Things just keep getting better...

We spent a lot of time on the road. Absolutely key members of the team were Anne, our sound engineer and band matriarch, and Chris (AKA Achy Breaky) who drove and lugged and fixed our broken strings, skins and leads. We've managed to get back in touch with them and they're both up for joining us at these gigs in their old roles.

Can you imagine how good this feels? ... for the extended family to be coming home too.

I've lived in and around Edinburgh since the days of the band. Gav's in Glasgow, Gordon's in London and Brian's in Germany. Mike still lives in Edinburgh but our paths had never once crossed in the 15 intervening years. Shortly after this all started up again I was walking along Chambers Street one Sunday afternoon having just taken the kids to the museum and I bump into Mike and Lucy.

It's like there are either forces at work drawing us all together, or the orbits that we're all on are bringing us back into alignment. I feel these gigs promise to be something very special.

Let us know of any serendipitous convergences of your own.

Cheers for now.

Richard

When I was at university, and in between houses, I temporarily shared a room with one of my best friends. For 3 months straight he played The Get Up Kids' Something To Write Home About first thing when he woke up and last thing before he went to bed. Had it been any other album i would have long since strangled him but their infectious synth heavy indie rock was (and is) exactly the kind of music you could hear millions of times without ever getting bored. In my mind each track was a gem in its own way.

I saw TGUK live twice in rapid succession and was always impressed by how the songs always took on a new life in a gig situation. It is rumoured that there is an imminent reunion planned in 2009 and of course I would be the first to rejoice at this news but until I don't see it with my own eyes...

Fortunately we will always have their great releases to remind of of their genius. Something To Write Home About still remains one of my favourite albums and it should be one of yours!

MP3's:

The Get Up Kids - Holiday

The Get Up Kids - Out Of Reach

The Get Up Kids - Ten Minutes

The Get Up Kids - Forgive And Forget

Stressssss. Stressssss.

Empieza la reunión. Un discurso coñazo, coñazo, coñazo de temas con los que no estoy de acuerdo o como mínimo no me interesan (no os voy a contar dónde trabajo y la identidad del monologuista, pero si así fuera entenderíais perfectamente lo horrible que es).

Después una serie de divagaciones también coñazo, Cabreo porque los jefes nos asignan funciones que no nos corresponden, entrando, ilógicamente,  en el juego de la tipa de la que ya me quejé en esta entrada.

Cabreo, cabreo.

Más divagaciones y divagaciones. Discusión de cosas sobre las que ya se ha discutido y sin llegar a ninguna conlcusión.

Llevamos ya tres horas........buffffff. Como si no tuviera nada más que hacer....

Se acerca el final.

Saco un tema sobre el que estoy dando el coñazo a mis jefes desde el mes de mayo al menos un par de veces por semana y todo son largas. Vamos a esperar a que acabemos xxxx, espera que vuelva xxxx, podemos valorar xxxxxx pero más alelante, dejémoslo para septiembre xxxxx, mejor tras la reunión, xxxxxxxx cuando tengamos la otra reunión, xxxxxxx.

Bien, pues no se cómo resulta que la que tiene la culpa de que no se haya abordado soy yo. Parece ser que tendría yo que haber hablado con gente con la que no me corresponde hablar y hacer cosas que en principio me habían dicho que no eran función mia.

Cabreo, cabreo. Me callo. hay un jefazo y no es cuestión de liarla, pero cabreo hay.

4h de reunión. No se si cortarme las venas o dejarlas largas.

Se acaba por fin. Tenemos comida de trabajo. Encima.

Venga, vámonos todos. Yo mo tengo que quedar a finiquitar algunos de los marroncillos que antes no me ha dado tiempo. No, no nos vamos todos.

Todos se largan y me dejan  con las prisas y una compi que se queda apoyándome.

Comida de 2h, menos mal que me he puesto entre dos compis majas que me alivian el tedio y con las que me quejo y me río. Buffff.

En fin. Una mañana estupeeeeennnnnndaaaaaa.

