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The Underworld Service CD and Guide Book
After a decade of toil in the blood drenched, worm eaten, occult battlefields of Albion, English Heretic takes a well earned holiday... in Hades. The Underworld Service is a 70 minute radio broadcast from Tartarus, where every song and news report is an intimation of our mortality. The Underworld Service subverts the culture show format and celebrates the hard hitting documentary format. Scanning a waveband of Corpse Oriented Rock, Philosophical Stoner, Field Trip Hop, Horror Folk, and Funereal Disco, The Underworld Service is English Heretic's most death enhancing release to date.
The Underworld Service comes with a 48 page colour guide to accompany your voyage. Informed by the work of James Hillman, English Heretic undertake a series of ritual descents and movements towards the seas of the unconscious.
We survey Greek Horror fads of the 1970s. We look at the eschatological warnings of the fabled alchemist Fulcanelli and follow his trail from a church in London to the irradiated coasts of Suffolk. We travel to the white cliffs of Sussex to meet an occult beachcomber. The living dead are unearthed in the beautiful limestone ravines of the Peak district and traced to their necromantic origins in the Black Temples of Atlantis. We raise a glass to the enolic mornings of Malcolm Lowry, inside a giant mausoleum. We travel to Hiroshima to record the voice of Kwanon and transmit haunting military experiments from the jungles of Vietnam.
CD track listing
* Inside The Mausoleum
* River Of Black Rams' Blood
* Invisible Canon
* The Alchemist Of Saltdean
* The Pherenike
* Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
* Video Anxieties
* Peregrine
* Transmutation At Sizewell B
* Operation Wandering Soul
* The Underworld Service
48 page colour A5 book
Price £11 (UK) £13 (Europe) £14 (Rest Of The World)
£13.00 (Europe)
£14.00 (Rest of the world)
Digital Download plus pdf version of Guide Book (£6 at Bandcamp)
Mondo Paranoia CD and Booklet
Mondo Paranoia: A Medieval History Of The Early 1960s explores the thanatological synchronicities of the 22nd November 1963: the simultaneous deaths of JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis. Paradoxically 22nd and 23rd November also witnessed the activation of two mind bending Pop programmes: The Beatles' world conquering second album and the first episode of Dr Who.
Mondo Paranoia serves as an initiatory and analeptic voyage into the deep mind of the 60s: further katabatic excursions to its queasy and oleaginous core are planned for 2014.
Wrapped in a crime scene linocut cover by Lisa Cradduck, comprising of a 33 min documentary and 12 page essay, Mondo Paranoia, English Heretic's 11th release beckons in the coming fimbulwinter and honours with relish the diabolical release schedules of our media cabals.
CD - With music constructed from forensic sampling of JFK's funeral, amplifications from ancient television transmissions, and field recordings from the Kennedy memorial at Runnymede.
Track Listing:
1. Mondo Paranoia
2. Motorcade Taurobolium
3. Forensic Spiritualism Today!
4. The Injectors
5. Hymns For The Fimbulwinter
6. Runnymede 68
Booklet - The accompanying document is an unofficial report on the taurobolium in Dallas and its ramifications for reality, extending as far as the previously undisclosed sex laboratories of time and relative dimensions in space.
Mondo Paranoia is available as a limited edition CD and booklet.
Available to order restock from 10th Sept
£10.00 (Rest of the world)
Digital Download (and pdf booklet) £6 at Bandcamp
Black Harvest
A 7" vinyl single presented in handprinted woodcut cover depicting a seal from The Black Pullet grimoire, a booklet discussing the aetiology of our hermetic dictum "Black Harvest", and a tarot card from the Egyptian deck. It is your card to guide you through all your nekyias of 2013.
A pessimistic road trip, taking in corpse paths and the sacrificial king's Journada Del Muerto; the new single recites Rune poems from Danby church in Yorkshire where the lychgate seers would watch at the porch for the procession of the future dead. In our context the voyant's watch is a socio-occult metaphor for a darkening land riven by psychic malaise. The single is also a harbinger for the 2013 research project "Wish You Were Heretic".
7inch single (woodcut cover), booklet and Tarot Card
Track 1: Black Harvest
Track 2: Vaughan To Lose
|£6.00 UK/Ireland
|£7.50 Rest Of The World
|Tales Of The New Isis Lodge
Probably the first Musical inspired by the creative occultism of Kenneth Grant, Tales Of The New Isis Lodge presents 65 minutes of lush and occult exotica issuing from a transplutonic transmitter. Drawing its structure from the ultra decadent and ornate rituals described in Grant's book Hecate's Fountain English Heretic guide you through Egyptian pre-history to the fungi of yuggoth, re-imagine flower power in an indian tantric idiom, describe the workings of Chinese sorcerers, realise the neither-neither hidden within the jump rhythms of Count Basie and invoke Choronzon in the Crimson Desert. Aeons in its reification and packaged in delicious artwork, stylised as a homage to Grant's Typhonian tomes.
CD Track Listing: 1] Typhonian Museum Piece 2] She Comes In Kalas 3] Tales Of The New Isis Lodge 4] Earth's Lament To The Stars 5] Cult Of The Ku 6] Vevers Of The Void 7] Les Voltigeurs 8] Secret Organization Of The Zotzil 9] Rite Of Kepra 10] Demon Feast / The Dagger Of Bou Said
|£8.00 UK/Ireland
|£10.00 Rest Of The World
|Wyrd Tales 2
English Heretic is delighted to announce the delivery of Wyrd Tales 2: a salvaged miscegenation of occult pulp, speculative meta-fiction, neolithic fantasy and mythic sci-fi. Wyrd Tales 2 will transport you to the horrific record collections of R'lyeh and the submerged libraries of a comic book Crowley.
Within its lurid pages, futuristic crab men crawl and the Machiavellian spectre of Joe Kennedy plots. Reports come in from the east coast of radical cannibal cults, we scry the haunted inner cinema of Norfolk beaches and shamanic lights are seen in ancient Britain's aeyr ways.
Featuring contributions by a renowned and talented roster of guest artists and writers, together with a CD of aural lagan, Wyrd Tales 2 promises to provide the magical vehicle for an archetypal voyage to England's deep.
Wyrd Tales 2! Art and writing by Lisa Cradduck, Mark Fisher, English Heretic, Ken Hollings, Dean Kenning, Phil Legard, Mark Pilkington and Sarah Sparkes.
Book Contents (140 pages full colour)
Wyrd – in poetry, theory and practice
Planet of the spiders
The Dunwich tapes
Heuristic catalogues: A.W.D.R.E.Y Recordings
The storm towers of Atlantis
'Bleak and solemn...' the hauntological landscapes of M.R. James
First reports of a Tantric death cult At Ganges
CD Contents (41min) comes in Digipak featuring: 'The Dunwich Mix Tapes'
|£15.00 UK/Ireland
|£16.00 Rest Of The World
Wyrd Tales 1
With twisting and fateful reports reflected in an obsidian mirror, woven by the very hands of the Norns, Wyrd Tales recounts the actual waking nightmares experienced by the staff of English Heretic as they conduct their uncanny investigations. Comprising over two years of research, field visits and pathworkings, Wyrd Tales also surveys the geography of creative inspiration, extrapolating outrageous and vertical asymptotes for future imaginative discourse .Indeed, Wyrd Tales is intended both as an exciting escape from the tyranny of fact and as a practical ordnance survey of our country's psychohistorical contours.
We visit the haunts of Matthew Hopkins, the parishes of his victims, the desolate and ravenous bays of Daphne Du Maurier. We excavate among the gnostic ruins of M.R. James and drink in the ojas of Austin Spare's London. From our nation's unconscious libraries we unearth hallucinatory and hermetic monographs. We discover the lost reels of a Frazerian horror film and catalogue the fantastic occult pathologies that ferment from a racial memory of zealot's purge and war time trauma.
