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I wrote the following piece a few years ago, for a popular radio show. It is the most personal thing I've ever written, and they ultimately passed on it.
When the most personal thing you've ever written is professionally rejected, your ego suffers. Your writing skills and your very life itself seem somehow invalidated. I freaked out, and avoided writing anything for a few years. That shit happens.
Looking back now, I'm very proud of this story, because it is the story of my life. I have two mothers who raised me, and I am very proud of them, and I did my best to represent them here. My adopted TV father is the focus of the story, but he is peripheral in the way only representative absentee parents can be.
Have you ever suffered personal devastation by reading the New York Times? I was at work early one Monday, wasting time on the Internet, when I read the following headline: Peter Jennings, Globe-Trotting Correspondent and ABC News Anchor, Is Dead at 67. Before I knew it, I was emitting a violent thunderstorm of tears and snot. Is there a gracious way to deal with a family loss at your work desk? I did what seemed honorable; I went to hide in the company bathroom.
When I reemerged, the collective office decorum was altered. As I marched back to my desk, a heavy, awkward silence dominated, and eyes were constantly moving in my general direction. I sat down at my work station and slowly typed a letter of condolence. Then I went straight into my boss's office. I need to leave for the day, I said. There has been a death in the family. His blessing was swift and unequivocal. I was told, in fact, to go. Now. I gathered my things, blew my nose, made sure the letter was safely in my pocket, took the elevator down to the lobby, and headed straight for the local ABC News affiliate, several blocks away.
What my co-workers could not understand was that I was mourning the death of a world famous newsman, beloved by many tens of millions of television viewers, who had also helped me to define my life. A newsman that I was related to in absolutely no real way, at least according to my company's bereavement policy by-laws.
When did I first lay eyes on Peter Jennings? Racking my brain, I can remember him on ABC before he was an anchorman, on assignment in London, wrapped in a raincoat in front of Big Ben, looking assured and cosmopolitan. The first non-toy item I ever gave a damn about owning for myself was a raincoat, so that I could dress convincingly like Peter Jennings. I remember his voice, the melodious purr of unmistakable authority that was so difficult for me to emulate at the time. My family was living in a trailer in a rural Southern Illinois town. I was 6 years old.
I used to come home every day from school and take off my t-shirt and jeans, and put on a sport coat and clip-on tie. I was inspired by my idol. But when began I to manifest his broadcasting style in public, problems quickly arose. I would probe unsuspecting random strangers, at the grocery store, as to the credibility of President Reagan's foreign policy. I would pontificate on the President's recent Supreme Court nomination, in an unbiased manner, at Pizza Hut. In short, the poor souls I accosted thought I was a deeply weird child and wanted me to leave them alone. I was just too busy hectoring them with factoids about Speaker of the House Tip O' Neill to really notice.
In my opinion, I was extremely fortunate to be an only child. I never wanted it any other way. Based on a series of candid discussions over the years with my parents, they more than share in this assessment. I can't blame them. By the time I was 10, I was constantly organizing election night roundtable discussions in my mind with the invisible David Brinkley and Sam Donaldson across the room. My folks had the patience of saints! No surprise, as my biological mom was a cop, and my other mom, her life partner, was a junior high school English teacher. With those kinds of day jobs, they were used to dealing with the unhinged.
After 1982, when the moms and I moved to the Chicago suburbs, and away from our extended family in Southern Illinois, I didn't have many male role models at all, outside of school and boring neighborhood dads. I had an absentee biological father whose only contact with me were legally required child support payments to my mother and a series of Christmas presents obviously purloined from hotel bathrooms and gun show kiosks. So, in addition to feverishly inspired idolatry, cold biological fact comes to the heart of the Peter Jennings Matter. Simply put, I needed a man regularly in my life; preferably an extremely glamorous man, well versed in public policy and just the click of a remote button away.
Over the years, I found many occasions to spend quality time with him… or should I say, current events found us quality time to spend together. Network news anchors are on the air the longest when the worst possible things are happening in the world. When Peter Jennings was at his desk, reporting a plane bombing, or violence in Beirut or an earthquake on the west coast that canceled the World Series and killed hundreds of people, he and I were together. I was as big a baseball fan as you could possibly imagine, and I didn't want innocent people to die, but I had family priorities. On the rare Saturday morning when a neighborhood kid would actually come to the doorbell, I can remember hearing one of my moms say, with a tragic sigh, "I'm sorry, Brian. J.R. can't come out and play today. There's breaking news in Libya."
In this way, I grew up with Peter Jennings always around. He made me feel safe by giving me useful and constantly updated information about national security threats. He was the STAR WARS defense shield between the rest of the world and me. He spoke to me with respect, just like he did with Yasser Arafat. He never told me to clean the bathroom, or walk the dog, or to clean the garage. He had great style. He was my Halloween costume ten years in a row.
When I got older, my devotion to him took on less-awkward traits. I still favored his taste in suits, but only for special occasions. I still had his haircut, perfectly manicured like Japanese shrubbery, but that was out of habit. I finally joined speech team and found friends of my own that weren't reporting live from the U.S. State Department.
Regardless, when I was in high school, as the Soviet Union collapsed and the first Gulf War unfolded, I watched almost every moment Peter Jennings was on the air. No matter how tired I was, or what my friends wanted to go out and do, I watched. I still didn't like to leave his company if I didn't have to, but that didn't last much longer. My rapid gravitation towards heavy metal music and burgeoning interest in beer and fine ass probably had something to do us suddenly breaking apart. The big news was MY life, and Peter Jennings couldn't help me with that. By the time I entered college, just before Clinton was elected, I barely paid any attention to the news. I didn't even own a TV anymore.
A few years later, when he was least on my mind, I saw him Peter Jennings in person, at a bookstore in downtown Chicago. I was idly flipping through a magazine, killing time after work, when I noticed a crowd in the fiction section. When I wandered over, there was a small group, and sitting alone, at a table, reading aloud, was Peter Jennings. After what seemed like just a few seconds, he was finished. The crowd applauded politely. He readied to leave, and as he walked through the store, I followed. People looked at him and then away, then quickly back in delighted recognition. I was surprised at how different he looked to me than I expected he would, how quickly he had aged, how fast all these clichés were hitting me all at once. At the last second, before he got in the revolving door, I said "Mr. Jennings! Mr. Jennings!" I stuck my hand out to shake his hand, and he turned and took it. My mind was immediately cleared of anything to say, so I blurted out, "You're the only man in America my mother trusts." He gave me a brilliant smile and said, "well, you tell her thanks from me, son". Then I watched him walk away.
On the day he died, I didn't know with to do with the letter I had written, or who I was supposed to give it to. So I walked into 300 N. State, and up to the directory, found the floor for ABC News and took the elevator. When it opened, I walked over to the nearest person, a young woman, and asked if she worked for ABC News. Yes, she replied. "I need to give this to someone real" I replied, holding the letter up to her like an arrest warrant. "It's my memorial to Peter Jennings, who I loved like a father". Her eyes flickered to the letter in my hand and back to me. She took it. "How did you get in here", she asked? Her eyes were kind, but I could see a distinct question in them, and it said: I am currently evaluating your very obvious lack of sanity. Instead of answering her question, I walked swiftly back to the elevator.
As I exited the building, escorted by two security guards, I felt my own grief begin to lift, at least for the rest of that particular day. How was I to know that in the next few months my mom would fight a battle with cancer, that my long-running romantic relationship would end in a fiasco I had created; that my adult defenses were dropping one by one to shambles? Here is what the letter said:
To the ABC News team: This morning I had to run out of my office and into the bathroom and bawl for a good five minutes. How to explain? I've been a news junkie my whole life. I had no real father figure and Peter Jennings was urbane in a way that I longed to be from a very young age. He was my hero. How else to put it? I think I understood the dangers of the world as a child better than most of my peers, and he was the best defense against the worst of those dangers that I could imagine. That might sound quaint or silly, but he has remained in that role, one of the most precious in my life, until now. I can't imagine another journalist will ever make me feel that way again. I don't know if I can write and do justice to my feelings about this man. I just know that the next time everyone in America gathers around their TV sets to watch as a tragedy occurs with hideous speed, as one invariably will, I suspect I will feel just a little bit lonelier than I ever have before. I'm very sorry for your loss, and for mine. Yours truly, J.R. Nelson Chicago IL
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It was the blue jar that she sent me for. She was focused on her work, and I was too embarrassed to explain.
I went into the storage room and stood before her array of jars. Why are there so many? Most looked yellow or brown. I found four blue ones. Or were they purple? or pink? I picked up one, and then another, trying to decide.
Finally, I chose one at random and brought to her. I figured, if it was wrong, she'd say so. But she took it without looking and dumped its contents into the cauldron.
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WARSAW, POLAND — Lech Walesa said Tuesday that he has quit the Solidarity trade union that he founded and that helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe.
"I have given up my membership last year because Solidarity and I have gone separate ways," he said.
Walesa also said he plans to stay away from events marking the 26th anniversary of Solidarity's founding Aug. 31 in part because he disapproves of the union's support for Poland's new conservative leaders. The Nobel peace laureate said he left after Solidarity members ignored his criticism of their support for the Law and Justice Party and its leaders.


