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The Curse of the 52 Pickup
Santa Cruz, so the story goes, already has its fair share of curses (Metro Santa Cruz, Oct. 9, 2002), so Nüz was shocked to learn that another curse could be on the cards--the tarot cards, to be precise.
Seems that a local ordinance which prohibits fortune telling for pay--yes, there really is such an ordinance, and it applies to anyone who can't foresee that they need to buy a $100 permit--has got the goat of the Reverend Dr. Electronic Galaxy Jay, a.k.a. the 52-card Prophet. The Rev was recently slapped with a ticket for giving psychic readings on Pacific Avenue, an activity he's been doing daily since he rolled into town last summer.
As it happens, the Rev was calling himself James Le Gambit when he first arrived in Santa Cruz, an intriguing choice of name given that the gambit is an opening chess move in which you sacrifice something for the sake of a compensating advantage. And now the Reverend says that for the sake of "religious freedom" he's contemplating sacrificing a goat--or a lamb, since his real name is Jason Paschal, and the Paschal Lamb is none other than the lamb of God.
"I'll come downtown in a black leather loincloth and chains, together with 20 brothers and a goat or lamb, and we'll play drums, dance and yelling, and then I'll sacrifice the goat, and put a curse on the town," says the Rev, adding that he does not want a permit and will "pull a psychic Rambo" if such a permit is insisted upon.
"I'm a sinful messiah, a voodoo child who's been a Christian, a Rastafarian, a follower of Islam and Hare Krishna, but now I'm just a crazed individual who gives psychic readings. They need to leave me alone."
Judging from the official response, it sounds like the city is trying to do just that.
City attorney John Barisone told Nüz that "it's not unusual for cities to have an ordinance like this on the books" and that said ordinance is "primarily intended to prevent fraud."
Meanwhile, Lt. Patti Sapone of the SCPD said that the permit doesn't really apply to people on the street.
"It's designed to be applied to one specific location and to protect people from getting ripped off," she said.
Weird as they may be, however, these civic provisions for "metaphysical science and fortune telling" do not apply to such acts "performed as a religious practice by and directed towards persons who in good faith hold such metaphysical science and fortune telling to be a religious practice."
Since we'd hate to think someone would have to go to the lengths of animal sacrifice to cover their ass on "religious practices," we're praying the leather loincloth will suffice.
Killer Astroturf Wars
Seems Nüz isn't the only news media outlet in Santa Cruz to be targeted by a fake grassroots--hence the name Astroturf--letter writing campaign, in which the Republican National Committee provides form letters to puff up support for their current pet cause.
The Senile published one such piece of Astroturf on Jan. 15, but to date Metro Santa Cruz has spotted these fakes fairly easily for the simple reason that they are all identically worded, despite the fact that they are signed by different authors, thereby giving the unnerving impression that said scribes are really aliens with a bad case of the mind melds:
"When it comes to the economy, President Bush is demonstrating genuine leadership," began this GOP letter which was posted on the RNC website, www.gopteamleader.com, which is described as "an on-line toolbox for Republican activists."
Once visitors register, they can receive Republican email updates and even the opportunity "to collect 'GOPoints' by completing Action Items." Letters to the editor that get published earn extra points, which can be redeemed for everything from coolers and folding chairs to mouse pads and T-shirts.
Evidently, the promise of free mouse pads works, since one such form letter in praise of Mr. Bush was printed, often verbatim, in nearly 75 papers, presumably because it was brief, to the point, and contained a smattering of factual information--in other words, the "perfect" letter.
Fighting back against these unethical tactics are a number of Internet sleuths, including the most excellent www.failureisimpossible.com, which not only tracks such letters, but also suggests ways that concerned citizens can monkey with them in devilishly clever ways.
The website is the brainchild of Maia Cowan, who has dedicated her website to suffragist and abolitionist Susan B. Anthony, who became world-famous for her crusade to extend freedom and legal rights, particularly voting rights, to all United States citizens.
"As my contribution to defending voters' rights, which were so widely assaulted during the 2000 Presidential election, this site is dedicated to 'Aunt Susan' and to all her spiritual nieces and nephews who continue the crusade," writes Cowan.
Check out her site. You'll be glad you did.
Bulldozers R Us?
With a seemingly imminent war (at presstime) and the horrifying news of the death by Israeli bulldozer of U.S. protester Rachel Carrie on our mind, Nüz turned to the recent words of former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Dr. Robert Muller for solace.
"Never before in the history of the world has there been a global, visible, public, viable, open dialogue and conversation about the very legitimacy of war," said Muller, pointing out that it's taken more than 50 years for the United Nations to realize its real function, and that in the last months and weeks, "it's become the most powerful governing body on earth, the most powerful container for the world's effort to wage peace rather than war."
Meanwhile, local City Councilmember and executive director of the Resource Center for NonViolence Scott Kennedy told Nüz that the timing of Rachel Carrie's death is "sobering, since Bush has said that they are gonna treat the human shields in Iraq like combatants."
Bush and Sharon appear to be on the same page, says Kennedy. "What Bush said was shocking, particularly with thousands of people trying to get the pope and the Dalai Lama to go to Iraq. As far as we know, Bush will view bombing them as a bonus. And his war on Iraq will doubtless overwhelm the tragic loss of this young woman."
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Spielberg has been a longtime fan of Stanley Kubrick. The two worked together on A.I Artificial Intelligence, which Spielberg directed after Kubrick's death in 1999. You can also see bits of tributes to Kubrick's uneasiness with technology and the future in Spielberg's Minority Report, about an agency responsible for seeing the intent to commit a crime and stopping it before it happens. In other words, Spielberg was not only a colleague of the famed director but also a super-fan.
That is no doubt why the Kubrick family asked Spielberg to help them. They're turning Kubrick's years of research on Napoleon into a final Kubrick-inspired film. Only, Kubrick had so much research the film has expanded into a miniseries instead.
"I've been developing Stanley Kubrick's screenplay for a miniseries, not for a motion picture, about the life of Napoleon," Mr. Spielberg said to France's Canal + Television. "Kubrick wrote the script in 1961, long time ago, and the Kubrick family — because we made 'A.I.' together — the Kubrick family and I, and the next project we're working on is a miniseries, is going to be 'Napoleon.'"
Kubrick first began embarking on telling Napoleon's story in 1968 for MGM. Two years later, he became distracted, however, by the chance to do A Clockwork Orange (one of his most famous works). A few years later, he told Sight and Sound magazine that "there has never been a great historical film" and that he still had plans to make the movie — which, he hoped, would be that much-needed "great historical film."
