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Hi my IVA has been terminated in less than 12 months as I cancelled this as my debt was for only few thousand pounds so was advised to terminate this I have a now received a letter saying this has been terminated I have sent this to my call credit company and Experian company will they now take this off my report
amanda319 wrote:Was just over 2900 so was mis sold it and now terminated I am paying the best off myself now so this is why it's terminated, does this mean it will still stay on as I'm trying to get a it off so I can get a mortgage
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The book was tweeted recently by MandMX.com, a website with the first Chinese-English bilingual comic strip. Run by the multitalented husband-wife team Magnus and Mingxing, MandMX.com features a radio podcast, news updates about China, and a cute language video series called Study Chinese with Ryan. I especially enjoy the frequent tweets about their toddler's verbal cuteness as he learns to speak two languages.
Content from the website was collected and published recently as Electric Voices and Stinky Tofu, and their new book project is positively brilliant – Having a Baby in China: Western Spouses Share Their Experiences Giving Birth in the Middle Kingdom. This possible first paragraph feels a lot like a passage from my own book, only the stakes are ratcheted up about ten delicious notches!
I think she said, "go buy this medicine if you want your wife to have it." At least that's what I think she said. My Mandarin was rusty at the time and my wife or "translator in chief" was in the birthing room about to give birth through c-section.


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Why an Income Tax is Not Necessary
to Fund the U.S. Government
Also available on audio for free; click here.
Download to a CD or IPod and help get the truth to family and friends
Devvy Kidd
Originally published and copyrighted in June 2001
Changes in text (c) 2005
Can this statement possibly be true? In order to answer this question, Americans must first understand what is the source of the money that funds the government and where it goes. Contrary to the sound bites issued by the two mainstream political parties, the reality of how the system actually works will not only open your eyes, but hopefully stimulate the American people to demand that the thievery underway come to an end.
Where do your "income" tax dollars go?
The best place to look for an answer to this question would be a government report, so let's take just one at random:
President's Private Sector Survey On Cost Control
A Report to The President (Reagan)
January 15, 1984. Available from the Congressional Research Service.
The excerpt below can be found on page 12.
- "Importantly, any meaningful increases in taxes from personal income would have to come from lower and middle income families, as 90% of all personal taxable income is generated below the taxable income level of $35,000.
- Further, there isn't much more that can be extracted from high income brackets. If the
Government took 100% of all taxable income beyond the $75,000 tax bracket not already taxed, it would get only $17 billion, and this confiscation, which would destroy productive enterprise, would only be sufficient to run the Government for several days.
- Resistance to additional income taxes would be even more widespread if people were aware that:
- With two-thirds of everyone's personal income taxes wasted or not collected, 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Government contributions to transfer payments.
- In other words, all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from their government."
So what we have is a central bank issuing worthless paper "money" that controls our economy, our lives and our future. This private banking cartel was unconstitutionally granted this power by a devious, scheming group of senators back in 1913. In essence what they did was place the American people into indentured servitude by forcing The People to pay usury on worthless fiat currency (paper money created out of nothing), not to fund the government, but to enrich the bankers and fund wars in which America should never be involved. This system exists not to fund the government, but to allow the U.S. Congress carte blanche power to continue funding unconstitutional agencies and programs by providing them with a bottomless source of worthless ink..
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- glass jar with lid
- small stones or gravel
- charcoal
- indoor potting soil
- moss, lichen, and other tiny found objects
I saw a lot of pretty, rounded stones in the yard, so I collected them to add to my jar.
They were a bit dirty, so I washed them in a wash tub outside. No point bringing the dirt inside the house.
Then I put the rocks in my jar and added aquarium gravel on top. I think I could have skipped the aquarium gravel, but I wanted a barrier to keep the soil higher up.
The gravel is for drainage. All the water will drain to the bottom and you can quickly tell if you accidentally overwatered your terrarium.
Next, add a layer of charcoal. I read that this keeps the water in your terrarium from becoming stale. I found my bag of potting charcoal at Home Depot for about $2.97.
After the charcoal, add indoor potting soil. Don't use garden soil as it has bugs in it. If you don't want your soil to trickle down to your rocks, add a layer of sphagnum moss as a barrier before you add the soil. It will help to hold moisture too. I couldn't find sphagnum moss anywhere, so I skipped it and opted for a potting soil that had sphagnum moss added in already.