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Young Guns is, by my estimation, one of the most reputable sources possible on both
New Mexico and Billy the Kid. The film closes describing the death of Billy, and ends thusly-
"He was buried with Charley Bowdre at Old Fort Sumner. Advices report that sometime later, an unidentified person snuck into the graveyard and chiseled an inscription. The epitaph read only one word… 'Pals'."
Today marks the third anniversary of the passing of a friend of mine. Forgive me, please, if this is an incoherent bit of a ramble, but I'll do my best-
I don't think friendship, or, to say, your friendly duties end with death. You owe your friend a fair piece more. I think that you've got to check in on his family, and remind them that he lives on in the hearts and minds of the people he chose to call his friends. That you think of him, that occasionally a fit of wist-futility grabs a hold of you and you can't help but be wonder about what might have been.
I think it is both obligation and a last gift from an old friend. For me, I've certainly become closer with two most amazing men who, had the cards not fallen the way they have, I still would have known, but in all likelihood, we would have remained on the peripheries of each others lives. Occasionally though, when a drink or three too many has taken its hazy hold, and gentlemen are wont to philosophize, it slips out with mutual certainty how quickly we'd trade these three years past of hard and true friendship for one more minute of life for their brother.
Virtually all radio astronomers dropped whatever they were doing and aimed telescopes at Alpha Centauri, although there were a few who were working on the origin of the universe and did not care greatly about planets, inhabited or otherwise.
-Mary Doria Russell
I can't exactly explain why that makes me think of Joe, but it does, and though it doesn't fit there, there it will stay.
And so today I'll text some guys from the old days, and they'll text me and we'll have a laugh and a drink and maybe get a bit misty-eyed and talk about long summer days when we would all live forever as long as the night never came and the cooler still had beer, and of midnight hellraising and high school hi jinx played out in dorm room hallways and our buddy's strange golf swing that out-drove the rest of us. And maybe some day, in the bottom of a beer bottle, we'll find some quiet solace for ourselves in the riddle of life and its bullshit, unjust, and non-nonsensical way of shattering lives and changing the paths we take.
I'll tell people about my old friend. The good he did and how good he was. And there, my tiny piece, my insignificant fraction of him, will live on.


