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Russia has definitely underperformed, but I don't think it's an indictment on their entire military or that we overestimated, in 2014, they seemed to have a war plan for Crimea that they dusted off the shelf and executed to perfection and this time they had months buildup and appeared to have no war plan at all. – Liam Collins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
How our technology works is when you pick an item off the shelf like this, it actually has a weight to the product, so we know it’s in your digital cart. – Jilea Hemmings	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Their whole goal was to be released into the United States, and once that was taken off the shelf for them, and they couldnt be released into the United States anymore, then that really diminished the amount of traffic that came through here. – Anthony Porvaznik	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
My Broken Pieces A few weeks back, a longtime friend asked if I would meet her for lunch to discuss a new job offer. We sat in the restaurant for forty-five minutes discussing her new job opportunity when her face grew solemn. She sighed, staring down into her plate. I asked, “is everything all right,” knowing she did not ask me to meet to discuss a job offer. She said, “everything is fine, but I cannot get your story or quote about the broken pieces out of my mind.” She took a deep breath raised her head and, in half whisper, said, “it really described the broken pieces in my marriage? I answered, “when promises, borders and commitment are broken, and especially betrayal, the relationship may be repaired but never return to what it once was or could have been.” Before she left, she thanked me for giving her a copy. I refer to the story, as “The Broken Vase.” The Broken Vase Love and marriage are often broken by betrayal, lies and unkept promises. Betrayal is the ultimate form of deceit and deception. It reminded me of something I wrote many years ago about a vase that was knocked off the shelf and broken into many pieces. For a moment you’re not sure what to do but then you decide to try and repair it. Imagine trying to pick up the pieces of your life, left behind in the wake of betrayal. You must be methodical and cautious because your path is covered with egg shells. You realize it may not be the same as it once was, but would vase be good enough to keep. After all, you’ve had it for thirty years. When you believe all the pieces have been collected and placed on the table, you do one last search for the smallest pieces you may have missed. You find two small pieces, place them on the table and stare down at the broken pieces of something you cherished and was beautiful. Something so precious you often proudly displayed it to friends Over a period of three weeks, you managed to glue the vase back together. You slowly turn it around on the table and realize it is an archaic reproduction of its original form. There are holes in it created by pieces you did not find and never will. Like the pieces missing from your relationship. Held together by history and commitment but still broken. And severely damaged. The vase will never hold flowers again because it cannot hold water. And like your relationship, it has become fragile as you watch a piece fall off the vase when you lifted off the table. And when you think about the broken pieces collected from your relationship, you know that will also never be the same. As you held up the beautiful vase to show people it’s beauty, that now is simply a collection of glued pieces that resembles your relationship. You can no longer showcase your marriage. Only because of its history you place the vase back on the self, but it seems out of place and detracts from the ambience around it. After a few weeks you take the vase to your home office and place it on a shelf. A few weeks later, you sadly change the location to the closet. And like your relationship it has been moved to a different place. A dark place. When people say to you, you and your wife seem to get along very well. You think about showing them the vase. All that remains of the relationship is held together by glue. After several years you are still seeking out the missing pieces from your heart knowing deep inside you will never find. There’s only one way to get them back and that is to leave. But leaving will also mean breaking more pieces. Those are your two choices. If you leave, you will get back some of the pieces you lost but you would lose others by virtue of leaving. – RJ Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 5 years ago
It has tarnished my name, but also the company's name, they are actually going out there and bullying people, and telling people to pull our things off the shelf and to boycott, even if they are not even customers at that location. They are getting harassed. – Alison Ettel	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I picked one up off the shelf at a Reno airport gift shop on my way to give a speech, it was 80 percent off, so I was like, ‘ Yeah, score ! ’. – Chris Sacca	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We have to comply with every regulation from the government, so on the day the list came out some goods referred to were taken off the shelf. – Richard Liu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It will be very easy to use, off-the-shelf and readily available. – Yaky Yanay	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You can have 360 (degree) video streams all round the world, operators can send feeds, for instance, from sporting events, from museums, restaurants, and so forth, users could connect to those VR streams and as they connect to them they can engage users within that space, and they can engage users who maybe don't have to have off-the-shelf phones. So a user may have got a phone from an operator that supports standard based video calling. You'd see a user net VR space and you'd be able to click on them and actually initiate a video call with that user overlaid on a 360 stream. – Alido Di Diovanni	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'll identify if they are a Trump supporter, and I'll give them an opportunity, i'll tell them we have free shirts, we have Trump gear, 'cause that's going off the shelf. – Dave Chiokadze	Found on CNN 8 years ago
We don't see it as a threat, the difference is really the complexity and the bespoke nature of what is being offered. An exchange has a more off -the-shelf approach and cannot offer every variable a client might want. – Ralf Hungerbuehler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The difference is really the complexity and the bespoke nature of what is being offered. An exchange has a more off -the-shelf approach and cannot offer every variable a client might want, power traders will most likely use wind futures to manage shorter-term daily and weekly positions. The insurers will be interested in longer dated structures from several weeks to years. – Ralf Hungerbuehler	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If it plays out, it would be a game-changer of a company, any reasonable person would say, 'I'll take the off the shelf product.'. – Behzad Aghazadeh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We recommend parents go to the store, and ask if they can take the model off the shelf and go out to their car and try it. It might look great on the shelf and have all the greatest safety ratings, but if it doesn’t fit in your vehicle, it may not be the best option for you. – Julie Bing	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The initial prototype used off-the-shelf footage and basically just proved to us that there was something there with brain signals feeding back a film experience. Our next stage was to try and really make a film specifically for the platform. And that involved making something that was much bigger than the duration called for. I mean; we made a 15 minute film but it was more like making a feature. – Creator Richard Ramchurn	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Anything on those racks that is out-of-date will automatically be taken off the shelf. – Aubrey Alvarez	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We do suspect that there is some time effect based on laboratory data, so giving them earlier use of cells ‘off the shelf’ may have a larger benefit. – Dileep Yavagal	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Those are complicated systems that take time to acquire and then take time to put in place, you can't buy these things off the shelf and take them home the day you buy them ... One has to come before the other. – Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The radar that we choose is going to be an off-the-shelf radar that we tailor to the ship. There are a number of radars out there that appear to meet the specs. This will not be a developmental issue. LHA 8 will be the first ship to get AESR. – Thomas Moore	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
People who fly planes want the best value for money, which means off-the-shelf, people who want jobs and technology development schemes have different priorities. That's why the two groups don't like each other much. – Richard Aboulafia	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
By saving the patient’s patellar tendon and using an off-the-shelf product, one may have a better chance of preserving the natural biomechanics of the knee. – Guillermo Ameer	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. – Katherine Paterson	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Russia has definitely underperformed, but I don't think it's an indictment on their entire military or that we overestimated, in 2014, they seemed to have a war plan for Crimea that they dusted off the shelf and executed to perfection and this time they had months buildup and appeared to have no war plan at all.

