairly) True Tale of Red Riding Hood)
The ratings agencies were supposed to be the ones who made sense of this process by evaluating individual securities and assigning them a rating based on their relative risk: AAA, AA, BBB, and so on.
Charles Wheelan (Naked Money: A Revealing Look at Our Financial System)
By this stage I had switched my patronage to AA—as Tolstoy might have said, drug addicts are all alike whereas every alcoholic is crazy in his own way. This led to far more interesting meetings and I had decided that if you were going to spend your life on the wagon, you might as well be entertained.
Terry Hayes (I Am Pilgrim (Pilgrim, #1))
Games as a Service is the future of the industry. Even large AAA franchises are transitioning to shipping minimal games that they can use to grow through live support over time.
Clinton Keith (Agile Game Development: Build, Play, Repeat)
Of the 433 Medals of Honor awarded during World War II, none went to the more than one million African Americans who served. Nine black soldiers received the Distinguished Service Cross. In the navy, one African American received a high award: Dorie Miller, the cook at Pearl Harbor who jumped behind an AAA gun he had never been trained to use and fired at Japanese planes until he ran out of ammo. For his efforts, Miller received the Navy Cross, the third-highest decoration at that time (it was later elevated to the second-highest). Among the fifteen men awarded the Medal of Honor for their service on December 7, 1941, one was Mervyn Sharp Bennion, the mortally wounded captain of the USS West Virginia, whom Miller had helped pull to safety before he began firing.
Linda Hervieux (Forgotten: The Untold Story of D-Day's Black Heroes, at Home and at War)
minua voitte koskettaa silittää selkää vierihoitaa siirtää sylistä syliin liekuttaa lorutella kohottaa korkealle eikö kukaan voi pitää minua hyvänä tuu lulla aaa ti sieluun saakka edes kuristaa eläväksi
Maria Syvälä (Älä sylje minua syliisi)
functions as an art. The functions are recording, classifying and summarizing transaction and events. Also it says that events & transactions should be of financial character. This definition also adds another function of interpreting the results of accounting. 1.1.2. The American Accounting Association (AAA) defines Accounting as “the process of identifying, measuring and communicating economic information to permit informed judgment and decision by user of the information.
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Jab Uska Janam Hota Hai Or Wo Is Duniyaa Me Aata Hai Ye Soch Kr Ki Bhaher Ki Duniyaa Bhut Khubsurat Hai Or Sidhe Apni Maa Ke Haatho Me Aaa Jata Hai Use Itna Pyaar Milta Hai Ki Uski Ankhe Bher Aati Hai Apne Maa Ko Itna Khush Dekh Kr Use Ehsaas Hota Hai yahi Hai Jisne Mujhe Itne Saalo Se Apne Sheene Se Laga Kr Rakhaa Hai Or Uske Liye Wo Duniyaa Ki sabsee Anmol Cheez Hai Use Nhi Pata Ki Wo Kon Hai Bs Ak Ehsaas Hai Jo Use Us Se Jodta Hai Poori Duniyaa Me Use Khuch Dhikhta Hi Nhi Jese Wo Apni Aankhe Band Kr Ke Apne Ehsaas Ke Sath Judaa Ho Or Us Ehsaas Se Kabhi Alag Nhi Hota Chahta.
Ashutosh Chaudhary
what is that little animal you are so tender of?" "He is my dog, Toto" answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-a-a meat dog," said the girl
L. Frank Baum (THE WONDEFUL WIZARD OF OZ)
what is that little animal you are so tender of?" "He is my dog, Toto" answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-a-a meat dog," said the girl
Frank Baum (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
what is that little animal you are so tender of?" "He is my dog, Toto" answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-a-a meat dog," said the girl
L. Frank Baum (Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
AAA batteries can be used as AA batteries by wedging a tiny ball of tinfoil between the battery and the negative connector. If your spouse’s friends don’t like you, then your spouse has probably been talking trash about you behind your back. If you hate your spouse’s friends then odds are your spouse used to be, or is still just like them. Most people will default to a “No” answer when asked a yes or no question. It’s just instinct. So avoid yes or no questions. If you come into a financial windfall, seek
Raven Rockwell (Life Hacks to Make Your Life Easier: 175)
Tum Ek Aaas thi Tum Ek Ahsaas thi Har Chhaatra ke dil me chuppa hai jo | Tum wo kaash thi Aaj bhi yaad hai wo din mujhe jab hab rubaru huye thee uss paar jab milenge kabhi tab bataunga mere liye tum kitni khass thi
Ankit Yadav
His name is Korrok the Slavemaster from the eighth plane, also known in some realms as Baa’aaa’aaa’aab and in others as the Lord Zanthk All-Bzzki’l Shadd’uuul’l L’luuu’ddahs L’ikzzb-lla Khtnaz
David Wong (John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End #1))