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Monday, August 14, 2006
film review: Fist of Fury
Bruce Lee walks by a wooded trail while eating chips. His path is blocked by a fence. First he looks, then he does a 2 second assessment and then with no fear, he does a short sprint towards the wall and jumps. On the other side, he is met with the main bad guy of the film along with his thugs. Bruce Lee threatens them all. The thugs, being thugs, mindless and all, they rush to Bruce hoping to pound the beeejeeezuz out of him. Bruce furiously eats his chips and beats them all up with elegant kung fu. The Evil Boss is next. Chips are thrown aside. They fight and in the process, three things happen to Bruce:
1. He gets a knife wound on the cheek
2. His shirt gets torn off
3. His anger increases ten fold after being subjected to verbal abuse
Don't worry, these things always happen to Bruce. He's used to it. Either way, Bruce wins in the end and similar to our movies, the cops arrive after all the fighting has been done.
I have to admit, this would be the first time I've seen a Bruce Lee film while riding a bus. It's usually Face Off / Armageddon / or some other B movie with forgettable actors and a storyline that rivals the complexities of children's books. I have to admit too that everyone's attention was drawn to the tube as the movie played; I've thought of the reasons why this is so, beyond the fact that everyone doesn't have anything better to do while the bus raged on by the highway. I'm guessing it's because with Bruce Lee films, it's really cool to know that in the end, you'd always see good prevailing over evil and that if this only happened most of the time in the real world then everyone wouldn't be glued so much to the bus TV as they are now. Oh well.
The VCD is flipped. The early scenes of Fist of Fury are shown. You see Bruce Lee alighting from a big boat along with an old man. They walk around a bit, on a sun bright path lined with thin shrubs. They get hungry so they eat by a road side eatery. A very beautiful lady serves them bowls of Chinese food goodness. Then it happens. Four guys go in and bully the lady. The camera focuses on Bruce Lee. His eyes seethe with anger. Go on Bruce, its ok. We understand. Beat them up; we'd do the same thing if we could.
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I've always been attracted to younger guys. I don't mind men my age, but I never found older guys attractive. Several people have asked me why, especially since women tend to like older men, but older guys try to teach me stuff and take care of me. Bleh. How annoying right? Since I grew up independent, I'm not used to being told what to do and I enjoy learning things on my own. Also, for some reason older guys always seem so jaded.. So I always found myself dating younger.
However, the problem with younger guys is that they tend to be immature. It's fun initially, but it gets annoying real quick. Half of them treat me like I'm their mom and I have to teach the other half how to date. I got tired so I explored other options.
It soon became clear that age had nothing to do with it. It was maturity. Age is a huge deal when you're in school because depending on what grade you're in, your outlook on life is completely different. A freshman in college is excited to make the dumbest mistakes they'll ever make ASAP, whereas a senior is thinking about the real world, getting a job, bills, etc. Once you're out of school, I think age is completely irrelevant and it quickly becomes clear that maturity and life experiences are what really matter.


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Every 4 years I have to wait an extra day for my birthday. Actually, everyone does, but I notice it more on my birthday cause it's March 1st. To be honest, I don't really care. I was just looking for something to talk about on the blog.
I'd like to give a shout out to those who have the same birthday as me: my bud, Carsen Kramer; from what could be the greatest TV show ever, Growing Pains, Alan Thicke; this guy from Saved By The Bell, Mark-Paul Gosselaar. I think he does dog food commercials now; Dirk Benedict, from the most awesome show, The A-Team.
And on March 1st in history...1978: Coffin of Charles Chaplin stolen, only months after being buried; 1932: The baby son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped.
Pretty exciting stuff.
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The Forbes magazine published the top 10 cities where the economic reality now and the conditions are likely to get even better as health care, technology, and energy draw more employees into their ranks. Unfortunately Phoenix is not among them, maybe a relocation is the answer...
Here is the list:
1. Dallas
2. Houston
3. Minneapolis
4. Austin, Texas
5. Washington, D.C.
6. St. Louis
7. Seattle
8. Atlanta
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Her journaling:
"Out of every room in my home, THIS is the room I am in 75% of the time! This is my scrap haven, where I come to create, relax, and enjoy some "me" time. For right now I only have half of the room dedicated to my crafts and the other side is a pretty functional office (Yay for my computer!) My scrap goodies are organized almost borderline OCD-ish. Everything is grouped by colors and categories because I love for everything to have a specific place. This is the one room where I can stay in for hours on end!!! How did I ever manage without my beloved scrapbook space?"
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I recounted a story yesterday to a friend who is becoming less and less capable of taking care of herself. It is humiliating to be accustomed to taking care of yourself to one day find that you need someone else to bath you, clean up after you, you name it! I know, I have been there. There was a time when I was not capable of washing my own hair. I could not imagine being without covering in the bathtub so I bathed in my swimsuit. I needed help getting that on as well but it gave me a sense of dignity. I felt, well, helpless and needy, perhaps less than human?
But God seems to have a sweet spot in His heart for the helpless. I know He doesn't pick favorites but He does stick up for the helpless, the widows, the orphans, the beggars, those that can not stick up for themselves.
Sometimes I wonder, what are we missing by being so, "capable"? I know this, in my deepest need, God was vivid. There have been other times in my life when I was unable to take care of myself. I remember running from an abusive man, moving to a strange town and seeking a job at a restaurant because a meal was one of the perks thus assuring me that I would get at least one meal a day. I used the last of my money... I mean every cent! To rent a small efficiency and a u-haul trailer.
I picked a restaurant that was within walking distance, walked in and applied for a job. I walked out employed. I was to start the very next day dressed in brown pants and brown waitress shoes! Without a cent to my name, I prayed. I had no other option. (sad to think prayer was my last resort eh?) Late that evening I walked to the pay phone to make a collect call. When I left the phone booth there was a 10 dollar bill lying on the ground with no one there to return it to.
In the morning I went shopping and found brown pants and brown waitress shoes both my size. The only pair of waitress shoes in the store. They were on the clearance rack. By the end of my shopping spree, I had enough change to put a bit of gas in the car and buy a taco for lunch! I went to work knowing I had a God who intimately cared for me... and He does, especially when we are not capable of caring for ourselves.
But you, God, see the trouble of the afflicted;
you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;
you are the helper of the fatherless. Psalms 10:14 NIV


