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|Growin Pretty Hair with Bend-Leg Francie
The bend-leg Francie pictured above was my very first Francie doll. Her head is slightly darker while her eyebrows are very light but her body is in excellent condition. She first came to me with a mismatched left arm, which the seller I got her from has since replaced. I still have that fake arm! She's probably the most loved and fussed over Francie doll in my collection, just because she's the first. I remember combing her hair and rewetting it a few times to reset that flip. Her legs have also been washed and powdered a few times for a "like new" look. Of course, Growin Pretty Hair has been vying for that affection lately.


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The penny continues to enjoy overwhelming support from a majority of Americans, and for good reason. It plays an important role in our everyday lives and in our nation's economy, and alternatives have consumer and social costs. Consumers benefit with a low denomination coin, with the penny helping keep high prices in check for millions of America's hardworking families. The penny also fuels charitable causes, allowing America's wonderful charities to raise millions of dollars.
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An overwhelming and increasing number of Americans want to keep the penny. A 2014 poll conducted by Americans for Common Cents found over two-thirds (68%) of those surveyed favor keeping the penny in circulation.
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A Gallup Organization poll in 1990 and Opinion Research Corporation surveys conducted in 1995, 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2012 show Americans are persuaded by several factors, such as antipathy toward price rounding. And a 1992 CNN/Time survey conducted by Yankelovich found 74 percent of Americans support keeping the penny in circulation.
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You are on this list because you have either been fabulously creative on past IS183 decorating committees or are interested in helping this year. If you don't remember building the four horsepower motorized chicken in 2008, this is all the more reason to get involved this year. It's mid February, your skin is white, it's time to get out of the house and do something fun with someone other than your kitty cat. The Hairball promises to be another bizarre party held March 14 Feb 11th at the new Shakespeare theater. We have lots of ideas for things to be constructed, glued and painted. We need to make crazy wigs and all sorts of things. So we are having a meeting this Wednesday night 7:00 PM. Please attend if you can, it will probably be the last meeting we have. However if you can't make it, we will happily hook you up with a project. Please RSVP one choice below:
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|2011-05-02, 23:39
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Despite all its flaws, I still like IS. It already has different plot points that can be built up at any time to advance the story but the author probably thinks it's too early (wants to write more volumes?).
The sentient being in ByakuShiki's core, why Ichika can pilot an IS, Ichika being contacted by Squall of Phantom Task, Madoka and why she looks just like Chifuyu, the secret of rank S aptitude which will probably lead to exposing some secrets of IS and Chifuyu, Tabane's relation to Houki/Chifuyu/Phantom Task. why Tabane's training Houki and why she said that Houki is strong like in the past etc.
I just think of it that we are currently in a training arc. Can't exactly start the fight with the enemy organization when even the Academy's strongest student (Tatenashi) is having a hard time versus one of PT's members. A little funny though, it's not Ichika that seems to be getting better but the girls (Cecilia's flexible, all the powerups that Houki got). When Chifuyu starts getting involved or the main characters start reaching a level where they can believably put up a good fight, the plot will probably move.
And on a personal note since we seem to be talking about the comparison to Index, I got into the Index series when volume 20 was released so I'm probably half-expecting IS to match the intensity of its World War 3 arc (which I know is an incredibly unfair expectation).
|2011-05-03, 00:11
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though if you read a lot of epic stories, I thought it was obvious that he was preparing the stage, with new characters and concepts and groups and details of the mechanics of the world, though as to what it would be would be a question mark at that point in time. I used to be a dungeon master for D&D, and that's how I set the stage for a 2-year campaign.
|2011-05-03, 00:34
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anime berkeley
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There are some interesting foreshadows in IS, though still early. Chifuyu may NOT have an IS anymore. Ichika dreamed of TWO IS characters in his injured slumber. Could it be....?
The premise of IS is quite interesting. The invention of IS relegated the entire modern army. The female only(?) activation of IS empowered the women, who are less aggressive and more diplomatic than men. The dispersion of IS cores ensures global balance of power. Put together this sounds like a mad scientist's scheme for world peace, or an evil organization's plot for new world order. Perhaps both. Perhaps they're working together, for now.
IS is that it is (That's a mouthful) an unapologetic excuse for a harem story. It requires major suspension of believes. The biggest one, to me, is that if a technology revolutionized warfare, how can its pilots be permitted to live in an open society, without constant security scrutiny, have privacy, and susceptible to assassination attempts. In EVA where the enemies aren't even human, the pilots are tailed head to toe. IS..... never mind. Just shut off all extraneous processes in your brain and enjoy the harem antics.
|2011-05-03, 01:09
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Cecilia well, it's a teenage girl falling in love - that by itself explains a lot of things (in anime/manga/LNs anyway...).
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Basically, his trick is probably limited to Ignition Boost into range and start stabbing/slashing - not like he can use his sword into some kind of barrier-piercing beam, eg F/SN Excalibur style...
|2011-05-03, 01:25
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|2011-05-03, 01:47
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Not to mention he now has Setsura. Use Setsura first while looking for a full opening before attacking with Yukihira dang it! And use the skill you have learned to evade enemy attack instead of taking them and reducing your shield energy unless you're almost completely certain you'll hit them. It's tiring seeing him not have enough energy all the time from recklessly using Yukihira or getting hit. It's very understandable for the first few battle, but to do it all the time? That's just stupid.
