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The thirtyish black man who stands outside the door of the Cash Dome purses his lips distractedly, idly rubbing the videocassette recorder he holds under one arm. Beside him, his wife clasps and unclasps her hands. Inside the Cutler Ridge pawnshop - a lurid pink double-hemisphere that looks like a Buckminster Fuller project gone awry - co-owner Mickey Gallander depresses an entrance buzzer to admit the couple. The man, stout and broad-shouldered, lumbers in and deposits the VCR on the counter. His wife, taller and fatter, turns her back to her husband and surveys the shelves of merchandise, the vacuum cleaners, stereo speakers, electric guitars, leaf blowers, televisions, jigsaws, computers, radios, all covered with a patina of dust. She watches the transaction reflected in the glass door of a microwave oven.
"What do you want?" Gallander asks.
"Fifty for the machine. And here, friend," the man says. A gold chain snakes from his closed fist. "This, too."
For the VCR and the chain, Gallander offers $80. The couple can take it or leave it. They take it.
"Yeah," says Gallander, who is wry and middle-age, with a ponytail and a paunch that disputes his otherwise wiry appearance. "They bring in their VCR regularly. They drop it off, I give them some money. They have a month to come back and claim it. The VCR is always good for $50. Within two weeks, they're back picking it up. Sometimes they even come back later the same day."
Today the couple does not return, and the Cash Dome must content itself with other customers, other transactions. A young man with a tape measure clipped to his belt kneads the tail of his maroon T-shirt as he inquires nervously about a van he heard Gallander has for sale. A tall, elegantly dressed black woman drops by, wielding a gold fork. "I'm sorry," clucks Gallander, turning it over in his hands, touching the tines with his fingertips. "We can't take this. It's plated." With a resigned mutter, the woman returns the fork to its plastic sleeve, the sleeve to her purse, and leaves.
"People have this bad idea about pawnbrokers," says Gallander, who was a health-food restaurateur and jewelry dealer before he opened the Cash Dome with partner Mickey Gottlieb in 1988. "They expect to see Rod Steiger slithering out of the corner or something. But it's not like that. We're just a business like anyone else, except that our product is lending money. For some reason, that makes people nervous."
It's hard to believe that anything about the Cash Dome could make people nervous. The store's show room is bright and spacious, with an air of friendly clutter about it. And, as you'd expect from a pawnshop, this stuff is priced cheap. Jewelry, perhaps the single most important item in the business, averages 30 percent of its retail price, and the bargains just keep on coming: a Quasar microwave for $75; an Apple Macintosh 512K computer for $395; videocassette movies for $10; compact discs for $6. In the rear of the building, where the Cash Dome stores all its recently hocked merchandise, stereos, televisions, cameras, bicycles, and motorcycles fill a space almost three times the size of the show room. It looks like your neighbor's garage sale, if your neighbor is Perrine.
"A lot of places you'll go," says Gallander, "the guys will be in back of bars, with these big bulletproof Lexan sheets in front of them. Customers have to be buzzed in from outside, and then buzzed into the store, and they wait in a little mantrap. When we first set up, we debated that, but we decided we wanted it to be more like a store and less like a fortress." Like most of his employees, Gallander wears tennis shoes and shorts to work, the same attire as a muscle-man cartoon taped up in the office and labeled "Mr. Goodhealth - Mickey Gallander." "The guys did that," Gallander grumbles with mock chagrin. "They make fun of me because I eat
To reduce safety concerns, Gallander and Gottlieb decided not to deal in guns, which are popular items with many pawnshops. "We definitely didn't want that. It just makes me too nervous, that I could have people coming in here regularly with guns," he says. In addition, the Cash Dome has the luxury of being located just across the street from a Sun Bank. Rather than keeping large sums of money on hand, Cash Dome employees cross the street and make withdrawals.
If only banking were that simple for everyone.
Property is static, sturdy, and strictly functional. Cash is fluid, clever, and magical. Property does only what it's designed to do. Cash can do anything. The fact that your $300 microwave can cook a pot pie in six minutes isn't nearly as thrilling when you're staring into the clean white gullet of an empty freezer. And while your $500 watch may be accurate to the second, it doesn't seem such an advantage when you already have more time on your hands than you know what to do with.
Everybody needs cash. But cash is hard to come by. Try to persuade a bank to give you a $40 loan, just until next Monday, just until you get back on your feet. Simply can't be done, they'll say. No assets. But how about this microwave tucked under my arm, Mr. Bank Officer? How about this lovely watch?
How about the exit door?
"There's two economies," says Chuck Gamarski, who works for Gallander. "There's the official economy and the economy we participate in. So many people just can't walk into a bank and borrow on their signature. I compare myself to a bank many, many times, but people tell me that I'm wrong. They say, `With a bank I can't even sit down and talk.'"
A pawnbroker doesn't care why you need the money, doesn't care if you're angling for a business deal or itching for a fix. He'll take your watch, scrutinize it, stare thoughtfully away for a moment, and then offer you money, usually about one-tenth of its retail worth. If you choose to accept that loan, you'll have to pass through theft-check procedures - signing a sworn statement that the property belongs to you, providing photo identification, submitting to a fingerprinting. Then the watch becomes his, the money yours. You'll receive a ticket or a printed receipt noting the transaction.
For 30 days, the pawnshop will hold that watch in hock for you. No one will buy it. No one will disturb it. As soon as you're back on your feet financially, you can return and redeem your property. The price? Merely the watchless month. Oh, and the premium you'll be assessed, which will amount to approximately twenty percent of the loan's principal. Charging interest is technically illegal, so pawnbrokers exact their profit through processing fees and service charges. The bottom line, though, is the same.
As the end of the month draws near, you have two options: extending your payment period (accruing more service charges) or defaulting, in which case your property reverts to the pawnbroker, who can resell after holding it for another, legally mandated, month. More than 85 percent of the Cash Dome's customers return to redeem their pawns, a statistic Gallander says proves that his business functions as a successful neighborhood bank. "For the most part," he cautions, "these aren't desperate people looking to get rid of everything for whatever tiny sums they can find. These are working-class people who have a real hard time making ends meet."
In chess, pawns are the small change, the gumball-machine-shape suckers you'll sacrifice to protect the rest of your holdings. The same principle applies in pawnbroking, but the small change is sometimes quite large. At the Car Dome - located right next to the Cash Dome, owned by Gallander and Gottlieb, and managed by Chuck Gamarski - the pawn of choice is, unsurprisingly, cars, although the store will also loan against boats, trucks, and motorcycles. The very idea of pawning a car may seem strange at first, but a high-ticket item is more powerful as collateral, and a customer is less likely to wave goodbye to a $4000 car than a $100 watch. Still, sometimes customers who think they'll come up with the money to recover a car come up against leaner times instead, and enough have busted the payment to let the Car Dome operate as a licensed used-car dealer.
