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Rihanna needs a bigger towel!
The pop star posted a photo to Instagram on April 22 over herself getting ready with a makeup artist backstage, and let's just say there isn't much left to the imagination.
Just before performing at her concert in Atlanta, RiRi can be seen prepping for the show — sans her costume, that is.
She holds up a teensy towel in front of her curves, but she still shows off a substantial amount of cleavage.
In fact, she appears to be making that towel feel like it's the only towel in the world.
This show came only two days after Rihanna celebrated a rather raucous 4/20.
She apparently enjoyed the pot-friendly holiday with two cakes and a strip club. Sounds about right.
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Original finding aid 'Christmas Cards' created 22 July
Finding aid updated and collection rehoused in 2001.
The collection was originally loosely arranged according to conflict, country of origin and unit and housed in manilla folders and Type 1 archive boxes. During the re-housing of the collection in 2000-2001 the collection was re-housed with each card placed in a mylar sleeve, then into ring-bound folders. The existing arrangement was enhanced and expanded using the order of units as listed in the unit war diaries for First and Second World War (Series AWM4 and AWM52). The use of the unit structure from these series helped to create an arrangement for this collection which encompassed every unit involved in each conflict, thus allowing for the continued expansion of the collection without the need to continuously re-organize the collection. As a result of this arrangement, there are sub-divisions listed in the collection which do not hold any items. These are shown as: (Nil)
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I would love it if KoRn put out more live albums. Most of the bootlegs that have been floating around are really bad with poor sound mixes, and they do not capture the quality or ferocity of a live KoRn show. Sure the Unplugged album is pretty OK, but that is not the Live KoRn experience. I want an album of carefully selected takes of all KoRn's best live cuts from '93 onward. It should be a two or three disc album so all eras of KoRn can be covered. Even cooler would be if they inculded some rare early versions of songs like Blind and Alive. Much more even cooler would be the inclusion of that one time they played Daddy live. That could be on the bonus fourth disc from the collector's edition of the Live Album.
And something that I've really wanted for a long time is official versions of the Woodstock show, 'cause all the bootlegs out there have doodoo sound, and that aint no good. I have heard most of the members who played that show all say that is was the best show that they have ever played, so why not make an official release DVD of it? And maybe for the 15 year anniversary of Issues they can finally release and official version of the Apollo debut show? All the versions I have heard from this show also suffer from poor sound quality, and I would kill you if it meant that I can finally have a decent live version of Dirty.
Sorry for ramblin, but I have not been able to sleep for days and days, and late at night when I can't sleep, I think about all the stuff that I would want to hear and see from Korn, and now that I am a part of this community, I just wanted to see if anyone else would want them to put out a bitchin LIVE ALBUM.


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Lammy, who is also a member of Parliament, will spend the morning at Gwinnett Tech meeting with President Sharon Bartels and touring campus. He'll also visit with GTC leaders in economic development, adult education, career services, assessment services and learning support. Gwinnett Tech's new associate degree nursing program and the D. Scott Hudgens, Jr. Center for Early Education will also be highlighted. Finally, Minister Lammy will spend time with a group of Gwinnett Tech students to gain their perspectives.
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The hypocrisy never ceases to fail and the same religious failure and soccer mommy attitudes unfortunately is reflected in the mindset of some gamers who aren't as open-minded. It is pointless to justify a morality in video-gaming and pulpit preaching, while at the same time many games require immoral actions that would be considered illegal in-real life <The act of killing or slaughtering, stealing, handle of dangerous weapons, etc> yet no mention of these things expect when the issue of sexuality comes up.
Why are so many video-games only filled with violence? Because the developers in the west are half-scared and nanny paranoid about venturing into other avenues and themes in gaming. So we have a mass production of violent filler-type games which have become the standard, not because it makes the games unique or worthy but because it is the monetary vaule in which companies can cash on quick $$$. Less thought and innovation, just quick sells and remedies and box-in thinking.
I have seen true r-rated films in which nudity and sex is present and isn't curved, scrubbed or scaled back like games. I have read novels with graphic details and themes so mature that it would set the brows of mmo gamers on fire if they can't even handle a tease like Scarlet Blade. So why is it still the same problem that other medias can express or talk about sexuality yet when it comes to gaming the pew talkers come out, child- cult worshipers, and the wannabe bible thumpers moral white-knights?
Because it's been taught that sexuality and nudity is bad, that gaming is strictly for young audiences and that gaming can't be anything else but violence and moral dictatorship. It's more acceptable to watch someone or something die, graphic displays of death and mutiliation occuring in death, or blood splatters dripping down from foes and enemies alike ironically than for a game to have an ounce of sexuality in it's mists. Suddenly if it does have sexuality or nudity immoral and wrong, but at the same time enjoying and watching things die is without question. Wonder if this has to do with a perceived gender-outlook of the audience as well. If it's more acceptable for a male to be enranged or in a killing-state, than it is for one to be aroused or female likewise to be aroused or curiousity? It's okay to rip heads off but we can't have sexyness oh no! ;)
It is pointless to have a pseudo morality in gaming, when most games require immoral actions in the game-play in the first place, some including and insisting on immoral actions in order to progress or even 'enjoy' the features of the game <killing has never been so fun and rewarding>. Keep in mind that SB was not made for children, but for an adult 18+ audience in korea that has no problem with hints of sexual themes in their games as they treat fantasy and fiction seperate from real-life<as it should be>. It is the west who takes these games and under-sells them for the $$$ demograph because no one dares to make an actual 18+ mmo and because it lacks the actual adult content to make it 18. The result is stagnificant M rated mmos. The artwork of SB is fine in its origin and but the mechanics not so much <the game mechanics could have been done a lot better than the standard run of mill mmo routine with an added touch of quest crazyness>. Those bashing Blade because of the nudity have no real idea how hard it is to actually create those visuals and how artistic the developers have to be to make every curve and expression in the game without resulting in ugly disportions or sore-thumb stick outs. Nor have any appreciation for artwork to began with.
