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Definition of word picture in English:
word picture
A vivid description in writing: a romantic conjuror of Old England, painting his word pictures of leafy lanes
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale Reading, Writing, and Storytelling Quotes
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Quote #1
This isn't a story I'm telling.
It's also a story I'm telling, in my head, as I go along.
Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. (7.34-36)
Usually when we're reading a piece of literature, we suspend our disbelief about how that story got to us. In other words, we don't think about how the narrator or character we're learning about got his or her story onto paper. The narrator makes that impossible here by addressing an implied reader. She seems to be telling the story both to herself and to this "someone else" to stave off loneliness.
Quote #2
I am trying not to tell stories, or at any rate not this one. (9.2)
There's a slippage here between fiction and reality. The narrator says she doesn't want to "tell stories," as in falsehoods or lies, but then she adds "not this one." So how much of her story is true?
Quote #3
I sit in the chair and think about the word chair. It can also mean the leader of a meeting. It can also mean a mode of execution. It is the first syllable in charity. It is the French word for flesh. None of these facts has any connection with the others.
These are the kinds of litanies I use, to compose myself. (19.8-9)
The narrator is often thinking about words and their meanings, origins, uses, etc. Even though she's not allowed to read anymore, the narrator clings to words like lifejackets, using them "to compose [her]self." The words and their various meanings remind her of who she is.

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Caps Red Line Wins Emmy Award
Episode One, which aired Feb. 15, 2010, featured several fan-favorite segments including, Cruisin' with Nicklas Backstrom, X's and O's with Matt Bradley and a behind the scenes look at Mike Green's GEICO commercial shoot. The winners are: Timothy Libeau, Editor (Base Productions, Inc.), Chuck Roseberry, Producer (Base Productions, Inc.), Joe Dupriest, Vice President, Chief Marketing Office (Washington Capitals) and Mike Wurman, Executive Producer, Director of TV Production (Washington Capitals).
"I am extremely proud of the entire Caps Red Line team for this achievement. Everyone has worked hard to give Caps fans a truly unique look at the organization, and I appreciate the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognizing their success," said Dupriest. "We will keep working to ensure next season is even better and that we continue to deliver intriguing content to our fans."
Caps Red Line, which recently completed its third season, began as a series of segments during the 2008-09 campaign and grew to new heights in 2009-10 with the addition of host Guerin Austin, newly created segments Cruisin' and X's and O's and segment hosts Elliot Segal and Mike Vogel.
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Definition of stitchbird in English:
A rare New Zealand honeyeater with mainly dark brown or blackish plumage and a sharp call that resembles the word 'stitch'.
- Notiomystis cincta, family Meliphagidae.
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- The stitchbird was the eighth of nine native bird species set free on Tiri since the auspicious freedom flight of the parakeets in 1974.
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> the users connect them via excel 2003 and excel XP edition. Somehow excel
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'Loopholes as Big as a Barn Door': German Tax Treaty with Switzerland Could Crumble
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is battling domestic opposition to rescue a planned tax treaty with Switzerland that could mean billions in additional revenues for Germany. Meanwhile, many tax evaders are moving their money from Switzerland to Singapore and Shanghai.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (right) and his Swiss counterpart Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf:
Time is running out for both tax evaders and investigators, with just 162 days left before a new tax agreement between Switzerland and Germany is scheduled to come into effect on Jan. 1, 2013. That leaves just a little more time for German tax dodgers to squirrel away their undeclared income somewhere else, and just a little more time in which the country's tax investigators can purchase CDs of bank customer data, and make any tax cheats they find pay up.
Both sides, in fact, would rather the new tax treaty never came into effect at all. Then everyone could simply go on as they did before, both the persistent investigators and their slippery prey.
In fact, precisely that scenario might come to pass. A debate has arisen in Germany over the past two years concerning fairness in taxes in this age of digital data records that can be copied in an instant and turned into commodities. Whether the bilateral agreement will indeed come into effect is more uncertain now than ever.
The most recent purchase of such data records was conducted by tax investigators in Wuppertal, in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. They bought a data CD containing information on German clients at the Zurich-based office of the British private bank Coutts.
Finance Minister Switches into Battle Mode
The first to react to that purchase was Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble of Germany's ruling conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, who announced he would no longer provide funds for acquiring such data. Ultimately, his message was that the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will have to find the means to pay for such expensive purchases on its own from now on. "Since we weren't informed about the CD, we won't share in the costs," is the word from the Finance Ministry in Berlin.
That leaves the minister's state-level colleagues in North Rhine-Westphalia shaking their heads, since they say the purchase of the data CD was approved by the Federal Central Tax Office, in Bonn, which is part of the Federal Finance Ministry.
Schäuble has switched into battle mode in his attempts to save the treaty with Switzerland. It would mean an enormous loss of face for him, and for Germany as a whole, if this became the first bilateral treaty to fail in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper legislative chamber that represents the interests of the country's federal states.
To keep that from happening, Schäuble needs to win state governors from the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green Party over to his side, breaking their majority in the Bundesrat. That body will vote in November, and the finance minister may be able to use the cash-strapped budget situation in many states as leverage for his position. Especially those states that stand to gain little by exposing tax cheats should be willing to hear out Berlin's proposals.
At stake are up to 10 billion ($12 billion), distributed between the federal and state level, that the treaty with Switzerland is expected to bring in. For example, Wolfgang Voss, finance minister for the state of Thuringia and a member of the CDU, stands to gain at least 100 million for his state budget by 2020. Hartmut Möllring, Voss' counterpart in the state of Lower Saxony and likewise of the CDU, can expect even more, 900 million.
"Continuous sources of income are especially important for those states that need to pursue a clear course of consolidation by 2020," Voss argues, referring to the fact that, under Germany's balanced budget act passed in 2009, all German states will be required to balance their budgets by 2020. He adds that these sources shouldn't be ignored just in the hope that there might be even more to be had by pursuing the other path, without the treaty. The challenge for Schäuble in the coming weeks will be to convince state governments that are led by the SPD, Green Party or "grand coalitions" of CDU and SPD to give their blessing to the agreement, which the finance minister and his Swiss counterpart Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf signed last September.
