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Women and sports make an awesome combo, and GG wanted to honor this combo by listing the hottest female sports figures from around the world!
This 24-year-old tennis player was born in Slovakia. Apart from being a
talented player (she won three WTA tournaments already), she is also
gorgeous. And we are not the only ones to think like that. In fact, she
has twice topped the ACE tennis magazine's list with the world's sexiest
tennis players.
California is the state of beautiful women, and this lady is no
exception. Jennie is probably the most famous softball player around the
world, and we dare to say that this is not the result of her athletic
performance alone!
Goddess of the Brazilian swimming team, Flavia is specialized in the 50
meters freestyle. She arrived at the finals on the Athens 2004 Olympic
games. No wonder where that spectacular body is coming from.
She is not an athlete, but she is tightly connected with the soccer
world, being one of the most famous supporters of the Italian soccer
team AS Roma. Her devotion to the club is so big that in order to
celebrate the 2001 Italian championship title, she performed a
striptease in the middle of the stadium, to the delight of the present fans. Her sexy calender sold over one million copies, which is a record in Italy. Sabrina, sei troppo bella!
Christine was born in Guadeloupe, but she competes officially for
France, on the track and field sprint events. She broke 100m European
record some years ago. Christine made it to our list thanks to her
exotic beauty and ripped body.
If you thought that golf was a game for old farts, you were wrong. This
24-years-old beauty started playing the sport at the early age of four,
and now she is one of the attractions of the LPGA Tour. I wouldn't mind
doing a course with her.
If you are into tall women, you
probably won't find anything to top Lauren Jackson. Her height is 6 feet
and 5 inches, or 1,96 meters. Lauren is also considered one of the best
basketball players in the world.
Here is a gorgeous woman that you might want to refrain from whistling
to while she passes by. Mia is an American professional boxer and Tae Kwon Do champion. Her boxing record is 22 wins and 1 draw, with 12 knockouts. Ouch!
Born in 1974, this Norwegian freestyle skier is what you can call a sexy
bomb. She is four times world champion and one time Olympic champion in
the moguls event. These are not our favorite titles though. In 2002 she
was declared the most sexy woman in Norway. Now that is an
Victoria started playing tennis
at a very young age. Right after turning professional, however, a
shoulder injury suddenly stopped her career. Well, her tennis career.
Luckily (for us) she decided to become a model afterwards.
At 5?2 feet tall, and weighting 100 pounds, Danica is a heck of a sexy racing driver. She was born in Wisconsin, and currently competes in the IndyCar series.
Yeah we also think that ice dancing is a lame sport. You can't deny that
watching the performance of this 24-years-old Canadian-American would
be pleasant though. She is five-times U.S. National champion, 2006
Olympic silver medalist, and hot!
Francesca is an Italian volleyball player. At a height of 6?1, she is
able to spike at 304 cm from the ground (equivalent to 9?11). She also
played over 330 official matches with the Italian national team. The woman is beautiful, but with such an athletic performance you can't help but admire her.
One of the most famous athletes from the United States, Dara was the
first swimmer to compete in four Olympic games. Despite having nine
Olympic medals, no one ever gave her one for being one of the hottest
swimmers around. We would!
Amy was born in Texas, 1975. She is a high jump competitor for the
United States, and she participated in three Olympic games. Lately she
also started a career as model, getting featured on magazines like FHM
(you should check that…).
Alright, no big booobs, we know. She has a really cute face and a toned
body to compensate though. Natalie is a professional swimmer, and she
won two gold medals on the 2004 Athens Olympic games.
Man, that is a true Hawaiian beauty! Lokelani has already being featured
in several magazines like Maxim and GQ. Ah, in the case you want to
know what she does, she is competes in the triathlon.
You would never have thought that pole vaulters could be sexy eh? Well,
take a look at Mrs. Mary Sauer. Born in Wisconsin, 1975, she definitely
makes watching this discipline more fun.
Jamie is one of the prettiest things you will ever see on a pair of
skates on the ice. She already won both an Olympic gold medal and a
world championship. Unfortunately for us, she is happily married since
One of the most famous female snowboarders in the world, Gretchen lives
in Aspen, Colorado. I am not a fan of cold temperatures, but if she
invited me over I would be booking my ticket straight away.
Gabrielle took a quite unusual career path. First she became a model,
and then she started playing volleyball professionally. Well, we are
fine with that, since it probably helped to make her body the statue it
is today.
I wonder if one should spell her surname like the Nintendo console.
Anyway, this is the youngest entry of our list. She was born in 1989
(make the maths lazy ass) in Hawaii. Back in 2005 she became a
professional golfer, and now she takes part in the LPGA.
Before people start bitching,
the list covers "hot girls from the sports world," which goes beyond
athletes. Victoria is married to famous soccer player David Beckham, so
we figured she is qualified to appear here. Actually, take a look at the
picture and let me know if these curves are not enough credentials.
When I see soccer players like this,
I wonder why men and women are not allowed to play together. Heather
plays in the U.S. National Soccer Team (she is a defender in the case
you were wondering). In 2004 she was also elected the "Hottest Female
Athlete" by ESPN. No kidding!
Misty May is a professional beach volleyball player. Born in California,
her highest achievement was the gold medal on the 2004 Summer Olympics.
At the age of 30, she is definitely still on top of her game!
Milene is the ex-wife of soccer legend Ronando. That alone would be
enough to enter on our list, but to top it off she is also one of the
best female soccer players in the world, and pretty damn hot. They had a
child as well, and I wonder if they kid will inherit their talent.
Laure is a lovely French girl of
22 years old. She is also incredibly talented, being the current holder
of the world swimming records for the 400m and 200m freestyle. A couple
of months ago she became very popular thanks to some nude pictures of
herself that leaked on the web (Google is your friend if you want to
find them).
Put together a mix of German and American hot stuff, and the result is
Stacy. Stacy was a cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens and professional
wrestler and manager for the World Wrestling Entertainment. Currently
she is trying a career as an actress, and has appearances on several TV
One of the youngest (and hottest) entries on our list, at twenty years
old. Born in Serbia, she is a professional tennis player, and currently
the number two at the WTA world ranking. You go girl!
We have a weakness for a cute brunettes, and Ashley Tappin is definitely
one. She won three Olympic gold medals, and after retiring from
competitive swimming in 2001 she started a couching career.
Amy was a soccer player with the Australian national team, and she
played on the United States professionally as well. Back in 2000 she
posed for a nude calendar with her team mates. Too bad we could not
include the whole team here!
Kristi is an American freestyle skier, and she won a bronze in the
Women's Superpipe competition. More impressive yet is the fact that she
figured at the 90 position of the FHM "sexiest women of 2005? list.
This is the third golfer to appear in our list (yeah, I am also
wondering if I should start playing that…). She started modeling at a
very young age, and in 2004 she became a professional player. She has 26
years, and was born in Australia.
Kristina is an Olympic synchronized swimmer. She was one of the first
female swimmers to use a male partner. Well, I am not that good with
synchronized movements underwater, but I volunteer myself as well….
As you can see we are starting to enter into the "really hot" zone.
Tatiana was born in Russia, but she competes for Australia on the pole
vault discipline. She is a bombshell, what can I say?
Logan is one of the most complete American volleyball players (and one
of the sexiest, we might add). She was born in California, and that is
where she currently lives.
If you are not familiar with the Italian culture, let me summarize it
this way: Elisabeta Canalis is one of the most desired women on the
whole country. What is her connection with the world of sports you might
ask? Well, she used to date famous soccer player Christian Vieri, and
she also became the presenter of a soccer TV program. (Do yourself a
favor a search the Google images for her name…)
Brazil also has hot bodies, and this girl is the proof. Ana Paula was
born in 1971, and she started playing volleyball at the age of 12. When
she was 19 she moved to Italy to play with the Campobasso team.
Niki is a professional mountain biker. She lives in Sydney, Australia.
Apart from competing in that sport she is also a model. The magazine FHM
included her on the "100 Sexiest Women in the World" list on 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005 and 2005. Nice!
You cant make a list with hot women without including a surfer, right?
Malia was born in 1977 in Hawaii, and many people say that she
contributed to raise the interest on the sport among young girls. Well,
she got me interested as well.
Ah, cheerleaders! Romi is one of the 34 members of the Denver Broncos
cheerleader team. Wait a minute, did I just say 34? Holy crap, imagine
what it must be to visit their changing room after the game….
This is our fifth swimmer? Man, what a blessed sport. Apart from being
hot as hell, Amanda is also a fantastic swimmer. She made her first
Olympic appearance at the age of 14! She also got featured in several
publications, including Sports Illustrated, and FHM.
Yet another Russian tennis player, I know. But it would be pure
negligence to leave Maria Kirilenko out of this list right? A bit of
trivia: she is a very good friend of Maria Sharapova. I found this info
Wikipedia, and I guess it will keep my imagination busy for a while.
This track and field American athlete got famous after she appeared on
the FHM magazine "Sexy Olympic" edition. She will probably participate
in the next Olympic games too, so keep an eye for the lady.
Not a sportswoman, but the ex-girlfriend of Ronaldo. He is one of the
best soccer players of all time, but letting this girl go was definitely
a dumb thing to do. The picture says it all, I am speechless.
This is a woman not for the faint of heart. At 6 feet and 2 inches, the
Russian beauty is a former number one tennis player in the world. And
she only has 20 years. I just couldn't find if she is engaged
(personally I prefer to think she is still a virgin).
Haley was born in Chico, California. Her best swimming performance was
the gold medal on the world championship. We would be her fans even
without these achievements though, especially after she appeared on
Allison is a pole vaulter for the California high school. She doesn't
have any major sport achievements to date, but she became immensely
popular on the Internet after a big website featured her pictures. Well,
after I saw the images I became her biggest fan immediately.
No, you are not seeing double. They are actually twins. These two hot
bombs come from Brazil, and they represented their country on the 2007
Pan American games on the synchronized swimming. I was able to read the
local press during the event, and they received most of the coverage. No
wonder why!
We know that placing Ana Kournikova on top of a "hot" list is becoming a
cliché. Trust us that we really tried to find someone else. After the
strenuous task of analyzing ever curve of her body, on every picture
that we could find on the web, we could not help but give her the first
position. She is hot beyond what we thought was possible….
50. Daniela Hantuchová
49. Jennie Finch
48. Flavia Delaroli
47. Sabrina Ferilli
46. Christine Arron
45. Natalie Gulbis
44. Lauren Jackson
43. Mia St. John
42. Kari Traa
41. Victoria Vanucci
40. Danica Patrick
39. Tanith Belbin
38. Francesca Piccinini
37. Dara Torres
36. Amy Acuff
35. Natalie Coughlin
34. Lokelani McMichael
33. Mary Sauer
32. Jamie Sale
31. Gretchen Bleiler
30. Gabrielle Reece
29. Michelle Wie
28. Victoria Adams
27. Heather Mitts
26. Misty May
25. Milene Domingues
24. Laure Manaudou
23. Stacy Keibler
22. Ana Ivanovic
21. Ashley Tappin
20. Amy Taylor
19. Kristi Leskinen
18. Anna Rawson
17. Kristina Lum
16. Tatiana Grigorieva
15. Logan Tom
14. Elisabetta Canalis
13. Ana Paula Mancino
12. Niki Gudex
11. Malia Jones
10. Romi Bean
9. Amanda Beard
8. Maria Kirilenko
7. Jenny Adams
6. Daniela Cicarelli
5. Maria Sharapova
4. Haley Cope
3. Alisson Stokke
2. Bia e Branca
1. Ana Kournikova