I agree about the story is like the story of some random bloke's daily life, and about the lack of effort in tracking the bad guy although it's been implied here and there that Phantom Task is being tracked after vol 5's incident, but there's no way Ichika can be sent for some action outside the IS academy, considering the rights for his IS citizenship is still being debated(stated in vol 6). Unless a country specifically request for it, I doubt IS academy would sent him into action outside the school since they do still want to keep their independence, not to mention he doesn't have the skill yet to be sent on a serious mission unless it's extremely urgent like in vol 3. Once words got out he got sent for action outside the academy's jurisdiction, the academy will lose its status as a mere school and academy and get treated as a small political district like a certain academy city. We're not talking about some peace-keeping organization when talking about IS academy here, just a normal academy that deals with IS training and happened to be independent.
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|2011-05-03, 02:52
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IS citizenship, huh. So it has full sovereign nation status, not just some kind of treaty status (yes, I know this was discussed in the anime, but in international law there is some delineation between a piece of land that countries agree by treaty not to touch and a full sovereign nation, which needs a full government, population, defined territory and de jure indepedence). We've never seen any passport stations when they go shopping though, and they just walk around Japan no issues. I suppose they get Japan-visas or temporary residency when at IS academy. (edit) The issue here is that under international law, if you don't have a defined border (it could be a disputed border), you technically don't qualify as a country. Technically there's a dozen ways to get around this, but it is a bit strange.
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|2011-05-03, 02:55
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|2011-05-03, 04:37
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|2011-05-03, 04:50
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These zesty hating will only make others discouraged to discuss the novel you know. Yes, I hate some aspects of IS too, but lets don't be too vocal about them from now on, aye?. Keep expecting the worst and you will never find sunshine :P
Spoiler for Fun facts, if you need something to discuss that is:
PS I feel so out of place because I don't read Index @_@, brb looking for avenir
PPS You guys so tsundere....See you guys next volume
|2011-05-03, 05:32
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|2011-05-03, 06:52
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Not only that, in To aru, Touma's weapon is his right hand, which he can easily bring everywhere with him. In here, Ichika's weapon is a highly classified high-tech weapon. He will definitely get caught and be reprimanded heavily(probably expelled from academy) should he join an operation outside the school. It's just like if Touma decide to steal an Academy City's jet for helping Index in England. There's no way he can do that easily and not facing any consequences at all.
And by IS citizenship, I meant which country Byaku Shiki belongs too(which also means which country will take Ichika as representative candidate). The Japanese develops Byaku Shiki, but they don't own Byaku Shiki yet, and the country who get Byaku Shiki basically get the chance to investigate Tabane's personal creation.
About why the enemy attacks Ichika, you have to understand that there's only 2 vol so far where the "would be" main enemy attacks Ichika. The other 2, he gets attacked by Tabane's creation just so Tabane can get data(not sure what's for, Tabane's like the Aleister Crowley of Index). The rest is either personal battle or a unit gone awry and Ichika unfortunately has to face it. It's still early to reveal the main reason for attacking Ichika, and I give the author the benefit of doubt in this matter. We also doesn't know why Touma get involved in Aleister's plan even after 23 volumes of story right?
You keep comparing IS to To aru, but that's not a fair comparison, they're in a completely different genre, not to mention the difference in targeted audience. It's like comparing a highschool story with a little bit of battle like Medaka Box with a battle story that the main character just happened to be in high school like Bleach. Of course the battle story like Bleach will have more chance to expand the lore, because the character keep skipping class just to join the adventure and adding to finding out the world's lore. On the other hand, for the highschool story such as IS and Medaka Box, the students still do their students duty, and just happened to get dragged into battle inside that happened inside the school. There's less chance to expand the lore when the main character mostly spend his time in school, just like how a normal student should be. Sometimes you have to wonder, how can Touma not get expelled when he spend more time skipping class to go everywhere to save the world than staying there just like a normal student. He barely do any student duties such as learning and attending class. If you want to compare IS, it's better to compare it to story that have highschool as the main setting such as Ichiban Daimaou or Kampfer.
|2011-05-03, 06:55
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Let me make this clear first, in case someone decides to point the finger at me. When I compared IS to TAMnI, what I compared is 'how long did it take for the story to develop', not the story itself, so I'm out.
|2011-05-03, 07:07
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|2011-05-03, 07:13
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Soo my guess is that in volume 8 will probably be going to the cultural festival with ran and probably the girls will find out and all of them will follow ichika.second possibility is we will find out why tabane keeps making these droids since this is the second time the author used the same pattern from last time ==.MOST probably there will be more harem service with sarashiki siblings joining the lunch table XD
|2011-05-03, 07:16
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culture fest -> going with ran -> harem finds out -> harem antics -> culture fest -> enemy interruption -> fight -> save the day -> harem antics
did i basically spoil volume 8?
we'll see
|2011-05-03, 07:24
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well we cant blame the author for extending the harem antics since the anime is selling a little bit too good and money comes first before anything else ==.i hope he picks up some weird ideas though like charlotte father comes and bring her back to france or maybe make a Phantom task member to join the academy.....
|2011-05-03, 07:28
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and that, sir, is a very good idea
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There are known internet connections in the Neuhausen youth hostel as well as on the top floor of the Kaufhof department store. The number of hotspots available throughout the quarter is certainly growing; inquire at cafes and hotels.