To complement and animate the magazine, Wyrd Tales comes with a 70 minute CD containing documentary evidence of our imaginal interpenetrations. Culled from phonographic recordings, in situ improvisations and studio distillations, these aural commentaries provide the finest synaesthetic liqueur to accompany your fireside readings of this Albionic Al Azif.
Magazine Contents
92 pages, Black and White artwork throughout, 4 page colour spread, colour cover.
*Season Of The Witches' Glove
*Hermetic Correspondences In The Confessions Of Two 17th Century Suffolk Witches
*An Unusual Case of Accidental Hanging Associated With Ritual Activity
*The Abraxas Inheritance - A Screenplay
*The D-Daimons Of Menabilly
*A Future Cult At Burnstow? An Occult Blueprint For The Temple Of Sariel Based On M.R. James' "Oh Whistle" The Aossic Radio
CD track listing (70 minutes in length)
i] Season Of The Witches' Glove
ii] Pan Satyros
iii] The Digitalis Experience (Side 1)
iv] Theme From The Abraxas Inheritance
v]The Menabilly Pathworking
vi] Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You.
vii] The Vampires Are Coming / Minion Of The Outer Ones
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English Heretic Dossiers 1: Black Harvest Special Event Edition
The pack contains a two track single, an essay discussing the aetiology of our hermetic dictum "Black Harvest", and a tarot card from the Egyptian deck. It is your card to guide you through all your nekyias of 2013.
The Black Harvest event was a bleak new year ceremony, coinciding with the plough workers Straw Bear festival. This event also served as a launch night for the next single again titled Black Harvest. A pessimistic road trip, taking in corpse paths and the sacrificial king's Journada Del Muerto; the new single recites Rune poems from Danby church in Yorkshire where the lychgate seers would watch at the porch for the procession of the future dead. In our context the voyant's watch is a socio-occult metaphor for a darkening land riven by psychic malaise. The single is also a Harbinger for the 2013 research project "Wish You Were Heretic".
CD, Essay and Tarot Card
Track 1: Black Harvest
Track 2: Vaughan To Lose
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Just in time for Christmas, Digital Spy tells us that a ten disc 'Matrix' DVD boxset is planned. Yikes! Now with more pseudo-philosophical musings and cryptic, un-helpful Oracular responses! Sounds like a winner to me! But I bet the SFX are great though.
Now the bar has been set. I'm guessing "The Lord of the Rings" DVD set will be of truly monstrous proportions. I'm guessing just 9 discs for the movies (one disc each for the original theatrical release, the 'extended' release for the DVD, and a 'making-of' documentary). Then we'll have all the other crap that people don't actually watch, but make you want to by it anyway. 'Yeah, but, its got music videos of Gollum singing the Beastie Boys! Come on, Brass Monkey!". You get the idea…
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After watching Firefly this summer, I feel kind of sad every time a show is cancelled. Even if it's a show I don't like, I still feel bad. Also because like, five shows that I watched got cancelled after a season. I watch too much TV....
Hey, did anyone watch Hatsune Miku's network debut last night? I thought they could have picked a different song. It had good energy but it was really hard to tell what she was singing (or in what language), there was so much layering. People laughed when it was explained what she was but at least they clapped...
Since having a stable income, I decided I would finally get back into buying manga, starting with finishing up series I already had. Admittedly these series are a good handful of years old. What I find totally odd though, is that I can find books published in 2008 but I can't find ones published in 2011. Or better yet, I can easily get my hands on books from 2005 but have to scrounge around for books from 2008. Doesn't make much sense to me.
I've nearly completed two of the three series I've been trying to finish up. In one, I only have two more books to get before it's finished. Frustratingly enough, the last two books seem impossible to find. The copies that I can find only go as low at $20 US dollars, and as high as $130 (!!!).
Even $20 is pushing my spending limit. I still begrudge $10 manga (I'm old enough to still remember when it was $5...). Do you think anyone even is willing to spend $130 on one book?
Hello, 2014
A new year, and thus, time for reflection. I'll make it quick.
2013 was not a great year, but in light of 2012, it was a good one.
I started off the year getting a job, and then quickly loosing it. At the time, it didn't seem like a good thing to be fired. But as it turns out, I'm thankful every day that I'm not working there anymore. I also made a friend there so all in all, it worked out.
The second job of the year went swimmingly and I met a lot of amazing people and also made a new friend. It was uplifting and rewarding and it was the perfect balm to such a horrid start of the year. And when that contract was over, I was able to transition into my permanent job that I have now, and I love it.
I started commissioning out cosplays this year. Although I am still plagued with worries about pirating and such whatnot, I keep at it. The process has been a learning experience and I get to try out things I'd never have done with my own cosplays. It's awesome.
Things went pretty smoothly through the summer and beginning of fall until about October. And then a lot of things went bad. A string of burglaries at a place I know quite well, which resulted in the loss of my laptop and everything that went with it. An acquaintance was hit by a car (accident) and nearly lost his leg. My dad was in an auto accident himself. He came out fine and the other driver was arrested for being drunk but the car was a loss. It was like the year had been saving up bad things to all happen in a month's span.
The end of 2013 has been pleasant, if a bit of an adjustment, and I look forward to 2014.
Happy New Year, everyone. May it be happy.
Nothing Much
Despite not having "blogged" (can you call this blogging?) for a while, there's not much to say. I work full time now and that generally takes up my day. I try to sneak in some television watching in there somewhere.
If you haven't noticed, I've uploaded some stuff. Art and whatnot. Check it out if you're so inclined.
Cosplays are plugging along. The commission is coming along nicely, if very slowly. I'm taking my time on this one, for sure. My personal group cosplay has recently turned into a singular cosplay. I'm not totally surprised about this....The two who were a part of this group are in financial straights...but I'm a bit disappointed, I suppose. It would have been fun.
I watched this movie recently, Tai Chi Zero. I like kung fu movies and this one was a lot of fun. It was original and funny with a pretty solid story line. One review called it the hyperactive love child of Scott Pilgrim and kung fu and that's the most apt way I can describe it. I look forward to finding the sequel.
I heard the other day that there is a dinosaur exhibit close by where you can ride a giant animatronic T-rex. It sounds amazing.
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IDEA Cellular, Indias third largest mobile operator has announced the launch of its Gold Standard 3G services that will catapult mobile communication services and transform user experience. The third generation of mobile communication systems, 3G, lets customers use an extensive range of high-end data services on a wide variety of handsets and other devices.
Idea announced the launch of 3G services on its network in MP & Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh today. To anchor the occasion, Idea unveiled a new 3G logo. The new branding will be implemented throughout India, across all customer touch points. Idea has set up Experience Kiosks to provide a flavour of the services that customers can opt for. These will be available to all users at select My Idea stores.
On the occasion of the 3G launch, Himanshu Kapania, Deputy Managing Director, Idea Cellular said: 3G services will mark the beginning of the next phase of Indias telecom growth story and bring the sector on par with the most advanced telecom markets in the world. Beginning today, Idea subscribers will be the first in India to experience the Gold Standard in 3G services. Currently, 10% of Ideas over 86 million subscribers are said to be using 3G enabled handsets. It is expected that these users will be the early adopters of 3G services.
Ideas 3G services will be available in 200 towns by mid April 11, progressively growing at the rate of 10 towns per day to cover 750 towns by mid 2011, and 4,000 towns by the end of FY12. Idea has traditionally focused on growth from semi-urban heartlands of India and will continue to drive its 3G services from these industrial, agricultural and educational regions.