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Thursday, March 21, 2013
My Treasured Chest - The Prom & You
5 comments:
- Masshole Mommy said...
Hahaha - I wore a dress like that to a semi-formal dance. Eeeeek.
- March 21, 2013 at 6:39 AM
- Alexis AKA MOM said...
Well at least the dress was used for another use. Instead of sitting in your closet like mine ... lol.
Let's see well mine started with a few weeks before prom my friend set me up on a blind date with an older guy. We hit it off he asked me to my prom. He then got drunk the weekend before and wrecked his car. I didn't drive or have a car so we had to hitch a ride with a girl I worked with in her limo. I went and ordered our flowers roses for him and me. He showed up at my house with carnations because he was too cheap to buy the roses. Mind you this is also the same time I was having a break down over my hair my gal was out and this older lady did my hair in a BEEHIVE look!!
We then went to dinner (mind you I paid for the tickets and dinner) and he told me he forgot his wallet so I had to pay for pictures too! Since we didn't have a ride to the after party we went home with my co worker and guess what we did! OH yeah it was a movie night and the movie they picked was FREE WHILLY. I feel asleep early, it was a horrible night.
He left and I hoped to never see him again. 6months later I had the pleasure of him coming threw my checker line at Fred Meyers. Talk about Awkward ... LOL
- March 21, 2013 at 9:11 AM
- Theresa said...
I didn't go to prom or any other formal dance. My mom was a single mom of 4 and really couldn't afford the cost of a fancy dress. I always thought I would make up for it at my wedding. Alas, I got pregnant and rushed to the Justice of the Peace wearing corduroys since that's all I could fit in lol. I guess me and fancy dresses weren't meant to be :(
- March 21, 2013 at 11:43 AM
- angie said...
My dress was hand made by a seamstress. I just had to buy the material. I loved that dress and STILL wonder what happened to it. :)
- March 21, 2013 at 11:50 AM
- cheryl c said...
I went to one prom. I wore a pink chiffon dress and had my hair done in ringlets. :-)
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Lucky Nguzana confirms Platinum Stars move
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Platinum Stars have signed a Lucky Nguzana on a two-year deal.
The 23-year-old confirms the news to KickOff.com, saying: "Yes, I have signed a two-year deal with Platinum Stars.
"Obviously I'm happy and I hope this two years will be fruitful ones. I'll give everything on the field and I'm grateful to Dikwena for trusting my abilities. I have what it takes and, given the time, I will prove it to them."
Nguzana refused to be drawn on what happened at AmaZulu, where he was supposed to have signed a longer deal after spending six months at the club.


