y66 Posted April 16, 2013 Report Share Posted April 16, 2013 Robin Williams recalls the lessons of Jonathan Winters http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/04/16/arts/winters/winters-articleLarge.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 From John le Carré Has Not Mellowed With Age by Dwight Garner On a recent Saturday morning in February, two dozen or so scent hounds streamed through the streets of St. Buryan, a small village in Cornwall, England. Behind them drifted a loose formation of men and women perched atop well-groomed horses and wearing boots, breeches and hunting coats. As the fox hunt clopped through town, John le Carré, the pre-eminent spy writer of the 20th century, sipped from a paper cup of warm whiskey punch, doled out by a local pub to riders and spectators. At 81, he remains an enviable specimen of humanity: tall, patrician, cleanlimbed, ruddy-complected. His white hair is floppy and well cut, so much so that the actor Ralph Fiennes, who starred in the 2005 film version of le Carré’s novel “The Constant Gardener,” badgered him for the name of his barber. Le Carré is not a hunter himself, but he nodded at the people he knew and mounted a casual and running defense of fox hunting, as if he were doing color commentary from the 18th hole at the Masters. It’s an ancient part of the rural culture, he said. It’s egalitarian in this area (some 300 miles west-southwest of London), not an upper-class diversion. It’s also largely futile: an actual fox is rarely cornered. When one is, a trained eagle owl is brought in to kill it. As the final horse strode past, le Carré swallowed the dregs of his punch and crumpled his cup. His eyebrows, so thatchy and animated that they seem ready to leap off his forehead and start nibbling the shrubbery, rose as he turned toward me, his blue eyes alight, and happily declared, “At least they aren’t hunting that poor ***** thing with drones.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 In reference to fox hunting: . It’s also largely futile: an actual fox is rarely cornered. [/Quote] I used to read Pogo, a comic strip featuring animals with human characteristics and problems. Bun Rabbit is lamenting his difficulty in finding work and one of the others, I think Albert Alligator, suggests: AA:"I understand that there is an opening down at the track where the hounds chase the hares. The hounds scarcely ever catch the hare". BR:"That 'scarcely ever' has an alarming sound of frequency to it". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 The fans of Rapid Vienna are unhappy with the club's management so they built this in front of the club offices: http://images05.kurier.at/image_1367069978462544.jpg/640x300/10.650.611 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 The fans of Rapid Vienna are unhappy with the club's management so they built this in front of the club offices: http://images05.kuri...x300/10.650.611 German fans are very happy with the most exciting football week ever. FC Bayern and Dortmund destroyed both Real & Barca in the CL.FC Bayern try to destroy Dortmunds power by buying their two world class players.....and the supreme morilizer of the republic the Bayern Boss stands with one leg in the jail due to his tax affair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 Enjoy it while it lasts I guess. Both games were impressive but Dortmund was very close to be eliminated by Málaga as was Bayern against Arsenal and so on. Madrid could still overturn the deficit although I haven't seen good determination from them this whole season (except maybe beating Barca away in the cup). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 The fans of Rapid Vienna are unhappy with the club's management so they built this in front of the club offices: http://images05.kurier.at/image_1367069978462544.jpg/640x300/10.650.611This reminds me of something that happened in my student days. A friend was rather upset with another student so overnight did this to his door in the university accommodation. He got a final written warning from the college which was framed on his wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted April 29, 2013 Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 I could not think of a thread to put this on, and this thread seems kind of ubiquitous, so I thought I would put it here. The other day I was driving near my home and I passed the local high school. The message board for the high school flashes various messages on its LED display. The message that caught my attention as I drove by was "April is National Distracted Driving Month." How ironic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 I could not think of a thread to put this on, and this thread seems kind of ubiquitous, so I thought I would put it here. The other day I was driving near my home and I passed the local high school. The message board for the high school flashes various messages on its LED display. The message that caught my attention as I drove by was "April is National Distracted Driving Month." How ironic.You picked the right thread. