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Martinez thrilled with Baines deal
Everton manager Roberto Martinez hailed Leighton Baines' new contract as the club's biggest possible January signing.
The England international has signed a new four-year deal which the Toffees boss believes will see the club benefit from the left-back's best years of his career.
Baines, 29, had been a target for former manager David Moyes at Manchester United, who had two bids rejected in the summer, but Martinez has persuaded him to extend his stay at Goodison Park - providing a significant boost on the eve of the 222nd Merseyside derby at Anfield.
"It is an important moment for us," said Martinez.
"You are talking about January signings and bringing players into the club but no-one will be bigger than having Leighton Baines focusing on being as good as he can be for Everton in the best years of his career.
"There were going to be a lot of clubs fighting for those years (of Leighton's career).
"He has a World Cup around the corner and you see what a consistent performer he is - not many players can play 38 league games two seasons out of the last three.
"He has been performing as one the best left-backs in European football and the best is yet to come because now he is in a position where he can enjoy the experience and understanding of the game and affect others around you.
"You look at how important he is with the daily standards, the influence he has with the younger players.
"I am just looking what Leighton can do in the next four years in the dressing room and it is going to be as good as it gets."
The timing of the news may well have been stage-managed by Everton as they head to Anfield looking for their first league win this century.
However, the implications of Baines committing himself to the club are far-reaching as it shows the confidence a player desperate to play Champions League football has in his manager.
Martinez succeeded Moyes in the summer and has brought an attacking style of football to the team without any drop in performance and they head into Tuesday's match just a point behind their near-neighbours, whose manager Brendan Rodgers still talks about them as being title contenders.
"It represents a strong intent of trying to progress and get stronger and Leighton will bring that on the football pitch," added the Toffees boss.
"It is a great boost internally but I know fans will be delighted because Leighton is more than a footballer at the club.
"You look how important he is with the daily standards, the influence he has with the younger players.
"I am just looking what Leighton can do in the next four years in the dressing room and it is going to be as good as it gets.
"To have Leighton with the focus and tranquillity to be at Everton for the long-term is an incredible boost."
Everton have not won at Anfield since Kevin Campbell scored the only goal in September 1999.
It is a psychological hurdle which needs to be overcome but having ended a 21-year wait for a victory at Old Trafford last month, Martinez sees no reason why they cannot repeat the feat at Anfield.
"This season we've had a couple of big experiences in that respect There is a mental battle you have to overcome," he added.
"You can come down to the tactical and technical aspects of any performance but more importantly psychologically you have to have that winning mentality.
"This season we have been tested in that respect: going to the Emirates and being able to perform how we did (drawing 1-1) and going to Old Trafford and winning after 21 years means as a group we are ready to go anywhere and be ourselves."
A delighted Baines admitted he could not be happier to be staying at Everton - and is similarly pleased the new contract will put an end to speculation about his future.
He told evertonfc.com: "I am delighted to have agreed the new deal.
"I am very happy at Everton and always have been. It's a fantastic football club and I am excited about what we can achieve here in the next few years.
"I've loved every minute of being here since I first joined in 2007 and I couldn't be happier."
Baines insisted all the transfer talk had not affected his performances, but is nevertheless happy to see an end to it.
"Was it a distraction? Not for me, no," he said.
"I am a professional footballer and speculation is part and parcel of the industry we are in but it never affected me for a moment on the pitch.
"Of course it was on my mind at times away from pitch because I was getting asked about it everywhere I went but I hope the supporters could see that I didn't let it affect me at all once I crossed the white line.
"I've never been one to relish the limelight so I suppose I'm glad that the speculation will go away now."


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No More Ms. Nice Guy: Iâm angry as Hell, Iâm packinâ heatâand Iâm naming names. Iâm up at an ungodly hour of the morning, writing this rant because I just saw something that sent me over the edge.
This video online (Yahoo! News) is about 100 horses being starved to death by their owners in California.
Not âjust anyâ horsesâthese are Thoroughbreds. OUR Thoroughbreds. Every person who has a stake in Thoroughbred racingâwhether youâre the breeder who made the horse; the owner, trainer, jockey, exercise rider, groom--or the bettor who makes money off their sweatâyou are responsible for the welfare of our equine athletes. If you make your living from your involvement in the sportâyou are responsible for their welfare. You canât have the perks without the responsibilities: thatâs a lesson we teach three-year-olds.
Back to the starving Thoroughbreds in California. Oh, letâs name names: they were/may still beâon Cochema Ranch in Frazier Valley, California. Owned by Cecilia Bor and her family, this Thoroughbred puppy mill is a member of California Thoroughbred Breedersâ Association. Three of their stallionsâGeneral Gem, Giant Asset and Cat in the Houseâare listed in the 2008 CTBA Stallion Directory.
We must note here that Giant Assetâs pedigree is Affirmed, out of Nashuaâs Frolic, a daughter of Nashua. This horse was no slouch.
Ah, yes: âwas.â Giantâs Asset is dead. In 2006. Apparently of starvation. The other two are probably dead, tooâjust a wild guess. I tried to find them at Pedigree Query, but nothing beyond their pedigrees there. That awkward silence on the âsite, when thereâs no information about a horse. (âHe, uh, âslipped through the cracks.â Yeah, thatâs it, he slipped through the cracks..â)
Responsible breeders and owners are happy to provide info to accompany their horsesâ pedigrees. Ergo, itâs a good guess that, when a horseâs information is missingâthe horse found its way to the killpen, starvation or some other unsavory end.
The story out of California is that a good citizenâand no doubt, horse loverâPatty Wallaceâcollected a stack of complaints about Cochema Ranch and the horses locked on that farm, starving to death and suffering from myriad unthinkable diseases and rot. Ms. Wallace handed over the stack of complaints to the local Humane Society, which apparently took its time getting investigators out there. So Patty called the Sheriff, who looked at the complaints and descended on the ranch.
Thatâs the only Good News of this piece: that someone (Patty Wallace) has a heart of compassion, and did something. And that the sheriffâs department got involved, and began removing horses from the clutches of the human vermin who owned them.
Now for the Bad News: not ânews,â per seâjust my observations. Now is the time to flip the channel or hang with me, pick one. I am livid. My eyes are practically filled with blood, as rage about this incident floods my heart and mind. I cannot fathom anyoneâthe Bors, the owners of Cochema Ranchâhaving 100 horses (Thoroughbred or other) and allowing them to starve to death. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for it. None. Zip. Zero. Zilch. Nada. Noyle.
If you have horses and you canât afford to feed themâif lifeâs gone down the dumper and you canât provide food, clean water, medicine and shelter for your horsesâgive them away. Hand them over to TRF or any of the myriad wonderful charities that will gladly find homes for them.