Despite scouring thousands of documents and reading tons of books, when Kubrick died, his dream of making the Napoleon movie had not been realized. What Kubrick left behind, though, was a bounty of notes and a screenplay. His research apparently even includes a card-file system detailing every single one of Napoleon's most significant life moments.
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The disease was eradicated in the United States in 2000, but it's now making a comeback. The outbreak has spread across 17 states. Dr. William Schaffner works for Vanderbilt Infectious Disease. He believes this problem could get out of control.
"Measles was a very serious disease before we had a vaccine," Dr. Schaffner warned. "400 or 500 children could die in the United States each year."
The outbreak has been caused by Americans who haven't been vaccinated traveling to other countries. They're catching it there and bringing it back with them. Health officials are worried because there's no way to tell how many people those infected have come in contact with.
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RIGHT... THAT MAKES THINGS CLEARER: Well, obviously there's a clear explanation for the addition of those five extra songs to the Brit single of the year category. Apparently:
"It has been brought to the organisers' attention that the 2004 chart year comprised 53 weeks rather than 52, running from 28 December 2003 until 1 January 2005," a Brits statement said.
"To avoid any ambiguity and in the interests of accuracy and fair play the Brits committee has decided to expand the nominations list to ten."
It's not actually been made clear if the week they missed off was the first in the year, or the last, but either way... the implication seems to have been that if you count the sales and airplay of that extra week, why, the five 'new' nominations suddenly add-up to have out-performed the five 'old' nominations.
Eh? Now, if they mean the first week of last year (28 Dec onwards) had been overlooked, we don't see how it could have made any difference as none of the singles had been released at that point. And it could be that in the run-up to Christmas, George Michael's sales of Anything outstripped, say, Do They Know Its Christmas by just enough to push it back into the top five, but we don't believe that for a moment. In fact, we can't accept at all that missing a week off the figures would mean a totally different list of five nominations would have been delivered - maybe one song different; perhaps two - but all five? Why don't the Brits just parade up and down outside our houses telling us they think we're stupid?
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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcarnagecar‧nage /ˈkɑːnɪdʒ $ ˈkɑːr-/ noun [uncountable] KILLwhen a lot of people are killed and injured, especially in a war a scene of terrible carnage
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A part-time gumshoe begins examining a full-time murder spree in this film noir-influenced independent thriller. Charley (Ted Parks) runs a slightly seedy nightspot called the Red 71 Club, where his sexy wife Lorain (Michelle Belegrin) greets the customers each evening. Lorain is trying to convince rotund amateur detective Shane (Nathan Ginn) to buy into the club, and she's persuasive enough that Shane is more than willing to fork over the dough. But when Charley is found murdered, Shane begins to wonder...more
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mrfill September 18, 2013 5:03 PM I wonder how many British, Australian or American teams will be in the 37 on the list. I'd be surprised if all the fingers on one hand will be needed. Other than wild card rides, the count this season is....... 1. And people wonder why the Spanish and Italians proliferate. Even that well known bike racing nation, the Swiss, have 4 teams. Reply Report abuse 5 agree 1 disagree
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Flights from SĂŁo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to Beijing through Paris
TAM Airlines and Air China expand codeshare agreement
São Paulo, Brazil - TAM Airlines' passengers who want to travel to-and-from China and Brazil now have a faster and more comfortable route option. With the expansion of the codeshare agreement between TAM and Air China, passengers can now fly to-and-from Beijing and Brazil through Paris, with a connection at Charles de Gaulle Airport, from where they will travel on flights of the Chinese airline.
TAM's clients now have available daily flights between São Paulo (Guarulhos) and Paris, and another five weekly services between Rio de Janeiro (Galeão) and Paris. As a result, the connection between Brazil and other South American countries to-and-from China, and between China and other Asian destinations, will be reinforced and improved.
Passengers can fly daily from SĂŁo Paulo to Paris at 11.20 pm on JJ 8108, and connect with JJ 8384 (operated by Air China) which departs next day from Charles de Gaulle at 8.20 pm, landing in the Chinese capital at 12.25 pm.
Passengers can also take flight JJ 8054 at 11.57 pm from Rio de Janeiro, five days a week (except Wednesday and Saturday), to connect to Beijing with flight JJ 8384 (operated by Air China) from Paris.
A daily service departs Beijing as JJ 8383 (operated by Air China) at 1.35 pm to land in the French capital at 6.40 pm where it connects with TAM flight JJ 8101 to SĂŁo Paulo and five days a week (except Thursday and Sunday) to Rio de Janeiro with JJ 8055.
The new agreement with Air China is aligned with TAM's goals of expanding its presence in Asia, where the airline already has a commercial office in Hong Kong (China), commercial representations in South Korea, India, Thailand and Taiwan, as well as management in China (Beijing and Shanghai) and Japan (Tokyo).
Prior to the expansion of the codeshare agreement with Air China, which has been in existence since August 2009, TAM's codeshare passengers connected over Madrid's Barajas Airport.
TAM also shares flights with ANA (All Nippon Airways), which offers clients the possibility of travelling to other Asian destinations from Brazil via Tokyo.


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Olympus PEN E-P5 Review: Wi-Fi Features and Shooting with CCTV Lens
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what a fun/horrible lens. can't make up my mind about it ;)
thanks for all the testing. Drooling over this camera..ello robin..nice view!!!..like d pic so much..like d effect from this lens..its toy lens rule!!..hehehhe..i try it before this and this lens are really fun to use it..really like d effect that can produce from this lens..i will try to use this lens to captured some night market session..hopefully we can shoot together at night market with this toy lens..see u soon..
ReplyDeleteNice of you to pull ut my favorite 25mm f/1.2 CCTv lens on this. Very cool. I was waiting for this.
When you mentioned the "fingers not fast enough" on the blurry shot, you may want to qualify that by noting that the focus throw on that little lens is very long. For instance, if I take this lens out and plan to shoot macros and medium or longer distances distance, I get all my closeups done first. Because if your switching between macro and shots 20 feet away, you'll be there all day and come home with a half dozen images ;-)RepliesHello Libby,
Glad you liked the use of 25mm F1.2!
I understand that the focus throw is long. However I have already set the focus to near where I intended to focus (approximation), so I really should not blame the lens. What I must add instead is me still getting used to how the focus peaking works. I still am new to this and I never even dared to try "follow focus" using manual focusing previously! When the subject was moving, I just gave up. However, with focus peaking, it seems a lot more possible to try and get the shot. Takes practice of course!