– Liam Collins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

How our technology works is when you pick an item off the shelf like this, it actually has a weight to the product, so we know it’s in your digital cart.

– Jilea Hemmings

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Their whole goal was to be released into the United States, and once that was taken off the shelf for them, and they couldnt be released into the United States anymore, then that really diminished the amount of traffic that came through here.

– Anthony Porvaznik

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

My Broken Pieces A few weeks back, a longtime friend asked if I would meet her for lunch to discuss a new job offer. We sat in the restaurant for forty-five minutes discussing her new job opportunity when her face grew solemn. She sighed, staring down into her plate. I asked, “is everything all right,” knowing she did not ask me to meet to discuss a job offer. She said, “everything is fine, but I cannot get your story or quote about the broken pieces out of my mind.” She took a deep breath raised her head and, in half whisper, said, “it really described the broken pieces in my marriage? I answered, “when promises, borders and commitment are broken, and especially betrayal, the relationship may be repaired but never return to what it once was or could have been.” Before she left, she thanked me for giving her a copy. I refer to the story, as “The Broken Vase.” The Broken Vase Love and marriage are often broken by betrayal, lies and unkept promises. Betrayal is the ultimate form of deceit and deception. It reminded me of something I wrote many years ago about a vase that was knocked off the shelf and broken into many pieces. For a moment you’re not sure what to do but then you decide to try and repair it. Imagine trying to pick up the pieces of your life, left behind in the wake of betrayal. You must be methodical and cautious because your path is covered with egg shells. You realize it may not be the same as it once was, but would vase be good enough to keep. After all, you’ve had it for thirty years. When you believe all the pieces have been collected and placed on the table, you do one last search for the smallest pieces you may have missed. You find two small pieces, place them on the table and stare down at the broken pieces of something you cherished and was beautiful. Something so precious you often proudly displayed it to friends Over a period of three weeks, you managed to glue the vase back together. You slowly turn it around on the table and realize it is an archaic reproduction of its original form. There are holes in it created by pieces you did not find and never will. Like the pieces missing from your relationship. Held together by history and commitment but still broken. And severely damaged. The vase will never hold flowers again because it cannot hold water. And like your relationship, it has become fragile as you watch a piece fall off the vase when you lifted off the table. And when you think about the broken pieces collected from your relationship, you know that will also never be the same. As you held up the beautiful vase to show people it’s beauty, that now is simply a collection of glued pieces that resembles your relationship. You can no longer showcase your marriage. Only because of its history you place the vase back on the self, but it seems out of place and detracts from the ambience around it. After a few weeks you take the vase to your home office and place it on a shelf. A few weeks later, you sadly change the location to the closet. And like your relationship it has been moved to a different place. A dark place. When people say to you, you and your wife seem to get along very well. You think about showing them the vase. All that remains of the relationship is held together by glue. After several years you are still seeking out the missing pieces from your heart knowing deep inside you will never find. There’s only one way to get them back and that is to leave. But leaving will also mean breaking more pieces. Those are your two choices. If you leave, you will get back some of the pieces you lost but you would lose others by virtue of leaving.