'Loopholes as Big as a Barn Door'
Many in the CDU saw a potential ally within the Bundesrat in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, which for years has been lax in pursuing tax evaders, but so far the state's finance minister, Nils Schmid of the SPD, has stuck to his party line, also represented by SPD head Sigmar Gabriel and by Joachim Poss, the party's expert on financial issues in the federal parliament, the Bundestag. Schmid criticizes the treaty as still containing "loopholes as big as a barn door" despite all the negotiations that have gone into revising it.
Schmid sees the greatest flaw in the fact that under the treaty, undeclared income transferred from a Swiss bank account to an account in another country by Jan. 1, 2013, would not be subject to back taxes. "That loophole remains the most serious point of criticism," he says, explaining that this allows tax evaders time to shift their money to other tax havens. He also considers the initial tax rate of 21 percent on unreported income in Switzerland too low. "It shouldn't be any less than 25 percent," Schmid believes.
Norbert Walter-Borjans, North Rhine-Westphalia's finance minister and a member of the SPD, has been one of the main buyers of tax data CDs. He's also at the forefront of the opposition to the treaty, which he believes rewards the worst tax evaders at the expense of honest taxpayers. Like many in the SPD, he also finds Switzerland's obligations to disclose information to German authorities insufficient.
A Treaty Backed By Swiss Banks
The general consensus is that there's no chance of the Swiss government making further concessions. Swiss Finance Minister Widmer-Schlumpf already faced harsh criticism from those within her country who say she negotiated poorly with Germany, and the whole process hasn't gone smoothly in Switzerland either.
Yet Switzerland's banks need this treaty urgently. The vast majority of the country's financial institutions want to operate aboveboard, and would rather not be viewed as a haven for undeclared income and illegal wealth anymore. These banks support the decision of their government in Bern, which wants to put an end to the practice of harboring such money.
Still, the restructuring has already claimed its first victims, with dozens of small private banks going up for sale. The Swiss newspaper Aargauer Zeitung even ran an article titled, "Swiss private banks heading toward clearance sale." The country's oldest financial institute, high-end private bank Wegelin, took the hit already, closing down in the wake of tax offense charges filed against it in the United States. Consulting firm Booz & Company calculates that revenue earned by Switzerland's private banks may drop by 46 percent by 2014.
Will Singapore and Shanghai Become New Tax Havens?
It comes as no great surprise that not all banks follow purely legal strategies. Individuals determined not to declare their unreported income, and instead to keep their wealth out of the government's hands, will always find willing helpers. One banker who wished to remain anonymous says that in the past two years, as both Germany and Switzerland have debated the potential tax treaty, he has made millions for German clients who previously kept their money in Switzerland. "We work with a clientele that prefers not to pay taxes," is how the banker puts it. The preferred destination for this wealth is now Singapore, the banker says, with experts advising against investments in the United Arab Emirates: "Too much drug money, too many Russians, and in general the unrest in the Arab region has shown that these are not reliable states."
The banker believes he can also help those who feel their money is not secure enough even in Singapore. "Banks in Shanghai are largely owned by the Chinese government," he explains. "That at the very latest is the end of the line for German tax investigators."
In other words, the risky destination for investors these days is not Shanghai, but Zurich. "Anyone putting money into supposedly secure destinations in Switzerland these days must reckon with the possibility of exposure for the next 10 years," explains Karsten Randt, a tax lawyer at the Bonn-based firm of Flick, Gocke, Schaumburg. That's the length of time for which Swiss banks are required to store their clients' data.
And Randt anticipates a further loosening of Swiss bank secrecy. Sooner or later, he says, Switzerland too will fall in line with the OECD's strict criteria. "The dam has broken and there's no turning back," he concludes.
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- Purchases of secret foreign bank account data by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia
- July 2000: A whistle-blower provided prosecutors in the city of Bochum with a CD containing the names of 200 Germans who worked with Liechtenstein citizen Herbert Batliner to hide their money in foundations as a tax dodge.
- February 2008: State paid 4.6 million euros for a CD with data on 1,400 customers of Liechtenstein's LGT Group bank (with help from Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND).
- March 2010: State paid 2.5 million euros for Credit Suisse customer data, launching a total of 1,100 investigations.
- October 2010: State paid 1.4 million euros for 220 sets of customer data from the Swiss private bank Julius Bär.
- February 2011: Investigators found 6,000 sets of customer data during a search of the premises of the Frankfurt office of Credit Suisse. The data is from 3,000 German customers who had taken out life insurance policies through a Bermuda-based subsidiary of the company that was used to launder unreported earnings.
- October 2011: The state paid 3 to 4 million euros for a CD with 3,000 sets of data from HSBC Luxembourg.
- Tax Loopholes: How Swiss Bank Pictet Attracts German Millionaires (07/25/2012)
- Penalties and Profits: Illicit Tax-Cheat CDs May Endanger Swiss-German Treaty (07/16/2012)
- 'Easter and Christmas on the Same Day': Tax Deal Rewards Germans with Swiss Bank Accounts (04/16/2012)
- Stolen Tax CD Case: Germany Outraged over Swiss Arrest Warrants (04/03/2012)
- The World from Berlin: 'Switzerland Has a Lot of Explaining to Do' (04/02/2012)


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had to wait for an hour while Charlie ate a discusting breakfast with idiot babble from
the TV in the background. He had left a bag in Chicago, so even though we were late we had
to go back to the club. It was raining heavily again as we drove back to the gig listening
to stupid comments made by some hippy friend of Charlies. We retrieve the bag and I
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The gig was quite full. Anti-Flag did ok but our set was very lack luster. We still went down well and did an encore. One of the monitors fell on Charlies leg. Drew, Dave and Carly got a motel, Charlie and I slept in the Shuttle at 3.30 am.
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6.7 The Company shall have no responsibility for packing materials or cases except as agreed in writing between the parties.
7.1 All supplies although assumed to have been properly inspected and tested by the Supplier prior to delivery are subject to inspection and test by the Company, at its discretion.
7.2 The Supplier shall observe such quality and specification control procedures including testing, inspection, documentation and certification as the Company requests, including the Supplier's initial sample inspection reports of certifications of conformance, to be retained by the Supplier, for a period of 6 months from delivery of first production batch. This documentation to be made available to the Company on request.
7.3 The Supplier shall also keep the Company advised of the details of such procedures as it operates in connection with the Company's Orders and shall not make any charge therein without the Company's prior written agreement. When Goods are purchased against a particular quality standard it is of the essence that the traceability requirements of that standard are complied with.
