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rockets from Sinai-Libyan missiles (Egypt just caught after a tip (guess who) the smugglers at Libya/Egypt border with 35 missiles) on their way through tunnels to Gaza. How did all the Iranian missiles- UAV production facility occur? Turkey/PM Erdogan is beside himnself and threatens and threatens- even UN- for HIS Palestinians (shades of the Mad Sultan disease.)UNRWA is responsible- Gazans are responsible-Egypt/Turkey/Iran/AL/Quartet\\... is responsible for not demanding anything from Hamas terrorists. First time ever Norway's correspondent in Gaza is reporting Hamas launching missiles. For the first time Focus.de (German newsagencies field) is reporting Hamas holding 22 foreign correspondents in place (diplomatic lingua w/o allowing them to leave. Hamas also slaughtered one of their own for alleged co-op with Zionists). Of all the rockets/missiles/mortars fired from Gaza -now over 800+ (when over 500- 60 out of them fell inside Gaza- IDF). For Janine Zacharia- learn Latin- learn history- from all ME- archeology helps you too. Time also to understand what Al Qaeda is-its affiliates-adherents-backers-financiers. My liberal Jewish neighbor and I had a recent discussion about Israel and the Palestinians. He was fearful the Israelis would "overreact" to the ceaseless missile barrage from Gaza. He wondered how"the conflict" could be resolved. I said to him, " I want the Israelis to crush the Palestinians, grind them into the dust, so they can never threaten Israel again". He looked at me as though I had lost my mind. .I said, "real peace comes when you defeat your enemies, not have a cease-fire. We | IP | IP ED | 3,199,416 |
city-wide system or tradition of discrimination against changelings, but neither is there any legal or moral framework to chastise prejudice when it occurs. Economy and Trade There is no trade with outside polities; contact has been lost with all other centers of population, and it's unknown if any still exist -- or where to go looking for them. There are no natural sources of petroleum products, coal, most metals and chemicals, or even exotic foods and spices (everything from oranges to chocolate to nutmeg) known at this time. Many exotic plants grow in the Ark , but they are rarely traded to the city at large. The economy of the city is pure barter -- goods for goods, goods for services, services for goods. There is no formal money system, though there is a growing trend in using pieces of wire as an exchange medium. Not everyone accepts them, but many do. Wire lengths are generally copper, silver, or iron, with iron considered the most valuable despite also being a relatively abundant metal. There are some coins from earlier times which have value because of their metal content and (especially) their status as artifacts. Coins are not worth their historical face value, which no one now knows; like all artifacts, they are worth what the other person is willing to give you for them. In practice, small coins are more prized than large ones; the thinner, smaller disks have generally been more eroded by time and generations of hands, and | IN | IN DT | 352,184 |
head. As the song says: 'You gotta have a heart!' It may also explain why mothers rock their babies to lull them to sleep. The rocking motion is carried on at about the same speed as the heartbeat, and once again it probably 'reminds' the infants of the rhythmic sensations they became so familiar with inside the womb, as the great heart of the mother pumped and thumped away above them. Nor does it stop there. Right into adult life the phenomenon seems to stay with us. We rock with anguish. We rock back and forth on our feet when we are in a state of conflict. The next time you see a lecturer or an after-dinner speaker swaying rhythmically from side to side, check his speed for heartbeat time. His discomfort at having to face an audience leads him to perform the most comforting movements his body can offer in the somewhat limited circumstances; and so he switches on the old familiar beat of the womb. Wherever you find insecurity, you are liable to find the comforting heartbeat rhythm in one kind of disguise or another. It is no accident that most folk music and dancing has a syncopated rhythm. Here again the sounds and movements take the performers back to the safe world of the womb. From The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris. (Jonathan Cape and McGraw Hill, 1967) | IN | IN CM | 169,302 |
lyrics, origins and history There was a monkey climbed up a tree; When he fell down, then down fell he. There was a crow sat on a stone; When he was gone, then there was none. There was an old wife did eat an apple; When she had ate two, she had ate a couple. There was a horse going to the mill; When he went on, he stood not still. There was a butcher cut his thumb; When it did bleed, then blood did come. There was a lackey ran a race; When he ran fast, he ran apace. There was a cobbler clouting shoon; When they were mended, they were done. There was a chandler making candle; When he them strip, he did them handle. | LY | LY SL | 772,721 |
the Capital's development. While the outbreak of the Second World War delayed the completion of this plan until 1949, it would serve as the city's planning guide well into the 1970's. The creation and conservation of green space was an important element of the master plan. The Canadian Government purchased property along the banks of the Rideau Canal and of the Ottawa, Rideau and Gatineau Rivers and restored it to its natural beauty to allow public enjoyment of these waterways. Today, large tracts of land around Federal Government buildings are beautifully maintained as are the flower beds in the parks and along the driveways. Exceptionally broad park corridors containing driveways and pathways further enhance the open space concept. In 1958 the Government established a "greenbelt" around Ottawa to avoid uncontrolled urban sprawl as well as provide future parks and public open space. The Greenbelt, which Grber called "the Capital's emerald necklace", forms a semi-circular belt of about 17,600 hectares running in a continuous 44.8 kilometres arc on the outer edge of the urban area. Presently, some of the land is leased, some is in public use, some is used for research and development activities, and large tracts have been set aside for the conservation of the water table and the preservation of animal and plant life. Ottawa in the 1980s This decade saw the Capital assume its role as the cultural showcase for the nation. New festivals such as Winterlude, the Canadian Tulip Festival and the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon | IN | IN DT | 766,514 |
sex and death. & singing. you may sing with them, and laugh, your laughter bringing tears & and sing so softly, please do smile, please do speak so lovingly, i will & comfort, please do hide and sing so softly, please do smile, please do & it is one thing to sing the beloved. another, alas, & to sing that hidden guilty river-god of the blood. & their flags, sing their songs, march with them & only but sing only where dark & my song can't sing can't talk can't whisper can't yell oh oh & be the mark of praise,, and yours of whom i sing be such, as not the world & and who can sing the praises of resolute deity & and who can sing the praises of resolute deity & resolute deity of resolute the praises can sing and q or disappearance & disciples can testify sing praises resolute deity nothing prevent & stormy night shall bring, of falser gods than thee i sing :the storm is & for speech will sing of death - & myself, it is also true that i belong to no one. if to sing is & quiet, are peaceful. they hold us in their arms, they sing to us softly. & armageddon. they quiet, peaceful. arms, sing softly. cry quietly & and who can sing the praises of resolute deity & and who can sing the praises of resolute deity & p. sing for the nonce, ring for the ponce | LY | LY SL | 330,598 |
player and various characters, allows for far more player expression in combat than in the conversations." | IN | IN | 3,711,662 |
Rape is having a moment. And not in a good way. Women who assumed that basic goals of equality were set in stone have been badly shocked over the past few days. On both sides of the Atlantic, from the Left and the Right, male politicians and two-bit "public figures" have made common cause on rape. Not to condemn it, or to pledge tougher action in policing it; but to minimise and dismiss it as a crime. It started with Julian Assange, and the repellent decision of Ecuador to grant him "political asylum". Assange is not accused of any political crime. He is accused under Swedish law of raping one woman and sexually molesting another. In granting asylum, Ecuador spat on the human rights record of Sweden, a liberal, even Left-wing, European democracy. As the Twitterati and army of internet Assange groupies began their celebrations, the belittling of the accusations began. What had allegedly happened was "not rape", they argued. This, even though it is clear that one woman claims she was asleep and unconscious when, she alleges, Assange raped her. An unconscious person cannot give consent. The allegation that the woman had consented to safe sex with a condom but not to unsafe sex without one was rubbished; her right to withhold consent for possible pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases was apparently non-existent. Assange has had his day in the English courts -- several days, in fact. And more than once, our courts have made it clear sex without | IP | IP PA | 179,739 |
internet, but what I have seen has been really good. I'm glad people appreciate that we've explained what happened. PS: So, as PlayStation 3 owners, what can we expect as compensation for the slight delay? RD: [Laughs]. Well, there's another ten hours or so of content, and that's based on the pure experience of the original game. There are more of the old-school Joe Danger motorbike levels, because a lot of people seemed to miss that a little bit. Hopefully, that'll satisfy everyone. Pursuit force PS: Can you talk a little bit about the game's movie aspect? What sort of themes does the game go through during the campaign? RD: It's all sorts really. The game is the result of us watching loads of old films. PS: It shines through! RD: [Laughs] Yeah, if you look at the level names they're all puns. In fact, you probably saw that on Twitter -- loads of fans were giving us really cool puns. In terms of the inspirations, though, there's Indiana Jones , and then there's lots of James Bond and 60's spy and sci-fi stuff too. We also incorporated some really crazy stuff in the "Deleted Scenes" section of the campaign. One example is where you play as a bear on a unicycle. There's some time-travel stuff as well, where, for example, you race through a jungle inhabited by dinosaurs. So, there's plenty of variety compared to the first game. PS: Cool. Talking about the original game, why did you decide | SP | SP IT | 3,117,569 |
of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, and so Urth needs a new sun. The Book of the New Sun is almost heartbreakingly good, full of riches and subtleties that improve with each rereading. It is Gene Wolfe's masterpiece. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk Review " The Book of the New Sun establishes [Wolfe's] pre-eminence, pure and simple.... The Book of the New Sun contains elements of Spenserian allegory, Swiftian satire, Dickensian social consciousness and Wagnerian mythology. Wolfe creates a truly alien social order that the reader comes to experience from within...once into it, there is no stopping." -- The New York Times Book Review I've read some of the reader reviews of "Shadow and Claw" and come to the conclusion that the book needs an introduction. Many of the negative reviews, I think, come from readers who weren't familiar with Gene Wolfe's writing style, which is understandable. So let me say for Wolfe that you cannot by any means read "The Book of the New Sun" the way you would ordinarily read a book. This mostly stems from the fact that the book is supposed to be an autobiography, and the writer, Severian, really can't be trusted to describe things accurately. A pretty good example would be the first woman Severian becomes interested in, Agia. He tells us that she was the | IP | IP DS | 357,435 |
to tie something down or an MRE package. The soldiers all carry these and I felt annoying after asking them time and time again to use theirs. -A Small backpack. This can be used for many things. I found that when I went out on small overnight patrols, it was very helpful having a small backpack. You will be expected to transport your own possessions, so the back pack you bring needs to be big enough to fit a few MRE packages, water bottles and your sleeping bag (which you will be carrying on small patrols) but small enough that you can hike 10 miles with it without it becoming a burden. -Medicine: All COPs have medicine and a medic or a Physicians Assistant, so you will never be sick and not have someone to help you. However, if they tend to be low maintenance (meaning, if you go to them with a cold, they will just give you Sudafed) so if you are a med-head like me, come prepared. The dust over there is very bad and can cause severe allergies which really dampens your mood and distracts you from your work. Muscinex, Sudafed (the kind you get BEHIND the pharmacy counter) for nasal decongestion, and Nyquil are helpful. Also, this is a bit gross, but also if you already have digestive problems maybe some type of herbal laxative tea or fiber supplements. Easting MREs for days on end can really cause your stomach to get clogged up (some | OP | OP AV | 3,252,069 |
did not want a repeat performance!) So her brother is determined to find her a replacement. Fortunately, her brother's good friend, Jude Bertrand, (the bastard son of a Duke), steps into the breech and offers to 'save' her. For years, Jude has recognized Marissa's adventurous nature but he felt her youth forbade his pursuit. But now that she's older and in a fix Jude feels this is just the time to play the hero. I really enjoyed this book, because it explored the question of a young woman's burgeoning sensuality in a historical context when sensuality was hardly acknowledged. She has these feelings that she can't discuss with anyone, but they won't go away. Though the story is largely about sensuality, it isn't erotica, and descriptions of sex are not the point of the story. The book does a nice job of capturing that confused time in young adulthood when many conflicting ideas scramble for a toehold in a person's consciousness: looks versus character, words versus action, family versus society. Both characters are interesting and have real depth. I immediately liked them and became invested in their growing realtionship. I have my mother to thank for my passion for writing. My mom is an avid reader of popular fiction, and I began reading highly inappropriate books around the age of eleven, I think. (Thanks, Mom, for always leaving those delicious books strewn about!) To Tempt a Scotsman, a Golden Heart winning historical, was my first published book. Here I am | IP | IP DS | 795,181 |
