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Dear Tiger --- Being away from family: Tiger answers fans' e-mails

11/20/2009

Do you enjoy playing so far away from home? I can imagine that, now that you have children, it's got to be hard to be so far away from them. — Rupert from Houston

You're exactly right, Rupert. Now, it's very difficult to leave Elin and the children, and I'm sure it's only going to get tougher. Once Sam and Charlie start school, it won't be easy to take them out of class for a week-long trip. A veteran pro once told them it's tough to leave them as babies, but once they ask you not to go, it breaks your heart. That's something I'll always remember.

www.tigerwoods.com

http://web.tigerwoods.com/news/article/200911207694988/deartiger/

Tupac & The Vatican :)

Tupac Shakur and Muse feature on Vatican's MySpace playlist

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.singleplaylist&friendid=502108561&plid=1256850

the Oasis of the Seas

The Oasis will typically carry 5,400 passengers, served by 2,291 staff

Where the Oasis of the Seas goes, however, is very much determined by its dimensions. The ship could not dock in any European port, for example; it requires custom-made facilities that can manage not only the particular mooring requirements of its 225,000-tonne bulk but which can also cope with the need to disembark up to 6,000 people effortlessly.


Tim Adams --- guardian.co.uk ---

Women say...

Don't judge a man till you've walked a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares, he's a mile away and you've got his shoes.

Coffee found on Moon, researchers say.

“Indeed yes, we found coffee,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA, said in a news conference. “And we didn’t find just a little bit. We found a significant amount. Espresso, light roast, dark roast, decaffeinated, organic, Arabica, Tarrazu, you name it”

The confirmation of scientists’ suspicions is welcome news to explorers who might set up home on the lunar surface and, when they wake up in morning, smell the coffee.

70p

Mark Thompson's salary package of £834,000 has become an uncomfortable political issue for the BBC director general, held up by the Tories as a potent symbol of the corporation's profligacy with public money. But it seems that for Thompson himself, even this generous sum may not be enough to cover the irritating little costs that go with the job.

According to documents released by the BBC today, Thompson recently claimed back £90 of parking meter charges on expenses, including one for just 70p.

James Robinson, media correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 12 November 2009

P.O.S.T. 1.1.1.1

Bird with baguette 1; Big Bang 0

Call it the matchup between the Higgs boson and a bread crumb. And the bread crumb seems to have prevailed in this round.

The $6.5-billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland — which is supposed to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, or “God particle,” which gives matter in the universe its mass and simulate the Big Bang — apparently was no match for a small bird with a bread crumb.

http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/business-brains/bird-with-baguette-1-big-bang-0/3088/?tag=content;col1

By Joe McKendrick | Nov 7, 2009 |

Seppelliteci qui.

Vogliamo morire qui. Seppelliteci qui allo stadio olimpico di torino con questo napoli.
Auriemma, Juve Napoli 2-3, Nov 2009.

My favourite things

My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.

ERMA BOMBECK

Veleggio come un'ombra

Veleggio come un'ombra
nel sonno del giorno
e senza sapere
mi riconosco come tanti
schierata su un altare
per essere mangiata da chissà chi.
Io penso che l'inferno
sia illuminato di queste stesse
strane lampadine.
Vogliono cibarsi della mia pena
perché la loro forse
non s'addormenta mai.

http://www.aldamerini.com/

APPARENTLY

A Florida billionaire who was a top beneficiary of Bernard Madoff's $65bn (£40bn) Ponzi scheme has died, APPARENTLY by drowning in the swimming pool of his mansion in the exclusive seaside enclave of Palm Beach.

Jeffry Picower, 67, was found by his wife and housekeeper shortly after midday on Sunday.

Vic Mizzy, who wrote 'Addams Family' theme, dies.

Xenia I

'But we can love a shade, you know,
being shades ourselves.'

Eugenio Montale (1896–1981)

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France Telecom is struggling to deal with a wave of staff suicides which has seen more than 20 workers take their lives in the past 18 months

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/09/france-telecom-staff-suicides-phone


The suicide rate in France is amongst the highest in the industrialised world. At 17.6 per 100,000 head of population it is around 2.5 times the rate of the UK.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/4204837/France-under-strain.html

Refuge of the roads, Joni Mitchell

...

I pulled off into a forest
Crickets clicking in the ferns
Like a wheel of fortune
I heard my fate turn, turn turn
And I went running down a white sand road
I was running like a white-assed deer
Running to lose the blues
To the innocence in here
These are the clouds of Michelangelo
Muscular with gods and sungold
Shine on your witness in the refuge of the roads

In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads

The King, the doctors and the coffee drinker ... :)

Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), believed coffee was poisonous. To prove his theory, he took two murderers, sentencing one to drink coffee every day and the other to drink tea. Two doctors were appointed to oversee the experiment and see who died first. The first to die were the doctors. In 1792, the King was assassinated at a masked ball in the Stockholm Opera House. The tea-drinker eventually died at the age of 83, and the coffee drinker survived them all.

BBC news...

-- L.U.G. --

A magnificent collection of music from the band London Utter Ground -- L.U.G. --


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaxitcquYRA

Dilige

Augustine was right again, as situationists see it; to reduce the whole Christian ethic to the single maxim, 'Dilige et quod vis, fac' (Love with care and then what you will, do). It was not, by the way, 'Ama et fac quod vis' (Love with desire and do what you please)


Situation Ethics, Joseph Fletcher's.

The most

The most distasteful aspect of Silvio Berlusconi’s behaviour is not that he is a chauvinist buffoon. Nor is it that he cavorts with women more than 50 years younger than himself, abusing his position to offer them jobs as models, personal assistants or even, absurdly, candidates for the European Parliament. What is most shocking is the utter contempt with which he treats the Italian public.

From The Times June 1, 2009

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6401859.ece

Play something ugly

[...] “Camaraderie” also has the distinction of being inspired by the late trumpet great Lester Bowie, the forward thinking co-founder of the acclaimed Art Ensemble of Chicago. Roy Hargrove recalls their meeting. “I was playing a jam session one night in Italy and Lester was there listening. I was playing all my bebop. He came up to me and said, ‘Man, take it out!’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said, ‘Stop playing all that pretty stuff. Play something ugly!’ So I started playing less inside…screamin'...makin’ a lot of noise. Lester lit up like, ‘Yeah!’ It was a lesson for me.” [...]

http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/default.aspx?aid=2905

grrrr...

There's an art of knowing when.
Never try to guess.
Toast until it smokes and then
twenty seconds less.

pIeT hEiN