This is particularly true of the purification-by-fire marking the end of the old year.
He says he and his colleagues around the country are about ready for this fire season to end.
Dividing your attention and packing your schedule full to the point of exhaustion is a sure-fire way to end up with a bunch of mediocre performances.
We expect Amazon to sell millions of Kindle Fire tablets by the end of the year.
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Continuing cool, moist air significantly reduced fire activity and helped firefighters build containment lines around the 44-square-mile fire at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains.
One can see a future where experience-customised versions of Android running on devices like the Amazon Kindle Fire take the low end (or rather, the low initial outlay) market, but traction against the iPad at the high end remains elusive.
And de-escalation has to begin with, again, an end to rocket fire from Gaza.
Evans went down in the first, but lasted to the end under heavy fire.
At year-end, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Fire, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle held the top four spots on the Amazon worldwide best seller charts since launch.
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"We welcome any alleviation of violence, with cautious optimism and hope that these declarations of cease-fire will lead to the end of fighting, " said Charles Clayton, national director of World Vision Jerusalem, an aid group.
He can try to broker a cease-fire and an agreement that would end the fighting on terms that Israel could accept.
Bezos also announced a pair of higher-end, faster Kindle Fire HD devices, both 8.9-inches, but they were not available for a demonstration.
The Marines pulled him out with serious burns, but he later said he set the fire by accident, not to end his own life.
It was not immediately clear if Wednesday's fighting would bring a complete end to the cease-fire.
"When I saw images of the hotel on fire, I thought this is the end, " Oberoi recalls.
The Kindle Fire is positioned to fill the low end of the tablet market with a nice subset of the attractive features of the iPad.
While the Kindle Fire destroys the chances of most low-end makers, I think it will still accelerate the tablet market overall by introducing millions of people to them.
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So far, al-Sadr has resisted the temptation to end the Mehdi Army cease-fire, which, combined with the simultaneous increase in U.S. forces last year, had brought a sharp reduction in violence.
Dual stereo speakers with Dolby Digital Plus audio-the standard in high-end audio-available exclusively on Kindle Fire HD.
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Now at the end of the day, if the Fire Brigades Union decides it's not going to discuss any modernisation, not going to accept the four per cent that is on offer without modernisation, and decides it wants to go on strike, then the dispute will continue.
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