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The D4's Dion goes crowd surfing with guitar in hand.
(Radio Birdman/You Am I/Rocket Science/D4/Bluebottle Kiss)
Saturday, December 7, 2002
@ The Domain, Sydney
WORDS AND PICTURES: JOHN McPHARLIN
I've got one or two prejudices about all day, open air festivals, which is why I don't go to them too often. In fact, aside from the annual Newtown Festival (which is really just a stroll from my mate Frank's place through the park to the pub and then another stroll from the pub back through the park to his favourite Vietnamese restaurant on King Street, with the occasional musical act being encountered along the way), the last time I went to an all day, open air rock event was... shit, Pink Floyd playing at Knebworth in 1975.
Technically I guess that wasn't really a festival, since there was only one stage and one line up (Linda Lewis, Roy Harper, Captain Beefheart, John Cleese and Graham Chapman doing a few Monty Python sketches - which surprisingly did not do down well with a small but extremely vocal section of the crowd - and of course the Floyd; bugger, I'm sure there was another band on the bill, but I just can't bring them to mind), so it should have been possible to see everyone on the bill and come away well satisfied; at least that's if the transport arrangements hadn't been such a shambles and the organisers such a pack of useless arseholes.
I'm referring in particular to the jumped up little Hitler who apparently thought he could get 40,000 people to line up in an orderly queue for the buses to take the punters back to the train station after the show was over - Knebworth being in the middle of fucking nowhere - and sent the buses back to the station empty when it didn't occur to his satisfaction; not that it made that much difference when the supposedly chartered British Rail trains were two hours late and by the time I got back to London the tube had stopped running for the night and the choice was between four to five hours on a very cold platform at Kings Cross station or a fucking long walk in the dark to Bayswater where I was staying, which is not to say that I still harbour any anger or bitterness about the whole debacle after what is now more than a quarter of a century...
I was hoping that things would be better at Homebake and the initial signs were extremely promising. To start with, Homebake is held right in the middle of Sydney, which takes all of the discomfort and inconvenience out of getting there. Secondly, the organisers have been doing this for a few years now, so they've had lots of opportunity to iron the bugs out of the whole process. I believe that the Floyd show at Knebworth was the very first time anyone had tried to use it as a rock venue - if it wasn't, then the organisers certainly had failed to learn a few important lessons from previous occasions. In comparison to that experience I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly and easily I got in to Homebake, despite everyone's bags having to be searched, but then Homebake had been going for nearly four hours by the time I arrived so most of the other punters were already there.
Originally I had hoped to see Melbourne band Jet at midday, but catching even the end of their set was always going to be tight, as my plane back from Canberra (after the previous night's Birdman show) wasn't scheduled to arrive until a mere ten minutes before they were due on stage. As it turned out, delays in Canberra meant that I had barely taken off when they went on stage and their set would have been over long before the first sign of Sydney's suburban sprawl out of the cabin window, let alone any need to place my tray in the upright position.
One complaint that you often hear about festivals is that all the acts you really want to see are always scheduled at the exact same time. I know Frank had a few "issues" with this, but for my money the dreaded overlaps were minimal. The Hopetoun Stage had Gersey mid afternoon, but that clashed with D4/Rocket Science over at the Dome, while the Dome had Paul Kelly from 6:20 to 7:10 which exactly coincided with Radio Birdman (so that choice was a no brainer, although I would have liked to see Paul Kelly). Other than that, it was clear sailing: starting at the Dome with Bluebottle Kiss at 3:00pm, followed by the D4 and Rocket Science, then over to the main stage for Radio Birdman followed by You Am I.
There were a couple of acts on after You Am I, but since the Intercontinental Playboys were playing three sets at the Sly Fox in Enmore, to farewell drummer and founding member Richard Weinman, my path from the Domain to Enmore seemed pretty much pre-ordained, as did the timing of my exit. Afterwards I realised that if I'd made the effort to get there by 2:00pm I could have seen Eskimo Joe (yeah, yeah Frank, I know you mentioned them the week before, but then you wanted to see Jebediah as well so I stopped paying attention after that), but it was too late by then and anyway, five and a half hours is more than enough for someone with my limited attention span. There was also a huge techo "mix" tent on the other side of the grounds, but that need not concern us any further.
Frank and I arrived in good time for Bluebottle Kiss and I picked up our passes without incident at the special booth beside the main gate (green V.I.P. pass for him, laminated orange photographer's pass for me). Unfortunately when we got to the Dome it turned out that his pass didn't get him backstage, while mine did. This brought home to me that you can only take friendship up to a certain point and apparently the artistes entrance behind the Dome is it, so that's the last I saw of Frank for the day.
Things backstage were very quiet and orderly. The artistes were being accommodated in a row of small, white tents, looking very much like nineteenth century two- or three-man army tents, one per act with their names and playing times printed in large letters on signs attached to the front of the tent. A few of the artistes who had already performed were still holding court before small groups of assembled fans, friends and hangers on (some of whom seemed to have only the same type of pass as Frank, so how the fuck did they get backstage???), while the members of Bluebottle Kiss were loitering restlessly near the steps to the stage, waiting for the roadies to finish setting up their gear.
While I waited in turn for them to swing into action, I stopped by the D4 tent and said g'day to the band, all of whom were sitting quietly in their tent, checking their strings and limbering up in preparation for their own forthcoming assault on the Homebake multitudes. Except for the signs with the band names and playing times on the fronts of the tents, this could have been a scene of a troop encampment straight out of a Boer War or American civil war doco. The band certainly had the dour, determined look of soldiers preparing for serious combat and I half expected general Ulysses S. Grant to come bursting out of the next tent with the day's battle orders, but it was only Roman Tucker from Rocket Science looking for a pen to write out a setlist.
It has taken a while (okay, a long while), but I think that finally the penny has dropped for me as far as Bluebottle Kiss is concerned. As usual, I'm almost too late. Original bassist Ben Fletcher, still with the band but now moved to guitar, has formed his own band (the Devoted Few) and apparently BBK drummer Richard Coneliano has officially left BBK to devote himself to the Devoted Few, although he's still drumming for BBK until a replacement can be found.
Meanwhile frontman Jamie Hutchings has already recorded a solo album, so BBK's days are probably numbered, which is a pity because this is a band that really knows its way around a "crescendo". However no one in the band believes that a set should only have one, or that it/any of them have to be at the end of the set. In their hands, the set becomes an on going tug-o-war between melody and discord, between clean pop optimism and raw, emotional despair, constantly threatening to descend into complete chaos, but never quite doing so.
In their quieter moments there is also a strong sense of melancholy reminiscent of Peter Fenton's work (Fletcher and Coneliano have both backed Fenton on occasion), though usually much more aggressive in its expression. Not for them the resignation and indifference of defeat, but a screaming defiance in the face of hostile critics, a largely unresponsive music establishment and punters (friend and fan and foe) alike. Heady stuff indeed, even if they did run over time - and this despite the set times being printed in large print on notices all over the stage, plus not one but two clocks with large faces affixed to the sides of the speaker banks where the band could not avoid seeing either or both.
Despite BBK's overrun Homebake does run on a firm schedule, so the D4 were cut off at their allotted time, notwithstanding that they hadn't been able to start on time through no fault of their own. In the end it didn't matter, as they'd done it all by then anyway - simply packed everything they had to offer into the shorter time. Talking to the head security guy for the Dome area before the D4 went on, he said that the first band of the day (that would have been Antiskeptic I'm guessing) had got crowd going wild - moshing and crowd surfing dangerously on top of each other's heads - and he had thought that it was going to be "one of those days", but after that initial outburst everything had been calm and relaxed and he was more than pleased with that state of affairs. I didn't see him again after D4 finished, but I'll bet he wasn't as calm or relaxed then, because they not only whipped the crowd up into a frenzy, they (or at least Dion) did a little crowd surfing of his own.
