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As a child in Phoenix Arizona, not one of the safest cities nowadays, I had free range over a 5 by 5 city block area. To my elementary school I walked about a half a mile down the road by myself grades 1st thru 6th. My grandmother or mother walked with me the first part of the school year in 1st grade, before the second half of the year I was walking it by myself. One of them would wait at the end of the yard after school to make sure they saw me, as soon as they had a glimpse of me, they'd go back inside. This changed as the years went on, it was soon, "hurry up you have to get ready for school" and my brother and I would walk it together alone. There was no waiting for me or seeing me off the older I got. Completely normal I'd say as a child in that day in age.
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excellent clean cheap hotel
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room excellent, shower really powerful and very comfy bed. Staff very helpful and lovely breakfast in the morning.
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The Holiday Inn Express Crewe is located just a 5-minute walk from Crewe Rail Station.
With free parking and free WiFi, Alton Towers is just 25-minutes' drive away.
The modern, stylish rooms at this Holiday Inn Express all come with a 26-inch LCD TV, air conditioning, a hairdryer, and tea and coffee making facilities.
The Great Room serves a hot breakfast buffet featuring sausage, scrambled eggs and baked beans in addition to continental options. Light meals are also served in the evening.
The M6 motorway is easily reached within 20 minutes, allowing easy access to Cheshire and Staffordshire and their many historic homes, gardens and attractions.
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The Waverley Hotel is family-run hotel just a 3-minute walk from Crewe Railway Station and a short drive from junctions 16 and 17 of the M6 motorway.
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This 3-star hotel is opposite Crewe Railway Station and just minutes from junctions 16 and 17 of the M6 motorway. Crewe Arms Hotel has a bar, restaurant and lounge, and free Wi-Fi throughout.
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Great National Newcastle-under-Lyme Minutes from the Junction 15 of the M6, the Great National Newcastle-under-Lyme is in a quiet setting and boasts a bar and a restaurant.
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A clean and we'll maintained hotel. Breakfast was excellent lees one item.
No bacon on the breakfast menu
Location was good. 20 min walk to town.
Breakfast pretty poor though
Good desk for working, Shower instead of bath, flat screen TV
No hot water in the shower - luke warm at best, key card does not work consistently, Wifi speed is so pathetic you cant use it, breakfast is appalling and pillows are very uncomfortable
room excellent, shower really powerful and very comfy bed. Staff very helpful and lovely breakfast in the morning.
Very clean, modern- everything you need
No glasses in the room for a drink of water- mugs only
The floor boards in my room, and that above were creaking with every step. I was constantly disturbed by upstairs neighbour, especially early in the morning, and was aware that I was doing the same to my downstairs neighbour. Breakfast selection was limited, with only nominal provision of wheat free food, which I need
there is nothing I can fault with the services, Only thing I would like to see is more of a turning circle when coming out of the garage its very tight for a large car.
Well decorated & spacious room. Very plesent.
Not much for breakfast- scrabbled egg or beans on crusts of bread. No bacon or sausages. No staff around at breakfast time. Toilet fan didn't work Noisy heating fan in room
Staff friendly when arrived
Banging window all night. Rang reception numerous times no answer. No sausages, egg and beans Luke warm staff not bothered.
The room was very clean and a decent size. Large tv with free view with HDMI port if you have taken your laptop. Décor was nice and lovely shower room, shower is big enough for 2. large towels supplied.
Bed was very bouncy, and springy. when your used to memory foam we didn't sleep great. Floor in room was squeaky and annoying, also next door and outside our door. You could hear people walking past. Staff were unprofessional. Could hear people arguing next door, thin walls.
Not easy to find initially in the dark we had booked an accessible room OH can't do stairs the main entrance had about 8 which was not easy with a case as well. The young lady on Reception saw us struggling with cases and the door but did not offer to help. Positive the room was enormous and a great wet room, it would be better still if there was a light over the area where the tea tray was but lovely breakfast
Lack of assistance from the member of staff on duty we found the car park with level access as we were leaving in the morning, the shower controls were not fastened to the wall causing it to vibrate when used
Lovely room Well appointed and stylish en suite shower Good WiFi strength Excellent car parking
My room was far too hot. There didn't appear to be anyway of controlling the temperature other than using the AC unit which didn't have ANY impact.
Bed size. Tea & coffee making facilities in room.
No bacon or tomatoes on offer at breakfast, so the choice of hot food was a little "light". Decaff tea should be provided as well as "standard" tea.
consistent high standards and real value for money. will use again.