Speaking about the 3G network rollout, Ambrish Jain, Director Operations, Idea Cellular, said: Beginning with MP, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and HP, Ideas 3G services will expand in a progressive manner to provide expansive coverage across 4,000 towns by year end. Idea will target areas of industrial and commercial activity, centres of learning, and high potential rural hinterlands where broadband is yet to make a breakthrough. Idea has set up the most extensive customer service network to educate customers on 3G and support their requirements, across the country.
Ideas 3G services will enable users to avail Video Conferencing, IdeaMall Application Store, Mobile TV, Video on Demand, and high-speed Internet Browsing. IdeaMall is Ideas Application Store which offers an entire catalogue of games and applications on Web & Mobile platforms.
Ideas 3G services will offer the best mobile experience in downloading songs, streaming videos on YouTube, streaming audio, photo updates on Facebook, mail and other online media, movie downloads, watching mobile TV, e-mailing with attachments, blog postings, viewing photos, and Flash & HD Gaming. Idea 3G users will experience speed upto 21 Mbps on 3G handsets, and higher speed on other devices depending on the device capability.
Idea has introduced Time based Billing plan for 3G services enabling users to avail high-end data services without worrying about the volume of usage. To promote usage, Idea has introduced sachet pricing offering attractive trial packages with per day billing.
When It's About Money: Don't just save for your child's education
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Many a times parents overlook other goals as they are too busy focusing on just one goal, that is on their child's education. They are too emotionally involved in achieving this particular goal that they forget planning for their retirement and saving for other emergencies.


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Holiday Greetings
Dear Friends,
As the Christian community moves through the season of Advent every December, so too the university community at Loyola draws to a close of what might be called a season of exams and final papers! In the midst of this, I am grateful for the many people who support our programs. Of the 12 events of the fall semester, I would single out four of them that illustrate to me the diverse interests that the Hank Center promotes in its endeavor to communicate, research, and connect to the Roman Catholic intellectual heritage.
First, as a way to promote inter-religious conversation at Loyola, our Catholicism in Dialogue Series discussed the role that pilgrimage plays in the Abrahamic faiths with scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.Second, as a way to deepen Loyola's understanding of the Catholic tradition's commitment to the plight of refugees around the world, we dedicated our Catholic Minds, Catholic Matters series to a symposium on the challenges of Jesuit education in light of global poverty and the displacement of peoples.Third, as a way to celebrate the university's Jesuit heritage, we continued our campus-wide conversation leading up to the bicentennial of the Restoration of the Society of Jesus, 1814-2014, and discussed both why the Jesuits were suppressed by the Church in the first place and what lead to their eventual restoration. Finally, as a way to connect to the roots of Catholic life and culture in Chicago, we hosted the first in a series of conferences on Chicago immigration and the Catholic Church, starting with the Italian American community. This two-day conference brought together historians, literary critics, artists, and leaders in the Italian American community of Chicago to celebrate this rich heritage. To see the video for any of these events, visit our website or contact us at email@example.com to get a DVD edition of it.
We also look forward to the great programming we will offer in the spring:our annual Cardinal Newman Lecture in February invites a scholar to reflect with us on his or her intellectual journey toward Catholicism; our Catholicism and the Arts Series in March celebrates the poetry of the Jesuit, Gerard Manley Hopkins; and put on your calendars March 27 for our full day papal symposium, Habemus Papam +1: The First Year of Pope Francis.
From all of us at the Joan and Bill Hank Center, a Merry Christmas to you and a happy new year,
Fr. Mark Bosco, S.J.
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Columbus Circle dinner
Hello - I'm looking for a nice place in the Columbus Circle area for pre-theater dinner. I'd like there to be a decent vegetarian option. By "nice" I don't mean Per Se / Masa, but something a little special. Thanks!
I'm having a little trouble gauging the 'specialness level' you want (maybe list examples of restaurants you know of that might fit the bill?) -- but one possibility is Pasha.
Also in the vicinity is Telepan. The space is a little bland, but many people like the food a lot.
And not too much further north, there's Ouest, a comfortably elegant French restaurant with no attitude and great food. Pasha is more casual than the other two.
72 W. 69th Street, New York, NY 10023
70 West 71st Street, New York, NY 10023
re: cimui
Oops, I have to qualify (or maybe rescind) the Ouest suggestion, as there are no vegetarian entrees. Vegetarians that I've gone with tend to order appetizers and sides, but that may not be as enjoyable for a special occasion.
Vegetarian appetizers and sides include:
Truffled "Omelet Souffle" with mousseline sauce
Mushroom Croquettes with pickled shallots marinated beets & goat cheese
Endive & Roquefort In a Creamy Mustard Vinaigrette
Mashed Potatoes
Soft Polenta
Sauteed or Creamed Spinach
Braised Savoy Cabbage
Haricots Vert
Picholine, on 64th St., b/t B'way & CPW, is special and expensive, thougj not on the per se/Masa level. Superb cuisine and excellent service. Looking at the menu on the website, I see there are a few vegetarian appetizer options which I'm sure they would be willing to increase to main course size.
re: Spends Rent on Food
Are there reasonable vegetarian options at Blue Ribbon? I just don't remember off hand -though I guess the menu is on line if the OP wants to take a look.
re: MMRuth
I've never been to the Blue Ribbon uptown (I didn't really know that one existed), but I'm a frequent visitor to the Soho location and would never bring a vegetarian there, unless it was a non-vegan who might enjoy the fondue.
I go there for chilled half-lobster, oysters, bone marrow/oxtail, fried chicken, fried oysters, steak, etc. Very heavy, meaty stuff.
re: Yaqo Homo
The UWS location is more of a sushi bar & grill (sushi menu + greatest hits from the other restaurants) so if the vegetarian is OK with some veggie maki rolls, salads, vegetable tempura, etc. then it should be fine.
re: kathryn
Thanks - I never really focus on vegetarian items unless I'm going to dine w/ one - and I generally assume that vegetarian = no fish/meat.
re: Yaqo Homo
Blue Ribbon does have an excellent calamari salad that a vegetarian friend of mine loves (does eating fish make her not a vegetarian? I never considered that - I'll ask next time I see her). She also loves the half lobster.
re: Spends Rent on Food
Obviously, your friend is not a strict vegetarian. There are some vegetarians who, like her, will eat fish. I guess we could call them "veggie-pescatarians."
re: Spends Rent on Food
I would skip Landmarc - as it is not a special place. Nice enough for a reasonable dinner with kids but would not classify it as special.
gabriel's on 60th, jusf off broadway, always works for me. their best dishes are wood-grilled meats/fish, but the pastas, most of which are vegetarian, are very good. nice wine list and comfy-but-classy vibe.
re: david sprague
Second Gabriel's.
re: DolceVitaNYC
Cafe des Artistes is way past its prime. In my view, not worth the expense. And would any of the others truly qualify as "something a little special"?
re: RGR
agreed about cafe des artistes...the room charms me to no end, but the food is average at best. but as far as defining 'special'? it depends on how you define day-to-day. if you're lucky enough to be able to afford rosa mex/gabriel's as a five-day-a-week menu, your standards are clearly a bit different. diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks and all that.
re: david sprague
Yes, the size of one's wallet is an issue. That's why it's always helpful to know what a poster's budget is when he or she is asking for recommendations. In this instance, jh158 only specifically eliminated per se and masa; therefore, it would appear that when suggesting some place "special," any upscale restaurant below those ultra-high price levels would be o.k.
re: RGR
I work in CC and frequent most of the above. I would definitely agree with the Gabriel's recommendations- it is just lovely- wonderful food, presentation, service and space- and definite vegetarian options. Blue Ribbon is fine but I would not call it "special." I prefer it more for lunch. Landmarc in TW is horribly loud and can often have spotty service/food - an entirely different experience than the downtown location which I love. I would also second Picholine- especially after the beautiful rehab- nice wine bar.
re: DolceVitaNYC
I would agree with avoiding Cafe des Artistes. I have been going there for ten years, but had two meals there over the summer that confirmed that it is a shadow of its former self. It is clear that the owners think that a charming atmosphere will overcome indifferent, lackluster service, and lukewarm, lackluster food. When I asked some long standing waiters what happened they said, "Talk to the owners" and rolled their eyes. Believe me, you are better off at Picholine or Telepan by a long shot.
thanks all! These are all great suggestions -- definitely in my range of "special." Feel free to keep 'em coming.