Reports: Description: JET SPUR has established himself as one of the leading sires in Qld in just 3 years at stud siring 61 winners last season! That's a PB after a dozen winners as a freshman in 09/10 and 42 in 10/11. We've had a part of that joy through city winner EMPRESS ME and smart 2yo PARSNIPS which is one of the reasons we've waded in again. Anyone who tells you racing participants don't gravitate to where they've had luck, is deluding themselves! At the MAGIC MILLIONS NATIONAL SALE in JUN, the final sale of the year, we snaffled the cheapest horse bought all year.....a very tidy colt out of the 7 time multiple city winner, Bush Triumph. Hard to believe we could have got him for just 15k, especially given the depth in his pedigree. For a Qld bred, his distaff side boasts a heap of stamina. His Mum was stakes placed and won from 1300-2100, his grandmother was successful over 2100m 3 times whilst his great granny, Belubula, was a stakes placed winner from 1900-2000m. And it's in this third dam that the real quality is revealed through the high class stayers, GOLD GURU (GROUP 1 AJC DERBY, AUST GUINEAS, RANVET etc) and GALLANT GURU (SANDOWN CLASSIC, QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES etc). Geez I remember GOLD GURU all too well...the bugger beat TIE THE KNOT in the DERBY when RS Dye was not seen at his best! The first thing you notice physically about this bloke is his | IP | IP DS | 69,130 |
My question is where do I put the unattend.xml file for a custom installation of Windows 7? Yet sounds simple enough, after many years using the sysprep tool during the Windows 2000 and Xp days and now Windows 7 comes with a completely complicated way of doing a custom installation method. My main reason is so I can have the user profiles on another partition instead of the usual default location where windows installs it like c:\documents and settings (for example). I have tried putting the unattend.xml in the root of the cd, but the installation and custom settings I did was more of a miss than a hit needless to say. I don't know if I should rename the .xml file to something else, or put this in the main windows 7 directory like the (i386) where I used to put my winnt file in Windows XP and Windows 2000. I have no idea which one is the main directory for Windows 7; nor can I boot from bios with a flash drive to test more than once for each method. Any suggestions? wainuitech 13-08-2011, 10:40 AM How did you make the unattended file ? Done it many times using WAIK, and the unattended file was simply put onto a USB drive, then when booting the PC it looked and found that first and then the installation proceeded from the DVD, with all the details as per the Unattended file. Only thing is, you have to pull the USB | ID | ID DF | 1,731,458 |
blank), so I can dedicate the day to concentrating on the comic. I love Hourly Comic Day; I consider it to be like a comics meditation -- something that makes me really examine what I do and how I structure my life around it. I used to do 24-Hour Comic Day, too (when you stay up for 24 hours to make a 24 page comic), and I really liked it, but the toll it took on my body for the rest of the week was too much. Hourly Comic Day doesn't seem grueling to me -- I get to go to sleep whenever I want to! RV: Do you have a particular routine in New York and what parts of New York do you spend most time in? LK: I work from home, so I tend to stick around my neighborhood (The West Village). I go to Brooklyn quite a lot, as most of my friends live over there, but I love the West Village, as impractical and expensive as it is. There are so many great places to find cool, cheap food. Moving to New York has seriously derailed my love of cooking. Why cook when I can go get a kati roll, or visit the place that does amazing noodles? I haven't been home much this summer, as I've been lucky enough to pick up a lot of travel work, so I've been going on quite a few working trips. My routine is all up in the air | SP | SP IT | 3,327,154 |
search engine. However, many search engine designers are aware that people are doing this with the intent of boosting their rankings and have therefore introduced techniques for spotting those pages. The test most often used appears to be checking to see whether a page is referenced from elsewhere on the site. For this reason, you should always create links back to the entry pages from elsewhere on your website. Don't leave your entry-pages unreferenced from elsewhere on the site or they'll likely be badly penalised as a result. Keyword stuffing on the page . This is an old technique that used to be effective but will now almost certainly send you right to the bottom of the rankings. It involves adding a huge number of keywords to the bottom of a webpage (often using a text colour that matches the page background so they can't be seen). Virtually every search engine now checks for such tricks and will penalise you very severely if it's used. Now it's time to look beyond the search engine for even more traffic... | HI | HI HT | 1,714,608 |
Root Soup received pro bono support through Business in the Community's ProHelp programme in the form of a new website, developed by Ardmore Advertising ProHelp is a network of professional firms that provide assistance towards establishing more sustainable communities in Northern Ireland. The value of this work for our local community cannot be quantified in terms of financial value. It actually changes people's lives. Staff development and demonstration of commitment to corporate responsibility are key business benefits, however, it also promotes a rise in professional standards. Jackie Henry, Partner, Deloitte Chair of ProHelp With budgets being increasingly tight pro bono work is becoming a more popular way for businesses to make a contribution. Firms, which include public relations agencies recruitment consultancies, solicitors and surveyors, agree to donate a specified number of hours over the course of a year to help good causes. Charitable organisations then make requests through Business in the Community to use these services free of charge. ProHelp, our national network of over 1,000 professional firms is committed to providing free advice and support to groups from the voluntary/community sector to enable them to become more sustainable. Over 130 local member firms locally are engaged in providing pro bono, professional advice to the voluntary and community sector, including social economy projects. Much of this work takes places in deprived communities, where local groups are unable to fund additional services to support key activities. What are the benefits? Provides your employees with opportunities to use their professional skills outside | IN | IN DT | 3,069,354 |
air kilometres but they cannot do more. Question 2 can be done by trial and error, but some hints may help the students approach the problem logically, for example, "Only two places need to be visited more than once. Which are they? Discuss your reasons." (These are Auckland and Rarotonga: Rarotonga because you must come back from Papeete, and Auckland because it is home and also, in the least air-kilometres itinerary, because it must be visited to get to Nuku'alofa.) Answers to Activity 1. a. Only two itineraries use up all the air points in one trip: either Auckland -- Nadi -- Honolulu -- Rarotonga -- Auckland or the reverse: Auckland -- Rarotonga -- Honolulu -- Nadi -- Auckland. b. Itineraries can include only a return trip to either Brisbane, Nadi, or Nuku'alofa. c. Answers will vary. The itinerary in a could be extended to include a return trip from Rarotonga to Papeete (2 284 km) or a return trip from Auckland to Nuku'alofa. Another itinerary could be a round trip taking in Brisbane, Osaka, and Nadi. 2. 35 897 air kilometres. The route that uses the least number of air kilometres is Auckland -- Brisbane -- Osaka -- Nadi -- Honolulu -- Rarotonga -- Papeete -- Rarotonga -- Auckland -- Nuku'alofa -- Auckland. | IN | IN CM | 1,730,098 |
Decorating Have you a question that needs answered? Does a similar question to yours appear in the list beneath? Please browse the list of questions posted below to find the answer. Click on the question to view the response from Mitre 10. If you cannot find the answer and you would like to ask our experts a question, please click the Send Mitre 10 Your Question button below. Our Kitchen floor has a vinyl flooring and it was rather thin. Can you please advice me how to git rid or strip this ugly flooring without ruining the original floor? Under this vinyl was a beautiful rimu flooring.Please advice on how to sand/polish it in order to restores the original floor with out vinyl. Response from Mitre 10: Vinyl flooring put down in the period from 1960`s to the early 80`s often had asbestos in the backing material. Sanding off old lino is therefore not recommended because you`d spread asbestos fibres. We recommend that you get your vinyl floor tested for asbestos by a professional testing company. Only remove the flooring yourself once it has been cleared as asbestos free. Once you`re sure that the flooring is free of asbestos, use Ados Solvent N to soften the adhesive of the vinyl. Keep your vinyl wet and use a spade to scrape it off. It is a hard job! Scrape carefully without digging into the wooden floor to minimise any damage. You can sand off any remaining adhesive. Once your floor is | ID | ID QA | 1,765,215 |
of civilization and how this rat race began, and how it is perpetuated, then begin to formulate your own understanding as to where it may be heading. 4 Consider how well orchestrated life seems to be . Some type of consistency does appear to exist, at least on a micro level. 5 Stop comparing yourself to others . Your ability to experience joy will grow dramatically when you stop comparing yourself to other people and only compare yourself to yourself, if to anyone at all. In an ironic twist of fate, this can be achieved incrementally by holding a more stoic subjectivity. 6 Don't be afraid to make up your own rules . Remember to let go of "should" -- you are in charge. (This message is a "should", so take it with a grain of salt.) You are the lightning of your values, and don't forget that, ultimately, value is genetically grounded in the body, even if it appears to be emotion. If you feel anxiety about "what to do", now that nobody else is telling you what to do, that's the most exciting part of the journey ... remember childhood? Mystery? Adventure? Smelling new smells and feeling new fabrics? New foods? Do something to improve your experience of joy. 7 Try to voice what your problem is . Some people write full-length sentences to help determine what their issues are. Others start by writing a poem in order to get their thoughts and feelings flowing. Later, you can | HI | HI HT | 408,684 |
wing bias of the whole ABC commentariat can hardly be capable of being part of any solution. From Barrie Cassidy to Tony Jones to Leigh Sales Kerry O'Brien to Jonathan Holmes to David Marr and to everyone else in between, the range of political views could be covered with a handkerchief - a small one at that. If Scott is either blinkered by his own ineptitude or overawed by the influence of the staff, then it is time for him to move on and leave it to someone who will return the ABC to all Australians - not remain as a taxpayer funded mouthpiece for the ALP and Greens as it has been for years. Better still, I agree with the comments above that the ABC should be commercialised and all staff removed from the purview of the Public Service Act. I expect commercial accountability and loss of tenure would have a rapid positive effect. Rocky: 14 Jun 2012 12:04:58pm As we see time and time again, evidence is not an important, or even necessary part of the conservative's argument against something they disagree with. Re-defining the terms of reference of the discussion (i.e. shifting the "reasonable, centrist position on an argument" or re defining the meaning of terms like "fair and balanced") is usually the first step, then endless bleating the second. Terry: 14 Jun 2012 10:32:18am After watching most of your tv and radio programs over the years I find your interviewers to show and push blatant left | SP | SP FS | 24,011 |
to come true And I can't wait to see what you'll do With all of this love that I'm saving for you All of this love Can't wait to see what you'll do with all of this love All of this love that I'm saving for you All of this love that I'm saving for you | LY | LY SL | 1,400,941 |
waits for the parents To notice; they do and beat on him until he opens his case and gives them each a poem; there are not enough and he takes out pads of yellow paper and squats at their feet, writing more poems that are snatched away. The first readers are finished and rip the poems into flakes that settle about him like moths; they want more, and he writes them While their daughters take turns putting their fingers in his mouth, their bodies writhing in ecstasy as they feel the movement of letters closing into words. The one on our right is tuxedoed; the other is wrapped in a sling of burlap, pinned low at the hip; both are bald, neither is tanned, though summer is just over; most certainly they are brothers. On a stretch of bamboo, some well-used paraphernalia: a two-foot run of garden hose, a larger cut of steel rod, the antique thumbscrew seen in the advertisements, & a helmet, its iron straps crossing like the weave of a basket. At the back wall of the stage, hung in black scrims, are four shapes; nothing is said of them, but we do learn from the diapered twin that the brother is mute; we respond with applause, & the mute bows, extending his hand to his brother who affixes the thumbscrew & leads him to the footlights. He asks the front row to note the pressure of wood on bone; it is a young woman who winks | LY | LY PO | 337,812 |
fine. Mother has done this sort of thing a thousand times before." "I just wish I knew how things were going." "You have to believe everything is fine. If it weren?t, mother would have been out by now." "How much longer?" The warrior muttered as she paced. "Babies get here when they get here. Relax." Back and forth, about six paces in each direction, back and forth. This time with a little, three-year-old, blonde haired, blue eyed, shadow tracing the same path. The warrior turned, smiled at the first born and scooped her up in her arms. "Aunt Ephiny says the new baby will be born soon, my little princess. What do you think of that?" The warrior asked with a huge grin. "BABY!" Came the reply from the little one that was so much like the mother who had born her. "What should we name the new baby?" The warrior asked giving little Cyrene a hug and then began tickling the little girl. "Baby!" The little girl managed to get out through the giggles that erupted from her. "Your momma and I thought Ephiny would be nice. Do you want to name the baby after Aunt Ephiny?" "Yes." Cyrene said still giggling. "Ephiny it is then." With their daughter in her arms the warrior continued, back and forth. Back and forth, about six paces in each direction, back and forth. Today their daughters would become the rightful heirs and warriors in the amazon nation. The warrior looked deeply into | LY | LY OL | 66,010 |
hit with the apples after asking about second breakfast, it is Viggo Mortensen himself chucking the apple at his head. They had to shoot the scene 16 times to get it just right, and Billy Boyd says he believes Mortensen enjoyed himself immensely. In one of the most obscure references to the books, Bilbo states proudly to Gandalf that Frodo is "... a Baggins, not some blockheaded Bracegirdle from Hardbottle". Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, the relative who knocks on the door during this scene, is mentioned in the books as being born a Bracegirdle from Hardbottle. During the council scene in Rivendell when the fate of the Ring is being decided, when Boromir makes his plea for the Ring to be brought to Gondor, the "Gondor theme" can faintly be heard; in "Return of the King", when the characters finally reach Gondor, this theme is heard as a full orchestral piece. Composer Howard Shore didn't plan out that this Rivendell background music would develop into the "Gondor main theme" by the third film, but it ultimately did evolve into it. After much deliberation, it was decided to do away with a prologue as it would have been so overstuffed with information. It was only after production had wrapped and Peter Jackson had flown to London to start working on the scoring of the film did he get an instruction from New Line, the film's backers. Which said there had to be a prologue. So, while Howard Shore was recording the music track, | IN | IN | 701,210 |