Stand on the roof of your house and scream, âHELP!â until someone comes to the rescue. But do notâDO NOTâtell me that you love your horses, yet you allowed them to rot like so many corpses in a Wes Craven film.
I donât want to hear your excuses: âthe price of gas is high.â âThe price of hay is high.â âFeed is going through the roof.â âWe love our horses, butâ¦â
Clearly, the Bor family is nuts, simple-minded or both. No one with a decently-high IQ would allow this to happen, and actually go on record as saying, âWe love our horses. Theyâre our children.â Cecilia Bor said that to a TV reporter. Obviously, Ms. Bor is either a liar or an idiotâthereâs no middle ground.
The Mansons were a âfamily,â too.
Now for the Big Indictments: where is the CHRB and the CTBA in all this? The California Horse Racing Boardâwhile a governing board that oversees the racing aspect of the industryâmust surely have its eyes on the breeding operations in the state? And if notâwhy not?
And the California Thoroughbred Breedersâ Association? To wag my finger at them and say, âShame on you,â is not enough, clearly. Believe it or not, Cochema Ranch is actually a member of CTBA.
Those three stallions are listed in THIS yearâs California Stallion Directory. Including the dead one.
Seems the California Thoroughbred Stallion Directory needs to hire a fact-checker.
The CTBA had under its nose at least one Thoroughbred breeding farm that was killing its horses by starving them to deathâand either didnât know it, or ignored the fact. Does no one from either CHRB or CTBA take a drive and do spot-checks on farms? Or was it so important to add the names of those three emaciated stallions to the roster of state-breds that they took the Borâs membership fees and ran into that comfy state of denial?
At any rate, someone, somewhere, dropped the ball. 100 horsesâincluding foals, mares in foal and stallionsâhave been starving to death on Cochema Ranch since at least 2006. These horses have been dropping like flies, too weak even to neigh, too discouraged to nicker. And some stupid, self-absorbed, money-grubbing pig of a human at every step along the wayâeither ignored or denied the plight of these horses.
Oh, I know that the pro-equicide people will say that Cochema Ranch is a good example of why America âneedsâ equicide (horse slaughter for money). That âunwantedâ horses starve to death, so slaughter is the viable option. And that, as we know, is a load of crapâbecause, while the pro-slaughter people hold their thumbs and middle fingers together, chanting âOhmâ and âunwanted horsesââthey know, as do you, that horses in the shape of those on Cochema Ranch arenât âfitâ enough to make it onto the killerbuyersâ trucks.
Think about that for a minute: these horses were too weak and sick to walk onto a slaughterhouse-bound truckâso even the killerbuyers, the scum-suckers of the Earthâwouldnât take them.
(So the âunwanted horsesâ argument is invalid. Donât send me a comment ranting about âunwanted horsesâ and why equicide would have been âbetterâ for the Cochema horses. Thatâs non-sense, and you know it.)
Can you hear it? Can you smell the money in the air: Breedersâ Cup Season is upon us. For the next month, the industry will be fawning over the richest owners and breeders. Kabillion-dollar horses will do battle on the untested artificial surface of Santa Anita. Wealthy women with way-too much money will don Versace and Prada, their men proudly displaying their filliesâand their horses. Conspicuous consumption will mark the party to which the masses are not invited, the soiree for those who can afford the best caviar, champagne and feed.
Rome burns. Nero fiddles. 100 miles away from the Breedersâ Cup at Santa Anitaâ100 horses are dead or dying. One-hundred miles, 100 Thoroughbredsâchildren of Affirmed, grands of Seattle Slewâcall out to the California Thoroughbred Breedersâ Association and California Horse Racing Board. Their cries are drowned out by the sound of All That Money flapping in the breeze at Santa Anita.
The two governing bodies whose responsibility it was to oversee breeding farms in the state of California have failed miserably. I cannot be convinced that they didnât know this was going on: the chain of evidence from two years ago indicates that the first reportsâwhen Giant Asset was found starved to deathâhad to have gone straight from the Ventura County Sheriffâs Office to the CHRB. There is no valid reason why, two years later, Cochema Ranch is still in existence, the Bors locked in a Cal State detention barn.
If every Thoroughbred farm in California offered to take, love, nurture and feed just ONE of these horsesâthe problem would be solved. But Iâm sure it wonât happen, because thereâs no money to be made on a sack of bones that was once a racehorse. The only reward to stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility is the knowledge that you did The Right Thing.
Shame on you, CHRB and CTBA, for expending every ounce of energy, money and attention to those two days at the end of Octoberâand for ignoring 100 of your own charges, suffering for over two years.
You Thoroughbred âexpertsâ havenât stepped up to the plateâI am ashamed to be in the same sport as you. You donât deserve your fat jobs overseeing the California Thoroughbred industryâand 100 horses donât deserve to die for YOUR sins.


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Lunch Time!
by Shelly Hazard
Four friends met one day for lunch at their favorite diner. Each ordered a sandwich, one side dish, and a dessert. As it happens, everyone ordered something different. Determine the full name of each person and what they had for lunch.
1. Peter Wish didnÆt have French fries with his sandwich, which wasnÆt roast beef. The man who had the rice pilaf also had chocolate cake.
2. Mr. Tummel, whose first name wasnÆt Tim, didnÆt order the garden salad or the apple pie. Walter didnÆt order a tuna sandwich or baked potato.
3. Sam thought the hot fudge sundae looked a lot better than his dessert but he agreed that his side dish was a lot better than TimÆs salad.
4. Mr. Summer and Peter didnÆt order a dessert with ice cream. Sam didnÆt order the baked potato though he did get the turkey sandwich.
5. The man who got vanilla ice cream, and it wasnÆt Walter, ordered French fries with his sandwich.
6. Mr. Wayvern, whose first name wasnÆt Walter, ordered a ham sandwich but didnÆt order apple pie.
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Our own Donna Young has created an educational activity about variable stars on the HR Diagram. The activity is designed for formal K-16 educators and includes a teacher's guide, background material, student activities and answer keys.
However, the activity is also a great learning tool for those new to variable stars. It will introduce many of the most important types of variable stars and describe how they are related to other types. The genius of HR Diagrams is how they place everything in context of the grand scheme of things.


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I read a very provocative theory the other day on the origin of religion. The book claimed that hunters and gatherers lived in sophisticated tribal nations during the transition to civilization and basically created Yahweh and other gods to manipulate resources out of early settled communities. Anyone else hear about this?
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I'd recommend starting with peer-reviewed papers on the topic:
The only book I could find titled "On The Origin of Religion" seems very light on peer-reviewed evidence and very high on woo.