7.4 The Supplier shall, at the Company's request, permit or procure permission for representatives of the Company, its customers and other organisations (including MOD) to carry out such inspections and assessments (including the taking of samples) as they request in connection with any goods and any processes carried out in relation to them including quality assurance systems and procedures.
7.5 The Company's right to reject any Goods shall not be affected by the carrying out or any failure to carry out any inspection or testing of the Goods or any approval given by or on behalf of the Company or by any payment being made for them.
8.1 Without prejudice to any other of its rights, in case of an early, late, partial, excessive, defective or otherwise incorrect delivery or performance or any failure by the Supplier to comply with these conditions the Company shall be entitled, at its discretion, to exercise some, all or any of the following rights, namely:
To reject such delivery or performance and, where any Goods so rejected are the same as other goods supplied by the Supplier which are held by the Company at any location, to reject those goods also.
To require the Supplier at its expense to immediately supply in substitution for any rejected Goods, goods or services which conform to the Order or, at the Company's option, to carry out repairs or remedial work.
At the Supplier's expense, to carry out or have carried out any work which the Company considers necessary to conform any Goods to the Order.
8.2 The Supplier shall compensate and indemnify the Company against any loss or damage (including any handling, labour or administration charges and the cost of carrying out any work) arising from any failure by the Supplier to comply with the Order and any delivery schedules or other instructions given by the Company.
8.3 Goods rejected by the Company shall be collected by the Supplier within 30 days of notice of rejection being despatched by the Company. Pending collection the Goods shall be held at the expense and risk of the Supplier who shall also pay all expenses incurred by the Company in packing, handling and sorting rejected Goods. If the Supplier fails to collect the rejected Goods the Company reserves the right, at the Supplier's expense, to destroy or otherwise dispose of the rejected Goods in any manner it thinks fit without liability to the Supplier.
Title and Risk in the Good shall pass to the Company on delivery at the location stated in the Order.
10.1 The Supplier shall, where the Order requires it to apply a process to or to repair otherwise render services in connection with any goods or materials of the Company such as items supplied by the Company to the Supplier on a "free issue" basis or to prepare at the Company's expense any software, source codes or other material ("Company's Property").
Bear all risks of loss of or damage to and adequately insure the Company's Property whilst in the Supplier's possession or control.
Ensure that the Company's Property is marked with such indications of ownership as the Company directs and is kept in good condition.
Not permit the Company's Property to be removed from the Supplier's premises.
Not use or permit the use of the Company's Property except for the purpose of the Order.
Permit or procure permission for the Company or its representatives to enter at any reasonable time any premises where the Company's Property is located for the purpose of inspecting it.
Immediately return the Company's Property on demand in good condition and permit or procure permission for the Company in the course of any inspection pursuant to Condition 10.1.5 to re-possess the same.
Pay to the Company on demand the full value (or, where the Company's Property consists of Tooling less than the full cost of which has been contributed by the Company, the proportion of such value which the Company's contribution bears to the cost thereof) of any of the Company's property which is not returned in good condition or accounted for to the Company's satisfaction, and waive any lien when the Supplier might otherwise have (whether at the date of the Order or subsequently) on any of the Company's Property for work done thereon or otherwise.
10.2 In connection with all tools, jigs, dies, fixtures, moulds, patterns, plant and/or equipment or other items to be supplied or paid for in whole or in part by the Company in connection with any Order ("Tooling") the Supplier agrees that all Tooling shall be and remain the Company's Property subject to the requirements stated in Condition 10.1 and without prejudice to the generality thereof shall, at its expense.
Maintain and on the Company's request make available at any reasonable time for inspection on a Tooling Register and furnish such photographic or other evidence as the Company at any time requests as to the existence, location and condition of the tooling.
Maintain all tooling in good condition and immediately replace any items which are lost or destroyed or become worn out.
The Supplier shall treat as confidential (and, in particular, not use except for the purpose of the Order or disclosure to any third party) and shall immediately return to the Company on completion of the Order or earlier on the Company's request and drawings, specifications, technical data, computer software including source codes or similar material) or the like prepared by the Supplier or made available by the Company in connection with the Order.
10.4 The ownership of any patent, design, copyright or other industrial property rights in connection with any Goods and all drawings, specifications, technical data, computer software (including source codes and similar material) or the like prepared by or on behalf of the Company in relation to the Goods shall be and remain vested in the Company.
10.5 The Supplier shall be responsible for any errors or omissions in any particulars supplied by it, whether or not approved by the Company, except only to the extent that such errors or omissions are due to inaccurate information supplied in writing by the Company and such information was not supplied subject to confirmation by the Supplier.
10.6 The Supplier shall be solely responsible for and shall indemnify the Company against any claims, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses arising from any accident or damage resulting from the improper use or use without the Company's proper authority of any property of the Company by the Supplier or its authorised sub-contractors or its or their employees or representatives. The Supplier shall also at all times whilst on the premises of the Company, its customers or other of its suppliers inform itself of any comply with all security and safety regulations from time to time in force at those premises.
11.1 The Supplier shall forthwith upon demand indemnify the Company against any loss, damage or injury to the Company and from and against any claim in respect of loss, damage or injury made against the Company by any third party or parties and any costs and expenses arising in connection therewith which result from the Supplier's performance or purported performance of or failure to perform the Order whether negligent or otherwise and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing which result from any defect in the Goods or their materials, construction, workmanship or design (except to the extent that the Company is responsible for design).
11.2 The Supplier shall at all times insure itself and keep adequately insured with a reputable insurance company against all insurable liability under the Order and, in particular, its liabilities under Condition 11.1, and shall, on request, provide the Company with evidence as to the existence and sufficiency of such insurance.
11.3 The Supplier shall provide all facilities, assistance and advice required by the Company or its insurers for the purpose of contesting or dealing with any action, claim or demand arising out of the Supplier's performance or purported performance of or failure to perform the Order.
12.1 Where in response to any claims under the terms of any warranty given by it for any of its products, the Company makes good, repairs or replaces any Goods which are proved by the person making the claim to the Company's satisfaction to have been, at the time of their delivery by the Supplier, defective in materials, workmanship or design (except solely to the extent that the Company is responsible for design) or otherwise not in conformity with the Order of these conditions then the Company shall be entitled at its option to credit or compensation for or the making good replacement, or repair free of charge of such Goods by the Supplier, without prejudice to any other rights of the Company, including, without limitation, the reimbursement of any labour or other costs incurred by the Company.