]]> http://motorgyre.wordpress.com/?p=165 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:40:01 +0000 motorgyre http://motorgyre.no.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/reunion/ I curve into the cluttered yard.

The surety of memory placing

the rented car

in a space

where once a hayshed

yawned at the facing hills.

My stranger's arrival changes

as I emerge from the

foreign metal.

The registration of the car

forgotten

as its provenance is resolved.

My uncle moves through

the heavy stones

and greets me

in a low voice

that as ever lends formality

to the handshake.

We rest against the car,

the suspension slowly

taking the weight

of our conversation.

I have come home for one

funeral

and now prepare for

another.

You'll see a great change

in himself he warns

and eases my

passage

into a new reality.

Somehow I begin to move

in towards the house,

a repeated path

but not so common now.

My grandparents' rooms

are quieter too.

Not the quiet of the

old house.

Where range and

bench and beams

and dresser

soaked the gloom

with silence

releasing only the clock.

I'm told where he is

and I turn a corner

surprised at the distance

the short corridor

holds within its length.

The door rounds on me

and the shock of a stranger

met in a private place

mocks all preparation.

Only his dead sister's bones

moving his skin to greet me

start our last conversation.

First off - Take That!  Now, in fairness to this group, they do seem like a nice bunch of guys, and they have at least had the decency not to include the perennially annoying Robbie Williams in the new lineup.  They've even had a couple of decent songs - 'Patience' and 'Rule the World', although these are counterbalanced by the awful 'Shine'.  And if the reunion phenomenon had started and ended with Take That!, it would have been tolerable.

But it didn't end there.  Another group saw the success that the new Take That! were having, and decided that they wanted a slice of the action.  That group was the Spice Girls.  All of a sudden they were declaring themselves best friends again and saying how wonderful it was to be together.  Clearly it wasn't that wonderful, or they would never have stopped being together.  Anyway, they got together, announced that they were doing a tour, fell out again and split up leaving the tour unfinished.  They're still best mates though, honest.

Next up was New kids on the Block.  Now this one really disappointed me, because one of this group actually had found solo success.  Donnie Wahlberg is the man in question, and albeit his solo success was not in music (maybe a lesson to be learned there), he has garnered respect and acclaim as an actor.  He was in the terrific Boomtown and The Sixth Sense, among other work.  But I'm not sure that I can take him seriously any more.

Of course, the worst of all these reunions is Boyzone - a reunion I had been dreading ever since Take That! reformed.  Given that Louis Walsh, ex manager of Boyzone, once admitted on tv that all Boyzone did to achieve success was to copy Take That!, it was inevitable that they would copy them in reforming.  They too had a big fall out after they originally broke up - basically the rest of the band did not talk to Ronan any more - but obviously they are all friends again now, and of course, it's nothing to do with the fact that all of their solo careers have fallen flat and they could do with a few bob (ahem).  Anyhow, I was watching tv the other morning while getting ready for work and Boyzone came on performing their new song (which, believe it or not is even worse than any of their old ones).  As far as I could tell, Ronan and Steven Gateley (the only ones whose names I know) seemed to share vocals while the other three just swayed around in the background singing "aaahhh, aaaahhhh" and looking faintly embarrassed as well they should.

It can only be a matter of time before Westlife break up, but I know my joy at that long awaited event will be short lived, as they are bound to reform again two weeks later, and hit us with an onslaught of new crap, and a 'best of' compilation cd - just in time for Christmas probably (if anyone bought me such a cd, they would be off my Christmas card list for good).

Ah well, rant over.  I'm off to listen to some Foo Fighters and restore my faith in music.

Kader ARIF, Député Européen, Secrétaire national aux Fédérations présentera la Motion A - Clarté, Courage, Créativité : Une gauche conquérante pour redonner un espoir à la France, dont le 1er signataire est Bertrand Delanoë.

Ce sera l’occasion de débattre des points qui font consensus et des points qui font divergences dans les différentes motions présentées lors du Congrès de Reims.