Sad to see I can see a more professional and less biased reviews on a book about sex <Fifty Shades of Grey> than the comfort-zone guilt-trip factor inserted by corporate religion r us article writers and their followers. I do not have a problem with blood or sex<or any fiction at all>, but it is a problem when those involved in gaming form a hypocrisy of one thing, yet exclude and excuse the other. Who are we exactly trying to prove here when games like SB get bashed just for it's sexuality? What? Scoring brownie-points with barney or whinny uncomfortable folks in the first place? If everyone in real-life thought or acted like this, there would be no human-race. Why? Because no one would want to reproduce, because sex or sexuality is immoral and indecent for our bible-thumping selves.
It's too bad a magazine rack in a grocery store out-right talks about sex or the concepts of sex with flamboyant advertising than the squeamishness gaming is still intrapped in. Other medias have advanced yet gaming doesn't want to grow up.
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Just more garbage (not really even referring to the brain dead skimpy outfit stuff either), in a world filled with it.
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If you can't kill it, don't make it mad.
Originally posted by Vorch
Funny, silly, take your pick. But some people are going into hysterics about them. Typical of the PC brigade.
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If you can't kill it, don't make it mad.
Originally posted by DamonVile
Because if you aren't "offended" you are obviously not PC enough to be "mature"... ^^ The game is little more than yet another grinder. The eye candy is just funny, nothing to go into hysterics about, but then I've never been PC.


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It's now just over five years since I first arrived in Cardiff , and since I started keeping this blog. That's a big chunk of my life, and over that time I've grown and changed a lot, leaving home and becoming independent of my parents, studying for my degree, starting my working life, and most recently getting married to my wonderful wife.
My sister Hannah has just started as a student in Cardiff, and is even in the same halls as me. It's strange to notice all the different ways that her experience will be different to mine. When I arrived as a student, there was no Facebook, and no Internet access in my halls of residence. But now many of the students arrive having already made contact with their flatmates online, and when they arrive, describe what they're up to on their Facebook statuses, which makes it very different from turning up not knowing anything about the people you'll be living with.
One of the odd little bits of synchronicity is that the house that Bev and I now rent belongs to a friend, and back in my first couple of years as a student, I came round here every week for Navigators Bible studies. Little did I know that I would one day be living here with my wonderful wife!
If there was one piece of advice I could give to myself five years ago, it would be this: pick one or two things to commit to, and do them really well, rather than doing a dozen things half-heartedly. I loved being involved with so many different activities while at university - the student paper, debating, the Christian Union, Navigators, and many other bits and pieces that I dabbled in. But I think I'd have achieved much more, and developed more lasting friendships, if I'd really invested in just a couple of them. But I've only learned the value of "quality over quantity" through being over-busy as a student, so even if I could change my choices, I don't think I would.
I've learned a lot and grown up a lot in that time. I've made up my mind on some issues, and changed my mind on others. Getting married has made me realise what a lot more I've got to learn - getting to grips with things like budgeting, and paying the bills and so on. They're not glamorous, but it is exciting for Bev and I to be in control of our lives together. I believe that God has been at work in me for the better, helping me to grow in knowledge and love of him, and in the pursuit of humility, though I've still got a long way to go!
I wonder what the coming years will bring... Settling more and more into married life, and starting to take more of a part in life at Mack again, for one thing. I aim to become a published novelist, and hope to write scripts for television - I'm off on a course with TAPS in a couple of weeks on Continuing Drama. And looking further into the future, the next big adventure will be starting our own family. Life... it's full of adventure!
Five Years
It's now just over five years since I first arrived in Cardiff , and since I started keeping this blog. That's a big chunk of my life, and over that time I've grown and changed a lot, leaving home and becoming independent of my parents, studying for my degree, starting my working life, and most recently getting married to my wonderful wife.
Some recent books...
Some of the books I'm reading or have read in the last few months:
- Boundaries - Cloud & Townsend - generally very helpful, a few reservations
- Starcross - Philip Reeve - just riproaringly good fun
- Fever Crumb - Philip Reeve - mostly good, but feels incomplete
- Perelandra - C S Lewis - brilliant, an all-time favourite
- According to Plan - Graeme Goldsworthy - useful Biblical theology overview
- Jango - William Nicholson - very good
- The Soul Winner - Charles Haddon Spurgeon - clear and challenging
- Ethics: A Very Short Introduction - Simon Blackburn - patchy; his discussion of the Bible and ethics is just embarrassing
- The Road to Reality - Roger Penrose - fascinating summary of "how the universe works", requires a lot of concentration
- Gilead - Marilynne Robinson - a heart-achingly sad and beautiful novel
- The Complete Calvin & Hobbes - very sharp and funny
Charlie Brooker: Chores and Cosmos
Charlie Brooker, favourite misanthrope of Guardian readers everywhere (after David Simon, of course) yesterday claimed that Contemplating the scale of the universe makes a mockery of household chores. Funnily enough, the relationship between cosmos and chores was one of the topics I mentioned in my wedding speech, but I came to a rather different conclusion:
A Perfectly Clean and Tidy House is one of those ideas that's wonderful in principle, rather like Communism, but in practice leads to wars, revolutions, purges and gulags. But I must be true to the Cause, unless I want to find myself in the marital equivalent of Siberia.I have just recently reread Perelandra by C S Lewis, which everyone should do regularly, if you ask me, since Perelandra is possibly my favourite novel by Lewis. The hero Ransom, while fighting the Unman on Venus, is haunted by what Lewis calls "the Empirical Bogey", and its to this that Brooker has fallen prey:
After all, you are fighting the very forces of Entropy, which if certain scientists are to be believed, will one day bring the entire universe to the point of heat death. Heath death will be rather like the cold layer of gunk at the bottom of the sink after everything has drained away, only on a universal scale. This rather puts making sure the bed sheets are on straight into perspective.
