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World number one Andy Murray (C) of Great Britain and Spain's Fernando Verdasco celebrate with their respective first and second-place trophies after the conclusion of their ATP final tennis match during the Dubai Duty Free Championships. Picture: AFP.
LONDON – World number one Andy Murray won his first title of 2017 with a 6-3 6-2 victory over unseeded Spaniard Fernando Verdasco in the Dubai Tennis Championships final on Saturday.
Murray lost his first two service games of the match but overcame that poor start to win in Dubai for the first time.
"Obviously I'm very happy to do it here for the first time. It's been a good start to the year," Murray told the BBC.
"Often when you get through matches like that (quarter-final against Philipp Kohlschreiber when I saved seven match points) it settles you down for the rest of the tournament.
"It's been quite a few late finishes this week. Maybe the last couple of matches, I didn't start as well as I would like. It's been the same for all the players, a bit tricky with the rain. Once I got going today, I was moving well and I finished strong.
"This year has given me great momentum."
Murray, who had won 12 of his past 13 matches against the Spaniard, started slowly and was broken in the first game before breaking back in what was a nervous start by both players.
The heavy-hitting Verdasco cracked a series of powerful winners to break an uncomfortable-looking Murray again in the third game and consolidated to hold for a 3-1 lead.
Despite a shaky serving performance, Murray, helped by a string of Verdasco errors, reeled off five successive games to take the first set 6-3.
The three-times grand slam winner, who cut a frustrated figure throughout an uncharacteristically sloppy performance, sealed victory with a powerful serve to claim his 45th career title.
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Remember when video games had that really cool" underdog" thing going? We rooted for all of them, from the little guy cleaning toilets to the animals taking a stand to protect their homelands. In a market flooded with magical beings and weird shapes that disappeared, these guys meant something to us. Now, rising above the odds isn't that great anymore. Actually, just about anyone can do it these days! I find that we are entering a new era of the same cookie cutter protagonists and while the plots may be getting more complex, the characters aren't. Ladies and gents, allow me to introduce the "everyman".
The everyman has grown from the lovable guy next door to the extreme sports star that can somehow have the blueprints of every weapon ever made, sewn into his brain. Due to titles such as Uncharted, Alan Wake, Resident Evil 5, and even my beloved Dead Rising 2, you now expect the average Joe to be able to do the impossible. While that is not particularly a bad thing, it is when guys like Kratos from God of War or cyber ninjas from the Metal Gear series seem suddenly appealing. As much as I root for both, think about it. We've become intrigued by powerful morons that can't speak without yelling and handicapped, whiny men. Maybe that's why they removed his jaw? Whatever the reason, it goes without saying that the regular guy just isn't cutting it anymore.
I see that this industry is starving for new everyman material. We've tried to introduce characters with more personality. Look at Cole MacGrath from Infamous for example. His style has changed so much that I forgot how he originally looked. Sam Fisher also underwent dramatic changes. Just because a man ages like he is supposed to, doesn't make him more interesting. Also, adding a jaded mindset just makes him an old guy that throws rocks at children from his porch. If it weren't for the histories of both men, would you still play as either one?
Correct me if I'm wrong but, since when did the typical American become a slightly aged, Caucasian male with a 5 o' clock shadow or beard? Do me a favor. Look in your game collection right now. I can guarantee that if you're an avid gamer, you have at least one or two popular franchises at your disposal. From Red Dead Redemption to Heavy Rain, we've all bumped into this guy at least once.
The sad part is, it really hit me when I read a gaming magazine today. A good percent of new releases and reviewed ones starred this type of man. It really amazes me that no one has even begun to revolt. How long will it be until I play as a man that makes his back story seem real? How about a woman that doesn't have silicone inserts tagged alongside a man with a really raggedy, clean cut face? Make them live in a trailer and argue about television channels! Sounding too close to your life? Well if someone doesn't fix this, there's going to be a big gap in sales somewhere and Pokemon will be your only option!
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Park Place Energy Begins Completion at Eight Mile North Field
Terra Energy (Operator) of Park Place Energy's (Corporation) Eight Mile North Field in Northeastern British Columbia, has informed the Corporation that completion of the cased potential Doig gas well, Terra et al Tower 14-5-81-17 W6M well (the 14-5 Option Well) has commenced.
Subject to a successful completion being achieved, the Operator has further advised the Corporation that a pipeline to tie in the previously announced discovery Doig gas well, Terra et al Tower 7-8-81-17 W6M along with the 14-5 Option Well is being planned for construction in the first quarter of 2008. Plans are also underway to license a further Option Well. Park Place Energy has a 40% participating interest Before Payout, which is subject to a proportionate share of a 12% convertible gross overriding royalty payable to the Operator, and a 24% participating interest After Payout in the Eight Mile North Project Area.
Montello Resources Ltd., the operator of Park Place Energy's 5% interest in the John Bowen # 2 Well (the Well) located in Morgan County Tennessee has advised the Corporation that they were unable to run any logs in the Well prior to casing it. The Well has been drilled and cased to a total depth of 9,557 feet which is one of the deepest test wells to be drilled in the State of Tennessee that has been cased and geologically evaluated by sampling from surface to total depth. The drilling rig has now been demobilized and released from the well site in preparation for Halliburton to commence running cased hole logs in the New Year. These logs will evaluate the potential of the Well. Park Place Energy confirms that it has paid to Montello its share of all outstanding charges incurred to date as well as the anticipated costs to run the cased hole logs.
The Corporation further announces that after receiving the latest evaluation and interpretation of the EM survey over its Brighty Prospect in the North Sea, the Corporation has been unable to secure an operator to be its partner in the drilling of a Test Well on the Brighty Block. Consequently the Brighty Block will revert back to the UK's Department of Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) on December 22, 2007. Park Place Energy is continuing to review and conduct due diligence on other high impact international oil and gas opportunities, with the goal to acquire another world class project early in 2008.
Park Place Energy's President & CEO Eric Leslie stated, "Although it was disappointing that we were unable to secure an Operator for our Brighty Project in the North Sea we are looking forward to receiving the completion results from our 14-5 Option Well at Eight Mile North as well as from our John Bowen # 2 Well in Tennessee. Park Place has a solid foundation from which to grow from in 2008."
