bar.40028
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Dear Boy, It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own, coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work.
what sort of life is that, though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost, and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things, or perhaps you people don't think those things are important.
Anyway I wish you well and send my love to you as ever, &bquo;Father&equo;. [pb] [/p] [div2] [head] 
MEETING [/head] [p]
It was a full week before they reappeared in The <head>Bar</head> ; we hadn't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion.
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chair.40130
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Right, we, we, we did actually draw, or we not draw, we, we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair, the Secretary and the Treasurer, erm and other, together with other such officers, yeah to [unclear] to determine by general meeting, erm, 
so it's really only those three, er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there's only been one Chairman haven't we, one Chair person erm [pause] so I think people need to say if they don't wish to carry on the jobs they're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary.
Erm, I think I will give up being <head>Chair</head> this time, I've done it too long, too long, and I've had it John as Co-Chair during the year and I hope that he'll be able to carry on as, as Chair Person, I think really I've done it, done it for long enough erm, and we'll have to ask, we hope, we hope the Treasurer just taken over will carry on [/u][u]
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channel.40046
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But alas, alack, someone in Dover took a can-opener to their trusty Sherpa van on Sunday 22nd November and waltzed off with the following: a purple sunburst [hi]ESP Horizon [/hi] 5-string bass in flightcase; a 1982 [hi]Stratocaster [/hi] in faded cream with ciggie burns on the headstock, also in a flightcase; a sunburst [hi]Telecaster [/hi], also with ciggie burns and in a black moulded Fender case; 
a 100-watt [hi]Marshall [/hi] Hi-gain Dual Reverb head; a [hi]Roland R-5 [/hi] drum machine; an [hi]Aztec [/hi] wireless system in case with Studiomaster mic; two bags &mdash; one ex-army, one sports bag &mdash; containing a large assortment of leads, strings, tuners, power supplies etc., and a home-made pedal-board with a BOSS Stereo Chorus, an Ibanez bass compressor and an Aria stage tuner.
Make some poor people less poor by ringing [gap] [/p] [p]
Everyone else out there in twangland &mdash; make a note of your serial numbers! [/p] [/div2] [div2] [head]
BLACK'N'BLUE [/head] [p]
Hughes &amp; Kettner's new &pound;269 [hi]Tubeman [/hi] thingie is designed to function as an amp expander on stage, as a recording amp in the studio, as a floorpedal on stage, as a practice amp at home and as a fully-featured preamp just about anywhere.
It's a valve-driven box with four separate switchable <head>channels</head>&mdash; jazz, funk, blues and rock &mdash; and on top of that you have the usual gain and master volume controls, EQ for treble, mid and bass and a switchable mid-boost. [/p] [p]
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circuit.40208
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An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc, and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc: 
his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&amp;T Co, and the words &bquo;information utility&equo;. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [head]
HP INVESTS IN PRECISION DEVELOPMENT [/head] [p]
Hewlett-Packard is reckoned to be spending &dollar;1,000m annually on the on-going development of its Precision Architecture RISC chip set. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [head]
VIEWLOGIC TO ACQUIRE QUAD DESIGN [/head] [p]
Marlborough, Massachusetts-based Viewlogic Systems Inc is to acquire privately-held Quad Design Technology Inc, developing software for analysing timing and interference problems in <head>circuit</head>designs in Camarillo, California for 872,700 new shares, giving the transaction an indicated value of &dollar;16.7m; Viewlogic develops electronic design automation tools and did &dollar;65.8m last year; Quad had &dollar;5.3m sales. [/p] [/div1] [div1] [head]
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facility.40087
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It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century, and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture &mdash; 
and then slash them again, work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software &mdash; and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they can't refuse to convert to the AS/400, even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM.
The mainframe will soon be history, the AS/400 is still worth saving, but time is desperately short. [/p] [/div2] [/div1] [div1] [head] 
MICROSOFT &bquo;TO CHALLENGE SUN's WABI WINDOWS-UNDER-UNIX <head>FACILITY</head> FOR SOLARIS: SEE YOU IN COURT&equo; [/head] [p]
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material.40226
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Many kinds of reasons prevail in the drama lesson for participants &bquo;holding back&equo;. 
They may not, for instance, be prepared to risk having any kind of emotional engagement (I recently worked with a group of headteachers for whom this seemed to be a problem); or they may not trust each other or the teacher; or the &bquo;hidden curriculum, of the group's own dynamics may cut across the drama's requirements (for instance if the strong natural leader within the group is not given her usual leadership function within the fiction); 
or the group may concentrate too hard on preparing <head>material</head> for &bquo;showing&equo; so that they miss out almost entirely on &bquo;playing the drama game&equo;; or they may dislike drama or really want to perform a play or are simply not in the mood to submit to the experience.