But the quest for a well-ordered house is not in fact a gesture of cosmic futility. As Dave mentioned in his address, neither scientists or entropy will have the last word. The Bible tells us that creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay. Jesus' resurrection is the proof that death is not the end; death will itself one day die. God isn't just saving our souls, but all of creation.
...the great myth of our century with its gases and galaxies, its light years and evolutions, its nightmare perspectives of simple arithmetic in which everything that can possibly hold significance for the mind becomes the mere by-product of essential disorder. Always till now he had belittled it, had treated with a certain disdain its flat superlatives, its clownish amazement that different things should be of different sizes, its glib munificence of ciphers...In the last chapter of the book, we are given a dazzling description of the Great Dance of the cosmos, a joyful affirmation of the significance of the universe as it merrily unfolds before the great Maleldil. It is brilliantly written, verging on poetry, and a great answer to those who "add years to year, or miles to miles and galaxies to galaxies, in lumpish aggregation".
Part of him still knew that the size of a thing is the least important characteristic, that the material universe derived from the comparing and mythopoeic power within him that very majesty before which he was now asked to abase himself, and that mere numbers could not overawe us unless we lent them, from our own resources, that awfulness which they themselves could no more supply than a banker's ledge. But this knowledge remained an abstraction. Mere bigness and loneliness overbore him.
Does television destroy imagination?
Film and television are sometimes criticised as requiring less imagination than reading. If we can already see exactly what the characters look like, if the actors and designers and directors have already captured so much detail on screen, what's left for us to imagine?
On the other hand, there are people who see this as a good thing. Some people like being able to watch television because it appears completely real - and so they get very angry if a set wobbles, or some make-up or special effect is less than entirely convincing. If anything is left to the imagination, the makers haven't finished their job properly.
But people who can't see past unrealistic sets or not-quite-convincing effects to enjoy a story is that they've forgotten that all art is representational. It's like complaining that actors who die on stage get up alive at the end of the scene and walk offstage. It's missing the point - all art is symbolic. Style and beauty are sometimes more important than realism.
In some ways, the ability to make ever-more realistic special effects distracts us from the representational nature of art. Going back further, the photographic revolution, the ability to create photorealistic images, both still and moving, has helped create the illusion that we can achieve full realisation, and given us the delusion that film and television should aim for this. The obsession with visual realism is to the detriment of our imaginations.
But to come back to the original question, I'd argue that books and television sometimes leave different things to the imagination, but that doesn't mean that one or other requires more imagination than the other.
To be compelling, all forms of storytelling need us to participate, to fill things in with our imaginations, to place ourselves in those situations and events, in order for us to really experience and enjoy them. All art is a collaboration between artist and audience. That goes for television just as much as a novel or theatrical production - it's just that different media leave different parts of the experience to our imagination.
For example, a novel leaves the visual to our imagination. There might be a picture on the cover, or some accompanying illustrations, but we have to turn the blobs of ink on the page into images in our head using our imaginations. Television, on the other hand, is very visual, and so we don't need to imagine what things look like most of the time, unless deliberately kept unseen for effect. Often the scariest monsters onscreen are those we see least of, because that leaves the most room for our imaginations to work.
But while television shows us the visual, there are lots of things it can't show, and must be left to the imagination. It can't show us directly what someone is thinking, what is going on inside someone's head, whereas a novel can do this very easily. We have to work out the characters' interior thoughts and emotions and so on from what we can see and hear looking on as observers.
This depends on the writer, actors, director and so on, leaving enough clues for our imagination to work on. What's left implicit is as important as what's made explicit, because it's the implicit that sets our imaginations alight. A well-written book can engage than imagination deeply, whereas a badly written book might leave very little that stimulates the imagination, and the same with television. Any medium can be used well or used badly, used to inspire the imagination or flatten it.


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May 30, 2008
International Move Director
That title came into its own today.
Sometimes I describe my job with that name. I feel justified today.