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
5 years ago

It has tarnished my name, but also the company's name, they are actually going out there and bullying people, and telling people to pull our things off the shelf and to boycott, even if they are not even customers at that location. They are getting harassed.

– Alison Ettel

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I picked one up off the shelf at a Reno airport gift shop on my way to give a speech, it was 80 percent off, so I was like, ‘ Yeah, score ! ’.

– Chris Sacca

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We have to comply with every regulation from the government, so on the day the list came out some goods referred to were taken off the shelf.

– Richard Liu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It will be very easy to use, off-the-shelf and readily available.

– Yaky Yanay

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You can have 360 (degree) video streams all round the world, operators can send feeds, for instance, from sporting events, from museums, restaurants, and so forth, users could connect to those VR streams and as they connect to them they can engage users within that space, and they can engage users who maybe don't have to have off-the-shelf phones. So a user may have got a phone from an operator that supports standard based video calling. You'd see a user net VR space and you'd be able to click on them and actually initiate a video call with that user overlaid on a 360 stream.

– Alido Di Diovanni

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'll identify if they are a Trump supporter, and I'll give them an opportunity, i'll tell them we have free shirts, we have Trump gear, 'cause that's going off the shelf.

– Dave Chiokadze

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We don't see it as a threat, the difference is really the complexity and the bespoke nature of what is being offered. An exchange has a more off -the-shelf approach and cannot offer every variable a client might want.

– Ralf Hungerbuehler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The difference is really the complexity and the bespoke nature of what is being offered. An exchange has a more off -the-shelf approach and cannot offer every variable a client might want, power traders will most likely use wind futures to manage shorter-term daily and weekly positions. The insurers will be interested in longer dated structures from several weeks to years.

– Ralf Hungerbuehler

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If it plays out, it would be a game-changer of a company, any reasonable person would say, 'I'll take the off the shelf product.'.

– Behzad Aghazadeh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We recommend parents go to the store, and ask if they can take the model off the shelf and go out to their car and try it. It might look great on the shelf and have all the greatest safety ratings, but if it doesn’t fit in your vehicle, it may not be the best option for you.

– Julie Bing

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The initial prototype used off-the-shelf footage and basically just proved to us that there was something there with brain signals feeding back a film experience. Our next stage was to try and really make a film specifically for the platform. And that involved making something that was much bigger than the duration called for. I mean; we made a 15 minute film but it was more like making a feature.

– Creator Richard Ramchurn

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Anything on those racks that is out-of-date will automatically be taken off the shelf.

– Aubrey Alvarez

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We do suspect that there is some time effect based on laboratory data, so giving them earlier use of cells ‘off the shelf’ may have a larger benefit.

– Dileep Yavagal

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Those are complicated systems that take time to acquire and then take time to put in place, you can't buy these things off the shelf and take them home the day you buy them ... One has to come before the other.

– Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The radar that we choose is going to be an off-the-shelf radar that we tailor to the ship. There are a number of radars out there that appear to meet the specs. This will not be a developmental issue. LHA 8 will be the first ship to get AESR.

– Thomas Moore

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

People who fly planes want the best value for money, which means off-the-shelf, people who want jobs and technology development schemes have different priorities. That's why the two groups don't like each other much.

– Richard Aboulafia

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

By saving the patient’s patellar tendon and using an off-the-shelf product, one may have a better chance of preserving the natural biomechanics of the knee.

– Guillermo Ameer

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

– Katherine Paterson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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