In all honesty, I'd had a niggling doubt about whether the D4 could really do the business on such a big stage or whether their honest and infectious showmanship relied on the confined intimacy of small venues (where I'd only been seeing them perform so far) to envelop and overpower the audience. Of course this parochial attitude of mine did completely ignore the fact that over the last couple of years their performances at overseas festivals have been highly praised by those who have seen them.
Needless to say my misgivings were proved utterly unfounded. The D4 had no trouble taking command of the large stage and the audience area in front of it, knocking the crowd back on its heels with the irresistible impact of their presence (and this was even before Dion went crowd surfing). Just like at the smaller venues they happily got down off the stage (to the teeth grinding chagrin of security) and mixed it face to face with the audience (or at least these closest to the barrier), all the while keeping the music flowing. And it was as much their music as their high spirited hijinks which got the crowd going. Unlike m'learned friend Frank, I think that the D4 do have some good songs, swags of them in fact, and the audience seemed to be of largely of the same opinion, even going to the extent of singing along to some of them.
The arrangements for the gentry of the press at Homebake are that the photographers are allowed inside the crash barrier to take photographs, but only for the first three songs, after which they are expected to piss off out of the way of the security guys. This makes having a photographer's pass somewhat less of an attractive proposition if you are actually a fan of the band and want to see the whole performance (since the crowd is packed up tight in front of the other side of the barrier by the time your three songs are up); it also means that most professional photographs would be of bands that were still warming up, while each big finale goes undocumented (except by all the roadies with stage passes, instamatics and apparently a lot of spare time on their hands, plus the odd ligger like me hanging around the side of the stage where they aren't technically still supposed to be, at least until they get the hard word from security to move on).
In the case of the D4, the big finale involved not only the aforementioned crowd surfing from Dion and a crescendo big enough to leave the members of Bluebottle Kiss open mouthed in appreciation, but also Jimmy throwing his guitar into the crowd during the final moments, leaving the punter at the front who caught it with a bemused look on his face and some obviously conflicting emotions ("Beauty, I got myself a free guitar" struggling with "Shit, now I gotta lug this around for the rest of the day"), which were resolved to his relief when one of the bouncers finally came and retrieved it from him.
The crowd dynamics between bands were puzzling. I legged it the moment the D4 finished, because I was starving and I wanted to get something from the food stalls (which were abundant, but also exactly the same as at the Newtown Festival the month before - I guess if you've gone to the trouble of building yourself a stall you want to get as much use out of it as you can so you drag it to wherever a decent size crowd can be found). When I got back to the Dome, the roadies were still setting up for Rocket Science and there was virtually no one in front of the stage. Five minutes before the band started you could have walked right up to barrier and got a great spot towards the centre. As the start time drew nigh, the crowd began to swell noticeably and by the time the band started you would have been eight or ten punters back from the barrier at best; by the time the band's first song ended you'd have been pushing to get much closer than half way between the barrier and the back fence, unless you were prepared to stand right on the side.
Unfortunately Rocket Science failed to really achieve liftoff this time. I've seen these guys on numerous occasions and more often than not been blown away by the intensity and obsessive urgency of their performances, but this afternoon they came across as strangely distant and dilatory (and this was despite playing all the big numbers from both their albums). Perhaps they were having an off day or perhaps the cheerful, outdoor picnic vibe of Homebake just doesn't lend itself to the band's darkly driven visions, like Dr Strangelove meets the Phantom of the Opera inside the Cabinet of Dr Caligari (all of which left me a little disappointed, not to mention embarrassed since I knew there were several others in the audience to whom I'd sung the band's praises in the past and who must now be scratching their heads and asking themselves "What the f#$% is he on about...?").
I left the Dome a little before Rocket Science's set was due to finish and slowly fought my way over to the main stage, where Machine Gun Fellatio were winding up. With time to kill, I thought I'd hit the V.I.P. area, but unfortunately it turned out that it was on the other side of the main stage and no, according to the bouncer I couldn't just walk around via the walk way - that was only for artistes, roadies and other such exulted personages who had full access passes. So it took a long and arduous fight to make my way over to the other side of the stage (and this was even after going back a good fifty metres from the stage where the crowd wasn't pressed in so dense, though if I'd waited another five minutes I simply could have walked across in front of the crash barrier, as the crowd evaporated almost the instant MGF left the stage).
There didn't seem to be many actual V.I.P.s in the V.I.P. enclosure, at least not that I recognized; mainly just friends of friends of somebody half famous, liggers like me and lost souls looking for the toilet (though both Frank and the Barman later regaled me with details of the rock royalty they'd observed during their forays into the same area). On top of that, you still had to pay for your own beer and you couldn't see any part of the stage from anywhere in the V.I.P. corral, so I didn't see any point in hanging around. I girded my loins for the rough trek back to the other side of the stage, which is where the entrance to crash barrier was, but as already noted the crowd had dispersed by then.
Once again it was get three songs and then get the fuck outta here but, unlike the Dome, there was positively no loitering around the side of the stage area afterward. By this time, needless to say, the crowd was huge. I couldn't help thinking that if I'd forgone the photographer's access and just grabbed a spot on the crash barrier, on the crowd side that is, when I'd had the chance then I would have been better off, since then I wouldn't have had to move somewhere else at the end of the third song. However it didn't take long for me to recall how my kidneys had felt after the show in Canberra, where I'd done exactly that, so reality dawned on me and I was happier with the choice I'd made.
Also, if I'd stayed down the front I would have been too close to the stage to see Birdman on the big screen like some stadium act, even if that did provoke a minor reality crisis for me. I mean, Birdman on the big screen, are they turning into a hair metal stadium band now? No, of course not; I'm just running off at the mouth, but there really was a big video screen at one side of the stage, with Ron Keeley looming large instead of being half hidden at the back of the stage behind his drum kit (in most film you see of festivals, there's a screen either side of the stage, but the layout of the grounds didn't provide enough space to put a screen on both sides of the stage, which spoiled the symmetry). Since what was showing on the screen was being shot by video cameras (whose operators, needless to say, weren't subject to the three song rule), this leaves me wondering whether any of this was also being recorded and if so, who's got the tape and when and where are we going to see it - on TV? DVD? Coming to a theatre near you? Because this was one performance that was definitely worth a second look (shit, I'd even buy a DVD player if it came out on DVD!).
Unlike the Metro or the Prince of Wales, you can't get "intimate" with a crowd this size, so the band didn't try and it was all business from the moment they stepped onto the stage. If you can't have intimacy, then the next best thing is no holds barred rock'n'roll action and that's what they gave the audience - in spades. Since they were only allowed fifty minutes (compared to their normal two hours) the slower, softer, tenderer (isn't that a real word - my spell checker doesn't seem to think so?) songs had been culled from the set and what was left was all bone, muscle and sinew. Okay, and maybe a bit of unidentified gristle that would have required a lot of chewing as well.
