Posts by Bevan Shortridge
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Grace Dalley wrote:
It's hard to imagine what life was like when infant mortality was so high. Nowadays the death of a child is a rare tragedy; what must it have been like for families to expect to lose a number of children?
There seem to have been different ways of remembering children who had died. My great grandparents had ten children, with son and one daughter died young. In my grandparents house was a cast in what seemed to be marble of a baby's face, which I was told was a child who had died. There was also a photograph taken of an older boy's face. I thought he was sleeping in the photograph until I was told that it was taken after he had died (this had happened in 1889). Much later I read an account of a visitor to the household who described my great grandfather's grief over the death of his (then) only son which had recently occured. The two who died had later born siblings who were given the same names. Another way of remembering them perhaps?
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And publicaddress was mentioned in the Business Herld today.
(scroll down to "Blog Heaven")
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BP Spills Coffee
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Website we love
Am I missing something on the listener.co.nz website or is the "Website we love" feature not in the online preview glimpse of the magazine?
I know they want people to buy the mag, but I sort of thought that particular feature might be ideal for a, um, website. Seems like it used to be available for some previous years, but no more...
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Rich Lock spake of the UKIP
Crudely speaking, they want to 'unsign' Britain from any sort of EU treaty that's been signed in the last 30-40 years.
The UKIP seem to be working from within, having MPs in the European Parliament. The first I heard of the UKIP was in February when footage of one of their MEPs turned up on the news here shot during the Copenhagen climate meeting. He was praising France for sinking the Rainbow Warrior: Apology demanded for Warrior bombing comment
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Pass the crisps: UK Election watch.
Thank you very much for that.
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recordari spake:
Was going to post this on the UK thread, but we seem to have got to Voter Turnout over here first.
I must have missed that thread somewhere. Could someone point me to it? I've searched but could not see it...
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The "marquee scam" was intelligent in that the payments were small but were paid every home game. Moreover this is a simple fraud where money just "disappears". So the only people who need to be involved are the players, management and a bunch of accountants
So this is a new meaning for the term marquee player...?
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@BenWilson
Certainly people will buy something that is slickly marketed, simple in design and light on power for $, like the iPod was and still is. I'm as bemused by that phenomenon as I always have been
An iFad?
Still not convinced about reading a whole book on such a device (still paper, for me). I read bits and pieces online, such as newspaper articles, blogs, but they tend to be rather short. Dunno about getting through long chapters electronically. Even with google books I tend not to try and read a whole work, I just use it to look at bits and pieces of one.
On the other hand, it would save on the space.
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Can I just say, that although zombies appear to have been everywhere, there's been vampires in space too
Space vampires?
First I thought of was "Lifeforce" (which was titled "Space Vampires" for the UK):Although, to be fair I thought this was more zombies than vampires. And Buck Rogers got there first with the idea.