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Body and Soul's Electric Picnic line up
BACK once again, with its trademark twisting wonderland of bespoke stages, hand picked installations, quirky corners and hidden alcoves, Body and Soul is set to light up its place as the central creative beacon of Electric Picnic for the ninth year in a row.
Body and Soul's main stage musical programme wouldn't stand up without a close inspection of what's what musically in Ireland at present, along with debut performances from up-and-coming acts and ones to watch from around the world.
Enjoying a long-standing reputation of staging a mix of the proven, common, inventive and new, means that national and international live acts and DJs put their groove on in sparkling form, for a wide audience of music lovers and party people.
Artists include Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny, Liam O'Flynn and Paddy Glackin aka LAPD, Paul Buchanan, When Saints Go Machine, Junior Boys, Breton, Junior Boys, RocketNumberNine, Jesse Boykins III, DENA, The Spook of the Thirteenth Lock, Zemi 17, Mmoths, Laura Sheeran, TR-One, Orchestra of Spheres, Dark Dark Dark, SertOne, Young Wonder, Kodaline, New Jackson, Ham Sandwich, February&Mars, Lewis Floyd Henry, Viperflo and Romare.
New additions to the Body and Soul's village this year include the Bamboo Stage - designed by Gerard Minakawa from Bamboo DNA with a focus on offering a platform for emerging and unique talent; the Bog Cottage's Seaweed Baths and Steamy Sauna, along with a custom-designed Radioshack housing some of Ireland's finest DJs.
Hailing from New York, The Gamelatron is the spearhead art installation this year, amongst a collection of handpicked artist creations from around the world. Handcrafted, masterfully-tuned orchestras of vibraphones, drums, chimes, bells and resonating bronze gongs played by robotic mallets are installed to immerse the audience in living kinetic sculptures. The Zen Gardens and Earth Spirit are staple realms at Body&Soul and people should look out for Boundless Bathing Hot Tubs, Shamanic Healing, Indian Head Massage, Workshops, Warm Chai and Laughter Yoga across the cocooned, ethereal expanse of the village landscape. For more visit www.electricpicnic.ie.

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Don't raise those eyebrows yet, I know Game of Thrones is not a movie but a TV series, but you have to agree with me when I say that each epic-esque episode is of film quality calibre. It's actually such a shame that I've only recently watched the series but I still managed to finish all 3 seasons with the hubby in 2 weeks flat! Tee-hee! 🙂 At last, I totally get why some people say we are living in another golden age of television. When you click here for the statistics, it becomes apparent how extraordinary the number original scripted series there are on television at the moment. Currently, Game of Thrones is my absolute favourite!
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Making raves since its first installment, Game of Thrones (GoT) is based on the epic fantasy novel series by George R.R. Martin, A Song of Fire and Ice, which tackles a wide variety of human issues and morals — simply put, no dull moment ever.
I won't go into the plot too much, that is something for you to watch to appreciate (and I highly recommend that you do). It's just that I am so much reminded of the Stark house words, "The Winter is Coming" now that the cold month of December is fast approaching, and knowing that most weddings here happen on this cold -ber month, I might as well give you a not-so-usual wedding theme inspired by this very popular TV series.
We don't have to replicate an entire set of GoT just to use this as a wedding theme, it's more of stealing bits and pieces of their glorious sets and weaving these altogether to create our own GoT look.
Choose either a vast indoor venue or an outdoor open field. This theme can work either way, but for this particular post, I'm thinking of an indoor, sit-down wedding party in a grand hall with high ceilings (will have to check if parties are allowed in the National Library or the National Museum though).
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Long wooden tables, bare except for a runner, adorned with lush florals in the palette of deep reds, pinks, plums and greens and placed in brass or copper toned vases, with lit candelabras to set the mood right. Hanging chandeliers in brass would be great add ons too. I imagine the bride to be in pristine white, with an usual floral headpiece. Her bouquet will be white as snow and her hair fixed in any of the GoT inspired hairstyles below. She will look regal in bearing, a true queen on her wedding day.
This is going to be a formal winter inspired wedding theme that is as warm as the hearth. Ready now? Here's the Game of Thrones inspired wedding theme:
photo source (from top left) : Wooden Chairs with My Lord and My Lady tags, Wedding Cake by Sprinkle bakes, Lush floral centerpiece and candelabra, Bridal headpiece, White bridal bouquet, Bronze plate, Bronze chandelier
Oh, wait there's more! Fix your hair and that of your maids with any of these GoT inspired hairstyles!
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Wow, it's been a year.
Last year I think I spent a week preparing this post but this time this year, I have only three days before the end of the world year. It's been a busy year (because work is so time consuming) and I've only got the energy to write mini reviews. But you get the drift – anything with lots of capital letters, exclamation marks or "OMG"s means I'm really pysched about that movie.
So, here goes (in no particular order):
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The most anticipated finale of the year~!
Harry fights his own demons. Ron and Hermione kiss. Neville Longbottom stands up for himself. McGonagall is badass. Snape has a heart. Molly Weasley says the word "Bitch". Last of all, Voldemort hugs awkwardly.
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This is the first movie that introduced Michael Fassbender to me (not including 300 and Inglourious Basterds) and my, my, what a fine Mr. Rochester he plays. Mia Wasikowska was lovely as Jane Eyre too. Each time they appeared together, there were sparks flying off the screen.
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Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy!
The outtakes for this film were full of bromance and even their interviews were full of it. It really set up the back story for the X-Men movies really well and I do hope the rumours of a sequel are true!
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I really, really liked the book and I don't care if you didn't like the movie. To me, the casting was perfect and beautiful. Loving the year they met and that of Paris.
Emma Morley: 'Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at…something. Change lives through art maybe. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.
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As funny as it was, it was also very real – the feelings of what goes on in the mind of a still-single BFF when the other BFF finally gets married… and there's someone else fighting to be in your position as the prime BFF.
Melissa McCarthy was a scene-stealer; whether she was spewing "lava", organizing fight club, stealing puppies or dispensing words of wisdom. Kristen Wiig was just hilarious in that scene, trying to get the attention of Officer Rhodes (Chris O'Dowd).
Annie Walker: I feel like her life is going off and getting perfect and mine is just like phrrr..
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One of my favourite scenes from the movie! (…right before he pummeled the other guy to death)
Ryan Gosling – need I really say more? Strong, silent and charming exhibit of a man.
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Textbook scene. Enough said.
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This year's big Oscar winner!
Watching Bertie slowly overcome his stutter and cussing was a real joy. Once again, British humour is present! I really enjoyed Geoffrey Rush's performance as Bertie's voice coach.
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Another Oscar nominee that introduced the lovely Hailee Steinfeld as Mattie Ross. She really held her own against Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon – and she got to hang out with them!
Loved the scene where Rooster Cogburn (Bridges) carried Mattie after the horse gave out to treat her snake bite.
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Hannah Weaver: Seriously?! It's like you're photoshopped!
Another Ryan Gosling movie!
It's one of my favourite romantic comedies and I really liked that scene where Hannah (Emma Stone) rushes into the bar and plants a big one on Jacob (Gosling) and later when they talked the night away, explored his $2000 massage chair and fell asleep.
Honourable mentions:
Attack The Block, Super 8, Win Win, Rango, Real Steel, The Help, Margin Call.