They started off with "Smith & Wesson Blues" and while you're never alone with a Smith and Wesson (baby), in this crowd on this afternoon clearly you weren't alone either if you were knocked flat on your arse by Radio Birdman. Having established their beachhead, they then proceeded to consolidate their position with a cavalcade of high energy performances of high energy classics that got the audience progressively more and more excited, over excited in some cases, leading ultimately to "What Gives?", "Aloha Steve 'n' Danno" and finally to "New Race", giving everyone an excuse to work off plenty of pent up aggression with a succession of fist raising, air punching, lung shuddering Yeh Hups, like an accidental collision between a demented southern Baptist revival meeting and a drought stricken synchronized swimming demonstration on steroids in a confusion of ear rings, ear plugs, nose plugs and nose rings.
Radio Birdman might have been the archetypal "hard act to follow", but it didn't seem to faze Tim Rogers one bit. Frankly I think the bloke just loves to be performing, irrespective of the venue or crowd size and I suspect that if you dragged him down to your local pub and stuck a guitar in his hands he'd probably put just as much effort into playing there for the half a dozen regulars propping up the bar as he did this evening for the assembled multitude of Homebake, many of whom clearly were there especially for the whole You Am I experience.
Unfortunately my enjoyment of You Am I's set was cut short when someone discovered how to activate the underground sprinklers. Sure it had been a hot day, but by then darkness had well and truly fallen - and the temperature right along with it. On top of that, the sprinkler nozzle thingie that spreads the flow of water out widely was not working, so the water came out in forceful, focused stream. It was like the riot police hosing down hippies at a love in, only combined with an impromptu revival of "Attack of the Mole People".
At first I didn't know what was happening, but as one by one the people between me and the closest sprinkler got drenched to the skin (to their obvious displeasure), I beat a quick retreat before I suffered the same fate, almost throwing myself right into the torrent from the next sprinkler. Oops, time to vacate the area altogether! As I left, I noticed numerous security guards heading in the direction of the main sprinkler eruption zone, so presumably someone was going to get their head kicked in (or at least their nozzle twisted shut), but it didn't seem worth hanging around for and besides, by then the Intercontinental Playboys were calling.
Oh, that band I couldn't remember from the Pink Floyd extravaganza? It was the Steve Miller Band. I used to think some of their songs were pretty rockin' and, you know, cool once; now I realise they were pretty staid (so it's not surprising they're one of the lesser staples of nostalgia FM) and hey, what have they done in the last couple of decades anyway? The Birdmen, on the other hand, were never staid and can still do the business, large scale and big time. As outdoor extravaganzas go, Homebake's not too foul either (the free showers notwithstanding).


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Limit on the ultrahigh-energy neutrino flux from lunar observations with the Parkes radio telescope
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© 2015 American Physical Society. We report a limit on the ultrahigh-energy neutrino flux based on a nondetection of radio pulses from neutrino-initiated particle cascades in the Moon, in observations with the Parkes radio telescope undertaken as part of the LUNASKA project. Because of the improved sensitivity of these observations, which had an effective duration of 127 hours and a frequency range of 1.2-1.5 GHz, this limit extends to lower neutrino energies than those from previous lunar radio experiments, with a detection threshold below 1020eV. The calculation of our limit allows for the possibility of lunar-origin pulses being misidentified as local radio interference, and includes the effect of small-scale lunar surface roughness. The targeting strategy of the observations also allows us to place a directional limit on the neutrino flux from the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A.
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YEAR of the SERPENT.
Fuck the Police
'Fuck Dad?' She snapped.
The restaurant lay in disarray. Two cops, one male, the other female, looked from face to face, taking in the fear around them. Feeding on the terror.
Jan squinted distastefully at her sister. 'What exactly do you mean by that Billie?'
They had their backs to the wall. Their lunch stretched across the checkered tile floor like a low-grade gastronomic chess game. Onion ring takes fry. Cheese gem takes onion ring.
Jan looked from Billie's face to a chicken nugget pinched under the heal of a black, standard issue police boot, and felt what food she'd swallowed shift in her stomach.
'All I'm saying is that we've got a chance to get out of here…you and me. We could fuck up that chance if we go looking for dad.'
Her mouth took on a manipulative twist, and her watery eyes tried, unsuccessfully to convince Jan that her intentions were coming from a magnanimous reservation.
'You haven't had enough training Billie. WE, combined aren't prepared. You saw how many cops there were, and that's just in this section of the building.' Jan replied.
'Besides, we need dad's help, and… damn God Billie, he's our old man!' Jan's eyes were getting wet now and she turned her face away and sniffed back a swell of thin mucus.
'Ok Boss Jan', Billie growled, prodding her jaw forward and curving her brow. 'How many bullets have you got?'
'Four, I think' Jan mused and felt in the large space in her anorak pocket and kneaded the cold, weighty shells between her fingers.
'I've got two', Billie stated matter-of-factly, pressing her palms on the floor. 'Ready to go' she added, rising to her feet.
'Billie! Sit the fuck down' Jan hissed.
'Straight into this fucker's head' she concluded and was on her feet now, shaking a revolver from her jacket pocket.
Jan gripped a flap of her jacket and yanked her down.
'Stay on the floor!' barked the male cop. He walked over and pressed the muzzle of his gun under Billie's chin then kicked her in the stomach.
'If you touch my sister again you gutless cunt, I'll break your fuckin head open' Jan spat between clenched teeth.
He turned toward Jan, keeping his boot on Billie's chest and began to laugh. His laughter was cut short by a shrill nasal voice from somewhere in the background.
'Question!… Um, excuse me…Question!'. The cop looked over his shoulder toward the voice and took his foot off Billie.
The accent was artificially spiced with a New York twang and the young woman from whom it came, was short with a round, olive face, eczema tinted eyelids and chin, a curved nose and long, coiled black hair.
The cop gave her a look like Dirty Harry taking the shit he'd been saving for a week.
The young woman piped up again, her naïve, sticky voice circled the quiet restaurant in a vexatious verse, stiffening the necks of the entrapped customers and police personal, and hung in the stifled air momentarily like a witless heckle.
The cop stared at her a moment longer, then produced a small, black Personal Digital Assistant from within his fatigues and slid a stylus from its capsule.
What's your name sweetheart?' He asked with a spurious grin and tapped the PDA screen with the thin plastic stick.
'Lana S______', she replied confidently.
'Ok Miss S______' The cop crooned sarcastically. 'What was that question you just had to ask?' The grin on the cop's face dipped into a broad smile and he looked past the young woman and tapped the brim of his cap.
'Oh, Ok, wellll I was just wondering…and, I mean it's no big deal buuu-t', as she spoke the cop nodded to the policewoman standing somewhere near the bun racks in the back of the restaurant.
'We'll I paid fourteen dollarrz for that mango shake that's now a mess down there', she pointed to a large polystyrene cup resting on a shallow puddle of thick orange liquid on the floor.
The cop paid no attention to the spilt milk and continued tapping the PDA, so she continued.
'Ok, um… am I gonna get a refund or something? Maybe a voucher? She stared at the cop waiting for a response, her palms upturned in a moronic Egyptian stance.
'I mean, I'd only taken like three sips' she paused, and then continued. 'Maybe even only teew?'
Jan watched with a serious look on her face as the policewoman moved up behind the American until she was within 6 feet. As she approached she drew a long barreled revolver from a holster across her ribs.
The cop looked up from his tiny screen to the girl.
'That's S______ with two S's in the middle?'
'Uh huh' she replied and as she nodded two heavy clicks sounded behind her head. A sharp and deafening crack walloped through the restaurant and the young America's face opened like a burst melon and spewed the contents of her head through the air and against the walls, ceiling and faces of the terrified patrons.