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Angela and Dave-thank you for allowing us to rent your beautiful home. It was very clean and tastefully decorated. We really enjoyed the rec room and your amazing yard. It was such a great vacation. We hope to get back there again and I will definitely recommend it to friends and family. Thanks- Jen and Joe
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(b. Cyzicus, Turkey, ca. 370 b. c.),
mathematics, astronomy.
One of the great astronomers of ancient Greece, Callippus belonged to the distinguished line of mathematicians and astronomers who, with Eudoxus at their head, were associated with the Academy and the Lyceum. References to him, although rare, clearly establish the magnitude of his achievements. He continued the work of Eudoxus on the motion of the planets, made accurate determinations of the lengths of the seasons, and constructed a seventy-six-year cycle to harmonize the solar and lunar years. This "Callippic period" was used by all later astronomers to record and date observations of heavenly phenomena.
The main biographical information on Callippus is found in Simplicius' commentary on Aristotle's Decaelo. It states: "Callippus of Cyzicus, having studied with Polemarchus, Eudoxus' pupil, following him to Athens dwelt with Aristotle, correcting and completing, with Aristotle's help, the discoveries of Eudoxus" (Heiberg, ed., p. 49). It seems Callippus was in Athens in the decade before the death of Alexander in 323 b.c., Ptolemy says in the Almagest (Heiberg, ed., I, p. 206) that the year 50 of the first Callippic period was forty-four years after the death of Alexander, thus placing the beginning of the period in 330/329 b.c.
The discoveries of Eudoxus that Callippus corrected and completed are described by Aristotle in Metaphysics, Λ. In order to "save the appearances," as Plato had proposed, Eudoxus fixed each planet on a sphere that rotated on poles attached inside another sphere rotating in a different direction at a different rate, and this sphere in another until enough concentric spheres were so arranged and moving as to account by their combined uniform motions for the observed irregularities of the planet's motion. Aristotle tells us that Callippus found it necessary to add two spheres each for the sun and moon, and one for each of the other planets except Jupiter and Saturn. These changes in Eudoxus' system are perhaps testimony to Callippus' careful observations.
A papyrus, the so-called Ars Eudoxi, states that Callippus had determined the lengths of the seasons more accurately than Meton, giving them as ninety-four, ninety-two, eighty-nine, and ninety days, respectively, from the vernal equinox. The error is much less than that in Meton's determinations, made a century earlier.
From such calculations Callippus was led to see that Meton's nineteen-year cycle was a trifle too long. He therefore combined four nineteen-year periods into one cycle of seventy-six years and dropped one day from the period. Thus he brought the measure of the year closer to its true value, and his period became the standard for later astronomers. Many of the observations cited by Ptolemy are given in reference to the Callippic period. Hipparchus, in Ptolemy's references, seems to have used that period regularly.
Although the system of concentric spheres gave way to epicycles and eccentrics, Callippus' period became the standard for correlating observations accurately over many centuries, and thus contributed to the accuracy of later astronomical theories.
Ancient sources are Aristotle, Metaphysics, Sir David Ross, ed. (Oxford, 1924), ref. in text to 1073b32–38; Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle's De caelo, J. L. Heiberg, ed. (Berlin, 1894), vol. VII of Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca, which gives details from Eudemus' history of the work of Eudoxus and Callippus; Theon of Smyrna, Expositio rerum mathematicarum ad legendum Platone mutilium, E. Hiller, ed. (Leipzig, 1878), which covers much the same ground as Simplicius in his section on the planets; Geminus, Elementa astronomiae, or Isagoge, C. Manitius, ed. (Leipzig, 1898), pp. 120–122, an account of the period of Callippus, with number of months, including intercalary, and days in the cycle; Ars Eudoxi, Blass, ed. (Kiel, 1887), which gives lengths of seasons as determined by Callippus; and Ptolemy, Almagest, J. L. Heiberg, ed. (Leipzig, 1898), and Taliaferro, tr., Great Books of the Western World, vol. XVI, which frequently mentions the Callippic period.
Modern works are Sir Thomas Heath, Aristarchus of Samos (Oxford, 1913), which contains the best Englishlanguage appreciation of Callippus and refers to the relevant modern literature on him; and Pauly-Wissowa, X, pt. 2, cols. 1662 f., which gives an exhaustive account of the seventy-six-year cycle, with full references to ancient sources and modern discussions.
John S. Kieffer
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Apart from broccoli leaves a a few stray lettuces the balcony garden hasn't been very productive this week. I did pick the last lemon though I forgot to photograph it. Here it was in more splendid days:
It made a delicious addition to my morning drink.
For far more hearty harvest posts go visit Daphne's Dandelions, where all the good garden bloggers post their harvest wares.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Harvest Monday
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- Daphne said...
What a beautiful lemon.
- July 30, 2012 at 8:59 PM
- Bangchik and Kakdah said...
nice juicy lemon..... and the last lemon will always bring sweet memories. Thats to PHOTOGRAPHY!!
- July 31, 2012 at 4:40 AM
- Susan Zentmyer said...
Our lemons are one of my favorite things from our garden - they can be used in just about anything!
- July 31, 2012 at 9:51 AM
- Mary Hysong said...
ah, but at least you got something! And lemons, so wonderful; While AZ does grow citrus I'm up in the mountains where it is too cold and don't have a place to over winter them indoors yet.
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your lemon is awesome to see.
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"Separate Ways" fergodsakes!
I might still be in the glow of "the first time" (the first time I smoke some weed after a few months of having none, the first time I have sex with this or that woman, the first time I hear never-heard-before Elvis material that blows my mind) but, really, this is some phenomonal listening. Elvis is really working through this song, getting his phrasing just right, trying to make this song work. I cant for the life of me think of why this didnt make the set list. I mean, never??!?! This definately would have went over well in the actual show. Elvis gives a gentle reading during the rehearsal, just think how this would have gone over the stratosphere of perfection if Elvis chose to do it for a tour or two.
This rehearsal is so good it just makes you forget that you arent listening to it in the best possible sound. It is a rare kind of good that can do that.
I tend to avoid audience recordings because soundboards and crystal-clear studio outtakes have really spoiled me. I dont want to spend time with shows that sound like Elvis and the speakers are too far away and you wind up listening to the chatter and screams of the people holding the recorder and of those in their immediate vacinity.
The upcoming release of a cd entitled "Night on the Town" featuring the March 29, 1975 midnight show in Vegas is providing some temptation to break my rule about avoiding audience recordings.
The March 18 - April 1 Vegas engagement is actually one of my favorites, based on the evidence provided by the March 22 midnight show featured on one of the cds in the classic 4-cd bootleg box A PROFILE: THE KING ON STAGE VOLUME 2. This show is one of my all-time top 5 favorite shows, featuring what I think is one of Elvis' best performances of "Promised Land" and a a terrific, impromptu-sounding "Youre The Reason I'm Living", a never-before-heard-never-heard-again song from Elvis that is quite spirited and jaunty. There are other shows available (e.g. AZTEC KING with the March 27 midnight show (its an audience recording); BIG BOSS MAN from FTD with the March 28 midnight show; the classic vinyl LP-of-yore bootleg ROCKING WITH ELVIS APRIL FOOLS DAY (April 1 dinner show) and if none of these other shows have achieved the place in my heart that the March 22 show has, it is not due to Elvis' performance - in each show, he is relaxed, in good humor, happy to be there on stage and so he is giving really good performances.
As to this new cd, check out this track list:
Opening Theme - See See Rider - Rip lt Up (exc.) - I Got A Woman / Amen - Love Me - If You Love Me (Let Me Know) - And I Love You So - Big Boss Man - It's Midnight - Burning Love - Introductions - I Can Help (exc.) - My Boy - I'll Remember You - My Heavenly Father (performed by Kathy Westmoreland) - Let Me Be There - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - Tiger Man - Can't Help Falling In Love BONUS: Promised Land* - Fairytale* - Help Me** - I'm Leavin'** - Heartbreak Hotel**
See what I mean? "Rip It Up"?!?!? "I Can Help"?!!?!?! I am sure it is only a line or two of each but I just meant that this shows Elvis was in good humor and having fun. Can't wait to hear what exactly spurs him to do even one line from these things. The rest of the set is fairly standard for this engagement ("Promised Lnad", "Burning Love", "And I Love You So") but "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is something rarely done in this engagement and do my eyes deceive me or does that track list say "Tiger Man", just "Tiger Man" and not paired with "Mystery Train" like it usually is. Nice. Apparently Kathy Westmoreland gets a number to herself but I can assure you I will skip right over this. The bonus songs also yield surprises with "Heartbreak Hotel"(!) and "I'm Leaving" from the March 28 dinner show.
Touchdown, the label releasing this cd, has (I think) a good reputation amongst collectors with the good packaging of their cds and, I assume, clear sounding audience recordings but I cant say that I have heard any of their prior releases.
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I finally have the reason to connect Malaysia with Norway.
1 give 3 different scenario:-
1. The link between owner of Cardiff City FC and his new manager; Vincent Tan (Malaysian) and Ole Gunnar Solksjaer (Norway)
2. The alphabet M and N; N comes right after M
3. Malaysia and Norway having a common bond in terms of the TRUE BELIEF in Allah and the Muslim community.
I have to admit, I am mesmerise to know how much followers I have in Norway. And the the 3rd scenario is the one that I believe connects my blog to my blog followers in Norway. The common understanding to really seek the truth from our Creator (Allah) is the one that bonds Malaysia (me) and Norway (my blog readers).
Truely, the bond between fellow Muslims is very strong and indeed everlasting as this bond will continue to keep us close in the virtual world.
I make doa to Allah that me and my readers will have this bond and I am seeking to just impart my little knowledge in order that we Muslims will do the small things continuously that will make big differences in this world and the next.
Truely, my favourite word now "If we have Allah, we have EVERYTHING"...
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Link between Malaysia and Norway
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Megan had a good 9th birthday last week. It started with pancakes for breakfast until I noticed the skillet was not staying hot. We ran out of gas for our stove! So with skillet (still with uncooked pancakes) in hand and a few other essentials, we got in the truck and went to the guesthouse for pancakes. "A party in a truck" is what our friend, Lucretia, called it. Megan and Caralina then went to the homeschool co-op and took cupcakes which Megan had decorated. When we returned to the orphanage, we saw a bunch of little girls running toward our house. They had been waiting all day to "water" her. It is an orphanage tradition to pour basins of water on the birthday person. Megan was pretty resolved to the fact that she was going to be watered and she let them get her.
We then went out with the missionaries from the orphanage for pizza that night. When we returned, we invited some of the little girls next door over to decorate the rest of the cupcakes.
We went to Kampala and Entebbe the next day to take a short term missionary to the airport. We used the opportunity to take the kids to the Botanic Gardens for Megan's birthday. It was fun to get away as a family and see some of Uganda. The gardens are beautifully set at the edge of Lake Victoria. We got to see lots of neat birds. At the end, we had not seen the monkeys but a guy came and told us where they were and he would take us there. We declined knowing he would then expect some money for his service. We later got in the car and went where he told us. We found bunches of monkeys and were glad we were in the car as they even climbed the up on the windshield and looked in.
What a fun way to celebrate her birthday!