of Indigenous Peoples" will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York, 29-31 January 2013. Twelfth Session of the Permanent Forum 20 - 31 May 2013 UN Headquarters, New York Special Theme: Review Year Provisional Agenda: 1. Election of Officers. 2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work. 3. Follow-up on the recommendations of the Permanent Forum: (a) Health; (b) Education; (c) Culture. 4. Half-day discussion on the African region. 5. Comprehensive dialogue with United Nations agencies and funds. 6. Discussion on the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples. 7. Human rights: (a) Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; (b) Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples and the Chair of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 8. Future work of the Permanent Forum, including issues of the Economic and Social Council and emerging issues. 9. Draft agenda for the thirteenth session of the Permanent Forum. 10. Adoption of the report of the Permanent Forum on its twelfth session. | IN | IN DT | 295,239 |
the runners, different yet the same, sweatshirts wet on their backs, legs pounding the stones in place, a sudden burst of speed as they pass by, nodding his way with the nod a newsboy gives with change, cautiously, making sure his fingers don't touch your palm. He's wanted to come here to the grandstand, stark in its concrete and bolted slabs of wood, and the stones -- most of all the stones; He remembers how he'd fondle them, flicking one away each time he finished a lap, running flatout with the last one tight inside his fist, keeping it, storing it away with the others at home. The runners are at the far bend and coming hard -- they will pass him again, where he stands aside, feeling the stones tumbling in the dark he has made of his hands. Here's what poets James Dickey and Miller Williams have said about On Earth as It Is by Dan Masterson. "Poetry in the second half of the twentieth century is striving desperately for the truly human. Most of the time it fails to reach the ground between abstract, intellectual, chilling perfection and the wallowing in self-pity that we all know in contemporary verse. Dan Masterson has achieved that fortunate and magical ground." -J.D. "A compelling first book come out of a large spirit and a tough mind. ... This is one of the books I'll keep within reach." -M.W. Dan Masterson came to poetry by way of stints as narrator, actor, | LY | LY PO | 337,812 |
Devised from an eclectic range of hit pop songs from across the decades, I was pleasantly surprised with how well a narrative the collaborative team of Fingerprints & Teeth Productions and Dynamotion were able to create for the dance/theatre show Terror Island . Starring Lara Fischel-Chisholm as Lara, Jennie Robertson as Jennie, and Tom Sainsbury as Tom (Sainsbury), this trio of both devisers and performers have generated a plot that resembles the basic 90s teen-horror and has enough of a journey to sustain 50 minutes of fun. Supporting our core cast are the hilariously goofy Kate Simmonds, the Blue Steel-faced Roberto Nascimento, and the peripheral gauging one-step-behind Dan Veint. The six come together and, even without their colour-coded uniforms, manage to create discernable characters, although I was confused once or twice as to whether the supporting cast were performing as back-up dancers or one of their own varied characters in certain sequences. Narrator Paul Harrop is aptly used and consequently relinquishes the actors of any dialogue whatsoever. Choreographed by Fischel-Chisholm, Robertson, and Sainsbury, it's evident by the end of the show which of them has the strongest background in dance. It's unfortunate, however, that there was no outside eye to keep everyone in check. Lighting operator Chris Walker keeps things interesting with a range of colours that nicely articulate the style and rhythm of each musical sequence. As with all Fingerprints & Teeth Productions, the show is at the mercy of Sainsbury's wit and has moments of classic comedy. There's | OP | OP RV | 3,798,454 |
within a reasonable system of some kind. Dead Questions Reflect Dead Minds Unfortunately, most students ask virtually none of these thought-stimulating types of questions. They tend to stick to dead questions like "Is this going to be on the test?" questions that imply the desire not to think. Most teachers in turn are not themselves generators of questions and answers of their own, that is, are not seriously engaged in thinking through or rethinking through their own subjects. Rather, they are purveyors of the questions and answers of others -- usually those of a textbook. We must continually remind ourselves that thinking begins within some content only when questions are generated by both teachers and students. No questions equals no understanding. Superficial questions equals superficial understanding. Most students typically have no intellectual questions. They not only sit in silence; their minds are silent at well. Hence, the questions they do have tend to be superficial, ill-formed and self-serving. This demonstrates that most of the time they are not thinking through the content; they are presumed to be learning. If we want to engage students in thinking through our content we must stimulate their thinking with questions that lead them to further questions. We must overcome what previous schooling has done to the thinking of students. We must resuscitate minds that are largely dead when we receive them. We must give our students what might be called "artificial cogitation" (the intellectual equivalent of artificial respiration). The Art of Socratic Questioning The | IN | IN | 563,612 |
you and how that helped you later in life. Write without wanting anything back in return. Be honest. Be so honest that you bruise yourself. Be so honest that they are bruised also with those memories. Not in a bad way, but a way that makes an impression. A raw bruise opened. Return unread emails from 5 years ago. Apologize to people. Write every day to people who never expected to hear from you again. This is part of the cleansing. J) Worst case scenario analysis. At any given point in the past 15 years I've had a worst case scenario: I lose my home, my family, my friends, my pride. I have to scale down, scale out, go to jail (I've never had to go to jail for anything but we're talking possible worst case scenarios). I think my article about Yitz , where he did go to jail for 19 months while he went broke, sums it up. Its never as bad as you think. If you have to move, maybe you move to a place by river. If you have to go to jail, you exercise and read. If the people around you cant handle the worst case scenario, I get it. But they either leave or get more flexible. Picture very clearly the worst case scenario. 99.99% chance its not going to happen . It never really does, which is why waking up at 2 in the morning is so bad because that's where the beast | OP | OP AV | 767,812 |
arms, and rightly so. The Consequences of our Inaction The toll of all this neglect is enormous. In the trouble stored up over the years as minor problems become major ones. The extra physical healthcare necessitated by mental illness costs the NHS a further 10 billion a year, according to the London School of Economics. It costs almost 2.5 billion in replacing staff who are unable to continue at work. And it costs 15 billion in reduced productivity. That's almost 26 billion a year. Or 71 million each and every single day. And think how little we talk about this major burden on business. Costs our economy cannot afford. So mental health is an economic as well as a social challenge. Our failure to act is a national failure. It's one we must put right if we are to be a One Nation Britain, where everybody has a stake and we build shared prosperity. One Nation So can we do it? It is often hard for a country to admit that the time has come to confront new problems. Particularly when economic times are difficult. But our country has faced these kind of challenges before. Major unaddressed challenges that affect the whole country. Challenges that seem to too big to overcome. It was true in the 19th century. The speech that Benjamin Disraeli used in 1872 to launch the idea of One Nation was, in fact, about sanitation. He called upon Britain to rise to the challenge of public health. | SP | SP FS | 3,139,727 |
After all, as one walks around the Old City, ducking from one quarter to the next, its residents appear knee-deep in compromise even as they assure you that no compromise is possible. But then you see two groups of boys, one Jewish and one Arab, spitting obscenities at each other outside the Damascus Gate. An Arab man tells you to get out of the Islamic Quarter until you tell him that you're an Australian Gentile? -- ?probably best not to say an Australian atheist? -- ?at which point he invites you in for tea. You read about an Arab man whose death at the hands of Jews is described by the Israeli police as a "lynching". An Israeli man tells you that his country will retain its Jewish majority at any cost and despite the demographic data to the contrary and an Arab man tells you that it's only a matter of time until there aren't any Jews left in Palestine at all. And what you slowly come to realise is that Michael J. Totten's observation on the Israel-Lebanese border holds true here, too: calm is not peace, no matter how long a period of it a city is enjoying. For all the popular phantasms this city adheres to, the image of an ancient ethnic melting pot is not one of them. Indeed, the phantasms it does adhere to are more recent, and the most dominant of these remains the line that once cleaved this city in two. The Green | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,314,894 |
quick video shows you how to seal and fold the gyoza. 7. Place the sealed gyoza onto a lightly floured tray and repeat these steps until you've used all the mixture. When you put them on the tray, gently push them down so they have a flat bottom -- this will make frying them much easier later on. 8. While you can cook the gyoza straight away I find that they are easier to make if they're frozen, and you're probably going to make more than you need anyway so the ones you don't want now can just stay in the freezer. When they're frozen take them out leaving the ones you don't need in a sealed freezer bag for later 9. In a frying pan heat 1-2 tbsp of oil on a medium heat. When the oil is hot (but not smoking), place all the gyoza into the pan and fry for 1-2 minutes. 10. Then pour about half a cup of water into the pan and cover with a lid, leaving the gyoza to steam for about 6 minutes (or until the water has all but evaporated). When the water has all gone the gyoza should fry for another minute or so until the bottoms become golden brown. Serve immediately with your choice of dipping sauce -- I prefer something like Siracha chilli sauce! If you've left some in the freezer the next time you're hungry and want something tasty, but can't be bothered cooking, grab five of | HI | HI RE | 3,724,147 |
The 'mail-list' managers simply forgot, or didn't know, how to ban him. 1) No, it wasn't. It was a public press conference that Stein's PR firm manipulated by not allowing reporters to ask questions. There was nothing private about it. One of the worst ways to have a private conversation is by inviting reporters to listen in and write about it. Dumb statements by Ken: 1 for 1. 2) Stein's people announced the call in number over the non-private phone conference. PZ called in, made comments, and then published them on his blog. Again, this was a press conference called by a PR firm working for Stein, there was never any intent to keep that private. Dumb statements by Ken: 2 for 2. 3) No, that's not what happened, you made it up. And TF was removed from the network. Regardless of how he got in, he violated a federal statute by evesdropping and gather private correspondences from a network he did not belong to. Here's the statute: Keep on rocking, tf00t! The FTBullies are a gang of shameless hypocrites! If I were you, I'd publish EVERYTHING. No mercy! But hey, I don't live in a country where you get life in prison for spilling your coffee either. You have my support! While the way you obtained the E-mails is morally questionable, as far as I know, you used them to inform a person that his job might be in peril, without giving away personal information of the people who | OP | OP OB | 3,215,836 |
That's all there is to it! Put them in freezer bags and use a straw to suck the excess air out of the bag. Label them with the date and freeze. The final step is to crow about your awesomeness as a healthy home maker! ~ This is one of my little ways of reducing my carbon footprint. This corn was bought locally and didn't have to be trucked to a processing plant, trucked to a warehouse and trucked to a grocery store. The cobs went to the chickens and Gert and Maude loved them! The ice water and cooled blanching water were dumped on my gardens. Maureen ... great idea. My husband would love that as he does not like eating it off the cob ... on the other hand, that is the way I want it. We picked in a field in Calif. and it was so sweet and tender, you did not even have to cook it. LOVE it. Glad you shared the cobs with the chickens. I throw my out and the deer chew on them. Blessings, Audrey Z @ Timeless Treasures. About Me Hi! I'm Maureen and this is my time to step back from all the busyness of life and follow my heart. I'd love to have you join me as I work on my century home for I'll need a little help and a lot of advice. Along the way, I'll share the "tricks of the trade" from the world of decorators. Thanks | HI | HI HT | 235,147 |
Debian squeeze image from here http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads download the zip file and extract it. You will end up with a .img file this is the operationf system that you are going to build onto the sd card. Once you have done all that pop the sd card into the pi and power up. MAKE SURE THE PI IS ON A NON CONDICTIVE SURFACE OR BETTER STILL BUY AA CASE. Look on eBay. The first time the system boots it may take a while but have faith. It needs to configure itself. If you are going to buy a SD card for the job go got a class 10 card. I find they run reasonably well. Another thing you will notice is a total and utter lack of sound. This is because the drivers are still in testing so are disabled. Not to worry the web is your friend Without starting the graphical interface and assuming you have logged in a pi, type the two following commands. sudo apt-get install alsa-utils This will download and install the drivers. "Sudo" allows you to run the command as a super user "apt-get" tells the operating system to get the application from the "app store". "Install" tells the operation system you want to install the app and "alsa-utils" is the app. Google apt-get for more info. Once that has installed and you're back at your command prompt type sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835 This tells the operating system to load the audio drivers. NOTE TO LINUX GEEKS!! | ID | ID QA | 512,379 |
