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a-okRare and fascinating maps that chronicle the evolution of human knowledge about the countries in the Gulf region will go on display for the first time in North America ....
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2009/week47/Wednesday/111821.htm
caffeinated
"The Cool Women Series Because one book of Cool Women just isn`t enough, the good folks at Girl Press have created an entire series!"
http://www.amazon.ca/Fly-Girls-Women-Amy-Inouye/dp/1931497036
Unconventional Travel Ideas and First-Person Stories to Help You Explore the World
Added a new link @ right to Travel Troupes
Travel and Transitions is your website for unconventional travel, cross-cultural connections and a new way to live.
Cool.
http://www.travelandtransitions.com/interviews/herizen.htm
d'oh
..had a good laugh this afternoon. With rain in the past present and future, its nice that the forecast is cloudy with a chance of meatballs...
Im a big fan of Bruce "The Boss " Springsteen
...catch the gaffe here.
And btw, hope you join me in sharing a happy birthday wish to
Frida of Abba: click here to do so!
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Indelibly associated with Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’’ ....
" the m ost m omentous p iece of l egislation i n the 60 years since President Truman first tried to enact universal health care for America."
Boston Globe article. Good one.
suave...not for Clint Eastwood!
"Established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, the Legion of Honor is among France's most prestigious awards and the highest civilian honor in the country. "
French President Sarkozy names Clint Eastwood as commander of the French Legion of Honor.
French president set to make Clint Eastwood's day
Meanwhile in other news from the entertainment world, the France's branch of the Church of Scientology has ben convicted by a Paris court of fraud and fined nearly a fulll million smackers $! This as well-known 'Crash' writer-director Paul Haggis (who co-directed Eastwoods "Million Dollar Baby” ) officialy defected from the well-known religious group. That smacks!
Clint with wife at the recently held Lyon Film Festival.
You can read all about the directors exploitation of actor Matt Damons explosive star power: here!. Turns out that the Bourne Identity star is set to go deux de suite with Eastwood, this year and next!
And finally: do you still have the recessionary blues? Do you feel caught in the undertow of economic uncertainty? Are you wondering if the past 3 years will be recalled as nothing less than a blur?
Just thought Id post a link to a film that may make you see above the past headlines of this recurring cycle of 8 centuries of economic tom foolery. Feel inspired, feel better...look here..to the good ol' past!
September 10, 1993 WASHINGTON POST film
review of ‘King of the Hill’ (PG-13)
“sans faute”
Rare 18th-century bronze heads were made for a special fountain at Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s summer palace outside of Beijing. They were subsequently looted during a sack of the palace by British and French forces in 1860.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/arts/14iht-raaysl.html
Thanks for visiting.
accident prone
Recently I thought I had received an official movie poster of the Sony Classic recently released film Coco Avant Chanel
alas I must have missed my morning cafe this morning as the poster I have is for a different film
a very much different story from
" fell in love at a very bad moment historically ".....yah?
This because
Chanel in court for allegedly stealing artisan's design
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View mens buying guides, how to shop for a corset (Corset gift guide for men) and other tips
The global lingerie market 2003 estimate? $29 billion.
Bras accounted for 56 per cent while briefs represented 29 per cent of the lingerie market in 2005.
The worldâ’s largest lingerie manufacturer, Victoria’s Secret, operates almost exclusively in North America.
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caffeinatedA new study in the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorization (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in a task in which information-integration strategies are optimal can lead to potentially devastating errors when quick and accurate categorization is fundamental to survival.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091101132535.htm
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So....how about those air pilots who merely made the news (which news btw?) by the mere equivalant of sneezing (in comparison to the bloated headlines from wanna be/wanna be reality tv stars spinning and making up sordid runaway balloon tales)
Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course
I also found on story that suggests covering up their actions with a laptop tale because maybe they were sleeping.
So now No box cutters on flights . no aerols or hair gels...and for you pilots who need to be alert like hawks while flying a coupla gagillion tons of tin and fuel in the air...no laptops.
rushed
http://www.cntraveller.com/Special_Features/Great_Winter_Sports/
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I am self - deluded , and the only needed proof-positive I needed of that (just imagine finding proof-positive of self-delusion:)...was to turn on the late evening news....bombings in Pakistan? explosions in Kabul? By chance a rumbling or stirring or war with uncoverings of bombs at ready in Lebanon?
Last night, riding on a high tide of pent up emotion at the very thought in anticipation of one of my most favorite all time world hero/rock stars in town...
..even with no ticket to get in, I went downtown to hang around the venue, pick up the vibes, enjoy the crowd, and even catch a glimpse of the pyrotechnic light display and awe inspiring retro-disco glamour (alas no glimpse of the band, obviously someone thought of everything!) and listen to the muffled tones of the awesone sounds of what must be the present worlds most distinguished band: U2, which indeed could still be heard two-three blocks away (we're lucky, imagine how far the sounds of bombs carry!) before I went soliloquy like in to the misty rainy fog-like ether of night.......
...happy, satisfied.....but hungry.
I knew I'd missed the greatest band in the world...but there was something inherent that the lesson and message of the music was not lost on me...I got to see a man crying and bawling, his face a contortion of angst and grief, wailing as only men know how to do without sacrificing thier last vestiges of masculinity, how someone had sold him a 'bad ticket' and he had spent all his money on it and the gatekeeper would not let him in...(I did get to see him go in...apparently in the blink of an eye some kind person in a gesture of magnificent beneficence, gave him a ticket and he sheepishly wandered in from the slimy wetness of Vancouver)...and so it was as the ticket usher to me remarked: "Just goes to show you there are real angels out tonight as well as a@#--oles"...
So I went home; and the late night news was headlining U2 and again I was able to catch slices and cutaway shots and glimpses of the greatness on stage; all that I had missed..in glorious 16 inches of screen...
but imagine my surprise at seeing the one shot that set the tone for this blog entry and later my gentle acceptance of the reality of what I'd missed.........indeed the wheel of time turns in time for us all, etching in stone our experiences, our laughter, our tears and our hard times as well as smiles..
I would have to go to
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to see them
this year....for the free concert to commemorate the fall of the wall. Till next time then...
Thanks for visiting.
flirty 
Ooops this is not Facebook! (I Dont Even Think mach1231 is even on Facebook)...but the good news is..
..not that few people know 'who Julianne Hough is'...but the even even fewer who care who or what mach1231 is a fan of.:)
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