To clarify, "vegetarian" means (to me) no fish, poultry, pork, or meat: no animals.
re: David W
I second Nougatine
re: Armis
Nougatine is only open for lunch. At night it turns into Jean George. Okay, I THINK it is just lunch...but anyway they have a great lunch deal of 3 courses for $20.08 (unless that has changed from last year). I think that there is usually a fish option. Jean George cooking at a reasonable price. Call ahead and ask all these questions, because you will need a reservation even at lunch. The food is, of course, outstanding, and the service is as well.
I second Pasha. Great for vegetarians. The others work for me too. Here's a DON"t: Josephina's and Cafe Fiorello. The former's food is second class and the latter is so noisy you won't hear each other.
I thought the Time Warner Landmarc closed in June. Did it get a reprieve?
re: joannabar
I was in the TW Center after June, and Landmarc was still open.
re: joannabar
First-the Nougatine room is most certainly open for lunch and dinner-it's a separate space from JG (you walk through it to get to JG) At lunchtime, they have a 3-course $24.07 munu (as well as al la carte). JG has a great deal at lunch-$28 for two courses, $12 for each additional course.
And Landmarc is open-are you thinking of Cafe Gray, which closed this past June?


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Meowth's Party (single)
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| Meowth's Party
CD cover art
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|October 27, 1999
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Meowth's Party (Japanese: ニャースのパーティ Nyarth's Party) (ZMDP-1027) is a mini CD single that was released on October 27, 1999 in Japan.
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Track list
- Meowth's Party ニャースのパーティ
- Meowth's Song 2000 ニャースのうた2000
- As I Said と★いってるニャ
- Meowth's Party (Karaoke) ニャースのパーティ(オリジナルカラオケ)
- Meowth's Rant (hidden track, not listed on packaging)
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I am an acne mess after this stuff. I am very very very acne prone but I never expected this to cause my skin to be so inflamed. After a good few months of amazing skin I am back to my pubescent skin woes :( and I am having to use my most extreme acne treatments again. Also this is the only new product in my arsenal so I can't blame this awful skin I have on anything else.
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So I purchased this sticks after seeing a contouring tutorial on YT, so I got two shades: 230 & 355. I usethe first one all over the face and then 355 to contour, and it's such a great duo!
It's pretty much a medium coverage, but can be built up to the full, if that's what you need.
It great to use in the mornings, as it just takes no time to apply/buff it in, and the price is also pretty affordable if you run out. Lasts all day on me, but that is because my skin is just like that and I use translucent powder/finishing spray so I can't really tell how it lasts without little help. To sum up, it's my favourite drugstore stick foundation, and I will definately repurchase, especially the darkest shade for creating seemless contour for the day!
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When I originally tried this for the first time I didn't really care for it. Im not sure if it was the packaging or the product itself but it had to kinda grow on me.
overall, I did end up liking it as I have oily skin and this is awesome as far as keeping shine away. I rubbed the product on and added more product to my "problem" areas (acne scars) and then used my sigma f80 and it gave a flawless look that lasted me 8 hrs! Great item and I like it, but the packaging isn't the greatest. I guess I expected more for the price you pay, and who wants to scrape out product from a tube just to get the remaining? I surely don't- that's why I marked off a Lippie. I have two of these and seeing that I like to test many foundations and concealers I don't think I'll be repurchasing- two is more than enough for me.
I loved this foundation for everyday use. It's super easy and quick to put on and the color match was great for me. However, this does not look good on dry patches (which I rarely get anyways). It does not keep you matte all day if you have very oily skin, but does a decent job for a couple hours. I would say it is a light coverage foundation as I still need to use some concealer after applying it. It feels pretty lightweight on the face. This was the first foundation that I used up entirely (note: all my other foundations have high coverage and this is better for me for daily use). NOTE: When it appears you have run out of product because the stick will not twist up anymore, think again. There is a ton of product left if you dig it out with a knife or something of that sort. That is why I gave a low rating on packaging.
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I wanted to like this but I think it's just a bad formula plus flimsy packaging to boot. I loved the Fit Me liquid foundation formula plus the concealer.I have combo skin and this gets flaky and greasy and for some reason. Also it never looks natural.
I have this in #220, which almost matches my NC25-30 skin. I thought since it is a stick foundation, which generally have more coverage, it would have better coverage too, but it's very light and you really can't build it up otherwise it looks cakey and like chalk on my face. Flakes off in about 2 hours.Too drying to use around eyes. Feels like I'm wearing a mask despite the light coverage.
I can't say much about how long it lasts because I trialled it over a period of 1 week and each day I put it on I could not make it work and really just wanted to wash it off. It makes me look too corpse-like.
Would not repurchase.
UPDATE - I added another lippie because on days when my skin is more oily and I don't need much coverage, I can just swipe this on and it looks fine. Not the worst but not the best. Would recommend only if you have truly oily skin with no dryness.
I bought this thinking it was a concelar along with the luquid form of this. I later found out it was a foundation haha I did not like ethier of them to me honest. At first this was eh but I would NOT ever reccomend this for people with dry skin. It stared out okay for me as it has a creamy consistancy and applied and blended well for me. Although the more i blended, the more it flaked off and it really made a point of where my dry skin was. It wasnt horrible but I would not re-purchase and it was à waste of money for me and sits in my makeup bag. For me it also didnt last that long or gave full coverage. Nothing good here. Maybeline should stick to their mascaras
I am happy that I found a shine free foundation. For oily skin, it does well without putting greese on my face. I hated the packaging but the foundation it ok so I can't out this product too much.
I won't repurchase because it is nothing special but I can't say its a bad product
i normally am not a fan of maybelline products because they feel awkward on my face, but this is the exception. i love the stick packaging, it makes it very travel friendly, and mess-free application/touchups. i use shade 220 and it matches perfectly, i have light-medium skin tone and i have no idea what undertone i have ð£, but it matches and thats all that matters.
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I bought this after gossmakeupartist said it was great for oily skin. I'm prefer liquid foundation, but thought this would be something easy to travel with. When I first put the product on I felt uneasy. It almost felt like I was rubbing wax into my skin. However, after a few minutes it started to come together and gave a seemingly nice finish to the skin.
Warning: if you have dry patches avoid this product. It pronounces them like crazy!
Literally, an hour later I was super shiny and the product had oxidized horribly. Alas, I had to stay at work for another 7 hours so I just used blotting sheets all day.
Overall, I would stay away from this product if you're even slightly oily or combo.
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This is the worst foundation ever, stays shine free half an hour w/wo primer. The only reason i bought it was cus of *gossmakeupartist* recommendation, alas....really he has lost my respect for 100% recommending this foundation for oily skin.
P.s. I have combination skin type not very oily but with this foundation, i shine like potato crisp. Gah!
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Gigabyte Brix Pro: You don't need no steenkin' Xbox... when you have 4K-ing amazing graphics
Well, there are at least enough games on Steam Linux to warrant maybe needing that amount of HDD space.
On-demand streamed music services compared
I still find it strange...