Here are a few of the things I did since I got up this morning:
- showed the moving company rep around the house (what took 1.5 days to pack and load in France will take an unbelievable, ludicrous, amusing 5 days here due to a UK law limiting the volume each team can pack per day; it's so enlightening living in different countries. I am sure some people would find it very interesting that out of UK, France, and U.S., the French packers win the highest award for efficiency and hard-working character! But they are apparently not hampered by such restrictive laws - either that or they just ignored them; plus they didn't even do inventory stickers)
- learned what we can and can't bring in our shipment (except you can't really call it a shipment when it goes by road the whole way, can you?), and which insurance and inventory and customs forms I'll have to fill out (they want to know how many of every item we are bringing - how many pairs of shoes, how many shirts, how many pairs of trousers, how many ties, etc etc!!! Crazy. That's a new one on us)
- investigated the closing of a UK bank account (visited the bank, got a form, verified D has to sign too, checked up on stuff online)
- notified most utilities of our move date (water service, gas & electric, telephone, the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead - local government for taxes) and cancelled some "standing orders" and direct debits on our bank account so they won't keep going beyond our departure from the country
- confirmed with the car place the appointment next week for the last servicing of the car before sale (it is due for the 3-year MOT emissions testing & general check-up; they had us down for two different dates mistakenly)
- found the title to our car (how nice), and read up on what we need to do upon the sale (e.g. mail a certificate in to the DVLA - the U.K. equivalent of the DMV in the U.S.)
- let our current home's future tenants in to measure rooms
- confirmed with the kids' current school that they will be sending the kids' records to the new schools in Switzerland
- corrected the date for a proposed appointment at the U.S. Consulate in Zürich where we have to get an affidavit as to our clean criminal record for registering in our new village in Switzerland (the consulate mistakenly wrote about June instead of July in their prior email)
- talked with the car insurance company to see if they can insure us in our new country (not really), and let them know we'll be selling the car (I have to call them back when we've actually done it)
- conversed multiple times with our property management company about various end-of-tenancy issues
- booked a local hotel for the last few days of our English stay, when our house will be packed up
- asked the relocation company some questions
- topped up the credit on my prepaid mobile phone and Jason's at the cash machine (that's a common way to do it here in England)
And some more things I did that don't have to do with moving:
- read Proverbs chapter 1
- prayed with David and Jason for Steven Curtis Chapman's family who are going through a very difficult time
- went grocery shopping and planned a weekend meal
- ran the dishwasher, emptied the dish rack, vacuumed up the particularly dirty entrance area from the garage
- picked up Emily from her field trip when they arrived early, took a friend of hers home, then later picked up Jason, then later picked up Emily's forgotten medicine from the field trip (with the morning's school run, that makes 4 trips to the school and back today)
- helped call some of the other parents in Emily's class to let them know of the early return time of the field trip bus (the room mom did most of the calls)
- listened to Emily's impressions from her 3-night field trip and asked questions
- looked at Jason's newly distributed yearbook (and especially admired the double page about the play he was in in the fall; the yearbook editor emailed me a few months ago asking for photos from the play, so rather a lot of the featured photos feature Jason! :-)
- did all the laundry (including Emily's very wet & dirty clothes from her field trip: caving, walking up waterfalls, building shelters in the woods, pond-dipping, etc)
NO WONDER I'M TIRED and slightly headachy! My mother keeps telling me not to overdo. I think I'll take the weekend off (with a Motrin send-off).
Thank you, my God of Hope and Every Resource, for answering my prayers today to help me get things done! Wow.
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May 29, 2008
Goodbyes & Move Appointments
This Tuesday was my last normal meeting with my wonderful Australian prayer partner (who's moving to Cairo at the same time I move to Zürich), and then there was a last little neighbourhood coffee for just a few of the (mostly) ex-pat internationals to see each other again. Two of us from our street are leaving (two Americans; a third already moved to another town nearby and she came back to see us).
Today was the last meeting of an international ladies' Bible study, with a culminating luncheon afterwards. I hadn't been for weeks due to all that has been going on. I was one of about 5 people there moving away (to Singapore, California, Washington DC, and another U.S. city I didn't quite catch). We were each given a little ceramic cross with "I am the Vine, John 15:5" painted on it - because the group is called "Grapevine." It's a great reminder of the rest of that verse, which says "you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." I so need to cling to Him and abide in Him through the next year (as always, but more so every day).
Next week I will go for the last time to my other local British church Bible study to say goodbye, and it's also the final luncheon for my school prayer group.
Yesterday I had the amazing experience of putting our car up for sale on a UK national car sales website, and agreeing to sell it about 4 hours later to a nice-seeming family with four kids who drove an hour to see it. They won't pick it up until three weeks from now, but gave us a cash deposit for us to be able to take the ad off the website. The speed of this transaction was unprecedented. They will do an electronic bank transfer which will need to clear before we hand over the car. In France we sold our two cars the same way (with a national French website). Very handy. So anyway, goodbye soon to the lovely little Toyota Corolla Verso, so versatile as its name implies...the trunk can convert into two more seats (to make 7 total), and the rear 5 seats can also all lie flat to carry large items. I hope we can get something similar in Switzerland. It was our first time having a 7-seater.
And as for moving appointments, this week I got estimates from move-out cleaning companies, today a guy came round to do an electrical safety check of the house that was required before the new tenants move in, and tomorrow the moving company sends an estimator to find out whether it'll take them one day or two to pack us up.
We're waiting on the new rental house contract to come through, and making an appointment at the U.S. Consulate in Zürich for soon after we arrive to get an affidavit as to our clean criminal record, which some say we need for registering in our new town of residence there (some disagree, but we'd rather be safe and have too much documentation than be missing what we need). Still trying to learn a tiny bit more German daily...