'Jesus Donna' huffed the male cop as he blew blood dust away from his face. 'How the hell do you get away with carrying that thumper?'
The female cop pinched out the spent shell and drop a replacement into the cylinder. 'I put in a special request with the chief' she replied with a wink, and rolled the cylinder back into place, flicked the hollow shell on the headless body at her feet and holstered her weapon.
The male cop mouthed the word slut and grinned.
'Fuck you Jeff' she laughed. 'At least I get somethin' for takin' it up the arse'.
Jeff's radio crackled.
Gunfire. Tch. Reported. Tchh. Over tchhhh.
Repeat. Tch. Gunfire reported. In sector. G…Comeback tch.
Over tchhhhhhh.
The female cop clicked her tongue and breathed out a frustrated sigh, looking under her brow towards her partner.
He thumbed the PTT switch and spoke into the radio.
'Gunfire confirmed. Situation contained over' he said into the radio.
Tchhh t chhhh…Repeat last message. Over tchh.
The cop's pupils looped to the ceiling and then to the female cop.
'Situation is under control repeat. Situation is un-der con-trol'.
Tchhhh confirmed. Tch.
The radio bleeped the static into submission and the cop clipped the receiver back onto a shoulder strap. He looked again at the female cop and spat on the floor near the dead girl's body.
'Fuuu-uck this shit Donna…fuck-it!' he said with an exaggerated look of exhaustion.
'Just think of the benefits mate' she said. 'Could always be worse' she added and curled the corners of her mouth downward. 'You could be one of these' she concluded, motioning towards the twitching group of customers wearing a light spray of red mist.
Blood, surging from the spacious hole above the dead girls jaw line had slowed to a gravy pour and as Jan watched the liquid clot, she had a sharp and intense moment of insight.
She moved her gaze across the restaurant and took in the blur surrounding the dead body on the floor in front of her: The patrons clamped together in a transcendent embrace like an elongated vision of Dante's tortured souls. Legs, arms and torsos wrapped in, and over darkened faces with eyes clenched in shadow; eyes that would never be trusted to see reality again by the mind that moved them.
Jan knew what was coming. She, like her father, her sister and a small number of others had been trained to recognize the early stages of genocide.
They had also been trained to fight against, and kill, those that would enforce it.
Jan cupped the shells in her hand and motioned to her sister-
'Take these'.
Billie took the bullets and slid her hand inside the pocket of her anorak.
'We need to get him close' Jan whispered.
'She clipped her holster' Billie added, nodding toward the female cop. 'That'll give me more time.'
The restaurant was quiet, save from a suffocated murmur of fear coming from the restaurant patrons and the muffled clink of the shells Billie was dropping into her revolver.
Jan looked from at one cop, then the other, then at Billie and nodded.
'Does it make you feel empowered?' Billie asserted in the direction of the female cop.
The Male cop, who had been inspecting the inside of the dead girl's head, turned to Billie.
'During times like this, it's customary to show some respect for the dead' he spat through pursed lips. The female cop shifted forward slowly and thumbed to cap off her pepper spray.
'Are you brain damaged or something mate?' Billie added.
Jan's eyes flicked from cop to cop and her hand gripped the handle of a pig knife sheathed across her lower back.
'I mean, I've seen plenty of fucked-up cops, I've had personal dealings with PLENTY of mentally unbalanced people who claim to serve and protect the rights of citizens…but you lot' she mocked, tipping her head toward the female cop, 'you're a whole new and underwhelming breed of filth.'
The male cop was approaching Jan and Billie now, pulling a baton from a loop in his belt and grinning.
'Don't stop on my account' he said and came to a standstill a few feet from the girls.
'…Share your disillusions, I'm curious to hear the inner-workings of a low-grade shit-stain'.
As he spoke the cop leaned his face towards Billie, his grin twisted into a smirk and he lifted the baton under her chin and pressed it onto her throat.
Billie looked him in the eye and smiled as he drew the baton over his shoulder. She kept smiling as he brought it down towards her face.
Jan's blade was 8 inches deep into his groin before the baton could make contact.
The female cop lurched forward. She tossed the mace and reaching for her revolver, yanking at the snagged weapon.
The first shot from Billie's .38 took the corner of the cop's right ear off. The second entered just below her right eye. The cop dropped back against the service counter, knocking down a tray of saltshakers. Her face wore a sharp, twisted expression like that of an acid-washed portrait.
The male cop squirmed savagely, doubling over Jan's blade, and moaned like a sick animal.
Billie took the baton from his hand and stood up. His eyes stayed on Jan's, and his mouth puffed like a grounded fish.
Behind him, the female cop had a hand raised to her mouth. She coughed, and a thick clag of blood coated her rigid fingers.
Billie took a vinyl cushion from a dining booth and walked towards her. A fleshy clod from the American's head lost its grip on the ceiling and met the tiled floor with a wet slap. The cop's eyes followed the sound and Billie pressed the cushion over the barrel of the .38, leaned down and fired the gun into the cop's face one last time.
Jan read the name on a thin silver badge above the breast pocket on the male cop's jacket.
'Pearson…P-e-a-r son' she repeated the name and yanked the knife out of Constable Pearson's scrotum and watched him drop to his knees. His teeth started chattering uncontrollably and he pointed his mouth to the floor and vomited, wailed at the ceiling, and vomited again.
Jan turned to Billie and clicked her fingers. Billie tossed her the baton and turned to the cluster of terrified people on the floor.
'You might want to look away kids'.
The restaurant was silent. Wind rattled the windows and a dozen tortured eyes lay, unblinking on two twisted figures, the blood around their eyes dull, like cracked red icing. The sound of hurried footsteps and radio transmissions broke the silence as police approached. All eyes did not move from the dead cops on the floor. The dead woman was wearing a mask of bloody feathers and someone had taken the man's face away.
Jan motioned to Billie to be still and peered through the grill of the heating duct as a small group of police trotted past.
'How many?' Billie asked as she unscrewed a makeshift suppressor from her pistol and tipped out the spent shells, keeping her finger across the live cartridges.
'Six…two with automatics' Jan replied and set the grill back into place.
'They're getting' sloppy' Billie mused, testing the weight of the cop's revolver. 'I've never seen a cop carrying an unprocessed weapon before.'
'They're a hastily selected, poorly trained army of ignorant fuckin' morons' Jan shot back through a clenched jaw. 'Any military institution founded and sustained by power-hungry suits is bound to fuck up.'
'These ones are coded' Billie said, tossing two pistols and their hollow clips into her backpack.
'Keep the ammo handy' Jan whispered, watching the police nearing the end of a corridor and disappearing around a corner. "And make sure that radio's off', she added.
Thin strips of light passed over the figures of the two girls as they shifted back and up through the square tin catacomb and toward the ceiling ducts. They stopped just before they leveled with the ceiling. A shallow and sharp clatter of automatic weapon fire reached them, relaying the grim message with a savage report.
Billie felt for Jan in the dark and whispered softly to her, 'we couldn't have saved them Janny'.
Jan hitched her backpack higher on her shoulders. 'Let's find Dad and get the fuck out of here' she hissed and moved forward, through the dead-black passage. Her sister followed.
Somewhere below them, speakers buzzed to life and a cold, electrified voice sank through the air and progressed through the empty corridors of the mall:
Attention citizens of Fillmore Xiling Province …


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DUTIES: Room Setup: . Ian C. Bill D. Reception: Denis D. Mike N.
Grace: . Bill D. Jeff D.
Sergeant: Jeff D. Keith R.
Members 2 Minutes: Mike N. Graham S.