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I look down to see my own reflection,
In the fields of raw earth and dust, replaced
By glistening marble. And I wonder,
At the transparent, all-telling sea, Erased.
There used to be upon this ground, poetry;
Of dead leaves and new fresh fruit,
Singing of ends that harbor perennially,
Boundless tunes, from mother birth's flute.
And even through clouds, stark dark nights
The foliage reverberated with sight,
And revealed within the unwavering black
"As dusk arrives, so does starlight".
The open space of reason that stood,
And yet let fly has now made way,
For swarms of skeletons huddled together,
Within walls, yet cast away.
In looking up from my boxed desk,
A last Image flashes by,
Of the erstwhile tree that spoke when quiet
That "history shades, But I won't deny,
When man grows enough to assume
That he shall race and pass me by,
Beneath the same ceilings and uniform rooms,
He shall realize his lost, endless sky."
Shiksha Singh


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Members of the Evans Art Guild would like to invite you to the opening of their Group Show at the Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery on Friday, November 3rd from 7 pm to 9 pm.
The group show will showcase works in oils, acrylics, watercolor, pen and ink, fabric, pastels as well photography. Refreshments will be served.
Support the arts and enjoy an evening out! The Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery is located at 1168 Orchard Park Road in West Seneca. The Evans Art Guild Group show will be at the gallery from November 1 through November 25.


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Every Tuesday, from 02/02/2016 to 05/08/2018, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Meeting in the church library during Kids Clubs, this group of praying women gather to pray over all the children who attend Kids Clubs, and make intercession for the burdens on the hearts of many. If you have time to fill after dropping off your children to their club, please accept this as our personal invitation to come and pray with us and cry out to God concerning the burdens on your heart! All women are welcome!


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Last week's character animation seminar focused on one thing: Believability. Cinematic Sound and Animated characters have much in common. No one has seem these characters move just like no one has heard certain sounds (space, dinosaurs, etc.) However, the audience must be able to interpret both these elements as credible for the piece to be successful.
I believe if we can add this "layer" of depth to the project we'll achieve the goal of Sound Consciousness. This will dive deeply into the idea of ambient sound as those that truly flesh out an experience.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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Prodromal (not false!) Labor
Austin Born
You've heard the story: mom says she's in labor, packs the car, and checks into the hospital only to be sent home because she's having "false" labor. She's embarrassed, maybe a bit confused, and probably super discouraged because she's thinking to herself, "but I was having contractions! I know it!"
First of all let's all agree to stop using the term "false labor," mmmkay? Thanks. Because the thing is there's nothing false about it to that mama. When you're a woman who's quite likely ready to not be pregnant anymore and has been having some sort of contractions (perhaps for days or weeks) the last thing you want to hear is that what you're experiencing isn't real.
What this mama is experiencing is more properly termed "prodromal labor" and it's very easily mistaken for progressive labor. Family and support people should be aware that prodromal labor can be exhausting for a woman both physically and mentally. Sometimes these prodromal contractions are regular enough (though probably mild) that she has trouble sleeping and, especially if the pattern continues for days or weeks, mamas can become anxious and frustrated.
Below are some tips to help you understand prodromal labor and what helps in getting through it:
What prodromal labor looks like:
- Contractions tend to be erratic/irregular or stagnant in their frequency. They're usually mild and though they can be punctuated by more painful contractions, don't strengthen overall.
- They'll also often stop if you change position or activity.
- You often feel them in your abdomen only.
What progressive labor looks like:
- Contractions come at a regular interval and get closer together, stronger in intensity, and longer in duration.
- Even if you change position or activity, they will continue and progress.
- You often feel them "radiating" from your back to your front
- True labor might also come with bloody show, the loss of your mucus plug, and/or the breaking or leaking of your waters.
What your body is doing during prodromal labor:
It's easy to get discouraged and frustrated at the stop-and-start pattern of prodromal labor. But even though it may not be leading to the imminent birth of your baby it is making progress for your body:
- The cervix is thinning, softening, and moving forward
- Your baby may "drop" into your pelvis
What you can do:
- Before it begins: it's thought that baby's position may contribute to prodromal labor, with posterior babies being especially linked to a prodromal pattern. Sit on a birth ball, walk, and watch your posture to encourage your baby to get into the optimal position for birth.
- While it's happening:
- don't worry too much about whether or not this is true labor or timing your contractions. True, progressive labor makes itself known :)
- Eat, drink, and rest as much as you can
- Distract yourself with good supportive company and activities you enjoy. Try yoga for calming your mind, a nice dinner, calling a friend or doula to talk it out, or treating yourself to a massage or warm bath
Hang in there and try to be patient (easier said than done, we know!). Remind yourself that this is all part of your body and baby getting ready to birth.


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Mud Colony what's happening in the studio. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Greenwood Studio Tours
Mud Colony what's happening in the studio. Thanks for reading and for all your comments.
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Oh my, gorgeous studios and pottery...how inspiring.ReplyDelete
Having a place to work is so important. Lovely studios.ReplyDelete
Sounds like a grand day. Oh I love the photos of those spoon and other utensils. Wow.ReplyDelete
Those are some good looking studios with equally good looking work. Are you thinking of settling in the area? It looks pretty ideal.ReplyDelete
is this the area that you will look for a home? You would be in good company.ReplyDelete
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Lovely, simply lovely, things.ReplyDelete
Visiting those studio and you all have me wishing I had a studio, we have been looking down there and in the Anderson area for just the right place, hopefully soon, I am about to go stark raving mad living in a motorhome all this time. I had a vision in my mind of traveling but I need a home base too, Gary he doesn't care but I seem to need my nest. hopefully soon.ReplyDelete
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I have a feeling you are going to have a wonderful studio....ReplyDelete
I love your pieces----I especially like 27 Windows and the Empty Purse. I hope you find a beautiful place to call home in SC!ReplyDelete