...that I'm paying Netflix £5.99 a month to stream hours high definition video to my PC and mobile, and paying Spotify a tenner to stream music to my PC and mobile, that are a fraction of the size - and not even streaming, when I use offline access, saving them bandwidth costs.
I might have to give some of these alternatives a go, thanks El Reg!
Dropbox brings in crack team to probe spam leakage
It'd be interesting to see the mail headers for some of these; the last time I saw this happen (Moonpig), it turned out that someone had broken into their account with their mailing list provider and started sending out spam.
Anybody care to post a pastebin link to the full source for some of the messages?
PayPal is bleeding market share and it's all eBay's fault
Am I the only one around here...
Who's never heard of Square, Braintree, or Stripe?
Apple iGlasses
Prototype Apple glasses found in bar!
I'll get my coat...
HTC One V Android smartphone
512B of memory?
512 bytes? Seems a little low for the price!
Steve Jobs' last design: New Apple HQ pics
"The architects wanted the windows to open. Jobs said no. He had never liked the idea of people being able to open things. 'That would just allow people to screw things up.'"
Well this certainly explains a lot...
iPhone users are sad and mentally unfocused
How about this?
If we get people to fill in a piece of paper with a pen rating how happy they are, can we say that pen users are generally mentally unfocused and unhappy?
I see no mention of a control group here, so what exactly are they comparing the results against?
Virgin Media to warn malware-infected customers
Used to do something similar...
...at the first ISP I worked at; if we got a lot of spam reports regarding a particular user, we'd restrict them and send them an email explaining how to clean a machine.
Better than having a zombie sending out thousands of emails a day!
Google's WiFi snoop - who knew and who didn't?
The wonders...
...of trilateration, which can be fairly accurate with large enough sets of data including known sets of coordinates during the monitoring process.
Newspapers slam BBC iPhone app plans
I am trying...
...to figure out what the complaint is actually regarding: The BBC carried out a poll, that poll revealed that people wanted apps that would give them access to the content on their iPhones, and the beeb dutifully responded.
Surely that's an excellent use of the licence fee money?
Brits take iTablet moniker for 12in iPad rival
That looks...
...oddly like Windows XP to me. Thought it was meant to be Windows 7?
At least it has USB ports and, I'm assuming, support for booting from them - I'm sure someone will make a good Linux port for it.
Adultery website boosted by Christian publicity campaign
Don't look where I'm pointing!
Always love these, unless it is a viral campaign, of course, which is always a possibility.
T-Mobile to revamp tariffs
So basically they're making their tariffs less attractive? After negotiating my new contract last year, I ended up paying just under £25 a month for 800 free minutes, unlimited texts, and their web and walk data plan, which suits my needs and wallet perfectly.
I'm certain that when June rolls about, I'll be reconsidering my provider if they keep this funny business up.
Knuckle rap for riot shield sledging coppers
Gotta say...
This is getting involved with the community at its best - Showing that the police are human and have a sense of humour too.
Then the superintendent had to go and spoil it all!
Chocolate Factory does url shortening
Can't wait...
...for the spammers using these services to try and steal people's Google Account details, posing as a site hosted by them!
Bank snafu Gmail missive never opened
Where's the investigation?!
A bank sends confidential, and I'm assuming completely unencrypted financial information about their clients to an external email address hosted on a third party mail server? There are so many security issues here it's ridiculous.
If this were a UK organisation, they'd have been investigated for their terrible data practices. Understandably, the bank panicked and tried to get the information deleted, even if they went about it in the worst way possible.
However what really concerns me is this: They don't seem to show any sign of conscience here, and no acknowledgement that they have done anything wrong beyond accidentally sending it to the wrong email address. There's no mention of a review of their current security practices, or of the employee involved being reprimanded, or of a plan to better train their employees regarding the security of confidential information.
If my bank acted so nonchalantly after a major security incident, I sure as hell wouldn't hang around and let it happen again.
Sonic the Hedgehog to make 2D comeback
If they do it right...
I could absolutely go for this. I'm surprised that Sega haven't done this sooner, with the rise in casual gaming, and the low development cost involved.
But Sega also have a habit of messing things up, along with a complete inability to market even the best products. I'm a little sceptical.
Louis Vuitton stings ISPs for their customers' infringements
It depends; do you consider web hosting an Internet Service?
T-Orange: How it's going to work
As a T-Mobile customer....
If Orange kept T-Mobile's excellent, and far superior customer service team and decided to take on their generous data plans, I'd be a very happy T-Orange customer.
Unfortunately, I don't hold out much hope for either of these possibilities.
HTC inks in Android-based Tattoo
Except that operating systems could no longer be tweaked to match the hardware, at least not without needing to install a bunch of kernel patches after every update, which would make future software updates difficult at best.
Labour calls for free Wi-Fi on trains
Wow, this will be useful!
Except for the part where they'll use it as another excuse to raise ticket prices and put yet more people off using public transport whilst spending huge amounts of money to implement a technology that's likely going to be outdated within a decade, superseded by improved wireless and cheaper mobile broadband technologies, and in an era where improved mobile data services and speeds mean that the use of a laptop 'on the move' is becoming less and less popular as mobile phones take over their previous roles as internet service devices.
But aside from that, it's brilliant: At least I'll be able to use my laptop on a bus where the seating is barely adequate to fit my legs in! What a fantastically well thought out plan!
And we wonder why government IT projects have such a high rate of failure combined with such a high level of spending. Dumb, short-sighted ideas that are based on hype, rather than level-headed thinking.
iPhone security cracked, smacked and broken
@ Corin
Sure, you steal a phone used for business. I'm assuming that since it's a business phone, it comes unjailbroken, so it shouldn't have SSH running. IN order to jailbreak it, you need to put the phone in recovery mode and flash it with a modified firmware.
This is the important part: By flashing the phone, you erase all data on the device.
I've never been a massive supporter of Apple: I only picked up an iPhone because I managed to get one at a massive discount, but I really do think that this is some of the laziest 'research' I've seen in a while. Do we really need a professional researcher to tell us that by installing SSH, leaving the service running, and leaving the password set as its default that you are opening up your machine to security risks? I'd hope that if you knew what SSH was and had installed it, you'd know the potential implications of using such a service.
In Apple's defence, wouldn't you need access to the phone in order to install SSH in the first place? I know that when I jailbroke my phone and installed it, I had to go through a series of processes to do it, including restoring my firmware which involved losing the data on the phone anyway.
If you've installed SSH already, well, if you haven't changed the default password, more fool you. I always disable the SSH service whenever I'm not using it: I doubt anyone will try, but it's better to not leave any potential holes open.
BT brings jobs back from India
At least we can say that BT were at least honest?
I am interested to know exactly how this won't improve customer service though; maybe their call centres will now only be staffed by two Brits, one of which is the cleaner?
Plod offered SIM confiscation powers by Tories
I'm trying to get the point in this: It doesn't seem like a logical punishment, or particularly effective, seeing as they can surely just call up their provider and get a new SIM shipped to them in a few days?
iPhone makes eyes at T-Mobile and Orange
Here's hoping...
...that this means that you can finally purchase an iPhone on contract without O2's pitiful contract offerings. Anything that offers less than 500 free texts on the lowest plan is pretty ridiculous nowadays, when most other networks are happy to offer you unlimited free texting on similarly priced plans.
Yes, it's for the Jesus phone specifically, but whilst I would love to get an iPhone on contract, the price plans are the only thing that's putting me off converting back to O2 this September when my T-Mobile contract is up.
Schneier says he was 'probably wrong' on masked passwords
That's only because they're not displayed on the screen though. No doubt that they would read the screen, given the opportunity.
But seriously, Schneier; duh?