Here's the excerpt from Amazon:
This revolutionary manuscript brings the most guarded secrets in history to light overturning everything you know about the development of civilization. Learn the jaw dropping revelation surrounding the connection between hunters and gatherers and the Book of Job. Discover the influence nomadic tribal nations had on the origin of monotheism and learn about the role they played in the Biblical Exodus. You will not believe your eyes as the author unravels the Gnostic code revealing what forces were behind the rise of Christianity.
Anytime I see phrases like "secrets" "jaw dropping revelation" and "you will not believe your eyes" my conspiracy theory/woo antennas go up.
This book's author name is a pen name, the book itself was published like two weeks ago and the website promoting the book was launched yesterday, so I really hope this isn't the book you're referring to, David.
Im telling you the book description is crazy i agree but it came up on my free list and i downloaded it and the book contains a theory that A. I have never heard in my life and I've heard them all. B. after reading the book I'm telling you the evidence was more compelling than i thought it would be.
The analysis on the Book of Job was totally groundbreaking. this book must be a pre release to something I swear. I mean, just consider for a moment the book's central thesis. It claims that the Book of Job was authored by hunters and gatherers.. and it gets to this conclusion using a slate of evidence..i.e. patterns in the mythologies about dragons (apparently the Book of Job contains several references to dragons). Remember in Job there is "The council in heaven"? The book shows how this was a known aboriginal metaphor for a group of nomadic tribal leaders considering what should be done with Job.. clearly the civilian... they decide to begin testing his limits using punishment training and reward... i mean tell me you have heard of this? All I am saying is that I happened upon it and it was rather compelling.
There are a lot of stories I've never heard of and I'm sure that many of those stories are as outlandish as this one. But that's not how I base the legitimacy or truth of an assertion.
For that I need to empirical, peer-reviewed evidence and the more extraordinary the assertion the more extraordinary the body of evidence required.
I'm glad that you enjoy the story. It just seems a bit overly fantastical for me.
A. I have never heard in my life and I've heard them all.
And this would make it more believable ... how exactly?
B. after reading the book I'm telling you the evidence was more compelling than i thought it would be.
How well cited was this evidence? Many of these books make a lot of shit up. What we need is some sort of consensus amongst the scholars. A lone nut can say anything.
If it's properly researched, the evidence that the book is based upon will be peer reviewed, not the book itself.
well it used a ton of direct wikipedia quotes and other source quotes.
Did you source the Wikipedia quotes? Wikipedia is generally pretty good on most things, but on any kind of contentious subject, it can be a bit sketchy. It's only as good as those who review the articles, and anyone can have an agenda.
Anytime I see phrases like "secrets" "jaw dropping revelation" and "you will not believe your eyes" my conspiracy theory/woo antennas go up.
Ditto. Sounds like conspiracy-theory nut-jobbery, not anything from a scholarly source.
Reminds me of a caller to the Atheist Experience, a few weeks back. He justified having some bizarre belief by saying, "Yeah, but how much would it blow your mind if it was true?!?" That is not how you support a claim.
Some Europeans would really like to be able to claim that they created and are responsible for western religious culture. Could this be some of them? Typos and bad grammar are not good signs. I'll also await the peer review.
can someone who owns the book take a quick glance at the sources listed? A general estimate and a couple examples may be helpful. Also, I could tell from the link provided who the publisher was. As far as the "woo" in the description, this could have easily been a marketing ploy by the publisher. I think I need a little more information before I'd be interested in reading it. Thanks in advance.
I took a look at the source list and it was in the hundreds. a ton of wikipedia but also direct quotes from charles mann, alan taylor, and a slew of Biblical scholars like carol newsom and the like. The book basically lays the claim that hunters and gatherers existed in populous tribal nations and were strategically coercing civilians to deliver daily offerings of food to the edge of the wilderness boundary using religious manipulation. It centers on the Book of Job describing it as a template that hunters and gatherers were using to literally domesticate human beings.. I've read it now twice and I've double checked many of the quotes I can't find any woo in it to be honest. The break down of Job seemed totally legit.
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I've got a Mako 150 that I'm going to set up as a mutant... but I gotta keep it moving fairly quickly so it gets pretty bouncy in the chop... more start'n'stop action :-/ but it was that board that got me thinking about a more 'surfy' board for just cruising around... like a Sector.
At the ocean beach, my big TT (170x50 ) floats through the chop ok but trying to jump is pointless cos the water is never flat enough, and the waves are just too crappy to boost off - they only break within a few meters of the shore and are moving 3 different directions before they get there... and trying to 'surf' on that board is a bit silly.
All the reviews point to the Nugget but... it's quite small, isn't it? And I'm quite large...
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I recorded this video during the Bovington Tank Fest of June 27, 2010. It's a Marmon Herrington IV which was given to Greece after World War II, probably during the Civil War:
Operational History
1945-1949 - During the Greek civil war, IVF armoured cars have their mechanical parts removed and are placed on flat wagons to protect trains.
1974 - At the time of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Cypriot army has 45 Marmon Herringtons.
1990s - The Greek army is still using Marmon Herringtons in mechanised infantry battalions in the Aegean Islands.
Marmon Herrington Mk.II/III armoured car
Crew: 4
Weight: 6 tons
Length: 5.31 m
Height: 2.49 m
Width: (II) 1.98m / (III) 2.29 m
Armour: 12 mm
Engine: 8-cylinder Ford petrol. 85 hp
Speed: 80 km/h
Operational Range: (on-road) 322 km, (off-road 193 km)
Armament: 1x 0.55" Boys Anti Tank rifle, 1x 7.92mm Bren MG, 1x 7.7mm vickers AA MG
Marmon Herrington Mk.IVF armoured car
Crew: 4
Weight: 6.4 tonnes
Length: 5.51 m
Height: 2.29 m
Width: 1.83 m
Armour: 20 mm
Engine: 8-cylinder Ford V90 petrol. 95 hp (71 kW), 3600 rpm
Speed: 80 km/h
Operational Range: (on-road) 322 km, (off-road 193 km)
Armament: 1x 40mm QF 2-pdr, 2x 7.92mm Browning MG
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Being one of their few modern armoured vehicles, the Marmon Herrington was invaluable to the Greek forces.
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The death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in an apparent drug overdose Sunday leaves behind a diverse and impressive body of work cut tragically short. From his pornographer turn in "Boogie Nights" to his Oscar-decorated turn as Truman Capote to his Lester Bangs moment, here are eight of Hoffman's most memorable performances; there are many more, of course, that you could just as powerfully make the case for.
"Boogie Nights" (1997) One of Hoffman's breakthrough roles came in his second film with director Paul Thomas Anderson, cementing a career-long collaboration for the actor. In the film, Hoffman played Scotty J., a gay member of a pornography company film crew, opposite Mark Wahlberg and Julianne Moore, his effervescent personality standing out in a field full of same.