Soft beds Easy disabled parking friendly staff warm bedroom
close to railway station, Crewe Alex reasonable walk to town
For an overnight stay this suited our needs, although we arrived before 2pm check in time, we were allocated a room on arrival, this saved us time later.
During our stay there was nothing to complain about.
Friendly staff and excellent service. Only 5 minutes from station and amenities near by excellent
Location was really good and the free car parking and wifi.
The air conditioning in the room didn't seem to work properly and made a knocking sound throughout the night. The breakfast is pretty miserable, I was looking forward to a hot breakfast, but what greeted me was a sad looking selection of warm sausages and congealed beans... The hotel was pretty noisy too, floor boards creaking and banging guest doors.
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Greg BigginsIt's a strong year for talent in San Diego and the top player in the area could be athlete Tony Jefferson (Chula Vista, Calif./ Eastlake). Jefferson has a solid top five, but one school looks pretty solid at the moment. Jefferson is an explosive lin...
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Pita- Ten, and the whole Jing series... like Jing (King of Bandits) and (Twilight Tales *droool*) .. awesome artwork... and awesome stories.. manga is the shit when it's in that genre. I love cute stuff, and sweet characters.
If I only had to choose one manga as my favorite, than I would have to say Love Hina, as it was my first manga. It is funny, romantic, and gosh darn it, it has fan service .
However if I can choose more than one then Samuri Deeper Kyo is an awesome series, a lot of action, sword fighting, and interesting story line.
I only have the first 3 Naruto, but so far i like that series as well.
Well i have i am awesome. Lol.
Pita- Ten, and the whole Jing series... like Jing (King of Bandits) and (Twilight Tales *droool*) .. awesome artwork... and awesome stories.. manga is the shit when it's in that genre. I love cute stuff, and sweet characters.
much love to socketto...what of this mongrel architect, our broken armor soon will set, past, present, and future tense...
I have a list of four ^_^ and they are all very similar to each other... probably hence why I love them so much. I can never pick just one of them, because it depends on my mood so I'll give you all four. Feel free to skim most of my ramblings....
But alas, I'm also so very cursed... 3 out 4 of my favourite manga have been on hiatus of at least 2 years each. -_-
Anyway.... XD
X- The oldest favourite in my list, X was my first real introduction to the world of Shounen-ai and Yaoi (believe it or not), and my first favourite Clamp manga. It's dark and epic, got a great story and good characters (even through there are too many for many of them to get proper character development).... and it's got ANGST with a captial A. Again, on hiatus too.
Angel Sanctuary- The first manga I really got into after X. Kaori Yuki's art first drew me in.... and then the dark and and epic story. It gets pretty full on, with enough angels, devils and twisted plotline after twisted plotline to poke a stick at. My only favourite manga that is actually finished ^^
Yami no Matsuei- At the moment, Yami is my number one favourite, and has been for quite some time (as if that wasn't blindly obvious) ^^ What can I say, I've love everything in this manga, the story, the characters, the art. The only manga I've own where I have 6 volumes of it in Japanese because I just couldn't wait long enough for the English version to be released to be able to read it. Also on hiatus... and currently driving me crazy.
Gravitation- The newest favourite in my list, I've only started reading the manga 6 months ago.
My first proper Shounen-ai manga that got me properly into Yaoi. I like it because it's crazy, cute and funny... and the romance end of it turns me into piles of mushy mushy goo everytime I read it. It's also the only light and fluffy comedy manga in my list (excluding Yuki's occasional angsting of course) Alas... it's also on hiatus.
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Ai Yori Aoshi is my favorite, I currently have Volume 9 on Pre-order, I've written a review of the manga, which can be found HERE . All the reasons I like it can be found there.
My next favorite manga would be Neon Genesis Evangelion, I have up to volume 9, and I'm just waiting for them to release Volume 10. The story is better then the anime in my opinion (Manga's are generally better then the anime anyways).
The funniest manga I've read would have to be Love Hina. The antics that happen in the manga are a hell of alot funnier then in the anime, the story is expanded almost ten-fold. and the aret work is of higher quality IMO (With the exception of Love Hina Again, the art work in that was pretty damn good.)