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I warn you, O Gentle Reader, that what follows is self-indulgent.
I've been going over my old diaries. I'm amazed by some of it, disturbed by other bits, and nostalgic for the days of yore.
For instance, my diaries from 2001 talk about Amelia, my girlfriend of the year. At least they do in the early part of the year. I was really keen on her before we were together, it seems:
Amelia has a fascinating flavour about her, like pepper and rosemary. Hearty and firey at once. A texture and volume of being alive, of being a woman. Her is-ness and who she is make her unbearably, unsayably sexy when she chooses to be sexy. I think I'm hooked. She makes it hard to speak.
She read this later, and I think on the strength of it we hooked up.
Meanwhile I was struggling to make ends meet, for I was in Sydney, thousands of kilometres from home. There I found myself, "washed up in fisherlab1":
It's now my second week in Sydney and I still don't have a place to live, still don't have a job. Frankly, this sucks, because a lot of that is my own sorry fault. I just haven't been pushing hard enough to get those things under my belt before The Rush begins in earnest. I predict that The Rush will begin to become a tidalwave by next week.
I am from Darwin, I study in Sydney. These cities are thousands of kilometres apart. The Rush is the flood of Sydneysiders who – no longer able to hack cheap food and accomodation at home – flood into the inner west region trying to get houses and flats near to the University. What a pity that in doing so they completely fuck over those of us who need to find a place to stay because we have no alternative.
I never did beat The Rush. I was saved by the Green Light, as I put it in a diary. I moved in with Amelia. In retrospect this was a staggeringly poor decision. I had known this girl for about 3 weeks. Feeling head over heels I thought moving in with her was, if not fate, then at least Murphy's day off. How wrong I was.
The seeds of the miserable year I reaped in 2001 were sown here.
Around the same time I had written an article about "strategic government". I was very proud of it. Looking at it now I recognise that it was eloquent, a good read and fairly convincing. I also believe now that it betrayed real ignorance on my part. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Funnily enough I was toying with the idea of doing postgrad economics, for as I noted:
If I am to become Dictator of the World (it's on my To Do list, behind "Cross Rubicon" and "Defeat Senate") then I'll need to be conversant in the Latin of the Economicus Pontifii Maximi (I'm guessing at pluralisation here).
I first met Amelia's parents in February. Later I was to discover that her mother has a borderline personality disorder. Her disorder would distort my life to the point where I became clinically depressed and occasionally suicidal.
But in these early days I thought I had made a good impression. All was going well:
The Parents. I had been primed for a rough time. I was admittedly as nervous as all hell, and in said situations I usually cope by devolving into a Polite Young Man. It is a facade, a spare self that has served me very well over the years in such situations. The PYM is generally something of a hit with parents and the eldervolk, and it's an excellent way for one to disguise one's absolute white-knuclke knee-bending gut-ripping terror oh lordy lordy save me from this pit of fearsome hell. So to speak.
But it went well. The parents like me – quite a lot, I am told.
I also got to meet Amelia's church. They were seventh day adventists. They were kind, caring, and utterly convinced that the end of the world was due any second now. My agnosticism of the time probably hardened into my atheism today in their presence. Perhaps they never knew: I might as well have been a mute for all I said at church on saturdays that year.
I was also renewing my relationship with the Sydney University Liberal Club. Already I had developed a healthy disrespect for my leftist opponents:
Perhaps I should explain to my US readers what I mean by "Liberal". Whereas in the US, "Liberal" is synonymous with the left-wing, the bleeding hearts, the crippled black lesbian whales against capitalism and so forth, it is in Australia basically the primary right-wing party. …
We campus Liberals were handpicked by Hitler Howard, you see, to enslave our fellow students whilst sucking down cocktails and laughing at the half-nude Arts students forced to dance in chains. Muahahahaha!, and so forth. Apparently we are heartless, brainless, spineless and pointless. The "left" are the spiritual inheritors of the hippies. But while hippies preached Free Love, my "enemies" seem to be happier to preach Free Hate. Call me nostalgic, but I prefer the classic model to the new plastic activist.
What's amazing is how vividly I expressed opinions which today I just as vividly put down. On public education, for instance I wrote in a sequential diary:
I may be a Liberal Club member, but I cannot approve the shitty underfunding of Australian tertiary education by the Federal Government. All you American ultra-libertarians can go jump. Markets do not provide a better education. Universities are public goods and need public funding.
Today I am one of those stinking libertarians, although I remain proudly and robustly Australian.
By May things weren't too bad. I was pursuing a scheme to replace the University of Sydney Union's website with something that hadn't escaped from 1995. I also wrote a humourous ditty of a member of K5. It was voted down by I kept it in a diary for posterity. My favourite passage talked about myself as a troublemaker:
Shit-stirrers are the spice in the otherwise porridge-like existence of intellectual discourse. They are like sand in lemonade. They do not please us, but they do get us to re-express our beliefs, to wit: "I hate sand in my lemonade!". Amen.
But I never quite learnt the gentle art of shit-stirring. I never quite grasped its subtleties and intricacies. I never stood atop a mountain of frothing prophets and disciples, laughing cheerfully as I cast my rod into the raging seas of controversy.
By July of that year Google had purchased DejaNews and launched Google Groups. In doing so they also had an archive of the material I had committed to Usenet and which I had, by degrees, considered lost.
I started to repost bits and pieces. I called this the "Ego Archive", and drew up material from a haiku to "sub-vignettes" to short stories:
snowing sweet jasmine,
that which was to be proven:
has server lost group?
Why'd he die? Nobody is sure. But the world is a
funny place. You can see a pattern in the hubbub,
in the static and noise of existence. It can be
a voodoo chant or an interlocking grid – it doesn't
matter – what matters – is that it's there.
I also posted my first movie review. Previously I had reviewed Guest House Paradiso for the Honi Soit (I lated reviewed Chopper for them), concluding that interested persons should "wait until this movie is available at a video rental store, then rent something else".
To my diary I committed a more considered review of Enemy at the Gates, which is a movie I recommend to anybody.
Into August I continued to commit old stories to the diary, including snippets of text carved directly from a novel which I hope someday to write.
In September comes the first recorded sign that not all is perfect in relationship paradise. My discontent with Amelia, with the "us" that was, had been growing stronger since perhaps June. Also missing from my diary is mention of the difficulties I was undergoing. I had already moved several times.
In a diary which discussed computer science, and then student politics, comes this nervous aside:
I can't break up with my girlfiend. I tried and then three days later, fell back into the relationship. She wants more than I want. I don't what I'm doing. It sucks.
What it doesn't said is that Amelia still came to see me, even though I had suddenly moved out. Even though I had slunk away like a thief in the night, unable to see any other way out of the relationship. What it also doesn't say is that she cried, and cried, and cried, until I felt so much pity that I got back together with her.
Together with the stresses which radiated out into every corner of my sydney life from her mother's illness, my failure to break away from Amelia apparently and clearly plunges me into a real depression (even though I deny it to myself). Just ten days after admitting that not all is perfect, I write:
Depressed? Not clinically. But intermittantly, refusal. Denial, ignorance, disdain of self and nothing to cling to. Reason delivers neither comfort nor warmth in the dark, still nights of the soul.
Emotional? Sometimes. Angry? Yes, now, and too often. Burdened by my own ignorances and private fantasies of self.
Broken. Spent. Worn out like cheap shoes. Next to throw away.
Redemption rare, but special. Family, yes; deep old friends most. But cannot redeem self. These dirty hands cannot wipe the muck from the self. They make it worse. Writing is variant, therefore unreliable, therefore no redemption. Thereafter, nothing remains. I wish sometimes I was my writing.
Tired? Fuck yes. Want no more than to finish and FO. Let others dream now, I am sick of it. Want to go Home, soul to curl up and wrap itself in quiet and hot sunday afternoons. Foetal-position spirituality is the only cure I know or want.
Bad decisions. Hard for soft, soft for hard, without tact or timing. Yin when needing Yang, Yang when Yin was better. Hope will get it right someday.
Take it away. All of it.
If that's not the writing of a depressed man I don't know what is. What's remarkable, looking back in retrospect, is how doggedly I refused to admit that I too was now ill. I did not seek help, I simply accepted things and ceased to see a clear way out. This disturbs me because this is the classic profile of an early suicidal: a miserable person for whom options other than death seem to be closing out.
The greatest evil of this kind of depression is that ultimately it's not true. I always had options. But by this stage my mind was playing such tricks on me that I had lost the will to exercise them.
Into October I poured myself into a computer science assignment. It was an ambitious computer science project, but I just couldn't concentrate. In one instance I spent a week re-reading the same page of a C++ textbook. I would read a sentence, state blankly for a few minutes, then read it again. The code I turned in was marginally functional and thoroughly subpar for what was expected of me.
The diary shows that in October I distracted myself with writing and student politics, to the point of mania. I scribbled bits of fantasy and I worked on a club constitution written with a clearly paranoic slant towards internal politics.
October also saw an experience which later turned me on to being a law student. I was having a dispute with my landlord about a drier. When I had moved (for I think the 7th, maybe 8th time) into the flat, the drier had been functional, with its knob attached to the front. Shortly after I paid my first fortnight's rent the knob vanished.
Now in the state that I was living in, the petty wrongs like these grew and mutated to be great and inconquerable monsters. It was just another example to me that misery was meant to be my lot in life.
This time seems to be about rock bottom for me. This is the closest I ever come, in real terms, to suicide. I wrote an incredibly dark piece which I was only able to post in my diary a year later, with some nervousness. Called QED Hates Me, it expresses in ten lines a year of growing misery. I reproduce it here in full.
QED Hates Me.
You can never know a person.
I expect that if people knew just how much I hate me, they would be surprised. Surely I am some bon vivant, some passionate intellectual.
Am I not that man?
Hardly. I hate him. My self-hate is its own thing, some protean beast of the mind. It consumes me from within me biting biting chewing like hot viral acids spitting in the black-blooded ulcered stomach of my inner.
The protean is Oblivion, and I want to make love to it, be subsumed in it and sunk, to drown in the river of nothingness. Not to Die, for to Die is to have Been, to have Done. Death implies causality and former existence, and that implies me and I hate me. I want not to be. I want to wrap myself in my own pathetic nothingness, I want to disappear into a world by myself where I belong, away from all of You.
Some sad egg I want, eternity in silence where I can get to know and hate myself properly. I want to savour oblivion, as slowly, I and Nothing become acquainted with each other.
I am broken. I am broken and I cannot fix myself and I don't know what to do except hate me and hope I go away. And I hope You go away too.
But I can't. If I let myself into Oblivion – and it is the hardest thing not to do – I will never come back because You won't let me. You will never forget that for once I told You to get fucked, I wanted to spend some time hating me for myself. And I'd be worse when I came back a new man, a different man, because You would forever tie me to hated me and I would never be free.
Because of that, I hate You too. You can't fix me, won't fix me, will hate me because I am broken. So I lie to you and pretend to be happy, and sometimes I think I am. And because of that, I hate me, and because of that, you hate me, and because of that, I hate you, and because of that, I hate me. I am broken and I hate me.
All of which proves that you can never know a person.
I am still scared by re-reading that today. What I realise is that what kept me alive was the thought of what my mother would feel like if I jumped out of my room's 6th story window.
I shortly thereafter failed some of my units. I'd had a deal with my parents that if I failed anything that year they would bring me home.
Funnily enough at this moment, Amelia decided to break up with me. She'd found someone else. It's odd how, even though I was now freed from what I had a few months earlier seen as a burden, I felt insanely furious and jealous. After all, had I not (I said to myself) turned down other women for Amelia's sake, because it was the right thing to do? In retrospect it was petty, but in retrospect I had been reduced to the state of a child. Small injustices ring loudly to children's ears.
Somehow I'd found time to write another of my profiles of a K5er. She sells art and is still extant (and still beautiful).
It is a love letter to eternity, written in sombre words with subdued tones. We, the animals, form this imperfect union in the pursuit of sanity, peace, and maybe some company. Or a little sex. Sexual division being a clever way for one beast to exploit the labours of the other one.
And who the hell is Jin Wicked?
Artiste, beauty, unwilling Texan, iconoclast, egotist, borderline psychopath.
At the heart of willworking is the absolute conviction that one's will may impose alternative realities. Of course, failure at this juncture leads to psychosis and paradox, the retreat into the world of the self. But it nevertheless requires egotism and egocentrism to take such a view: I am right, and all of you are wrong. I am smart, all of you are dumb. I am good. All of you are fucked up nobodies.
Well, I suppose it sounds cool; doesn't really seem to mean all that much though.
And then, the diary records, I was home.
For those of you unfamiliar with Darwin, it is a city with which one can dismiss once, or fall in love with over and over and over. If it were only a woman, I'd give my life to it; even as she waxes and wanes to the passage of the seasons. Whatever else it is, Darwin is my home. I love it.
Here begins a short trend of self-treatment by storytelling. I wrote a dark little ditty in which the protagonist-narrator can't decide whether or not to rape and kill his enemy. For if he does so:
I would lack definition – or justification – or purpose or reason to be. I would not be. Other than as a bundle of self-hatred, self-loathing. I needed another person, someone from whom meaning could be snatched, upon whose crooked hook I could hang my self-worth.
It's clear that here I'm still depressed (and in the comments accompanying the story, I finally admit it). However I'm improving, this is up from the low point of QED Hates Me.
But also I begin to revisit humour again. It's not great, but it's improving. It seems like I was trying to self-medicate my depression with alcohol:
As intimated elsewhere, I went to a friend-of-a-friend's place, equipped with a shitty barcardi substitute and a middling to so-so port. I ran a race between the bottom of the bottles and my liver, somewhere around 10 pm, the bottles moved decisively into the lead. For those of you thinking about sculling port, here's my advice: don't.
that I was glad to be home, though still adjusting to the pace:
Then we preceded to follow what is known as the Darwin Schedule: jam-packed with such events as Nothing, Not Very Much Happening and Sweet Fuck All.
However, Sydney still threw out to me. Amelia called me, even though:
Right now all I want to do is bury my memories of Sydney, all of them, under a very big green pile labelled "Darwin".
After that the diaries go to more mundane matters for a while. Discussions of Access 97 and IT business make the next two entries. I briefly however express an interest in trying some drugs I hadn't tried at that point. Probably another attempt to self-medicate, as judging by the diary I was still depressed at this point:
Here, in the gritty downtime of my soul, I have made a simple enough decision. I want to tweak my brain's function. I want to fiddle with synaptic clefts, retard reuptake, tickle dopamine and serotonin receptors. I want to do so not by discipline or by thinking hard about it, or by experiences. For the moment, I want to do with chemicals.
Perhaps the final gasp of the depression is a short story I wrote for a competition. Titled Stained Angel (in the competition you had to take this title), it's a surrealist tale about a man who wins freedom and finds love, but who then loses both again. Stated like that, it might as well be 2001 in a nutshell. There are differences, of course, but there are similarities also.
It's got some lovely bits, however. This passage is my favourite:
The days with her were perfect, wonderful. She was not human, he knew it. She was Love given form. He was content to bask in her soft glow, to lay fallow for a while. Perfection was the only word for it. In her arms, on her lap, sleeping next to her and awakening next to her, defined the world more surely and solidly than the break of dawn or the trees they played amongst. Slowly he healed. Slowly he forgot.
But there were black moments. He would simply look out over something and some horrible memory would come slicing out of the blue skies, and he would cry again in her arms, sliding away into the oblivion.
He marvelled at the statuette of her, how perfectly it was her, except perhaps the wings and torch. "It's just like you", he'd say. "It is me", she'd reply, smiling, but somewhere, sad. Then: "But I give better hugs!"
And so it went, the world turning, heavenly and correct. There was no misery but its memory. And that was fading, until one day he forgot it altogether. He turned to her, and gazed into her eyes, and knew that the world was right, and said "I love you".
And then she was gone.
Later my diaries were to record how I had taken to law well, and how I had fallen in love again. But by this point I'm more or less healed from 2001. All that's left is to cast one last, reminscing look back to the days before it:
Sydney is a distant country to me now: the gulf between here and there is a vast ocean, the bottom of it littered with unwanted sunken wrecks, and punctuated with little islands of sweet nostalgia. Thalia is just such an island. But she is also a wreck. She was always going to disappoint the trajectory I set for her in dreaming.
I don't think I'll ever see Thalia again: the odds of our crossing paths are infetismally small. When I went to call her number recently, I discovered that she had sold her phone to someone else. It was as if fate has thrown a gate across the lane of memory. You've passed this way once, says my memory, and once is quite enough.
Enough of this sentimental pap. She's a memory, possibly even a daydream, something that never happened. And when I sail over the big blue ocean of recollection, I will one day find that her island is gone, and I will never think of her again.
What this self-indulgent ditty goes to show, I suppose, is that keeping diaries – even public ones on ecelectic websites – is a good way to mark the path of our lives. I have neglected my diaries since 2002. I hope in the new year to establish my own website and take up diarising again.
It also teaches me that I've changed. That I am not an Archangel David, feet rooted in rock. I suppose it teaches me also to give some space and credit to those with whom I disagree. They could be me, just three years ago. It's a lesson I often forget.
I think that's all of it. I apologise for wasting anyone's time.