Speaker's Host: Keith R. Russell S.
Vote of Thanks: Russell S. Jim B.
Parting Thought: Graham S. Mike B.
NOTE: deck chairs have been shuffled for 3rd SEPTEMBER, People known to be away that day Include Garry W, Denis D, Mike W. -- Mr Secretary note your schedule sent ran out 27/8. ( If not able to be there please arrange a swap or replacement )
SPEAKER 27th Aug JOSEPH THOMAS of Tasman District Council – " The Lee Valley" ALSO for the following week, 3
rd Sept, speaker to yet confirm: (Ian has a local person in mind, a young volunteer speaks about her work with disadvantaged children and families in Thailand.)
EVENTS …… coming up soon ( Please note your diaries on these -) * In September - Social Event with wives & partners….to be announced.
* Applicants from Nelson Girls College - for Science Society Forum in Auckland
Our Trustees will have to consider these. We also need assistance with volunteers
as interviewers. Please tell Barry B or Mike Watson if you can help.
* Mon 24 September: Club Meeting with District Governor: Gordon Hooper
* Wakatu Club Project: Club to assist with boardwalks - Richmond to Mapua.
Treasurer will accept any time from now -- say needed in by 30th September last date. GUEST SPEAKER--CAPTAIN DAVE DUNCAN, PORT NELSON HARBOURMASTER
Last week the Club was joined by a team from Stoke-Tahunanui, plus we had visitors Graham and Maureen Elwood with us, for an enjoyable meeting with Capt. Dave Duncan, our Port Nelson Harbourmaster. Dave hails from Wanganui, gave us a rundown on the changes in his career over a number of years. He made a change of course at age 36 when he decided to go to sea. Prior to that he had been in insurance as a risk assessor, and then had moved to Perth where he was in real estate, and thus able to indulge his real interest which was in sailing. So with 4 family by then Dave took up a new career and went back to school to do his sea-going tickets. From there he became the brand new 3
rd mate (relieving) after a" container ship" had had a disaster with the previous crew. He did 5 years with the Trans-Tasman Container Line, achieved his Master=Mariner Ticket in 2002. Another change then and 2010 saw him as the Marine Operations Manager, Pilot, then Harbour Master with PNL at Nelson. Knowledge of many Acts, Codes, Local Govt. Acts, of the Port & Harbour Safety Codes, Fire Safety Code, Code for Safe Stowage, as well as of the detail of Nelson Harbour and its environs is only part of the Job! Most of these Codes have been amended in the last 12 months. There's The Admiralty Act, The Maritime Transport Act, Civil Defence Act to name but a few. Dealing with pilotage problems, 225m long container ships arriving & leaving, Kayaks coming alongside with no realisation of the dangers of large moving vessels etc, are but a few of the day to day issues. Then there are the Oil and other unhealthy discharge occurrences, to be monitored and audited – responsibility of the Harbour Master. Then Local Body reps want to make changes to facilities on the port reclamation, sometimes with not any practical realisation of the consequential problems for public safety etc. An entertaining speaker, and our session ended 8pm.
Keith presented a Rotary Pen and thanks from those present for such an insightful talk.
LAST WEEK'S HAPPENINGS: # Sergeant Russell Fines 20th Aug.- included Ian C, skiing free? But copping a speeding fine in Queenstown on holiday, Denis doing a Barry B, and breaking his spade at the Living Legends Tree planting project on 18th, Graham S. so far getting "away" with his speeding ticket. Plus others who couldn't name the new RI President ( Banner behind them on the wall! ). # Jeff gave a great Members Talk with a helmet-mounted bike camera video screening of a recent mountain bike trail run and climb , new recently cleared track in the Sharlands Creek area. The new R&R track is about 10kms up from Sharlands. It was noted there were plenty of stops on the ride, someone unkindly suggested these were much-needed excuses for a rest!
Well done Jeff. (meeting attendance was encouraging with 11 of our members, 10 from Stoke-Tahuna,plus there were 2 guests and our guest speaker - 24 in all.)
KEITH'S PARTING THOUGHT FOR 13TH AUG.: To sustain maximum attention, its hard to beat a good big mistake LIVING LEGENDS TREE PLANTING AT WAKAPUAKA – MEMBERS HELPING OTHER VOLUNTEERS:
RUSSELL'S PARTING THOUGHTS ON 20TH AUGUST -- --- ALL ABOUT SIGNS WE SEE AROUND US: * In a Laundromat: ' please remove all your clothes when the light goes out'
* Outside a Department Store: ' bargain basement: upstairs'
* At a worksite: ' would the person who removed the stepladder please bring it back or
further steps will be taken ' POEM: for the motorists I have a little Satnav It sits there in my car A Satnav is a driver's friend It tells you where you are
I have a little Satnav
I've had it all my life
Its better than the normal ones
My Satnav is my wife. It gives me full instructions
Especially how to drive
"It's fifty k's an hour", it says
"You're doing sixty-five"
It tells me when to stop and start And when to use the brake And tells me that it's never ever Safe to overtake It tells me when a light is red And when it goes to green It seems to know instinctively Just when to intervene It lists the vehicles just in front And all those to the rear And taking this into account It specifies my gear. I'm sure no other driver Has so helpful a device For when we leave and lock the car It still gives its advice It fills me up with counselling Each journey's pretty fraught So why don't I exchange it And get a quieter sort? Ah well, you see, it cleans the house, Makes sure I'm properly fed, It washes all my shirts and things And - keeps me warm in bed!
Despite all these advantages
And my tendency to scoff,
I do wish that once in a while
I could turn the damned thing off. THE END OF BULLETIN 8


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Kay Gordon
Norfolk Island is renowned for its natural beauty and its unique history. Many of the remnant buildings are examples of beautiful Georgian architecture but also represent a brutal and inhumane period of British history.
During a recent visit I wondered about the sense of isolation for both the military personnel and the convicts, the sense of hopelessness and feeling of desperation amongst those incarcerated here and the life journeys that have brought people to this island since Captain Cook landed here almost 240 years ago.
I sought out different ways to frame my images. These frames are my 'tunnels' for the purposes of this portfolio.
Lone Pine at sunrise from the old Salt House. This Norfolk Island pine is thought to be 650 years old witnessing Captain Cook's landing in 1774.
Restored Georgian buildings in Quality Row.
The Old Military Barracks, Quality Row.
Originally the Commissariat Store it was converted to All Saints Church by the Pitcairners when their church was destroyed by a cyclone in 1874.
The view beyond the gaol to The Store, an impregnable building in Slaughter Bay.
The sense of despair in solitary confinement, re-enacted.
The Norfolk Island flag flies in Quality Row flanked by Norfolk Island pines and symbolising modern "Norfolk Island as a distinct and separate settlement".
A tunnel of Moreton Bay figs symbolising the road ahead for so many people committed to this island?


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Now that we've given a shout-out to the tax-filing procrastinators, offering them tips on how file their taxes at this late date, it's time to give a nod to those who got this task done early and now have a refund either burning a hole in their pocket or impatiently awaiting…(Read More)
Congratulations, you've made it to April after this long winter. It also means the clock is ticking even louder to file your taxes. It can be expensive to do so and as a procrastinator, you may be panicking. But don't worry; there is still time to file your taxes last minute and inexpensively…(Read More)
It's close to the years end and the right time to review your overall portfolio. It's also a good idea to start thinking about the tax implications that your portfolio will have as we get closer to the tax deadlines. The market had been hitting all-time highs, which means that you may…(Read More)


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|Roger Ebert to me as a very young man:
"Kid, you never, ever need to be ashamed admitting
to anyone how much you love Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
|Reprobate Corner: Russ Meyer and Roger Ebert
Dir. Steve James
Review By Greg Klymkiw
What I loved most about Roger Ebert was not his film criticism. In 1988 I was promoting my first feature film as a producer and was afforded the happy opportunity to sit on a panel discussion at a film festival that was being moderated by my hero. Not Roger Ebert the film critic (though I always enjoyed his film reviews), but Roger Ebert the screenwriter. Yes! Screenwriter! Roger Ebert had penned one of my favourite movies of all time and I impatiently counted down every minute for the panel to end so I could corner him.