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Action Research for Organizational Learning
Ylenia Curzi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy |
Tommaso Maria Fabbri University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy |
This position paper deals with a case of action research concerning the organization of administrative work processes in an Italian medium sized athenaeum. First, we briefly outline how action research is actually conducted in the case in question. Then, we discuss the particular approach to action research, by highlighting the underlying idea of personnel's participation, organizational choices and rationality. On this basis, we suggest that the idea of organizational learning developed by Fabbri (2003, 2004) underlies the action research under discussion. We conclude by highlighting the main concepts of this theoretical framework and the hypothesis it suggests in respect to the effectiveness of the action research taken into consideration here.
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Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Best remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941), Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually transitioned to talkies, but nearly saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband in a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to greater success on screen, eventually winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The Great Lie (1941). She was a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to work in film, on television and on stage until her retirement in 1964. Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography was a bestseller, as was her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "that when two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played."
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The laugh-out-loud humor
I do NOT like Robin Miles's southern accent. I am from the South. We do NOT sound like Miles when she performs "southern". I would prefer never to hear Miles's do southern again but I do like Dorothea Benton Frank.
Wes................he just doesn't get it.
Loved the book. Light and funny with just enough mystery to keep the reader guessing.
I've read enough Kathy Reichs that she has become predictable but I still enjoy her books!
Typical DBF but I enjoy her writing style and her story lines. Robin Miles is not my favorite narrator but she is tolerable.
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I painted the entire interior of a 2000 sf house listening to this. Made a task that I hate much more enjoyable.
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Several things made listening to The Husband's Secret enjoyable. 1. I liked the way the story lines of the three main characters were intertwined but the interaction with one another is that of acquaintances. 2. I liked the way an event impacted each character's life. 3.. Listening to Caroline Lee use her voice to distinguish the different characters. 4. I loved the way all the loose ends were all tied up in the epilogue.
I think The Husband's Secret could be compared to The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton because of how one event changes the course of several lives.
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Körös is a Hungarian toponym with several meanings:
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Guillow Lancer RC Conversion
I just finished my first conversion of a Guillow's kit to radio control flight.
I decided on the Lancer. The Lancer looked like an interesting design, with enough room for the ParkZone electronics and geared electric motor. The Lancer is easy to build, but a bit fragile for RC flight. I added some fuselage balsa side panels, ply bracing for the landing gear and some balsa filler at the wing root area. Total weight was right at two ounces. The Lancer fuselage is narrow, so I installed the ParkZone ESC brick vertically, along a fuselage side. The motor fit in the nose perfectly, no mods required. Keep an eye on the CG with the long nose moment. I had to add a bit of tail weight, even working to keep the electronics and battery as far aft as able. I used So-Lite iron on covering (from Mountain Models). So-Lite worked just great. Not too much shrinkage, and the covering adds a lot of strength to the finished airframe. The Lancer flies great indoors. The polyhedral wing provides lots of stability. The model was a bit sensitive to rudder on the first flight. The wing offers so much stability, best technique is to "bump" the rudder, just don't hold too long in place. I am very happy with this Guillow conversion, and look forward to future projects!
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A Salute To The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Festival of Fools at Disneyland
There was no show like The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Festival of Fools at Disneyland. Instead of a simple retelling of the story of Quasimodo, Esmeralda, Pheobus, Clopin, and the gang from Disney's popular movie, it took place in and … Continue reading
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Just when you thought Hollywood couldn't create VFX on a larger scale than Cloverfield or Transformers, this trailer is released, for 'Pacific Rim', and it really takes the biscuit!
Directed by the world renowned Guillermo del Toro, this is a tale of wait for it, giant robots made by humans, fighting giant monsters that have arrived through a time portal at the bottom of the sea - Sounds crazy right? Check out this trailer and if you plan to go to see this at the cinema, be sure to prepare yourself for some bone crushingly epic VFX sequences.
Cloverfield meets Transformers - Some serious VFX action!
CVMP 2012 - Reflections (and Refractions)...Part One!
This was the 9th iteration of the CVMP conference, and it certainly lived up to its billing. The conference struck just the right balance between academic research and commercial production, providing a hugely rich and diverse array of ideas, challenges, successes and future endeavours.
Old School Toys (we mean really old school!)
Forget microscopic hyper intelligent computer chips. modern technology? I laugh in the face of modern technology (for a moment anyway) - you will too after watching some of these mechanical toys from yesteryear, they are simply amazing
VFX - want to see how it's really done?
Fancy taking a peak behind the VFX scenes at Framestore's cinema? Framestore are one of the biggest post houses operating on Soho (London's VFX Hub...) today. They've worked on everything from The Golden Compass to Avatar to the Skyfall titles). We're conducting our last Open Day of the year there next Wednesday and we're rather excited about it!