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SINCE his first solo show in a modest 60-seater at the Edinburgh Fringe back in 2001, Danny Bhoy's star has continued to rise.
In just a short few years Danny, from Edinburgh, has built up a massive following everywhere he has been, continually smashing box office records in Australia and New Zealand as well as in his home country of Scotland.
Here he answers some searing questions.
1. What's the best thing about being a comedian?
The hours are pretty good. And, you get to travel around quite a bit. But, I think my favourite part is the show itself, particularly if it's in some wonky old theatre that's steeped in history.
2. What was your big break?
I'm not sure I've had it yet? The defining moment for most full-time comedians is the day they quit their day job. I was working in a clothing store in London while I was doing comedy at night. I was finally able to pack that job in after I won the UK Open Mic Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1999. No more folding clothes for me, I thought. Then the next day I had to pack a case and go to Aberystwyth for the weekend.
3. What was your Career Plan B?
I genuinely didn't have one. When I was at uni, I was always writing down ideas and for funny sketches, so I guess I might have gone into something like that?
4. What's your secret skill?
I can throw an American football nearly the full length of a football pitch
5. Your biggest bugbear?
That tiny little piece of thread they bind a new pair of socks together with. Stop it! Stop it now!
6. Favourite place in the world?
I'm a big fan of Argyllshire. I have some family up in Inveraray, and used to work up there during my school holiday. It's such a serene place, but full of nutters. I love it.
7. Earliest memory?
Playing in the back garden at my gran's house. It always seemed to be a gloriously sunny day. But, it was definitely Scotland, so not sure how that worked?
8. Top of your bucket list?
The indictment, public humiliation, impeachment and imprisonment of Sepp Blatter.
9. Favourite villain
Whoever replaces Sepp Blatter.
10. Favourite food and drink
I absolutely love dim sum. In Melbourne, on a sunday afternoon, you can go to Chinatown and get 'trolley service dim sum' where lots of old ladies push around trollies of traditional chinese dim sum. There is endless choice, and it's very informal which I way prefer to the static 3-course option. I totally flirt with the old ladies, which sometimes gets me a free pork puff roll.
Click here for a full list of Danny Bhoy's current tour dates.
Plus, watch Danny's hilarious Visitor's Guide to Scotland video below.
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MSF: CAR still in protracted crisis where humanitarian needs remain very high
The town of Bangassou could be a poster child of the wrongly optimistic discourse around "stabilisation" and "normalisation" of the Central African Republic (CAR) that followed the last elections in the country. And this month as donors gather in Brussels to plan the next steps to support CAR.
The few colonial buildings in town are still pockmarked by bullet holes, a remnant from the 2013 takeover by the Séléka rebellion that drove people to flee. But after close to two years of quasi total absence, State authorities have come back: a prosecutor was reinstated last December, then a judge, 30 constables, social services, a labour inspector. But this return does not mean that everything is back on track, and Bangassou town is just a pocket of relative peace in a highly unstable region.
Last June, the head of a clearly identified Doctors Without Borders (MSF) convoy bringing in supply from Bangui was killed in an ambush on the road by armed men who make a living through criminal activity on the road. East of Bangassou, roaming bands mimicking the modus operandi of the Lord resistance Army (LRA) terrorize villages, pillaging crops and abducting people – because of the insecurity, MSF had to cancel a planned vaccination for children in this area despite the high needs.
Nonetheless, since the general election early this year the Central African Republic was touted as being on the road to recovery. In the past few weeks, spikes of violence across the country have dampened the enthusiasm; but still, the so-called "normalisation" led to a steady decrease in humanitarian budgets at country level.
As of today, only 28% of the necessary humanitarian aid budget for next year has been pledged, even though the needs remain huge: 850,000 people are internally displaced or have found refuge in a nearby country; 2.3 million, or half the country's population, rely on humanitarian assistance for survival. Things are not back to normal in CAR. "What does "normal" mean for a country that has been on a protracted crisis for decades? The most acute phase of the crisis may be over, but the problems are far from solved", says Emmanuel Lampaert, MSF's country representative in CAR.
The Monday morning market in Mbalazime, a village 12 kilometres from Bangassou, draws crowds into MSF-supported health centre located just next door. At the entrance, a sign proclaims "CARE IS FREE" and that makes a huge difference: a consultation in a nearby health post usually cost up to 3,000 CFA (6 Euro or R90). For the same price, you can buy a full plastic basin of rice, enough staple food to sustain a family for an entire month!
The local health centres and health posts, understocked and understaffed, struggle to offer proper service to the population, and the consequences of the lack of healthcare can be seen in the 118 beds MSF-supported regional hospital of Bangassou. On his third day on the job in the hospital, Dr Osmar Sosa Del Toro performed twelve surgeries. All of them urgent; most life-saving: for example, a woman who had her intestines perforated during a botched caesarean section a month earlier; or a six-month old baby with a severely infected abscess on his left leg. "He received an injection in a health centre one week ago. It was done poorly and became badly infected, which can lead to septic shock in such a young child", says Del Toro. Leafing through the admission log in the paediatric ward, we can see that such infections are common.
Across the yard, in the malnutrition room of the paediatric ward, Dr Ilaria Moneta does her rounds. Malnutrition, often as a result of repeated illnesses, is a chronic issue. "It's strange, because for the most part there is food in the homes of our patients. But it's very difficult for parents to motivate a sick child to eat and to know how to properly feed a child. It's a slippery slope: they're sick, so they don't eat, so they get weaker and fall ill again", sigh the paediatrician.
A recent report ranks CAR, along with Chad and Zambia, as the country most affected by malnutrition; but over the first half of 2016, barely 25% of the children suffering of malnutrition were receiving proper care, according to OCHA.
So far, the signs are not encouraging for the people of CAR: due to diminishing budgets some international NGOs have started to reduce their activities, even though, in Bangassou like everywhere else in the country, the needs remain enormous.
"If CAR was one of our patients, we could say that it's out of the emergency room indeed, but still in need of intensive care. Discharging it now would have tragic consequences," says Emmanuel Lampaert.
MSF Activities in Central African Republic
Notes on Bangassou project: MSF started activities in early 2014 in Bangassou, starting activities by supporting the regional university hospital of Bangassou. It is progressively increasing its reach through work with the community and in prevention activities.
Regional hospital: MSF supports the 118-beds reference hospital where all health centres refer the most severe cases for health district of Mbomou (206.000 inhabitants). It is a full hospital with paediatric, maternity, neonatology, internal medicine, surgery, and transport system to bring cases referred from six health centres in the district. MSF is currently building extra buildings to increase the hospital's capacity.
Health centres: MSF supports the health centres of Yongofongo, Mbalazine and Niakari (total population of 32.000), offering free primary care for all and training for the staff.
Vaccination: in 2015, vaccination coverage was below 50%. Because of the recent peak of violence the regular vaccination programme ground to a halt for a couple of year, when almost no young child was vaccinated within the routine programme after birth, leaving children vulnerable to easily preventable diseases. So MSF launched a catch-up vaccination campaign to protect 22.000 kids in the district against nine potentially deadly diseases: Hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, haemophilic influenza, measles, pneumonia, yellow fever.