"I've got a number of cars on the lot, everything from a Chevy Beretta, probably bring around $4500, to a 1983 Volvo for $2500. I just let a Mercedes go for $6500. Broke my heart," says Gamarski. When a young man drives a Plymouth Horizon TC3 into the lot and jumps out of the car, waving the title, Chuck aborts the tour and springs into action immediately. "Hi. How are you? You want to pawn? How much do you want for it?" The car's paint has yellowed away from its original white color, which is visible from underneath a turned-up corner of an Indian River Community College sticker.
"Yes, pawn," says the man. He looks terrible, his T-shirt crimped and dirty and his face damp with sweat. The prospect of parting with his car for a nominal sum is gnawing at him already. "I need as much money as I can get. I've put a lot into this car, improved the engine." Gamarski offers $300. The young man expresses his displeasure, stares toward the ground stonily, shifts his weight from heel to heel. "Look," Gamarski says. "Come inside my office, and we'll talk about it." Under the final agreement, the Car Dome will loan $400, and the crestfallen man will have to raise $500 to buy back his 2.2-liter pride and joy.
"We're a last resort," says Gamarski after the man has left. "People are coming to me, and I feel I have to be a little sensitive to their needs. I would really be a miserable lowlife if I didn't work with them a little. On the other hand, we're a business, and business is good. We just spent all this money repainting the place" - he gestures toward the giant double dome, which has been a donut shop and a restaurant and a motorcycle dealership, but always an eyesore - "and now it's beauteeful."
Gamarski's enthusiasm may have overpowered his aesthetic judgment, but the fact of the matter is, this is a good time to repaint. In an age when banks have become unfriendly to poorer clients, and national trust in the savings-and-loan system has diminished, many consumers are turning to the neighborhood hock shop when they need a little boost. John Caskey, a Swarthmore College economist who specializes in international and domestic credit economies, recently completed a large-scale study estimating that ten percent of all adult Americans use the pawnshop system each year. Aware of their increasing popularity, the nation's 10,000-plus pawnbrokers are banding together to help define what has been, until now, an aggressively amorphous industry. Many states, including Florida, have pawnbroker's associations. There is even a National Pawnbroker's Association, based in Fort Lauderdale, that informs members of changing legislation, schedules conventions, and publishes a quarterly magazine.
Despite the rapid growth (at least four national chains have gone public), individually owned shops still dominate the industry, and the Miami market supports more than 150 pawnshops, each with its own distinguishing quirks. There are stores such as the dingy Don-Z Compra-Venta (3678 Coral Way), which has a shoddy electronic stock - unhinged cassette doors, turntables with divots chipped out of the plastic - alongside a well-maintained, extensive camera collection; and stores like Cash in a Flash (63 NE Second Street), a gun, appliance, and musical-instrument operation downtown so tiny the entire storefront is nearly obscured by a red Toyota parked out front, the one with the bumper sticker that reads "I'M SO BROKE I CAN'T EVEN PAY ATTENTION." Depending on their size, some pawnshops - almost all of which hold a buy/sell license - will purchase merchandise outright and assemble a large show-room stock.
Although pawnbroking seems to proliferate in working-class neighborhoods (Hialeah, for instance), there are pawnbrokers in South Miami, and Dadeland, and Kendall, all shops bearing the universally recognizable pawnbroker's logo, a three-sphere cluster. (The symbol is said to refer to the armorial coat of the Medici family, which rose to prominence in Renaissance Italy as moneylenders and cultural patrons.) The Cash Dome's Mickey Gallander says, "Pawnshops are everywhere. There's even one in Hollywood, Rodeo Drive, where movie stars drive up and pawn their Rolls-Royces and
Miami has its own royalty - Levison's (22 NW First Street), the oldest and most respected of Miami's pawnshops. In business since the late Forties, Levison's is far more elegant than its competitors, and while the jewelry it carries differs little from average stock, there are other items - chandeliers, Chinese lacquer boxes, Picasso lithographs - that distinguish the business. Other shop owners mention Levison's, and especially Milt Levison, with reverence. "Pawnbroker to the rich," they say, an untouchable, the granddad of all Miami pawnshops. "He's been in business a thousand years," says Gallander. Levison, perhaps because he has been in business a thousand years, refused to discuss pawnbroking or anything else for this article.
Not all pawnbrokers are as reticent. "Let me show you something," says Richard Cecilio, the sole proprietor of Wildcat Gun and Pawn Shop (15152 NE Sixth Avenue). With the air of a practiced showman, he lifts his wall-mount telephone from its cradle and stretches the cord to show the full extent of its reach. "I've done this before, but let me just show you. I can walk from here to the gun counter, to that corner by the televisions and to the back where I keep my paperwork. I don't have to let go of the phone. That's as far as I need to go. I don't need anybody else in here. It's just me," he says, "and I like it that way. I don't have anyone to steal from me, to make enemies for me. If I make enemies, I do it myself. Of course, when I make friends, they're my friends, too."
After nine years in his modest, dark-wood shop in the Biscayne Gardens area, Cecilio is mindful of entertaining his customers. New arrivals are instantly taken into confidence. Old jokes are delivered with new vigor. The Wildcat is a seductive cross between a traditional pawnbroking establishment and an old-time barbershop. "You see that," Cecilio says, gesturing to a no-profanity sign. "That's right. If you care to curse, it'll cost you five cents a word, or six for a
Resolutely idiosyncratic - his Yellow Pages ad boasts "We are the Smallest" and his business cards, complicit in the joke, measure less than an inch across - Cecilio keeps the door open all day long. Friends of his, neighborhood men, come and sit in the shop, gossip, trade memories. On Wednesdays and weekends, he closes. Why? Same reason he does everything else: Because he wants to.
As a large yellow sign posted near the entrance announces, Cecilio accepts only six types of items - firearms, cameras, jewelry, typewriters, portable televisions, and silver coins. "I'm not interested in anything else," he says. "Never have been. Although occasionally I'll buy a collectible, because there are many things that I collect. Baseball cards, coins, those kinds of things. I also deal used books." The shop relies heavily on guns; Cecilio, who worked as a gun dealer for fifteen years before he opened the Wildcat, has a federal firearms license, and he knows his Lee-Enfields from his Lee-Metfords.
"It's funny with the guns," he says. "It makes me nervous every day I open the shop. But people are very courteous about it. Many times, they'll come in ahead of time and ask me if I'll take this gun or that one, and I can tell them to make sure it's in plain view and unloaded when they bring it back.
"You know," he says, returning to the phone. From his tone it's clear he's recalled another routine. "I have customers who can't remember my phone number. That's not a problem. You know why. Because my name is my number. Just dial W-I-L-D-C-A-T. I waited so long for that number, had a friend with the phone company who pushed me up on the list. And then about four years ago, I finally got it. Of course, I also have customers who can't remember the name of the store. Wild... Wild something."