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Five natural disasters cost the insurance industry $3.6bn in the year to 30 June 2015, a sum almost equal to the entire annual profit of Australian general insurers, KPMG research has shown.
KPMG's General Insurance Industry Review showed that the natural catastrophes, combined with continued competitive pressures on premium rates, resulted in the overall profit of Australian general insurers falling by 23.6 percent to just $3,735 million, compared with the previous 12 month's 5-year high of $4,982m. The industry's insurance margin also fell sharply to 13.6 percent from 18.2 percent.
As a result of the catastrophes, which included Cyclone Marcia, heavy storms in NSW and South East Queensland, hailstorms in Sydney and Brisbane, and bushfires in South Australia, the industry loss ratio increased to 67.2 percent from the 5-year low of 61.6 percent in 2014.
Gross written premiums remained flat at $32,478 million, reflecting the strong competition faced by insurers throughout the year. Net written premiums edged up by 2.2 percent as insurers continued to reap the benefits of lower reinsurance costs, the result of increased capacity in global reinsurance markets.
However, these pressures were offset to some extent by improving investment returns. The past 12 months saw insurers revisit their investment strategies and venture into alternative assets as they continued to operate in a low interest rate environment in Australia and globally.
Insurers also demonstrated their ability to maintain cost discipline. The industry expense ratio stayed at 26.3 percent in 2015. This is despite limited premium growth and a highly competitive market in which insurers are continuing to fight to maintain market share.
Scott Guse, KPMG Insurance Partner, said: "This has been a very challenging year for Australian insurers. Natural disasters hammered the industry, while continued competitive pressures on premium rates resulted in negligible growth in gross written premiums."
"There are at least some positive findings, however. Investment returns improved, while on costs, the industry expense ratio remained steady at 26.3 percent in 2015. Additionally, a number of insurers who in recent years invested in transformation and cost optimisation projects are now beginning to see the benefits of implementing new systems and streamlining processes."
He added: "We do not see competitive pressures diminishing in 2016, so insurers will have to ensure underwriting discipline is maintained in order to protect future earnings and avoid acquiring poor quality portfolios, simply to achieve short-term, top-line growth. The industry continues to see strong growth in challenger brands, non-traditional market entrants and low-cost online insurers. These challenger brands persist in taking market share from the incumbents, and they continue to outpace industry growth, albeit off a smaller base."
The report revealed that investment income allocated to insurance funds improved by 20.4 percent to $1,969 million from $1,634 million in the prior year, despite market volatility in late 2015. The overall increase reflects the willingness of insurers to re-enter the growth and alternative asset markets to support their operations. However, insurers still maintained investment portfolios dominated by government and corporate bonds, even in a low interest rate environment, demonstrating their restraint in chasing returns versus ensuring asset quality.
In the report, KPMG identified 10 risks and opportunities for insurance companies:
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Stephanie Wells – NASA Pilot and Training Officer
Stephanie Wells fits into her gigantic role quite nicely. She is a NASA pilot and is the training officer for NASA's Aircraft Operations, in charge of the astronaut's flying training at NASA, Johnson Space Center. Besides flying, her primary job is to oversee the scheduling and ongoing training of pilot astronauts at the Center, located in Clear Lake, Texas, thirty miles southeast of Houston.
A woman of remarkable energy and purpose, Stephanie Wells only wants to do her job, to live up to her own expectations, and to fulfill her dreams.
Stephanie says, "I became interested in aviation in high school, and soloed through the Maryland Wing Civil Air Patrol cadet program. Who were my heroines? I admired Jacqueline Cochran and Amelia Earhart because they weren't just characters in books, they were real people who accomplished things no one else had ever done. They were models of what success could be like, if one sticks to the goal."
Her rise in the field of aviation is due to persistence and hard work. She earned her private pilot's license in college on top of a full class load and a 20-hour a week job. As Stephanie says, "Although my parents helped financially, it was still necessary for me to work part-time jobs all through college. Working in the dormitory helped to pay for room and board; several small jobs yielded extra cash. There always seemed to be enough to eke out a little flying time. Every penny was counted all the way through college, and at the end of spring I would finish the last final, and go home with $10 in my pocket, which was all I had in the world."
Summers were spent working full time. Stephanie would earn about $3,000, go back to college in the fall and do the same thing all over again. Her membership in the CAP and ROTC resulted in small scholarships that helped in a big way.
"It's a funny thing," she said, "I never got discouraged. Not only was it fun, but it taught me to make wise choices-like how I earned and spent my money."
Stephanie finished college in 1975, with a degree in meteorology and a commission as a second lieutenant in the Air Force through the ROTC program. However, the single most important lesson she learned was, as she puts it, "how to manage my life so I could make things happen to move my dreams along."
Stephanie entered active duty with the Air Force at George AFB, California as a weather officer. A part-time job towing gliders on weekends kept her pretty busy. After two years in the Air Force, she was accepted into the third class of female pilot trainees at Williams AFB, Arizona. Completing her training there, she was assigned as a T-37 instructor at Reese AFB, Lubbock, Texas. Succeeding assignments took her to Guam where she flew the WC-130 "Typhoon Chaser." While there, she upgraded to WC-130 instructor pilot, then back to Williams AFB where she flew T-38s as an instructor pilot.
When Stephanie left the active Air Force in 1985, she joined the reserves at Kelly AFB. Here she flew the C5 Galaxy as an aerial refueling and instructor pilot. Her unit was called up for Desert Storm in August, 1980. She also flew missions to many worldwide locations, including Panama, Somalia and Bangladesh.
An extraordinary career opportunity opened up for Stephanie when she joined NASA in 1986 as a staff pilot. NASA has quite a fleet of aircraft: thirty T-38s, five Gulfstream G-IIs, four of which are modified to be Shuttle Trainer Airplanes (STAs) a KC-135 Zero-Gravity plane; two long-wing WB57s; a Super Guppy, a Gulfstream G-1 administrative airplane, and two Boeing 747 shuttle Carrier Aircraft, (SCAs).
The T-38s primarily support the Astronaut Space Flight Readiness training. The pilot astronauts are checked out in the T-38s as pilots-in-command, and fly it to maintain their flying skills, while mission specialists are checked out in the back seat to learn about aviation in general. This includes avionics, navigation, communication, aircrew coordination-learning what it takes to operate in a dynamic high-performance environment.