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New Charges Filed Against 2 of 7 Texas Escapees
New charges of robbery have been filed against two of the seven convicts who escaped together earlier this month from a Texas prison, and officials have posted a $100,000 reward for their capture.
Since their Dec. 13 escape, when the seven fugitives loaded up with an arsenal of prison guards' weapons, they are suspected of robbing a store near Houston and killing a police officer during a robbery near Dallas on Christmas Eve.
Five of the fugitives were believed to have been spotted Thursday at a fast-food restaurant near Dallas, but most of the leads received on the men's whereabouts have gone nowhere, law enforcement officials said.
"We hope the high reward money will entice those people who have been assisting them in traveling and hiding," prison spokesman Larry Todd said Saturday. "We believe these are the same people who helped them make good on the escape."
The ringleader is believed to be George Rivas, an armed robber whom prosecutors have called "one of the most dangerous men in Texas."
On Friday, aggravated robbery charges were filed against Rivas and Donald Keith Newbury, 38, in connection with the Dec. 15 robbery of a Radio Shack in Pearland, a Houston suburb. Victims said the men tied up store employees and customers and then looted the store and the victims' pockets.
The Pearland robbery was similar to the Christmas Eve heist in Irving, where two dozen employees were tied up in the back of an Oshman's sporting goods store. Irving Police Officer Aubrey Hawkins was killed when he approached the robbers behind the store.
The Irving Police Department is offering the $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of those responsible for Hawkins' death.
Rivas, 30, was involved in more than a dozen robberies in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona from 1987 to 1994. He was finally caught after a three-hour standoff in El Paso and was sentenced to 99 years.
Texas authorities won't discuss any leads they are pursuing or what security measures they are taking for the fugitives' victims and prosecutors. Some relatives are clearly frightened.
A couple who years ago adopted one member of the group, 23-year-old Randy Halprin, have fled the state with their two preteen children, afraid that he might try to return to their home in Dalworthington Gardens, near Fort Worth. Halprin was serving 30 years for injury to a child.
Relatives of another of the fugitives, Patrick Henry Murphy Jr., went on television in Dallas on Thursday night, pleading for him to surrender. Murphy was serving 50 years for aggravated sexual assault with a deadly weapon and burglary in Dallas.
"Patrick, wherever you are, just please stop this violence and turn yourself in," said a tearful Kristina Rogers, Murphy's younger half sister. "You know you weren't raised to do this. Just stop the pain that the family is going through."
The other escapees are Michael Rodriguez, 38, serving a life sentence for capital murder in San Antonio; Larry Harper, 37, serving 50 years for aggravated sexual assault in El Paso; Joseph Garcia, 29, serving 50 years for murder in San Antonio; and Newbury, serving 99 years for aggravated robbery.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
The All-American Rejects? Never heard of them. Until this morning, when I heard they'd done a song for Taylor Swift at the CMT Artists of the Year taping. At the Nashville event last night (Nov. 29), the band blended her song, "Mean," and their own hit, "Gives You Hell." I'll have to wait until the show airs on Dec. 13 to actually see and hear it, but for now, I am loving that Swift has introduced me to a song, band and sound I might not have discovered otherwise. And mash-up-wise, this song makes a pretty perfect partner for the message in "Mean." Like that song, "Gives You Hell" is all about not always seeing eye-to-eye with someone. To put it mildly. Now if you'll excuse me, I have almost nine years of this Oklahoma-born band's songs to download.