Kader ARIF saura te convaincre que notre motion, qui porte toute l’histoire collective de notre parti, est aussi celle qui fait des propositions nouvelles pour que vive la gauche.

SOIREE de PRESENTATION des MOTIONS

le Jeudi 16 octobre 2008 à 18h30

Fédération du Parti Socialiste des Bouches du Rhône
58, rue Montgrand – 13006 Marseille

Rappel : Bertrand Delanoë sera à Marseille le 22 octobre prochain.

Aux côtés de Marie-Arlette Carlotti, Michel Pezet, Jean-Louis Joseph, de nombreux élus et militants, ils se sont retrouvés pour présenter la démarche engagée autour de la motion "clarté courage créativité : une gauche conquérante pour redonner un espoir à la France" portée par Bertrand Delanoë.

Cliquez sur "Read the rest of this entry" pour lire l'article paru dans La Provence...

En este momento tu particpación y apoyo es muy importante.
Necesitamos la colaboración de todas las personas que estén de acuerdo en el objetivo de conseguir la corresponsabilidad entre hombres y mujeres, para lo que es imprescindible que los permisos sean

IGUALES E INTRANSFERIBLES.

Por todo ello, te invitamos a participar en la próxima reunión, que tendrá lugar el viernes, día 17 de Octubre. Será como siempre, a las 19.30 horas en Madrid,- Calle Barquillo 44, 2ºizq-
Seguimos en contacto...

y.... ¡¡¡¡Nos vemos el viernes!!!!

Después de la reunión nos iremos a cenar quienes podamos/queramos. Por favor, confirmadnos si os quedais a la cena con un e-mail dirigido a:info@igualeseintransferibles.org

Saludos
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PLATAFORMA POR PERMISOS
IGUALES E INTRANSFERIBLES
DE NACIMIENTO Y ADOPCIÓN
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www.igualeseintransferibles.org
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2.    Subvention mairie :
700E ont été demandé à la mairie

3.   autres points évoqués :
La participation des habitants aux futurs conseils de quartier.
Le parking des 2 roues devant le lycée Rascol : la situation s’est améliorée depuis la surveillance vidéo.
Le carrefour du théâtre qui ne sera pas refait pour le moment et reporté au prochain budget.
La largeur règlementaire des trottoirs (1m40) afin de permettre aux personnes handicapées de circuler.

4. La prochaine réunion du bureau :
Elle se tiendra fin novembre en vue de la préparation de L’AG de janvier.
Nous y aborderons la question du contenu du blog de l’association
Il a été émis l’idée de créer aussi un « trombinoscope » sur support papier des membres de l’association qui serait remis aux habitants pour compléter notre lisibilité auprès des non-internautes

J'ai complété mes connaissances en réalisant plusieurs stages dans des ateliers parisiens et dans celui de Mme Auvity (03).

Forte de ces expériences, je me suis mise à mon compte à Clermont-Ferrand en 2004.

Pour des raisons personnelles j'ai déménagé, en 2005, sur l'ile de la Réunion où je pratique depuis la restauration avec passion.

J'envisage de retourner prochainement en Ile de France et pourrai également être présente sur la région Auvergne.

Depuis cinq ans des particuliers, antiquaires et marchands d'art me font confiance et confient leurs oeuvres à mes soins.

Possédant un diplôme de restauratrice d'oeuvres d'art de niveau III, je suis habilitée à assister les restaurateurs des musées nationaux, et à répondre aux appels d'offre des DRAC et Collectivités. Dans un temps très proche je souhaite vivement dévelloper cet aspect de mon métier.

Spécialisée dans les peintures de chevalet, mes compétences me permettent de :

- réaliser des constats d'état de conservation

- interpréter les spectres (UV, IR, RX)

- porter un diagnostic

- réaliser des devis détaillés

- porter conseil en matière de conservation préventive

- réaliser des rapports photographiés et expliqués des interventions menées

Et surtout de restaurer dans les règles déontologiques vos tableaux. Qu'il s'agisse du traitement du support ou celui de la couche picturale, vous pouvez consulter mes prestations.