As Stephanie explains, "The STAs are also for astronaut training. Highly modified business jets, they're designed to model the Shuttle during the descent and landing phase. Each pilot astronaut practices many hundreds of shuttle approaches, (called "dives" since they are so steep) in the STA before they ever go into space. It's like an airborne simulator. The fifth G-II is used as a mission support airplane, primarily flying NASA managers and officials to mission-related business around the country and around the world."
The KC-135 flies the zero-gravity profile. On a typical flight, it flies forty "parabolas," which create about twenty-five seconds of microgravity on each maneuver. The zero gravity created is used by researchers from every imaginable field from combustion to two-phase flow to medical research to crystal growth-anything that could be applied to knowledge about low gravity environment. It's used to test just about every piece of hardware through its stages of development before it goes into space. It's also used for astronaut training, both for Zero-G training as well as heavy aircraft training, since many of the pilot astronauts have never flown heavy aircraft.
In other roles, the KC-135 is used as a pathfinder which flies ahead of the shuttle mated to the SCA to check weather conditions. It's also used as a Trans-Atlantic Landing support aircraft, as an emergency Mission Control Aircraft, and as an airborne platform for checking the microwave landing system part of the Shuttle Approach guidance.
Johnson Space Center staff pilots are military trained pilots with high-performance flying backgrounds as well as technical degrees. Their official title is "Aerospace Engineer and Pilot." All twenty of the instructor pilots train the astronauts, as well as giving them their annual check rides.
Their official title is "Aerospace Engineer and Pilot." All twenty of the instructor-pilots train the astronauts, as well as giving them their annual check rides.
"While most of my T-38 flying is instructing astronauts, there are always maintenance check flights, logistic flights, and some test flights. I never get tired of flying the T-38, it's like driving the sleekest sport car you can imagine," Stephanie explained.
"Flying the zero-G parabolas are fun. It's a unique kind of flying, and takes a lot of practice, to say nothing of the importance of having a really finely-tuned crew to make it all happen." Stephanie continues, "It's exciting to be part of the initial research and training for the events that happen on the shuttle or in the space station."
One night in 1993 when Stephanie returned home from the office, the word "unexpected," acquired a whole new meaning. There was an urgent recorded message from the chief pilot of her reserve unit in San Antonio, "This is high priority stuff, above everything else except 'Presidential Support.' Come tomorrow," it said, "and go to Somalia. You'll be back in a week. You're our last hope. If you can't respond, we'll have to cancel the mission." Thus Stephanie embarked on a journey that was truly extraordinary-one that she would never forget.
The hastily assembled crew of four pilots, two of whom (including Stephanie) were trained for aerial refueling, departed from Savannah, Georgia in a C5 Galaxy. Their destination: Mogadishu, Somalia, Africa. Their purpose: to deliver cargo-just one tank-that's all; however, this MI-AI tank weighed six and one-half tons, a whopping 130,000 pounds.
The heavily loaded aircraft was scheduled for four refueling operations between Savannah and Somalia. The refueling process is an intensely critical drill. A KC-135 (military version of the Boeing 707) meets up with its receiver at a predetermined location, altitude, heading and time for the purpose of transferring fuel from the tanker to the receiver.
Stephanie recalls one refueling in particular. "Two KC-135s met us near the coast of Spain. It was a dark night and the air was bumpy from thunderstorm buildups in the area. This, for me, was the AR from hell! I fell off the boom three times trying to follow his power changes and airspeed variations. I couldn't hold a stabilized position behind the tanker. Finally, we were able to take 75,000 pounds from him. The second one went a lot smoother, so we were able to take on 80,000 pounds.
Upon landing at their destination, an interesting exercise in logistics occurred. "We did not shut down our engines in Mogadishu; we did an 'engines-running' offload of our cargo, the tank. We were out of there in thirty-five minutes. All the practicing our squadron did definitely paid off."
They landed in Cairo twenty-four hours after leaving Savannah, Georgia. When Stephanie arrived back in the U.S. the statistics looked like this: four AR tracks, five tankers, and 18-1/2 hours non-stop, twenty-four hours on board the airplane.
Even with all the maneuvering, orchestration and risks involved- the mission was accomplished. There were helicopter crews being held in captivity in Mogadishu. The timely delivery of the MI tank accelerated their release, minimizing any torture to which they might have been subjected. Stephanie says, "I'm glad I was a part of this effort." In January 1994, each of the crew and others who participated were awarded the Air Medal.
In 1996, Stephanie retired from the reserves as a Lieutenant Colonel, with twenty-one years military time, and 10,000 total hours logged during her career.
At the age of 46, mother of a 5-year-old son, Kristopher, Stephanie has successfully combined her career with motherhood. "It's a balancing act," she says, " a matter of priorities. It's good that I don't travel as much any more, and can spend more time with my family."
As she says, "I love what I do, I'm right where I want to be in my life. The career path I've chosen has been rigorous at times, but there have been lots of encouragers along the way."
"Now that I'm older, I want to give something back. I have a lifetime of experience, many hours in the air; I've traveled all over the world, and served my country faithfully and gladly. Mentoring is especially important to me; every chance I get, I speak to young people about goal setting and realizing their dreams. They should be encouraged to believe that all things are possible."
She smiles as she reflects back on her life, "I always took advantage of any training that came my way. My personal philosophy is that luck is nothing more than preparedness meeting opportunity."
Stephanie is living out those early dreams-dreams of flying military aircraft, of securing her place in the progress of aviation, and lighting the path of other young hopefuls.
Stephanie works in a world of the most sophisticated technology available to space exploration. She trains astronauts who fly to the outer reaches of the universe as well as those who've walked on the moon. Then there are those who aspire to land on Mars and other remote planets. But her vision reaches beyond the limitations of space. Simply put, the aviation industry still belongs to those who love to fly, who remember what they did to achieve it, and reach back to help someone else along the way.
Such is the stuff dreams are made of.


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On a self-titled album in 1969, the rock group The Band released "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," a song depicting the final days of the Confederacy in 1865. A long-time favorite of many, the song has been covered by numerous artists, including Joan Baez (who altered some key lyrics), Johnny Cash, and Jerry Garcia. As the Civil War Sesquicentennial comes to a close, it seems fitting to examine the song and its historical imagery.