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My four walls. My palace. My private sanctuary.
This is where I am who I am. Where the mask is peeled off, where the walls that surround me, see me uncensored, in my most natural state.
It's behind these walls that my soul is anchored.
A shiny silver spider web glistens in the sunlight and dances with the breeze outside. I can see it, right there, within an arms reach, gripping for dear life to my lounge room window. I really should clean it away—perhaps I'll leave it there a little longer—for what is a window, without a web? A lifeless piece of glass.
The worn shutters hang faded and broken, but all I see are a decade of sweet seasons, bursting into life as they penetrate my windows, and shed their light.
The walls, splashed with scuff marks could do with a paint, but all I see are two little boys, full of the joys of life, crashing into them with sheer delight. Smudging their dirty shoes, school bags and food filled fingers obliviously across their cream coloured surface, with a beautiful sense of childlike freedom.
All I see is my much loved furry companion collapsing against these walls, his tongue falling out of his mouth, gasping for air after he's run with the wind, and sniffed and played and chased tennis balls, all afternoon with his family. The wall, serving as a support for his well exercised bones.
The tiles are dated—but they've had my children's footprints growing on them for days and weeks and years. They've carried the weight of their childhood, as they've metamorphosed from babies to young lads, one fast growing step after another. An invisible canvas, warmly holding in its possession, the history of a zillion footsteps.
The washing machine is tired and rusty, but I am thankful for its hard work. Tirelessly, it throws around our laundry, that bares the evidence. The evidence of our existence. Our clothes are clad with experiences. Spillage of a blissful coffee had with friends, sweat from a wicked workout, dirt, spare coinage, pens forgotten in pockets, buttons that have escaped, grass on white shirts, mouldy towels, wet shoes from camp. It labours, to wash the memories clean, so that we may make more.
Six million pairs of well worn shoes lay strewn at my front door. Each one telling its own unique story. A long stroll on the beach? A gruelling training session? A trip to the park? A holiday miles from home? They belong there, exactly as they fell, in perfect disorder.
The front door key, it sticks. We should probably fix that—but one click to the left, one small lean to the right, push the glass just a tiny little bit, and it opens. Like clockwork. The answer lies within the secret code and that's all we need.
The passageway is adorned with old wedding photos. Moments of the past boxed in a frame, to remind us that we have lived. I haven't looked at them for so long, I'd almost forgotten they were there. Oh look, there's Granny, and Mum and Dad in their younger years, all spruced up, smiling at me, as they hang up there. They are leaning, the wire that carries them is a little off centre. A tiny adjustment, and they are perfect, once again.
My favourite couch is sinking into its boots, but it is still warm from where the dog took up position a few minutes ago. He sleeps blissfully unconscious on many an occasion, in that very spot. It's a place to rest our weary heads after a long day, a sick bed for the unwell, a front row seat at the movies, a meeting place for family discussions, a stand-in trampoline, a secret hiding spot, and centre stage for the wrestling match of a lifetime, that echoes the laughter and giggles of ages.
The aged dining room table has mismatched chairs, but all I see is the heart. The heart that beats to the drum of time. It has hosted many a nail biting card game, precious stories told only once, celebrations, dinners and banter, it's where secrets and grievances have been revealed and dealt with, timetables learnt, it's seen Christmas dinners, Easter egg feasts, and fairy bread and chocolate crackles for umpteen sequential years.
I look around me, and quietly observe the imperfections inside my four walls. However it occurs to me that it's the imperfections that contain the most character. It's the imperfections that make my four walls uniquely mine, that represent a life lived, that represent the growth and uniqueness of my nearest and dearest.
Imperfect? I say perfect.
For the real value, at the end of the day, is not in the four walls themselves—but in the life lived behind them.
Post this in your Kitchen: 10 Tips for a Mindful Home.
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Cuttings provide a cheap and often easy method of reproducing a desired specimen: a certain tomato plant or favorite rose. However, the new plant is a clone of the first, is genetically identical, and shares the same weaknesses and strengths of the original plant. Thus, your rhubarb or rubber plant may be identical to your neighbours', and importantly, can be equally susceptible to the same problems.
This section covers general principles. Specific techniques relating to stem cuttings and heel cuttings are covered separately. Additionally, we deal with leaf cuttings, root cuttings, and grafting on other pages.
Growing from cuttings is easiest for non-woody plants. Deciduous trees and shrubs are also fairly easy in spring; hardwoods and some evergreens may prove difficult.
Most plants are reproducible in this manner, though some coaxing may be needed. Plants that have been pruned in the previous growing season produce the most vigorous shoots and are most likely to root well. Rooting hormone or willow extract can significantly aid with difficult plants: stand cuttings in willow extract for one or two days, then pot, or water with willow tea after potting. See relevant section.
Use only new growth from young specimens, if possible. Plants should ideally be pruned back the previous fall, so that the new, healthy and very vigorous stock may be used as material for cuttings. Use a sharp, clean knife. Keep cuttings moist and cool until ready to pot up, and ideally take these in the early morning, an hour or two after watering.
Softwood cuttings taken in the spring usually work best; plant immediately. Grow in good indirect light, temperatures of 60-80F/15-27C, and in a humid atmosphere: mist frequently, or enclose the pot in a plastic bag, allowing it to breathe several minutes daily. Bottom heat may help.
Semi-hard or semi-ripe cuttings are taken from mid-summer to early fall, and are harder to grow, but share the same requirements.
Hardwood cuttings are taken at the start of the dormant season, when leaves have dropped, and as such, humidity is less a priority. These are often overwintered in a cold frame, with new growth expected the next spring.
Grow cuttings in a rooting medium consisting of well-draining soil or peat mixed with sand, perlite or vermiculite. Peat mixtures especially will be sterile and protect against disease. Cuttings, especially if harder to root, may be tied into small bundles prior to planting. Protect, and watch for fungal infection.
Inspect regularly for growth, and pot up into small pots. Rooted specimens should resist a gentle tug; if not yet rooted, stick back into the medium. Remove and discard rotting specimens.
Some cuttings will even root in water (plant up if roots are 1" long), or reproduce by runners which may be rested onto fresh, moistened compost until the new plantlets grows roots, after which they are severed from the parent plant.
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While watching Scooby-Doo...
Presley: Mom, do you think that's cweepy?
Mom: No, because I know it isn't real.
Presley: Would you be scared if it was real?
Mom: Probably. Would you be scared?
Presley: No, because I would just run for my life... with skating shoes.
Mylie: Mom, you know something I've been wondering... how are babies made? I mean... is it just a lot of happiness that builds up and turns into a baby?
Me: {Very Scientific Explanation Interlude}
Mylie: Oh. Do you think Uncle Michael and Auntie Alycia are going to do that?
This boy will be ten years old in six weeks. What?!?!
Miss Sassy Pants and her little sister and big brother


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QuadPara Association of South Africa (QASA) Job Opening February 2019
The QuadPara Association of South Africa (QASA) is an NPO of quadriplegics and paraplegics with the vision that all quadriplegics and paraplegics will live their lives to their full potential.
QASA provides products; projects and services as well as lobby and advocacy and prevention programs to ensure the vision, mission and goals are achieved. It is well known that people with disabilities in South Africa have historically been socially and economically isolated by discriminatory attitudes and policies.
Job Title: National Fundraiser
Job Location: Gillitts, KwaZulu-Nata
The Fundraiser will engage in fundraising and awareness for QASA. A proven record of generating donor funds to a value of at least R6-10m per annum, the incumbent will be able to expand the donor base, increase existing funds, and extend the visibility of the organisation within the business and commercial sector basis.
Key areas of responsibility will include:
- Developing and writing of proposals, grant/funding opportunity research, seeking opportunities and managing grant compliance and reporting
- Be to be able to identify new areas of funding and to access possible new sources of income
- Able to nurture and develop strong relationships with donors, keep them informed of actions within the organisation and to give sound reporting on donor funds to reassure them of the use of their contributions
- Ability to run the database of donors and keep accurate records of funding
- Managing/facilitating the grant application process
The National Fundraiser must have and be able to demonstrate:
- A proven track-record in fundraising, preferably in raising funds from corporates
- A minimum of 3 year's experience in proposal writing, either and preferably in a non-profit organisation or in the commercial/corporate sector
- Experience in Marketing and PR and have been involved in developing the strategic direction of fundraising in previous positions
- Sound Marketing and Communication skills, with extensive written and verbal skills in English in order to handle grants and proposals, and to be a strong planner and organizer
- Ability to establish and maintain professional relationships and enduring organisational support
- Researching and approaching (national and international) FOIs (foundation, organisation and Institutions), trusts, government agencies and other bodies that could potentially make grants/donations to QASA
- Proven ability to develop and write excellent proposals
- An understanding of the local and international donors, the NGO sector and fundraising trends
- The ability to take initiative / see opportunities
- Ability to work under pressure, and willing to work after hours when faced with deadlines
- A team player who also works well independently
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Competent use of Microsoft Office
- Skill in use of research techniques in both print and electronic media
Email your application by Wednesday, 20 February 2019 to email@example.com


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Table of Contents:
I. Succession Policies
II. Bits & Pieces
Hello everyone.
"And the beat goes on.................."
I. Succession Policies
"Talkin' bout my generation.............."
Wayne Lawson, Executive Director of the Ohio Arts Council and Shelley Cohn, Executive Director of the Arizona Arts Commission (the state agencies) are both retiring after long careers in their posts. Together they have over 50 years of experience at the helm of their respective state arts agencies. Both are as smart, savvy, intelligent and gifted leaders as I have ever met in the field. Both have probably forgotten more about arts administration than I will ever know. Both have served the field well and made innumerable contributions to the arts. We all stand on their shoulders in many ways. Our field has hundreds of such gifted leaders, many of whom are similarly weighing the decision to retire or otherwise exit the field in the near term.
Their decisions to leave their agencies after such long tenures made me think of two related issues -1) succession - how do we transition new leadership; and 2) wisdom - how do we protect the institutional memory and facilitate the maintenance of leadership experience and knowledge?
Wayne will teach at the University level, and Shelley will probably consult. Both will stay involved at some level in the arts. But these new posts won't necessarily take full advantage of their invaluable experience and knowledge, as the number of people who will directly benefit from that experience and storehouse of knowledge will be relatively small.
New blood is a good thing. Leadership transition brings new energy and new ways of looking at things. In any event, it is inevitable. And there are outstanding people in our field moving up. The issue attendant to succession that I am concerned with is how are we best preparing our new leaders and those that will, over time, move to the forefront in our field? What is going on out there that approaches that issue systemically and strategically. Doubtless some organizations have in place plans for succession, and plans for the transfer of knowledge and the mentoring by experienced leaders over time. Is there anything more we ought to be doing that will improve these approaches, and that might widen their application to the benefit of more organizations?
Perhaps even more critical is what might be done to make sure that the knowledge and experience of people like Wayne and Shelley is shared with the widest number of people as they exit the field. Is there some program that might be created to enhance our efforts to make sure that their wisdom is passed on and not lost? So much of one generation's wisdom is often lost in the American system, and in the nonprofit world that sometimes results in us wasting time by continually addressing issues in the same way that have already been addressed.
I remember when I first came to head the California Arts Council. I found, in my office, a box of reports on various conferences on a range of arts issues. I thumbed through one such conference agenda and report on Arts Education, and I noted that it was attended by an 'A' List of experts, and considered the primary issues. The report was replete with excellent analysis of the salient issues in arts education, and included truly outstanding strategies to approach those issues. I thought: "Wow, this was a great conference. How come I wasn't invited to this one?" Then I noted on the cover that this conference had been held thirteen years before. And here we were, discussing the same issues, making the same points, coming to the same conclusions thirteen years later. That is, to some extent, inevitable of course - progress often comes slowly. But, there must be some way that what came before can be part of the education of all of us here now so that we can save some time in re-inventing a wheel that already exists. Many reports from great conferences get lost and are never accessed again, and that seems a mistake.
Somehow we need to manage our knowledge base better and figure out how to transition that knowledge across the board, so we can make better use of our time in continual struggles to address basic priorities.
II. Bits & Pieces:
*Americans for the Arts Action Fund: Have you joined yet? It's only $20 and you get to be part of the arts first national political effort - the success of which will depend on the number of people who get involved. Go to their website: www.artsusa.org
Two different scenarios (From the Cultural Policy Center newsletter):
*Detroit to close Department of Arts: "The city is booming with talent and amazing cultural gems. Yet, just when communities throughout Michigan are building economic development strategies based on the strengths of vibrant cultural activities, we learn the City of Detroit has decided to close the Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism in an attempt to reduce the city's $300-million budget shortfall." The president of ArtServe Michigan argues for the department's reinstatement, citing the educational, community development, quality of life, economic, and other benefits of the arts and culture.
*Wichita saves the arts: "It took some maneuvering, but Wichita city leaders got all the money they wanted for the arts. The city manager's proposed 2006 budget left the arts about $400,000 short. Tuesday, council members made sure it added up to $2.6 million."
Have a great week.
Don't Quit.