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Do you want to be in the know of the newest technology and techniques in the VFX industry? Do you want to meet with some of the brightest VFX talent in the UK and Europe?
Then CVMP is the perfect place for you to be on the 5th and 6th of December!
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan
Some good news for VFX fans this week, as VES announce that a complete documentary film about the legendary Ray Harryhausen, will be shown at a number of festivals early next year, and better still, those who can't make these screenings, will be able to get their hands on 'RAY HARRYHAUSEN: SPECIAL EFFECTS TITAN' (quite the title, eh?) as soon as March 2013.
Being an avid Harryhausen fan, I own a signed copy of his classic book 'The Art of Ray Harryhausen', and have had the great pleasure of attending an intimate lecture held by this 'Special Effects Titan' back in 2009.
Big News From IKinema
Recently we've had a few snippets of pretty big news from our friends over at IKinema.
So here are the three little tidbits that we have for you –
Rhythm & Hues deliver a tantalizing visual treat with 'Life of Pi'
Despite popular disbelief, deeming the world created by author Yann Martel in his novel 'Life of Pi', as "unfilmable", the guys at Rhythm & Hues Studios have put together a mind blowing piece of cinema that is sure to visually stun audiences around the globe.
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We spoke to our friends over at Prime Focus World last month, in conjunction with their completed work on the stereo conversion of Tim Burton's stop motion comedy horror - Frankenweenie. PFW worked closely and moreover, exclusively, with Disney and Burton on the picture, and the opportunity to chat about the project was just too good to miss!
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Princess Leia, a true Disney Princess?
I think it's fair to say that a huge amount of young girls, at one point or another have shared the dream of being a Disney Princess. Given this fact, one would imagine it'd be a celebrated occasion to see another Princess joining the Disney family.
Wreck-it Ralph, a delight for the eyes!
While everyone is busy hating on Disney for adopting and extending the Star Wars saga, let's take a moment to remember that Disney do indeed make some seriously visually impressive motion pictures. Their latest endeavour 'Wreck it Ralph', is no exception. CTO Andy Hendrickson spoke to Animation World Network about the film…
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Google & The Science Museum team up!
Over the weekend I was wiling away a few minutes very early in the morning and I discovered this experimental collaboration, between Google and the Science Museum.
'Beauty is Embarrassing' serves to Inspire.
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Darth Vader Moves into the The Magic Kingdom
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In celebration of Sunshine Week, a number of organizations released studies of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests that indicate how government agencies measured up in terms of providing information to the public in 2012.
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Lessons of Watergate Scandal Still Resonate
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Public Deserves Access to Contractor Workforce Size and Cost Data
Access to federal government data on the size and cost of the contractor workforce needs improvement. Agencies still don't collect the data needed to understand the financial burden of millions of government and contractor workers.
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Ireland beats Gibraltar 7-0 in Euro qualifier
The Republic of Ireland football team have beaten Gibraltar 7-0 in tonight's Euro 2016 qualifier.
The result was Gibraltar's second ever competitive fixture.
EU probe: Ireland 'gave unlawful state aid' to Apple
The European Commission said its preliminary findings suggest Ireland provided unlawful state aid to tech giant Apple for more than 20 years.
In a letter published today, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia told Ireland it must provide details of the tax arrangements.
Almunia said any unlawful aid could be recoverable from Apple.
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Five men have been arrested in connected with a drug-smuggling operation aimed at bringing cocaine worth up to £100 million into the UK.
Three British men were arrested on a yacht that was carrying the drugs on Tuesday morning. It had been tracked by authorities in several countries since setting sail from Venezuela.
The crew, which included a 70-year-old man, was reportedly sitting on bales of cocaine when the vessel was intercepted by an elite Navy squad 200 nautical miles the Irish coast.
A further two men were subsequently arrested by the National Crime Agency in the Leeds area.
Britons questioned after '£62.5 million drug haul' found on yacht
Three British men are being questioned by Irish drugs squad officers after the yacht was intercepted with a suspected cargo of cocaine worth 80 million euro (£62.5 million).
The Irish Navy has only today released details of a huge drug haul which was discovered when they boarded a yacht yesterday.
The 60ft Makayabella was stormed 200 nautical miles off Mizen Head, Ireland's most southerly point before being towed to Haulbowline naval base in Cork.
The cargo of drugs, believed to weigh about a tonne, remains on the vessel at the dock while the three suspects are being questioned by the Garda.