P.S. Just so you know, the photo has nothing to do with this post. It's the Royal Standard flying over Windsor Castle, which indicates that the Queen is in residence - otherwise the Union Jack (the British flag) would be flying. I took this back when the grandparents were here visiting and we toured the castle. Just thought I'd throw in a nice cheery photo. I suppose you could say it's a "goodbye to England" shot, although we have probably exactly a month left here as of today.
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May 28, 2008
Lineage of Grace Series: A Triumph
I just finished the the last two books in the Lineage of Grace five-novella series, by Francine Rivers (they are short - readable in a day each if you have some free time like a plane flight! Now you can buy them all in one tome, see above link). Emily also read them all and liked them. The boys may try them, but since the stories all have a woman as the central character, they may be less applicable to them. I think they may still find them interesting. But if you wouldn't want your kids reading these ladies' very difficult and sometimes scandalous stories in the Bible, you wouldn't want them to read these books (i.e. they deal with such traumatic real-life subjects as prostitution, adultery, death, wife abuse, widowhood, poverty, and injustice - it's all in the Bible...). The great part is seeing the faith of these women, and especially God's incomprehensible grace and mercy extended to them, which He also longs to extend to the rest of us as we turn our faces to Him. The personalities, thoughts and emotions of these five women who are mentioned by name in the lineage of Jesus come to life in these pages.
I read them in this order (only Ruth/Bathsheba were out of place, should have been swapped), and loved them all. You can see my brief silly comments to myself after reading each:
Unveiled: Tamar "Good – adult story, but touching, interesting" (130pp)
Unashamed: Rahab "Excellent" (129pp)
Unspoken: Bathsheba "Excellent, so interesting. Such grace, God!" (175pp)
Unshaken: Ruth "Excellent! Wonderful! Wow!"(145pp)
Unafraid: Mary "Even wower! ;-) Made me cry hard. So fascinating." (173pp)
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May 27, 2008
3 Weeks Post Surgery - Feeling Good
It's been 3 1/2 weeks since my benign lump removal surgery now, and I'm feeling great. Maybe 95% back to normal. Can sleep in any position, don't feel vulnerable anymore, scar is healing very nicely (but definitely a scar).
Emily is off on a field trip this week near Bristol: caving, rock climbing, orienteering, building campfires, etc. Sounds like fun. I'm praying for her whenever I think of her. She sounded like she might miss us a little, but I'm sure she'll have a good time.
Getting things back in place after our trip to CH (you may see this abbreviation a lot in the next few years, so you may want to memorize it now: Confédération Helvétique, which is a formal French name for Switzerland, and CH is the country abbreviation, like D is Germany, for Deutschland).
Planning to make crêpes for dinner tonight, by Jason's request (with ham, cheese, potatoes, crème fraîche, tomatoes, and maybe asparagus or broccoli). Maybe strawberry-banana ones for dessert, hmmm, perhaps with a little nutella added...yum!
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May 26, 2008
Zürich Housing: Well Provided For
Upshot for the time-conscious:
we are thankful to be waiting to sign a rental contract for a spacious home between Zürich and Zug, in the canton of Zürich. The kids fell in love with it right away and never really considered anywhere else, possibly because it would be a great place for hide and seek.
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Details for the curious:
On our househunting trip for our move from France to England two years ago, we saw 11 houses for rent in one day, and determined our top 3 to revisit (still on the same day), chose one, made an offer at about 5pm, and found it had already been taken. But if you recall, a few days later, before we had signed a contract on our second choice, our first choice became available again and we got it. That was an amazing experience. I am sitting in that very house right now. But only for another month!
This time around, househunting has been very different. We went to Zürich, Switzerland, for four days and there were only four viewable properties that were even remotely in our desired area, size, and price range, even when both renting and buying were considered! Crazy! There's just nothing! Almost. Our relocation agent told us that only 90% of the time her company can get clients into one of their top three choices of home...because there is so much competition, and the landlords/sellers can pick and choose amongst the potential tenants/buyers. They peruse applications and decide whom they like best. One of her clients had to apply for 13 different properties before he was accepted for one (and not because he was undesirable, just "unlucky" she said). The market is that tight. It's unusual, she said, for people to find a home on a trip of a few days.
So, of the four places we saw:
- Two of the places were too small. The relocation agent was apologetic for showing both of these to us since they didn't fit our profile, but she took us because there was nothing more applicable to see!
- One place required a minimum AND maximum two-year rental, as they were waiting to knock it down as soon as they could get the permit (and thus were not making any repairs or renovations) and it wasn't in a good location for us - although it was exactly the right size and configuration for what we needed and had a nice kitchen and lake and mountain views. Not too comforting to move into a place the owners are just waiting to kick us out of as soon as they legally can move ahead with their plans.
- Ah, but now we come to the fourth place (which we actually saw first, on our own, as a result of a posting on an ex-pats-in-Zürich yahoo group). The place God seems to be providing for us (though the contract is not signed yet). Distinct benefits: Irish/English landlord couple, so we can communicate easily with them in our mother tongue rather than Swiss-German (and they are responsive to email), who seemed to like us and accepted our offer straight away, not leaving us wondering whether we'd be chosen or not. Very kind and forthright and flexible with us. Plenty of room in the house, pretty flowering plants in the garden, and some renovations/repairs being done before we move in. Less expensive than some smaller places - but because it is not on the lake and doesn't have mountain views and is a bit farther from the main commercial centres of Zürich and Zug. It's right between the two cities, so David will head one direction for work (Zürich), and the kids the opposite direction for school (Zug).