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One time, after walking through the NY Auto Show's expansive Javits Center, I hailed a cab to the hotel uptown. A well-worn Ford Crown Victoria with the requisite thick plexiglass between the seats, the large electronic meter, vinyl bench seats and a stale smell of something spilled that was never wiped nor cleaned, the driver noted there could be 20,000 to 30,000 yellow cars canvassing the city that never sleeps.
While all are different – the first gen Honda Odysseys were popular for their room and small footprint – a new livery vehicle was pressed into service this week when Nissan's NV200T rang up its fire fare at JFK airport.
Eight Nissan dealerships in the New York City region now have the NV200T available for purchase by New York City medallion owners. These major milestones mark the next phase in Nissan's commitment to deliver the most innovative, custom-designed taxi experience ever to the more than 600,000 people who ride in New York City taxicabs every day.
"The Nissan NV200T demonstrates the company's leadership in advancing global mobility through modern vehicle design and technology," said Andy Palmer, executive vice president for Nissan Motor Company. "From its fuel-efficient powertrain, to its space-saving design and passenger-centric interior, the Nissan taxi is a prime example of innovative spirit that goes into all Nissan vehicles. We are excited to see the NV200T now carrying passengers around Manhattan, and look forward to bringing the same NV200T experience to drivers and passengers in new markets outside New York."
Designed From the Inside Out
Designed with input from passengers and drivers alike, one of the Nissan's most revealing elements is the transparent roof that gives riders stunning views of city sights and skyscrapers. Other new features include:
• Ample room for four passengers and their luggage, offering substantial improvements over current and recently-unveiled taxi models;
• Sliding doors with entry step and grab handles, providing easy entry and exit;
• Opening side windows;
• Independently controlled rear air conditioning;
• Active Carbon-lined headliner to help neutralize interior odors;
• Overhead reading lights for passengers and floor lighting to help locate belongings;
• Mobile charging ports for passengers, including a 12-volt electrical outlet and two USB ports;
• Breathable, antimicrobial, environment-friendly, durable and easy-to-clean seat fabric, simulating the look and feel of leather; and
• Flat "no hump" passenger floor area for more comfortable ride.
Other notable NV200T features focus on driver comfort, customer satisfaction and the environment:
- Proven 2.0L 4-cylinder powertrain, engineered to enhance the emission performance and fuel efficiency of the taxi fleet;
- 150,000 mile powertrain warranty;
- A low-annoyance horn with exterior lights that indicate when the vehicle is honking, so the horn is used less frequently;
- A 6-way adjustable driver's seat featuring both recline and lumbar adjustments, even with a partition installed;
- Unique driver's seat material and stitching to promote improved airflow;
- USB auxiliary audio input and charge port for driver;
- Standard navigation system with integrated rearview backup monitor;
- Hearing Loop System for the hearing impaired;
- Driver and passenger intercom system; and
- All necessary wiring and installation provisions.
In what may be an historical nod to another Nissan van that had read sliding doors, the Axxis years ago, the NV200T features dual sliders but with entry steps and grab handles to provide easy entry and exit. Sliding doors and door-opening warning lamps also lessen the risk of pedestrians, cyclists and other motorists getting struck when doors open unexpectedly. Thus, the bicycle messenger in NYC may have a chance of not getting side swiped by an opened door and exiting passenger.
The NV200T was the first New York taxi to be crash-tested with taxi equipment installed, including the partition. It features front and rear-seat occupant curtain airbags, and seat-mounted airbags for the front row along with standard traction control and Vehicle Dynamic Control.
Manufactured at the company's assembly plant in Cuernavaca, Mexico and rigorously tested at its Arizona proving grounds, the Nissan NV200T has logged more than 155,000 miles for its Broadway debut.
The N200T carries an MSRP of $29,700.
Changing the Taxi Worldwide
Nissan's new taxi design will make its way into international cities such as: London, Paris, Tokyo and Bangkok, to explore how the company can support delivery of custom taxi solutions – whether gasoline, hybrid, electric, handicap accessible or any other desired configuration.


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Famigo Launches To Help Families Find Appropriate Smartphone Apps For Kids [News]
Anyone with kids know they when they bring out the iPhone or Android they immediately want to grab it and play with it. The question is, once they have it, what applications are acceptable for them to play with? Well Famigo realized that this was a problem, and they have built a website specifically designed to find applications that are appropriate for kids to play with. They have a team of reviewers that look at every app before it is featured on their website.
Users can sort apps by a number of parameters including the highest rated, the most popular, staff favorites and whether or not the applications are free. Each application offers a quick little breakdown to let parents know what it offers for children. This gives parents a quick overview of whether or not an application is something they think their kids could benefit from or not.
They also offer a quick section called "Cool" which lists the positives of an app and "Drool" which quickly goes over the main negatives in the application.
With the countless amount of applications available on iTunes and the Android Market, a website like this is an incredible way for parents to find the right things to entertain their children.
Source: TechCrunch
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Ancient Egyptians came up with inventive ways of burying their dead, preserving them for the afterlife. Starting with Mastabas, this method "burial chamber method" quickly changed and evolved to the building of the Pyramids. There are thought to be over 100 pyramids across Egypt, but the most famous are the pyramids on the Giza Plateau. These three pyramids sit next to each other on the edge of the ever encroaching, sprawling city of Cairo, and were built for Pharaohs Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. They are impressive to say the least and it's quite overwhelming to stand in front of them and imagine how they were constructed.
Roads now wind their way around the plateau leading visitors from the pyramids, to high desert views and back to the funerary buildings and tombs. There are satellite pyramids by some of the main pyramids – these are smaller pyramids dedicated to the wives and other family members of the Pharaohs. There is also a small museum next to one of the pyramids that houses a boat called the Solar Boat that was found in a pit close on the site. It is thought to have belonged to Pharaoh Khufu.
On the Giza plateau there is also a range of interesting funerary buildings, the Great Sphinx, Sphinx temples and a causeway that leads from the Sphinx to Khafre's pyramid. The site is also home to three cemeteries; the Great Western, Eastern and Southern Cemetries where skilled workers who built the pyramids were laid to rest and a workers village.
Situated at the end of a causeway that leads to Khafre's pyramid is the Sphinx, a well known monument the Sphinx is mythical depiction with the head of a human and body of a lion. Between it's feet sit a stele, called the dream step, that is said to record a dream that Tuthmosis IV had about becoming Pharaoh.
The Giza Plateau is fascinating, as it shows how Egyptian life worked thousands of years ago. How workers were looked after, both in life and death, and how important it was to pharaohs to show that in death they would be remembered for ever. Thousands of years later, tourists still visit the plateau and gaze in awe at the pyramids, taking in the surroundings. I feel privileged to have visited them and I was shocked at the sheer size of them, it's something you can't really understand until you see them for yourself.
Wind Across the Nile
The book description:
Can she survive where her ancestors failed?
Suffering with grief after the tragic death of her family, Cora Thomas flees to Egypt, desperate to escape the overwhelming loss.
In Luxor, she meets gruff Egyptologist Nick Foster who wants little to do with her, and his employee Sam, who instantly becomes a much sought-after friend.
As she settles into life along the Nile, discovering the country's vast history and culture, Cora learns about the contents of an old diary discovered in her parents' home. As the diary's story unfolds, it reveals hardship, love, tragedy and a potentially life-threatening family feud spanning generations.
From the rolling hills of the Scottish Highlands to the ruinous sands of the Egyptian desert, Wind across the Nile is a story of unbreakable family bonds, adversity and self-preservation.
Wind Across the Nile is available on ebook and paperback.
Chrissie is an author who loves history and enjoys travelling and days out exploring. www.chrissieparker.com


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A Southern California school district has placed four teachers on administrative leave after a photo surfaced showing the group smiling as one held a small noose in a classroom.
Palmdale School District Superintendent Raul Maldonado said in a statement this week that he is appalled and has also placed the principal of Summerwind Elementary School on leave pending an investigation.
"Late afternoon (May 8) it has been brought to the Palmdale School District's attention that an incident involving the discovery of a noose and possibly inappropriate responses to that discovery occurred at Summerwind Elementary School," he said in the statement posted on the district's Facebook page.
U.S. & World
The district, which is investigating the intentions of the teachers, did not identify the teachers.
The school's website lists the principal as Linda Brandts.
A telephone listing for her could not be found.
Two African American women said they were pulling their children out of the school.
Tierra Harris emotionally explained to her daughter why she was being removed from the school.
"Do you know what they use that for? The use that to hang African American people," she said.
Breyon Clemons said she was pulling her child out for good.
"My child will not walk onto this plantation, absolutely not," she said.
Maldonado, the superintendent, said the situation is not a reflection of the community.
"We don't tolerate that type of behavior in our community, in our school district. We hold our employees to the highest standards with high expectations," he said.
Palmdale is a city of more than 150,000 in the high desert region of northern Los Angeles County.