12.2 Any Good replaced under Condition 12.1 will be returned to the Supplier upon its written request and at its expense (and where the Goods or the products containing the same have been consigned to a destination outside the United Kingdom mainland such request shall be accompanied by full payment in advance of the carriage and any other charges) and if such request is not made within 28 days of the Company's giving the Supplier written notice of such warranty claim the Company may, at its discretion, destroy or otherwise dispose of the defective Goods without liability to the Supplier.
The Supplier shall indemnify the Company against all actions, claims, demands, costs, charges and expenses incurred by the Company in connection with any infringement or alleged infringement in any country of the rights of any third party claimed under or in connection with any patent, registered design, trademark, copyright, design right, breach of confidence or other industry property right arising from the sale or use of any Goods provided by the Supplier except only to the extent that such infringement results exclusively from a design or written instruction given by the Company and shall, at the Company's request, defend or assist in defending, at the Supplier's expense, any action against the Company or any person to whom the Goods have been supplied.
Performance of an Order may be terminated by the Company, at its option, in whole or in part, at any time by written notice to the Supplier (notwithstanding the existence with respect to the Supplier of any force majeure circumstances). In such event the Company's liability shall in no circumstances exceed the price of the Goods delivered and accepted by the Company and not previously paid for. The Supplier shall also, if so required by the Company in writing, complete all Goods partially manufactured at the date of such notice which are due for delivery within any lead-time previously agreed by the Company and the Company shall pay the price of all such Goods as it accepts.
15.1 The Company may at its discretion, without prejudice to any other remedy, terminated or suspend its performance of the Order in whole or in part by written notice to the Supplier at any time if the Supplier:
Fails to comply with the provision of the Order or delivery schedule or of any other agreement with the Company or fails to make progress so as in the reasonable opinion of the Company to endanger the performance of the Order and either of such cases such failure is unremediable or if remediable the Supplier does not remedy the same to the Company's satisfaction within a period of ten (10) days after the date of which the Company has given the Supplier written notice thereof, or
Becomes insolvent, has a receiver, manager, administrative receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or trustee in bankruptcy appointed in respect of any of its undertaking assets or income, is the subject of any bankruptcy order or has any petition presented to any court of resolution passed for its windup up whether compulsory or voluntarily, or is dissolved, has any distraints or execution levied on any of its assets, enters into any composition or arrangement with its creditors or suffers any similar action in consequence of debt under the laws of any jurisdiction, or the Company bona fide believes that any of the foregoing events may occur.
15.2 No failure or delay by the Company to exercise its rights in respect of any default under the Order by the Supplier shall prejudice the Company's rights in connection with the same or any subsequent default.
Prior to the termination of the production of any components for use as original equipment the Supplier shall agree to a defined and given period which shall not be less than 10 years during which it will maintain the supply of obsolete and non-current parts to the Company.
Neither party shall be responsible to the other by reason of failure to perform under an Order arising from causes beyond the control of the party concerned including fire, explosion, breakdown, labour dispute or acts or omissions of any authority or governmental agency provided that the Company shall be entitled to obtain elsewhere Goods or services covered by the Order for so long as such circumstances prevail and to reduce to that extent without liability to the Supplier its purchases under the Order.
The Company reserves the right, at any time by thirty days written notice to make changes in the specifications applicable to the Goods, the method of packing or places for delivery or performance and if any such changes affect the cost or performance of the Order, the Company may make such adjustment as it considers equitable in the purchase price of the delivery schedule or both.
The Supplier undertakes that the Goods are safe and without risk to health when properly used and company in all respects with all relevant statues regulations, bye laws and standards in force at the date of delivery. The Supplier shall, in particular, supply in respect of the Goods full information about their use and proper evidence of all tests and examinations and research relating to them.
20.1 The Supplier shall not without the prior written consent of the Company assign or sub-contract any of its obligations under the Order in whole or in part.
20.2 If the Company consents to any such assignment or sub-contract, the Supplier shall nevertheless continue to be responsible to the Company for all the Supplier's obligations under the Order, and:
20.3 In the case of any sub-contract to which the Company has so consented the Supplier shall include in its conditions consistent with those of the Order (in particular those relating to compliance with quality standards) for the benefit of and enforceable directly by the Company and furnish the Company on demand with details of any such sub-contract.
Neither the Order nor any details thereof or the Company's name shall be used by the Supplier for advertisement or publicity purposes without the Company's prior written consent.
Any notice given by either party to the other under these conditions shall be in writing addressed to that other party at its registered office or principal place of business.
23.1 The construction, validity and performance of the Order shall be governed in all respects by English law and the Supplier consents to the jurisdiction of the English courts in all matters relating to the Order.
23.2 The headings of conditions are for convenience of reference only and shall not affect their interpretation.
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Diesel design does not follow established trends. It is largely unaffected by fads occurring within the fashion circles; it is innovative and at times a bit radical, but always shows a careful attention to detail and a focus on quality in the selection of materials and production techniques. Diesel collections effectively precede trends and do not respond to them, while at the same time the emphasis on quality is never compromised. This focus on independent working methods and strong quality almost seems to translate within the company into an attitude towards living - the Diesel way.
The Style and Graphic Offices literally work side by side in one huge open space, a creative group strengthening itself through close collaboration. Diesel's stylists come from widely diverse cultures and backgrounds, and they all contribute to the creation of a truly global product. Every line is designed by a dedicated group of people (1 stylist, 1 assistant and 1 product manager), who get their inspiration from the most unpredictable places. Diesel designers are famous for their strange self-planned research trips around the world (recent trips include cities in Japan and the Norwegian tundra).
In the Spring of 2006, Diesel denim has been spotted everywhere--especially on American Idol where contestants Ace Young and (our favorite) Chris Daughtry seem to never want to wear anything other than their Diesel Zaf Jeans.


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HOUSTON — Adam Rosales wanted to sleep, so he put his phone on vibrate.
Nice timing. Right after he did that Tuesday, A's assistant general manager David Forst called, wanting to tell Rosales to pack, he was coming back to Oakland after a two-week hiatus in which Grant Green was given a chance to play some second base with the A's.
Forst called again a few minutes later. And a few minutes after that. He wound up having to call five times in 20 minutes before the phone's vibrations were enough to awake the dozing Rosales.