So upon cornering the great man, I stammered out a few words about his great script. I wasn't embarrassed to be admitting how much I loved Meyer's movie, but I was, frankly just plain nervous. I was in my 20s, dipping my toe into the film festival world for the first time and here before me was my idol. He smiled at me and said, "Kid, you never,ever need to be ashamed admitting to anyone how much you love Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." He took me out for a coffee and over the course of an hour we talked about Russ Meyer. He even told me all about the ghost writing he did on other Meyer pictures - mostly the insanely over-the-top manly-man dialogue Russ would put in the mouths of his studs.
This, for me, was a dream come true. Over the years, I'd run into Ebert on the film festival circuits. I'd usually never have to remind him who I was. I was the fat kid who loved Beyond the Valley of the Dolls more than life itself.
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Steve James's documentary portrait of Ebert, taking the same title as the Great Man's memoirs Life Itself, is a beautiful, touching and heart wrenching portrait of a man that most anyone who loves movies worshipped and/or admired. Shot primarily during the last few months of Ebert's life, James focuses on Ebert's indomitable will to live. This brave, brilliant man who loved movies - perhaps not more than life itself, but who most certainly loved life for the myriad of blessings it afforded, including the movies, takes on an aura of saintliness that seems perfectly apt.
The last years of Ebert's life produced some of his best work as a writer. He embraced social media early on, and when he was stricken with cancer and then further assaulted by the horrendous surgery that butchered his lower jaw and took away his ability to speak with that distinctly mellifluous voice, Ebert wrote with a vengeance - on FaceBook, on his Blog, his marvellous, seemingly endless Tweets and, of course, the reviews. It's odd, but in those years, I'd always turn to Ebert's reviews soon after I saw a movie and wrote about it, just to see where his own head was at with the picture. I'm probably imagining things, but it seemed to me that he entered a far more philosophical phase - not just in his personal writings, but in his film criticism as well. In any event, I at least felt like Ebert had entered into a new phase as a writer and I'm grateful to have turned to his work first during this period.
I'm also grateful this film exists.
James has made a very solid and fine picture. He hits all the biographical points one would want - childhood, university newspaper, early years as a journalist, television star, his rivalry/friendship with Gene Siskel (almost unbearably moving in Siskel's final year) and marriage to his warm, wonderful Chazz, the love of his life. And yes, though I might have preferred an entire feature film about it, James does NOT ignore Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, though I'll admit a tiny shred of disappointment that Martin Scorsese doesn't quite wax more enthusiastically about the picture's considerable virtues and instead offers that the classic sex-and-violence-drenched satire/melodrama went over his head.
The film is superbly apportioned with a treasure trove of footage (including hilarious outs from "At the Movies"), film clips, archival footage, interviews with the likes of Martin Scorsese, friends, family and finally, the sad, harrowing and yet inspirational glimpse into Ebert's last years. The film also features narration taken directly from the text of Ebert's lovely book "Life Itself" read by a really terrific Ebert sound-alike voice actor.
Life Itself is a film of great humour, warmth and tears. And yes, I shed more than a few. You'd have to be inhuman not to.
Life Itself plays theatrically via Video Services Corp. (VSC) at the following venues:
Opens July 11
Toronto – TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St. W
Montreal – Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Avenue du Parc
Ottawa – Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St
Opens July 13
Vancouver – RIO Theatre, 1660 East Broadway St.
Opens July 25
London – Hyland Cinema, 240 Wharncliffe Rd S
Waterloo – Princess Cinema, 6 Princess St. W
Victoria – The Vic, 808 Douglas St
Opens Sept 12
Winnipeg – Cinematheque – 100 Arthur St.


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Top 5 Omaha Orthopedic Websites in 2012
Here it is. The Top 5 Omaha Orthopedic Websites in 2012 by OrthopedicSurgeonsOmaha.com. You might ask, "How did you rate the Orthopedic websites in Omaha to find the top 5?", we based the rating on many different factors. We looked at the website content, navigation, layout, and overall design. We even took the actual website names into account.
Omaha Orthopedic Websites Content
Website content is something that can be done right or wrong. Copying what your other competitors are doing is not going to help you get ahead in the results. Quality content needs to be original and well thought out. The topic needs to be clear and well described. We found many websites with great quality orthopedic content and we found other websites that lacked the professionalism needed to make our list. We appreciate articles that are well written. We believe that the consumer also appreciates a well-written article. That is why website content was a big factor we took into account when judging the Top 5 Omaha Orthopedic Websites in 2012.
Navigation and Layout – Top Orthopedic Websites 2012
The next factor we looked at for our list of the top 5 omaha orthopedic websites in 2012 was the website navigation and layout. People can get frustrated pretty quickly with websites that either load slowly or are difficult to maneuver. With that being said we still looked for websites that had some level of complexity. A simple layout with no special features will not score extra points in this category.
Top 5 Omaha Orthopedic Websites in 2012 by OrthopedicSurgeonsOmaha.com
- OmahaOrthopedics.org
- OmahaHospital.org
- Omaha-Orthopedic.com
- OrthopedicReviews.com
- Omaha Orthopedic Youtube
Competition of Omaha Orthopedic Websites
When we did the research for this 2012 list we found at a lot of different websites. We did a Google search for terms like "Omaha Anterior Approach", "Omaha Ankle Surgery", and "Omaha Carpal Tunnel Syndrome" and we went through pages of results. The best websites were on the first page of the search results for these terms and other terms as well. We wanted to note that even if your website wasn't listed in our top 5, it doesn't mean you do not have a quality website. We found so many different unique Omaha Orthopedic websites. It really encourages us to build more websites to contribute to the growing Orthopedic Community in Omaha, Ne.


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Latest Videos from CTV Edmonton
Alberta superintendent pay highest in Canada
Published Tuesday, February 13, 2018 5:26PM MST
Last Updated Tuesday, February 13, 2018 6:27PM MST
Alberta school superintendents have the highest average salaries in Canada. Their annual base salary increased by 10 per cent between 2013 and 2016 – a three-year period where teachers' salaries remained flat, and Albertans' incomes decreased.
According to a study by the Alberta School Boards Association, the salary for superintendents in the province in 2015-16 was $206,250; and the maximum salary, which belonged to Edmonton Catholic Schools superintendent Joan Carr was $357,404 – nearly double the average salary for superintendents in Ontario, and around $65,000 more than the average salaries in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
Alberta education minister David Eggen said the province will not approve any new superintendent contracts until they study the situation.
"This is obviously an area of concern," he said. "I think we have to look at it more systematically to ensure that compensation, which, remember, is money given to boards for student education, is being spent in the best way possible."
Alberta Teachers' Association president Greg Jeffery responded to the study with the following statement:
"Teachers are predictably upset by this report on rapidly increasing superintendent salaries. In the past six years, our salary increases featured five zeroes. Government asked teachers to do their part to help out, and teachers did; it's quite disheartening to hear that superintendents and the school boards that employ them did not get that memo."
