So instead I spend my idle hours looking through Amazon's virtual bookstore.
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He decided to sign up with Uber as a way of filling idle hours.
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KATE MAYBERRY PITTSBURGH Dear Kate, Some kids look forward to filling summer's idle hours with books.
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As Billy expected, Brittany quickly tired of all the travel and idle hours on the road.
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Now, it would be years before we could spend idle hours reading on the beach or walking along the shore, yakking.
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As a medical officer in the hospital closest to the Jarawa reserve, she spends long strings of idle hours with their families.
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In his idle hours, Mr. Smorodinov drank beer in the parking lot where an old woman kept watch on a clowder of cats.
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At the same time, I'm putting a dozen or more idle hours into Arena every week, so its hook-digging mechanisms are pretty good at audience capture.
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That suits Uber and other companies because they don't have to pay for those idle hours, and having lots of cars available means customers can always get a car pretty quickly.
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People spend 90% of their mobile time in apps and more time using their mobile devices than watching TV. In other words, apps aren't just a way to spend idle hours — they're a big business.
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" When he loses his job and is forced to move back home, his misery hits a nadir: "Now all my hours are idle hours," he says, "and ideas have time to grow inside me until they become monstrous.
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People spend 90% of their mobile time in apps and more time using their mobile devices than watching TV. Apps aren't just a way to waste idle hours — they're big business, one that often seems to change overnight.
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People spend 90% of their mobile time in apps and more time using their mobile devices than watching TV. Apps aren't just a way to waste idle hours — they're big business, one that often seems to change overnight.
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People spend 90% of their mobile time in apps and more time using their mobile devices than watching TV. Apps aren't just a way to waste idle hours — they're big business, and one that often seems to change overnight.
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With the shutdown in its fourth week with no end in sight, cultural institutions from Massachusetts to Oregon are moving to help unpaid federal workers spend some of their otherwise idle hours with loved ones enjoying art, science history or music.
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During the idle hours Joshua Key spent guarding a children's hospital in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where he'd been stationed as a soldier in the US Army, it was the daily visits from a little girl that kept him sane.
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People spend 90% of their mobile time in apps and more time using their mobile devices than watching TV. In other words, apps aren't just a way to waste idle hours — they're big business, and one that often seems to change overnight.
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Restaurant Review 295 Photos View Slide Show ' New Yorkers will have more idle hours on their hands, or at least more time to watch otter videos at work, if Made Nice turns out to be the future of dining in New York.
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Former presidents and ministers, legislators, judges and business owners, all accused in a yearslong battle against graft, spend their idle hours gardening, strumming guitars, studying English, barbecuing for Sunday visitors — and waging a campaign to crush the anti-corruption drive that put them in jail.
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That pay drop has coincided with drivers working longer hours — 60- to 80-hour weeks are common, drivers and researchers say — because they spend many more idle hours than they used to at warehouses and stores waiting to pick up cargo and make deliveries, time that typically goes unpaid.
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Her unraveling of the brutal double murder is as skilled as her exploration of Pocahontas County, where the men, as much as the women, appear trapped in their predestined societal roles, and where toxic masculinity gnaws at the men, rudderless and lost, who drink to fill the idle hours.
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His was a curious temperament, and this sentimentality, born of vainness and idle hours, by no means expressed it all.
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The house nicknamed "Idle Hours" was built in 1903 by architect Frank T. Smith for L.P. Ogden and his wife Cynthia. Because the house was considered to be out in the country at the time of its construction, Mrs. Ogden preferred to retain her town home and named her new country estate "Idle Hours". The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
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AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated: "Johnson and Victoria Spivey had known one another for decades, so it's no surprise that their musical repartee on 1961's Idle Hours seems so natural and playful".
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In 1862, she sent her first two major works into the Royal Academy in London, England. Her works Idle Hours and I Wandered by the Brookside were accepted and displayed. From 1864 to 1908, she sent in work every year, missing only 1873 due to illness. By 1908, she had exhibited 38 art pieces at the Royal Academy.
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It was intended to fill the idle hours of oil field and migrant workers. 1906 The City Fathers established a free public library under Ordinance No. 46 two years after the City incorporated. Population 2,000. 1907 The City's first library building was erected on the NW corner of Pomona and Wilshire Avenues with a $10,000 grant from Andrew Carnegie.
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In 1746 the first public concert took place in Russia. This soon became a tradition. Concert life was dominated by foreign musicians before Russian virtuosos appeared in the 1780–1790s; these included the violinist Ivan Khandoshkin and singer Elizaveta Sandunova. The senator Grigory Teplov was also an amateur musician who printed in 1751 the collection of his songs entitled Idle Hours Away from Work.
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1000), by court lady Sei Shōnagon, and Tsurezuregusa (1330), by particularly renowned Japanese Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō. Kenkō described his short writings similarly to Montaigne, referring to them as "nonsensical thoughts" written in "idle hours". Another noteworthy difference from Europe is that women have traditionally written in Japan, though the more formal, Chinese-influenced writings of male writers were more prized at the time.
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He composed the slow movement during a stop in England and mailed the score to Balakirev before going back to sea.Abraham, New Grove (1980), 2:28; Rimsky-Korsakov, My Musical Life, 42. At first, his work on the symphony kept Rimsky-Korsakov occupied during his cruise. He purchased scores at every port of call, along with a piano on which to play them, and filled his idle hours studying Berlioz's Treatise on Instrumentation.