The song, so powerfully associated with the South and the Confederacy, was ironically written by a Canadian. Robbie Robertson, guitarist for The Band, conceived the tune after traveling through the southern United States and listening to older residents speak of "the South rising again." Needing help with the historical content, Robertson enlisted the help of The Band's drummer, Levon Helm. An Arkansas native, Helm recalled in his 1993 autobiography This Wheel's On Fire: Levon Helm and the Story of The Band that "Robbie and I worked on 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' up in Woodstock. I remember taking him to the library so he could research the history and geography of the era and make General Robert E. Lee come out with all due respect." For his part, Robertson stated he wanted to write "the song right at Levon," who would be the lead vocalist for the tune.
The piece is sung through the persona of the fictional character Virgil Caine, an ex-Confederate reflecting upon the suffering and desolation of the war's final days after he returns home to his native state of Tennessee. The historical context begins in the first verse:
Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's Calvary came and tore up the track again
During the siege of Petersburg in 1864-65, The Richmond-Danville Railroad was the vital supply link between Richmond and south-central Virginia. In March 1865, Union Calvary General George Stoneman led a raid into western North Carolina and southwestern Virginia to disrupt Confederate supply lines by destroying railroads throughout the region.
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
By May 10th, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember oh so well
Food shortages in Richmond had become particularly dreadful during the final year of the war. "Starvation parties," where people gathered to dance and socialize without food or drink, were a common form of entertainment in the city during the time. Having been occupied by Union forces on April 3, 1865, Richmond had fallen by the tenth, but May 10, 1865 is also symbolic as being the day Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union forces and U.S. President Andrew Johnson declared an end to hostilities.
The chorus of the song then begins:
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singing
They went 'La, na, na, na, na, na 'La, na, na 'La, na, na
The bells ringing and the people singing in the chorus serves the dual distinction of reflecting both the joy of occupying Union soldiers and African-American residents along with the sorrow of the Southern populace in their defeat.
The second verse places Virgil back in his home state:
Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me
Virgil quick come see, there goes Robert E. Lee
Although Robert E. Lee was never in Tennessee after the Civil War, it was not uncommon for people throughout the South to claim or believe they had seen the iconic Lee pass by at one time or another.
I don't mind chopping wood and I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
Confederate money was virtually worthless during the war and of no value after. The conflict also devastated the southern economy and infrastructure.
The final verses speak to the choosing of sides in the border area of Tennessee and the anguish of losing loved ones in the fighting:
Like my father before me, I will work the land
And like my brother above me who took a Rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
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Hi All - just back from Vegas! Went with oh and his family (8 in total) endured a very shameful embarrassing moment which stayed with me all holiday! The family attempted to book a trip to the Grand Canyon which I didn't want to do due to helicopter fear! To cut a long story short the family went ahead and booked and as a large group a nice discount was applied! Once deposits was paid the agent took names and then went back round and asked each of us our weights so that you could be positioned correctly on the helicopter!!!!!!
Omg panic was instant! I have recently lost 22lbs with WW and although my husband knows this I never divulged my actual weight (he is 11st making me 2 stone heavier) my husband's family are very small varying from 8st to 12st including the men folk! So basically I was the biggest of the group, bigger than the men and most likely going to be used as an anchor to hold the helicopter in place!
I was humiliated and felt shame I could feel eyes on me and read thoughts! My husband's family are nice people but don't like anything fat and always assume you must eat burgers and fries all the time - also none of them noticed my 22lb loss which I will never be able to speak off as they will do their calculations!!!! It spoilt my holiday and made me stress and to rub salt into my wounds the trip got cancelled!!!! Home now safe and sound but the shame of everyone knowing my secret makes me depressed.......
Oh dear.
If it was me I would have lied and let us all plunge to our deaths
I have no advice other than fuck 'em- you've achieved a brilliant weight loss.
ah it's just a number!! I think you need to try to let it go (though I totally feel your horror).
You need a "letting go of the horror" mantra to chant to yourself when the thoughts of this time creep into your mind.
Well done on losing 22lbs!!!
They know how big you are - presumably they all have functioning eyes.
If none of them have mentioned your recent weight (well done, Ive lost similar and feel brilliant for it), then they are either too nice to comment or don't really care what size you are. Either way, I'm sure none of them have remembered what you said you were, I would have forgotten five minutes after you've told me.
My mum had similar when she went to GC. She just told them she didn't know her weight so they took her to some scales out of view and weighed her. Not that that's much consolation to you now.
A similar thing happened to me, DP (now DH) and I went bungee jumping and we all had to be weighed. Then we were queued up in order of weight, and I was one of the last with a couple of rugby-player types. DP was waaaaay ahead of me.
If DP's family had been there too I would've jumped off that bridge without the bungee cord.
Well done on your weightloss, 22lb is really impressive.
I'd have just told them they didn't need to know as I'd already told them that I wasn't going on the helicopter.
They are more than welcome to go on the helicopter if they want to - but I am a grown up and if I tell them that I really don't want to go on it, then they need to respect that. Not treat me like a child and buy the ticket and force me to go on it anyway.
Weight thing is an added horror on top
(speaking as somebody who hasn't flown for the last 20+ years and doesn't intend to in the near future, I hate it when people think they are being helpful and trying to persuade me to fly - I am quite happy not flying, they are the ones that have a problem with it! So I do empathise about 'nice' people doing things that are very 'not nice' for you because they think they know best and actually they're just making things a whole lot worse.)
Exactly my thoughts at the time and for a few days afterwards - I would have rather of jumped off the stratosphere than be put through the shame of it! Spent 10 years not telling my oh my numbers only to make an announcement in a shop in front of strangers in-laws and husband!!! It's done now and I have to get over it - but every time it enters my head my stomach flips at the memory!!! And they didn't even bloody end up doing it after all!!!
Oh bevy sounds like my idea of hell too! Like tethersend I too would have lied but been contented as we plummeted into a ravine cos of my big backside. I'm a 12/14 so 'over 10 stone' doh but would NEVER discuss my weight with anyone - will probably NEVER go ski-ing as I dont want to wear a padded onesie and won't go on any trip/flight where they need to know my weight. The only time I'll ever be thin is when I'm decomposing
I'd have taken at least a stone off my actual weight.
Congratulations on the weight loss. When I did weight watchers it wasn't until I'd lost a bit over 2st (and bought a size down in clothes) that people actually began to notice.