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Blissfield girls' team was a special group… Paying tribute to Vietnam veterans… Just us
Blissfield girls' team was a special group
To the editor,
I was a coach for 25 years of my life and retired six years ago.
This year I had the privilege to witness what drew me to coaching when I entered the profession 35 years ago.
The lady Royals of Blissfield reaffirmed everything I believed was good and pure about high school athletics. They played with passion, heart and for each other through a magical season that was a couple of minutes from playing for the biggest prize a high school player strives for, the Breslin Center and the final four.
They have two coaches whom I admire greatly, Ryan Gilbert and Ron Schmidt, who prepared them for success and a community of great support. It was a joy, and thanks for the wonderful ride through a season you will never forget!
Charlie Risner
Paying tribute to Vietnam veterans
To the editor,
The most commonly used dates for the Vietnam War are 1959-75.
Casualties: United States, 58,119 killed; 153,303 wounded; 1,948 missing in action.
The Vietnam veteran was an 18-year-old kid, who couldn't even spell the country he was drafted to serve in.
The Vietnam veteran would turn on the radio and be told by popular culture that they were baby killers.
They were told by Hollywood that they were ignorant ... for doing what their country asked of them.
The Vietnam veteran is a generation of veterans who were treated with dishonor and shame, and who made sure that their sons and daughters would never be treated like they were treated.
I myself a veteran personally knew five men from Lenawee County who fought in that war. Many of these men earned the Purple Heart, Bronze and Silver Star and Medal of Valor, etc.
Gen. George MacArthur often said, "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." May God keep blessing the United States of America.
Mark Van Steenkiste
Just us
To the editor,
Here in the City of Adrian, I have been refused a police unit when a gun was involved next to an ice cream stand and within 200 yards of a school.
Here in the City of Adrian, the Police have informed me that it is the constitutional right of someone to corner you in YOUR yard and threaten your life and that of your families, it is "their constitutional right to freedom of speech" Quoted from the responding officer.
Here in the city of Adrian, it is perfectly fine for a trucker to slam his dollies and such from his truck at 4:30 a.m. every morning, as per 911 operator, however I am not permitted to play my stereo when my upstairs neighbors' kid is asleep at 4:30 p.m.
Here in the City of Adrian, the people are not permitted to protest against current official's downtown without risk of being arrested.
Here in the City of Adrian a citizen has no right to voice their opinions in a public place.
Here in the City of Adrian, the employees at the city hall can order the Adrian police to force citizens from city hall without justification. Others would be charged with false police report.
Here in the City of Adrian, when someone speaks out they are refused the basic rights this country was formed upon. Police do as they please. Police spout off untrue laws as a rule so they can control a situation, without regard to the consequences of their deceptions when over heard.
Here in the City of Adrian only a few are actually given the rights our forefathers guaranteed everyone, not just the influential were guaranteed.
Here in the City of Adrian, it is acceptable for the police to effectively prevent a citizen from making accusations.
Here in the City of Adrian the officials force its citizens with complaints to go to extreme lengths to be recognized. If then.
Here in the City of Adrian certain citizens are forbidden to partake of the local actions. Simply due to the police and officials do not wish to hear or reply to its citizen's complaints.
Here in the City of Adrian we have a District court judge that does not follow the laws and no one will force the issues.
Here in the City of Adrian we need accountability.
Harry Milliron


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Battle Chess Trivia (NES)
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User Score
5 point score based on user ratings.
NudityThe game actually features full frontal nudity! In some circumstances where Rook gets the King in checkmate, as the King trembles his robe falls off, leaving him standing starkers, before he runs off in embarrassment (of course, being low-res EGA, there's not a lot to see even if you *did* want to look!)
- The scene of a Knight attacking a Knight depicts a classic scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail: One by one, all limbs are severed, each time provoking the victim into the same kind of responsive actions the Black Knight made in the aforementioned movie.
- If a bishop attacks the king, the bishop will make a big show and swing his staff around, and then the king will simply pull out a gun and shoot him, ending the fight. This is a spoof of a famous scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indy takes out a sword wielding Arab by pulling out a gun and simply shooting him.
References to the gameThere is a movie called Knight Moves (1992) with Christopher Lambert in a main role. He plays some chessmaster, and the plot is around catching some chess-style killer. In one of the opening scenes (maybe 20 mins from the start), while detectives are trying to solve the crime, Christopher Lambert shouts out loud as he was playing Battle Chess. It probably was the animation peon against knight he was watching.