My favourite part of this whole process was moss hunting. You'll want to find slow growing mosses so don't choose the large varieties that take over your lawn. Pick the tiniest varieties that grow in mini patches on rocks or trees. I found some pretty, bright green, star-like ones on the cracks of my rock path, some very tiny, dense-growing mosses under a big tree where no grass was growing, and a sort of shaggy moss on the tree bark. I also collected some tiny pine cones, and a bit of greyish white lichen from a tree.
I took my handful of green treasures back and scraped most of the natural soil off, leaving the roots intact. I didn't want to leave any soil on the mosses that might have insects or insect eggs inside of it. I suspect I could have rinsed the dirt off more cleanly in water, but scraping the soil off seemed to do the trick. Then I arranged them inside my jar. I left room around the mosses so that they have space to grow into. Then I trickled water all over my new moss garden, wiped the glass walls clean, closed the lid, and voila! It was ready to enjoy!
Almost immediately, condensation formed on the glass walls in the sealed jar. This will be your indicator of when to water your terrarium. When there is no condensation on the glass anymore, it is time to add water. Also keep an eye on your drainage rocks to make sure you are not drowning your plants.
Your moss terrarium will grow best in non-direct sunlight, like near a window on your desk. Just think of the kind of places mosses normally grow well in.
I am excited to see how my moss terrarium will look when the moss grows in a bit more. It's fun to have many different varieties in one jar! I found the smaller jar with the black lid on my garden shelf and decided to make another moss terrarium. That one has only one variety of the tiny, densely growing moss. I think it will eventually form the bumpy green terrain which I see most commonly in moss terrariums for sale. It is my little experiment on what happens if I only use one moss variety.
I find it very soothing to look at these moss terrariums because the moss looks so bright and lively against the light, and everything is so tiny! I also like the different coloured layers, and I think it would be fun to experiment more with that.
I hope you have fun making your very own moss terrarium.
Have a lovely day!
UPDATE: You cannot seal the lid to the jar for long periods of time. The contents will start to rot. I resorted to leaving the lid on, but not closed shut. That is working out well for me. The moss started to grow into areas not previous covered by moss, and it creeps up the sides of the jar a little too :)


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Today, President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has been admitted to a hospital in Pretoria. The name of the hospital remains undisclosed for security and protection reasons. Reports confirmed that Zuma was ordered to take some time off from his presidential duties.
The recent election and grueling campaigning have been exhausting for the president. During the campaigning, Zuma worked tirelessly embarking on door-to-door campaigns, attending rallies, interviews, meeting and still attending to government work. The African National Congress (ANC) party, secretary general Gwede Mantashe said the president was given time to recover before the cabinet Lekgotla (alekgotlais a meeting called by the government to discuss strategy planning) to be held next week. He confirmed the president was exhausted.
Meanwhile, Zuma's spokesperson Mac Maharaj confirmed Zuma was not ill and admitted to hospital for routine tests and the doctors are satisfied with his condition.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) the official party has sent a message to the president wishing him a speeding recovery. DA parliamentary leader Mmusu Maimanae said his party is waiting for clarity on his condition.
Jacob Zuma was in hospital in March last year for his annual health check up and was not ill according to Mac Maharaj. Apparently, Zuma visited three different hospitals in Kwa-Zulu Natal last year.
This morning Zuma was scheduled to address a National Education, Health and Allied Workers Elective Congress Union meeting, and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was sent to address the meeting after Zuma appeared to exhausted. Ramaphosa said Zuma was ordered to go and rest, and he confirmed that Zuma was admitted to a hospital in Pretoria. Ramaphosa did not indicate how long he would be away from official duties. Ramaphosa as deputy will officially replace Zuma while he is gone.
Comments from readers vary from between how surprised they were to hear Zuma had been admitted to wishing him a speedy recovery. There is a substantial amount of speculation among the public on whether he has cancer or if he is suffering from AIDs. The illness causes many to remember the disgrace of his affair with an AIDs sufferer several years ago, which was another of the comments circulating in the papers. Many people refer to Zuma's admission as a good sign and a strategy for a retirement plan, while others are hoping he does not leave the hospital. The majority of public comments does not favor his recovery and wonder why once again the actions of Jacob Zuma remain a top secret.