"The only time I'll ever be thin is when I'm decomposing"
That might be the next craze diet: "Tried everything and keep piling on the pounds? Try decomposing. It's fast, it's effortless - no need for exercise or calorie counting!"
are you absolutely sure that they weren't thinking 'omg I can tell she's humiliated and I feel embarrassed and sorry for her?'
They knew you were bigger already, weight is only a number. Plus remember most people lie about what they weigh I think.
I can't believe that any intelligent adult would be worried about the number on someone else's scales. Anyone who made a rude comment isn't worth worrying about. Also they may have noticed your weight loss, but it is rude to comment on that so no-one should.
the humiliation is all in your own mind. Please work on this.
may this be the worst thing that ever happens to you.
spatchcock you might be onto something there! Have heard some crazy ideas in me time
Specialsubject - that's a bit patronising - I wasn't comfortable announcing out loud in public the size of my fat bum to a bunch of slim jims and turning out to be even bigger than the men in the group!!! Thinking and knowing is one thing but having to say it out loud in front of a bunch of people did make me feel humiliated - nothing wrong with my mind!!!
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A BP spokesman said: "Texas City refinery has not been profitable for some time. However, it has recently returned to profit and the earn-out mechanism allows BP to benefit from future positive performance, based on operational performance and refining margins."
The British company announced in 2011 that it was putting the Texas City and Carson, California, refineries up for sale as part of its goal of $38bn divestments to help pay the costs of the Gulf of Mexico disaster in 2010.
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how many yards did that take?
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Looks like some high maintainance there. Dont forget your rake, its in the driveway.LOL Great job!
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Sounding the Margins,
Edited by Lawton Hall, Deep Listening Publications, 2011
The Collective Intelligence of Improvistion, in Arcana V: Musicians on Music, Magic &
Edited by John Zorn,
Hips Road/Tzadik, 2010
From outside the window: electronic sound performance.
Pauline Oliveros, Chapter 22 in
The Oxford Handbook of Computer
Music and Digital Sound
Edited by Roger T. Dean, austraLYSIS, Sydney, and MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University
of Western Sydney, Australia. 11/2008
Deep Listening:A Composer's Sound Practice
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Harmonic Anatomy: Women in Imprvisation in the The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz,
Improvisation and Communities in Dialog
Edited by Ajay Heble, Wesleayan University Press, 2004
Deep Listenng: A Composer's Sound Practice,
Deep Listening Publications, 2004
Acoustic and Virtual Space as a Dynamic Parameter of Music in Women in Music
, edited by Judy Malloy.
MIT Press, 2003
The Roots of the Moment
: Collected Writings 1980-1996, Drogue Press, 1998
Software For People
: Collected Writings 1963-1980, Smith Publications, 1983 Includes articles on new music, women as
composers, sonic meditation, attention and awareness, and technique. Smith Publications, 1984
Initiation Dream
, A vivid dream of passage narrated by experimental composer Oliveros and realized through photographs
by Becky Cohen. Astro Artz, 1983
Pauline's Proverbs
collected by Linda Montano, Printed Editions, 1980
Selected Journal Articles
Caira -- a Creative Artificially-Intuitive and Reasoning Agent as Conductor of Telematic
Music Improvisations,
Jonas Braasch, Doug Van Nort, Selmer Bringsjord, Pauline Oliveros, Anthony Parks, and Colin Kuebler, AES Journal, 2010
Networked Music: Low and High Tech
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Listening for Music Through Community
, Leonardo Music Journal Volume 19 CD curated by Pauline Oliveros,
MIT Press Journals, 2009
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MIT Press
The Expanded Instrument System: Introduction and Brief History, P. Oliveros,
included in The Future of Creative
Journal of the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, June 2008
My "American Music": Soundscape, Politics, Technology, Community,
American Music vol. 25, no. 4, 2007
Sounding the Borders
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Improvising with Spaces,
Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence RI June, 2006
Improvisation in the Sonosphere
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Tripping On Wires: The Wireless Body – Who Is Improvising?
Critical Studies in
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Tools of Change and Transformation
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As Composers Where Are We Going?
American Composers Forum Newsletter, 2001
Quantum Listening: From Practice to Theory to Practice Practice
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2000 Plenum Address for Humanities in the New Millennium, Chinese University, Hong Kong, 2000
Quantum Improvisation: The Cybernetic Presence
, Keynote address for Improvisation Across Borders UCSD, MusicWorks #76,
Spring 2000
David Behrman and his home grown Music
: Woodstock Times September 26, 1999
Evangelism in Tappan Square
: Oberlin College News Spring, 1999
Deep Listening™ Bridge To Collaboration
by Pauline Oliveros, Keynote address: ArtSci98>>>seeding collaboration, A public
symposium, April 4 1998 Cooper Union, NYC, IAWM Journal Fall 2/3, 1999
The Expanded Instrument System: New Developments,
Pauline Oliveros and David Gamper, Leonardo Music Journal, Spring, 1998
Breaking the Silence
, Commissioned by Frau Musika (nova), January 1998
A Former UCSD Professor Speaks Up: An Email Exchange
IAWM Journal, 1997
Tribute to David
:MusicWorks 9/96
Acoustic and Virtual Space as a Dynamic Element of Music
: Leonardo Music Journal #5, 1995
Listening As Healing
: Movement Research, 8/7/1994
Expanded Instrument System (EIS)®
Authors: Oliveros, P. and Panaiotis: Proceedings of the International Computer Music
Association, 1992
The Earth Worm Also Sings
: A Response to
I Hear Therefore I Am:
Listening In the Twenty First Century
, a paper given by Joachim-Ernst Berendt at a theme session of the Glenn Gould Conference
on Music and Technology, Toronto, Canada, September 24, 1992
Cultivating an Artist's Career
: FYI, New York Foundation for the Arts, September 1991
Choreography Through Meditation
: Oberlin Dance Collective in San Francisco, January 1981
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It's been less than a week since the passage of Senate Bill 101, and the outcry hasn't abated. The local and national reaction has been almost uniformly negative, and talks of boycotting the state seem to be getting bigger by the day.