I really enjoyed your video showing the WiFi capabilities, but was really disappointed when I read in your blog that the Remote Control functions were limited to I-Auto only. It looks like they have a solid foundation to build upon in the future though.
I was glad to see that the Focus Peaking ended up being a very useful feature to have. I can't help but wonder how well it works with a lens like the Olympus 12-50mm and its rather dark f/3.5-6.3 apertures. I know that lens uses an electronic "fly-by-wire" system when manually zooming the focal length, but I can't remember if it also uses the same method in manual focus mode. If it does use electronic "fly-by-wire" system in manual focus, I wonder how well that would play with the new Focus Peaking (overshooting the correct focus, etc.).
Your 3-part review of this new E-P5 camera have really been very informative, and very well done!RepliesHello Gregg,
Thanks for the kind words! Indeed, I have hopes that Olympus would make their future remote control function more versatile. We want more controls!
About the focus peaking with Olympus' fly by wire manual focusing, it works very well indeed. The peaking indicates the zones or areas in patches of black or white, so regardless of manual lens or Olympus' own digital lenses, it will still work just the same.
Excellent review again. It look like using manual focus with EP5 is fun, and the CCTV lens produced interesting photo too.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity you can not control by wifi the speed, ISO and Aperture while shooting. Without that, the wifi implementation its just a funny game. With manual controls allowed, then we would be talking here about a really improving, in some kinds of photography would be really useful, for example static macros... I hope Olympus will do something about this in the coming updates of the firmware. If they did so, I'd really be interested in this camera.
ReplyDeleteJust a note, I use oldschool manual lenses all the time on my OMD EM-5 and it isn't surprising for me to get 1000-1200 shots out of it. I do auto review my shots fairly often. I don't have wifi, obviously. I find that the autofocus drains the battery far more quickly than I would like. I'll go weeks on a single charge with fully manual OM or Nikon lenses, shooting an hour here and an hour there with 100-200 shots. I also do Raw and Jpg.
It would be interesting to compare shots taken on the EP5 with a modern autofocus lens vs the cctv or similar manual lens.Thank you for your WiFi video. Makes things easy to understand! Di you know whether the image transfer and geotagging functions also work with RAW files?
ReplyDeleteRepliesHello Thomas,
Yes, image transfer works with RAW files, but you do have to select "image quality option" to original in the menu options.
Geotagging should work with both JPEH and RAW, but I did not try to verify this. From my knowledge it should work.I just bought a PEN-EP5 and installed OIShare. Even if I change the "image quality option" to original in the menu options I cannot import ORF-files (raw). JPGs work OK.
Thanks for a great video about the Wi-Fi!
One couple question regarding the geotagging;
1. Is the app only able to append the geo data to the images that are saved to the phone?
2. Is it possible to add the geo data to the image on the camera/SD card?
3. How accurate does the clock syncing on the smart phone and the camera have to be?Interesting lens, that CCTV lens. Amazingly sharp where it counts. A very good review, Robin. Can't wait to read the rest!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the review Robin. Just curious about the VF4.
How much better is it compared to the EM-5? I'm debating getting an EM-5 or waiting for a version with a VF4-like EVF and would be interested in your thoughts as you have extensive experience with both. The main reason I would want an improved EVF is for manual focusing. Of course a version with focus peaking would be great!Good post, I just got my e-p5 and tried to set up the wi-fi but it wasn't working at all. Every time I scanned the QR code it would take me to the install part and once I hit install on my iPhone it just takes me back to the Image Share home screen with the 4 nav items (Remote, Import, Etc) and when I click on one of those the process starts over again.
ReplyDeleteVery informative post. Keep up the good work. I would really look forward to your other posts
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These are the Catechist (Instructor in Religious Doctrine) records for the 1841-1901 censuses.
There is probably not much to be learnt from this particular group of records but I have included them for the sake of 'completeness' in composing an ecclesiastical account from the Harris censuses.
1841 - None
Donald Mackinnon, 39, Catechist and Farmer, Obe, b. Harris
John Morrison, 55, Free Church Catechist, Leac a Li, b. Harris
Donald Mackinnon, 48, Catechist, Obe, b. Harris
Neil Stewart, 70, Catechist, Diraclet, b. Kilmuir, Inverness-shire
Donald Mackinnon, 56, Catechist, Smithy, Harris, b. Harris
Malcolm Morrison, 36, Free Church Catechist, Meavaig, b. Uig, Ross-shire
Donald John Maclean, 55, Catechist, Rushgarry, Bernera, b. Uist
John Smith, 41, Catechist, No 80 Scalpay, b. Uig, Ross-shire
We know that John Morrison (Gobha na Hearadh) had to vacate An-t-Ob as a result of his Free Church adherence so it appears likely that Donald Mackinnon was working for the Church of Scotland.
The 1871 'Smithy' is presumably that in An-t-Ob, rather than the one established in Tarbert by Ewen Morrison, a Blacksmithing Son of John Morrison, Blacksmith and Catechist!
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This blog is the result of my ongoing research into the people, places and events that have shaped the Western Isles of Scotland and, in particular, the 'Siamese-twins' of Harris and Lewis.My interest stems from the fact that my Grandfather was a Stornowegian and, until about four years ago, that was the sum total of my knowledge, both of him and of the land of his birth.
I cannot guarantee the accuracy of everything that I have written (not least because parts are, perhaps, pioneering) but I have done my best to check for any errors.
My family mainly lived along the shore of the Sound of Harris, from An-t-Ob and Srannda to Roghadal, but one family 'moved' to Direcleit in the Baighs...
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Biography: Yasmine Beale-Rivaya received her PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2006 and holds the rank of Associate professor at Texas State.
Dr. Beale-Rivaya research centers on the languages used in borderland communities living between the Andalusí and Christian frontier from the ninth to the early fourteenth century. Within these communities, her focus is on the language and legal documents of the Mozarabs (Arabized-Christians) in Toledo, León, and Huesca.
Dr. Beale-Rivaya maintains an active scholarly agenda. In 2012, she received the John K. Walsh award for "Best Article of the Year" and served as President of the Texas Medieval Association in 2015.
She is currently editing a volume on Shared Spaces in Medieval Toledo with Brill, as well as a single authored book on the confluence of Arabic and Romance along the borderlands of the reconquest.
Dr. Beale-Rivaya is also part of the team of researchers working on the Geral Estoria titled Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Spanish Historiography: A Digital Humanities Project.
