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The technology, called near-field communication, involves a microchip that can send and receive data across very short distances, about four inches. Instead of swiping a credit card, you hold your phone near a reader and let the data zip between the two devices.
Daniel Lyons
You
Technology
Communication
Phone
Distances
About
Data
Instead
Between
Devices
Involves
Reader
Very
Send
Short
Hold
Across
Your
Inches
Near
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Four
Receive
Zip
Two
In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Bible
Sports
School
Year
Before
Young
Group
Christian
Final
High
Rural
High School
Attending
Instead
Study
Missouri
Learn
Read
Camp
Began
Offer
Wanted
Afternoon
Elective
Who
Started
Chance
Christians
A common mistake made by amateurs is that they fail to take advantage of players who bluff excessively. Instead of playing possum and letting their aggressive opponents continue to bet, beginners raise too early with monster hands, allowing their opponents to fold.
Daniel Negreanu
Mistake
Made
Take Advantage
Aggressive
Too
Monster
Fold
Bet
Excess
Take
Allowing
Fail
Instead
Advantage
Opponents
Amateur
Continue
Beginners
Hands
Common
Bluff
Who
Letting
Players
Early
Raise
Playing
Instead of dumping all my money on an independent film that nobody would watch and most people would make fun of behind my back, I decided, 'I'm just going to buy a house.'
Daniel Tosh
Buy
People
Money
Back
Independent
Independent Film
Would
Instead
Nobody
Most
House
Make
Dumping
Going
Behind
Just
Decided
Fun
Film
Watch
I grew up playing with dinosaurs instead of Barbie dolls.
Danielle Campbell
Dinosaurs
Instead
Dolls
Up
Grew
Barbie
Playing
Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.
Daphne Oz
Walk
Coffee
Important
Gym
Date
Take
Outside
Instead
Hike
Exercise
Go
Stairs
Your
Skip
For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.
Darin Strauss
Mistakes
Way
Introducing
About
Excessive
Students
Wrong
Instead
Wrong Place
Most
Until
Narratives
Metaphysical
Off
Begin
Often
Common
Fiction
Story
Place
Etc
Teach
Actual
Start
Speculation
Third
We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.
Dario Fo
Politics
Freedom
Ugly
Church
Thought
Signs
Resurgence
Had
Instead
Freedom Of Expression
Withdrawn
Terrible
Italian
Interfering
Expression
Like most Americans, I hope and wish is that there is a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict. Unfortunately, there are extremists on both sides who oppose a peaceful resolution and instead choose violence.
Darrell Issa
Hope
Conflict
Wish
Oppose
Sides
Extremists
East
Both
Both Sides
Instead
Like
Most
American
Middle
Middle East
Unfortunately
Choose
Who
Peaceful
Violence
Resolution
When we put country first, it's amazing that we're going to be able to bring people together instead of dividing America.
Darryl Glenn
Together
People
Amazing
First
Country
Able
Dividing
Put
Instead
America
Going
Bring
Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.
Dave Anderson
Sunset
Sail
Hopes
He
Instead
Sailing
Off
Century
Next
Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.
Dave Morris
Confidence
Apps
Give
Writer
Instead
Dear
Up
Create
Your
Now
Strengths
Cable news is force-feeding you an endless back and forth of pundits who consistently get everything wrong, while at the same time, they mask their opinions as facts and argue about the endless minutia of a broken Washington, D.C., instead of arming you with real knowledge and new ideas.
Dave Rubin
Time
News
Broken
Knowledge
You
Mask
Back
Everything
Pundits
Consistently
About
Argue
Facts
Cable
Wrong
Instead
New
Ideas
Opinions
New Ideas
Real
Real Knowledge
Get
Same
Endless
Same Time
While
Forth
Who
Washington
I would often see windows that looked to me like they weren't real - almost like a painting on a wall instead of a window. I thought it was kind of a cool idea.