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Funny thing is there was a period of time when there was an "anything goes" policy in the ACBL. I don't remember exactly when that was, but it was probably around the time that my partner and I won our first regional pair championship in 1978 playing the original ROMEX system in full. I know that we played the Dynamic Notrump and original Mexican 2♦ along with all of the other aspects of the original ROMEX system. I got a comment by phone from the Tournament Chairman several weeks later, but he did not say that there was anything wrong with what we did - just that there had been some comments about our system and he was following up. Nothing more was ever said. I know there are not a lot of regular posters who were active tournament players back in the late 70's and early 80's. But if you are one of us, do you have a recollection of that period of time that matches mine? first off and most important ..congrats on your win..a big congrats on your win: that is big! not sure what your other points are but clearly you are a good player..very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted April 30, 2013 Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 Enjoy it while it lasts I guess. Both games were impressive but Dortmund was very close to be eliminated by Málaga as was Bayern against Arsenal and so on. Madrid could still overturn the deficit although I haven't seen good determination from them this whole season (except maybe beating Barca away in the cup). Anyway, 2 german teams in Wembley, british press will be not amused hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PassedOut Posted May 18, 2013 Report Share Posted May 18, 2013 There was so little snow for Constance and me to see on our walk yesterday, I'm sure that it will all be gone today! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted May 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2013 There was so little snow for Constance and me to see on our walk yesterday, I'm sure that it will all be gone today! :) Don't tell Al else we'll see the cherry-picked chart posted tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Berlin welcomes Obama with YES WE SCAN ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Berlin welcomes Obama with YES WE SCAN ! Ich bin ein Berliner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Ich bin ein Berliner. Berliner >>>>>> http://images.suite101.com/652192_de_berliner.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted June 19, 2013 Report Share Posted June 19, 2013 The U.S. is sending fewer young people to prison these days. Here’s why. By Brad Plumer Excerpt: Last week, I noted that the United States puts more youths and teenagers in jail than any other developed country, with about 70,000 detained on any given day in 2010. And there’s plenty of evidence suggesting that this policy does far more harm than good. But there’s another, important twist to this story: The U.S. incarceration rate for youths has actually dropped 32 percent over the past decade, according to a new report from the National Juvenile Justice Network and Texas Public Policy Foundation. And there’s good reason to think the numbers can keep falling. Some of the drop has been driven by the general decline in crime and arrests across the country. But not all. Importantly, another chunk of the drop is due to the fact that nine states — including California, New York and Texas — have been experimenting with new policies to keep kids who commit minor offenses out of jail. These nine states have all seen an even bigger drop in their youth confinement rates since 2000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Good luck Mr Snowden, wherever you fly to.B-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Good luck Mr Snowden, wherever you fly to.B-)Venezuela apparently Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Venezuela apparently Not Venzuela, but here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Monday flight SU150 to Havana ( No stopover at the Guantanamo Airport) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Not Venzuela, but here.BBC were saying Venezuela via Moscow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onoway Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 BBC were saying Venezuela via Moscow.CBC said that after Venezuela he is off to Ecuador. What with Julian Assange still a guest in the embassy in London they're going to be getting a reputation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberyeti Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 CBC said that after Venezuela he is off to Ecuador. What with Julian Assange still a guest in the embassy in London they're going to be getting a reputation.Indeed, although the Venezuelans wouldn't extradite him either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aberlour10 Posted June 23, 2013 Report Share Posted June 23, 2013 Tja, the politicans in Washington, republicans, democrats are foaming with rage all together, The tales about USA as innocent victim of massive cyber attacks cannot be told by them anymore, They are doing the same, they let attack countries that have nothing to do with terror, or how can they explain these cyber attacks by NSA on the chinese universities servers or mobile phone corporations etc etc...They know now , everytime they threat in these matters with moral pointing fingers, the world will answer maybe with : F***k the PRISM and Tempora Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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