Carr's contract approval has been put on hold, and Eggen said he will make a decision in the coming weeks.
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A senior United Nations official says Islamic State is circulating a slave price list for captured women and children, and that the group's ongoing appeal and barbarity pose an unprecedented challenge.
The official, Zainab Bangura, said that on a trip to Iraq in April she was given a copy of an Islamic State pamphlet, which included the list, showing that captured children as young as one fetch the highest price. The bidders include both the group's own fighters and wealthy Middle Easterners.


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So it's been almost a year since my last post, and I have a series of excuses at the ready to relate....
Excuse #1
I'm a mother of a two-year-old now. A two year old who has never been much of a nap taker and who has far more energy than I do. Taking care of his needs takes up all my time. And at the end of the day, I'm too tired to form the sentences and to remember those smaller things that make up sentences, you know, those... starts with a "w." Anyway, those w-things appear in my head in witty dialogues throughout my day, but by the time my little angel is finally asleep at night, my head is devoid of any thought except to see what I can watch on Hulu or Netflix in between loads of laundry.
Excuse #2
I've been so busy with company. My mother-in-law was visiting for almost 6 months. Then my mother was here for a month and a half. Now I'm getting ready for my youngest brother to come stay with us. You know how it is with visitors, they turn your life upside down. There's extra preparations and extra work. And there's socializing and driving places for shopping and festivals. And there's watching Netflix videos together. There's just no way to fit in writing between all the activities. And besides, wouldn't it be rude to sit with my back to my visitors while I wrote down all those witty dialogues that contain all those w-things that might possibly involve thinly veiled anecdotes about those very visitors?
Excuse #3
I upgraded to the latest b2evolution release, and I lost my skins, so my website looked like an inconsistent, amateur mess. And I couldn't remember how I had customized those skins in the first place. And the software had changed so much, I wasn't sure I should even bother remembering; there was probably a new way to do it now. And it wasn't easy to find a solid block of time to read online manuals and to experiment with code (see above excuses), so every time I'd try to work on the problem, I'd be interrupted, and by the time I got back to looking at the manuals and the code, I couldn't remember what I had done the last time. So I was always starting at square one. And looking at my messy site just depressed me too much to even think about w-things and blogging. So I plugged into Hulu and Netflix and forgot that I had ever even had a site and wondered why I bothered paying to be hosted.
Excuse #4
My husband works from home a lot, so I either have to kick him off the "good computer" or I have to work at the almost 9-year-old dinosaur computer and try not to fall asleep while I save my posts or wait for previews to appear. Zzzzzzzzzzzz... (Sorry. I just hit the "save" button. Must have dozed off waiting for the screen to refresh. Now, were was I?)
Excuse #5
I lost myself somewhere, and that is the real, unveiled truth. I became Mommy, daughter-in-law, homemaker, play-date-arranger, grocery shopper, meal preparer, laundry cleaner, etc.
At first it was difficult pushing down the little voice inside me that was screaming to be heard. But after numerous recitations of a litany of "first I have to's," the voice became quieter. Then, after subjecting her to entire seasons of television shows on Netflix and Hulu, the voice became dejected and only sulked. But she sulked quietly, so it was easy to fill my days with chores and time passes.
I stayed comfortably in quadrants 1 and 4 (from Covey's First Things First of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) until recently.
What changed?
I made new friends, had conversations, noticed my multisyllabic vocabulary coming back to me, read articles and books for myself again, got off caffeine, remembered that those w-things are words and that they are still retrievable - even at the end of the day when my little angel is asleep in bed.
And I remembered who I am and what I enjoy doing most (writing) and when I am at my best (when I am writing and not when I'm watching too much tv).
And I remembered that I not only enjoy writing, I'm actually good at it. And I'm not finished. I still have a lot more to say.
Some of my stories may not be ready to be told (excuse #6), but that doesn't mean that I can't leave those ideas to percolate and move on to other story ideas on my list.
I have to get out of my own way, getting caught up in worrying about what is marketable and worrying about who will read what I am writing and what they might think. I also need to stop adopting personas and stop pretending that I am more confident than I am and know more than I do.
I need to remember my passion and follow it wherever it leads.
And tonight it has led me to work on the dinosaur computer and post to my still-messy site while my two-year-old sleeps and my brother plans his trip to Texas.
So long, Excuses! Hello again, Me!
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It's been less crazy around here this past week, but I'm not anticipating that to continue through next week!
We visited the splash pad one day, picked up some brown dress shoes for J, listened to a thunderstorm at bedtime. M went swimming and J went mountain biking for youth activities. It was J's first time and he had a lot of fun, and he survived without crashing!
We've been plugging along with simple school items for summer, and playing in the wading pool or on the slip-n-slide out back. It's been nice to have a relaxed week, and even this post shows that!.
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Jesus is confronted by a group of Sadducees in our story today. They have a well-crafted question that they think will poke holes in Jesus' teachings. We looked at this encounter twice before. In Matthew I raised questions about the woman that have always plagued me before moving onto the deeper realization that the Sadducees missed; God is all powerful and He is and does exactly as He says He will. This blog was titled "Whose Wife is She." The blog titled "On the Other Side" came from Mark's telling of this story. During this visit to scriptures we looked at the evidence of the resurrection, which was a central issue in this question. Today I want to look at, why this question. That's where I feel drawn today. Read more »
Posts Tagged 'Resurrection questions'
Luke 20:27-40 Trying to Poke Holes
Mark 12:18-27 On The Other Side
Jesus is still in the temple. He has met several challenges already. Now the Sadducees are going to have a go at Him. We already know that defeat awaits them, but let's look at how they get there.
Today's story is another repeat from Matthew's stories. We talked about the woman in the Sadducees hypothesis when the asked "Whose Wife is She?" Check out our study on that point.
We get to look at this story again and see what else we can find in it. We are going to be treading on some of the same ground, but also looking a little deeper. I want to look at what we will look like when in our resurrected bodies. The Sadducees didn't have the scriptures of the New Testament, so they are at a little of a disadvantage in this conversation. Even though they lacked some of what we have, they had plenty of evidence supporting life beyond this life. Read more »


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A Look at Plugin Recommendations in WordPress
In this article we will show you how to find Plugin recommendations for your WordPress site, which are collated and recommended to you based on what plugins you have downloaded already, and what is popular with the other millions of WordPress users — all built in to the WordPress Dashboard.
Step 1) Login to the WordPress Dashboard.
Step 2) From the left menu of the Admin Panel, click Plugins >> Add New.
Step 3) On the Add New Plugins page, click on Recommended on the navigation toolbar and scroll down to see your recommended plugins.
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My sources tell me that InnerWireless
is working on the technology to support RFID on their wireless
infrastructure. Depending on the RFID vendor, this could be a very
interesting development. Of course the capability of "leveraging
existing infrastructure" is not the slam dunk some RFID vendors make it out to be, but it could have a big impact on installation costs of some RFID systems.
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Michigan State corner Waynes could figure in Texans' plans
INDIANAPOLIS - If Kareem Jackson departs, the 2015 NFL draft could provide the Texans with an immediate answer at cornerback.
Jackson is the Texans' premier free agent and one of the top defensive backs available for potential bidding on the open market.
Should Jackson remain in red and blue and the Texans decide they can live with 30-year-old Johnathan Joseph's $12.2 million salary cap hit this year, one of the team's main defensive strengths in 2014 will remain intact.