- Computer Gaming World
- April 1994 (Issue #117) – Introduced into the Hall of Fame
- November 1996 (15th anniversary issue) – #106 in the "150 Best Games of All Time" list
Contributed by shifter (61) on Jul 14, 2000. [revised by : Patrick Bregger (218364)]. -- edit trivia


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Am I Violating The DMCA By Visiting The NYTimes With NoScript Enabled?
from the simple-questions dept
Now, when I read that, my first thought was that certainly sounds like a "circumvention device" under the DMCA. The author is Canadian, so he may be protected for now, since Canada (thankfully) doesn't yet have an anti-circumvention clause that makes any such circumvention tool illegal -- though, the Canadian government is still apparently considering a law that would add just such a clause. Of course, to anyone who understands what's going on, that's ridiculous. Four simple lines of code to remove a javascript popup should not be considered a tool for infringement, but it is.
So, here's the question: have I broken the law by using NoScript? I've used it for years, and it seems pretty ridiculous to claim that I now need to specifically go and whitelist the NYTimes just because it wants to hit me with an incredibly porous paywall. But, technically, I could see how an argument could be made that merely using NoScript makes me a DMCA violator by "circumventing" technical protection measures. Does this also mean that NoScript -- an incredibly useful tool -- has suddenly become a "circumvention device" overnight, because the NYTimes programmed an incredibly stupid paywall in javascript?
What this really should highlight is the massive problem with automatically outlawing all "circumvention" and "circumvention devices." It leads to particularly dumb situations like this, when a clueless newspaper puts up an amazingly poorly thought out paywall in a manner that makes very little sense.


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NOTES from the UNDERGROUND No. 210 | November 22, 2010
Why I Mourn the Decline of Whistling
Jan Morris
One night during World War II, on leave in London, I penetrated the blackout to see a show at the London Hippodrome called "The Lisbon Story.' I forget what it was about, I forget who was in it, but I still have at the back of my mind its theme tune, which was called "Pedro the Fisherman,"
This is because I have always been fond of whistling, and "Pedro the Fisherman" is the quintessential whistling song—jaunty, catchy, with a touch of the sentimental and an un-obliteratable melody. I like to think that it also expresses the generic character of people who like to whistle, and although I know it can sometimes be intolerable to have a habitual siffleur in the family, forever performing "Pedro the Fisherman," I still mourn the decline of the whistlers.
For they are almost a vanished breed these days, and with them has gone a manner of public thought and conduct. Something cocky has left society. The whistling errand boy, the whistling postman, the whistling housewife in her flowered apron, Pedro himself, all were expressing in their often discordant music something at once communal and defiant.
On the one hand it was a declaration of liberty, on the other it was a kind of mating call, inviting anybody of like mind to share in its attitudes. By and large whistlers didn't give a damn, and if whistling was a cock of the snook at respectability, decorum, and frequently musical good taste, it was also fundamentally honest. You might be maddened by the sound of it, but at least you knew you could trust a whistler.
I don't know when whistling started, primevally I imagine, but all down the generations the practice has helped to ease the passage of the nations. Think of the marching armies, whistling their way to war; the illicit lovers, whistling home the morning after; the errant schoolboys, whistling up their bravado as they make for the headmaster's study.
Whistling not only cheers up the whistler, it invites the world at large to cheer up too. One of the great whistling songs of all times, employed by multitudes during World War I, had the lyric "Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag and smile, smile, smile!" In our own troubled times the tune is worth. whistling again.
Sometimes the practice of whistling is indeed resuscitated. For a few months after the release of "Bridge Over the River Kwai" in 1957, half the world was whistling the British Army's "Colonel Bogey" song (minus its merrily obscene lyrics), and in 2006 the Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John did the same with their "Young Folks" melody, which brought whistling high into the charts.
But it was not the same. It was whistling, so to speak, to order. It did not spring from the public heart. It contained neither the fine careless rapture, nor the spirit of independence, that comes from random whistlings in the street, like roosters' bold calls in the morning.
Perhaps it takes either joyous success or optimism in adversity, to set the nations whistling again. Our world today is in limbo-time, injury-time maybe. Popular music has mostly abandoned the melodic line, and when I myself need a shot of the old exhilaration I often return to the end of Pedro's song (music by Harry Parr Davies, lyrics by Harold Purcell), which has the fisherman merrily whistling his way to sea with his love in his arms.
The tune goes like this—but no, dear friends, even in the present state of technology you must imagine my lyrical whistle for yourselves.
Ms. Morris is a writer in Wales. [from: The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 8, 2010]
British writer and historian Jan Morris, pictured at her home near the village of Llanystumdwy in Gwynedd, north Wales. Jan Morris has had a long and distinguished career as a journalist and writer and published more than 30 books.
Copyright Photograph © Colin McPherson
Jan Morris
CBE (b. 2 October 1926, Clevedon, Somerset, England) is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City. With an English mother and Welsh father, Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, but now considers herself Welsh. A gender re-assigned woman, she was published under her former name, James Morris, until the 1970s.