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This character drama, set in a local pub in rural New York State, focuses on the lives, thoughts, and emotions of a group of social outcasts. The lead misfit is Victor, a shy and very rotund man in his '30s who works as a pizza maker in a roadside inn. His mother, Dolly owns the establishment. She dominates his life. The senior waitress there is Dolores, an aging woman with a reputation for being easy. Dolores is resentful when Dolly hires the vivacious teenager Callie, who is in love with Jeff, a garage...more
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
April in Paris (1952). A dog of a different color.
With the innocence of the fifties a charming and colorful musical, April in Paris(1952). With Doris Day and Ray Bolger, who you may recognize from the classic film, Wizard of OZ (1939) playing the scarecrow. Directed by David Butler.
The movie opens with street scenes of Washington DC and Doris Day, singing and dancing, as she plays, Miss Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson. A little ruff around the edges, chorus girl, who mistakenly receives an invitation from the State Department to represent the American theater at an arts exposition in Paris, France. The problem is, the invitation was meant for Miss Ethel Barrymore. S. Winthrop Putnam, the man who made the mistake tries unsuccessfully to correct his mix-up.
S. Winthrop Putnam: Do you know what my title is? Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. It's taken me ten years to get this far. If this falls through I'll be right back where I started: Assistant Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State.
He does not get there in time and Ethel, is off on a once in a life time, trip to Paris. Ethel and Winthrop meet on the way to Paris and fall in love. As luck would have it.. Winthrop is engaged to Marcia Sherman, daughter of his boss Secretary Robert Sherman. After a misunderstanding, Winthrop and Ethel end up "thinking" that they are married...
Video: A very colorful fashion-show with French Poodles dyed to match.
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Dave Bassett, their manager, has a commendable record of achieving survival, even success, in unpromising circumstances but the challenge he faces to keep Forest in the Premiership will severely test even his acumen. Much as they have a right to feel let down by the treachery of Pierre van Hooijdonk, sympathy with their plight is undermined when they perform as they did yesterday.
Bassett needed to deliver a half-time rocket to bring them to life after they had gone a goal down within five minutes of the first 45 minutes after the first of a series of defensive howlers. Forest had two chances to clear Mark Kinsella's corner but failed with both and, when the ball went to ground, Youds slipped away from his marker to drill it home through a crowd of inert defenders.
It could easily have been worse. Andy Hunt missed both with his head and right foot as further chances opened up for the London side and Clive Mendonca slid the ball against a post after Forest stood and watched a long ball by the wing-back Danny Mills.
Neil Shipperley, making his home debut after his pounds 1.5m move from Crystal Palace, formed a largely ineffective partnership with Dougie Freedman, although they were poorly supported by a Forest midfield in which the pounds 2.5m recruit Nigel Quashie has yet to make a real impact.
But for an extraordinary double save by Beasant, finished off by Steve Chettle's clearance after Mendonca and Hunt had been left unmarked six yards from goal, Forest would have been stung again at the start of the second half.
Bart-Williams spurned Forest's best chance from 12 yards after Freedman's pull-back had invited him to score, but at least there was more conviction from the home side in the second period and, ultimately, only two brilliant one-handed saves by Ilic, both from Chettle, denied them an equaliser.


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In 1839, a group of Hindu elite gathered in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship. The group, known as the Tattvabodhinī Sabhā, met weekly to worship and hear discourses from members on ways to promote a rational and morally responsible mode of worship. They called upon ancient sources of Hindu spirituality to guide them in developing a modern form of theism they referred to as "Vedanta".This book situates the theology and moral vision set forth in these hitherto unknown discourses against the backdrop of religious and social change in early colonial C ... More
Keywords: Hindu spirituality, Calcutta, Tattvabodhinī Sabhā, colonial India, Sabhyadiger vaktṛtā, Debendranth Tagore, Inullvaracandra Vidyasagara, Inullvaracandra Gupta, Aksayumara Datta, Rammohan Roy
Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195326086 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2008 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326086.001.0001 |


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TPP's Mr Reliable, Paul, is a merry ol' soul. A merry ol' soul is he. Over the years/shows, Paul has not just been beating DP's drums to within and inch of their lives or simply cultivating that magnificent beard of his, oh no. Like an implausibly large and mohwaked squirrel (with elf-like tendencies), he's amassed an impressive collection of video footage from our shows and has put a selection up online for all (and sundry) to go enjoy. Just in time for Christmas.
As a taster, here's a clip* from our very first TPP show with the finest Scandinavian gentleman and scholar we know - José González (he plays a mean guitar too) :
* Even better than this video is José's (uncanny) impression of Borat - though we're not allowed to show you that one, so you'll just have to take our word for it.
Watch some other TPP vids here, including clips from These New Puritans, Owl City, Caribou, Andrew Bird, OK Go, and oh so many more.
The happiest of festive seasons to y'all, and a happy new year to boot (which incidentally is also merry ol' soul Paul's birthday). Happy Birthday P! Celebrations all round!
The People's Party
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Pauly's Christmas Crackers
Saturday, December 18, 2010
R.I.P Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart passed away yesterday. From Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey and The White Stripes; to the early Punk movement, David Byrne, Gang of Four and even The Simpsons, Van Vliet was a true maverick whom shaped popular culture in a seismic way.
For the uninitiated, Trout Mask Replica is essential listening, and this 1997 BBC documentary by (the also sadly missed) late, great John Peel, sheds light on the madcap genius that was Captain Beefheart:
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Clockenflap 2010
This Saturday night - Clockenflap Membership Launch @ Blindspot Annex from Clockenflap Festival on Vimeo.
The Charlatans + DJ Food + DP + Modern Children + acoustic roof wonderment + open bar x Clockenflap silliness = one show you just don't want to miss.
There are only 300 spaces, and we can safely say this is a one off opportunity to enjoy all of the above. Read More......
Saturday, November 6, 2010
9 Maps
My new favourite local band - 9 Maps. They're the real deal, and will be something very special (they already are). Go seek.
Read More......Monday, November 1, 2010
Flaming Lips
There simply aint no party like a Flaming Lips party. Singapore and Hong Kong, ready thy party pants!
Friday, August 27, 2010
Emilie Simon
Oh what a rare, alluring and entertaining breed the Chanteuse is. Rare, alluring and entertaining indeed. We're pleased as Christmas to announce we've got Emilie Simon, a bonafide, genuine French electro pop chanteuse of the most wondrous variety, to join us on Sept 25th. Join the FB event with more info on the talent that is Emilie Simon hereDetails:
The Peoples' Party Presents:
Emilie Simon
+ Corey Tam
September 25th
Grappas Cellar, Jardine House, 1 Connaught Rd, Central
Tickets (include 1 drink): Adv* $300 from Grappas & White Noise Records, or on the Door $330 (if any are left!)