It was almost to the year, on June 8, last year, when the media was abuzz with the admission of Nelson Mandela to a Pretoria Clinic with a serious respiratory infection and covered by the media on a daily basis. The secrecy of Zuma's admission has people speculating and wondering why the government once again cannot be honest and issue a factual statement to the country.
Jacob Zuma is 72 years old, and the current grueling activity during the campaigning months could be an indication of exhaustion. His admission to a hospital for rest, coupled with routine tests, might help the president to cope during the remainder of his presidency.
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe's influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier.
Includes an interview with Steven Strogatz, the author of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos and professor at the Cornell University School of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Kate Burton as Hannah
Mark Capri as Chater
Jennifer Dundas as Thomasina
Gregory Itzin as Bernard Nightingale
David Manis as Cpt. Brice
Christopher Neame as Noakes and Jellaby
Peter Paige as Valentine
Darren Richardson as Augustus
Kate Steele as Chloe
Serena Scott Thomas as Lady Croom
Douglas Weston as Septimus
Directed by John Rubinstein. Recorded at the Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
Arcadia is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
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- M. W. Roberts
- 23-02-2011
Great production
This audible performance of Arcadia is very well acted and produced. My chief criteria for these audible plays are: (1) How closely does the performance stick to the script - i.e. have they omitted a significant portion of the dialog? (2) Sound quality: does it sound like they recorded a live stage performance with a microphone sitting on a corner of the stage, or was it recorded specifically for a listening audience? And do they use sound effects well?
On both accounts this is a high-quality production. It is also a charming, funny and intelligent play.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful
- Gretchen SLP
- 19-01-2016
'It's Wanting to Know That Makes Us Matter'
A better quote/title for any review of this play would be 'What We Let Fall,' but since that was the partial title of the research paper I wrote on Arcadia for a graduate seminar back in the day, I figured I'd choose another for this one play that has it all: "Pigeons! Sex! Literature! Life and Death!" Stoppard's finest play (and probably the only one that will withstand the test of time and do well in revivals a century hence), unfortunately HAS to be seen to be appreciated, however. This isn't like the other plays I've reviewed here, wherein even a newcomer to the play can understand and fully appreciate the action without actually seeing it. I still cried like a baby at the conclusion on my way home this evening, when it was revealed who the Hermit of Sidley Park was and what caused him to go mad, retreat to the hermitage, and spend the rest of his life trying to prove out the theorem of a teenaged prodigy...but to take just the most stunning stage example, I was able to see that final scene--where the couple from the present dance "fluently," while the couple from the past dance "awkwardly," to quote from stage directions a first-time listener would never know--only because I've read and seen this play performed multiple times. It's possible such a listener wouldn't even know what was going on, especially toward the end, when scenes from the present begin to alternate with scenes from the past so rapidly that eventually they share the same stage simultaneously.
Do yourself a favor: See the play, and/or have the printed book handy, before you listen to this title. If you do that, you're in for a real treat.
Extra value can be had by listening to the interview with the Chaos Theory scientist at the end...and also by noticing that the actor playing Septimus Hodge sounds more like Kenneth Branagh than anyone else you've ever heard besides Kenneth Branagh!!
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
- Chris
- 15-05-2011
Even in Arcadia...
This dramatization is not quite the playwright's original text, but it takes some helpful artistic liberties that describe scenes and make the unspoken parts of the play flow easily within the dialogue. As far as the play, Stoppard is a master of transforming life's circumstances into math problems. He ruined statistical probability and chance in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead." He bashed Zeno's Paradox and geometry in "Jumpers." Now thermodynamics and Mandelbrot's fractals fall victim to the wit and genius of Stoppard; telling his love stories and the tragi-comedic foibles of life through the ages, using sex as the chaotic "strange attractor" that ruins the Newtonian universe. I listened to this dramatization, then read the play, then listened again with even more enjoyment. A friend of mine listened to the dramatization before attending a recent performance in New York, and he said that the audio "preview" greatly enhanced his enjoyment of the play itself. Even if you don't know one thing about entropy or self-similarity, this rendition will provide a delightful brain-teaser.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Martha
- 10-10-2010
Stoppard's wit and a bright, playful cast
History, literature, science, gardening...a brilliant girl out of time and some lamebrained literary detective work. Stoppard at the top of his game, and a cast that includes Gregory Itzin, far from the evil Nixonian president he played on 24. You'll never hear the words "carnal embrace" again without giggling, just a little.