``That's the best kind of wakeup call,'' Rosales said, grinning.
The A's are hoping that Rosales will bring some kind of wakeup to the Oakland defense, which is floundering in the first few days after the All-Star break. The A's have made six errors in the last two games and eight in the first five games since the resumption of play.
``He's been here before, and he brings a lot of energy,'' manager Bob Melvin said of Rosales. ``And he's a plus defender at every position. We've had some defensive issues and this is one guy who can clean it up.
``He brings passion.''
The plan will be to have Rosales start at shortstop against left-handed pitching with Jed Lowrie at second base. Against right-handers, it will be Lowrie at short and Eric Sogard at second base.
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He could be thrown into a simulated game against current A's hitters or he might go directly out on an injury rehabilitation assignment. If it's a simulated game or two, the next step beyond would be the injury rehab.
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On Nov 8, 6:22 pm, dbas...@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) wrote:
> It seems to me then that if an application does not make use, in any
> way, of MSG_OOB and does not deal with pseudo-terminals at all, then
> such application will never see these exceptions on a socket --- on UNIX
> systems.
Right. Cases where you need to handle these kinds of exceptional
events are so rare the vast majority of programmers will never
encounter them.
> Or is it possible that anything else causes select to set exceptfds? Any
> information is appreciated. Thank you.
Sure, but if you don't know of a particular case, there's no reason to
test for it. What would you do if you got one anyway?
Adding a socket to an fd set that you pass to select implies that you
have a particular function call in mind should you get a hit. If you
have no particular function in mind, there's no point in putting the
socket in the set.
Implementations may define exceptional events for things other than
normal files or sockets (for example, devices) and programs that
understand that interface would know what to do if they get a hit.


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Synonyms of disgrace in English:
1 if he'd married her it would have brought disgrace on the family
dishonour, shame, ignominy, discredit, degradation, disrepute, ill-repute, infamy, scandal, stigma, odium, opprobrium, obloquy, condemnation, vilification, contempt, disrespect, disapproval, disfavour, disapprobation;
humiliation, embarrassment, loss of face;
Australian strife
rare disesteem, reprobation, derogation
[Antonyms] honour, glory
2 the unemployment figures are a disgrace the system is a disgrace to British justice
scandal, outrage, source of shame;
bad reflection on, stain on, blemish on, blot on, blot on the escutcheon of, black mark on;
stigma, brand;
informal crime, sin
literary smirch on
[Antonyms] credit
in disgrace
- [Antonyms] in favourout of favour, unpopular, in bad odourinformal in someone's bad/black books, in the doghouseNew Zealand informal in the dogbox
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1 you have disgraced the family name
bring shame on, shame, dishonour, discredit, bring into disrepute, degrade, debase, defame, stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, stain, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, give a bad name to, put in a bad light, reflect badly on
archaic spot
[Antonyms] honour, do credit to
2 he has been publicly disgraced for offences of which he was not guilty
humiliate, mortify, embarrass, cause to lose face, chasten, humble, demean, put someone in their place, take down a peg or two, cut down to size, show up
North American informal make someone eat crow
US informal own
[Antonyms] honour
Choose the right word
disgrace, dishonour, shame, ignominy
A person in disgrace has incurred general disapproval as a result of behaviour considered to be unacceptable ( Nixon had resigned in disgrace). There is a suggestion of outrage and scandal. A person or thing can also be described as a disgrace, meaning that they deserve disapproval or condemnation ( you're an absolute disgrace | what went on at Westminster on Wednesday was a disgrace to Parliament).Dishonour is a less common word, perhaps because the notion of honour that it involves has itself become unfashionable. Typically it denotes a situation in which someone is considered to have behaved in a cowardly or dishonest way ( feelings which induce a man to prefer death to dishonour).Shame is frequently used in the same context as guilt, embarrassment, and humiliation. While a person who is in disgrace is disapproved of, someone who suffers shame feels intense distress as a result of this disapproval and their awareness of having done wrong ( she hung her head in shame). Shame also describes a loss of respect in the eyes of other people ( the incident brought shame on his family). A state of affairs seen as regrettable or unfortunate can be called a shame ( it is just a shame we don't treat our fellow human beings so well | what a shame Ellie won't be here to meet you).Ignominy is a literary word deriving from a Latin expression for the loss of one's 'good name'. It denotes great public humiliation ( he was not spared the ignominy of a public trial).
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Short Film Showcase
The Media Center is always a busy place but during the spring semester it rises to a whole new level of chaos. Although many projects are worked on, our heightened level of crazy can be attributed to the two film courses that are offered in the Spring.
These students camped out here for days at a time editing their productions and finally were able to show off their work last week in 2 separate film showings. For those of you who missed them, you still have a chance to view some of the short films here. A few students allowed us to link to their uploaded videos.
Two of these came from the Film Production class and one came from the Documentary Film class. Enjoy!
Bring To Life by Kia Kali
BRING TO LIFE, by Kia Kali from Kia Kali on Vimeo.
BRING TO LIFE, by Kia Kali from Kia Kali on Vimeo.
Documented By Marion Villette
Documented from Marion Villette on Vimeo.
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Before you begin the application of the blusher take a good look at the shape the cheeks are, this will help you to determine where you place the blusher.
Sunken Cheeks
This cheekbone is clearly visible and the fleshy part of the cheek sinks in under it, giving a hollow look to the cheek.
Place the blusher on the cheekbone, avoiding the hollow area under the cheeks.
Chubby cheeks
You cannot see the bone structure at all. Because the cheekbone is not visible, you have to find it. Feel round the cheekbone with the ball of your thumb and decide where the cheekbone is.
Place blusher under cheekbone, where the cheekbone hollow would be, this gives it a shading effect making the cheeks look more prominent ( not lower than ear lobe or end of nose). Add a highlighter to the top of the cheekbones such as Mai Couture St Barts Highlighter Papier
High cheek bones
These are the ones everyone wants. Clearly defined without the hollow look.
Blusher where you feel the cheekbone curving in towards the eye socket, place the blusher above the cheekbone.
Average cheeks
This probably takes in most of us. We can see some sign of cheekbone, but it's not all that clearly defined.
Blusher apply it to the underneath curve of the cheekbone.
By simply remembering the basic rule of make- up!!!
Light colours enlarge and dark colours minimise,decide before you start,what you want to enlarge and what you Want to minimise.