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To that, some legal precedent:
The face of so-called "Religious Freedom" bills seems to be eateries looking to deny service to homosexuals, which has elicited comparisons to segregated lunch counters from the Civil Rights Era. Well, in the 1964 decision Katzenbach v. McClung, the Supreme Court found 9-0 that customer discrimination in restaurants is unconstitutional, as per the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But, it should be noted that the Civil Rights Act, while outlawing discrimination on basis of race or sex, does not specifically mention sexual orientation.
There were few rulings on sexual orientation until the 1996 case Romer v. Evans, in which the Court ruled 6-3 that an amendment to the Colorado state constitution allowing discrimination based on sexual orientation was unconstitutional. Of the five current Justices who were on the Court at the time, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, and Anthony Kennedy voted with the majority, while Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Romer v. Evans wasn't completely all-encompassing, as several states still have laws that are in some way discriminatory (in many states, it's still legal for employers to fire workers for being gay, for instance). Still, the decision was cited as precedent in many high profile gay rights cases. Among them were the Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court decision striking down anti-sodomy laws in all states, and the Massachusetts case Goodridge v. Department of Public Health which legalized same-sex marriage in the state.
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The committee had discussed Iran's delightful idea of instituting an annual fans' day in their calendar. They had each been given a three-tiered presentation arrangement of delightful petits fours, upon which to snack when they discerned a stomach-based rumble of discontent (the only rumbles of discontent they recognise). And, sure, the weather in Zurich wasn't particularly inspiring – but, as a grinning Blatter trilled to the press later, "there was sunshine in the committee room" because "for the first time there were ladies". He was referring to the committee's three new female members, of which only one is actually a proper member. The other two have officially been "co-opted for special tasks". To be specific, the special task they have been co-opted for is: being female.
But that's nitpicking, and Sepp Blatter isn't interested in – or, in the literal sense, statistically likely to be troubled by – the picking of nits. Fifa didn't pick any nits in 2010 when first presented with their own evaluation report into Qatar's 2022 World Cup bid – with all its talk of "very hot, sunny and humid summers" and not-yet-invented "hi-tech, carbon-neutral cooling systems for stadiums and training sites" and host cities with smaller populations that Leighton Buzzard (there are more Polish people in the London Borough of Haringey than there are residents of their smallest host city, Al-Shamal) – and they weren't going to start now.
Oh, but these pesky journalists, with their infernal habit of demanding that major decisions should actually be justifiable, and that action should be taken when lots of people die. They never ask the question the Fifa president really wants to hear, which on this occasion was: "Mr Blatter, on a scale of one to 10, precisely how fragrant and delightful were the ladies on the executive committee?"
To keep them quiet Blatter launched a consultation process to look into the possibility of holding the 2022 World Cup in the winter, and then told them it would take at least 15 months. That'll keep them quiet. He also took a principled stand on the issue of human rights abuses and construction-worker fatalities. "I express all my sympathy and regret where there are deaths on construction sites, especially when they are related to a World Cup", he gushed, adding with apparent regret that "we cannot assume the duty of supervising security in building sites".
And with that the press, and the world, and their dreary concerns, were dismissed. Whatever happens, he reiterated, the World Cup will be coming to Qatar in 2022. "Voila!" And he grinned.
"Didier Drogba wants it to be trendy and comfortable!" – Hom Underwear announce an "official partnership" and new underwear line with the former Chelsea striker.
"Lord Ferg didn't specify a time limit for taking in those annual events [Fiver letters passim], so James Galea (and 1,056 other scheduling pedants) are wrong. He absolutely could take in the Kentucky Derby, The Masters, and the Melbourne Cup 'in that order to ensure everything gets done', he just needs to complete his world tour in 2015. Shouldn't be a problem, he's got plenty of time on his hands these days" – Ben Graham
"For all fellow pedants out there, I found an item of clothing to wear if the unthinkable happens and you get a date with someone more erudite, sociable or charming. I'm hoping they printed at least 1,057" – Phil McLean
"Well, considering that Richard Kingson was 32 during the AFCON in Burkina Faso '98, Dr. Medical Doctor Nyaho Tamakloe [yesterday's quote of the day] may actually have a point. CAF alone has three separate birthdays for Kingson (1965, 1975 & 1978). Considering that he never ages there might just be a document somewhere confirming my suspicion that Richard Kingson was actually born in the highlands of Scotland in 1592" – Ranier-Mackie Buernor Plahar
"Why do the letter writers in Thursday Fiver have made up names? Senor Bingo – obscure techno reference, hmmm. Dermot McDermott - really? Graham Quick – showing off. No need to hide your identity just because you read the Fiver" – Lord Esteban Mousepractice
Send your letters to firstname.lastname@example.com. And if you've nothing better to do you can also tweet the Fiver. Today's winner of our letter o' the day prize is Ranier-Mackie Buernor Plahar, who gets a copy of the newly-updated paperback edition of I Am The Secret Footballer.
We keep trying to point out the utter futility of advertising an online dating service "for interesting people" in the Fiver to the naive folk who run Guardian Soulmates, but they weren't having any of it. So here you go – sign up here to view profiles of the kind of erudite, sociable and friendly romantics who would never dream of going out with you.
Arsène Wenger has hit the roof after Jack Wilshere was photographed holding a cigarette. "I disagree completely with that behaviour," growled the Arsenal manager. Wilshere's Mr 15% insisted the midfielder was holding the tab as part of a "dare", an excuse that has failed to work for teenagers caught out by their parents since time immemorial.
Sheffield Wednesday's Gary Madine has been jailed for 18 months for assaulting two fans.
Assembled hacks to David Moyes: "Are you the right man to lead Manchester United or the wrong man to lead Manchester United?" Moyes to assembled hacks: "I am the right man to lead Manchester United." Assembled hacks: "BAH!"
Juan Mata has been recalled by Spain for their World Cup qualifiers against Belarus and Georgia. Full squad: Iker Casillas (Real Madrid), Victor Valdes (Barcelona), Pepe Reina (Napoli), Alvaro Arbeloa (Real Madrid), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid), Gerard Pique (Barcelona), Raul Albiol (Napoli), Nacho Monreal (Arsenal), Juanfran (Atletico Madrid), Alberto Moreno (Sevilla), Andres Iniesta (Barcelona), Juan Miguel Manuel Ole! Ole! Ole! Fiver (Fiver Towers), Isco (Real Madrid), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Xavi (Barcelona), Mario Suarez (Atletico Madrid), Sergio Busquets (Barcelona), Cesc Fabregas (Barcelona), Juan Mata (Chelsea), David Silva (Manchester City).