If the haul of cocaine could have an estimated street value of 80 million euro, it could be even higher depending on purity. If confirmed, it would be one of the biggest such drug seizures at sea in Europe this year.
Twin boys and older relative dead in 'murder-suicide'
Three members of a family, including nine-year-old twin boys, have been found dead in a suspected double murder-suicide.
The youngsters were found dead in their home just outside the town of Charleville in north county Cork shortly before 5pm today.
About an hour later the body of a relative of the boys, believed to be aged in his early 20s, was found in a forested area about 10 miles away.
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Pope Francis has paid tribute to the late former Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds for his work as a peacemaker.
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Former Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds dies aged 81
Former Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds has died at the age of 81, according to Irish media reports.
Reynolds served as Taoiseach (prime minister) for just under three years - one of the shortest ever terms - but is credited with making a significant contribution to pushing forward the peace process.
He is survived by his wife Kathleen, two sons and five daughters.
Leader of Irish Catholic Church offers resignation
Cardinal Sean Brady, the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, has confirmed he has offered his resignation.
Amid much speculation that he was to stand down, the senior churchman said he wrote to Pope Francis last month asking if he could resign as Archbishop of Armagh.
"I did so in anticipation of my seventy-fifth birthday which I will celebrate tomorrow," he said in a statement today.
Archbishop Eamon Martin will take over the role as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland as soon as Pope Francis accepts the resignation.
Human leg found at Dublin recycling plant
An investigation is under way after a human leg was found at a recycling plant in Ireland.
The alarm was raised last night when the body part was discovered at the Thornton's plant in Ballyfermot in west Dublin.
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We had a really, really, really long day yesterday. We motored up the east coast as long as we could, finally stopping when we couldn't take it any more. We'd travelled all the way up past Christchurch and nearly made it to Kaikoura. Kev was exhausted. When we finally decided to call it a day there suddenly seemed to be no appropriate places to park up for the night. We eventually found, after an hour of searching, a parking area well off the main road, next to the railway line. Well, this wouldn't be a problem, there would surely be no trains at night. We'd only seen one train whilst were were in New Zealand....and we'd spent the entire day following this particular line up the coast. WRONG! At first I thought it was an earthquake, or maybe a tsunami, or an explosion of some sort, such was the degree that Harold shook and rattled when the first train passed by. After narrowly avoiding a heart attack, we both lay back down and tried to get to sleep once again. Then the next train passed. And a couple of hours later, another train hurtled through. In the morning, Kevin informed me that when he did get to sleep he was awoken by a nightmare about a train derailing and crashing into us. I struggled to get to sleep not worrying about this, but from the perfectly rational fear that the scary Santa Claus scarecrow in the field opposite was going to come to life and suddenly appear at the window glowering at us! We were both glad to leave that camping site in the morning.
It didn't take us long to make it up to Blenheim. We stopped only to take pictures of a sea colony on some rocks by the side of the road. We decided to park at a holiday camp so that we could do some proper laundry and give Harold another good clean. More importantly, we were going to visit a winery for lunch, and we weren't confident that either of us would be in a fit state to drive within 12 hours of this particular outing.
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We finally arrived (about an hour later than we'd planned) at the Hunters Winery. We locked up our bikes and waddled into the restaurant. Just to complement the waddling look, my hair was soaking with sweat and flatly smeared across my forehead (as a result of the compulsory helmet), and my makeup was not quite in the same condition as when I'd applied it. Kev, somehow managed to look just as he had done when we set off.
We had a very nice, relaxed lunch outdoors in the restaurant's garden. For our first drink Kev chose a Chardonnay which was nice, and I chose a Rose which was actually a very dark colour and neither of us liked it much. We then moved on to Shiraz which was ok, but not wow! Kev then decided to finish of my Rose and by now he thought it was tasting much better than before! I disagreed! To accompany dessert we moved on to a Muscat which was very rich and very strong and very sweet.
We weren't in the best state (mentally or physically) to cycle back. It took us twice as long as we were both now feeling very tired, very heavy and a little wobbly. Fortunately, it was a glorious day and we spent the evening much like the sea lions that we have seen recently....basking in the sunshine and unable to move.