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Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#124 closed defect (duplicate)
Better handling of raw POST data
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|Ready for checkin
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|Patch needs improvement:
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I'll come up with a patch for this, if slashzero doesn't.
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by jacob
- Resolution set to invalid
- Status changed from new to closed
I'm afraid there's not enough detail here to keep this open; if this is a valid issue please explain further what this means and reopen.
comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by Manuzhai
- Resolution invalid deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
This was just discussed in IRC...
21:19 < slashzero> adrian_h: request.POST puts the raw data into one of the keys in the POST dict. That's ok until there is a equal sign 21:20 < adrian_h> slashzero: I'd be happy to fix if you provide a patch, or at least some example data, in a ticket 21:28 < manuzhai> slashzero: are you positive all well-behaving clients set the x-form-encoded thingie mimetype? 21:29 < manuzhai> if so, we could branch for that, then do the querydict parsing thing, and in the else just .read() whatever there is into some other request field
comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by jacob
- Component changed from Admin interface to Core framework
comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by adrian
- Resolution set to duplicate
- Status changed from reopened to closed
Closing because patch is in #126.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Mark McGwire finally admits to Steroids
I don't think there are too many people suprised but Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids today. He is the new hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals and has been mostly in hiding for the past decade until taking this job. I don't know why it took him so long to admit this but he probably felt it was just easier to hide and not have to worry about it. He is now the hitting coach for the team he used to play for and knew that it would keep coming up if he didn't address it. I will add the links to the story later and have some comments up from him and possibly others. I would like to hear what you guys think about this, care/don't care?? Did you think this all along or didn't?? Do you think this will help his case for the Hall of Fame or hurt it?? I would love to hear what you guys think and I will jump in on these topics later.
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I don't think that Twitter is really the death of blogging as we know it. I think that if anything is going to kill blogging, it's going to be much more mindless:
Facebook games.
As I sat there, mindlessly "harvesting" circus peanuts from elephants, angora wool I can never actually knit with, and grapefruit that is fruiting next to red maple trees, I thought, "What the heck am I doing?"
I could be writing something fascinating or heart-baring, or I could be making Christmas cookies. Oh, well I can make cookies or pies or cakes in Facebook's YoVille game, so that's taken care of. And those baked goods won't increase my hip size!
I could go visit friends, go dancing, or go run races with them. I forgot, though: that's what Pet Society is for, because we can all do those things as our animal alter egos and wear cute costumes and live in a house decorated with things we could never afford in real life and have the added bonus of not needing dusting.
Speaking of Pet Society, I actually had a nightmare last night that was based on Pet Society. Not that I've actually logged into that game for months, probably, but I dreamed that it was all REAL and that people were living in this huge building with different tiers of suites based on progression through these levels and it turned out these levels were all based on some sort of worship of this weird alien/demon thing and it was my job to disconnect the server that was funneling all the propaganda material in and the whole place was watched over by a guy in drag with really heavy make-up and … well, I think it's obvious that Will and I just spent a week watching series 2 of Doctor Who, isn't it?
So if you don't see me around for a while, stop by one of my Facebook restaurants or cafés, or check on my farms, and I'll probably be by once in a while. Because, you know, that's the easiest way to be brain dead and still act like I'm interacting with people.


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Lee: LePage calling Gattine profanity filled names is not a problem. A lot of firely people do this. LePage stating that he will BLOCK EVERYTHING Gattine does, is. This is the problem with today's government. All these little personal vendetta's are getting in the way of a functioning government. IMO, an State or Nationally ellected Representative of the people that allows a personal or business conflict to get in the way of their doing the job they were elected for, should resign. Immediately! They are, after all, NOT doing their jobs. There is nothing that needs to be considered by LePage as he has publicly admitted that he will NOT do his job. He should leave.


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By Michael Hendrick
Illustration by Waylon Bacon
A spate of Christian/spiritual music washed over the AM/FM airwaves in the early-1970s. Jesus Christ Superstar primed the pump, and Norman Greenbaum had made spirituality a Top Ten hit the year before with his rocking Spirit In the Sky. In Eighth Grade, my eighth year of going to the Holy Mass six days a week, a progressive nun from Philadelphia mimeographed lyrics to these and other pseudo-spiritual tunes, like Bridge Over Troubled Waters and I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel. Passing out the lyrics pages, she explained the spiritual introspection in songs and managed to slip a bit of 'Popery' into the messages, as well.
Around that time, my grandfather died. In those days, three days of wakes preceded the Funeral Mass…probably because it took that long to dig through the snow and frozen turf of snow belt cemeteries. My Uncle Keith, a classic example of the 1960s folk-guitar-priest, attended each day. As a priest, he employed great communications skills; he listened and responded to me as he would to an adult but the main impression he left upon me, The Impressionable Boy in Puberty, lie in his kindness. At a difficult age when adults yelled at me everywhere I went or some short, older jocks from the high school took turns threatening me, a little kindness made for a long and lasting memory.
By the time George Harrison crackled through the radio with My Sweet Lord, Christ invaded my thoughts and pushed the horoscope and Zolar zodiac books to the side, making way for The Bible. If any kid stood ready for a conversion, it was me.
Buses from public schools carried public school students. A freshman at Holy Catholic High School, in the city, I rode city buses. Bus stops, in the 1950s-1970s USA, provided a convenient place for strange people to queue up. Drunks, head cases, the elderly, the young and the poor – the same groups we now view as 'disenfranchised' – waited for buses at every odd corner.
"I used to be Jerry Lewis's father!" a hulking brute of a man, with a more pockmarks than I ever saw on a face before, told me, assertively. I did not argue.
A crazy-looking biker type with longish red hair, freckles, two missing upper front teeth and a welder's cap turned backwards on his head, told me we could 'share a hit of microdot,' whatever that was, if I gave him a dollar. I saw him before. He infrequently rode the bus all the way out to Egypt, the village where I lived. Knowing nothing about drugs, I gave him a buck, along with an excuse about why I didn't want my half. He took the cash and hurried away. It was only a dollar.