"Magnolia" (1999) Hoffman reteamed with Anderson two years later for the ensemble film "Magnolia," which tells the interlocking stories of a group of people searching for happiness and connection over 24 hours in the San Fernando Valley. In the film, which also stars Moore, Tom Cruise and John C. Reilly, Hoffman plays a nurse tending to a cancer-stricken TV producer, showing a more tender side than his previous PTA piece.
"Almost Famous" (2000) - He wasn't on-screen for many scenes, but he made a deep impression when he was. Hoffman played Lester Bangs, the real-life brook-no-nonsense rock critic who thought the music and music-journalism machine was ruining rock 'n' roll. He also had some trenchant words of advice for young hero William Miller, and a few big thoughts as well. "Great art," he told the critic-in-waiting, "is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love."
"Capote" (2005) Hoffman won several awards, including the Oscar for lead actor, for his performance as Capote in this biopic set during the author's writing of his nonfiction book "In Cold Blood." Critics praised Hoffman's physical and vocal transformation, as well as the subtlety of his portrayal of Capote, and the movie established the actor as one of the bona fide talents of his generations.
"The Savages" (2007) Hoffman plays Jon, one half of the dysfunctional duo of adult siblings in Tamara Jenkins' comedy-tinged drama. Though Jenkins' critical darling is ostensibly a look at aging and dementia, as Jon and Laura Linney's Wendy are forced to put their infirm father in a facility in Buffalo, it's ultimately about the two younger leads and questions of ambition and commitment. Hoffman hits all the right notes as a theater professor who can't seem to get out of his own way (or finish his long-gestating book about Brecht).
"Synecdoche, New York" (2008) It's not easy to carry an entire surrealist head trip film in any circumstance; it's even harder if it's Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut and you're playing a man consumed by a desire to stage the world's most grand production. As Caden, said theater director, Hoffman does exactly that, creating a powerfully tragic figure who also merges fiction and reality in a deliciously postmodern way in the bold polarizing, Cannes film.
"The Master" (2012) Hoffman once again earned critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for lead actor in his commanding performance as Lancaster Dodd, a charismatic 1950s cult leader (inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard) who takes an outcast, played by Joaquin Phoenix, under his wing. Intense face-offs with Phoenix were among the movie's strongest moments, as were his many displays of wily charisma.
"The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (2013) Most recently, Hoffman joined the blockbuster "Hunger Games" franchise to portray Plutarch Heavensbee, the new head game maker with an agenda of his own. Hoffman was set to reprise his role in the final two films in the series, "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay" parts 1 and 2. It was a great example of how his serious chops could be skilfully folded into some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters.


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Most of the Giants are spending the day going over their mistakes in Sunday's 34-0 loss in Atlanta.
Running back Ahmad Bradshaw is one of the few Giants who isn't in that position. Bradshaw didn't play because of a sprained knee suffered in Week 14 against the Saints and Jenny Vrentas of the Newark Star-Ledger reports that he said Monday that "a lot of things would have been different" if he was in the lineup.
Things would have been different, but we're not sure the winner and loser are among them. The Giants were down 7-0 after running two offensive plays, David Wilson had a 25-yard run to help set up an early field goal attempt that Lawrence Tynes missed and it was 17-0 in the second quarter after Eli Manning's second interception led to a Falcons field goal. The Giants did fail on three fourth down conversion attempts, but one was a pass and the third came when the score was already 24-0. Wilson ran the ball on the first of the tries, but got stuffed by a host of Falcons who had pushed the offensive line straight back at the snap of the ball.
We obviously can't know if Bradshaw's presence would have changed the outcome and don't begrudge him for feeling that way, but the Giants' problems went far beyond anything having to do with the running game.
Bradshaw said he plans to play this weekend, but admitted that he felt the same way last week before being scratched. That means we'll have to keep an eye on the practice reports this week to see if Bradshaw will be a difference maker in Baltimore.


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Hatton Promotions Official Statement on Martin Murray
Hatton Promotions Official Statement on Martin Murray
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HATTON PROMOTIONS has taken the decision to allow Martin Murray's contract to expire.
This means the company will no longer financially invest further in Martin's career following the St Helens boxer's unwillingness to commit to opportunities negotiated on his behalf.
Offers for world title fights with Gennady Golovkin and Felix Sturm have been on the table for a number of weeks, but Murray has decided to hold off signing any agreements.
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The Last Grey Ship - Chapter 3 - A Short Story~The voice of the Sea merely whispers, until the reasons to stay pass on. Aragorn's days are ending, and Gimli faces more farewells as Legolas looks to the West ... How the story may have ended. B
The Last Grey Ship
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Sorrow rose then like a mighty tide within, but Gimli bowed his head though it choked him, and spoke not. He could not ask what selfishness might demand, for his love for this oldest friend was greater even than his love for himself. Legolas would sail into the West, and that right soon, and Gimli would remain to attend his own days and his own people, until even the long lives of Dwarven-kind ended and he, too, must die as all mortal things of Middle Earth.
"Ai, Gimli, I have so loved the world," Legolas cried. "If I looked now upon the fullness of Spring, when the forests were singing and friends awaited me in the greenwood, I should be torn to my very depths. But Elessar is gone and his Lady is lost, and I fear that I will never know Spring again."
Courage Gimli found, and he spoke. "Do they not have Spring, in the Blessed Realm?"
"Spring, and summer, and never the frost of winter," Legolas replied, and bowed his head. "Neither withered leaf nor faded bloom, nor partings ever more."
"Then when shall you sail?"
"Soon," Legolas whispered, lifting his gaze to Westward once more. "Before the grief of the world drowns me."
"Well, then." Gimli braced his hands on the stone, and heaved himself to his feet, for he had wearied of craning his neck to look up at an already-tall Elf. "It seems you have some packing to do. Come, my stomach wants proper attention, and we have a long road tomorrow."
The Dwarf turned, and with all compassion and an aching heart he met and held his friend's sorrowful gaze. Legolas shifted his hands upon Galadriel's bow, ere he spoke.
"Gimli, I cannot - how shall I part from you?"
"Best to do it sooner, when I can appreciate the sentiment. It would do me precious little favor if you spoke only to the slab marking my tomb."
Yet it seemed the strange turns of Elvish thought were again at work, and the distress of it was plain on Legolas' face. "If you could see the Lady Galadriel . . . if you could return to her the gift she gave, would you do it?"
"Would I?" Gimli cried, and then scowled sternly. "Do not offer what is not yours to give, Master Elf."
