I'll have a look out for the amino acids tho'.

keep to the Fen Causeway

larry bird, one of the greatest players ever, retired in his early thirties because as he put it: "when the permanent pain in my back met up with the permanent pain in my legs, i knew it was time to quit"

i knew it was my time to quit when they asked me to give pain-killing shots during the games.

there were a couple of NBA players, (longer than my table!) in their twenties who were paid $150,000 a month to sacrifice their present and future well-being in this way.

so many people with screwed up knees, i know the answer before they reply when i ask them if they were heavy into college football.

for a few hours, days or years of juvenile exaltation, decades of reduced mobility and pain. it's nuts.

i remember reading somewhere that ski-jumping and high diving had adverse effects on the brain, easy to believe...

It's a fine line between homage, parody, and consumer opportunism. Jess Walter

We are, as a society, re-enacting the Roman gladiators. It is brutal and exploitative beyond comprehension.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/magazine/the-hard-life-of-an-nfl-long-shot.html?ref=magazine&_ r=0

I got to see up close what went on in a brewery and realise that, not only did you have to want to do that job to work in such an environment, but that I did feel it was something that I wanted to do. Something that I felt I should have been doing right from the beginning.

Yea, of course there are reservations and regrets and a certain realism about what I am likely to actually achieve, but I remain positive about this choice

keep to the Fen Causeway

The filter is in front on the passenger side, jammed in between the radiator and headlight, behind a hose.  It was a lot easier the second time, but still a stupid design.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

Incentives are all for the wealth-creators at the top.

I would really like this job.

Whatever, as is, Berlusconi does not have the numbers in parliament to block the annual budget law or stability pact. What he can do is delay it with procedural tactics until the last minute. At present there is a majority without him. It's just a matter of realpolitik: it's no use to waste time to seek a new majority at the end of the legislature. Monti still has the numbers unless Berlusconi buys up some Senators (It will be very difficult to do so in the House of Deputies.)

What is important for him is to kill all the reforms that would have seriously disadvantaged him in the next elections, such as the bill to prohibit individuals condemned of crimes to be appointed to either house. And of course I use the word "appointed" to once again make it plain that, with the actual electoral laws, MPs are not chosen by the electorate but by party bosses based on factors that have nothing to do with the ethics of politics. And of course we will be called to "vote" with his electoral law, the Porcellum. If there ever were grounds to argue that democracy is not synonymous with elections- and I can assure you that there are- the actual Italian electoral law is one.

It will further be important to count his legions within the RAI to see just how much clout he has in the state strategic media beyond his monopoly of the private strategic media.

His optimum goal is to see the elections held in mid-March as I suppose his strategists feel he will have a good possibility of having a majority or a stalemate in "elections" held at that time. Monti instead wants the elections as early as possible for the same reason: to anticipate and compromise Berlusconi's electoral roadmap.

We are going to see a ruthless, hateful campaign drenched in victimism.

There is speculation that Monti may get into the electoral fray as he is irate.

Vendola has accepted to ally his party with Casini's center party to create a large center-left coalition.

It is likely Berlusconi will favour the electoral impact of  Grillo's movement so that he can easily buy their MPs up after the election, when necessary, just as he did with Di Pietro in two successive legislatures.

I feel that one of the most important acts that President Napolitano can do is to appoint Berlusconi Senator-for-life. I have said this before and I repeat it. It would throw a wrench into elections. After all, considering the important contribution organized crime has made to the Italian republic since its birth, it is only fitting that they should be represented with this distinction.  

The War in the Air - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The German aerial forces, and consisting of airships and Drachenflieger, attempt to seize control of the air before the Americans build a large-scale aerial navy. The Germans are unaware that the Chinese and Japanese have also been building a massive air force. Tensions between Japan and the United States, exacerbated by the issue of American citizenship being denied to Japanese immigrants, also lead to war. The "Confederation of Eastern Asia" (China and Japan) turns out to possess aerial forces, and their aircraft and tactics have been seen as a portent to the kamikaze of World War II. The United States therefore has to fight on two fronts: the Eastern and the Western, in the air as well on sea.

Bert Smallways is present as the Germans first attack an American naval fleet in the Atlantic, then bomb New York City into submission

Don't get me wrong, there are things that Wells imagination nails, like the problems of bombing a city into submission (gerilla soon starts to fire upon the German troops leading to punishment bombing) or how aircrafts would dominate sea battles.

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