We drove over to Marshall Field's Macy's at the mall to get something nice.  I staked out my claim on a fitting room while Meka searched the aisles of the men's department, looking for suitable clothing.  Daniel was our go-between.

"Daniel," I'd say though the louvered door, "tell Mommy I need to get a size lower."

"MOM!  DAD NEEDS A SMALLER SIZE!"

Thanks, kiddo.

Based on my belt, I figured I'd lost an inch around my middle.  Meka handed me a couple of pairs of pants to try on.  They were huge and threatened to drop down to my ankles if I didn't put my fingers in the belt loops.  Meka went off to get some different pants a size smaller while I practiced Hammer Time in front of the full length mirror.  The next size was too big as well.  So was the third.  She finally came back with a pair of khakis that had a waist size I hadn't seen on me since my freshman year in college.  There was no way I had lost that much weight!

To my utter shock and disbelief, they fit just fine.  I was suspicious.  I filled my pockets and bent over.  Blood still circulated to my legs.  That was enough for me!  I got back into my old baggy pants and folded up my new ones for the ride home.  The mall was closing, but I bought them just under the wire.  As we were walking out to the parking lot, I remarked I should stop at Wal Mart and pick up a couple of pairs of jeans, just for bumming around the house.  It wouldn't take very long.  I knew what size I was now.

"Well, you'd still want to try them on," said Meka.  "Nicer stores tend to be more generous in their measurements."  Excuse me?  It turns out one of the main reasons women like to shop at nicer stores is because they might be a size 12 at Wal Mart, but at Macy's - for a couple of extra zeroes on the price tag - they can be a size 8.  I have never understood women's sizes, so I figured it was probably pretty easy to screw around with them.  Men - on the other hand - have pretty straightforward measurements: waist and inseam.  If my waist was four inches less than it had been, that was it.  I was four inches thinner.  Still, I respect Meka's sense of style.  I was shopping at Wal Mart a couple of days later and tried on a pair of jeans before I threw them in the cart.  Would you believe it?  They had the same waist measurement as the khakis from Macy's and I couldn't even zip them up!  I ended up going up two sizes to find some that were comfortable.  While that's still two inches less than I was, frankly I felt kind of used.

The $50.00 dollars per person is for adults only.  It does not include the offspring.  There is not a fee for them.

Only 16 days until the festivities.  Time to get your photographs out, pump up your Timmy T album, and reminisce.

Take care,

Corey Pellet

Brandywine High School is celebrating it's 50th Anniversary this year!

In honor of this milestone, there will be a 50th Anniversary Celebration
on Saturday, October 25, 2008-HOMECOMING 2008!

This is a wonderful opportunity to participate in Brandywine High School 's tradition of excellence, reflect on our remarkable accomplishments over the past 50 years and reunite with friends from BHS!

Join us on Saturday, October 25 th for a celebratory reunion filled with
FUN, FOOD and FOOTBALL!
9:00 a.m.- Staff/ Faculty Breakfast
(This is for current and former staff, faculty and administration ONLY. This will be held in the BHS cafeteria)

10:00 a.m.- Ribbon-cutting Ceremony for the new brick-scape
(Sponsored by the Brandywine High School Alumni Association, t his will be held in the main circle in the front of the school, near the flagpole.

10:00-12:00- School Tours available (by BHS Student Council)

10:20- Stone City (alumni band) will perform (until 11:45), at the Anniversary area.

11:00 a.m.- Homecoming Parade

12:00- Football Game vs. Hodgson Vo-Tech

Halftime-
Welcome; Recognition of alumni classes; recognition of accomplished alumni; recognition of special guests, sponsors and contributors; presentation of 2008 Homecoming Court; crowning of 2008 Homecoming King and Queen

For more information e-mail Brandywine50th@yahoo.com.

Now, lets try for that PG rating!

Damn damn damn damn damn damn damn!!!!!