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Welcome to this week's eNews, I'm Anthea Jamieson, Assistant Principal of the Hazel Glen College Junior School.
Last week we celebrated our love of books in Book Week. The students participated in many fun activities organized by our wonderful teachers and shared the shortlisted books for the Book of the Year awards. The week finished with our annual parade where our students and staff dressed as their favourite book characters. Thank you so much to our very creative and hard working parents who worked with their children on some of the most amazing costumes I've ever seen. They just keep getting better and better every year. Look for the photos here.
Thank you to everyone who purchased from our Book Fair. We sold over $12,000 of books which is simply outstanding. This means that we will get a percentage of this to buy some big books and other resources from Scholastic for our students to use in the library and in their classrooms. Keep an eye out for some photos of these in the coming months. I would like to thank Megan Fisher for all of her organization in the running of the book fair and also a very big thank you to all of the parents and teachers who volunteered to help out. We just couldn't do it without you.
We farewelled our Year 3s off to Lady Northcote camp. They were so excited as they were getting on to the buses. I had the opportunity with Mr Furze to visit the students on their second day. It's a great camp and the children always have wonderful time and come back with lots to share with their family.
It was a fantastic sight on Wednesday morning when our dads joined us for our annual Father's Day breakfast of pancakes in the cafeteria. It was very special to see our students enjoying this time with their dads and we thank you for taking the time to be a part of this special occasion, we understand that it can take a bit of juggling with work commitments and we appreciate the effort.
We wish all of our dads and grandpas a very happy Father's Day on Sunday and hope you enjoy your lovingly chosen gift from our father's day stall.
Hope your week is great. Bye for now.


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Dani whispers.
Dani tells Rachel that when she gets caught up in the moment, to take a deep breath and walk away. Brendon came back with a different T-shirt on.
Dani: Jordan isn't mad. Jeff isn't mad. He's just upset at the situation.
Rachel: Of course. I just don't understand why Jeff yelled at me.
Dani: He was upset that you made that comment in front of everybody.
Brendon: Does Jeff admit that he was out of line?
Dani: He's just....
Now FISH.
I am the FeedWatcher and every summer I am a Big Brother addict. Live feed updates, gossip, and other tidbits. Yes, I post spoilers.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Jeff Will Sink Himself,
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We spoke to the man that is Vauxhall Jermaine…
Q: We would love to take this opportunity to say a big well done for your roles in This Is England '90 and Meet The Mckenzies. How it all start? How did you become the actor you are today?
Vauxhall: Ah thank you much appreciated! It was a joy to work on both, especially TIE 90.
I started out as an extra back in 2007, fitting it around being a professional footballer (soccer) and sports modelling. I would watch the lead actors on set thinking I really want to do that one day. It felt like a free acting lesson as you get to see masters at their craft. I remember Game of Thrones casting director Nina Gold, casting me in a small non-speaking role alongside Ryan Phillippe in a film called Franklyn. That was surreal as I'd just watched him in Crash a few days earlier! When I when I went back for pre-season training I told my team mates about being on a movie set and that I was gonna be an actor one day… they laughed at me! Who's laughing now, hey!
I retired from soccer in 2009, going into extras work/sports modelling full time. In 2011 I stopped the extras work after getting a small speaking role in an indie film called Weekend. The lead Tom Cullen really encouraged me to go for it, so I started getting roles in student/short films via acting websites, to gauge just how good or bad an actor I actually was. I haven't trained as an actor so I'd use any auditions I got as a workshop tool.
Q: What was your favourite acting role and why?
Vauxhall: Playing Rudy in Channel 4's This Is England '90. I just felt I'd arrived as an actor for even getting the chance to audition for such an iconic piece of British tv. We filmed it in 2015, I'd only stopped the extras work four years earlier and now I'm on set of a BAFTA winning drama! Madness. The lead Vicky McClure had a word in Shane Meadows' ear about me so I'm in debt to her for the rest of my life haha! Doing scenes with Stephen Graham was probably the equivalent of playing alongside Steven Gerrard. The man is a genius on screen. He's so kind as an actor and helps you in any way he can (Being both Liverpool fans helped too!).
Agents and casting directors definitely started taking me a bit more serious after TIE. I actually landed the role the same day I'd landed a role in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation alongside Tom Cruise, which we were filming in Morocco, Africa. I was panicking about the dates clashing but production waited for me to get back which was amazing.
Q: Tell us about your funniest on-screen experience!
Vauxhall: Two moments stick out. When we were filming Mission: Impossible one of the extras (in the pic far left) had a little bit extra around the waist line. Tom kept saying to me that Marines are a bit more athletic than that so we need to change him. I felt a bit bad for him so I suggested that he just breathe in when we film and relax afterwards. Tom whispered something to one of the AD's, they went over to the extra and told him what I suggested.
We filmed the scene for one hour solid and this poor guy is literally pulling his stomach in looking like Johnny Bravo to then letting it go like Homer Simpson in the Moroccan heat. I was in stitches! – as the Moroccan heat ain't no joke trust me!
I was in an audition for a yoghurt commercial. I was wearing a well fitted suit and had to jump out of my chair and do some mad dance kick thing. My trousers fully split and fell down in front of the casting director who was raging. The director was crying with laughter so hard he was literally sliding down his chair behind the script. I didn't get the role or get called in by that CD for two years after lol.
Q: BAME actors have been the talk of the town lately. Do you think they have to look overseas in places such as in the USA to be appreciated and to find work?
Vauxhall: There is definitely more work in the states that's a fact, and the chances of landing a breakthrough role there as a BAME actor are a lot higher. I hope the UK market catches up, I really do… but it has a looonnngg way to go yet. That's why it's CRUCIAL we continually create our own work and using social media platforms to get the major UK networks to notice us more. I said in another interview and I stand by it – we need the equivalent of a BBC Radio 1 Xtra for television! Showcasing high end content made by BAME creatives. And it needs serious money pumped into so it becomes a major network. They could slip it into where BBC Three used to be.
Q: What has been your biggest obstacle and how did you overcome this?
Vauxhall: My biggest obstacle was not letting my past consume me. I grew up in various foster families, a children's home, an all-white boarding school for boys with behaviour problems, I became homeless at 17 and a father at 18. By this point, I was a criminal doing all kinds of stuff. I was selling fake Ralph Lauren clothes for a local gangster while I was at college. Burgling people's houses – if it wasn't bolted down I was stealing and selling it, trust me. Robbing business men for their mobile phones in the street was standard behaviour for me I remember my ex-girlfriend asking me about becoming her pimp when I was 21 years old. I politely declined as I was born out of that world.
How I overcame the obstacle: it was my desire for a better life coupled with real fear of what I'd end up becoming if the door never opened. Pursuing soccer professionally gave me that hope. It was the only light at the end of a very dark tunnel but I was ready to die for my efforts because I had to prove to myself that my start doesn't have to be my end. I still have those fears now and that's what keeps me driving forward.
Q: What audition advice would you give to your younger self?
Vauxhall: Relax. You're not on trial for murder. Enjoy it and take genuine risks in the room as casting directors like that. You're not going in there to land a role you're going there to show what you can do. Leave it all in the room. It's done – it's over.
Q: If you could write and direct a film tomorrow, regardless of budget, what would it be about and why?
Vauxhall: It would be my life story. Young black men need to be reassured they can still be all they can be despite whatever their upbringing. I have to big up Stormzy and Bashy for how they're using their platform to inspire young black men. It's beautiful to see.
Q: Who is one 'up and coming' actor that you feel we should all look out for?
Vauxhall: Apart from me haha, I'd say my friend Maia Watkins. I saw her at Monologue Slam and was blown away. Her love for acting is real. Also check out British actress Zaraah Abrahams, she's dope in Spike Lees' Da Sweet Blood of Jesus and Black Girl in Paris.
Q: What can we expect from you in the near future?
Vauxhall: Well…I've just appeared alongside Arnold Oceng in a BBC Two terrorism film called The Attack. I played 'Kaymar', a man who's sells guns to criminals in London.
I'll be appearing in a short film called 'Leroy' alongside Nathan Bryon, then an independent film called '90 Minutes' – I play Jonno Banks, a manager of a Sunday morning soccer team. And then I'll be featuring as 'Bouncer', an assassin in a new major US drama called 'Will' – airing on TNT Drama in summer 2017.
Q: And finally what is your message to the world?
Vauxhall: Wow no pressure there haha!.. Just try your best to be all you can be. Never be afraid of hard work or the time it will take to reach your dreams. Don't beat yourself up when you fail just go again. But most importantly follow your instincts like your life depends on it. It will never let you down.
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Inspirational. Nice one Vauxhall