"Not mine," Legolas replied. "But perhaps from the Lady who once granted you the favor of her affections."
"You speak in riddles, my friend. Be plain, for my belly grows impatient."
"I speak of ships, Gimli. A grey ship I shall build at Ithilien and sail down this great water, until at last I will gaze upon the wide breast of the Sea!" A fey excitement seemed to have seized him, and Legolas spoke in a hurried rush. "The Straight Road will be clear to me, Gimli. There need be no fear of either shipwreck or upset, nor shall we be lost, for there is but one route to sail."
Confusion now tumbled Gimli's poor wit entirely, and he squinted up at his friend. "You have gone from riddles to prattling, Legolas. Pray make sense, before you lose me in the wilderness of your words, never mind the Sea."
"Gimli, come with me."
There were no gulls. No wind. Just the hushed rumble of the Anduin far below.
"Come with you."
"No Dwarf will ever set foot on those shores." The absurdity of the thought for that instant overrode even the upset of separation. "No Dwarf, if he has any sense, will even set foot on a ship! Your little cockleshell would be dashed to the bottom of the deep ere we lost sight of land, if I were in it! You speak foolishness."
"Nay, Gimli, I do not." Legolas abruptly dropped to one knee, his bow clasped tight, and his eyes grew bright as sword points. "You of all Dwarves are named Elf-friend, and you are the last of the great Fellowship in this realm. The tales of your deeds bring you honor such as no Dwarf has known. You were beloved friend of Elessar the King. You are favored of the Lady Galadriel, which not even Durin could have imagined. I will plead for you there, Gimli, even to Manwë himself, if I must. I and Galadriel and Mithrandir, and all in that place who know your worth. The Lady has no small power, or Elrond either, and I shall add all the strength that is in my heart -."
Then Legolas caught himself, and his tone gentled as he damped his fervor to a lower flame. "Gimli, I see I thrust a great quandary upon you, and you cannot answer now. But do not refuse now, either, I beseech you."
There was frank pleading in Legolas' expression, even as he tried to lessen the weight of his request. However, the great wish of his heart would not be quenched.
"At least give the thought a little time, to see if it grows on you. It would be a reward of peace, for all your great labors in this world."
Gimli humphed a heavy breath and faced outwards towards the river and distant fields, arms crossed.
"The Lady Galadriel has forgotten she ever knew such a poor creature as I."
"The Lady holds you in her thought, as always you hold a lock of her hair."
"I have no legs for boats."
Legolas stood, watching him carefully. "Then you may sit down."
"I will be seasick."
"Nay, you shall not."
"I will be swallowed up in a great wave and eaten by sea serpents."
"Not if you stay in the boat."
Gimli remained with his face turned to the broad sweep of lands below, and it was Legolas' turn to be patient. Nor do the thoughts of Dwarves turn often in haste, unless great ire is aroused, for their works are most in stone, which defies hurry and rashness. Yet though Gimli's hands loved most the work he gave them, whether in building or in war, and though he filled his days and years with the unceasing efforts thereof, and neither took a wife nor foster son, there remained one constant. Through all times and all deeds, there remained one most unlikely friend. An Elven prince from the far forests of Mirkwood who, if nothing else, had taught him to love sun and starlight as much as the riches of the deep mountains. He had loved even as Legolas had loved, mourning friends and Fellowship as each passed from them, and yet withal he was richer for it. Now he had been offered one last gift, uncertain and perilous though it may be.
"How long will it take, to build this overdone ferry of yours?"
"I suppose that, by the time all things are in order, the moon will have come 'round its full turning."
"Hmm," Gimli rumbled.
Legolas waited and Gimli thought, and at last he spoke.
"Last night the moon was new. When the moon is half-grown, come, and I will give you my answer."
"I will come," said Legolas, and his face lit with joy. "I will come, and you will hear me singing before your warriors at the gates open their eyes to see me!"
"I have not said yes," Gimli warned.
But Legolas saw the smile lurking in his beard, and laughed. "Nor have you said no, and until you do, all nays may become yeas, and all cannots become coulds."
"And pigs may sprout wings and soar away over the rooftops," Gimli grumbled, and turned his feet towards the downward path. "Have I ever mentioned that Elves regularly make very little sense?"
"Frequently," Legolas answered as he followed. "And have I ever mentioned the stiff necks of Dwarves?"
"At every chance."
The slender boles of the wood gently closed about their fading voices, until once more the deep hush of the River breathed the only sound. In the White City a new King would be crowned, and on the yet-ungreen roads to the north, a Queen would slip away as silently as a doe in the forest. Beginnings and endings converged, much like new green shoots curled from the rotting, blackened leaves of winter. In each there was both peril and promise.
Yet when the rains of early April came to the Vale of the Anduin, among the mists that clung to the River's breast a clever eye might have seen a single grey ship sailing. A more prudent mind might have reasonably argued that it was merely a trick of the fog drifting from the dripping trees. But to the green paths of the forest never again came Legolas Greenleaf, and the mountain halls of the Dwarves saw Gimli, son of Gloin, nevermore.
Out where the great Sea thundered on the bones of the world the Sun burst forth in glory, and joyously cast aside the rags of spent clouds. Then beyond and to the western rim of the world, the deepening blue glittered as if sown with white gems. One gem, perhaps, winked brilliant green, and bore with it a single sail.
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: It is entirely my own plot-device that Legolas carried the Elfstone of Galadriel to the Blessed Realm with him. Such an incident is not any part of Tolkien's histories of Middle Earth. I have in fact found no mention of the stone's fate after Aragorn's death, and so I took this liberty.
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Post subject: Have you ever stepped back to LOOK at Building/Remastering
This thread asks the Puppy community to COLLABORATE on a development effort. Please comment or contribute ideas which can help.
Your ideas should help the community to re-design a friendlier product tool which is generally applicable to all of us who build or use Puppy Linux.
This community, I consider top-notch.
This is because it does a lot of things right. And, because it is a world-wide effort, some of the best brains in the world come to contribute to the products that this open community collaborate and use.
It truly is an effective collaboration community, even though the forum is an old African traditional "Call and Response" community in its operation, it is effective in its attracting the attention needed to address product's knowledge, operations, issues resolutions, and the all important enhancement/expansion.
This community has had some of the greatest minds and greatest implementers that I have seen world-wide. And, they come from all sorts of related and unrelated backgrounds with the contributions they have made. I have only been a member here for 7 years, but I am constantly smiling at the "bright ideas" that spark constantly through-out this forum community.
This thread is to draw attention such that the community can enhance a feature of the Puppy system. It come to us under several names, but, does have similar, if not identical, characteristics: "Remastering, Rebuilding, Custom Building, etc".