Morris served in World War II in the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, and later wrote for The Times. As a correspondent for The Times, Morris scored a notable scoop in 1953 when accompanying the British expedition which was first to scale Mount Everest. Morris reported the success of Hillary and Tenzing in a coded message to the newspaper, "Snow conditions bad stop advanced base abandoned yesterday stop awaiting improvement", and by happy coincidence the news was released on the morning of Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
Reporting from Cyprus on the Suez Crisis for The Manchester Guardian in 1956, Morris produced the first "irrefutable proof" of collusion between France and Israel in the invasion of Egyptian territory, interviewing French Air Force pilots who confirmed that they had been in action in support of Israeli forces.
As a soldier, Morris was posted in Trieste in 1945 during the joint Anglo-American occupation.
Morris was born male and named James. In 1949, Morris married Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a tea planter; they had five children together, including the poet and musician Twm Morys. One of their children died in infancy. According to her memoir Conundrum, Morris began medical transition in 1964.
In 1972, she had sex reassignment surgery in Morocco. Sex reassignment surgeon Georges Burou performed the surgery, since doctors in Britain refused to allow the procedure unless Morris and Tuckniss divorced, something Morris was not prepared to do at the time. They divorced later, but remained together and on 14 May 2008 were legally reunited when they formally entered into a Civil Partnership. Morris lives mostly in Wales, the land of her father.
Morris has received honorary doctorates from the University of Wales and the University of Glamorgan, is an honorary fellow of Christ Church Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She received the Glyndŵr Award in 1996.
She accepted her CBE in the 1999 Queen's Birthday Honours "out of polite respect", but is a Welsh nationalist republican at heart. In January 2008 The Times named her the 15th greatest British writer since the War.
Partial bibliography | Non-fiction -Travel
- * Coast to Coast (published in the U.S. as As I Saw the U.S.A) (1956: winner of the 1957 Cafe Royal Prize)
- * Sultan in Oman (1957)
- * The Market in Seleukia (1957)
- * South African Winter (1958)
- * The Hashemite Kings (1959)
- * Venice (1960: winner of the 1961 Heinemann Award)
- * The Presence of Spain (1964)
- * Oxford (1965)
- * The Great Port: A Passage through New York (1969)
- * The Venetian Empire (1980)
- * A Venetian Bestiary (1982)
- * The Matter of Wales (1984)
- * Hong Kong (1988)
- * Sydney (1992)
- * The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000 (2003)
- * Contact! A Book of Encounters (2010)
- * The Road to Huddersfield: A Journey to Five Continents (1963)
- * The Outriders: A Liberal View of Britain (1963)
- * Cities (1963)
- * Places (1972)
- * Travels (1976)
- * Destinations (1980)
- * Wales; The First Place (1982, reprinted 1998)
- * Journeys (1984)
- * Among the Cities (1985)
- * Locations (1992)
- * O Canada! (1992)
- * Contact! A Book of Glimpses (2009)
- * Coronation Everest (1958)
History – The Pax Britannica Trilogy:
- * Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress (1973)
- * Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire (1968)
- * Farewell the Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat (1978)
- * Fisher's Face (1995)
- * Conundrum (1974)
- * Wales, The First Place (1982)
- * Pleasures of a Tangled Life (1989)
- * Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001)
- * A Writer's House in Wales (2002)
- * "Herstory" (1999)
Fiction | Novels
- * Last Letters from Hav (1985: shortlisted for the 1985 Booker Prize for Fiction)
- * Hav (2006; shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur C Clarke Award)
Short stories
- * The Upstairs Donkey, and Other Stolen Stories (1961)
- * Manhattan '45 (hardcover 1987, paperback 1998)
- * Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (1997)
- * The Oxford Book of Oxford (editor)
- * The Matter of Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
- * Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest (2001)
- * Our First Leader
Jan Morris | Photo by Peter Foley


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At Whole Foods, Low Prices Mean Trouble in Aisle 2
WSJ's Annie Gasparro explains Whole Foods' efforts to reign in prices and shed its reputation as an over-priced grocer caused it to take it on the chin in its latest earnings report. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... in attempting to offer more portable grocery and bought is costing them planning to borrow it here to tell us ... all the details about this high and the grocer and their latest anti anything to be here ... so-called is is trying to appeal to a broader ... customer so ... what how with that strategy working for them at this point ... well they've they've successfully inherited their price gap between their pressure easy and ... the average supermarket ... that day the problem that the face now is that it's hurting profit margins ... so what what they needed to know when a lower price is way ... bring in ... enough customers to make that four or the difference in profit margin ... but they just weren't able to do that the last quarter they actually said that they didn't meet their goal for attracting customers and what is that barrier that their fee in there they're finding is I'm keeping those customers from coming in as it is ... the reputation of all this has is being ... expensive ... it's really hard to change your brain and he now ... and I'm ... so that they have is that ... the competition for fresh and organic food is really increasing ... you know you Gautier locals in America and now they have a whole aisle that's all or DNA natural and ... found that competition is just really really increasing around the country ... so what are they gonna do going forward they can continue on this that strategy or a NetApp contract you know some of Wall Street analysts actually uber ... telling them yesterday on the conference call that day ... maybe they shouldn't keep churning didn't answer that and ... whether they knew that made the stock so popular is that it's not the sort of hybrid so ... I'd I think that they're making the right to is that ... they said that they think that in the long term ... you know they only have like ... less than four hundred stores