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Modern Children
Singaporean friends headed to Baybeats later in the month - do check out HK's Modern Children. You'll hear influences as diverse as The Delgados and Arcade Fire in there and in the absorbing single 'Mongolia Song' (inspired by a traditional Mongol folk song) elements that are purely and celebratory, Asian.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
TPP hearts Handsome Furs
When we talk to our lovely regular gig goers, there's one show that consistently gets brought up as a front runner for 'gig of last year': Montreal's Handsome Furs. Their debut performance with us last September has gone down in local show folklore, and judging by the ear-to-ear grins of the departing crowd that faithful eve, it was clear we all wanted more.
How wonderful it is then that the band were as enamored with Hong Kong as the audience were with them. We wanted them back, they wanted to come back. Everybody wins.
The Peoples' Party Presents:
Handsome Furs
+ priest/rogue
Aug 4th @ ROCKSCHOOL
Tickets – Adv. $150, Door $200
Available July 30th from:
ROCKSCHOOL – 2/f, 21-25 Luard Road, Wan Chai
White Noise Records – Rm 1901, 19/F Workingview Commerical bldg, 21 Yiu Wa Street Causeway Bay
Thursday, July 15, 2010
The Sell Out
TPP's favourite director teamed up with one of our fave local band of the moment (with some of our favourite peeps as extras) and have come up with the really rather wonderful video for PI's new single: The Sell Out:
Poubelle International - The Sell Out from Shern Sharma on Vimeo.
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Come celebrate Canada d'eh and 'Establishment of the HKSAR' day this July 1st with TPP nationalists Caribou and Choi Sai Ho (S.T). This show is hotter than the sun, and good lord, the sun has had his hat on of late.
Great music + sunshine x Public holiday = win
TPP presents:
+ Choi Sai-ho (S.T)
July 1st
Grappas Cellar, Jardine House, 1 Connaught Rd, Central
Tickets (include 1 drink): Adv $220 from Grappas & White Noise Records, or on the Door $260


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Giuliana Rancic
Full Name: Giuliana Rancic
Hometown: Washington, DC
Relationship Status: Married to Bill Rancic
The cohost of E! News, the E! network's flagship entertainment news program, Rancic was born in 1974 in Naples, Italy. The recognizable face often cohosts red carpet events for award shows alongside Ryan Seacrest, including the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards.
Aside from hosting, she indulged her literary side when she wrote the book Think Like a Guy: How to Get a Guy by Thinking Like One in 2006.
In September 2007, the journalist married Bill Rancic in a ceremony on Capri. The couple's first reality show, Giuliana and Bill, premiered on the Style Network in August 2009. Throughout the show, the couple opened up about their struggles to conceive a child. In 2010, prior to the show's second season, Giuliana announced she suffered a miscarriage on The View.
In October 2011, Giuliana revealed that the couple's third IVF attempt would be put on hold as she received treatment for early stage breast cancer. The couple welcomed their first child, Edward Duke Rancic, via gestational surrogate in August 2012.


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This Secret's Out
My friend Billy used to always wear a button that said "Who Cares" on the collar of his jacket, until "some bitch" stole it off of him at a dive bar near our neighborhood. Billy was pissed, not because he'd lost some expression of apathy he was aiming at the world via his garmentry, but because Who Cares is one of his favorite rap bands, underground kids he met back when he lived in Reno (the members split their time between there and Sacramento).
I totally understood his frustration -- when you find a band that really speaks to you, that the whole world isn't jocking yet, that most of your friends have never heard of, that band seems like your own secret sculpture you keep hidden under a sheet. After hearing Billy playing Who Cares' self-titled LP all the time in his car, it was obvious why the band -- an MC named Borg One, producer and Rhodes piano player Maximus McMaster, sax and winds player Jamal Tarkington, and drummer Jake PebRock -- made Billy so possessive. The foursome, due to perform here at the Old Brickhouse on First Friday (March 4) with Aceyalone, and Abstract Rude, plays elegant, jazzy, downtempo jams with heartfelt, heartbroken stories written over the waves of soul.
Soon I was a convert as well, wishing I had a damn "Who Cares" button.
Who Cares
Old Brickhouse
Scheduled to perform with Abstract Rude, and Aceyalone at 8 p.m. Friday, March 4. Tickets are $15 at the door; all ages are welcome
It's because Who Cares embraces an aesthetic that hip-hop is often missing; as Borg One told me on the phone the other day, "I just want to be able to play with other people who play pretty music and make sure it's pretty first, more than anything. That's all I really care about; I like it to be beautiful all over, as much as it can be."
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The Who Cares LP is a 14-song opus with woodwinds and piano riffs filling in the infrastructure of PebRock's cymbal-heavy jazz stylistics, but it's also an inspirational story of kids looking for family among their friends, yearning for love when there's none on the horizon, and struggling to stay positive as drugs and violence strip away at the institutions that are supposed to lift you up.
"This album is all just stories from my life, growing up as a kid," Borg One says. "It's pretty much a little autobiography -- each song is like a piece of a paragraph." To that end, the first track on Who Cares' LP is titled "Topic Sentence," a one-minute-long rap intro over a drumbeat that asks, "Who cares about the stories of a lonely little boy, who wanted something better and believed that he was worth it?"
I ask Borg One if the band gets hit with the "emo-rap" tag often, to which he replies, "All day. It's pretty emoed out. It's real personal -- I'm always talking about being fat, being a depressed little fat kid, so I can't really come across any other way. It's all just stories of growing up being sad. I'll probably never make music that's about anything except hard times and bad luck."
What separates Who Cares (the band self-released its own album and has no label support or extended touring on the horizon) from the recently blown-up "emo-rap" acts like Sage Francis or Atmosphere is the soul of the music itself. Sure, if you strip away the lyrics, it wouldn't be labeled emo-rap, but the instrumentals would land it squarely in a dark, smoky lounge where single guys sip scotch and stare at the bar in overcast contemplation. "We definitely don't want to not have instruments," Borg One told me. How Who Cares has escaped the limelight thus far is beyond me, especially considering the popularity of artists doing similar things musically and lyrically.