I am going to go out on a limb and refer to these by grouping all of this into a single category called "System Builds". (Be AWARE! I am NOT intending the community to adopt this name! It ONLY is used for this thread's discussion)
No matter how one wants to look at this, remastering, rebuilding, building, retooling, all have the same thing in common. They intend to give the user a final system with the plethora of things he wants to use within his new system.
System Building - Simply, a process which will generate an Puppy Linux Bootable ISO
In Puppy, today, a number of individual users (not developers) have from time to time posted about problems in getting desired results from the tools baked into their Puppy distro's Menu system. I have looked at this issue over the past 3 years and am hard pressed to use it because of its structure's complexity.
Each developer who presents their tool is clear of how they wants to guide the users to achieve an ISO. But, no developer (at least I am currently not aware of one) has asked for help in what he presents so that the user community can front-end a product that would achieve the developer's vision.
But, all of the tools I have seen follow a model, which is easy to get crossed up within such that one either backs-out to start over, or they end with something less than expected. In the majority of cases, one must do this over and over until one remembers how to master a building operation for a specific outcome. There are NO obvious tools for remembering what one did such that should one come back months later, he can repeat the model, either.
So, I am going to go out on a different limb, and propose that this thread be a "form" to request development of a Puppy product that is a start to finish community effort.
Screened Product development for "System Building"
A Puppy subsystem that will have a single screen approach to building a new Puppy distro.
In Puppy, today, I am NOT proposing anything revolutionary. Instead, i am proposing that there merely be a front-ended approach such that anyone can visually have an idea of what he is about to do by filling in a single front-end scrollable screen for getting an ISO in the outcome.
In one tool, today, I, personally, had to interact ("babysit")with 29 screens to get an ISO. When complete, I had the same result(s) that I have seen in distro remastering tools...an ISO that was missing stuff such that I had to repeat and try to figure out how to make this tools behave the way I need it to....thus, a new round of babysitting to a another final.
This, babysitting, is not an effective use of anyone's time. Its does meet the objective that i think the developer(s) want; which is to have the user 'integrally' involved in the process, hoping that they "learn" how to effectively use the tool. But, I submit, that this if flawed logic no matter who proposes it. The best way to learn anything is to, firstly, demonstrate a method which provide a working starting point, then answer and guide uses from that "working" point....not the other way around. We should be intending to guide use versus spending hours and hours "fiddlings around in unknown waters to try to learn how to swim".
So, basically, I am not asking for the development community to redesign how the user answers all of those screens at the beginning, one-time, per se, I am asking if the development community can have a single form/screen kick-off all of the "build" steps in such a way as the user
Fills in the form
some fields will require a drop-down for additional entries
all of the requirements for a build is confirmed before a build process is started
at the completion of the form an "answer file" is created with the users assigning a name he will remember
when the form is completed and the build process is started, NO OTHER ADDITIONAL USER INVOLVEMENT IS NEEDED!
This way, the user, on the front-end, can "see" how one answer may relate to another need within the tools to achieve his results. This provides a much more "clear-sighted approach" to achieving what the developer want the user to do to get an ISO. And he sees it at the front-end of the build process!
And, for those who develop, I think they all develops see how an "answer-file" would be used (versus, today's keyboard-mouse clicks).
Not necessary, but maybe a good idea is some sort of status should be posted in its own "single screen/window" alerting the progress of build. (this should NOT be blasted to the active screen. Instead, there should be a progress window where the build processing and postings occur; which provide a log of the build's progress that can be seen by the user, if he needs.
Expected Outcome
The outcome would be exactly the same that the builder develop intends. The benefits for the user over the current process is that he can see at the outset, what is required for his ISO to be created as he envisions it. Further, should he, in the future want to revisit or wants to make some changes, he can so by restarting the Build's Firstrunning screen with his old answers and tweak them appropriately for a new ISO.
Further, should the tool become much friendlier, more and more users will develop a greater interest in the expanded use and kinds of offering we will see. If its simple to retool as easy, almost, as adding a PET, We should expect a community of much more satisfied users, contributers, and helpers resolving issues throughout the community.
Please, don't let language skills or fear stop you from speaking up and contributing here.
This is a request that you collaborate and share any/all ideas about the subject covered in this thread
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Hello, gcmartin!
I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but are you talking about a remastering tool for basically "all puppies" or just one for a "family of puppies" or "recently-released puppies"? Based on the remastering tools I have experience with (albeit very limited), some tools work better with some specific puppies than with others. Hence, a sort of "universal remastering tool" that work equally on "all puppies" could be somerthing hard to achieve.
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Disco Makberto wrote:
Hello, gcmartin! ... Hence, a sort of "universal remastering tool" that work equally on "all puppies" could be somerthing hard to achieve. ...
I understand what you share.
I was thinking of a tool that would deliver with each Puppy in its "Menu" that would allow a bootable ISO to be created from the system's contents, in one step, if possible.
Today, all PUPs, deliver with a Menu >Settings>Remaster..., feature
Today, many/most PUPs deliver with Shinobars "GRUB4DOS" which is a boot manager-assist built-in PUPs. Thus "
boot elements
a running filesystem
" just seems that maybe there is a way to create a bootable ISO from this system combination.
Today, too, the remaster delivered tool has an abundance of screens.
I am wondering if it is at all possible to create a single screen tool that will drop to the background and create a bootable ISO of all that is running in the current system. Thus, just as each comes with its own remaster; could they also come with "
1step to ISO
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what do you think about woofy-0.9 by scOttman? Could this be a basic system of this?
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what do you think about woofy-0.9 by scOttman? Could this be a basic system of this?
Sottman makes a very good product for taking an existing ISO, allowing some adjustments to it and creating a new ISO. But, that ignores the running filesystem and focuses the attention on an ISO as the base for a buid.
What I am wondering in this thread is if there is a way to take
your running system
and create a bootable ISO from it. All of the components
seem to be
there, but, I curious why something that seems simple isn't done.
Let's say for example, I have a PC with an Intel 945 chipset running. I fully understand that at the time it is running, for the most part, it has loaded drivers unique to it, the running system. And, the "total" filesystem is loaded and running. So is there some reason a single step tool cannot create an ISO from this?
And, yes, I understand that external mounts can impact what would be included....BUT, I am curious if something official can be created to absorb the running system (probably without external mounts) in a lot less screens that is employed currently.
If it will be specialized to the existing chipset, that would be a matter of fact statement to the user that would be made. If it builds a general purpose ISO, then, it provides greater benefit.
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One could rewrite some lines of the remasterpup2 script in /usr/sbin. I have currently made a test (just commenting out some lines of "Xdialog"-code and did make a remaster including the loaded internet sfs.
Did work so far...