Jimmy Hill: English football's Forrest Gump.
Tottenham v West Ham: surprisingly storied.
Steve Bruce: increasingly likable.
Ten things: to look forward to this weekend.
Today's Still Want Mores: incredibly lazy.
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Tibi Ellis, a Las Vegas resident who founded Hispanics for McCain in 2008, but who has dropped out of the GOP to be a nonpartisan advocate for Hispanic voting, said she thinks the immigration fight will wait until the general election.
Hispanics out West a tougher sell for Romney →
"They evidently don't vote. They're dreamers," she said. "They have a point. We need to do something about it. But should a candidate spend resources, time, when at the end of the day a candidate wants to be elected? It's all about votes?"


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Aligning modes of organization with technology: Critical transactions in the reform of infrastructures
This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their reform. Since infrastructures are characterized by strong technical complementarities, we explore the resulting 'critical technical functions' that need to be performed in order to guarantee the expected technical performance of the system. We characterize 'critical transactions' as essential to provide adequate support to these functions. We distinguish various modes of organization that can effectively coordinate these critical transactions. We argue that the features of these transactions determine the alignment between organization and technology and should be taken explicitly into account when reforming infrastructures.
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Morning Movie Updates: Zombieland 2, Richard Linklater, Shrek Forever After, Green Lantern
Everybody's excited about a Zombieland 2 in 3D; Richard Linklater floats the possibility of a sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset; DreamWorks swears that Shrek Forever After will be the last Shrek movie; and Ryan Reynolds offers up more info on his two superheroes.
Zombieland 2
Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer told MovieHole that Sony gave him the go-ahead on a sequel and that all four cast members are very willing to return to their roles. The big news, however, is that he's planning on shooting the movie in 3D. I'm usually against that because it's a gimmick, but Zombieland is all about gimmicks. 3D zombies would be cool. That shot in the first movie where the woman flies through the windshield? Stuff like that in 3D would be great.
Before Sunrise/Sunset
In an interview with Collider, director Richard Linklater said he's given a sequel to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset some thought but doesn't have a plot and won't make one until he's sure it can be as pitch-perfect as the first two were. He says if he and his stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy can come up with a compelling idea — all three of them were credited with the screenplay for Before Sunset — it could happen.
If you've never seen them, Before Sunrise was a 1995 indie that starred Hawke and Delpy as two strangers who spend a night together in Vienna. Before Sunset, which came out in 2004 and whose screenplay was nominated for an Oscar, showed the two characters meeting up again nine years later.
Shrek Forever After (or Shrek 4: Ever After? Very Clever.)
In a new USA Today article, the first still image from the fourth Shrek film is revealed:
The plot, which supposedly wraps up the saga of Shrek, is "the Brothers Grimm meets It's a Wonderful Life: after rescuing a princess, getting hitched and fathering triplets, Shrek is feeling over-domesticated…To regain his ogre mojo, he strikes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, the wee troublemaker who popped up briefly in Shrek 2 and 3, [but] the pact goes awry and Shrek must confront what life would be like in Far Far Away if he had never existed."
The whole "last film" thing is quite simply a marketing ploy. Get people interested in the waning series again by tricking them into believing it'll be their last chance to see it on the big screen. Then a couple years later we'll get a Puss in Boots spin-off, which won't do as well, which they'll follow with a triumphant announcement that they've miraculously figured out a great story for Shrek 5 and thus would be remiss not to make it. We're onto your tricks, movie studios.
In the Small
After destroying humanity in I Am Legend, director Francis Lawrence has chosen to follow that up (according to Pajiba) with In the Small, about a strange explosion that somehow renders all humans to be six inches tall — with the rest of the world (and all other animals in the world) unaffected. It's based on a graphic novel by Michael Hague. May I suggest changing the title to Honey, I Shrunk Humanity?
Green Lantern/Deadpool
Finally, Ryan Reynolds had a solid interview with MTV about his upcoming superhero projects. Some highlights:
I think the initial moment of the sequences that involve Wade [in Wolverine], I think it did [capture the character]. It's always difficult to fully embrace something that isn't perfect, in terms of staying true to the source material. So it was a little bit frustrating. I really wanted to play Wade, and I really wanted to play Deadpool, and it would kill me to see someone else play them. I had a kind of ham-fisted attitude that it had to be perfect, but it doesn't. The movie's called "Wolverine," it's not called "Deadpool" or "Wade." I thought it was a nice little wink and tip of the hat to things to come. Finding the tone of that character alone is such a difficult prospect. I've been in so many meetings lately about "Deadpool" and meeting all these writers. Everyone is always looking for that one line, "What is that character?" and for me it's kind of like, "There's a guy, and he's in a highly militarized comedic fame spiral." That's not an easy thing to write — an entire screenplay, let alone a franchise. I had a blast playing Wade. Every line I had in that was stuff I thought he would say. It wasn't something that a writer said to me. It was fun to really create that character, including everything he spits out of his awful mouth.
I've known about "Green Lantern" my whole life, but I've never really followed it before. I fell in love with the character when I met with [director] Martin Campbell. When I sat down with him, I really got what it is that this guy is all about. When you have a guy like Martin Campbell, part of his charm is that he has ba–s of titanium, and the other part is that he's slightly crazy, and you have to be to take on something with the scope of "Green Lantern." He's less of the director and more of a general. He just really knows strategies, he knows the intricacies, and his attention to detail! It's infectious. I sat down with him, and I could not even believe what he was saying. When I went to the meeting, I was entirely cynical. I thought, "What the hell, I'll see what they have to say," and I left the room with a completely different perspective.
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Adele Streams '21' on NPR
Adele's voice is deceiving. On the opening track of her upcoming album 21 "Rolling in the Deep" she sounds like a weathered veteran of the soul scene. Her voice has the mature tone of someone who has experienced heartbreak and bad tours. So it's a genuine surprise that the songstress is only 22. Age seems to be just a number when it comes to Adele's career. She already has a Grammy under her belt from her 2008 release 19 and gained critical acclaim for her soulful songwriting and technical vocal skill.