4 of 6 people found this review helpful
- Milkweed Fairy
- 20-11-2018
Well performed and has a good bonus interview
We bought this after being frustrated at a live performance where we couldn't make out all the words. This recording exceeded our expectations, with clear dialog delightfully dramatized plus the interview about chaos theory and how the play relates to what went on in real life.
- Secondadonna
- 09-09-2018
Great play
So glad to have found one of my very favorite plays available through audible! Fond memories of the original Broadway production and the revival made me wary to listen to a different cast, but the performances were fine all around. Gotta love Stoppard for his ability to combine so many cerebral disciplines into a fun & entertaining play.
- Rowdyman
- 10-04-2015
What did you love best about Arcadia?
What I loved most? Wow, I'd be hard pressed to say since the entire play is great. I could pinpoint a favorite line, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Thomasina, for sure. I've always imagined having a daughter like her. Something about a strong willed precocious female protagonist really draws me in.
Have you listened to any of the narrators's other performances before? How does this one compare?
This was an ensemble cast rather than a single narrator.
Any additional comments?
I had to analyze this play for a class and I can't wait to listen to it again. The actors are superb and foley is spot on. I read this play while listening to it at the same time; there are very few liberties taken with stage direction, but the ones that were better served the listening experience.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Athene
- 28-08-2014
Needs more that one listening.
If the interviews that came after the reading had come BEFORE the reading, I'd gotten a lot more of of this -- after all, it's an illustration of chaos theory. I needed a 'heads up'. It is witty, and intellectually stimulating, so I might give it another go.
Two sets of characters in two different time periods are hard to follow by ear alone, unless the performances are carefully designed to be easily distinguishable.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful
- Asta
- 17-07-2012
Good Cast but Was Lost on the Story
I thought that the narrators were, for the most part, great.
I had not read this play before so I was not familiar with the story at all. Therefore, I remained very confused about what the story was about. I couldn't keep track of the characters and their roles, and I kind of lost interest as it wasn't what I was expecting, leading me to replay scenes as my ears turned out. It could be that these types of plays are just not for me.
4 of 9 people found this review helpful
- Maria
- 05-06-2016
Cultural shifts and imagination
How do you develop the capacity to link, in a continuous loop, the most abstract and the most concrete? By fleeing from one culture to another and to another and having to make sense of it all. This is what Tom Stoppard has done. From the eye of a chaotic experience to imagine order. Wethankhim.
1 of 3 people found this review helpful
- Dr. M.
- 05-09-2014
Difficult subject matter, and a bit mis-cast.
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
While this witty and erudite play text provides both entertainment and intellectual challenge, problems with the production rather spoiled my enjoyment.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
This isn't really relevant to a drama text.
What aspect of the narrators's performance might you have changed?
Well, this isn't an audiobook, but an audio production of a play, so there are multiple voices. Here lies my main problem. As a UK listener, I could not suspend my disbelief in the English accents of some of the American actors playing British roles. They weren't terrible, and a US listener might not have a problem with this aspect of the performance. However, it is not just a matter of pronunciation or vowel sounds. Sentences were stressed in an unidiomatic way, and meaning was sometimes lost.There are some complex mathematical and intellectual ideas presented here, so clarity of meaning is important.
The play is split into two time frames, that of the 18th century juxtaposed with a modern setting. It seems to me that the actors chosen for the 18th century sections were native Brits (or if not, American actors with impeccable accents and delivery.) The contemporary sections are voiced with American actors who can't quite get it right. The production also sounds under-rehearsed in the contemporary sections, with some rather emotionally unvaried performances.
There are also some visual effects which are hard to reproduce in audio format, which could have been edited out.