in broad daylight being torn apart in slow motion by a fire spewing cannon. The fire and smoke not only occupied a large section of the screen, but the fire had to interact with the intricately detailed armor of the Thug, which had almost 800 different interlocking metal shapes. The project required some heavy hitting fx power, and Houdini was chosen to handle the job. I have had a long relationship with SideFX software and have been very happy with their product Houdini in the past. With this in mind, I approached SideFX to use their new Houdini 12 beta version, which has great tools for addressing our volumetric needs in development. Our IT team was able to quickly integrate into the software into the Image Engine film pipeline. In the end, we used Houdini's new volumetric technology quite extensively in the production of the Battleship Thug destruction." Daniel Elophe: "The most challenging aspect was that the fire needed to interact with the breaking thug, and move around/through pieces. There was a good solid month of back and forth, brainstorming and trying lots of variations of fire within the context of the explosion with Jacob running fire simulations from various body parts of the Thug. For me as an artist, this was the most rewarding part of the process, working extensively with Jacob and being given a lot of creativity and flexibility from Chris and our producer, Vera Zivny to explore what would work well." How did you create the | SP | SP IT | 759,343 |
makes its decision. The Minister's direction must be in writing and must state the reasons for calling in the matter. The EPA then gives public notice of the Minister's decision. This public notice must outline where information on the proposal can be viewed and invite submissions within 20 working days after the public notice. The requirement to notify a called-in application applies even if the matter has already been publicly notified (and submissions received) by a local authority. Any person can make a submission to the Minister on a matter that has been called in, whether or not the person made a submission to the local authority. Every submission on a matter to a local authority is deemed to have been made to the Minister. As soon as practicable, the EPA must provide the board of inquiry or Environment Court with all information that relates to the matter and any submissions received. The EPA must serve the public notice on the owners and occupiers of land to which the matter relates and the owners and occupiers of adjoining land. If the application was lodged with the council and not directly with the EPA, the council must provide the EPA with all the information that relates to the matter. The EPA must also commission a report from the relevant council on the key planning issues. This report will include the relevant provisions of any plan or policy statement, outline whether all the necessary resource consents have been applied for, and the | IN | IN FI | 1,764,786 |
Floor installation should be the final step after any other decoration work. Be sure the sub floor is completely dry, clean, flat, and sound before starting. Vacuum or sweep the floor thoroughly to get it free from dirt or any other substance. See ill. No.1. If the sub floor is concrete, it should be older than 30 days (this is for a "new" build or newly poured cement slab). The preferred room temperature is 21? (70 ?) with a relative humidity of 35%~60%. The cork floor planks need to be acclimatized for 24 to 48 hours within the job site. Check for flatness. Any bumps or hollows exceeding more than 4mm within 1 square meter area (the length of one flooring plank) below or above the standard level should be sanded down or filled with filler. See ill. No.2. Cork floating floors are intended for indoor use (as with any other flooring system such as laminate flooring). Installing floating floors in humid areas such as bathrooms or laundry rooms is not recommended. Cork tiles (glue down flooring) should be used in such instances. Installation: Step 1. Step 1. Lay the planks lengthwise with the direction of sunlight. Check for color harmony and consistency in the flooring. This can be done when allowing your materials to acclimatize beforehand. Manage abrupt patterns by relocating planks. This allows for a more natural transition between color variances in the cork. See ill. No.3. Step 2 . Installing over a concrete sub-floor usually requires some | HI | HI HT | 260,938 |
an essential part of my childhood collection; however, unlike many other series of that time, I really enjoyed getting into them again. The first half of this volume features two parallel storylines that lead the series into the adaptation of Return of The Jedi. First, you have the Rebel Alliance trying to locate Han Solo, who was frozen in carbonite and handed over to Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back. At the same time, they're searching for two missing Rebel spies who have information on a certain new Imperial superweapon with which we're all familiar. One has to wonder how the Alliance could let several of their key members roam all over the galaxy like this, but Luke, Leia, Chewie, Lando, Threepio, and Artoo certainly get the job done. There are many events in these stories that are regarded as non-canon in the modern Star Wars Expanded Universe, yet in doing some research, I was amazed at the lengths to which some people have gone to make them fit. The best approach is to realize that these stories were written long before the Expanded Universe really took off, so anything that is outside of "official" continuity should simply be accepted as an oddity, and nothing more. Writers David Michelinie and Mary Jo Duffy do a good job of marking time yet maintaining the suspense up to ROTJ, which is adapted by Archie Goodwin. The rebels' adventures take them to exotic worlds such as Stenos, Lahsbane, and Iskalon, where they | IP | IP DS | 601,171 |
busy (overwhelmed) with the kids, house, working again FT, exhausted, he felt left out (due to lack of sex) and acted out. Thought he was having an affair but swears he wasn't but withdrew from all of us totally. One day agreed to counseling and dropped the bomb he doesn't want to be married anymore. Months of therapy, fighting, crying and no progress. Finally the stress of everything got to me (there's lots more but don't want to bore) and I told him fine, if this is what he wanted - it's done. He moved out at my request. Static relationship, scared about the kids out with him (he admits that he resents them), lots of drama. One day (about six months into separation) tells me he thinks he made a mistake. We try to work things out, he moves back home in May 09 after a year plus of being gone (big mistake) nothing works. I'm too hurt and angry and he doesn't make any changes either, although he has become a much better dad. This has been going on for 4 years! Also need to say we haven't had sex in these 4 years as well. Back in Sept I told him it was over, nothing is woking and this needs to end. He's not happy and I must admit he is trying to be good but for me I just feel like it's too late. Too much hurt and awful things said and done to repair this. | ID | ID QA | 1,428,393 |
Darrelle Revis, Mark Sanchez , David Harris and Shonn Greene , and trades for vets like Antonio Cromartie and Santonio Holmes, the Jets used just 23 draft picks in a five-year span (2007-11), with just 10 of those coming in the first three rounds of the draft. That's made it so the sting of losing players like Holmes and Revis is compounded. I believe Rex Ryan when he says his Jets will keep fighting. That's been their M.O. in the face of bad losses like the two Gang Green just endured. Whether they're good enough or not is another question. The St. Louis Rams , a team that still needs more work but has a nice core of young talent, should provide a barometer on Sunday for how far the Jets have fallen. 2) The style of Ravens - Steelers . This is my favorite rivalry in the league right now because, as much as anything else, you know what you're getting when the combatants square off. Here's the animated way John Harbaugh explained it to me last fall: "You go into this dark place. It's like you're in this globe, in a good way, and suddenly there's nothing outside of that moment, outside of that stadium. It's unique to these games, and yet, both teams are so comfortable in that place. It's where we're supposed to be. It's where they're supposed to be. It's hard to describe." Here's hoping it stays that way. Despite the Pittsburgh defense's lofty ranking | NARRATIVE | NA SR | 84,511 |
ensure we continue to be a compelling part of lives of our audience. We need to be respectful of our past but not captive to it. My message to the ABC staff has been clear -- the forces being unleashed on media organisations are unprecedented and, in the words of former Intel boss Andy Grove, "only the paranoid will survive". But for all that -- despite all the gloom and the prospect of bleak news, I hope that those who will most use this book, the journalism students, can be excited about what still lies ahead for them if they get the opportunity to find and tell Australian stories. In our experience at the ABC, from the smallest town to the biggest city, there is an endless appetite for Australian stories, well told. In his marvellous poem on Odysseus, Cavafy writes of the long journey of the war hero back to his home in Ithaca -- long delayed and interrupted, at times lost, detained and stalled. But the real experience comes not at finally reaching home -- the career goal - the big job -- the fulfilled ambition. Instead, a long journey makes you: wealthy with all you have gained on the way, not expecting Ithaca to make you rich. Ithaca gave you the marvellous journey. I think there are still marvellous journeys to be had down the road of journalism. Firstly, there has never been a larger and more accessible audience for news and information. More than ever, people | SP | SP FS | 24,011 |
work and any other cool work you have done in your spare time. And we are always on the constant search for people with amazing work that just blows us away. | IN | IN DT | 1,746,289 |
know what will bring it back other than a standoff between the USA vs. China and The latin world and the arab world that is industrializing itself slowly and India. All your jobs have gone there for silly call center customer service jobs. One saving grace of the USA is Nevada. Apparently has more gold than Canada, Russia, China and Ghana combined. Could be. If so, that State will not care about the landscape. Dig, baby, dig. Re: gold rising to $56,000 an ounce for the USA to balance its books. Book as the USA dumps the gold on the market, the price will fall. Plus, how many buyers do you expect to buy gold at $56,000 an ounce?? Can't see how this will end well for the West. Things are going to get ugly and mean. Don't paint us all with the same brush. I maintain that we are still a country of mostly good people. There are some real wingnuts out there and they are definitely not just the conspiratorial crowd as you call them. I get pretty concerned oftentimes when I travel, but then I have experiences like I had in New York on a subway to a Yankee Game back in May. I have never seen a more polite and friendly group of people. And no, they were not drinking Bud! Bobby, that is a real can of worms trying to decide what comes when the US dollar fails,if there are any currency experts out there | SP | SP OS | 3,373,301 |
us. Especially on mp_citystreets, unlike Jiggaw00h, where we expected to just overrun them. But still, it is like the same, we woke up too late, that's all. -So why did you guys not use a timeout or something, just to relax and calm down a bit? Indeed, indeed. It's too late to speculate now, but we were so down at the time to think about that. -So, if I understand correctly, you think of Immortal eSports as one of the dark horses of this event? They have done really well so far, do you think they can beat one of the top teams in the Playoffs as well, or is it just luck today? They are definitely the dark horses here, ye. I think they are even better offline than online, which is quite surprising, because I think it's the first LAN for many of them. I can see them at least taking a map from YoYoTech or Phantasmagoria or REGret eSports, it would not surprise me at all. -Are you content with your own play so far? Like how you are playing individually? If not, what is the problem, do you think? Are you nervous or is there something with your equipment? Ye, this is the worst LAN for me, ever. I have never played this badly before. I don't know why, I was in a bad beat, it was in my head, the problem. It's not, I cannot come up with any excuse, I was so bad. I | SP | SP IT | 1,478,015 |
Most victims end up too weak to stand up for themselves so surely would not be reporting this themselves or they would surely simply walk out of the relationship? And even when they do the police and courts are almost powerless to protect people from stalking due to weak sentences around this area being dished out. Which leads me to believe that this could be used to help strengthen weak existing laws regarding stalking and harassment. If this is such this will be a real good move as the police and courts can claim that following or waiting outside a persons house is braking this law as well as any restraining orders. What this also means is that if parents report the grooming or abuse of their children the police and courts will have more power to act regardless of the victim making a statement. Once a restraining order is then broken they have the evidence needed to enforce a new harsher law (I hope it's harsh anyway). Making the kind of scum that harass and groom women that little bit more fearful. As the threat of violence is sometimes as bad as the violence itself. So yes a very good thing indeed as I suspect this is being put in place more to stop grooming and the life long damage of women being controlled by scum. As long as the courts follow though with tough sentences! This is a bold radical move much more deeper and helpful than it | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 744,111 |
to simmer. Poach the plums in the liquid for about 10 minutes, or until they start to soften and break apart. Then remove them, and the thyme, and raise the heat under the liquid. Cook for about five minutes, stirring often, until the liquid is reduced to a syrup. Taste, and if you feel it is not sweet enough, add a bit more honey. Pour the liquid back over the plums. To serve, use a cookie cutter or drinking glass to cut shapes out of the cake. Dollop the cake pieces with plain or flavoured yogurt, ice cream or whipped cream, and add the poached fruit. | HI | HI RE | 73,877 |
and talent so these kids can learn skills that will very well help them for many years to come," said Mark Bonda , building construction instructor at the high school. "The partnership and experience they bring to the table is indispensable to the school. We would not be able to teach what we teach and offer the tools in the shop without their involvement." The Del Webb residents also talk to the students about career planning, help update curriculum and sit on the advisory board for the high school. They recently collected funds to donate a special table saw that has a stopping mechanism that will not allow it to cut through flesh, Bonda said. For volunteers like those with the Woodworkers Guild, the Del Webb community lifestyle provides many outlets for people seeking ways to give back to the community. "When we deliver the school supplies, the principals and teachers are thrilled and sometimes overcome with emotion at the generosity of our Del Webb residents," said Michele Ramsey , who lives in Del Webb's Sun City Mesquite north of Las Vegas. She and others in the community collect supplies for three schools in the area and residents also volunteer in the classroom. "We read stories, assist in the classroom, help chaperone field trips and even work with the kids on science experiments. There's never an end to the ways you can give back." About Del Webb Del Webb is a national brand of PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM). Del Webb, | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,431,112 |