and they wanna get two thousand when they ... sell in order to do that the new deal to go and take markets where the demographic isn't willing to spend forty dollars ... on one meals worth of Bernstein petition secondly they they think that long-term they really need to stick with the defendant ... to lower prices with a bit as to whether that the bulk of the recession quite London the high-end customers to work as hard hit did continued to shop there so ... is it isn't a chance to can it continue being that high priced organic at the end of person for the high-end as well as bringing in some of the broader constituency they wanna reach ... out and that one of the things they've notices that their new customers which I this ... new demographic I spending a lot less at the stores they and ... what their core customers are ... I'm so that's one challenges the tighter tracking customers and the other one like you mentioned is ... just the economy from even the ... ones resilience adding customers that ... we talk to them are willing to spend the money ... eight ... they want ... to be seen with the whole things back in the one that brand in Japan ... they also ... need the are starting to feel uncertain about the economy like ... you're out of recession ever really confident that it's been a long time and things ... are still really sleepy now lot of people are still having a tough time in when the fray saying they able to ... sort of how little I'd get there or I'd be adding trying to keep those prices lower even the media for their costs are rising ... right that's another thing that they are really struggling with an almost over I'm hoping to get a better job at ... it several problem commodity costs are really high and ... consumers don't wanna spend a lot of money you can make your groceries more expensive than it would be to keep out ... that in ... that is what they're thinking in in them ... that dude ... on those restaurants are really focusing on the year when ... I mean you have ... all of the remaining ... staff doing line twelve dollar deals for three courses is like how do you compete with that ... as a cinema Cape May settling in thing in the top of that we have a conversation about its really hard to change or brand ... is a good idea to change the meaning in it been so successful with that Granny takes a lot to build the brand ... is that talented they beat Dallas in in in essence ... damaging their brand by trying to change it so much ... a lot of people are concerned ... that a ... lot of holes this is really ... known for being with us listened ... and when they're going and actually liked I knew when to smaller markets ... I'm suburban area is ... and that that takes away from that ... CD go where ... the CEO of shopping at their stores so ... it couldn't really have an impact they are hoping that ... the average suburban mom in Ghana and want to shop there and ... that that's can email capturing the day they lose by changing the screen image that they have a lot more room to grow in ... any deal on a lot of customer loyalty that something that they've got a really good job and ... I will thank


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Randy Seaver's challenge this week is to find something you have written and past the text into wordle.com to create a word cloud. Then post a screen print on facebook, a blog post or on google+. My attempts at a screen print did not work at all so I used my cell phone camera and uploaded these.
I used the words from yesterday's blog to create this wordle.
Soon I will be able to take a good screen shot. I hope!


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Please accept my apologies for the joyless tone of this post, but I am not happy today. Being joyless is a strange feeling for me. And the reason of my joylessness is the two of you.
Allow me to introduce myself. I am Narendra Shenoy, a smalltime blogger writing allegedly humorous posts for a small audience. I have been writing for a while now, long enough to appreciate how difficult it is to write something really funny, especially on a regular basis.
Which is why I greatly admire Lavanya Mohan. Otherwise known as Coconut Chutney. A fine humorist. Witty. And original. I and many of her other followers show our appreciation by writing comments on her blog and generally applauding her wit. I strongly suspect that this is the only reason why she blogs. And provides us with so many delightful posts.
Now I come to the reason for my unhappiness. You guys made a short movie based entirely, word for word, on one of her posts http://www.chutneycase.com/2008/11/deviance.html which also happens to be one of my favourites. AND YOU DID NOT CREDIT HER. You just pretended it was original. I hope you understand that you have perpetrated a crime. A theft.
This is her intellectual property. Her original wit. The cause for so many of us laughing hard. And, if you glance at in the comments to that post, you will realize that they are the fuel for her creativity. Just read those comments, guys. You will understand what I am saying.
What I think you should do, Charukesh, and I address you here because you've made a pretty decent film of it, is be a gentleman, unconditionally and unambiguously apologize, and give due credit to Lavanya Mohan.
In another country, you would have been sued. Made to eat crow by due process of law. It might be possible here too, I am no lawyer. All that we, her fans, are asking you is to do the right thing. Apologize. Acknowledge.
Set the score straight, Charukesh. You will have our respect.


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Change in Seasons
Our weather has just been perfect the last week or so. I didn't realize how much the hot weather was weighing me down, but suddenly I feel like it's a whole new world!
It's the middle of Spring here in Australia. I love the fresh lime colour of new leaves and the golden glow in the afternoons.
Not looking forward to Summer, it's my least favourite season.
All the leaves are gone now... I'm sad. Peak foliage season was short because of rain/wind.
Thankfully in South Africa our seasons are pretty constant. In Durban (easten side of the country) where I live, we pretty much have summer 80% of the year The more inland you go the more distinctive the seasons get
Liz, where is Oz??? I visited about three years ago to Queensland... (Daintree all the way down to Whitsunday Islands... we did a camping trip while I was 7 months pregnant... id love to go back again now that my little one is older and would enjoy it!