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IF YOUR biggest shareholder is Berkshire Hathaway, the chances are you are a firm with a future. Moody's, a rating agency in which Warren Buffett's investment company owns a 17% stake, is certainly in fine fettle. Its operating margin last year was 54%; revenue is growing at close to 20% a year. This is thanks largely to the explosion in issuance of "structured finance" products: bonds backed by mortgages, car loans and the like, as well as the derivatives linked to them. Rating these products now accounts for almost half of the firm's business. The other giant of the industry, Standard & Poor's (S&P), is also in rude health. It has helped to drive its parent company's shares up by more than 30% in the past year.
Moody's and S&P have a combined market share of 80%. Together with Fitch, the number three, they have over 95%. This concentration has long raised questions about competition—and regulators are, at long last, on the case. On May 23rd America's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), prompted by Congress, voted to help new agencies gain faster approval. Only half a dozen companies have made the grade since the approvals system began in 1975. Toronto-based Dominion Bond Rating Service had to wait 13 years.
Glenn Reynolds, head of CreditSights, a research firm, says it is time the barriers fell. The big rating agencies are "as close to Shangri-La as you can get, at Microsoft-plus margins," he says. They wield great power—a downgrade can tip a company into bankruptcy—but lack accountability. After crises, such as Enron's collapse, they have deflected legal assaults by claiming their ratings were "opinions", constitutionally protected as free speech. That stance may be harder to defend next time.
Even if the SEC is serious about promoting competition, it may not succeed. Many firms that sell bonds are content to stick with Moody's and S&P, rather as buyers of technology once felt safe choosing IBM. And many funds have charters stipulating that their investments be rated by one of the big two. Steve Joynt, Fitch's boss, says he has had to work hard to get firms to change their guidelines.
This leaves some wondering if credit ratings are a natural oligopoly, with new entrants offering a level of choice that investors simply do not want.
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The big agencies bill the issuer, not the investor. This leaves them conflicted, say critics, as they have an incentive to give the issuer-client the rating it wants so as to win repeat business. Investigations have been launched into whether downgrades of American utilities by Moody's, S&P and Fitch were influenced by the companies, which may have been seeking lower ratings to justify price rises. The agencies say they let clients see their reports before they are published, but only to root out factual errors or non-public information.
The biggest concern is structured finance, where the agencies now depend on a few large investment banks for much of their revenue. A recent study found that the two now work so closely together on complex products such as collateralised debt obligations (CDOs)—tranched pools of debt from different sources—that the agencies could be seen as helping to underwrite them. This may expose them to lawsuits from disgruntled investors. It is an area being studied by IOSCO, an association of securities regulators.
The other question is whether the rating agencies are up to the task. Structured issuance ballooned to $2 trillion last year and grew in complexity. The agencies may be struggling to keep up—partly because they are losing some of their best people to investment banks. The banks offer recruits princely sums to reveal how to "pierce the armour of the computer models they themselves created", says one observer.
Add to that the weaknesses of the models. Janet Tavakoli, a consultant, believes that standards have slipped as business has boomed. In subprime lending, she says, the models misread the level of correlation between different types of assets—a crucial variable—and ignored signs that risks were greater than historical data suggested. Securitised assets using this flawed methodology were used as collateral in other deals, compounding the error. It is hardly a good sign that most hedge funds pay little attention to ratings, assuming their own models to be better. Even Mr Buffett, as happy as he must be with his investment in Moody's, crunches his own numbers when using derivatives.
The agencies have been shifting their ground, downgrading mortgage-backed bonds by the dozen and promising to keep a close eye on CDOs. But they rebut allegations that they messed up. Brian Clarkson, head of structured finance at Moody's, says that much criticism is based on the misunderstanding that ratings gauge the risk of trading losses, when in fact they look only at the probability of default.
Yield-hungry investors have failed to heed repeated warnings by the rating agencies: "We've published reams of reports, but no one reads them until something happens," says Mr Clarkson. Martin Fridson, a credit analyst, argues that the agencies are often used as scapegoats.
Politicians and state attorneys-general want someone to blame, too. They may soon have more ammunition. Joseph Mason, co-author of the critical study on structured ratings, thinks losses on recently assembled CDOs could top $100 billion. That would hurt pension funds, which bought them, and send congressional leaders into a spin. Worse for the industry, widespread losses might cool the fervour for structured products, which command much higher fees than corporate ratings do.
But if the Jeremiahs are wrong and volumes hold up, Moody's and S&P can expect more handsome returns. It would take the entry of a Bloomberg or a Thomson-Reuters to stir up real competition, but neither is thought to be preparing an assault. So for the moment the incumbents' dominance is likely to remain, as Ms Tavakoli says, a "gift that just keeps giving."


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