Another guy looked like a rock star, standing back from the curb, stylish unisex shirt with very short sleeves revealing thin arms with no hint of muscle but wrists hardly visible under bracelets, chains, braided strings and other baubles. Hair fell to his shoulders in a fashionably- long, black shag. It was the best one I had seen since David Cassidy in The Partridge Family. He wore a large, red button on his chest, which said, in raised white letters, "GET SMART GET SAVED", and his belt held several pouches, one revealing a row of colored highlighting markers. The crazy guy from Egypt only wanted a dollar; the cool-looking dude with the shag sought my soul. A big, goofy kid who attracted these types simply by dint of being well over six feet tall and having shoulder-length blonde hair, I understood neither. It turned out that he was a senior at the same high school I attended. Living close, he could go home after classes, lose the suit and tie, then hit the streets in fashion, 'cool for Christ'. Being friends with a cool, long-haired senior gave me added credibility in my freshman year.
The Forever Family formed in 1971 in Allentown, PA, as a loose band of rag-tag former hippies and disillusioned druggies. They sought comfort and spirituality and brotherhood and fellowship, all the things this thirteen-year-old needed. Relating to the other kids at school had always been problematic. We had moved from New York into a hick town when I was six and I never caught onto the secretive ways of the Pennsylvania Dutch and other clannish peoples who mostly populated the area. I was different and not used to acceptance. When Jack, the guy with the shag, started talking to me, there was a warmth and understanding to him, sort of like with Uncle Keith. In the beginning, The Forever Family was pretty pure. Everybody was kind and open and it gave me a place to go after school and on weekends. The main thing one had to do, obviously, was to get saved, like the button said. The buttons were sort of the beginning of the end, however, as far as the pure essence of the Family. People banded around Chip, a charismatic hippie-looking guy with reddish hair and beard, and a warm and ever-ready smile. He exuded comfort. The Family existed here and there in the public parks and at the house of Chip and his wife, Sam. The house being just a few blocks from the high school, it was a place to go when skipping class or waiting for the bus. It provided refuge.
According to many, trouble began with those buttons, which were the invention of Stewart Traill, now leader of the Church of Bible Understanding (COBU). The COBU is based in Scranton, PA, and makes most of its cash from diverting funds donated for the running of their mission in Haiti, various internet and newspaper sources reveal. Traill devised the "GET SMART GET SAVED" button. They were big, bright and drew attention. Both well-known and oft-hated, these buttons caught the eye and allowed the wearer to go to work. Work, in this version, was the saving of Souls, the conversion to Christ through the auspicious Holy Spirit, who would often make guest appearances at the mall fountain in front of the Orange Julius stand on Friday and Saturday nights. That Holy Spirit would come right into the mall and cleanse those Souls whenever summoned. I went for it. I accepted the Holy Spirit. I promised to focus all my life on Christ as my only salvation.
At my own behest, I adopted a uniform of black jeans and black tee shirt, with a hand-made leather pouch on my belt to carry a miniature Bible and some leaflets (known as tracts to the professional faithful) on how to save yourself and become one of us. A lot of people, mostly in my own real family, mocked my new, always-blackened presence, some referring to me as 'the Father'. The button never appeared in my wardrobe, however. I am not sure if this was because of Stewart or myself. Buttons were awarded to 'lambs' who memorized ten Bible verses, picked by Stewart. Being very adept at memorization, ten verses would not have been a problem. Once you had the button, you were raised a level and given responsibility – mostly for bringing in new members.
Maybe my lifelong pattern of shirking responsibility saved me in this instance. On the other hand, all the other members were about six or seven years older than me. Jack was closest in age. A thirteen-year-old does not hold as much sway as an older acolyte. Either way, it was lucky that I was just a bit too young. Most followers were in late-teens or early-twenties and Stewart was in his late-thirties. Traill was a strong presence, who took the role of leader of the family from Chip, simply by constant badgering and intimidation of family members. He likened himself to Moses and Elijah and came on as a sort of John Lennon-like figure, with frame-less wire-rimmed glasses. Like Lennon he had a habit of growing long hair and beard, then shaving both to leave them grow again. It is significantly coincidental to note that the place where Traill met Chip, the Robin Hood Dell section of Allentown's Lehigh Parkway park system, was often frequented by the real John Lennon, who lived nearby in NYC and brought his son, Sean, there in the last years of his life.
Traill picked out clothes for his wife, Shirley, to wear which were very sexually revealing; micro-mini skirts and low cut blouses, heels. She was his Yoko imitation, although I doubt that Yoko would have been told what to wear. The clothes seemed out of place but they did make me horny, the desired effect, no doubt. He weighed her on a scale in front of family members regularly and spanked her if she weighed too much. He forced her to ask permission to go to the bathroom. This part of Traill's personal life did not seem to jibe with the message of the Good News…neither did the attack on his son, who was beaten senseless by several church members for publicly disagreeing with his father. Much of this was unknown to me at the time. My mind found distraction in what other followers wore, how they spoke and acted – after all, I needed role models and some of the Family members were very cool. I cannot say that I ever had a conversation with Stewart. Perhaps due to my age, he felt I was useless – since I was not old enough to work and hand over my wages and was too naive to be truly influential to adults. Chip and Sam always showed me warmth and grace and made me feel welcome. I tended to stick close to them as much as possible.
What did I care? I had a place to go after school and on weekends where I was accepted. Acceptance and separation are the two cudgels of cult power. Anti-parent sentiment ran hot. We were often reminded that Jesus said, "I did not come to bring peace; but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father and a daughter against her mother." I had enough friction going on between my dad and myself, that this line alone kept me hanging around. The Lambs of God brought in the sheep of Stewart but I was an innocuous kid, just along for the ride, really. I had been hearing about the Holy Trinity at school and church six days a week and listening to them on the radio. The hippie-looking girls and the way they dressed were the main draw for me. I didn't enjoy 'witnessing the word' with one of the red-buttoned 'lambs' as much as I did my own personal conversions of the souls of paisley chicks with tight jeans.
Besides saving souls at the Orange Julius, we witnessed in public parks, did community activities, like help the Red Cross assist victims of a recent hurricane by working in their clothes/food/distribution center (my first volunteer job in a history of 42 years of volunteering – so something stuck), studied Bible verse and discussed it and wandered, fairly aimlessly, looking for more souls. Sometimes we would set up elaborate scenes in public restaurants to attract the attention of other diners and then drop our message on them.