Actually, the popularity of Atmosphere and Sage Francis has been something of an albatross to Who Cares. "What I hear more than anything is, 'You sound just like Sage Francis, man . . .'" Borg One says. (Personally, I don't think the comparison is apt.) "It's a huge compliment, but at the same time I'd rather they say, 'Hey, man, I like your rap.' It just makes me feel funny."
That's cool, though, because when Borg One feels funny, it makes for inspired, searing rhymes, like on "Much To Do About Nothing," where he raps, "At times I'd rather die than live through a broken heart, I'm notorious for not finishing what I start. . . . At times like these the fear breaks me to the ground, I couldn't give a shit about myself, but I can't let my mom down. . . . I don't want to spend the rest of my life looking for reasons why I'm still standing here unhappy, I don't want to spend the rest of my life watching dope and glass have its way with my family."
Once Who Cares hits town this Friday, it's unlikely that Billy and I will be the only ones leaving the Brickhouse sporting the band's merchandise. Who Cares is a band that gets inside of you and shares your pain; as antithetical to hip-hop's orthodox anger and misanthropy as that is, it's what makes Who Cares the real fucking deal.
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Sonia Adam Murray gave props (7 Nov 2011):
Wonderful, I am glad that you are back, I have missed you, but have not stopped our theme while you were gone my friend!
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Before the match, the players run out on to the pitch, line up and bow politely to the crowd. It is the only familiar Japanese gesture of the game. Everything else, from the way the fans dress to the star players on each team, has been imported.
Football has arrived in Japan. A sophisticated marketing and promotion campaign generated something close to national hysteria for the opening of the J- League on 15 May. Since then, games have been booked out, television ratings have been better than anticipated and sales of J- League souvenirs are booming. Gary Lineker came from Britain on a two-year contract, reportedly worth pounds 2m. But he has proved to be a disappointment, scoring only one goal in six matches, then breaking a bone in his foot. His team, Nagoya Grampus Eight, are close to the bottom of the league.
The rest of the J-League, however, has been more resilient, and the fans love it: the theatre of supporters' clubs, of co-ordinated chanting, of showing off the team regalia, of drinking beer with J-League stickers on the can. Many of the supporters would be hard pressed to name the team members, but that does not seem so important: the game is mostly an excuse for thousands of young Japanese to dress up and let off a lot of steam in a wild, but secure, environment.
There is no hint of hooliganism, and half the crowd is female: for many people football has become an ideal dating opportunity. When a Yomiuri Verdy section of the stands start chanting 'Verdy, Verdy', the pitch of their voices is so high it sounds like the Vienna Boys' Choir.
Just before half-time a Marinos forward heads the ball into the Verdy net. The stadium erupts, the big video screen at one end flashes 'Goal goal' and an announcer with the synthesised voice of a video game says - in English, the international touch - Marinos one, Verdy nothing. In real terms, Yomiuri Verdy, the Marinos and the eight other teams in the J-League, are more than just a score line. They are part of a multi-billion-yen scheme to make football a national sport in Japan to rival the current favourite, baseball. J-League has been targeted at 20- to 30- year-olds, and the ultimate goal is to host the 2002 World Cup - for the first time in Asia.
The J-League's mastermind is Saburo Kawabuchi, a 57-year-old former manager of an electricity company, who played for Japan's national team in 1958 and became their manager in 1980. In setting up the J-League, he persuaded 120 companies - including some of the biggest car, airline, electronics and media corporations - to pour in money in exchange for publicity and sponsorship deals.
The league's business structure is modelled on the National Football League in the United States, which centralises decision-making about the design and merchandising of team goods, and sorts out the television rights. Mr Kawabuchi, as J- League chairman, presides over an enormous marketing and franchising organisation that shares out the profits made from sales of J-League goods to the teams.
So far his plan is working: 300,000 people applied for the 40,000 tickets for the opening match of the season. 'Everything is going well, as if we could do no wrong,' he said.
Some critics have predicted that football will be only a fad in Japan, like so much else in this country's effervescent youth culture. They point out that American football enjoyed only two years of high popularity from 1975-76.
But the future of football seemed far from the minds of the fans at the Verdy-Marinos match, as they concentrated on having fun in the present. In the second half, the Marinos' Brazilian sweeper made a thrilling solo run up the left wing and shot past the advancing Verdy goalkeeper. And showing they had not entirely adopted European football culture, both sets of fans applauded the goal.
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GOP senator wants to subpoena D.C. health care exchange
It was recently discovered that Congress had used the D.C. healthcare exchange to purchase coverage with the help of subsidies reserved for small businesses. Congress employs more than 16,000 people, yet somehow managed to receive the subsidy, and Sen. David Vitter is seeking answers as to why.
Our ObamaCare challenge: Congress, heal thyself
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) recently collaborated to expose corruption within Congress regarding Obamacare, in an effort to bring transparency to those who approved the legislation in the first place.
House Officials Not Impressed With Vitter's Obamacare Probe
A recent taxpayer lawsuit led by the watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained the congressional applications for the healthcare exchanges. In the applications, the House and Senate claimed to have fewer than 50 employees and were also classified as "state/local government." Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) has argued that Congress should not be allowed to enroll in the
Judicial Watch: Department of Homeland Security Allowed to Work on Obamacare's Healthcare.gov
Records Suggest White House Pressure Led to Possible Privacy Breaches in Healthcare.gov Advertising Push (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained new documents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealing that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) worked with HHS on security for Healthcare.gov.…
Judicial Watch Sues HHS Over Failure to Produce Jonathan Gruber Contracting and Consulting Records
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IRS Obstructs Justice?
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David King, et al. v. Sylvia Burwell, et al., (No. 14-114)
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D.C. Government Concedes Law Does Not Allow for Congress to Obtain Obamacare in "Small Business Exchange"
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JW Files SCOTUS Amicus Brief, Argues against Subsidies for Federal Health Exchange Enrollees
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I'm not qualified and I'm just putting together my theories of what might cause lupus. Please read with caution!