Despite the relentless patter, Cecilio is serious and introspective about his business, and he prides himself on running his operation above reproach. "I'm the only place that if someone calls and says, `Mr. Ritch, I'm a little bit behind on my payment, I think I'm going to be late,' I'll give them five to seven more days with no extra interest, no matter what." Cecilio also mails postcards to his customers at the end of the 60-day periods to notify them that they are about to lose their merchandise.
Still, he acknowledges, his position as a pawnbroker is often very awkward. "I can be as good to people as I want, and it's still a terrible business in one respect. A guy brings in a ring. It might be worth $450. So you give him a dime on the dollar. That's how the business is done. But that's not what he wants to hear. I sleep good at night. I don't mistreat my customers. But, still, I feel for these people. I really do."
Despite the fact that pawnshops have a long and illustrious history, dating back 3000 years to Chinese lending establishments, pawnbroking is a profession in profound need of an image make over. In their American incarnation, pawnshops reek of economic prurience. Like bookie joints, tattoo parlors, bail bondsmen, and whorehouses, they are demeaned as dishonest, kept at arm's length, considered unfortunate by-products of illegitimate economies. In the mind of middle-class America, the pawnshop is on that seedy urban block where your mother told you not to go.
But the development of ruling-class America, in fact the very discovery of the New World, might have been delayed by years were it not for pawnbroking. Spain's Queen Isabella hocked her crown jewels to fund the voyages of Christopher Columbus. And Isabella wasn't a renegade by any means. Franciscan monks ran loan establishments called mon-de-pietes throughout Medieval Europe, and acceptance of pawnbroking as a legitimate means of loaning reached its height in the Nineteenth Century, when state-operated pawnshops appeared throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
The Twentieth Century, though, has been bad for business. As national banking economies began to expand and intensify, pawnshops lapsed into obsolescence. Regular citizens found they could obtain personal loans from banks, and the need for a private money broker diminished.
Pawnbroking's image reached its nadir in 1965, when Rod Steiger lumbered before the cameras of director Sidney Lumet for an adaption of Edward Lewis Wallant's novel The Pawnbroker. The story of Sol Nazerman - a New York hock-shop manager whose horrifying memories of Nazi-concentration-camp imprisonment bleed through his mundane life even twenty years later - the film cemented pawnbroking's reputation as a sleazy, back-alley business and earned Steiger a place as the most hated man among real-life practitioners.
"They think we're the little guy with the visor and the cigar, the dim lights and the dirt," says Richard Cecilio in an uncharacteristic, bitter tone. "That we're thieves and lowlife. Pawnbrokers are one step down, or maybe one step up, from pornographers. When I meet new people, I tell them I'm retired. People have so many bad ideas, so many wrong ideas, about the business, that it's not worth explaining what it's really like."
At times the fear of bad public relations makes pawnbrokers quite defensive. At South Dade Gun and Pawn, co-owner Robert Taylor reveals his name archly, as if he is referring to someone else, someone he doesn't like very much. "What are you going to write about us?" he demands. "We get so much bad publicity, the whole industry. It's because people don't know."
"You walk in here, we don't know who you are, what you're going to say," adds Carl LaSala, who works at South Dade. "We're not angels, but we do good business because we have to. We respect the customers. But people don't respect us. Why do I think they look upon us badly? Why do you think Christ threw the moneylenders out of the temple?"
As a result of a Dade County ordinance adopted in October 1989, pawnshops here can open no earlier than 7:30 a.m. and must shut down before 5:00 p.m. In addition, the licensing fee for a buy/sell dealership is almost three times that for an ordinary retail business. But the single greatest complaint of pawnbrokers seems to be the assumption that their shops are outlets for stolen goods, quick stops where criminals on the run can liquidate their loot, no problem, no questions asked. Pawnbrokers point out that they must keep a strict record of all transactions, including serial numbers wherever possible and the address and phone number of each customer. Fingerprinting is mandatory. In Miami, the monitoring of pawnshops is divided up among police detectives on stolen-property details. Two or three times per week, officers visit shops, pick up the paperwork, check hocked inventory for thieved items. Under the intense scrutiny, pawnbrokers say, they would be foolhardy to accept stolen goods.
"Watches and guns have serial numbers," says the Cash Dome's Gallander, "and often times when they are stolen, they'll be reported. I'll just call the police if I have a guy in here who is bringing in something that's been stolen. For other things, it's harder to tell. But the other day a lady came in here with a fax machine. She couldn't spell fax. I told her forget it."
Despite the best intentions of shopowners, stolen goods can still leak into pawnshops. If police do find stolen goods in a shop's inventory, the pawnshops suffer doubly. Not only must they surrender the merchandise, but they lose the money they have loaned.
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According to Michelle Kay, administrative director of the Florida Pawnbroker's Association, pawnbroking groups have become increasingly interested in cooperating with law enforcement agencies. "Basically, we have started working with police and government all over the state, and this proves to them we are not trying to hide people who might try to sell stolen goods. We are actually helping them to catch these people."
Metro-Dade Police Detective Marlene Campbell, who works with the northside-station stolen-property unit and is personally responsible for monitoring six pawnshops, says that most brokers comply with the regulations. "When we find stolen goods, we don't assume it's the fault of the owner. They can't turn everything away, of course. They're running a business. But there are some that are problems, that you have to watch more closely, and every once in a while you see a shop shut down."
The long-standing image of disreputability may be starting to shift. Middle-class shoppers have begun to look upon pawnshops as local thrift stores; in Miami, pawnbrokers sell frequently to international customers. "I have people coming from Chile, Peru, Ecuador, and they are pawnshop fanatics," says Cash Dome's Chuck Gamarski. "They prefer buying used merchandise because it reduces the tax they have to pay when they bring the item home. And we do a lot of business that way. VCRs are very hot. Popular, I mean, not stolen."
Honest pawnbrokers, it seems, must be content to straddle the contradictions - neighborhood bank versus thrift shop, respectable business versus seedy back-door dealing - and weather the indignities of a bad reputation. "We get two kinds of reactions," says Gamarski. "One guy comes in recently to redeem his car. We had given him about $600. He's very thankful, actually curses the bank out, tells us, `If it wasn't for you guys, there was no way I could have gotten the money.' On the other hand, some people think we're the biggest scumbags in the world.

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- A. Watson
- 13-04-13
Magical Mystery Tour
'The Philosophers Stone' were a folk rock super group brought together not just for their musical talents, but also for their physic abilities - to record a concept album in a haunted abbey. Inevitably the experiment goes wrong and the recording ends in tragic consequences - while at the exact same moment on a different continent, Mark Chapman's finger tightens on the trigger to gun down John Lennon. Coincidence? There's no such thing in a Phil Rickman novel. `December' picks up the story fourteen years later when the supposedly destroyed tapes turn up and the band are persuaded to reunite in order to finish what has been whispered about in musical circles as the infamous `Black Album'.