- On the last day, we were going to see another place, but that morning the showing was cancelled because they had already let it! This confirmed to us the blessing of a spacious place waiting for us to claim it.
So it is really quite remarkable how God provided for us, in that even the relocation agent did not know about this property yet (since it had not been put up yet on the main advertising website for the area), and we were accepted right off, before we had to leave to go back to England. The school commute will be the issue that we will have to sort out, with comparisons of car vs. school bus vs. public transportation by bus and/or train, for the two kids at two different schools, respectively 20 and 30 minutes from our new home. David's office will be about 15-30 minutes the other direction, depending how he gets there (car or bus/train).
The last day we were there, the clouds & fog finally dissipated enough for us to get beautiful glimpses of the snowy Alps in the distance. Gorgeous!
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May 21, 2008
Househunting in Zurich/Zug
Well, it's up to God to do a big miracle for us once again, out of His kindness, mercy, and great abundance of resources.
The housing market around Zurich and Zug (both rental and sale) is very, very tight. People told us this before we arrived last night, but I'm not sure I really believed them. The relocation agent told us today that if a property remains on the market for 2-3 weeks, there's something wrong with it. There are only 5 halfway reasonable properties to take a look at for rent in the whole area we are searching in. We looked at two today (along with Jason's new school for next year).
The trade-off is location for the commute to work and schools, vs. the kind of house and garden and neighborhood.
***God, please give us wisdom to make the right choice, and please make the right place for us come up before we have to go back to England. Nothing is too difficult for You. You own the cattle on a thousand hills, and the earth is Your footstool. We trust You to provide for us. It looks bleak right now...but You are our Stronghold, and victory comes from You.***
Looking forward to reporting on God's lovingkindness, omnipotence, and gracious provision soon.
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May 19, 2008
I love my mother
...for so many reasons. Here are a few of the most recent caring culinary contributions she has made to my life (while I was recovering from surgery and it was my birthday):
Breakfast in bed (carried by her very kind husband) and then later that same day a cake with the outline of Switzerland on it!
Another day, one of the delectable and colorful meals my talented chef mother provided for the whole family, and a fruit platter for breakfast another morning:
Wonderful woman!
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London By Night
When the grandparents were here, we took in a play in London's West End. Walking back to Waterloo train station afterwards in the dark, we we paused on a footbridge next to a railbridge, and looked across the Thames at the London Eye to the left, and Big Ben with the Houses of Parliament to the right:
I had some fun jiggling my camera around at the city lights:
Here's the bridge we were standing on, with the London Eye (an enormous closed ferris wheel that holds up to twenty-five people per cabin) at the bottom of the photo - isn't it neat to see the shadow of the London Eye reaching all the way to our bridge?
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In finding this google satellite image, I also enjoyed looking at the satellite view of Westminster Abbey right near Big Ben:
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May 18, 2008
Pink & Purple: My Favorite Colors
I needed go no farther than my front garden to find these favorite colors near each other. The pink is actually peeking over the fence from my neighbour's garden:
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A great product for the week after surgery when you can't take proper showers and have bandages that must stay dry on the upper half of your body, but still want clean, fresh-smelling underarms: L'Oréal Renourish Cleaning Wipes for Dry/Sensitive Skin. That's my product plug from this breast lump removal surgery experience. It made me feel so much better and was so convenient, quick, fresh-smelling without being at all overpowering, safe for my wound dressing, and felt great on my skin during and after the cleansing.
I had my big dressing taken off safely last Friday after a week, and got the results from the biopsy of the removed lump: a clean bill of health (just benign fibroid adenoma, as expected and hoped). Thank You! Then I got a waterpoof bandaid over the incision, to wear for another week, replacing as necessary in case of wetness seeping through. But real showers again! Hurray hurrah!
Now it's been almost two weeks since surgery, and I am finding I have to be careful not to overdo and pretend I didn't have surgery, because yesterday I did a double dose of baking (pumpkin cookies and pumpkin bread) and, along with dinner prep and dishes, that ended up being 4 hours straight standing up in the kitchen. I was wiped out afterwards and still feel more tired today. Also, the side on which I had the surgery is still tender and a bit annoyingly noticeable and vulnerable.
The surgeon told me at the one-week check-up that it will take 3-6 months to have everything go back into a normal shape! This was news to me. I really was thinking this was a minor surgery and it was just one week of recovery before everything was as before! Silly me. According to The Free Dictionary, minor surgery does not include anaesthesia, therefore I did not have minor surgery (since I was under general). However, according to Merriam Webster's Dictionary (clearly more reputable), minor surgery is "surgery involving little risk to the life of the patient; specifically : an operation on the superficial structures of the body or a manipulative procedure that does not involve a serious risk" - in which case that is what I had. It certainly seems minor in the scheme of things. But not ignorable.
I am so pleased that all went so well, but I do need to take care to give myself enough rest and leeway in this continuing healing process. A kind friend who has been through this same surgery at least 4 times (!!!) pointed out the exact problem here: the patient does not look in any way ill or injured after the bandage is off, but yet has a semi-disability for a while. And needs to say no to lots of things. I have already made my excuses for most of my regular activities, just lying low and trying to get the house and my desk and email folder back to manageable levels after being out of it for so long with guests & surgery & birthday & the other illnesses we all had.
Yesterday brought a major milestone in our move process - we received David's signed new job contract by Fedex. Most excellent. This means we are really moving to Zürich at the end of next month! (Subject to God's good, all-knowing plans, of course, in providing the work visa, the home to live in, and a helpful moving company.)