I believe that white blood cells are critically changed and modified in the liver, although their origins come from being produced in the lungs where oxygen is integrated into the blood and therefore changing calcium proteins which have come from sorted food in the stomach. When the new white cells reach the liver they are changed either into enzymes or more mature proteins. The enzymes affect the mature proteins in a similar way in lupus patients, infections are critical since the immune system is blinded and impaired. As a result, the enzymes make the white blood cells full of dying cell properties such as an abundance of carbon dioxide which makes the lungs work harder to reoxygenate the white blood cells. Unless the lupus person does a lot of exercise the lungs could become less efficient so it's important to do exercise. But critically unless the heart is strong enough to support the exercise and regenerate the lungs by working the body, then this could affect not only general health but the liver will produce more dying cells rather than produce mature proteins which rehydrate and rejuvinate the body. Therefore organs such as the kidneys will be affected because they cannot cope with the sorting of water because the heart uses water, and more water will be needed when the heart has to work harder. The solution would be not to treat the heart, lungs, kidney but to treat the liver which seems to be the key problematic organ affecting lupus which seems to trigger problems in other organs as a result of the liver producing more enzymes than it needs to. Now, I think the underlying reason for this is at some stage the body has had to conserve white blood cells more than it should for example exposure to bright lights, going from one extreme to another eg. stressful social environments, too much confused communication, unsteady personalities around you, thinking too much. This is because I believe somehow the brain goes into overdrive mode and is trying to rejuvinate the body in terms of poisioning it - making the liver produce too many enzymes (dying white cells) rather than concerntrating on positive or balanced cells production, producing more mature proteins which fight infection by feeding the infected bacteria with hormones such as insulin which digest the proteins and convert to muscle, fat, blood, organs whatever is needed. In lupus patients the body is less rejuvinated because the type of white cells is different to normal and so the sorting out and distributing of healthy white blood cells which transport digested proteins is doing this differently and so therefore can't fight infection because it does not 'feed' bacteria properly. If only we could change the habits and physical structure of the white cell so we could somehow get it to behave more normally and stop misbehaving and allowing infection to provail!
We need to find a way of temporarily changing the DNA of white blood cells so that somehow we can help lupus people fight infection better and maintain the replenishment of healthy skin, organs, cells, blood better so they have more energy and feel less drained. You could change the DNA cells by somehow finding a medication that does not allow the white cells to become a different shape or chemical structure, perhaps by not allowing the cells to become deoxygenated and die in the first place or even find a chemical that absorbs oxygen better. Either way I so hope a solution is round the corner so we can find a cure for lupus.
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Obama and Europe – Missed Signals, Renewed Commitments
October 30th, 2015
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October 3rd, 2015
Russlands Militäraktionen in Syrien und der Ukraine folgen westlicher Planlosigkeit, warnt Anne Applebaum, Osteuropa-Expertin und Pulitzer-Preisträgerin, gegenüber der »Presse am Sonntag«. Wladimir Putin wende dabei alte Mittel des NKWD an.
Was bezweckt Russlands Präsident, Wladimir Putin, mit seinem Einschreiten in Syrien?
Anne Applebaum: Erstens lenkt das den Fokus des Westens von der Ukraine ab. Zweitens haben die russischen Medien aufgehört, über die Ukraine zu reden; sie sind nun ganz auf Syrien konzentriert. Putins Politik gegenüber der Ukraine hatte nur diesen langwierigen Konflikt zur Folge, in dem kein für Russland positives Ende absehbar ist. Drittens denke ich, dass ihm weder die Syrer am Herzen liegen noch Assad im Speziellen, sondern dass er Fernsehbilder vermeiden möchte, auf denen zornige Massen Assads Palast stürmen und ihn ins Gefängnis werfen. Putin will den Autokraten Assad stärken, um der Möglichkeit einer Revolution in Russland vorzubeugen. Read on »
February 21st, 2015
Across the new Europe, a little bit of Russian influence is going a long way
Last month, the speaker of the Russian parliament solemnly instructed his foreign affairs committee to launch a historical investigation: was West Germany's 'annexation' of East Germany really legal? Should it be condemned? Ought it to be reversed? Last week, the Russian foreign minister, speaking at a security conference in Munich, hinted that he might have similar doubts. 'Germany's reunification was conducted without any referendum,' he declared, ominously.
At this, the normally staid audience burst out laughing. The Germans in the room found the Russian statements particularly hilarious. Undo German unification? Why, that would require undoing the whole post-Cold War settlement! Read on »
December 6th, 2014
Since the invasion of Crimea, Russia's President has been conducting an experiment in anti-western rebellion
Since the Russian invasion of Crimea last February, many different phrases have been used to describe the tactics of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Some have spoken of a 'new Cold War'. Others have described him as 'anti-western' or 'anti-American'. But there is another adjective one could also use to describe his behaviour: 'experimental'. For apart from everything else he has said and done, Putin has, in effect, launched a vast experiment into whether it is possible to extract a large and relatively well-integrated country from the global mainstream, and to reject the rules by which that mainstream runs. Read on »
November 8th, 2014
On the evening of November 9 1989, East Germans began to walk through the Berlin Wall. Now, with hindsight, it seems inevitable that their story would end happily, that East and West Germany would reunite, that Berlin would become one city as it is so triumphantly today. But nothing seemed obvious at the time, and nobody was at all sure of that happy ending. On the contrary, the Berlin I remember was darker and stranger than any of the "vintage" footage you'll see replayed this weekend. So many things could have gone wrong, and so many nearly did.
Some of this I saw because I arrived a day late, after the television cameras were gone: I drove to Berlin from Warsaw on November 10, in the company of two Polish journalists I knew slightly. Back in that now impossibly distant era of fuel shortages and pointless regulations, it was not so easy to drive a car across an Eastern Bloc border. We had to buy special insurance stamps, and acquire cans of extra petrol. When we finally started driving, we made slow progress along the crowded two-lane road that then connected Berlin and Warsaw, so different from the motorway that exists today. Read on »
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Tracing the Milky Way's hidden reservoirs of gas
ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has found that hydrogen fluoride molecules are everywhere in interstellar gas clouds. They betray hidden reservoirs of gas, and may ultimately become a key tracer of star-forming gas clouds in distant galaxies.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe, making up three-quarters of the normal matter. But at the low temperatures found in a star-forming cloud, hydrogen pairs up into molecules that do not readily emit radiation. That means these molecules are hidden from astronomers' telescopes.
Traditionally, astronomers have looked for the hydrogen by detecting carbon monoxide, which does emit at such low temperatures. But carbon monoxide does not form directly from hydrogen; intermediate steps include the creation of other molecules first.
Now, help is at hand. Herschel finds that hydrogen fluoride is ubiquitous throughout the Milky Way. It marks the clouds of hydrogen molecules. This is because fluorine is highly reactive: it attacks the surrounding hydrogen, making hydrogen fluoride in a single step.