A major part of the novel deals with the dysfunctional lives the musicians have led since the original recording session. Each of them having suffered from the psychic fallout that has tainted their lives in the intervening years. This is where Rickman works like an demented anatomist in reverse, layering flesh and sinew to his characters, infusing them with a life force so strong they could walk among us undetectable as fictional personalities. Music is the dominant driving force in this novel which maybe accounts for the way the tale plays out fluidly across a score full of hair raising Glissando slides and broad chromatic sweeps across the ever changing time signature of the plot. Think of this book as `Phil Rickman the Musical' taking you on his own version of a `Magical Mystery Tour'. McCartney may have been the Beatle who sang about wanting to be a `Paperback Writer' but it's Lennon who gets the last word in this book.
In this form Phil Rickman is unbeatable. A real chart topper in every sense.
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- Annie
- 20-01-13
Interwoven with the Abbey Recording.
First read this back in the 1990s, re-read it over the years, pestered Isis to bring out audio version. Brilliant then and brilliant now. Foxtara's review is correct there's lots I don't remember reading. But never missed anything listening to Sean Barratt's superb narration. Loved the way the Abbey music is interwoven throughout. The stories of Prof, Moria and Simon continue into the Merrily Series. Hopefully Isis will also publish Man in the Moss, Crybbe, Chalice and Candlelight where other Merrily characters first take to the stage.
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- books and me
- 13-04-13
Phil Rickman read by Sean Barrett- heaven
Fantastically creepy Rickman story. But that doesn't describe the world that Rickman creates. Its funny and real and fascinating. There are supernatural goings on in the life of rock musicians and vicars and and a stellar cast of characters so real that you'll be glad they reappear in other books.
Sean Barrett is uniquely gifted in bringing Rickman's characters to life, so much so that you feel you have a whole cast instead of the one incredibly talented man. And Barrett seems to GET Rickman, not one ironic aside is thrown away - no laughs lost, whilst the dark suspense is also ratcheted up
.Still got part three to listen to.Bliss.
Loads of Rickman books to come if you're new to him and you'll want to come back with him to Welsh Border country soon.
Got to say too,Rickman writes sizeable books, so many happy listening hours.value for money!
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- 23-12-12
Brilliantly Haunting Novel
Reading 'December' was a wonderful, if scary, experience. It grabs your attention from the beginning to end. But as much as you enjoy it to the very end, beware!, because there is more to come. On re-reading the novel, you will find bits you missed, no matter how closely you paid attention the first time. Because, there is a lot of depth to Rickman's books, never lay them too far aside once finished because they will fascinate you time and again. Following the members of the band 'Philosopher's Stone through their eerie encounters, which are fraught with danger,- in an old Abbey which is mostly in ruins, will have you looking over your shoulders.
I am at times a jaded horror reader, but 'December' spooked me, this is because the story is credible, the characters well rounded and realistic, the writing is superb. It is sad to reach the last page when you want it to carry on with further amazing gutwrenching experiences. But happily not only can you reread the book, but you can also listen to the tracks the band laid down in their recording sessions, once lost, now brilliantly restored, on the accompanying CD Album, or download it from Amazon or iTunes, Philosophers Stone, 'Abbey Tapes: The Exorcism'. I give the album five stars too, and highly recommend it along with the book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-07-13
A Magical Mystical Tour of MusicBusiness' Darkside
Would you listen to December again? Why?
I enjoyed listening to December and will definately listen to it again.
The narrator has such skill to bring the writer characters to life. Mr Barrett does not so much than merely read the story, he acts as a conduit for the characters to live through.
The story is very twisting and around every turn there is a mystical mystery that builds until the ultimate mystery of who will survive - if any one! - is solved.
Who was your favorite character and why?
It is hard to pick a favourite character - they were all so interall to the story, from the evil to the ghostly.
But here are my feeling on some of the main characters:
Dave - honest anguish and guilt, combined with such deep love
Moira - sweet and not all that innocent, combined with ignorance and bitterness
Simon - confused seeker, with a heart of gold
Tom - strangled by his own pain and the pain of others, haunted in the worst sense
Vanessa - innocent, truthful and like a peace angel
Prof - dry and straight as a die, dumped in the deepend and paddling like mad to try and keep his head!
Eddy - cunning, but honest and caring
Weasel - loyal to a fault to his best friend and beyond the very end to his Princess (*sob*)
I could keep listing the rest of the characters and telling you why I thought they were brilliant, but I think the best is for you to discover them yourself.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
The story is full of brilliant, searing with colour, scenes.
A few stand out: Prof and the tapes - the finding, the baking (with Morris), the listening; the dinner table massacre; the candle scene between Simon and Moira (for its emotional content); the fiery ending to match the fiery start!
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The scene where Weasel and Vanessa "part ways", but his concern when, it was too late, that spills over into his guiding her with her grandfather to the relative safety of the new Vicarage was very moving and drew a tear for him.
Any additional comments?
This a a brilliant book. (I read it back in 1994 when it came out.) And this audio version has made it an even more enjoyable (with all the living characters).
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- xxx
- 02-05-13
Enjoyed this more than I expected to ..
After listening to the first half hour or so I nearly gave up on this, but I carried on with it and enjoyed it more than I had expected to. As a fan of Merrily Watkins books was nice to get a bit of background info on Prof Levin. Found the plot a little repetitive by the end but some great well written characters along the way. Found the bits of music annoying and unnecessary tad creepy and not in way that fitted with the story! Enjoyed the narrator and the way he read whole passages in character not just the stuff in speech marks. OK he accents got a bit mixed up once or twice but some very convincing accents and Lennon voice - I'll say no more about that in case of spoiling plot. Worth a go even if you are a Merrily fan.
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- Drew
- 19-04-13
Good enough
This is the first Phil Rickman novel I've read so I don't know how this compares to his other works. It is a very long audiobook (3 substantial download files) and while I wouldn't say i was board or that it is padded-out, it did feel very long. I suppose this is because there are several narrative strands, as other reviewers have mentioned, and each one is very detailed. I found them all interesting - some more than others. I didn't know where the narrative was going to end-up, which is a good thing, and I was interested enough to want to find out what happens, but I'm puzzled that some reviewers were 'scared' by novel.
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- d a catchpole
- 09-11-19
Creepy in a good way
Loved this book for 25 years, now.
Now love this audio as well.
Marvellous work by the narrator.
- Leanne Hunt
- 30-03-19
Astonishingly good.
An excellent plot line with fascinating characters. Beautiful landscape descriptions and a compelling thieme. Also dark and shocking, not for the sensitive.
- MarcF
- 17-04-18
December by Phil Rickman
Another addictive listen by Phil Rickman. Great story, with a couple of the characfers having appeared in other of the author's books. Fantastiic reading by Sean Barrett, producing an entire cast of character accents and oersonalities.