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End of Days
by Cam M. Roberts
Onwards I ride nearing the western
Skyline, hanging low to squat
In the time-still constipation, the red
Clouds scanter wildly in their rash
While the crows gambling further
Hang 'round, inflamed are they,
Wherein an unrelenting tempest commences
to scratch the puffing fester of day –
It geysers out suddenly burning the outer
Rim of the horizon, screaming holiest of holy hymns;
bleeding its darkness onto the ground. It drabbles
The cracked earth to sleep as your slowing breath
catches up, along with the horse's clacketing requiem –
The sun comes like a dream, soft – A scarlet broth.
Then like wisdom, retreats behind the nimbus'
Thunderheads, a wolf salivating and foaming
Quiet-like behind its keystone prey:
This is the sacrifice of survival.
The faint rays nevertheless tighten
like derelict and tarnished Teeth,
polished up for use, a gaudy solipsism.
A Nightmare – It is Here.
But it soon ends, just as it begins,
Again –
The silhouette glows amid the murder of crows
While the haze of a sheer soul dissipates, faded
fragments that strike the whites from eyes, then
like the struggle of an unforeseen curse resurrected
from whence it fell to its end – Flickers on the iris rings
the wrought lightning's purr, the electric claws nurse you
into paranoia until you seize up and behold it
through listening to its song.
A swearing off of peace, all Hell to be broken loose
Upon the return, where they shall not only inherit the earth,
But declare your light theirs as they swallow you up
and spew you out on all four stomachs of the cow.
And so, the sterile voice you hear dims, at last, the silenced evening.
This fear departs, and you go on doing as you had done,
You are not ignorant of it, it was a choice,
To go on, to go on living, fissuring the shades
on your way going out –
Whenever that is
To be.


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Farooq Raza Alteejani
Dear Hesham,regarding to Sir Zaid Hamid what ever was his past,but he is a best one now,I never heard from over all his speeches that he tried to mislead or miscalculate the present scenario and just through emotional attitude toward his audience,he and I think you missed so many lectures of Sir Zaid Hamid which he clearly deliberated on Economics and Politics with their solutions,because most of you just point on problem which is obvious, but don't have solution or can't defined,I think your concept against Zaid Hamid is not clearly neither you declare him totally fraud nether you willing to accept him or his Ideology,and of course its because Yousuf Ali and even on Yousuf Ali I did not found from you words that he proclaimed in front you as false prophet you just assumed that,and Zaid already cleared he have no relation with Yousuf Ali thought concept and theory,as I investigated in Yousuf Ali mater I found him as deviant person,but I do not see any single word in oral or written that he is proclaiming false prophet hood,even the audio cassette which is only substantial evidence he clearly announced that he is deputy of Rasoollah (of course this is deviancy)so this case was so confused at least to me ,how ever he is expired and Zaid never ever in all his lectures dragged his listener to the Yousuf Ali,now I wondering on AMKNT attitude they giving fully stand against Zaid Hamid only on buried story,but did ever you heard that there is a Man call Shekh Ameen in Multan and he is clearly doing blasphemy, his speeches can find on youtube easily,why AMKNT is not gathering against this person why the case until yet did not filed against him,for whom they are waiting,believe me Zaid not going to proclaim false prophet hood,but he is only and only until yet come out as true muslim who challenged Farouns of times not these Zombies Mullah and neither any of any take the stand as Sir Zaid Hamid made we was lost our hope,but Zaid who pored in our heart hope again and Inshllah Ghazw e Hind we will completion by our hands,this is believe.
Hesham A Syed:
I know Zaid much better than any one of you could ever know – I knew of Yusuf much better than you all can ever know – With all my sincerity , I wanted to pull the scoundler Yusuf out of his satanic illusions and Zaid from the satanic spell and childish impulses – I have always supported Zaid for his positive work but I can not respect a person on the cost of Hurmatey Rasool or following a deviant ideology , a defender of declared and proven gustaakhey Rasool ( sav ) – I dont know where you have been living , what you have been reading , whom you have been listening to – Please go to http://zaidhamidexposition.org/ and also read all my articles on this subject in Catagory Cult – specially a few like : Mirage or Miraaj + Cult in the making + Impersonating Muhammed ( sav ) + My comment on Mardey Kamil kaa wasiat Nama + and many more of my poems and articles on the subject which have also been posted at :
You know my views on Ghuzwatey Hind – This was much spoken by Yusuf Kazab and he even told me that I will participate in this episode as a Mujahid because he expected till that time that I will be able to buy him a house in defence Lahore – He was a hoax and a Thug – When Zaid speaks and lectures about these things he resonates and reminds me of Yusuf only – I have interacted with Zaid constantly as late as last month where I have been pursuing that he should come out clean by declaring Yusuf as Kazab but Zaid resistance or refusal to do so and still defend a gustaakhey Rasool publicly on video makes his position dubios – Trust me that if Ghuzwaatey Hind is to take place , it will never happen the way Zaid is pursuing and Allah will never assign any one who follows the foot prints of a gustaakhey Rasool and respect that gustaakh so much that he cant call him a Kazab / an imposter. Ghuzwat is a holy war and it has to be lead by righteous people.
Read what Zaid ex-wife also has to say about him at ZHE site.
If by going through all the materials on the websites I have mentioned above, you still cant find any thing wrong with Yusuf and Zaid then I would be sorry for you and you may follow this Cult to a destiny which will end no where but to Hell.
God may help you and guide you to the right path.
Source: Hesham A Syed.


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Bones 3D App for human skeleton anatomy
It also has a feature to take photos or snapshots of the model which are saved in a folder Bones3d, in your images folder.
It is a multilingual App, The circular menu above displays options to select from several different international languages. The Color pallet will mark different bones with separate colors. The Semi circular Arrow is the Auto Rotate menu. You need to touch it again to stop rotating. You can slide your fingers to rotate, use the tow finger expanding gesture to enlarge the view and closing fingers gesture to compact the view.
The rightmost icon will take a snapshot of the current view of the model and save it in a folder.
You can also watch a video of this App in action.


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Here is something interesting for you to think about. Many people have not heard about the ECHELON Project. The Echelon project is a global worldwide spying network that specializes on 'signal-intelligence' (SIGINT) as opposed to 'human-intelligence' (HUMINT). You can learn more about Echelon by its Wiki entry.
Also see the following articles at the end of this post.
Many of you reading this post, might be wondering okay – so what? Well, in this part of the world, a lot of traffic goes through fiber-optic cables (submarine based). Now unlike traditional radio signals, a fiber-optic signal does not 'leak' or radiate information. So if the US government wants to try to tap these cables – it has to cut-them and then tap them.
Of late, you will start noticing a LOT of Internet Submarine Cable cuts – coincidence? Maybe! But, think about the USS Jimmy Carter a highly advanced submarine – and what it is designed to do. Its designed to do signal-tapping, specifically fiber-optic taps. Could it just be that the USS Jimmy Carter has now placed taps into the cable systems – I can bet you your bottom dollar – that they have!
– NSA eavesdropping: How it might work
– NSA tapping undersea fibers?
– Eavesdropping 101 – What can the NSA do?
– USS Jimmy Carter – a super spy?
– USS Carter Will Be Able to Eavesdrop
By the way – the NSA which stands for National Security Agency – is commonly referred to in Washington as NSA (No Such Agency).


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Want to learn how to do your make-up like a professional and create the perfect smokey eye? Or, are you looking to pick up a few tricks of the trade when it comes to the perfect updo for your wedding? Then you might want to take a closer look at the Norwich based Sunday Beauty School. Co-founded by hairstylist extraordinaire Amy, Flamingo Amy and leading make-up artist Emily, Love Moi Makeup; the Sunday Beauty School operates from the premises of Flint Hair Salon in Norwich on the third Sunday of every other month. Emily and Amy are well renowned and have recently collaborated on this project to extend their knowledge to participants at their workshop classes.
These images are the product of being commissioned to document the Beauty School's Glamorous 1940s Hair and Hollywood Skin class earlier this month. I was pleased to be able to go along and to capture some frames but what I wasn't expecting was, into the bargain, I would pick up some killer tips on how do create the perfect Victory Rolls, or, find my perfect foundation! But then them's the perks ;-) All I need do now is grow my hair out…just a little!
Both Emily and Amy are also available for your wedding hair and makeup and come highly recommended!
I hope you enjoy these images. If you're interested in finding out more about the school, you can contact either Amy, or, Emily, via the links above. And if you're looking for a photographer…please do get in touch here.
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Love the victory rolls. :) Great images of what seems like a very cool class! :DReply
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