Probably every day is a holiday somewhere, but yesterday was rather special.
SingShot is karaoke that has gone truly global, as users from all over the world log-in and record their own rather special versions of many popular tunes from a number of different genres.
Graced with the presence of Google and Samsung reps in Kuala Lumpur (including a video message from Google SVP Sundar Pichai), today Malaysian carrier Yes 4G unveiled this rather special laptop for the local consumers.
And the week after Easter is rather special for Dr George Carey too, it's the 10th anniversary of the date he took over as Archbishop of Canterbury, ten years, Leader of the Anglican Church world-wide as well of course.
But they expect him to announce a 2014 Senate election rather than a special contest this year.
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Story and character development took center stage, rather than popcorn special effects and set pieces.
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Would you rather fight for special interest tax breaks, or do you want to fight for tax cuts for small businesses and middle-class families in your neighborhood?
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This means being willing to meet demand for issues that are persistently on special, rather than withholding supply.
Off to his right, beyond a wooden gate, dozens of stuffed animals and toy cars were stacked neatly on shelves lining the wall, held up as special rewards rather than put out every day as objects for play and learning.
Yet it is worth jumping ahead, as our special report does rather adventurously this week, and wondering what the social effects will be, for two reasons.
However, what disappoints me is the common, implicit assumption that industry science deserves to be treated as a special case, rather than considered within the broader framework of contemporary research.
Ross Norman, CEO of Sharps-Pixley, said he is of impression the commission may take a look at all reference prices for a range of markets, rather than gold coming under special scrutiny.
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About 60 percent of people surveyed said the campaign finance flap requires a full-scale federal investigation and 56 percent felt a special counsel, rather than the Justice Department, should do the probe.
Rather they believe she received special treatment as a foreigner and that a Mexican national in a similar situation would be facing the rest of their life behind bars without recourse to a hearing in the Supreme Court.
As well as improving security at channel ports, and trying to persuade European governments to take a harder line, Britain is planning to introduce identity cards for asylum applicants, and house them in special centres, rather than paying them benefits to live in the wider community.
For the first time, they directly represented the new special administrative region, rather than forming a part of the delegation from Guangdong province.
By selecting Warren, 61, for a special White House post rather than immediately naming her director relieves her and Obama of what was expected to be a grueling Senate confirmation battle.
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And this disconnect between the needs of our families and the demands of our workplace also reflects a broader problem, that today, we as a society still see workplace flexibility policies as a special perk for women rather than a critical part of a workplace that can help all of us.
"We went down on Monday, more as a case of getting everybody together rather than doing anything really, really special, " Pulis told BBC Radio Stoke.
After the amendment, food such as sausage rolls or pasties sold on shelves - that is, cooling down, rather than being kept hot in a special cabinet - will not be liable for VAT.
One possibility: Cable operators may decide to relegate all their sports channels to a special tier that costs extra, rather than being forced to carry them all broadly.
Stimulus dollars, for instance, will be more stimulative if they are direct payments to individuals (or payroll tax cuts) rather than filtered through a vast labyrinth of special interests.
The Jets' special-teams play has been rather suspect lately.
The Pentagon has argued that the Office of Special Plans did not gather intelligence but rather assessed existing intelligence.
Articulating a coherent foreign policy, rather than allowing it to be driven by disparate special interests, is the real challenge facing this (and any) administration.
It may not be until more objects around us are actually "smarter, " when the Internet becomes more about things in our environment rather than caches of information that we access through special devices, that we may start to solve some of the problems QR codes are failing to address.
Given the tendency in our society to complexity rather than to simplicity, and given the power of special interests versus the general good, a clean, elegant solution won't come easy.
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is also being tried at the The Hague but is being prosecuted by a special war crimes tribunal for Sierra Leone, rather than the ICC.
Rather than relying on a camera to read small dots on special paper, these pens work with practically any paper.
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