- Diane
- 22-12-12
Ghosts of Decembers Past and Present
In the best British tradition of the Christmas ghost story, Rickman creates a spookily atmospheric tale of a medieval Welsh abbey which has a history of horrific December deaths and accidents dating from the 12th century to the present. The cast of characters revolve around a group of aging rockers who are the survivors of a disastrous recording session in the abbey studio on 12/8/1980, which also happens to be the day the former Beatle, John Lennon, was shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building, an event which plays a significant role in the unfolding of the story.
Be forewarned that the prologue and the first few chapters are confusing and quite difficult to follow as the narrative washes between epochs and characters, none of which are familiar to the reader as yet. These characters and events begin to sort themselves out as the book takes on a more straight-forward narrative approach as the book progresses.
Sean Barrett's narration is excellently suited to the material and this audio version is enhanced by riffs from songs purportedly recorded in the abbey sessions.
A wonderfully dark tale for the nights of the winter solstice.
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- Audio Gra Gra
- 21-10-14
Good story but disappointing adaptation
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Not the audiobook. Narration is hamfisted and the music to add drama is embarrassing.
If you've listened to books by Phil Rickman before, how does this one compare?
Have read others but not listened
What didn't you like about Seán Barrett's performance?
It's heavy handed. Groans and screams etc are over acted.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Possibly if directed by right person
Any additional comments?
The first 50 minutes of the audiobook is almost unlistenable. It is a chaotic mix of visions and terrible Celtic music interruptions and I nearly gave up on it as I tried to remember why I had liked the book so much when I read it over 10 years ago. It eventually settles into a more traditional narrative but the occasional further bursts of bad Celtic music that are there to "add to the mood" are amateur and annoying.
The Deus ex machina ending to the story is disappointing and does not close all the loose ends that the plot and the final scenes build up to.
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- Joseph
- 26-07-13
A Very Queer Sort of Redemption
Read it and u will see what I mean. My impressions are that the author builds a tense& somewhat creepy atmosphere, and characters are at least 3-D. U do feel something for their struggles. You could say this story is about 4 naive 60's liberals getting scared somewhat straighter.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-11-15
Atmospheric celtic horror
Great story that holds your attention. Tons of character development with real life-weary people. Keeps you turning the pages.
1 person found this helpful
- Thor Finn
- 14-04-15
A little Lennon history
The story might have proved challenging to read. The narrator's talent with the various accents made it very enjoyable. He had Lennon's voice down very well. It was continually touching go with the evil characters in the story, so you don't know until the very end who survives and who doesn't. I really enjoyed the story.
1 person found this helpful
- Daniela benesova
- 22-03-15
Tough start but definitely worth to get through it
I find all pr's books a bit hard at the beginning but that might be because of the language barrier. English is not my first language. But the stories are very scary and believable. I simply love ghost stories and this was a good one.
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- catFox
- 08-10-19
What is with the faux celtic music???
Rickman can be pretty ridiculous on his own (and I say this as a fan) but with the addition of the music this book was just impossible for me to get more than an hour into let alone all the way through. On top of that I didnt know what was going on except that it was supposed to be very frightening and very mysterious indeed. Usually I can plow on and eventually pick up the thread but with the music it just seemed too preposterous even for me (and my bar for this sort of thing is remarkably high).
- Alleson F Lawless
- 15-06-19
one of my favorites
I took me 2/3 of the book to realize he was doing a different accent for each character's section. Also, this is stangely, nostalgically, anachronistic. Its moments I can remember clearly as still relevant but with the glaring pre-technological revolution lack of cell phones makes it seem so dated at the same time.
- L Henry
- 01-07-17
A hauntingly twisted tale that's most enthralling
This is a book I have read many a time, but I am glad I decided to give it a try on audio as there were parts I'd missed in reading. The narrator was very expressive and gave the characters a real lifelike quality which was further heightened by music at key points in the story.
Music is central in this haunting ghost story that turns out not to be as clear cut as first appears. It all starts when an overzealous producer decides to bring together a band composed of musicians who also possessed psychic powers to record in an Abbey with a dark history. The first time they attempted to record, it all ended in a huge tragedy after which it was decided that they were too powerful a force when they were together & disbanded. Each going their own way, dealing with the tragedy of that night in their own way but now the powers that be have orchestrated it as such that they are all compelled to return once again, each fighting their personal battles as well as the one that they must all face together; knowing what awaits them.
This tale is cleverly woven with Welsh lore & the haunting history as well as the power of music to transcend all. I particularly am fond of the character of Moira who I know is in another of Rickman's novels; The Man in the Moss. Next to James Herbert & Ramsey Campbell, Rickman is one of my favorite British horror authors.
- Carol R. Wood
- 18-01-13
Still struggling
What did you love best about December?
I am a fan of Phil Rickman. The story is my kind of dark mysterious tale
Any additional comments?
I'm sure this won't get posted. I'm still trying to finish the book .I finally had to buy the ebook for my Iphone so I could sort the story out. That worked well, until the syncing failed to work. I now have spent $20 and the ebook is wandering around out there (who knows where?) and I am pretty sure I will love this book if I can ever wade through it. BTW, I don't like your cook-book approach to reviewing.
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Sometimes you're just plugging along, minding your own business when out of nowhere you get a tip that includes a drawing of a nude-colored George Brett/Unicorn with a rainbow flowing out of his/its horn.
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Four young men file into a conference room in downtown Rangoon, dressed in 1940s military uniform, and stand in front of a panel of Burma's top cultural figures. Some of the panel members have recently been released from prison — among them is democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The grilling they now give the young men is the culmination of a four-and-a-half month process to choose the lead for a film that, just a few years ago, would have seemed beyond belief: a big-budget feature, produced by Suu Kyi, about her revolutionary father, General Aung San.
It's a movie that is over 60 years in the making. Aung San was a student leader who rose to become the founder of the modern Burmese army and the chief negotiator of Burma's independence from Britain. He was assassinated just before that independence was obtained. His daughter, who was 2 at the time, says he remained an influence on her life. "He was very much in my life," she told TIME's Hannah Beech during an interview conducted in 2010, shortly after her release from house arrest. "Although he died, people spoke about him all the time. I was told I was his favorite because I was the youngest and only girl."
(MORE: The Lady: Michelle Yeoh as Political Heroine Aung San Suu Kyi)
Aung San's legacy was glossed over by previous governments of Burma (also called Myanmar) because of the fear that it would add luster to his activist daughter. His photos, and recordings of his speeches, vanished into obscurity. But with the reformist, quasi-civilian government that took power in early 2011, Suu Kyi has been transformed from an outlawed activist into a mainstream politician, and her father's life story is no longer a taboo subject. "We'd love to give the message to the world: this is a real Burmese leader," says Zarganar, the famous Burmese actor and comedian who now sits on the film's executive board. "Now we've got that chance." Unsurprisingly, Suu Kyi's influence pervades the entire project; she is listed as "executive producer," but, Grace Swe Zin Htaik, a former actress who is a member of the film committee says, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is taking a much more hands-on role. "I've seen her becoming involved in lines, the story treatment, and she finalized the actors and actresses selection," she says, "so I think she's actually more personally involved in it."