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mouth.40125
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This person, I thought, is what a woman [hi]should [/hi] look like: this figure sitting opposite me with food and drink and companions manages to represent without acquired coquetry or self-diminishing selfconsciousness the very essence of femininity, the quality bestowed in at least some measure upon mother, sister, wife, daughter, the power which in its apparent passivity is most naturally creative and dynamic.
the sweetness which belongs to the rhythms of earth and moon and song and dance, the ideal which tempers the brutishness and vulgarity and wanton egotism of man as he plunders our planet, napalms distant villages, pollutes the great oceans and corrupts every healing dream that has ever been wrenched by noble minds out of the bleak absurdities of this brief and cruel existence. [/p] [p]
Who would want to soil such a figure?
Who could be so abominable and so foul and so devoid of proper awe that he might heave and push and grunt and pant above her parted legs?
Surely not Casanova himself! [/p] [p]
I am disgusted by the thought of spoiled human flesh.
<head>Mouth</head> upon mouth, tongue against tongue, limb upon limb, skin rubbing at skin.
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nature.40187
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Wordsworth took the materialist philosophy of Locke and Hartley which had sufficed the eighteenth century, and changed round the terms, writing in positive instead of negative signs Instead of a dead universe described in terms of machines from which the Creator had departed, he proposed a living universe called &bquo;Nature&equo; described in terms of growth and organic life, which was being continuously created by a God who was inextricably involved in all its parts 
Whereas in Locke the mind at birth was &bquo;a white paper&equo;, with no innate ideas, in Wordsworth the mind retains in early childhood some consciousness of a pre-existent state; in Locke the mind [hi]passively [/hi] receives impressions from the senses, but in but in Wordsworth the mind [hi]actively [/hi] perceives and a creative power within the mind organizes the multitude of chaotic sense impressions into a partial picture of the world.
But it is necessary for the individual mind to cooperate with the external Mind in <head>Nature</head> ; the two minds are related and together they create the world &mdash; in [hi]Tintern Abbey [/hi] the beholder loves [gap] [/p] [p]
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begin.758
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Just as he knew that she had stopped  loving him.
The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that  are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.
For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water <head>begin</head> their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- 
running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.
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dress.116
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In the work of every artist, I suppose  , there may be found one or more moments which  strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ; not less strikingly so for  being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered  in a single image, a single moment.
So here.
The horrifying humor, the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone wrong, the monstrous image of the fat man <head sats="dress_up.116:0">dressed</head> <sat id="dress_up.116:0">up</sat> as a whore dressing up as a baby; ; 
the epiphany of that quivering flesh; ; the bringing together around it of the secret liaison between indolent, mindless sensuality and sharp, shrewd talent, cleverness with an occasional touch of genius (which, however, does not know &quot; how to attack the problem of suffering &quot; ); ; the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant -- 
all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself; ; beyond itself, also, it evokes numerous and distant resonances from the entire body of Mann's work.
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dress.117
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In the work of every artist, I suppose  , there may be found one or more moments which  strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ; not less strikingly so for  being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered  in a single image, a single moment.
So here.
The horrifying humor, the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone wrong, the monstrous image of the fat man <head sats="dress_up.116:0">dressed</head> <sat id="dress_up.116:0">up</sat> as a whore dressing up as a baby; ; 
the epiphany of that quivering flesh; ; the bringing together around it of the secret liaison between indolent, mindless sensuality and sharp, shrewd talent, cleverness with an occasional touch of genius (which, however, does not know &quot; how to attack the problem of suffering &quot; ); ; the miraculous way in which music, revelation and death are associated in a single instant -- 
all this seems a triumph of art, a rather desperate art, in itself; ; beyond itself, also, it evokes numerous and distant resonances from the entire body of Mann's work.
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drive.084
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He had taken her all right.
Wednesday nights after youth fellowship.
Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him <head>driving</head> and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling 
(unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.
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match.089
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Mike stopped  to cherish all his brother selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth -- the unknown powers of three on Earth that  would be his   to merge with  and cherish  now that at last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.
Mike remained in trance; ; there was much   to grok , loose ends   to puzzle over  and fit  into his growing -- all that he had seen and heard  and been  at the Archangel Foster Tabernacle (not just cusp when he and Digby had come face to face alone ) why Bishop Senator Boone made him warily uneasy , how Miss Dawn Ardent tasted like a water brother when she was not   , the smell of goodness  he had incompletely grokked  in the jumping up and down and wailing -- 
Jubal's conversations  coming and going -- Jubal's words troubled him most; ; he studied them, compared them with what he had been taught  as a nestling,  struggling  to bridge between languages, the one he thought with  and the one  he was learning  to think in .
The word &quot; church &quot; which turned up over and over again among Jubal's words gave him knotty difficulty; ; there was no Martian concept to <head>match</head> it -- unless one took &quot; church &quot; and &quot; worship &quot; and &quot; God &quot; and &quot; congregation &quot; and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected (by each differently) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.
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serve.122
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Yet I adored this man, Letch Feeley, why, I can not say .