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Friday, Feb. 14
10:36 a.m. Bolton St. Suspicious activity.
11:27 a.m. Lincoln St. Larceny.
2:38 p.m. Saint Martin Dr. Assault.
8:46 p.m. Boston Post Road East. Suspicious activity.
10:42 p.m. Arrested, Michael K. Nugent, 21, of 608 Boston Post Road East, Apt. 1, Marlborough, for possession of Class D drug to distribute, possession of firearm/ammunition without FID/license, carrying firearm without license, possessing large capacity firearm; Luis Angel Regalado, 23, of 608 Boston Post Road East, Apt. 1, Marlborough, for warrant, possession of Class D drug to distribute, arrestee furnishing false name/SSN, carrying firearm without license, possessing large capacity firearm, possession of firearm/ammunition without FID/license, intimidation of witness/impeding an investigation; and Tyler J. Hendrix, 22, of 82 Farrington Ln., Marlborough, for possessing large capacity firearm, carrying firearm without license, possession of Class D drug to distribute, possession of firearm/ammunition without FID/license.
Saturday, Feb. 15
2:30 a.m. Forest St. Suspicious MV.
4:18 a.m. Arrested, John R. Dodd, 54, of 276 Main St., Marlborough, for A&B, intimidation of witness/impeding an investigation.
8:09 a.m. Briarwood Ln. Harassment.
10:25 a.m. Neil St. Larceny.
12:58 p.m. Arrested, Vanessa Lynn Clark, 33, of 27 Sidney St., Marlborough, for A&B.
3:12 p.m. Pleasant St. Vandalism.
3:45 p.m. Farm/Broadmeadow Rds. MVA with injuries.
4:16 p.m. Broad St. Suspicious activity.
10:08 p.m. Grant St. Disturbance.
Sunday, Feb. 16
12:43 a.m. Rice St. Parking violation.
4:07 a.m. Boston Post Road East. Disturbance.
10:37 a.m. Hosmer St. Fraud/forgery.
12:38 p.m. Arrested, Vern A. Wager, 43, of 16 Chandler St., Maynard, for operating MV with license suspended/revoked, revoked registration, uninsured motor vehicle.
12:48 p.m. Norwood St. Disturbance.
5:32 p.m. Washington St. Suspicious activity.
5:49 p.m. Boston Post Road East. Disturbance.
Monday, Feb. 17
1:56 a.m. Pleasant St. Larceny.
9:11 a.m. Symphony Rd. Harassment.
9:41 a.m. Main St. Disturbance.
12:24 p.m. Briarwood Ln. harassment.
1:01 p.m. Peltier St. Suspicious activity.
3:04 p.m. Hemenway St. Fraud/forgery.
5:39 p.m. Sudbury St. Harassment.
6:31 p.m. Arrested, Crystal J. Vasquez, 25, of 29 Boehm St., Apt. 1, Lawrence, for larceny over $250 by single scheme.
Tuesday, Feb. 18
4:11 a.m. West Main St. Suspicious activity.
9:29 a.m. Boston Post Road East. Larceny.
12:10 p.m. Boston Post Road East. MVA with injuries.
12:16 p.m. Arrested, Guy Harrington, 57, of 147 Leoleis Dr., Marlborough, for sex offender failing to register.
12:46 p.m. Main St. Suspicious activity.
3:35 p.m. Maple St. Suspicious activity.
3:58 p.m. Bigelow St. Fraud/forgery.
4:02 p.m. Bolton St. Assault.
5:00 p.m. Arrested, Vincente Deapulo Oliveira, 38, of 21 Paris St., Apt. 2, Marlborough, for violating abuse prevention order.
10:19 p.m. Arrested, Shawn M. Schofield, 23, of 31 Gibbons St., Marlborough, on warrant.
11:20 p.m. Arrested, Donald A. Chamberlain, 39, of 139 Rocky Pond Rd., Apt. 2, Boylston, for attempting to commit crime, stalking, threatening to commit crime.
Wednesday, Feb. 19
3:36 a.m. Main St. Suspicious activity.
6:57 a.m. Ash St. Suspicious MV.
7:13 a.m. Sudbury St. Harassment.
10:48 a.m. Hosmer St. Larceny.
11:28 a.m. Briarwood Ln. Annoying phone calls.
12:27 p.m. Paris St. Parking violation.
12:52 p.m. Maple St. Disturbance.
4:44 p.m. Granger Blvd./West Main St. MVA with injuries.
5:42 p.m. Boston Post Road West. Larceny.
5:57 p.m. Wilson St. Disturbance.
10:10 p.m. Lincoln St. Domestic disturbance.
Thursday, Feb. 20
2:38 a.m. Farm Rd. Suspicious MV.
4:44 a.m. Arrested, Armais Kocharov, 23, of 741 Dyer Ave., Cranston, R.I., on warrant.
8:37 a.m. Washington St. Parking violation.
10:50 a.m. Briarwood Ln. Assault.
12:33 p.m. East Main St. MVA with injuries.
4:07 p.m. Donald Lynch Blvd. Vandalism.
5:52 p.m. Felton St. Larceny.
6:55 p.m. Donald Lynch Blvd. Larceny.
Friday, Feb. 21
2:55 a.m. Stow Rd. Suspicious MV.
3:06 a.m. Saint Ives Way. Disturbance.
4:35 a.m. Main St. Suspicious activity.