That Aung San is being made at all is remarkable, but it is also being made against the backdrop of a film industry ravaged by decades of oppression. From its inception in the early 1920s until the coup of 1962, Burma's movie industry was a regional powerhouse, producing historical epics and lavish dramas at a rate of 100 or more per year. But after a socialist government came to power in 1962, filmmakers and artists of all kinds found themselves under the watchful eye of the censorship committee — a situation that got worse in '88 when the junta took over.
Censorship was bad enough, but the advent of VCDs and DVDs — and an "entertainment tax" levied on cinemagoers — delivered the coup de grâce to a movie industry ill equipped to withstand competition. Most of the motion-picture companies closed down, as did the majority of the movie theaters: in Rangoon, Burma's largest city and home to 4.3 million people, there are now just eight cinemas; in the country's second biggest city Mandalay, population 1.3 million, there are two. Today, out of every 10 movies made in Burma, only one makes money. Most people who work in the movie business do so as dilettantes, funding their projects themselves (a movie in Burma generally costs about $15,000 to make, mostly on older equipment, with films shot and edited in as little as two weeks). There is a state body dealing with movies, the Myanmar Motion Picture Enterprise, allied to the Ministry of Information, but the government provides no funding. Apart from censoring scenes, its remit is limited to granting licenses and shooting permissions.
"There are a lot of rules here. It makes our work very difficult," says Zine Wyne, chairman of the nongovernmental Myanmar Motion Picture Organization. All of this is reflected in the movies themselves, most of which are poorly shot, badly acted comedies (a popular genre with filmmakers because it allows them to skirt sensitive topics and so largely escape censorial attention). The films mostly go straight to DVD or VCD. Only about 10 locally made films a year are deemed worthy of cinematic release.
(PHOTOS: Aung San Suu Kyi's Path to Victory)
Aung San sets its sights on a far grander stage. According to Suu Kyi, it will be "an epic movie that will become world famous," to be filmed not only in Burma but also on location in Japan and England. Its makers have plans for international distribution, and they hope to submit it to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film category. Comparisons have been drawn by producers to the 1982 Oscar-winning biopic Gandhi. But given the meager state of local talent, these are wildly extravagant claims.
"I'm very surprised, they don't even know what is the synopsis, what is the treatment, what is the script," says local director Midi Z. "So it's a little strange. They want to make a huge film, a huge-budget film. They're full of desire, full of emotion, full of passion. But in reality they have no knowledge of making films." A director is yet to be chosen. The screenwriters understandably want to get the script right (the recent Hollywood biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, The Lady, is widely disliked in Burma because of supposed inaccuracies in the scenes portraying Aung San). But the script is, as yet, unfinished, with six writers working on it — a recipe for disaster, if ever there was one.
Another problem is that few people involved in the film have knowledge of modern techniques. In July 2012, Bill Bowling, a Hollywood production manager who works with the Asian Film Commissions Network, gave a workshop for the crew of Aung San in Rangoon. Bowling was reduced to explaining basic terms such as montage and establishing shot, but his audience seemed nonetheless reluctant to accept foreign help. "They seem to want to have just Burmese people involved in the making of the film," says Bowling. "Because they view it as a Burmese project. To make it a big film, model it on an epic film, make it on a big scale, that means bringing in some foreign experts, and they were kind of resistant to that."
Another alarm bell: the cast is made up of amateurs, chosen for their appearance, attitude and nationalism, rather than acting ability. Kyaw Kyaw Myo, who will play the film's title character, is a soccer player for Kanbawza FC in the Myanmar National League; Aung San's wife is played by a primary-school teacher. Thierry Bleu, an acting coach from Paris, was invited to train the amateurs to an international standard. "I got results with some of them," he says. But he also says he is disappointed that he was only able to work with them for a month and hasn't been asked to return.
The mere novelty of Aung San will guarantee it a measure of local success, of course. But if Burma's movie industry is to return to anywhere near the status it enjoyed throughout a large part of the last century, it seems more likely that that renaissance will stem not from one single overblown big-budget epic, but from the country's emerging crop of young filmmakers, many of them working in Burma's booming television sector where they are being trained in-house. Benefiting from Burmese TV's growing advertising revenues, they have all the latest digital technology at their disposal, which people in the movie industry generally do not. And with seemingly every aspect of the project presided over by Suu Kyi, it's entirely possible that this, more than anything, is a film being made to prove a political point. "It's just another kind of propaganda film," says Midi Z. "It's a dangerous way to make a film."
MORE: Viewpoint: Aung San Suu Kyi Has Feet of Clay; Get Used to It


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orotava necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
MPREZ Imports & Exports, LLC.
I am a young entrepreneur trying to make it in the international business arena after being a university professor/administrator for over 10 years. A friend of mine started an electric utility vehicles (Stealth Manufacturing, LLC.) a few years ago. He recently sold it to a group in Georgia and I decided to start an LLC to distribute these vehicles (stealth4x4.com) to Latin America. So far, that is the only product on my line and probably will stay that way for the first year since I want to open distribution channels first.
I chose MPREZ as the name because my name is Miguel Perez and a lot of times people shorten it for M PEREZ and the way my last name is pronounced in the States sounds like PREZ. So I came up with MPREZ since it could also be a short for EMPRESARIO (entrepreneur in Spanish) or PREZident since I will finally be my own boss. Also, I would like to iMPREZ my clients with an outstanding partner.
The target audience for my logo would be potential distributors in each of the Latin American countries. They will probably be high educated individuals who have plenty of business experience.
Eventually, I am planning to extend distribution to Europe, Africa, and Asia but basically the target audience will always be successful entrepreneurs from all over the globe.
I am looking for a logo that reads professional and cutting edge.
I would like MPREZ to be the logo itself so you can get creative with it.
When I use the logo, I would probably include the imports & exports, LLC on a second line. So you could provide both lines
Imports & Exports, LLC.
Feel free to experiment with colors (my favorite one is a dark blue though but I am very open)
I would need the files to be submitted for both print and web use.
I definitely like the gradient in the Apple logo but you are free to be creative.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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When is a Grading Permit Required? (PDF)
The Engineering and Surveying Division issues Grading Permits and investigates grading and drainage complaints. Grading is subject to Placer County Code, Chapter 15 (PDF), "Grading, Erosion and Sediment Control Ordinance," which addresses when a permit is required, and when grading is exempt from permit requirements.
The most common activities requiring a Grading Permit include the following:
The preceding list is not exhaustive, so please refer to the full text of the ordinance language for further information. Also note that different ordinance requirements apply to grading activities east of Donner Summit, and more particularly within the Tahoe basin. Grading permits are required for fill or excavation of 3 cubic yards or more.


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Someone who is "chubby" is on the verge of being fat. Bart is using "child-speak" by adding -sy and doubling the sound.