to me to say that she Was very short of money, so I whispered, 'Never mind.' Then I kissed her twice, and took her on my knee A man came to the door and shouted, 'Got yer.' Now what excuse do you intend to make?' When he said, 'I'm her husband.' I said, 'Fancy meeting you Come in and cut yourself a piece of cake.' The other day, I watched some ladies, swimming round about I got as interested as can be Till someone came behind me and gave me a gentle push And then a champion swimmer rescued me I said to him, 'You've saved my life, young fellah How can I pay you back for goodness sake?' When he said, 'Do not mention it.' I said, 'Oh that be hanged Come in and cut yourself a piece of cake. Last Christmas Eve, I went to bed and got beneath the sheets And just as soon as I commenced to snore I heard a funny noise and as I jumped up out of bed I saw a burglar, at the pantry door When I said, 'Who are you?' he said, 'A burglar, And as I find there's nothing much to take, I'm looking in the cupboard, if you've got a decent knife I'd like to cut myself a piece of cake.' A widow cleaner came to clean our windows, sad to say He missed his foot and fell down to the floor They took him to the hospital just | LY | LY SL | 240,320 |
in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. | ID | ID DF | 3,225,484 |
have a few minutes warning of your bride turning up, and by this stage most of your work will, or at least should be done. Just make sure any transport you've arrange to the reception is on time and ready, get into position and try to enjoy things. At the very least you should start having fun by dinner. The main tip I can give you is not to panic. There are so many things that can go wrong, and she might not realize just how much you've done on the day, as long as you're married and still love each other at the end then you can probably call that a win. Such great advice for grooms. I think us brides tend to have quite a pampering, relaxed morning for the most part, especially if the venue can be prepared in advance -- although I'm sure Anna didn't with all the snow drama! | OP | OP OB | 3,021,017 |
considered an invasion;it's considered white supremacy,as the black nationality is the only nationality that would allow a member of its nationality to be publicly monitored,an racial profiled,an only the American Black nationality would allow such!So no respect for black,an the President can't be allowed to be considered as right,as minds are brainwashed to discriminate against blacks, as there's a black mans mind heard by the public,30 years,an no political ofc.intervention,an no consideration for what such communistic mind slavery does to the publics minds in design of characteral image even in thoughts,an actions.Every politician running for the presidency,an their staff members are all programmed,same as their supporters are,an yet no comments about mind sabotage privacy invasion techs use anti-americaness.All the presidential hopefuls are saying is: they're white,an they'll also see to your babies being programmed to a darkies mind,same as every president since Mr.Jimmy Carters presidency ended has done at no public protest,an in name of Liberty,an Justice,an even your Pope an the Catholics,an every religion of people are programmed,an the public accepts it,as white supremacy,an theft,of mind does cause thefts,an other even drug related crimes due to many can't deal with what U.S.political ruling regime has done exploitiously,brainwashedly to minds through cia mind control tech use on the public.Not even the air broadcast media comments,as all they do is accept the racial profiling of the monitored man,an they spread propagandious racist lies against the first black president on every tv,an radio station,an no comments against the U.S.political regimes cia mind | IP | IP PA | 3,180,864 |
in a historically well-informed manner, that an appropriate choice for such a measure is not to be found in Newton's pre-existing absolute notion of time, but rather emerges, in the form of ephemeris time, from the observable motions and the assumption of energy conservation. The paper also suggests how this emergence of duration might be relevant to problems in quantum gravity. A fundamental problem in quantum gravity is that the "Wheeler-DeWitt Equation," probably our most reliable equation of quantum gravity, does not refer to or even suggest anything like time or evolution. In this context time must emerge in the form of relations between a given system and some other system that may be considered a clock. Kiefer beautifully reviews this problem, and argues how, via quantum "decoherence," time as described by the usual Schroedinger equation in quantum mechanics can emerge from this timeless substratum, via entanglement between physical systems within space, and the spatial metric that controls motion. Drawing on recent developments in string theory, Carroll impressed the panel with an exciting account of how a gravitating spacetime might in fact be just a holographic approximation to a more fundamental non-gravitating theory for which "time really exists." Contemplating the difficulties raised by strange recurrences in an everlasting universe, he argues for a strong condition on the set of allowed quantum states that would disallow such repetitions. Carroll closes by attempting to reconcile this picture with recent observations that indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, with surprising | ID | ID DF | 444,213 |
Wanted: Hitchhiking all the way down from Brisbane to Sydney Hey, my name is Flo, male, 24 years old and I'm searching for a Travel/Hitchhiking Partner from Brisbane to Sydney between the 28.-30.10. I don't care how much time we need to go down but a few days would be great. Stops on all the famous sights at the southern eastcoast. I'm waiting now 1 week for a lift but nothing happend. I want to go with a other person because by my own it's not that safe but together even better. Made some experience with Hitchhiking and all were positive. Myself: nice guy, down to earth and good to travel with. I could send you more details of me if you're interested. Just call me or leave me a message asap Nice Greetings, Flo Seller other items Hey, I'm looking for work as a Header Driver in QLD or NSW. I've been driving John Deere 9750 STS and 9610 in Germany/Australia. Was driving more than 1000 hours on the Header. Experienced in mechanical set up before work. No problem to work long hours. My name is Flo, male, 24 years old and from Germany. I'm a good worker and learn fast. Travel and work now 7 month in AUS and my English skills are good improved. Stay at the moment close to Brisbane and could start immediately. Please ... Tweed Heads Area You may also be interested in... Hi, We are two Belgian girls. We're looking for a lift | IP | IP DS | 46,351 |
to time, "It is far too complicated for the average person to understand." Private schools, are very aware of social-status, and as such do not provide education based on income, and other SEC factors, but rather providing a quality education, with a sound foundation of the 3 Rs. One outcome, that I have discovered, is that the private schools, the graduates take a larger share of scholarships, compared to public education. Within the public education, the high income groups have the greater share of scholarships to the lower income groups. What do the students share within their schools of the public education system, a firmer grounding of the 3 Rs, which in turn increases social-status of the individual students to captured the attention of the scholarship people, to seats in post-secondary, and in the end, jobs. In a place like China, no matter what income, a child like mine would have a much lower social-status, because of her disability. Most immigrants who have the money leave the country, and the rest, have no choice but to play the game. In the typical public education system, a student who has a language problem such as LD, are faced with a lower social-status, because accommodations, and lowering outcomes by themselves, will not improved the learning weaknesses of the student. They are never on equal-footing with their peers, unless their reading, writing and numeracy levels are brought up to the same levels, in order to complete with other students regardless of income, and | IP | IP PA | 213,093 |
a long time ago. And there's how to do a gerat card trick. | HI | HI HT | 293,933 |
not just how much you really miss them -- but how much you really owe them. My dad influenced me much more than I ever thought. He was born with no heels on his feet and legs about a foot shorter than they're meant to be. But he never complained - even when he lost both those legs later in life. Because disability in the 1930s was such a stigma, he was an only child. Probably a lonely child. But Dad was the eternal optimist. To him the glass was always half full. Usually with something alcoholic in it. When I was a boy I remember once going on a long walk with him in the village where we lived, passing the church he supported and the village hall where he took part in interminable parish council meetings. He told me what he was most proud of. It was simple -- working hard from the moment he left school and providing a good start in life for his family. Not just all of us, but helping his mum too, when his father ran off. Not a hard luck story, but a hard work story. Work hard. Family comes first. But put back in to the community too. There is nothing complicated about me. I believe in working hard, caring for my family and serving my country. And there is nothing complicated about what we need today. This is still the greatest country on earth. We showed that again this summer. | SP | SP FS | 634,415 |
(Words - GA Johnson) None of us are what we were/I know you've heard this all before/I know you've heard this all before but none of us are what we were/But it's a dark age, a dangerous time/I'm on the last page, the end of the line/But it's a dark age, a dangerous time/I'm on the last train, the end of the line/Outside the bar on the road to the Madrid, a curious frost settled down on my ribs/These were the badlands, the sad lands/I wanted to leave but I wanted to give/Whispered in song in the tops of the trees, "Tears are the only rain that we see"/Whispered in song in the tops of the trees, "Tears are the only rain that we see"/I get up too late to wave off the night/ I get up too late to wave off the night DARK HORSES (Words - GA Johnson) When you're preoccupied, like a moth with the light, we are 'sacking your life; we are bleeding your pipes. When you're hooked by the line, by the crook of your spine, we are sparking the knives; we are Frankenstein. When you're preoccupied by the junk of your life, we are marking your card, we are catching off-guard. When you're thanking the Lord for the fat of your land, we are cutting the cord; we are back of the hand. Our love is the love of the loveless. Our tears are the tears of the bird. Our side is the side | LY | LY SL | 21,312 |
The other day, when I picked up my mail as usual, I found something most unusual. It was a letter from a member of Stephen Harper's cabinet and the conservative Member of Parliament for my riding in Toronto, Joe Oliver. But the page did not contain a single word of Mr. Oliver's on it. Instead, both sides of the single page letter were filled by a reprint of a September 8, 2012 National Post article by former George Bush speech writer David Frum. The article was called 'Good Riddance to Iranian Diplomats,' and was a defence of the Canadian government's recent expulsion of all Iranian diplomats from Ottawa. Frum's defence is, in large part, a superficial restatement of old, disreputable accusations -- listed, but never supported. Mr. Oliver then tags on to the end of the letter the (improperly punctuated) question, "WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK? Do you support closure of diplomatic ties with Iran?" He then gives three options: yes, undecided or no. This last line, a limping attempt to cloak this piece of propaganda in the veils of democracy, was even more scary and maddening than David Frum's article. Well, Mr. Oliver, here's what I think. Though David Frum raises a couple of legitimate complaints about Iranian treatment of some Canadian citizens, most of his charges against Iran are not charges at all, but reverberations of the same questionable and discredited claims that have been amplified over the years by the echo chamber. Frum traces the | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,351,205 |
dark and started berating us, saying we would never get the beauty of this sort of thing. I saw the intensity of his personality, and I came away liking him. When I became editor of Time , and then at CNN, he was my good friend for two days a year when he had a new product out. So there was that relationship. I got a phone call when I went to the Aspen Institute in 2004. He said he wanted to take a walk. I said, "Sure." I didn't know that taking a walk was the way he had meetings. I'd written a book about Benjamin Franklin. I was just finishing up a biography of Albert Einstein. He said, "I want you to do my biography next." My initial reaction was "Yeah, okay, Ben Franklin, Albert Einstein, you ..." I wondered, half-jokingly, whether he saw himself as the natural successor in that sequence. I said, "Maybe in 20 or so years, when you retire." Later his wife said to me, "If you're going to do a book on Steve, you had better do it now." By then it had become public that he was sick. She said, "He didn't want people to know, but he called you right before he was operated on for cancer." Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer interviews Walter Isaacson and John Huey at the Global Summit for the Closely Held in September 2012. Serwer : John, what about you with Sam Walton? How did you | SP | SP IT | 3,189,216 |
must notify the Commission by submitting an 'Authorisation to confirm a valid card' form (PDF, 131KB). By submitting this form employers, volunteer coordinators or education providers will receive any important updates about an applicant or card holder's status. Please note, if you have a volunteer or student card and have not previously paid for your blue card and are proposing to enter into paid work (either with another organisation or through operating your own business) you must submit the Volunteer to paid employment transfer form and pay the prescribed fee. You will receive a new card with an additional three years of validity from the date of issue. Can a person with a criminal history have a blue card? A person with a criminal history will not necessarily be refused a blue card. If a person's criminal history suggests that a blue card should not be issued, the Commissioner will ask the applicant to provide a submission, explaining why the application for a blue card should not be refused. The Commissioner assesses the information provided in the submission before making a final decision. For more information about how the Commission decides who is eligible to work with children, please click here . Please note there are certain people who are disqualified from applying for a blue card. For more information on disqualified persons please click here . What if there is a change in a card holder's police or disciplinary information? The Commission monitors the police and disciplinary information of | IN | IN FI | 353,915 |