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The site is here, and they call it Amazon Payments, it seems. Instead of PayPal, I suppose. Who will win that competition?For the pointer I thank a loyal MR reader.
Seattle markets in everything?
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To understand homelessness, you could work at a social service agency. Or volunteer. Or read.Or, if you believe a website called Real View Tours, you can also pay $2,000 to live undercover as a homeless person in Seattle with a tour guide for three days.You
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The Chinese credit crunch
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Don't be misled by posts which focus on "Chinese monetary policy." This is first and foremost about credit markets.Read this FT Alphaville post about the Chinese carry trade (and bow down and revere them, while you are at it). The previous
The Coasian culture that is Japan
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A forthcoming paper* in the Journal of Financial Economics finds not only that inherited family control is still common in Japanese business, but that family firms are puzzlingly competitive, outperforming otherwise similar professionally managed companies.
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The industrial countries have a choice. They can act as if all is well except that their consumers are in a funk and so what John Maynard Keynes called animal spirits must be revived through stimulus measures. Or they can treat the crisis as a wake-up call
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UO mourns loss of IT expert Cathleen Leu - AroundtheOA Potentially Tragic Taper - Paul KrugmanThe Chinese credit crunch - Marginal RevolutionF.T.C. Head Seeks End to Misuse of Patents - NYTDo large departments make academics more productive? - Vox EUDifferentiated
Family-Owned Businesses in Japan
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Tyler Cowen highlights a forthcoming paper (previous working paper version here) about family-owned businesses, marriage, and adoption in Japan. The Economist has a summary here, though notes that the research is a decade old (circa 2000) so it's unknown whether
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The Sixth Street Elementary School in Silver City, New Mexico, has seen a lot of students over the years. But May 8th 2014 was a very special day at the 130-year-old school. Why? Because 10-year-old Mireya Cisneros, a fourth grader, was honored for her winning illustration for New Mexico's 2014 National Homeownership Month poster contest.
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text: Here at Castiglion del Bosco, the countryside is like a fairy tale for kids too. The Kids Club is a place for children to play, have fun and use their imagination in the enchanting setting of the Borgo, without a care in the world. This colorful space can be accessed freely, providing kids with hours of entertainment every day thanks to its absorbing activities and magical atmosphere. It offers a fun evening menu, cooking workshops and treasure hunts, as well as kids' swimming and tennis lessons, which are also available in the privacy of the Villas. Young guests at Castiglion del Bosco can go horse-riding or explore the woods, attend boot camps, go on adventures and take archery lessons in the midst of nature. They can also try their hand at photography, have a go at oil painting, or study the stars like an astronomer.


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Then an hour ago I flashed the circle battery, rebooted and my apn fields are all asterisks. Of course, this makes no sense. There was one other change prior to reboot and that was to install adfree. This also makes no sense to me as a culprit.
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I Love Wearing My Sisters UnderwearSince I was about 7 years old I was fascinated with all things feminine without knowing why. I used to put on my older sisters skirts and panties and look at myself in the mirror. I just loved it. As time went on I graduated on to my moms and sisters slips. I used to hide them under my mattress with the panties. I remember the first time i ever came i was dressed in my sisters satin white panties and a white slip in bed, it felt wonderful as i began to shoot in her undies...only after i wondered how i was going to cover up my "crime". Her panties and slip were drenched in wet fluid. I hid them and intended binning them. Next day I decided to keep them!!! The following night I put on the slip and panties and added a bra and had a repeat performance...wow I was in heaven!!!!
As the years went on my sister got into Madonna opening the door to me to suspenders, mini skirts, stockings, short dresses and sexy nighties. At this stage I was ************ about 5 times a day dressed or dreaming about being dressed. Soon after I began "borrowing" lingerie off my neighbors from hampers from friends sisters and my sisters friends, i had a leather skirt that i loved some baby dolls, teddys, satin nightwear about 40 panties 10 bras a basque some sexy swimwear ,2 black mini skirts, fishnet stockings and suspenders. I was sooooo happy.
Then one day I was dressed in my sisters flowery dress and some satin undies. I came and fell asleep on her bed post ecstasy. My sis came home to see me in her dress, panties down sleeping on her bed!!!!! She was so shocked she just walked out as soon as I woke up.... I was so embarrassed I threw all my lovely clothes collection out before it was discovered. I still regret it to this day. My sister never mentioned it to me again but her room was locked from then on!
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Ohh that's so sad. She would have sat on the bed and comforted you. Thanks so much for the story - it turned me on.
evil, mean sister...nahh...good thing she did not out you...
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Evangeline Lilly explains 'Lost' to David Letterman
"Lost" star Evangeline Lilly totally spoiled the ending of the series on "The Late Show with David Letterman" Monday night (May 10).
Now, there's a chance she could have been joking when, in the clip above, she tells Letterman -- who's hoping, for logic's sake, that it's all a dream -- that the show might all be a product of Jack ( Matthew Fox) falling asleep while running through the forest.
"You're hoping for the dream out?" she asks Letterman incredulously. "You're the least imaginative person in North America!"
Lilly also says that "Lost" won't have a "Sopranos"-like ending (echoing comments by executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse) and advises Letterman to check out one of the "millions" of blogs devoted to "Lost" (hey -- we know of a good one) to get up to speed on how the show might end.
"Has somebody posited the correct theory?" Letterman wants to know. Busted! Lilly has to admit that "I've never looked at the blogs -- I don't know."
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