Bart Simpson pointed to a colossal statue of a man who held a giant doughnut for advertisement saying, "Well, except for chubsy-ubsy over there."
What does "chubsy-ubsy" mean? I think he referred to the statue. Thanks!
Someone who is "chubby" is on the verge of being fat. Bart is using "child-speak" by adding -sy and doubling the sound.
Bart was refering to another comedy from 1931 starring child actor Norman "Chubby" Chaney. He appeard in the Our Gang comedies from 1929 to 1931. "Chubby" was what the other kids called him because he was overweight.
In the episode called Love Business Chubby is in love with his teacher. Chubby shows up to give Miss Crabtree flowers and candy and tells her, "Don't call me Norman, call me Chubsy-Ubsy!"
Chubsy-Ubsy is a love and affectionate play on the word Chubby. A love name for Chubby.
There is a video with the scene in it. See the link and it's about 2 minutes into the video.
The scene was so popular, the word Chubsy-Ubsy is still used today.
People use it now to politely refer to someone who is overweight,
Saying," That person is too Chubsy-Ubsy for my taste."
Instead of"That person is too fat for my taste."
Hi Pbrdgrm,
Welcome to the forums! And thank you very much for your answer.
I've watched the clip of video from the link you offered. I clearly heard that he asked his teacher to called him Chubby-ubsy! He was adorable. I never heard about him before this.
One of the most popular American child stars I love is Shirley Temple. She indeed was a sweet cookie with attractive dimples.
Thanks for welcoming me to the forum.
Yes, thats a great clip of Chubby. I remember watching those shows when I was young and I really enjoyed them.
Those old movies are forgotten treasures.
Shirley Temple was another one I watched a lot. She was a shining star. This a wonderful photo of her.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you. I am 40 years old and I love History. I also enjoy people who type in complete sentences. Seeing Norman smile always puts a smile on my face. That poor soul had a rough time in the last year of his life.
You might be interested in a new DVD that just came out. Its called:The Little Rascals Complete Collection An 8 disk collection. It can be rented at blockbuster. This is the first time all of the shows have been released. Sadly, In the years before this, a lot of people thought the shows were racial, stereotyped and just not politically correct. Some still do. The shows have been suppressed and heavily edited for a long time. It's nice to have a way to see them again. I think the shows are great and they are history. They show much of that time period. It was actually the first show to present children of all races, creeds, color and sex to be on equal ground.
It's fun to hear from those who enjoy those little rascals.
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ECloud liquid crystal wall reveals the weather
Liquid crystals sandwiched between glass or polycarbonate sheets have been used in homes, hospital rooms and nightclubs as privacy partitions because they can be made opaque or clear with the flick of a switch. Electricity running through opaque liquid crystals realigns their molecular structure and makes them transparent.
Now, at Mineta San Jose International Airport's new North Concourse, such basic decades-old LCD technology has recently been updated with computer software to depict real-time weather data in a unique, artful way. Computer signals alter thousands of grouped-together liquid crystal panels to simulate floating clouds or shimmering rain.
Dubbed ECloud, the installation is mainly the work of Art Center College design teacher Nik Hafermaas, 45, and his younger colleagues, Google data visualization artist Aaron Koblin and NASA visual strategist Dan Goods.
ECloud is composed of about 3,000 8-by-8-inch LTI SmartGlass liquid crystal panels suspended from an 1,800-square-foot sky-lit ceiling. Each panel hangs from slender computer cables that convey live weather data to it.
The ECloud panels - "pixels" controlled in groups of 30 by 100 circuit boards - become clear or opaque depending on the data relayed in real time from 100 locations around the globe. The most dramatic weather conditions - wind speed, precipitation and humidity - are depicted in the shape-shifting suspended cloud and on dynamic 8-foot-high display monitors at eye level.
"The cloud is a visual of weather intensity," Hafermaas says. "It is programmed to show the most dynamic conditions."
For instance, Los Angeles on a still, clear, cloudless day would not be much fun to see, so the ECloud travels to a more dramatic, blustery location.
"People see a big cloudy sculpture, but it is not a weather forecast," Hafermaas adds. "It is like a playlist from an automatic weather DJ that gets updated every two minutes."
The ever-changing $675,000 ECloud is one of many works commissioned as part of the city's public art program and the recent 01SJ art and technology biennial in San Jose.
Such seemingly superfluous yet "emotional" art could lead to new forms of lighting or window treatments.
In sun-starved winter locations, for instance, ECloud shades or chandeliers could light up and cast a warm sunny glow from, well, cloudless Los Angeles.
At a glance
Expert opinion: "ECloud is simply a form of weather entertainment. We want to articulate what is usually a number in a chart as an emotional quality," Nik Hafermaas says.
However, in Scandinavia, where large, flat polygonal sconces that evoke patches of sunshine on walls are popular, ECloud walls that reflect actual California sunshine could easily become useful to stave off winter blues.
Pros: LTI SmartGlass liquid crystal panels, known to last at least 10 years, ensure ECloud's longevity. Evolving software to achieve many different effects will also keep the sculpture current.
Real clouds are visible as long as there is some light in the sky. At San Jose's sky-lit airport, "the more sun we get, the better ECloud looks," Hafermaas says.
Cons: Computerized LTI SmartGlass panels are currently too expensive for most households.
Price: Each 8-by-8-inch ECloud panel costs about $140.
Resources: www.ecloudproject.com, www.ltisg.com.


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nabilhanga necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1 diseños de 1 diseñadores freelance.
We have an already functioning that streams African movies so what we need now is to make it look slick and pretty. Though the temptation is there we're not looking for a cliche African feel to it. However, simplicity and intuitiveness will go a long way to winning this contest, nice unobtrusive colours (bluish) and easy fonts will also help.
Please visit the current site lumoe.com, to get a feel for what's already there as well as the following for some inspiration: hulu.com, bbc.co.uk/iplayer but don't like youtube at all.
If there are any questions/ clarifications please contact:
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15-40 year olds
predominantly of African Descent.
The second part to the site we want a slight variation to the design. This will be lumoe.com/stage or stage.lumoe.com and will allow users to upload pictures and videos to their profile. The design templates should be split into the following:
1. Homepage: Ability to login/ create an account. Incorporating sections that show new users, new videos, most popular and currently being viewed.
2a. User Profile: There should be a user profile dashboard allowing for editing of information, User photos, uploaded videos and bio window, number of views, ratings. There should also be box showing past film appearances.
2b. Producer's Profiles: Dashboard showing recently viewed videos, should also be able to save past videos/ profiles etc.
3. Browse Page: This will show all the user profiles which can be filtered by location, age -range, browse through all videos, browse through profiles.
4. Video Page: This will be the actual page where you watch the video, it will show videos by same user on the side as well as their basic information.
5. Upload Page: Media management . add/remove photos and videos. This page should present user photos allow them to modify as they see fit.
6. Registration Page: Creating an account via a nice interface that takes in the regular information, name, DOB, sex, location, phone number and email address.