With 21 Adele concentrates on the main plague of women today: the heartbreaking man. Unlike America's female pop sensations singing about boys (Taylor Swift's crappy album comes to mind), Adele's tracks on 21 exude a stripped-down and honest take on the standard heartbreak album. Her influences are defined throughout her music, creating something familiar yet unique. No auto-tune, no over-produced bullshit. Just raw vocals over a piano and thumping drums. You believe what she sings, you may even understand and feel exactly what she's saying in her lyrics such as on "He Won't Go." It's a song about wanting to escape, not only the physical presence of a past love but also the memory of it all. It's hard to articulate such an abstract thought but Adele executes it with ease. In an industry full of over-sexed and over-done female vocalists, Adele is a breath of fresh air.
NPR is offering a first listen of 21 in its entirety online throughout the week, which you can listen to here. Adele is also revealing a special feature on the making of 21 every day on her website leading up to the album's official release. 21 comes out February 22 on Columbia Records.


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My friend Raja Petra Kamaruddin (RPK) has been charged for publishing a seditious article titled "Let's send ther Altantuya murderers to hell", which appeared on April 25, which allegedly implicated Deputy Prime Minister Minister Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the death of Altantuya Shaariibu, now these are very serious allegations.
It is a damning article out to tarnish, destroy and malign an image of a senior Umno politician and who, for all intent and purposes, is also a designated Prime Minister of the country. Najib probably had no choice, but to reply and he did this via his his press secretary Tengku Shariffuddin, which RPK , through his website Malaysia Today, published. Then Rosmah was asked by reporters at a function and she had no choice but to comment on the serious allegation that she might be involved in a murder, for heaven sake! She, after all these years, since 2002, probably had enough but had to rebut RPK's malicious article. My contention is why didn't the police and the Home Affairs Minis also try to rebut RPK's allegations this time through the media also read here, be it electronic or print media. But instead RPK was called and interrogated by the police and later charged for sedition.
Then there is this wild story going around saying Najib had "abused" his position and had asked the police to arrest RPK over the allegations. It is not as easy as that. As a Malaysian, I demand the police to come out and give a press statement to say that is not true, and that the Police acted on its own without being coerced or prompted by anyone. As a citizen I also demand the police to come out with this statement otherwise RPK's accusations and public perception that Najib has abused his power to get back at RPK forever may be made believable!
I also took the liberty to again reprint the sentences which are parts of the said article written by RPK and the charges made against him were based on these damning sentences. I hope you all can make up your own mind on the matter! On what RPK said about the police is now being accessed by the whole world that our police force is in the habit of killing innocent citizen, as what his article implies, and for his wife to call all Malay as pigs (that is how I saw it written) and that the Prime Minister is hiding something so serious as he was made to "hide" certain evidence implicating his deputy in the death of this unfortunate Mongolian girl then implying the prime minister is an accessory to murder! My friend these are indeed serious allegations being made!
Paragraphs and sentences from the said article "Let's the send Altantuya Murderers to Hell" that led to RPK being charged for Sedition.
"The next point is about where Altantuya's remains were found, which was deep in the jungles. The three accused deny killing Altantuya yet the police knew exactly where to go to look for the remains. How did the police know where to go when the three denied killing her? Did they use a bomoh? Was there an informer? No, the police just happen to know that deep in the jungles they would find Altantuya's remains without anyone having to tell them.
It makes one wonder whether the police knew where to go because it is a 'gazetted dumpsite' where all 'bumped off' people are disposed. Does this then mean that the two police officers on trial alongside Razak are police hit men whose job it is to bump people off and then get rid of their bodies at that site where they retrieved Altantuya's remains? This, of course, remains mere speculation but there is certainly cause for speculation and the evidence all seem to point to this assumption.
The whispering amongst those who walk in the corridors of power is that when they went to the 'dump site' they retrieved the remains of many others as well. Some say it was the remains of seven people and others say nine. So Altantuya was not the first. There were many others before this, almost ten judging by the remains.
This, of course, has never been made public and probably never will. So, until it is, we must assume that the 'whispering' is unfounded. But then, what about Razak's Affidavit we talked about earlier, which stated that the police officer had admitted to killing six people before this. This would then make Altantuya the seventh victim. Against this backdrop, the 'whispering' about the police retrieving the remains of seven or nine people begins to sound like very loud whispers.
Rumour has it, and it remains just that, a rumour, is that all this 'evidence' has been given to Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Okay, maybe Abdullah is using this information to keep Najib in line -- which appears to be working seeing that he is constantly licking Abdullah's hand. But this is not about politics and should not be dealt as such. This is about the Prime Minister of Malaysia withholding crucial evidence in a murder trial. Abdullah is an accessory to murder and burying evidence that will affect the outcome of the trial and interfere in seeing justice done renders Abdullah as guilty as those currently on trial and those who also should be on trial but are not.
"Even pigs can be cute," my wife who was driving the car butted in and I repeated what she said. "Yes, even pigs are cute. These people are not even the same level as pigs. They are lower than pigs. Melayu babi, the whole lot of them."


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There's a new version of the Dungeon Robber game!
Good news first:
And now the bad news:
Now a long list of assorted bugfixes and minor changes:
As usual, I still have a list of buxfixes and features I haven't got to yet. Let me know if you find that I've added new bugs; if any of my buxfixes didn't work; or if you find any new issues.


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FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 7:30pm – Science Fiction
Philadelphia Fantastic presents
Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen is an American author, publisher, psychologist, and expert in the Klingon language. In 2007 he was a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He lives in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and serves as the director of research and chief compliance officer for a medical center which provides mental health and addiction treatment service works throughout Philadelphia. Schoen is the founder of the Klingon Language Institute and has published Klingon translations of William Shakespeare's plays Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the epic of Gilgamesh and the Tao Te Ching.Schoen's work as an author include "The Sky's The Limit" (originally published in All Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories, which made the preliminary ballot for the 2005 Nebula Awards, as well as the Amazing Conroy series of science fiction stories, about a space-traveling stage hypnotist. In April of 2010 he was nominated for a Hugo for his short story, "The Moment." Schoen is also the publisher and chief editor for Paper Golem, a speculative fiction small press started in November, 2006. The first book published by Paper Golem was Prime Codex, an anthology of previously published stories by members of the Codex Writers Group, of which Schoen is a member.