On Bible study – another bad thing about having the "GET SMART GET SAVED" button were the accompanying charges of being a 'lamb', such as the memorization of Stewart's convenient Bible color-code system, wherein followers divine the truths in the Holy Word by marking certain passages with certain colors of highlighter markers. The color system presents a very primitive system of mind control. Certain colors hold different significance, while others make us feel different ways. If a color can evoke a feeling, then drenching a particular verse in a certain color imbues it with that feeling. Red causes aggression in humans just as it does in bulls. Having once been attacked by a bull while donning a red shirt, I can say this is no urban legend. Just as he usurped the leadership of the family through pushiness and intimidation, Traill had seen Jack color-coding his Bible, as we had been taught to do with our notes in high school, and thereby stole the 'idea' and 'invented' the Color Code.
The coding took the fun out of the words and isolated them into specific messages. Color psychology has undergone many changes since the 1970s but it is still no less effective than it was to the ancient Greeks, who slept in white to purify their dreams. Controlling the mind through color is subtle and effective. It must be. By the end of the decade, Traill presided over an estimated 65 'fellowship houses' and real estate holdings including mansions in Florida and Philadelphia and four private jets. The money built up as he went through a well-thought-out process of collecting old vacuum cleaners from the trash, fixing them and reselling them, then expanding the vacuum sales into a vacuum cleaning business with followers in major US cities working for a dollar a day and donating the rest of their wages to the church, so it could buy more land and vacuums. The business still thrives, along with a series of second-hand shops which resell items plucked from trash or handed over to the church when followers give up the world and all that is worldly. It became so well known that a popular episode of the Seinfeld TV series focused an eopisode around them, calling them the "Carpet Cleaning Cult," after their real business name of Christian Brothers Carpet Cleaning.
Some valuable lessons stuck to me from those days of cornering strangers and talking them into submitting to the Holy Spirit. How to use a person's own words to trap them, how to manipulate the meaning of certain words and simple verbal bullying techniques – these methods stuck to me and helped me through life in becoming successful at sales jobs and getting Jehovah's Witnesses off my doorstep. Developing a knowledge of scripture still comes in handy, as a choice line from the Holy Book will easily stymie an argument and allow me to 'one up' a verbal opponent…particularly if they are the moralistic type.
Near the end of my association with the Forever Family, news of a big meeting with a communal Baptism made the rounds. Taking place on a Sunday, it would be hard for me to sneak away from dinner at home and find a way to the church and back. No buses ran on Sunday and I had not learned how to properly hitch a ride yet. A resounding 'NO' met my request to attend the meeting, so my natural instinct to run away from home appeared and off I went. The meeting took place at an established church with an Evangelical ministry. A mix of regular church members and scruffy-cool Forever Family members filled the pews. Baptism took place in a large swimming pool, dug and built in the shape of the cross. The minister presided over his regular service and, towards the end, welcomed us, who had been reborn via Baptism of Spirit, and invited us to be baptized in the symbolic water. We shuffled into a room behind the altar, where we were given white robes to wear into the pool.
My dad carried a .50 caliber machine gun in the Third Marine Division, where he served three tours of duty in the Pacific Theater of World War Two, gunning down Japanese soldiers. I imagine he wore the same expression on his face when he pulled the trigger as the one he wore as he burst through the door behind the altar with my mother, who seemed bewildered but peeved. "…all that money..," she repeated a few times. Not yet in my robe, my old man grabbed me and out we went. A bunch of astonished lambs looked on with mouths agape. Numerous lectures intertwined in the voices from the front seat of the car, as we rode home and I stared out the back windows, singing to myself in my head. Years later, my mother would recall the "trashcans full to the top with money" that she had seen as they hunted around behind the scenes, trying to find me in the temple. "…all that money…" A depression-age baby, it sort of haunted her.
In days to come, I still found my way out of class and sneaking down to the Forever Family house. Things were changing. Expanding the business and setting up new houses, along with objections to the ruthless ways of Stewart, drove a lot of family members out of the cult and back into the rote of their pre-'saved' days. Some kids at school trusted me now, having seen me hanging with the group of long-haired freaks, and offered me drugs and other forms of companionship. Something about going out collecting vacuum cleaners did not appeal to me, not for free, anyway.
No taste of the Christ ever killed my natural instinct to make money to buy myself things my parents didn't know about. My mom took a real tip from the experience, and, seeing how well I could corner strangers verbally, one day she dragged me into the General Nutrition Store (GNC) at the mall and lied about my age, telling them that her sixteen- year-old needed a job. Soon, on nights and weekends, I found myself accosting strangers with a spoonful of sunflower seeds, petitioning them to 'try our Zesty Sunflower Seeds!', as the light of the Orange Julius glared at me from the other end of the mall.


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The Pros:Lots of humor in the album, will keep you laughing. Nice jabs at the classic Sgt. Pepper album by The Beatles. Makes intelligent and witty comments on a number of issues.
The Cons:Individual tracks don't stand up on their own too well, need to be in the context of the album. Too experimental and confusing for some listeners.
Track Listings
1. Are You Hung Up? (1:24)
2. Who Needs The Peace Corps? (2:34)
3. Concentration Moon (2:22)
4. Mom & Dad (2:16)
5. Telephone Conversation (0:48)
6. Bow Tie Daddy (0:33)
7. Harry, You're A Beast (1:21)
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What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (1:03)
9. Absolutley Free (3:24)
10. Flower Punk (3:03)
11. Hot Poop (0:23)
12. Nasal Retentive Calliope Music (2:02)
13. Let's Make The Water Turn Black (2:01)
14. The Idiot Bastard Son (3:18)
15. Lonely Little Girl (1:09)
16. Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance(1:32)
17. What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body? (Reprise) (1:02)
18. Mother People (2:26)
19. The Chrome Plated Megaphone Of Destiny (6:25)
Total Time: 39:06
- Frank Zappa / vocals, guitar
- Roy Estrada / bass, vocals
- Don Preston / keyboards
- Jimmy Carl Black / drums, vocals
- Ian Underwood / winds, keyboards
- Euclid James `Motorhead` Sherwood / winds
- Billy Mundi / drums
- Bunk Gardner / winds
lots of humor in the album, will keep you laughing
nice jabs at the classic Sgt. Pepper album by The Beatles
makes intelligent and witty comments on a number of issues
very psychedelic sounds with experimental studio techniques
put together as a complete album, letting you listen to the whole thing for a single experience
individual tracks don't stand up on their own too well, need to be in the context of the album
too experimental and confusing for some listeners
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