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Please note that once your application has started you cannot save and return at a later time/date. Please set aside 1 hour to complete the full application package. Applications will not be considered complete unless all elements are submitted.
A $50 non-refundable registration fee (per applicant to a maximum of $100 per family) is required upon submission of forms. Once you have completed the application form the Director of Advancement will arrange for next steps as well as payment of the application fee.
Upon acceptance, an enrollment deposit of $200 per student is required, to a maximum of $400 per family. This is applied to first month's tuition.
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As a student of White Rock Christian Academy, I will strive to model Godly character in every aspect of my life. I will remain committed to developing my relationship with God. I will serve God by serving the community in which I live. I will commit myself to the following areas:
Should I be found negligent in any of the above commitments, I will accept the appropriate discipline. If I do not demonstrate an enthusiastic willingness to follow the above commitments, I will accept that I should withdraw myself from White Rock Christian Academy.
We will endeavour to ensure that our child faithfully obeys all the above commitments. Should our child be found negligent in any of the above commitments, we will accept the appropriate discipline for our child, or withdraw our child from White Rock Christian Academy.
We believe that the goals of White Rock Christian Academy can only be realized if home, school and church are truly an extension of one another, thereby creating a united nucleus from which the student can develop the attributes for Godly character. The following questions are designed to help us in our student/family selection for White Rock Christian Academy.
The student's attitude, conversation, and behaviour reflect the character of the institution from which he/she derives his/her training, both home and school. This form reflects the school's attempt to help determine where home, school and church can truly be in partnership.
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Suicide bomber member of the outlawed leftist group DHKP/C: Erdogan
[Hurriyet Daily News] The suicide bomber who killed one person and wounded another today in an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara is a member of an outlawed leftist group, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.
Erdoğan's statement confirmed reports claiming the attacker was a 30-year-old member of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C). The suspect, identified as Ecevit Şanlı, has previously spent time in prison, according to reports.
"The suicide bomber exploded the bomb right after crossing [the personnel entry] and died in the explosion. A birth mark on his head proves [his identity], but DNA tests will be carried out to make sure. It is clear that he is a member of DHKP/C. He has perpetrated such attacks before," he said, during a live TV interview on private broadcaster Haberturk.
Erdoğan also played down claims that the attack might be related to Turkey's position on the Syria crisis. "I don't reach to this conclusion. You know that the DHKP/C made some other attempts lately, but Turkey is taking steps against terrorism as well," said Erdoğan, highlighting the recent police raids against lawyers and alleged members of the leftist group.
The prime minister also said he had called U.S. Ambassador Francis Riccardone to express his condolences, and wished a speedy recovery to the journalist Didem Tuncay, who was heavily injured in the attack.
Suspect is a former convict
Suspected suicide bomber Ecevit Şanlı spent time in prison between 1997 and 2000 for attacking an Istanbul military guest house, Harbiye Orduevi, with a flame thrower.
He participated in hunger strikes while being held in Ümraniye Prison in 2000, a time when massive hunger strikes were initiated in Turkish prisons. Şanlı, who suffered from Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome, was released on probation in 2002.
...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for...
the security guard who also died in the attack has been identified as Mustafa Akarsu, 36, Interior Minister Muammer Güler said in a statement.
The attack destroyed the entrance to the embassy building, he added, adding that the force of the explosion left body parts strewn around the scene.
Today's attack bears remarkable similarity to a suicide bomb attack on a police station in Istanbul's Sultangazi district on Sept. 11, 2012, that killed a police officer and the attacker.
The suicide bomber was later identified as İbrahim Çuhadar, who was said to be a known member of the outlawed DHKP/C. Çuhadar had previously served eight months in prison for participating in illegal demonstrations.
Seven people, including four police officers and three civilians, were also injured in the bombing at the 75.Yıl Police Station last year.
"The suicide bomber set off the explosives he was wearing after throwing a grenade into the police station, killing one police officer and wounding four others at the entry," Istanbul police chief Hüseyin Çapkın said soon after the attack.
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IF You have chromecast you can follow this post>> stream showbox smart-tv via chromecast
- First of all is Download Showbox android apk for Smart TV :showbox v 3.6 with subtitles (update 01/06/2015)
- Go to your Android TV settings and select the setting that allows the installation of a third party. tap stting button like images below:
- tap on unknown source then allow this installation :
- go to smart tv main menu , then choose showbox icon :
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Riten Gojiya-3rd Dimension Airship
At Design Interviews
Interview with riten GOJIYA : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. riten GOJIYA : I design this airship for creative people who often likes traveling alone and wanna explore the beauty from new perspective. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. riten GOJIYA : I wanted to achieve a self explainable concept which can excite people by just looking at its design. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. riten GOJIYA : I would like to see this project in reality probably I'll need a group of people to solve all the technical issue and make it possible. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. riten GOJIYA : It has been a very short journey from the the research to the final integration shots. it took me three week to complete this project but for me it is just a beginning of something new. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. riten GOJIYA : From the beginning only I was determined to achieve something which is beyond my skills ,knowledge and imagination so I think It is a fun project which has helped me grow . .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. riten GOJIYA : yes I wold love to convert this in to real production version airship but not sure If I'd get enough money and time to achieve that.may be can lease the production rights. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. riten GOJIYA : Promotion of true beauty and giving a joyful experience was initial inspiration for me. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. riten GOJIYA : Yes Fortunately I've had a workshop in prague with Thomas balle and Hong jean who helped me solving some practicality issues and controllers and maneuverability. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. riten GOJIYA : The target customer is a tourist who can rent this for per day or per hour. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. riten GOJIYA : Minimalistic approach and the way it complements the gauthic architectural style is a unique point. It uses the self morphing methods to maneuver around the city. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. riten GOJIYA : It means another dimension or perspective to experience the bohemian beauty. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. riten GOJIYA : Sketching, Origami, Photoshop, Catia v6 natural sketch and imagine and shape. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. riten GOJIYA : User experience is the most unique aspect. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. riten GOJIYA : I am a design student at DSK ISD International school of design and working with trainers and designers helps me alot in my rational thinking. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. riten GOJIYA : Technology is one of the important piece of puzzle in my design. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. riten GOJIYA : I went through ample of videos, documentries about czech republic and bohemian beauty, and the various aspects of Helium balloon. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. riten GOJIYA : The manufacturing of all the material in a way that the assembly becomes easy. The product has to have two functionality 1.hovering 2.moving slowly between architectures. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. riten GOJIYA : I think it is the best way to get feedback on my design and to evaluate my thought process which eventually helps me become a good designer. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. riten GOJIYA : This project has helped me expressing my thinking and imagination through my sketches and poetry. .
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Most didgeridoos in the Australian market are what we call "non-musical" quality - regardless of their authenticity. They are often over-priced and can still often cost hundreds of dollars because of their artwork or visual appeal and are often sold to unsuspecting international visitors.
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