madness and synthetic ups and downs. You could call it 'the moment' or 'the here and now' but it's something less hedonistic than that. I guess the thing about the modern world is that you've got to keep running the whole time just to keep up. I think we all forget that it's important to just take the time to exist. There's beauty in the detail there but you can't see it if it's rushing past you the whole time. What would be the perfect setting or scenario where your fans should give this track a first listen? Definitely in the bath. I've read that your debut album is already recorded, mastered and ready to go. Have you decided on a name yet? Yeah, it's called 'What The Desert Taught You'. We decided on that because we felt it was a summary of everything we had gone through to finish the album. We got obsessed with the idea that we had left our road, gone in search of these songs and found ourselves coming round in a place of no feeling, a bit warped and void of all of the emotions and ways of being that you could normally associate with happiness. It took us quite a while to get back from that wilderness, and this collection of songs are about the journey out there and the attempt to get back; I think were one of those bands that are always up for really pushing ourselves in search of discovery, | SP | SP IT | 723,368 |
consistent with previous literature summarized in Whitehead and Whitehead (1999), which derived a stability for OSA 20x that of SSA. On the basis of the adolescent data only, one would have to echo the late '90s folk wisdom which opined rather simplistically that " former gays outnumber gays". The amount of change going on is so remarkable that we must ask why people who have changed from SSA are so invisible? Four reasons at least: they are embarrassed about their previous attraction and don't want to talk about it; any disclosure could wreck a current heterosexual relationship; disclosure would subject them to pressure from and interrogation by those who insist change cannot occur; they hope and believe their current heterosexual orientation is now stable -- and, according to the data it probably is. There is therefore a vast hidden reservoir of changed orientation in society, only revealed by surveys such as that of Savin-Williams and Ream. One inescapable conclusion is that clinical samples of homosexual/bisexual people who find change nearly impossible, may well be expressing what is valid for them, but their experience does not at all reflect the norm in society. * However there are inevitable problems -- frequently interviewees in the first wave could not be located again, and those who were not available might have been mostly same-sex attracted, for example, and this would skew the statistics significantly. This type of problem always crops up in surveys -- for example, what is the sexual orientation of those | IN | IN RA | 1,766,035 |
For most of their shared writing/directing/producing career, siblings Andy and Lana Wachowski have steered clear of media attention; when they wrote, produced, and directed the groundbreaking 1999 film The Matrix , they had a no-press clause expressly written into their contract. And they've rarely spoken in public about their other films: 1996's innovative lesbian neo-noir Bound , the 2003 Matrix followers The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions , and 2008's Speed Racer . They've broken form by engaging the media over their latest film, Cloud Atlas , a nearly three-hour adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel , which they scripted and directed with Run Lola Run director Tom Tykwer. The film is particularly personal for the Wachowskis: They spent years trying to find studio support for the $100 million project, and eventually made it as an independent movie, gathering the money from a roster of international backers, and putting in millions of their own when some funding fell through at the last moment. The Wachowskis have always been ambitious innovators, but Cloud Atlas is on another scale entirely. Closely adapting the book in content, though not in structure, it tells six stories in six different time periods, using a handful of actors who often play a different role -- sometimes across race, age, or gender lines -- in each segment. And it interweaves all six stories, leaping from the 1800s to the undated far future, while finding connections between them, and following an idea about how mistakes repeat over | SP | SP IT | 3,225,910 |
treatment of persons with latent TB, and updates to treatment guidelines for STDs. There have been challenges as well: the continued scourge of drug-resistant gonorrhea, unacceptable health inequities in disease burden, and challenges to securing needed resources in tough economic times. During my tenure as director of NCHHSTP, it has been my honor and privilege to take part in the process through which voices of the community and the country's top professionals at all levels inform CDC's programmatic decisions. With your expertise and partnership, we have enhanced integrated prevention approaches and better aligned resources to match the epidemics and increase our impact across the country. We have worked together on disease-specific initiatives while moving forward more holistic and integrated approaches to address the overlapping epidemics of HIV, STD, hepatitis, and TB. We have advanced the promotion of health equity, program collaboration and service integration, sexual health, and prevention through health care. We have worked together to ensure success for our social marketing campaigns and community mobilization efforts. These are your successes too, and we are deeply grateful for your dedication and contributions. As for my future plans, I have been appointed as the Director for Health Improvement and Population Health for Public Health England (PHE), a new national agency that will be stood up in April 2013. This is an exciting opportunity for me to shape Public Health England's foundational strategies for improving health and well-being services and tackling inequalities. My work with CDC and with you, our partners, has | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,273,318 |
from that published in the paper "The Weight of Nations" but is based on a more complete data set supplied by the report's authors, which includes many of the world's smaller countries. 19 comments on this story by oatsofwrath Not all fat people are fat because of overeating. There are a great number of factors at play. In the United States, poverty is one of the most influential factors shaping weight. It is not because of over eating - rather, many fat, poor children have been found to be malnourished - it is due to things like processed food being more affordable and accessible than fresh food. There are plenty of fat people in food deserts. Things have changed since the depression. Being fat can also be a symptom of health problems. Weight gain can be a side effect of necessary medications. It can also, ironically enough, be an outcome of dieting. It is also, undeniably, shaped by genetics. Some people who eat well and moderately and who get good amounts of exercise are fat. Some people who eat poorly and never exercise are thin. Heck, I'm thin, and my weight does not change no matter what or how much I eat or what exercise I do. I eat the same food and about as much as my partner, who is much bigger than I am. The only real difference in our eating habits is that I eat more often. Turns out weight isn't always a reliable indicator of food | IN | IN RA | 793,594 |
I get them. The UK, to the best of my knowledge, does not specifically stipulate the length of time you need to spend in the UK in a defined time period (such as two years in five) to keep your PR but you do need to be able to prove (if asked to) that your life is connected very substantially to the UK. Are you talking of indefinite stay/Leave to remain permanently in the UK or the Nationality? Because, if you have the nationality there is no rule as to how long you have to have lived in the country nor to have stayed outside. You may stay as long as you wish anywhere in the world and still return to the UK. (provided you are not ripped of the status (which can be done in some circumstances) or you give up the Nationality intentionally for one reason or the other "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change". To become successful you must be a person of action.Merely to "know" is not sufficient.It is necessary to both know and do. I might be in similar situation soon. However reading through a number of posts it has lead to confusion. Some say one need to contact the Canadian Embassy in London to let them know of the change in nationality prior to entry to Canada. Some recommend contacting the CIC in Canada. And others recommend travelling with | ID | ID DF | 218,623 |
the size of the blackheads on my nose. I'd even venture that nobody's well-being or happiness hinges on the clarity of my pores or the soon-to-be-"pastel jade" bedroom. After three years lived inside suitcases, painting the wall trim above our kitchen cabinets feels at once overwhelming and small. I hyperventilate in Home Depot, I am paralyzed in Walgreens. The magnitude of making a home, from the logistics of it to the decisions about wall trim and bathroom tile, chokes me to the point of silence. And at once, so does the fact that I have not used the word "impact" since landing here. In a sense, I have landed in the middle of a story. I have catapulted out of field work and parachuted into Boston, sliding straight from asking questions and measuring impact and hopefully making some impact too to making a home and grappling with a magnitude of permanence my mind cannot yet process. Edwardian Lace is my reality now -- or, at least, the reality of our soon-to-be new and freshly-painted staircase. Gem Turquoise? That's the kitchen wall. We did go with Dew Drop for the trim. Vermont Cream for the den. Peachy Kiss never left Home Depot. My schedule for tomorrow reads: "Post-project impact assessment. Write closing report. E-mail mentorship curriculum handbook to new scholars. Start painting new house." The worlds are blending into one another, but to me, they are still separate colors. I am slowly realizing I do not know the first thing about | NARRATIVE | NA PB | 3,270,274 |
9/28/2012 How to Make a Jewelry Hanger I was getting fed up with the state of my dresser and all the clutter that was piling up so I decided to come up with a solution! I made a little hanger for necklaces and for my hairdryer and curling iron. It was very easy, took less than an hour to do and the problem is now fixed! Here are the before pics. See all that clutter that doesn't fit inside my jewelry box?! It was driving me nuts! The first thing I did was get my supplies from the local hardware store. I bought some wooden, unfinished hardware knobs and asked at the hardware counter for a small piece of wood. They happened to have the perfect piece for me that was a scrap and FREE! It is about 2 feet long. I measured and decided to place the knobs 3 inches apart all along the board and then drilled holes in order to screw the knobs on. After the holes were drilled, I sanded it, just to rough it up a bit and ensure the paint would be applied nicely. I took it out to the garage and laid it on a sawhorse for painting. The holes on either end of the board are for hanging it later. I had this turquoise paint leftover from THIS project, so I used it! I let it dry over night and that was that! So easy! It fits perfectly beside the dresser and | HI | HI HT | 3,375,171 |
HeyUGuys talks to Genndy Tartakovsky, director of the upcoming 3D feature Hotel Transylvania about the intricacies of animation, his aversion to 3D and the art of making kids laugh. Turns out he's a bit of a softy at heart. Well here it comes, the standard opener: What do you see Hotel Transylvania as being about? The movie is essentially about Dracula as a father. It's about a father and daughter and the father coming to terms with letting his daughter grow old and grow into who she is. Basically it's about learning how to let go. It's not a story about monsters but a story about a character. How did end up directing your first full length feature? I've been trying to sell an original idea for a number of years now. But you know, it's difficult as it's very competitive and there are a lot of movies trying to be made and so having something original is sometimes a little more difficult. I was working with Sony on another movie I was developing with them and this opportunity came up and it was about Dracula and it just connected with me -- that idea of Dracula as a person, Dracula as a father and so the chance to redefine Dracula for a new generation was really interesting to me. The monsters merely gave me a great way to frame the comedy. I actually don't like being scared so having to do monsters funny was really appealing and so I | SP | SP IT | 3,026,976 |
summer approaches back to the highly productive waters around Antarctica. Some species like the Antarctic Minke whales and Killer whales are thought to spend winter in Antarctica; there are areas within the ice called polynyas that stay open because of the currents under the ice. They live in these actually quite large areas of open water, which is pretty amazing! Question from: Lachlan to: Someone else dated: 23 Feb Question: Hi Could you please take your time to answer my quest. What is the rarest creature you have seen? Thanks Lachlan Answer: Dear Lachlan -- the rarest creature I have seen is the Campbell Island Flightless Teal. This is the rarest duck in the world and only lives on Campbell Island. It has really benefitted from the removal of rats and cats from this island. Rodney Russ Expedition Leader. P.S from Floyd: It was widely thought this duck was extinct until Rodney found one in 1975, what a legend! Question from: Dionne Niha to: A scientist dated: 23 Feb Question: Hello Paul Bonetti This is Dionne Niha typing a question from Whangarei Hora Hora Primary School. Mrs Reeves teachers me and the rest of our class Room 19. What I would like to ask is... Has the boat ever had to turn around because somebody has wanted to go back home? Answer: Hi there Doinne, everyone has been having a great time and no one has asked to go home yet! Question from: Kauri Class to: Te Radar dated: 23 | ID | ID QA | 1,775,182 |
the runners, different yet the same, sweatshirts wet on their backs, legs pounding the stones in place, a sudden burst of speed as they pass by, nodding his way with the nod a newsboy gives with change, cautiously, making sure his fingers don't touch your palm. He's wanted to come here to the grandstand, stark in its concrete and bolted slabs of wood, and the stones -- most of all the stones; He remembers how he'd fondle them, flicking one away each time he finished a lap, running flatout with the last one tight inside his fist, keeping it, storing it away with the others at home. The runners are at the far bend and coming hard -- they will pass him again, where he stands aside, feeling the stones tumbling in the dark he has made of his hands. Here's what poets James Dickey and Miller Williams have said about On Earth as It Is by Dan Masterson. "Poetry in the second half of the twentieth century is striving desperately for the truly human. Most of the time it fails to reach the ground between abstract, intellectual, chilling perfection and the wallowing in self-pity that we all know in contemporary verse. Dan Masterson has achieved that fortunate and magical ground." -J.D. "A compelling first book come out of a large spirit and a tough mind. ... This is one of the books I'll keep within reach." -M.W. Dan Masterson came to poetry by way of stints as narrator, actor, | LY | LY PO | 337,812 |