Jaclyn, I live at the northern end of Wollemi National Park (on a farm) in the Hunter Valley area which is about 3 1/2 hours drive north of Sydney (NSW).
I must admit once upon a time it was a beautiful place with vineyards and horse studs everywhere and the scenery was pretty good too, sadly, coal mining and the prospect of coal seam gas extraction is everywhere now. The air here is no longer crisp and clean but instead has a dusty look to it, due to the mines. I don't really like to say what I just did about the area but it is a fact.
As yet my travels have been very limited to NSW, Victoria and SE QLD . We are planning to travel more when my husband retires (do farmers ever retire )
In the Rogue Valley where I live in Oregon things are slow. We had some cold (in the 40s) then it started raining and thenights warmed up. In fact it is 61 out now at 5:30am (a colder part of the morning). It got cold enough to remind me why I have a room heater, leggins and coat for insdie! Those Arthur boys love the colder weather. Hard to type or push the shutter button.
Just came back from Cape Cod, not enough color change there; however, it was lovely traveling thru Pennsylvania and Ohio. Illinois still has beauty; however, there is also a lot of bare trees already. Love the fall colors.
@makeyesup - My hubby grew up on Cape Cod... lovely area. What part did you visit?
@lizanne - We have areas where the trees have lost all of their leaves as well. However, we are lucky enough to have so many trees that there are quite a few that still have the gorgeous fall colors.
I'm loving the Spring weather here - I'm in Queensland lol The kids have been swimming since the start of September.
I prefer the warmer climate up here to where I grew up, it was much too cold.
Liz, farmers never retire lol My Dad is still going as is my FIL. Must say though that the kids adore going to the farm and they get that little bit extra 'education' while they're there (last time they learned how to milk a cow and what to do if they see a snake - the latter being something they actually put to use at least once and I'm very proud to say they behaved perfectly).
@brandi - you are SO lucky! It is so bare around here now - I really miss the foliage...
Last week we had a freak snow squall, and the local ski mountain (about 45 minutes NW of me) got about 4 inches of snow - not quite ready for that... And last night we had an earthquake that measured 4.6 on the Richter scale - boy, did that surprise me!
And we have snow here today!!!!!
I'm in Alaska until my permanent move to Oregon in January. In Alaska, we have two seasons - Snow and no snow. It's been cold in the mornings, around 12F. We shall soon be at the 0F mark of winter. But, despite the cold, Alaska is one of the most photogenic places on earth.
Fall started out nice, but with the hurricaine it put a damper on it. I was waiting for the nice fall leaves and colors, but the heavy rain is washing it away.


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Posted: Thu 16 May 2013, 22:16
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touchpad won't respond to tap
Subject description: responds to movement but not tap
just installed on old Dell inspiron. touchpad recognizes and responds, moving mouse pointer but won't respond to any taps. i don't have the computer with me to give more hardware info. i know it has 256 ram and was running xp.
Any help is appreciated.
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Hello litig8rtenn,
Welcome to the forum.
Open a terminal window (click the desktop icon labeled "console") and enter this command:
synclient TapButton1=1 MaxTapTime=180
If that helps, let us know, since it is only a temporary fix I or someone else can then tell you how to make it permanent.
If that doesn't help, please tell us what Puppy you are using (including the version number), and report the output you get from this command:
grep -iE "Synaptics|Alps|Elantech|touch" /proc/bus/input/devices
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Post subject: problem fixed-thanks
Thanks npierce! That solved the problem.
I had a little trouble at first. At my first shutdown yesterday I saved a file as instructed by the on-screen message. That saved some of my own touchpad tweaks through the setup/mouse/keyboard wizard that I tried before finding this forum.
When I booted this morning and loaded the save file my touchpad wouldn't respond at all-not even to movement. I had to shutdown and restart with the option to not load that personal file. Then the touchpad responded to movement but not taps, just as it had behaved to begin with. Then I followed your steps. The code synclient TapButton1=1 MaxTapTime=180 worked perfectly. The touchpad then accepted taps.
Then I decided to shutdown and named a new save file to include the change made through the command. When I re-booted and loaded the new save file the touchpad is working and responding to taps. So I guess that means my new save file is holding the correction. I then deleted the old save file and just kept the new one that includes the fix. I have re-booted several times and the fix appears permanent.
If I need to do anything else to make the fix permanent, any advice on that would be appreciated.
Thanks again.
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You're welcome.
It sounds like your /root/.flSynclient file has been properly updated and so your new touchpad settings are being reloaded after you boot. That's good.
There is a more traditional way to make the change permanent, which involves editing the xorg.conf file, but that is unnecessary as long as the settings are being reloaded from the /root/.flSynclient file. So if your touchpad is now working well for you, you need do nothing else.
Good luck with your new Puppy, and welcome again to the forum.
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Post subject: need to edit xorg.conf file
Subject description: edit to address touchpad not responding to tap
I'm back again with a variation.
When I posted before I was running Puppy Slacko 5.5 windows installer in addition to Windows XP as a dual boot. I decided to wipe the hard drive with Darik Boot and Nuke and use only Puppy. I booted from iso file loaded onto usb jump drive.