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It's very straightforward.
All you need to do is create another aufs mount consisting of all branches in the existing / aufs; and then mksquashfs them. Presto - you've got an SFS file which consist of all your current files. Use this SFS in lieu of the original pup.sfs, and you've got yourself a remaster.
This will give you the aufs_id that contains the rootfs:
aufs_id=$(awk '{ if ($2 == "/" && $3 == "aufs" ) print $4}' /proc/mounts | sed 's/.*si=/si_/')
Once you get aufs_id you can use it to find the branches:
branch=$(cat /sys/fs/aufs/$aufs_id/br0 | sed 's/=.*//')
I have such tool in Fatdog-next.
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What is the maximal order $f(n)$ of a metacyclic (metacyclic group is the extension of a cyclic group by a cyclic group) transitive permutation group of degree $n$? It can be easily proved that $f(p)=p(p-1)$ for prime number $p$, and the following argument (if it is correct) shows that $f(n)$ divides $n^2\phi(n)$:
For a metacyclic transitive permutation group $R$ of degree $n$, we can write $R=\langle a,b\rangle$ with $\langle a\rangle\trianglelefteq R$. Let $M=\langle a\rangle=Z_m$ and $L=\langle b\rangle=Z_l$. Since the point stabilizer of a transitive permutation group is core-free, we have $R_\omega\cap M=1$ for any point $\omega$. This implies that $M$ is semiregular and hence $$ m~\big|~n. $$ Since the center of $R$, denoted by $Z$, is semiregular, we have $|Z|~\big|~n$. Then $C\cap L\leqslant Z$ and $L/(C\cap L)\lesssim Aut(M)=Z_{\phi(m)}$ where $C$ is the centralizer of $M$ in $R$ yields $$ l~\big|~n\phi(m). $$ Therefore, $ml~\big|~n^2\phi(n)$ and thus $|R|~\big|~n^2\phi(n)$.
However, computation results suggest that $f(n)\leqslant n(n-1)$ for all $n$ and $f(n)=n(n-1)$ only if $n$ is prime.


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Saturday, August 05, 2006
Peanuts & carrots
Note that I adapted the recipe a little. I had picked up a tip from Harumi Kurihara's lovely book Harumi's Japanese Cooking (Conran Octopus, 2004) for preparing carrots for salads. In her recipe for Carrot & Tuna Salad she suggests that carrots be lightly cooked in a microwave, which leaves the carrots still very crispy and tasty. I agree, and suggest you do the same.
And maybe Paz and I should establish a mutual carrot recipe appreciation society :)
A crunchy salad of carrots & peanuts
Serves 4 as a side dish
4 medium organic carrots
75g salted peanuts
2 Tbsp groundnut or olive oil
2 Tbsp red wine vinegar
Few drops sesame oil
Peel the carrots and cut them into 5-6 mm julienne sticks. Put them into a glass bowl, add the oil, cover and microwave for 90 seconds (600 W) .
Drizzle with wine vinegar and sesame oil, mix well.
Serve either hot or cold.
I highly recommended you try this dish, as the sweet carrots and salty peanuts complement each other well, and the texture of the salad is really lovely - crunchy, but still gentle to your teeth. I might add some chopped parsley next time as well. And there definitely will be next time.
8 comments:
- Alanna said...
I'll join!
- 8:58 pm, August 05, 2006
- Kalyn said...
Yes, sign me up for the Carrot Appreciation Society.
- 9:07 pm, August 05, 2006
- Anne said...
Oh nice, this has been on my to try list for ages. Must get around to it :)
- 9:15 pm, August 05, 2006
- Bonnie said...
This looks so lovely and simple! It's amazing how big the difference is between an organic carrot and a non-organic carrot is! It's so worth while going organic.
- 11:15 pm, August 05, 2006
- Paz said...
Yes, I do LOVE your rosemary and orange marinated carrots. Yes, we should form a mutual carrot recipe appreciation society. I like the sound of that. ;-)))
You carrots and peanuts salad looks delicious! I like the adaptations you made. While the unblanched or raw carrots didn't bother me, I will try the microwave trick once to see if it makes a difference for me.
It's good to know I can use olive oil if I don't have groundnut oil. And I'd like to try it with some chopped parsley, too! Thanks Pille!
By the way, I'm going to link this post to mine!
Paz (mutual carrot recipe appreciation society member)
- 6:06 am, August 06, 2006
- Kris said...
hmmm...i would need to check if we have organic carrots in the shop. But i know i'll love this! thanks :)
- 9:41 pm, August 09, 2006
- Pille said...
AK & Kalyn & Paz - so we'll be the founding members of the Carrot Appreciation Society, eh? :)
Anne - please do, I'm sure you'll like the peanuts a lot!
Bonnie - indeed! We've discussed this organic vs non-organic carrot issue here before, but there's a HUGE taste difference!
Paz - thanks for reminding me about this recipe! I only used olive oil, as I had no groundnut oil in the house. The same with wine vinegar - I only had white in my cupboard. And as I'm moving home soon, I didn't think it's worthwile going to the shops and get some. Thanks for linking back to me!
Kris - good to hear that and thank you for your comment!
- 7:11 pm, August 11, 2006
- valentina said...
Hi Pille, so glad to be back here. have been a bit busy and only manage to update Brazilian website.The English one has been very neglected as well as visits to various blogs including yours. Need to sort this out. This is a lovely recipe, isn't it? I have taken note of the book you mention. Will be doing some research.Love your posts and how your write.
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Barbara Cross and Junie Collins Williams, two female survivors of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963, will be guest speakers at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at Penn State Shenango Auditorium in downtown Sharon, Pa. The event, which marks the 50th anniversary of the infamous bombing, is being sponsored by the Inter-Denominational Clergy Women's Alliance Inc. of the Shenango Valley Chapter and Penn State Shenango. A meet and greet and light reception will follow the event in the Great Hall.
It was 10:22 a.m. Sept. 15, 1963, when a homemade bomb exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church, killing four young girls and injuring several others. Many of the civil rights protest marches that took place in Birmingham during the 1960s began at the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church, which had long been a significant religious center for the city's black population and a routine meeting place for civil rights organizers like Martin Luther King.
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The Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Churches in Australia (SCCOCA) was an organisation founded in 1979 under the leadership of Greek Archbishop Stylianos (Harkianakis) of Australia and intended to help cooperation among the Orthodox jurisdictions in Australia, under the permanent chairmanship of the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Founding members
- Antiochian Orthodox Diocese of Australasia: delegation consisting of V. Rev. Fr. Nicolas Mansour (Dean), legate of Bishop Gibran.
- Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia: delegation consisting of Archbishop Stylianos, Archimandrite Stephanos (vicar-general of the archdiocese), and Mr James Samios (legal counsel and director of public relations for the archdiocese).
- Romanian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand: delegation consisting of V. Rev. Dr. Gabriel Popescu.
- ROCOR - Diocese of Australia and New Zealand: delegation consisting of Archbishop Theodosius and Fr Nicholas Gan. (since withdrawn)
- Serbian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand: delegation consisting of Bishop Vasilije and Fr Milorad Loncar.
Regarding the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
Because of tensions created by the rise in ecumenism, ROCOR chose to withdraw from membership in SCCOCA.
Regarding the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand
According to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, the acceptance of schismatic Romanian communities run by defrocked priests has forced SCCOCA to exclude the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand from membership until said actions are reversed.citation needed
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The Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese considers SCCOCA to be defunct; however, according to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, SCCOCA member churches concelebrate on the Vespers of Orthodoxy and Thomas Sunday.
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Thursday, 23 December 2010
Hallo again, and Christmas thoughts...
It's all gone pretty well, but it has of course been made infinitely more interesting by the recent weather. Now that we live out in the sticks, the sudden realisation that an 'extreme weather event' (who on earth came up with that phrase, anyway?) can be a very real obstacle to putting food on the table is a bit of a wake-up call. I've quickly learnt the art of stocking up at any and every opportunity, and of using the freezer for keeping stuff other than ice cream, ice cubes, and voddie. ;-) London habits are dying hard, and quickly. It's all about survival of the fittest around here, me hearties.
On that note, here are a few Christmas thoughts and tips (in no order of significance) to help you get through the festive season of ho! ho! ho! and goodwill to all men, women, and random waifs and animals.
1. No amount of kisses in your letter to Father Christmas will guarantee you a Thermomix, iPad, or Lumix camera. There's a recession on, and Father Christmas's priority is to keep Rudolph out of Battersea.
2. Never, ever leave your Christmas tree and pets together unattended. Ever. This applies particularly if you have terriers and/or cats with a known love of shiny things on string.
3. It is too late now to make a Christmas pud or cake, so there's no point panicking about it. If all else fails, buy the richest fruit cake you can find, and pour a litre of whisky over it. Or just drink the whisky.
4. When wrapping the kids' stocking presents, remember that the wrapping paper you're recycling from last year may have wording written on it like 'To Jan, with love from Aunty June'.
5. There will be key points on Christmas Day when you need to remember to turn the oven on, and to turn it off. Try not to confuse the two.
6. Going to church IS important on Christmas morning. It's all about the baby Jesus, after all, and the fact that you want Jemima to get into the local church-run school is entirely unrelated.
7. Make sure that Grandad/Granny has his/her hearing aids switched on, and enough batteries to last through the holidays.
8. You haven't gone grey overnight. It's icing sugar.
9. Granny will insist she doesn't touch a drop. Keep her glass topped up anyway. She'll provide hours of free after-dinner entertainment.
10. No matter how well you've cooked the Christmas dinner, the senior females in your family will all claim they can cook the bird/roast potatoes/gravy/bread sauce/Christmas pud (delete as appropriate) better than you, and your children will agree with them vigorously. Smile sweetly throughout.
11. The tradition is to set fire to the Christmas pudding, not to the house. And holly stinks when it burns.
12. Squirty cream isn't funny and it isn't clever. Still, if you can't get hold of anything else, tell everyone that retro Christmases are 'in' this year and that you're channelling Fanny Cradock.
13. For one sodding day of the year, do NOT take photographs of the food, and do NOT blog your Christmas dinner.
14. Your mother-in-law and your daughter's new Goth metal boyfriend will hit it off and form a worrying alliance. Be very afraid.
15. Even if you don't watch the Queen's Speech, she has her uses. Invoke the old dear as an excuse to pour another drink, and raise a toast to Her Maj.
16. Yes, you did tell your brother that it was fine to get your two-year old a mini drum set.
17. Dogs don't like Quality Street. Actually, they do. But Quality Street doesn't like them. Violently. Unattended Yule Logs achieve much the same effect.
18. If it all gets too much, throw yourself to the floor and wail hysterically. The shock of the sight of you will be sufficient to bring everyone to their senses, and you won't have to do anything else for the rest of the day.
19. Even if you remember the key points in (5), you WILL have left the oven on when you go to bed. You will remember that approximately ten minutes after you've got into bed and have got all warm and cosy.
20. Put Nurofen on your bedside table before turning out the light.
Above all, enjoy! Have a great Christmas and a fantastic 2011!
12 comments:
- Kavey said...
Sounds like the move has gone well! Enjoy your first Christmas in your new home!
- 23 December 2010 at 11:00
So very true!
Cheers, have a good one
Lady SG
- 23 December 2010 at 11:11
- Frances Hyde said...
No blogging of the Christmas Dinner? No Photographs? ;-(
How about Boxing Day :-D
Have a happy Christmas. Hope the food is festive
- 23 December 2010 at 11:15
- Johanna GGG said...
in our next of the woods you would be known as a treechangers (unless you are by the sea and then you are a seachanger) not sure if this slang is common in the UK but hope you are enjoying your treechange! Glad you are finding time to return to the blog with some random thoughts. HAve a merry christmas and keep warm and well stocked!
- 23 December 2010 at 12:20
- Signe said...
Wise words there A Forkful, I completely agree with, well, everything. Have a joyous Christmas :)
- 23 December 2010 at 13:47
- aforkfulofspaghetti said...
Kavey, Lady SG - thank you! :)
Frances - NO blogging! And ta - you, too
Johanna - 'treechangers'? I like it. Not heard it before. Have a lovely Christmas yourself.
Sig - cheers, me dear. You, too :)
- 23 December 2010 at 14:51
- Sarah, Maison Cupcake said...
Ha ha, you've really made me laugh although I think I probably have gone grey as well as being covered in icing sugar. I love no12.
Happy Christmas xXx
- 24 December 2010 at 14:02
- Foodycat said...
Merry Christmas!
Sadly, I have photographed my dinner and I will blog about it - it's the first time I've ever cooked Christmas dinner for the two of us and I am damn well commemorating it!
Glad the move has gone well. Hope to see you blogging more regularly now!
- 25 December 2010 at 20:02
- Sarah said...
The move from city to country sounds lovely. Thank you for all the helpful advice! :)
- 29 December 2010 at 00:22
- Helena Lee said...
this is a brilliant post, such a pity I missed it before Christmas! Congrats on the move, it's something us Londoners really want to do but pretend not to.
Have a wonderful new year.
- 30 December 2010 at 13:50
- Nicisme said...
Hehehe, love it!
Hope you are still enjoying your new abode. Happy New Year to you!
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