El Gobierno arrancó la ronda de visitas al INDEC con un grupo de empresarios
Especialistas del organismo recibieron a representantes de ADEBA, las Cámara de Comercio y de la Construcción, la UIA y la Bolsa. Las entidades definieron el encuentro como un "positivo gesto". Y dijeron que "ahora es momento que los técnicos reciban la información del trabajo realizado por el INDEC". La intención del plan es que diferentes organizaciones conozcan como se realizan las cuestionadas mediciones

Con el jefe de Gabinete, Sergio Massa, a la cabeza, especialistas del INDEC se reunieron esta tarde con representantes de cinco entidades empresarias, en el marco de un plan general del Gobierno para que distintas organizaciones conozcan como se realizan las cuestionadas mediciones del organismo.

Participaron del encuentro representantes de la Asociación de Bancos (ADEBA), Jorge Brito; de la Unión Industrial Argentina, Juan Carlos Lascurain; de la Cámara de Comercio, Eduardo Eurnekian; la Cámara Argentina de la Construcción, Carlos Wagner, y la Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires, Adelmo Gabbi. Por el lado del INDEC participó su directora, Ana María Edwin.

Los empresarios definieron el encuentro como un "positivo gesto". Y aseguraron que "a partir de este momento, corresponde que los técnicos de los sectores involucrados reciban la información del trabajo realizado por el INDEC". Al respecto, precisaron que se llevarán a cabo distintas reuniones de trabajo, "con la seriedad que el tratamiento de la información del tema lo amerita".

La visita se enmarca dentro de un plan general del Gobierno para que entidades empresarias y sindicales puedan dialogar con los miembros del organismo que trabajan sobre los cuestionados indices de inflación. "Pusimos en marcha un mecanismo de consultas que responde al pedido formulado por la Presidenta", explicó al respecto el jefe de Gabinete. Y adelantó que también se sumarán a las reuniones representantes de la CGT y la CTA. Fuente Clarin.Com

ENCUENTRE MAS INFORMACION
SOBRE ESTA NOTICIA Y OTRAS
EN OTROS MEDIOS ONLINE

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LE GUSTARÍA OBTENER UNA LICENCIA POR 90 DIAS GRATIS?
DEL MEJOR ANTIVIRUS DEL MUNDO?
HAGA CLIC EL EL BANNER Y VEA LA PROMOCION

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Interesting, to say the least. We shall see.

Este es el primer proyecto de varios por venir (descartando lo musical o en otras palabras "la banda")

De este grupo que formamos, surgen reuniones al azar donde por una cosa o por la otra aparece una idea, la cual, puede llegar a materializarse con un poco de tiempo y voluntad.

Este trabajo en particular está conformado por 3 miembros, siempre y cuando todos realicen sus deberes. El proyecto en sí, está dentro de la materia de marketing y publicidad online.

Veremos cómo funciona ;)

Más detalles pronto.

Two of our 3 nieces on Dear's side of the family travelled to Seattle from New York and Los Angeles last weekend for a cousin reunion. Our third niece Kacie is still in highschool and didn't make the trip. The great thing about this reunion is that it was all initiated on the cousins' part not the Aunts' and Uncles'. The Aunts and Uncles were in Southern California and all the cousins but one were in Seattle. What a blessing for our family that we all love each other.

Top left photo our son Dan, niece Annie, niece Jenna, our son Josh. Top right in the back our DIL Laura, Jenna, Dan, Annie and Josh. Our daughter Katie with her boyfriend Ben. Bottom Dan, Annie, Jenna. Bottom right our son Josh and Dil Laura. Is it just me or do these cousins resemble eachother?

Bear with me as I experiment with these collages. I stole all these photos from my DIL Laura and just love seeing my kids and nieces so it's been fun creating these with their faces that I don't see as often as I would like to...

Hey Josh! Look what I saw at Trader Joe's today. If you were a wine lover I would have bought you a case!

Die Stimmlage von Frauen verändert sich mit dem Zyklus. Kurz vor und während der Ovulation sprechen Frauen im Schnitt 15,6 Hz höher, als an anderen Tagen.