Conviction overturned in MySpace suicide case
Relevancy of the medium?
It surely shouldn't matter whether this was done via computer, letter or phonecall: Mentally abusing someone in this manner to the point where you drive them to suicide, and with intent, based on the comments made to the girl by the defendant, should be illegal. Even if you aren't holding a knife to their throat, purposely abusing someone to this kind of level simply isn't right.
Masked passwords must go
Wait, what?
Usability expert, maybe, but certainly no security expert. Shoulder surfing is absolutely a problem, but is far less common than it would be if say, passwords were left unmasked and easily readable.
Security is always a compromise between usability and effectiveness,, regardless of its application. You could keep your door wide open, making the accessibility to your home far better, but killing a layer of security in the process. By adding security, a lack of accessibility is inevitable, but the entire system is wide open for exploitation without it.
What's needed is a new compromise, or an alternative, more accessible security solution, but making passwords viewable to casual viewers is not it.
Google taps your IP address for Starbucks targeting
Oh good.
I'll be getting targeted content based around Telford then. Shame I don't actually work for Entanet any more!
Wi-Fi phobes hijack disability legislation
...are they allergic to themselves then?
Because we produce electromagnetic radiation o_O
MS: Xbox will not go Blu
Doubt it'll happen...
It's too late into the console's life for such an accessory to make a difference. The existing consumer base, as it is, is going to be unwilling to adopt an accessory that is going to add a little functionality to their existing hardware, when a new console will likely appear a few years down the line, resulting in them having to toss out/shelf a perfectly good accessory in the process. It makes more sense to just buy a standalone player that you don't plan on replacing until the next major format comes along, or just to wait until the next generation of consoles appears and buy one that supports Bluray, assuming that they're unwilling to purchase a PS3 on top of their current console.
No pr0n surfing for Qantas A380 passengers
What's wrong with...
...good old fashioned internet filtering?
Surely it's easier and less bandwidth intensive to regularly update a set of filters than it is to regularly update their cache? It saves them the future headaches from customers who don't understand what caching is, and can't understand why Gmail and Hotmail aren't logging in properly, or why BBC News will only show articles from 3 weeks ago, too.
Hell, if they can't afford to employ people to keep the filters up to date, pay one of the multitude of filtering companies out there to get a regularly updated version of their filters instead.
Yes, people can use proxies to bypass them, but if people really want to rack off a sly one on the plane, they'll find a way: It'd be far easier just to download a load of porn before they leave, and take that on a USB stick, or on their mobile for convenience, and how exactly are the airlines going to prevent that?
Apple unsheathes Jesus Phone 2.1
That's a lot of issues for one piece of hardware. If I bought a phone that was dropping calls like that, I'd be complaining to my provider and replacing it with another model. How the hell does Apple get away with this?
More importantly, how can I cash in on this depressingly dim demographic?!
Acer raises UK prices
...there goes that shiny new Aspire One I wanted for university then.
Beeb readies iPlayer app for Nokia N96
Wot? N96 only?!
Seems like a massive waste of development time if they're only going to allow this to work with the Nokia N96. There are a ton of Symbian S60 phones out there, including Nokia's own very popular N95 series, that would benefit from this.
I know that it creates an additional marketing point for the N96, but there's nothing like screwing over current customers to put them off buying your product in the future.
Houston, we have a virus
Non-mission critical...
People are thinking too far in the box here: I'm thinking that these were the crew's in-flight entertainment to combat the stress and loneliness of living in space. They were probably using Windows rather than Linux because they were probably using the laptops to play games.
Paris, because the laptops probably contain a few of her videos. In-flight entertainment indeed...
MS redesigns Xbox 360 controller key
Is it just me...
...who can't see the difference, colour aside?
Paris, due to immediate confusion.
UK.gov pushes £50,000 fine for online copyright infringement
Wow, I could get fined less...
...for committing financial fraud, knocking over a petrol station, or mugging an old lady.
Thanks for protecting us, Mr. Government!
Gmail outage causes outrage
Oh god...
I was there for the great Gmail outage of 2008. It was down for at most an hour. I'm not even sure how I managed to cope.
Oh yeah, I fired up mail2web.com and logged in through the Gmail POP server on there. No big deal, really.
Robotic hand relief
Better names?
How about 'The Stranger'?
Site guesses your sex via age-old web flaw
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 71%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 29%
Maybe I should reconsider the operation...
Firefox sweeps away carpet bombing bug
It's not the regularity...
...that annoys me, it's the fact that code for handling extensions uses the main software version number in order to determine compatibility of the extensions I have installed.
It's likely that the changes made wont affect 99% of the extensions out there, but regardless, Firefox will disable a number of the extensions I've installed because the compatibility number in their XPI file is 0.0.0.1 less than the new version.
I know that this is partially down to the extension developers, and assuming that they ever update their plugins using the Mozilla site (which some don't, due to some of the methods the site uses being cumbersome), they'll update on their own, but at the same time, I wish that there was a better system for determining compatibility.
Canadian toddler dies after VOIP 911 call
Who's at fault?
This seems like a very complicated issue, you see, the VoIP provider shouldn't be relying on their own records in order to dispatch emergency services.
Personally, I don't wouldn't use VoIP for emergency services (especially since the call is free!), but if I did, in my case this would cause a huge amount of confusion, since my VoIP client is my mobile phone, which utilises whatever data connection it is allowed access to connect to my VoIP provider. Basically, I could be anywhere at all when I make that call.
This brings up the issue that is inherent in VoIP: The service isn't static. I can carry around an ATA or SIP phone and hook it up to any broadband connection, and (assuming that the connection is fast enough and doesn't block any services) expect it to work, so how can anybody rely on set records with the VoIP company in order to pinpoint their location for something as important as the emergency services? They may as well do a geographic trace on the IP, it'll be about as reliable!
UK government websites out of control
Google says...
Searched for site:.gov.uk
Results 1 - 10 of about 41,100,000 from .gov.uk. (0.13 seconds)
41,100,000 .gov.uk sites? I wouldn't actually be that surprised if it were true...
In my own experience, the UK government sites need a total overhaul: Especially the procedures regarding the government gateway ID system. I forgot my password, thanks to their stringent password rules requiring me to think up an unusually cryptic password. One year later I need to use their sites again to renew my car tax, I've forgotten my password. No problem, I'll just go through the 'forgotten password' process and sort this out. It asks me for secret keywords. I enter them, it says that they're wrong. I go through numerous combinations until I give up.
I drop them an email asking what I can do, and in response get told that the department linked to on the site doesn't support the gateway ID system. I'm told to contact another department. Not entirely unexpected, given the horrible bureaucracy in place, but i go along with it. After contacting this other department, I explain that I've filled in all of the possible combinations of secret answers and passwords, and that nothing seems to work, and that I now need some help in to regaining access to my account. I'm essentially told that there's nothing that can be done now. I can't even have my account reset, or be allowed to reregister with proof of identification. I'm simply never going to be allowed to do anything related to the government gateway system ever again.
I understand that it's my fault for not recalling my password, or whatever secret answers I entered originally, but the fact that there's no procedure in place for these cases just seems ridiculous. Anybody else had any headaches with the gateway ID system?
'Magnet boy' freezes Xbox
Since when does...
...magnetic/electrical interference make the font in his office program huge and put up symbolic characters only?
Seems a little 'made for cinema' to me.
IT industry needs more women
How will this work?
I mean, I'm currently studying for a BA in Computer Systems at the moment, and out of over 200 people I see in my System Analysis and Design lectures, we have a grand total of maybe 5 girls. Throughout my entire education, and IT related courses and modules always had a low turnout of women.