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Johnson was reunited with Duke Ellington and appeared as a guest at an all-star folk concert. In 1961, Johnson was reunited with his Okeh recording partner Victoria Spivey for another Prestige album, Idle Hours, and the two singers performed at Gerdes Folk City. In 1963 he toured Europe as part of the American Folk Blues Festival with Muddy Waters and others and recorded an album with Otis Spann in Denmark. In May 1965, he performed at a club in Toronto before an audience of four people.
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Childe Hassam (1859–1935), Flags on the Waldorf, 1916 Charles Demuth (1883–1935), Chimney and Water Tower, 1931 The ACMAA collection contains several examples of American Impressionism. Idle Hours (about 1894) by William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) anchors the ACMAA holdings of American Impressionist paintings. Chase's student and protégé Julian Onderdonk (1882–1922) is represented by a Texas scene, A Cloudy Day, Bluebonnets near San Antonio, Texas (1918). Flags on the Waldorf (1916) is a signature New York work by Childe Hassam (1859–1935).
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Sports in Singapore can be traced back to the colonial times where the earliest official records on sports were found. Sports had an important role to play as it helped to fill the idle hours for the colonials who had to wait for months for news of home from mail ships. It also offered an alternative to other activities such as the amateur local theatre scene and the "stiff autistsm parties". It is important to realize that sports during those times was very much a luxury and was only for the privileged few.
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In Herman Melville's novella Benito Cereno, crew members of a slave ship spend their idle hours picking oakum. Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist mentions the extraction of oakum by orphaned children in the workhouse. The oakum extracted is for use on navy ships, and the instructor says that the children are serving the country. The Innocents Abroad, a travel book by Mark Twain, also mentions in chapter 37 a "Baker's Boy/Famine Breeder" who eats soap and oakum, but prefers oakum, which makes his breath foul and teeth stuck up with tar.
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When artists' supplies were unavailable in the field, Metzner used materials such as scraps of cardboard instead of canvas. His training as a pharmacist also may have provided him with the knowledge to produce tints for his drawings from natural sources such as berries and bark. After the Battle of Stones River, Metzner was assigned as a topographical engineer with the 2nd Division, Army of the Cumberland, where artists' materials were more readily available for sketching during his idle hours. Upon his return to Indianapolis in 1864, Metzner created at least one oil painting from his wartime sketches.
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Sonnet 61 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet, containing three quatrains followed by a final rhyming couplet. It follows the form's typical rhyme scheme, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions. The seventh line exemplifies a regular iambic pentameter: × / × / × / × / × / To find out shames and idle hours in me, (61.7) The first and third lines have a final extrameterical syllable or feminine ending: × / × / × / × / × /(×) Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, (61.3) :/ = ictus, a metrically strong syllabic position. × = nonictus.
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During this time he developed a manuscript on the history of the region, Recopilación historial, begun during his "idle hours" in Bogotá. It is likely that Part I, on Santa Marta and the New Kingdom of Granada, was written in Bogotá, and Part II, on Venezuela and Cartagena, in Spain. De Aguado tried unsuccessfully to secure publication over a number of years. A series of bureaucratic hurdles around censorship were complicated by a change in the rules, invalidating the royal licence to print which de Aguado obtained in 1581, while a second licence in 1582 was complicated by a new requirement to have the printed copy checked against the original manuscript signed off by the king's secretary.
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Back in 1991, some stray incidents of stone-pelting and hurling abuse by some slum kids in the vicinity upset the serenity of Kerala Samajam Model School (KSMS), one of the premier English- medium schools in Jamshedpur. These children hailed from the lowest rung of society and their parents neither had the means nor the awareness to send their children to school. A Total Literacy Mission survey by KSMS revealed that the dimension of such underprivileged and Out-of-School Children is much wider and urgency was felt to bring them within the ambit of School Education. But the question was how do we do it? We decided to experiment with the idea of using the “idle hours” of the school to bring these kids into the mainstream.
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Through the 1930s and 1940s Spivey continued to work in musical films and stage shows, including the hit musical Hellzapoppin (1938), often with her husband, the vaudeville dancer Billy Adams. In 1951 Spivey retired from show business to play the pipe organ and lead a church choir, but she returned to secular music in 1961, when she was reunited with an old singing partner, Lonnie Johnson, to appear on four tracks on his Prestige Bluesville album Idle Hours. The folk music revival of the 1960s gave her further opportunities to make a comeback. She recorded again for Prestige Bluesville, sharing an album, Songs We Taught Your Mother, with fellow veterans Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin, and began making personal appearances at festivals and clubs, including the 1963 European tour of the American Folk Blues Festival.
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During idle hours there, he wrote plays for Chinese children that were later broadcast on Radio Malaya and designed sets for Singapore Little Theatre. Hall's military experiences later inspired his first play, The Disciplines of War, about British soldiers ambushed in the Malayan jungle, that premiered on the fringe of the Edinburgh International Festival in August 1957 and was shortly followed by a professional production at the Nottingham Playhouse. After gaining interest from the producer Lindsay Anderson, the play was renamed The Long and the Short and the Tall, and premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 1959 starring Peter O'Toole and Robert Shaw. That year it won the Evening Standard's Play of the Year Award, and was later turned into a film version directed by Leslie Norman in 1961 starring Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, David McCallum and Ronald Fraser. This was followed by a BBC television series in 1979. After his success with Anderson at the Royal Court, Hall contacted a boyhood friend, the writer Keith Waterhouse, about adapting his successful novel Billy Liar (1959).
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