I have listened to many LA Theatre Works offerings and they are generally excellent. Even the Ayckbourn plays with mixed US/British casts are almost completely convincing. This was a disappointment.
Was Arcadia worth the listening time?
Not entirely. This is a stimulating but complex text which is nearly 3 hours in length. It needs better acting and direction in parts to justify the committment from the listener.
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- gordon
- 23-07-2015
Engaging and entertaining.
I was a little reluctant to listen based on previous reviews about the accents of the American actors. I eventually bought it as I wanted to hear a dramatic performance and found it on the whole an enjoyable experience. You would have to be very picky to find the accents annoying so if you are doubtful like I was then go for it and don't be put off.
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- Kindle Customer
- 29-01-2015
US actors doing posh British accents
There are some very good things about this recording. It's clear, entrances and exits are by and large well delineated. It makes sense, allowing for the complexity and farcical nature of the narrative. The fact that a significant character who never speaks may or may not be in the room is a problem for any audio adaptation.
It is unfortunate, however, that a very significant character bears the surname Nightingale. Pronounced in English English with almost equal stress on all 3 syllables, pronounced by these actors as a dactyl (NITE-n-gale) with the last two syllables swallowed. Consequently, every time the character is referred to, I wince, and that, and other pronunciation infelicities, makes this an unhappy listening experience. I suppose if you don't know it's wrong, it doesn't matter. Maybe calling General Powell COLL-INN, not colon, seems very wrong to American listeners.
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- Jenny
- 03-02-2018
Excellent play and most of the actors good but some of the accents a bit dodgy. The people playing Bernard and especially Chloe mispronounce Nightingale every time and their accents are wobbly. Chloe sounds a bit like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. the actors playing Hannah and Thomasina are very good.
- muovikassi88
- 12-09-2017
Excellent but you need a copy of the written play to follow it, especially the last scene since the stage directions, which are not read outloud in this recording, play a crucial role, keeping that in mind it is a great play and very well performed.
- B. Koo
- 20-08-2013
A great play well performed
Would you consider the audio edition of Arcadia (Dramatized) to be better than the print version?
Although the question of comparing a printed version to the audio edition is somewhat strange, as it is a play, I prefer the audio version of Arcadia.
Any additional comments?
A great, great play - heartily recommended. Stoppard at his finest.
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- Louise
- 02-10-2017
Best play of the 20th Century
This recording is fine - the actors are just ok.
The play itself? Unsurpassed. It really needs to be watched rather than just listened to, but however you access it there is something magical to find. Literally, structurally, philosophically, scientifically, mathematically... In my opinion, the 20th Century gave us no better English language play.
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My daughters are 5 and 7, which means it is prime tooth losing time in our house. My older daughter is usually pretty easy about getting her teeth out. She knows that once that tooth comes out, the tooth fairy is going to leave her money. That kid is a capitalist at heart and any money-making enterprise is an idea she can support! My younger daughter? Well, she's not so easily bribed. Over the past two weeks, she's been working on keeping her tooth in her mouth. It wasn't the first tooth she's lost, but it was the one giving her the most fits. That thing was holding on by a tiny little thread. It was, in my opinion, getting really disgusting. She couldn't eat with it, or talk, O WOE IS ME.
My daughter's dialogue for the past week: WOE IS ME. My tooth! My Tooth! Get away from me with your hand. I don't want you to even LOOK at my tooth. No way are you pulling it out. DRAMA-(throwing herself on various substances)- I'm just so Nervous about my tooth! O, woe is me. Repeat a gazillion times. Plus a gazillion tears.
Our dialogue- Please let us just LOOK at the tooth. See, it wants to come out. It's just a little pull, then you'll be done. It won't even hurt. We'll get ice cream. We'll paint your nails. We'll buy you a pony. Just let us get the dang tooth out.
Last night, after more tooth drama, I took my daughter into my lap to console her. And, right when she wasn't expecting it, reached in and yanked that nasty tooth out. Crisis over. Plus, the kid needed something to tell her therapist about when she's in her 30s complaining about how terrible her parents were!
Didn't seem so terrible this morning when she found a nice shiny gold dollar from the tooth fairy.
If reaching in and yanking your kid's tooth out isn't Love, I don't know what is. Because-ew, gross, yuck.