With faint heart and a brave smile, I endured his long absences from Chateau Belletch, his coldness, his indifference, his slights and his abuse.
The times I can recall when I was publicly humiliated by him -- lovely dinner parties in our Trianon Suite where the collation was postponed and postponed and postponed, only to be <head>served</head> dry and overcooked at a table where the host's chair was vacant; ; 
a &quot; splash party &quot; at the new pool, which I had built in the hope of keeping Letch away from public beaches, when Letch and a certain Aquacutie stayed underwater together for the better part of an hour; ; a lovely Epiphany party at Errol Flynn 's, on which sacred occasion Letch stole away with an unknown &quot; starlet &quot;, leaving me &quot; high and dry &quot; to get home as best I could.
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fine.40066
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[hi]Sceptre [/hi] 404 and 505 are a mix of sable and synthetic providing a long-life brush of high quality.
[hi]Winsor Gold [/hi] is a range of hog brushes also suitable for acrylic use. [ptr][ptr][pb] [pb] [/p] [caption]
FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: No 10 <head>fine//JJ</head>bristle brush from Osborne &amp; Butler, Series 980; Gerand Series F1 pure hog brush; White Taklon no 12 brush from Robert A Wade, Series 970; no3 Brush from Series SDRG by Gerand; Liquitex no3 Kolinsky Plus fan brush, Series 596; 
Winsor &amp; Newton Cotman synthetic brush; no8 filbert brush, Series SDF2 from Gerand; Winsor &amp; Newton Gold no4 short flat fine hog brush; Liquitex 3/4in Kolinsky Plus flat brush, Series 598; Pro Arte Acrylix Series 201 short flat brush; no 10 sable/nylon mix brush from Osborne &amp; Butler, Series 962; Daler B24 Bristlewhite no3 brush.
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free.40096
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The contents were as follows: &bquo;The Streets by Morning&equo;, &bquo;The Streets by Night&equo;, &bquo;Making a Night of it&equo;, &bquo;Criminal Courts&equo;, &bquo;Scotland Yard&equo;, &bquo;The New Year&equo;, &bquo;Meditations in Monmouth Street&equo;, &bquo;Our Next-door Neighbours&equo;, &bquo;The Hospital Patient&equo;, &bquo;Seven Dials&equo;, &bquo;The Mistaken Milliner&equo;, 
&bquo;Doctor's Commons&equo;, &bquo;Misplaced Attachment of Mr. John Dounce&equo;, &bquo;Vauxhall Gardens by Day&equo;, &bquo;A Parliamentary Sketch, with a Few Portraits&equo;, &bquo;Mr. Minns and his Cousin', &bquo;The Last Cabdriver, and the First Omnibus Cad&equo;, &bquo;The Parlour Orator&equo;, &bquo;The First of May&equo;, and &bquo;The Drunkard's Death&equo;.
Of these only the last item appeared for the first time in this volume.
Many of the tales and sketches included in the First and Second Series were extensively revised, and sometimes retitled, from their first periodical appearance.
Further revision took place before the first combined edition was published, by Chapman &amp; Hall, in 20 monthly parts, price one shilling, between Nov. 1837 and June 1839.
The alteration in page-size (from duodecimo to demy octavo) from the Macrone volumes necessitated the re-etching of the illustrations by Cruikshank.
One of the original designs, &bquo;The <head>Free//JJ</head>and Easy&equo;, was omitted and 13 new ones were added.
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graceful.40011
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But accountability and care no more have to be the absolute precondition, the ever-present animating ethic, of sexual relations, homosexual or otherwise, than they do of any other kind except in the obvious sense that care of some kind is the precondition of almost any shared social activity.
That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares cannot possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden's appropriately [hi]passing [/hi] remark on the casual, anonymous sexual encounter: &bquo;for now I can only generalize: 
as I've known it, men are never so peaceful, so unviolent (physically and emotionally), so <head>graceful//JJ</head> with each other (no matter how &bquo;crude'&equo; the act) as they are &mdash; as we are &mdash; when content to take each other without the addition of names, or beds, or flats, or even of any clear impression of one-another's looks' ( [hi]Gay News [/hi], 235 (Mar. 1982), 17). [/p] [p]
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natural.30061
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The application by Foothills, owned by Calgary-based Nova Corp. of Alberta and Westcoast Energy Inc. of Vancouver, Canada, is expected to kick off what could be a contentious battle for the right to transport vast quantities of gas to southern markets from still-undeveloped fields in Canada's Mackenzie River delta.  
``This is a pre-emptive strike by Foothills,'' said Rick Hillary, natural gas manager of the Calgary-based Independent Petroleum Association of Canada, an industry group.  ``Foothills wants to make it clear to other pipeline companies that it's on first insofar as transporting gas from the Arctic to southern markets,'' Mr. Hillary said.
At least two rival applications are expected to emerge in coming months, including one from TransCanada PipeLines Ltd., Canada's largest <head>natural//JJ</head> gas pipeline operator.
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