to be written by and for neo-cons. (not all that surprising, he has no foreign policy ideas of his own, and the neo-cons are the dominant force in GOP foreign policy. Those members of his foreign policy team he has announced all have neo-con links) Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" This chump just goes to show the strange state of affairs America is facing, they are so far right on the spectrum someone on the left of the "norm" in mainstream politics would be concidered very right wing in the 20th century. Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" I hope he keeps this up. Nothing like the opposition doing self-inflicted damage to make your spirits soar. ( Originally Posted by AspiringGenius ) Meh I don't like Romney but I'm sure he was talking about having a greater leadership over the US Military rather than conveying an imperialist message to the region. It's more a misphrasing Re: Mitt Romney said there was a "longing for American leadership in the Middle East" ( Originally Posted by The Mr Z ) Given Romney's other foreign policy statements regarding Israel-Palestine, China, Russia etc, it's certainly not passive, and I think he literally means the US taking charge and throwing its weight around. His foreign policy at the moment seems to be written by and for neo-cons. (not all that surprising, he has no foreign policy | ID | ID DF | 684,125 |
Freelancers' Questions: Who pays for postage, me or the client? Freelancer's Question: I've been working as a freelance media analyst for a few years on behalf of a single company, but for different accounts. One account requires me to analyse clippings from newspapers and magazines, which come in hard copy in batches of around 100. These batches can either be collected from the company's office, or the company sends them to me by post. The company deducts the postage they have to pay for sending me the batches directly from my invoice. I can understand that if I send the batches back, that I have to pay for postage. But how appropriate or fair is it that companies also charge their freelancers for the postage the company pays for sending the work out to the freelancer? Also, as the company deducts their postage directly from my invoice , I don't have a receipt for that, so I assume that I can't deduct it from my taxes. Is this correct, that I'm effectively barred from making such a deduction? Expert's Answer: Your client has taken the view that your business should suffer the cost of the postage. They have incurred the postage themselves and deducted this amount from your sales invoice. In effect, this makes their position tax-neutral as they are passing the cost to yourself to claim via your business. It is unusual that this cost has been passed on to you as the amounts are relatively insignificant and as | ID | ID QA | 3,087,437 |
related to perimiter security therefore the actual cost of this for a low rise office block would be the same as for a high rise block with the same basic ground floor area. Likewise large organisations tend not to share their premises with other businessess so that again tends to reduce security costs. When you talk about "malware" then most of it these days is via the internet. The skills and equipment needed for this is not something most small to medium size businesses can easily justify as a proportion of operating costs. However the up and coming infection vector these days although still quite small are USB drives people use at work and home and for which encryption provides absolutly no protection. Likewise for "road warriors" encryption is often only of use if they turn the machine off. Many don't and either let it "sleep" or put it into heibernation which leaves the data vulnerable. For DBs of sensitive data the "old iron" mainframe and terminal model is actualy very good. Upto date would be diskless clients to local servers with no external connectivity and encryption on the wire with no USB or other ports on the diskless clients. @ Rr, "The Hartford in Conn. actually offers "data privacy coverage." The limits seem to be a bit low, and coverage details aren't all that apparent in the news release" Hmm from what you quote "expenses" may well not cover fines or other liability that might arise, so it might | OP | OP OB | 3,266,751 |
Murder in the country seat Review by James Urquhart The queen of crime revisits Jane Austen's famous lovers six years after the close of 'Pride and Prejudice' Death Comes to Pemberley , by P.D. James, Faber, RRP7.99, 352 pages The queen of crime revisits Jane Austen's famous lovers six years after the close of Pride and Prejudice . Elizabeth is married to Mr Darcy and settled in Pemberley, his magnificent country seat, and on the eve of Darcy's annual ball, Elizabeth's flighty sister Lydia dashes into Pemberley with cries of murder. Darcy musters a search party and soon discovers Wickham, Lydia's drunken husband, leaning over a mortally wounded friend. Arrest and confession ensue. More IN Fiction P.D. James 's brisk style is more boisterous than the precise, economical language of Austen -- whose cool observations eschewed melodrama or sentiment. James brings the drama and pace of a whodunit to this generally enjoyable sequel but, somewhat surprisingly, doesn't make much of a fist of investigating the crime. James knows her period policing and courtroom methods but Wickham's arraignment, trial and sentence are only half-heartedly set out before a largely unforeseeable twist resolves the case. Vigilant armchair sleuths might feel short-changed. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2012. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web. | OP | OP RV | 196,923 |
Resolved Question Worked for Mcdonalds two years now, think it's time for a new job...? I left school, started at college and secured a position at mcdonalds as a crew member two years ago, since then, I have worked and gained experience in many different stores, through transferring to another store and helping out at others when they have had their crew outings etc. started out working for the company itself but now work for a franchise, which unfortunatly I do not find as beneficial as I did working within a company owned store. Although I do enjoy my Job, - and the skills it has taught me, which believe me are seriously underrated by those who don't have some sort of experience in this area of work, it's seeming more and more mundane lately. Problem is, I am still in college, and I really don't know how to sell McDonald's experience to any future employer, or where the skill set I have gained from McDonald's will be best suited Best Answer - Chosen by Voters focus on what the employer you are approaching would want and how you can help them (what you are good at). Customer service team working staff supervision? Hard working Knowledge of food industry, health and hygiene ambitious Other Answers (4) I use to work for McDonald's also when I was in high school before starting college but I would use the basics like: teamwork, customer service, leadership, work on your own, etc there are | ID | ID QA | 1,430,098 |
Dr. Strangelaw or: How Portugal Learned to Stop Worrying and Love P2P On January 5, 2011, representatives of ACAPOR (a Portuguese association representing commercial retailers of cultural and entertainment works), wearing t-shirts with the slogans "piracy is illegal" and "1000 complaints per month", filed a petition with the Prosecutor General's Office ("PGO") giving notice of the practice of 1000 acts of alleged usurpation of authors' rights via peer-to-peer ("p2p") networks by unknown individuals. Said petition was supplemented in April 2011, with notice of a further 1.000 acts. Following an Opinion by the PGO ("PGO Opinion"), the Department of Investigation and Penal Action ("DIAP") of Lisbon decided not to file any criminal charges in relation to the notices; an integral copy of this decision was made available online by a main Portuguese newspaper on September 27, 2012 ("Decision"). The PGO Opinion has not been made available to the general public, but this blogger has been able to read it. Both the PGO Opinion and the Decision are significant insofar as they qualify all acts of download occurring in a p2p network using BitTorrent software as privileged under the private copying exception, raise the possibility that some acts of upload are covered by the same exception, seem to impose additional requirements for the criminalization of acts of upload within such networks, and state that IP addresses are insufficient as evidence to identify an alleged infringer. Furthermore, the PGO Opinion can be understood as setting forth the position of law enforcement authorities in | IN | IN | 3,031,785 |
Mastering Productivity: How to Be More Effective With Your Time Time is a special resource. A lot of people say it is a scarce resource, but most people don't recognize this. The fact that most of us have many years ahead of us, doesn't give the feeling of scarcity now does it? But time is special in a sense that it can not be recaptured once it has passed . If it has passed it is gone, and our unknown remaining supply will only reduce further. So we better make good use of our time and make it as productive as can be. But what is productive time? Productivity is effectiveness and efficiency combined, so let's dive into those aspects. Effective time: doing what you want to be doing Like I say in the first part of the series, effectiveness is first. Knowing what you want to experience in this life and knowing what to do in this life are what defines whether you spend your time effectively. Most of the time management systems mention this a couple of times, but they don't focus on it. But in my perspective this aspect is essential when it comes down to real fulfillment of the way you spend your time. The Eisenhower Matrix takes a step towards identifying the important from the non-important stuff. You define what is important and what is not, based on what is important to you. Knowing what your personal values are, knowing your mission statement or mantra, | HI | HI HT | 250,674 |
it? with heroes and villians, genii and legends you should be writing for the college magazine it's a bowl so small that you'll look good albeit a bit pissed up on the beer so sing for joy the mummy's boy who was happy to take the love but not so fussed that he could stop to thank her all that child and all that labour and complaining by the neighbours splinters from the part of the anchor getting obsessed with body bits and knowing that you're not alone watching TV as your mind's getting blanker I really need some sewing done and want it doing beautiful the woman plays the part of the anchor he wished he was american, he even put the tv on for 'portrait of a legend' on paul anka he's into hazy faces and he'll visit foreign places and bemoans the woman's part of the anchor the power and the glamour are the roles that you can dig but you will always pass on work 'cos you're a wanker and on life's stage the state of play is decided by the man and the woman plays the part of the anchor morbid tale; the fear of fear which supercedes it wind from sail, just don't come near and guilt who needs it woke up one morning and found for my sins the sun posing round in the sky scraped up my doubts and then made for the bin the trash pulled the sleep from my eye | LY | LY SL | 276,708 |
Im stupid? [- From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/a/andy-sambe\\... -] Im not a part of this system! My dads not a phone! Duh! Some poser hands me a cake at a birthday party What you want me to do with this, eat it? Happy birthday to the ground! I threw the rest of the cake too! Welcome to the real world, jackass! So many things to throw on the ground Like this, and this, and that. And even this. Im an adult! Then the two phonys got up. Turns out they had a taser. And they tased me in the butt hole. I fell to the ground. The phonys didnt let up. Tasing on my butt hole, over and over. I was screaming and squirming My butt hole was on fire! The moral of this story is: you cant trust the system! Man! these lyrics are submitted by Sarah these lyrics are last corrected by andy samberg | LY | LY SL | 538,332 |
from healthcare my career is in the crapper. shaggydave | 7.25.09 @ 10:20PM A point about medicare/medicaid, the government is way, way behind in paying money they owe to hospitals. Meanwhile the hospital still has bills that they need to pay, and our creditors don't wait until we get paid for us to pay them. Guess who the hospital has to shaft just to stay afloat? Hey there Sputnik-I get it that you described a decent experience with you Brit socialized system which does in fact seem fairly stream-lined. However, you didn't actually have a serious problem that required extensive care or costly investigation. What you described certainly sounds similar to the health care I have through an employer partial-payment plan. I will say that I am very happy with my health care plan and gladly pay the weekly cost as I know I will be taken care of even in dire situations. My understanding is that the system in England does not provide dialysis for people with kidney problems over the age of 55. This is unheard of in the U.S. on any system. We have a very compassionate care system and even health care providers that involve allot of red tape are still very good at making sure treatments are available and timely. My wife is a Russian citizen by birth and she is very paranoid of Doctors and Dentists due to this. It took me several years of convincing and some exceptionally good local Doctors and Dentists | IP | IP | 186,900 |
way to big. +1 saintanger, i prefer sticking to Nokia, plus i hate touch screen lol just yesterday i bought myself a Nokia Asha 302 which is an updated version of the E71 and so far its great. The only downfall is i dont think it has a dictionary (at least not that i can find) | ID | ID DF | 3,311,274 |
In The Eyes Of A Mistress And This Is How I Met Tyler Durden Lyrics In The Eyes Of A Mistress And This Is How I Met Tyler Durden Lyrics total views : 1 times this week. You can enlarge lyrics to and this is how i met tyler durden for easy viewing, send it to your friends or rate the song And This Is How I Met Tyler Durden by In The Eyes Of A Mistress and help the song become popular. If you have any corrections for these lyrics or any ideas about the meaning to and this is how i met tyler durden, please feel free to submit them. All you ever do is lie And every day, it's all the same and Nothing ever seems to change The only thing I can thank you for is All the dome you gave me You worthless fucking bitch Everything you ever did was fake You weren't even that cute in the first place How could you think I wouldn't Catch on to your lies You think you're sly Come on, let's keep this professional Not let our feelings grab a hold Look at us, breaking all the rules We have everyone fooled [- From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/i/in-the-eye\\... -] Too bad the only fool is you If only we had done what we wanted to Throw you both out in the cold Leave your body for the wolves You're such a dirty girl Full of dirty little holes We'll leave your | LY | LY SL | 207,929 |