David Allee
Me
Thought
Painting
Kind
Would
See
Window
Windows
Instead
Almost
Idea
Like
Looked
Real
Were
Wall
Often
Cool
One would expect that a surge of new automation opportunities in highly paid work would catalyze a surge of corporate investment in computer hardware and software. Instead, the opposite occurred.
David Autor
Work
Opportunities
Automation
Software
Corporate
Would
Computer
Investment
Instead
Highly
New
Occurred
Surge
Opposite
Expect
Paid
Hardware
Instead of putting someone in prison for being a hooligan, give him a choice. He may have beaten someone up and he's got eight years, but tell him you can do eight years inside or spend five years in the Army. Put him in the Parachute Regiment, they'd soon sort him out.
David Bailey
You
Army
Prison
Spend
Parachute
Out
Tell
Inside
Someone
Give
Beaten
He
Put
Instead
Putting
Soon
Him
Sort
Got
Years
Up
Five
May
Being
Eight
Regiment
Choice
We must draw on our early roots and remind people why the Labour party was created and who it sought to represent. We have never been a sectional party promoting self-interest, but instead a force for engaging self-reliance and self-determination.
David Blunkett
People
Party
Our
Draw
Must
Promoting
Never
Instead
Remind
Self-Determination
Force
Sought
Self-Interest
Self-Reliance
Been
Labour
Labour Party
Represent
Created
Roots
Engaging
Who
Why
Early
Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
David Byrne
Music
Future
Building
Past
Invest
Instead
Why
Why Not
Preserve
It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
David Foster Wallace
Art
You
Creative
Become
Admire
Instead
Like
Reader
Exercise
Get
Trying
'Dreams from My Father' was not a memoir or an autobiography; it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.
David Garrow
Work
Dreams
Father
Ways
Memoir
Instead
Without
Question
Historical
Historical Fiction
Any
Autobiography
Fiction
My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like 'Roots,' I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.
David L. Wolper
Time
Philosophy
Entertain
Entertaining
Instead
Like
Documentaries
Reverse
Did
Same
Just
Same Time
Want
Inform
Roots
Away
Filmmaker
The Fed should make a clear commitment to stable money to reduce the swings in interest rates and inflation. Instead, it champions and flaunts unstable money. This encourages momentum trading and the growth of derivatives. Meanwhile, layers of financial regulation make Washington bigger and more powerful but don't fix the underlying problems.
David Malpass
Commitment
Money
Financial
Inflation
Problems
Rates
More
Layers
Fed
Clear
Instead
Unstable
Powerful
Make
Underlying
Reduce
Trading
Encourages
Fix
Stable
Bigger
Interest
Interest Rates
Should
Meanwhile
Derivatives
Regulation
Momentum
Washington
Swings
Growth
Champions
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
David Novak
God
Natural
People
World
Living
Members
Individual
Individual Human
He
Instead
New
Identity
Calling
Israel
Historical
Did
Human
Human Beings
Formed
Them
Create
Created
Natural World
Beings
Even
Chose
Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core, I am alone.
David Novak
Alone
Own
Sense
My Own
Instead
Most
Practical
Am
Which
Autonomy
Means
Creator
Fundamental
Foundational
Core
If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.
David Petraeus
You
Problem
Country
Become
Every
Resources
Those
Willing
Bad
Solution
Reconciled
Bad Guy
Above
Guy
Part
Instead
Continue
Want
Then
Who
Capture
If there is evidence that an employee has broken the law, caused harm to veterans, or have violated the public trust, they should be terminated immediately. Instead, due to overly cumbersome and lengthy arbitrations as well as extensive bureaucratic red tape, VA has not been able to remove employees as quickly as we would have liked.
David Shulkin
Broken
Trust
Law
Veterans
Remove
Employees
Evidence
Immediately
Would
Able
Instead
Red
Red Tape
Terminated
Employee
Liked
Well
Due
Overly
Caused
Been
Tape
Quickly
Bureaucratic
Public
Lengthy
Should
Public Trust
VA
Violated
Extensive
Harm
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