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Well, today is Friday, and Frank still hasn't come back. I don't know what to do.
I'm not going to post unless something happens, because I'm feeling really disjointed right now and the only things I can think to write are "I'm scared" and "I don't know what to do."
I'm going around town today with Frank's picture asking people if they've seen him. They're probably going to think I'm crazy but whatever. I don't really care. I need to find him before the Coven does.
EDIT: I'm back for now. No one seems to have seen him at all. It's like he's just vanished...
I don't know if I mentioned it, but his car is gone from the parking lot. I haven't seen it in town at all, so I'm considering going to the police and filing a report as though it were my car, and it was stolen. We'll see if they find it then.
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This year's Freshers events start on Sunday 9th September. We will have daytime, evening and night events taking place every day from the 9th through until Saturday 23rd.
This year we are running Freshers events for two weeks. This is because the University accommodation sites open on Saturday 9th, and we will see a large number of students move into their student flats on this date. We want to make sure that you receive a great RGU Freshers welcome experience whenever you arrive during this period, and therefore have decided to extend our Freshers events and activities until Saturday 23rd. We've got loads planned, and will make sure that you never have a dull moment during Freshers 2017!
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We know that moving away from home and coming to uni can be an expensive time, so we have tried to make sure that we have as many free events as possible on our line-up, including live music events, city tours, icebreakers, and our annual Freshers Free Film Festival taking place at Vue Cinema.
Events taking place in our affiliated nightclub venues (The Garage, Unit 51 and The Institute) will have door charges assigned to them, however you can get entry to all of these events by buying an RGU Freshers wristband for only £30. This will save you around £90 on the standard nightclub entry charges throughout the duration of Freshers.
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After seeing our first glimpse of the 2010 BMW Z4 yesterday, the main thing we were left wondering was what it looks like from behind. Now, thanks to a leaked brochure image spotted by the guys at BMWblog, we know. Sure, the proportions of the image are a bit skewed, but we get the general idea. Now we're just trying to decide on if this new design is still a "Bangle butt."
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Although designed between fifty and sixty years ago, the furniture and other aspects of interior architecture in the exhibition, Mid-Century Modern- Australian Furniture Design at the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, is surprisingly fresh.
Very clear in their ideas on form, the designers were responding to new production techniques and materials, post-WWII influences including an influx of European immigrants to Australia all contributed to this melting pot of inspiration. Parallels can be made with recent developments in materials, production technology and shortages (depending on how that is interpreted). Well worth a look and on until 19th October 2014.


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OK, it turns out there is a reason why the US release of Doctor Who has been pushed back: they've finally made a deal with the Sci-Fi Channel to broadcast it here. For that, I suppose I can wait. Not patiently, mind you, but I can wait, because the thought of my fellow Americans being able to watch this show on TV, without jumping through any quasi-legal hoops, delights me. And you do want to watch this one, guys, trust me, if you have any bent towards science fiction at all, whether you're familiar with the classic version or not. (Or even, as I've said before, if you thought the classic version was a bit too cheesy and tuned it out. The new episodes have kept the spirit of the original pretty well, but they do lack the unconvincing rubber monsters and such.) It'll be starting in March, the website says "Friday nights at 9.00pm." I assume that's Eastern time.
Now, let's just hope Sci-Fi doesn't screw it up.
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As i posted here before that, I am currently having my driving lessons. Later tonight I will having two hours again. That will be my 14th to 15th hours in driving and soon I will be finish. It's really good that I am learning a lot . I can drive on the highway with lots of heavy trucks beside my car. Scary but I must face them. Well, one thing who helps me in driving easy is my shoes I bought this when my hubby was here. Very good timing indeed, and now been using for my driving. It's required to have proper shoes when a student in driving. Besides I also use this as my running shoes when doing my exercise, compact shoes for me. All in one.
Before my wedding last April besides from the rubber shoes, of course I also bought my very simple yet very elegant wedding shoes it has two color shinning blue and green as my motif in our wedding. It's very cool and many really like it. I did not buy typical color white I want to be different. A 4 inches high hills. I want to be as tall as my hubby. Now I am having shoes for different occasions.
Now the only shoes that I am looking forward is to have boots. Lot's of boots shoes in market such as boots for the rain and boots for party and more. I check online with different fabulous styles, hope I can have one soon. Specially now that's it rainy here , need good shoes for that occasions. In fact it's good to have lot's of shoes to use that will fit in proper occasion.


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