film. And so we financed the development of it ourselves. My partner and I just paid for the development of the project out of our own pocket and he went to South Africa. He shot some test film of his friend Sharlto Copley , who's not a professional actor as such. He's an old buddy of Neill's ... they used to know each other when they were young and Neill wanted Sharlto to be the lead in the film. And he's actually really, really great. You'll see that for yourself when you see the film. But we'd never met Sharlto so we sent Neill to South Africa to shoot a little 10-minute test of Sharlto and to shoot some more South African stuff just to sort of inspire the story. And then he came back and we wrote a script with him -- or, more precisely, he did the script and we sort of helped him and advised him with the structure and stuff. And then it was all go and we raised the money through QED , an independent finance company. And it all happened quietly and below the radar. GB: That's an interesting point you make about a tendency of new filmmakers to celebrate material they love as opposed to creating something entirely new. I suppose it makes sense that homage and craft are less elusive than unique personal voice... PJ: I can understand it because when you're a young kid or a young adult and you're wanting | SP | SP IT | 491,481 |
Driving in New Zealand Updated: 23 March 2012 You need to meet a number of requirements to drive on New Zealand roads. Just like other drivers, you must have a current driver licence; but you may also need an international driving permit or translation if your licence isn't in English. You'll need to consider more permanent arrangements if you're in New Zealand for more than 12 months. Here for a year or more? If you'll be in New Zealand for more than a year, you need to gain a New Zealand driver licence. If your overseas licence is still current or expired less than 12 months ago you can apply to convert it to a New Zealand licence | HI | HI FH | 1,772,692 |
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out Lyrics The Smiths Take me out tonight Where there's music and there's people And they're young and alive Driving in your car I never never want to go home Because I haven't got one Anymore Take me out tonight Because I want to see people And I want to see life Driving in your car Oh, please don't drop me home Because it's not my home, it's their home And I'm welcome no more And if a double-decker bus crashes into us To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die And if a ten-ton truck kills the both of us To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine Take me out tonight Take me anywhere I don't care, I don't care, I don't care And in the darkened underpass I thought, oh, God, my chance has come at last But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask Take me out tonight Oh, take me anywhere I don't care, I don't care, I don't care Driving in your car I never never want to go home Because I haven't got one, no no no Oh, I haven't got one And if a double-decker bus crashes into us To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die And if a ten-ton truck kills the both of us To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine | LY | LY SL | 450,398 |
Mrs Fox From AUSTRALIA the 03/20/2009 Dear Philippe and Christophe, A quick email to let you know how much our family enjoyed our stay in ARUM this December. The apartment matched the description on your website very well, it was immaculate and very comfortable and the view from the windows of the Seine and Notre Dame were wonderful. We are happy to recommend your company to others. Thank you for your very friendly advice and help during our stay - we very much appreciate it and it made all the difference to us. Please feel free to pass our comments on to others or place them on your website. All the best for 2009! Mark & Jennifer Fox REF Apartment : ARUM From 2008-12-14 To 2008-12-21 Mr Melinda Baldwin From USA the 03/20/2009 Dear Philippe, Christophe and Thomas, I'm back to reality in New York on this early Sunday morning and wanted to let you know how very much I enjoyed my month at 60, rue St. Louis en L'Ile. I had planned to call you on Friday morning before I departed for the airport but my driver appeared earlier than anticipated and, so, I was not able to offer an in-person thank you. From my arrival on October 1 till my departure on October 31, I relished every day in beautiful Paris...well, some of the sunnier days were a bit more enjoyable than the rainy ones but even the wet ones didn't detract from the pleasure of being in | ID | ID RR | 265,258 |
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Ask you how you have been feeling - if you cough a lot or if you find it hard to breathe sometimes Ask you and your parents if other people in your family have asthma or allergies Listen to your lungs with a listening device called a stethoscope If you are 6 years or older, your doctor may send you for a breathing test Q. Because I have asthma, do I need to stop exercising and playing sports? A. If your asthma is kept under control, you should be able to run around just like everyone else. If you do find it hard to breathe when you exercise, stop right away and take your "reliever" puffer (usually a blue puffer). Only start again if your breathing is back to normal. If your asthma is not under control, you should not start any exercise. Q. Some people make fun of me because I have asthma. What should I do? A. Unfortunately some people do not understand what asthma is. All it means to have asthma is that you may need some medicines for it sometimes and at times it can be harder to breathe. Explain to them that a lot of people have asthma, including top NHL players such as Gary Roberts and Olympic athletes. They have to take medicine for it too. Q. I have asthma. Why is it hard for me to breathe sometimes? A. Asthma affects the airways (air tubes) inside your lungs. These airways bring oxygen to | HI | HI FH | 566,814 |
i couldnt giv him wat he wanted he left me for her....i will always care for him but he left me empty. 1st Lv Nvr Die | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/8/08 1st tym i saw dis vid.. I felt lyk.. Dis is so diffrnt 4m all of brit's song! But really, i really2 luv dis song..Evry1 hv they own 1st luv..N until nw.. I can frgt my st luv..Even thought almost 3yr i nvr talk with him..Even I nvr hv a chance b his gf..But still I miss his smile n voice.. N i just can saw him frm far.. so ture | Reviewer: anna | 11/2/08 I love this song, when it first came out i was just a little girl in grade school who adored britney, and now her songs have actual meaning to me. This song really speaks to me beacuse recently my Best Guy friend who i was madly in love with, married someone eles out of the blue. He really was my first and true love, and the lyrics to the bridge "You promised yourself, but to somebody else; And you made it so perfectly clear; Still I wish you were here now" is so true to me, he was everything i wanted and i thought he loved me, i thought we were destand, but he gave everything i wanted to someone eles, and he's gone forever, but i still want him so badly i will always love him Broke! | Reviewer: Jolis | 9/20/08 | LY | LY SL | 181,682 |
Being comfortable with the person that is treating you is one of the most important things when choosing where to go to get your varicose veins and spider veins treated. At The Leg Vein Doctor you will only be seen by Doctor Kemp from your first consultation through all your treatments and your follow up appointments. Nick graduated from the University of Queensland in 1981 and has a long and varied history of working within General Practice. He developed an interest in Phlebology after getting his varicose veins stripped in 1987 only to be disappointed when they recurred soon after. | IP | IP | 33,451 |
third Games? CR: I think the IOC's point of view is that they'd very much like to have an American bid, but to leave the choice of cities to the USOC than to be speculating on what city the USOC might choose. I've never been a huge fan of domestic contests to decide what city you'll put forward because at the end of the day those domestic contests leave other cities disappointed and it's hard to get national unity behind one bid. We tried this with Birmingham and with Manchester twice and we finally got it right with London, so maybe it's best for the USOC to look at this. (Copyright 1992 - 2012, all rights reserved. The information in this report may not be published, excerpted, or otherwise distributed in print or broadcast without the express prior consent of Around the Rings.) | SP | SP IT | 68,402 |
Clinical presentation An 18-year-old male student presented with epigastric pain of 10?days duration. The symptoms were moderate and continuous but without radiation. The pain was aggravated by food and lying on his back. The patient denied a history of exposure to tuberculosis and any other medical or surgical history. There had been no weight loss or fever prior to the presentation. Physical examination was normal. Chest and abdominal x-ray showed no evidence of abnormality. Both abdominal CT and MRI confirmed a 3.5?cm round mass with enhancement in the pancreatic uncinate process, compressing the inferior vena cava medially ... | IN | IN RA | 223,449 |
one gunman -- and it was unclear whether extra troops had been sent out to the village after the attack to catch the gunman [they were preparing to search but had not yet left the base when Bales returned and was taken into custody, as subsequent information makes clear - pow wow ]. (About 1.5 miles to the south of Camp Belamby; where 12 were killed and none wounded ) ________________________________________\\... There's more precise detail from eyewitnesses to the killings and/or their aftermath in the southernmost Balandi/Najiban village [and the nearby Dawood home (see July 7th post )] -- due in part to the dramatic nature of the Wazir family tragedy there, and possibly also because it may not have been clear at first that a second (and third?) village to the north was also targeted, so that reporting and photography early on focused mostly on the Balandi/Najiban survivors. There are reports of direct attacks on two homes in [ or near ] Balandi/Najiban: The home of Mohammad Dawood [which I learned in late June is located about one-half kilometer east/northeast of Balandi/Najiban] and the home of Dawood's neighbors Mohammad Wazir and Abdul Samad (Wazir's father uncle ) [which is located in Balandi/Najiban village proper]. A Balandi/Najiban neighbor of the two Wazir/Samad home attacked there, Agha Lala, was an eyewitness to the attackers outside those that dwelling -- and, because Lala himself was not being directly attacked at the time, and evidently watched the attackers for some time (before being | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 1,718,796 |
Dm When all I got is sinking sand C Bb The trick ain't worth the time it buys F G I'm sick of hearing my own lies E Dm Dsus4 And love's a raven when it flies G G7 riff Dm Dsus4 Meet me on the other side G G7 riff Dm Dsus4 Meet me on the other side G G7 riff Dm Dsus4 I'll see you on the other side G G7 riff F I'll see you on the other side F C Honey now if I'm honest A Dm I still don't know what love is Add your comment: All tabs, chords & lyrics are the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this popular tab for private study, scholarship, research or language learning purposes. | LY | LY | 471,333 |
When should we commemorate the centenary of cyberwarfare - or has it already passed? It causes surprise when I inform those who say that UK, EU or International legislation on electronic signatures and transactions is urgent that the first test case on whether a cable is an enforceable contract went to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1869 and there plans would undermine the basis of over a century of global electornic commerce. Those say e-crime is new and needs new laws are equally susprised that the first detected use of electronic interception for criminal purposes was in France in 1834, when Francois and Joseph Blanc were found to have bribed cable operators to give them news of stock exchange transactions. The first (and arguably most successful) global agreements on conduct in cyberspace (including charging rates, coding and security processes), derive from the International Telegraph Conference in 1865. Should we count the start of cyberwarfare to May 1857 when almost the first act of Meerut mutineers was to cut the telegraph lines - albeit too late for the Delhi office to send the news out over 6,000 kilometres of cable linking the main communications centres of India? Or from May 1863 and the Battle of Chancellorsville when Butterfield made the first battlefield use of telegraphic deception and interception and the subsequent failure of the Union telegraph systems when the Union armies were on the verge of success blinded Hooker and led him to turn victory into defeat. There is an | OP | OP OB | 3,073,627 |
Restricted Licence for the 1st 2 years like the Motorcycle test, so they can only drive certain types of cars low cc, it will give them a chance to build motoring skills whilst still learning to drive in all conditions, also the smaller cars would mean a lower insurance premiums if it was made compluasry that all new driver (regardless of age) have these insurance boxes fitted. "And this would be down to the traffic police to enforce, presumably? Can see the cries of complaint from parents when their little angels are constantly being pulled over, whether or not they are complying with or breaching the rules. And why mention the 2 accidents at the bottom of the report - the Furzeground Wood accident only happened a few days ago and the investigation will be on-going, whilst Jake Gardner was alone and no cause known, so his accident is irrelevant in the context of new drivers possibly being banned from carrying passengers, as he wasn't doing so." | NARRATIVE | NA NE | 3,137,721 |
but also technicolour or at least glorious Sovkino colour. My work with the Free Theatre in the mid-1980s which involved doing sound and lighting design for theatre before straying acting was to begin with less a deliberate choice about honing a particular scene-making or scene-evoking craft than it was about worrying that my girlfriend was going to make off with bohemian members of the theatre group and having to justify my presence at rehearsals and shows. The fascination with working in experimental theatre, which very few people seemed to understand at the time, and the creative scope afforded by its enforced minimalist aesthetic came a little later. How did the new 'Ambivalence' release come about? I understand you worked with Arnie van Bussell on mastering the release -- but where did you source the live recording? I don't know how much "pre-loading" or seed-sowing was done by Bruce Russell in this matter but Roger Shepherd rang me at some point in 2010 to announce that having reclaimed Flying Nun one of the prime re-release projects he had in mind was the Pin Group. I thought that this was a chance to correct a minor error on the Siltbreeze compilation of 1997 where a Coat demo had been accidentally substituted for the Flying Nun 003 track. The idea of doing a decent Ronnie van Hout artwork package was part of Roger's pitch but I thought that it could do with an extra dimension if possible. As it happened our house got | SP | SP IT | 3,787,718 |
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