Hot hydrogen fluoride was first detected in space by ESA's Infrared Space Observatory in 1997. This new finding from Herschel is the first detection of cold hydrogen fluoride and shows that almost all fluorine in clouds of hydrogen molecules has been transformed into the molecule. It confirms a prediction made by the observing team five years ago and presents astronomers with a new way to trace hydrogen.
"Hydrogen fluoride may be a more robust tracer of hidden molecular hydrogen than any other molecule used at present," says Edwin Bergin of the University of Michigan, USA.
Looking for hydrogen fluoride may even become a standard way for astronomers to trace hydrogen molecules throughout the Universe. This is because it shows up in interstellar gas clouds of all sizes, and not just the largest ones.
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- Herschel: ESA's giant infrared observatory
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel - Herschel overview
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel_overview - Notes to editors
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Notes_to_editors - Other Herschel First Science Stories
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Other_Herschel_First_Science_Stories2 - Online Showcase of Herschel Images OSHI
http://oshi.esa.int/ - Inside Herschel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_VBKn8Jq4&feature=PlayList&p=CD471914889C152B&index=1 - Herschel mission objectives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyEpV1_CH4w&feature=PlayList&p=CD471914889C152B&index=5 - Herschel spots comet massacre around nearby star
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_spots_comet_massacre_around_nearby_star - Fledgling stars flicker in the heart of Orion
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Fledgling_stars_flicker_in_the_heart_of_Orion - A New View of an Icon
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/A_New_View_of_an_Icon - Herschel and Planck win the French Grand Prix
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_and_Planck_win_the_French_Grand_Prix - Herschel finds a hole in space
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_finds_a_hole_in_space - Herschel reveals the hidden side of star birth
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_reveals_the_hidden_side_of_star_birth - Herschel takes the temperature of an interstellar cloud
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_takes_the_temperature_of_an_interstellar_cloud - Tracing the Milky Way's hidden reservoirs of gas
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Tracing_the_Milky_Way_s_hidden_reservoirs_of_gas - Herschel resolves the cosmic infrared fog
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_resolves_the_cosmic_infrared_fog - Baby stars in the Rosette cloud
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Baby_stars_in_the_Rosette_cloud - Inside the dark heart of the Eagle
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Inside_the_dark_heart_of_the_Eagle - Herschel views deep-space pearls on a cosmic string
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_views_deep-space_pearls_on_a_cosmic_string - Herschel and Planck pass in-orbit 'exam'
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_and_Planck_pass_in-orbit_exam - Herschel images promise bright future
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_images_promise_bright_future - Herschel's daring test: a glimpse of things to come
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_s_daring_test_a_glimpse_of_things_to_come - Herschel cryocover is open
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Herschel_cryocover_is_open - Observations: Seeing in infrared wavelengths
http://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/Observations_Seeing_in_infrared_wavelengths - Why infrared astronomy is a hot topic
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/Why_infrared_astronomy_is_a_hot_topic - L2, the second Lagrangian Point
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Herschel/L2_the_second_Lagrangian_Point - This article in depth
http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=50252 - Herschel in depth
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=16 - Herschel first science results in depth
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=46985 - Herschel Science Centre


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Presents a comprehensive introduction to the study of consumption and saving using theoretical models based on standard microeconomic foundations as well as reviewing the substantial empirical literature on the subject. A number of related topics such as the growth‐to‐saving hypothesis, the impact of interest rates on saving, risk sharing, aggregation, and information are also covered. One main focus of the book is the debate on the permanent income hypothesis and the excess sensitivity of consumption with respect to income. The importance of precautionary saving and liquidity constraints in e ... More
Keywords: aggregation, consumption, excess sensitivity, growth‐to‐savings, interest rates, liquidity constraints, permanent income, precautionary saving, risk‐sharing, saving
Print publication date: 1992 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198288244 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 | DOI:10.1093/0198288247.001.0001 |


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possible ?
anyone know what connector I need (they seem to make 'em for up to 19mm flexible hoses - has anyone ever got one of those to fit ?)
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hozelock female socket onto 20mm blue "mains" pipe?
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Im sure wilkinsons do a multipack of connectors in various sizes - cheap as chips, I seemnto be able to get most hoses to fit
Unless yours is really not normal - I am no hose expert!
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it's not a garden hose FW, it's a short length of rigid "PVC" pipe that runs into the garden from an outside tap whose connectors have all broken off
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google "hydrasun", if there is one nearby visit it and tell them what you need, in my experience they can attach almost any pipe to any other pipe...
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easy solution is fit a tap to the blue pipe - a compression fit tap mount is common for the blue rigid pipe
then fit your hozelock connector to the tap
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t_r, the blue pipe is the outward bit running from the tap - weird I know but it is sunk under a path so I guess a bit of robustness is good
(no hydrasun within about 300 miles )
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You could try Travis Perkins as they do (or used to) Alkathene fittings or Tool-station do a MDPE with loads of fittings so you should be able to find one to suit your needs
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Could this be what you're after?
Give LBS a call and explain what you need
Customer Services Line: 01282 873370Posted 3 years ago # -
Thanks all - I've ordered a 19mm attachment to see if I can force it on. If not, there seem to be reducer ferruley things that may work
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you need one of these: http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Plumbing/MDPE/MDPE+Male+Adaptor+20mm+x+12/d20/sd2729/p13167
and one of these: http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Landscaping/Hose+Fittings/Plastic+Tap+Connector+34+Tap/d130/sd3316/p16793
or you can use the brass 3/4" hose connector and a 1/2" to 3/4" adapter http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Plumbing/Compression/Brass+Hexagon+Bush+34+x+12/d20/sd2697/p98490
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What he said^^
Though I'd go with a compression fitting from http://www.t-mex.co.uk this one
compression to male threaded section, then buy a standard tap hose adapter from B&Q, which are either 1/2" or 3/4" BSP threaded.
I could spend so much money at T-Mex, fortunately I get to play about with their stuff at work
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
4 comments:
- Harvey said...
Also, it kills me that they don't have these in the US. - December 23, 2011 at 6:44 PM
- Spockgirl said...
Wha? You don't have Viva Puffs in the States? How about the other similar ones... I think they were called Mallows?
- December 24, 2011 at 5:34 AM
- Harvey said...
They do have something like it, but it doesn't have the filling. Just the marshmallow, cookie & chocolate coating.
- January 1, 2012 at 7:03 PM
- Spockgirl said...
Ah... Oh, and there's also "Wagon wheels", but they don't quite taste the same as when we were kids. THey are also considerably smaller, but now come with a couple flavours of fillings as well.
- January 1, 2012 at 11:00 PM
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