But if Jackson finds better money elsewhere, the Texans will likely have to turn to the draft to fill a glaring hole.
That's where Michigan State's Trae Waynes could come into play.
The 6-0, 186-pound corner is currently the top defensive back in most mock drafts and might be available when the Texans make their first selection at No. 16.
Jackson was taken at No. 20 overall in 2010 out of Alabama. Joseph was Cincinnati's No. 24 pick in 2006 out of South Carolina.
Waynes will perform on-field drills Monday during the final day of the scouting combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. The redshirt junior has already made an impact in early rankings, edging Washington's Marcus Peters and Miami of Ohio's Quinten Rollins for the initial spot as the best corner available in a draft that is much weaker at the position than the 2014 class.
"Waynes is very comfortable in press coverage. He's got length. He jumps up there like all the Michigan State corners do," NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock said. "He understands the game. He's played through the field; he's played into the boundary. He tackles. I know when you get a Michigan State kid coming off that defense, you've got a tough kid that will tackle that's been well-coached."
Even if Jackson and Joseph remain united in 2015, the Texans will eventually need a young corner to replace the veteran Joseph, who is entering his 10th season after recording a career-high 75 tackles in 16 starts last season.
"I trust that (Waynes will) come in and compete day one; (it) is kind of a difference maker for me," Mayock said.


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Shadow Ban is REAL. Wolf Millionaire explains how to avoid getting Shadow Banned on Instagram by using his best practices.
Shadow ban on Instagram is real and you need to learn to be more careful.
While the number of reported people messaging about getting a shadow ban has slowed down, many people are still unaware of this silent engagement killer.
Download the key points of this post as PDF.
PLEASE read Or WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW so you don't become one of them!
There were several websites that popped up that claimed to determine if you've been shadow banned, sometimes they were right sometimes they were wrong. There is an easy way you can check from time to time to ensure you haven't incurred a shadow ban.
While Instagram has been cleaning up all the millions and millions of FAKE FOLLOWERS and BOTS that I exposed in detail a while ago, Instagram will still shadow ban your account if you step over the line posting and abusing their service.
Even Faking Instagram Comments CAN get you banned, so please be careful with the garbage strategies YOU are learning from people who know nothing about Instagram yet claim to be able to help you grow your followers an engagements. Cheating on Instagram will only continue to weed out the weak because Instagram has been cleaning up and deleting accounts that don't use their best practices, something I've been teaching and stressing since day.
Shadow Ban – What is it?
A shadow ban was a temporary ban/time out on your "banned" photos or videos showing up for any of the hashtags you used on that particular post.
An easy was to check if you post was issued a temporary shadow ban would be to check the hashtag search function of Instagram right after you post. Now keep in mind if you're using hashtags that have millions of posts, you won't be able to find it quickly.
If you've been paying attention and learning from me, you'll know that using high level competitive hashtags is a complete waste of your time.
Make sure you've read my article on the Best Hashtags for Instagram Growth, and my personal Instagram Stories Hashtag Secrets if you really want to ensure you are making the BEST USE of hashtags on Instagram.
Just about EVERYONE I see on Instagram is USING THE WRONG HASHTAGS. Even people who claim to be "Instagram Guru's" – which are a dime a dozen it seems today… Remember who brought the world the very FIRST 35 Page Instagram Guide filled with page after page of FRREE tips, tricks and best practices all thanks to my thousands of hours of testing and testing over 10,000 controlled experiments
It was yours truly, Wolf Millionaire. I also predicted so many BIG changes and features that have been rolled out back in 2015/2016, which you can watch and listen to yourself in my world famous online Instagram Video Guides.
Don't be one of these people because you're just wasting your time and your Instagram gram is suffering because of it.
Make sure you read below so you can stop making the same amateur mistakes so many people do when posting their photos or videos to Instagram. If you don't you run a very high risk of getting your Instagram account banned and deleted by Instagram, especially now that they are really cracking down on
How do YOU avoid getting shadow banned?
Do NOT use the same hashtags every post. Use unique hashtags like I explain STEP-BY-STEP here: Best Hashtags for Instagram Growth.
Do NOT use automated posting software that post to your account automatically for you. Scheduling software is OK.
Do NOT buy Fake Followers or Bots (EVER)
Do NOT buy FAKE Instagram Likes or risk getting banned and exposed.
Do NOT use FAKE/BOT managed Telegram Instagram Comment & Engagement Pods
Do NOT use Fake Instagram Comments
If you follow these simple rules then you will ensure that you NEVER get shadow banned! Those who cheat are the ones getting their accounts disabled and banned.
Take advantage of ALL my STEP-BY-STEP Instagram Video Guides and you will be among the 1% of Instagram users who actually know HOW to use Instagram. Once you have learned all my Instagram tips, tricks and strategies and you start using them you will see more and growth & engagement every week!
BE PASSIONATE (#1 key requirement), BE PATIENT, and remember…. CONTENT IS KING!
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301 Redirect:
A Web server performs where a recent URL will be redirected to a replacement one. 301 Redirect may be a "permanent" redirect standing indicating that the resource has moved permanently. When you redirect your domain name using a 301 redirect, it sends visitors to the specified site with a "301 Moved Permanently" HTTP response. The HTTP 301 response code tells user-agents (including search engines) the location has permanently moved.
302 Redirect:
A 302 redirect sends the visitors to the required website indicating a "302 Found" HTTP response. The HTTP 302 response code tells that the user-agents placement has been quickly moved.
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Indian railways released a statement on Monday citing data which states that railways have carried out renewal of record 4,405 km of old tracks in the financial year 2017-18 in attempt to enhance safety across the Indian Railways network.
The statement said, "This is the highest ever progress of track renewal (primary) and exceeds the target of 4,389 km (revised to 4,400 km) for the year."
Safety First: Indian Railways has ended this financial year with the best safety record in decades: for the first time in 35 years, the number of accidents are in two digits.— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) April 1, 2018
The report stated the fact that the previous best was 4,175 km of track renewal in the financial year 2004-05 due to the deployment of the special rail safety fund set up during former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's regime.
According to railways data, the best ever progress in track renewal was carried out last month when 642 km long track was renewed.
ALSO READ: For The First Time, Indian Railways Opens Luxury Coaches For Common Man
The report further states that the previous best was track renewal of 576 km in the month of January, this year and track renewal of 523 km in the month of March in the year 2005.
As per the report, the total track length of the national transporter now stands at 1,14,907 km and out of this, on an average 4,500 km of a track should be renewed per year.
In the last several years, the development of the track renewals was constantly coming down because of financial constraints, which led to a huge backlog of around 5,000 km renewal of tracks. This also resulted in multiple railway accidents due to derailments, the report said.
According to Indian Railways, safety in train operations was given the topmost priority by the government, due to which the number of derailment cases came down from 76 during April 2016 to February 2017 to 53 during April 2017 and February 2018.
Moreover, the government in Union Budget 2018 announced that a Rashtriya Rail Sanraksha Kosh of Rs 1 Lakh crore will be spent over a period of five years in order to increase safety in train operations and for track renewal.
Recently, Indian Railways created a new record, witnessing less than 100 accidents for the very first time in 35 years. Till March 30, 73 railway accidents were reported, which is 29 percent reduction from the 104 accidents that were recorded in the financial year 2016-2017.
Indian Railways sets new safety record! First time in decades, less than 100 accidents recorded in a year.https://t.co/LylKE0RcAu— Ministry of Railways (@RailMinIndia) April 2, 2018
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