Das hat eine Studie einer kalifornischen Uni ergeben, die im Ärzteblatt Biology Letters veröffentlicht worden ist.

Also nix wie her mit den Stimmgeräten! Allerdings, so wie ich die Situation einschätze, sprechen die Frauen wenn sie uns sehen nur mit der tiefen Bruststimme der Überzeugung.

:-D

A couple of weeks ago I attended a reunion on my mother's side of the family, in the same park we've met in for years.  It's the first time I've been back to Grand Tower since my mother died.  That small Mississippi river town was her childhood home, and mine.  I felt a strange mixture of emotions at the reunion, and still do as I continue to think about it.

For one, I just missed Mom.  Even typing those words makes me miss her.

For another, Dad was there at Mom's family reunion... without her.  That made me sad.

Third, I felt strangely compelled to tell my eight year old son as much as I could in that short time about my childhood.  I showed him where I lived when I was his age, and where my dad built me my first tree house.  I took him down to the river (as I've done at past reunions) to skip rocks, but the river was so high that all the nice flat smooth stones were submerged.  We climbed to the top of Bake Oven Rock, and he loudly yelled down to his mom and brother and waved proudly at them.

My son was born a few months before I turned 45.  Realistically, I know that he won't have me around as long as I've had my mom and dad.  Somehow it seemed important to me to connect him with my past.

Fourth, I enjoyed being with my family.  We had an unusually good turnout for the reunion.  Of the four girls born to my maternal grandmother and grandfather, only one is still living.  At eighty-(ish), my Aunt Betty is amazingly spry.  It was fun watching her dance to a bunch of old 60s rock songs.  Everyone laughed and had a good time.

Fifth, I had a great talk with an older cousin that I've always really liked and that I looked up to when I was a kid.  I can't tell you how encouraging it was to hear him talk about reaching a point in his life where he realized he was a sinner who needed Christ.  Listening to him gave me tremendous joy, and I haven't stopped thinking about him and praying for him.

I've reminisced a lot in the last few weeks about what it was like growing up in that small town.  I have a lot of fond memories of my childhood there.

But it's not exactly the same small town now that it was then.  A lot's changed.  And I've changed.  I guess that's why they say you can never go home again.  Home--the home you remember, at least--just isn't there any more.

But I know that's not really important.  In the truest and deepest sense, Grand Tower never was my home.  And Sikeston is not my home now.  "For here we have no permanent city but are looking for the one that is coming."  (Hebrews 13:14)

I'm a long, long way from my home.

Tonight I am missin' you
Oh, tonight I am missin' you
In the light of day
I had lost my way
An' tonight I am missing you
Never thought I would come this far
I never thought I would come this far
I have come through such pain
in the strength of your Name
Never thought I would come this far
I am a long. long way from my home
I am a long, long way from my home
I've been a pilgrim on this earth
since the day of my birth
I'm a long way from my home
Tonight I'm sittin' on this porch in the rain
Tonight I'm sittin' on this porch in the rain
But Hallelujah by and by
I will meet you in the sky
I'm still a long, long way from home

(Music and Lyrics by Glen Kaiser)

"So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil." (2 Corinthians 5:6-10)

Follow the link to see the 14 compilations: http://tiny.cc/GPBvY

Cette rencontre a permi d'avancer sur certains points et de mieux comprendre les décisions prises (sur les horaires notament).

Le compte rendu de cette réunion sera envoyé à nos adhérents.

Une intervention localisée ou un rentoilage dans les règles de l'art,

Parcequ'ils sont uniques, tous tableaux méritent une attention particulière,

audrey.francon@netcourrier.com

Présente sur l'île de la Réunion jusqu'à fin 2008

97400 St Denis de la Réunion

Alberto and Miguel (cenotes anyone?) might seem like the most typical things ever. To me they're just proof that life's cool as long as you have friends you love and who love you back. And that you should never forget to make a wish on New Year's Eve- it might just come true.