Now then, universities tend to accept people based on their mark, rather than their gender. If women aren't taking interest in IT at an educational level, then there aren't going to be many female IT graduates. If this is the case, then how are businesses meant to employ competent, qualified female IT staff?
Whilst I don't agree with 'requirements' for staff levels when it comes to minorities, since suitability for a job should take the lead, with race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. having no bearing, I do wonder were they plan to find female IT staff if the number of even remotely qualified people are outweighed so heavily by men.
Boffin icon picked, since some IT jobs may contain highly technical content requiring degree-level education or above :P
Bill Gates chuckles at Google Apps
Google Docs worked fairly well for our university project recently: We collaborated and made our presentation online, then I edited, and copied and pasted people's entries into OpenOffice Impress. Worked wonderfully. Granted that we didn't use Docs for the actual presentation, but for collaborating across multiple operating systems (Ubuntu here, Arch on another, and Windows on another), and over the internet, it was perfect.
NetScape Navigator put out to pasture
Funny thing...
My local Co-op has a copy of Netscape Navigator on the shelf, selling for just under £3! :)
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August 18, 2004
Five cross country runners from Gilbert's Highland High School had the time of their lives in Australia while competing in races Down Under.
Highland seniors Craig Breinholt, Ryan Hummel and Auston Huerta, along with Highland graduates Eric McCain and Ed Puhlmann, joined 11 other Arizona residents to compete in two races with United States and Australian long-distance runners.
The teenagers visited Surfer's Paradise on the Gold Coast and Sydney, and brought home several medals from the trip, which took place July 15-27.
Besides the races, they went swimming in the Olympic Stadium pool, visited an Australian zoo and went to Sydney's opera house. They took a ferry ride, fed koalas and kangaroos and saw Tasmanian devils.
"We caroused the town and visited the beach," said Auston, 17, who also placed last year in the Australian races. "The sand was perfect."
Craig won a gold medal in the 1.8-mile race featuring both United States and Australian runners. Auston won fifth place and Ryan got 14th place in the same race. The Arizona team as a whole received a gold medal based on the scoring of all the runners.
Craig, Ryan and Auston also took third place in the second race, running as a three-man team in the 4K relay.
After receiving invitations in November, the teenagers spent the months leading up to the trip coming up with the $3,100 each needed for the Down Under International Games. They sent letters to family and friends asking for help. They sold candles and candy, held raffles through the Gilbert Rotary Club and had yard sales.
Ryan's dad, Mike Hummel, said the boys worked hard to raise the money themselves.
It was culture shock for the all-American boys in Australia, who still say their favorite Australian restaurants were the Hard Rock Cafe and Baskin-Robbins.
"Every restaurant sold a lot of Thai food and the hamburger had beets in it or something," said Craig, 17. "The meat was not good."
It also took them a while to get used to the cars driving on the left side of the street. They said they almost were hit when they kept looking the wrong way before crossing the road.
After enduring the 13-hour plane ride and the 17-hour time difference, which hit them when they returned home, the boys said they had a great time.


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Ben Verwaayen, who spent six years as CEO of BT, is joining Alcatel-Lucent as chief executive. Verwaayen will work with Philippe Camus, who starts as Chairman on 1 October. He was credited with helping BT's apparent turnaround, moving from a voice to broadband provider and cutting jobs in the process. Alcatel-Lucent's previous …
did he jump or was he phormed?
I can imagine the conversation now "sorry Ben, some one seniors gotta carry the can for the phuck up, we'll look after you, we'll always need modems Ben, you can trust us Ben"
in other news Emma Sanderson will be serving chipped potato within the prestigious British Telecom Tower restaurant
Sounds like wishful thinking on your part Alex. Believe it or not Ben Verwaayen was a major asset for BT and there's no doubt that Alcatel-Lucent's gain is BT's loss.
Imagine the scene...
ben opens his browser and gets a targetted job ad from PHORM, then suddenly realises he had an unread email containing his BT Notice to quit.....damn them deep packet inspections are good he thinks
Things started going downhill at Lucent...
When they sold one of the golf courses and two of the Learjets.
Yet another management change, I have an inbox rule to move them straight to the trash.
They should have gone the whole nine yards and hired Carli Fiorina.
At the time time of the merger I heard someody describe is as "like two garbage trucks crashing head on".
Good luck Ben
Please be kind to Plan 9 and Bell-Labs, it's been hellish for years, they even removed every other light bulb but I guess that didn't have much impact on the $1bn after all.
Bell-Labs inventing the future since forever - the transistor and the CCD and Unix and C and and ......
Oh though there is some shit in there, I'm looking at you C++ (he got upset when the guys in the Unix lab were non-plussed)
Recall, if you will...
...that Alcatel-Lucent are the company behind Project Rialto/Kindsight, a phormette. Isn't it amazing where these BT bods keep ending up?
@ Alex
you're a little late. I think she of the immovable hair already had the job of can carrier. "Announce disastrous profits, fire a bunch, repeat, rince ... OK, off you, here's a big wad of cash".
Doesn't mean the future will be any better of course.
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Sedona Red Rock High School has already accomplished, with its girls tennis team, more than it did all of last spring — win.
The Scorpions overcame losses in singles and doubles competition to freshman Neha Alety, the 27th-ranked player in the state, to defeat Rancho Solano Preparatory Academy, 7-2, Wednesday, March 19, in Gilbert. SRRHS is now 2-0 after a 2013 season in which the girls tennis team could not achieve victory.
"We had a long haul, going winless last season," head coach Carla Heckrodt said. "So, starting out like we have this season is really promising."
Junior Keely Miller and senior Laura Clark also picked up 6-2, 6-0 singles wins over Mustangs sophomores Matilda Kapidani and Bergen Harmes, respectively.
"She's really solid at the No. 5 position," Heckrodt said of Clark. "We want to give some other kids experience, and we'll be looking at switching around the No. 6 spot as some of the other kids understand their game and skills a little more solidly."
Assistant coach Phil Kovacs was more blunt.
"Laura, when she first came on the team, couldn't hit a tennis ball with a racket," Kovacs said. "But Laura's determined to win. Her determination and focus to play the game is 100 percent."
Miller, Kovacs added, at least as far as "court smarts" are concerned, "is probably the smartest on the team. Keely is striking better."
Lastly, senior Sarah Grover overcame an 8-2 doubles loss with her partner — junior No. 1 Paulina Lasia — to Alety and Kapidani to defeat Rancho Solano sophomore Enida Kapidani, 6-4, 7-5. Junior Yvesche Schlee and sophomore Sarah Hermosillo won their singles matches by forfeit and also collected 8-3 and 8-0 doubles victories with their respective partners, Miller and Hermosillo's twin sister, Sophia.