Booted fine but then the touchpad won't respond to taps without entering the command, synclient TapButton1=1 MaxTapTime=180. This time saving the personal file did not hold. When I rebooted the non-response returned.
So it appears I need to edit the xorg.conf file. Also, I want to install the Puppy Slacko 5.5 to the hard drive and not coninue using the usb booting method. I think there are a number of tutorials about how to do that, including drive partitioning. However, if there is a particular tutorial you can recommend, that would be appreciated.
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Hi litig8rtenn,
Make a backup of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, then edit it as follows:
Look for a section that begins like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Mouse"
Driver "synaptics"
There may or may not already be some options listed there.
If you see options for "TapButton1" or "MaxTapTime", modify the values appropriately. If those options aren't listed, add them before the EndSection line:
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "MaxTapTime" "180"
I am unfamiliar with any of the installation tutorials that you mentioned (having never actually installed a Puppy), so can't recommend one.
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After his imprisonment ends Perkins will be subjected to a further three years of supervised release and will be banned from possessing "any electronic device with the capability or reproducing and distributing copies of copyrighted materials."That's basically pretty much any electronic device these days. Computer, phone, camera, tablet. Anything that can record audio or video or take a picture has that capability. Five years from now, it's likely to include many more commonly used devices as well. That seems ridiculously excessive. Especially given that devices that can infringe on copyrights also do a ton of legitimate and important things, to say that he can't possess any such device seems ridiculously limiting. The MPAA, who pushed this prosecution (which, again, was led by Neil MacBride -- the former industry anti-piracy enforcer -- who now does the same job for the government and rarely misses an opportunity to support his former colleagues), don't see any problem with completely taking away all devices that can infringe on copyright from someone, but that's because they still don't realize how central to culture and society such devices have become these days.


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The June 19 fire was sparked by static electricity and eventually engulfed the 400,000-square-foot brick facility. Heavy, black smoke billowed for hours and was seen for miles. More than 100 firefighters from Illinois and Indiana battled the flames at the 10-acre site.
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Environmental officials say they believe the facility had more than a million tires when the fire began. The rubber from the used tires was being converted into products, including mulch.


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Roars from about two dozen barely muffled big bikes rolled out of the New Bern Harley Davidson parking lot Saturday morning, led by a van with DAV painted on the side.
The 100-mile �poker ride� by area motorcyclists was organized by Disabled American Veterans whose District Executive Art Cook drove the van in a �ride to remember POW�s, MIA�s, and 9/11 victims.�
The van that is packed most weekdays with U.S. military veterans with disabilities on their way to either veteran medical facilities in Durham or, for the past three years, the new Community Based Outpatient Clinic in Morehead City, was purchased by veterans and veteran supporters.
Cook said a new clinic is scheduled to open in Greenville at the first of 2014 which will eliminate some of the 300-mile drives to Durham, all done by volunteers which now number 38.
They can always use more, he said, and with more the volunteer job requires less time for each although drivers are carefully screened. Volunteers may call 635-5900 or 636-2789 to help transport veterans from every U.S. conflict since World War II.
The group Air Force veteran Cook leads and van coordinator, John Dillahunt, DAV Commander John Dixon, District III Chaplain Mike Brown are reminded by motto, also painted on the van, and determined to continue �fulfilling our promise to the men and women who served.�
They are aided often, including for Saturday�s Fourth Annual Remembrance Ride, by the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary with Commander Anissa Brown of Vanceboro, along with Karen Hacker and Jody Pascarella registering riders and selling the red t-shirts with the names of North Carolina prisoners of war or missing in action.
Hacker said 42 North Carolinians are still among the 1,700 in those groups.
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How much do the services cost?
Most providers charge a set fee for processing payroll each period. The amount will be dependent on the complexity of the products and services your business needs. For instance, if you employ two people, you may find a very basic plan meets your needs. If you employ over twenty people, you may be interested in additional services such as direct deposit and 401(k) plan management.
What does a payroll service provider handle?
In most cases, providers' fees include payroll processing, check generation and distribution, payroll tax filing, and W-2 generation. Additional services may include 401(k) management, employee handbook development, and direct deposit registration and management.
Which services are included in the providers' fees?
The answer to this question will vary by payroll processor. Ask potential providers to spell out the services that are included in their rate. In addition, ask them to specify which items may carry additional charges. For instance, who pays postage fees for delivering paychecks to your company? Will the addition of new employees affect your rate?
How many days does the service require to process payroll?
Many service providers will require that you submit payroll details one to four days ahead of the date paychecks will be distributed. Check providers reporting schedules to make sure they meet your needs.
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Policies on last-minute payroll adjustments will vary by provider. Some may be flexible up until close to payday, others may refuse to make any changes after you submit data, or charge you a fee for adjustments.
What happens if a filing error is made?
Read potential providers' contracts carefully to make sure they accept financial responsibility for any filings errors they make. The last thing you want is to be hit by IRS fines because of your payroll provider's mistakes.
Can the service meet your company's future needs?
As your company grows, you may be interested in additional services, such as 401(k) administration and direct deposit, from your provider. Review each company's full suite of offerings to ensure it can meet your future needs.
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