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a manual. The world did not come without a way for people to prosper, and the planet to heal and stay well; that way is geonomics. Economies are part of the ecosystem. Both generate surpluses and follow self-regulating feedback loops. A cycle like the Law of Supply and Demand is one of the economy's on/off loops. Our spending for land and resources – things that nobody made and everybody needs – constitutes our society's surplus. Those profits without production (remember, nobody produced Earth) can become our commonwealth. To share it, we could pay land dues in to the public treasury (wouldn't oil companies love that?) and get rent dividends back, a la Alaska's oil dividend. Doing so let's us axe taxes and jettison subsidies. Taxes and subsidies distort price (the DNA of exchange), violate quid pro quo by benefiting the well-connected more than anyone else, reinforce hierarchy of state over citizen, and are costly to administer (you don't really need so much bureaucracy, do you?). Conversely, land dues motivate people to not waste sites, resources, and the ecosystem while rent dividends motivate people to not waste themselves. Receiving this income supplement – a Citizens Dividend – people can invest in their favorite technology or outgrow being "economan" and shrink their overbearing workweek in order to enjoy more time with family, friends, community, and nature. Then in all that free time, maybe we could figure out just what we are here for.
a POV that Spain's president might try. A few blocks from my room in Madrid at a book fair to promote literacy, Sr Zapatero, while giving autographs and high fives to kids, said books are very expensive and he'd see about getting the value added tax on them cut down to zero. (El Pais, June 4; see, politicians can grasp geo-logic.) But why do we raise the cost of any useful product? Why not tax useless products? Even more basic: is being better than a costly tax good enough? Our favorite replacement for any tax is no tax: instead, run government like a business and charge full market value for the permits it issues, such as everything from corporate charters to emission allowances to resource leases. These pieces of paper are immensely valuable, yet now our steward, the state, gives them away for nearly free, absolutely free in some cases. Government is sitting on its own assets and needs merely to cash in by doing what any rational entity in the economy does – negotiate the best deal. Then with this profit, rather than fund more waste, pay the stakeholders, we citizenry, a dividend. Thereby geonomics gets rid of two huge problems. It replaces taxes with full-value fees and replaces subsidies for special interests with a Citizens Dividend for people in general. Neither left nor right, this reform is what both nature lovers and liberty lovers need to promote, right now.
one of many words I coined over 20 years ago: geoism, geonomics, geonomy, geocracy, etc – neologisms that later others came up with, too. CNBC once had a Geonomics Show, and Middlebury College has a Geonomics Institute. If "economy" is literally "management of the household", then geonomy is "management of the planet". The kind of management I had in mind is not what CNBC was thinking – top-down. My geonomics is not hands-on, interfering, but hands-off, organic. It'd strive to align policy with natural processes, similar to what holistic healing does in medicine, what organic farming does in agriculture. Geonomics attends to two key components: One, the crucial stuff to track is fat — or profit, especially profits without production, such as rent, or all the money we spend on the nature we use. Society's surplus is the sine qua non for growth, needed to counter death – not merely more, but sustainable development, more from less. Two, the basic process to respect is the feedback loop. These let nature maintain balance automatically and could do the same for markets, if we let them. Letting them would turn our economies, now our masters, into a geonomy, our servant, providing us with prosperity, eco-librium (to coin a term) and leisure, time off — a hostile environment for economan but a cradle for a loving and creative humanity.
a study of a phenomenon David Ricardo noted going on two centuries ago. When wine grapes rise to $10,000 a ton from the very best land (last year, cabernet sauvignon commanded an average of $4,021 a ton in the Napa Valley), then vineyard prices soar from $18,000 an acre in the 1980′s to $100,000 an acre five years ago and now for a top pedigree up to $300,000 an acre (The New York Times, April 9, via Wyn Achenbaum). Pricey land does not make wine pricey; spendy wine makes land spendy. While vintners make their wine tasty, nature and society in general – not any lone owner – make land desireable. Steve Kerch of CBS's MarketWatch (April 5) notes that much of what a home sells for on the open market is a reflection of intangible factors such as what school district the house sits in. The price the builder has to pay for the land also tends to be driven by the same intangibles. Because the value of land comes from society, and because one's use excludes the rest of society, each user owes all others compensation, and is owed compensation by everyone else. Sharing land's value, instead of taxing one's efforts, is the policy of geonomics.
shaped by reality. In the 1980′s, the Swedish government doubled its stock transfer tax. Tax receipts, however, rose only 15%, since traders simply fled to London exchanges. Fearing a further exodus, the Swedish government quickly rescinded the tax altogether. (The New York Times, April 20) That willingness to tax anything leads us astray. Pushing us astray is that unwillingness to pay what we owe: rent for land, our common heritage. Assuming land value is up for grabs, we speculate. We cap the property tax on both land and buildings and the rate at which assessments can go up; while real market values rise quicker, assessments can never catch up. Our stewards, the Bureau of Land Management, routinely sell and lease sites below market value, often to insiders, says the Government Accounting Office. Once we grasp that rent is ours to share, we'll collect it all, rather than let it enrich a few, and quit taxing earnings, which do belong to the individual earner. That shift is geonomic policy.
a scientific look at how we divvy up the work and the wealth, how some of us end up with too much or too little effort or reward. That's partly due to Ricardo's Law of Rent, showing how wasteful use of Earth cuts wages. And it's partly due to how a society's elite runs government around like water boys, dishing out subsidies and tax breaks. While geonomists look political reality right in the eye, without blinking, conventional economists flinch. When Paul Volcker, ex-chief of the Federal Reserve, moved on to a cushy professorship at Princeton cum book contract, the crush of deadlines bore down. So Volcker asked a junior associate to help with the book. The guy refused, explaining that giving serious consideration to policy would ruin his academic career. The ex-Fed chief couldn't believe it and asked the department chair if truly that were the case. That head honcho pondered the question then replied no, not if he only does it once. And economics was AKA political economy!
a scientific look at how we divvy up the work and the wealth, how some of us end up with too much or too little effort or reward. That's partly due to Ricardo's Law of Rent, showing how wasteful use of Earth cuts wages. And it's partly due to how a society's elite runs government around like water boys, dishing out subsidies and tax breaks. While geonomists look political reality right in the eye, without blinking, conventional economists flinch. When Paul Volcker, ex-chief of the Federal Reserve, moved on to a cushy professorship at Princeton cum book contract, the crush of deadlines bore down. So Volcker asked a junior associate to help with the book. The guy refused, explaining that giving serious consideration to policy would ruin his academic career. The ex-Fed chief couldn't believe it and asked the department chair if truly that were the case. That head honcho pondered the question then replied no, not if he only does it once. And economics was AKA political economy!
a way to redirect all the money we spend on the nature we use – trillions of dollars annually. We can't pay the Creator of sites and resources and are mistaken to pay their owners this biggest stream in our economy. Instead, as owners we should pay our neighbors for respecting our claims to land. Owners could pay in land dues to the public treasury, a la Sydney Australia's land tax, and residents could get back a "rent" dividend, a la Alaska's oil dividend. We'd pay for owning sites, resources, EM spectrum, or emitting pollutants into the ecosphere, then get a fair share of the recovered revenue. The economy would finally have a thermostat, the dividend. When it's small, people would work more; when it's big, they'd work less. Sharing Earth's worth, we could jettison counterproductive taxes and addictive subsidies. Prices would become precise; things like sprawl, sprayed food, gasoline engines, coal-burning plants would no longer seem cheap; things like compact towns, organic foods, fuel cells, and solar powers would become affordable. Getting shares, people could spend their expanded leisure socializing, making art, enjoying nature, or just chilling. Economies let us produce wealth efficiently; geonomics lets us share it fairly.
the annoying habit of seeing the hand of land in almost all transactions. In geonomics we maintain the distinction between the items bearing exchange value that come into being via human effort — wealth — and those that don't — land. Keeping this distinction in the forefront makes it obvious that speculating in land drives sprawl, that hoarding land retards Third World development, that borrowing to buy land plus buildings engorges banks, that much so-called "interest" is quasi-rent, that the cost of land inflates faster than the price of produced goods and services, that over half of corporate profit is from real estate (Urban Land Institute, 1999). Summing up these analyses, geonomists offer a Grand Unifying Theory, that the flow of rent pulls all other indicators in its wake. Geonomics differs from economics as chemistry from alchemy, as astronomy from astrology.
in part the Great Green Tax Shift maxed out. Economically, taxing pollution and depletion does reduce pollutants and extracts – and thus the tax base; plus such taxes are regressive, requiring a safety net. On the other hand, collecting site rent is progressive and generates a revenue surplus payable as a dividend to residents, which can serve as the safety net. Environmentally, taxes on waste and extraction do not drive efficient use of land, as does getting site rent.
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